Souvenir from anywhere

  

OMAHA, Nebraska, USA

One of my first attempts to create something like a hairball. It's still not hairy enough though..

The Structure Gauging train zaps its way through Portobello on 16.04.10 top and tailed by 31105 and 31285, running from Machynlleth to Derby.

This structure, which is a National Register of Historic Places property, was built in 1886 as the Nebraska City post office. It was constructed under the direction of W. E. Bell, supervising architect for the U.S. Treasury. The two-story brick structure combines elements of the Châteauesque and Romanesque Revival styles to produce an impressive example of late nineteenth century governmental architecture. Today it is the Farmer's Bank of Nebraska City.

triaxial weave, negative curvature

Italien / Toskana - Volterra

 

Volterra (Italian pronunciation: [volˈtɛrra]; Latin: Volaterrae) is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.

 

History

 

Volterra, known to the ancient Etruscans as Velathri or Vlathri and to the Romans as Volaterrae, is a town and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy. The town was a Bronze Age settlement of the Proto-Villanovan culture, and an important Etruscan center (Velàthre, Velathri or Felathri in Etruscan, Volaterrae in Latin language), one of the "twelve cities" of the Etruscan League.

 

The site is believed to have been continuously inhabited as a city since at least the end of the 8th century BC. It became a municipium allied to Rome at the end of the 3rd century BC. The city was a bishop's residence in the 5th century, and its episcopal power was affirmed during the 12th century. With the decline of the episcopate and the discovery of local alum deposits, Volterra became a place of interest of the Republic of Florence, whose forces conquered Volterra. Florentine rule was not always popular, and opposition occasionally broke into rebellion. These rebellions were put down by Florence.

 

When the Republic of Florence fell in 1530, Volterra came under the control of the Medici family and later followed the history of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

 

Culture

 

The main events that take place during the year in Volterra are

 

Volterra gusto

Volterra arte

Volterra teatro

 

Main sights

 

Roman Theatre of Volterra, 1st century BC, excavated in the 1950s

 

the Roman amphitheatre was discovered in 2015 and has been excavated over the succeeding years

 

Piazza dei Priori, the main square, a fine example of medieval Tuscan town squares

 

Palazzo dei Priori, the town hall located on Piazza dei Priori, construction begun in 1208 and finished in 1257

 

Pinacoteca e museo civico di Volterra (Art Gallery) in Palazzo Minucci-Solaini. Founded in 1905, the gallery consists mostly of works by Tuscan artists from 14th to 17th centuries. Includes a Deposition by Rosso Fiorentino.

 

Etruscan Acropolis and Roman Cistern. The acropolis on the citadel dates to the 8th century B.C., while the impressive cistern is from the 1st century B.C.

 

Volterra Cathedral. It was enlarged in the 13th century after an earthquake. It houses a ciborium and some angels by Mino da Fiesole, a notable wood Deposition (1228), a masterwork of Romanesque sculpture and the Sacrament Chapel, with paintings by Santi di Tito, Giovanni Balducci and Agostino Veracini. In the center of the vault are fragments of an Eternal Father by Niccolò Circignani. Also noteworthy is the Addolorata Chapel, with a terracotta group attributed to Andrea della Robbia and a fresco of Riding Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli. In the nearby chapel, dedicated to the Most Holy Name of Jesus, is a table with Christ's monogram, allegedly painted by Bernardino of Siena. The rectangular bell tower is from 1493.

 

Volterra Baptistery of San Giovanni, built in the second half of the 13th century.

 

Fortezza Medicea (Medicean Fortress), built in the 1470s, now a prison housing the noted restaurant, Fortezza Medicea restaurant.

 

Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, with thousands of funeral urns dating back to the Hellenistic and Archaic periods. Main attractions are the bronze statuette "Ombra della sera" (lit. '"Shadow of the Night"'), and the sculpted effigy, "Urna degli Sposi" (lit. '"Urn of the Spouses"') of an Etruscan couple in terra cotta.

 

The Etruscan Walls of Volterra, including the well-preserved Walls of Volterra (3rd-2nd centuries BC), and Porta Diana gates.

