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I had more or less decided that I was switching from expensive DSLRs to using the Sony NEX-7 [and whatever replaced it] as the camera that I would use for street photography. I was hoping to upgrade from the NEX-7 to the A7R but while I might be able to afford the body this side of Christmas there is no way that I could afford a set of suitable lenses within a reasonable time period.
At the end of May I got the opportunity to purchase a Sigma DP3 Merrill at €399.00 including delivery to Dublin so based on a number of reviews I decided to take a gamble and purchase one. I had to wait almost two months and I was about to cancel the order but it arrived a few days ago and I got a chance to test it today.
There is no doubting the fact that the DP3 Merrill is very different to anything that I have used to date [including the original DP1 or DP2] and while I am glad that I got it there are many issues. The main problem is battery life, there is no way that 45 photographs per charge is acceptable. The second problem is that Adobe Lightroom does not recognise the output from the DP3 Merrill [I only shoot in RAW] so one must use the software that is supplied by Sigma. Sigma Photo Pro is not as bad as some may have you believe but in my case I am not at all keen to add another stage to the process.
The third problem is that I am really limited to shooting at ISO100 so it is a waste of time shooting in poor light and there is plenty of that here in Dublin.
The Sigma DP3 uses an excellent 50mm f/2.8 prime lens which is the equivalent of a 75mm optic on a 35mm camera. The lens design features ten elements in eight groups, and there's a seven-bladed aperture diaphragm. Focusing is possible to as close as 8.9 inches (22.6cm), and maximum magnification is 1:3 (0.33x). There's no image stabilisation which may make the camera less suitable for street photography.
Built in 1929, this 17-story Art Deco-style former passenger railroad station was designed by Fellheimer & Wagner to replace the multiple previous train stations and termini in Buffalo, which were scattered throughout the city and belonged to different railroads. The structure stands on the site of the old Union Depot built in 1874, which closed in the early 1920s. The station began construction in 1925 when the New York Central Railroad settled on building their new union terminal in Buffalo at the site, with the station being built to accommodate the expected growth of Buffalo from a city of about 550,000 people to one with 1.5 million people, and to accommodate continued growth in passenger numbers. However, both of these projections never materialized, with the city’s population growth and the railroad’s passenger numbers growth, already slowing in the 1920s, slowing further due to the Great Depression during the 1930s, and then beginning a long, steady decline, only being briefly buoyed by World War II before falling out of favor as automobile travel proved more flexible and air travel more swift than train travel. Due to these circumstances, the terminal was overbuilt and never reached its full capacity during its operations, only coming close during World War II due to resource shortages and mass mobilization of the United States during wartime. The terminal was offered for sale by the New York Central Railroad for one million dollars in 1956, but found no buyers, with continuing declines in passenger numbers, coupled with the decline in the population of Buffalo itself, leading to several services being ended during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, the railroad, in an effort to save costs and downsize their facilities, demolished several outbuildings in the complex, and in 1968, the once powerful New York Central Railroad, a husk of its former self, merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in an attempt to consolidate their expenses and save both companies, but this merger proved unsuccessful, leading to their bankruptcy in 1976, with both railroads absorbed into the public-private partnership known as Conrail.
In the meantime, Amtrak was formed in 1971 to provide passenger rail service in the United States, operating out of the terminal until 1979, with the agency facing budgetary limitations that did not allow them to renovate the aging structure, which, when coupled with the massive expenses of keeping the building comfortable, dry, and well-lit, led to the agency building two smaller stations in Buffalo during the 1970s to replace it. The terminal was subsequently purchased by Anthony T. Fedele, whom managed to maintain the building in decent condition, but was unable to find any interested developers to reuse the building, and eventually fell behind on taxes, leading to the building being seized at foreclosure so the taxes could be recouped by the government. During the time it was owned by Fedele, the building was vacated by Conrail’s offices between 1980 and 1984, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, with the final operations at the terminal, the interlocking towers that once signaled trains arriving at the station, being shut down in 1985. In 1986, the building was purchased at auction by Thomas Telesco, whom did not maintain the building, selling off many artifacts and fixtures from its interior, and proposing grandiose and unrealistic schemes of what he would do with the building, including being a stop on a high-speed rail line between New York and Toronto. The building was then sold to Bernie Tuchman and Samuel Tuchman, with the building seeing further elements removed and sold, and the building continuing to decay.
