#stoep

[varkenvandedag]

Als je goed kijkt, zie je overal varkens. Dit stoepvarken kwam ik bijvoorbeeld zondag bij mij in de buurt tegen. De tekenaar zag ik niet. Het is vrij basaal, maar afgaand op de neus en krulstaart is het toch echt een varken. #varken #stoepkrijt #stoep #pig #pigsofinstagram #utrecht #tolsteeg #krijt #pigs #drawing #sidewalkchalk (bij Tolsteeg, Utrecht, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch66fTIMDQE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#varken #stoepkrijt #stoep #pig #pigsofinstagram #utrecht #tolsteeg #krijt #pigs #drawing #sidewalkchalk

[mortimerlatrice]

hyena

#hyena porsche #idk i just think hybrids are neat #also you know those ears are soft 🥰 #porsche kittisawasd #kinnporsche the series #fanart #art #mort's unique art tag #this is all stoep's fault

[pigeonindustrialcomplex]

moved my drunk ass from the floor out to the stoep. watching people leave their houses to parties. vibing out to stupid little dance beats. mutuals come to [redacted] it's such a good time

#we have a futon big armchair and rocking chairs on out stoep it's Great

[lefabuleuxdestinde5grlamtwe]

#Maëlle Pierlot - verbazing : Achter het hek zit een wieg #kinderdagverblijf gooiden deze dingen op de stoep #(26/11 #Brussel)

[stephensmithuk]

The Blanched Soldier

Originally published in 1926; the Americans actually got this one first by a month.

I have covered the Boer War extensively in a previous post, but will add some notes on items directly relevant to this story.

The Imperial Yeomanry were a volunteer i.e. not career military force of mounted infantry formed in 1900 as reinforcements in the Boer War. They were disbanded in 1908 and merged into the Territorial Force, a precursor of what is now called the Army Reserve.

Mounted infantry were infantry that travelled on horseback and fount dismounted. They continued in use into the Cold War, with some units also being "mounted" on bicycles on both sides of the Second World War, before being replaced with mechanised infantry.

Middlesex was the traditional county that covered much of the North and West of what is now Greater London; losing a large chunk of its territory and population to the London County Council in 1889. It was abolished in 1965, but remains very much a thing for sporting and cultural purposes, with its own county cricket team being just one example.

A martinet is a strict disciplinarian, the name coming for a type of short whip. Arnold RImmer from Red Dwarf is sometimes described as such, although the character is clearly meant to be quite pathetic.

The Victoria Cross is the highest British award for gallantry, equivalent to the Medal of Honor and like that medal, frequently awarded posthumously. It also usually requires multiple witnesses to the gallantry in question. It trumps absolutely everything bar the George Cross in the honours system, and it is traditional for a private with a VC to be saluted by a general officer.

The most recent VC was awarded to Joshua Leakey in 2015 for his involvement in a firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2013, where he took control of a machine gun left on a hill and kept firing even as bullets ricocheted off the weapon.

An elephant gun is a large calibre rifle intended for use against elephants and large animals. They saw some military use in the World Wars by the British against armoured German snipers in the trenches of the First and by the Italians against British armoured cars in North Africa during the Second. Since ivory hunting became taboo, they are much less common.

Bedford is a market town in England and county town of Bedfordshire. It has two stations, the main one being located on the Midland Main Line running into St Pancras. Served by Thameslink, East Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway services, the last on the Marston Vale line to Bletchley, it is on the outer edge of the London commuter belt.

The other station at Bedford St. John's is served by LNWR services on the Marston Vale line to Bletchley, which is part of the former Varsity Line from Oxford to Cambridge. The station was resited in 1984.

The Sultan of Turkey - and the whole Ottoman Empire - in 1903 was Abdul Hamid II, a modernising absolute ruler who faced many assassination attempts and was ousted in a coup in 1909, replaced by his half-brother Mehmed V.

The Spectator is a British political magazine that has run since 1828. Being distinctly conservative in its world view, its former editors include one Boris Johnson.

