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The uneven surface of a hand made window pane glass, looking out onto the Old Steine fountain. The Listed status of the building requires traditional styles and techniques be used for renovation.
See also the related "Brian Eno 77 Million Paintings" set, - an exhibition that ran concurrently at Fabrica Gallery during the festival.
This image is part of a set of photos of the Brian Eno Speaker Flowers Sound Installation at Marlborough House (and also of the house itself) on the Old Steine, Brighton, East sussex, UK. The exhibition was presented by Fabrica Art Gallery, as part of the Brighton Festival, May 2010. The installation includes the poems and words of Rick Holland.
The Grade I listed house was built circa 1765 , purchased at one time by the Duke of Marlborough, and substantially remodelled by the Scottish architect Robert Adam.
More links:
Arena TV series theme tune video by Brian Eno.
Microsoft Windows Start-Up Sounds collection video (Including Windows 95 music by Brian Eno).
Marlborough House (My Brighton and Hove)
The Architecture of Robert Adam (1728-1792) from RCAHMS (the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
Humberts Leisure Brochure on property [.pdf download]
Some of the photos in this set are presented in multiple versions made possible using HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography - these variations are displayed with more than one exposure, gamma, "local adaptation" compression or "unsharp mask" process.
Many rooms had their windows screened using coloured CrĂŞpe paper / tissue paper. This gave their illumination a colour caste - which has been exaggerated (or neutralised) on an image by image basis. The actual experience of the coloured light was one of only a slight and soft hue.
In some instances the photos have modified to give an architectural, classical, "two-point" perspective - with forced, parallel verticals.
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Learn how to explore, experiment and practice your best art quilt composition under the tutelage of Cynthia Corbin at the Quilt Surface Design Symposium 2011. See www.qsds.com for details
SEPTA-Surface all-electric PCC 2796 (St Louis 1947) still in PTC green & cream @ 40th & Woodland. 8-20-80
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Rail ties awaiting refurbishment at Jinja, Uganda, Sept. 14, 2010.
U.S. Army photo by John Hanson
Railways, the technology that transformed Europe and America in the 19th century, may yet play a significant role in the future economic development of Uganda.
Two U.S. Army logisticians, John Hanson from U.S. Army Africa’s G-4 Programs and Policy Branch, and Lloyd Coakley, from the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command’s Transportation Engineering Agency, conducted a four-day assessment of Ugandan railway infrastructure Sept. 13-17 at the request of the Uganda People’s Defense Force’s Engineer Brigade.
The mission was to determine the current operational status of the Uganda railway system and its rolling stock, to assess the capability of UPDF personnel to rehabilitate the network, and to identify potential sites for training and repair operations. USARAF and SDDC were invited to contribute their expertise by Brig. Gen. Timothy Sabiiti, commander of the Uganda People’s Defense Force’s Engineer Brigade, Hanson said.
“He’s been charged with assisting in the rehabilitation of the railways. It would have a very positive economic impact, including natural resource development. It’s a five-year plan, a complete rehabilitation of the railroad. That’s why they’re doing it. It’s all civil development, but the railroad would be used by the military, too. It would enhance their mobility,” Hanson said.
Ugandan assessment team members included Engineer Murungi Daudi, Brig. Gen. George Etyang, Nakaliika Rahmat, Lt. Col. Luke Arikosi, and Engineer Kyamugambi Kasingye. Hanson, Coakley, and their Ugandan hosts, accompanied by a representative of the U.S. Embassy in Kampala, assessed the railroad stations and infrastructure in Jinja, Tororo, Mbale, Kumi, Soroti, Lira and Gulu. They also toured the Nalukolongo Railway Repair Facility in Kampala, he said.
“It’s a significant percentage of the railroad, the majority of the rail lines. We saw almost the entire rail line that has not been completely abandoned,” Hanson said.
The assessment team found the condition of the Ugandan system to vary greatly by region. The railway is still fully functional and operating in the Jinja-Tororo area, Hanson said. Tororo is the easternmost link on the line before it crosses into Kenya, heading for the coast at Mombasa.
As the team progressed north, however, damaged rails were common place, and track along the western section, from Gulu to Pakwach, is in general disrepair, a result of the area being for years under control of the Lord’s Resistance Army.
“It’s been pretty much abandoned since then,” Hanson said.
Nonetheless, the Ugandan-American team could clearly see the potential for future reconstruction.
