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A men's suit jacket, when combined with some scraps of leather, an old belt, and some lining fabric, makes for a fantastic new bag!
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Photos taken on an evening visit to Philae for son et lumiere (we returned the following morning for a longer visit in daylight!).
The temple of the goddess Isis at Philae is one of the most beautiful in Egypt, not as large as some but structurally largely complete, which is fitting for the temple believed to be the last to operate under the ancient Egyptian religion, having only formally closed for pagan worship in the 6th century AD.
It was also the first of Egypt's great temples I ever saw in person and left me spellbound, and thus it was fitting that this should again be the first we visited on this trip.
The temple sits in a uniquely picturesque setting on a small island in the Nile south of Aswan and thus has only ever been approached boat. The complex consists of the main temple building dedicated to Isis (wife of Osiris and mother of Horus) whose inner sanctum is entered via a forecourt with towering pylons guarding the inner and outer entrances. All this is approached from the Nile through an open court flanked by lengthy colonnades making an unforgettable first impression.
There are several subsidary buildings of note around the site, the most imposing of which is undoubtedly the large rectangular colonnaded structure known as 'Trajan's Kiosk', which features some beautifully carved capitals.
The temple is relatively new by Egyptian standards, begun under one of the last of the native pharoahs, Nectanebo I (c380-62 BC) but mostly dating to the Ptolemaic period (as do many of the better preserved temples in the south of the country).
The temple's long use and later conversion to a church along with its remote location helped preserve it more or less completely over the centuries, but in the 20th century it faced its biggest threat, the construction of the Aswan dams which are located either side and caused Philae island to flood. The first dam (built 1902) caused the temple to be inundated for much of the year (thus washing away all the remaining paintwork from the interior; 19th century watercolours record what a loss the coloured details were). The bigger threat came in the 1960s when the Aswan High Dam was built to the south, causing the water levels to rise enough to completely submerge most of the temple. For some years all that could be seen of Philae were the four main towers and the columns of Trajan's Kiosk emerging from the waters.
Fortunately salvation came in the 1970s following the campaign to rescue and relocate the Nubian temples further south also threatened by the rising waters. Following the construction of a coffer-dam around the temple the entire temple complex was dismantled and rebuilt on higher ground on the adjoining island of Agilkia where it can be enjoyed in its full splendour today.
For more on this wonderful site see below:-
Got picked up at 6am by P’Lhong with P’Kit in tow. Heading to the airport and flying to Chiang Mai. Security was hilarious… I mean what security. Also, saw the queue for flights to India. There were a lot of flat screen tvs. Apparently it’s a thing. Something to do with the tax.
60 minute flight, and decent meal. Chocolate croissant, muffin, yogurt, coffee that didn’t suck too much. Tried to nap. We got picked up at the airport by our car rental company and they drove us into town.
While the boss peoples were finalizing the car rental I looked at tour packages for Chiang Mai. Kit and Lhong fly back to Bangkok tonight, but I am staying for the whole weekend to bum around.
Drove off to a few glass manufactures and played the “American Business Man” … fun times.
TMI bit coming up, feel free to not read…….. . . . So, I had to poop. We were at one of the glass manufactures, which is basically the owners home. I politely went to the rest room and low and behold, no TP. Of course I’ve run into this sitch in Thailand before, but I either held it or had some stashed on my person. This time was different. So, as much as I’d been meaning to try ‘it’, I hadn’t.
I am speaking of course of the “Bum Gun.” It’s a kind of hand held faucet trigger that is attached to the toilet. Sort of a hand held bidet. It was… refreshing… and wet.
Well. Check that off the to-do list.
Okay, where was I? After the meetings I got dropped off at my hotel and promptly headed to the Chiang Mai night market for shopping and food. Lovely, and cheaper than Bangkok.
Saw some lovely prostitutes on the walk back to my hotel. Got a banana roti. That’s not a euphemism. Fried dough wrapped around egg and banana, covered in chocolate sauce and sweetened condensed milk. YUMMY.
