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I don't know why this one chose to 'pixelize' the way it did, but I'll upload an alternate format later.
Cisk, the local brew on Malta seen on the side of a fairly new Daf LF 55 delivering to the Times Square Pub in Sliema. 20/03/12
from wiki:
With its niche popularity among local divers, Anilao is difficult for visitors to get to . It is accessible by land or sea. From Manila, one can typically get to Anilao by taking a bus bound for Batangas City (Buendia terminal) and asking the conductor for drop off at the Mabini/Bauan jeepney terminal. By request, a Mabini jeepney driver will then take passengers to the Mabini dock area. From the Mabini docks, visitors can hire a driver to any one of the resorts.
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Taken on today's walk with Brith (a friend's dog). There is a path that doesn't actually go anywhere, it just stops at the edge of the local golf course.
Los Picaos son una penitencia de la religión cristiana, profesada actualmente únicamente en la localidad de San Vicente de la Sonsierra en La Rioja (España). Se realiza durante procesiones y Viacrucis. Consiste en la autoflagelación de la espalda, de un grupo de personas como acto de fe y de forma voluntaria, denominados disciplinantes, mediante el golpeo continuado con una madeja.
El 17 de febrero de 2005 el Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio de España concedió el título de Fiesta de Interés Turístico Nacional para los días jueves y viernes santo.
Se cree que la tradición comenzó a finales del siglo XV o principios del XVI. Desde que se tiene constancia ha estado ligada a la Cofradía de la Santa Vera Cruz de la localidad.
El 20 de marzo de 1799 se intentó suprimir esta costumbre sin éxito, ya que seguía practicándose de forma privada.
El clero de España le tenía gran veneración, recibiendo indulgencias.
En 1998 recibió la categoría de Interés Turístico Regional. En enero de 2004 comenzaron los trámites para la obtención de la categoría de Interés Turístico Nacional, consiguiéndolo en febrero de 2005
Cofradía de la Santa Vera Cruz de San Vicente.
La organización de los actos que conlleva esta tradición, son gestionados desde sus inicios por la Cofradía de la Santa Vera Cruz. No se sabe la fecha exacta de fundación. El 19 de junio de 1551 fueron presentados sus estatutos, donde se recogía la tradición existente hasta entonces.
Su sede se encuentra en la ermita de San Juan de la Cerca.
Disciplinantes
Los voluntarios que desean someterse a esta penitencia, deben cumplir los requisitos de ser mayor de edad, varón y que un sacerdote acredite su condición de cristiano y su buena fe.
La cofradía asigna a cada disciplinante un cofrade, para que le ayude y acompañe durante la penitencia.
En todo momento se mantienen el anonimato de estas personas.
La mayoría son gente del pueblo o descendientes, aunque algunos no tienen ninguna relación con éste y cada uno ha encontrado sus motivos para decidir hacer esta penitencia.
Vestimenta
Los disciplinantes visten:
Túnica blanca hasta la rodilla, con abertura por la espalda.
Un cíngulo blanco atado a la cintura.
Capucha blanca con agujeros en los ojos.
Capa parda con una cruz blanca.
Disciplina
Durante las procesiones, cada disciplinante, elegirá en que momento desea realizar la ofrenda, momento en el que se arrodillará, rezará una oración y tras ponerse en pie, su acompañante le retirará la capa y le dejará la espalda al descubierto. Con una madeja de algodón sujeta con ambas manos, irá propinándose golpes secos en la espalda, al arremeterla fuertemente por encima de los hombros, cada vez por un lado del cuello de forma rítmica.
El acompañante y el práctico (persona encargada de aliviar las heridas) decidirán cuando debe dejar de golpearse, al empezar a divisar pequeños hematomas. No hay un tiempo estipulado, pero suele ser entre diez y veinte minutos, conllevando hasta mil golpes. El práctico "picará" tres veces ambos lados de la zona lumbar de la espalda, mediante un utensilio denominado "esponja", que consiste e una bola de cera virgen con seis cristales incrustados de dos en dos, por lo que recibirá doce pinchazos simbolizando el número de apóstoles. Tras esto el disciplinante se golpeará unas pocas veces, para que la sangre que pueda haberse acumulado en la zona, pueda escapar y así evitar problemas posteriores.
Una vez finalizado, el ayudante le volverá a cubrir la espalda y le colocará la capa para dirigirse a la sede de la cofradía donde un practicante especialista le curará las posibles heridas con agua de romero y una crema cuya composición es secreta y pasa de generación en generación.
Fechas en las que se realiza.
Durante la Semana Santa:
Jueves Santo
Durante la procesión de la Santa Cena, cerca de las 19:30.
En la Hora Santa. 23:00.
Viernes Santo
Tras la procesión del Viacrucis que comienza cerca de las 11:30.
Durante la procesión del Santo Entierro que comienza cerca de las 20:30.
Cruz de Mayo, día 3 de mayo si es domingo y si no el domingo siguiente. El Viacrucis comienza cerca de las 18:00.
Cruz de Septiembre, día 14 de septiembre si es domingo y si no el domingo siguiente. Cerca de las 18:00.
Ballooning the way it should be.
Bradley stoke carnival balloon launch from jubilee centre.
Taken with a Nikon D90.
Local Boquerones
Yeasted-sesame pancake, crème fraîche. ($8)
State Bird Provisions
San Francisco, California
(July 30, 2012)
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Sapa
Sapa (also written as Sa Pa) is a district-level town of Lào Cai Province in the Northwest region of Vietnam. As of 2018, the town had a population of 61,498. The town covers an area of 677 km2. The town capital lies at Sapa. It is one of the main market towns in the area, where several ethnic minority groups such as Hmong, Dao (Yao), Giáy, Xa Pho, and Tay live.
Sa Pa was a frontier township and capital of former Sa Pa District in Lào Cai Province in north-west Vietnam. It was first inhabited by people about whom nothing is known. They left in the entire valley hundreds of petroglyphs, mostly composed of lines, which experts think date from the 15th century and represent local cadastres. Then came the highland minorities of the Hmong and Yao.
Sa Pa District is in Lào Cai Province, northwest Vietnam, close to the border with China. The Hoàng Liên Son range of mountains dominates the district, which is at the eastern extremity of the Himalayas. This range includes Vietnam's highest mountain, Fan Si Pan, at a height of 3143 m above sea level. The town of Sapa lies at an elevation of about 1500 meters elevation.
Sapa is home to a great diversity of ethnic minority peoples. The population consists mostly of minority groups. Besides the Kinh (Viet) people (15 percent) there are mainly five ethnic groups in Sapa: Hmong 52 percent, Dao 25 percent, Tay five percent, Giay two percent, and a small number of Xa Pho.
Most of the ethnic minority people work their land on sloping terraces since the vast majority of the land is mountainous. Their staple foods are rice and corn.
(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa_Pa)
A party booking meant the normal Garrett was replaced by double headed Fairlie's on the service train. 'Taliesin' stands in a rain shower of its own making after the vacuum ejector has been turned on.
Our local police officer came out to talk to the 2015 graduating class about safety and what could potentially happen if they are not minding their P's and Q's.
Swayambhunath (Devanagari: स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप; Newar: स्वयंभू; sometimes romanized Swoyambhunath) is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' (Wylie:Phags.pa Shing.kun), for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, Shing.kun may be a corruption of the local Nepal Bhasa name for the complex, Singgu, meaning 'self-sprung'. For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it is second only to Boudhanath.
The Swayambhunath complex consists of a stupa, a variety of shrines and temples, some dating back to the Licchavi period. A Tibetan monastery, museum and library are more recent additions. The stupa has Buddha's eyes and eyebrows painted on. Between them, the number one (in Devanagari script) is painted in the fashion of a nose. There are also shops, restaurants and hostels. The site has two access points: a long stairway with 365 steps, leading directly to the main platform of the temple, which is from the top of the hill to the east; and a car road around the hill from the south leading to the southwest entrance. The first sight on reaching the top of the stairway is the Vajra. Tsultrim Allione describes the experience:
We were breathless and sweating as we stumbled up the last steep steps and practically fell upon the biggest vajra (thunder-bolt scepter) that I have ever seen. Behind this vajra was the vast, round, white dome of the stupa, like a full solid skirt, at the top of which were two giant Buddha eyes wisely looking out over the peaceful valley which was just beginning to come alive.
Much of Swayambhunath's iconography comes from the Vajrayana tradition of Newar Buddhism. However, the complex is also an important site for Buddhists of many schools, and is also revered by Hindus.
MYTHOLOGY
According to Swayambhu Purana, the entire valley was once filled with an enormous lake, out of which grew a lotus. The valley came to be known as Swayambhu, meaning "Self-Created." The name comes from an eternal self-existent flame (svyaṃbhu) over which a sūpa was later built.
Swayambhunath is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple. They are holy because Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom and learning was raising the hill which the Swayambhunath Temple stands on. He was supposed to leave his hair short but he made it grow long and head lice grew. It is said that the head lice transformed into these monkeys.
Manjusri had a vision of the lotus at Swayambhu and traveled there to worship it. Seeing that the valley can be good settlement and to make the site more accessible to human pilgrims, he cut a gorge at Chovar. The water drained out of the lake, leaving the valley in which Kathmandu now lies. The lotus was transformed into a hill and the flower became the Swayambhunath stupa.
HISTORY
Swayambhunath, is among the oldest religious sites in Nepal. According to the Gopālarājavaṃśāvalī Swayambhunath was founded by the great-grandfather of King Mānadeva (464-505 CE), King Vṛsadeva, about the beginning of the 5th century CE. This seems to be confirmed by a damaged stone inscription found at the site, which indicates that King Mānadeva ordered work done in 640 CE.