In 1997, the terminal, then in poor condition, was purchased by Scott Field of the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, whom paid for the building’s back taxes, and shortly thereafter, formed the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation, transferring ownership of the building to the organization. The building was stabilized and secured under the stewardship of the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation, which opened the building for public tours in 2003, and holds many fundraising events at the station every year. The building has been preserved, but a restoration or adaptive reuse of the structure has so far remained elusive.
The building features a brown brick exterior with an octagonal corner tower, with a large barrel-roofed main concourse structure wrapping around the tower to the south and east. The facade of the tower features multiple setbacks, chamfered corners, corner clock faces at the roofline above the twelfth floor, a rotunda with large archways and buttresses atop the tower with a decorative trim crown at the parapet, vertical window bays that stretch from the building’s base to the roofline, large entrances with metal canopies, large transoms, and stone surrounds, pilasters, and stone trim and caps atop the parapets. The main concourse portion of the building features large arched curtain walls at the ends of its barrel vaulted roof, a cavernous barrel vaulted interior, large metal canopies over the entrances, and a tunnel underneath that once allowed traffic on Curtiss Street to run beneath the building, though this has been closed since the 1980s due to the building’s decay, with a light court between the waiting room and a low-rise office block in the front, which sits just east of the tower and presents a similar facade treatment to that of the tower, with vertically accentuated window bays and pilasters. The rear of the building is more spartan in appearance, with a scar from the former location of the entrance to the train concourse to the rear, with the connecting structure having been removed following the discontinuation of railroad services at the building in 1979. The train concourse features multiple platforms with Art Deco-style aluminum canopies with sleek columns, thin-profile roofs, and rounded ends, with the train concourse featuring arched clerestory windows and a gabled roof, and being in a rather advanced state of deterioration with vegetation having grown throughout the structure and the surrounding abandoned tracks between the platforms. Attached to the southwest corner of the main building is the baggage building, a simpler six-story Art Deco-style structure with a buff brick exterior, a penthouse above the main entrance to the building, pilasters, vertically accentuated window bays, steel windows, stone spandrel panels, stone trim, and stone parapet caps, with long canopies along the base of the front and rear of the building that protected incoming and outgoing mail and baggage from inclement weather. To the west of the baggage building is the one-story mail processing building, which features a similar facade treatment, with the main difference besides height being the rooftop monitor windows in the middle of the building’s roof. Southwest of the baggage and mail processing building, sitting close to Memorial Drive, is a structure that formerly housed the Railway Express Agency, which is more utilitarian than the rest of the surviving complex, and is in an advanced state of decay, with the demolition of the structure being planned to take place sometime this decade. The structure features large window bays with steel windows, stucco cladding on the brick structure, and the remnants of canopies on the north and south facades of the first floor, with a long and low one-story wing to the rear.
The complex is one of the largest designed by Fellheimer & Wagner, and has maintained a remarkable state of preservation in its original form with few changes since its construction, besides some damage from the years of decay and neglect in the 1980s and 1990s. Another notable structure by the firm, and one of the most well-known railroad stations in the world, is Grand Central Terminal in New York City, which was also built for the New York Central Railroad. In addition to Grand Central Terminal, the firm also designed terminals that are more similar in appearance to the Buffalo Central Terminal, including Union Station in South Bend, Indiana, and Cincinnati Union Terminal, with Grand Central Terminal, Buffalo Central Terminal, and Cincinnati Union Terminal being among the largest, most impressive, and most significant railroad stations ever built in the United States. The station, though unrestored, is still impressive, and hopefully will be eventually adaptively reused for an economically sustainable function.
It was introduced in the 1850s and by the end of that decade it had almost entirely replaced the first practical photographic process, the daguerreotype.
When the UK MoD procured the current military Land Rover fleet in 1996, the coil-sprung turbo-diesel inter-cooled engine Defender HS/XD or ‘Wolf’ version which primarily replaced the last of the leaf-sprung and petrol engined Series III fleet mostly built between 1971 and 1984, they also had on strength several thousand naturally aspirated diesel engine pre-Defender (mostly) long and short wheelbase Land Rovers mainly built around 1985-87. As these mid-80's vehicles had a planned service life of 15 years plus an expectation of a few more years in reserve stocks, only 8,000 of the Wolf model (plus 800 similarly engined stretched wheelbase Pulse Ambulances) were procured. However by 2006/7 the roughly 4,000-strong pre-Wolf fleet was both overdue for replacement and also assessed as being no longer compliant with the latest road safety regulations. Tithonus was a means of temporarily solving these issues without buying a fleet of new vehicles.