Met some nice Canadian backpackers. Had conversations. Walked the long way around the block back to my hotel. Was thinking of going back out to hit the bar and more people, but when I got to my hotel I sort of crashed. A little BBC World and I was out
When I planned my little backyard garden for our shore house, I'm glad I decided to plant the crepe myrtle in the corner. It's grown nicely through the years, and looks so pretty when it's blooming.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was printed in Great Britain.
The card was posted in Bridgwater, Somerset on Thursday the 12th. June 1969 to:
Mr. & Mrs. Calder,
26, St. Nicholas Road,
Plumstead,
London S.E.18.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Charles & All,
Having a real (knees)
Bender.
Lovely weather".
Talcum Powder
Talc is a clay mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate.
Suspicions have been raised that talc use contributes to certain types of disease, mainly cancers of the ovaries and lungs.
One particular issue is talc's frequent co-location in underground deposits with white asbestos ore. This can result in contamination of mined talc with white asbestos, which poses serious health risks when dispersed into the air and inhaled.
Stringent quality control since 1976 has largely eliminated this issue, but it remains a potential hazard requiring mitigation in the mining and processing of talc. A 2010 US FDA survey failed to find asbestos in a variety of talc-containing products.
A 2018 Reuters investigation asserted that pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that there was asbestos in its baby powder, and in 2020 the company stopped selling its baby powder in the US and Canada.
Litigation Relating to Talcum Powder
In 2006 the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified talcum powder as a possible human carcinogen if used in the female genital area. Yet no federal agency in the US acted to remove talcum powder from the market or add warnings.
In February 2016, as the result of a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J), a St. Louis jury awarded $72 million to the family of an Alabama woman who died from ovarian cancer. The family claimed that the use of talcum powder was responsible for her cancer.
In May 2016, a South Dakota woman was awarded $55 million as the result of another lawsuit against J&J. The woman had used Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder for more than 35 years before being diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2011.
In October 2016, a St. Louis jury awarded $70 million to a Californian woman with ovarian cancer who had used Johnson's Baby Powder for 45 years.
In August 2017, a Los Angeles jury awarded $417 million to a Californian woman, Eva Echeverria, who developed ovarian cancer. Her lawsuit against J&J stated that she had contracted cancer:
"As a proximate result of the
unreasonably dangerous and
defective nature of talcum powder".
However on the 20th. October 2017, Los Angeles Superior Court judge Maren Nelson dismissed the verdict. The judge stated that Echeverria proved that:
"There is an ongoing debate in the
scientific and medical community
about whether talc more probably
than not causes ovarian cancer and
thus gives rise to a duty to warn".
However Judge Nelson concluded that this was not enough to sustain the jury's imposition of liability against Johnson & Johnson, and concluded that Echeverria did not adequately establish that talc causes ovarian cancer.
In July 2018, a court in St. Louis awarded a $4.7bn claim ($4.14bn in punitive damages and $550m in compensatory damages) against J&J to 22 claimant women, concluding that the company had suppressed evidence of asbestos in its products for more than four decades.
At least 1,200 other talcum powder-related lawsuits are currently (2020) pending.
'True Grit'
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 12th. June 1969, the film 'True Grit' premiered in Little Rock, Arkansas, and opened at the Chinese theatre in Los Angeles on the 13th. June 1969, where it grossed $38,000 in its first week.
'True Grit' is an American Western film starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, Glen Campbell as La Boeuf and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross.
The cast also features Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Corey and Strother Martin.
'True Grit' is 128 minutes long.
It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis' 1968 novel of the same name. Wayne won his only Oscar for his performance in the film and reprised his role for the 1975 sequel Rooster Cogburn. Upon accepting his Oscar, Wayne said:
"Wow! If I'd known that, I'd have
put that eye-patch on 35 years
earlier!"
The title song, sung by Campbell, was also Oscar-nominated.
It is believed that Cogburn was based on Deputy U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas, who brought in some of the toughest outlaws.