"Squadron" was the traditional term for company or battalion sized cavalry or mounted infantry units. Outside of naval and air force use, it is now used for armoured units, which are frequently old cavalry units that just changed their level of horsepower.

Stoep is an Afrikaans word for "stoop".

Leprosy is transmittable by close contact, but you generally need a lot of it. It is still common in Brazil, much of Africa and India, but is now curable. Prejudice remains a big problem, with "leper colonies" still being common.

The general scholarly consensus is that it wasn't ichthoysis, of which there are many types. The NHS has more information here (with pictures): https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/ichthyosis/

#letters from watson #sherlock holmes #history #acd canon #blan #the blanched soldier #factoids

[limefrogg]

#poll #kinderen voor kinderen #kvk #nedermeme #dutchblr #dutch #netherlands #nederland #nedermemes #mijn mobiel blijft mijn favoriet #heel 25 is geweldig

[jabbage]

#Letters from Watson #lettersfromwatson

[enjoypaitings]

Neil Rodger (John Neil Rodger) (South African, 1941 - 2013) - Karoo Stoep I, 2011

picture resolution 2048 × 1695

More by #john neil rodger enjoypaitings

#john neil rodger #john neil rodger enjoypaitings

[germanpostwarmodern]

Multi-Purpose Complex „Ahoy“ (1968-71) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by Ernest Groosman with F.G. van der Stoep and M.G.C. Pinnoo

#1960s #convention center #concrete #architecture #netherlands #architektur #rotterdam #ernest groosman

[visit-new-york]

Jazz giant Billie Holiday's onetime NYC brownstone apartment

Billie Holiday once lived in this Upper West Side townhouse. The jazz legend once occupied a first-floor apartment in this brownstone

What is a brownstone apartment? The term “brownstone” is quite straightforward: The word refers to the brown sandstone used to coat the facades of brick row houses built for single, middle-class families in the early 19th century.

The Renaissance Revival brownstone, at 26 W. 87th St., is where "Lady Day" lived until her tragic death at age 44 in 1959

This property is also where she released one of her most famous albums, “Lady in Satin,” in 1958.

The 20-foot-wide, six-story townhouse, standing a block from Central Park, was built in 1910 and no longer has its original stoop.

What does it mean to live in a brownstone? Townhouses and row houses are narrow buildings built in a row and attached to other townhouses or buildings on one or both sides. A brownstone is a townhouse or row house made of brick and — this is the crucial part — fronted with a brownstone facade.

What makes a brownstone special? One of the most distinctive features of a classic NYC brownstones is its stoop—a word appropriated from “stoep”, the Dutch word for “stair.” The Dutch built stoops to raise their parlor floor above flood waters; some posit that the New York City stoops were built to raise the parlor floor above a “sea of horse manure.”

Read also - Chelsea pre-war building

#brownstone #apartment #billie holiday #manhattan #upper west side #west side #New York City #new york #newyork #New-York #nyc #ny #urban #city

[yourrlocal-frye]

I'm not gonna ask for anything

I just want to tell you how much your arm makes me happy like hello???

There's no specific reason it just makes me so giggly like what the fucckkkk

I look at your art daily and you inspire me way more then you should

STOEP BEING SO COOL GRRRR

OMGGNG TYSN IM SO GLAD IT MAKES YOU HAPPY

I can’t express how grateful I am ugghfgffg I LOVE YOU ,ALL OF YOU/P

[lienanna]

Goa

‘Beach’, en dan bedoel ik de term zoals die in de Barbiefilm als werkwoord wordt gebruikt, is zegmaar echt niet zo ons ding. Voor het eerst deze vakantie slapen we twee ochtenden uit. De rest van de dag hangen we rond in strandtenten, spelen een spelletje, lezen een boekje, drinken een cocktail en hebben we vooral het gevoel onze tijd te verdoen. In Goa kan je op elke straathoek een blik bier kopen en desgewild in je bikini op de stoep gaan liggen. Dat maakt het voor binnenlandse toeristen gewild en bijzonder, voor ons knabbelt het af aan onze veel te korte tijd hier. Jeroen regelt dat we een kayaktour kunnen doen in de uitloper van de rivier om het strand te ontvluchten en dat is, samen met de uitzichten op een rondje hardlopen, het hoogtepunt van ons verblijf. Verder is het ook wel lekker om uit te rusten van alle indrukken tot nu toe.

