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YOU CAN GO THERE ONLY BY FOOT: ABOUT 700 METERS OVER THE LEVEL OF THE SEA, ABOUT HALF AN HOUR BY FOOT
HERE THER IS A TRIANGULATION STATION..
A triangulation station, also known as a triangulation pillar, trigonometrical station, trigonometrical point, trig station, trig beacon or trig point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity. The names of triangulation stations vary regionally; they are generally known as trigonometrical stations in North America, trig points in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, trig stations or points in Australia, and trig beacons in South Africa; triangulation pillar is the more formal term for the concrete columns found in the UK.
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Gasherbrum I was designated K5 (meaning the 5th peak of the Karakoram) by T.G. Montgomery in 1856 when he first spotted the peaks of the Karakoram from more than 200 km away during the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. In 1892, William Martin Conway provided the alternate name, Hidden Peak, in reference to its extreme remoteness.
A view from BC 5000m, Gasherbrum II, Karakoram, Pakistan
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"Bengaluru played a key role in the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (GTS), serving as the starting point for measuring the Indian subcontinent's map. A baseline, a crucial component of triangulation surveys, was established near Bengaluru in 1800, marking the beginning of the project that ultimately led to the determination of Mount Everest's height. "
"What began as a small marker on the highest point of Bengaluru, 952 meters above sea level, turned into one of the boldest scientific missions of its time. The Great Trigonometric Survey of India, an initiative that started in the early 19th century, sought to measure the entire country with precision. The scientific team employed groundbreaking methods, including measuring a straight 11-kilometer line from Ram Murthy Nagar to Agara using chains, and later determining the altitude and azimuth with specialized instruments."
Strobist:
Canon 580EX trig point right (visible) on VOLS, fired by ST-E2 trigger
Camera fired by RF-602 triggers
K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth after Mount Everest. With a peak elevation of 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), K2 is part of the Karakoram Range, and is located on the border between the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China, and Gilgit, in Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan.
The name K2 is derived from the notation used by the Great Trigonometric Survey. Thomas Montgomerie made the first survey of the Karakoram from Mount Haramukh, some 130 miles (210 km) to the south, and sketched the two most prominent peaks, labelling them K1 and K2.
The policy of the Great Trigonometric Survey was to use local names for mountains wherever possible and K1 was found to be known locally as Masherbrum. K2, however, appeared not to have acquired a local name, possibly due to its remoteness.
Cette image est un assemblage de 90 photos du ciel étoilé prises sur un intervalle de 45 minutes.
On peut d'ailleurs s'amuser à essayer d'estimer la vitesse angulaire de rotation de la Terre (par exemple en utilisant le théorème de Thalès et un peu de trigonométrie avec les coordonnées des pixels). Mes calculs m'ont donné environ 4,5e-5 rad.s-1, ce qui n'est évidemment pas très précis quand on connaît la véritable valeur, la faute aux diverses approximations.
This picture is a montage containing 90 photographs of the sky, taken over a period of 45 minutes.
One can actually try to coarsely estimate the angular rotation speed of the earth, just for fun. I used Thales's theorem and some trigonometry with the pixels coordinates and I found about 4.5e-5 rad.s-1, which is obviously not very accurate (because of all the approximations I made).
FOR THE PLACE, PLEASE, FOLLOW THIS LINKS:
wikimapia.org/#lang=it&lat=40.454164&lon=9.796286...
www.panoramio.com/photo/10876301
YOU CAN GO THERE ONLY BY FOOT: ABOUT 700 METERS OVER THE LEVEL OF THE SEA, ABOUT HALF AN HOUR BY FOOT
HERE THER IS A TRIANGULATION STATION..
A triangulation station, also known as a triangulation pillar, trigonometrical station, trigonometrical point, trig station, trig beacon or trig point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity. The names of triangulation stations vary regionally; they are generally known as trigonometrical stations in North America, trig points in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, trig stations or points in Australia, and trig beacons in South Africa; triangulation pillar is the more formal term for the concrete columns found in the UK.
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Domes underlying structure is going to consist of 32 rafters layouted around circle's circumference at 11.25 degrees. Single rafter has 4 segments angled at 22.5 degrees each. This will allow to use 16 of the them to connect the roof panels/tiles and the rest to connect trims that will hide any panels' irregularities. Overall it took me several days and some trigonometry fun to figure this out but it seems legit without any stresses or bending.
My mother's father worked at this white building for thirty years. He was algebra, trigonometry and mechanical engineering teacher. There was nothing else built around in the area. When it rained, all classes were suspended. It was impossible to go. Turia St. [Sevilla], 13.11.2014, 13:10h.
The Ordnance Survey monument atop Brook Down on the Isle of Wight.
Another trig point captured for my occaisonal Trigs and Peaks project.
Trig post at the top of Wavering Down, with Crook Peak in the distance, and views over the Somerset Levels, the Bristol Channel, and over to the North Devon coast; in Somerset, UK
Taken October 2020
The main feature of Table Mountain is the level plateau approximately 3 kilometres from side to side, edged by impressive cliffs. The plateau, flanked by Devil's Peak to the east and by Lion's Head to the west, forms a dramatic backdrop to Cape Town. This broad sweep of mountainous heights, together with Signal Hill, forms the natural amphitheatre of the City Bowl and Table Bay harbour. The highest point on Table Mountain is towards the eastern end of the plateau and is marked by Maclear's Beacon, a stone cairn built in 1865 by Sir Thomas Maclear for trigonometrical survey. It is 1,086 meters above sea level, and about 19 meters higher than the cable station at the western end of the plateau.
The universe is getting bigger every second. The space between galaxies is stretching, like dough rising in the oven. But how fast is the universe expanding? As Hubble and other telescopes seek to answer this question, they have run into an intriguing difference between what scientists predict and what they observe.
This is a ground-based telescope's view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The inset image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals one of many star clusters scattered throughout the dwarf galaxy. The cluster members include a special class of pulsating star called a Cepheid variable, which brightens and dims at a predictable rate that corresponds to its intrinsic brightness. Once astronomers determine that value, they can measure the light from these stars to calculate an accurate distance to the galaxy. When the new Hubble observations are correlated with an independent distance measurement technique to the Large Magellanic Cloud (using straightforward trigonometry), the researchers were able to strengthen the foundation of the so-called "cosmic distance ladder." This "fine-tuning" has significantly improved the accuracy of the rate at which the universe is expanding, called the Hubble constant.
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significant trigonometric point (TB 17) - a brick observation column, which has the status of a technical cultural monument
Coordinates: 31°12'15"N 78°4'24"E - Dodra (9200 feet) and Kwar (8000 feet) Villages, near the Indian/Tibetan border - unconnected by road, and cut off for seven months of the year due to heavy snows (map) - (full photo set)
I've just been stalked by a tiger at 10,000 feet, coming over a snowbound mountain pass from the remote village of Genwali with Vinay and Sumit a couple of brave city kids I've brought along from New Delhi as translators. They have never climbed a mountain before, never even encountered snow. [Full Genwali trek photolog here]
In Gutu, at the trailhead of the infamous Kedarnath trek I encounter Jim, a genuine wild mountain man. For the last 23 winters this superhuman garbage man from Lake Louise has traversed the remotest Himalayas by snowshoe and back-country ski, conducting remarkable field research as an amateur ethno-ecologist. He is so impressed with the difficult route we’ve just taken that he invites me to hang with him at his headquarters at the once-glorious Prince Hotel in Mussoorie.
Jim shows me his precious khukri dagger. "It was a gift from an old Ghurka veteran I lived with. In the Pacific, he assassinated Japanese officers with this knife", he says proudly. "I would never go into the mountains without it. Back in '86, I woke up in my sleeping bag to a hyena drooling on my face. My khukri split its skull clean through."
Jim and I hike up the ridge to play Frisbee in a field next to some ruins. He throws a curving backhand and launches into one of his brilliant lectures. “See those little huts next to the main building? Geodesist Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India, stowed his Nepali concubines there from 1818 until 1843 while he was laboring to establish the height of the world's most famous mountain (named in his honor in 1865) and the larger trigonometric survey of India, on which depended the accurate mapping of the subcontinent.” Jim can talk like this for days without tiring, and I soak it up.
"Draw me a map to the most beautiful place you've ever been in the Himalayas", I ask Jim. He is only too happy to share.
"There is a village named Kwar just 45km from the Tibetan border", he says, "where the people are friendlier, the architecture better, and the religion stranger than anywhere I've been up in these mountains. . . Say, if you're going to go, would you mind delivering some photographs I took 16 years ago of those villagers?"
