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NAME AN ANIME STARTING WITH THE LETTER C
I’ll start with #CellsAtWork
I rather enjoyed seeing the anime you listed for G and now I am looking forward to seeing which anime you will put forward for C in the comments.
Here is our 7th letter for the #AlphabeticalJourneythroughAnime
I shall see you in the comments 🌸#AlphabetAnime will be my main tag for this here and on other socials. I will also be compiling a list of anime as a blog post to tie in my social followers and my blog readers.
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NAME AN ANIME STARTING WITH THE LETTER C
I’ll start with #CellsAtWork
I rather enjoyed seeing the anime you listed for G and now I am looking forward to seeing which anime you will put forward for C in the comments.
Here is our 7th letter for the #AlphabeticalJourneythroughAnime
I shall see you in the comments 🌸#AlphabetAnime will be my main tag for this here and on other socials. I will also be compiling a list of anime as a blog post to tie in my social followers and my blog readers.
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C is for cat. Another great community choice for this round of animal alphabets!
#animalAlphabet #animalAlphabets #Caturday #kidlitart #MastoArt
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Sony FE 100–400 mm F4,5 GM OSS: superteleobiektyw, który przyspieszył trzykrotnie
Sony zaprezentowało nowy superteleobiektyw zmiennoogniskowy z flagowej serii G Master, przeznaczony do pełnoklatkowych aparatów Alpha.
Model FE 100–400 mm F4,5 GM OSS to konstrukcja stworzona z myślą o najbardziej wymagających fotografach sportu, przyrody i reporterach, oferująca parametry, które dotychczas były zarezerwowane dla konstrukcji stałoogniskowych.
Stałe światło i bezkompromisowa optyka
Największą nowością w tej klasie sprzętu jest utrzymanie stałej maksymalnej przysłony F4,5 w całym zakresie ogniskowych. Dzięki temu fotograf nie musi martwić się o zmianę ekspozycji podczas zoomowania.
Sony zastosowało nowo opracowaną soczewkę ED XA (Extra-low Dispersion eXtreme Aspherical), soczewkę XA, dwie soczewki Super ED oraz trzy soczewki ED. Taki zestaw praktycznie eliminuje aberracje chromatyczne i sferyczne, zapewniając ostrość aż po same brzegi kadru.
Dodatkowo 11-listkowa przysłona kołowa dba o miękki, naturalny efekt bokeh, z którego słynie seria G Master. Powłoka Nano AR II skutecznie redukuje odblaski i „duszki”, co jest kluczowe przy pracy pod światło.
Autofokus: trzy razy szybciej
Producent deklaruje, że nowy system AF działa nawet trzykrotnie szybciej niż w poprzedniej wersji (F4,5-5,6). Za napęd odpowiadają cztery zoptymalizowane silniki liniowe XD, które wspierają najnowsze algorytmy śledzenia obiektów (skuteczność poprawiona o 50%).
Obiektyw jest w pełni kompatybilny z trybem zdjęć seryjnych 120 kl./s w aparacie Alpha 9 III.
Konstrukcja: koniec z „pompowaniem”
Sony postawiło na profesjonalną, zwartą budowę, która ułatwia pracę w trudnych warunkach terenowych. Obiektyw zachowuje stałą długość podczas zmiany ogniskowej, co przekłada się na stabilne wyważenie. Mimo skomplikowanej optyki, masa urządzenia to około 1840 g. Korpus wykonano z wytrzymałego stopu magnezu i wyposażono w uszczelnienia chroniące przed pyłem i wilgocią.
Na tubusie znajdziemy cztery przyciski blokady ostrości oraz dedykowany pierścień funkcyjny.
Zasięg do 1200 mm
Obiektyw współpracuje z telekonwerterami 1,4x oraz 2x. W połączeniu z tym ostatnim i przy włączonym trybie APS-C, użytkownik otrzymuje ekwiwalent ogniskowej rzędu 1200 mm. Nowy Sony FE 100–400 mm F4,5 GM OSS trafi do sprzedaży pod koniec maja 2026 roku.
#fotografiaPrzyrodnicza #fotografiaSportowa #GMaster #iMagazine #obiektyw #sony #superteleobiektywSony rozszerza portfolio. Nowy monitor OLED i otwarte zestawy audio
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Sony FE 100–400 mm F4,5 GM OSS: superteleobiektyw, który przyspieszył trzykrotnie
Sony zaprezentowało nowy superteleobiektyw zmiennoogniskowy z flagowej serii G Master, przeznaczony do pełnoklatkowych aparatów Alpha.
Model FE 100–400 mm F4,5 GM OSS to konstrukcja stworzona z myślą o najbardziej wymagających fotografach sportu, przyrody i reporterach, oferująca parametry, które dotychczas były zarezerwowane dla konstrukcji stałoogniskowych.
Stałe światło i bezkompromisowa optyka
Największą nowością w tej klasie sprzętu jest utrzymanie stałej maksymalnej przysłony F4,5 w całym zakresie ogniskowych. Dzięki temu fotograf nie musi martwić się o zmianę ekspozycji podczas zoomowania.
Sony zastosowało nowo opracowaną soczewkę ED XA (Extra-low Dispersion eXtreme Aspherical), soczewkę XA, dwie soczewki Super ED oraz trzy soczewki ED. Taki zestaw praktycznie eliminuje aberracje chromatyczne i sferyczne, zapewniając ostrość aż po same brzegi kadru.