Wat we hier missen: een stoep langs de weg. Alle weggebruikers, waaronder non-stop claxonerende automobilisten en scooterrijders, koeien en waakse honden, delen dezelfde stoffige tweebaansweg, die daardoor bijzonder onprettig is om langs te lopen. Degene in wiens huis we logeren biedt ons zijn auto te leen aan en hoewel ik dacht autorijden wel tot gevorderdenniveau onder de knie te hebben na een paar vakanties in Italië, is er een héle grote noodsituatie met héél veel adrenaline nodig voordat ik dat hier zelf zou proberen. We zitten dus vast aan ritjes met zijn vaste taxichauffeur en voelen ons daardoor een beetje opgesloten.

Wat ik inmiddels ook mis: rauwe groenten en fruit. In de buitengebieden doe je boodschappen bij kleine groentestalletjes langs de drukkere stukken van de weg, maar daar komen we dus nauwelijks. Ik vraag onze chauffeur om een tussenstop te maken en koop een papaya en een grote, ronde, groene vrucht die ik niet thuis kan brengen. Terug in de auto vraag ik wat ik heb gekocht, het blijkt een avocado te zijn. Die groeien hier, net als cashewnoten en mango.

Beide vruchten zijn nog niet eetrijp dus smokkel ik ze mee in mijn handbagage naar Delhi. Mijn tas wordt er in de scanner uitgepikt door de douane, die op basis van de rontgenbeelden denkt dat ik een kokosnoot mee wil nemen (veeg teken voor de hoeveelheid vruchtvlees rond mijn avocadopit. Later leer ik dat kokosnoten verboden zijn omdat ze door het drukverschil tijdens de vlucht kunnen exploderen). Na overleg met een collega mag ik ze meenemen. Het zit best in de weg, dus tip: reis niet met een papaya en een gigantische avocado in je handbagage.

Niet gelukt: op zijn Goanees pittige vindaloo eten. Zonde omdat: we daar in de eerste plaats al meer voor naar Goa kwamen dan voor het strand. Overigens was het wel voor het eerst dat ik vindaloo at (in Nederland is die altijd wél te pittig) en was het een van de lekkerste dingen die ik tot nu toe gegeten heb.

[b0ytr4sh]

STOEP OMG

#DUDE WTF #THEYR SO GAY #IM. #juno watches sk8

[ophelia-thinks]

And I began to see New York in a different way, seeing beneath the formlessness, in the detail of the cornice, the movement of stone steps--stoep, say the Dutch, and we say, stoop--beneath the nearly invincible and despairing noise, the sound of many tongues, all struggling for dominance. Since I was here to stay, I had to examine it, learn it all over again, and try to find out if I had ever loved it. But the question contained, or so I suspected, its own melancholy answer. If I had ever loved New York, that love had, literally, been beaten out of me; if I had ever loved it, my life would never have depended on so long an absence and so deep a divorce; or, if I had ever loved it, I would have been glad, not frightened, to be back in my home town. No, I didn't love it, at least not any more, but I was going to have to survive it. In order to survive it, I would have to watch it. And, though I had nightmares about that Southland which I had never seen, I was terribly anxious to get there, perhaps to corroborate the nightmare, but certainly to get out of what was once described to me as "the great unfinished city."

James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

#bookshelf

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 2, 2023

Sensory Evidence Accumulation Using Optic Flow in a Naturalistic Navigation Task. Alefantis, P., Lakshminarasimhan, K., Avila, E., Noel, J.-P., Pitkow, X., & Angelaki, D. E. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(27), 5451–5462.

Cognitive experience alters cortical involvement in goal-directed navigation. Arlt, C., Barroso-Luque, R., Kira, S., Bruno, C. A., Xia, N., Chettih, S. N., … Harvey, C. D. (2022). eLife, 11, e76051.