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Days later, I am a little lost on a mule trail somewhere near the fork of the Rupin river, 15 km short of my destination. I sit down to try to make sense of the hand-drawn map. Perhaps declining to hire one of those crooked guides from Naitwar (the village at the end of the road) wasn't such a hot idea after all.
Hill people stride cheerfully past with improbable loads roped to their backs. Men haul stone slate shingles up the mountain, one heavy shingle at a time. A handsome man in a suit jacket walks by carrying a baby calf in his arms.
A schoolboy with a shy smile and a stubborn sheep stops to let the animal graze on flowers from low-hanging tree branches. Thirty seconds of sign language and emergency Hindi is all it takes to establish everything I will ever know about him. He is Krishana, his sheep is Gablu, and we are going to Kewar together.
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Kewar turns out to be a magnificent village an hour’s hard climb straight up from the river. Homes with gracefully carved pagoda roofs line the steep ridge and offer their residents sweeping panoramic views of snow-capped mountains from sumptuous wrap-around balconies. The slopes of the rocky hills are softened by orchards full of fresh fruit.
Kewar is also very remote - as I enter the village I stand aside for a parade of grim-faced men. They are carrying a violently ill woman down the mountain. It will take them two days just to reach the nearest road, and the nearest hospital is a day's drive from there.
Harpal, a university student studying English in the provincial capital of Shimla, is beside himself with joy to lodge me in his family's gorgeous 4-story wood and stone home. I am surprised to find a satellite dish on it. Lying asleep in the sun in front of the home is a pony-sized mountain dog. Harpal assures me that the iron collar around their throats protect the village dogs during routine confrontations with tigers and bears.
That night, Harpal's demure sisters serve dahl and rice. They say nothing, responding to none of my questions, and emphatically refuse to eat with us. They won't even meet my gaze - to do so would rupture the cultural dam that insulates the world of women from the world of men.
Harpal proudly turns the television on so we can enjoy our dinner in the conversational company of CNN. I ask him if he watches much television. "Not much", he says, "but my sisters watch 3-4 hours most days." I shake my head. There are only 4 hours of electricity rationed out each day. These young women carry heavy pails of water up steep hills and work in the fields with the most basic tools, yet they follow Bombay's soap operas with religious devotion. I am secretly delighted when the electricity dies and we are left in silence to finish our meal.
I tell my new friends that I wish to repay them for their kindess. I have run out of the popular little LED flashlights that I usually give away to my hosts. But I've been in India for long enough now to know that I a little cultural exchange will be just as treasured. I offer to sing an exotic Western pop song.
Harpal and his sisters listen with angelic concentration in the lamp-light as I earnestly serenade them with The Chelsea Hotel, Leonard Cohen's ironic tribute to the queen of drugs and rock and roll. When it comes to the bit where Janis Joplin is "giving me head on the unmade bed while the limousines wait in the street", I smile sweetly and mumble incomprehensibly.
The next morning, Harpals' sisters speak excellent English to me.
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I am introduced to the village goldsmith, who hand-crafts the fantastic gold jewelry that the older women wear. His is a dying trade. Harpal's sisters and the other young women in the village scorn these traditional tribal ornaments. None of the actresses on Bollywood TV wear them.
Television is teaching these once-proud people to think of themselves as unfashionable and poor. Wherever I go, the few people who speak English apologize to me for the "poor facilities" and the state of their "backward villages". The young men yearn to move to the big cities like New Delhi. People smile politely when I try to point out that here they are surrounded by beautiful mountains, bountiful orchards, and enviable homes, whereas the rural people I’ve met in the big cities live in squalid ghettos without a stitch of dignity.
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Apparently, it is a great honor to meet the creepy village shaman, an oracle whose epileptic fits at religious festivities yield prophesies that are gospel to everyone in a hundred-kilometer radius.
Jim's photographs are received with similar reverence. I am given a royal welcome, invited ceremoniously into homes to distribute 4x6 photos from 1989 to villagers who have never seen so much as a Polaroid of themselves before. And they love it.
So this must be what it feels like, I think to myself, to descend in the night in a flaming spaceship and casually dispense crop circles. I start to look at the shaman in a whole new light.
My spiritual self-satisfaction doesn't last long. The nearby village of Jhakha has burned to the ground, and the photographs I give away there are bittersweet, showing homes that no longer stand.
Back in Kewar, I learn too late that some of the people in the remaining photographs have died tragically. The photo of a man who just 3 months earlier went out hunting and fell from a cliff goes to his speechless 16-year old son. The photo of the little 2-year-old girl that Jim cherished most goes to her elderly parents. They struggle to keep from sobbing in front of the foreigner. It is no comfort to me that I am as unprepared for this than they are. They clutch at the only photograph they will ever have of their only daughter, dead now for two years.
Later I return to find them a little less distraught, and they quietly ask me to take their photo.
Their neighbor the goldsmith takes me to his home. I photograph his mother, resplendent in her heavy gold earrings.
I am about to leave when the goldsmith's daughter crawls up to the door of his wooden home and skewers me with her eyes. We stare at each other for a small eternity. I snap her photograph as an afterthough, and a chill runs up my spine.
Her photo will find its way back to Kewar, I promise myself. The circle is begun again.
Place de Merciers (in English: "Square of the Haberdashers") in the old town of Dinan, Brittany, France
Some background information:
Dinan is a walled Breton town in the department of Côtes-d'Armor in northwestern France. Its geographical setting is exceptional: Instead of nestling on the valley floor like the town of Morlaix, most urban development has been on the hillside overlooking the river Rance. The area alongside the river is known as the "Port of Dinan", and is connected to the town by a steep street. Dinan has more than 14,600 residents and a very beautiful old town with roughly 130 half-timbered houses and well-preserved town walls. Needless to say, that Dinan’s numerous sights attract a high number of visitors each year.
In the 11th century, Dinan was first mentioned in a document, although the site was most likely already inhabited in ancient times. At the time of its first documental evidence, Dinan was just a little market town, where a Benedictine convent was brought into being. Even a castle existed in Dinan’s early years, which is known because it was depicted on a fragment of the famous Bayeux Tapestry. This castle was a wooden motte-and-bailey castle and its depiction on the Bayeux Tapestry is undoubtedly the most important historical illustration of this medieval castle type, which has ever become known.
In the 12th century, an Arabian geographer mentioned Dinan and described it as a wealthy town surrounded by massive stone walls. In 1283, the whole area, including the town, was acquired by Jean I le Roux, Duke of Brittany. Following this acquisition, the town walls were finished, fortified even more and brought into the shape that still exists today. Nine towers were added, which girdle the old quarter in a trigonometric disposition. Furthermore, five town gates were built.
In 1357, during the War of the Breton succession, Dinan was besieged by English troops, but the Breton military leader Bertrand du Guesclin, a local, defended the town successfully. From a single combat against Thomas of Canterbury, he came off as the winner. However, in 1364, after several unsuccessful attempts, Duke Jean IV, who was supported by England, regained control of the town. On his behalf, an impressive donjon was erected, mainly to make his power and authority clear to the residents of Dinan, who had always supported his opponents.
Like all Breton towns, also Dinan was affiliated to the Kingdom of France in the 15th century. The town thrived and its port at the river Rance fostered trade. In fact, Dinan controlled the whole river navigation, which allowed the transport of all kinds of goods from and to the seaport town of Saint-Malo. In 1598, Dinan casted its lot with the French King Henry IV instead of following Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur, who opposed him. In the 17th century, different religious orders, like the Dominicans, the Capuchins, the Clarists and the Ursulines founded new abbeys in the town.
In the 18th century, trade was stimulated by the settlement of weavers, who mainly produced sailcloth, which was shipped to Saint-Malo on the river Rance. However, in the 19th century, Dinan’s river port lost in importance because of the construction of a road bridge and the new railway connection, which was established in 1879. Trade twindled, but gradually Dinan became a place of summer residences that particularly came into favour of affluent people from England.
In 1907, a fire caused some destruction and several houses burned out. During World War II, Dinan was bombed before being liberated by the US Army on 6th August 1944. Subsequently, the damages of both the fire and the bombardment were restored, though restoration work in such a beautiful old town is a never-ending task.
This is a brass geologists compass. Geologists sometimes have to hike in remote areas so are limited on the equipment they can carry.
This compass not only does map reading but can also measure the angles, heights and directions of rock strata and fault lines. The other numbers and dials you see in the picture give the geologist the information they need to carry out the trigonometry calculus for these angles.
The camera was set to macro and I used a preset function to create a pin-hole effect.
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24 October 2021.
English: solve
Irish: réitím
Finnish: ratkaista
*Please translate to your own language in the comments.*
#inktober #inktober2021 day 24.
Rapidograph on strathmore 100 lb drawing paper.
3 1/2 inch square.