'True Grit' was adapted again in 2010, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, and Josh Brolin.
The Beatles
Also on that day, the Number One chart hit in the UK was 'The Ballad of John & Yoko' by The Beatles.
"When it rains" … by Something New Props & Poses
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this is another oldie but i love it! new stuff coming next month, i promise.
still lacking creativity, i havent done a real photoshoot in wayyyy to long so im about to burst.
Catherine Hill Bay Loader, a few years old now. but one of my favorite shots taken here, as this was the first roll taken on my Mamiya RZ pro 11.
Just got back from picking it up in Sydney, and of course the loader would be the first place I thought of, mainly because I spent many happy years fishing here and the surrounding headlands....It always looked good here, no matter the time of day or weather conditions.
I can't remember the process info, I had no filters at that time, so I would have burnt in the sky for sure. and the lens would have been 50mm...the only film used was Velvia iso 50 slide.
The thing that bugged was I had to crop out some sky and foreground...but it still has that bush up front.
14c Stained glass window - Adam working hard with a spade - with birds in the border - When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? - Church of St.Michael the Archangel, Halam, Nottinghamshire
When I first come to this country in Eighteen and Forty-nine
I saw many fair lovers but I never saw mine
I viewed it all around me, saw I was quite alone
And me a poor stranger and a long way from home
Well, my true love she won't have me and it's this I understand
For she wants some free holder and I have no land
I couldn't maintain her on silver and gold
But all of the other fine things that my love's house could hold
Fare thee well to ol' mother, fare thee well to my father too
I'm going for to ramble this wide world all through
And when I get weary, I'll sit down and cry
And think of my Saro, pretty Saro, my bride
Well, I wished I was a turtle dove
Had wings and could fly
Far away to my lover's lodgings
Tonight I'd draw nigh
And there in her lilywhite arms I'd lay there all night
And watch through them little wind'ers
For the dawning of day
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TRP: songs in diptych
TOTW: nostalgia
(and darn--forgot to check my ISO *again*! I need to paint that button red or something)
When the Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Shri Mohanbhai Kundariya, visited the Dudhmansagar Dairy at Manesar, on 3/2/2016
Normally I wouldn't put up 2 deer posts in one day, but I took this after I had already posted my 1st pics of the day and just HAD to share this one!
I couldn't believe my eyes when I was standing at my back door drinking my coffee this morning and saw this doe in Sweet Pea and Sassafras's yard! I NEVER see deer in that yard.....I'm assuming because of the dogs....but there she was!
I grabbed my camera and went out the front door, so that I could circle around her and get a better angle. It was then that I realized that that a huge branch off of an old apple tree had broken off and fallen into the neighbors yard and that's what prompted the deer's bold action.
When I opened the gate to step inside the fenced in area she spooked and went sailing over. I knew she was going to go, and was ready for the shot!
Have been thinking of posting something from this perspective for some time.
Occasionally I will shoot a few frames from here, looking for the most interesting angles. Sky was clear on this day, would like to shoot when I have some clouds to work with (I don't do composites), so posting here 'as is', cloudless in mono.
Officers of the Tactical Mounted Branch take to the streets.
Officers from Greater Manchester Police’s Rochdale Division were joined by colleagues from the Force’s Specialist Operations Branch in a joint Vortex operation to crackdown on crime in Rochdale last weekend.
Raids were carried out on addresses in a bid to target offenders suspected of being involved in drug dealing, burglary, violent crime and antisocial behaviour.
Police launched the crackdown in anticipation of a possible increase in criminals operating under cover of darkness as the dark nights draw in.
The operation involved more than 100 officers, Police Community Support Officers and staff responsible for licensing.
The crackdown on 29 October 2010 resulted in a 44 per cent reduction of all crime compared to the same date last year and a 20 per cent drop in antisocial behaviour.
Suspected criminals were arrested for a range of offences, including possession of drugs, affray and drink driving. The day also saw 27 stop searches made as well as 24 stop and accounts and two vehicles were seized for no insurance.
