#new basin canal

[mymusicbias]

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"TURNING BASIN AND CANAL COMPLETED," Toronto World. December 11, 1918. Page 5. --- Nothing official has been received from the department of public works at Ottawa regarding the continuation of the work on the Ashbridge Bay harbor by the Toronto office. The work on the ship canal and turning basin in the Toronto industrial harbor district was practically completed, yesterday. The diking improvements which have been under construction for the last four years are acknowledged by all prominent construction men to be one of the finest pieces of harbor work to be found in North America, in this district is situated the British Forgings and other plants of like calibre. It will undoubtedly develop into one of Toronto's foremost manufacturing districts.

For 900 feet the ship canal extends) into the heart of the district. This canal is 100 feet wide and 24 feet deep, and will accommodate the largest ships now on the great lakes. Turning Basin. At the end of the ship canal is a turning basin of modern type, 1100 feet square. Channel 900 feet long by 100 feet wide provides for the overflow of water from the basin. Along the canal and the waterfront are constructed concrete marginal walls, together with four thousand feet. of crib-work superstructure. Between five and six hundred men have been employed on this work by the contractors, the Canadian Stewart Company. It is estimated that the cost will reach $3.000,000, but that the urgently needed improvements will undoubtedly prove their value to the shipping interests in the next few years. It is believed that the city and government co-operating, intend undertaking more extensive harbor improvements during the year 1919.

[iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia]

Imagine that after defeating the devil (or Lucio) Mc gets a bit stronger physically and more powerful in magic how would the M6 react to Mc accidently breaking something without knowing their new strength?

Like for example: Mc was walking through the door and didn't let go of the handle quick and ripped it off its hinges. Cue both Mc and M6 staring in shock.

Or breaking a hard metal without struggle.

-🐙

The Arcana HCs: When MC is a little too strong

~ octopus friend, thanks for the prompt! I've actually already written a set of headcanons for something like this (I'll add it below) but the scene you described is so perfect I had to make a sequel XD Enjoy! - brainrot ~

Related: When MC is stronger than they look

Julian

The two of you were out and about in the South End Market, perusing the stalls when he let out a shout and pointed

There's an exceptionally icky man sliding through the crowd, lifting wallets from people's pockets left and right. Julian, being the hero he is, begins to give chase and calls for you to assist him

The street's too crowded, so you hustle through some back alleyways and pop back out further up the street

Your lover's indignant yelling has tipped off the pickpocketer and the scoundrel is running full speed right past your alleyway, your beloved trying and failing to give chase a good ten people away

In a last-ditch effort to stop him, you reach out and manage to grab the icky man's arm. You dig your heels in and yank

Only to watch him go sailing backwards, over several people's heads, bounce off of a pile of carpets, and land in the canal

Well. It seems you've gotten considerably stronger

Julian catches up to you quickly, initially concerned for your wellbeing and determined to ensure that you are unharmed

Once he does, you'll have to escort him home as quickly as possible, because he finds your strength too attractive to appropriately contain himself

Asra

There's a story behind how the two of you hitched a ride with the cabbage man during your post-Devil trip all over the continent

You had stopped in the capital city of a nearby country and the two of you were having a grand time wandering around, trying new foods, meeting new people, and finding new mischief

As you're passing through one of the major marketplaces, your attention is grabbed by an unusually large wash basin careening through the streets bearing a motley crew of teenagers

Asra's springing into action before you can, sending out waves of magic to move people out of the way and propel the seemingly jet-powered bathtub the rest of the way across the square

It's a cry of "my cabbages!" that pulls your attention to one unfortunate vendor who has left his cart parked directly in the path of the tin of troubled youths

You only mean to pull the obstacle out of the way (really!) but your tug sends the cabbage cart up over your head, on a short arc through the air until it lands safely on a surprisingly sturdy booth roof

When you turn back around, the crowd is watching you slack jawed, the cabbage man is in grateful ecstasy, and Asra is on the ground in tears, wheezing with uncontrollable laughter

Nadia

You had been doing some research in the library to assist with Nadia's "revive Vesuvia" project and stumbled on some old manuscripts detailing earlier blueprints of the city layout

As soon as you find it and the bundle of useful information it was stored with, you rush out to fetch your beloved Countess and show her your discovery

The two of you are walking back through the halls, her eyes resting on you fondly as you summarize what you've found so far

You're so caught up in conversation that you don't think twice about the library door when you approach it. It was unlocked on your way out minutes ago, it's safe to assume that it still is on your way back in

You face Nadia, groping behind you for the handle, about to ask her what the amused expression stealing across her face is for as you tug open the door

Your question is answered for you when the screech of bending and snapping metal grates across your ears, Nadia's face quickly going blank in shock

She steps forward slowly, inspecting the damage you caused when you ripped over twelve deadbolts out of the palace wall before turning back to you with a disbelieving laugh

... so it seems that the door wasn't unlocked, after all

Muriel

You're working in the clearing with him when you accidentally make yourself nature's greatest problem child

There's an annoying infestation of a certain type of plant recently that the chickens keep eating even though it isn't good for them

You're tired of your soft-hearted lover bringing vomiting poultry into the hut at all hours of the night to nurse them back to health, only for the foolish birds to go straight back out and eat it again

