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or Love of Alphabet, Letter Love, Love Letter? What do you think I should call this picture I made? It’s gouache on watercolor paper. The size is 50 x 65 cm. There is no frame that has those measurements… it's a bugger! So now I have to order a customized frame, and they are extremely expensive.
But I have learn my lesson so next time I will double check the standard measurements on frames before I throw my self into creativity ;-)
Would you consider buying a poster like this? (With the right measurements of course and a reasonable price!)
I’m thinking of order some prints of this alphabet picture.
It’s not a first-class photo, I wanted to scan it but it wouldn’t fit in my little scanner ;-)
I will take some photos when I have framed it and its up on the wall.
Blogged: hummmlan.blogspot.com/
Tower Motel in lovely Santa Rosa, New Mexico. The top portion of the sign has been replaced with something far less interesting than neon so it didn't make the cut.
NOTE: I did these as a video series - click the link below to check it out:
www.sidewages.com/category/myths-business-websites/
If you built a webpage, then you've built a webpage. You are completely invisible unless you make your visible. There is a ton of internet noise out there and it's your job to stand out from the crowd.
This is Richard N. Stephenson at sidewages.com.
[The following is a transcript of the introduction video.]
Now I am going to cover some of the myths of a website and why it's needed and all of that jizz-jazz. I will be doing these as vlogs and then leveraging it out into all kinds of different things.
So if I blank out, it's probably because I am trying to be safe. But all of this is setup nicely so I don't have to touch it. And I've done it before and it works out pretty nicely. Don't try this at home kids unless you're a trained professional or something like that.
I'm probably going to split this up over 10 different videos for whatever purpose so I will use this next part as the general intro.
Here are the Top 10 Myths of Having a Website in a Business, brought to you by sidewages.com and Richard Stephenson.
Okay, here we go:
MYTH # 1: IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME
MYTH # 2: A WEBSITE IS ONLY A BUSINESS TOOL
MYTH # 3: DESIGN IS EVERYTHING
MYTH # 4: MORE VISITS = MORE SALES
MYTH # 5: WEBSITES ONLY NEED IMAGES & TEXT
MYTH # 6: JUST COPY YOUR COMPETITORS
MYTH # 7: WEBSITES SELL THEMSELVES
MYTH # 8: WEBSITES CAN'T TRACK SALES DATA
MYTH # 9: NEWSLETTERS ARE JUST A FORMALITY
MYTH #10: WEBSITES NEED TO BE PERFECT
Thanks a lot for checking out this series about the 10 biggest myths on having a website for your business.
I'm Richard N. Stephenson at sidewages.com. Stop on by as soon as you can. We have a nice little newsletter going that's got a bunch of tips, hints, and tools coming now and plenty more for the future to help you get your own sidewages going. And keep our day jobs and make a little extra money.
So come on over. Hope to see you soon.
Have a good one! Bye.
Ready to get your website going?
Check out my resources page first:
Thank you!
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Swabian: Schduagert) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known locally as the "Stuttgart Cauldron." It lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Its urban area has a population of 609,219, making it the sixth largest city in Germany. 2.7 million people live in the city's administrative region and another 5.3 million people in its metropolitan area, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the top 20 European metropolitan areas by GDP; Mercer listed Stuttgart as 21st on its 2015 list of cities by quality of living, innovation agency 2thinknow ranked the city 24th globally out of 442 cities and the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked the city as a Beta-status world city in their 2014 survey.
Since the 6th millennium BC, the Stuttgart area has been an important agricultural area and has been host to a number of cultures seeking to utilize the rich soil of the Neckar valley. The Roman Empire conquered the area in 83 AD and built a massive castrum near Bad Cannstatt, making it the most important regional centre for several centuries. Stuttgart's roots were truly laid in the 10th century with its founding by Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, as a stud farm for his warhorses. Initially overshadowed by nearby Cannstatt, the town grew steadily and was granted a charter in 1320. The fortunes of Stuttgart turned with those of the House of Württemberg, and they made it the capital of their county, duchy, and kingdom from the 15th century to 1918. Stuttgart prospered despite setbacks in the Thirty Years' War and devastating air raids by the Allies on the city and its automobile production during World War II. However, by 1952, the city had bounced back and it became the major economic, industrial, tourism and publishing centre it is today.