Examples:
Gaeilge:
An té is túisce a réiteoidh an cheist, is é a gheobhaidh an duais.
(He who solves the question first will get the prize.)
Suomi:
Näin voidaan ratkaista paikallisia ongelmia.
(Regional problems can be solved.)
Toivon, että asia voidaan ratkaista.
(I hope that matter can be solved.)
Tämä on ongelma, jonka voimme ratkaista.
(It is a problem that we can solve.)
An old Faber Castell slide rule and a modern calculator. At 93 I can remember using a log book (tables of logarithms, antilogarithms and trigonometrical tables) in the 1940's but that knowledge has gone to the big classroom in the sky.
Hobart below Mount Wellington (kunanyi)
Note: Used Nikon Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8Ai-S Lens, first manufactured in 1980.
I had forgotten that I had this old classic amongst my collection. I took two images of this scene, one with the Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8Ai-S lens and another with the more modern AF-Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens, which has a well known reputation for being a sharp lens . . . However, I found the old classic rendered a higher quality image, especially on close inspection.
Using the full 17.4 megapixel jpeg, at 100%, one can just make out the Trigonometric Station on top of Mount Wellington.
A gentle reminder about copyright and intellectual property-
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Castle
Dover Castle is a medieval castle in Dover, Kent. It was founded in the 11th century and has been described as the "Key to England" due to its defensive significance throughout history.[1][2] It is the largest castle in England.
History
This site may have been fortified with earthworks in the Iron Age or earlier, before the Romans invaded in AD43. This is suggested on the basis of the unusual pattern of the earthworks which does not seem to be a perfect fit for the medieval castle. Excavations have provided evidence of Iron Age occupation within the locality of the castle, but it is not certain whether this is associated with the hillfort.[4] There have been excavations on the mound on which the church and Roman Pharos are situated. It has been discovered that it was from the Bronze Age.[citation needed]
The site also contained one of Dover's two 80-foot (24 m) Roman lighthouses (or Pharoses), one of which still survives, whilst the remains of the other are located on the opposing Western Heights, across the town of Dover. On the site is a classic montrol (campsite) where the Normans landed after their victorious conquest.
S axon and early Norman
After the Battle of Hastings in October 1066, William the Conqueror and his forces marched to Westminster Abbey for his coronation. They took a roundabout route via Romney, Dover, Canterbury, Surrey and Berkshire. From the Cinque Ports foundation in 1050, Dover has always been a chief member—it may also have been this that first attracted William's attention, and got Kent the motto of Invicta. In the words of William of Poitiers:
Then he marched to Dover, which had been reported impregnable and held by a large force. The English, stricken with fear at his approach had confidence neither in their ramparts nor in the numbers of their troops ... While the inhabitants were preparing to surrender unconditionally, [the Normans], greedy for money, set the castle on fire and the great part of it was soon enveloped in flames...[William then paid for the repair and] having taken possession of the castle, the Duke spent eight days adding new fortifications to it'. The Castle was first built, entirely out of clay. It collapsed to the ground and the clay was then used as the flooring for many of the ground-floor rooms.
This may have been repairs and improvements to an existing Saxon fort or burgh, centred on the Saxon church of St Mary de Castro, although archaeological evidence suggests that it was actually a new motte and bailey design castle built from scratch nearby.
In 1088, eight knights were appointed under tenures to guard Dover Castle, their names were: William d'Albrincis; Fulberl de Dover, William d'Arsic; Geoffrey Peverell; William Maminot; Robert du Port; Hugh Crevecoeur; and Adam Fitzwilliam.
Henry II to early modern times
It was during the reign of Henry II that the castle began to take recognisable shape. The inner and outer baileys and the great keep belong to this time. Maurice the Engineer was responsible for building the keep,[5] one of the last rectangular keeps ever built.
In 1216, a group of rebel barons invited the future Louis VIII of France to come and take the English crown. He had some success breaching the walls, but was unable ultimately to take the castle (see The First Barons' War).
The vulnerable north gate that had been breached in the siege was converted into an underground forward-defence complex (including St John's Tower), and new gates built into the outer curtain wall on the western (Fitzwilliam's Gate) and eastern (Constable's Gate) sides. During the siege, the English defenders tunnelled outwards and attacked the French, thus creating the only counter-tunnel in the world. This can still be seen in the medieval works.
During the time of Stephen de Pencester, a windmill was erected on Tower 22, which was later known as the Mill Tower.[6] By the Tudor age, the defences themselves had been superseded by gunpowder. They were improved by Henry VIII, who made a personal visit, and added to it with the Moat Bulwark.
During the English Civil War it was held for the king but then taken by a Parliamentarian trick without a shot being fired (hence it avoided being ravaged and survives far better than most castles) in 1642.
Dover Castle was a crucial observation point for the cross-channel sightings of the Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790), which used trigonometric calculations to link the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory. This work was overseen by General William Roy. The other English viewpoint used to make measurements across to Cap Blanc Nez in France was at Fairlight, East Sussex.
Napoleonic
Massive rebuilding took place at the end of the 18th century during the Napoleonic Wars. William Twiss, the Commanding Engineer of the Southern District, as part of his brief to improve the town's defences, completed the remodelling of the outer defences of Dover Castle adding the huge Horseshoe, Hudson's, East Arrow and East Demi-Bastions to provide extra gun positions on the eastern side, and constructing the Constable's Bastion for additional protection on the west. Twiss further strengthened the Spur at the northern end of the castle, adding a redan, or raised gun platform. By taking the roof off the keep and replacing it with massive brick vaults he was able to mount heavy artillery on the top. Twiss also constructed Canon's Gateway to link the defences of the castle with those of the town.
With Dover becoming a garrison town, there was a need for barracks and storerooms for the additional troops and their equipment. The solution adopted by Twiss and the Royal Engineers was to create a complex of barracks tunnels about 15 metres below the cliff top and the first troops were accommodated in 1803. At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the tunnels housed more than 2,000 men and to date are the only underground barracks ever built in Britain.
The windmill on the Mill Tower was demolished during the Anglo-American War of the orders of the Ordnance Board. It was said that the sale of materials from the demolished mill did not cover the cost of the demolition.[6] At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the tunnels were partly converted and used by the Coast Blockade Service to combat smuggling. This was a short-term endeavour though, and in 1827 the headquarters were moved closer to shore. The tunnels then remained abandoned for more than a century.
The secret wartime tunnels
The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 saw the tunnels converted first into an air-raid shelter and then later into a military command centre and underground hospital. In May 1940, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsey directed the evacuation of French and British soldiers from Dunkirk, code-named Operation Dynamo, from his headquarters in the cliff tunnels.
A military telephone exchange was installed in 1941 and served the underground headquarters. The switchboards were constantly in use and had to have a new tunnel created alongside it to house the batteries and chargers necessary to keep them functioning. The navy used the exchange to enable direct communication with vessels, as well as using it to direct air-sea rescue craft to pick up pilots shot down in the Straits of Dover.
Later the tunnels were to be used as a shelter for the Regional Seats of Government in the event of a nuclear attack. This plan was abandoned for various reasons, including the realisation that the chalk of the cliffs would not provide significant protection from radiation, and because of the inconvenient form of the tunnels and their generally poor condition.
Tunnel levels are denoted as A - Annexe, B - Bastion, C - Casemate, D - DUMPY and E - Esplanade. Annexe and Casemate levels are open to the public, Bastion is 'lost' but investigations continue to gain access, DUMPY (converted from Second World War use to serve as a Regional Seat of Government in event of an atomic war) is closed, as is Esplanade (last used as an air raid shelter in the Second World War).[7]
The Annexe level was excavated in 1941 to serve as a medical dressing station for wounded soldiers. It contained two operating theatres and had basic accommodation for patients. Soldiers would be sent for emergency treatment in the tunnels and then transferred to inland hospitals. Within the Annexe level were dormitories, kitchens and mess rooms.
A statue of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay was erected in November 2000 outside the tunnels in honour of his work on the Dunkirk evacuation and protecting Dover during the Second World War.[8]
If they were being attacked they would have to move quickly as the enemies were just nine minutes away from Dover by plane. There are over three miles of these Tunnels going deep down into the chalky cliffs, some still undiscovered. There are tunnels that are far too dangerous to walk down. Full information about these tunnels is not due to be released until 2020-2025.
The castle today
Dover Castle is a Scheduled Monument,[9] which means it is a "nationally important" historic building and archaeological site that has been given protection against unauthorised change.[10] It is also a Grade I listed building,[11] and recognised as an internationally important structure.[12] The castle, secret tunnels, and surrounding land are now owned by English Heritage and the site is a major tourist attraction. The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is officially head of the castle, in his conjoint position of Constable of Dover Castle, and the Deputy Constable has his residence in Constable's Gate.
