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One of the best known mushrooms, at least in European culture, is the red-and-white Fly Agaric. This mushroom appears often in illustrations of fairy tales - you might see a gnome or a fairy perched on top of one. Experts believe that the Fly Agaric was used as a hallucinogenic by northern European shamans and religious leaders. Interestingly, it contains two toxins that reduce the body's response to fear stimulus, so it may have been ingested by warriors prior to battle. In central Europe, the Fly Agaric is associated with the Yule season, and there is a theory that Santa Claus' red and white suit originated in the colors of this magical mushroom.
Smartphone socket | Up close and macro
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(Note re comment below: Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, according to Wilkipedia.
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"Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
~ Viktor E. Frankl ~
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life,
a new friend,
a new love,
a new country."
~ Anais Nin ~
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” - Viktor Frankl
Estoy en la terraza, que da a la calle, para abrir la puerta que comunica la casa al exterior suena , mucho.
Recordé cuando teníamos, 19, 20 años, mi papi creía firmemente en que debíamos comportarnos las tres como monjas, ( no fiestas, no cine, no nada), pero nosotras no queríamos ser monjas,(respeto mucho a las monjas);-)).
Nos escapábamos, por esta terraza y para abrir la puerta y que no se escuchara, UFFFF, era muy difícil, yo, era la encargada de abrirla, nunca nos descubrieron, tenia el toque mágico, (eso decían mis hermanas).
Recordé todo esto y pensé, que es el toque mágico, querer, desear, tener muchas ganas de algo, pero................tienes que tener un estimulo, eso es muy importante, todo en la vida son estímulos.
Me gustan los estímulos, con mucho amor.
I'm on the terrace, which gives onto the street, to open the door that connects the house to the outside sounds, a lot.
I remembered when we had, 19, 20 years old, my daddy believed strongly that we should behave like the three nuns (not holidays, not movies, not anything), but we do not want to be nuns, (much respect to the nuns) ;-) ).
Escapes us, for this terrace and to open the door and not listen, UFFFF, it was very difficult, I was responsible for opening it, we never discovered, had the magic touch, (saying that my sisters).
I remembered all this and I thought, which is the magic touch, want, want, eager to take something, but ................ you have to have a stimulus, that is very important, everything in life are stimuli.
Liking stimuli, with love.
Have a nice dreams ;-))
;-))<3
pareidolia păr″ī-dō′lē-ə
n.
The perception of a recognizable image or meaningful pattern where none exists.
n.
The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds.
There are 3 "figures" I see; one more obvious than the other two. Taken 29 July 21 with Fujifilm X-T3.
Picture of the Day
"Pareidolia is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music."
It's official. I do have Pareidolia. Every time I look through my long lens at a tree trunk or stump or twisted wooden branch, I see a face or an animal. What do the rest of you see on this one? :-)
Was still in the MM theme mode when I spotted this partial face when I looked at my gear shift knob…. pareidolia - seeing faces
Pareidolia - Wikipedia
Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Wikipedia
" The subconscious mind became much more active and important. And this in the form of dreams, feelings. A growing awareness of the character of a particular place, whether it was a good place to be with a calming influence, or whether it gave me the creeps.
And this all linked up with Aboriginal reality, their vision of the world as something they could never be separate from, which showed in their language. In Pitjantjara and, I suspect, all other Aboriginal languages, there is no word for 'exist'. Everything in the universe is in constant interaction with everything else. You cannot say, this is a rock. You can only say, there sits, leans, stands, falls over, lies down, a rock.
The self did not seem to be an entity living somewhere inside the skull, but a reaction between mind and stimulus. And when the stimulus was not social, the self had a hard time defining its essence and realizing its dimensions. The self in a desert becomes more and more like the desert. It has to, to survive. It becomes limitless, with its roots more and more in the subconscious than the conscious - it gets stripped of non-meaningful habits and becomes more concerned with realities related to survival. But as is its nature, it desperately wants to assimilate and make sense of the information it receives, which in a desert is almost always going to be translated into the language of mysticism.