So you're spending your morning hunched over the grass, clearing the area section by section of the godforsaken herb

There's sweat trickling into your eyes, making it difficult to see, and when Muriel calls your name you don't look at the next thing you've grasped, only giving it an angry yank as you answer him

You're thrown off balance when the root you pull turns out to be way longer than the weeds you were dealing with earlier, landing on your back just in time to see the tree above you slowly rotate and crack

You barely have a second to process the situation before you hear a shout and feel yourself getting scooped up and out of the way, a whole section of that tree's root system still in your fist

Muriel spends the next half hour staring silently at the uprooted tree, deep in thought as the chickens huddle at his feet

Portia

Most of the time, being the partner of an ambassador is exciting in a fairly peaceful manner. Stressful days occur when the nobles Portia negotiates with don't cooperate or storms happen at sea

In today's case, though, it begins with sighting a pirate ship off in the distance. You thought at first that they would know better than to go up against a boat like yours, but it seems they don't

Soon enough the enemy is bearing down on you, cannons out, the crewmembers on deck visibly armed to the teeth

Portia's not one to take this lying down - she is Mazelinka's unofficial granddaughter, after all - and is bellowing orders to the sailors to ready your own ship for battle

"MC!" she shouts, "Get those cannonballs closer to the railing!"

You scramble to the pile of cannon fodder and snatch one up. It's way lighter than you expected, so you blindly hurl it in the direction of the cannons facing the enemy ship and bend down for the next

The deck becomes oddly quiet split seconds before you hear a distant crash and yell. You straighten up and turn around in time to see one of the enemy's masts shatter and fall into the waves

Portia's laughing into a shared kiss before you can ask her what's happened. "MC," she cackles, "MC, you fantastic fool."

Lucio

Today's job has been rewardingly difficult. It's not every day you go up against a stone giant, but this one was terrorizing an entire town for weeks on end before the two of you showed up

It hadn't been very promising at first, Lucio's sword being one of the first things to go, but then you were able to figure out that the loud growling was coming from its stomach and not its mouth

Once you negotiated its access to the local food supply the misunderstanding was quickly cleared up. You turn from the happy ending to see your darling Lucio cradling the now-wrinkly blade

He's distraught - this sword is one of the remaining relics from his countship and it's served him very well over the years

You take it from him before he discovers that it won't be able to slide so neatly into its sheath and take a look at it. It's not a total pretzel - it just needs to be stretched out

You give the two ends of it a tug, as if to affirm your assessment, and before your eyes the metal creaks and straightens. You accidentally leave a divot at the tip in the shape of your thumb

Lucio's too puffed up with pride and joy to question it - he's already waving it in the air and claiming all it needs now is a sharpening

But he is going to look into powering up his gauntlet, if possible

[blueiscoool]

Roman Gem Engraved with Mythological Figure Discovered in Italy

During excavations at Lio Piccolo (Cavallino-Treporti), conducted by Ca’ Foscari University, a precious agate stone carved with a mythological figure was found in the flooded site from the Roman period.

Researchers found the ancient piece of jewelry during an excavation dive in Lio Piccolo, a village just north of Venice city.

The cut agate gem is engraved with a mythological figure and is considered an unusual artifact, particularly in an underwater environment. The high quality of the jewelry suggests that wealthy Romans visited the area.

Professor Carlo Beltrame, who led the excavation alongside Dr. Elisa Costa, said in a statement that it was a rare find, especially in an underwater environment.

“In a lagoon environment it is a rather rare find, to date we have news of two other precious gems found in Torcello and at Barena del Vigno,” Beltrame said.

Lio Piccolo used to be, and remains, a thriving fishing area. The underwater excavations have helped archeologists to understand the history of the area.

A structure with a brick base and oak walls from the first and second centuries CE sits 11 feet below the water’s surface. Initially, researchers thought it was used for oyster conservation and farming, but it was later determined to be a holding tank for oysters prior to consumption.

“Alongside this system there is a brick paving laid on poles, many fragments of valuable frescoes and some fragments of black and white mosaic which, in the 1980s, prompted the discoverer of this site, the amateur archaeologist Ernesto Canal, to interpret it as a prestigious villa,” Beltrame said. “The basin and the floor plans offer a precious marker, because they are well dated, for the study of the variations of the sea and of the local subsidence.”

Lio Piccolo is less than 10 miles northeast of Venice.

By Leman Altuntaş.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this press release from the Department of the Interior:

The Department of the Interior today announced a $849 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to revitalize aging water delivery systems across the West. The funding supports 77 projects in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Washington to improve water conveyance and storage, increase safety, improve hydropower generation, and provide water treatment. This includes 14 projects totaling $118.3 million in the Colorado River Basin.

Today’s announcement follows the release of five alternatives earlier this month that will be analyzed as part of the Post-2026 Operations for the Colorado River Basin. Since Day One of the Biden-Harris administration, the Department has led critical discussions over how to bring the Colorado River back from the brink of crisis in the face of an unprecedented 24-year drought. Having achieved overwhelming success in 2023 on interim operation plans to guide operations through 2026 with a historic consensus agreement, and following more than a year of collaboration with the states and Tribes who call the Colorado River Basin home, the release of alternatives is the next step in a responsible path to guide post-2026 operations for the Colorado River.

