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Officially opened to the public on July 28, 1985, the entire park includes a farm, a large forest and a mansion now called the Patterson House which was first constructed in 1857 by the farm's original owner, George Washington Patterson.
Patterson called his estate "Ardenwood", after the forested area in England mentioned in Shakespeare's play, As You Like It. There were two subsequent additions to the house. The largest was in 1889 when Patterson and his wife Clara added the Queen Anne Victorian section to the House. The second addition came in 1915 when Patterson's son Henry and his wife remodeled the old farm house section, and added rooms including the kitchen, a large bedroom above the kitchen, the sun porch, nursery, and a bathroom with indoor plumbing.[1]
A feature of the park is the Railroad Museum at Ardenwood which operates a horse-drawn railway, a recreation of a historic local branch of the South Pacific Coast Railroad. The museum has a collection of narrow gauge railroad cars and other artifacts of 19th. century railroading.
The park hosts many events, a Celtic festival,[2] an Independence Day celebration, the Washington Township Railroad Fair on Labor Day, a Renaissance Faire in September,[3] The Harvest Festival in October, a Zydeco concert, and many Halloween celebrations, complete with a haunted railroad. Among other crops, in the fall the farm harvests a large pumpkin patch.
Includes a reproduction of the 1959 Ponytail Barbie wearing her original Black & White striped swimsuit PLUS “Solo in the Spotlight” fashion. Also includes collector booklet.
My Favorite Barbie Doll Collection 2009
Reeck, Chelsea. Side Effects May Include. Minneapolis: Chelsea Reeck, 2017.
1st prize, Student Artists' Books Competition (2017) MCAD Library.
Chelsea Reeck, MFA MCAD, 2017.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.
Roger Dario’s graduate project — “Standard Scientifical Industries” — is silly. With a product line that includes Hitler Assassination Kits, Folding Quarantine Chambers, and Deus Ex Machina in a box, it’s satiric and inspiring. It’s as inventive as it is nostalgic. Part Nickelodeon, part Adbusters, part 1950s propaganda, it’s a shining testament to Roger’s skills and voice as a designer.
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The Great Limerick Run 2015 (Marathon, Half Marathon, Relay, and 6 Mile) races were held in Limerick City, Ireland on Sunday 3rd of May 2014 starting at 09:00. This was a very large mass participation event which is now firmly established on the Irish running calendar. These are a set of a photographs from: the start of the marathon, the mile 2 mark of the mark, the half way point of the marathon (to about a 3:40 finishing time), a selection from mile 20 of the marathon. These sets of photographs will not include every competitor. The official results are available here [www.tdl.ltd.uk/] and the official race website is available at [www.greatlimerickrun.com/] These are not offical race photographs.
We have a full set of photographs from todays race on Flickr at this album location:https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157651923101059/
USING OUR PHOTOGRAPHS - A QUICK GUIDE AND ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS
Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?
Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share directly to: email, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.
BUT..... Wait there a minute....
We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.
This also extends to the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?
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I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?
If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.
Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?
Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
Let's get a bit technical: We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs
We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
Above all what Creative Commons aims to do is to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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That's OK! We understand!
If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.
I want to tell people about these great photographs!
Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
Includes:
Customized minifigworld stands
Customized Brickarms
Custom Figures
For a Proto.
Any from here:
Pod Gun (NOT TAN)
HLC with Viewfinder
M1919 Browning
M3 Grease Gun
HAC
M2 Flamethrower
Kar 98k
Lever Action Rifle
Sci FI Ammo Box
Sten
The “INKredible 2″ Pack includes 20 NEW polymer clay patterns sheets designs introducing a variety & mix of materials to use along with alcohol inks.
These sheets can be applied in any bead, jewel, or accessory of your choice – flat or curved, small or large.
I implemented my pattern sheets on earrings & beads.
The materials I used are probably already in your polymer clay toolbox, taken from many of my previous classes –
Alcohol inks, chalk pastels, paints, stazon inks, stencils etc.
This class is a new version of my known previous INKredible class, now offering a celebration of exciting, new techniques, encouraging you to use anything on your worktable, along with alcohol inks.
20 patterns came out of my personal laboratory, but the combinations are infinite!
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Irton with Santon is a civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, which includes the village of Santon Bridge. It has a parish council. It had a population of 373 in 2001, decreasing to 316 at the 2011 Census.
The parish is bordered by the parishes of Gosforth to the north west and west, Eskdale to the east, Muncaster to the south east, and Drigg and Carleton to the south west. Irton Pike is a hill of 751 feet (229 m) included in Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, and the River Irt flows through the parish, bridged at Santon Bridge. The parish lies within the Lake District National Park, and the only major road is a short stretch of the A595 along the western edge, passing through Holmrook (a village divided between this parish and Drigg and Carleton).
There are 17 listed buildings or structures in the parish. The Church of St Paul and the medieval tower incorporated into Irton Hall are at grade II* and the rest at grade II.
St Paul's church stands in an isolated position roughly midway between Holmrook and Santon Bridge. It is part of the benefice of Eskdale, Irton, Muncaster and Waberthwaite in the Diocese of Carlisle, and services are held twice a month. The Anglo-Saxon Irton Cross stands in its graveyard; there is a reproduction of it in the Cast Courts of the Victoria and Albert Museum, commissioned by the museum in 1882. A plaque by the font is in memorial to Robert Wilfred Skeffington-Lutwidge who was a commissioner in lunacy. The plaque tells the tragic tale of how he died after being hit on the head by a lunatic.[citation needed] The church was rebuilt in 1857 on the site of an earlier church, by Miles Thompson of Kendal (who also designed Arnside Church) and includes glass by Morris & Co.
New York City's longest running weekly psytrance event is back at Sullivan Room for yet another action-packed evening.
lineup for the night will include:
SKOOCHA (UKSL / Parabola Records)
Skoocha is one of the may aliases of French/Spanish Musician & Producer Benoit Munoz. He discovered Trance in 1995 while visiting friends in Amsterdam when somebody gave him the first Dragonfly compilation. From there there was no turning back and he knew music would be his life. Now a busy music producer and musician in NY since 2003. Skoocha still finds time to craft Trance tracks that will blend the emotions of the oldschool goatrance that started all this with the power of the actual production and the Funk of NY ! Over the years he has worked released tracks with Manmademan (UKSL / Flying Rhino) Biotonic (Solstice ) Earworm (3d Vision) Mesmerizer (MindControl). His music has been played extensively over the world by dj's like Domino and the mighty Juno Reactor. His long awaited 1st album that will contain many unreleased tracks as well as remixes of the old ones is due this winter on Parabola Records (Germany). It will be the 2nd release of this new label after the Talamasca Vs XSI Album.
