XVI.—Mirage on the Queensferry Road

1919 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 166-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Ramage
Keyword(s):  
Sahara Desert ◽  
Clear Water ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
White Horse ◽  
The World ◽  
As If ◽  
North End

Most of us who have thought at all of mirage have thought of it as a phenomenon belonging essentially to distant parts of the world, such as the great Sahara Desert. Few of us would not be surprised to find it almost a daily spectacle on a familiar road so near our city.You may imagine my surprise when, in the early days of April of this year, while walking westward along the Queensferry Road, and when opposite the quarry at the north end of Corstorphine Hill near the point at which the Corstorphine Hill road joins the Queensferry Road, I saw on the surface of the road, at a distance of about one and a half the spacing of the telegraph poles (they are about 50 paces apart), what appeared to be pools of clear water reflecting the green grass and foliage very clearly, and further down the road other pools. As I watched, a white horse with a rider went along, and as it passed beyond the “pools” of the mirage water (the road being perfectly dry) it was reflected, with the effect that the horse appeared to be about twice its height, as if on stilts.

scholarly journals From a DC-3 to BOSB: The Road to a Breakthrough in Military Safety Measures Against the Risks of Historic, Explosive Ordnance

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 26-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar Möller
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
North Sea ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Real Danger

AbstractApproximately 175,000 mines were laid in the Baltic Sea during the world wars, and in former mined areas in general, 10‐30% of the mines remain sunken on the seabed. The search for a Swedish aircraft downed in 1952 led to the finding of previously unknown minefields in the Baltic Sea. Subsequent historic research has identified approximately 1,985 minefields in the Baltic Sea and 4,400 minefields in the North Sea. These historic minefields present an impediment to the use of the Baltic and North Seas and are a real danger to the increasing shipping, fishery, and exploration of the seabed. The Baltic Ordnance Safety Board (BOSB) was established in 2006 to assemble information on mines and other explosives in the Baltic Sea, to prioritize areas for mine clearance, and to coordinate multinational mine clearance efforts across the Baltic Sea. The BOSB has improved the efficiency of mine clearance and the safety of seafarers and all those who have the seabed as their working ground.

scholarly journals Ars Apodemica. Albert Meier og kunsten at rejse i renæssancen

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Cristina de Lima Agra Amorim Brander
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Petrus Ramus

Ars apodemica emerged in the 16th century as the result of an essential need for approaching and systematising knowledge acquired by means of travel. By developing methodologies of travel or ars apodemica, Renaissance scholars were implementing a reliable method to help travellers learn how to observe and gather valuable information about exotic worlds during their journey. Albert Meier (1528-1603), a minister living in the parish of Lindholm in the province of Schleswig, in the North of Germany, wrote in 1587 Methodvs describendi regiones, vrbes & arces…, a work that reflects the first steps on the road to the scientific discovery of the world, as well as the author’s ambition to organise travel and information. This article introduces the epistemological and pragmatic nature of the earliest methodologies of travel with specific focus on Meier’s work. Influenced by the French humanist and philosopher Petrus Ramus, Meier’s work reflects the growth of scientific method and consequently the emergent need for the systematisation of knowledge about exotic peoples and places. In other words, travel became secularised and consequently an instrument of learning. The main objective of this article is to direct attention to the fact that methodologies of travel challenged the traveller’s consciousness of the world as a locus of knowledge. Ideally speaking, the methodologies of travel or ars apodemica are the Art of Knowing – Man and the World.

scholarly journals Diary from Sri Lanka's east coast: departure

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 387-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Rose
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Fatal Attack ◽  
As If

The day I leave Ampara on Sri Lanka's east coast, a wild elephant kills a woman and severely injures two others on the road near my house. This is the second fatal attack in town this year and, as before, the animal is rounded up and bundled back to the jungle in a truck. The incident seems to encapsulate something important about the nature of Sri Lanka: dark forces coiled beneath an appearance of calm. In the past month, for example, three security guards have been gunned down at hospitals in Ampara, Batticaloa and Sammanthurai. Yet the world of crisp nursing bonnets and clinical order remains intact throughout. No one knows who the killers were or how they chose their victims, but in this smoke and mirror conflict, rumours are fuelled of a final push by one side or the other. Then nothing happens, just more of the same, daily isolated encounters, as if it were in no one's interest to go for all-out war. Meanwhile the world's attention moves on to Lebanon.