What I'm trying to say is, when you walk on, sleep on, stand on, defecate on, wallow in, get covered in and eat the dirt around you, and when there is no-one to remind you what society's rules are, and nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes. And just as Aborigines seem to be in perfect rapport with themselves and their country, so the embryonic beginnings of that rapport were happening to me. I loved it.....Although I talked constantly to myself, or Diggity or the country around me, I was not lonely - on the contrary, had I stumbled suddenly across another human being, I would have either hidden or treated it as if it were just another bush or rock or lizard." ~ from Tracks
What is useless and destructive is to imagine that enlightenment or virtue can be found by seeking for fresh stimulation. The monastic life is a refusal of any view that will make human maturity before God dependent on external stimulus, ‘good thoughts’, good impressions, edifying influences and ideas, Instead, the monk must learn to live with his own darkness, with the interior horror of temptation and fantasy. Salvation affects the whole of the psyche; to try to escape boredom, sexual frustration, restlessness, unsatisfied desire by searching for fresh tasks and fresh ideas is to attempt to seal off these areas from grace. Without the humiliating and wholly ‘unspiritual’ experiences of cell-life –the limited routine of trivial tasks, the sheer tedium and loneliness –there would be no way of confronting much of human nature. It is a discipline to destroy illusions. The monk has come to the desert to escape the illusory Christian identity proposed by the world; he now has to see the roots of illusion in himself, in his longing to be dramatically and satisfyingly in control of his life, the old familiar imperialism of the self bolstered by the intellect.
---The Wound of Knowledge The Wound of Knowledge Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross, ROWAN WILLIAMS
For the Macro Mondays theme "Pareidolia"- the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as seeing faces in inanimate objects ...
Still feeling a bit low because a number of friends are receiving layoff notices this week and others are living under immediate threat of layoff. So traumatic and I'm wondering what I can do to help. I'm also very disappointed in the current stimulus legislation as I am sure it is far from being as effective in saving/generating jobs as it should for the money being spent.
This photo was taken at sunset from in front of my house.
Best wishes to everyone for the weekend. I hope you have a good one! And if you're facing the life and financial challenges of these times I send you my prayers and best wishes.
As always thanks for your visits, faves, comments and support.
and it is becoming more accepted in photographs. There’s nothing new about abstraction in painting, but for some reason people respect painting more than photography. This might be because photographs are so widely used by the media in this culture that they are regarded as mere ephemera… you look at a photograph once and then turn the page.
Ralph Gibson
HMM! HNY!
prunus, daybreak yoshino cherry, 'Akebono', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
Wat Khao Somphot, Chai Badan, Lopburi, Central Thailand
Woke up at 3am to attend the Kathin Celebrations at this temple. Sleepy at first but it eventually got better as the morning sun gently rose over the mountain. Loved that atmosphere surrounded by hundreds of other lay people in white clothes chanting and meditating altogether; could feel the higher vibrations!
And doing what many will never do, is an additional stimulus to me.
Un'illusione ottica è caratterizzata da immagini percepite visivamente che differiscono dalla realtà oggettiva. Le informazioni raccolte dall'occhio sono trasformate nel cervello per dare una percezione che non coincide con una misura fisica della fonte di stimolo.
Il modo in cui oggetti e colori appaiono dipende fortemente dal loro contesto. Le variabili strutturali e spaziali di una scena possono influenzare l'aspetto e la percezione.
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An optical illusion is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not coincide with a physical measurement of the stimulus source.
The way in which objects and colors appear strongly depends on their context. Structural variables and space of a scene can affect the appearance and perception.
Happy Stimulus Tuesday! I guess this is the free market at work. Apparently some businesses are more desperate for workers than others. Anyone out there looking for a job? Now I see why people get excited about street photography.
Not only will a forest walk give you wonderful sensory stimulus and renew your energy but it also reduced stress and anxiety symptoms and it even strengthen your immune system.
The new trend here in Denmark is "shinrin-yoku" = forest bathing. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_bathing)
Small Group Weekly Challenge - Forest Walk.
Thank you very much for Explore, favs and comments. I'm very grateful.
Crazy Tuesday - Pareidolia
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Pareidolia is the tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations. The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hearing indistinct voices in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans. Pareidolia was at one time considered a symptom of human psychosis, but it is now seen as a normal human tendency. Pareidolia is not confined to humans. Scientists have for years taught computers to use visual clues to "see" faces and other images.
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I often see animals, faces and various objects in the shapes of clouds, tree bark, or the textures in the reefs. How about you?? Maybe it's Pareidolia?
Wikipedia states:
Pareidolia is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer. No I didn't get the word of the day calendar :)
Wie man einen Sol LeWitt um die Ecke bringt ...
;-) ...
Solomon “Sol” LeWitt (* September 9, 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut; † April 8, 2007 in New York) was an American minimalist artist. He developed the term Conceptual Art.