Dodatkowo 11-listkowa przysłona kołowa dba o miękki, naturalny efekt bokeh, z którego słynie seria G Master. Powłoka Nano AR II skutecznie redukuje odblaski i „duszki”, co jest kluczowe przy pracy pod światło.
Autofokus: trzy razy szybciej
Producent deklaruje, że nowy system AF działa nawet trzykrotnie szybciej niż w poprzedniej wersji (F4,5-5,6). Za napęd odpowiadają cztery zoptymalizowane silniki liniowe XD, które wspierają najnowsze algorytmy śledzenia obiektów (skuteczność poprawiona o 50%).
Obiektyw jest w pełni kompatybilny z trybem zdjęć seryjnych 120 kl./s w aparacie Alpha 9 III.
Konstrukcja: koniec z „pompowaniem”
Sony postawiło na profesjonalną, zwartą budowę, która ułatwia pracę w trudnych warunkach terenowych. Obiektyw zachowuje stałą długość podczas zmiany ogniskowej, co przekłada się na stabilne wyważenie. Mimo skomplikowanej optyki, masa urządzenia to około 1840 g. Korpus wykonano z wytrzymałego stopu magnezu i wyposażono w uszczelnienia chroniące przed pyłem i wilgocią.
Na tubusie znajdziemy cztery przyciski blokady ostrości oraz dedykowany pierścień funkcyjny.
Zasięg do 1200 mm
Obiektyw współpracuje z telekonwerterami 1,4x oraz 2x. W połączeniu z tym ostatnim i przy włączonym trybie APS-C, użytkownik otrzymuje ekwiwalent ogniskowej rzędu 1200 mm. Nowy Sony FE 100–400 mm F4,5 GM OSS trafi do sprzedaży pod koniec maja 2026 roku.
#fotografiaPrzyrodnicza #fotografiaSportowa #GMaster #iMagazine #obiektyw #sony #superteleobiektywSony rozszerza portfolio. Nowy monitor OLED i otwarte zestawy audio
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Sony alpha 7R VI: 66 megapikseli w trybie „turbo”. To już nie jest aparat tylko do studia
Sony zaprezentowało szóstą generację swojej flagowej linii o wysokiej rozdzielczości.
Nowy korpus alpha 7R VI (ILCE-7RM6) to pokaz siły inżynieryjnej, który łączy ogromną szczegółowość obrazu z szybkością, jakiej w tej serii jeszcze nie było.
Matryca i procesor: warstwowy przełom
Sercem aparatu jest pełnoklatkowy, wykonany w technologii BSI, w pełni warstwowy przetwornik Exmor RS o rozdzielczości 66,8 megapiksela. Zastosowanie konstrukcji warstwowej pozwoliło na 5,6-krotne przyspieszenie odczytu danych w porównaniu do poprzednika.
Nowy procesor BIONZ XR2 wspiera dedykowany układ AI, co przekłada się na zakres dynamiczny sięgający 16 stopni. Stabilizacja obrazu została poprawiona – 5-osiowy układ oferuje teraz skuteczność do 8,5 stopnia na środku kadru.
Szybkość i AF: inteligencja kadrowania
To pierwszy model z serii „R”, który tak mocno wchodzi w kompetencje serii sportowych. Aparat pozwala na zdjęcia seryjne z szybkością do 30 kl./s bez zaciemnienia wizjera (blackout-free) przy pełnym śledzeniu AF/AE.
System Real-time Recognition AF+ wykorzystuje modelowanie szkieletu człowieka, co pozwala na precyzyjne śledzenie ostrości nawet wtedy, gdy fotografowana postać jest odwrócona lub porusza się nieprzewidywalnie. Parametry ekspozycji i ostrości są przeliczane do 60 razy na sekundę.
Wideo i audio: profesjonalna produkcja
Sony wyeliminowało jeden z największych problemów wysokich rozdzielczości – przegrzewanie się. Korpus umożliwia nagrywanie w formacie 8K 30p (z nadpróbkowaniem z 8,2K) nieprzerwanie przez 120 minut. Materiał 4K 60p i 120p jest rejestrowany z całej powierzchni matrycy, bez dodatkowego przycięcia (crop).
Aparat wspiera funkcję podwójnego wzmocnienia (dual gain), co optymalizuje dynamikę w cieniach. Wraz z nowym adapterem XLR-A4, alpha 7R VI pozwala na wewnętrzny zapis dźwięku w 32-bitowym formacie float, co praktycznie eliminuje ryzyko przesterowania sygnału.
Ergonomia: w końcu nowa bateria
Producent w końcu odpowiedział na prośby o dłuższy czas pracy. Zastosowano nowy akumulator NP-SA100 o pojemności 2670 mAh, który mieści o 30% więcej energii niż popularna seria Z. Wizjer OLED o rozdzielczości 9,44 mln pikseli jest około trzy razy jaśniejszy niż w standardowych modelach i odwzorowuje przestrzeń barw DCI-P3. Korpus posiada dwa porty USB-C (jeden do ładowania, drugi do danych) oraz podświetlane przyciski ułatwiające pracę w nocy. Aparat trafi do sprzedaży pod koniec maja 2026 roku.
#Alpha7RVI #bezlusterkowiec #fotografia #iMagazine #sony #sprzętProfesjonalny #wideo8K
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Sony alpha 7R VI: 66 megapikseli w trybie „turbo”. To już nie jest aparat tylko do studia
Sony zaprezentowało szóstą generację swojej flagowej linii o wysokiej rozdzielczości.
