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On board the gabares, sliding on the Dordogne the Roque Gageac of reveals - Dordogne - New Aquitaine - France - Europe
Journée de la Terre 2023, quoi de mieux que la découverte de ce paysage ancestrale, où la Préhistoire est présente à chaque moment.
Earth Day 2023, what could be better than the discovery of this ancestral landscape, where prehistory is present at all times.
Au Moyen Âge, La Roque Gageac a compté jusqu'à 1 500 habitants. À l'époque, la Dordogne faisait vivre pêcheurs et gabariers du port. De cette période demeure l'église recouverte de lauzes. Non loin se dresse, flanqué d'une tour ronde, le manoir de la famille Tarde, amie de Galilée. Pendant la guerre de Cent Ans, La Roque Gageac accueillit les évêques de Sarlat. Leur résidence, à l'extrémité du village, a été conservée. Dominant les maisons, les vestiges du château défient encore le temps.
Le 17 janvier 1957, un pan de la falaise s'éboule sur une partie du village, tuant trois personnes en détruisant six maisons et une grange, coupant la route et terminant sa course dans la Dordogne66. En 2007, une stèle et une plaque ont été implantées au pied de la falaise à la mémoire des victimes de 1957.
Le 9 janvier 2010, un pan du plafond du fort troglodytique s'effondre entraînant la chute d'une partie du mur de courtine du fort, accroché à la paroi de la falaise depuis le xiie siècle, sur le côté du bâtiment d'accueil du site. Le 3 juin 2010, au début de la saison touristique, à la suite de la menace d'un rocher de 320 tonnes de s'effondrer sur le village et aux conclusions d'experts d'un danger imminent, la route départementale 703, traversant le village et surplombée par la falaise, est fermée pendant cinq semaines, avec évacuation des personnes les plus menacées. Des travaux de protection, notamment avec la pose de filets, sont effectués pour protéger les vies. À la suite de ces travaux, la RD 703 est rouverte le 10 juillet 2010 et les personnes évacuées ont pu regagner leur domicile.
À la suite de l'effondrement du plafond du fort troglodytique, le site n'a plus été visitable pendant les dix années de travaux qui ont été nécessaires pour le remettre en état. Il a pu rouvrir ses portes en 2020.
À compter de novembre 2013, la route départementale 703 est fermée dans sa traversée du bourg de La Roque-Gageac pour une période de cinq mois, nécessaire à la création de voies piétonnes sécurisées de chaque côté de la route.
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In the Middle Ages, La Roque Gageac had up to 1,500 inhabitants. At the time, the Dordogne provided a living for fishermen and bargemen in the port. From this period remains the church covered with slates. Not far away stands, flanked by a round tower, the mansion of the Tarde family, friends of Galileo. During the Hundred Years War, La Roque Gageac hosted the bishops of Sarlat. Their residence, at the end of the village, has been preserved. Dominating the houses, the remains of the castle still defy time.
On January 17, 1957, a section of the cliff collapsed on part of the village, killing three people by destroying six houses and a barn, cutting off the road and ending up in the Dordogne66. In 2007, a stele and a plaque were placed at the foot of the cliff in memory of the victims of 1957.
On January 9, 2010, a section of the ceiling of the troglodyte fort collapsed causing the fall of part of the curtain wall of the fort, clinging to the wall of the cliff since the twelfth century, on the side of the reception building of the site. On June 3, 2010, at the start of the tourist season, following the threat of a 320-tonne rock collapsing on the village and the conclusions of experts of an imminent danger, the departmental road 703, crossing the village and overlooked by the cliff, is closed for five weeks, with the evacuation of the people most at risk. Protective works, including the laying of nets, are carried out to protect lives. Following this work, the RD 703 was reopened on July 10, 2010 and the evacuees were able to return to their homes.
Following the collapse of the ceiling of the troglodyte fort, the site could no longer be visited during the ten years of work that were necessary to restore it. It was able to reopen its doors in 2020.
As of November 2013, the departmental road 703 is closed in its crossing of the village of La Roque-Gageac for a period of five months, necessary for the creation of secure pedestrian routes on each side of the road.
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Les gabares, un moyen de transport fluvial ancestral et caractéristique du département de la Dordogne
Qu’est-ce que les gabares ?
Étymologiquement le mot « gabare » provient de l’occitan « gabarra » qui veut dire navigation. Ces bateaux se déclinaient sous deux formes selon leur exploitation, car ils devaient supporter des charges plus ou moins lourdes. Il en existait 2 types :
Les gabares fluviales
Les gabares maritimes
Les gabares fluviales, à destination du transport de petites marchandises
Ces embarcations sont reconnaissables par leur fond plat qui leur sert à naviguer au fil de l’eau en portant de lourdes charges. Pour flotter et pouvoir sillonner notre cours d’eau La Dordogne, la coque était à francs-bords. Cette technique de construction navale se base sur un schéma de membres superposés. La liaison entre Bordeaux et Bergerac se faisait notamment grâce à ces bateaux qui transportaient les marchandises.
Les gabares maritimes, principalement pour les marchandises volumineuses
Ces bateaux à coque étaient constitués d’un 3 mâts. Cet assemblage permettait aux gabares d’avancer plus vite, surtout lors de grosses cargaisons qui ralentissaient le trajet à cause du poids. Leur structure était réalisée de manière à être solide tout en facilitant la navigation. Selon leur taille et leurs usages, certaines gabares maritimes pouvaient avoir jusqu’à 20 pièces de canon. Pour naviguer sur de longs trajets, ils pouvaient supporter des tonnes de bois de charpentes, de multiples tonneaux et bien d’autres marchandises volumineuses.
