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The building, located on the northeast outskirts of Toledo's historic center, most likely formed part of the almunia (fortress) built by Al-Mamun of Toledo, king of the Taifa of Toledo (1043-1075). Following the Christian conquest, the site was called the "royal almunia," which was still used in 1294, although by this time the Castilianization of the name "Huerta del Rey" (King's Garden) had taken hold. The name Galiana became popular from the 16th century onwards due to the disappearance of the authentic Galiana palaces, located in the Alficén complex next to the Alcázar.

During the Mudejar period, the north and south facades were rebuilt. According to Gómez-Moreno, at the beginning of the 20th century, when the building was in poor condition, the windows with lobed arches, the plasterwork of the framing—dating from the 14th century—and remains of paintings—which he considers to be earlier—were still visible in the rooms on the second floor. Few fragments of this decoration remain today, but Gómez-Moreno's testimony seems to indicate two renovations. First, the painted plinths and some of the plasterwork were completed in the mid-13th century. Later, John I donated this royal possession to the Jerónimos convent of La Sisla in 1385. Almost a decade later, it was purchased by Beatriz de Silva, who married Alvar Pérez de Guzmán in 1397. It was shortly afterward that the second renovation of the building was undertaken, as evidenced by the Guzmán and Silva coat of arms featured in the plasterwork.

Due to successive inheritances, the orchard was divided among various owners. The majority continued to belong to the Guzmán y Montijo family, while other areas belonged to the Chapel of Santo Tomás and the Brotherhood of Santa Caridad. After the confiscations of the 19th century, the House of Montijo acquired the undivided shares of the entities whose real estate assets were sold to the State. Empress Eugenie was interested in restoring the palace, which ultimately did not happen. As time passed, the site fell into disrepair.

It was declared a historic-artistic monument, belonging to the National Artistic Treasure, on June 3, 1931, by a decree published in the Gaceta de Madrid with the signature of the provisional president of the republic, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, and the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts, Marcelino Domingo y Sanjúan. In the 20th century, the Duke of Peñaranda sold the estate to Alejandro Fernández de Araoz and Carmen Marañón, who began the rehabilitation in 1959.

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El edificio, situado en las afueras, al noreste del casco histórico de la ciudad de Toledo, muy probablemente formó parte de la almunia construida por Al-Mamún de Toledo, rey de la taifa de Toledo (1043-1075). A raíz de la conquista cristiana, el lugar se denominó «almunia real», aplicándose todavía en 1294, aunque por estas fechas se impone la castellanización de «Huerta del Rey». El nombre de Galiana se popularizó a partir del siglo XVI a consecuencia de la desaparición de los auténticos palacios de Galiana, situados en recinto del Alficén, junto al alcázar.

En época mudéjar se rehicieron las fachadas norte y sur. Según recoge Gómez-Moreno, a principios del siglo XX, cuando el edificio se encontraba en mal estado, aún se apreciaban las ventanas con arquillos lobulados, las yeserías de los encuadramientos –que data en el siglo XIV– y restos de pinturas –que considera anteriores– en las habitaciones del segundo piso. En la actualidad quedan escasos fragmentos de dicha decoración, pero el testimonio de Gómez-Moreno parece indicar dos reformas. Por un lado, a mediados del siglo XIII se realizarían los zócalos de pinturas y algunas de las yeserías. Posteriormente, Juan I donó esta posesión real al convento de jerónimos de la Sisla en 1385. Casi una década después fue comprada por Beatriz de Silva, quien contrae matrimonio en 1397 con Alvar Pérez de Guzmán. Sería poco tiempo después cuando se acometió la segunda reforma del edificio, como atestiguan los escudos de Guzmán y Silva que figuraban en las yeserías.

Por las sucesivas herencias, la huerta se fraccionó en diversos propietarios. La mayor parte siguió perteneciendo a la familia Guzmán y Montijo, mientras que otras zonas pertenecían a la capilla de Santo Tomás y a la cofradía de la Santa Caridad. Tras las desamortizaciones del XIX, la Casa de Montijo adquirió las partes proindiviso de las entidades cuyo patrimonio inmueble enajenó el Estado, interesando a la emperatriz Eugenia la restauración del palacio, lo que finalmente no ocurrió. Conforme pasó el tiempo, el lugar fue cayendo en el abandono.

Fue declarado monumento histórico-artístico, perteneciente al Tesoro Artístico Nacional, el 3 de junio de 1931, mediante un decreto publicado en la Gaceta de Madrid con la rúbrica del presidente provisional de la república, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, y del ministro de Instrucción Pública y Bellas Artes, Marcelino Domingo y Sanjúan. En el siglo XX el duque de Peñaranda vendió la finca a Alejandro Fernández de Araoz y Carmen Marañón, quienes en 1959 emprendieron la rehabilitación.

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We usually get these nasty storms earlier in the year. History's track record has them in the latter part of may early June. But the last 3 years in south central Nebraska have all been those early July storms making them worthy of remembering.

We had tried to race this storm all the way back from Cozad but strong storm cells developed just to the north of the Interstate (80) and were destined to move south. We were east bound back to Kearney as we got slammed again once we got back into city limits.

