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We are enjoying beneficial storms over Madrid to cool down. This afternoon we received some very pleasant and refreshing heavy rains.
Here you can see one of those responsible for this situation, a Cumulonimbus Incus.
Hopefully we can see more clouds in the sky throughout the hellish Madrid summer.
Press "L" to enlarge the image.
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Cumulonimbos Incus, Madrid, España
Estamos disfrutando de tormentas beneficiosas sobre Madrid para aplacar el calor. Esta tarde recibimos unas lluvias intensas muy agradables y refrescantes.
Aquí puedes ver a uno de los responsables de esta situación, un Cumulonimbus Incus.
Ojalá podamos ver más nubes en el cielo a lo largo del infernal verano madrileño.
Pulsa "L" para ampliar la imagen.
Dear friends, in these hard coronavirus times I wish you all to be healthy, calm responsible and humane!
Der Außerirdische kam mit dem "Raumschiff Star Was" zu Besuch!
Das um Eure Gesundheit besorgte Wesen möchte Euch eine Botschaft von einem weit entfernten Planeten übermitteln:
Ihr Menschen seid in dieser Zeit achtsam und verantwortlich Euren Mitmenschen gegenüber. Euch hat ein böser Virus heimgesucht, der sich über Euren Atem weitertragen läßt um Eure Familie, Freunde und Nachbarn sehr krank machen kann. Darum seid achtsam, haltet Abstand und tragt bitte eine Maske. Hygiene und Rücksicht sind das Gebot der Stunde damit Ihr gut durch die Zeit kommt bis es einen Impfstoff gibt!
The being concerned about your health wants to send you a message from a far away planet:
You humans are careful and responsible to your fellow men during this time. You have been struck by a nasty virus that can be spread through your breath and make your family, friends and neighbours very sick. Therefore
be careful, keep your distance and please wear a mask. Hygiene and consideration are the order of the day so that you get through the time until there is a vaccine!
L'être humain qui se préoccupe de votre santé veut vous envoyer un message d'une planète lointaine :
Vous, les humains, êtes prudents et responsables envers vos semblables pendant cette période. Vous avez été frappé par un vilain virus qui peut se propager par votre respiration et rendre votre famille, vos amis et vos voisins très malades. C'est pourquoi
Soyez vigilants, gardez vos distances et portez un masque. L'hygiène et la considération sont à l'ordre du jour pour que vous passiez le temps jusqu'à ce qu'il y ait un vaccin !
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The male Northern Cardinal is perhaps responsible for getting more people to open up a field guide than any other bird. They’re a perfect combination of familiarity, conspicuousness, and style: a shade of red you can’t take your eyes off. Even the brown females sport a sharp crest and warm red accents. Cardinals don’t migrate and they don’t molt into a dull plumage, so they’re still breathtaking in winter’s snowy backyards. In summer, their sweet whistles are one of the first sounds of the morning
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Oporto es la segunda ciudad más poblada de Portugal, después de Lisboa.
Tenía 297 559 habitantes en el año 2011. Su densidad de población es de 5560 habitantes/km2. Contornan el núcleo central de la ciudad de Oporto la subregión de Gran Oporto y, de manera más amplia, el Área Metropolitana de Oporto, que forma su área metropolitana de 2.959.045 habitantes. Se encuentra en el norte del país, en la ribera derecha del Duero en su desembocadura en el océano Atlántico. Es sede del distrito homónimo, en la Región Norte de Portugal.
El municipio de Oporto tiene 15 freguesias (equivalentes a parroquias o barrios). Limita al norte con Matosinhos y Maia, al este con Gondomar, al sur con el río Duero y Vila Nova de Gaia, y al oeste con el océano Atlántico.
Como muchas ciudades europeas, Oporto es una ciudad antigua que cuenta con un amplio patrimonio histórico, aunque durante las últimas décadas ha sido sometida a una amplia modernización. Cuenta con el metro más largo de Portugal, que cubre no solo el centro, sino también zonas de su área metropolitana como Senhora da Hora o Maia. Asimismo, el Aeropuerto Internacional Sá Carneiro ha sido recientemente ampliado para permitir una capacidad de 16 millones de pasajeros anuales.
Desde muy antiguo hay una rivalidad entre Lisboa y Oporto. Dicen que esta ciudad tiene un cierto aire británico, desde que se asentaron allí comerciantes de vino ingleses. Un refrán popular reza: «Lisboa se divierte, Coímbra estudia, Braga reza y Oporto trabaja».
Su centro histórico fue declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1996. Otros atractivos turístico-culturales son la torre de los Clérigos, realizada por Nicolau Nasoni, la Casa da Música y la Fundación Serralves, dedicada al arte contemporáneo, y que es el museo más visitado de Portugal. En el margen sur del río Duero se encuentran las famosas bodegas de vinos, aunque este sector ya no pertenece al término municipal de Oporto sino a Vila Nova de Gaia. Dista de la frontera española con Galicia unos 140 km, que pueden recorrerse por autopista.
Tanto el país como el vino de Oporto deben sus nombres a la ciudad, que a su vez significa «el puerto». Por su pujanza cultural, demográfica e industrial es considerada como la «Capital del Norte» de Portugal.