 

The Medici Villa di Spedaletto, outside the city, in direction of Lajatico

 

There are excavations of Etruscan tombs in the Valle Bona area.

 

Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, Founded in 1888 until 1978, it was reopened for public and will be once more used for psychiatric purposes.

 

In popular culture

 

Volterra features in Horatius, a poem by Lord Macaulay.

 

Linda Proud's A Tabernacle for the Sun (2005), the first volume of The Botticelli Trilogy, begins with the sack of Volterra in 1472. Volterra is the ancestral home of the Maffei family and the events of 1472 lead directly to the Pazzi Conspiracy of 1478. The protagonist of the novel is Tommaso de' Maffei, half brother of one of the conspirators.

 

Volterra is an important location in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. In the books, Volterra is home to the Volturi, a clan of rich, regal, powerful ancient vampires, who essentially act as the rulers of the world's vampire population. (However, the relevant scenes from the movie were shot in Montepulciano.)

 

Volterra is the site of Stendhal's famously disastrous encounter in 1819 with his beloved Countess Mathilde Dembowska: she recognised him there, despite his disguise of new clothes and green glasses, and was furious. This is the central incident in his book On Love

 

Volterra is mentioned repeatedly in British author Dudley Pope's Captain Nicholas Ramage historical nautical series. Gianna, the Marchesa of Volterra and the fictional ruler of the area, features in the first twelve books of the eighteen-book series. The books chart the progress and career of Ramage during the Napoleonic wars of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, providing readers with well-scripted articulate details of life aboard sailing vessels and conditions at sea of that time.

 

Volterra is the site where the novel Chimaira by the Italian author Valerio Massimo Manfredi takes place.

 

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's The Ancient Curse is also set in Volterra, where a statue called 'The Shade of Twilight' is stolen from the Volterra museum.

 

Volterra is featured in Jhumpa Lahiri's 2008 collection of short stories Unaccustomed Earth. It is where Hema and Kaushik, the protagonists of the final short story "Going Ashore," travel before they part.

 

Volterra is featured in Luchino Visconti's 1965 film Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, released as Sandra (Of a Thousand Delights) in the United States and as Of These Thousand Pleasures in the UK.

 

Volterra's scenery is used for Central City in the 2017 film Fullmetal Alchemist (film) directed by Fumihiko Sori.

 

The 2016 video game The Town of Light is set in a fictionalized version of the notorious Volterra Psychiatric Hospital.

 

"Volaterrae" is the name given by Dan and Una to their secret place in Far Wood in Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill. They named it from the verse in Lord Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome:

 

From lordly Volaterrae,

Where scowls the far-famed hold

Piled by the hands of giants

For Godlike Kings of old.

 

Volterra and its relationship with Medici Florence features in the 2018 second season of Medici: Masters of Florence.

 

(Wikipedia)

 

Volterra, lateinisch Volaterrae, ist eine italienische Stadt mit 9980 Einwohnern (Stand 31. Dezember 2019) in der Provinz Pisa in der Region Toskana.

 

Geographie

 

Volterra liegt etwa 50 Kilometer südlich von Pisa und 30 Kilometer vom Mittelmeer entfernt. Die Stadt gilt mit ihrem spektakulären landschaftlichen Umfeld als eine der schönsten in der Toskana.

 

Der Kern der heutigen Stadt liegt abgeschieden auf einem 550 m hohen Bergrücken über dem Tal der Cecina (Val di Cecina) inmitten einer kargen, zerfurchten Hügellandschaft. Die Felsabbrüche und Geröllhalden sind das Produkt jahrhundertelanger Erosion. Das Gebiet Le Balze im Nordwesten Volterras vermittelt einen beispielhaften Eindruck dieses Phänomens.

 

Die Stadt wird beherrscht von einer heute als Staatsgefängnis benutzten Festung der Medici, der Fortezza Medicea. Volterra ist ein Zentrum der Alabasterverarbeitung.

 

Zu den Ortsteilen (Frazioni) zählen Mazzolla, Montemiccioli, Saline di Volterra und Villamagna.