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Milano si ferma per Abdul. La famiglia: non dimenticatelo

Dai Bastioni di Porta Venezia fino a piazza Duomo, con una sosta al muretto dove Abba e i suoi amici si incontravano ogni giorno. Milano ricorda Abdul, il diciannovenne originario del Burkina Faso ucciso una settimana fa dalle sprangate dei gestori di un locale. Ad aprire il corteo, uno striscione che recita «Abba Vive, Razzismo Stop», realizzato dai ragazzi del Comitato per non dimenticare Abba, per fermare il razzismo nato a Cernusco, il paese dove Abdul viveva, sull’onda dell’indignazione per questo omicidio su cui deve rimanere alta l’attenzione.

In testa alla manifestazione ci sono i genitori e la sorella di Abdul che venerdì in una lettera hanno rivolto un appello a partecipare al corteo: «In questi giorni per noi molto difficili – scrivono – stiamo ricevendo la solidarietà e l’affetto di tante persone e per noi questa vicinanza è molto importante perché ci aiuta a superare il dolore per un fatto inspiegabile, ci dà coraggio e non ci fa sentire soli: per questo ringraziamo tutti». Sabato bisogna esserci, dicono, «per dire che quello che è successo non deve più accadere, per dire no al razzismo, per non dimenticare».

Già, perché il rischio è che si archivi l’omicidio di Abdul come uno dei tanti, e magari si diffonda l’idea che forse un po’ Abba e i suoi amici se la sono andata a cercare. Ma l’autopsia sul corpo di Abdul ha riscontrato segni di accanimento che non hanno giustificazioni, ferite plurime inferte dall’odio verso chi è diverso. Quello che gli amici di Abdul che quella sera erano con lui raccontano da giorni. E che Fausto e Daniele Cristofoli, i due aggressori, non sono riusciti a spiegare.

La polizia ha calcolato che sono almeno settemila i partecipanti alla manifestazione. Durante il percorso, ci sono state diverse soste in cui i manifestanti si sono seduti per terra gridando «Vergogna» e chiedendo «Giustizia». Alcuni momenti di tensione si sono registrati al termine del corteo, quando alcune decine di giovani hanno iniziato a correre da piazza Duomo verso via Mengoni, per raggiungere il luogo dell'aggressione, mentre la polizia in tenuta antisommossa tentava di fermarli.

Roma, gli italo-africani in libreria: «Attenti alla nostra rabbia»

Luciana Cimino e Cesare Buquicchio

«Purtroppo l’Italia è il mio paese...». Jessica si blocca subito e si corregge. «No. Perché ho detto purtroppo? Non è vero, io adoro l’Italia. Io sono italiana. Ma non è giusto…». Jessica ha 21 anni e studia giurisprudenza. A ricordarle Capo Verde, il paese d’origine di sua madre, c’è solo il colore della pelle. Lo stesso che ha segnato il tragico destino di Abdul Guibre, il 19enne ucciso a sprangate domenica notte a Milano per il solo sospetto d’aver rubato un pacco di biscotti. Jessica ha scelto la piccola libreria Griot a Trastevere, affollata per la maratona di letture organizzata giovedì sera per ricordare "Abba", per lanciare il suo allarme. «State attenti. Attenti alla nostra rabbia - dice prendendo il microfono -. Continuano a cadere gocce che prima o poi faranno traboccare il vaso. Non tutti vogliono sempre stare zitti. Continuare ad avere pazienza, come mi diceva mia madre quando tornavo da scuola in lacrime dopo l’ennesimo insulto razzista, non basta più».

La minuscola libreria sembra una piazza. Stipate nella stanza, sedute per terra, aggrappate alle porte, centinaia di persone hanno portato il loro contributo alla serata intitolata "Nessuna aggravante!". Non soltanto una manifestazione in memoria del ragazzo sullo stile delle veglie funebri africane, ma, soprattutto, una testimonianza di sdegno per la «ricostruzione discutibile fatta dagli inquirenti che escludono la motivazione razziale dall’aggressione ad Abdul e che preoccupa tutti coloro che osservano con sgomento il crescente clima d’intolleranza in Italia». «Avevamo pensato a un sit-in - dice al pubblico Igiaba Scego, scrittrice italiana di origine somala - ma a Roma di questi tempi è difficile ottenere i permessi». Già, «di questi tempi». «C’è un clima da "Mississipi Burning" che fa tremare i polsi».

Tornano gli incubi per gli stranieri che vivono in Italia, lo ammette Jean Leonard Touadi, nato in Congo, deputato del Pd ed ex assessore alla sicurezza al Campidoglio, che dopo le letture e i canti prende la parola per introdurre il dibattito. «Ma siamo qui stasera - dice rispondendo a Jessica - proprio per evitare che quella rabbia esploda. Per evitare che un giorno uno di voi metta una bomba nella metropolitana come è successo a Londra».