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment Museum is located in the castle.
Between 2007 and 2009, English Heritage spent £2.45 million on recreating the castle's interior.[13] According to figures released by the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, nearly 350,000 people visited Dover Castle in 2010.[14]
Churches and chapels within its walls
Royal chapel
Within the keep, dedicated to Thomas Becket.
St Mary in Castro
Saxon church, rebuilt in the Victorian era.
Abstraccion en la calle Cardiles 2 (Cardiles Street 2, Leon - Spain), desde el balcón de la casa de María y Adolfo.
Trig points or trigonometrical columns are a feature of the British countryside.. Used by the Ordnance Survey to map the whole country with great accuracy. Modern teck has rendered these concrete columns redundant. This trig point in the picture is the last one to be used in anger. The next picture shows what Stephen was reading.
Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa, and is featured in the Flag of Cape Town and other local government insignia.It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top. The mountain forms part of the Table Mountain National Park.
The main feature of Table Mountain is the level plateau approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) from side to side, edged by impressive cliffs. The plateau, flanked by Devil's Peak to the east and by Lion's Head to the west, forms a dramatic backdrop to Cape Town. This broad sweep of mountainous heights, together with Signal Hill, forms the natural amphitheatre of the City Bowl and Table Bay harbour. The highest point on Table Mountain is towards the eastern end of the plateau and is marked by Maclear's Beacon, a stone cairn built in 1865 by Sir Thomas Maclear for trigonometrical survey. It is 1,086 metres (3,563 ft) above sea level, about 19 metres (62 ft) higher than the cable station at the western end of the plateau.
The cliffs of the main plateau are split by Platteklip Gorge ("Flat Stone Gorge"), which provides an easy and direct ascent to the summit and was the route taken by António de Saldanha on the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1503.
The flat top of the mountain is often covered by orographic clouds, formed when a south-easterly wind is directed up the mountain's slopes into colder air, where the moisture condenses to form the so-called "table cloth" of cloud. Legend attributes this phenomenon to a smoking contest between the Devil and a local pirate called Van Hunks.When the table cloth is seen, it symbolizes the contest.
Table Mountain is at the northern end of a sandstone mountain range that forms the spine of the Cape Peninsula. To the south of the main plateau is a lower part of the range called the Back Table. On the Atlantic coast of the peninsula, the range is known as the Twelve Apostles. The range continues southwards to Cape Point.
The second session of BYU Chip Camp ended this week with another success! Chip Camp brings 160 7th and 8th graders to the BYU campus for STEM related activities over 3 days. This pictures shows one of the activities - the launching of paper rockets with an air powered launcher. The girl shown is concentrating on getting her launch angle just right. Whatever she did was correct because her rocket went so far it got lost in some distant bushes and was never found. In the background is the lineup of kids eager to get their rockets launched.
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Today when all are celebrating Valentine day, a day of love, I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate this day by a dedication to "March of a million people".
This is dedicated to the People of Egypt. 18 days of their non violent protest bought them a much awaited liberation. This is dedicated to total emancipation for 85 million people.
When I think of Egypt I think of geometry, trigonometry, impossibly huge monuments made without modern machinery or materials and the birth of agriculture. The people there deserves to live in peace, live with the sense of freedom.
This is a dedication to all the people who rallied in Tahir Square and who supported them. They once again proved that Power is still with People.
I wanted to express my feeling for the 85 million people in Egypt and their March for liberation. If I have hurt anybody, my sincere apology for this.
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Sunset over the Kangchendzonga Range Sikkim. During the Yuksom Dzongrila Goecha La trek over the Singilila Ridge.
Kangchenjunga (also called Kangchenjunga, Kangchen Dzö-nga, Kachendzonga, or Kangchanfanga) is the third highest mountain in the world
Kanchenjunga is translated along the lines of "Five Treasures of the Snow" as it contains five peaks over 8,000 metres. Up until 1852, Kangchenjunga was believed to be the highest mountain in the world. Calculations made from the British 1849 Great Trigonometric Survey made Mount Everest the highest mountain on Earth (as measured from sea level) and relegating Kangchenjunga to third highest.
Climbing History: 1st attempt & 1st ascent
1899: British climber and explorer Douglas Freshfield and famous Italian photographer Vittorio Sella are the first to circumnavigate the mountain. Illegally traveling through Eastern Nepal, they are the first mountaineers to view the great Western Face of Kangchenjunga.
* 1905 First Attempt
Alistair Crowley(soon to be infamous British Occultist) sets up a camp at the head of the Yalung Glacier in Nepal. He establishes a high camp at 21,325 feet (6500 meters) when disaster strikes. A party of porters and climbers, including climbers Alexis Pache and Dr Jacot-Guillarmod, insist on descending in the afternoon to Camp 7 at 20,500 feet (6250 meters).
The inadequately supplied porters - reportedly climbing barefooted! - repeatedly slip on the icy slopes, and eventually on a traverse a fall triggers an avalanche. The sad result is that Pache and three porters are killed. Hearing their shouts, Crowley reportedly refuses to descend and help, remaining in his tent drinking tea. He is quoted in a newspaper as saying he was "not over-anxious in the circumstances...to render help. A mountain accident of this sort is one of the things for which I have no sympathy whatever".
In his book The Confessions of Alister Crowley he devoted 3 Chapters to his version of the expedition.
Photograph of Crowley on his horse on way to Kangchenjunga
Crowley's Mountaineering Career from Strange and Dangerous Dreams By Geoff Powter
* 1955 First ascent on May 25.
Kangchenjunga was first climbed on May 25May 25 1955 by George Band (the youngest member of the 1953 Everest Expedition) and the legendary Joe Brown . The team was lead by Charles Evans (who was also the deputy leader of the successful 1953 Everest Expedition). This was also the first expedition financed by the Mount Everest Committee The British expedition honored the beliefs of the Sikkimese who believe the summit sacred, by stopping a few feet short of the actual summit. Most successful summit parties since then have followed this tradition.
* 1978 A Polish team makes the first successful ascent of the south summit (Kangchenjunga II).
See Kangchenjunga History for a more detailed account.
Day 135 of 365: Arrived in Frankfurt after an uncomfortable 14 hour flight, and the first thing we do after stepping off the airplane is getting a private tour of the Commerzbank tower in Frankfurt, where a friend of my mom's boyfriend is the chief mechanic. I don't remember much of the countless "interesting" stories he had to tell, because I was constantly scouting out the building for some cozy corner to rest in.
Editorial for FOCUS Magazine. February 2020
Here is the full interview that took place with Jimmy47 Dukes
Due to the length of this interview only extracts could be used in the FOCUS Magazine. So for those who would like to read the full story . . . here it is
Jimmy's story
Interview with Blues Rock Entertainer Jimmy49 Dukes
By Chant Lyric 2nd February 2020 for FOCUS MAGAZINE
I thought I was prepared as any journalist or interviewer could be, prior to an interview with Jimmy. I had no previous knowledge of Jimmy other than a good friend recommending him and giving me a link to his music.
www.reverbnation.com/JimmyRayTodd
From the moment I heard the first flicker of his guitar, then his voice I knew this man was in a calibre of performers that is not often experienced in Second Life. My body reacted, goose bump moments listening to Jimmy for the first time, then song after song I experienced that goose bump moment, tears rolled down my face at times and pure bliss listening to him sing! His songs moved me deeply. His voice resonated throughout my being. I felt so totally out of my own comfort zone to be interviewing a man who is clearly a world class performer and could easily hold his own as one of the best Blues, Blues Rock performers on the world stage.
I have always been a fan of Joe Bonamassa, and to Jimmy, Joe is the epitome!
Well Mr Jimmy Dukes I can honestly say you are an equal to Joe, if not better (with all due respect to Joe).
Just prior to Teleporting Jimmy I had listened to a song he revamped called ‘Song for my Son’ – Jimmy went on to tell me the original song was by Marc Broussard. Listening to Jimmy singing this song to his son, one could not help but feel such intense emotion and love and pain resonate from his heart. He was singing from a place that only a person who has endured hardship and heartache could ever possibly sing from. I was an emotional wreck when Jimmy arrived after listening to that song.
When he arrived my comment was, your song to your son, do you realize this is not just for your own son? This song would resonate to every son (and their mother's) who has ever known what it is like to live without their Dad.
My heart ached for my own son who has few of his own memories of his beloved Dad.
That is the gift of Music and talent such as Jimmy, the ability to touch a person at a soul level – such an amazing gift to humanity.
Wanting to be ever so professional – coughs – I was actually an emotional wreck when Jimmy arrived, all because of his song to his son. So much for my well-prepared welcoming to Jimmy and questions. There was a deeper part of me that knew there was something very special about this man, not just his gift as a musician to the world, there was far more than meets the eye with Jimmy49 Dukes.