 

Die Nachbargemeinden sind Casole d’Elsa (SI), Colle di Val d’Elsa (SI), Gambassi Terme (FI), Lajatico, Montaione (FI), Montecatini Val di Cecina, Peccioli, Pomarance und San Gimignano (SI).

 

Geschichte

 

Volterra kann auf eine lange Geschichte zurückblicken. Bereits im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. entstand der Ort aus der Verbindung mehrerer kleiner etruskischer Ansiedlungen, deren Bestand bis ins 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr. zurückverfolgt werden kann. Zu dieser Zeit bauten die Etrusker eine sieben Kilometer lange Ringmauer und nannten die nunmehr vereinigte Stadt Velathri.

 

Volterra war eine der ältesten und größten der zwölf Bundesstädte Etruriens. Später war es eine römische Stadt mit den Rechten eines Municipiums. Ihre hohe Lage machte sie zu einer starken Festung, die Sulla im ersten Bürgerkrieg erst nach zweijähriger Belagerung 79 v. Chr. einnehmen konnte.

 

Im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert war Volterra eine Republik; im 14. Jahrhundert fiel es an Florenz.

 

Sehenswürdigkeiten

 

Architektonische und künstlerische Zeugnisse der verschiedenen Epochen zeugen von der wechselvollen Existenz und Bedeutung der Stadt. Einige der etruskischen Nekropolen und mittelalterlichen Kirchenmauern sind jedoch in der Vergangenheit der Erosion zum Opfer gefallen.

 

Am Hauptplatz der Stadt, der Piazza dei Priori, steht der älteste erhaltene Kommunalpalast der Toskana, der Palazzo dei Priori.

 

Von der etruskischen Stadtmauer ist als einziges Tor die Porta all’Arco gut erhalten. Es stammt aus dem 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Im äußeren Bogen sind drei verwitterte Köpfe zu erkennen, deren Bedeutung aber umstritten ist.

 

Außerhalb der mittelalterlichen Porta Fiorentina liegt das Teatro Romano, erbaut zur Zeit des Kaisers Augustus. Von der Zuschauertribüne für etwa 2000 Personen blickt man auf die teilweise rekonstruierte Bühnenwand. Die unterhalb des Theaters liegenden Thermenanlagen stammen aus späterer Zeit.

 

Andere historische öffentliche Gebäude sind der Dom Santa Maria Assunta aus dem frühen 12. Jahrhundert mit einer Kassettendecke und mit Granit vortäuschender Stuckverkleidung der Säulen sowie etlichen künstlerisch hochrangigen Ausstattungsstücken, das oktogonale Baptisterium mit einem Taufbecken von Andrea Sansovino, der auf Privatpaläste und Wohntürme aus dem 12. und 13. Jahrhundert zurückgehende Palazzo Pretorio sowie der als Gefängnis dienende Torre del Porcellino. Schließlich gehört der Palazzo Incontri-Viti zu den prachtvollsten Gebäuden Volterras.

 

Unter den Kirchen sind zu nennen: die spätromanische S. Michele sowie die Kirchen von S. Francesco, S. Lino und S. Girolamo mit Bildern und Skulpturen aus der Schule von Florenz.

 

Museen

 

Von besonderer Bedeutung ist das archäologische Museo Etrusco Guarnacci im Palazzo Desideri Tangassi. Mario Guarnacci (1701–1785), ein vielseitig interessierter Gelehrter, widmete seine Studien der antiken Geschichte. Dabei konnte er durch Ankäufe und Ausgrabungen eine ansehnliche Menge Belegmaterial über die etruskische Zivilisation sammeln.

 

Ein bedeutender Teil der Sammlung umfasst Ascheurnen sowie Stücke aus Bronze und Keramik. Die Urnen bestehen aus Tuffstein, Alabaster und Tonerde. Eine der bekanntesten ganz Etruriens ist die Urna degli Sposi (dt. Urne der Brautleute), auf deren Deckel ein Paar beim Festmahl liegend dargestellt ist.