«L’idea di un bianco che nella notte insegue un nero è un’angoscia che sta nella nostra memoria collettiva, è successo sempre e succede ora anche contro donne e gay». Ali Baba Faye, sociologo con un lungo passato di militanza politica, racconta di quando, qualche sera fa, passeggiando nel popoloso quartiere di Garbatella, ha visto due bianchi che lo guardavano e, per la prima volta dopo anni, ha avuto paura. «Il linguaggio è la prima forma di violenza, dovrebbero ricordarlo i media italiani, soprattutto quei grandi quotidiani che danno spazio agli sfoghi dei cittadini che hanno paura e che confessano che stanno diventando razzisti».

Qualcosa forse si è rotto nei meccanismi, mai stati semplici, di convivenza di questo paese. «Quello di Abdul non è un caso isolato - aggiunge Lakhous Amara, autore del libro "Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio", che si definisce "italo-algerino" - ma è frutto della costruzione sistematica del nemico, che sia musulmano o nero o gay». «La novità di oggi - spiega Anna Maria Rivera, antropologa - è che è avvenuta una saldatura tra razzismo istituzionale e razzismo popolare, ma la cosa che fa più paura è che a sinistra non sembra esserci abbastanza consapevolezza della deriva in cui è precipitata la società italiana».

Accoglie la critica Marcella Lucidi, ex sottosegretario all’interno con delega all’immigrazione del governo Prodi, in piedi tra il pubblico con Laura Boldrini, dell’Alto Commissariato delle Nazioni Unite per i rifugiati: «Dobbiamo capire cosa significhi essere cittadini in una società in cui le questioni sociali diventano penali». E Touadi si domanda «dove eravamo quando il Mediterraneo si è trasformato da luogo del dialogo in cimitero per "candidati" all’immigrazione?». «Quando sono arrivato io - continua Touadi - gli italiani dicevano "dateci tempo, l’immigrazione per noi è un fatto nuovo". Il tempo è scaduto, le seconde generazioni pretendono percorsi diversi, rischiamo l’implosione sociale». La serata in onore di Abdul non basta, ci vogliono altri momenti di riflessione, lo dice il pubblico della piccola libreria trasteverina specializzata in testi africani. Incontrarsi e parlare non basta ad Alphousseyni. Lui sta partendo per Milano per la manifestazione che ci sabato oggi alle 14.30. Ma è anche uno dei membri più attivi dell’associazione G2 che riunisce i ragazzi della "seconda generazione".

Per Giusy, «qui ci siamo ritrovati, ora c’è bisogno di una reazione». Intanto ci saranno una serie di incontri (forse a cadenza settimanale) per rinvigorire l’appannato movimento antirazzista romano e poi una grande manifestazione nazionale il 4 ottobre, che si concluderà con un concerto a piazza Venezia. A Milano sabato si andrà in piazza e a Bologna e in altre città si stanno moltiplicando le iniziative simili a quella organizzata da Griot per Abdul, un ragazzo italiano.

Old Babes: MILFs by purejuice2

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Housewives of Orange County eschew their makeovers in O magazine.

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kern invite 08 - varsity by ralls - North Celilia Lopez 19:21.87 4 4 1 by AndyNoise.Com

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Kern Invite - 11/01/08

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Varsity Girls - 2008 Kern County Cross Country