Expect a set that combines old and new tracks as well as some new collaborations.
Also, we'll be celebrating Skoocha's birthday!
CTRL + ALT + DEL (Nexus Media, US/India)
LUIS CAMPOS (Dreamcatcher/Reality Engine, US/Brazil)
Deco by the Dreamcatchers AND Neuronymphonic
**August 20, 10pm - 4am **
@ Sullivan Room, New York City www.sullivanroom.com
218 Sullivan St (between Bleecker and West 3rd St, 2 blocks east of 6th Ave)
General Admission: $10.00
RSVP to psycheground@yahoo.com for $5.00 reduced list
21+ with ID
Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, or V trains to "W 4 St - Wash Sq"
Map to Sullivan Room:
Nelson Castle is located about 13 kilometers from Bronte, situated on a flat ground of the valley between Nebrodi and Etna Mount, on the left bank of the Saraceno river. It includes a noble wing, the early residence of Nelson family (improperly called Castle), the remains of the Benedictine abbey dedicated to the Maria Santissima (Blessed Virgin Mary), the church of Santa Maria of Maniace and a large lush parkland. The abbey was built around 1173, at the behest of Queen Margaret, in memory of the battle in which Giorgio Maniace liberated the area from the Saracens. By virtue of the privileges granted, the abbey enjoyed substantial incomes, and like all the feuds, contributed to the costs of the Royal Curia. During the centuries after its foundation the abbey knew hard times, until it was reduced in a miserable state with consequent depopulation of the countryside. At the end of the fifteenth century the abbey, with its vast lands, became property of Greater and New Hospital of Palermo (Ospedale Grande e Nuovo di Palermo), until 1799, when it was given to Horatio Nelson Admiral from Ferdinand III as award of the stifled Neapolitan republic. The restructuring, transformation and expansion of the ancient abbey into a sumptuous mansion was begun by Horatio Nelson, but he did not have the time nor the luck to set in his possessions in Sicily and to live in Bronte. Instead his heirs lived in the residence permanently. The building complex has become property of Bronte town by September 4th 1981, with subsequent restoration. In its simplicity it has a majestic appearance! Throught two gates it is possible accessing to the porch and then to a first courtyard where it is situated a Celtic cross in lava stone, erected in memory of Horatio Nelson. Laterally, on the right, you can access to interesting late-Norman church named Santa Maria and the square courtyard with a well in lava stone, around which were originally collected small workshops, the warehouses, the stables, and the granary. On the left, at the upper floor, there were the Nelson’s elegant apartments, now used as a museum. A large park enriches the Castle. Throught an access from the first courtyard you can visit the English Garden, wanted by Nelsons.
Il Castello Nelson si trova a circa 13 chilometri da Bronte, ubicato su un terreno pianeggiante di fondo valle tra Nebrodi ed Etna, sulla riva sinistra del torrente Saraceno. Comprende una ala gentilizia, un tempo residenza dei Nelson (impropriamente detta il Castello), i resti dell’antica abbazia benedettina dedicata a Maria Santissima, la chiesetta di Santa Maria di Maniace ed un grande lussureggiante parco. L'abbazia sorse intorno al 1173, per volontà della Regina Margherita, in memoria della battaglia in cui Giorgio Maniace liberò la zona dai Saraceni. In virtù dei privilegi concessi, l'abbazia godeva di rendite ragguardevoli e, come tutti i feudi, contribuiva alle spese della Regia Curia. Nei secoli successivi alla fondazione conobbe però periodi difficili, fino ad essere ridotta in uno stato miserevole con conseguente spopolamento delle campagne circostanti. Alla fine del XV secolo l’abbazia, con i suoi vasti terreni, divenne proprietà dell'Ospedale Grande e Nuovo di Palermo, fino al 1799 quando da Ferdinando III fu donata all’Ammiraglio Horatio Nelson in premio della soffocata repubblica partenopea. La ristrutturazione, la trasformazione e l'ampliamento dell’antica abbazia in una sontuosa residenza signorile fu iniziata da Horatio Nelson, che però non ebbe il tempo nè la fortuna di mettere piedi nei possedimenti siciliani e di abitare a Bronte. I suoi eredi invece abitarono stabilmente la residenza. Il complesso edilizio è diventato proprietà del Comune di Bronte dal 4 Settembre 1981, con successivo restauro. Nella sua semplicità ha un aspetto maestoso! Per due cancellate si accede al porticato d’ingresso e quindi ad un primo cortile dove è ubicata la croce celtica in pietra lavica eretta in memoria di Horatio Nelson. Lateralmente, a destra, si accede alla interessante chiesa tardo-normanna di Santa Maria ed al cortile quadrato con pozzo in pietra lavica, intorno al quale originariamente erano raccolti i piccoli laboratori, i magazzini, le stalle, il granaio. Sulla sinistra, al piano sopraelevato, erano gli appartamenti signorili dei Nelson, ora adibiti a museo. Un grande parco arricchisce il Castello. Con accesso dal primo cortile è possibile visitare il giardino inglese, voluto dai Nelson.
Bronte is a town and comune of Sicily (in the province of Catania, Italy), near Mount Etna.In 1520 Charles V united the twenty-four hamlets of the surrounding area, which formed the town of Bronte. Mount Etna nearly destroyed the town three times, in 1651, in 1832, and finally in 1843.In 1799, King Ferdinand III, created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the title of Duke for the help he had provided him in bloodily repressing the revolution in Naples and so in recovering his throne. As well as being made a Duke, Nelson was given as a fief the Castello Maniace, which at the time was the remains of a Benedictine Monastery. The Castle passed into the Bridport family when the 1st Viscount Bridport married the then Duchess of Bronte, who was Admiral Nelson's niece.The Bridports continued to live in the castle until 1982 when the current Viscount sold the property to the province of Catania.