 

Das bedeutendste Stück der Sammlung ist jedoch die Bronzefigur Ombra della sera (dt. Abendschatten). Es ist mit der Zeit zu einer „Ikone“ für das Museum und die Stadt Volterra geworden. Seine Berühmtheit verdankt es hauptsächlich seiner einzigartigen Form, die den italienischen Dichter Gabriele D’Annunzio an den Schatten einer menschlichen Figur in der Abendsonne erinnert haben soll. Es ist ein Meisterwerk etruskischer Bronzegießer aus der hellenistischen Periode. Ein weiteres bedeutendes Exponat ist die Stele des Avile Tite aus dem 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

 

Weitere Ausstellungsstücke sind verschiedene Mosaikböden aus der römischen Kaiserzeit, die aus Volterra und Segalari stammen. Hinzu kommt eine Münzsammlung mit seltenen etruskischen Münzen aus Gold, Silber und Bronze. Schließlich sind noch mit Edelsteinen verzierte etruskische und römische Schmuckstücke zu sehen.

 

Wichtig ist die Sammlung der seit 1982 im Minucci-Solaini-Palast untergebrachten „Pinacoteca“ mit der berühmten Kreuzesabnahme (1521), dem Meisterwerk des Malers Rosso Fiorentino, und den bedeutendsten Arbeiten von Taddeo di Bartolo, Domenico Ghirlandaio und Luca Signorelli, welche die künstlerischen Einflüsse aus Pisa, Florenz und Siena anschaulich machen.

 

Im April 2003 wurde im Turmhaus des Palazzo Minucci-Solaini das Ecomuseo dell’Alabastro eröffnet, in dem die Geschichte der Gewinnung und der Verarbeitung von Alabaster seit der Antike bis zur Gegenwart dargestellt ist.

 

Volterra in der Literatur

 

Volterra ist eine wichtige Stadt in Stephenie Meyers „Biss“-Serie. Dort ist Volterra die Heimatstadt der Volturi, einer königlichen Vampirfamilie.

 

Volterra spielt auch in der von Dudley Pope geschriebenen Romanreihe um den britischen Marineoffizier Nicolas Ramage eine Rolle. Im ersten Band rettet er während der Napoleonischen Kriege die Marchesa von Volterra vor den französischen Besatzungstruppen. Er verliebt sich in sie, und ihre Herrschaft über Volterra spielt in den weiteren Bänden eine wichtige Rolle. Auch ihr Neffe, Paolo Orsini, nächster in der Erbreihenfolge der Regentschaft, kommt in den meisten Romanen vor, da er als Fähnrich unter Ramages Kommando segelt.

 

(Wikipedia)

Photo Club in the Pub: Structures

The structure coming in from below on the left is all that remains of the Polo Grounds Shuttle extension of the 9th Avenue El. A bit more existed a few years ago but it was taken down to make way for the new Yankee Stadium. Until about 1940, it extended across the Harlem River to the Polo Grounds and then down 8th and 9th Avenue to South Ferry. Later, the part from the Polo Grounds at 155th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan (north limit of Harlem) to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx was kept to allow baseball fans easy access to both stadiums and their parking lots. The tracks from the Shuttle rise and merge with the tracks of the Jerome Avenue line before the next station to the north.

 

When the baseball Giants stopped using the Polo Grounds in the late 1950s, most of the remaining structure was removed. The Polo Grounds was again used by the baseball Mets for their first few seasons (saw a twi-night doubleheader there around 1962). When Shea Stadium opened in Queens, the Polo Grounds was torn down and replaced by high rise public housing. The stub here was retained because it carries power and signal cable (visible near the upper left corner).

 

The Shuttle crossed the Harlem River on a bridge and then ran in a tunnel through a ridge on the way here.

9-23-2016

Structure Fire

SouthMeade Dr

 

Thanksgiving FD, Archer Lodge FD, Wilson's Mills FD, JCEMS, Fire Marshal

A tentative Lazlo walked down the gravel drive away from the massive stone prison. He stopped several times to take in the size of the structure. Having spent two years confined in a small cell with many other drifters, he had never realized the enormity of the place. For the life of him, he could not remember being brought there.