Championships

School Athlete Time Overall Scoring Team

1. Ridgeview Tijerra Lynch 18:58.24 1 1 1

2. Shafter Elizabeth Wittenberg 19:02.62 2 2 1

3. Garces Monica Guzman 19:15.89 3 3 1

4. North Celilia Lopez 19:21.87 4 4 1

5. Ridgeview Ashley Duran 19:23.47 5 5 2

6. Ridgeview Jessica Huizar 19:25.81 6 6 3

7. Foothill Natalie Fernandez 19:35.65 7 7 1

8. East Lucia Garcia 19:46.20 8 x 1

9. Stockdale Amber Nelson 19:59.40 9 8 1

10. Taft Megan Thompson 20:01.34 10 x 1

11. Stockdale Carolin Haney 20:01.70 11 9 2

12. Stockdale Shelbe Pennel 20:03.86 12 10 3

13. Shafter Moriah Milwee 20:05.23 13 11 2

14. Ridgeview Desiree Armendariz 20:08.00 14 12 4

15. Arvin Tanya Hernandez 20:10.02 15 x 1

16. Highland Nichole Berry 20:19:01 16 13 1

17. BHS Sarah Baker 20:25.37 17 14 1

18. North Medeline Maier 20:29.38 18 15 2

19. Ridgeview Monica Lazo 20:33.39 19 16 5

20. Shafter Lindsee Handel 20:36.70 20 17 3

21. Centennial Jessica Folsom 20:41.80 21 18 1

22. BHS Emily Shuford 20:45.35 22 19 2

23. Ridgeview Linda Gonzalez 20:58:28 23 20 6

24. BHS Gabrielle Lerma 21:03.97 24 21 3

25. Stockdale Courtney Moore 21:06.02 25 22 4

26. North Meagan Menzel 21:10.17 26 23 3

27. BHS Gracie Garcia 21:11.76 27 24 4

28. Foothill Perla Veloz 21:13.21 28 25 2

29. Foothill Crystal Rodriguez 21:20.30 29 26 3

30. Independence Katelynn Webb 21:21.51 30 27 1

31. Golden Valley Karina Rocha 21:23.57 31 28 1

32. Shafter Katerina Plaza 21:27.21 32 29 4

33. North Blanca Perez 21:27.98 33 30 4

34. Wasco Amanda Castellon 21:28.25 34 31 1

35. Foothill Kaitlyn Mrasak 21:31.45 35 32 4

36. Tehachapi Brenda Gonzalez 21:33.34 36 33 1

37. Highland Gabi Rodier 21:34.56 37 34 2

38. Centennial Margaret Martinez 21:35.39 38 35 2

39. Stockdale Cynthia Lopez 21:35.61 39 36 5

40. Centennial Jessica Crowe 21:43.49 40 37 3

41. Highland Hilaria Vasquez 21:43.76 41 38 3

42. North Yadira Perez 21:49.62 42 39 5

43. Foothill Erica Castro 21:53.39 43 40 5

44. Centennial Stephanie Dittman 21:55.56 44 41 4

45. Independence Natalie Ambriz 22:08.45 45 42 2

46. Stockdale Madison Schutzner 22:14.92 46 43 6

47. Highland Katherine Mayberry 22:16.42 47 44 4

48. Centennial Jorey Braughton 22:18.95 48 45 5

49. North Kaylee Meyer 22:20.98 49 46 6

50. Garces Lauren Brown 22:21.19 50 47 2

51. Golden Valley Denise Silva 22:23.90 51 48 2

52. Foothill Violeta Quintanar 22:24.92 52 49 6

53. Highland Desiree Martinez 22:25.59 53 50 5

54. Independence Sara Sullivan 22:25.95 54 51 3

55. Garces Lizbeth Lopez 22:28.11 55 52 3

56. Garces Tammy Vu 22:35.68 56 53 4

57. West Selam Habebo 22:39.75 57 x 1

58. Shafter Leana Lara 22:51.69 58 54 5

59. Independence Carlie Croxton 22:55.06 59 55 4

60. Cesar Chavez Rosa Montanez 22:57.28 60 x 1

61. Foothill Maria Zepeda 22:57.55 61 56 7

62. Garces Marissa Machado 22:57.92 62 57 5

63. Shafter Mayra Torres 23:00.88 63 58 6

64. Golden Valley Carmelita Aguilar 23:04.07 64 59 3

65. Ridgeview M. Salgado 23:14.56 65 60 7

66. Golden Valley Anna Avina 23:20.23 66 61 4

67. Golden Valley Ninive Alveno 23:26.73 67 62 6

68. Golden Valley Mercedes Salgado 23:26.73 68 63 5

69. Centennial Paige Anderson 23:30.27 69 64 6

70. Garces Sammie Lobardo 23:34.37 70 65 6

71. Arvin Bianca Quinonez 23:41.85 71 x 2

72. Kern Valley S. Hinkey 23:42.47 72 x 1

73. Frontier Ariel Driskill 23:43.12 73 66 1

74. Centennial J. Estrada 23:50.91 74 67 7

75. Kern Valley S. Hazzard 23:51.80 75 x 2

76. Garces G. Ortiz 23:54.66 76 68 7

77. North Priscilla Cruz 23:55.51 77 69 7

78. BHS Kristina Logan 24:04.10 78 70 5

79. Frontier Jasmine Mattos 24:05.42 79 71 2

80. Stockdale Delilah Diaz 24:10.83 80 72 7

81. West Wennie Agbalog 24:28.90 81 x 2

82. Wasco Anna Orozco 24:29.57 82 73 2

83. Wasco Ruby Jacabo 24:30.22 83 74 3

84. Tehachapi Anna Duke 24:33.57 84 75 2

85. Wasco S. Castellon 24:42.66 85 76 6

86. Independence Shelby Woolf 24:58.35 86 77 6

87. BHS Sarah Stidham 24:58.76 87 78 6

88. Arvin Gaby Gomez 25:04.17 88 x 3

89. Highland Cristina Valenzuela 25:05.21 89 79 6

90. McFarland Monica Gonzalez 25:42.30 90 x 1

91. Tehachapi Susie Cuevas 25:57.15 91 x 3

92. Wasco B. Medina 26:00.11 92 80 4

93. Cesar Chavez Shannan Albay 26:00.32 93 x 2

94. BC Tiffany Rodriguez 26:26.77 94 x 1

95. Tehachapi Ariel Deval 26:50.73 95 81 4

96. Wasco A. Rios 27:14.74 96 82 5

97. Independence Samantha Antu 27:17.44 97 83 5

98. Tehachapi L. Shoemaker 27:44.92 98 84 5

99. BC Victoria Wheeler 28:09.47 99 x 2

100. Tehachapi J. Bahera 29:20:93 100 85 6

101. Frontier T. See 29:29.12 101 86 3

102. Frontier Savanah Olson 30:18.04 102 87 4

103. Frontier A. Rojas NT 103 88 5

Amphicar 770 by Wouter Bregman

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Some 100 amphibious vehicles from all around the world gathered in Amsterdam for a week of fun.