Les gabares, une embarcation qui perdure dans le temps avec une nouvelle utilisation sur La Dordogne
Une utilisation commerciale avant d’être touristique
Afin de faciliter les échanges de marchandises et le transport de matières premières aux chantiers navals, l’usage des gabares était de mise. La construction des bateaux en bois elle-même montrait le savoir-faire des artisans charpentiers.
Au XVIIIème siècle, les chantiers navals étaient très développés sur le département de la Dordogne. Les compétences des charpentiers étaient recherchées en raison d’une forte demande.
L’activité se divisait en 4 secteurs :
La construction
La vente
Le service de réparation
Le service juridique et technique.
On compte plusieurs communes périgourdines reconnues pour leurs constructions de gabares. Au cours des siècles ces compétences et connaissances se sont transmises pour représenter l’Artisanat dans le département. Fin du XIXème siècle, ce sont Bergerac, Mouleydier et Saint-Capraise-de-Lalinde qui étaient les chantiers les plus actifs.
L’usage contemporain des gabares sur La Dordogne
Désormais, vous pouvez toujours monter sur une gabare le temps d’une balade fluviale. Elles vous permettent de voguer sur La Dordogne et de vous imprégner des falaises, de la verdure, de l’architecture et du bruit de la nature. À des fins touristiques, plusieurs entreprises proposent des balades sur ces embarcations ancestrales. Pour découvrir les villages et faire un retour dans le temps, les balades en gabare sont incontournables.
Au fil de l’eau, laissez-vous guider par les commentaires des capitaines qui vous dépeindront l’histoire et la culture de notre beau Périgord. Cette vue inoubliable vous donnera sûrement envie de revenir vous rendre visite pour en découvrir plus !
Source le Périgourdin.fr
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The gabares, an ancestral means of river transport characteristic of the Dordogne department
What are barges?
Etymologically the word "gabare" comes from the Occitan "gabarra" which means navigation. These boats were available in two forms depending on their use, because they had to support more or less heavy loads. There were 2 types:
The river barges
The maritime barges
River barges, intended for the transport of small goods
These boats are recognizable by their flat bottom which they use to navigate over the water while carrying heavy loads. To float and be able to navigate our river, the Dordogne, the hull was freeboard. This shipbuilding technique is based on a pattern of overlapping limbs. The connection between Bordeaux and Bergerac was made in particular thanks to these boats which transported the goods.
Maritime barges, mainly for bulky goods
These hull boats consisted of a 3-mast. This assembly allowed the barges to move faster, especially when carrying large cargoes which slowed down the journey due to the weight. Their structure was made to be solid while facilitating navigation. Depending on their size and their uses, some maritime barges could have up to 20 pieces of cannon. For navigating long journeys, they could carry tons of lumber, multiple barrels, and many other bulky cargoes.
The barges, a boat that lasts over time with a new use on the Dordogne
Commercial use before being touristic
In order to facilitate the exchange of goods and the transport of raw materials to shipyards, the use of barges was required. The construction of the wooden boats itself showed the skill of the craftsmen carpenters.
In the 18th century, shipyards were highly developed in the Dordogne department. The skills of carpenters were in demand due to high demand.
The activity was divided into 4 sectors:
building
The sale
The repair service
Legal and technical service.
There are several Périgord towns known for their construction of barges. Over the centuries these skills and knowledge have been passed on to represent craftsmanship in the department. At the end of the 19th century, Bergerac, Mouleydier and Saint-Capraise-de-Lalinde were the most active sites.
The contemporary use of barges on the Dordogne
From now on, you can always ride on a barge for a river trip. They allow you to sail on the Dordogne and soak up the cliffs, the greenery, the architecture and the sound of nature. For tourism purposes, several companies offer rides on these ancestral boats. To discover the villages and go back in time, barge rides are essential.
Along the water, let yourself be guided by the comments of the captains who will depict the history and culture of our beautiful Périgord. This unforgettable view will surely make you want to come back and visit to discover more!
Source le Périgourdin.fr
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On the island were stored the raw materials for the biscuit factory of Huntley & Palmer that was on the right side.
Number 4 in a series of ongoing collaborations with Harsubagh.
I've taken 4 of his images here and subjected them to a lot of further photo manipulation, mirroring and layering. In the first 3 collaborative pieces I kept H's images fairly untouched. Here I'm taking them on as raw material and running as far as I can with them ... in the spirit of H's own very experimental work.
Image was created in 2017.
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Hanging on the wall of a cozy Pub in Mount Parnassus Home of the Muses.
Is the line between Art & Craft vanishing ?
A lovely piece of Alternative Art showing that Creativity has no limits.Some Unglamorous Discarded Natural Materials put together Aesthetically & Creating Asymmetrical Balance in Art ...
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“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in, can hope to escape. ”
RIP Shane - you have no more demons to battle <3
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People mistakenly think that art is about nature,
or about an artist’s feelings about nature.
It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure,
one of many paths,
where nature and the artist’s feelings
are merely raw material.
~Wolf Kahn
Architect, concreter, labourer, raw materials transporter, and master builder - this welcome swallow was a reminder of how amazing birds can be. I cannot imagine I could ever build a house just using my mouth!
