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The outer booster cores on the Falcon Heavy have reoriented themselves and are now firing their engines to return and land. The center core continues downrange.
Faint puff at the end of the trail is the fairing separation. Rocket is about 84 nautical miles high and 370nm downrange from Vandenberg AFB (about 540nm from the camera).
The existing intersection is of MD 355 with Montrose Road / Randolph Road. A project is in construction to terminate Montrose Road into a Park & Ride, and then extend the newly-build Montrose Parkway (parallelling Montrose Road to the south) eastward to tie into Randolph Road. The junction will be replaced with a grade-separated interchange.
Concerns were raised regarding sight distance for right-turns on red, so I visited the site to observe oncoming traffic from the left.
I have been very busy lately and haven't done as much photography as I used to. I feel shitty already.
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‘On the day of separation from you in helplessness and loneliness nothing consoles us but the sorrow we feel for you.
O Jamali, resort for protection to the door of the friend, for our refuge is the door of the beloved!’
There lie many a stories behind the picturesque ruins in Mehrauli. Delhi is well known as a historic city & within Delhi, Mehrauli is a minefield of historical & archaeological data. Our heritage walk in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park covers some stunning monuments which have incredible stories behind them! The above verse was penned by Maulana Jamali, a sufi & poet whose mosque & tomb gives the park its local name, Jamali-Kamali.
Our heritage walk starts at the gateway to Balban’s tomb. Just after the gateway is a clearing created as a result of recent archaeological excavations. The excavations revealed stone flooring and some graves and rooms towards the east. A few months ago this patch of land was a mound covered with thick vegetation, so much so that covering the few yards between the gateway & Balban’s tomb was almost a trek! Right ahead is Sultan Balban’s tomb which is dated to late 13th century. This structure is remarkable for being the earliest building in the subcontinent to use the true arch in construction. The main compartment is now open to the sky & was originally roofed with a dome. Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveler who visited Delhi about 40 years after Balban mentions this tomb in his account as a shrine where “all debtors who entered it had their debts discharged, and if a man who had killed another took refuge there ,the Sultan bought him pardon from the friends of the deceased.” There is no evidence of a grave in the main room but the adjacent chamber has one and it is believed to be that of Khan Shaheed, Balban’s son. Khan Shaheed is a title which means ‘the martyr Khan’ given to Balban’s son who died fighting the Mongols. There is just a bit of plaster decoration & blue tile work visible on the walls & probably the whole structure would have been decorated thus.
There are remains of a late 17th century residential settlement around Balban’s tomb. This is significant cluster of ruins, being the only remains of a complete residential settlement in Delhi. A little ahead is the Jamali Kamali mosque. Jamali’s tomb is in a courtyard adjacent to the mosque. It is a square chamber with blue & green tile decoration on the roof. The interior is lovely with its blue & red plaster decoration and tile work on the walls. Verses composed by Maulana Jamali himself are incised on the walls just under the ceiling.
The area just north of Jamali Kamali mosque can perhaps be called the first farmhouse in Mehrauli ! This land was purchased by the British Resident, Thomas Metcalfe who re-landscaped the whole area. He bought a Mughal tomb…converted it into his residence…diverted a stream…built a carriageway over it…created an artificial lake in which stood a boathouse…and not to mention the follies shaped like canopies and ziggurats installed by Metcalfe all around his ‘farmhouse’!!!! He called it the ‘Dilkusha’ or ‘the delight of the heart’. The tomb which was of a Mughal noble, Muhammad Quli Khan, has undergone restoration & the blue painted decoration on its interior has been redone. The roof of the tomb offers a breathtaking view of the entire neighbourhood: the Qutb complex, Mehrauli village with Adam Khan’s tomb standing out in the skyline, a recently restored tomb on a hillock, Mahavir statue at Ahimsa Sthal, the dome of Jamali-Kamali mosque & Thomas Metcalfe’s follies jutting out of surrounding tree cover.
Our next stop was the Rajon ki baoli, an early 16th century step well. The baoli is one of the highlights of this heritage walk & a favourite with every visitor. Perhaps it is to do with manner in which it is revealed to the eye: the entire structure is subterranean, so as one approaches the entrance, one can only see the top-most storey. And each level of the baoli slowly reveals itself to the visitor as one walks towards its steps. The baoli-complex has a 12-pillared tomb & a mosque with some pretty plaster decoration on it.
In 1848, harsh physical punishment was rejected in favor of punishing the mind. It was thought that given enough time to reflect on his or her behavior, a criminal could be reformed. The 'Separate Prison' (Port Arthur Historic Site), built in 1850, was intended to house those sentenced to THIS form of solitary confinement.
Separated by thick sandstone walls, it was thought that convicts would benefit from absolute silence and social separation. Upon arrival, each prisoner was stripped of his/her identity; they were to wear a mask over their face at ALL TIMES and to be referred to ONLY by a number. Their names and and belongings were shut away, and intended to be returned on the day they would leave the prison.
In the prison, no prisoner was to EVER communicate with another prisoner or guard. Guards could only interact with other guards through sign language. Exercise was scheduled in such a way that only a single prisoner was allowed in the exercise yard at a time, for an hour.
What happened to these prisoners? Many, due to social and sensory deprivation lost their minds. Guards reported that many prisoners became agitated and restless; some would pace in their cells like caged animals, while others had a crazed grin fixed onto their faces.