Almost every day they had a drive and float in the historic canals of Amsterdam, Utrecht and the surrounding areas.

As from 2025 this event will no longer be held in Amsterdam, as no vessels with an internal combustion engine will be allowed on the historic canals of Amsterdam.

Production: 1 of 3878 (1961-1968).

Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Games by Rose Sternberg

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I have G.A.S [Picture of lenses between 40mm and 58mm] by Yu-Lin Chan

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From my blog (oldlenses.blogspot.ca/2015/10/signs-that-you-are-addicted...):

G.A.S = Gear Acquisition Syndrome. A disease that affects mostly men. It infects the central reasoning area of the brain and makes men vulnerable into thinking more gear make them better photographers, and thus buying gear that they don't need. There is no known cure, but there is a silver lining; some men are able to recover as the photographs they make shift from pictures of cameras, lenses, brick walls, and resolution charts to other form of pictures.

You buy printed photo magazines just to look at the ads

You have a copy of A Lens Collector's Vade Meccum

You know exactly what a "normal" lens is

You have all 5 versions of the same lens

Words like Noctilux and Otus motivate you to make more money so that you can buy them

You name your daughter Tessar, and your son's name Nokton is not misspelled, and your dog's name is Skopar

You think Hologon is the most beautiful word in the world

You scare your partner at night uttering words like "Fisheye", "Bigma", in your sleep

You justify all your gear purchases as investment

You buy similar looking cameras so that your significant other can't tell the one that you use is not the same as the 4 others in the locked closet that only you have the key to

You tell your wife it's worth the expense of the 85mm f1.2L because it would make her look more beautiful in the picture

You convince yourself that the purchase of a Leica Summilux will one day make you as good as Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every time you see a red band, or gold band, it reminds you of your favourite lens

You are a Pentaxian, and you know the word "Limited" is not a disadvantage

You have been buying K-Mount lenses for the last ten years, because you believe one day, there will be a full frame Pentax camera, like you believe in Santa Claus

You get excited when you hear words like Holly Trinity, Magic Drainpipe, The Dust Pump, Sigmarit, and you know exactly what they refer to

You use Ikea shelves to store your cameras/lenses because you can't afford better shelves since you spent all your money on cameras/lenses

Decimal numbers like 0.95, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 bring tears to your eyes

You just realized that the lens you bought yesterday is exactly the same as 2 others that you didn't know you had

You take pictures with enlarging, projection, and printing cell lenses on your mirrorless camera

You have many lenses without apertures

You have many lenses without focus mechanism

You have drawers full of lens adapters

You have a large bin of lens hoods, and most of them don't fit your lenses, but you tell yourself one day, you will get the lenses that will fit the hoods

You can't understand why anyone needs to use the aperture on the lens, since you always shoot wide open

You feel no shame when others look at your ugly self-made lens contraption in disgust

100% of your pictures contains 99% bokeh, and 1% subject that's in focus.

Your favourite pastime is to browse antique/flea market for vintage cameras/lenses

You never miss a single camera show

You created an app with a SQL database to catalogue and keep track of your cameras/lenses because a spreadsheet has reached its capacity

You remember the minute details of a lens, but forget your kids birthdays

Your wife is annoyed that you

spend more time with your gear than with the kids, or with her

You blog about your favourite lens in length, and the only picture that accompanies the blog entry is the picture of the lens

You have 9 camera bags, and all of them are full of gear

You have 8 different tripod heads, and each one has a specific purpose, and each one is used exactly once

You fondle your cameras/lenses and talk to them like they are your lover

You spend more time on Flickr and online forums than taking pictures

You carry your camera with you everywhere you go, but you hardly take any pictures

You can't understand why anyone would read whatever Ken Rockwell has to say, and you visit Michael Johnston's theonlinephotographer blog religiously

You tell your wife you paid $20 for the very beat-up Speed Panchro that you actually paid $2000 for and she believed you

80% of the photo in your Flickr stream is picture of cameras and lenses

Your wife thinks your planar is something to organize your daily tasks

Your wife can not understand why all your lenses do not zoom or focus themselves

You made your kids call you Prime Master

You have a RAID 10 storage setup to protect the terabytes of pictures you took of your cameras and lenses

You have another RAID 10 storage setup to protect the setup above

You drove 4 hours to photograph a sunrise, only to find out you shot everything wide open out of habit, and all the pictures are overexposed

You made penholders out of broken lenses

You have a box you call treasure that's full of parts from dismantled cameras and lenses.

You hope that you can use them to repair lenses/cameras, but deep down you know that will never happen because that's why they became parts in the first place.

You use a stack of filter rings in place of a hood

You have a dozen rolls of exposed film in the drawer from 1998, but never developed

You get bored of the auto focus lenses you spent tens of thousands of dollar buying, and are having a blast with a $20 enlarging lens taking pictures of your AF lenses

You know by heart the first two digits of a Vivitar lens serial number corresponds to which manufacturer who made the lens.

