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Darién National Park + Playa Muerto and the Emberá of Darién, also known in the historical literature as the Chocó or Katío Indians, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. The village Playa Muerto lies in Darién National Park (Parque Nacional Darién), in Panama’s Eastern-most province of the same name. Bordering with Colombia, the Darién province is densely covered by rain forest and sparsely populated; its capital is La Palma. Darién National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and extends across some 2,236 mi². The Park is among the largest and most protected areas in Central America. It includes a stretch of the Pacific Coast and makes up almost the entire border with neighboring Colombia. The Park boasts an exceptional variety of habitats, such as sandy beaches, rocky coasts, mangroves, swamps, and lowland and highland tropical forests, which are home to a remarkable variety of wildlife. Representatives of two Indian tribes live on the Park’s riverbanks: approximately 200 Kuna Indians and 1,000 Wounaan and Emberá, together referred to in literature as Chocó Indians. Both tribes are indigenous to Panama and Colombia and have long shared the same territory. Their recent history and their culture are similar. They do, however, speak different languages; their traditional roles – Wounaan were artists, Emberá were warriors – set them apart; and they are politically organized as distinct groups. For centuries, the Emberá lived semi-nomadic lives as hunter-gatherers and fishermen. Their constant movement through the most remote parts of the rainforest did not allow for accurate anthropological studies until recently. It is believed that the Emberá moved from the Amazon to the Choco region in Colombia and onward to the Darién during the 16th century. Today, approximately 33,000 people who identify as Emberá live on Panamanian soil - most of them in the Darién Province. The biggest impact on the Indian tribes in the Darién was caused by the extension of the Pan-American Highway, the famous road link between Alaska and the southernmost point of South America. It was in 1979 that the dirt road was cut straight through the pristine jungle of the Darién. The road opened the region to cars and trucks and offered easy access for Campesinos (poor farmers of Hispanic background) looking for virgin jungle land to clear-cut for cattle breeding and slash-and-burn farming. Today, cattle farms and plantations are bordering the Pan-American Highway in the Darién, and no jungle can be seen for miles on both sides. The area near the border with Colombia is called “The Darién Gap” as it extends around the only missing piece in the Pan-American Highway that stretches from Alaska to the pencil tip of Argentina. The world's longest motor accessible road crosses through the entirety of North, Central, and South America, with the sole exception of the 60 mile gap in the Darién. The large swath of dense pristine forest that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast makes overland travel from North America to South America virtually impossible. Some daring adventurers have tried to cross the Darién Gap, but only a handful of attempts were successful. At the small town of Yaviza, the Pan-American-Highway ends – but settlements do not. Rivers are the highways of the Darien’s interior, and people native to this land travel on them on small motorboats and dugout canoes. This is where the true Darién begins – an untouched virgin jungle. While it is certain that the access to the modern world through the existing part of the Pan-American Highway provides various benefits to the indigenous people of the region, it is clear that, in many ways, it has also caused negative impact and irrevocable change to their lives. Apart from the obvious fact that the continuing deforestation is destroying their natural habitat and hunting grounds, modernization also made the indigenous depend on hard-currency income. In 1985, it was estimated that 25 percent of Emberá people in Panamá still lived according to the traditional dispersed settlement pattern. However, life in settled communities is now considered the norm, or "typical" of most Emberá. In addition to these settled communities, many Emberá now live in urban areas. According to the 2010 Panamanian National Census, over one third of Panamanian Emberá people live in the central province of Panamá, and over 25% of the total Panamanian Emberá population reside in urban districts of Panama City. Thus, subsistence farming has become a thing of the past. Around each village, the jungle is partly cleared and replaced by banana and plantain plantations, a commercial crop for the Emberá, who sell them to get cash for their outboard motors, mosquito nets, and the like. But generating monetary income proves difficult for the Indigenous. Most communities have no land titles and no authorization to exploit the land commercially. Many villages saw their young adults move to the cites. To counter this, a focus on creating the economic basis that allows the indigenous to remain in their villages is Cultural tourism and the sale of handicraft. The Emberá may lack most resources and all but the most basic education, their culture and their art represent two very valuable assets. For more, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ember%C3%A1 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embera-Wounaan
I talk to you but its not the same as touchin' you
And every time you whisper my name, I wanna run to you
We'll be together, it won't be long, it won't be long
But it feels like forever, and its hard to be strong
Baby 'cause I'm missing you now
And its drivin' me crazy
How I'm needin' you baby
I'm missing you now
Can't wait till I'm alone with you
To show you how I'm missing you now
Wishin' you were here by my side is all that I can do
Got my arms around my pillow at night, they should be
holdin' you
Thought I was stronger, how could I know, how could
I know
I can't take this much longer, its so hard on my soul
Baby I just can't wait, till I see your face
Chase away this loneliness inside
When you're close to my heart, right here in my arms
Then and only then, will I be satisfied
I'm missing you now
We'll be together, it won't be long, it won't be long
But it feels like forever, and its hard to be strong
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy PGC 54493. Processing variant.