Bronte è un comune italiano di 19.424 abitanti della provincia di Catania in Sicilia.Si estende alle pendici occidentali dell'Etna. È un comune del Parco dell'Etna e del Parco dei Nebrodi.Durante il medioevo sul territorio dell'odierno comune si trovarono 24 piccoli agglomerati appartenenti al monastero di Maniace. Per decreto dell'imperatore Carlo V del Sacro Romano Impero fu creata la città di Bronte nel 1520.Bronte fu parzialmente danneggiata durante l'eruzione dell'Etna del 1651, mentre le colate delle eruzioni del 1832 e 1843 si avvicinarono ai territori di Bronte senza però raggiungere l'abitato. L'eruzione del 1843 è conosciuta soprattutto per la morte di 59 persone causata da un'esplosione che avvenne quando la lava invase una cisterna d'acqua. Questo è l'incidente più grave conosciuto nella storia delle eruzioni dell'Etna, che può essere direttamente associato con l'attività del vulcano.L'ammiraglio britannico Horatio Nelson fu insignito del titolo di duca di Bronte nel 1799 da Ferdinando I delle Due Sicilie con una donazione significativa di terreni, fra cui il Castello e la chiesa di Santa Maria nei pressi di Bronte e Maniace.
Earth Designs Garden Design and Build were asked to created a landscape and propose garden design in Acton, London*. Here are the details of the project
Brief: The plot for this design was a mid-size family garden, which had recently benefited from the addition of a large sunroom on the back of the property. It was a fairly blank canvas, with nothing of note to be retained in the re-design. The garden had side access and worn boundary fences which required replacing. There was no clear brief other than that the design include a seating area and some lawn, and that the transition from sunroom to garden be fairly seamless.
Solution: The focus of this design was to create an exterior space that serves as an extension to the interior, featuring several distinct and versatile areas that can be adapted to a variety of uses.
The garden's boundaries were replaced with new fencing to provide a uniform and attractive backdrop to the transformation within, while the long sideway down the right of the house was renovated with the addition of attractive 'bamboo' slate tile flooring in a random lay pattern.
The first section of the space comprises a large area of Western Red Cedar decking adjoining the house, and offers ample room for entertaining, with a long L-shaped fixed-bench seat stretching width-ways across the space from the left-hand side to the centre. This was backed with a rendered block raised bed, planted with fragrant lavender and capped with 'bamboo' slate tile, to provide a sense of enclosure and separation from the rest of the garden.
A decked walkway running down the right hand side of the space provides access to a 'spa' area, featuring a large square hot tub housed upon a reinforced paved hard-standing and nestled between existing and additional trees, shrubs and foliage to provide a secluded and intimate area for bathing throughout the seasons. Hidden behind mature and new planting in the bottom left corner, a large shed provides ample storage for the client's garden accessories. The middle of the space has been given over to a large lawn edges with slate.
A purple and yellow planting scheme of soft, cottage-style evergreen shrubs and flowering perennials will help to bring year round lightness and subtle colouring to the space.
After-dark hot tub bathing is enhanced by several strings of pea-lights woven through the existing shrubbery. Deck lights demark the main area of decking and guide one's journey along the decked walkway. Finally, spot lights in the beds highlight certain area while providing a gentle wash throughout the space.
Testimonial: "After months of planning and a full year of having builders everywhere, we had finally got the house into good shape but the garden was a nightmare. It had been somewhat overgrown before the builders moved in, but after a year of being used as a builders yard, it needed shock treatment.
We needed help fast so we searched the web. We were looking for garden designers with creative ideas for smaller London gardens. We didn't want anything too traditional but at the same time, nothing too extreme.
Earth Designs fitted the bill and after a design session with Katrina, we engaged them for the project. They had offered us a design service only, but as we only had a 4 week window in which to complete the job, we gave them the whole project.
We had built a new extension with wide glass doors that opened out into the garden, so the brief to Earth Designs was to "bring the outside, inside" and create a strong link between the new room and the garden beyond. The actual garden space was not large so we wanted to use the space as an extension of the living space - to be an "outside room".
Monday 18th April and three very charming men arrived on our doorstep at 8.0am sharp. Arlo was the project manager, ably aided and abetted by Paul and Phillip. They worked brilliantly as a team and always hit all the deadlines. In particular they did a great job in working with our neighbours to ensure the whole project ran smoothly.
The first week involved clearing the site - no mean feat with 30-year-old ivy stems that looked more like tree trunks.
The second week involved levelling the garden, putting up new fencing, building the corner seating base and planters, plus marking out the garden shape. It was good to be able to make minor changes to the design on the ground at this stage. The hot tub arrived too and was winched into place for connection later.
Week 3 saw the decking and seating built.
Then in week four the turf arrived, the lawn went down and on the last day, Katrina arrived with a truckload of wonderful specimens (and Matt) and we had a wonderful time planting. Ground Force Mk II - a complete garden from start to finish in just 4 weeks!
There were a few things that needed to be sorted out after the main work was complete. Earth Designs were great about coming back until all was complete and finished.
Our thanks to Katrina, Matt, Arlo, Paul and Phillip for a great job, completed on time and on budget with a great looking result."
If you dig this and would like to find out more about this or any of other of our designs, please stop by our web-site and have a look at our work.
Earth Designs is a bespoke London Garden Design and build company specialising in classic, funky and urban contemporary garden design.
Our Landscape and Garden build teams cover London, Essex and parts of South East England, while garden designs are available nationwide.
Please visit www.earthdesigns.co.uk to see our full portfolio. If you would like a garden designer in London or have an idea of what you want and are looking for a landscaper London to come and visit your garden, please get in touch.
Follow our Bespoke Garden Design and Build and Blog to see what we get up to week by week, our free design clinic as well as tips and products we recommend for your garden projects www.earthdesigns.co.uk/blog/.
Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex , gardens in Hertfordshire Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.
If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Garden Design Postal Design Vouchers. If you are looking for an unique birthday present or original anniversary present and would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.
wanted to include some Black and White shots in this 365 project but never liked the tone so never tried .. i thought why not select some subjects which can or may look good in the BW tone .. so here is the 3rd in the series of BW (atleast 7)
Nikon D90 @ Tokina 100mm Macro f2.8 lens @ SB 600 @ 24mm @ opp thr subject @ on a stand
Multiple images (12 images for this photograph) taken at different focus distances to give this resulting image using the Focus Stacking (bracketing) technique.