Nowy korpus alpha 7R VI (ILCE-7RM6) to pokaz siły inżynieryjnej, który łączy ogromną szczegółowość obrazu z szybkością, jakiej w tej serii jeszcze nie było.
Matryca i procesor: warstwowy przełom
Sercem aparatu jest pełnoklatkowy, wykonany w technologii BSI, w pełni warstwowy przetwornik Exmor RS o rozdzielczości 66,8 megapiksela. Zastosowanie konstrukcji warstwowej pozwoliło na 5,6-krotne przyspieszenie odczytu danych w porównaniu do poprzednika.
Nowy procesor BIONZ XR2 wspiera dedykowany układ AI, co przekłada się na zakres dynamiczny sięgający 16 stopni. Stabilizacja obrazu została poprawiona – 5-osiowy układ oferuje teraz skuteczność do 8,5 stopnia na środku kadru.
Szybkość i AF: inteligencja kadrowania
To pierwszy model z serii „R”, który tak mocno wchodzi w kompetencje serii sportowych. Aparat pozwala na zdjęcia seryjne z szybkością do 30 kl./s bez zaciemnienia wizjera (blackout-free) przy pełnym śledzeniu AF/AE.
System Real-time Recognition AF+ wykorzystuje modelowanie szkieletu człowieka, co pozwala na precyzyjne śledzenie ostrości nawet wtedy, gdy fotografowana postać jest odwrócona lub porusza się nieprzewidywalnie. Parametry ekspozycji i ostrości są przeliczane do 60 razy na sekundę.
Wideo i audio: profesjonalna produkcja
Sony wyeliminowało jeden z największych problemów wysokich rozdzielczości – przegrzewanie się. Korpus umożliwia nagrywanie w formacie 8K 30p (z nadpróbkowaniem z 8,2K) nieprzerwanie przez 120 minut. Materiał 4K 60p i 120p jest rejestrowany z całej powierzchni matrycy, bez dodatkowego przycięcia (crop).
Aparat wspiera funkcję podwójnego wzmocnienia (dual gain), co optymalizuje dynamikę w cieniach. Wraz z nowym adapterem XLR-A4, alpha 7R VI pozwala na wewnętrzny zapis dźwięku w 32-bitowym formacie float, co praktycznie eliminuje ryzyko przesterowania sygnału.
Ergonomia: w końcu nowa bateria
Producent w końcu odpowiedział na prośby o dłuższy czas pracy. Zastosowano nowy akumulator NP-SA100 o pojemności 2670 mAh, który mieści o 30% więcej energii niż popularna seria Z. Wizjer OLED o rozdzielczości 9,44 mln pikseli jest około trzy razy jaśniejszy niż w standardowych modelach i odwzorowuje przestrzeń barw DCI-P3. Korpus posiada dwa porty USB-C (jeden do ładowania, drugi do danych) oraz podświetlane przyciski ułatwiające pracę w nocy. Aparat trafi do sprzedaży pod koniec maja 2026 roku.
#Alpha7RVI #bezlusterkowiec #fotografia #iMagazine #sony #sprzętProfesjonalny #wideo8K
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You Can’t Fight City Hall! The thread about Lothian Road Public School
Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (those built 1872-1918) hold a particular fascination for me, one most profound where they have been “deconsecrated” and are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but soon snowballed into an alphabetical deep-dive into each.
Before the Education (Scotland) Act 1872, which created the Edinburgh School Board and kick-started a building programme of new schools, the west end of the city was served by church-run schools on Cambridge Street by St John’s Episcopal Church and in halls behind the Lothian Road United Presbyterian Church (this latter building would much later become the Filmhouse cinema). They were joined in 1862 when the Free Church of Scotland established a school for 270 children on Riego Street as a mission of Free St Cuthbert’s and Free Greyfriars‘ churches.
The Riego Street School, a photograph taken in 1914 by J. R. Hamilton of the Edinburgh Photographic Society by which time it was in use as a mission hall. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.After its initial flurry of construction to replace the worst of the schools it had inherited and fill gaps in provision, the School Board turned its attention to the Lothian Road area and acquired a tiny, undeveloped plot extending to only a quarter of an acre at the junction of Grindlay and Cambridge Streets. This land was feud from The Grindlay Trust for £2046 (for whom Grindlay Street is named) who maintained the rights to final approval of any designs. This new Lothian Road Public School was proposed in tandem with Canonmills Public School and at 800 pupils was of a capacity but with a density of 0.77 pupils per metre square it would be the most congested school that the Board would build.
Comparison of the 1849 and 1893 OS Town Plans of Edinburgh for Lothian Road, move the slider to compare. These show in 1849 two small church schools (an Episcopal School in the top right and a United Presbyterian School middle bottom) and in 1893 the Lothian Road Public School in the centre of the image, to the right of the open street square. On the right of the 1893 map are the School Board Offices on Castle Terrace. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandPlans by the Board’s architect Robert Wilson were approved in March 1879 and generally followed the Collegiate Gothic styling then in favour, looking very much like a truncated version of its peer at Canonmills but raised to a height of three storeys to maximise the limited space available. An unusual deviation however was a French-style tower with louvred windows on the principal (western) façade adjoining the neighbouring tenement on Grindlay Street. The boys’ entrance was at its base, girls and infants having a separate entrance on Cambridge Street. The ground floor accommodated the infant department in a large central classroom (42 feet by 27 feet) with three smaller rooms leading off of it. The first and second floors were for the older pupils, again each following the same arrangement as the ground floor. To the rear of the school were two rather small playgrounds, one each for boys and girls.