The projects selected for funding today are found in all the major river basins and regions where Reclamation operates. Among the 77 projects selected for funding are efforts to restore canal capacity, sustain water treatment for Tribes, replace equipment for hydropower production and provide necessary maintenance to aging project buildings.

[artechoceneexplorer]

Salmonids of Artechocene Antarctica:

While thawing, the glaciers of Antarctica created an abundance of meltwater streams that now feed countless kilometres of freshwater ecosystems. At first nothing more than insect larvae and some crustaceans called these new environments home, but eventually fish entered the equation and quickly dominated.

One group of these fish were salmonids coming from South American coasts, descendants of invasive species such as the brown trout. They weren't the first, but they were much better at filling a lot of niches than the native Nothotenioids, which lacked hemoglobin and swim bladders.

And so they almost outcompeted these to extinction, and diversified into several genera classified roughly in three distinct groups: Helaks, Helerrets, and Valhallaks.

Most of the Helaks species are amongst the largest predators of the continent, and the Golden Helaks (Gjollsalmo fulgens) is the largest of them all, measuring up to 2 meters (7ft) long and more than 100kg (250lb) in weight. They're apex predators, using their size to block scape routes for prey fish of any size and swallowing them whole, preventing them from scaping thanks to its huge backwards facing teeth. They're also known to eat crustaceans and even birds that venture too deep into the water. They live in every waterway across Antarctica, with the adults being confined to the deeper canals and lakes.

Helerrets are the most common salmonids that can be found in the rivers, lakes and wetlands of the continent. These medium sized predators mainly feed on the abundance of mollusks and other hard shelled invertebrates, as well as smaller vertebrates occasionally. This diet is enabled by their strong jaws, combined with blunt teeth that can crack open the shells of most freshwater invertebrates in their habitats. They're also the only Antarctic salmonids that retain the anadromous habits of its ancestors, living in freshwater but migrating to coastal waters to reproduce and release their young into the rich waters of the Southern Ocean.

The Bullheart Helerret (Slidrsalmo oatensis) in particular is native to the drainage basins that flow into Oates bay, where members of this species comes to spawn.

Valhallaks are a group of salmonids with remarkable sexual dimorphism compared to their close relatives. They are typically found in shallow rivers all across the continent, where they feed on invertebrates and vegetation.

Although not as common as Helerrets, they are abundant, specially in alpine streams and lakes during the end of the summer, where they come to spawn, away from predators so their eggs are protected by ice during the winter.

The Bearded Valhallaks (Valholsalmo auratops) specifically is endemic to the Vostok river drainage basin, which originates in Vostok Lake where they reproduce.

Range of the species featured:

[power-chords]

This is not simply or strictly a gangster cool, though ever since Peter Weir’s The Year of Living Dangerously, and again with the 2012 documentary The Act of Killing, Jakarta has loomed in the Western cultural imaginary as a tropical noir, an urban heart of darkness. Joseph Conrad actually did write a 1915 novel set on Java, called Victory: An Island Tale, and, in tandem with the Dutch classic of political awakening, Max Havelaar, anonymously penned in 1860, it portrays Indonesia as the Asian colony in extremis. Much like the films, both novels are rife with complex cultural misunderstandings, moments of startling clarity, and undercurrents of unfathomable cruelty. Yet none of these works delves much into the spatial character of Batavia, old or new. In contemporary culture Jakarta registers now as a vague haven of criminal reinvention (see Blackhat, by Michael Mann), just as Los Angeles did for much of its history, bathed in the seductive shadows of ill repute. In both cities, though, one finds as much sunshine as noir — and in Jakarta far more day-to-day consideration than corruption.

Abetting their outlaw casting, Jakarta and Los Angeles are both cities of systems, rather than boundaries. Indeed, Jakarta is shaped by the same two dynamic forces as Los Angeles, and their corollary infrastructures: waterflow, though measured in deluge rather than drought; and traffic, though more constant and intense here than in L.A. Either an excess or scarcity of water requires intensive hydro-systemic management, so both cities are coursed by many canals running from their highlands down-basin to their harbors. Too big to bury but too meager to provide riverfront causeways or esplanades, the many concretized and cordoned “creeks” of both cities form a kind of urban subconscious in plain view, reminders of how nature was bought off early, but not forever, by the Dutch East India Company or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

[mariacallous]

As France grapples with soaring temperatures and ever more ruinous droughts, a full-blown water war is unfolding in the country, with heavy clashes, injuries, and arrests.

Tensions are running high over the use of giant artificial reservoirs for irrigation, which some farmers rely on to cope with water scarcity but which critics say are making the problem worse, accelerating the depletion of limited groundwater resources for the benefit of only a handful of big producers.

It’s one of many conflicts over water access breaking out with growing frequency all over the world, as climate change dries soils, increases temperatures and makes crops thirstier, and reduces the annual snowpacks that traditionally replenished freshwater flows. Water diversion in China is stoking regional ire. In Central Asia, access to scarce water resources is exacerbating cross-border tensions. Climate change and upstream dams, as well as poor water management, are drying out Iraq and Iran. Egypt and Ethiopia have been at odds for years over an upstream Nile River dam that threatens downstream countries. Western U.S. states are bickering over the dwindling resources of the once-mighty Colorado River, while in Germany and Chile, contentious access to water is fueling domestic strife.