Visions of Constantine

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 287-305
Author(s):  
Richard Flower
Keyword(s):  
Turning Points ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
The World

Early one bright afternoon, seventeen centuries ago, Constantine stood staring at the sun. According to his self-appointed biographer Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, who claimed to have heard the story from Constantine himself, the emperor was on campaign, when, ‘around midday, as the day was declining’ he saw a shining cross of light over the sun, with the attached text ‘By this conquer’. The understandably startled ruler slept on the matter, whereupon Christ appeared in a dream and instructed him to fashion himself a copy of the holy sign, which would protect him against his enemies. He did as he had been told, took Christian clerics as his advisers and, not long afterwards, set off for Italy to fight his rival, Maxentius. The rhetorician Lactantius, writing about twenty years before Eusebius, presented a different tale in hisDe mortibus persecutorum: Constantine, on the eve of his decisive battle against Maxentius ina.d. 312, at the Milvian Bridge to the north of Rome, was instructed in a dream to ‘mark the heavenly sign of God’ on his shields. Constantine's moment of epiphany, sometimes equated with his ‘conversion’, has traditionally been seen both as one of history's great turning-points and as one of its most enduring enigmas. The interpretation of Constantine's vision(s) is further complicated by an anecdote that appears in an anonymous panegyric of the emperor, delivered ina.d. 310. Having turned off from the road to visit ‘the most beautiful temple in the world’, Constantine was greeted by a remarkable sight: ‘For you saw, I believe, Constantine, your Apollo, accompanied by Victory, offering you laurel crowns, which each brought an omen of thirty years [of life or rule]’.

IV.—Note on Mr Quilter's Photographs of Mirage

1921 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
As If

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (vol. xxxviii, pp. 166–168), Mr Alexander G. Ramage described cases of mirage as seen on the Queensferry Road, near Edinburgh. Similar appearances have been since then observed and reported from different parts of the country, and the photographs of these by Mr G. F. Quilter, Ingatestone, are of some interest. Prints of five photographs taken by Mr Quilter were shown at the meeting of the Society held on 3rd November 1919; four were taken at one place about 100 yards’ distance from where the dry road appeared to be a pool. The camera looked along the road in a direction E.N.E., the road rising slightly towards the position where the mirage was seen. The best photographs, which were taken on 15th June 1919, at 1.30 p.m., showed certain posts on the north side of the road appearing distinctly reflected in the mirage pool. In the fifth photograph, taken at a different locality in August 1919, the shaded side of a telegraph post with neighbouring trees and a white-walled house beyond were distinctly seen as if reflected from a pool in the middle of the road. The main interest lies in the fact that the photographs bring out the phenomenon quite clearly.

The Art of Virtual Reality

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Heim
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
The Road ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Intensity ◽  
As If

The snow hits your windshield without mercy. The car’s headlights reveal nothing about the highway. You can only guess where the lanes are, where the shoulder begins, where the exit ramps might be. The blizzard has so iced the road that you crawl along at five miles an hour. Other travelers sit stranded in their cars off the road, lights dimming in the dark. Hours later, you flop exhausted on the bed. Tension tightens your shoulders and forehead. You close your eyes. On the back of your eyelids, everything appears again in startling detail: the swirling snowflakes, the headlights, the windshield wipers fighting the moisture — all in slow motion this very minute. . . . > Modern art objects had aesthetic appeal when the viewer could stand apart from them to appreciate their sensory richness, their expressive emotion, or their provocative attitude. Today, detached contemplation still holds antique charm, as the contemporary scene presents quite different circumstances. . . . Flashbacks, a kind of waking nightmare, often belong to your first experiences with virtual reality. Subtract the terror and sore muscles and you get an idea of how I felt after two and a half hours in the exhibit Dancing as the Virtual Dervish (Banff, Alberta). Even the next day, my optical nerves held the imprint of the brightly colored transhuman structures. I could summon them with the slightest effort—or see them sometimes in unexpected flashes of cyberspace. . . . > Art is coming to terms with interactivity, immersion, and information intensity. Aesthetics—the delighted play of the senses—cannot preserve its traditional detachment. The modern museum with its bright spaces and airy lighting is giving way to darkened rooms glowing with computer screens and hands-on buttons. . . . For hours, you feel a touch of perceptual nausea, a forewarning of the relativity sickness called AWS (Alternate World Syndrome) in my book The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. Everything seems brighter, even slightly illusory. Reality afterwards seems hidden underneath a thin film of appearance. Your perceptions seem to float over a darker, unknowable truth. The world vibrates with the finest of tensions, as if something big were imminent, as if you were about to break through the film of illusion.

XIX. A further account of some Druidical Remains in Derbyshire. By Hayman Rooke, Esq.

Archaeologia ◽  
1785 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 175-177
Author(s):  
Hayman Rooke
Keyword(s):  
High Peak ◽  
The West ◽  
Plate Xiii ◽  
West Side ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
East End ◽  
North End

On Hathersage Moor in the high Peak, not far from the road that goes from Sheffield to Manchester, is a British work, called Cair's work. See the plan Pl. XIII. fig. I. It is about two hundred yards in length, and sixty-one in width. It takes in an hill precipitous all round, except at the north end, where there is a wall of a very singular construction. It is near three feet thick, and consists of three rows of very large stones. On the top are other large stones, set obliquely end ways, a view of which is in the same plate fig. I. at b. The inside is filled up with earth and stones, which form the vallum, and slope inwards twenty-five feet. The height of the wall to the top of the sloping stones (as abovementioned) is nine feet four inches. The principal entrance seems to have been at the east end of the wall; a lesser one is on the west side; both marked (c) in the plan. The area of this work is full of rocks and large stones; several of these are rocking stones, three of which are engraved in Plate XIII. fig 2. (a) thirteen feet in length, (b) eight feet, (c) nine feet fix inches; and others have rock basons.