Lothian Road Public School, looking towards the Castle. The striped globe-shaped objects in the middle distance below the Castle are on the roofline of the Synod Hall on Castle Terrace. City of Edinburgh Council Architectural Drawings and Photographs via Trove.Scot, DP 102382Construction began in late June 1879, the accepted estimate for construction being £5,891 19s 6d (c. £640k in 2026). A site accident on 15th August 1879 injured joiner Alexander Glass when a crane failed and dropped an iron beam on his foot, part of which had to be amputated at the Royal Infirmary as a result. After this, work proceeded steadily and the new school school opened on 6th September 1880, the school on Victoria Terrace (an older building inherited from the Heriot Trust) closing as a consequence. The total cost including purchasing the site came out at £7,333 17s (c. £795k in 2026). As built the capacity was 825 pupils (280 infants and 545 juveniles) with a staff comprising the headmaster, infant mistress, a first assistant teacher and eight assistant teachers. They were supported by a sewing mistress, a singing master and twelve pupil teachers (older children who were remaining in education beyond the mandatory leaving age and who helped in monitoring and conveying the lessons to younger children). The school soon proved to be one of the top performers (helped in a large part because of the socio-economic circumstances of its neighbourhood) and in 1882 the staff were given a 15 percent salary increase on account of reaching the first class tier of the Board’s ranking system.
From the very beginning Continuation Classes (evening school for adults) were part of the school’s offering, with Advanced Classes “for young men” in Latin, grammar and English composition; basic elementary subjects and also more vocational ones such as bookkeeping, shorthand and commercial geography. Architectural and mechanical drawing joined the syllabus in 1885 and by 1889 advanced level mechanics and mathematics were also being taught. In 1898 there were 350 enrolled for continuation schooling with an average attendance of 302. Technical classes in confectionery were started by the Master Bakers of Edinburgh and Leith in 1903 “with a view to raising the standard of fancy baking in the district.”
A street artist at work on the pavement island outside Lothian Road Public School in 1903, while a crowd looks on. The sign on the lamp post reads “Cars Stop“, indicating that this was a passenger platform for the city’s cable tramway.In 1887, 909 scholars from Lothian Road were presented for examination, suggesting the school was more than 10% over capacity, and before the Scotch Education Department reduced class sizes there were up to 1,000 learners crammed in. The school was a victim of its own success, having the highest attendance rate in the city meaning it was always full. A janitor’s house was added in 1889 at a cost of £223, an extra play shed for the boys in 1892 and new classrooms for drawing and cookery in 1893 at a cost of £1,000.
A fire in March 1891, the result of a fireplace in a classroom causing surrounding woodwork to overheat, proved to be “of a trifling nature” and was extinguished by the staff and janitor before the fire brigade could arrive. Headmaster George Robertson, who had been in charge since opening, died in March 1893. His newspaper obituary recalled him as “a man of a kindly and courteous disposition, which secured for him cordial relations with his staff” and one who had cut his educational teeth in some of the city’s poorest quarters. He had started his career in the school of the Chalmers Territorial Free Church in the West Port of which he was also in the congregation and a deacon (church civic officer). The teachers and a deputation of the schoolchildren attended his funeral at the Grange Cemetery.
Grave marker of George Robertson (1849-93), his infant son John (1875-76) and his wives Anne Mullay (1846-75) and Christina Barclay Robertson (1849-1918). Photo credit Charlie via Findagrave.comThe school was only sixteen years old when ominous clouds began to form on its horizon: in 1896 its site was mooted as one of a number of potential locations for a new civic music hall. The City Hall, as it was then known, was the result of a gift to the city by Andrew Usher (1826-98) who’s family had made a vast fortune in brewing that he had made even larger through perfecting the process of blending Scotch Whisky: revolutionising the product, the industry and a nation’s drinking habits. His endowment was worth £100,000 (about £12 million in 2026) and trustees invested it until an appropriate site could be found.
Barrels of Andrew Usher’s “OVG” (Old Vatted Glenlivet) blended whisky in one of his bonds at St Leonards. This was the first mass-market blended whisky.A longlist of twelve sites was initially proposed including Princes Street Gardens, Melville Street, Atholl Crescent, opposite St Giles Cathedral on the High Street, Castle Terrace, Chambers Street, Port Hopetoun Basin, the junction of George and Castle Streets and – most controversially – the Meadows. London architect Alfred Waterhouse was engaged to survey each and draw up a shortlist of five, with Atholl Crescent being the favoured option.
Batholomew map, 1898, showing some of the proposed locations for the Usher Hall. A site on Atholl Crescent, to the west of these, was first favoured before attention moved to the area between Lothian Road and Castle Terrace (to the left of the middle of the three plots highlighted above.) Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.Plans changed in 1900 however when the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland merged with the Free Church of Scotland and the former’s Synod Hall on Castle Terrace was now surplus to requirements. In an ironic twist, this large venue was actually first built as an entertainments hall but quickly failed as a commercial venture. The Town Council leapt at the chance to acquire it with a view that it might somehow be a good site for the hall, or might even be re-purposed as it.