 

Clouds piled up on the horizon to look like mountains. Dawn brought with it a blue haze and revealed patches of snow in the empty fields flanking the road. Further on, Lazlo saw what looked like a neon sign next to a small white building. The closer he got, the louder the music became. He reached the building and stood outside listening with his ear to the door. There was a racket of thuds and shrieks. The door sprung open and Lazlo tumbled inside. On a small stage there were several men under a tattered banner that read Chippy Cave and the Boys. The sounds they made would make the devil himself blush.

 

One of the men used five old suitcases for a set of drums. He held long bones—maybe from a camel or a horse—in his hands as drumsticks. Next to him another man squeezed a goose to make it bleat. He held the bird under his right arm and moved his left hand up and down its neck to change the pitch of the sounds. A blind man savaged an old upright organ with the palms of his hands and his bare feet. Three saxophonists sleazed out wheezy and greasy honks in no apparent coordination with one another. A naked man with a one-string guitar produced a world of distortion. In front of this troupe, presumably, was Chippy Cave. He shouted wild, intelligible sermons into the wide end of a bronzed dunce’s cap and would fall off the stage in convulsions when a song ended.

 

The room was small, but it was crammed with revelers. The smoke made it hard to breathe. Lazlo asked several people if they knew how he could get to Kalpana. Either they could not hear him, could not understand him, or ignored him. He made his way to the bar and leaned in close to order a whiskey but the bartender Artúr spoke first. “You’ll be wantin’ yer things then, eh, Mr. Lazlo.” “My things?” Artúr slipped into a back room and Lazlo turned to face the stage. His mind reeled as the band grew louder, the smoke grew thicker, and the patrons’ behavior more lascivious. Artúr returned with a valise and a small yellow finch in a cage. “I always knew you would make it out, sir. Others they said no-way. Said you was done for! Said two years in there would break a man. But not me. I always knew you would make it out.” Upon the bag was a tarnished brass buckle with the inscription Lazlo of Kalpana. The bird shrieked and fluttered. Lazlo fainted into a pile under the bar.

Haboob consuming the sunset and White Tank Mountains, and the shelf cloud rising above the gust front on which it rides.

Limited edition

Dimensions: H 250 cm x Diam 190 cm

Materials: Metal structure, plastic, foam cushion

with coated fabric, ultraviolet Wood’s lamp

 

Consisting of a platform topped by a corolla, an umbrella-shaped structure, « Aequorea » was inspired by the majesty of the jellyfish, with the title of the work taken from its species name. Jellyfish and spineless are often mentioned in the same breath and it is true that the creature’s structure is very fluid. If we take away the water, we are left with just a gelatinous skin. Emulating the grace of this marine animal, matali crasset uses her materials parsimoniously and concentrates her work on the empty space, the site of the lovers’ encounter. « Aequorea » is more space than object. Contemporary architecture has decompartmentalized the home to allow more malleable pathways better adapted to the need for speed, but also respite, in modern life. And yet, for the same reason, we have lost many of our private places. matali embraces the challenge of recreating an environment conducive to intimacy while conceiving a structure that is modular enough to reap the benefits of openness in architectural spaces. « Aequorea » is therefore situated midway between design and architecture, on an intermediate plane. Her work necessarily brings to mind the improvised cubbyholes we built in our bedrooms, using sheets, chairs and any number of other objects, when we were children. We recall the excitement we felt when we snuggled into this space, away from the world of adults and their rules. We could exchange secrets, invent our own little games and – since, after all, the subject here is preliminaries, or foreplay – sometimes play doctor as well.

 

By enclosing the couple within a curtain of ropes, « Aequorea » has the same effect on adults, with elegance as an added bonus. It’s all about intimacy, the need to be cut off from the rest of the world and rediscover the other face-to-face and alone. To reinforce this severed link with everyday life, matali has placed an ultraviolet Wood’s lamp inside the corolla. Colour perception is thus transformed and the lovers drift into a dreamlike state, a new dimension. And to make matters even more interesting, matali draws inspiration from the parallel worlds of Barbarella, the comic book heroine imagined by Jean-Claude Forest, paying tribute to this lyrical and sensual universe. It is a space serving as a reference: a quasi-aquatic, entirely fluid, space that softens contours, an invitation to let go completely and get in touch with inner feelings. This nod to the first liberated female comic book character also carries a feminist message, not a protest but instead a paean to the liberation of the body.