However, Emperor Ashoka is said to have visited the site in the third century BCE and built a temple on the hill which was later destroyed.
Although the site is considered Buddhist, the place is revered by both Buddhists and Hindus. Numerous Hindu monarch followers are known to have paid their homage to the temple, including Pratap Malla, the powerful king of Kathmandu, who is responsible for the construction of the eastern stairway in the 17th century.
The stupa was completely renovated in May 2010, its first major renovation since 1921 and its 15th in the nearly 1,500 years since it was built. The dome was re-gilded using 20 kg of gold. The renovation was funded by the Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center of California, and began in June 2008.
The temple complex suffered damage in the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
ARCHITECTURE
The stupa consists of a dome at the base, above which is a cubical structure painted with eyes of Buddha looking in all four directions. There are pentagonal Toran present above each of the four sides with statues engraved in them. Behind and above the torana there are thirteen tiers. Above all the tiers there is a small space above which the Gajur is present. The stupa has many artifacts inside it.
SYMBOLISM
The dome at the base represents the entire world. When a person awakes (represented by eyes of wisdom and compassion) from the bonds of the world, the person reaches the state of enlightenment. The thirteen pinnacles on the top symbolize that sentient beings have to go through the thirteen stages of spiritual realizations to reach enlightenment or Buddhahood.
There is a large pair of eyes on each of the four sides of the main stupa which represent Wisdom and Compassion. Above each pair of eyes is another eye, the third eye. It is said that when Buddha preaches, cosmic rays emanate from the third eye which act as messages to heavenly beings, so that those interested can come down to earth to listen to the Buddha. The hellish beings and beings below the human realm cannot come to earth to listen to the Buddha's teaching, however, the cosmic rays relieve their suffering when Buddha preaches.
There are carvings of the Panch Buddhas (five Buddhas) on each of the four sides of stupa. There are also statues of the Buddhas at the base of the stupas. Panch Buddhas are Buddha in metaphorical sense in Tantrayana. They are Vairochana (occupies the center and is the master of the temple), Akshobhya (faces the east and represents the cosmic element of consciousness), Ratna Sambhava (faces the south and represents the cosmic element of sensation), Amitabha (He represents cosmic element of Sanjna (name) and always faces the West) and Amoghsiddhi (He represents the cosmic element of conformation and faces the north).
Each morning before dawn hundreds of Buddhist (Vajrayana) and Hindu pilgrims ascend the 365 steps from eastern side that lead up the hill, passing the gilded Vajra (Tibetan: Dorje) and two lions guarding the entrance, and begin a series of clockwise circumambulations of the stupa.
SWAYAMBHU PURANA
Swayambhu Purana (Devnagari: स्वयम्भू पूराण) is a Buddhist scripture about the origin and development of Kathmandu valley. Swayambhu Purana gives detail of all the Buddhas who came to Kathmandu. It also provides information about the first and the second Buddhas in Buddhism.
WIKIPEDIA
One of the great joys of summer is stopping at a little ice cream place on the way home. I grew up in a ice cream loving family, we found ourselves frequently stopping for ice cream at little shops.
Yesterday we went to the local greenhouse with some friends and we met my parents there. My parents decided to come to our house for a visit afterward to see what the gardens looked like, so we took the scenic route home through the little town of New Baltimore.
for more about this place: chiotsrun.com/2009/07/13/the-joys-of-summer/
4566 with a short freight for Totnes during the Branch Line week Gala
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Worldwide renowned local lighting designer, Philip Lethlean created a wonderland of colourful installations of lighting treatments with visual identities by their own definition along Melbourne’s Flinders Lane and the famous Princess Bridge. Paroxysm was an installation that cast colour across the arches of Princess Bridge in a riff on journeys of all princes, emirs, sheikhs, sultans and maharajas. With over twenty years of experience across all art forms, Philip Lethlean is the principal designer for the Melbourne based company, Light Designs Australia. His works have consistently toured, with recent international projects including projections with Arabic singers in the UAE, DreamWorks and Global Creatures arena spectacular in the USA, Bali Safari and Marine Park in Indonesia and the Australian Pavilion Expo in Shanghai, China.
The White Night Festival in Melbourne is a State Government of Victoria initiative created by the Victorian Major Events Company. Originally conceived in Paris in 2002, to make vibrant and dynamic art and culture accessible to large audiences in public spaces, Paris’ Nuit Blanche (White Night) has inspired an international network of similar programmes in over twenty cities globally, including Melbourne.
In 2013 Melbourne became the first Australian city to create its own White Night Festival, producing an all night event of light, colour and artistry. The White Night Festival, now in its second year, is a wonderful opportunity to showcase Melbourne as Australia’s international city of artistic innovation, and celebrate the city’s commitment to modern and interpretive art, music and culture.