Original caption: This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a beautiful spiral galaxy known as PGC 54493, located in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent). This galaxy is part of a galaxy cluster that has been studied by astronomers exploring an intriguing phenomenon known as weak gravitational lensing. This effect, caused by the uneven distribution of matter (including dark matter) throughout the Universe, has been explored via surveys such as the Hubble Medium Deep Survey. Dark matter is one of the great mysteries in cosmology. It behaves very differently from ordinary matter as it does not emit or absorb light or other forms of electromagnetic energy — hence the term "dark". Even though we cannot observe dark matter directly, we know it exists. One prominent piece of evidence for the existence of this mysterious matter is known as the "galaxy rotation problem". Galaxies rotate at such speeds and in such a way that ordinary matter alone — the stuff we see — would not be able to hold them together. The amount of mass that is "missing" visibly is dark matter, which is thought to make up some 27% of the total contents of the Universe, with dark energy and normal matter making up the rest. PGC 55493 has been studied in connection with an effect known as cosmic shearing. This is a weak gravitational lensing effect that creates tiny distortions in images of distant galaxies. A version of this image was entered into the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestant Judy Schmidt. Links Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS)
St Margaret, Stoven, Suffolk
The Stoven war memorial is a brass plaque with six names on it.
Here's a good storyline for The X-Files. In the second half of the 19th century, a group of aliens decides to take over the Earth. Sensing the authority of the Church of England, they decide to use this institution to disguise themselves. They will build apparently medieval churches to use as cover for their headquarters on the planet they hope to conquer. One alien finds a book of medieval architectural styles. Norman looks nice. They decide to build Norman parish churches so that the populace will think they are Vicars and choirboys, not aliens.
Of course, it all goes hopelessly wrong. By choosing the Norman style they have blown their cover wide open. They can just about get away with the doorways. But the collonaded windows begin to raise suspicion, and once you get inside the churches it is all pretty hopeless - the Norman stone pulpits, Norman stone lecterns, Norman pews, they are all sad and laughable. The aliens are exposed, and sent packing.
19th century restorations in the Norman style are almost uniformly horrible. By the early years of that century, many of Suffolk's churches were in a poor state, but to rebuild some of them in the Norman style was a dreadful mistake, and nowhere in Suffolk was the mid-century rebuilding as comprehensive as here at Stoven. Nothing looks less organic than a mock-Norman building. Here, the fine Norman south door has been used as an inspiration for the rest of the building, as if a new body had been cloned from a single cell.
At first sight, it isn't so bad. The graveyard on the north side is delightful, full of mature trees and 18th century headstones. The shape of the building is good, especially with the sun behind. It is only on approaching that the details make themselves known, and there seems to be no relationship between the styling and the proportions. And where did that tower come from? But there is a heart-warming story here that is worth telling.
In April 1987, this tiny parish was presented with a horrific £200,000 bill for repairs. The Diocesan architect, aware that this was an impossible demand, recommended that the church be partially demolished, enabling the parish to continue using a smaller, fitter building. Funding bodies and charities like English Heritage were unable to help, since the building was only listed at Grade II, and wasn't considered important enough for injections of cash.
Not surprisingly, the Parish Council decided instead to opt for making the building redundant. That way, they could move in with neighbouring Brampton, while the Redundant Churches Fund took over the headache of paying for repairs. The building would be lost to CofE liturgical use, but would be retained as a village landmark, and could also be used for community purposes.
The church was declared redundant in January 1989. However, there was bad news ahead. The Redundant Churches Fund decided that the 1854 rebuilding had been so drastic that they could not justify taking St Margaret on. Simply, there was just not enough medieval structure left to justify the expense. The Parish Council asked the Fund to think again. They did, and came to the same conclusion. So St Margaret was put up for sale by the Diocese, pending planning permission for residential or commercial use.
Unfortunately, nobody wanted to buy it. This should really come as no surprise, since few people would be prepared to splash out a six figure sum just to make a structure sound, before even thinking of converting it. The majority of churches sold off during the great wave of redundancies ten years earlier had mostly been in good condition. And now things got desperate, because included in the legislation that governs church redundancies is the clause that, if no no use has been found for a Grade II building within three years, it must be demolished.