The Bricktown Okctopus Mural. The hidden images include the following: flower, gonzo gist, peace fingers, hawk, hammer, high-heeled shoe, cowboy boot, Africa, heavy metal fingers, Abe Lincoln, bunny rabbit, guitar, fork, sword, Levon Fowler (artist’s dog), cowboy hat, baseball bat, sunglasses, alligator, butterfly, ballet dancer, JF 2016, shamrock, giraffe, feather, tomahawk, arrowhead, candle, longhorn, horseshoe, star, toenail clippers, tiger paw, bugle, the number 8, shark, whale, gecko, wine glass, football, bottle, airplane, pickup truck, bird, dinosaur, book, paintbrush, tiger face, handprint, footprint, pine tree, fish, 1980s telephone, cat, Middle Creek Brand (backwards "R" attached to backwards "L"), deer track, music notes, raindrops, bug, saxophone, pipe, turkey track, boom box, acorn, tooth, pig, Adidas sneaker, chess knight, snake, light bulb, check mark, eye, unicorn, peach, knife, key, umbrella, elephant, bear track, nose, scissors, jellyfish, ninja, saw, kite, rooster, domino and cactus.
This curatorship property includes a ca. 1845 stone farmhouse, smoke house, spring house, barn, corn crib/tractor shed and other various outbuildings quietly sitting on 11 acres of secluded lands within Susquehanna State Park.
Dear Sirs,
I attach a photograph from an event in Manchester (UK) in support of your day of action, which I hope you will include on your webpage.
In order to mark the Moving Planet day the Manchester Branch of the World Development, with help from 350.org supporters and Vincent Walsh (in photo) of the Greater Manchester Cycling
Campaign, carried out a flash large banner Drop from the Manchester Shude Hill Bus station in front of the environmentally sensitive CO OP building. This photo on a rather grey Saturday was taken by my self (Matthew Gobey).
Our press release to the local media is as follows:
On Saturday 24th. September
Manchester World Development Movement campaigners unfurled a massive
banner over Manchester to remind people that “Climate Change Kills”,
both directly through heightened and more frequent natural disasters
such the recent hurricane that crossed the Atlantic and also as in the
drought causing starvation in the Horn of Africa.
Saturday’s WDM action was part of a world-wide day of action called by the
environmental group 350.org whose “Moving Planet” day demands the world
move beyond fossil fuels. The Manchester action contrasts the
giving over of city centre spaces to cars and car parks with celebrating
the visionary development of public transport and the CIS Tower’s
massive Solar Power array- the largest building mounted installation in
Britain.
Stephen Pennells, WDM member
said: “There is little point in feeling sorry for people hit by
hurricanes and droughts in Haiti, Pakistan, the USA and the Horn of
Africa if we don’t take strategic action to help them adapt and to stop
climate change getting worse; and there’s little point in giving with
one hand whilst taking with the other.
“David Cameron pledged that his
‘would be the greenest government ever.’ We’re behind them in that if
it really helps the world’s poor. However at the moment there are big
problems with their support to developing countries being routed through
World Bank loans. These are top-down imposed answers that make the
poor poorer by saddling them with new debts and harmful conditions.
This must stop if we are to be sincere. It’s a issue of Climate
Justice- we are the climate debtors yet the government is supporting
loan sharks.”
Luke Harman of Christian Aid
added: “We want stronger leadership to agree legally binding
international cuts in carbon emissions at a level adequate to stop
catastrophic climate change, particularly through a second commitment
period of the Kyoto Protocol.”
The campaigners hope Mancunians
will re-focus on Climate Change so that
our children and grandchildren will have a future. As the banner says:
Climate Change Kills- both directly and indirectly.
If you require any further information, please do not hesitate in contacting us
Yours
Matthew Gobey
M.W. GOBEY
PAUL McCARTNEY HEY GRANDUDE! 2019 VOL.5 2 DVD
July thru September, 2019! THIS IS GREAT and packed with great material! All HD footage too! Includes Hey Grandude event
at Waterstones - arrival, reading, leaving & news reports plus interviews, ads & more on the book! Include exclusive and raw
footage of this event! Lindas Polaroids Victoria and Albert Museum in London, BBC newsnight 2 different interviews, Late Show
with Steven Colbert, plus ads, more news and Paul's speech at LIPA!
SUPER compilation - excellent quality throughout! Approx 165 minutes with 48 chapters!!!
DISC ONE:
01 190727 Paul's Speech - LIPA Graduation Ceremony 2019
02 190731 Mull of Kintyre Opening Gate - Jeremy Vine On 5
03 190808 Paul Live Collection Ad
04 190809 Abe jamming on I've Got a Feeling in LA
05 190820 Taylor Swift With Stella McCartney For 'Lover' Fashion Collection - Access
06 190825 Paul at Nick & Toni's Hamptons NY
07 2018-2019 Hey Grandude - 3 Trailers
08 190905 A Hey Grandude Ads #2-4
09 Hey Grandude Instagram Story
10 Pauls Hey Grandude book hits shelves - MSN
11 Pauls Hey Grandude book hits shelves - Today
12 190906 Interview - The One Show
13 Paul arrives at Waterstones London
14 Paul reads to the children
15 Hey Grandude book signing - 3 Clips - Assoc Press (3:31)
16 Hey Grandude book signing - 6 Clips - ITN Raw Footage (13:25)
17 Hey Grandude book signing - Rueters Raw Footage (7:20)
18 Paul reads to the children - ITN Raw Footage silent with (9:46)
Hey Grandude Audio Sample - BBC Radio Interview
19 Paul leaving Waterstones
20 Pauls Instagram Story
21 Paul reading to the children - Euro News
22 Paul reading to the children - Independent
23 Paul reading to the children - Rueters Report
24 Paul reading to the children - Van Hoa
25 Hey Grandude book hits shelves - 7 News #1
26 Hey Grandude book hits shelves - 7 News #2
27 Paul open to playing Glastonbury 2020 - MSN
28 190907 Paul Reads Hey Grandude To Small Fans
29 190908 Pauls Hey Grandude Book - CBS News
DISC TWO:
01 Pauls Hey Grandude Book - KLSA News
02 190909 Behind the scenes with Hey Grandude
03 Hey Grandude Ads #5 - 6
04 Kathryn Durst illustrator of Hey Grandude - Your Morning
05 Paul answers questions on Hey Grandude - Instagram Story
06 Paul answers more questions on Hey Grandude - IGTV
07 190912 Hey Grandude! Random House Books
08 Kathryn Durst draws for McCartney kids book - CP24
09 190913 Hey Grandude adventure to Waterstones - FB
10 190914 Hey Grandude Ad #7
11 190916 Paul McCartney Wings of a Beatle - Trailer
12 190918 Lindas Polaroids Victoria and Albert Museum in London
13 Interview - Victoria and Albert Museum, London #1 - BBC Newsnight
14 Interview - Victoria and Albert Museum, London #2 - BBC Newsnight (12:00)
15 190920 Paul arrives at designer's Rome wedding - Rueters
16 190923 Paul on The Late Show ad #1
17 Paul on The Late Show ad #2
18 Paul on The Late Show Instagram Story
19 Interview - The Late Show with Steven Colbert
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I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations.