Stuttgart is also a transport junction, and possesses the sixth-largest airport in Germany. Several major companies are headquartered in Stuttgart, including Porsche, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler AG, and Dinkelacker.
Stuttgart is unusual in the scheme of German cities. It is spread across a variety of hills (some of them covered in vineyards), valleys (especially around the Neckar river and the Stuttgart basin) and parks. This often surprises visitors who associate the city with its reputation as the "cradle of the automobile". The city's tourism slogan is "Stuttgart offers more". Under current plans to improve transport links to the international infrastructure (as part of the Stuttgart 21 project), the city unveiled a new logo and slogan in March 2008 describing itself as "Das neue Herz Europas" ("The new Heart of Europe"). For business, it describes itself as "Where business meets the future". In July 2010, Stuttgart unveiled a new city logo, designed to entice more business people to stay in the city and enjoy breaks in the area.
Stuttgart is a city with a high number of immigrants. According to Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Travel Guide to Germany, "In the city of Stuttgart, every third inhabitant is a foreigner." 40% of Stuttgart's residents, and 64% of the population below the age of five, are of immigrant background.
Connect 2013 conference in Niagara Falls, Alec had a full room laughing, taking pictures, and at some points tearing up.
Well, this technically is my 500th texture I've made available under the Creative Commons License. Yaaaa!
I'm grateful to everyone for downloading the files, using them in your life, and leaving comments and positive feedback.
Thanks again!
Patrick H.
This texture, like the other 499, is released under the Creative Commons Attribution license. You may download and use this texture as you like.
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Julieta, a swashy type of love. Is a condenced and unicase type.
Inspired in romanticism, turns out to be a very charming and versatile typography, because you can alternate uppercase and lowercase and also with alternate characters, ligatures, swashes and endings give you endless possibilities of composition, with 810 glyphs available. In the case of being necessary all these alternatives, is essential version also available consisting of 247 characters. It has a set of ornaments and connectors accompanying the source in their productions.
After half a year of intensive development work, I am proud today to announce release 3.00 of the GlimpseCatcher software (see GUI screenshot above). From its initial launch on, the GlimpseCatcher had become a reference in water drop photography. With software release 2.00 a lot of new features had already been introduced, making the GlimpseCatcher even more versatile for all types of high-speed photography.
Release 3.00 now continues this tradition by further extending the capabilities of the GlimpseCatcher. Its primary purpose is of course still high-speed photography, but some of its new features also make the GlimpseCatcher a universal controller for general creative studio photography.
Already from the start on, the GlimpseCatcher had always been able to precisely control up to 6 (even 12) cameras and strobes in the range of microseconds. With the new INTERVAL-functions it is now also possible to create – with the use of standard system strobes – cut-out masks for freeing picture elements in post-processing. A completely flexible configuration allows for example to take alternately an overexposed picture (for the mask) and a correctly exposed picture. Many other interval configurations are possible.
Besides microseconds it is now also possible to select milliseconds, seconds or minutes as timing units. This makes for example the time-lapse function much more accessible.
Individual channel sequences may now be linked to other channels, either to execute completely identically (IDEM-functions) or to execute an own sequence with a delay in relation to another reference channel (OFFSET-functions). The delay may either be individually configured or it may for example be the standard shutter lag time for the specific camera, which may also be stored in the GlimpseCatcher. At each modification of any of the concerned values, the affected channels are automatically synchronized. This greatly facilitates the workflow.
Speaking of the shutter lag time, the GlimpseCatcher now also offers the possibility to measure durations in the range of microseconds. This allows for example to easily measure the shutter lag time of the camera.
