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Mezquita de Cordoba, Spain. What an amazing place....856 of these columns in total and lots of fab Islamic Art...
At Yotsuya, Tokyo.
It's stereographic projection of this equirectangular panorama.
One of the many glorious flower beds at the former home of gardener Christopher Lloyd, Great Dixter, East Sussex, England.
O Solar do Alvarinho foi inaugurado em 8 de Agosto de 1997. O seu aparecimento veio dar resposta a várias necessidades relacionadas com a defesa, promoção e divulgação do Vinho Alvarinho, o desenvolvimento e dinamização do meio rural, o incentivo à produção e comercialização do vinho Alvarinho, a divulgação e promoção do artesanato local e de outros produtos típicos, e divulgação das raízes tradicionais e culturais da região.
Localizado no chamado “Edifício dos Três Arcos”, situado em plena zona histórica, compreende 2 pisos que se constituem da seguinte forma:
Sala de provas
Na sala de provas, estão expostas todas as marcas de vinho Alvarinho produzidas no concelho de Melgaço. Aqui o visitante tem a oportunidade de provar estes magníficos vinhos num ambiente acolhedor, aproveitando a ocasião para aprender e descobrir os segredos deste vinho.
Sala de Reuniões
Um espaço com marcas artísticas e históricas, com capacidade para 40 pessoas, podendo ser utilizado para workshop's, palestras, apresentações e reuniões. Também utilizado para a realização de exposições temporárias.
Loja
Espaço dedicado à venda dos produtos locais, é o local ideal para adquirir alguma lembrança, ou alguns dos produtos emblemáticos no nosso concelho, como o Vinho Alvarinho e seus derivados (espumantes e aguardentes), fumeiro, mel e artesanato.
Bar
O edifício alberga ainda um bar de apoio, onde o visitante poderá desfrutar de agradáveis momentos ao sabor dos produtos típicos da região. Neste local poderá também usufruir de uma diversificada oferta cultural como várias exposições temporárias, nomeadamente pintura e escultura. Durante o ano organizam-se ainda vários eventos de animação nocturna.
Para além de servir como montra de promoção e exposição de várias marcas de vinho Alvarinho, o Solar:
- Dispõe de informação diversa sobre este vinho e a sua região, bem como elementos relativos os diferentes produtores;
- Promove provas;
- Vende artesanato, vinho Alvarinho e outros produtos típicos locais;
- Organiza “Alvarinhos de Honra” para grupos;
- Organiza visitas guiadas pelo concelho;
- Possui exposições permanentes de pintura
- Destino turístico de grande qualidade, estar no Solar do Alvarinho é um prazer. www.cm-melgaco.pt/portal/page/melgaco/portal_municipal/Tu...
Arrivals deck at SEA-TAC airport. I love the wheelchair. Is he recently healed and leaving it behind, or reserving himself to return to its comfort?
Are those doric or corinthian?
Taken with a Canon EOS 60D
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Concertina isn't the answer
A Pennsylvania woman went from a thrift shop to the county lockup in September for stealing a $2 used pair of trousers.
In the eyes of one of those bleeding-heart liberals, society might have been better served had Cherly Lee Isbell of Washington been given some hand-me-downs and an appointment with an underpaid and over-booked social worker to discuss her sticky fingers.
But in all fairness to law enforcement, the 52-year-old woman was due harsh punishment as a suspected felon for having prior arrests for retail theft. As it turned out, she had just gotten out of Washington County Jail on bond after being arrested two days earlier for stealing a cheap watch and a can of cheese from a discount store.
In some small way, however, Isbell represents a much broader concern about inequities in the American criminal justice system and the tendency to just toss any criminal in jail.
With 172,000 inmates crowded into 33 state prisons, California has more people behind bars than most countries in the world, outside of China. The overcrowding is blamed on the state's 1994 ”three strikes” law approved by voters that mandated 25-year sentences for often minor third convictions.
New York's Rockefeller drug law of 1973 allowed for life sentences for small-time drug dealers who might otherwise have gone to jail for five years had they coughed up a plea deal.
There are some 22,000 drug convicts in New York's correctional facilities, making up a third of the state's total prison population and costing taxpayers more than $715 million a year, according to the New York Legal Aid Society.
The California and New York prison populations have prompted numerous protests, and even human rights complaints from foreign countries that the sentencing guidelines are unjust.
We have fought a battle on many fronts since the war on drugs was declared during the President Ronald Reagan era of the 1980s. It came as a response to a sharp rise in HIV from intravenous drug use and crack becoming a widespread habit, almost overnight.
Gone are the days when drug dealers sold LSD on the stairways leading to rock concerts, and the venues filled with giant clouds of marijuana smoke when the lights dimmed. If anyone was arrested, few remembered.
Today, lighting up a joint in a parking lot at the P-G Paviliion outdoor concert venue can land a pothead in jail on a misdemeanor drug possession charge. Just ask 22-year-old Matthew Mey. He was placed in Washington County Jail on $5,000 bond for having two joints at a concert there Friday. Mey was dealt stiffer action because he hailed from Wheeling, W.Va., and refused to allow Hanover Township police to search his vehicle.
Law enforcement has its hands full in this war, and one has to question whether it will ever be won. Cities from across the nation, including Seattle, Cincinnati, Austin and others in the Northeast have been reporting alarming increases in heroin-related deaths.
Heroin-related trips to drug treatment centers also are on the rise. And the jails just keep filling up, while it's costing Washington County taxpayers $33 a day to house a lady for stealing a lousy pair of re-sale pants.
Scott Beveridge is a staff writer for the Observer-Reporter.
(Opinion column, published Sept. 17, 2006 and reprinted with permission)
The columns outside Hays County Courthouse in the centre of San Marcos, TX.
Taken using a Sigma 10-20mm near the top end of the range.
AWIB-ISAW: The Theater District (XII)
A detail from a column in the peristyle court of the house of the Trident, located in the theater district on the Greek island of Delos. by Irene Soto (2010)
copyright: 2010 Irene Soto (used with permission)
photographed place: Delos (Delos) [http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/599587/]
Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World as part of the Ancient World Image Bank (AWIB). Further information: [http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/awib.htm].