“Water is a common good. No one can claim it as their own,” said Julien Le Guet, a spokesperson for Bassines Non Merci (Basins No Thanks), an activist group. This month, Le Guet and several other defendants went on trial over various unauthorized demonstrations against the construction of a new mega-reservoir in Sainte-Soline, in western France.

A rally held in March, in particular, turned into a violent confrontation with the police that left 47 officers and 200 demonstrators wounded. Some local farmers also denounced damage to their crops and the pipes linking their fields to the new basin. Fresh protests took place at another construction site nearby and in Paris over the last few weeks, with more actions planned in the near future.

Estimates vary between 100 and several hundred retention basins in France, giant plastic-lined craters spanning 20 acres on average that are filled by pumping groundwater in winter for use during the scalding summer months. And their number, whatever it is, is growing. The project in the Deux-Sèvres region (which includes Sainte-Soline), led by a private cooperative of local farmers, entails the construction of 16 new reservoirs that would store more than 6 million cubic meters of water—the equivalent of 1,600 Olympic swimming pools. Another 30 reservoirs are due to be built in the nearby Vienne region.

Supporters say that as the weather gets hotter and drier—2023 had the hottest summer on record globally—the basins are an indispensable life insurance for farmers and a way to reduce the pressure on water resources when they are at their lowest. France has recently been experiencing its worst droughts ever; in July, more than two-thirds of its natural groundwater reserves were below normal levels.

“Irrigating without basins means to continue pumping groundwater, even when there’s less of it,” said Laurent Devaux of Coordination Rurale, a farmers’ union.

The problem, critics say, is that the reservoirs are siphoning precious groundwater for the benefit of a small minority. Just 7 percent of French farmland is equipped with irrigation canals, and only some of the irrigated farms around the reservoirs are actually connected to them. The basin in Sainte-Soline will be directly linked to barely 12 farms out of a total of 185 in the area. According to Le Guet, of all the irrigated farms in the region concerned by the Deux-Sèvres project, the ones that will be connected to the new basins use twice as much water on average as the others.

“This is not just a conflict between certain farmers and environmentalist groups,” said Laurence Marandola, a spokesperson for the Confédération Paysanne farmers’ union, which opposes the basins. “All of us farmers need water,” she said.

And there is less and less of it. Due to the combined effects of global warming and over-pumping, Europe’s groundwater resources have been steadily declining in recent decades, with a yearly loss of some 84 gigatons of water (roughly the equivalent of Lake Ontario) since the turn of the century—just like what’s happening elsewhere in the world, from much of the U.S. to the Middle East.

Critics, including conservationists, small farmers, and scientists, slam the reservoirs as a particularly wasteful method of storing water. Keeping it out in the open, rather than underground, means that some of it evaporates and the remaining part heats up, filling with toxic bacteria, said Christian Amblard, an honorary research director at France’s National Center for Scientific Research. “You’ve got, at the same time, a loss of quantity and quality. It makes no sense,” he said.

Finally, these reservoirs are accused of perpetuating what critics call an unsustainable agricultural model that consumes too much water and accelerates global warming. More than 60 percent of Europe’s arable land is used to feed livestock—which, globally, is responsible for over 30 percent of the world’s emissions of methane—a powerful greenhouse gas. The crops that are grown for animal feed include corn, which occupies one-third of all irrigated land in France and demands lots of water in the summer—hence the need for solutions such as the reservoirs.

“The mega-basins are delaying a transition to a responsible, resilient, and water-efficient agriculture,” Amblard said.

That transition would entail, among other things, working to make soils more capable of retaining water and pivoting away from meat and dairy production, according to experts. With up to 15 billion euros in public aid doled out to the French agriculture sector every year, the necessary financial resources shouldn’t be hard to find, Amblard said. “The agricultural sector is one of the few where the ecological transition can be carried out without leaving anyone by the wayside,” he said.

So far, though, successive French governments have shown little appetite for that, handsomely subsidizing the reservoirs instead—which current French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau praised as “virtuous.” Taxpayers will foot 70 percent of the 76-million-euro bill for the ones planned in the Deux-Sèvres. If farmers have an outsized political and financial influence in the European Union as a whole, in France they are a political power unto themselves.

French authorities have also been cracking down hard on the anti-basins movement. Police have come under heavy criticism for their handling of the Sainte-Soline protest, with the Human Rights League, a French nongovernmental organization, denouncing the indiscriminate firing of rubber bullets and the hindering of first-aid workers by the security forces in a bid to “prevent access to the basin’s site, whatever the human cost.”

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has described some of those taking part in the protests as “eco-terrorists” and has taken steps to dissolve Les Soulèvements de la Terre (Earth’s Uprisings), a vocal, and sometimes violent, environmental group.

“We are increasingly the target of legal actions, investigations, and surveillance,” Le Guet said. “Over the last year, court summons have been raining down,” he said, adding that the movement will continue to hamper new basin construction, nonetheless.