En 2014 y 2017 fue elegida como el mejor destino turístico por la Agencia Europea de Destinos Turísticos y forma parte de la Ruta Portuguesa del Camino de Santiago. También es sede de uno de los mejores equipos de fútbol de Portugal: el FC Porto.
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Porto or Oporto is the second-largest city in Portugal and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 215,945 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2019) in an area of 2,395 km2 (925 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
Located along the Douro River estuary in northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996, as "Historic Centre of Porto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar". The historic area is also a National Monument of Portugal. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. Its combined Celtic-Latin name, Portus Cale, has been referred to as the origin of the name Portugal, based on transliteration and oral evolution from Latin. In Portuguese, the name of the city includes a definite article: o Porto ("the port" or "the harbor"), which is where its English name "Oporto" comes from.
Port wine, one of Portugal's most famous exports, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport, and export of fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency. Porto is on the Portuguese Way path of the Camino de Santiago. Porto is also the home of one of the country's most successful football clubs, FC Porto.
you wouldn't sit for a month :-)
Theodore Roosevelt
The slogan 'The buck stops here' is a promise that responsibility will not be passed on to anyone else. What's the origin of the phrase 'The buck stops here'? U.S. president Harry S. Truman had a sign on his desk with 'The buck stops here' inscribed on it.
NBC News’ Kristin Welker asked the president(Trump) if he is to blame for the lag in testing. “No, I don’t take responsibility at all,” he responded before quickly moving to his tried and true strategy: blame Obama. “We were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time.”
But that simply isn’t true. No remaining Obama-era regulation has prevented the administration from rolling out tests.
VOTE!! RESIST!! kick our president out of office at the polls!! stay safe and well :-)
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At Ealees, Littleborough UK
Referring to these as 'Socially Responsible Trees' was pitiful and for which I apologize wholeheartedly!!
2 Samuel 18:8 “And the fighting went on over all the face of the country: and the woods were responsible for more deaths than the sword.”
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, however, the building is no longer an abbey nor a cathedral, having instead the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign. The building itself is the original abbey church.
as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it :-)
Ken Keyes, Jr.
HBW!! Protest Injustice! Resist!! Vote!!!
tulips, in the neighborhood, cary, north carolina
For Smile on Saturday!
Theme: Triptych.
Le passage des 4 écluses de Saint-Roch à Castelnaudary. Aude.
L’écluse de Saint-Roch est la 2ème suite successive d'écluses la plus importante du canal avec ses 4 sas après celle de Fonserannes à Béziers qui en compte 9. L’écluse tire son nom de la chapelle Saint-Roch construite au XVIème siècle par la confrérie de Saint-Roch chargée de soigner les lépreux à cet endroit hors des murs de la ville. Deux moulins furent élevés en 1680 d'un côté de l’écluse afin de profiter de la chute d’eau.
Passing through the four Saint-Roch locks in Castelnaudary, Aude.
The Saint-Roch lock is the second largest successive series of locks on the canal, with its four chambers, after the Fonserannes lock in Béziers, which has nine. The lock takes its name from the Saint-Roch chapel, built in the 16th century by the Brotherhood of Saint-Roch, which was responsible for caring for lepers at this location outside the city walls. Two mills were built in 1680 on one side of the lock to take advantage of the waterfall.
Un grand merci pour vos favoris, commentaires et encouragements toujours très appréciés.
Many thanks for your much appreciated favorites and comments.
A male ashy crowned sparrow lark hatching eggs.
We came across this pair, each taking turns to hatch the eggs. However, the interesting part was that the male was just sitting on them providing the warmth, but the female would also rotate them with her legs once in a while.
Responsible for memory and hearing functions. These may be the ones i had at one time in my life but can no longer remember. Getting old is so hard :^)
Responsible behavior is made up of five essential elements: *Honesty
*Compassion/respect
*Fairness
*Accountability
*Courage
It has been a brutal year, with wars, political upheaval, extreme weather, and famine. If only the change of a year could bring relief... but alas, I fear it won't.
Here is a sunset from a few weeks back with scattered lenticular clouds on the east side of the Rockies. The stacked clouds in the center were remarkable in remaining in place for 3 or 4 hours, suggesting the velocity of the high winds responsible for their formation was relatively constant. Alternatively these might be some of the UFOs reported in the skies above New Jersey, parked while their owners shred the ski slopes.
Wishing everyone heath, happiness, and good light in the coming year.
Lake Yamdrok (羊卓雍錯湖), Tibet, China
Lake Yamdrok is about 170 km (110 mi) southwest of Lhasa. The surface elevation is 4,441 m (14,570 ft)
Lake Yamdrok is considered a sacred lake and is said to be able to help Tibetans find the reincarnated soul of the Dalai Lama. After a Dalai Lama passes away, the senior monks are responsible to find the boy in whom the reincarnated soul of the Dalai Lama has gone to abide. They come to Lake Yamdrok to chant and pray, and throw hada (a piece of silk used as a blessing object) and other holy articles into the lake to get the reflection of the specific location of the Dalai Lama's soul.
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For months, I've been waiting for a shot of Alton & Southern (ALS) painted SD40N 2044 on the so-called River Job, responsible for working industries west of Route 3 in Cahokia, IL. The move generally returns to Gateway Yard mid-morning most days, affording some well-lit views around Valley Junction. In this case, SD62 rebuild 2204 is a suitable stand-in, and most dyslexic people won't even notice...
Seen pounding the diamond with CPKC at Valley Junction in East St. Louis, IL as the train returns to ALS Gateway Yard. Note the signal cantilever, and control tower for St. Louis Downtown Airport, in the distance.
Nachdem ich bei meiner letzten Einstellung ein Slurry-Bild aus dem Naabtal zeigte, folgen wir heute dieser Leistung gut 700 Kilometer weiter in den Süden. In Kroatien ist Rail&Sea für die Traktion dieser Züge zuständig. Auf dem letzten Abschnitt von Oštarije nach Gospić kommen ER20 zum Einsatz. ER20-010 durchfährt am 24.04.2026 mit einer Leergarnitur den Bahnhof Josipdol.
After showing a slurry photo from the Naab Valley in my last post, today we follow this service some 700 kilometers further south. In Croatia, Rail&Sea is responsible for the traction of these trains. ER20 locomotives are used on the final section from Oštarije to Gospić. ER20-010 passes through Josipdol station with an empty train set on April 24, 2026.
Eine achtlos hängen gelassene Angelschnur
Eine beim Auswerfen hängengeblieben Angelschnur mit Hacken wurde einfach gekappt und hängen gelassen. Diese Leichtsinnigkeit hatte am Ende tödliche Folgen.
Zwei junge Mäusebussarde flogen streitend knapp über dem Fluss. Dabei flog eines der Jungtiere direkt in die gekappte Angelschnur. Durch das hohe Tempo des Mäusebussards wickelte sich die lose hängend Angelschnur sofort um den rechten Flügel und verhakte sich. Ca 10 Minuten bemühte sich der Vogel zu entkommen. Keine Chance und die Kräfte liessen, auch durch seine schweren Verletzungen, langsam nach. Erschöpft konnte er den Kopf nicht mehr über Wasser halten und ertrank. Leider war es mir nicht möglich den Vogel zu befreien. Die Strömung war viel zu stark.
Ich hoffe, dass durch die Zuständige Behörde nach meiner Meldung, die Schnur entfernen wird
Ich bin sehr traurig über den sinnlosen Tod des Mäusebussards. Dies ist wieder einmal ein Beweis zu was Gleichgültigkeit und Achtlosigkeit führt.
A fishing line carelessly left hanging
A fishing line with a hook that got caught while casting was simply cut and left hanging. This carelessness ultimately had fatal consequences.
Two young buzzards flew just above the river, arguing. One of the young birds flew directly into the cut fishing line. Due to the buzzard's high speed, the loosely hanging fishing line immediately wrapped itself around the right wing and became entangled. The bird tried to escape for about 10 minutes. No chance and his strength slowly waned, partly due to his serious injuries. Exhausted, it could no longer keep its head above water and drowned. Unfortunately, it was not possible for me to free the bird. The current was far too strong.
I hope that the responsible authorities will remove the line after my report
I am very sad about the senseless death of the buzzard. This is once again proof of what indifference and carelessness can lead to.
“People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed.”
"Οι άνθρωποι έχουν ξεχάσει αυτή την αλήθεια" είπε η Αλεπού.
"Αλλά εσύ δεν πρέπει να την ξεχνάς. Είσαι για πάντα υπεύθυνος για αυτό που εξημέρωσες."
The King of the Fire Region, Guardian of the Volcano.
This is a MOC I've built for the BIONIFIGS Convention VI, our LUG's big yearly exhibition ([https://www.flickr.com/photos/thibaut_piruk] did take some pictures, you can see them here).
The Okotoans used to be scared of him, because the moments when he left his cave (he lives in a cave near the crater of the volcano) coincided with the times when there were eruptions, and he was often in a bad mood. So the villagers began to think he was responsible for the eruptions, that they happened when he was angry. Actually, the rumbling and the shaking of the volcano prevented him from sleeping, so he usually went for a walk on Okoto to get some tranquility.
A patch of clouds—small enough to evade satellite or any other detection method but large enough to completely ruin a morning—plays with my feelings as I set up a shot, dancing around the scene as the train approaches. After numerous passes over the tracks, the impending shadow is cast upon the hills in the background at go time, showcasing an interesting effect, and most importantly, sunlight on the main subject.
This coal train came out of Belle Ayr Mine in the coal fields of eastern Wyoming, a mine located between Caballo and Rojo mines on BNSF’s Orin Subdivision. As I understand it, Rojo Mine is now no longer operating, one of many mines that will cease operating within the near future. Arch Resources, which owns Coal Creek and Black Thunder, has long held a public stance that they want out of the coal business, and the numbers reflect that. Coal production out of Coal Creek and Black Thunder have dropped dramatically in recent years, including a 44% reduction at Coal Creek in Q2 this year compared to last year, and a 36.2% reduction at Black Thunder in Q2 this year compared to last year. These are cherrypicked numbers, so coal will rebound in the second half as both mines were sitting on huge stockpiles, but it shows how quickly coal production is slowing. For reference, Arch CEO recently said he expects coal production to fall 5-10% per year going forward in the Power River Basin. The decline is part of what was responsible for coal shipments falling off a cliff earlier this year in addition to utilities sitting on large stockpiles as a result of a mild winter. As if you weren’t already aware, now is the time to shoot every coal train you see. They are disappearing much faster than you’d think.
Unfortunately, next year is another year of scheduled coal plant retirements. Some of these plants may have their dates extended, as others have been, but every year moving forward will see continued retirements. Because of BNSF’s symboling, you can basically count the number of coal trains that will disappear. This train is destined for the Baldwin Generating Plant in Baldwin, IL. The plant is slated for closure by the end of 2025, though it may cease at any point during the year. It’s all a part of a monumental shift in energy production and the U.S economy away from coal, of which we may or may not ever realize how devastating the effects will be.
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Hecla, NE // BNSF Sand Hills Sub
The street sign down on the corner has been knocked down!
Kahn wants everyone to know he didn't do it! 😂
Daily Dog Challenge: Converging Lines ... they don't point to Kahn 🐾💕
Blind explores our denial of the studied, validated, stated, detailed crisis of climate change for which we are collectively responsible : natural, economic, social and demographic disasters during the coming years. And yet we do almost nothing, but continue our frenzy of senseless consumption and expend our energy in war.
Blind is the first part of a three-part installation, “The fifth season”, that questions our tendency to follow a path of self-destruction. It is related to the imminent threat of dramatic consequences for all living species as a result of climate change.
Story of the picture : "The story of Antigone"
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Blind closes friday July 22th at 12 pm.
It can be visited at the gallery La Maison d'Aneli
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Milena Carbone's art studio
Novels - art photography - dance performance
I blame people like us. We take pictures of pretty things in pretty places and share them with the world after all, so what do we expect? Post them here on the pages of Flickr and the chances are that only photographers will see them. But then again so many of us also post our photos on sites where a lot more people see them - pretty people who grin into their phones and post the images to far more followers than many of us are ever likely to have. Guilty Milord.
Well that's what I was thinking to myself yesterday as I searched for the quieter spaces amongst the hordes. It was a bit of a surprise to find so many people here on a Monday, but what we hadn't bargained for was the fact that it was a Baker Day, an occasional school closure day devised by an Education Secretary of yesteryear who wanted to invent something to endorse his passage into the House of Lords with a knighthood before leaving office. They all like to do things like that don't they? Suffice to say, there were far more people wandering around the handful of increasingly famous poppy fields than expected, most of them respectful, but with a noticeable minority strolling in among the flowers as if they somehow thought their footsteps wouldn't cause any damage to this fragile beauty spot. In fact one of you had recently asked me whether it was worth visiting the poppies this year, and a few messages were exchanged on the subject as I held my head in my hands at the sight of the family who took turns to lie down in an already flattened bed just a handful of yards in front of the composition I was busily lining up. And I'll bet their Instagram post gets a load more likes than mine does too. If I were half a head taller and rather more menacing in nature I might have had words, but of course I'm British and I don't like to make a scene. How often I've watched Arnold or Clint in a movie just looking at the bad guys in a certain way, artfully persuading them to move on with nothing more than the raising of a single eyebrow unless they wanted to be turned into toast. "I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle." I wish I could do that sometimes. Most of the time in fact.
Relieved that the world had finally gone back to work, we'd arrived here in the van for the day after a fun packed "platty joobs" (I think I've spelt that correctly) weekend, at times checking in to see how Her Majesty was holding up amid all the excitement. At other moments over the long weekend we wandered across the road, making use of our locals' free entry wristbands to the ever growing music festival that drowns all other sounds from the air around here for three days at this time each year. Of course neither Ali nor I are keen on crowds, but it didn't stop us from making our way to the front row to see what a sixty year old pop star with a penchant for profanities who's spent much of his life shovelling illegal substances into his bloodstream looks like. A fun gig, but although she may be ninety-six, the Queen looks a lot better than Shaun Ryder, bless him. No wonder Black Grape have only made three albums in twenty-nine years.
This year's poppy show also seemed to have expanded, with more fields than ever seemingly painted red, planted by the National Trust who own this patch of land. Maybe it needed to be so in order to accommodate the number of people who seemed intent on visiting. Maybe I'm just used to arriving later in the day when most of them have headed to the Bowgie for their supper. But I'd decided I was going to go low to the ground and concentrate on greens, yellows and of course reds, rather than blues, making the sky all but an irrelevance. I've shot that classic view more than once before, and so have many others, so this time I preferred to concentrate on the small details right in front of me. Not for the first time I used the long lens that seems to work so well here, and I'm still wondering whether the 100-400 might have been an even better option. I had the crop camera with the art lens in the bag too, but that's where it stayed.
What did surprise me when I saved my raw files into my online drive was the fact that it was my first visit here since 2018. And there was I thinking I came here every year. So it seems that I may not be responsible for the arrival of the masses after all. It must be you then. Although I've just done it myself again haven't I?