Progress of works to remove level crossing on Springvale Road in Springvale as of late July 2013. Service relocations have been completed and major civil works are underway to construct a new rail cutting and station immediately to the north of the existing lines.
The works are designed to keep the old line and station open as long as possible before shifting to the new line under Springvale Road. The car park to the north of the station has been closed to make way for the work site with additional car parking provided at nearby Sandown Park station.
Two of the cantilever overhead structures from the former Springvale Cemetery branch - later siding - cut down to make way for major civil works to the north of the existing lines.
Window view showing lots of lathe strips missing from the 2x4 and the rather huge separation in the chimney. Wonder how many of the lathe strips went up the chimney as smoke over the years. Judging from the garbage in the interior, the last human residents were likely migrant farmers who frequent the area in picking seasons and look for inexpensive housing. And for those really intrepid adventurers, no I didn't snoop it, I was concerned with falling through the floor then having it come down on my head. If I had a dollar for everytime I passed this without stopping to photo, I wouldn't play the lottery...chuckle!!!
We finished our evening today shopping for local handicrafts at a store near the separation wall in Bethlehem.
This is the Palestinian side of the wall. As you can see it is covered with graffiti. Many of the messages on the wall are pro-Palestine, anti-war, or about the heartbreak of separation from loved ones. Unfortunately, there are also some hateful, messages written as well.
The Israeli side has no graffiti on it. Anything painted on it, is painted over soon after.
The posters you see here were writen by local women affected by the separation wall. The three posters here read as follows:
"Sign of hope for all people in this country"
"MAGICAL
Each Christmas the good tidings to the shephers are commemorated at the Shepherds' Firleds in Beit Sahour. As a child it was magical for me. I remember the candle light processions to the Shepherd Fields in the middle of the night. There we sang, prayed, ate together and made a big fire. Afterwards we attended mass in the church and had breakfast with chocolate and wine. We visited out family and friends to wish each other Merry Christmas. There was no Wall and no checkpoint. No one would say: 'You are not allowed to enter this place.' Things could not be more different now!
By Farida, from Beit Sahour"
"NOT AS A FAMILY
We have an aunt living behind the wall, on the Jerusalem side. Before they built th wall we used to visit her all the time but now we can only go when we have a permit, maybe at Christmas. But then most of the time they only give me a permit and not my husband, or the other way round. But we want to go as a family, to feel freedom, to go and see the sea, for instance. The children ask me, 'Mama, we want to go and have fun, why can't we go?' I tell them that we cannot go because we are living in a prison and do not have permission to leave. We cannot go because we are controlled by the Israelis. I tell them because I think they need to know.
By Mira, from Bethlehem"
LOCATION:
Separation Wall, Bethlehem, Palestine
DATE TAKEN:
November 29th, 2017
Newly arrived rams need to go through orientation before joining the others....
Visiting the Black Welsh Mountain Sheep at Desert Weyr (Paonia, CO) www.desertweyr.com/
The diaries I kept over a period of six years - all 2000 pages, which later became my book BREAKUP:...
To illustrate just how rapidly the sky changes hue during the twilight period of night, this photograph was taken from almost the exact same spot (albeit a few degrees of separation) as the previous frame (posted as 'WE ARE ALL MADE OF STARS'), with a time span of fifteen minutes between frames. You can see how the red 'cosmos' feel to the sky has begun to become seduced by the familar blue hue of the early morning sky.
This Ten second long exposure was taken at an altitude of Fifty two metres, in the magic of Twilight, prior to Sunrise which was at precisely 04:47am, at 02:19am on Thursday 3rd July 2014 off Lullingstone Lane next to the Lullingstone Roman Villa and overlooking the field adjacent to Eynsford Viaduct in the village of Eynsford, Kent, England.
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Nikon D800 24mm 10 Second exposure f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Nikon RC-DC2 remote shutter release. Manual focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.90 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
Tide is lower at 2:48 p.m. so the Ocean no longer washes over the hump of sand into the Creek and the Creek can't flow into the sea. Anadromous fish await a spring/summer change in beach architecture.
Is so hard to do.
So I bought this egg separator at a small pottery shop in Bisbee. The white comes out the mouth, the yolk, the spout. We think.
Woody hasn't figured out how to climb this many stairs yet. He's only 10 months old so we have to cut him some slack.
Warm Springs Guard Station. Boise National Forest, Idaho.
Chemist at the IAEA Clean Laboratory performing chemical separation of U and Pu. IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria, 6 October 2010
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Are you going through the painful experience of separation or divorce? You are not alone. This group will provide support and practical help in a caring, non-judgemental environment. Meet with others who have experienced the same challenges.
January 10, 2012 (5 Weeks), 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM.
To register, please call 905.847.5520
Cost: $30.00.
Separated by portals, the party must battle mummies, lich nagas, and a crypt guardian with vorpal scimitars in the terrible chamber of Separation!
I was guessing why I paid so little for this beautiful Rolleiflex 3.5f (Jt, italian distribution, first 3.5 f series with coupled time/diaphragm, planar 5 elements), shutter ok leather case almost ok, front lens ok....then I realized!
Suggestions? :-(
Press "L" for a nicer view, and "F" if you like it!
Camera: FinePix X100 (FUJIFILM)
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Focal Length: 23 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/480 sec