 

If matali’s design could be seen as taking another stand it would certainly be a desire to break with routine and standardized behaviour. We need to upend our daily rituals. « Aequorea »’s rounded surface is in direct contrast to the trivial rectangle of the bed, and thus allows bodies to move more freely. The contoured edge that defines the borders of the platform creates a kind of circular pillow opening myriad possibilities for lovers in all 360 degrees. Although matali challenges our habits, she does not consider ritual as a bad thing in itself. On the contrary! Rituals are essential to provide rhythm for our lives. It is the rote, humdrum, here-we-go-again quality that snuffs out the spark kindled by our shared moments. We need to learn how to renew our rituals so that they continue to enrich our lives: In order to ensconce oneself within « Aequorea », the ropes need to be pulled gradually to the exterior of the corolla, and the same operation must be performed in reverse in order to open it again. In both cases, space is being modified, creating a ritual that marks the beginning and the end of an intimate moment. In sum, « Aequorea » works like an air lock that disconnects us from our everyday lives in order to awaken the sensuality within. Far from accessorizing foreplay, matali’s triumphant design gives it a new playing field.

 

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Suppression and Incident activity on the Delta Fire, burning north of Redding, CA along I-5.

 

USFS crews from Six Rivers NF Engine 323 attack a spot fire that threatened 2 homes near Pollard Flats. (Steve Valentine / leader-Red helmet. Josh Collum, Graceson Boecking (f), Joe Bane and Thomas Vargas). Assisting was Angeles NF Engine 326.

 

Both structures were saved.

 

Crews are working night and day shifts to affect suppression along the fire which earlier closed Interstate 5 in Northern California.

 

Credit: Jim Bartlett Team Rubicon/BLM for USFS

 

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What does the Instant structures Mod (ISM) by MaggiCraft?

 

official website: instant-structures-mod.com/

 

With the Instant Structures Mod (short: ISM) you can choose one of 365+ structures and place them with just a few click in your Minecraft world. The structures sizes range between a few 100 blocks and 3,000,000 blocks. Placing larger structures accordingly takes longer. Structures are divided in themes and are easily accessible through a wiki. The structures of the Instant Structures Mod (ISM) are quite detailed, published structures are listed in the sub-side Structures.

 

Furthermore you can scan (save) your own structures and place them as many times as you like. You can share your saved structures with your friends or even with the entire Minecraft community ISM is available for Minecraft Versions 1.7.10 and 1.8. To install ISM you need Minecraft Forge.

 

official website: instant-structures-mod.com/

Sunday, April 20. Construction zone, Centennial College, Ashtonbee Campus.

Georgetown Cathedral, one of the world's largest wooden structures, Guyana

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Wildfire Structure Protection near Shan Creek Road on the Taylor Fire by the Eugene Springfield Fire Department. By removing excess brush and debris, crews may have a chance to decrease potential wildfire damage. Credit: Darren Stebbins 7-27-18

Leaf structure different every time soft prickly or frilly

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

love the combination - random

In the ceiling at Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen.

Lily Flowers - Delightful Structures and Shapes of Nature.

Lilies are tall perennials ranging in height from 2–6 ft (60–180 cm). They form naked or tunicless scaly underground bulbs which are their overwintering organs. In some North American species the base of the bulb develops into rhizomes, on which numerous small bulbs are found. Some species develop stolons. Most bulbs are deeply buried, but a few species form bulbs near the soil surface. Many species form stem-roots. With these, the bulb grows naturally at some depth in the soil, and each year the new stem puts out adventitious roots above the bulb as it emerges from the soil. These roots are in addition to the basal roots that develop at the base of the bulb.

The flowers are large, often fragrant, and come in a range of colours including whites, yellows, oranges, pinks, reds and purples. Markings include spots and brush strokes. The plants are late spring- or summer-flowering. Flowers are borne in racemes or umbels at the tip of the stem, with six tepals spreading or reflexed, to give flowers varying from funnel shape to a "Turk's cap". The tepals are free from each other, and bear a nectary at the base of each flower. The ovary is 'superior', borne above the point of attachment of the anthers. The fruit is a three-celled capsule.