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The Big Five: Elephants. Kruger Park. South Africa. Dec/2018
Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. Three species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis), and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Elephantidae is the only surviving family of the order Proboscidea; other, now extinct, members of the order include deinotheres, gomphotheres, mammoths, and mastodons.
All elephants have several distinctive features, the most notable of which is a long trunk (also called a proboscis), used for many purposes, particularly breathing, lifting water, and grasping objects. Their incisors grow into tusks, which can serve as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. Elephants' large ear flaps help to control their body temperature. Their pillar-like legs can carry their great weight. African elephants have larger ears and concave backs while Asian elephants have smaller ears and convex or level backs.
Elephants are herbivorous and can be found in different habitats including savannahs, forests, deserts, and marshes. They prefer to stay near water. They are considered to be a keystone species due to their impact on their environments. Other animals tend to keep their distance from elephants while predators, such as lions, tigers, hyenas, and any wild dogs, usually target only young elephants (or "calves"). Elephants have a fission–fusion society in which multiple family groups come together to socialise. Females ("cows") tend to live in family groups, which can consist of one female with her calves or several related females with offspring. The groups are led by an individual known as the matriarch, often the oldest cow.
Males ("bulls") leave their family groups when they reach puberty and may live alone or with other males. Adult bulls mostly interact with family groups when looking for a mate and enter a state of increased testosterone and aggression known as musth, which helps them gain dominance and reproductive success. Calves are the centre of attention in their family groups and rely on their mothers for as long as three years. Elephants can live up to 70 years in the wild. They communicate by touch, sight, smell, and sound; elephants use infrasound, and seismic communication over long distances. Elephant intelligence has been compared with that of primates and cetaceans. They appear to have self-awareness and show empathyfor dying or dead individuals of their kind.
Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of around 20,000 square kilometres in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from east to west.
Source: Wikipedia
Os elefantes são animais herbívoros, alimentando-se de ervas, gramíneas, frutas e folhas de árvores. Dado o seu tamanho, um elefante adulto pode ingerir entre 70 a 150 kg de alimentos por dia. As fêmeas vivem em manadas de 10 a 15 animais, lideradas por uma matriarca, compostas por várias reprodutoras e crias de variadas idades. O período de gestação das fêmeas é longo (20 a 22 meses), assim como o desenvolvimento do animal que leva anos a atingir a idade adulta. Os filhotes podem nascer com 90 kg. Os machos adolescentes tendem a viver em pequenos bandos e os machos adultos isolados, encontrando-se com as fêmeas apenas no período reprodutivo.
Devido ao seu porte, os elefantes têm poucos predadores. Exercem uma forte influência sobre as savanas, pois mantêm árvores e arbustos sob controle, permitindo que pastagens dominem o ambiente. Eles vivem cerca de 60 anos e morrem quando seus molares caem, impedindo que se alimentem de plantas.
Os elefantes-africanos são maiores que as variedades asiáticas e têm orelhas mais desenvolvidas, uma adaptação que permite libertar calor em condições de altas temperaturas. Outra diferença importante é a ausência de presas de marfim nas fêmeas dos elefantes asiáticos.
Durante a época de acasalamento, o aumento da produção de testosterona deixa os elefantes extremamente agressivos, fazendo-os atacar até humanos. Acidentes com elefantes utilizados em rituais geralmente são causados por esse motivo. Cerca de 400 humanos são mortos por elefantes a cada ano.
Elefante é o termo genérico e popular pelo qual são denominados os membros da família Elephantidae, um grupo de mamíferos proboscídeoselefantídeos, de grande porte, do qual há três espécies no mundo atual, duas africanas (Loxodonta sp.) e uma asiática (Elephas sp.). Há ainda os mamutes (Mammuthus sp.), hoje extintos. Até recentemente, acreditava-se que havia apenas duas espécies vivas de elefantes, o elefante-africano e o elefante-asiático, uma espécie menor. Entretanto, estudos recentes de DNA sugerem que havia, na verdade, duas espécies de elefante-africano: Loxodonta africana, da savana, e Loxodonta cyclotis, que vive nas florestas. Os elefantes são os maiores animais terrestres da actualidade, com a massa entre 4 a 6 toneladas e medindo em média quatro metros de altura, podem levantar até 10.000 kg. As suas características mais distintivas são as presas de marfim
O Parque Nacional Kruger é a maior área protegida de fauna bravia da África do Sul, cobrindo cerca de 20 000 km2. Está localizado no nordeste do país, nas províncias de Mpumalanga e Limpopo e tem uma extensão de cerca de 360 km de norte a sul e 65 km de leste a oeste.
Os parques nacionais africanos, nas regiões da savana africana são importantes pelo turismo com safári de observação e fotográfico.
O seu nome foi dado em homenagem a Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger, último presidente da República Sul-Africana bôere. Foi criado em 31 de Maio de 1926
Fonte: Wikipedia
From the May 2016 trip to Thailand and Cambodia:
As this was my first trip to Thailand, I absolutely insisted that it include some island…any island, really. Since this trip was including Bangkok and also Cambodia, an island along the eastern seaboard made the most sense and Koh Chang was the “winner.” (I’m pretty sure there are others – maybe even more beautiful ones – but, since we just had two nights, this one worked out fine, as it was quite accessible.)
Now, Koh Chang isn’t considered the prettiest island in Thailand by a long shot, however, it is quite nice all the same. I’m more than likely going to be returning to Thailand within the next 4 months, and will be visiting one of the more picturesque islands at that time (along with northern Thailand, which went completely untouched this trip).
Koh Chang (“koh” or “ko” means “island,” and “chang” means elephant…for anyone who’s curious) is the second-largest island in Thailand. I’m not sure what the largest is (Phuket, probably?). At any rate, getting here from Bangkok is very easy. Go to the eastern bus terminal and buy a bus ticket. (Lonely Planet said it’s 7 hours; the hotel said 5. Oddly, we got there in 6 hour flat.) The ticket cost…about 250 baht, from what I recall. That’s less than $10USD for a six hour bus ride. Not bad at all.