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LeWitt attended Syracuse University in New York from 1945 to 1949 before spending a year in Korea and Japan with the US Army in 1951. In 1953, he attended the Cartoonist and Illustration School in New York and worked as a graphic artist for the architect Ieoh Ming Pei from 1955 to 1956. From 1960 to 1965 he worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where he made the acquaintance of Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold and Scott Burton. Between 1964 and 1971 he worked at various institutions, including the Museum of Arts School, taught at Cooper Union, the School of Visual Arts and the Education Department of New York University. In 1976, together with Lucy Lippard, he founded the publishing house Printed Matter to organize the distribution of artists' books.
Sol LeWitt's work was based on the constructivism of the Bauhaus and the Dutch artists' association De Stijl. Sol LeWitt developed the ideas of these styles further and experimented with architectural spatial structures, grid patterns and grid constructions, which he reduced to a minimum. The artist recorded his work in numerous documentations that reflect his view of art theory.
In his theoretical work Paragraphs on Conceptual Art from 1967, with which he became an important stimulus for Conceptual Art, he defined his art as “conceptual” - in contrast to visually oriented “perceptual art” - as it was primarily of intellectual interest to the viewer. Here, the idea, the concept of a work is in the foreground.
In his works, which have also been exhibited several times at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, lattice structures made of wood and/or metal appear again and again. Early works include drawings and prints with fine line and grid structures as well as large geometric grid objects. Large colored wall drawings followed from 1968. Sol LeWitt was a four-time participant in the documenta in Kassel from 1968 to 1982.
In 1979, Sol LeWitt developed a video work for Lucinda Child's dance piece Dance. During the live performances, film footage of the piece is projected synchronously onto the stage via a meter-high, transparent screen, so that the dancers interact with their cinematic alter egos. The video projection, in which the dancers dance on a gridded floor, serves as the only stage set for the piece. Dance is now one of the classics of the avant-garde and had a decisive influence on postmodern dance.
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Wie man einen Sol LeWitt um die Ecke bringt ;-) ...
Solomon „Sol“ LeWitt (* 9. September 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut; † 8. April 2007 in New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Künstler des Minimalismus. Er entwickelte den Begriff Konzeptkunst (engl. Conceptual Art).
LeWitt besuchte von 1945 bis 1949 die Syracuse University in New York, bevor er 1951 für ein Jahr mit der US-Armee nach Korea und Japan ging. 1953 besuchte er die „Cartoonist and Illustration School“ in New York und arbeitete von 1955 bis 1956 als Grafiker für den Architekten Ieoh Ming Pei. Von 1960 bis 1965 arbeitete er am Museum of Modern Art, wo er Bekanntschaft mit Dan Flavin, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold und Scott Burton machte. Zwischen 1964 und 1971 war er an verschiedenen Instituten tätig, so an der „Museum of Arts School“, unterrichtete an der Cooper Union, sowie an der School of Visual Arts und am „Education Department“ der New York University. 1976 gründete er zusammen mit Lucy Lippard den Verlag Printed Matter, um einen Vertrieb von Künstlerbüchern zu organisieren.
Sol LeWitts Werk basierte auf dem Konstruktivismus des Bauhauses sowie der niederländischen Künstlervereinigung De Stijl. Sol LeWitt entwickelte die Ideen dieser Stilrichtungen weiter und experimentierte mit architektonischen Raumstrukturen, Gittermustern und Rasterkonstruktionen, die er auf ein Minimum reduzierte. Seine Arbeiten hielt der Künstler in zahlreichen Dokumentationen fest, die seine Auffassung der Kunsttheorie reflektieren.
In 1989, he was elected an associate member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Classe des Beaux-Arts)
n seinem theoretischen Werk Paragraphs on Conceptual Art von 1967, mit dem er zu einem wichtigen Anreger der Conceptual Art wurde, definierte er seine Kunst als „begrifflich“ – im Gegensatz zur optisch orientierten „Wahrnehmungskunst“ –, da sie für den Betrachter vornehmlich in geistiger Hinsicht interessant sei. Hierbei steht die Idee, das Konzept eines Werkes im Vordergrund.
In seinen Werken, die auch mehrfach im „Museum of Modern Art“ in New York ausgestellt wurden, tauchen immer wieder Gitterstrukturen aus Holz und/oder Metall auf. Frühe Werke sind Zeichnungen und Drucke mit feinen Linien- und Gitterstrukturen sowie große geometrische Gitterobjekte. Ab 1968 folgen große farbige Wandzeichnungen. Sol LeWitt war von 1968 bis 1982 vierfacher Teilnehmer der documenta in Kassel.