You love pictures in RAW, and hate those cooked in jpeg

You have thousands of tiny screws harvested from dead cameras/lenses

http://theshinedrop.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_13.html by Gocciolina Navarita

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SCANDALIZE LUST FATPACK by gabby.jaws

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This week’s picture shows spectacular ribbons of gas and dust wrapping around the pearly centre of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398. This galaxy is located in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), approximately 65 million light-years away. Rather than beginning at the very middle of the galaxy and swirling outwards, NGC 1398’s graceful spiral arms stem from a straight bar, formed of stars, that cuts through the galaxy’s central region. Most spiral galaxies — around two thirds — are observed to have this feature, but it’s not yet clear whether or how these bars affect a galaxy’s behaviour and development. This image comprises data gathered by the FOcal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) instrument, mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory, Chile. It shows NGC 1398 in striking detail, from the dark lanes of dust mottling its spiral arms, through to the pink-hued star-forming regions sprinkled throughout its outer regions. This image was created as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems programme, an outreach initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The programme makes use of telescope time that cannot be used for science observations. All data collected may also be suitable for scientific purposes, and are made available to astronomers through ESO’s science archive.

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Bước Cùng Tôi by Bụi gì đó

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Bước cùng tôi - Bụi là lá la

Bước cùng tôi

1st verse:

Không còn lụy bi…

…Nơi những thi vị

Át đi suy nghĩ…

Ước đời đôi khi…

Nước rời đôi mi…

Bước với tôi đi … tôi sẽ cho bạn thấy

Nơi thời gian trôi đi cùng khẽ gió tràn đầy …

Những tia nắng vẫn thầm thì với những con người chăm chỉ

Nơi cuộc sống ko cầu kì với những cung cách hoa mĩ

Thứ xa xỉ…nơi bạn đang sống là niềm tin

Còn nơi tôi sống đầy những con người luôn mong mỏi chờ bình minh

Đừng giật mình…khẽ thôi(suỵt)… thế giới bạn đang ngủ

Hãy thức tỉnh… để tôi …kéo bạn ra khỏi giấc mộng du

Thật công phu để làm bạn thức dậy

Nhưng ko đủ để cho mọi người thức dậy

Hãy bước với tôi đi, tôi sẽ cho bạn thấy

Và hãy bước vs tôi đi, tôi sẽ làm đổi thay

Nơi tôi sống đầy tiếng cười, nơi tôi “trồng” những tình người

Nơi hàng cây trông mát rượi chào đón những ngày xanh tươi

Nơi ko có những cánh rừng trọc đang gầm rú ngồi khóc…

Nơi ko có những tang tóc sau những lời trách móc (ko bốc đồng)

Hook:

Hãy bước với tôi đi…đừng mang theo những hối hận

Hãy bước với tôi đi…vì tôi chỉ đến vài đôi lần

Hãy nắm tay tôi đi… rồi bước tiếp cùng đôi chân

Hãy nắm tay tôi đi…đừng để tôi trôi dần

Nếu bạn có mệt mỏi, thì hãy nhắm mắt lại

Tôi sẽ dẫn đường chỉ lối đưa bạn đến vs ngày mai

Nhưng xin đừng thay đổi, đừng bắt tôi quay lại

Và cũng xin đừng tự hỏi …… tôi là ai

2nd verse :

Liếc với sự thật, và cứ thế là say (cố chấp)

Say ko định mức, rồi say trong tù đày

Với những lời nói bốc phét trên cái gọi là internet

Giả điếc với những tiếng gọi của tâm hồn đang khóc thét

Thế giới phát triển tỉ lệ nghịch vs đạo đức

Mà tỉ lệ thuận vs những bốc đồng nên cứ giết người rồi cướp giật

Lặp lại thời chiến tranh…tàn sát nhau ko suy nghĩ

Nhưng ko phải bằng bom đạn mà là sự ích kỉ

Tình người đâu ?? sao lại bỏ đói nhau ???

Hay là lại để những con tàu sau đó lênh láng biển dầu ??

Bước với tôi đi cùng nhau đặt dấu chấm hỏi

Trước lối tôi đi sẽ là những câu trả lời

Còn đâu những vẻ đẹp của cuộc sống đơn sơ?

Và còn đâu vẻ đẹp tinh khiết của bông hoa dại khi chớm nở?

Thẫn thờ với những vết nhơ vấy lên giấc mơ bị đập vỡ

Tại sao ta chỉ thẫn thờ đứng nhìn đôi chân ta lầm lỡ?...