“The Ugandan government and the UPDF are committed to returning their railway system to a fully operational status. SDDC and USARAF can assist in this effort to help build capacity, not only in Uganda, but eventually throughout the region,” Coakley said.
“It was great to partner with another Army Service Component Command on the continent,” said Hanson. “The engineers from SDDC have a lot of experience and expertise that can assist USARAF in finding solutions to the transportation and mobility issues we face throughout most of Africa.”
The railroads came to East Africa just before the turn of the 20th century, in the hey-day of European colonial expansion, and England and Germany in particular were in competition to build systems to extract the natural resources of what are today Kenya and Uganda. Beginning in the 1890s, both countries undertook mammoth engineering projects to build railroads from the Indian Ocean coast to Lake Victoria in the interior.
The development had profound economic and demographic impacts on the entire region. The influx of workers from British India to build the railways resulted in thriving Indian diaspora communities in both present day Uganda and Kenya; the growth of rail construction centers and nodes stimulated the establishment of such urban centers as Kisumu (then called Port Florence) and Nairobi, both in Kenya.
The Ugandan rail line finally reached Kampala in 1931. The northern branch, beginning in Tororo, was extended to Soroti by 1929 and reached Pakwach only in 1964.
The presently serviceable rolling stock consists of approximately 1,000 wagons and 35 diesel hydraulic locomotives, said Hanson, and though activity has been dormant in some areas for decades, and clearly in need of rehabilitation, the Ugandan system holds great promise for the future.
“SDDC has produced numerous studies on African seaports and infrastructure in the past. USARAF needs to synchronize our efforts with SDDC as they identify future locations to conduct their analyses,” Hanson said.
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I got the newly released Diamond Celebration Aurora Figurine by Jim Shore, at the China Closet shop on Main Street. Jim Shore was in Disneyland on July 25 to sign the piece for Guests who bought it. The formal title of the piece is "A Tribute to Disneyland's Diamond Celebration." Aurora is in her blue gown. The front part of her skirt is an image of the exit of Sleeping Beauty Castle with Walt and Mickey leaving Fantasyland. She is about 9.5 inches high, and costs $75. She is very stable standing on a hard flat surface.
I visited Disneyland on Sunday July 26, 2015. It was moderately crowded, and very warm. I was surprised once again by seeing the DL60 LE Aurora doll still for sale in the usual stores. I got a couple of limited edition pins that were released last Thursday, and also the newly released Jim Shore DL60 Aurora figurine. The Disney Princess Cameo Jeweled Tiaras by Arribas were already gone after one week. They were replaced by much smaller and less detailed children's tiaras of the same Disney Princesses. There was a new Rapunzel snow globe, with a light up lantern inside the globe. There was also a new DL60 Sleeping Beauty Castle medium figure. Finally there was a new Snow White bracelet by Alex and Ani, in silver and gold tone.
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They are among the smallest artifacts recovered from the recent dive to HMS Erebus, but the two brass tunic buttons are also offering the most personal glimpse yet into what mysteries the shipwreck may reveal about the ill-fated Franklin expedition in the High Arctic.
Diver Yves Bernard heads back to the surface through an ice hole after a joint Parks Canada and Navy operation to the wreck site of HMS Erebus, one of Franklin's lost ships, that was discovered late last summer in the Wilmot and Crampton Bay, off the coast of Nunavut [Credit: Thierry Boyer/Parks Canada]
The buttons found during the under-ice exploration of the wreck in mid-April, as it lay in the shallow waters of Wilmot and Crampton Bay off the coast of what is now Nunavut, certainly don't answer the big questions about how Sir John Franklin's quest to find the Northwest Passage came to its tragic end nearly 170 years ago.
But because the buttons may come from the uniform of a non-commissioned officer of the Royal Marines, underwater archaeologists and others delving into the Franklin saga may be able to narrow them down to one of only four of the 129 men lost on the expedition.
"Those are the artifacts that are probably the most personal," says Ryan Harris, a senior underwater archaeologist with Parks Canada.
Buttons recovered at the HMS Erebus wreck show a crowned anchor surrounded by a rope edging, a motif that was found on Royal Navy tunic buttons after 1812 [Credit: Parks Canada]
The buttons went on display recently in Gatineau, Que., along with 14 other recently recovered artifacts, including a cannon and ceramic plates.
Together, they offer what Harris describes as a "tantalizing glimpse" into what the wreck discovered late last summer may ultimately reveal about the British expedition.