At a deeper level I actually knew before the interview started that this was no ordinary man or ordinary singer – this man had a story, of course we all have a story in life, but some stories stand apart from others, there was a past, a kaleidoscope of experiences this man had lived. Life had not been particularly kind to Jimmy.
I was actually in the presence of a truly talented musician whose music has the ability to move people’s emotions with the strum of a guitar string – and that was before he even opened his mouth to sing. There was something sacred taking place in this man’s presence – a recognition of a truly gifted soul who has had endured more than most in a lifetime. But despite this, here was this man putting himself out there and being so honest and raw in his emotion.
He spoke from the heart and he spoke with unashamed truth – the good, the bad, the ugly, but underneath the stories was a very respectful, kind and gentle soul that was ever present – just a man who had not had the opportunities in life that so many of us have been afforded in life, and been stripped of opportunities based upon past actions as a very young man.
There was so much Jimmy had to share about his journey that my typing could not keep up with his story. So, for the purpose of this interview it is not your usual. Chant asks: . . . Jimmy Responds. . .
Instead I ended up recorded Jimmy and now humbly pray that I can truly give justice to this man’s story. I will for the sake of easy reading place some of the questions asked and Jimmy’s response.
Jimmy just opened up like a book, his stories flowed non-stop - an interesting open book I must say, a book that I wanted to keep reading as there was so much more to discover!
Chant: Can we start off by asking you to share with our readers a little about yourself Jimmy?
Jimmy Responded:
“I originally found SL years ago and it was by accident and happened to be on my birthday, I can’t even remember how long ago it was now. I had been working 2 jobs, working nights and had a friend on Paltalk suggested I come into Second Life. My friend took me to a music venue that was owned by Blud Cavecub Milk. Blud helped me with the stream and stuff needed to do a screening. It happened quickly and Blud hired me on the spot, and I never stopped singing in here from that day on”
Jimmy Continues:
“In 2009 I became very sick and got pneumonia and it took a very long time to recover. My voice was never the same after pneumonia – it effected my voice range dramatically and took away a great deal of my voice range. It used to be physically easier for me prior to having pneumonia.”
Jimmy Continues:
“I was from Virginia in the U.S. and travelled to Canada and spent some time touring around with my band over there at the time, whilst working in mainstream. Before I left Canada in 2014, I was signed to a small independent label.
After some months of touring around Ottawa and jamming together with my band Jim Ray Todd Band. I had entered a radio competition posted by Radio Station Shay 106
Ottawa Rock Out with Randy Bachman
“This was a huge big deal this competition and I won”
Chant: Did you enter as a solo performer or with your band?
Jimmy:
“I entered as a solo performer, and I won a Les Paul Guitar and part of the prize was to join Randy Bachman on stage. This was the opportunity of a life- time to be chosen to be on stage performing in front of thousands of people. I was ready”. This was the break that every blues, rock musician dreams about, at the Ottawa Big Blues Fest.
Chant can you imagine? an audience of 65,000 people plus, this was to be an opportunity of a lifetime and I was going to rip off strings from my guitar, I was ready to shut down roads and give it my all at the Ottowa Blues Fest”
Ottawa at a big Blues Fest. ottawabluesfest.ca/
(Bachman was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016)
Jimmy Continues:
“30 days to the day before that big day when I was to perform on stage with Randy Bachman at Ottawa Blues Fest, the County of Canada deported me, that was back in 2015. It was devastating to me and not a damn thing I could do, I was forced to leave Canada and return home to Virginia.”
Chant: Why on earth were you deported from Canada back to the U.S.?
Jimmy:
“Well this may come as a shock to a lot of readers, I don’t hide the fact - it is what it is. In the year 2000 I was released from a penitentiary in the State of Virginia. I had done 17 years of my life inside prior to that. For possession of a sawn-off shot gun of all things. An illegal sawn-off shot gun and that is what I was imprisoned for. I was charged with what was an indictable offence for low level crime. I was 18 years of age. So Canadian authorities considered my past crime was a felony and Canada deemed me inadmissible and I was deported home.
It felt like it was all about money as they were on about “how much money” I had been making whilst touring around Ottawa. The stupid part about it, I never made a dollar touring around Ottawa and all the of the gigs we did were benefit concerts. I was still making an income to support myself from my mainstream job, my job I can do from anywhere in the world, so I was still employed in the US and that was what allowed me to tour around Ottawa in the music scene when not working.
Chant: 17 years for being in possession of sawn-off shot gun, are you serious? Why such a long sentence?
Jimmy:
“Yup, of all things, a sawn-off shot gun, well, it is a long story, but basically it was someone wanting to make their Political position, my case and the case of a few other people within the system were taken by this person as a pretext to his own agenda for his own political advancement. So myself, and a few others, became the target of a political position by an individual, we were dealt with by the full force of the law for possession of a sawn off shot gun”
Chant: Did your music begin in prison or as a child?
Jimmy:
“No, I spent my time in earlier years with art, drawing, painting, tattoo’s, then toward the later part of my time there learning and studying in prison, someone inside had a scientific calculator and that fascinated me, I became interested in technology, mathematics. In the penitentiary library I was able to access a book on calculus and trigonometry. It had all the answers in the back of the book so basically, I reversed engineered and worked from the back to the front of the book. When I came out, I came out with a Sheet Metal Mechanics Certification and I took off from there. I started with sheet metal, got into lasers, then fabrication and engineering and now all the skills I ever learned are being used on a daily basis, and I absolutely love it.
Chant: It sounds like your time in prison was spent so constructively, educating yourself with skills that would support you when you returned to the outside world?
Jimmy:
“No, it wasn’t by chance though, there was a gentleman in there who is a dear friend of mine who I still visit to this day and always will. He was the instructor of heaven, hell, angels and demons – but he was definitely an Angel. He very poignantly pointed out to me I was not a dumb criminal that I had a mind that was capable of doing a lot more than what I had done with it up until that point of time in my life. Because I respected him, I respected his opinion. Initially, on getting out that was my driving force – to prove him right. Oh, Jacky Price, he looks like Santa clause, he is kind of a short set heavy guy, big long white beard. Just the most awesome guy – I call him family he is my brother to the core.
“So I am out of prison, I get a phone call from the Warden of the penitentiary inviting me back, I walk in the front gate now (no handcuffs) and go talk to morning and afternoon class, my reputation still proceeds me in there,
“heard about you, your Jimmy, we know all about you etc”
I talk to these guys morning session and afternoon session and I say to them,
If I can get where I am today with my reputation what makes you think you can’t –
Chant: So, you now are the Mentor to so many young men in the penitentiary?
Jimmy: (in a humbling tone of gratitude)
“this is how I can give back to Jacky that way”
Chant: At what age did you first start singing and playing guitar?
Jimmy:
“I was about 35 years of age and I learnt to play 10 chords on my guitar in my first year (he laughs) so my music composing was worked around those first 10 chords. It was just me and my guitar, no backing tracks in those days. It just progressed from there and moved forward”
Chant: You were 35 years of age before you sang or played an instrument, are you for real?
Jimmy:
“Yes maa’m, yes Maa’m, yes that’s right, my passion growing up was with wood, and I will always remember my grandfather and I got hold of a wood mantle off a fire place an old one, very ornate, and to this day I can still remember the feeling of the wood, sanding the carving of the wood and shaping it into a work of art. That really is my first love in life. I was always interested in anything artistic, drawing, painting, tattoo’s but working with wood is something I love to do.
It was not until I was released from prison that a buddy gave me an old guitar and bits and pieces, he had laying around his living room.
I wanted a new start in life, and I found the guitar interesting it was a focus for me. I wanted to stay out of trouble and out of the public I just didn’t want to be in any situation that might get me into trouble, so I remained at home.
That was when I started in the open mic and Paltalk rooms, it is where it all began for me in my music world. I found this was a way for me to reach out to people with my music when I didn’t want to be around people in the physical world.
I was fearful of messing up and I didn’t want to mess up again, so I didn’t want to go out. It was safer for me to stay at home. It was from here my buddy from Paltalk introduced me to Second Life.
Chant: So how did your real-life career start as a singer/ musician?
Jimmy:
“well after singing in Second Life I thought to myself – I am singing live in SL, I am doing my own backing tracks, well if I can do this in here, why can’t, I take this into the real world.
So that is what I did, I made some business cards, flyers, took an album and dropped them off to small venues.
That went really well for me, I started to get bookings, but then my work started to pick up, and life became so busy, I had little energy left after my main job to be lugging equipment from one gig to another around the countryside.