Many more new features are available:
·support for adjustment of external sensors
·individual execution of a single channel for test purposes
·individual flushing of a single channel
·counter for automatic repetitions
·faster restoration of configuration files
·…
The list is too comprehensive to mention everything here. And of course the GUI is Windows 10 compatible. A complete description of the new features may be obtained from GlimpseCatcher@gmx.net.
From today on, all new GlimpseCatchers will directly be delivered with the new software release. Existing GlimpseCatchers may be updated. Please remember that I do this in my spare time, therefore update requests will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis and may take a little while. For any information, please contact me at GlimpseCatcher@gmx.net.
To finish, I would like to express my thanks to Markus Reugels and Daniel Nimmervoll for their continuous support. You may have a look at their highly inspiring works under the following links:
www.facebook.com/Liquid.Art.by.Markus.Reugels
www.facebook.com/PhotographyNimmervoll
Daniel has also released already a first video showing some of the new features of the GlimpseCatcher:
This was on the back of this 1913 picture of my grandfather. Unfortunately, while several people in my family speak Greek, none of them can read it. I'm posting this here hoping to get a translation. See also here. If anyone reading this can translate it, please let me know!
Update: yanni writes:
I don't think this is your papou writing, when he's a baby on the picture.
It is "like if" your papou (Georgios K. Kardakis) is writing this but it's definately another person (his mother?).
On the picture, around his head, you can read "Christos Anesti"..a greeting the Greeks use during Easter.
You probably know that Greeks celebrated their namedays sometimes more than their birthdays. In the first lines the text is a greeting and a wish for your papou's dad (your grand-grandfather) nameday. "For the purpose of your nameday, I wish you, my daddy, many happy years."
(During Easter, the names "Paskalis, Lambros, Anestis, Anastasios and Georgios" are celebrated).
Then the text goes on like: "I, your son Georgios K. Kardakis, kiss your right hand. My daddy, who you are not in Greece and left me as a small child. Now when you'll come back, you'll find a young man."
In the middle upper square: "Come back, my dad".
On the right there is a nice poem, they probably said for those who left Greece. I try to pass the meaning through as good as I can: "My beautiful swallows and doves...if you find my daddy, tell him a few words...tell him that I am handsome, tell him that I grew up...tell him that I'm not used to the trouble he left me."
I couldn't make out all of the words, but the meaning was more or less this. I hope it was helpful.
I'm very indebted to yanni for his translation. It appears that my great-grandfather came over a few years before my great-grandmother and grandfather; I had not known that before. I guess also he originally planned to go back to Greece; that didn't end up happening (my grandfather never went back after he came here at the age of 6).
Please feel free to comment if you have corrections, additions, etc.
“It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."
“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”
“History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past”
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash.”
“Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.”
“To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.”
John Berger's word live on, relevant in our troubled times, both poignant and urgent.
Obituaries:
La Toscana è ricca di curiosità toponomastiche. A Suvereto, per esempio, s’incontrano via e piazze che rimandano all’epoca risorgimentale e novecentesca della storia d’Italia ma anche a periodi storici più lontani nel tempo. Infatti prima dell’unità nazionale i nomi non erano precisamente codificati e le strade si richiamavano prevalentemente ai caratteri urbanistici, funzionali e morfologici e, più anticamente ancora, nel basso medioevo assumevano denominazioni diverse legate ai mestieri esercitati e alle corporazioni.
Ecco un esempio di Suvereto che ne compendia tutti: il vicolo elevato al quadrato…. il “Vicolo dei vicoli”!
Suvereto (Livorno)- Curious names of places
Tuscany is full of names of places. In Suvereto, for example, you can meet ways and squares that recall the time of Risorgimento and Italy history of twentieth-century but also historical periods more distant in time. In fact, before national unity the names were not specifically coded and the streets are mostly attracted to the planning, functional and morphological characters and, once again, in the late Middle Ages have different titles related to works and crafts guilds.
Here it is an example in Suvereto which summarizes all: the dead alley to the square .... the " the dead alley of the dead alley"!