"At this point in time, we're absolutely just scratching the surface of what we might learn from this shipwreck," says Harris, who led a five-day dive of the wreck in mid-April.
A cannon — one of the ship's two six-pounder guns — is hoisted towards the surface during the 2015 artifact recovery mission in the Arctic. Holes had been cut through the nearly two-metre thick ice to give divers a chance to continue exploration of the 19th-century wreck discovered late last summer [Credit: Thierry Boyer/Parks Canada]
The Parks Canada dive, which was done in conjunction with and support from the Canadian Forces' Joint Task Force (North) annual high Arctic sovereignty operation, was initially expected to be a 10-day operation.
But the project and its remote location were a logistical challenge from the outset, and weather and other factors meant the time was cut in half.
Still, Harris says he's "quite satisfied" with how much Parks Canada's underwater archaeologists, who were paired with Royal Canadian Navy divers, were able to do.
One of Erebus's cannons, recovered through a hole cut in nearly two metres of Arctic sea ice, clears the surface during the April recovery mission [Credit: Jonathan Moore/Parks Canada]
Among the first tasks was removing the kelp that covered the wreck. Rather than strip it all away, as initially planned, they cut it off only along the port side of the 34-metre long reinforced wooden vessel.
"It's tedious, but all of a sudden you have a shipwreck that looks like a wreck site," says Harris, noting that it was "extremely gratifying to see the shape of the hull as it turns up. You really get a better sense of how big the site is" and how it towers five metres over the sea floor.
"It is so well preserved of course that it does sort of look like a storybook shipwreck."
Ceramic plates and tunic buttons are among dozens of artifacts recovered from the 160-year-old wreck by Parks Canada's underwater archaeologists and the Royal Canadian Navy's Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic [Credit: Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press]
Storybook, perhaps, but not telling many tales yet.
"We haven't identified what caused it to sink," Harris says. "Maybe on the starboard side we'll see some evidence of trauma."
Harris says the artifacts recovered so far can help capture what life was like inside Erebus, as well as perhaps on the still-missing second ship of the Franklin expedition, HMS Terror.
Equipment typical of a ship of Erebus's vintage, including this hook block, offer a glimpse of what life may have been like on board [Credit: Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press]
Deck illuminators — or glass prisms — were set into the upper deck and, in the manner of a very small skylight, allowed daylight to pass through, into the dark spaces below.
"It looks like something out of Jules Verne," Harris says.
No human remains have been spotted, but archaeologists have found Franklin's cabin, and seen that some materials from it have dropped down onto the sea floor.
Along with the hook block, parts of a magnifier — preserved in salt water as part of the history museum display — were also recovered from the 19th-century wreck [Credit: Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press]
"We see that that cabin is still there," says Harris. "It's just largely crushed between the collapsed upper deck and the lower deck, but you can peer in through … these little spaces where we're inserting a point-of-view inspection camera."
Underwater archaeologists also established a virtual site grid that will allow them to carefully record where artifacts are discovered.
Some of the discoveries during the dive didn't come as a complete surprise, including the ceramic plates, which were common on Royal Navy ships of the era.
The ship's bell was found on the deck of the submerged ship next to the windlass (a kind of winch positioned near the bow). Note the embossed 'broad arrow' British government property mark, and the embossed date, 1845 [Credit: Parks Canada]
"Certainly ship's officers had generally the luxury and the means of feathering their nest a little bit while at sea," says Harris.
The plates also came as no surprise to Simon Ekins, a great great nephew of Franklin.
"What is surprising is the quality of these artifacts, especially the ceramics, which, I suppose, to the Victorians at the time would be considered essential for their comfort during the long winters," Ekins said via email from his home in England.
The ship's bell was one of the first artifacts to be recovered from the HMS Erebus, one-half of the ill-fated 1845 British expedition to find the Northwest Passage, led by Sir John Franklin [Credit: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press]
Sylvia McClintock, a great-grandaughter of Leopold McClintock, the British Navy explorer, later admiral, who led the 1850s mission that found the most significant document to date — a letter from Franklin cached on King William Island — says she's amazed the artifacts recovered are in such good condition.
She's also hoping that the sailors' log books will eventually be found and are still decipherable. They could answer a lot of lingering questions. "Let's cross our fingers and hope," she said in an email from England.
Parks Canada is evaluating whether another winter dive will take place early next year, and is planning for a return trip to the site this summer.