Hook:

Hãy bước với tôi đi…đừng mang theo những hối hận

Hãy bước với tôi đi…vì tôi chỉ đến vài đôi lần

Hãy nắm tay tôi đi… rồi bước tiếp cùng đôi chân

Hãy nắm tay tôi đi…đừng để tôi trôi dần

Nếu bạn có mệt mỏi, thì hãy nhắm mắt lại

Tôi sẽ dẫn đường chỉ lối đưa bạn đến vs ngày mai

Nhưng xin đừng thay đổi, đừng bắt tôi quay lại

Và cũng xin đừng tự hỏi …… tôi là ai

Outro:

…Bởi vì tôi là…ước mơ của bạn…và thế giới đẹp đẽ của tôi…cũng nằm trong ánh mắt bạn…trái đất đang gào tên bạn…sự thật đang thét tên bạn…hãy bước cùng tôi đi…hãy bước cùng Bụi đi …

P/s: lần đầu tiên mẹ bụi khen bài này hay =x sướng

http://sinsofvanity.blogspot.it/2013/09/elegant-season.html by Trudina Foxtrot

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By SAN by Thias (°-°)

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{Le'La} Abigail Outfit 70% off by gabby.jaws

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text-align: left;

color: white;

text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;

margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;

padding: 35px 3px 3px 3px;

left: 205px;

top: 60px;

width:190px;

}

p#about_me {

position: fixed !important;

margin: 0px 00px 0px 0px;

text-shadow: 1px 2px 2px black;

color: #9e59d4;

left: 5px;

text-align : center;

top: 520px;

width:195px;

}

#dash-profile {

background: url(www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg);

-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-o-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-khtml-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-moz-border-radius:8px;

-webkit-border-radius:8px;

-khtml-border-radius:8px;

position: fixed !important;

opacity : 1 !important;

text-align: center;

color: #fff;

text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;

margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;

padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;

border: 0px solid #CCCCCC;

left: 205px;

top: 5px;

height:140px;

width:185px;

}

#dash-friends {

padding-top: 5px;

text-align: center;

background: url(www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg);

color: #fff;

position: fixed !important;

-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-o-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-khtml-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;

border: 0px solid #CCCCCC;

left: 205px;

opacity: 1 !important;

text-align : center;

top: 150px;

width:185px;

-moz-border-radius: 8px;

-webkit-border-radius: 8px;

-khtml-border-radius: 8px;

}

#dashboard-invite, #sharePlurk {

width: 0; height: 0 !important;

opacity: 0 !important;

padding: 0px !important;

overflow: hidden !important;

}

.friend_holder td {

padding: 0px 0px 3px 3px;

}

.friend_holder img {

-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-o-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-khtml-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

}

#dash-fans {

background: url(www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg);

color: #fff;

-moz-border-radius:8px;

-webkit-border-radius:8px;

-khtml-border-radius:8px;

position: fixed !important;

-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-o-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

-khtml-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);

opacity : 1 !important;

text-align: center;

margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;

padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px;

border: 0px solid #CCCCCC;

left: 205px;

top: 395px;

width:185px;

}

.dash-segment {

min-height : 60px;

}

hubungan : berpacaran dengan iandpartII

#plurk-dashboard a, #footer a {

font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;

text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;

color: white !important;

}

#top_login a, #top_bar a {

font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;

text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px black;

color: white !important;

}

/*bm--- FOOTER ---bm*/

#footer {

top: -85px;

width: 100% !important;

color: black;

padding: 3px 10px 3px 10px;

}

#languge_selector, #footer p {

padding: 3px 25px 3px 25px;

}

/*bm----- Remove Plurk Creature -----bm*/

div#dynamic_logo img {

background-position: left top;

background-repeat: no-repeat;

height: 0px;

width: 0px;

position: absolute;

overflow: hidden;

left: 65px;

}

div#logo {

border-bottom: none;

}

div#logo img {

background-position: left top;

background-repeat: no-repeat;

overflow: hidden;

height: 0px;

width: 0px;

}

div#dynamic_logo img[IMG]http://www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg[/IMG] {

padding-left: 125px;

height: 200px;

right: 300px !important;

padding-right: 215px;

background: url(www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg) no-repeat scroll left top;

}

div#logo img[IMG]http://www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg[/IMG] {

height: 200px;

width: 0px;

padding-left: 125px;

right: 300px;

background: url(www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg) no-repeat scroll left top;

}

div#dynamic_logo img[IMG]http://www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg[/IMG], div#logo img[IMG]http://www.google.com/logos/high-resolution/elmo-1200x800.jpg[/IMG] {

opacity:0;filter:alpha(opacity=0);zoom:1

}

/*bm------ End Plurk Creature Removal ------bm*/

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> BLOG CREDITS HERE <

Tattoo - LACONIC/ORTIZ TATTOO BOM

Necklace - **RealEvil** Beloved Couple Necklaces @ The Mens Dept

Bracelet - **RealEvil** Beloved Bracelet Male @ Santa Inc

Short - .:.: TRIVIUM :.:. CHICO MALO SHORTS

(Kario & Legacy)

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RealEvil - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RealEvil%20Industries/114/...

TRIVIUM - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Venus/42/91/2001

The Mens Dept - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/TMD/124/168/22

Santa Inc - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dracul/227/104/21

Her Ladyships Room by Tony Murphy

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Today I visited Strokestown House, Co. Roscommon.

I had planned an exterior shoot of the Strokestown area for a particular project and left blue sky in Boyle. However, half way to Strokestown, the cloud decended and bleached my beautiful sky! My proposed shots needed a rich blue sky - not gonna happen today. Rather than be content with a wasted journey, I thought on my feet and put some energy into an interior project instead, this turned out to be Strokestown House.