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Nákladní vlak společnosti FCAB číslo 1212, míří z dolu Spence do přístavu Mejillones. Vlak v čele se stoji 3204 a 3206 je zachycen na severní větvi Prat - Pampa, kde tvoří železniční trať v poušti četné množství oblouků a horských průsmyků v jehož čele stojí vrchol Cumbre. Dlouhý vlak je možné zachytit i v obloucích či smyčkách tak, že je na konci vlaku viditelný postrk, v tomto případě se jedná o lokomotivu 3208. Ložené vlaky z dolu Spence jezdí v čele s dvojicí lokomotiv, na postrku jim vypomáhá samostatný stroj. Naopak prázdné soupravy z přístavu Mejillones jsou vedeny už pouze dvojicí lokomotiv stejné řady.
Tento vlak je nejdelším vlakem na sítí společnosti FCAB a jeho délka může dosáhnout 700 až 800 metrů. Kontejnery jsou ložené vytěženými minerály a k přepravě tohoto těžkého nákladu jsou použité lokomotivy řady 32xx - typu GT42AC s výkonem 3200 koní. Lokomotivy řady 32xx pochází od firmy Progress Rail Services Corporation, vlastněná firmou Caterpillar. Lokomotivy mají označení výrobce EMD GT 42AC a v Chile se jim přezdívá podle firmy, která je vyrobila „Progress“. Jedná se o mladé lokomotivy 3204 a 3206 vyrobené v roce 2018 a na postrku jen o rok starší stroj 3208. Celkem má FCAB ve flotile 14 těchto lokomotiv. Lokomotivy mají 12 válcový motor s označením 12-710, lokomotiva je 20,3 metrů dlouhá, její maximální rychlost je 100 km/h, a pojme 5000 litrů paliva, její váha je 120 tun, tažná síla lokomotivy se uvádí 3 207 kW.
Důl Spence se nachází nedaleko městečka Sierra Gorda jižně pod Calamou v nadmořské výšce 1750 metrů nad mořem, jedná se o povrchový důl, kde se těží měděné katody teprve od roku 2007 (výstavba dolu započala v roce 1996). Katody se získávají bakteriálním procesem louhování a extrakcí v rozpouštědlech, převážně kyseliny sírové, která se sem též vozí na vlacích. Koncentrát se přepravuje ve vozech mokrý a během cesty se zhutňuje, což zamezuje jeho výbuchu. Na jednom voze může být naloženo až 52 tun nákladu. Denně dojde v dole ke zpracování 95 000 až 100 000 tun koncentrátů. Roční objem těžby mědi dělá přibližně 835 tisíc tun, zanedbatelná není ani těžba molybdenu, kterého se zde vytěží 7,5 tisíce tun. Převážný odběr surovin potuje po oceánu do Číny, Spojených státu Amerických a Itálie.
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Tren de carga FCAB número 1212, rumbo desde la mina Spence al puerto de Mejillones. El tren liderado por 3204 y 3206 es interceptado en el ramal norte Prat - Pampa, donde la vía férrea en el desierto está formada por numerosos arcos y pasos de montaña encabezados por el pico de Cumbre. Es posible coger un tren largo incluso en curvas o bucles, de modo que se ve un empujador al final del tren, en este caso se trata de la locomotora 3208. Los trenes cargados de la mina Spence son conducidos por un par de locomotoras, asistidas por una máquina separada en el empujador. En cambio, los conjuntos vacíos procedentes del puerto de Mejillones ahora son impulsados únicamente por un par de locomotoras de la misma serie.
Este tren es el más largo de la red FCAB y puede alcanzar entre 700 y 800 metros de longitud. Los contenedores están cargados con minerales extraídos y para transportar esta carga pesada se utilizan locomotoras de la serie 32xx, tipo GT42AC con una potencia de 3200 CV. Las locomotoras Serie 32xx son de Progress Rail Services Corporation, propiedad de Caterpillar. Las locomotoras llevan la denominación de fabricante EMD GT 42AC y en Chile reciben el sobrenombre de "Progreso" en honor a la empresa que las produjo. Se trata de las jóvenes locomotoras 3204 y 3206 fabricadas en 2018 y de la algo más antigua 3208. En total, FCAB tiene 14 de estas locomotoras en su flota. Las locomotoras tienen un motor de 12 cilindros con la denominación 12-710, la locomotora mide 20,3 metros de largo, su velocidad máxima es de 100 km/h, tiene una capacidad de 5000 litros de combustible, su peso es de 120 toneladas, la potencia de tracción de la La locomotora tiene una potencia de 3.207 kW.
La mina Spence está ubicada cerca del pueblo de Sierra Gorda al sur de Calama a una altitud de 1.750 metros sobre el nivel del mar. Es una mina a cielo abierto donde se extraen cátodos de cobre sólo desde 2007 (la construcción de la mina comenzó en 1996). Los cátodos se obtienen mediante un proceso bacteriano de lixiviación y extracción en disolventes, principalmente ácido sulfúrico, que también se transporta aquí en trenes. El concentrado se transporta húmedo en vagones y se compacta durante el viaje, lo que evita que explote. En un vagón se pueden cargar hasta 52 toneladas de carga. La mina procesa entre 95.000 y 100.000 toneladas de concentrados diariamente. El volumen anual de extracción de cobre es de aproximadamente 835 mil toneladas, la extracción de molibdeno tampoco es insignificante, de las cuales 7,5 mil toneladas se extraen aquí. La mayoría de las materias primas se llevan a China, Estados Unidos e Italia.
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FCAB freight train number 1212, heading from the Spence mine to the port of Mejillones. The train led by 3204 and 3206 is intercepted on the northern branch of Prat - Pampa, where the railway line in the desert is formed by numerous arches and mountain passes headed by the peak of Cumbre. It is possible to catch a long train even in curves or loops so that a pusher is visible at the end of the train, in this case it is locomotive 3208. Loaded trains from the Spence mine are led by a pair of locomotives, assisted by a separate machine on the pusher. On the other hand, empty sets from the port of Mejillones are now only driven by a pair of locomotives of the same series.