1979 entwickelte Sol LeWitt eine Videoarbeit für Lucinda Childs Tanzstück Dance. Filmaufnahmen des Stückes werden während der Live-Aufführungen über eine meterhohe, transparente Leinwand synchron auf die Bühne projiziert, so dass die Tänzer mit ihrem filmischen Alter Ego interagieren. Die Videoprojektion, in der die Tänzer auf einem gerasterten Boden tanzen, dient dem Stück als einziges Bühnenbild. Dance zählt heute zu den Klassikern der Avantgarde und beeinflusste den postmodernen Tanz entscheidend.
1989 wurde er zum assoziierten Mitglied der Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Classe des Beaux-Arts) gewählt.
Sol LeWitt lebte und arbeitete in Chester in Connecticut und in Spoleto, Italien, erzählte mir, wie oft, meine Freundin Wiki ...
There's something stuck in my eye!
Shot for Our Daily Challenge :”Pareidolia”
"Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none."
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L'allucinazione è una falsa percezione in assenza di uno stimolo esterno reale. È spesso definita in psicopatologia 'percezione senza oggetto'. Il termine deriva dal latino hallucinere o allucinere, che significa 'vagare nella mente'. Le allucinazioni possono verificarsi in numerose condizioni mediche generali, in malattie psichiatriche e neurologiche, possono essere causate da sostanze stupefacenti o da farmaci.
A hallucination, in the broadest sense, is a perception in the absence of a stimulus. In a stricter sense, hallucinations are defined as perceptions in a conscious and awake state in the absence of external stimuli which have qualities of real perception, in that they are vivid, substantial, and located in external objective space.
Una caja de lápices de colores supone un estímulo muy fuerte para cualquier aficionado a la fotografía. A box of colored pencils is a very strong stimulus for any amateur photographer
The city of Tampa is situated on the west coast of Florida along the Gulf of Mexico. This city is the economic center of western Florida. The central financial district is an area of high-rise office towers, but Tampa also has historic old sections such as Ybor City and Old Hyde Park.
The maps drawn by the Spanish conquistadors show a number of Indian settlements around the Tampa Bay area. In 1824 the Americans built a fort at the mouth of the Hillsborough River directed against the Seminole Indians. After the Second Seminole War a port and trading center were established here, and this soon developed into a regional center. The Civil War brought a period of stagnation, until a boost was given to the town by the construction of the South Florida Railroad.
Towards the end of the 19th century Tampa became a fashionable winter resort. In 1886 the Cuban cigar manufacturer Vincente Martinez Ybor moved his business to Tampa and a new quarter, Ybor City, was built for his Spanish-speaking employees. The mining of phosphates in the surrounding area also gave a stimulus to the city's development.
Can you see the bird face? If you can then this is an example of Pareidolia: the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.
Thalasseus elegans,
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
The terns are back and each year I am amazed that the they use a relatively busy beach, yet get disturbed up into the air by a very slight stimulus, sometimes the stimulus not detectable to a bystander.
This was part of a flock of 95.
Excerpt from www.hember.ca/pdf/ShandDamStory.pdf:
Before the Shand Dam and the other major reservoirs on the Grand River opened, the river was sometimes a raging, uncontrolled torrent that menaced property owners all along its banks, and at other times it was a smelly trickle of sewer water.
The first Grand River dam, the Shand Dam, started to change all that. It came about after years of struggle to find a reservoir plan, a political structure and funding.
The first big step taken by the Grand River Conservation
Commission (formed in 1934) was to hire H. G. Acres & Co. of Niagara Falls during the summer of 1938 to come up with a reservoir plan and then supervise construction of the new dam.
Soliciting government funds was another big problem that solved itself as the Great Depression lingered. Money flowed to the project thanks to the lean years and what today’s government would call infrastructure spending as part of an economic stimulus package.
The federal and provincial governments each kicked in 37.5 per cent of the $2-million cost of the dam, while the eight local municipalities that made up the GRCC (Brantford, Galt, Fergus, Elora, Paris, Kitchener, Waterloo and Preston) paid 25 per cent. In return, the municipalities got the dam and jobs for some of the
unemployed people in their communities, helping to lighten their welfare rolls.
Municipalities contributed different amounts based on a formula that had been developed a few years earlier. The overall project cost included acquiring 2,000 acres of land. Half of Belwood, along with most of its businesses, were affected by the construction.
The project got underway in 1939. At the peak, an on-site construction camp included a dozen buildings to house 200
men. Most of the unskilled labourers were from the towns and cities in the Grand River and they lived on the worksite. While machines were used, there was also lots of manual work.