En 1965, Peter Wolkonsky achète les vieux bâtiments de ferme d'une exploitation agricole et recompose façades et toitures dans le style d'un ancien logis manorial du XVIIe siècle. Il creuse les différentes pièces d'eau, bâtit et décore des constructions annexes, fontaine ou pavillons et grotte italienne ornés de coquillages.
Les tempêtes de 1987 et 1999 causent de grands dégâts. Après la mort de Peter Wolkonsky en 1997, sa fille Isabelle et son mari Timothy Vaughan, paysagiste, restaurent le jardin et poursuivent l'œuvre de son créateur. Le paysagiste meurt en août 2025.
En 2021, les jardins sont achetés par le créateur de chaussures de luxe Christian Louboutin.
En mai 2025, ce jardin est considéré comme l'un des vingt-cinq plus beaux du monde, selon une liste publiée par le New York Times. Le paysagiste Louis Benech est à l'origine du classement du jardin à la 18e place.
Les jardins de Kerdalo s'étendent sur 18 hectares, le long d'un vallon encaissé qui descend en pente douce vers la rivière du Jaudy. Ce jardin-paysage à l'anglaise emprunte différents éléments d'inspiration italienne ou exotique.
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In 1965, Peter Wolkonsky purchased the old farm buildings of a working farm and redesigned the facades and roofs in the style of a 17th-century manor house. He created various water features, built and decorated outbuildings, a fountain, pavilions, and an Italian grotto adorned with seashells. Storms in 1987 and 1999 caused extensive damage. After Peter Wolkonsky's death in 1997, his daughter Isabelle and her husband, landscape architect Timothy Vaughan, restored the garden and continued his work. The landscape architect died in August 2025. In 2021, the gardens were purchased by luxury shoe designer Christian Louboutin. In May 2025, this garden was ranked among the twenty-five most beautiful in the world, according to a list published by The New York Times. Landscape architect Louis Benech is responsible for the garden's 18th place ranking.
The Kerdalo gardens extend over 18 hectares, along a narrow valley that slopes gently down to the Jaudy River. This English-style landscape garden incorporates various elements of Italian and exotic inspiration.
St. Mary's Island Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located on St. Mary's Island, which is a small uninhabited island off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England. The lighthouse was built in 1898 and has been in operation ever since, helping to guide ships safely through the treacherous waters of the North Sea.
The lighthouse is a cylindrical tower made of brick and stands about 44 meters (144 feet) tall. Its light is visible for up to 26 nautical miles, making it an important navigation aid for ships traveling along the coast.
St. Mary's Island Lighthouse was fully automated in 1984, meaning that there are no longer any lighthouse keepers stationed there. However, the lighthouse is still maintained and operated by Trinity House, which is the organization responsible for lighthouses and other navigational aids around the coast of England, Wales, and the Channel Islands.
Today, St. Mary's Island Lighthouse is a popular tourist attraction and visitors can climb to the top of the tower to enjoy spectacular views of the coastline and the North Sea. There is also a visitor center on the island that provides information about the history of the lighthouse and the important role it has played in keeping ships safe for over a century.
Stop smoking, as this will only bring you health problems in addition to harming the environment.
The human lung is composed of small structures, the alveoli, responsible for the gas exchange of the blood. Blood flow and blood flow between heart and lungs are intense. Cigarette smoke directly affect the functioning of the heart-lung circulation. Over time the pulmonary alveolus are being cemented by the components of cigarette smoke, failing to do its function. The body will then be replaced by smaller tissue oxygenation, resulting in greater ease of tiredness for the smoker. Cigarette smoking also causes countless damage to the heart and lungs, such as heart attack and cancer.
Asking us all to wear a mask in order to stem the tide of this deadly pandemic is neither an attack on nor an abridgement of your liberty. Far from it. Putting on the mask is simply doing your part as a member of society. It’s about doing the responsible thing to help, to protect, to respect others.
Four thoughts for the day:
“ Liberty means responsibility . That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
Molière
“Civil liberty is the liberty of men in a state of society, or natural liberty so far only abridged and restrained, as is necessary and expedient for the safety and interest of the society, state or nation.”
Noah Webster
And one from a higher authority:
“ Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Slainte !
Two of these rare-for-us birds popped out of the reeds. Rakish and disreputable characters in an appealing sort of way. Troublemakers just passing through.
W9 was busy filming Tree Swallows but came over quickly to see the mischievous avian drifters.
Happy Trails sang the cobblers as they rode off on their Pinto Ponies.
This is "Maradadi" one of the Fig Tree pride males. The other one is "Kaka", who is said to have been the one to have caused this injury to his brother's nose during a fight. I have seen images of Maridadi since this photograph was taken which show that he has been left with quite a chunk missing from his nose.
Maridadi and Kaka are also the 2 lions responsible for attacking Lolparpit last year. Lolparpit is one of 2 pride males of the Enkoyonai pride the other one being Olbarnoti. Lolparpit who was badly injured survived the attack and is once again part of his pride.
Zebra Plains Mara Camp, Masai Mara, Kenya, November 2019.