This train is the longest train on the FCAB network and can reach 700 to 800 meters in length. The containers are loaded with mined minerals and locomotives of the 32xx series - type GT42AC with a power of 3200 hp are used to transport this heavy cargo. The Series 32xx locomotives are from Progress Rail Services Corporation, owned by Caterpillar. The locomotives have the manufacturer's designation EMD GT 42AC and are nicknamed "Progress" in Chile after the company that produced them. These are the young locomotives 3204 and 3206 manufactured in 2018 and the slightly older machine 3208. In total, FCAB has 14 of these locomotives in its fleet. The locomotives have a 12-cylinder engine with the designation 12-710, the locomotive is 20.3 meters long, its maximum speed is 100 km/h, and it holds 5000 liters of fuel, its weight is 120 tons, the traction power of the locomotive is stated to be 3,207 kW.
The Spence mine is located near the town of Sierra Gorda south of Calama at an altitude of 1,750 meters above sea level. It is an open pit mine where copper cathodes have been mined only since 2007 (mine construction began in 1996). Cathodes are obtained by a bacterial process of leaching and extraction in solvents, mainly sulfuric acid, which is also transported here on trains. The concentrate is transported wet in wagons and is compacted during the journey, which prevents it from exploding. Up to 52 tons of cargo can be loaded on one car. The mine processes 95,000 to 100,000 tons of concentrates daily. The annual volume of copper mining is approximately 835 thousand tons, the mining of molybdenum is also not insignificant, of which 7.5 thousand tons are mined here. The majority of raw materials are taken to China, the United States of America and Italy.
Brass is an alloy composed of copper and zinc, usually for sheet metal, and casting in the proportion of seven parts of the former to three of the latter. Such a combination secures a good, brilliant colour. There are, however, varieties of tone ranging from a pale lemon colour to a deep golden brown, which depends upon a smaller or greater amount of zinc. In early times this metal seems to have been sparingly employed, but from the Middle Ages onward the industry in brass was a very important one, carried out on a vast scale and applied in widely different directions. Source Wikipedia.
The Egyptian Knowledge of Metallurgy and Metalworking
The Egyptians learned how to work metals from an early period, and all agree that 5,000 years ago, the Ancient Egyptians had already developed the techniques of mining, refining, and metalworking.
Ancient Egypt did not have several kinds of mineral ores, such as silver, copper, tin, lead, etc., even though they produced large quantities of electrum (an alloy of gold and silver), copper, and bronze alloys. The Ancient Egyptians used their expertise to explore for mineral ores in Egypt and in other countries. Ancient Egypt had the means and knowledge to explore for needed mineral ores, establish mining processes, and transport heavy loads for long distances by land and sea.
Because it being was largest and richest population in the ancient world, Egypt imported huge quantities of raw materials; and in return exported large quantities of finished goods. The Ancient Egyptians’ finished metallic and non-metallic products are found in tombs throughout the Mediterranean Basin, European, Asiatic and African countries.
The Egyptians possessed considerable knowledge of chemistry and the use of metallic oxides, as manifested in their ability to produce glass and porcelain in a variety of natural colours. The Ancient Egyptians also produced beautiful colours from copper, which reflects their knowledge of the composition of various metals, and the knowledge of the effects produced on different substances by the Earth’s salts. This concurs with our “modern” definition of the subjects of chemistry and metallurgy.
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The raw material for the nests on the island rookery of the Delores Fenwick Nature Center in Pearland, Texas, come from this wood pile across the pond. Birds (all kinds) fly regularly across the pond to gather sticks (making for BIF opportunities).
I wonder where the engineers of this dam sourced it's stone from? There is an abundance along the banks as well as under the lake itself.
To make a collage, I hope. To be fair, if I ever tried to create one it would most likely look like a dog's dinner and end up in the bin, even though my mind had imagined a work of art. :)
For this week's Macro Mondays theme, Mediums. The paper flower is under ¾" across at its widest point.
"Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure."
― Goethe
Hello you lovely people! ♡
I feel incredibly honored to blog about Maru Kado, Dura and Fakeicon today. First of all, I want to give a huge "THANK YOU!" to u10 for passing me his animesh Oni! They're amaziingggg! I had so much fun playing around with these. I am truly amazed by his work and very much looking forward to his next release. Big time fan o3o/
Thank you, Chiaki for passing me the new release of the Dura hair! She is so kind and talented. As always she did an amazing job with the new hair that was inspired by Andrej Pejic. Every time I think "Wow, it can't get any better than this. This is my favorite hair!" suddenly - BOOM - a new Dura hair appears and it's even more amazing than the previous release! How you do that Chikai sensei?!
Also I want to thank Titzuki for being an overall amazing person and the king of fabulousness (yes, that's totally a word) who is so kind and fun to talk with! I love your new shirt! The texture options are amazing! Dayuuum, this rocks!