Fast and slow contributions to decision-making in corticostriatal circuits. Balewski, Z. Z., Knudsen, E. B., & Wallis, J. D. (2022). Neuron, 110(13), 2170-2182.e4.

Neuromodulatory Mechanisms Underlying Contrast Gain Control in Mouse Auditory Cortex. Cody, P. A., & Tzounopoulos, T. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(28), 5564–5579.

Widespread implementations of interactive social gaze neurons in the primate prefrontal-amygdala networks. Dal Monte, O., Fan, S., Fagan, N. A., Chu, C.-C. J., Zhou, M. B., Putnam, P. T., … Chang, S. W. C. (2022). Neuron, 110(13), 2183-2197.e7.

Clustering and the efficient use of cognitive resources. Dasgupta, I., & Griffiths, T. L. (2022). Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 109, 102675.

Widespread ripples synchronize human cortical activity during sleep, waking, and memory recall. Dickey, C. W., Verzhbinsky, I. A., Jiang, X., Rosen, B. Q., Kajfez, S., Stedelin, B., … Halgren, E. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(28), e2107797119.

Human muscle spindles are wired to function as controllable signal-processing devices. Dimitriou, M. (2022). eLife, 11, e78091.

Prior actions influence cost–benefit‐related decision‐making during mouse foraging behaviours. Dylda, E., & Wang, K. H. (2022). European Journal of Neuroscience, 56(2), 3861–3874.

Model Sharing in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Glitz, L., Juechems, K., Summerfield, C., & Garrett, N. (2022). Journal of Neuroscience, 42(27), 5410–5426.

Serial dependence for oculomotor control depends on early sensory signals. Goettker, A., & Stewart, E. E. M. (2022). Current Biology, 32(13), 2956-2961.e3.

A synaptic signal for novelty processing in the hippocampus. Gómez-Ocádiz, R., Trippa, M., Zhang, C.-L., Posani, L., Cocco, S., Monasson, R., & Schmidt-Hieber, C. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 4122.

Coevolution of motor cortex and behavioral specializations associated with flight and echolocation in bats. Halley, A. C., Baldwin, M. K. L., Cooke, D. F., Englund, M., Pineda, C. R., Schmid, T., … Krubitzer, L. (2022). Current Biology, 32(13), 2935-2941.e3.

Visual timing-tuned responses in human association cortices and response dynamics in early visual cortex. Hendrikx, E., Paul, J. M., van Ackooij, M., van der Stoep, N., & Harvey, B. M. (2022). Nature Communications, 13, 3952.

Functionally specific and sparse domain-based micro-networks in monkey V1 and V2. Hu, J. M., & Roe, A. W. (2022). Current Biology, 32(13), 2797-2809.e3.

Sigma oscillations protect or reinstate motor memory depending on their temporal coordination with slow waves. Nicolas, J., King, B. R., Levesque, D., Lazzouni, L., Coffey, E., Swinnen, S., … Albouy, G. (2022). eLife, 11, e73930.

Neurogliaform cells dynamically decouple neuronal synchrony between brain areas. Sakalar, E., Klausberger, T., & Lasztóczi, B. (2022). Science, 377(6603), 324–328.

Learning accurate path integration in ring attractor models of the head direction system. Vafidis, P., Owald, D., D’Albis, T., & Kempter, R. (2022). eLife, 11, e69841.

Selective representations of texture and motion in mouse higher visual areas. Yu, Y., Stirman, J. N., Dorsett, C. R., & Smith, S. L. (2022). Current Biology, 32(13), 2810-2820.e5.

Sound induces analgesia through corticothalamic circuits. Zhou, W., Ye, C., Wang, H., Mao, Y., Zhang, W., Liu, A., … Zhang, Z. (2022). Science, 377(6602), 198–204.

#science #Neuroscience #computational neuroscience #Brain science #research #cognition #cognitive science #neurons #neural networks #neural computation #neurobiology #psychophysics #scientific publications

[patronsaint-ofthedenial]

I fucking loev listeneing to one song on repeat you can't stoep me