There is no doubt that UK MoD got its money’s worth with the pre-Wolf Land Rover fleet, which saw active service in quantity in the 1991 Gulf War and on following operations in the Former Yugoslavia, though it was mostly the Wolf which stepped up to the plate for the later conflicts in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq, but by 2007 the now 20-year old fleet was getting a little jaded and most of the short wheelbase models had been replaced by their younger Tdi-powered siblings. However the option of buying more Wolf Land Rovers was no longer on the table, as not only had this model only ever been produced for the UK Forces and that part of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps designated to work alongside the Royal Marines, but once the original contract was fulfilled UK MoD expressed no willingness to support Land Rover in keeping the specialist Wolf jigs and pressings in store for future contracts. In 2007 there was no budget available to allow competitive trials, as required under EU rules, for a new vehicle fleet. The option of a mid-life upgrade for the best of the ageing fleet was, however, deemed viable.
It was therefore decided that around £10 million would be spent on cosmetically sprucing up the best 3,700 or so of the remaining pre-Wolf Land Rover fleet to theoretically extend in-service life to over thirty years. That figure, which works out at around £2,700 per vehicle, had to include fitting a new Wolf-style roll-over cage and bodywork strengthening fitments to the rear compartment plus fitting either a new Wolf-style hard top or canopy, and external protection bars also had to be added to the cab as well as a new paint job applied to make the vehicles look a bit smarter. It was suspected that the £10 million figure did not include ABRO staff wages and when the project team were questioned at DVD 2007 they admitted there was no money in the budget for major mechanical upgrades. The brief was simply: To repair the vehicles to field standard, refurbish bulkheads and chassis, renew all brake components, wheel bearings, hub seals and shock absorbers, wax inject chassis and bulkhead, repaint the vehicle and underseal the chassis.
The external inverted safety hoop over the windscreen was bolted to the the door and windscreen hinges and through the wing top and the two welded tubes which ran above and parallel to the door tops were connected through the new hard top to the front internal roll cage hoop by a single bolt. This bolted construction allowed for the top to be removed and the vehicle to be stripped down to waist height for reduced silhouette in combat environments, where safety from enemy attack naturally takes precedence over peacetime road safety considerations. Turning to the rear roll cage cum canopy support, looked quite similar to that of the 1997/8 Wolf model, but it was actually re-engineered by Ricardo to make it stronger. Marketed by the company as ROPS (Roll Over Protection System) the most noticeable internal difference of strengthening was the cross-bracing behind the cab.
Each Tithonus Land Rover was individually selected and fully refurbished by the MoD in 2007-2008 as part of the British Army LEP (Life Extension Programme) The project was to extend the overall service life of the Land Rover's by 10 years, from 20 to 30 years.
▪︎Year into service: 1980's
▪︎Defender 110 Tithonus Hardtop RHD
▪︎Features include
▪︎2.5 litre NAD diesel reconditioning engine
▪︎5 speed LT 77 gearbox
▪︎Hi / Low transfer box
▪︎Centre diff lock
▪︎Front disc brakes
▪︎Fully integrated Wolf roll cage including front external and rear internal hoop system
▪︎16in rims
▪︎7.50R16 Michelin XZL tyres
▪︎Updated Exmore front seats with head rest
▪︎Rear bench seats x2 with lap belts
▪︎Front and rear, sound proof rubber matting
▪︎Chequer plating to siils and bonnet.
Informed credited to - www.joint-forces.com/land-rovers/37091-mlr44-tithonus-a-s...
I checked that the old element had really bust...using a meter set to measure resistance it showed open circuit, so yes it had definitely blown!!
Woolston Ferry,
Southampton, England.
On the last day of operation, 11 June 1977.
(Replaced by the Itchen Toll Bridge.)
Ford V4 Corsair
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Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version.
After SABENA failed, Belgium's Delta Air Transport evolved into what is now Brussels Airlines.