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Los chicos no sólo se quedaron sin escuela, sino sin actividades en general
En muchos casos falta de espacio y la incomprensión de los pequeños de que no se puede salir o la incomprensión de la necesidad del aislamiento pueden surgir problemas como el aburrimiento, el nerviosismo y la ansiedad en los chicos y en los padres la pérdida de la paciencia e irritabilidad. Sumado a todo esto está el estrés que produce la situación por el coronavirus y las complicaciones económicas derivadas de la cuarentena
Es esencial fortalecer los vínculos familiares durante la cuarentena y no olvidar que somos el espejo en el que se miran nuestros hijos. Por tanto, como padres, debemos constituir un ejemplo válido para ellos, conservando una postura serena y responsable que puedan imitar.
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The boys were not only left without school, but without activities in general
In many cases lack of space and the children's misunderstanding that they cannot get out or the misunderstanding of the need for isolation can cause problems such as boredom, nervousness and anxiety in children and in parents loss of patience and irritability. Added to all this is the stress caused by the coronavirus situation and the economic complications derived from the quarantine.
It is essential to strengthen family ties during quarantine and not forget that we are the mirror in which our children look at themselves. Therefore, as parents, we must set a valid example for them, keeping a calm and responsible posture that they can imitate.
The Chapel was built in the eighteenth century. Three people were responsible for its diffent stages and lengthy construction.which took from 1720-91, Dr George Clarke, Henry Keane and James Wyatt. It took this long due to shortage of funds.Between 1864 and 1866 the chapel was re-decorated by Wiliam Burges in a highly unusual and decorative way being prodominantly pink , the pew ends are decorated with carved animals of all kinds including Rhino's and Elephants. The stained glasswere to have been designed by John Everett Milais, but the designs were rejected by Burges and later given Henry Holiday.Oscar Wilde said of the Chapel, 'As a piece of simple decorative and beautiful art it is perfect, and the windows very artistic.
Oxford 2010
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A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies, known as Arp 143, has fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-formation frenzy as captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The interacting galaxy duo Arp 143 contains the distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445, at right, along with its less flashy companion, NGC 2444, at left. Their frenzied collision takes place against the tapestry of distant galaxies, of which some can be seen through the interacting pair.
Astronomers suggest that the two galaxies passed through each other, igniting the uniquely shaped firestorm of star formation in NGC 2445, where thousands of stars are bursting into life. This galaxy is awash with new stars because it is rich in gas, the raw material from which stars are made. However, it hasn’t yet escaped the gravitational clutches of its partner at left. The pair is waging a cosmic tug-of-war, which NGC 2444 appears to be winning. That galaxy has pulled gas from NGC 2445, forming the oddball triangle of newly minted stars.
NGC 2444 is also responsible for yanking strands of gas from its partner, stoking the streamers of young, blue stars that appear to form a bridge between the two galaxies. These streamers are among the first in what appears to be a wave of star formation that started on the galaxy’s outskirts and continued inward. Researchers estimate the streamer stars were born between 50 million and 100 million years ago. But these infant stars are being left behind as NGC 2445 continues to pull slowly away from NGC 2444.
Stars no older than one million to two million years old are forming closer to the centre of NGC 2445. Hubble’s keen vision reveals some individual stars, the brightest and most massive in the galaxy. Most of the brilliant blue clumps are groupings of stars and the pink blobs are glowing gas clouds enshrouding young, massive star clusters.
Although most of the action is happening in NGC 2445, it doesn’t mean the other member of the interacting pair has escaped unscathed. The gravitational tussle has stretched NGC 2444 into an odd shape, yanking gas far from the galaxy. NGC 2444 contains old stars and no new starbirth because it lost its gas long ago, well before this galactic encounter.
Aside from the star formation in NGC 2445, another interesting feature that Hubble has uncovered is the dark filaments of gas in the starburst galaxy’s bright core. Those features may have been formed by outbursts of material. Radio observations reveal a powerful source in the core that may be spearheading the outbursts. The radio source may have been produced by intense star formation or a black hole gobbling up material flowing into the centre.
It’s not uncommon for star formation to occur in the cores of galaxies, driven by interactions. Plenty of gas from galactic encounters flows into the centre, which can trigger the birth of new stars. Outflows from these stars can drive material out, but the dust created by these outbursts blankets the core and other regions throughout NGC 2445, making it difficult for Hubble to study in visible light.
However, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will have the infrared vision to peer through the dust covering these regions to reveal the young star clusters that are hidden from view in visible-light images. In this way, Hubble and Webb will provide the full census of stars in NGC 2445. The census will help astronomers answer questions such as what the star-formation rate is, how long it takes for stars to form, and whether the starburst in NGC 2445 is fading or just heating up.
Studying young, massive star clusters still embedded in their dust and gas cocoons is important for understanding how star formation affects the evolution of galaxies. Massive stars that explode as supernovae enrich their environment with chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.
The Arp 143 system is listed in a compendium of 338 unusual-looking interacting galaxies called the “Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies” published in 1966 by astronomer Halton Arp.