The debate looming in France is a familiar one from the American West to the headwaters of the Nile. The basins “are being politicized and isolated from their context, with the farmers who back them being unfairly designated as villains,” Devaux said.

But “there simply isn’t enough water in the underground reserves to carry on like this, extracting these amounts of water for agriculture,” Marandola said. “And what is done with the water that’s taken should be decided in a democratic way, for every single drop.”

[frank-olivier]

Terence McKenna gave a talk at a 1993 UFO convention, where he discussed his personal encounter with a UFO. He had previously written about this encounter in his book "True Hallucinations", which recounts his adventures and experiences in the Amazon Basin during the 1970s. The talk was given to an audience largely unfamiliar with McKenna's work, so he shared his thoughts on UFOs, aliens, and their potential connection to psychedelic experiences. He posited that some psychedelic substances serve as gateways to the collective unconscious and facilitate encounters with alien-like entities, linking the personal psychedelic journey to broader cosmic and evolutionary narratives. This idea blends Jungian psychology with shamanic and esoteric traditions, framing UFO encounters as symbolic representations of deeper psychological truths or potential glimpses into alternate realities.

Terence McKenna: UFO - The Inside Outsider (1993)

In this talk, given at an ethnobotanical conference in Palenque, Mexico, McKenna discusses the idea of humanity entering a new phase of existence. In McKenna's view, the evolution of human communication and creativity was not just a biological process, but also a spiritual and consciousness-expanding journey. He saw the development of language and symbolic thinking as key factors in humanity's ability to perceive and interact with the Gaian Mind, ultimately shaping our understanding of reality and our place within it. He envisioned a world where human activities, including scientific and technological development, would be guided by a deep connection to the Gaian Mind rather than by capitalist imperatives. He used the metaphor of birth to describe this transition, comparing our current state to being in the birth canal of a new ontological order. 

Terence McKenna: New Phase of Human Existence (1994)

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

[regisafoster]

Port Jervis, New York - A Historic Canal and Railroad Transport Hub

With roots as a pre-automobile transportation hub, Port Jervis, New York, is a historic burgh with a history of colonial settlement extending to the 1690s. Northeast of New York City, it’s situated amidst the fertile valleys of the Delaware and Neversink River systems. The valleys mark the boundary between the Appalachian Plateau and Shawangunk Mountains, and hundreds of miles of state and nationally-managed recreational lands surround it.

Initially known as Carpenter’s Point, Port Jervis was a landing point for timber raftsmen who plied the upper Delaware River. It was also a stop on the Old Mine Road, the country’s first 100-mile road (now United States Route 209), which took travelers south from Kingston.

Carpenter’s Point was incorporated into Deerpark in 1798. The locale was named Port Jervis in 1827, and it officially became a port of the Delaware River and Hudson Canal in 1828. As a repair point and boat basin, it formed an essential station on a 171-mile-long transportation network that brought anthracite coal from Pennsylvania’s northeastern mountains to New England and New York City. The name was in honor of the Hudson Canal’s chief engineer, John B. Jervis, from Rome, New York.

In 1847, Port Jervis became a hub for railroad operations and grew to house a main engine terminal facility while serving as the Delaware Division of the Erie Railroad’s headquarters. This property included the railroad’s primary maintenance and yard facilities.

Port Jervis officially became a village in 1853 and ultimately incorporated as a city in 1907. In the late 19th century, several glass factories began business, and an influx of employees producing glassware, silk, gloves, shorts, mittens, and saws moved in. The railroad yards and light manufacturing shops were a major part of the local economy through the 1960s.

Today, tourism is the mainstay of Port Jervis, with historic Front Street featuring eateries, a bookshop, antique shops, and other small businesses. The well-marked Delaware River Heritage Trail provides a walking tour of various gardens, historical structures, and an exceptional view of the Delaware River.

Among the well-preserved sites worth exploring is Fort Decker, a stone house on West Main Street that was initially constructed in 1760 and burnt by Joseph Brant alongside Native American allies in a 1779 raid during the Revolutionary War. Serving as the Minisink Valley Historical Society museum, Martinus Decker rebuilt the house in 1793 and used it as a tavern and hotel during the years of the Delaware and Hudson Canal construction. Indeed, John B. Jervis stayed at the location while engineering the canal.

Another historic remnant is the Port Jervis turntable, which comprises a circular area with a 115-foot diameter and a bridge. Able to carry a weight of more than 440 tons or a locomotive loaded with coal and water, the turntable is the largest that still operates nationwide.

Befitting its status as a scenic tourist destination, Port Jervis offers several popular events each year, including the Fall Foliage Festival, for which volunteers place 50 corn stalks on light poles decorating Pike and Front Streets. There are also popular holiday events such as the Downtown Spooktacular and the Chriskindlmarkt, with the latter featuring horse and carriage rides and traditional juggling as entertainment.