This replaced the Corrado in my garage on 18th November 2009.
Its a 2001 model Jaguar X-Type 3.0 Sport, with 4 wheel drive. Excellent condition and value. Everything on it is original, except an iPod controller that I've added, and unusually for me, even the paintwork is in good condition.
moved the buckets of rocks to the new metal shed and now am putting more, large plastic boxes in the garage/lapidary shop area - by the time I uploaded this photograph I had put another fifty or so in there and moved another trailer load of the tray-size plastic boxes to a 10'X20' rented storage space (and today, I finished loading the trailer again!)
I've replaced my first try with something much brighter. On my home monitor, OS X and Firefox, it looks a bit more ketchup red than in real life though. On my work monitor (same model) on Firefox on XP, it looks about right. Hmm. On XP the first attempt seemed too dark, so I switched to what I thought was a better calibrated and more PC-like profile at home . . . I find it a bit frustrating that my pictures end up looking so different in Photoshop, Preview, Firefox and Safari all on the same computer, not to mention the variations I see when I go to XP.
I've called this a crowned figure, although I don't know of any actual crowns found in Utah. It's also called 42Ga443, and occasionally the "Moki Queen."
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 04-Jun-17.
Another photo, shot into the low morning sun.
This aircraft was delivered to China Airlines as B-164 in Jan-93. It was re-registered B-18275 in Nov-99 to avoid confusion with registrations in mainland China. The aircraft was sold to Avion Aircraft Trading as N482AT in May-08. It was stored at Tel Aviv, Israel in Jun-08 before being converted to freighter configuration with a main deck cargo door in Jun-09. The aircraft was due to be leased to Kalitta Air but the deal didn't happen and it was leased to Air Cargo - Germany as D-ACGB in Jul-09. Air Cargo - Germany suspended operations in Apr-14 and the aircraft was stored at Frankfurt, Germany. It was returned to the lessor in Jun-14 and tha aircraft was moved, first to Hahn, Germany and then to Jakarta, Indonesia (CGK) for maintenance. It was re-rgistered 4L-BCC in Jul-14 prior to an expected lease to AG Air. However the lease didn't happen and the aircraft remained stored at Jakarta until it was leased to AeroTransCargo (Moldova)in all white livery as ER-BAM in Feb-15. It was sub-leased to Bismillah Airlines in Dec-16 and continues in service. Current (May-17).
The Peugeot 203 was produced between 1948 and 1960, replacing the 202. It was itself replaced by the 403.
Over 650,000 203 variants were produced.
The sea level continues to rise - so far it has been possible to build dikes and water barriers - and the former pavements have been replaced by large floating structures - all basements are filled with water. Damp and rot attack all buildings - the first old buildings have collapsed - when will entire districts collapse?
This weekend, we replaced track at 125th Street on the 4/5/6 Line. This photo shows workers securing third rail off the track bed. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Leonard Wiggins.
Huskies replaced Bulldogs at Drake University's Knapp Center on Sunday, May 30 as Hoover High School celebrated the Class of 2021. Hoover welcomed more than 200 new graduates and alums to their ranks.