As bus rides go, it’s completely nondescript. The road doesn’t hug the sea, so there’s nothing coastal to see, nor is southeastern Thailand terribly mountainous. (The Cardamom Mountains in western Cambodia aren’t too far off, but they’re more like hills, even smaller than the Appalachians, and were far enough off that you wouldn’t even consider this hilly terrain. The only points of note on this trip (which completely bypasses Pattaya – fine by me) are the towns of Chanthaburi and Trat. Trat is the closest main city to Koh Chang. At Trat, it’s a two lane road just under an hour to the Koh Chang dock, where the bus stops and you have to buy a ferry ticket (40 baht/person). Both the Bangkok-Koh Chang buses and ferries run regularly (every thirty minutes or so), so timing isn’t a concern.
The ferry across the Gulf of Trat (Gulf of Thailand, really) is about…30-40 minutes. It’s only six kilometers or so offshore. It’s far enough that, when you’re there, you certainly forget about the rest of the world, which is rather nice. Arriving on the north shore of the island at one of 2 or 3 docks, you pay anywhere from 50-100 baht for a group tuktuk/van to take you to whichever point on the island you happen to be staying.
The island is large (and hilly) enough that there are waterfalls, ziplines, hiking, all kinds of outdoor recreation other than just being a beach bum. I, unfortunately, got rather sick late the first night there and was completely out of commission for over 24 hours. However, I’m glad to say that I did get to enjoy Hat Sai Khao (White Sand Beach) very much.
On arriving in the area – this is the most popular beach, and also nearest the docks, about 4 km away – you find your hotel/hostel/guesthouse and then, will more than likely, head straight to the beach. This is the only part of the trip where we had no hotel reservations ahead of time. There are so many options for staying that, even during peak season, getting a place to stay is pretty easy. (And May is not peak season…)
Our hotel – the Arunee Resort – was pretty much no frills and, while not directly on the beach, it was less than a three minute walk away (through the 15 Palms Restaurant, where we ate twice). For 1000 baht/night (around $30USD), it was perfect.
We got to the hotel and checked in around 4:00 in the afternoon. After getting settled, we just went over to the aforementioned 15 Palms Restaurant for a late lunch/early dinner. The view was wonderful. The beach isn’t terribly big – or long – but, it’s large enough that it wasn’t crowded at all. We just relaxed outdoors for a while and, closer to sundown, took a stroll along the beach.
As far as sunsets go, this one left a lot to be desired on the “Wow!” scale, but there was a sunset, so I can’t complain too much. Fortunately, Koh Chang is interesting in its own right. Along the beach, which I’d guess is about 500 meters long, give or take, are lots of restaurants, bars, some of the pricier resorts, a few souvenir shops, etc. I guess it’s exactly what you’d expect and hope for from a tropical beach. All of these line the main road around the west side of the island, by the way.
From a practical point of view, I’m also glad to say that there are plenty of pharmacies, massage parlors, tattoo parlors (though that’s not “practical,” so to speak), and I think there’s even an emergency clinic on the island. As I was annoyingly sick, I considered looking into that, but in the end, just waited it out. The silver lining to that cloud is that, if there were one day during this trip where I had to be completely waylaid, I’m glad it was one here, since the rest of the time involved much more tourist sites & stock shooting. Though I wish that I could have been healthy enough to possibly see other parts of the island on the one full day we had, I’m just glad I was well enough to travel on Friday morning.
Friday was a travel day that I was mildly concerned about, simply because it involved a truck, a ferry, a tuktuk/van, a bus, an international border crossing (with no prearranged visa), and indefinite transportation 300 km on the other side of the border to our final destination. More on that in the next “batch” post…
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CARS:
Year Released: 2006
Studio: Disney / Pixar
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 SCOPE
AUDIO & SUBTITLES:
- English (LPCM 5.1)
- English (Dolby 5.1)
- English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1) (Canada Only)
- French (Canadian) (Dolby 5.1) (Canada Only)
- Spanish (Dolby 5.1) (Canada Only)
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING:
Year Released: 2017
Studio: Sony (Columbia)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 SCOPE
AUDIO & SUBTITLES:
- English (DTS-HD 5.1)
- French (Canadian) (Dolby 5.1)
- Spanish (Dolby 5.1)
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR:
Year Released: 2018
Studio: Disney / Marvel
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 SCOPE
AUDIO & SUBTITLES:
- English (DTS-HD 7.1)
- French (Canadian) (Dolby 5.1)
- Spanish (Dolby 5.1)
- Portuguese (Brazilian) (Dolby 5.1)
LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION:
Year Released: 2003
Studio: Warner Bros.
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 SCOPE
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- English (DTS-HD 7.1)
- German (Dolby 5.1)
- Castilian Spanish (Dolby 5.1)
- Spanish (Dolby 5.1)
- Portuguese (Brazilian) (Dolby 5.1)
SUBTITLES:
English SDH, French, German, Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Portuguese
THE MUPPETS: OF PIRATES & PIGS COLLECTION: (includes THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER and MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND):
Year Released: 1981 / 1996
Studio: Disney
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
♪ Hey, a movie!
Yeah, we're gonna be on Blu-Ray!
Starring everybody, and me! ♪
AUDIO & SUBTITLES:
- English (DTS-HD 5.1) (The Great Muppet Caper)
- English (DTS-HD 5.0) (Muppet Treasure Island)
- French (Canadian) (Dolby 2.0)
- Spanish (Dolby 2.0)
- German (Dolby 2.0)
WE'RE BACK! A DINOSAUR'S STORY:
Year Released: 1993
Studio: Universal
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
AUDIO:
- English (DTS-HD 5.1)
- Spanish (DTS 2.0)
- French (DTS 5.1)
- Portuguese (Brazilian) (DTS Mono)
- Castilian Spanish (DTS 2.0)
- Danish (DTS 2.0)
- Finnish (DTS 2.0)
- Italian (DTS 2.0)
- Japanese (DTS 2.0)
- Russian (Voiceover) (DTS Mono)
SUBTITLES:
English SDH, Spanish, French (Canadian), Portuguese (Brazilian), Castilian Spanish, Danish, Finnish, French (European), Italian, Japanese, Russian
DR. SEUSS' THE CAT IN THE HAT
Year Released: 2003
Studio: Universal
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
AUDIO & SUBTITLES:
- English (DTS-HD 5.1)
- French (DTS 5.1)
- Spanish (DTS 5.1)
POCAHONTAS (Disney Movie Club Exclusive)
Year Released: 1995
Studio: Disney
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
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- English (DTS-HD 5.1)
- English (Dolby 2.0)
- French (Canadian) (Dolby 5.1)
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Istanbul Istanbul, a novel by Burhan Sönmez and translated from Turkish by Ümit Hussein, has won a new international literature prize launched by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
The prize, awarded at a ceremony at the Bank’s headquarters in London on 10 April, was created last year by the EBRD, in partnership with the British Council and the London Book Fair (LBF).