The Synod Hall from West Princes Street Gardens. City of Edinburgh Council Architectural Drawings and Photographs via Trove.Scot SC2575722Matters proceeded slowly for the next few years while the Town Council tried to acquire further adjacent land; it spent £15,000 buying plots totalling 2,719 square yards, on top of the 2,327 of the hall. In 1903 the Town Clerk, Thomas Hunter, was asked report “on the whole muddle” and set out options for the potential use of the Synod Hall site. Things were getting complicated by the fact the successor United Free Church were apparently attempting to buy the building back and had verbally offered the Corporation £40,000 for it ( the latter having paid just £25,000 a few years earlier). Proponents of the Synod Hall site argued it would be a less expensive proposition than the alternatives and sited facing the Castle it made for an appropriately grand backdrop. Detractors were quick to point out that the new hall proposed for that site would have 2,400 seats, just 300 more than the building it was proposed to demolish and replace!
While matters remained unresolved, the idea of siting what would become The Usher Hall in the vicinity of Castle Terrace had by now crystallised in the minds of the Town Council and their gaze soon shifted to the side of the block that faced on to Lothian Road. If the site of Lothian Road School was combined with the neighbouring tenements and added to the Council’s existing landholding, this gave a combined site of 4,221 square yards without demolishing the Synod hall and in 1904 firm plans were put in front of the Town Council recommending securing the school property.
A complication remained however in that the local authority did not possess the school – it remained the property of the School Board which was independent from the Town Council. An informal approach to the Board had been rebuffed and there was an unwillingness to resort to powers of compulsory purchase. Unfortunately Lord Provost Sir Robert Cranston then went and put his foot in it by letting it be known that the school buildings had been condemned by the Scotch Education Department: the implication being they would thus be easy to acquire, He was rebuked in a most public manner by the Board in a statement published by the Evening News. The Lord Provost wrote to the Board’s chair, the redoubtable Flora Stevenson, to set the matter straight.
Advert taken out by the School Board in response to the Lord Provost’s assertions that Lothian Road School had been condemned by the Scotch Education Department. Edinburgh Evening News, 13th February 1905.A meeting was convened behind close doors between senior representatives from both sides and soon ironed things out. The Board let it be known they would give up the school for a “fair price” and sufficient land for a replacement school. They hoped to get ground at Lady Lawson Street, the site of the city’s cattle market which was to be relocated, however this was acquired instead by the Education Department for the College of Art.
Once again the scheme stalled, but for Lothian Road Public School it remained business as usual. On account of its central location it remained a favoured venue for a number of organisations. From 1906 to 1910 it was used by the Edinburgh Esperanto Society for meetings and lessons, the Board charging only a nominal rent so as to help encourage that language. A similar privilege was given to the Celtic Union who began Gaelic language evening classes, transferring them from the Outlook Tower on Castlehill whose facilities they had outgrown. It was the Union’s intention to prove there was a public appetite for the language in order that the Board might formally adopt them for its own programme. This plan quickly came to fruition and from 1908 these classes transferred to the School Board’s Continuation curriculum and were run from Gilmore Place Public School. (Coincidentally, this latter building remains in education use as an annexe of James Gillespie’s High School and has recently become a centre for its Gaelic Medium Education learning.)
On June 15th 1909 a meeting was held at the school by “a few far-sighted ladies and sympathetic mothers” which formed the committee to establish the Girl Guiding movement in the city. In July that year a concert was held by the senior pupils of the school to celebrate the attendance records of Janet Gray, Nettie Bee, Janet Taylor and Jane Bogue who all had achieved a perfect attendance record in their seven years at the school; a combined total of twenty-eight years without a day missed. The Board presented medals to the girls and commended the headmaster and his staff. The takings from the concert were to be “devoted to the purchase of pictures with which to adorn the walls” of the school.
An Edinburgh School Board perfect attendance medal first issued in 1908-09 to Robert McKinlay of London Street School. Picture via Lockdale’s Auctioneers and Valuers, sale lot from 2024.Time was running short for the school however. It was now fourteen years after Usher’s gift to the city (and twelve after his death) and pressure was mounting to finally get his hall built. Finally on March 21st 1910 a report was submitted to the Lord Provost’s Committee of the Town Council recommending that it should be built on the Lothian Road site that included the footprint of the school. This was approved and at a closed meeting the following day the School Board agreed to its sale for £8,500 plus a new site at the City Slaughterhouse (the Killin’ Hoose) at Fountainbridge, which was about to be relocated to Slateford. The Board were initially offered one and a quarter acres but stuck to their guns that they would not settle for less than two – in the end they accepted one and three-quarters plus two buildings to convert into a janitor’s house. This still left the Board an estimated deficit of £17,000 (about £1.7 million in 2026) for the replacement, however they felt “willing to do all in their power to further the important scheme“.
Edinburgh Evening News, 7th January 1905 Shaded properties were those to be acquired for the final Usher Hall scheme. The area outlined by the dotted and thick solid line was already possessed by the Town Council.Lothian Road Public School closed for the last time at the end of the summer term of 1910. Its brief thirty year life was the shortest of any of the Board’s schools and in that time it was estimated that 9,780 children had passed through its doors. Its Continuation Classes were removed to James Gillespie’s School when the new term started, the infant department to temporary huts at Ponton Street and the remaining 590 children were largely sent to the old West Fountainbridge School while their new home was completed. This building had been closed a few years previously (it had actually been condemned) and its lower floors had by then been converted into a central cooking centre for free and “penny dinners” for schools in the city centre. One can only imagine what the smells of boiling cabbage were like for children trying to learn about the kitchens’ coppers which had a capacity to cook 650 gallons in one go – 130 stones (or 826kg) of potatoes could be cooked per hour!