decreases very gradually between them. In the latitude of Ascension, and 1½ deg. To the Eastward thereof we had 10½ deg.; and about one degree to the E: ward of it, had 9 deg. 52 min. W & at Ascension had 9 deg. 40 min. W – This is a high barren, rocky island about 20 miles in circumference and may be seen 10 leagues in clear weather. It is so intirely barren, that there is not the least appearance of any kind of vegetation nor is there any fresh water on it: these are sufficient reasons for it being unhabited. Yet there are many goats on this island, of which our people shot several; they were very meagre, as might reasonably be expected: and it abounds in sea turtle, the largest and finest perhaps in the world. A ship bound to this island must sail down along the North side of it, and may keep it close aboard it being bold and steep to; and when you come to haul up for the road you must still keep the shoreclose aboard: you may sail within two cables length or less of it (there being no danger) till you bring Cross Hill in the middle of the sandy bay. This Bay is about a large quarter of a mile deep, and about ¾ of a mile wide. The Westernmost point of this bay is dangerous, a reef of rocks running out from it about a mile from the shore, on which, in bad weather, the sea breaks, therefore care must be taken not ot go too near it. The anchoring place is on the NW side of the island off the above-mentioned sandy bay, opposite which inland, there is a high hill by itself, with a flag staff a cross upon it which give it the name of Cross Hill. A good mark for anchoring is to bring Cross Hill on the middle of the sandy bay when it still bear SSE½E and the extreams of the island from NE½E to SW½S when you will be in 10 fathom water, and about ½ a mile of shore. The bottom is sand and gravel, clear ground. This is as good a birth as any in the road. The latitude, observed in Ascension road is 7 deg. 57 min: S. and Long: made from S: Helena, 7 deg. 41 mins W. according to M Maskeylyne’s table of the longitude of places determined by astronomical observations, the true difference of long: between these islands is 8 deg. 10 min: which shews that we have been

2016 ◽  
pp. 386-386
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Sea Turtle ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
The Road ◽  
The North ◽  
North Side ◽  
On This Island ◽  
The World ◽  
Bad Weather ◽  
Sand And Gravel

Experiment role in the world music (based on the «The Road» album of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha» band)

2018 ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Iia Fedorova
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
World Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
The Road ◽  
Music Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Musical Practices

The main objective of this study is the substantiation of experiment as one of the key features of the world music in Ukraine. Based on the creative works of the brightest world music representatives in Ukraine, «Dakha Brakha» band, the experiment is regarded as a kind of creative setting. Methodology and scientific approaches. The methodology was based on the music practice theory by T. Cherednychenko. The author distinguishes four binary oppositions, which can describe the musical practice. According to one of these oppositions («observance of the canon or violation of the canon»), the musical practices, to which the Ukrainian musicology usually classifies the world music («folk music» and «minstrel music»), are compared with the creative work of «Dakha Brakha» band. Study findings. A lack of the setting to experiment in the musical practices of the «folk music» and «minstrel music» separates the world music musical practice from them. Therefore, the world music is a separate type of musical practice in which the experiment is crucial. The study analyzed several scientific articles of Ukrainian musicologists on the world music; examined the history of the Ukrainian «Dakha Brakha» band; presented a list of the folk songs used in the fifth album «The Road» by «Dakha Brakha» band; and showed the degree of the source transformation by musicians based on the example of the «Monk» song. The study findings can be used to form a comprehensive understanding of the world music musical practice. The further studies may be related to clarification of the other parameters of the world music musical practice, and to determination of the experiment role in creative works of the other world music representatives, both Ukrainian and foreign. The practical study value is the ability to use its key provisions in the course of modern music in higher artistic schools of Ukraine. Originality / value. So far, the Ukrainian musicology did not consider the experiment role as the key one in the world music.

Eating NAFTA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyshia Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food System ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The North ◽  
The World

In the two decades since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, Mexico has seen an epidemic of diet-related illness. While globalization has been associated with an increase in chronic disease around the world, in Mexico, the speed and scope of the rise has been called a public health emergency. The shift in Mexican foodways is happening at a moment when the country’s ancestral cuisine is now more popular and appreciated around the world than ever. What does it mean for their health and well-being when many Mexicans eat fewer tortillas and more instant noodles, while global elites demand tacos made with handmade corn tortillas? This book examines the transformation of the Mexican food system since NAFTA and how it has made it harder for people to eat as they once did. The book contextualizes NAFTA within Mexico’s approach to economic development since the Revolution, noticing the role envisioned for rural and low-income people in the path to modernization. Examination of anti-poverty and public health policies in Mexico reveal how it has become easier for people to consume processed foods and beverages, even when to do so can be harmful to health. The book critiques Mexico’s strategy for addressing the public health crisis generated by rising rates of chronic disease for blaming the dietary habits of those whose lives have been upended by the economic and political shifts of NAFTA.

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