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May 5, 2021 - In May 2021, Verdant Power performed a retrieve-and-replace operation during which one of the turbines will be replaced with a rotor housing three thermoplastic blades manufactured by NREL. (Photo By Paul Komosinski)
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Fievel Goes West MUST BE BANNED and get replaced by Walt Disney's animated films Snow White and Pinocchio because just like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, there are scary inappropriate abusive (Mean Spirited) anger imageries in Fievel Goes West such as in the flying ahhh scene with T.R. Chula bitting Fievel Mousekewitz's pants which caused my nightmare of T.R. Chula bitting my pajamas in 11 Luffing and the scary music of the red ribbon scene sounds like a mean teacher yelling at a student and being mean to a student and T.R. Chula threatened to kill Miss Kitty as well but at least Miss Kitty was saved whereas Walt Disney's animated films Snow White and Pinocchio are entirely school appropriate, heart warming, educational, and happy movies with no scary inappropriate (mean spirited) abusive anger imageries and no racist imageries either even though these two movies have a couple of haunted scenes. Plus I am re-editing Fievel Goes West without the Flying ahhh part, the scary music of the red ribbon scene, and the part where T.R. Chula threatening to kill Miss Kitty. And I hate T.R. Chula's white saliva and I never ever want anything to go on T.R. Chula's white saliva and I never ever want anything to go on T.R. Chula's white saliva. And Betty Quan was watching Fievel Goes West while she was writing the Corduroy episode Cute as a Button is why the Corduroy episode Cute as a Button has an upsetting ending where Corduroy's button falls in a storm drain and forgot to show how they did get it out but at least water is the only liquid Corduroy's button did touch when it was in a storm drain and they did get Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and Corduroy the Bear does have two buttons on his green Corduroy overalls and that I am reviving the Nelvana TV show Corduroy with the premiere of Two Buttons again and Forever the sequel to Cute as a Button fixing Betty Quan's upsetting mistake by showing that they did get Corduroy's button out of the storm drain and put Corduroy's button back on Corduroy the Bear's green corduroy overalls and that Corduroy the Bear does have two buttons on his green corduroy overalls forever. So T.R. Chula the evil tarantula from Fievel Goes West MUST BE BURNED TO ASHES IN A FIRE and extinguish his white saliva for good. And the other reason why Fievel Goes West MUST BE BANNED is becsuse in the 2000s when McDonald's had super-size there were a lot of mean teachers from schools with a Bogen Multicom 2000 wanting and threatening to re-edit Fievel Goes West with T.R. Chula actually killing Miss Kitty which makes me super upset and I will not allow that to happen.
White-bellied Sea Eagle (Juvenile)
The white-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster), also known as the white-breasted sea eagle, is a large diurnal bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Originally described by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788, it is closely related to Sanford's sea eagle of the Solomon Islands, and the two are considered a superspecies. A distinctive bird, the adult white-bellied sea eagle has a white head, breast, under-wing coverts and tail. The upper parts are grey and the black under-wing flight feathers contrast with the white coverts. The tail is short and wedge-shaped as in all Haliaeetus species. Like many raptors, the female is slightly larger than the male, and can measure up to 90 cm (35 in) long with a wingspan of up to 2.2 m (7.2 ft), and weigh 4.5 kg (9.9 lb). Immature birds have brown plumage, which is gradually replaced by white until the age of five or six years. The call is a loud goose-like honking.
Resident from India and Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia to Australia on coasts and major waterways, the white-bellied sea eagle breeds and hunts near water, and fish form around half of its diet. Opportunistic, it consumes carrion and a wide variety of animals. Although rated as Least Concern globally, it has declined in parts of southeast Asia such as Thailand, and southeastern Australia. It is ranked as Threatened in Victoria and Vulnerable in South Australia and Tasmania. Human disturbance to its habitat is the main threat, both from direct human activity near nests which impacts on breeding success, and from removal of suitable trees for nesting. The white-bellied sea eagle is revered by indigenous people in many parts of Australia, and is the subject of various folk tales throughout its range.
The white-bellied sea eagle has a white head, rump and underparts, and dark or slate-grey back and wings. In flight, the black flight feathers on the wings are easily seen when the bird is viewed from below. The large, hooked bill is a leaden blue-grey with a darker tip, and the irides are dark brown. The cere is also lead grey. The legs and feet are yellow or grey, with long black talons (claws). Unlike those of eagles of the genus Aquila, the legs are not feathered. The sexes are similar. Males are 66–80 cm (26–31 in) long and weigh 1.8–3 kg (4.0–6.6 lb). Females are slightly larger, at 80–90 cm (31–35 in) and 2.5–4.5 kg (5.5–9.9 lb). The wingspan ranges from 1.78 to 2.2 m (5.8 to 7.2 ft). A 2004 study on 37 birds from Australia and Papua New Guinea (3 °S to 50 °S) found that birds could be sexed reliably on size, and that birds from latitudes further south were larger than those from the north. There is no seasonal variation in plumage. The moulting pattern of the white-bellied sea eagle is poorly known. It appears to take longer than a year to complete, and can be interrupted and later resumed from the point of interruption.
The wings are modified when gliding so that they rise from the body at an angle, but are closer to horizontal further along the wingspan. In silhouette, the comparatively long neck, head and beak stick out from the front almost as far as the tail does behind. For active flight, the white-bellied sea eagle alternates strong deep wing-beats with short periods of gliding.