Last but not least: Thank you Lucien, for taking part in this picture and for bearing with me! It means a lot to me :) Thank you for staying with me all that time, being patient with me and supporting me all along. It was so much fun to take this picture with you and I really enjoyed editing your floofy hair, making it all FLOOF! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° You are such a sweet, kind, understanding, amazing and kawaii person. Never forget that o/ Be proud of yourself. I am really bad at saying cute things but ... I really dislike hugs but I'd hug you any time! (.❛ ᴗ ❛.) ♡
And this one is for you: Thank you for looking at my picture ♡
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Don't wait for good things to come your way. Go out there and grab any chance whenever you see one. Get those lemons together with some salt and tequila and enjoy it with your friends - or maybe make lemonade out of it instead or bake a lemon cake. Use it to make something good! Make a change. Your life is in your own hands. If you fall, don't just lay down and wait for someone to lend you a hand. Get up and keep walking your path! You are strong, you are amazing and talented. Be bold, because you are beautiful on the inside and outside. You hold your fate in your own hands. We are all like carbon. Carbon is everywhere. Sometimes you might think that it's nothing special but add pressure and heat and it'll turn into a Diamond.
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on Lucien:
Hair: Raven Bell - Kyle Hair @TMD
Shirt: FAKEICON - retro tucked tee @TMD
Shoes: [Vale Koer] - Reference
Kneepads: .miss chelsea. Remy Kneepads
Garters: [Cynful] - Lucid Dream - Garter + Fishnets
Arm: [omnis] - BlackWidow
Tail: :[Plastik]: - Araxxis Tail
Lantern: kotte - yuan xiao - lotus lantern
on Hikaru:
Cookies: Pacagaia - Fortune Cookie
Shirt: FAKEICON - retro tucked tee @TMD
Coat: FAKEICON - shoulder fur
Shoes: FAKEICON - stomp shoes
Shirt around waist: AITUI - My Sweats @TMD
Pants: SEUL - Hedi Bikers
Septum: -[TWC]- - Gear Septum Gold @TMD
Body Scars: -[TWC]- - Bad Dog @TMD
Gloves: //Ascend// - Trevor Bento Glove
Flowers: {-Maru Kado-} - TSUBAKI
Mask: Caboodle - Zenko Kitsune Mask
Pocky: +Somali+ - Typer
Bandaids: -MUSU- - Bandaids Upper Face
Necklace 1: Clemmm - Clingy Stringy Choker
Necklace 2: [MANDALA] - OKAKI necklace
Tail: :[Plastik]: - Araxxis Tail
Horns: {aii} - Fleshy Basic Horns
Decoration:
Oni: {-Maru Kado-} - ONI-Oyabun BLACK-B & Yellow @TMD
Lanterns: +Half-Deer+ - Batwing Lantern
Neon signs: OLQINU - cyber survivor - neon sign - lost city
Backdrop: SEUL - Graphic Corner - Graffiti Backdrop
Bench: Soy. - CSC - Promotional bench
Vending Machine1: Soy. - CSC - Vending machine [Hot noodle]
Vending Machine2: Soy. - CSC - Vending machine [Udon]
Trash Bin: Soy. - CSC - Full of Trash box
Noodles: Soy. - CSC - Hot noodle [decor]
Flying paper: Kalopsia - Flying Paper
Poses made with the Animare HUD PLUS
Adirondacks, NY
Boreas is the Greek God of the North Wind, and perhaps whoever named this river suffered through the winters that were carried southward on its journey to meet the Hudson. I long for that breeze now, sweaty and sticky in the heat of early evening. The Boreas Rover is a rocky corridor here; huge boulders are randomly scattered, with smaller ones migrating into the forest. It leaves you wondering about the forces of creation. This isn’t a popular place, it’s just one I came across long ago, and return to occasionally, as if revisiting an old friend. I’ve found that this is a common thing I do, coming back to familiar haunts. In a nation that has gone woke, hijacked by agenda idealogues, and writhing in the irony of what’s destroyed versus what’s created, maybe I need to reassure myself that some things, some places, haven’t changed. Many have. Some have suffered the onslaught of people, drawn by internet inspired geo-trophyism, and left questionable when or even whether to ever return to them for solitude. I’ve returned to broad vistas, now permanently marred with ridges of marching wind turbines, or the sun glinting off acres of solar arrays, the earth’s landscapes left pitted from the earth movers used to produce the raw materials to make it all. Aesthetics are succumbing to climate fears; how did we come to trust people who claim to know what is good for the planet, and couldn’t care less about wilderness and wildlife. My list diminishes yearly of those that remain unchanged, unloved by but a few, a comfort food for the heart. God willing they will remain hidden, unusable, there to take solace in, from time to time.
It's late in the day as ONR 512 slowly pull out Glencore's Noranda smelter with a bunch of loaded sulfuric acid cars on the head pin who's surely gives the locomotive engineer an hard time over the roller coaster 60-miles long Kirkland Lake subdivision on it's way back to Cochrane later.
Brakeman was out of sight at left, waiting for double the heavy cut of cars onto empty gons, bound for reloading at Kidd Creek Mine near Timmins.
The 211/512 "Noranda Turn" operates six days-a-week linking the easternmost point of the ONR system in Québec province with the rest of the road's 645 miles of trackage, delivering and pulling raw material for Glencore, the main and almost only reason of the line's tenure.
Back in the days, ONR still had passenger service on the line and the former station can be seen in background.
There's also still an active interchange between ONR and Canadian National at Rouyn-Noranda, along with a diamond crossing between the two roads
CN came in three times a week from Senneterre, more than 100 rail miles away.
ONR 512-07
2105 2103 1735
Milepost 59.7 Kirkland Lake subdivision
Rouyn-Noranda,QC
October 7th 2019
The east end of the siding at Gazelle, California sees a meet on Southern Pacific's Siskiyou Line. A westbound lumber drag out of Ashland, Oregon is rolling by on the main. Once the loads clear, the eastman will line out of the siding and continue its trip to the Rogue Valley. In all likelihood, virtually every car in the eastbound train is a lumber empty, returning north for another load of forest products.