On Tuesday March 13th 1911, workmen of Messrs Neil Mcleod & Sons began working on building operations for the Usher Hall and that Friday the Edinburgh Evening News reported on “the passing of Lothian Road School“. Wooden hoardings been erected around the building and children were helping the teachers throughout the day to clear the school.
Although now the exigencies of modern educational equipment call for something more up to date [it] has never failed to satisfy the powers that be in the work of educating pupils and securing high attendance percentages.”
“The Passing of Lothian Road School”, Edinburgh Evening News, 17th March 1911On the 22nd of the month, the demolition gangs moved in and it was reported less than a month later that a workman by the name of Alexander Young had been seriously injured at work on demolition, having been standing on a second floor staircase when it collapsed beneath him and he suffered a fall of thirty five feet as a result.
During and before images of the demolition of Lothian Road Public School, view looking towards Grindlay Street. Move the slider to compare. Photographs probably taken by Francis M. Chrystal of the Edinburgh Photographic Society. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries. During and before images of the demolition of Lothian Road Public School, view looking towards Cambridge Street. Move the slider to compare. Photographs probably taken by Francis M. Chrystal of the Edinburgh Photographic Society. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.In December 1910 it had been decided that the replacement school should be called Tollcross Public School and that it should accommodate 800 children (300 infants and 500 juveniles). Tenders were advertised in May 1911 and it would open in September 1912.
Site of Tollcross School, before shown on 1906 Goad Fire Insurance map when it was the municipal slaughter houses and after shown on 1944 OS Town Plan. Move the slider to compare. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandDemolition at Lothian Road proceeded swiftly and groundworks were advanced to allow the laying of the memorial foundation stones on July 19th 1911. King George V and Queen Mary performed the honours at a grand public ceremony, each dropping a stone into place by the turning of the handle of a crane and tapping it gently with a ceremonial mallet.
The stage is set, quite literally, for the laying of the Usher Hall’s foundation stones, July 19th 1911. These are on the site of the former Lothian Road School, the steepled building on the right of the photo being St. Columba’s Gaelic Free Church. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.The Usher Hall finally opened on March 16th 1914, seventeen years and two hundred and eighty two days after the initial gift was made. By all accounts it has been a grand success, but its troubled gestation is just one of many examples of the city’s difficult (and ongoing) history of schemes to try and build public concert halls!
Bust of Andrew Usher, unveiled at the opening of the Usher Hall. Photograph by Francis Caird Inglis, 1914. Delays to the scheme meant that Usher was long dead by the time his gift was completed. Edinburgh and Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City Libraries.The previous chapter of this series looked at the James Clark School.
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The origin story of the proposed executive order is murky, but it appears to trace back to a network of pro-Trump activists who have spent years pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
One of them is
#Peter #Ticktin, a Florida lawyer who has known Trump since the two attended the New York Military Academy as teenagers.Ticktin represented his former classmate in a 2022 civil suit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of conspiring to smear Trump with claims that his 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
A federal judge later dismissed the suit and sanctioned Trump’s attorneys
—including Ticktin
—finding that the suit amounted to the “deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”Ticktin currently represents #Tina #Peters, the former Colorado elections clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a 2021 breach of her office’s voting machines.
In an interview, Ticktin told us he wrote what he described as a “precursor” to the 17-page draft executive order that has been circulating since April of last year.
“I'm not sure exactly who prepared this one,” he said of the version dated April 12,
which he provided to Democracy Docket last month.But Ticktin said he believed the April 12 version of the draft order was “really well done”
—well done enough that he emailed it to the president.Ticktin said his outreach to government officials about the draft executive order also extended to #Kurt #Olsen, the White House director of “election security and integrity.”
Olsen, an attorney, represented Texas in its unsuccessful post-2020 suit to overturn Trump’s loss.
He was later sanctioned by a federal judge for advancing “false, misleading and unsupported factual assertions” in Kari Lake’s failed bid to challenge her 2022 gubernatorial loss in Arizona.
Now, as a White House official, Olsen has reportedly been tasked with leading a probe to reexamine the 2020 race.
Last month, an unsealed FBI search warrant affidavit revealed that a criminal inquiry into election irregularities in Fulton County began with a referral from Olsen.
According to Ticktin, others involved with the effort surrounding the draft order include #Michael #Flynn, the former national security adviser who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI before receiving a sweeping pardon from Trump in December 2020;
#Patrick #Byrne, the former Overstock.com CEO and prominent election skeptic;
and #Stefanie #Lambert, an attorney who is awaiting trial in Michigan over allegations that she illegally accessed voting tabulators in an attempt to prove that the 2020 election was stolen.
Both Flynn and Byrne have repeatedly and publicly advocated for Trump to declare a national emergency ahead of the upcoming election.
Authorship of the April 12 draft is difficult to pin down,
but several figures connected to the election-denial movement say they had a hand in shaping it.A key figure is "#Juan O. #Savin",
the nom de plume of #Wayne #Willott, a private investigator turned QAnon influencer who has cultivated a significant following in far-right conspiracy circles.Savin is perhaps best known among QAnon followers as the subject of a theory that he is actually John F. Kennedy Jr.
—who died in a plane crash in 1999
—living under an assumed identity.Beyond his QAnon celebrity, however, Savin has formed notable political connections:
In 2021, he co-founded the "America First Secretary of State Coalition", which worked to place election-denying candidates in charge of state elections in key swing states.