The €20,000 prize will be split between the author and translator.
The EBRD Literature Prize champions the literary richness of its regions of operations, which include almost 40 countries from Morocco to Mongolia, Estonia to Egypt. It was also created to illustrate the importance of literary translation and to introduce the depth and variety of the voices and creativity from these regions to a wider global audience.
Set after a military coup, the winning novel is a love song to Istanbul inspired by the author’s own experiences. Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners sit, awaiting their turn at the hands of their interrogators. When they are not being subjected to unimaginable violence, the condemned tell one another stories about the city, shaded with love and humour, to pass the time. In a style that resembles Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century classic The Decameron, the prisoners’ narratives slowly turn into a story of the city itself, increasingly blurring the line between life above and below ground.
Rosie Goldsmith, chair of the judging panel, said: “Istanbul Istanbul is a life-affirming novel of profound humanity and exquisite writing. And Burhan Sönmez is a major writer, a highly deserving winner of this major new prize. Yes, the novel is set in a prison cell, yes, it’s set in Turkey, but at no point does it condemn or take a position: it’s our story too. The four protagonists are on a quest to find kindness and beauty in a world of cruelty. They are fully rounded, real characters with flaws and oddities, gripping us not with accounts of violence and torture but through their humour and conversation. Burhan Sönmez wears his immense learning lightly and together with his literary companion Ümit Hussein, his outstanding translator, they have created a prize-winning novel of great passion and poetry.”
Suma Chakrabarti, President of the EBRD, said: “Through the EBRD Literature Prize, we recognise the work of scores of authors across the nearly 40 countries where the Bank works – most of whose voices would have remained unheard had it not been for the translators and publishers who bring these works to the English-speaking world. But our prize is meant to go beyond recognition. It is meant to promote the wealth, depth and variety of culture and history in the countries where the EBRD invests.”
Burhan Sönmez is an internationally prize-winning novelist who worked as a human rights lawyer in Istanbul and was a founder of the social-activist culture organisation TAKSAV (Foundation for Social Research, Culture and Art). Sönmez is a member of Turkish PEN and English PEN. He is a founding member of the 'Writers Circle' at PEN International and currently lectures in Literature and Novel at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
Ümit Hussein is a British translator and interpreter of Turkish Cypriot origin. She has translated the work of Nevin Halıcı, Mehmet Yashin and Ahmet Altan, among others.
The two runner-up titles received €2,000, also split between author and translator. These were All the World’s a Stage by Boris Akunin, translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield, and Belladonna by Daša Drndic, translated from Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth. All were present at the award ceremony, where the three finalist authors and translators discussed their books and the art of translation.
These titles were chosen from the original longlist of 12 titles by the judges.
A special event will also be held at the London Book Fair at 11.30 on 11 April 2018. Entitled ‘Whose Prize is it Anyway?’, featuring the prize winners and the judges, the panel will be discussing the benefit of literary prizes, the need to read more literature in translation and the role the EBRD Literature Prize plays in the current international cultural arena. This year the LBF market focus is on the Baltic states, one of the EBRD regions of operations.
See all information/announcements of the EBRD Literature Prize.
About the EBRD Literature Prize:
The prize provides a unique opportunity to reflect the culture and creativity of almost 40 economies where the Bank invests, from Morocco to Mongolia, Estonia to Egypt. The prize is awarded to the best work of literary fiction translated from the original language into English and published by a UK publisher in the 18 months prior to 15 November 2017. Divided equally between author and translator, it champions the art of translation as well as the extraordinary richness, depth and variety of arts and history in the countries in the Bank’s region. The EBRD Literature Prize is a project of the Bank’s Community Initiative.
About the EBRD:
The EBRD was set up in 1991 after the fall of the Berlin Wall to meet the challenge of an extraordinary moment in Europe’s history: the collapse of communism. It is a multilateral bank with almost 70 shareholders which promotes the development of the private sector and entrepreneurial initiatives in 37 economies across three continents.
About the judges:
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University. His most recent book, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, was an international number 1 bestseller.
Gabriel Gbadamosi is a poet, playwright, essayist and broadcaster. He was a Judith E. Wilson Fellow for creative writing at Cambridge University. His London novel Vauxhall won the 2011 Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize.
Lucy Hannah is a writer and producer who founded Commonwealth Writers in 2011. She has worked for a range of organisations on communication for development projects, mostly in areas of conflict and post-conflict, including South Sudan, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
Rosie Goldsmith, chair of the judging panel, is an award-winning journalist specialising in arts and current affairs in the UK and abroad, and a champion of international literature. She is Founder and Director of the European Literature Network.
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Kolam is a “low-country” tradition from Sri Lanka’s southern coast. Although it includes elements of ritual and even trance, it may be classified as a form of folk theater. A loose plot binds several stock characters and scenes together. The actual play is usually based on a Buddhist Jataka story.
The characters’ lines may be sung by a nearby singer, but they are sometimes also spoken and even sung by the actors themselves.
One can only speculate on kolam’s origins. The tradition itself gives legendary explanations of its birth. Furthermore, there are theories that the tradition stems from ancient pregnancy rites, while its many animal characters clearly indicate its roots in the animistic, animal spirit rites. It seems that kolam is a fusion of archaic belief systems, of Buddhism as well as later popular culture, which reflects the structure of the society at various phases of the island’s history.
The kolam performance takes place in a round performance arena surrounded on three sides by the audience. At least two drummers provide its accompaniment. The narrator or master of ceremonies directs the performance and introduces the characters. He also sometimes speaks the characters’ lines or enters into a dialogue with them. In earlier times, a kolam performance lasted a whole night, but nowadays from two to three hours.
A kolam performance starts with the preliminary rituals addressed to various gods and the Buddha. Then follows a description of kolam’s origins. The legend tells us that there was a king and a queen. The queen was pregnant and, as pregnant women often have, the queen also had a strange craving. She yearned to see mask dances.