So, I took a step back in real life and decided to come back and visit my friends in SL – it took less energy than having to go out in Real life.
I was greeted so warmly by everyone in SL and it felt like I had come home again – they felt like family to me”
(When Jimmy speaks of his friends and family in Second Life, you hear this genuine respect and love and a deep connection he shares with many in here. In fact he said that after the birth of his son, with no sleep in over 26 hours when he got home from the hospital exhausted, the first people he wanted to share with about the birth of his son, was his friends and family in Second Life. That is how important the people of Second Life have become to Jimmy.)
Chant: How is it Jimmy with fans in both worlds, let’s face it singers, musicians never seem to have a shortage of adoring women at their feet. How has that been for you?
Jimmy:
“I do get accolades and they can be different from the males, and the females, but I can honestly say I am not aware of ever really being “hit on” by women”
Chant: Well maybe you were oblivious to the fact you were being hit on? (Laughs)
Jimmy:
(Laughs) Yes well that is what my wife has always said to me! I am just not aware of it if it does happen”
Chant: how different is it to perform in SL as compared to RL?
Jimmy:
“I would say there are aspects that are more powerful than the other.
What I mean by that is, playing with a real band behind me and the dynamic of that cannot be replaced by me having backing sound behind me like I do in SL. There is no comparison.
BUT, the interaction with the crowd in SL if far more personal than it can ever be in RL.
OMG I am here in SL and performing and I am reading the screen as I perform, I read it all, the open chat”
Chant: That sounds like you are very good at multitasking having to perform and follow local chat and IM’s all at once.
Jimmy: (responds with great enthusiasm)
“Oh, I am the best multitasker, when I am performing in SL, I am playing guitar, holding a note while I am turning up a nob for this channel or that channel,
I am reading the screen and my feet are working on the pedals, it’s like flying an aeroplane sometimes! (with a laugh in his tone). My wife used to laugh at me and say omg you look like your flying a fighter jet (laughing)”.
“What’s important to me is, I keep my eyes on what’s going on in the venue, like someone might say something 3 measures into a song – if I don’t read it – I don’t know they said it – so I can’t come back to them on that if I have not seen it, so it’s important to me.
I don’t like missing anything. I like to interact, I mean they are taking time out of their lives, they are here with their avitar but they are sitting at their computer with their headphones listening to me, interacting with me – they are there because they choose to be there with me.
So, you know what? I feel like, I should show the same respect to them, for their patronage to the venue and to their support to me.
One of the things that has always bothered me, and there have been a few times when I have been guilty of doing exactly this, when I am exhausted, or just can’t bring myself to interact or talk, so its easier to just push buttons and sing and not interact. For me I hate to see anyone singing at people instead of singing to people. Don’t play at people, play to them.
This is what is so special about performing in SL, if you are up on stage in RL, the lights are on you, you are in a dark night club, you cannot see a thing out in front of you, you don’t even see the people.
There are no bubbles over people’s heads to indicate what they are saying so there is no interaction or response to how people are responding in RL, unless you hear someone scream loudly and hallow at the end of a song, but apart from that – there is no way to interact with your audience when you are on stage in RL.
That is the wonderful thing in SL as a performer, you are constantly given feedback, comments, interaction and I love this part of SL. This is one of the special things about this platform”.
Chant: Has there been a special or memorable venue or group of fans you have really loved performing to in Second Life?
Jimmy:
“My Favourite venue was Filmore hands down the most favourite venue ever played at, the visuals were a perfect representation of the Filmore East.
To go to the Filmore and play blues – you have got to throw down! Never a half step or half-hearted performance, the people there were there to hear music, that was their thing, blues, blues rock, classic rock, absolute enthusiasts – it was really appreciated by everyone. I was so close to the owner of Filmore he even had my personal cell number”
Bodo best now – Dante so nice and always fun people are so nice there.
Chant: What special or memorable events have you had in the music industry in RL apart from winning that radio competition to be on stage with Randy Bachman, that sadly never eventuated?
Jimmy:
“I had entered a contest, one of my songs “The Ballad of John Henry” on my album. I was later disqualified for the competition as I was not living in the United States at the time competition, you had to be a residing in the United States to enter, my home was the U.S. but I was living in Canada at the time. I had made the top 10 right to the end.
I got to speak to Mr Wiseman (Joe Bonamassa manager) they liked what I did for the cover, like I did for the contest.
Joe was in the room or tuned in. I heard this voice come in and said to me “ Hey Jim I only have one request,” I said “ Who am I speaking with “ and this voice says “Your speaking with Joe”, I was like OMG, Joe – ok what is the requirement – Joe said to me “ just don’t change it too much”, I said “ ok, you got my word on that“ . So, we did it, we went to the studio and did a rendition, we kept it simple, maybe a bit heavier, added my own little flavour to it.”
This is Jimmy’s rendition of The Ballad of John Henry:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frF96Z_X6tc
Maybe I am bias, but Jimmy’s rendition of this song to me, runs rings around Joe Bonamassa version – just saying!
Jimmy continues. . .
“If I ever got on stage with Joe Bonamassa
, you could just put a fork through me right after the show – I’m done (laughs)”
Chant: Jimmy I have to ask as my all-time favourite blues singer has to be Beth Hart, have you ever met her or seen her perform live?
Jimmy:
“Beth Hart, oh hell, I am a huge fan of Beth Hart (his voice excited) - she is alien, she just sweats Soul, I mean when you see her and her hair is matted to her face,
That is just not normal human sweat – that is soul – that is oozing from her pores
She is alien, she is definitely alien that has been sent here to act like a human and sing blues.
I would probably be dumbfounded to meet Beth Hart in person, and just go excuse me Beth, can I just ask you something, I just want to touch your sweat to make sure your human, nothing sexual, (he sighs like in disbelief and wonder about Beth Hart).
I met Tab (Tab Benoit) and his base player and these cool dudes in a place in Hampton about 9 months ago, I got to talking with these guys – stupid down to earth cats – man, Tab is pretty cool, his base player is off the hook, I love his base player. I am a huge fan of Tab Benoit (says with deep conviction, with his deep rich husky voice). If you ain’t heard Tab Benoit – go check him out. This man, women just fall out for this cat. He is straight out of the swamp of New Orleans, Jerrico, there is a song he puts out called “Nice and Warm” listen to that song.
If you ain’t moved by this song, um, ah, you ain’t human – all I can say is, drink more water, something is missing in your diet, if this man’s voice just doesn’t take you and hit you in the soul, ummm, man, this man, he is the bomb”
Chant: Have you got a live band now in RL?
Jimmy:
“right now, no, I had a group here about 45 minutes away from me,
I would drive out every Sunday – unfortunately they were not as driven or as motivated as the band I had up in Canada. I rode it out for 9 months finally I decided to say, you know what, I am not feeling that you guys are really dedicated to this but after 9 months you can’t even remember the name of a song!
I was sorry but they were not committed, and I have not looked for a band since then. (about 2 years ago now).
“I am looking for a dedicated drummer and base player, in fact one of my friends in here Avant Guard Frequency a performer in here – he has indicated to me numerous times that he would love to play base with me. He is phenomenal.
Oh man, Avant Guard he did the backing track for me, Driving towards Daylight from Joe Bonamassa”
and I have to say this, with no disrespect to Bonamassa,
but the version Avant Guard did for me in my opinion is superior to what Kevin Shirly did for Bonamassa
(We somehow get back to talking about his missed opportunity back in Canada)
Jimmy:
“I was to be on stage with the lead guy to band is in front of a crowd of 65,000 plus people!
I got to step in the doorway, nice furniture, nice lamps, that was it. It is ok, it is ok”
(you can’t help but sense and feel deep sadness inside).
Chant: how did this not break you Jimmy?
Jimmy:
“Chant, the reason why it didn’t break me is because I have survived things that most people would not even begin to comprehend.
I look at it this way, who we are today is who and what we were before. We either grow or become better, than we thought we were, or we fail, or we revert, but I choose to move forward.
It’s all because of my cat (he laughs out loud with a cheeky bounce in his voice). I love all animals, but I love cats, they hold a special place in my heart, I think I like them because they are so independent, I just love cats. I have this big ball Mancoon cat who rolls over on his back and snores his head off while cuddled into me, he is the best little mate.
. . . Then in a serious tone of reflection Jimmy says
"It is what it is”
Chant: I absolutely love your mind Jimmy, “it is what it is”, I live this way every day of my life, we live in a world of suffering – disappointments – it is part of the human conditioning and our resistance to what is, is the root of suffering for us. It is only in the surrendering to what is as opposed to how we wish things could be that we can free ourselves from suffering.
Jimmy:
“You have to go through the pain of surrender to what is and its deadly, I know trust me,
there is never any going back to that place of helplessness for me, it was so bad,
I will never allow myself to go there no matter what.