The coalition received significant funding from "The America Project",
the organization co-founded by Flynn and Byrne.In a recent appearance on the right-wing program "Nino’s Corner", Savin said he reviewed an early version of the executive order during Trump’s re-election campaign in the summer of 2024.
Finding that version “inadequate,” he assembled a coalition of “legal minds” and “election experts”
to formulate a new version of the proposed order.According to Savin, the group met for several days in Washington, D.C. shortly after the inauguration.
Over the following months, he said, the coalition produced approximately 13 drafts before arriving at the 17-page version circulated that spring.
The page count may not be coincidental:
Within QAnon lore, the number 17 carries symbolic meaning,
because “Q” is the 17th letter of the alphabet,
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This exactly ⬇️.
It’s an alpha-wannabe fantasy. It’s a deeply insecure weak man trying to feel powerful, and it’s pathetic.
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaeakle.com/post/3mdfsnpy57k26
We have so much work to do.
Edit to remove hashtag to avoid unrelated issues.
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L’AVIF prend enfin ses aises sur Internet : c’est quoi ce format d’image ?
https://next.ink/124294/lavif-prend-enfin-ses-aises-sur-internet-cest-quoi-ce-format-dimage/Avec la sortie d’Edge 121, le dernier grand navigateur se dote de la compatibilité avec l’ #AVIF. Ce format d’image, disponible officiellement depuis presque cinq ans, avait été créé pour prendre la relève du #JPG. Aujourd’hui, le format peut-il accomplir sa mission ?
Il y aura bientôt dix ans, la question du remplaçant du vénérable JPEG se posait déjà. En 2015, plusieurs grandes entreprises du numérique se sont rassemblées pour travailler sur la question. #Alphabet #Amazon #AMD #Apple #Cisco #Intel #Meta #Mozilla #Microsoft #Netflix ainsi que #Tencent.
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L’AVIF prend enfin ses aises sur Internet : c’est quoi ce format d’image ?
https://next.ink/124294/lavif-prend-enfin-ses-aises-sur-internet-cest-quoi-ce-format-dimage/Avec la sortie d’Edge 121, le dernier grand navigateur se dote de la compatibilité avec l’ #AVIF. Ce format d’image, disponible officiellement depuis presque cinq ans, avait été créé pour prendre la relève du #JPG. Aujourd’hui, le format peut-il accomplir sa mission ?
Il y aura bientôt dix ans, la question du remplaçant du vénérable JPEG se posait déjà. En 2015, plusieurs grandes entreprises du numérique se sont rassemblées pour travailler sur la question. #Alphabet #Amazon #AMD #Apple #Cisco #Intel #Meta #Mozilla #Microsoft #Netflix ainsi que #Tencent.
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L’AVIF prend enfin ses aises sur Internet : c’est quoi ce format d’image ?
https://next.ink/124294/lavif-prend-enfin-ses-aises-sur-internet-cest-quoi-ce-format-dimage/Avec la sortie d’Edge 121, le dernier grand navigateur se dote de la compatibilité avec l’ #AVIF. Ce format d’image, disponible officiellement depuis presque cinq ans, avait été créé pour prendre la relève du #JPG. Aujourd’hui, le format peut-il accomplir sa mission ?
Il y aura bientôt dix ans, la question du remplaçant du vénérable JPEG se posait déjà. En 2015, plusieurs grandes entreprises du numérique se sont rassemblées pour travailler sur la question. #Alphabet #Amazon #AMD #Apple #Cisco #Intel #Meta #Mozilla #Microsoft #Netflix ainsi que #Tencent.
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L’AVIF prend enfin ses aises sur Internet : c’est quoi ce format d’image ?
https://next.ink/124294/lavif-prend-enfin-ses-aises-sur-internet-cest-quoi-ce-format-dimage/Avec la sortie d’Edge 121, le dernier grand navigateur se dote de la compatibilité avec l’ #AVIF. Ce format d’image, disponible officiellement depuis presque cinq ans, avait été créé pour prendre la relève du #JPG. Aujourd’hui, le format peut-il accomplir sa mission ?
Il y aura bientôt dix ans, la question du remplaçant du vénérable JPEG se posait déjà. En 2015, plusieurs grandes entreprises du numérique se sont rassemblées pour travailler sur la question. #Alphabet #Amazon #AMD #Apple #Cisco #Intel #Meta #Mozilla #Microsoft #Netflix ainsi que #Tencent.
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L’AVIF prend enfin ses aises sur Internet : c’est quoi ce format d’image ?
https://next.ink/124294/lavif-prend-enfin-ses-aises-sur-internet-cest-quoi-ce-format-dimage/Avec la sortie d’Edge 121, le dernier grand navigateur se dote de la compatibilité avec l’ #AVIF. Ce format d’image, disponible officiellement depuis presque cinq ans, avait été créé pour prendre la relève du #JPG. Aujourd’hui, le format peut-il accomplir sa mission ?
Il y aura bientôt dix ans, la question du remplaçant du vénérable JPEG se posait déjà. En 2015, plusieurs grandes entreprises du numérique se sont rassemblées pour travailler sur la question. #Alphabet #Amazon #AMD #Apple #Cisco #Intel #Meta #Mozilla #Microsoft #Netflix ainsi que #Tencent.