When WW II began in September 1939, the provincial and federal governments decided the project was too far along to be put on hold for the war.
Instead, once the high spring waters subsided in April 1940, there was big push to complete the dam quickly.
By Nov. 14, 1940, all Canadian records were broken when 256,000 cubic metres of clay had been put in place and compacted in just five weeks. The dam’s steel gates were installed and the dam was complete by the end of January 1942. The “last spike” on a railway that had to be moved due to the dam construction was driven in by Grand River Conservation Commission chair William Philip on March 9, and then the first train crossed over the dam.
It opened with great fanfare on Aug. 7, 1942, with 3,500 people on hand.
There is still some film footage of the opening. A street dance and food for 5,000 people were provided by Raynor Construction, the firm hired to build the dam. It was the largest party ever held in Fergus. The post office even issued a special cancellation stamp on mail from Elora and Fergus that day.
At first, the new dam was called the Grand Valley Dam, but tourists searching for it ended up at Grand Valley, 18 km upstream. As a result, it was renamed the Shand Dam after a local pioneer family.
The Shand Dam garnered national and international attention. The Financial Post ran a front page story a year after the dam opened, with a headline that proclaimed “Grand Valley masters its river.” The article began: “Post-war projects that will pay for themselves, prevent serious annual losses and permanent injury to otherwise productive land offer attractions impossible to ignore.” It described the value of large engineering projects that would also provide post-war jobs for returning soldiers.
The Shand Dam was the first large-scale multi-purpose dam in Canada, and it formed a 12-km long lake — water that is held back to prevent flooding and then let out during the dry summer
months to supply fresh water to communities downstream.
That value was proven after Hurricane Hazel in 1954. The Toronto area suffered tremendous loss of life and property, but no one died in the Grand River watershed as a result of the hurricane.
The reservoir system in the Grand River watershed has made the lives of watershed residents much less susceptible to the problems of flooding. They have paid for themselves many times over. They reduced flood damage significantly twice this winter — once in the thaw in late December and a second time in mid-February.
Today we know that large engineering projects such as this minimize the impact of flooding and drought, but don’t eliminate these problems. Instead, dams are one of several measures that
help to keep people and property safe from flooding by counterbalancing the impact of climate change and development that removes water storage from
the land.
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Presumably I'm not the only one that sees a goofy smiling face when I look at this Pisa shot ?
From Wikipedia : "Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous visual stimulus (so that one sees an object, pattern or meaning where in fact there is none).
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, or lunar pareidolia like the Man in the Moon or the Moon Rabbit. The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music, in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans.
Pareidolia was at one time considered a symptom of psychosis, but it is now seen as a normal human tendency. Scientists have taught computers to use visual clues to "see" faces and other images."
More photos from Tuscany here : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157714689304067
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Excerpt from www.hember.ca/pdf/ShandDamStory.pdf:
Before the Shand Dam and the other major reservoirs on the Grand River opened, the river was sometimes a raging, uncontrolled torrent that menaced property owners all along its banks, and at other times it was a smelly trickle of sewer water.
The first Grand River dam, the Shand Dam, started to change all that. It came about after years of struggle to find a reservoir plan, a political structure and funding.
The first big step taken by the Grand River Conservation
Commission (formed in 1934) was to hire H. G. Acres & Co. of Niagara Falls during the summer of 1938 to come up with a reservoir plan and then supervise construction of the new dam.
Soliciting government funds was another big problem that solved itself as the Great Depression lingered. Money flowed to the project thanks to the lean years and what today’s government would call infrastructure spending as part of an economic stimulus package.
The federal and provincial governments each kicked in 37.5 per cent of the $2-million cost of the dam, while the eight local municipalities that made up the GRCC (Brantford, Galt, Fergus, Elora, Paris, Kitchener, Waterloo and Preston) paid 25 per cent. In return, the municipalities got the dam and jobs for some of the
unemployed people in their communities, helping to lighten their welfare rolls.
Municipalities contributed different amounts based on a formula that had been developed a few years earlier. The overall project cost included acquiring 2,000 acres of land. Half of Belwood, along with most of its businesses, were affected by the construction.
The project got underway in 1939. At the peak, an on-site construction camp included a dozen buildings to house 200
men. Most of the unskilled labourers were from the towns and cities in the Grand River and they lived on the worksite. While machines were used, there was also lots of manual work.