Going through that pain to reach this place of surrender is the hard part. But once there, you never go back”
Chant: Jimmy, your life has been a journey that only a few brave souls could endure, your message - I cannot help but be inspired by you Jimmy. I have always believed in life that when you endure the polarities of heaven and hell on earth, (if it does not break you, although most times it does break you), when you emerge from that darkness, it makes you wiser, stronger, more compassionate. I also believe that when we have suffered dreadfully that, that pain, is never, ever, for us alone, there is always a bigger picture at play. For me the pain is not for me alone, my own journey, my own suffering is the vortex for me to be of service to humanity – to in some small way – assist others during their times of suffering. It is in our suffering that we have no option but to shed the ego, and to turn in on ourselves. It is only through this intense suffering that we can begin to fathom and understand the depths of emotions and suffering of humanity.
Have you ever considered, that your journey, your story should be told, in a book – a book that will inspire and assist others enduring suffering, to see that it is possible to get up each day and take another foot forward and that it is possible to move on and find some happiness and peace once more in your life ?
Jimmy:
Actually, (he sounds surprised) you are one of a few people that have asked me that, mmm, (takes a deep breathe), I am thinking about it, something I read recently struck a note with me, I have been considering it.
Chant: I think it’s a message from the universe for you Jimmy, the fact you have “been thinking about it” – I think you just got your validation now don’t you. (laughing)
Chant: What does the future hold for you Jimmy?
Jimmy:
“Well I kinda view it, if a movie star from Hollywood can become the President of the United States of America, perhaps an x con from Virginia can play music for people (laughing) – I just gotta believe it’s possible”
We had run out of time, Jimmy had 7 minutes to get to a live gig in SL. It was an absolute honour to meet and get to interview Jimmy – he is such a humble, down to earth man who is not afraid to say it as it is and speak his truth. I could not help but feel there was something sacred that took place during this time with Jimmy. I am not in awe of his fame as a musician, whilst I acknowledge his tremendous gift – it is the man behind the voice, his soul, his ability to open up and share so much of his life story with us – his authenticity – a beautiful gifted soul.
There is no doubt in my mind that Jimmy Ray Todd (Jimmy49 Dukes) is a very gifted and talented musician. I cannot help but believe he is destined for amazing things that are yet to unfold and I truly believe his hardship through life is what sets him apart and despite these harsh experiences in life, it has given him the ability to tap into that authentic place deep inside and sing from the absolute depths of his soul.
People like Jimmy with his gift of his voice and musical abilities has the responsibility to reach so many lives through his performances.
From what I witnessed of Jimmy today there is no doubt in my mind he is well aware he has the ability to help others through his music and to allow himself to be so vulnerable to share with the world his journey through life.
I have the greatest respect for him, from the path he has led and to the place he has landed today, strong, wise, intelligent, incredibly gifted and a truly authentic soul that shines his light and it has truly been an honour to share this story with you all about Jimmy49 Dukes.
The world is a richer place because of you Jimmy.
Namaste Jimmy!
Jimmy Ray Todd – The Sky is Crying www.reverbnation.com/JimmyRayTodd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7HA8cAbSHc
See this amazing mix of words from Jas from Harlow's Droppin the Stream blog - thank you Harlow and Jas nailed it about Jimmy
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الأَسْطُرلاب (ويقال له: الأصْطُرلاب)[1] هو آلة فلكية قديمة وأطلق عليه العرب ذات الصفائح. وهو نموذج ثنائي البعد للقبة السماوية، وهو يظهر كيف تبدو السماء في مكان محدد عند وقت محدد. وقد رسمت السماء على وجه الأسطرلاب بحيث يسهل إيجاد المواضع السماوية عليه. بعض الأسطرلابات صغيرة الحجم وسهلة الحمل، وبعضها ضخم يصل قطر بعضها إلى عدة أمتار[2].
وقد كانت الأسطرلابات حواسيبا فلكية في وقتها، فقد كانت تحل المسائل المتعلقة بأماكن الأجرام السماوية، مثل الشمس والنجوم، والوقت أيضا. وقد كانت ساعات جيب لعلماء الفلك في القرون الوسطى. وقد تمكنوا أيضا من قياس ارتفاع الشمس في السماء، وهذا مكنهم من تقدير الوقت في النهار أو الليل، كما يمكنهم من تحديد وقت بزوغ الشمس أو تكبد النجوم. وقد طبع على ظهر الأسطرلاب جداولا مبتكرة مكنتهم من هذه الحسابات. ويمكن لهذه الجداول أن تحتوي على معلومات عن منحنيات لتحويل الوقت، ومقومة لتحويل اليوم في الشهر إلى مكان للشمس في دائرة البروج، ومقاييس مثلثية وتدريجات لـ 360 درجة.[2]
محتويات [أخف]
1أصل الأسطرلاب
2كتب في أسطرلاب
3مراجع
4وصلات خارجية
أصل الأسطرلاب[عدل]
وأصل هذه الآلة غير معروف، وقد كتب "Theon of Alexandria" عن الأسطرلاب في القرن الرابع قبل الميلادي، وأول رسالة إغريقية محفوظة تعود للقرن السادس الميلادي.[2] وقد طور علماء الفلك المسلمون الأسطرلاب تطويرا كاملا في العهد الإسلامي بسبب حاجتهم لتحديد أوقات الصلاة واتجاه مكة. وقد بقي الأسطرلاب مستخدما على نحو شائع حتى سنة 1800م [2]. وهناك كتاب فقد أصله اليوناني ولكن نسخته العربية موجودة لحسن الحظ ورجع البعض أن مخترع الاسطرلاب بشكله المعروف هو ابن الشاطر العالم الدمشقي[بحاجة لمصدر]. وممن كتبوا عنه من اليونانيين أيضا يوحنا النحوي في القرن السادس الميلادي، وقد كتب كتابا عن الأسطرلاب المسطح بطلميوس صاحب المجسطى وعرفنا من اليعقوبي المؤرخ. وهناك كتابات باللغة السريانية حول الأسطرلاب ترجع إلى القرن السابع الميلادي وتنسب إلى سفيروس سيبوخت. على الرغم من كل هذا فإن هناك من ينسب هذا الاختراع إلى أبو إسحق إبراهيم الفزارى في القرن الثامن الميلادي!!.[بحاجة لمصدر] لكن المؤكد أن العرب عرفوا الأسطرلاب وأضافوا إلى المعرفة الإنسانية الكثير حوله، ومن الكتابات المشهورة عند العرب في هذا الشأن كتابات عبد الرحمن بن عمر الصوفي وهو كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب ومنها الكتاب الكبير في عمل الأسطرلاب، وهو موجود وتم تحقيقه، وهناك باحثة يونانية كتبت رسالة دكتوراه في جامعة باريس (بالفرنسية والإنجليزية) عن الأسطرلاب وجهد عبد الرحمن الصوفي في ذلك، بل وحققت بعض أعماله، واسمها فلورا كفافيا.
وقد اخترعت مريم الاسطرلابي الأسطرلاب المعقد[3]
كان الأسطرلاب يستخدم في الملاحة العربية لتعيين زوايا ارتفاع الأجرام السماوية بالنسبة للأفق في أي مكان لحساب الوقت والبعد عن خط الاستواء. يتكون الاسطرلاب من العديد من القطع منها العنكبوت وهى قطعة كانت تمثل مدار الشمس في دائرة البروج وتجد أيضا بها النجوم وكذلك الصفيحة وهى القطعة التي كانت توضع عليها دوائر الارتفاع والسموت ومواقيت الصلاة والمنازل الاثنى عشر وغيرها الكثير وهناك قطعة كانت تسمى الام حيث كانت تحتوى جميع القطع والعضادة والفرس. تقسم الدائرة لدرجات لتعيين زوايا ارتفاع النجم أو الشمس لتحديد موقعه.
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An astrolabe (Greek: ἀστρολάβος astrolabos, "star-taker")[1] is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. Its many uses include locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, determining local time given local latitude and vice versa, surveying, and triangulation. It was used in classical antiquity, the Islamic Golden Age, the European Middle Ages and Renaissance for all these purposes. In the Islamic world, it was also used to calculate the Qibla and to find the times for Salat prayers.
There is often confusion between the astrolabe and the mariner's astrolabe. While the astrolabe could be useful for determining latitude on land, it was an awkward instrument for use on the heaving deck of a ship or in wind. The mariner's astrolabe was developed to solve these problems.