Those three years went by, probably rather quickly in the eyes of the former Parish Council, and in May 1992 the Church Commissioners prepared the draft order for the demolition of St Margaret, Stoven.
This must have been a depressing time for villagers. They were presented with something of a fait accompli, but in any event a public meeting was held to discuss it, and representatives of national bodies like English Heritage and the Redundant Churches Fund attended. It was agreed that if there was any way forward it was through a thorough architectural examination of the church building.
Well, you may be able to guess what happened. It didn't take long to discover that to all intents and purposes this was a medieval building - rather than being demolished, the former church had been covered with a Norman skin. You can see this for yourself; the plaster has been removed in places on the south side, exposing the outline of the medieval window splays beneath.
As a consequence of this, the listed building status was raised by the Department of the Environment to Grade II*, and suddenly things looked a little brighter. In the short term, the new status qualified the building for English Heritage grant aid, and in the longer term the parish decided to refer matters back to the Redundant Churches Fund, which in the meantime had morphed into the Churches Conservation Trust.
And then something extraordinary happened. The survey for the newly-funded repair work showed that the total cost would be about £60,000, less than a third of the figure quoted six years earlier! You have to wonder quite how such a disparity occured, and if events would have been so traumatic if the revised figure had been quoted to the parish at the time. Suddenly, it seemed as if Stoven parish might be able to cope after all. At Easter 1996 the church opened for business again. The Redundancy order was rescinded, and a new Parish Council convened.
Since that time, work has continued on restoring St Margaret to former glories. And as an act of faith the door is open to visitors every day.
So you step in to an interior that is more pleasing than you have been led to expect, and not wholly mock-Norman in style at all. The chancel arch is more restrained than some 19th century confections, the east end of the chancel is elegant, the tiling polite and the benches plain and fitting. A bit of redecoration is needed, but there's the makings of a building seemly and fitting for Anglican worship here. Indeed, those aliens might have got away with it. They leafed through the book to the Early English section for the font and the pulpit, both of which are more imaginative than many in the style, and most people nowadays would find the intimacy of this narrow building more attractive than the usual wide-open spaces so beloved of the Victorians.
The people of Stoven must feel a sense of relief that they still have a parish church in the village, but the real irony is that it isn't how original the building is that matters at all. The Victorians restored in medieval styles to create a false sense of continuity, but the continuity is always there anyway. It lies not in the bricks and mortar but in the people of the parish who have used St Margaret as their touchstone down the long generations, both as Catholics before the Reformation and as Anglicans afterwards. Outside St Margaret, some of those people still lie in the ground.
Cardinal Newman defined tradition as the unending, slow process of development, and buildings like churches should always be changing to suit the communities that use them. Our understanding of God, the Universe and everything changes and develops from one generation to the next, and this will inevitably be reflected in the buildings in which we worship. If that sometimes involves razing them to the ground and then starting again, then so be it.
Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
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Fictional user manuals that can restore an aching back, help couples get closer, and celebrate domestic team work.
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Year: 2016
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Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
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Unfortunately my wife has injured her back again, she was admitted to hospital by ambulance on Thursday evening, it's been a very hard few days and I'm missing our lass.
Exhumación de una fosa común con los restos de 4 personas asesinadas en septiembre de 1936 en un cortijo. Dos hombres y dos mujeres, una de ellas embarazada de 7 meses.
Agosto de 2015
Missing middle homes, like ADUs, backyard cottages, mother-in-law suites, duplexes, triplexes, low-rise apartments or townhouses, have long fit into urban neighborhoods, often providing more affordable rental and purchase options than single, detached houses.
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A search for a missing English couple launched on 10 December 1904 ended in the cemetery.
Friends of David and Martha Mumford were concerned after hearing nothing of them for seven years and got W P Reeves, Agent-General, London on the case. They were eventually traced to a street address in Sydenham Christchurch but it was then found that they had died and were buried in the local cemetery. The Mumfords had been in New Zealand about 40 years before their deaths.
Shown here are descriptions and other details of the missing couple.
Archives Reference: ACGO 8333 IA1/932/[44] 1905/71
collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=R24846960
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Milo came to live with me in 2001, as an adult. He immediately showed himself to be far more intelligent, communicative and expressive than any pet I have ever had before, or since. A true friend, pal, and buddy in every sense.
He had been ill, and doing badly, and the vet concurred that it would be best to put him to rest. That was yesterday (8/1/17).
I miss him so.