Seeds ripen in late summer. They exhibit varying and sometimes complex germination patterns, many adapted to cool temperate climates.

Naturally most cool temperate species are deciduous and dormant in winter in their native environment. But a few species which distribute in hot summer and mild winter area (Lilium candidum, Lilium catesbaei,Lilium longiflorum) lose leaves and remain relatively short dormant in Summer or Autumn, sprout from Autumn to winter, forming dwarf stem bearing a basal rosette of leaves until accept enough chilling requirement, the stem begins to elongate while warming.

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In the foreground is the North Carolina Court of Appeals Building, dating from 1914, long known as the Ruffin Building in the 1st half of the 20th century. The towering structure is the Wachovia Capitol Center, a 30-story structure of granite and glass, 406 feet tall, built in 1991. This is in Raleigh.

 

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Weybridge, Vermont USA • Twenty structures were included in the U.S. Morgan Horse Farm's application in 1973, for listing this district on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

• The most significant of these is Joseph Battell's Morgan horse Breeding Barn & Stable. • French Second Empire style. Architect / Builder: Smith & Allen (Clinton Smith & William H. Allen).

 

• After Battell donated his farm of 435 acres to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the University of Vermont in 1907, it became the U.S. Morgan Horse Farm. In 1951 the farm was wholly acquired by the University of Vermont, when it became the UVM Morgan Horse Farm.

 

☞ On April 11, 1973, the National Park Service added this structure to the National Register of Historic Places (#73000183).

 

• Many more photos of the grand architecture of Clinton Smith. ∞ See a custom Google Map with geolocations for all these sites.

 

• More Info: GeoHack: 44°2′40″N 73°11′10″W.

My first tutorial for the good people at Creative Market is now live!

 

I will walk you through the process of re-creating a poster I call "Structure." We will go through all the steps, from conceptualization to execution.

 

I used quite a few resources from the Creative Market community along the way. This writeup should give you a glimpse of how versatile they all are.

 

I hope you'll enjoy the process piece. Until next one, cheers!

Among many silly 'funny' effects in this app, I found this quite usable.

 

Pho.to Lab is the first 'cloud' app I'm trying - nothing is processed on the phone, everything is sent to a server and returned ready. The downside is, they keep filesizes (i.e. resolutions) smaller, and despite that - even with 3G and HSDPA it's a bit slow(ish). (But with WiFi it's fast like a local app).

stowed position

My take on metro station Sol structure. I think it's going to be two or three years since it was built, but never took a picture of it...

 

Hope everyone's doing well and enjoying the weekend!! :)

 

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Structure Fires Throughout the Nevada Yuba Placer Unit

At 1:01AM on April 16, 2020, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire in the 12000 block of W Victory Blvd in North Hollywood. The first arriving fire companies found a large, one, story commercial building with fire showing.

 

An immediate offensive operation ensued; fire attack worked to make entry into the building while the truck company headed to the roof for vertical ventilation. However, approximately 10 minutes into the incident, the lack of progress towards the seat of the fire and concern for the structural integrity of the structure caused the incident commander to order the transition to the defensive mode.

 

With all crews out of the building and off the roof, master streams were put into place. Ladder pipes and large hand lines poured copious amounts of water into the fire from the exterior. While the bulk of the fire was extinguished approximately one hour into the incident, difficult to reach pockets of fire remained and continued to flare up.

 

The 8,111 square foot building, built in 1957, was doing business as a ‘dollar store’ and had a significant fire load (amount of contents inside the structure). This environment presented challenges to the firefighters as they worked to safely reach the seat of the fire.

 

Nearly 100 firefighters, under the command of Assistant Chief Corey Rose, battled through the night. At 3:06AM (two hours and four minutes into the incident), the incident clock was turned off and firefighters continued working to address the remaining hot spots.

 

LAFD Arson and Counter-Terrorism section responded, per protocol for a fire of this size, to conduct the cause investigation and it remains an active investigation. No injuries were reported.

 

LAFD Incident: 041620-0039

 

© Photo by Chris Eckenrode

 

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