[beesmygod]

DORK SAULS: the hallway leading to gwyn's tomb is lined by statues of silver knights. granted that there are approximately seven million silver knight statues in anor londo, do you think the knights of that hallway are specifically meant to parallel the white staircase that silver knights walk across leading to the kiln of the first flame?

gwyn had two sets of knights. the silver knights in anor londo and the black knights that gwyn took with him to stave off the demons of chaos, rekindle the first flame, and in places where he really doesnt want anyone to touch anything.

its hard to see because they're sideways and only an insane person would notice, but the knights in the kiln of the first flame hallway are black knights. we can tell because they have a slightly different helmet horn shape. and their popped collar.

the black knights were once silver knights charred during the battle against the newly formed flame of chaos.

black knight shield description:

"Shield of the Black Knights that wander Lordan. A flowing canal is chiseled deeply into its face." "Long ago, the black knights faced the chaos demons, and were charred black, but their shields became highly resistant to fire."

gwyn took the same lads he took to the chaos demon fight to rekindle the first flame but got them all crisped up in the end.

black knight armor description:

"The knights followed Lord Gwyn when he departed to link the Fire but they were burned to ashes in the newly kindled flame, wandering the world as disembodied spirits ever after."

sucks! the ones IN lordran are not those spirits. those guys just didn't make the cut to get annihilated instantly through no fault of their own. they're left in places that make for good gameplay, but like, also they're sort of (99% coincidentally) in places that make for interesting lore readings: one in undead burg before you fight the taurus demon is also outside havel's cell. the one in the undead parish tower guards the firekeeper's soul. two of them seem to have been dispatched to figure out what the fuck happened at the asylum and brought the priscilla's doll with them to dump. the one in darkroot basin is near havel's prison AND the entrance to new londo, where the true nature of humanity can be uncovered.......and the last two are near vamos and his evil anti-god shield with his face on it

effigy shield description:

"Frightful occult shield. Defends against divine weapons and lightning.In an ill-fated plot to destroy the very gods, the followers of the occult once attempted to steal the power of Gravelord Nito, the first of the dead."

havel was part of that plot. lets not open this can of worms. those are the bare facts.

anyway: back to the hallway. i think the number of silver knight statues is intended to impart the once grand and massive scale of anor londo. the army we see is a tiny fraction of what they managed to make statues of. now it's eerily empty. there's a lot of debate over what the white hallway before the first kiln is supposed to be. a void i guess. who knows. this didnt tell us anything in the end. sorry.

[whumpster-fire]

Uhh lemme see what I remember

The great lakes, going upstream to downstream, are Superior, Michigan (does Superior actually flow into it or is it a branch?), Huron, Erie, and Ontario

There are several other lakes in the system that are pretty darn big by lake standards but aren't counted as Great Lakes because they're so enormous by comparison. Lake St. Clair between Huron and Erie is one of them, I think there are a couple other significant ones that flow into Lake Superior or something.

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by area in the world (though not by volume, that would be Lake Baikal), unless you count Michigan and Huron as one lake because there's a strait between them and not a river, in which case they'd be the biggest.

Niagara Falls is somewhere between Erie and Ontario.

We share all of them except Lake Michigan with Canada.

There's a famous canal called the Erie Canal that I assume connects Lake Erie and... some river or lake in upstate new york? I know the song goes "From Albany to Buffalo."

In winter prevailing winds from the west pick up moisture off the warm lake water and create "lake effect snow" when they hit land south and east of the lakes, which makes places like Ohio and Upstate NY have very snowy winters.

Their outflow is the St Lawrence river which is a major navigational channel in Canada and... is that river the border between the US and Canada at any point or does it just go north into Canada?

Can you get a boat/ship from the ocean all the way to Lake Superior via canals or is Niagara Falls in the way?

The Great Lakes are only the latest in a long series of different lakes that have occupied the basin over the course of glacial and interglacial cycles during the current ice age, and IIRC the basin is sitting on top of an extremely ancient failed rift in the North American Craton from over a billion years ago.

Lake Huron has the largest island in a lake in the world, which contains the largest lake on an island in a lake. I think at higher levels of recursion some lakes in northern Canada take the record.

Do other USAmericans not know the names of the Great Lakes?? I grew up in the midwest so like. They're important here but I never considered that other people might not give a fuck about these terrifying inland seas until I was reading a fic that said "the large Lake Michigan and another called Lake Erie" as if there are people who don't know about Lake Michigan and Lake Erie.

Is that the case?? Are people outside of the midwest aware of these bodies of water outside of being just big lakes???