If you have not yet visited this place - you should. I found the staff extremely helpful and accommodating. I am grateful to Catherine, John and Ronan for their help. I was allowed to photograph as much as I pleased in all public-access areas. I didn't go mad though, I focused on 'light illuminating the interior'. It took me almost two hours to take eight shots.

Interiors can be difficult to shoot if you wish to convey the natural beauty of window light. Straight off - it is next to impossible to achieve without multiple exposures.

I usually spend a bit of time looking first, camera hand held - standing, eye-level, squat, even sometimes lie on the floor. What lens to use. Get it right in the frame, verticals/horizontals - are they parallel to the edges of the frame, what is the subject here ... details.

Once I've found my spot, I get the tripod and compose the shot, I have no problem (where possible) moving objects to different positions within the frame to get what I want. Then its camera settings. I always shoot in RAW.

For this shot; ISO 100. White Balance Cloudy (there was zero colour adjustment made to this image during processing). Aperture set to f/16 for sharpness all the way through. For the lens I was using (Nikkor 17-55mm 2.8G) I find best performance at f/16 or 18 aperture not at f/22 as you might expect. I used a cable release and set the camera 'mirror-lock to 'up' position to avoid camera shake. Finally, I experiment with shutter speed settings to determine the exposure for Highlights (so as to retain detail in the bright window) - 0.6seconds. I subsequently took three more exposures to cover mid-tones and shadows - 1.6, 3.0 and 5.0 seconds. Bang, bang, bang. Ya, ya, I know, sounds painful but believe me, if you want to learn about your camera you need to experiment. If you don't want to spend ages fixing mistakes in Photoshop, try getting in right in the camera as much as possible.

In CS2, the RAW files were processed for tone and contrast only. Layers were blended and the image finished with a mild touch of sharpening using a high-pass filter.

chilling in the underneath by B.S. Wise

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Soonest Mended

BY JOHN ASHBERY

Barely tolerated, living on the margin

In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued

On the brink of destruction, like heroines in Orlando Furioso

Before it was time to start all over again.

There would be thunder in the bushes, a rustling of coils,

And Angelica, in the Ingres painting, was considering

The colorful but small monster near her toe, as though wondering whether forgetting

The whole thing might not, in the end, be the only solution.

And then there always came a time when

Happy Hooligan in his rusted green automobile

Came plowing down the course, just to make sure everything was O.K.,

Only by that time we were in another chapter and confused

About how to receive this latest piece of information.

Was it information? Weren’t we rather acting this out

For someone else’s benefit, thoughts in a mind

With room enough and to spare for our little problems (so they began to seem),

Our daily quandary about food and the rent and bills to be paid?

To reduce all this to a small variant,

To step free at last, minuscule on the gigantic plateau—

This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free.

Alas, the summer’s energy wanes quickly,

A moment and it is gone. And no longer

May we make the necessary arrangements, simple as they are.

Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.

Now there is no question even of that, but only

Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off,

With an occasional dream, a vision: a robin flies across

The upper corner of the window, you brush your hair away

And cannot quite see, or a wound will flash

Against the sweet faces of the others, something like:

This is what you wanted to hear, so why

Did you think of listening to something else? We are all talkers

It is true, but underneath the talk lies

The moving and not wanting to be moved, the loose

Meaning, untidy and simple like a threshing floor.

These then were some hazards of the course,

Yet though we knew the course was hazards and nothing else

It was still a shock when, almost a quarter of a century later,

The clarity of the rules dawned on you for the first time.

They were the players, and we who had struggled at the game

Were merely spectators, though subject to its vicissitudes

And moving with it out of the tearful stadium, borne on shoulders, at last.

Night after night this message returns, repeated

In the flickering bulbs of the sky, raised past us, taken away from us,

Yet ours over and over until the end that is past truth,

The being of our sentences, in the climate that fostered them,

Not ours to own, like a book, but to be with, and sometimes

To be without, alone and desperate.

But the fantasy makes it ours, a kind of fence-sitting

Raised to the level of an esthetic ideal. These were moments, years,

Solid with reality, faces, namable events, kisses, heroic acts,

But like the friendly beginning of a geometrical progression

Not too reassuring, as though meaning could be cast aside some day

When it had been outgrown. Better, you said, to stay cowering

Like this in the early lessons, since the promise of learning

Is a delusion, and I agreed, adding that

Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned,

That the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint

None of us ever graduates from college,

For time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up

Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.

And you see, both of us were right, though nothing

Has somehow come to nothing; the avatars

Of our conforming to the rules and living

Around the home have made—well, in a sense, “good citizens” of us,

Brushing the teeth and all that, and learning to accept

The charity of the hard moments as they are doled out,

For this is action, this not being sure, this careless

Preparing, sowing the seeds crooked in the furrow,

Making ready to forget, and always coming back

To the mooring of starting out, that day so long ago.

Source: The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry (Ecco Press, 1997)

^ ^ ^.^ ^ ^

The Black Angels: "You On The Run"

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!Black Swan! Vixxen Dress

dress & thong

Sheer & Sexy

made for lara, legacy, reborn, waifu, genX; erika

!Black Swan!

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[POM Ine] earrings

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