A young white-bellied sea eagle in its first year is predominantly brown, with pale cream-streaked plumage on their head, neck, nape and rump areas. The plumage becomes more infiltrated with white until it acquires the complete adult plumage by the fourth or fifth year. The species breeds from around six years of age onwards. The lifespan is thought to be around 30 years.
The loud goose-like honking call is a familiar sound, particularly during the breeding season; pairs often honk in unison, and often carry on for some time when perched. The male's call is higher-pitched and more rapid than that of the female. Australian naturalist David Fleay observed that the call is among the loudest and furthest-carrying of all Australian bird calls, in stark contrast to the relatively quiet calls of the wedge-tailed eagle.
Adult white-bellied sea eagles are unmistakable and unlikely to be confused with any other bird. Immature birds can be confused with wedge-tailed eagles. However, the plumage of the latter is darker, the tail longer, and the legs feathered. They might also be confused with the black-breasted buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon), but this species is much smaller, has white patches on the wings, and has a more undulating flight. In India, the Egyptian vulture has white plumage, but is smaller and has a whiter back and wings. The white tail of the white-bellied sea eagle in flight distinguishes it from other species of large eagles. In the Philippines, it can be confused with the Philippine eagle, which can be distinguished by its crest; immature white-bellied sea eagles resemble immature grey-headed fish eagles, but can be identified by their more wholly dark brown underparts and flight feathers, and wedge-shaped tail.
The white-bellied sea eagle is found regularly from Mumbai (sometimes north to Gujarat, and in the past in the Lakshadweep Islands) eastwards in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka in southern Asia, through all of coastal Southeast Asia including Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Indochina, the main and offshore islands of the Philippines, and southern China including Hong Kong, Hainan and Fuzhou, eastwards through New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, and Australia. In the northern Solomons it is restricted to Nissan Island, and replaced elsewhere by Sanford's sea eagle. In Victoria, where it is otherwise scarce, it is locally more common at Corner Inlet and Gippsland Lakes. Similarly in South Australia, it is most abundant along the north coast of Kangaroo Island. The range extends to the islands of Bass Strait and Tasmania, and it is thought able to move between the islands and the mainland. There is one unconfirmed record from Lord Howe Island and several from New Zealand.
They are a common sight in coastal areas, but may also be seen well inland (It is reportedly seen at the Panna Tiger Reserve in central India, nearly 1,000 km (621 mi) away from the sea shore) The white-bellied sea eagle is generally sedentary and territorial, although it may travel long distances. They have been reported travelling upriver to hunt for flying foxes (Pteropus). Populations in inland Australia move around as inland bodies of water appear and then dry up. In one instance, a pair came to breed at Lake Albacutya in northwestern Victoria after the lake had been empty for 30 years. The species is easily disturbed by humans, especially when nesting, and may desert nesting sites as a result. It is found in greater numbers in areas with little or no human impact or interference.
The white-bellied sea eagle is an opportunistic carnivore and consumes a wide variety of animal prey, including carrion. It often catches a fish by flying low over the water and grasping it in its talons. It prepares for the strike by holding its feet far forward (almost under its chin) and then strikes backwards while simultaneously beating its wings to lift upwards. Generally only one foot is used to seize prey. The white-bellied sea eagle may also dive at a 45 degree angle from its perch and briefly submerge to catch fish near the water surface. While hunting over water on sunny days, it often flies directly into the sun or at right angles to it, seemingly to avoid casting shadows over the water and hence alerting potential prey.
The white-bellied sea eagle was important to different tribes of indigenous people across Australia. The guardian animal of the Wreck Bay aboriginal community, it is also the official emblem of the Booderee National Park and Botanic Gardens in the Jervis Bay Territory. The community considered localities around Booderee National Park to be connected with it. A local Sydney name was gulbi, and the bird was the totem of Colebee, the late 18th century indigenous leader of the Cadigal people. The white-bellied sea eagle is important to the Mak Mak people of the floodplains to the southwest of Darwin in the northern Territory, who recognised its connection with "good country". It is their totem and integrally connected to their land. The term Mak Mak is their name for both the species and themselves. The Umbrawarra Gorge Nature Park was a Dreaming site of the bird, in this area known as Kuna-ngarrk-ngarrk. It was similarly symbolic to the Tasmanian indigenous people—Nairanaa was one name used there.