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[ad_1] PICTURE COURTESY : LOKRAJ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav said that after the ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ for the Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal Nadi Jodo Pariyojana between Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, now it has been agreed to sign the ‘Memorandum of Agreement’. The summary will be presented to the Cabinet within 15 days for administrative approval of the scheme. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav was addressing the ministers before the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav said that this ambitious project of Rs 75 thousand crore of the state will help to irrigate more than 6 lakh hectare area in 2094 villages of 11 districts (Guna, Shivpuri, Sehore, Dewas, Rajgarh, Ujjain, Agar Malwa, Indore, Shajapur, Mandsaur and Morena) of the state. Besides, water will also be available for drinking and industrial supply. Under the scheme, 21 dams and barrages will be built in Madhya Pradesh. The cost of the works to be done in the state under the scheme is approximately Rs 36 thousand 800 crore. Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal Link Project will change the lives of millions of farmers of the Chambal and Malwa regions in MP. They will not only get adequate water available for irrigation and drinking but will also promote tourism and industry in the concerned area. Under this project, 17 projects of Madhya Pradesh and East Rajasthan Canal Project of Rajasthan are included. The total cost of the project is proposed to be Rs 72 thousand crores. With the implementation of the project, provision has been made for about 172 million cubic metre of water for irrigation and drinking water in a total 6.11 lakh hectare new area of ​​Madhya Pradesh and for industries. About 40 lakh families will benefit from the project. In the modified Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal project, maximum use will be made of the water of Parvati, Kuno, Kalisindh, Chambal, Kshipra and tributary rivers originating from Madhya Pradesh. Under the project, 04 dams (Katila, Sonpur, Pava and Dhanwadi) in Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Irrigation Complex, 02 barrages (Shyampur, Nainagarh), 02 dams (Kumbhraj-1 and Kumbhraj-2) in Kumbhraj Complex and 07 dams in Ranjit Sagar, Lakhundar Barrage and the upper Chambal basin and 7 dams (Sonchiri, Ramvasa, Bachera, Padunia, Sewarkhedi, Chitawad and Sikri Sultanpura) are included. Apart from this, construction of small dams on Chambal, Kshipra and Gambhir rivers upstream of Gandhi Sagar Dam is also proposed. This is one of the major achievements of the state government. The work of this project, to be built with the cooperation of the Central Government, will be completed in the next 05 years. A total of 21 dams, barrages and balancing reservoirs, etc. are proposed to be constructed under the project. Also, in the project, provision has been made for complete renovation and modernization of the existing Chambal Right Main Canal (CRMC) between Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and the CRMC system in Madhya Pradesh region, which will make the allotted water available for irrigation and drinking purpose to Sheopur, Morena and Bhind districts of Madhya Pradesh. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed to prepare the DPR of the project on 28 January 2024 in the presence of the Minister of Jal Shakti Mantralaya, Government of India, Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and Additional Chief Secretaries and Secretaries of both the states. Under the modified Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal Link Project, DPR of 06 projects of Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Irrigation Complex of Madhya Pradesh has been prepared and sent to the National Water Development Agency, Government of India. DPR of the remaining projects is under process at various levels. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) of the revised Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal Link Project cum East Rajasthan Canal Project received from the Government of India was sent by the Government of Madhya Pradesh after amendment to the Government of India on 25 October

2024 with the request that the points (works) of Madhya Pradesh) be included in the MOA and the finalized agreement (MOA) be sent to the Madhya Pradesh government, so that approval can be obtained from the government on the final draft (MOA). [ad_2] Source link

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Will We Have to Pump the Great Lakes to California to Feed the Nation? (New York Times)

Coast to coast, our food producing regions, especially those stretching from the southern Great Plains across the sunny, dry Southwest, rely heavily and sometimes exclusively on groundwater for irrigation. And it’s disappearing — fast.

What happens to the nation’s food production if the groundwater runs out altogether? Unless we act now, we could soon reach a point where water must be piped from the wetter parts of the country, such as the Great Lakes, to drier, sunnier regions where the bulk of the nation’s food is produced. No one wants unsightly pipelines snaking across the country, draining Lake Michigan to feed the citrus groves of the Central Valley. But that future is drawing closer by the day, and at some point, we may look back on this moment and wish we’d acted differently.

For over a century, America’s farmers have overpumped groundwater, and now, as the world warms and the Southwest becomes drier, the situation is only growing more dire. Rivers are slowing to a trickle, water tables are falling, land is sinking, and wells are drying up. Each year, roughly 25,000 more farmers fallow their fields, putting both food and water security in the United States at risk.

States are aware there is a problem — many are trying to sustainably manage their groundwater. But it’s not clear how successful these efforts have been. My research team has found that groundwater depletion is accelerating in the Central Valley, in spite of California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. In Arizona, groundwater is only managed in less than 20 percent of the state, leaving a free-for-all in the state’s unmanaged areas.

The United States has no plan for the disruptions that will befall our food systems as critical water supplies dwindle, causing the price of some foods to skyrocket and bringing us closer to the time when we may have to consider pipelines to replenish or replace depleted groundwater.

 Americans, particularly those living in places like the Great Lakes region, have already shown that they have little stomach for infrastructure projects that would move their local water to remote locations, even if it is to produce the food they eat every day.

It’s not just the political climate that makes tapping water resources in the East such an undesirable prospect. We’ve built systems of canals to move water around California and the Colorado River basin, but constructing a transcontinental pipeline or river diversion, at the scale required to sustain U.S. agriculture, would be staggeringly more complex, expensive and environmentally disruptive.

They would require significant landscape changes and human displacement. And because water is so heavy, it is extremely expensive to transport. Building the necessary conveyances would require decades of planning, have major environmental consequences and cost taxpayers astronomical sums — easily tens to hundreds of billions of dollars, and far more when you take the human and environmental costs into account.