OED gives the translation "star-taker" for the English word "astrolabe" and traces it, through medieval Latin, to the Greek word astrolabos] from astron "star" and lambanein "to take".In the medieval Islamic world the word "asturlab" (i.e. astrolabe) was given various etymologies. In Arabic texts, the word is translated as "akhdh al-kawakib" (lit. "taking the stars") which corresponds to an interpretation of the Greek word.Al-Biruni quotes and criticizes the medieval scientist Hamzah al-Isfahani who had stated: "asturlab is an arabization of this Persian phrase" (sitara yab, meaning "taker of the stars").In medieval Islamic sources, there is also a "fictional" and popular etymology of the words as "lines of lab". In this popular etymology, "Lab" is a certain son of Idris (=Enoch). This etymology is mentioned by a 10th-century scientist named al-Qummi but rejected by al-Khwarizmi.[6] "Lab" in Arabic also means "sun" and "black stony places"
An early astrolabe was invented in the Hellenistic world by Apollonius of Perga, around 220 BCE or in 150 BC and is often attributed to Hipparchus. A marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, the astrolabe was effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in spherical astronomy. Theon of Alexandria wrote a detailed treatise on the astrolabe, and Lewis[7] argues that Ptolemy used an astrolabe to make the astronomical observations recorded in the Tetrabiblos.[a] It is generally accepted that Greek astrologers, in either the first or second centuries BC, invented the astrolabe, an instrument that measures the altitude of stars and planets above the horizon. Some historians attribute its invention to Hypatia, the daughter of the mathematician Theon Alexandricus (c. 335 – c. 405), and others note that Synesius, a student of Hypatia, credits her for the invention in his letters.
Astrolabes continued in use in the Greek-speaking world throughout the Byzantine period. About 550 AD the Christian philosopher John Philoponus wrote a treatise on the astrolabe in Greek, which is the earliest extant Greek treatise on the instrument.[b] In addition, Severus Sebokht, a bishop who lived in Mesopotamia, also wrote a treatise on the astrolabe in Syriac in the mid-7th century.[c] Severus Sebokht refers in the introduction of his treatise to the astrolabe as being made of brass, indicating that metal astrolabes were known in the Christian East well before they were developed in the Islamic world or the Latin West.
Medieval era.A treatise explaining the importance of the astrolabe by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist.
Exploded view of an astrolabe diagram of an astrolabe's tympan. Animation showing how celestial and geographic coordinates are mapped on an astrolabe's tympan through a stereographic projection. Hypothetical tympan (40 degrees North Latitude) of a 16th-century Europenan planispheric astrolabe. Astrolabes were further developed in the medieval Islamic world, where Muslim astronomers introduced angular scales to the astrolabe, adding circles indicating azimuths on the horizon.It was widely used throughout the Muslim world, chiefly as an aid to navigation and as a way of finding the Qibla, the direction of Mecca. The first person credited with building the astrolabe in the Islamic world is reportedly the 8th-century mathematician Muhammad al-Fazari.The mathematical background was established by the Muslim astronomer Albatenius in his treatise Kitab az-Zij (ca. 920 AD), which was translated into Latin by Plato Tiburtinus (De Motu Stellarum). The earliest surviving dated astrolabe is dated AH 315 (927/8 AD). In the Islamic world, astrolabes were used to find the times of sunrise and the rising of fixed stars, to help schedule morning prayers (salat). In the 10th century, al-Sufi first described over 1,000 different uses of an astrolabe, in areas as diverse as astronomy, astrology, navigation, surveying, timekeeping, prayer, Salat, Qibla, etc. Astrolabium Masha'Allah Public Library Bruges (nl) Ms. 522
The spherical astrolabe, a variation of both the astrolabe and the armillary sphere, was invented during the Middle Ages by astronomers and inventors in the Islamic world.[d] The earliest description of the spherical astrolabe dates back to Al-Nayrizi (fl. 892–902). In the 12th century, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī invented the linear astrolabe, sometimes called the "staff of al-Tusi," which was "a simple wooden rod with graduated markings but without sights. It was furnished with a plumb line and a double chord for making angular measurements and bore a perforated pointer."The first geared mechanical astrolabe was later invented by Abi Bakr of Isfahan in 1235.
Peter of Maricourt, in the last half of the 13th century, also wrote a treatise on the construction and use of a universal astrolabe (Nova compositio astrolabii particularis). Universal astrolabes can be found at the History of Science Museum in Oxford.The English author Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343–1400) compiled a treatise on the astrolabe for his son, mainly based on Messahalla. The same source was translated by the French astronomer and astrologer Pélerin de Prusse and others. The first printed book on the astrolabe was Composition and Use of Astrolabe by Christian of Prachatice, also using Messahalla, but relatively original.
In 1370, the first Indian treatise on the astrolabe was written by the Jain astronomer Mahendra Suri.The first known metal astrolabe in Western Europe is the Destombes astrolabe made from brass in tenth-century Spain.[20][21] Metal astrolabes avoided the warping that large wooden astrolabes were prone to, allowing the construction of larger and therefore more accurate instruments; however, metal astrolabes were also heavier than wooden instruments of the same size, making it difficult to use them as navigational instruments.[22] The astrolabe was almost certainly first brought north of the Pyrenees by Gerbert of Aurillac (future Pope Sylvester II), where it was integrated into the quadrivium at the school in Reims, France, sometime before the turn of the 11th century.[23] In the 15th century, the French instrument-maker Jean Fusoris (fr) (ca. 1365–1436) also started remaking and selling astrolabes in his shop in Paris, along with portable sundials and other popular scientific gadgets of the day. Thirteen of his astrolabes survive to this day. Finally, one more special example of craftsmanship in the early 15th-century Europe is the astrolabe dated 1420, designed by Antonius de Pacento and made by Dominicus de Lanzano. In the 16th century, Johannes Stöffler published Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii, a manual of the construction and use of the astrolabe. Four identical 16th-century astrolabes made by Georg Hartmann provide some of the earliest evidence for batch production by division of labor. Astrolabes and clocks
At first mechanical astronomical clocks were influenced by the astrolabe; in many ways they could be seen as clockwork astrolabes designed to produce a continual display of the current position of the sun, stars, and planets. For example, Richard of Wallingford's clock (c. 1330) consisted essentially of a star map rotating behind a fixed rete, similar to that of an astrolabe.Many astronomical clocks, such as the famous clock at Prague, use an astrolabe-style display, adopting a stereographic projection (see below) of the ecliptic plane.
In recent times, astrolabe watches have become a feature of haute horologie. For example, in 1985 Swiss watchmaker Dr. Ludwig Oechslin designed and built an astrolabe wristwatch in conjunction with Ulysse Nardin. Dutch watchmaker Christaan van der Klauuw also manufactures astrolabe watches today.
Computer-generated planispheric astrolabe
An astrolabe consists of a disk, called the mater (mother), which is deep enough to hold one or more flat plates called tympans, or climates. A tympan is made for a specific latitude and is engraved with a stereographic projection of circles denoting azimuth and altitude and representing the portion of the celestial sphere above the local horizon. The rim of the mater is typically graduated into hours of time, degrees of arc, or both. Above the mater and tympan, the rete, a framework bearing a projection of the ecliptic plane and several pointers indicating the positions of the brightest stars, is free to rotate. These pointers are often just simple points, but depending on the skill of the craftsman can be very elaborate and artistic. There are examples of astrolabes with artistic pointers in the shape of balls, stars, snakes, hands, dogs' heads, and leaves, among others.Some astrolabes have a narrow rule or label which rotates over the rete, and may be marked with a scale of declinations.
The rete, representing the sky, functions as a star chart. When it is rotated, the stars and the ecliptic move over the projection of the coordinates on the tympan. One complete rotation corresponds to the passage of a day. The astrolabe is therefore a predecessor of the modern planisphere.
On the back of the mater there is often engraved a number of scales that are useful in the astrolabe's various applications; these vary from designer to designer, but might include curves for time conversions, a calendar for converting the day of the month to the sun's position on the ecliptic, trigonometric scales, and a graduation of 360 degrees around the back edge. The alidade is attached to the back face. An alidade can be seen in the lower right illustration of the Persian astrolabe above. When the astrolabe is held vertically, the alidade can be rotated and the sun or a star sighted along its length, so that its altitude in degrees can be read ("taken") from the graduated edge of the astrolabe; hence the word's Greek roots: "astron" (ἄστρον) = star + "lab-" (λαβ-) = to take.
Shot on Leica M6 / Summilux 35mm / Portra 400 just after a rain shower in Spring 2024. Home developed.
Close to home.
A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity. Thanks Wikipedia, I needed to know.
This one has the advantage of being perched on an Iron Age Hill Fort with a lone tree nearby. The hill fort and historic interest is one of many factors that prevented a housing development on this site a few years ago. Just hope it stays that way as this is the view immediately behind my house.