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Actrice Chanteuse Canadienne#MackenzieDavis c'est plus de 20 Films depuis 2012
#actricedujour #actress #actrice #cinegenres @Cinegenres #film #cinema
#TheMartian #BladeRunner2049 #Tully #Terminator #TerminatorDarkFate
#TheTurning #Irresistible #HappiestSeason #AlphaGang𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
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Actrice Chanteuse Canadienne#MackenzieDavis c'est plus de 20 Films depuis 2012
#actricedujour #actress #actrice #cinegenres @Cinegenres #film #cinema
#TheMartian #BladeRunner2049 #Tully #Terminator #TerminatorDarkFate
#TheTurning #Irresistible #HappiestSeason #AlphaGang𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
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Actrice Chanteuse Canadienne#MackenzieDavis c'est plus de 20 Films depuis 2012
#actricedujour #actress #actrice #cinegenres @Cinegenres #film #cinema
#TheMartian #BladeRunner2049 #Tully #Terminator #TerminatorDarkFate
#TheTurning #Irresistible #HappiestSeason #AlphaGang𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
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Takeshita (c) Vs UminoThe Alpha confronte l'ex Young Lion, qui fait preuve de combativité et resiste bien aux assauts du champion.
Intense et performant, Takeshita se fait surprendre mais la time limit est atteinte.
ça annonce un Rematch !#MastoSport #World #Music #Media #Live #Podcast #Radio #Streaming #Tv #Webradio #Social #Socialmedia #Fediradio #Fedicatch #Wrestling #Catch #Results
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Apprendre la langue des signes québécoise · LSQ
J’apprends la langue des signes du Québec (LSQ) depuis la fin du mois de janvier. J’en suis au niveau 1. C’est une langue qui m’a toujours fasciné. Ce qui me frappe pendant les cours, c’est le silence. Un silence ponctué parfois par des rires (notre professeure a un talent comique). Ma tête demeure pleine de sons, de bruits, de voix et le moindre son fait vaciller ma concentration.
Environ 6 000 personnes utiliseraient la LSQ au Québec et dans le reste du Canada. Les langues des signes (LSQ et ASL) n’étant pas considérées comme des langues officielles, elles ne sont pas comptabilisées par Statistiques Canada. Les ressources pour apprendre la LSQ restent limitées et comme je n’ai pas beaucoup d’occasions de pratiquer, les vidéos en ligne répertoriés ici sont un apport précieux. Si vous connaissez d’autres ressources, n’hésitez pas à laisser un commentaire. Au plaisir d’échanger en LSQ avec vous !
Dictionnaires et lexiques en LSQ
Le premier est le plus récent et semble le plus complet, mais les trois autres sont complémentaires et m’ont souvent été utile.
- Mon dictionnaire LSQ
- Dico-LSQ
- Dictionnaire Centre Alpha-sourd
- Lexique LSQ – lexique scolaire en langue des signes québécoise
Vidéos récapitulatifs des cours de LSQ
Voici les vidéos qui servent à réviser les cours. Il y a de petites différences entre les deux, ce qui enrichit mon apprentissage.
- Guide de la langue des signes québécoise — LSQ par le Centre de réadaptation en déficience physique Raymond-Dewar ;
- LSQ -1 Signes d’espoir par l’organisme Signes d’espoir à Québec.
Livres pour enfants et émissions de télévision en LSQ
Pour se faire l’œil et s’habituer à suivre un récit signé.
- Une cinquantaine de livres pour enfant publiés aux Éditions Les 400 coups
- Les nouvelles en LSQ de Radio-Canada
- Les émissions jeunesse de Télé-Québec en LSQ (nécessite d’ouvrir un compte avec une adresse courriel institutionnelle)
- Livrets de la collection GB+ en langue des signes québécoise (LSQ) Ces livrets s’adressent aux élèves de la 1re à la 3e année.
Vidéos sur les médias sociaux
Pour voir les signes en contexte dans une communication plus naturelle.
- Le projet Ondes sur YouTube (YouTube permet de modifier la vitesse de lecture, c’est bien pratique pour un apprenant.)
- Pierre-Olivier Beaulac-Bouchard sur TikTok
- Apprenons la langue des signes de TFO
Livres et documents écrits sur la LSQ
Les deux volumes du livre qui suit sont disponibles à la Grande bibliothèque (BAnQ). J’ai trouvé ces deux extraits en ligne. La dernière référence est le texte d’accompagnement d’un atelier donné à l’UQAM.
- Dubuisson, C, Lelièvre, L, Lelièvre, M, Machabée, D, et Miller, C. Grammaire descriptive de la langue des signes québécoise, Université de Montréal, 1999
- Extrait 1 en PDF : Note explicative sur les configurations manuelles
- Extrait 2 en PDF : Les facteurs articulatoires qui déterminent l’ordre en langue des signes québécoises (LSQ)
- Anne-Marie Parisot, Lynda Lelièvre, Quelques précisions de grammaire comparée : la structure de la LSQ, UQAM, 2004
#apprendre #ASL #langue #LangueDesSignes #LSQ #main #Signes #silence
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A professional Cartographer has made a beautiful printable map of Planet/Chiron from Sid Meier's #AlphaCentauri #AC #SMAC #SMAX . The author has also commented that he's working on a physical 3D globe version too! He describes how he's made this map here https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/planetfall/ , and it is quite an elaborate process, with a lot of work involved! If you want to talk about this map, then join us here https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/the-map-of-chiron-in-armadillo-projection-drawn-by-somethingaboutmaps.699901/ .