In 1986, timber sales on the O&C timberlands in Southwest Oregon were still going strong. The raw material they supplied to the sawmills along the Siskiyou Line was sufficient to produce a daily 7,200 ton train of forest products for the Golden State. Drags that were dispatched west from Ashland over Siskiyou Summit's 3% grades were sights to behold, with three or four big EMDs on the point, working with a mid-train five-unit helper.
There's a lesson here: appreciate what you have, when you have it. At the time, no one could have imagined that in a decade, the Friendly Southern Pacific would be a fallen flag. They might have been just as amazed to find out that Siskiyou traffic would suffer a massive decline - a fall so great that a few diminutive locals each week would be sufficient to keep what few carloadings remained moving through Gazelle.
The raw material for the production of ethyl alcohol (almost 92% by volume) for moonshine, which is in the bottle in the photo, is sugar. In this case, the term "moonshine" refers only to the place and production technology - it is a strong alcoholic drink made at home in a distillation unit, which, in this case, is equipped with modern measuring technical means.
Drink 40% (volume units). made from a solution of ethyl alcohol and highly purified water.
Bottle, label and metal threaded bottle cap - purchased separately.
Сировиною для виготовлення етилового спирту (майже 92% об'ємних одиниць) для самогонки, що в пляшці на світлині, є цукор. В даному випадку термін «самогонка» відноситься лише до місця та технології виготовлення - це міцний алкогольний напій, виготовлений в домашніх умовах на дистиляційній установці, яка обладнана сучасними вимірювальними та технічними засобами контролю.
Напій 40% (об'ємних одиниць) є розчином етилового спирту та води високого ступеню фільтрації.
Пляшка, етикетка та металева різьбова кришка для пляшки - куплені окремо.
Промоутери напоїв за держцінами поширюють думку що без застосування спеціальних технологій у домашніх умовах шкідливі речовини, які все ще залишаються після дистиляції, неможливо видалити із напоїв. Тому нібито рекомендується вживати лише ті міцні напої, які виготовлені промисловим способом.
In the ASTRA National Museum Complex, Sibiu, Romania
The Romanian cultural association ASTRA decided in 1897 to establish a museum of Romanian civilization as a "shelter for keeping the past". The "ASTRA" Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization (Romanian: Muzeul Civilizaţiei Populare Tradiţionale "ASTRA") is located in the Dumbrava Forest, 3 km south of Sibiu. Occupying an area of 0.96 square kilometers, it is the largest open-air museum in Romania and one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. It contains houses and workshops of the traditional Romanian folk culture from the pre-industrial era. Over 300 houses and other buildings are situated in the forest around two artificial lakes with over 10 km of walkways between them.
The exhibits are organized into six thematic groups: food production and animal husbandry; production of raw materials; means of transportation; manufacture of household objects; public buildings; an exposition of monumental sculpture. (Wikipedia)
Raw material for a CD-cover (not used). The instrument is an Euphonium (haven't been aware of its existence :-) ). The Chamäleon has something to do with the style of the music, otherwise the picture would be complete nonsense :-)
One of the lesser known activities available through northland living, is the art of ice training. Needless to say, we are not lacking in raw materials in which to engage in this winter pastime. In fact, the first thing to learn is the "temperment" of the wide variety of ices as it is critical to that which one is trying to create. Different ices are much more amenable to different accomplishments, so knowing which is which is important in achieving even a modicum of success. If the wrong ice is chosen, one's ability to effectively communicate the goal is markedly reduced.
In these two images, showing distinctly different species of ice, the goal was to encourage the creation of my initial ("A" for those who may have forgotten). After considerable effort, both varieties were to be commended, certainly creating more than reasonable facsimiles...actually both more effective than my children seem to be able to produce consistently. The variations clearly show the different personalities of the ice, one showing a bit more flash than the other, but staying nicely on task nonetheless. A sure indication that ice is far more intelligent than most people realize.
Located in the Tannehill State Park near McCalla in Tuscaloosa County AL.
During the Civil War this Tannehill Ironworks furnace (also as the Roupes Valley Iron Company) and two other furnaces at this site produced pig iron that was used to manufacture ordnance for the Confederate military forces. This site and other furnaces in the regions were raided and demolished by Federal forces from the U.S. 8th Iowa Cavalry in March 1865.
In 1976 Tannehill furnace #1 was restored and support structure was rebuilt. In September of that year, using raw materials & support equipment provided by local industries and with oversight support from the University of Alabama firing was achieved. After two weeks of preparation by volunteers from regional foundries the furnace was successfully fired following originally used processes and two and one half tons of pig iron was produced on September 19th.
The furnace and surrounding site is on the National Register of Historic Places.
10/03/2020 - Thanks for adding this photo to "Explore", the invitation to "In Explore" and the many comments and favorites.
the amazing strength of the sailors and workers who load and unload goods manually without the help of any equipment in the Sunda Kelapa Harbour.