Known as Manulab to the people of Nissan Island, the white-bellied sea eagle is considered special and killing it is forbidden. Its calls at night are said to foretell danger, and seeing a group of calling eagles flying overhead is a sign that someone has died. Local Malay folk tales tell of the white-bellied sea eagle screaming to warn the shellfish of the turning of tides, and a local name burung hamba siput translates as "slave of the shellfish". Called Kaulo in the recently extinct Aka-Bo language, the white-bellied sea eagle was held to be the ancestor of all birds in one Andaman Islands folk tale. On the Maharashtra coast, their name is kakan and its call is said to indicate the presence of fish in the sea. They sometimes nest on coconut trees. Owners of the trees destroy the nest to avoid attacks when harvesting the coconuts.
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Replacing the bulb in a pelican crossing control box (the bit that lights up the word "wait") at Tottenham High Cross.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with slightly better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 08-Oct-23
A long way away, and enlarged beyond the focal length of the 200mm lens I had at the time.
This aircraft was delivered to the Government of Qatar as A7-AAA in Jul-77. It was sold to Commodore Aviation in Feb-99 and stored.
It was sold to the Israeli Air Force registered 4X-JYR/275 in Dec-99 and fitted out as a VIP aircraft. It was converted to a KC-707 tanker configuration (date unknown) and operated with the Israeli Air Force serialled '275'. Now 46 years old it's thought to be still in service. Updated 09-Oct-23.
Yea these colors were applied sometime after May 2019, replacing various beiges. It's fresh!
And soon that window with the curtain will become my bedroom window!
Supposedly there's a building from 1918 under there somewhere.
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In downtown Canton, Ohio, on July 2nd, 2020, outside the "C & J Enterprise" clothing and accessories store at the southwest corner of 5th Street Northwest and Market Avenue North.
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Huskies replaced Bulldogs at Drake University's Knapp Center on Sunday, May 30 as Hoover High School celebrated the Class of 2021. Hoover welcomed more than 200 new graduates and alums to their ranks.
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Built in 1906-1908, this Romanesque Revival-style church was designed by Anthony Kunz, Jr. to serve the Catholic population of Latonia, replacing an earlier church built in 1890-91. The church received its current altar in 1924, replacing the original 1890s altar from the previous church, and the interior was redone in 1951, replacing the original decorative murals, the original wood floor replaced with terrazzo, marble elements installed throughout the sanctuary, and new stained glass windows imported from Europe installed to replace the originals. The church underwent additional interior renovations in 1990, before a fire caused by the electrical system necessitated additional work to repair the damage to the church caused by the fire and efforts to put it out. The church has since remained much as it was at the time of the 1990 redecoration, minus a few system upgrades. The church features a rusticated stone exterior, twin bell towers with convexly curved roofs topped by copper lanterns supporting crosses, open belfries, romanesque-style windows and arched openings with smaller inset arches supported by doric columns, oxeye windows on the towers below the belfries, a large rose window on the front facade, arched stained glass windows, a semi-circular apse with a half-conical roof, buttresses on the side facades, arched triple front doors with wooden door panels, stained glass arched transoms, and massive Gothic Revival-style light fixtures between the doors, and a one-story rear wing with a low-slope roof and stained glass windows. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, along with the adjacent school buildings, rectory, and convent.
クリナム・ブルビスペルムム
Crinum bulbispermum (Burm.f.) Milne-Redh. et Schweick., 1939
This name is accepted. 12/16, 2022.
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Family:Amaryllidaceae (APG IV)
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Authors:
Nicolaas Laurens (Nicolaus Laurent) Burman (1734-1793)
Edgar Wolston Bertram Handsley Milne-Redhead (1906-1996)
Herold Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt (1903-1977)
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Publication:
Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. London
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Collation:
lii. 161 (1939), in adnot.
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The native range of this species is S. Africa. It is a bulbous geophyte and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is has environmental uses, as a poison and a medicine and for food.
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DistributionNative to:
Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern Provinces, Swaziland
Lifeform:Bulb geophyte
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Basionym/Replaced Synonym
Amaryllis bulbisperma Burm.f., 1768
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Homotypic Synonyms:
Amaryllis bulbisperma Burm.f. in Fl. Indica, Prodr. Fl. Cap.: 9 (1768)
Amaryllis vivipara Lam. in Encycl. 1: 123 (1783), nom. superfl.