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, and J. Dalcanton (Center for Computational Astrophysics/Flatiron Inst., UWashington); CC BY 4.0
These are tiny Kermit Green Button Pom Flowers from a very special bouquet given to me by dear friends at the loss of my brother.
My brother, got me my first job. I was going to be starting my freshman year at UC Davis as a computer engineering major and he knew a supervisor at the company, Radio Shack. He persuaded his friend to hire me in the quality control department. This is something my husband and I still laugh about because of my incessant need and love for details.
Later, after I had switched colleges to the Santa Cruz Bay area, my brother found me another job. He hired me to work at the Video store he was managing. It was great working with him, and I appreciated his confidence in me. Unfortunately, it was a short stint there due to two incidents. I grew up pretty sheltered and when some ladies came in looking for Chippendale videos, I took them over to the Disney section and showed them those rascally chipmunks. They laughed and thought I was joking. I was not.
The other incident that sealed my fate and convinced me that it was a wise move getting out of computer engineering was the morning after I had worked the closing shift. My brother arrived at the store to find a completely crashed computer system. It cost him hours and hours of work re-entering data and I’m sure there was also some embarrassment with the owner of the store since it was his sister who was responsible. He never yelled at me or fired me.
Through those college years his home was always open to me and I will never forget his generosity. He had a smile that could light up any room and it will be greatly missed.
An impromptu photowalk with buddies. We got lost getting here, I hold the gps responsible! Haha... I'll be back in autumn and winter for different moods.
Have a wonderful Sunday to all!
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Vista dal cortile interno di Castel del Monte (View from the Castel del Monte courtyard)
Castel del Monte is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was built during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II (Stupor mundi) , who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily.
In the 18th century, the castle's interior marbles and remaining furnishings were removed. It has neither a moat nor a drawbridge and some considered it never to have been intended as a defensive fortress; however, archaeological work has suggested that it originally had a curtain wall.
Described by the Enciclopedia Italiana as "the most fascinating castle built by Frederick II", the site is protected as a World Heritage Site.
Because of its relatively small size, it was once considered to be no more than a "hunting lodge", but scholars now believe it originally had a curtain wall and did serve as a citadel. Frederick was responsible for the construction of many castles in Apulia, but Castel del Monte's geometric design was unique. The fortress is an octagonal prism with an octagonal tower at each corner. The towers were originally some 5 m higher than now, and they should perhaps include a third floor. Both floors have eight rooms and an eight-sided courtyard occupies the castle's centre. Each of the main rooms has vaulted ceilings. Three of the corner towers contain staircases. The castle has two entrances, an unobtrusive service entrance and an ornate main entrance. Frederick's main entrance featured elements from classical design, and may have been influenced by Frederick's interest in Greco-Roman architecture.
The octagonal plan is unusual in castle design. Historians have debated the purpose of the building and it has been suggested that it was intended as a hunting lodge. Another theory is that the octagon is an intermediate symbol between a square (representing the earth) and a circle (representing the sky). Frederick II may have been inspired to build to this shape by either the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, which he had seen during the Sixth Crusade, or by the Palace Chapel of Aachen Cathedral.
Occasionally used as a hunting lodge under Manfred of Sicily, the castle become a state prison under the latter's victor, Charles I of Anjou: here Manfred's sons Henry, Azzo and Enzo were kept as prisoner after 1266, as well as other Hohenstaufen supporters.
The main wall is 25 m high and the eight bastions each 26 m. The sides of the main octagon are 16.5 m long and those of the octagonal towers each 3.1 m. The castle has a diameter of 56 m. Its main entrance faces east.
Central to the plot of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose is an old fortress known as the 'Aedificium'. This was almost certainly inspired by Castel del Monte. It was also the set for the film Tale of Tales.
Castel del Monte è una fortezza del XIII secolo fatta costruire dall'imperatore Federico II nell'altopiano delle Murge, in Puglia, sulla sommità di una collina, a 540 metri s.l.m. È stato inserito nell'elenco dei monumenti nazionali italiani nel 1936 e in quello dei patrimoni dell'umanità dell'UNESCO nel 1996.
L'origine dell'edificio si colloca al 29 gennaio 1240, quando Federico II Hohenstaufen ordinò a Riccardo da Montefuscolo, Giustiziere di Capitanata, che venissero predisposti i materiali e tutto il necessario per la costruzione di un castello presso la chiesa di Sancta Maria de Monte (oggi scomparsa).
L'edificio, oltre a essere un esempio di costruzione ancora oggi studiato per la sua stabilità pur se costruito senza fondamenta, è carico di simbolismi che hanno appassionato numerosi studiosi.
L'ottagono su cui è basata la pianta del complesso e dei suoi elementi è una forma geometrica fortemente simbolica: si tratta della figura intermedia tra il quadrato, simbolo della terra, e il cerchio, che rappresenta l'infinità del cielo, e quindi segnerebbe il collegamento e il passaggio dell'uno all'altro. La scelta dell'ottagono potrebbe derivare dalla Cupola della Roccia a Gerusalemme, che Federico II aveva visto durante la sesta crociata, o dalla Cappella Palatina di Aquisgrana.