This photo was originally posted last year, but I am now putting it in more groups,
A gorgeous one stem bouquet of Fire Chief roses from my garden! This particular rose has
produced as much as 23 roses on one stem, it's glorious! This was taken at the end of Sept.
I wish it was still hot enough that they could be blooming now!!! Enjoy my friends =)
(Best on black)
I received this in my Inbox. First thing I did was check its validity on snopes.com and it checked out so I'm passing it on...
----- Original Message -----
From: Sue Pattinson
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:03 PM
Subject: Help find Madelaine McCann
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:53 PM
Subject: FW: Help find Madelaine McCann
Please read this message and pass it on!
As you are aware my niece is still missing and I am asking everyone I
know to send this as a chain letter i.e. you send it to everyone you
know and ask them to do the same, as the story is only being covered
in Britain, Eire and Portugal. We don't believe that she is in
Portugal anymore and need to get her picture and the story across
Europe as quickly as possible. Suggestions are? welcome.
Phil McCann
End of letter. I did more research and found the official website Bring Madeleine Home where I found the official poster as seen above.
I'm posting this on all my blogs as well.
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أينَ السّحابَ و خافقي !
و أينَهُم وَ ظِلالُهُمْ !
...
الشّمسُ في عيني نهارٌ ما اكتمَلْ
و الشَّوقُ في عَمْري مُذابٌ كالشَّجَنْ
A back view of the Radisson Blu hotel in Cardiff, with it's unusual almost Japanese style roof structure. Not sure what the missing piece is, or whether it's intentional!
Hope you all had a good weekend.
synopsis
This biker gang exploitation picture from director Roger Corman and co-writer and editor Peter Bogdanovich earned critical respect in Europe for its gritty documentary style. Peter Fonda stars as Heavenly Blues, the leader of a wild, roving band of leather-clad bikers. When his best friend Loser (Bruce Dern) is injured in the midst of an attempt to steal a police motorcycle, the boys kidnap their debilitated buddy from the hospital, raping a black nurse and trashing the place in the process. Blues and his friends believe they've set Loser free, but he dies not long after the escape. Staging a funeral and drunken orgy in a small town church, the gang flees is set upon by the enraged locals, leaving Blues alone to face the law. Nancy Sinatra and a then-pregnant Diane Ladd co-star; a number of real-life Hell's Angels were hired to appear in scenes, adding authenticity to the picture.
Roger Corman didn't invent the biker movie (The Wild One blazed the trail in 1954), but, with The Wild Angels, he gave it a new lease on life. Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra stand out like sore thumbs among the real-life Hell's Angels hired to give the film its grubby atmosphere, but Fonda's studied cool nicely contrasts with the aggressive surliness of the rest of the male cast -- and enough rock bands have sampled Fonda's "We wanna be free to ride our bikes and not get hassled by the man!" speech to turn it into a classic moment in sleaze-movie history. The film's beer-swilling, pot-smoking, and unfocused brawling may have become screen clichés in record time, but they were newer and more shocking in 1966, and the film's rough, unpolished visual style gives it a ring of truth missing from most of the films that followed in its wake. Add Davie Allen and the Arrows's classic theme song, which sent a generation of garage rockers scurrying for fuzz boxes, and you get perhaps the definitive 1960s biker flick. The film also offers the curiosity factor of knowing that Diane Ladd was pregnant with Laura Dern during filming.
An empty dock keeps a lonely vigil just inside the entrance to Squalicum Harbor. In the background... Lummi Island, Portage Island, Orcas Island, Gooseberry Point, and the moonlit waters of Bellingham Bay.
I hesitate posting this as it is not as sharp as I would like. I am finding that achieving sharpness is the most difficult aspect of night photography and am wondering if any of my contacts have any helpful hints. In the end, I decided that this image was more about the mood than the sharpness.
Part of the problem may have been that I was shooting from a floating dock, and no matter how calm it appears, there is some movement over a long exposure.
The Oriental Lily opens a 6 petal bloom that can spread up to 20cm in diameter.
The height of the Oriental Lily can range between 3 to 5 feet.
Oriental Lilies tend to flower outside, in mid-season (July/August).
They are a long lasting and highly scented variety.
Sometimes, they just miss a petal and show us more!
Thank you for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)
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white, pink, stamens, curves, pollen, Oriental, Lilium, lily, flowers, petal, missing, open,, sculptural, colour, square, studio, design, black-background, "Nikon D7000", "Magda indigo"
This one is an oldie, when i felt more self-photo-y. just felt like uploading something. but your thoughts are apprecitated anyway :)
ooh and any title suggestions?
Body: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Aperture: f/2.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/2000 sec.