Police adopted a zero tolerance approach to people drinking in a public place, which is banned under local bye-laws. Visits were also made to the town’s licensed premises to ensure they complied with the conditions of their license.
Officers from the Rochdale North and Rochdale South Neighbourhood Policing Teams patrolled the areas of Spotland and Falinge, Milkstone and Deeplish and central Rochdale as well as making home visits were made to known offenders to ensure that they were complying with court and bail conditions.
Chief Inspector Michelle Hughes of the Rochdale Division, said: “Through this operation we have targeted the issues that concern residents the most which are drug dealing, alcohol-fuelled antisocial behaviour, burglary, car crime and theft.
“As part of our service promise we have shown offenders that crime will not be tolerated in our town and reassured the people of Rochdale that we have taken their concerns seriously and have targeted the people causing misery in their community.
“This sort of operation, as well as the day-to-day neighbourhood policing, is all geared to making our communities safer, more pleasant place to live, work and grow up in.
“Can I also remind everyone about simple crime prevention measures that can be made ahead of Bonfire Night. With the clocks going back it can lead to an increase in burglaries as thieves use the cover of darkness to target empty homes when people go out for the evening.
“Leaving a light on, using timer switches, setting your burglar alarm and shutting and locking all doors and windows could save you coming home to a nasty shock.”
If you have information on anyone who may be committing crime in your area, please call police on 0161 872 5050 or for more information visit gmp.police.uk.
People with any concerns can contact your Neighbourhood Policing Team directly about any issues related to crime or antisocial behaviour on:
Rochdale North Neighbourhood Policing Team covering Norden, Healey, Bamford, Central, Town Centre, Spotland and Falinge on 0161 856 9961 / rochdalenorthpartnership@gmp.police.uk
Rochdale South Neighbourhood Policing Team covering Kingsway, Castleton, Milkstone and Deeplish, Balderstone and Kirkholt on 0161 856 8549 / rochdalesouthpartnship@gmp.police.uk
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
For information about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
this seems like a good place and time to apologize to anyone who is miffed that i have abandoned my inktober series. Sorry. It turns out that i only have (and barely at that) enough margin in my life for one art series at a time. Which reminds me, where are the Clunkers drawings?
Beijing states that they will have 1 bathroom for every 10 people in Beijing
by the time of the Olympics. I wonder if this includes all the foriegners
that will descend upon the city or just the current amount of people living
there. I also wonder how they calculate this number seeing as they are
still waiting on private investment: msnbc.msn.com/id/6511059/
Anyway, this was one experience on our recent Beijing trip:
Just for fun, imagine what you get when you have a tour guide on your trip
to the Great Wall who tells you Beijing is dryer then other cities and that
you must drink more water all day. Then throw-in the fact that it is too
cold to pull your pants down, let alone use one of the infamous outdoor
toilets. Now for a dash of irony, add Rebecca on 50+ minute bus ride
returning to the city being taunted by the "Public Toilet This Way" sign at
every intersection and with no where to get off the bus.
Relax Rebecca. Think of a gentle stream...no wait... a waterfall... no a
warm bath..... AHHHHHGGHGHG! Don't hit me!
(Man, Now I have to go pee.)
a photo taken while walking through
the caves in Hocking HIlls, OH.
photo by Diane M Kramer
(WE HOPE TO BRING GRANDMA home today)!
I will be catching up soon....
This is an interesting place. I do like a petrol station with independent branding and this has only been one for a short while having previously been branded Gulf. Back in 2008 in the earliest Streetview shot it was a derelict former British Benzol site with pole sign still standing and the carcass of a car almost unrecognisable on the forecourt. It looks very much like there was a fire here and indeed there was just three months before that initial Streetview shot was taken.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8647289.stm
Soon after the rebuilding took place and in time it was nicely resurrected as a Gulf site. That Gulf contract clearly didn't last too long as for the last few years it has been an independent and apparently the cheapest fuel in the area and highly regarded by its customers. The tanker making delivery at the time I passed by is also interesting, XPO Logistics are an American company with business in eighteen different countries including clearly the UK. They have a very cool website
Here's the Streetview showing the burnt out site when branded British Benzol
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6341772,-1.2790393,3a,80.4y,253...