The Pinnacles, Nambung National Park, Western Australia
The Pinnacles are limestone formations within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells in an earlier era that was rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime-rich sands that were blown inland to form high mobile dunes. However, the manner in which such raw materials formed the Pinnacles is the subject of debate. The Pinnacles Desert contains thousands of limestone pillars. The pillars are the weathered and eroded fragments of limestone beds composed of deposited marine organisms such as coral and molluscs. Some of the tallest pinnacles reach heights of up to 3.5m above the yellow sand base. The different types of formations include ones which are much taller than they are wide and resemble columns—suggesting the name of Pinnacles—while others are only a meter or so in height and width resembling short tombstones. A cross-bedding structure can be observed in many pinnacles where the angle of deposited sand changed suddenly due to changes in prevailing winds during formation of the limestone beds. Pinnacles with tops similar to mushrooms are created when the calcrete capping is harder than the limestone layer below it. The relatively softer lower layers weather and erode at a faster rate than the top layer leaving behind more material at the top of the pinnacle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pinnacles_(Western_Australia)
Nambung National Park is a national park in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 200 km northwest of Perth, and 17 km south of the small coastal town of Cervantes. The park contains the Pinnacles Desert which is an area with thousands of limestone formations called pinnacles. The park derives its name from an indigenous Australian word possibly meaning crooked or winding. The word was first used in 1938 when naming the Nambung River which flows into the park and disappears into a cave system within the limestone. The Yued people are the acknowledged traditional custodians of the land since before the arrival of Europeans.
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RO-CFR Marfa 60-0934-4 cu un tren de dolomita din directia Stei (BIHOR) in directia Tirgu Mures Sud. 25 de vagoane (Ucs, Uacs si Uackks) care sa furnizeze materia prima pentru Azomures.
RO-CFR Marfa 60-0934-4 with an Azomures dolomite shuttle from Stei (BIHOR). 25 cars (Ucs, Uacs and Uackks) to provide raw material for Azomures chemical plant.
17.02.2014, G-ral Nicolae Dascalescu (Ungheni Mures), Mures.
ENCI quarry - Maastricht - Limburg - the Netherlands
The ENCI quarry is a limestone quarry on the Maas side of St. Pietersberg (part of the Caestert Plateau) in the Dutch municipality of Maastricht. Excavation of limestone ("marl") began here in 1926 with the establishment of the Eerste Nederlandse Cement Industrie (First Dutch Cement Industry; ENCI). Limestone is an important raw material for cement production.
Already in early days underground limestone mining took place in this area in so-called "marl quarries". Many Maastricht churches and other buildings have been built with "marl" from the Sint-Pietersberg. As a result of the large-scale excavation of chalk in the 20th century, a large part (90%) of the 150-hectare underground tunnel system has disappeared.
Sometimes the whole truly is worth more than the sum of its parts. This submarine purge air check valve contains less than $20 of raw materials, but due to its tolerances and application, costs over $20,000 to replace. Once used, it's worthless. HMM! fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-jason-jacobs.html
Astronomers celebrated NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud, and located approximately 960 light-years away.
Hubble's colorful view, showcased through its unique capability to obtain images from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, unveils an effervescent cauldron of glowing gasses and pitch-black dust stirred up and blown around by several hundred newly forming stars embedded within the dark cloud. Hubble just scratches the surface because most of the star birthing firestorm is hidden behind clouds of fine dust – essentially soot – that are thicker toward the bottom of the image. The blackness in the image is not empty space, but filled with obscuring dust.
To capture this image, Hubble peered through a veil of dust on the edge of a giant cloud of cold molecular hydrogen – the raw material for fabricating new stars and planets under the relentless pull of gravity. The image underscores the fact that star formation is a messy process in our rambunctious universe.
Ferocious stellar winds, likely from the bright blue star at the top of the image, are blowing through a curtain of dust. The fine dust scatters the starlight at blue wavelengths.
Farther down, another bright, super-hot star shines through filaments of obscuring dust, looking like the Sun shining through scattered clouds. A diagonal string of fainter accompanying stars looks reddish because dust is filtering starlight, allowing more of the red light to get through.
The bottom of the picture presents a keyhole peek deep into the dark nebula. Hubble captures the reddish glow of ionized hydrogen. It looks like a fireworks finale, with several overlapping events. This is caused by pencil-thin jets shooting out from newly forming stars outside the frame of view. These stars are surrounded by circumstellar disks, which may eventually produce planetary systems, and powerful magnetic fields that direct two parallel beams of hot gas deep into space, like a double light saber from science fiction films. They sculpt patterns on the hydrogen cocoon, like laser-light-show tracings. The jets are a star's birth announcement.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI; Image Processing: Varun Bajaj (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Jennifer Mack (STScI)
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At the ropery of the Openluchtmuseum in Arnhem, people still create rope the old fashioned way. Using a rope walk, twined fiber from natural hemp or sisal fibers are combined to an all natural and extremely strong rope.
Depending on the length and thickness of the rope, working at the ropery was hard work! Just imagine having to create a 200m ship line!
is the basis and credo of our modern industrial society, which thus produces millions and millions of tons of CO2 in a fraction of a second, by burning raw materials that have slowly built up over millions of years.
Pitch Drop, 2016, Julian Charrière
Pitch Drop (2016) refers to the experiment of the same name.
The experiment, begun in 1930 in a laboratory in New Zealand, that has been studying the dripping behavior of hard and rock-like pitch for some 90 years.
Charrière's work takes up this lengthy process: The time-based sculpture drips once every ten years, following a rhythm of centuries beyond the human lifespan.
Until the upper container would be empty,
more than 10,000 years would pass.
This enormous time span corresponds to the duration of the Holocene so far,
the period in the history of the Earth that marks the evolution of humankind
development of humankind from the Neolithic period to the
present.
I have seen the work of art years ago in Düsseldorf and could already notice minimal changes, but it has not yet come to the formation of drops.
It is also a good experiment to show that nuclear waste repositories, no matter in what hard sediment, will be in flux over the millennia.
Charrière clarifies also with this
which unimaginably long periods of time the earth's history is in comparison with human scales.
Why the artist is concerned ...