Grandvey - Viadukt - Grandveyviadukt an der Bahnlinie B.ern => Freiburg bei Freiburg /
Fribourg in der Schweiz
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Grandfey - Viadukt der SBB an der Linie B.ern - F.ribourg
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Der Grandfey - Viadukt an der Bahnlinie von B.ern nach Freiburg gehört zu den grössten
Brücken der Schweiz.
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Bei Grandfey rund 4 Kilometer östlich des Bahnhofs von Freiburg überquert die Bahn das
tief in den M.olassefelsen eingeschnittene und breite Tal der S.aane. Die Bahngesellschaft
Chemins de fer fribourgeois beauftragte 1856 den Ingenieur Leopold Blotnicki mit Studien
für diese aufwändigste Bauaufgabe in ihrem Streckennetz.
Von 1858 bis 1862 wurde die 334 m lange und 82 m hohe Brücke von der Baufirma Schneider
& Cie. in Le Creusot als Stahlfachwerkkonstruktion ausgeführt. Sechs auf mächtigen Stein-
fundamenten stehende Gitterpfeiler trugen einen starken Fachwerkbalken, auf den der Ober-
bau der Schienen zu liegen kam.
Im Innern des Fachwerkträgers gab es eine Passage für Fussgänger und kleine K.arren.
Damit erschloss der Grandfeyviadukt für den leichten Landverkehr eine neue Passage über
die lang gestreckte und sehr unwegsame S.chlucht der S.aane.
Mit der Elektrifizierung des Schienennetzes der Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen musste
die Brücke verstärkt werden, um die schwereren und schneller fahrenden Lokomotiven
und Zugskompositionen tragen zu können.
Nach einem Konzept des Pioniers grosser Betonbauten in der Schweiz Robert Maillart erhielt
der Grandfey - Viadukt von 1925 bis 1927 seine neue Gestalt. Zwischen den sechs vollständig
einbetonierten Stahlfachwerkstützen liegen weite Betonbögen, über deren Scheitel der er-
neuerte Fussgängerweg verläuft.
Die sieben Bögen weisen lichte Weiten von 42 m auf. Auf den mächtigen Hauptbögen ruht
eine lange Reihe schlanker Arkaden, die das Bett der Geleiseanlagen tragen. Mit der
doppelten Bogenreihe gewinnt das grosse Bauwerk eine monumentale klassizistische Form.
Durch den Bau der S.taumauer S.chiffenen, welche 1964 beendet wurde, steht der untere Teil
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Die Passage durch den Grandfey - Viadukt gehört zu den schönsten Punkten im Strecken-
netz der Wanderwege und der Radwege des Kantons Freiburg. Bei dieser Passage befindet
sich eine moderne Skulptur des amerikanischen Künstlers Richard Serra.
Das Kunstwerk stellt einen L - förmigen Stahlträger dar und wurde im Jahr 1987 erstellt. Im
August 2007 wurde das Objekt durch die Montierung eines Handlaufes durch die SBB ge-
schädigt. Bei der Bevölkerung ist die Skulptur umstritten, da sie vor allem für die Radfahrer
störend und gefährlich ist.
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Will man das Grandfey - Viadukt besuchen reist man am besten mit dem Zug nach Friburg /
Freiburg und anschliessend mit dem Buslinie 1 der TPF bis Poya. Von hier aus läuft man
noch etwa 10 Minuten auf der rechten Seite der Bahnstrecke Richtung B.ern.
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( BeschriebGrandveyviadukt BeschriebGrandvey-Viadukt KantonFreiburg KantonFribourg
Brücke Bridge bro bridge silta pont droichead ponte 橋 brug puente Viaduct viaduct maasilta
viaduc tarbhealach viadotto 高架橋 wiadukt viaduto viaducto )
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Ausflug nach V.als.ainte mit den E.ltern am Sonntag den 11. August 2013
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Mit dem A.uto S.chwarzenb.urg - P,laffeien nach V.als.ainte.
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Über den A.ussichtst.urm der S.endes.tation M.ont - G.ibloux - R.uine I.llens wieder zurück nach B.ern
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Well, we didn't win, but I did get this awesome scroll!