When it comes to quality and fitting of the suits, Italian suits are considered as one of the most stylish and fashionable suits among different types of suits. Another thing is that there is huge variety available in various types of designs and cuts in mens Italian suits.
I admit I disliked fuji when it started. From the X100 to the XPro1, the camera system, despite its completely seducing color science output, was completely out of sync with my practice in terms of autofocus speed and file. Now the X system has matured into something that I find very hard to match for mirrorless camera photography.
The XT1 comes to solve pretty much all the problems I had with the system: AF and Camera Operations (once u get used to the nobs, hard to go back to menus) are reliable and quick, Lightroom 5.7 renders the file beautifully (with Classic Chrome) and the viewfinder is bigger than that of a full frame dSLR. Not only the camera is now a great camera, the lens system is superb in its consistency: the 14, 23 and 56 are great highly recommended lenses and perform equally marvellously in sharpness, colors and BOKEH while also looking darn good with the Fuji design language. Image quality wise, you get clean files at most of the modern ISOs 200-6400 (you can push the 6400 raw up to 12800 if u want without much penalty or color shifts).
The running cost of ownership is also even more interesting. The body goes for around 1K$ and the rest of the "super prime lenses" (you'd want to shoot prime with this one) go for 1k$ or less each. You can get yourself up and running for less than a full frame camera with equivalent quality lenses.The XT1 ain't still sunshine and rainbow though: It requires the extra grip to enjoy shooting with it, it is not light, the battery lasts as much as a film roll, you can't use exposure compensation on "manual" mode to shift the auto-ISO values, the RAW files are HUGE 30-40mb a piece, low-light AF works fast as long as you have a contrast zone to hunt for but then you also have a magnificent manual focus experience. Classic Chrome (also available in LR 5.7) redefines the fuji photography experience by offering a raw file free of color distorsions and true of natural colors as well as a butt load of great micro-contrast off the file.
All in all, I have to say that I fell in love with it. It is truly the best enthusiast mirrorless system I've come across and it's now well matured.
If you use a full frame dSLR: switching to fuji will depend if you want the premium lenses or the full frame IQ but can't afford the steep 2K$ per lens or 2-4K$ per body, also if you want to sacrifice the extensive "flash system" that dSLRs have.
If you are using a crop sensor dSLR: switching to fuji will depend if you want to keep investing in photography lenses and equipment and don't have to shoot unpredictable fast moving subjects, like birdies.
If you use a Sony: switching to fuji will depend if you are fed up with the teenage identity crisis unpredictability of the system's evolution (new tech = new "test" camera = no "conclusion" camera = less lenses for existing cameras = change the name). The A7 system will flourish to lead the mirrorless trend one day but before that day comes, you have at least until 2016.
If you use a m43 camera: switching to fuji will depend if are willing to drop a bunch of practical technical features: super fast AF (fuji is DARN FAST but m43 cameras are INSTANT FAST), video (I don't shoot video) or image stabilisation or clinical sharpness (fuji images are sharp! but not as pixel sharp as m43... I mean no camera is as pixel sharp as the m43 an) or the touchscreen af point selection... all this for an upgrade in image aesthetics that's a compromise of m43 compactness (somewhat) and passionated lens designs (m43's got good lenses but no "omg wow what the heck" lenses, sorry)
If you shoot film: This is IT. Film nobs, Film look, Film grain, Film output… on digital. This is fujifilm making a camera with the color science they apply on their negatives, all of it.
Probably years ago. I never buy Brawny but was forced to 'cause they didn't have my Bounty split sheet dealies and I am on my last sheets and can't do prints 'cause they stain my counter and that's like 98% of every other paper towel out there. Boo. :(
www.justwalkedby.com/2015/05/14/when-sun-rises-in-the-wro...