L'intera costruzione è intrisa di numerosi simboli astrologici e la sua posizione è studiata in modo che nei giorni di solstizio ed equinozio le ombre gettate dalle pareti abbiano una particolare direzione. A mezzogiorno dell'equinozio di autunno, ad esempio, le ombre delle mura raggiungono perfettamente la lunghezza del cortile interno, ed esattamente un mese dopo coprono anche l'intera lunghezza delle stanze. Due volte l'anno, l'8 aprile e l'8 ottobre (ottobre in quel tempo era considerato l'ottavo mese dell'anno), un raggio di sole entra dalla finestra nella parete sudorientale e, attraversando la finestra che si rivolge al cortile interno, illumina una porzione di muro dove si trovava un bassorilievo raffigurante la madre terra.
Il numero otto ricorre in vari elementi di questa costruzione: la forma ottagonale della costruzione, del cortile interno e delle otto torri ai vertici, le otto stanze interne, la vasca interna che doveva essere ottagonale, otto fiori quadrifogli sulla cornice sinistra sul portale di ingresso, altri otto sulla cornice inferiore, otto foglie sui capitelli delle colonne nelle stanze, otto foglie sulla chiave di volta, otto foglie di vite sulla chiave di volta della prima sala del piano terra, otto foglie di girasole sulla chiave di volta di un'altra sala, otto foglie ed otto petali su quella della quinta sala, otto foglie di acanto sulla chiave di volta dell'ottava sala, otto foglie di fico sulla chiave di volta dell'ottava sala al piano superiore.
* L'occhio del mondo – in originale The Eye of the World - è il primo libro del ciclo La Ruota del Tempo, una serie di romanzi fantasy scritta dall'autore americano Robert Jordan.
The Eye of the World is the first book of The Wheel of Time (WoT) fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan. It was published by Tor Books and released on January 16, 1990
January 29th,2010(sooc +2 in comments) We had our worries
"I am strong because I am weak. I am beautiful because I know my flaws. I am a lover because I am a fighter. I am fearless because I have been afraid. I am wise because I have been foolish…And I can laugh because I have known sadness."-anonymous
"let the things flow,the memories come,and the times pass. don’t waste a minute."-my brain
Read about the realization i had today:
going back on my old posts from when i used to go on tumblr a lot makes me realize how much i’ve grown..how i’ve changed and become someone else, a person i never thought i’d be. A WOMEN. I’ve forgotten so much. About how jonel and i were, about what it was like to be in school, and around my family and friends. So much has been happening. From working a lot, then getting fired and now i don’t work. While i was working, and joni and i didn’t talk for those 2 full months, i was so lost, i was just to myself, in a daze. incomplete. I forgot who i was,meaning i went so long without talking to jonel it was like he was dead, and i couldn’t remember who i was anymore, my bf, my friends, the way i thought, i was so empty it was like i was a walking zombie. I can’t explain it but it’s crazy. I’ve grown and changed in just 5 months, since i’ve been here. But it’s still makes me sad, because jonel and i haven’t been together, hanging out,in 5 months,so i’ve forgotten it all. How we are with each other, in person, and everything. We’ve made new memories and things have happened, but it’s been on the phone, and i’m not complaining but it’s different now, then when we were in fl. Thats a good then, though I still can’t explain it. I was reading things he said about me,back when we first started dating, and it made me go “awh he said that.” I don’t feel like me anymore. I am me but not the me i was in fl. I don’t know what happened but i’ve changed. Not in a bad way, but i’ve grown. The feeling i feel for jonel isn’t just “like” or “care for” now, it’s “in love”, it’s more powerful and stronger than I ever imagined it to be, and def. not something I can explain. I left behind a girl when i came here and i became a women. I’ve become more responsible, mature, and smarter. I’ve learned and experienced so much in these past 5 months. Learned about myself, and other things. It’s incredible. Man i change a lot haha. I never realized that until now. so crazy:D
p.s i just banged my toes against my door and now they are throbbing err:/ i hate it when i do that. haha i always bang into walls and such, like i don’t see it there or something. shows if you have something really on your mind you can end up hurting yourself because your so distracted and out of it. i’m PROOF haha
Several Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) were scurrying around the grass that the rangers at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge had burned earlier in the day. They seemed to continue to find insects, perhaps they liked them crispy.
The 37248, or D6948, is owned by 4 private parties who have made the Growler Group responsible for maintaining and operating the old diesel loco. Brought back in a really awesome shape, those concerned can be (in my opinion) by really proud. During the anual diesel gala at the Severn Valley Railway, it was one of the stars working on the heritage railway line. Along with some other class 37's, to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the type.
The forecast for the saturday of the diesel gala was overcast the entire day, with some rain during the morning and late afternoon. The sunday was looking even worse. So I booked 2 nights in Stourbridge to get some photo's on the Severn Valley Railway, and then I'd be heading home on sunday. But things turned out differently: the most of the saturday was rather sunny, except for about 2 hours during the early afternoon. During those cloudy hours I tried out some spots that would normally be a little bit harder because of the shadows. Like here just on the edge of Kidderminster's hill, where the D6948 is climbing the hill to end up at Kidderminster station less than 2 miles further up the line.