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[ad_1] PICTURE COURTESY : LOKRAJ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav said that after the ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ for the Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal Nadi Jodo Pariyojana between Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, now it has been agreed to sign the ‘Memorandum of Agreement’. The summary will be presented to the Cabinet within 15 days for administrative approval of the scheme. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav was addressing the ministers before the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Chief Minister Dr. Yadav said that this ambitious project of Rs 75 thousand crore of the state will help to irrigate more than 6 lakh hectare area in 2094 villages of 11 districts (Guna, Shivpuri, Sehore, Dewas, Rajgarh, Ujjain, Agar Malwa, Indore, Shajapur, Mandsaur and Morena) of the state. Besides, water will also be available for drinking and industrial supply. Under the scheme, 21 dams and barrages will be built in Madhya Pradesh. The cost of the works to be done in the state under the scheme is approximately Rs 36 thousand 800 crore. Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal Link Project will change the lives of millions of farmers of the Chambal and Malwa regions in MP. They will not only get adequate water available for irrigation and drinking but will also promote tourism and industry in the concerned area. Under this project, 17 projects of Madhya Pradesh and East Rajasthan Canal Project of Rajasthan are included. The total cost of the project is proposed to be Rs 72 thousand crores. With the implementation of the project, provision has been made for about 172 million cubic metre of water for irrigation and drinking water in a total 6.11 lakh hectare new area of ​​Madhya Pradesh and for industries. About 40 lakh families will benefit from the project. In the modified Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal project, maximum use will be made of the water of Parvati, Kuno, Kalisindh, Chambal, Kshipra and tributary rivers originating from Madhya Pradesh. Under the project, 04 dams (Katila, Sonpur, Pava and Dhanwadi) in Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Irrigation Complex, 02 barrages (Shyampur, Nainagarh), 02 dams (Kumbhraj-1 and Kumbhraj-2) in Kumbhraj Complex and 07 dams in Ranjit Sagar, Lakhundar Barrage and the upper Chambal basin and 7 dams (Sonchiri, Ramvasa, Bachera, Padunia, Sewarkhedi, Chitawad and Sikri Sultanpura) are included. Apart from this, construction of small dams on Chambal, Kshipra and Gambhir rivers upstream of Gandhi Sagar Dam is also proposed. This is one of the major achievements of the state government. The work of this project, to be built with the cooperation of the Central Government, will be completed in the next 05 years. A total of 21 dams, barrages and balancing reservoirs, etc. are proposed to be constructed under the project. Also, in the project, provision has been made for complete renovation and modernization of the existing Chambal Right Main Canal (CRMC) between Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and the CRMC system in Madhya Pradesh region, which will make the allotted water available for irrigation and drinking purpose to Sheopur, Morena and Bhind districts of Madhya Pradesh. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed to prepare the DPR of the project on 28 January 2024 in the presence of the Minister of Jal Shakti Mantralaya, Government of India, Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and Additional Chief Secretaries and Secretaries of both the states. Under the modified Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal Link Project, DPR of 06 projects of Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Irrigation Complex of Madhya Pradesh has been prepared and sent to the National Water Development Agency, Government of India. DPR of the remaining projects is under process at various levels. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) of the revised Parvati-Kalisindh-Chambal Link Project cum East Rajasthan Canal Project received from the Government of India was sent by the Government of Madhya Pradesh after amendment to the Government of India on 25 October

2024 with the request that the points (works) of Madhya Pradesh) be included in the MOA and the finalized agreement (MOA) be sent to the Madhya Pradesh government, so that approval can be obtained from the government on the final draft (MOA). [ad_2] Source link

[ukdamo]

These Are Our Waters

Roy McFarlane

for the 10th Anniversary of the Canal & River Trust

These are our waters. The boater, navigating veins that have pumped through this network for a quarter of a century, veins that fed an industrial revolution the beating heart of a colonial empire.

These are our waters. The railway man saw them as a threat and wedded together steel and waters, only later to leave them tired and disused while they told their grand stories of a new age and left the waters in the shadows.

These are our waters. Easter boat gatherings – idle woman, no never idle from WWII with their IW badges working hard along these inland waterways.

These are our waters. Making life better by waters – from Tony Hayles & Alan Layton to giving praise to Leeds’ unsung heroes, all visionaries and dreamers transforming places enriching lives.

These are our waters. Young blood pumping nowhere to go, these waters know young and wild, nurtures and care for adolescents as they swagger and shout these are our endz.

These are our waters. Empire’s children return to the neighbourhoods bordered by mills, factories and steelworks. Here in our backyards in a basin of diversity running parallel to alleyways we play, we dare and make love under tunnels and by the lands that kiss and rub next to towpaths and in the evening, we colour them Diwali mix-tape folk dance with hip-hop.

These are our waters that will carry our sorrows. The bush and hanging trees catching our waiting dreams and waters will take our misery and herons will show you the joy of standing still, until the sun goes down.

These are our waters, let it be said by women who have to navigate dark corners, the roving eye just to walk these waters to run in freedom to the horizon that others take for granted.

These are 2,000 miles of water breathing life into countryside urban spaces, villages and hamlets corridors to another world, creating and conjuring green and blue spaces. Black Country Voyages to a Brummie Canal Serenade of riverside festivals and Shakespeare on the waters. Lock keepers and Heron watchers volunteers and community gardeners paddler and wild water swimmers knit and natter to make it better this is the Super Slow Way these are our waters.