Another one from my endless attempts to catch an awesome sunrise at Stevns Klint. This morning the sunrise was OK, but it was just in the "wrong" spot, And there where to many clouds in the horizon, for it to light up the cliffs like I wanted.
When I visited Hong Kong back in 2010 there was no Enterbay showroom so I was very excited to be there this time! Like the Secret Base it was okay to take photos too. It is located in a busy market area with lots of hobby shops and other types of shops such as groceries and what not. I like the way Enterbay produce new figures. Slower and fewer compare to the Hot Toys but each time unique subjects and the showroom was marvelous although a bit smaller than I thought.
ifc shanghai shopping mall opened on April 2010. and renowned American architects Pelli, Clarke, Pelli and the interior was done by noted Benoy Architects.
However, there few of customers inside the mall since there only have luxury brands inside there and lack of promotion.
Photograph is forbidden in this new shopping mall and there have too many CCTV & security guards around there, like the casino. It is very difficult for me to take photos in there. When I took this photo, the security guard comes immediately and said that NO PHOTO in this NEW shopping mall.
Thanks to Nancy for driving us to Hillsboro on Saturday where we finally met our zebra. Our friend, Doris (dailyville), got some sage advice from a fellow photographer years ago, and passed it on to us. Always have your camera handy, because you never know when you might see a zebra. Guess that's what happened to her friend, or it might be phrased with something totally different. Here's to Doris--we finally met our zebras!
Taken in Avebury, an Optare Solo of now defunct Wiltshire Buses meets Stagecoach e400 15650 VX10FRN working the 49 from Swindon to Trowbridge for which it carried prominent branding.
A big tourist attraction for Japanese tourists
We all got there about a month before the crowds.
They must got a kick out of the two gai-jin and the snowman on the bridge.
Hirosaki_Castle on wikipedia
Hirosaki Castle (弘前城, Hirosaki-jō) is a 17th century Japanese castle located in Hirosaki city, Aomori prefecture, Japan. It was constructed in 1611 by the local Tsugaru clan. A three-storied castle tower, fortified moats, castle gates and some corner turrets (yagura) survive or have been reconstructed.
The surrounding Hirosaki Park is one of Japan's most famous cherry blossom spots. Over a million people enjoy the park's 2600 trees during the sakura matsuri (cherry blossom festival) when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, usually during the Japanese Golden Week holidays in the end of April and beginning of May.
will my hair be long enough?
Does this braid make me look fat?
Oh, dear. Here he comes with another load of straw.
From an unknown movie
When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?
oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oooo
You'll be older too, (ah ah ah ah ah)
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.
Viva los Beatles.
I have an amazing set of four Momo "Ronel" alloy rims that were on my Alfa Romeo Spider when I bought it in 1986. Soon thereafter I replaced the mags with the standard steel rims and no longer needed these. Since then, these rims have been safely stored, wrapped in plastic in a dry cellar in Pretoria.
They have never been resprayed and are almost as fresh as when they left the factory in Italy in the early-80's. This is an opportunity to get your hands on a set of rare, period rims that have not been molested. Sure, they have some light wear from everyday use, but have never been seriously curbed, and the coating is almost immaculate. As you will see from the images, they are visually impressive, and the only spanner-rash is in the wheel-nut sockets. I doubt whether you're going to find a set of +30 year alloy rims in better condition.
I have advertised these alloy rims on Gumtree in South Africa - please see the advert here: bit.ly/2aSDWGh
Additional Information:
* Codes in the metal on the wheels read 6Jx14H2 and ET38
* Written on the inside of one of the wheels is the text: CA 1460-108G
* Stickers on the inside of three of the four wheels say: 108 Interasse Bolt Circle
* An additional sticker on the inside of a wheel reads: 108 Ford Interasse Bolt Circle
I am currently abroad and will only be back in South Africa in about October. Nevertheless, these wheels are accessible in my absence and will have to be collected from an address in Pretoria East. Grab yourself a bargain, and give your classic Alfa or Ford that real, period look they're crying out for!