When WW II began in September 1939, the provincial and federal governments decided the project was too far along to be put on hold for the war.
Instead, once the high spring waters subsided in April 1940, there was big push to complete the dam quickly.
By Nov. 14, 1940, all Canadian records were broken when 256,000 cubic metres of clay had been put in place and compacted in just five weeks. The dam’s steel gates were installed and the dam was complete by the end of January 1942. The “last spike” on a railway that had to be moved due to the dam construction was driven in by Grand River Conservation Commission chair William Philip on March 9, and then the first train crossed over the dam.
It opened with great fanfare on Aug. 7, 1942, with 3,500 people on hand.
There is still some film footage of the opening. A street dance and food for 5,000 people were provided by Raynor Construction, the firm hired to build the dam. It was the largest party ever held in Fergus. The post office even issued a special cancellation stamp on mail from Elora and Fergus that day.
At first, the new dam was called the Grand Valley Dam, but tourists searching for it ended up at Grand Valley, 18 km upstream. As a result, it was renamed the Shand Dam after a local pioneer family.
The Shand Dam garnered national and international attention. The Financial Post ran a front page story a year after the dam opened, with a headline that proclaimed “Grand Valley masters its river.” The article began: “Post-war projects that will pay for themselves, prevent serious annual losses and permanent injury to otherwise productive land offer attractions impossible to ignore.” It described the value of large engineering projects that would also provide post-war jobs for returning soldiers.
The Shand Dam was the first large-scale multi-purpose dam in Canada, and it formed a 12-km long lake — water that is held back to prevent flooding and then let out during the dry summer
months to supply fresh water to communities downstream.
That value was proven after Hurricane Hazel in 1954. The Toronto area suffered tremendous loss of life and property, but no one died in the Grand River watershed as a result of the hurricane.
The reservoir system in the Grand River watershed has made the lives of watershed residents much less susceptible to the problems of flooding. They have paid for themselves many times over. They reduced flood damage significantly twice this winter — once in the thaw in late December and a second time in mid-February.
Today we know that large engineering projects such as this minimize the impact of flooding and drought, but don’t eliminate these problems. Instead, dams are one of several measures that
help to keep people and property safe from flooding by counterbalancing the impact of climate change and development that removes water storage from
the land.
La pareidolia es un fenómeno psicológico donde un estímulo vago y aleatorio (habitualmente una imagen) es percibido erróneamente como una forma reconocible. Una explicación de este fenómeno, conforme al funcionamiento del cerebro, es descripto por Jeff Hawkins en su teoría de memoria-predicción.
Aun así, pienso que hay algo paranormal en ciertas imágenes
Imágenes sin retoque fotográfico (Photoshop), solo corrección de brillo y contraste
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where a vague and random stimulus (usually an image) ) is mistakenly perceived as a recognizable form. An explanation of this phenomenon, according to the functioning of the brain, is described by Jeff Hawkins in his theory of memory-prediction.
Even so, I think there is something paranormal in certain images
Images without photo retouching (Photoshop), only correction of brightness and contrast
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
- Viktor E. Frankl
A different and hopefully thought-provoking kind of picture in my #Lanzarote series.
Macro Mondays: Pareidolia
Pareidolia - A psychological phenomenon in which the mind responds to a stimulus (an image or a sound) by perceiving a familiar pattern where none exists. Like seeing a face in an object.
The object that I used is an electric drill.
Wow, it's been one of those days where you take many many many photos before you are happy enough to post something. Lots of failed attempts, debating and throwing away. This was fun but I wish there was more time!
HMM!
Canon EOS 6D - f/10 - 1/500sec - 105mm - ISO 400
- Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern where none actually exists.
Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations.
- Pareidolie of pareidolia is een psychisch verschijnsel, een vorm van illusie waarbij iemand een zodanige interpretatie van onduidelijke of willekeurige waarnemingen heeft, dat hij hierin herkenbare dingen meent waar te nemen.
De reden voor het verschijnsel ligt er waarschijnlijk in dat de hersenen behoefte hebben om verbanden tussen gegevens te leggen, ook als deze er eigenlijk niet zijn.
Bekende voorbeelden van pareidolie zijn het zien van gezichten of dieren in de wolken of het zien van het mannetje in de maan.
Bonxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components, as defined in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Bonk Disorders, DSM-IV code 1248.16.
These components combine to create an unpleasant feeling that is typically associated with uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry. Bonxiety is a generalized mood condition that can often occur without an identifiable triggering stimulus.
Explore #72 on Friday, August 6, 2010. Thank you all!