This very loose frame for a story enables a theater to stage a cavalcade of various mask dances and mimes. The prologue is a series of short stock scenes involving all layers of traditional Sri Lankan society. Police officers, villagers, a washerman and his wanton wife, low-ranking courtiers, soldiers, and various animal and demon characters have their own, mostly comical scenes.
Finally the king and the queen enter with their retinue. The king and the queen have huge masks, which are often over a meter tall. Because of their heavy masks the actors must be conducted to their thrones, from where they watch the mask spectacle. In older times, it is believed, the big masks, placed on the thrones, were enough to represent these highest ranks of the characters.
Kolam is not a static, crystallized tradition. It allows different kinds of interpretations. Sometimes the narrator or drummers speak or sing the characters’ lines. Sometimes, however, the characters themselves speak or sing. Thus, kolam has also been called a “folk operetta”. It has also been a trend to knit the various characters and scenes together by means of a story. Nowadays kolam dances and scenes are also adapted for the marionette theater as well as being shown separately in shows for tourists.
The dozens of different kolam masks that are used in one performance are all but homogeneous in style. Most of the masks, except the masks for demons and animals, represent clear character types. Many of them, especially those belonging to the lower strata of society, are naturalistic in style; some are even caricatures.
The naturalistic masks include, for example, the washerman and his wife, the wanton village beauty Lenchina, and many other figures belonging to the village context. The masks of some other characters, such as the stupid colonial policemen, can be seen as funny caricatures.
The noble characters, such as the king and the queen and the numerous other royal persons with their icon-like features, are almost depersonalized. The same applies to many masks of the supernatural beings, particularly to those of higher gods and goddesses.
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Isaac Asimov Magazine 7 1986
ISBN: 978-84-395-0249-4
(ISBN-10: 84-395-0249-4)
Includes: El espejo de Ko Hung (The Mirror of Ko Hung 1980) by E. Hoffmann Price.
Includes billboards of various businesses along the western approach of Amarillo along U.S. Highway 66 (Amarillo Boulevard) from that era as that may have appeared in the mid to late 1960s prior to the completion of I-40 in the Amarillo area. The photo was shot from just east of the railroad underpass at the point where the highway currently approaches I-40.
Lots of modern (and high end) cars on the roads of Shanghai, but plenty of traditional bicycles too.
Engsoleie og Stemorsblomst / Buttercups & Heartsease - Ranunculus acris & Viola tricolor
Ranunculus acris is one of the more common buttercups across Europe and temperate Eurasia. Common names include meadow buttercup and tall buttercup. The plant is also known as an introduced species across much of the rest of the world, including Australia. It is a naturalized species and often a weed in parts of North America, but it is probably native in Alaska and Greenland.
This species is variable in appearance across the world. It is a somewhat hairy plant that has ascending flowing stems bearing glossy yellow flowers about 25 mm across. There are five overlapping petals borne above 5 green sepals that soon turn yellow as the flower matures. It has numerous stamens inserted below the ovary. As with other members of the genus, the numerous seeds are borne as achenes.
This and other buttercups contain ranunculin, which breaks down to the toxin protoanemonin, a chemical that can cause dermatitis and vomiting.
The rare autumn buttercup (R. aestivalis) is sometimes treated as a variety of this species. (Source: Wikipedia)
Viola tricolor, known as Heartsease, is a common European wild flower, growing as an annual or short-lived perennial. It has been introduced into North America, where it has spread widely, and is known as the Johnny Jump Up (though this name is also applied to similar species such as the Yellow Pansy). It is the progenitor of the cultivated Pansy, and is therefore sometimes called Wild Pansy; before the cultivated Pansies were developed, "Pansy" was an alternative name for the wild form.
Heartsease is a small plant of creeping and ramping habit, reaching at most 15 cm in height, with flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter. It grows in short grassland on farms and wasteland, chiefly on acid or neutral soils. It is usually found in partial shade. It flowers from April to September. The flowers can be purple, blue, yellow or white. They are hermaphrodite and self-fertile, pollinated by bees. (Source: Wikipedia)
Engsoleie, (Ranunculus acris) også kalt smørblomst, er en av de mer vanlige soleiene i Europa, den vokser helt opp til 2400 meters høyde. Den noe hårete planten med opp til meterhøye stengler, bærer blomster som blir om lag 25 mm i diameter. Den blomstrer fra mai til oktober og har fem overlappende gule blad i blomsten. Fruktemnet hos engsoleie er apokarp, dvs. at det består av mange deler med hvert sitt arr. Antallet pollenbærere er også stort og ubestemt. Bladene er tre- til fem-delte med store fliker.
Engsoleie er nasjonalblomsten på Færøyene, hvor den heter sólja (IPA: [ˈsœlja]).
Når vi tar en frisk engsoleie, vil ranunculin fra snittet bli brutt ned til protoanetonin. Dette kan forårsake hudirritasjoner, og man bør derfor behandle planten med forsiktighet. Giften forsvinner ved tørking, så engsoleie i høy er ikke farlig. Dyr på beite unngår engsoleie, som derfor ofte blir stående som gule øyer på jordene. (Kilde: Wikipedia)
Stemorsblom, stemorsblomst eller natt og dag (vitenskapelig navn: Viola tricolor) er en ett- eller toårig fiol, med en høyde på opp til 20 cm. Den har en opprettet vekst. Stemorsblom blomstrer mest hele året, bare det ikke blir for vått. Planten er mest vanlig i Sør-Norge; den er å finne langs havstrand, veikant, berg, skogbryn og lignende. Arten tilhører fiolfamilien. Det finnes to underarter av stemorsblom; vanlig stemorsblom (Viola tricolor ssp. tricolor) og Viola tricolor ssp. curtisii.
Navnet natt og dag, med varianter, er kjent fra alle fylker sør for Trøndelag, og i flere fylker er dette navnet dominerende. Det har sin forklaring i blomstens farger, fra den lyse (gule) dagen nederst til den mørke (lilla) natten øverst.
Skjereblom, maikatt, kjerkefolk, kjerringtenner, sypiker og gammel-kjerringblome er andre navn på planten. (Kilde: Wikipedia)
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Barsoom Numero 15 Sum-2011.
Includes: La sombra del pavo real (The Peacock's Shadow 1926) by E. Hoffmann Price.
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