The title of his exhibition is "Controlled Burn"
The extraction of tar or pitch is probably very old. While tar is clearly a product of dry distillation from woods or coals, pitch, on the other hand, can be described as a by-product of tar production. Tar has an oily consistency and remains semi-liquid or viscous, while pitch retains its viscous property only at high heat and hardens when cooled.
The basic material of coal is mainly of plant origin.
Typical coal formation takes its beginning in extensive swamp forests of lowlands. The trees bind carbon dioxide, CO2 from the air by means of photosynthesis and convert it into the carbohydrate cellulose and other organic compounds.
After individual trees die, they sink into the swamp and are thus removed from the normal aerobic decomposition process - peat is initially formed.
Coal is formed from the peat when subsidence occurs over geological periods of time, i.e. many tens of millions of years, and overburden.
In this process, with increasing depth of subsidence, both the ambient pressure and the ambient temperature rise to well above 1000°. This causes the so-called incarburization of the peaty sediments.
Initially, lignite is formed. As the depth of injection increases, the coalification process intensifies. Lignite becomes hard coal and finally anthracite. For this reason, the quality of coal is often better the deeper it lies in the earth and the older it is.
Similar processes occur in the formation of oil and gas. The artist wants to make clear to us the time span of our waste and the corresponding climate and earth damage in proportion to the formation time of the fossil energy sources ...
With full speed into the abyss ... ;-) ...
Deutsch
Große Beschleunigung und immerwährende Geschwindigkeit
ist die Grundlage und Credo unserer modernen Industriegesellschaft, die somit in Sekundenbruchteilen abermillionen an Tonnen an CO2 produziert, durch die Verbrennung von Rohstoffen, die sich über millionen von Jahren langsam aufgebaut haben.
Pitch Drop, 2016,Julian Charrière
Pitch Drop (2016) nimmt Bezug auf das gleichnamige Ex-
periment, 1930 in Neuseeland im Labor begonnen, das seit rund 90 Jahren das Tropfverhalten von hartem und felsgleichen Pech untersucht.
Diesen langwierigen Prozess nimmt Charrières Werk auf: Die zeitbasierte Skulptur tropft einmal alle zehn Jahre und folgt somit einem Rhythmus von Jahrhunderten, der über die menschliche Lebensspanne hinausgeht.
Bis der obere Behälter leer wäre,
würden über 10’000 Jahre vergehen.
Diese enorme Zeitspanne entspricht der bisherigen Dauer des Holozäns,
dem Zeitabschnitt der Erdgeschichte, der die Entwicklung
der Menschheit von der Jungsteinzeit bis in die Gegen-
wart umfasst.
Warum es dem Küntler geht ...
Ich habe das Kunstwerk vor Jahren in Düsseldorf schon gesehen und konnte minimale Veränderungen schon feststellen aber zur Tropfenbildung ist es noch nicht gekommen.
Charrière verdeutlicht auch mit diesem
Werk, welche unvorstellbar langen Zeiträume die Erdge-
schichte im Vergleich zu menschlichen Massstäben
kennzeichnen.
Sein Ausstellungstitel - Controlled Burn ...
Die Gewinnung von Teer bzw. Pech ist vermutlich sehr alt. Während Teer eindeutig ein Produkt trockener Destillation aus Hölzern oder Kohlen ist, kann man Pech dagegen als ein Folgeprodukt der Teerherstellung bezeichnen. Teer besitzt eine ölige Konsistenz und bleibt halbflüssig bzw. zäh, Pech dagegen behält seine zähflüssige Eigenschaft nur bei großer Hitze und härtet bei Erkalten aus.
Das Ausgangsmaterial von Kohle ist hauptsächlich pflanzlichen Ursprungs.
Typische Kohlebildung nimmt ihren Anfang in ausgedehnten Sumpfwäldern von Tiefebenen. Die Bäume binden mittels Photosynthese Kohlendioxid, CO2 aus der Luft und wandeln es in das Kohlenhydrat Zellulose und andere organische Verbindungen um.
Nach dem Absterben einzelner Bäume versinken diese im Sumpf und werden so dem normalen aeroben Zersetzungsprozess entzogen – es entsteht zunächst Torf.
Aus dem Torf entsteht Kohle, wenn es zu Absenkung über geologische Zeiträume hinweg, also viele dutzend Millionen Jahre kommt und zu Überdeckungen.
Dabei steigen mit zunehmender Versenkungstiefe sowohl der Umgebungsdruck als auch die Umgebungstemperatur bis weit über 1000°. Dies verursacht die sogenannte Inkohlung der torfigen Sedimente.
Dabei entsteht zunächst Braunkohle. Mit zunehmender Versenkung intensiviert sich die Inkohlung. Aus Braunkohle wird Steinkohle und schließlich Anthrazit. Deshalb ist die Qualität von Kohle oft umso besser, je tiefer sie in der Erde liegt und je älter sie ist.
Ähnliche Prozesse laufen bei der Entstehung von Öl und Gas ab. Der Künstler möchte uns die Zeitspanne unserer Verschwendung und der entsprechenden Klima- und Erdschädigung in der Proportion zur Entstehungszeit der fossilen Energieträger verdeutlichen ...
Mit Vollgas in den Abrund ... ;-) ...
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Isn't it astounding how inferior raw material can be transformed into something beautiful? While growing up I was never thought of as beautiful or handsome; not even average, to be honest.
Then one day the outfit, accessories, makeup and attitude just worked perfectly together and I was stunned to discover a beautiful appearance.
Perhaps this is what motivates me to continue, for I come here to find the beauty I'd always missed.