Crinum viviparum R.Ansari & V.J.Nair in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 11: 205 (1987 publ. 1988), nom. superfl.
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Heterotypic Synonyms:
Amaryllis capensis Mill. in Gard. Dict. ed. 8.: n.° 12 (1768), nom. illeg.
Amaryllis longifolia var. minor Ker Gawl. in Bot. Reg. 4: t. 303 (1818)
Amaryllis longifolia var. riparia (Herb.) Ker Gawl. in Bot. Reg. 4: t. 303 (1818)
Amaryllis longifolia var. rosea Tubergen in Wholesale Cat. Flowerroots 1892: 13 (1892)
Amaryllis riparia Burch. ex Kunth in Enum. Pl. 2: 580 (1837)
Crinum bulbispermum var. sanguineum Traub in Pl. Life 13: 61 (1957)
Crinum capense Herb. in Bot. Mag. 47: t. 2121 (1820)
Crinum capense var. flore-albo Herb. in Amaryllidaceae: 270 (1837), contrary to Art. 23.6. (ICN, 2012).
Crinum capense var. princeps Herb. in Amaryllidaceae: 269 (1837), not validly publ.
Crinum capense var. riparium Herb. in Bot. Mag. 47: t. 2121 (1820)
Crinum capense var. viridifolium Herb. in Bot. Mag. 47: t. 2121 (1820)
Crinum govenium Herb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. London 3: 190 (1822)
Crinum longifolium var. riparium Herb. in Bot. Reg. 7: t. 546 (1821)
Crinum riparium (Herb.) Herb. in Appendix: 23 (1821)
Crinum spofforthianum Herb. ex Sweet in Hort. Brit., ed. 3: 678 (1839)
Erigone govenica Salisb. in Gen. Pl.: 116 (1866), not validly publ.
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Publications:
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2002). Flora of North America North of Mexico 26: 1-723. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
Fournet, J. (2002). Flore illustrée des phanérogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique 2: 1325-2538. Gondwana editions.
Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Kral, R., Diamond, A.R., Ginzbarg, S.L., Hansen, C.J., Haynes, R.R., Keener, B.R., Lelong, M.G., Spaulding, D.D. & Woods, M. (2011). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Alabama: 1-112. Botanical reseach institute of Texas.
Muer, T., Sauerbier, H. & Cabrara Calixto, F. (2020). Die Farn- und Blütenpflanzen Madeiras: 1-792. Verlag und Versandbuchhandlung Andreas Kleinsteuber.
Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Stevens, W.D. & al. (eds.) (2001). Flora de Nicaragua 2: 945-1910. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Sykes, W.R. (1970). Contributions to the Flora of Niue: 1-321. Botany Division, Sept. of Sci. and Industrial Research, Christchurch.
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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia:
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
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Kew Backbone Distributions:
Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2013). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 5: 1-451. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2002). Flora of North America North of Mexico 26: 1-723. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
Fournet, J. (2002). Flore illustrée des phanérogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique 2: 1325-2538. Gondwana editions.
Kral, R., Diamond, A.R., Ginzbarg, S.L., Hansen, C.J., Haynes, R.R., Keener, B.R., Lelong, M.G., Spaulding, D.D. & Woods, M. (2011). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Alabama: 1-112. Botanical reseach institute of Texas.
Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia:
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
FPI (2021). Food Plants International. fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://...
GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. www.ars-grin.gov
Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); mpns.kew.org
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Accepted By:
Anonymous. 1986. List-Based Rec., Soil Conserv. Serv., U.S.D.A. Database of the U.S.D.A., Beltsville.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee, e. 2002. Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales. 26: i–xxvi, 1–723. In Fl. N. Amer.. Oxford University Press, New York.
Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Mem. Bot. Surv. South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
Nelson, C. H. 2008. Cat. Pl. Vasc. Honduras i–xxix, 31–1576. Secretaría de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Tegucigalpa.
Radford, A. E., H. E. Ahles & C. R. Bell. 1968. Man. Vasc. Fl. Carolinas i–lxi, 1–1183. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel Jarquín. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: i–xlii,.
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