The artifacts were recovered during the April expedition by Parks
Canada and Royal Canadian Navy divers, and include Royal Marines'
personal effects, plates and glassware [Credit: Parks Canada]
"The biggest complication this year really is that now we have to do two things at once," says Harris, noting that exploration of Erebus is expected to continue along with the search for HMS Terror, which may lie further north in the Victoria Strait.
The full scope of the exploration of the Erebus wreck is expected to evolve over time.
Harris notes that Parks Canada's work on the wreck of a 16th-century Basque whaling ship discovered in Red Bay, Labrador, extended over 14,000 hours and seven years, from 1978 to 1985. Tens of thousands of artifacts were recovered.
So far, with Erebus, there have been 87 hours of exploration and 15 artifacts recovered.Author: Janet Davison | Source: CBC [May 27, 2015]
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Edited New Horizons image of part of Tombaugh Regio (the provisional name for the heart-shaped region on Pluto). The resolution isn't very good as the image was heavily compressed before New Horizons sent it to Earth. A better version will be sent sometime over the next sixteen months. The scale at the lower left is, regrettably, in miles. Annotation by NASA.
Original caption: In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” - lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains and has been informally named Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), after Earth’s first artificial satellite. The surface appears to be divided into irregularly-shaped segments that are ringed by narrow troughs. Features that appear to be groups of mounds and fields of small pits are also visible. This image was acquired by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on July 14 from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers). Features as small as one-half mile (1 kilometer) across are visible. The blocky appearance of some features is due to compression of the image.
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In the latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the center-left of the heart feature, informally named “Tombaugh Regio” (Tombaugh Region) after Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.
“This terrain is not easy to explain,” said Jeff Moore, leader of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team (GGI) at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. “The discovery of vast, craterless, very young plains on Pluto exceeds all pre-flyby expectations.”
This fascinating icy plains region -- resembling frozen mud cracks on Earth -- has been informally named “Sputnik Planum” (Sputnik Plain) after the Earth’s first artificial satellite. It has a broken surface of irregularly-shaped segments, roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) across, bordered by what appear to be shallow troughs. Some of these troughs have darker material within them, while others are traced by clumps of hills that appear to rise above the surrounding terrain. Elsewhere, the surface appears to be etched by fields of small pits that may have formed by a process called sublimation, in which ice turns directly from solid to gas, just as dry ice does on Earth.
Scientists have two working theories as to how these segments were formed. The irregular shapes may be the result of the contraction of surface materials, similar to what happens when mud dries. Alternatively, they may be a product of convection, similar to wax rising in a lava lamp. On Pluto, convection would occur within a surface layer of frozen carbon monoxide, methane and nitrogen, driven by the scant warmth of Pluto’s interior.
Pluto’s icy plains also display dark streaks that are a few miles long. These streaks appear to be aligned in the same direction and may have been produced by winds blowing across the frozen surface.
The Tuesday “heart of the heart” image was taken when New Horizons was 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) from Pluto, and shows features as small as one-half mile (1 kilometer) across. Mission scientists will learn more about these mysterious terrains from higher-resolution and stereo images that New Horizons will pull from its digital recorders and send back to Earth during the next year.
The New Horizons Atmospheres team observed Pluto’s atmosphere as far as 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) above the surface, demonstrating that Pluto’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere is quite extended. This is the first observation of Pluto’s atmosphere at altitudes higher than 170 miles above the surface (270 kilometers).
The New Horizons Particles and Plasma team has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto -- the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away by the solar wind and lost to space.
“This is just a first tantalizing look at Pluto’s plasma environment,” said New Horizons co-investigator Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder.
"With the flyby in the rearview mirror, a decade-long journey to Pluto is over --but, the science payoff is only beginning,” said Jim Green, director of Planetary Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Data from New Horizons will continue to fuel discovery for years to come.”
Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Boulder, Colorado, added, “We’ve only scratched the surface of our Pluto exploration, but it already seems clear to me that in the initial reconnaissance of the solar system, the best was saved for last."
New Horizons is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. SwRI leads the mission, science team, payload operations and encounter science planning.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Dust Atmospheric Recovery Technology, or DART, spacecraft is being assembled in a laboratory inside the Space Life Sciences Lab at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
DART will characterize the dust loading and microbial diversity in the atmosphere over Florida during summer months with a special emphasis on their interactions during an African dust storm. DART will be used to collect atmospheric aerosols and suspended microbial cells over Florida and Kennedy. Results will help predict the risks of excessive microbial contamination adhering to spacecraft surfaces. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis