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On a recent road trip we visited the old historic section of Globe, Arizona, a small mining town of approximately 18,000 current residents in Gila County. The old Courthouse and Jail on Broad Street (a four-story courthouse and adjacent three-story jail behind which many were hung), was built in 1905, 1909--and today it is the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts.
INFORMATION AND HISTORY OF GLOBE, ARIZONA:
Globe (Western Apache: Bésh Baa Gowąh) is a city in Gila County, Arizona, United States. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 7,187. The city is the county seat of Gila County. Globe was founded c. 1875 as a mining camp. Mining, tourism, government and retirees are most important in the present-day Globe economy.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 18.0 square miles (46.7 km²), of which, 18.0 square miles (46.7 km²) of it is land and 0.06% is water. Globe is adjacent to Miami, Arizona, and the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Globe, Miami, and the unincorporated areas nearby (including Inspiration, Claypool and Central Heights-Midland City) are commonly called Globe-Miami.
Globe has an arid climate, characterized by hot summers and moderate to warm winters. Globe's arid climate is somewhat tempered by its elevation, however, leading to slightly cooler temperatures and slightly more precipitation than Phoenix or Yuma.
Globe's economy is heavily dependent on the mining industry, and as of 2008 the city was home to one of the few operating copper smelters in the United States.
The plans for an incorporated Globe were established in July 1876 with retail stores, banks, and Globe's first newspaper printing its first issue on May 2, 1878. By February 1881, Globe was the Gila County seat. Coming with Globe's new importance as the new county seat came a stage coach link linking it to Silver City, New Mexico.
Due to Globe's relative isolation from the rest of Arizona and it's proximity to the San Carlos Apache reservation, Globe remained a frontier town. Globe's history is laced with many historic events such as murders, stagecoach robberies, outlaws, lynchings, and Apache raids. Natiotish, a San Carlos Apache, left the reservation with a group of about 50 men and continued to attack ranchers and miners.
Globe is also known for having links to Geronimo and the Apache Kid. On October 23, 1889, the Apache Kid's trial was held in the Globe Courthouse. After he was convicted, it was the responsibility of Sheriff Glenn Reynolds to transport him to the Arizona Territorial Prison in Yuma, Arizona. Sheriff Reynolds, his deputy, and their prisoners set out in an armored stagecoach holding the Apache Kid inside. Somewhere near present day Kearny, Arizona, Sheriff Reynolds let the Apache Kid out of the stagecoach seeing as they were on an uphill climb and he wanted to ease the burden on the horses. The Apache Kid was able to overcome and murder Sheriff Reynolds.
In 1884 the surviving Clanton brothers Ike and Phineas arrived in Apache County after the fight the infamous gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone. Ike was eventually killed by a local deputy sheriff, and Phineas, after serving prison time for a stage robbery, moved to Globe, where he died of pneumonia and was buried in 1906.
Source: Wikipedia
Parc Natural del Garraf - Jafra, Barcelona (Spain).
A small figure (5 cm.) at the top of a wall of the old mansion of the baron. Who would put it there?
Una pequeña figura (5 cm.) en lo alto de un muro de la antigua mansión del barón. ¿Quién la pondría ahí?
ENGLISH
Garraf is a place little documented, and for that reason it is surrounded by mystery and legend.
Jafra, a deserted and ruinous town, is named already in 1139, and in 1332 a castle is mentioned. Apparently in 14th century all the inhabitants died due to the Black Death epidemic, although shortly after it became to populate, and in 1432 it became to open the parish. In 17th century the barons of Jafra named a mayor (1683) and recovered the church, dedicated to Santa Maria (1688). In 1819 Jafra lost its last mayor and it joined to the town of Olivella (the parishes already were tie). The culture of the vine made increase the population during 17th century. In 1820 there were 83 inhabitants, and in 1850 the church was recovered again. The plague of phylloxera of end of 19th century caused the desertion of lands, and in 1960 they were left only 19 inhabitants, scattered by farms of the environs.
At the moment only it is left still on the church (in restoration), the walls of rectory and the house of the barons, and those of the house of the servants. About the cemetery only left some walls and two great cypresses, and by the environs it has scattered ruins of which they could be other small houses.
When I arrived at the entrance of the church I was a little rare, with a discomfort sensation, of not feeling very at ease in this place, so I did not entertain myself in making many photos. I do not know why, but I had desire to go away there. And it was later, already in house, when documenting about the place I found the explanation of those strange sensations.
Jafra is considered damn town, and it is object of investigation by different parapsychology studious groups. It comments that at night lights have been seen roam by the zone, and in the house of the servants, called “the enchanted house” have been poltergeist phenomena, like blows, sudden changes of temperature, voices and until some appearance. Here they have been possible to record psychophonies. Also it comments that years ago a boy fell into a well near the cemetery and died drowned, and since it have been heard moans and it has been believed to see a figure roam near the cypresses of the cemetery.
I do not believe in these things, but the strange sensations that I experimented there are well certain...
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CASTELLANO
El Garraf es un lugar poco documentado, y por ello está rodeado de misterio y de leyenda.
Jafra, un poblado abandonado y ruinoso, ya es nombrado en el año 1139, y en 1332 se menciona un castillo. Por lo visto en el siglo XIV murieron todos los habitantes debido a la epidemia de peste, aunque poco después se volvió a poblar, y en 1432 se volvió a abrir la parroquia. En el siglo XVII los barones de Jafra nombraron un alcalde (1683) y restauraron la iglesia, dedicada a Santa María (1688). En 1819 Jafra perdió su último alcalde y se incorporó al pueblo de Olivella (las parroquias ya estaban vinculadas). El cultivo de la viña hizo aumentar la población durante el siglo XVII. En 1820 había 83 habitantes, y en 1850 se restauró nuevamente la iglesia. La plaga de filoxera de finales del siglo XIX provocó el abandono de las tierras, y en 1960 quedaban tan solo 19 habitantes, diseminados por las masías de los alrededores.
Actualmente sólo queda en pie la iglesia (en restauración), los muros de la rectoría y de la casa de los barones, y los de la casa de los criados. Del cementerio apenas quedan unos muros y dos grandes cipreses, y por los alrededores hay diseminadas ruinas de lo que podrían ser otras casas pequeñas.
Cuando llegué a la entrada de la iglesia me encontré un poco raro, con una sensación de incomodidad, de no sentirme muy a gusto en el lugar, así que no me entretuve en hacer muchas fotos. No sé por qué, pero tenía ganas de marchar de allí. Y fue después, ya en casa, cuando documentándome acerca del lugar encontré la explicación a esas extrañas sensaciones.
Por lo visto Jafra es considerado un pueblo maldito, y es objeto de investigación por parte de diferentes grupos estudiosos de parapsicología. Se comenta que de noche se han visto luces merodear por la zona, y en la casa de los criados, llamada "la casa encantada" ha habido fenómenos poltergeist, como golpes, cambios súbitos de temperatura, voces y hasta alguna aparición. En ella se han podido grabar psicofonías. También se comenta que hace años cayó un niño a un pozo cerca del cementerio y murió ahogado, y desde entonces se han oído lamentos y se ha creído ver una figura merodear cerca de los cipreses del cementerio.
Yo no creo en estas cosas, pero las extrañas sensaciones que experimenté allí son bien ciertas...
Or you could see it here and get a close up on my super rad nails!
I have done nothing today. Except sit around and watch movies. Final Destination 1 and 2, I started the Ring with my brother but he wimped out on me half way through it. :( I just finished Starsky and Hutch and now I'm watching Cash Cab. How freaking exciting is my life? Blah.
I went outside to let Bambi out and I saw a frog! I picked it up and took some pictures of it and then it peed on me. UHEEEWWWW.
I got these awesome fake nails at Walmart and I wanted to show them off in todays shot. I tried doing a bunch of peace sign shots but I can't pull them off as well as Clarissa can. She's just too cute and I look retarded whenever I try to flash a peace sign. So I figured a grrr face would have to do. This is one of my favourite shirts. My dad hates when I wear it though because it's "too grown up!" Dad. I'm 20. My mom says it's because I'll always be a little girl in his mind though. I understand it but it's frustrating that he won't let me wear it around him.
This would have looked awesome on black but I don't have the Photoshopping skills to do that. I shoot against a white sheet and have to dodge out most of it in PS to get the "I shot this in a studio against a white background with awesome lights" look. But my hairstylist wants me to shoot her kids so I think my mom is going to take me to Home Depot or Lowes or something and finally get me some ghetto lights! YAY! And then I'll need some white and black muslin I guess - what do you guys use for your ghetto studios? And seriously, what are the best lights to buy so that my photos don't look like this SOOC? I'm tired of fucking around in PS trying to make my shots look better than they actually are.
This next part is about my camera issues. Feel free to skip over it because I rambled alot.
My camera: My parents and I both got brand new cameras for Christmas. We got these. I hated it at first but I came to love it, especially once I figured out all the neat things it did and how to use the manual settings. Well I dropped mine sometime in like January or February and when I went to have it fixed the dude said it had serious internal damage and would be $250 to have it fixed. Whatever, my mom spent $150 on it and that was just ridiculous. So I started using my parents camera. I was really really careful with it. Then last week I dropped it in the toilet. I freaked the fuck out. My dad was away on buisiness in Boston and was coming back THAT NIGHT. So I begged my mom to take me to Walmart so I could buy the exact same camera and replace it and my dad would never know the difference. I was going to pawn a bunch of my stuff, some jewelry, my Canon Rebel and my guitar and pay for it. Well they didn't have the same camera so I got this one. I spent about $300 on it. Well I will soon, I haven't sold my stuff yet to pay them back for it but my stuff will be pawned sometime this week. Anyway, since it wasn't the same camera my dad obviously found out and freaked out on me. I was panicking and hyperventilating the whole night because he was screaming at me, my mom wanted to take me to the hospital because it got so bad that I couldn't breathe, that night was just a horrible awful mess.
Anyway, my dad yelled at me and basically said that it wasn't an accident and I'm just obviously not meant to have a camera and I would never ever ever touch another one of his cameras again. I was pretty upset. I thought about it and I felt like he was right. Every camera I've ever owned I've broken and obviously I'm just not meant to have a camera. Its frustrating.
And the thing is, I spent twice as much on his new camera than he did on the one he bought himself for Christmas. It's got a 12x zoom, 8 megapixels AND and MANUAL FOCUS FEATURE. I'm pretty fucking devestated. My parents don't even know how to use any of the functions other than the auto smart scene. The just want a point and shoot for family snap shots and stuff. Do you know how hard it is to see them walk around with an amazing camera that they don't know how to use when I have nothing? I've cried over it so many times and I just don't understand why shit like this always happens to me.
The camera I dropped did eventually dry out, it's perfectly fine now. I haven't told my dad yet and I'm terrified to tell him because I know he'll get mad again and be pissed off that my mom went out and bought another camera when this one works fine now. So I'm hoping that after I save up some money to pay him for the new camera he'll let me have it and take back his old one. That camera is the closest thing I have to a DSLR and I love it so much and I want it to me mine.
I think I'm going to start sewing again and making purses and try and open up an Etsy shop. If I sold prints would you guys buy them? I've never set up a shop to sell prints because I always thought you had to have a DSLR to sell prints and I'd feel kind of lame selling shots from a P&S. Opinions? HELP?! I just need money and I can't work because of my medical issues. My mom wants me to file for disability but I refuse to do that because I'm 20. I am not disabled. I'm just a little messed up. And plus I don't know how that works - if I do get on disability and I get better can I get off of it and still get a job or am I just screwed for life?
And if you read this whole thing, I love you. Seriously. Because I babble on and on too much. <3
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Canal TV en YOUTUBE NightPhotography
En compañía de mi amigo Carles de www.terradeningu.com en el curso del fin de semana pasado en Prades (Tarragona)
Y aprovecho también para agradecer su amabilidad a Rafa por sacarnos de la autovía perdida a altas horas de la madrugada después de pasar 10 horas en el aeropuerto de Barajas por culpa de Iberia y llegar a mi destino casi 12 horas más tarde de lo previsto.
Exif:
Camera: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D700
Exposure: 68.7
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 200
WB: 3030
White light and a light painting tool.
Kylie Minogue Live ~ Zenith Arena ~ Lille ~ France ~ Wednesday November 5th 2014.
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OMG!!! What an incredible night!!! Best 200 Euros I EVER spent lol..:) See what a difference being at the front makes, compared to my last Kylie Gig!! I took over 2000!!! photos last night, that's a lot of editing lol.:)
One things for sure, my usual hit rate of taking around 1000 images and ending up with 5!! I like is going to be smashed this time around! I'm gonna have enough images to bore you all until Christmas probably, Bwhahahaha..:)
Torre de la Vela - La Alhambra, Granada (Spain).
The last shot of The Alhambra / La última foto de La Alhambra.
ENGLISH
The ground plan of the Watch Tower (Torre de la Vela) is of 16 meters x 16 meters and its elevation is of 26,80 meters. It has a solid base and four floors with arches supported by pillars. During some time this tower was used as a dwelling, so it was modified. On the second floor there were merlons until the 16th century. In 1840 the current bell was put on the western façade and it had to be rebuilt in 1882 because a bolt of lightning damaged it.
The bell is an important element of this tower. Its chime used to indicate the farmers of the Vega, the meadow of the valley, the hours when they had to water the fields at night. The bell started striking at 8 or 9.30 p. m. and it kept doing so at different intervals with different chimes until 3 or 4 a. m., depending on the season. This bell was also used to call the inhabitants of Granada in case of danger. Nowadays, it is only on January 2nd that the Watch Tower and its bell are in the minds of all the inhabitants of the city. That was the date when the Catholic Monarchs took the city and the tradition says that every young woman who is still single and who strikes the bell, will get married before the end of the year.
The view from the top of the tower is marvellous, as it is possible to enjoy at the same time, the city of Granada, the Sierra Nevada, the Vega and the villages of the surroundings.
Source: www.alhambradegranada.org/historia/alhambratvela_en.asp
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La planta de la Torre de la Vela mide 16 metros de lado y 26,80 metros de alto. La base es maciza y tiene cuatro pisos con arcos apeados por pilares. Durante algún tiempo, esta torre se convirtió en vivienda, por lo que su aspecto ha cambiado con respecto al que tuvo en sus orígenes. En el segundo piso tuvo almenas hasta el siglo XVI. La ubicación actual de la campana en la fachada occidental es de 1840 y tuvo que ser reconstruída posteriormente debido a la caida de un rayo en 1882.
La campana es la gran protagonista de esta torre. Antiguamente, su toque servía como reloj nocturno a los agricultores de la Vega para regar sus campos. Comenzaba a sonar de 8 a 9:30 de la noche, y seguía sonando a distintos intervalos y con distintos toques hasta las 3 o las 4 de la mañana, según la estación del año. Esta campana también ha servido para llamar a los granadinos en caso de peligro. Hoy en día, es el día 2 de enero de cada año cuando la torre de la Vela y su campana recuperan el protagonismo que tuvo antaño. En conmemoración de la fecha en la que los Reyes Católicos tomaron Granada, existe una tradición por la cual todas las muchachas solteras de la ciudad que hagan sonar la campana el 2 de enero de cada año, contraerán matrimonio antes de que termine el año.
El paisaje que podemos observar desde la torre es maravilloso, ya que es posible disfrutar de un solo vistazo de una panorámica de la ciudad, Sierra Nevada, la vega y los pueblos de los alrededores.
Fuente: www.alhambradegranada.org/historia/alhambraTVela.asp
Proof that you don't have to go far from home to get a shot!
I drive past this park almost every day... it is right on a busy highway with another on the left. I've been waiting for weeks for the leaves to turn colour.
Finally, over the past couple of days I have noticed the wonderful carpet of autumn leaves as the trees catch up with the season. With gale force winds and rain forecast, I knew the carpet would be gone soon enough. So, less than a kilometre from home and I managed to get in before the winds got too strong and, after waiting for the light for an hour, my patience was rewarded when the grey sky lifted for a while and the sun danced across the golden carpet of leaves.
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Yesterday we were traveling through Charlotte and stopped to take a quick look at two small Gardens, Wing Haven and the Elizabeth Lawrence Garden (pictures in a few days). We took the time to get a walk on a few streets in the neighborhood.
According to Wikipedia, "George Stephens developed a plan for a streetcar suburb on his father-in-law's (John Spring Myers) farm in 1905. The neighborhood was designed by Harvard-trained landscape architect John Nolen, and building got underway by 1911. Though its boundaries originally coincided with the boundaries of the 1,220-acre John Spring Myers farm, by 2008 the neighborhood comprised 2,200 acres and a population of 9,809. The Myers Park neighborhood is that area bounded by Queens Road on the north; Providence Road on the east; Sharon Road on the south; and Colony Road, East Woodlawn Road, and South Kings Drive on the west. Myers Park is bordered on the north by the lesser known Cherry Community, a historically African-American neighborhood. To the west lies Dilworth; to the east, Elizabeth, and to the south, South Park."
According to Charlotte Travel Guide: "Once located altogether outside the city, Myers Park is near the heart of modern-day Charlotte. Its reputation as an "old money" neighborhood is accentuated by its cathedral-esque tree canopy and slowly winding avenues. It is home to some of Charlotte's oldest and most expensive homes (formerly country estates), as well as Queens University of Charlotte and Freedom Park. A driving tour of Myers Park is a popular way for tourists to get acquainted with the city, but bring a map; some of Charlotte's most difficult intersections are located here. "
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"The objects, in a house, they are an extension of us. Inanimate, but strangely intimate. They mark the time and they enclose emotions."
(Hayat, Faíza)
This isn't my grandfather's house... but it has a signboard with the name of the house 'Casa do Avô', or in english 'grandfather's house'.
For more informations about this Pyramid, please visit this link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza
Pour plus d'information à propos de ces pyramides veuillez visiter ce lien:
Rupit, Barcelona (Spain).
This duck not yet has class, and must swim in dangerous waters of the river.
Este pato aún no tiene categoría, y tiene que nadar en las peligrosas aguas del río.
ENGLISH
Aluminium foil (known as aluminum foil in North America) is aluminium prepared in thin sheets with a thickness less than 0.2 mm / 0.008 in, although much thinner gauges down to 0.006 mm are commonly used. As a result of this, the foil is extremely pliable, and can be bent or wrapped around objects with ease. However, thin foils are fragile and easily damaged, and are usually laminated to other materials such as plastics or paper to make them useful. It replaced tin foil towards the end of the 19th century.
Foil made from a thin leaf of tin was commercially available before its aluminium counterpart. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, tin foil was in common use, and some people continue to refer to the new product by the old name. Tin foil is much stiffer than aluminium foil. It tends to give a slight tin taste to the food wrapped in it, which is one major reason it has largely been supplanted by aluminium and other materials for wrapping food. The first audio recordings on phonograph cylinders were made on tin foil.
Tin was first replaced by aluminium in 1910, when the first aluminium foil rolling plant, “Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie. and Emmishofen.” was opened in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. The plant, owned by J.G. Neher & Sons, the aluminium manufacturers, started in 1886 in Schaffhausen and Switzerland, at the foot of the Rhine Falls - capturing the falls' energy to produce aluminium. Neher's sons together with Dr. Lauber discovered the endless rolling process and the use of aluminium foil as a protective barrier on December 1907.
The first use of foil in the United States was in 1913 for wrapping Life Savers, candy bars and gum. Processes evolved over time to include the use of print, colour, lacquer, laminate and the embossing of the aluminium.
The extensive use of aluminium foil has been criticised by some environmentalists because of the high resource cost of extracting aluminium, primarily as a result of the large amount of electricity used to decompose bauxite. However, this cost is greatly reduced via recycling, reduced energy requirements during transport due to lighter weight packages, and the fact that many foods that would otherwise perish can be protected over long periods without refrigeration. Many aluminium foil products can be recycled at around 5% of the original energy cost, although many aluminium laminates are not recycled due to difficulties in separating the components and low yield of aluminium metal.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_foil
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El papel aluminio (conocido también como papel plateado) es una hoja fina de aluminio que, a consecuencia de ello, es extremadamente maleable y permite numerosos usos en la vida cotidiana, entre las que está la de poder hacer de envoltorio de diversos objetos. conductor de electricidad y se utiliza también como papel de embalaje para envolver alimentos. En España se conoce popularmente como "papel Albal" por la marca Albal, que lo comercializa. Millones de toneladas de papel de aluminio se emplean a diario en todo el mundo en el embalaje y protección de alimentos, cosméticos y productos químicos diversos. Por regla general con una capa extremadamente delgada que suele rondar desde los 20 µm a los 6.5 µm, en algunos casos es laminado con otros materiales tales como plástico o papel.
Mucho antes que el moderno papel de aluminio, se empleaban y distribuían hojas finas de estaño para propósitos similares. A finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX las hojas delgadas de estaño eran ya muy populares y cuando empezaron a aparecer en el mercado las nuevas hojas de papel de aluminio la gente las seguía denominando como hojas de estaño. El nuevo producto era mejor que las antiguas hojas de estaño debido a diversas razones, el estaño dejaba sabores 'extraños' en los alimentos envueltos con este papel y su resistencia y prestaciones eran mejores. No obstante, las primeras grabaciones de audio en los fonógrafos de cilindro se hicieron en finas hojas de estaño.
Las láminas de estaño se reemplazaron por las de aluminio en el año 1910, justo cuando se estableció la primera planta de elaboración de láminas de aluminio bajo la empresa Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie., Emmishofen, que fue instalada en Kreuzlingen (Suiza). La planta pertenecía J.G. Neher & Sons (manufactureros del aluminio) que comenzaron su trabajo ya en el año 1886 en los alrededores de la ciudad de Schaffhausen, Suiza cerca de las cataratas del Rhine - capturaban la energía de las cataratas para producir el aluminio-. Los hermanos Neher junto con el Dr. Lauber descubrieron el proceso de laminado sin fin y el uso del papel de aluminio como barrera protectora. Los primeros usos de estas hojas fueron el embalaje de los productos del tabaco, las barras de chocolate. a lo largo del tiempo los productores fueron añadiendo lacas que coloreaban las hojas de aluminio.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papel_de_aluminio
My driver, Wasi, lighting a Golden Leaf. Wasi lives with his family in Rawalpindi, he used to be a typist at the US embassy but he is now a taxi driver. He speaks some English and above all, he's a wonderful guy, with a great sense of humour. He's not a "fixer" and had never worked for a journalist before, but he was a great guide. If you ever happen to go to Islamabad / Rawalpindi, I'll be happy to put you in touch with him :-)
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Pakistani Lifestyle (Recommended as a slideshow)
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This is a non-HDR project. I did take different exposures for HDR shots, but in the end I decided to go with a regular version. I did make some edits in Lightroom and Photoshop to bring out the colors in the scene.
I was there with my cousin and friend who is the 350z owner. The place was really dirty with dust and there were some janitors with hoses and wipers but they weren't really doing anything. So we gave them some encouragement and they ended up cleaning that part of the parking lot level. During the whole shoot the janitors and security guards were watching us as we set up our gear and the car. Surprisingly enough the guards were quite helpful and didn't bother us at all. Unlike some other experiences I've had in similar lots before.
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Canon EOS 40D.
Lens: EF 24-105 F4 L IS.
ISO: 100.
Shutter Speed: 1.3 seconds.
Aperture: F/5.6.
Focal length: 24mm.
Ex: Shot on a tripod with cable shutter release.
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2 - Adobe Lightroom.
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Opened in 1829, the ESP was the first modern prison in the world; it pioneered the idea that if prisoners were given quiet time to reflect rather than being tortured, they would feel penitent (this is the root of the word "penitentiary") and could rejoin society as productive members. Thus, for many decades the prisoners here were kept in their own cells and were prohibited from interacting with their fellow inmates. They exercised in individual, walled outdoor areas that were attached to their cells. It was only much later that "solitary confinement" came to acquire a negative connotation, as a special punishment for infractions committed while already in prison.
Among the ESP's more illustrious inmates in its 142 years of operation were Al Capone (who spent a year here), and the bank robber Willie Sutton. But perhaps its most unusual inmate was a dog, Pep (a black Labrador retriever). Said canine reportedly killed a cat belonging to Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot; the governor retaliated by sentencing the dog to life in prison. I even saw a picture of the dog's admittance papers (he was admitted in 1924). But then the Governor got a lot of bad press over this, so he changed his story and said that the dog was his, and that he had donated it to the prison for the betterment of the inmates. Yeah, right.
In the mid-19th century, the ESP was quite the tourist attraction. Its distinguished visitors in that era included Alexis de Tocqueville and a young Charles Dickens. Before embarking on his first trip to the U.S. in 1842, Dickens said that the two places in this nation that he most wanted to see were Niagara Falls, and the Eastern State Penitentiary.
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"The Presentation" Church [Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple]
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11.11.11 Occupy the Streets. Occupy the World
O movimento "Ocupar Lisboa" está a planear fazer uma série de workshops no próximo dia 11.11.11. Em vez dos protestos públicos esperados no mundo inteiro, os elementos deste grupo reúnem-se no acampamento em frente ao Parlamento, assumindo uma atitude pacífica - sob o slogan "Ocupa-te a ti Próprio". Vão estar disponíveis para fazer uma série de workshops, de acordo com os conhecimentos de algumas pessoas do grupo, tais como: filosofias orientais, reiki, permacultura, criatividade, imaginação, expressão livre, olaria, música e teatro, entre outras.
O principal objectivo deste dia é atrair mais pessoas para participar nestes eventos, dar-lhes a conhecer os jovens criativos que eles são e levar mais pessoas a aderir a este movimento.
O grupo quer tornar-se maior para ter mais gente para levar a mensagem...
The movement Occupy Lisbon is planning a series of workshops for this day. Instead of public protests, the members are going to be in the camping in front of Parliament, assuming a peaceful attitude and - with the slogan "Occupy Yourself" - they will be available to do several workshops according to the expertise some people in the group have, such as: oriental philosophies, reiki, permaculture, criativity, imagination, free expression, pottery, music, theatre, among others.
The main goal of this day is to motivate more people to participate in these happenings, let them know the young and creative people behind "Occupy Lisbon" and make them join the movement. The movement needs more members to grow stronger and be able to spread the message...
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Vigolo Marchese é la più importante frazione di Castell'Arquato, conta di una basilica romanica sormontata da una torre militare riadattata a campanile, risalente al 1008, voluta dal Marchese Umberto d'Orta, e un battistero a pianta circolare, di epoca antecedente la chiesa, simile alle costruzioni bizantine..
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Entrambi furono fatti costruire nel 1008 dal marchese toscano Uberto d’Orta, ma la basilica fu ricostruita in seguito a un terremoto dopo il 1117, e il suo orientamento mutato verso est nel 1579. il pronotaro apostolico Antonio Lusardi introdusse altre modifiche strutturali. È testimoniata l’esistenza di un attiguo monastero..
Il battistero a pianta circolare è senz’altro più antico. Sorse probabilmente come tempietto pagano in età romana, diventa poi cappella dedicata a Santo Stefano e infine Battistero..
La chiesa è in pietra e laterizio, all’interno presenta pianta basilicale a tre navate. L’interno è intonacato e ha perso l’essenzialità e le prerogative originarie. L’abside semicircolare e rialzata dal livello della chiesa ricorda lo schema della Collegiata di Castell’Arquato anche per come le si accosta il campanile a pianta quadrata, diviso in tre livelli.
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The swift fox Vulpes velox, a member of the canid, or dog, family, is related to wolves, coyotes, dogs, and other foxes. It can be distinguished from other kinds of foxes found in Canada, such as red, arctic, and grey foxes, by its small size (it is about the size of a house cat), the black spot on each side of its nose, and its black-tipped tail.
In winter, the swift fox’s fur is long and dense, mainly buff-grey on the head, back, and upper surface of the tail, and orange-tan on the sides, legs, and lower tail surface. The throat, chest, and belly are light coloured (buff to white). In summer, the fur is short and coarse and more reddish grey.
Males are slightly larger than females, average weights being 2.45 and 2.25 kg, respectively. The animal stands about 30 cm high at the shoulder, and its total length is about 80 cm.
Early settlers of the Canadian plains knew the swift fox as the “kit” fox, and the two names have been used interchangeably since that time. However, studies of the prairie kit fox of Canada and the central United States and the desert kit fox of the southwestern United States showed that the two animals have some differences in appearance. Hence, the plains-dwelling species was designated the “swift” fox, and its desert cousin retained the name “kit” fox.
The swift fox can be distinguished from the kit fox Vulpes macrotis by its shorter, more widely spaced ears and its more rounded and dog-like head. The kit fox is broader between the eyes and has a narrower snout. The swift fox also has a slightly shorter tail, averaging of 52 percent of its body length compared with 62 percent for the kit fox.
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A friend of mine restores classic cars for a hobby/side-job and asked me to come over and shoot one of his cars. This is actually the '65 Mustang that he built for his mother. This classic started out as a coupe, but he changed it to a convertible. He also customized the front end and back end. The engine is also not original. He replaced it with a 302 from a late 80's Mustang. The car is really beautiful. He does nice work.
This was my first attempt at shooting a car and it definitely presented some challenges. I used my two speedlights to light it and ended up compositing several shots in Photoshop to get the right lighting and look I wanted. I was shooting the speedlights at full power and sometimes 1/2 power since I had the aperture tighted up to f10. Could have really used some Alien Bees or something here. Anyway, I think I did a pretty good job and the end result is pretty cool. I showed this final shot to my friend and he was really happy with it, which is what really matters here.
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Strobist: main image and base image for background: 580EX II, camera left, bounced in 45" umbrella, LP120, camera right, bare aimed at side of vehicle.
layer: LP120, camera right, bare, aimed at front fender and wheel.
layer: 580EX II, camera right, handheld over the back end of the car, through umbrella to light up the convertible top cover a bit more.
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"How long does a monarch live?" "Why do monarchs migrate south?"
The answers to these two questions go hand-in-hand. Children ask them all the time. Most monarchs live from two to six weeks as an adult butterfly, but the Monarch's migration is the KEY to its yearly life cycle.
The total time frame for one butterfly's life cycle (one generation) is about 6-8 weeks . . . egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. It grows inside the egg for about 4 days. It then munches milkweed and grows as a monarch caterpillar (larvae) for about 2 more weeks. The caterpillar's life inside the chrysalis (pupa) lasts about 10 days and its wonderful life as an adult butterfly lasts from 2 - 6 weeks.
February/March - hibernating monarchs in Mexico and southern California reawaken, become active, find a mate, begin the flight northward and lay their eggs. Finally they die. These special monarchs have lived about 4-5 months through the long winter.
March/April -the 1st generation monarchs are born -egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly;
May/June - the 2nd generation is born - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly;
July/August - the 3rd generation is born - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly;
Sept/Oct - the 4th generation is born - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly . . . but THIS generation does not die. It MIGRATES south and lives 6-8 months in Mexico or Southern California. They begin awakening and mating in February/March of the NEXT SPRING, and then lay their eggs! Withered and tattered from their migration and hibernation . . . they finally die.
The cycles goes on as the new baby caterpillars are born each spring and the cycle continues throughout the year into the next spring. MAGICAL and AMAZING!
Orix fighting at Etosha Nat. Park, Namibia.August 2004.
Antílope africano perteneciente al género Oryx. Vive en manadas de hasta 40 individuos, pero en estación lluviosa, se reúnen cientos. En sequía, puede pasar muchos días sin beber, sobreviviendo de la humedad que contienen frutos y raíces. Mide hasta 1,6 metros de largo y la altura de la cruz llega hasta el 1,2 m. Armados con largos cuernos rectos y anillados, de un metro o más de longitud, en contraste con sus pequeñas orejas. Son resistentes a las temperaturas extremas, a la sed, y además pueden mantener un galope sostenido durante muchos kilómetros. Como particularidad, pueden aumentar la temperatura de su cuerpo para poder irradiar el calor al ambiente en lugar de absorberlo, gracias a un sofisticado sistema de irrigación sanguínea que también permite que la sangre más fría sea la que riegue el cerebro tras pasar previamente por las aberturas de la nariz (narinas), donde se refresca. Su carácter temperamental se puede comparar al de un toro bravo, de forma que su caza es peligrosa para cualquier predador. Los machos luchan embistiendose con los cuernos en paralelo, de forma que se produce un forcejeo entre ellos sin que se llegue a herir al rival, mientras que a la hora de defenderse de depredadores, embisten apuntando con su cornamenta de forma que pueden ensartar a su enemigo. Es la única especie de antílope cuyos descendientes ya nacen armados.
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Sie ist ein Wahrzeichen – mindestens von Zons, aber auch von Dormagen: Die Windmühle der Zollfeste war vermutlich schon seit Beginn der Stadtbefestigung ab 1373 Blickfang. Ihre Geschichte ist wechselhaft. Nach aufwendiger Restaurierung ist sie nun Besuchern wieder zugänglich. Von Jens Krüger
Die Einheit von knarzigen Eichenholzbalken, Steinblöcken und Rädern aus Weißbuchenholz sind ein Spiegelbild mittelalterlicher Ingenieurskunst. Stockwerk für Stockwerk erschließt sich dem Besucher, wie an der Mühlenstraße in Zons aus grobem Korn feines Mehl gemahlen wurde. Niemand würde sich wundern, würde der Müller aus einer Wilhelm-Busch-Geschichte mit einer Ölfunzel in der Hand nach dem Rechten sehen. Das Gebäude, 23,65 Meter hoch, Teil der Stadtmauer von Zons, atmet Vergangenheit.
Besucher können fortan in die wechselhafte Geschichte der Zonser Windmühle wieder eintauchen. Nach aufwendigen Restaurierungsarbeiten öffnet das Gebäude offiziell zum Deutschen Mühlentag am Pfingstmontag seine Türen. Holzständerwerk, das Mühleninnere, Sacklager und Mauerwerk – "insgesamt 415 000 Euro haben die Arbeiten gekostet – Zuschüsse inklusive", sagt Jürgen Waldeck, Denkmalschutzbeauftragter der Stadt. Teilweise sei die Eiche durch Tropenholz ersetzt worden.
Es hat sich gelohnt. In historischer Pracht präsentiert sich das Gebäude. Dass die Mühle eine durchaus wechselhafte Geschichte hat, davon können sich die Besucher im Mini-Museum überzeugen lassen, das im Sacklager untergebracht ist. Ein Sturm hatte der Mühle am 7. Februar 1909 die Flügel ausgerissen und nur noch den Rumpf übrig gelassen. Das lauschige Museum war früher ein düsterer Ort. "Dort war ein stockdunkles Verlies untergebracht", sagt Hermann Kienle, der als Nachtwächter von Zons die Historie der Stadt lebendig hält. Das Korn lagerte in Säcken, bevor es über einen Schacht in die Höhe gezogen wurde. Erstmals erwähnt wurde die Zonser Windmühle 1450.
Neuesten Erkenntnissen zufolge, die die Zonser Denkmalshüter im Rahmen einer so genannten denrochronologischen Untersuchung erlangt haben, wurde sie schon damals als Mühle genutzt. "Ein holländischer Gutachter hat Probebohrungen gemacht", erzählt Jürgen Waldeck. Anhand der Jahresringe des Holzes konnten die Experten herausfinden, wann die Bäume gefällt worden sind. Eine Erkenntnis wird im Bauch des Bauwerks auch ohne Expertenwissen schnell klar: dass nämlich der Beruf des Müllers ein Knochenjob gewesen sein muss. Über den Kornsöller rieselte das Korn zwischen die Mahlsteine, hölzerne Hebel regulierten die Zufuhr. Über Rutschen gelangte das Mehl in grob geflochtene Säcke. Die Arbeit des Müllers soll künftig womöglich im zweiten Stock der Mühle mittels eines Videofilms vermittelt werden.
Petrus Ecken, der seinen Namen 1694 ins große Kammrad unter der Mühlenhaube ritzte, wird mit den Restaurierungsarbeiten zufrieden sein – sollte des Müllers Seele tatsächlich noch durch die düstere Zonser Windmühle geistern.
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Nei pressi di Perugia e poco distante da Magione, accanto al Lago Trasimeno, si trova Mugnano, piccolo ma pittoresco centro circondato dalla campagna umbra.
L'abitato trae origine da insediamenti del II secolo a.C. cui fece seguito la costruzione, tra il IX e X secolo, di una fiorente abbazia benedettina i cui monaci furono impegnati nella bonifica dei territori circostanti che di lì a poco divennero tra i più fertili della regione.
A protezione dei beni e della popolazione locale nel XIV secolo fu costruito il castello con le sue mura perimetrali e il maestoso maschio cui si sovrappose, nel XVIII secolo, la torre campanaria. Nel Settecento all'interno dell'antico castrum si insediò la confraternita del Santissimo Sacramento.
All'interno del castello da non perdere la visita alla piazzetta della “pompa” con un profondo pozzo nel quale, le donne, fin dall'inizio del Novecento, attingevano acqua con una pompa azionata a mano.
MUGNANO IL PAESE DEI MURI DIPINTI
Nel borgo, in un'atmosfera quasi surreale, si snoda il percorso alla scoperta dei “muri dipinti” realizzati, su idea del pittore Benito Biselli, da artisti italiani e stranieri che rappresentano un'esposizione permanente di grande interesse.
L'originalità delle pitture, i temi trattati, gli stili e le tecniche usate danno voce ai diversi linguaggi dell'arte sconfinando dal figurativo all'informale e regalando alle vecchie mura forme e colori.
Mugnano cominciò ad essere interesse della critica negli anni settanta del Novecento, quando nel borgo furono organizzate quattro mostre di alto livello in cui esponevano temporaneamente importanti artisti. Nel corso degli anni l'idea cambiò trasformando l'evento da temporaneo a permanente. Nel 1983 fu organizzata per la prima volta “In...contriamoci a Mugnano” una grande festa paesana, con cadenza annuale, tra la fine di giugno e i primi di luglio, che oltre a proporre sapienti piatti di eno-gastronomia locale, arricchiva l'antico nucleo architettonico, i piccoli vicoli e le piazzette con opere d'arte moderna permanenti. Quell'anno furono chiamati i primi otto pittori locali che realizzarono altrettanti “muri dipinti” suscitando gran fervore di critica. L'anno successivo la manifestazione fu aperta anche agli artisti stranieri e nel 2008 è arrivata alla XXV edizione. Ad oggi sono stati realizzati trentotto dipinti murali.
Nei giorni precedenti la festa un gran fervore anima il paese: si montano i palchi davanti agli intonaci e gli artisti cominciano la loro opera circondati da una folla di curiosi e addetti ai lavori.
I muri del paese cantano una fioritura improvvisa di opere, una ritmica stesura di sigilli pittorici dove ogni artista ha deposto il succo della sua creatività (Mimmo Coletti, 1990).
L'itinerario, con opere restaurate e inaugurate nel 2008, grazie anche al sostegno della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, è completamente illuminato con luci a risparmio energetico, e visitabile anche nelle ore notturne.
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Artist: Styx
Album: Return To Paradise
Title: Come Sail Away
I'm sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea
I've got to be free, free to face the life that's ahead of me
On board, i'm the captain, so climb aboard
We'll search for tomorrow on every shore
And i'll try, oh lord, i'll try to carry on
I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory
Some happy, some sad
I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had
We live happily forever, so the story goes
But somehow we missed out on that pot of gold
But we'll try best that we can to carry on
A gathering of angels appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they said
They said come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise
They climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies
Singing come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
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Aunque el tardígrado Macrobiotus camina al revés, para él parece que no hay reveses. Los tardígrados son pequeños animales de cuerpo alagado y blando provistos de cuatro pares de patas, generalmente terminadas en garras.
Aunque pueden vivir prácticamente en cualquier tipo de ambiente, son relativamente frecuentes entre los musgos y la vegetación acuática en emplazamientos con agua dulce o salada. Poseen en la cabeza unos primitivos ojos compuestos y una boca que se abre en una especie de hocico y con la que son capaces de perforar la pared celular de algas y musgos para absorber con su potente y musculosa faringe, los líquidos que constuyen el contenido celular.
Los tardígrados son animales extraordinariamente resistentes a condiciones ambientales extremas, son capaces de soportar temperaturas que oscilan entre los -272ºC y los 149ºC, pueden recibir altas dosis de radiación sin apenas verse afectados, en situaciones de extrema sequía pierden los líquidos de sus tejidos y quedan momentáneamente momificados -momentos que pueden variar desde días a decenas o cientos de años- para volver de nuevo a la vida en cuanto se hidratan.
Hace poco tiempo, en 2008-2009, viajaron al espacio en un experimento diseñado por la Agencia Espacial Europea, en el espacio pudieron permanecer con vida en ausencia de oxígeno y soportando unas radiaciones 1000 veces más potentes que las que llegan a la Tierra...y en estas condiciones fueron capaces hasta de reproducirse...para los tardígrados no hay reveses.
Feliz fin de semana
La fotografía se ha tomado a 400 aumentos con la técnica de campo oscuro y procede de una represa, probablemente construida por los romanos en el bonito arroyo de Sogo, situado en la comarca zamorana de Sayago.
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☁ la nube negra de una justicia pervertida en nuestro país, movida por la envidia y la venganza, permanecerá aquí, hasta que soplen los vientos limpios que todos necesitamos. La Justicia es uno de los cimientos necesarios para la Paz. Desde aquí todo nuestro apoyo al Juez Baltasar Garzón -el buen Juez de Saramago- y a las personas de buena voluntad como él que trabajan por la Justicia.
For Christmas '08, my wife got me a nice shaving kit which included a Gillette Mach 3 razor. (featured here) I used it for a year, and was about to buy another pack of M3s when I realized how freaking expensive they were. I decided to give a Double Edge razor a shot. My per razor cost went from $2.25 to ¢10 (¢25 if I splurge and get the really nice ones.) The dirty little secret that Gillette doesn't want you to know: disposable cartridges with multiple blades do not necessarily give you a better shave. They're simply a matter of convenience, but that convenience comes at a price. If you'd rather not do the DE razor, go with something like a trac II, Atra, or Sensor... anything else is just more expensive, not better. Eventually, using the DE is just second nature.
I used that for a few months and decided to give a straight raozr a shot. Some say it's the closest shave you'll ever have, but I'm not quite there yet. I haven't got the nerve to go against the grain. One thing though... it feels kind of bad ass to shave with a straight. It takes me probably an extra 5-10 minutes to shave this way than it would with a regular razor, but it's worth it. No more wasting of plastic cartridges... and my use of DE razors is greatly reduced.
For this shot, I used a cross processing technique. Here's the tutorial I used. It's specific to GIMP. Mr. Sharp referred me to one for photoshop... I couldn't quite get it to work, which I think is the result of not having 'effect layers' in gimp. I probably could have adapted it to work in GIMP, but the other one seems to work on a similar premise, and required no translation on my part.
I also did the orton effect, in conjunction with the "smart sharpen" (see previous) The smart sharpen is quite a few steps, but worth it.
Question for those that might know: this cross processing technique is very similar to what I've seen for lomo effect. The end result is somewhat similar too. Makes sense because the distinctive use that lomos became famous for was because the film was developed with a cross process technique. So, my question is, what distinguishes digital lomo edits from other types of cross processing?
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150 – Centocinquantesimo
Raccolta fotografica dedicata al centocinquantesimo anniversario dell’Unità d’Italia.
Un’opera da collezionare.
CON IL PATROCINIO DELL’ANCI (Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani),
DI “SAPIENZA” - UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA, DEL CONSIGLIO REGIONALE DEL LAZIO E DEL
COMUNE DI ISOLA DEL LIRI
DAL 7 DICEMBRE IN LIBRERIA
A conclusione delle celebrazioni dei 150 anni dell’Unità d’Italia, la casa editrice Gargoyle in
collaborazione con Editrice Pisani manda in stampa Fratelli Comuni, una raccolta fotografica per
“raccontare” in modo originale e partecipe come l’Italia abbia vissuto questa importante ricorrenza.
L’idea, nata la notte del 17 marzo 2011, complice l’incantevole cornice della Cascata Grande di
Isola del Liri – illuminata, in occasione dei festeggiamenti, con i colori della nostra bandiera - era
quella di scoprire come altri comuni italiani avessero vissuto quel giorno, se quell’anniversario
avesse davvero risvegliato un sentimento di unità, un sussulto di fratellanza autentico e vivo in
grado di esprimersi non con il linguaggio vacuo e altisonante della retorica, ma con quello semplice
dei cittadini, che, nel silenzio e nell’anonimato, hanno combattuto e combattono ogni giorno per
custodire la dignità e la bellezza del nostro Paese.
Quella stessa dignità e bellezza capaci di commuovere gli italiani quando Roberto Benigni legge
Dante, ricordando a tutti noi ciò che siamo stati, le nostre radici, o ancora, quando sussurra con
dolcezza l’inno di Mameli, rammentando con passione e entusiasmo la generazione di chi, con
cuore puro e innamorato, non esitò a sacrificarsi per la propria patria. Uno spirito di appartenenza
e di sacrificio tornato a rivivere proprio in questi giorni di crisi, nei gesti dei volontari e dei cittadini
che con generosità cercano di far fronte al disastro provocato dalle recenti alluvioni, abbattutesi su
Genova e altri comuni liguri. Atti che mostrano bene come gli italiani siano un popolo, solidale e
unito, capace di slanci di grande generosità; “una d’arme, di lingua, d’altare, di memorie, di
sangue, di cor”, scriveva Alessandro Manzoni dell’Italia nell’ode Marzo 1821.
Attraverso la ricostruzione delle tappe più significative che hanno caratterizzato questo giorno di
festa (allestimenti, manifestazioni, eventi simbolo il cui filo conduttore è il Tricolore) Fratelli Comuni
mette assieme, in un unico volume, le immagini più belle e rappresentative di un momento
importante della nostra storia, e, quello che ci consegna, è un concerto armonico di sorrisi, sguardi
ed emozioni, un mosaico variopinto di atmosfere, protagonisti e istanti destinati a rimanere nel
tempo. Fratelli Comuni, però, è anche un’occasione per riflettere, un tentativo di ricordare e far
ricordare le ricchezza e la straordinaria varietà della nostra Italia, perché i 150 anni di Unità non
vengano considerati solo alla luce degli avvenimenti storici, politici ed economici che ne hanno
contraddistinto la storia, ma siano testimonianza delle tante ed esaltanti avventure culturali e
intellettuali che ci hanno resi noti nel mondo, in ambito umanistico come in quello scientifico. Tale
patrimonio ci rende fieri di essere italiani.
Il volume si compone di tre sezioni: la prima è una raccolta di scatti fotografici volti a
documentare come comuni e province d’Italia, da Nord a Sud, dai più piccoli ai più grandi,
abbiano commemorato e celebrato questo evento. E, sfogliando il volume, colpisce come le
immagini, a volte, registrino già un passaggio del tempo e appartengano al passato, come quelle
del comune di Monterosso, nelle Cinque Terre, quasi cancellato dall’alluvione.
La seconda, con la prefazione dello storico Virgilio Ilari, Presidente della Società Italiana di Storia
Militare, è dedicata alle Forze Armate e vuole essere un omaggio speciale a tutti coloro che ogni
giorno, con spirito di sacrificio, difendono i valori della pace e della democrazia. Un compito, il loro,
ancor più prezioso se considerato alla luce degli attuali scenari nazionali e internazionali.
La terza, infine, è una sezione speciale; una galleria di ritratti di personaggi illustri che nel
tempo hanno contribuito a fare grande e prestigioso il nostro Paese. Sette le categorie (musica,
moda, spettacolo, sport, politica, industria e premi Nobel); ognuna di queste è introdotta da
esponenti del mondo accademico, artistico e dello sport.
Ma i veri autori e protagonisti di Fratelli Comuni sono i cittadini stessi, le tante realtà
comunali e le province italiane che, con l’invio di materiale fotografico, hanno incoraggiato,
supportato e reso possibile la realizzazione di questa grande opera, dove le tradizioni del
passato si fondono armoniosamente con l’innovazione tecnologica del presente.
Le presentazioni del volume saranno patrocinate dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei
Ministri e dal Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali.
Il volume Fratelli Comuni ospita gli autorevoli interventi di:
Osvaldo Napoli - Presidente ANCI Facente Funzioni
Gianni Alemanno - Sindaco di Roma
Giuliano Pisapia - Sindaco di Milano
Michele Emiliano - Sindaco di Bari
Luigi Frati - Rettore dell’Università Sapienza di Roma
Luciano Duro - Sindaco di Isola del Liri (FR)
Alessandro Campi - Docente di Storia del Pensiero Politico presso l’Università di Perugia
Andrea Coli - Docente di Storia Economica dell’Industria presso l’Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi di Milano
Virgilio Ilari - Presidente Società Italiana di Storia Militare
Ronnie Jones - Musicista
Linda Loppa - Direttrice Polimoda International Institute Fashion Design & Marketing
Daniele Masala - Campione Olimpico. Docente presso l’Università di Cassino
Luca Rea – Regista
Scheda informativa
Editore: Gargoyle in collaborazione con Editrice Pisani.
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che da sempre hanno contribuito e contribuiscono ad alimentare l’immaginario collettivo. La raccolta
fotografica dedicata al 150° anniversario dell’Unità d’Italia è la seconda pubblicazione della collana
“Gargoyle Accadimenti”, incentrata su eventi d’attualità particolarmente incisivi e di cui SuperSic, il libro
tributo a Marco Simoncelli, è stata la prima uscita.
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In long lost worlds In my mind, can i see the difference from
what's real and what's not..................
I'm fighting , I'm fighting with my self
to keep insane , to stay alive , Im fighting
Im fighting with my self, do you see it? can you feel it?
can you see the hidden sorrow?
I'v got to over come it , but can i even take the first step
can anyone help? Im fighting, Im fighting with my self, to keep insane
to stay alive
should i listern to the voice, that's inside my mind
should i give in...................
give in to the voice, Im fighting, Im fighting with my self
to keep insane, to stay alive today.......
by bethany seed
Ayer fue todo un día de aventura, con todos los ingredientes, grandes cortados y desniveles, voladizos, clavijas, placas de hielo y muchas cosas que de día más de uno no hará, así que nosotros decidimos hacerlo de noche, así somos los CDC, cualquier cosa por una buena foto.
Hicimos una ascensión a la Pena San Miguel, en el Salto del Roldan en Huesca, una excursión bonita para hacerla de día que se convierte en toda un aventura al hacerlo de noche, cargados con todo el equipo fotográfico empezamos a ascender por la falda norte de la Peña con la poca luz que aportaba la Luna y nuestros frontales. También tuvimos algún pequeño susto (la próxima vez llevaremos crampones), alguna buena foto, y muchas risas en compañía de amigos, así que aquí os dejo la primera de la serie.
View On Black "When you cant see the angels"
Jake Oh - Up In The Blue
You do what you came here to do
You take a trip up in the blue
I want to get much closer to you
So I can feel free and get loose
There are so many things to be found
'cause when you are with me
We lift up from the ground
It's with you I take a trip up in the blue
It's your eyes that send me straight up in the skyes
And it's you who make me sing what I do
It's your smile, that keeps your ? so high
When we flew down from the sky
I grabed your hand and I smiled
We are lost in the space of time
Where the moon and the stars keep in the ? of love ?
There are so many things to be found
'Cause when you are with me
We lift up from the ground
It's with you I take a trip up in the blue
It's your eyes that send me straight up in the skyes
And it's you who makes me sing what I do
It's your smile, that keeps your ? so high
It's with you, I take a trip, up in the blue
Your face, your eyes
?, so high
Up in the blue baby, up in the blue
Jake Oh
It's with you (It's whith you) I take a trip up in the blue (up in the blue)
It's your eyes (i'ts your eyes) that send me straight up in the skyes (bring me to the skyes)
And it's you who make me sing what I do (you make me sing what I do)
It's your smile, that keeps your ? so high (go high, go high)
It's with you (oooh) I take a trip up in the blue (up in the blue yeah)
It's your eyes that send me straight up in the skyes (straight up to the sky, straight up to the sky)
And it's you who make me sing what I do (yeeah)
It's your smile (it's your smile) that keeps your ? so high ( your ? go high)
Up in the blue
Pix taken at Arcachon pure SL
More photographs of Walton-on-Thames, can be viewed by visiting my photography website - Beautiful England
Walton-on-Thames is a riverside town with over 20,000 residents, situated between Sunbury Lock and Shepperton Lock, in the Borough of Elmbridge. It is only 15 miles from central London and has good communications by road, being close to the M25, M4 and M3 motorways. A fast train journey of only 25 minutes to Waterloo station makes it an ideal location for commuting to London. In fact, in 2008, a survey by the Halifax declared the Borough of Elmbridge to be the, "best place to live in Britain", with the highest quality of life in the United Kingdom. The media rapidly produced further commendations declaring Elmbridge to be the "Beverly Hills of Surrey" and claiming that even the weather here was better than the national average.
The town now has a new shopping centre, "The Heart", which is a covered mall with over 50 shops and restaurants and with outside restaurant seating. The development contains 279 apartments with views over Ashley Park. Walton-on-Thames has a modern leisure centre, the Xcel Leisure Complex, which opened in 2006, overlooking the River Thames. In addition to a 25 metre swimming pool, sports halls, climbing wall, health and fitness suite, it has an outside floodlit synthetic football pitch.
In the Domesday Book, Walton-on-Thames was recorded as, 'Waletona' and as having a church, two mills and a fishery.
The River Thames at Walton is an important crossing point. It was thought that Julius Caesar crossed here on his second invasion of Britain, but there is no evidence for this. Walton Bridge was the subject of a painting by Canaletto in 1754, but this wooden bridge was dismantled in 1783. J.M.W. Turner painted Walton Bridge in 1805, but this stone bridge collapsed in 1859. It is doubtful whether anyone would think the current structure is picturesque. It is the fifth bridge to cross the Thames at Walton and dates from 1999, when it was intended only to be temporary. Work on a new bridge is due to start in 2011 and completed in 2013.
Close to Walton Bridge is Desborough Island, which was created when the Desborough Channel was cut in 1935. It was constructed by the Thames Conservancy and named after Lord Desborough, the Chairman of the Board. The cut made a shorter journey possible by avoiding the meandering stretch of the Thames past Shepperton and Halliford.
At Walton Bridge is the garage of H.W. Motors, (Hersham and Walton Motors) who were the first Aston Martin dealership in the world. In the 1950s, they built their own racing cars and Sir Stirling Moss competed in his first Formula One Grand Prix in an H.W. Motors car.
Next to H.W. Motors is the Walton Playhouse. This is a theatre used for community productions and local amateur dramatic societies. It was built by Cecil Hepworth as a power house for Walton Film Studios. They closed in 1924 and its architect, George Carvill, bought the building. For many years, it was known as the, "Walton Hop", reputed to be the first disco in the United Kingdom. It closed in 1990.
St. Mary's Parish Church is of Saxon origin, with parts dating back to the 12th century. It is set at the highest point in the town and has a square flint tower. The churchyard contains the graves of many New Zealand soldiers who died in the First World War. Mount Felix House in Walton, which has now been demolished, was used as a hospital for New Zealand troops. The New Zealand connection is maintained in the street name, 'New Zealand Avenue' and the Wellington pub in the town centre.
As would be expected, the riverside pubs have been visited by notable characters. In 1909, Jerome Kern, the composer of the Broadway musical, "Showboat" and many popular songs, including Ol' Man River, met Eva Leale, the landlord's daughter at the Swan pub. They were married at St. Mary's Church, Walton the following year. The Anglers pub, with its seating on the riverbank, is very popular. A short walk along the towpath towards Hampton Court brings you to The Weir Hotel. Overlooking the Weir, this pub is extremely popular with walkers and cyclists, especially on Sundays, where people enjoy their roast dinners.
Walton-on-Thames has had many famous residents, but Julie Andrews is probably the most notable. She was born Julia Wells in 1935 in Rodney House Maternity Hospital, Rodney Road. She became, at fourteen, the youngest ever solo performer to appear at a Royal Variety Performance in 1948 at the London Palladium. She married her first husband, Tony Walton, in St. Mary's Church, Oatlands, Weybridge in 1959. Her most famous role was as Maria Von Trapp in the film, "The Sound of Music", which became 20th Century Fox's biggest ever film.
In Station Avenue, is a 1960s iconic office building. Formerly the head office of Birds Eye Frozen Foods, it is now a Grade II listed building. My sister worked there and remembers that there were live penguins in the grounds.
Next year will be an exciting time for Walton-on-Thames, when the 2012 Olympic Games commences. On the opening day of the 2012 Games, on Saturday 28th July, the Mens' Cycling Road Race (250km) starts from the Mall in London. The 145 riders will head towards Walton and race along Hurst Road from Hampton Court into Terrace Road, into Walton Town Centre, down Oatlands Drive to Weybridge and then onto the Surrey Hills. The womens' race takes place the following day over a shorter (140km) route, but still through Walton. The 2012 Olympic Games Cycling Time Trials will be held close by on 1st August at Hampton Court. The whole 13 mile section of the route which cuts through Elmbridge will be surfaced with electric blue non-slip Tarmac. This is the internationally recognised cycling blue used on time trials. The blue colour means overhead cameras can track competitors using matt black background enhancements.
On 14th August, 2011, an official test event for the 2012 Summer Olympics Road Race took place over the Olympic route, from The Mall in London, through Walton-on-Thames, to Box Hill, returning to the Mall, passing through Esher. This was the London – Surrey Cycle Classic Race. It was won by Mark Cavendish, MBE, aged 26. He is the top sprinter in the Tour de France, having won twenty stages and in September 2011, went on to win the Road World Championship in Denmark. On 22nd December 2011, Mark was voted the 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He is probably Great Britain’s best prospect for a gold medal in 2012. It is hoped that he can repeat his success next year.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever Gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloodied but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade.
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate,
Nor how charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
-- William Ernest Henley
At the age of 12 Henley became a victim of tuberculosis of the bone. In spite of this, in 1867 he successfully passed the Oxford local examination as a senior student. His diseased foot had to be amputated directly below the knee; physicians announced the only way to save his life was to amputate the other. Henley persevered and survived with one foot intact. He was discharged in 1875, and was able to lead an active life for nearly 30 years despite his disability. With an artificial foot, he lived until the age of 54. "Invictus" was written from a hospital bed.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
This is one of many water Lilies in our little pond at the side of our house. They really seem to have bloomed very nicely this year.
yesterday a very old friend and i went to China town and got some shots, for the majority of the time i was using his old Minolta camera while he used my D40. I'm proud to say yesterday was my first ever roll of film (: I'm going to develop them on Monday, but I'm not looking forward to seeing how well they came out, because i know they wont be the best ! but no one is perfect and although getting lots of practice wont make me perfect, it will get me close to it!
anyway about this shot she was a street vendor, selling scarfs and other items, it was kind of late into the day and it was overcast the whole day so at that time it was already getting dark so i couldnt get much.
the blue tones are a preset on lightroom 3 then i took it over to photoshop and did a bit more tweaking around.
music___ The script- break even
This is my friend Marclino you have all seen him
before but you probably dont recognize him maby
its because he has shaved his head bald lol i was with him
today and when i saw him i just burst out laughing he just looked
so different i said marcilino what have you done so he said
have a guess english oh and by the way thats what they call me
out here in the north of portugal they never ask me what my name is
all they no is that i am from england so they call me english i no its
very strange but thats how it is out here.again this was taken with the wifes
P+S but as a contact friend of mine macro marcie has pointed out
to me the most important thing is catching the essence.....and that can be done with any camera.again thankyou so much for your time and your comments
and kind regards to you all.
**Explored**
I showed these shots to my dad and he chose this one as his favorite because he said it had some mystery to it because at first glance, you're not entirely sure what you're looking at. I don't know about all that, but I'll go with it. I'm still holding up Andy's and my departure. Whoops. :)
These were taken at the site of the Wells Brothers Foundry (founded in 1832, torn down in 1910) in Milford, Michigan. I found this by chance. I was driving home from work and got stuck behind a long string of cars waiting for somebody to turn left. I looked out the left side of my car (when I am normally looking at the park on the right side of the road) and saw this! I immediately pulled off and jumped out to take pictures. I really like how these turned out.
Ok, now this really is a post and run. If I don't finish this up now, I'm going to get into trouble. Everybody have a great evening! I'll catch up on your streams later tonight or tomorrow. :)
Zuki really wants a duck. He still loves his seal, "Club", but he's not getting along with whale or pig that much. He hasn't even bothered to name them.
I wanted to put that in illustration tonight with duck boots, which were promised at my last Bench Monday, but he threw a hissy fit.
"NOT DUCKS, MUM! THESE ARE NOT DUCKS!"
So he's back in the closet. I'm hoping he comes out for tomorrow's shot which will be a face down tuesday, but includes a bed. Unfortunately, that will disqualify the shot as a "Face Down Tuesday", but I also said on Wednesday that I would explain why I couldn't sleep until 3AM.
So much catching up to do. I feel that I've neglected my contacts horribly. They started making me actually do work at work. It's 10:20 and I'm just uploading, and I swore I'd try to sleep like a semi-normal person this week.
Ford was launched in a converted factory in 1902 with $31,000 in cash (approximately US$704 thousand, adjusted for inflation) from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge, who would later found the Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company. Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, as well as being one of the few to survive the Great Depression. The largest family-controlled company in the world, the Ford Motor Company has been in continuous family control for over 100 years.
During its early years, the company produced a range of vehicles designated, chronologically, from the Ford Model A (1903) to the Model K and Model S (Ford's last right-hand steering model)[1] of 1907.[2] The K, Ford's first six-cylinder model, was knows as "the gentleman's roadster" and "the silent cyclone", and sold for US$2800 (approximately US$65.4 thousand, adjusted for inflation);[3] by contrast, around that time, the Enger 40 was priced at US$2000,[4] the Colt Runabout US$1500,[5] the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout[6] US$650, Western's Gale Model A US$500,[7] and the Success hit the amazingly low US$250 (approximately US$5.84 thousand, adjusted for inflation).[8]
The next year, Henry Ford introduced the Model T. Earlier models were produced at a rate of only a few a day at a rented factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, with groups of two or three men working on each car from components made to order by other companies (what would come to be called an "assembled car"). The first Model Ts were built at the Piquette Road Manufacturing Plant, the first company-owned factory. In its first full year of production, 1909, about 18,000 Model Ts were built. As demand for the car grew, the company moved production to the much larger Highland Park Plant, and in 1911, the first year of operation there, 69,762[9] Model Ts were produced, with 170,211 in 1912.[10] By 1913, the company had developed all of the basic techniques of the assembly line and mass production. Ford introduced the world's first moving assembly line that year, which reduced chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours 40 minutes (and ultimately 1 hour, 33 minutes),[11] and boosted annual output to 202,667 units that year[12] After a Ford ad promised profit-sharing if sales hit 300,000 between August 1914 and August 1915,[13] sales in 1914 hit 308,162, and 501,462 in 1915;[14] by 1920, production would exceed one million a year.
These innovations were hard on employees, and turnover of workers was very high, while increased productivity actually reduced labor demand.[15] Turnover meant delays and extra costs of training, and use of slow workers. In January 1914, Ford solved the employee turnover problem by doubling pay to $5 a day, cutting shifts from nine hours to an eight hour day for a 5 day work week (which also increased sales; a line worker could buy a T with less than four months' pay),[16] and instituting hiring practices that identified the best workers, including disabled people considered unemployable by other firms.[17] Employee turnover plunged, productivity soared, and with it, the cost per vehicle plummeted. Ford cut prices again and again and invented the system of franchised dealers who were loyal to his brand name. Wall Street had criticized Ford's generous labor practices when he began paying workers enough to buy the products they made.[18]
Ford assembly line (1913)
While Ford attained international status in 1904 with the founding of Ford of Canada, it was in 1911 the company began to rapidly expand overseas, with the opening of assembly plants in England and France, followed by Denmark (1923), Germany (1925), Austria (1925),[19] and Argentina (1925),[20] and also in South Africa (1924)[21] and Australia (1925) as subsidiaries of Ford of Canada due to preferential tariff rules for Commonwealth countries. By the end of 1919, Ford was producing 50 percent of all cars in the United States, and 40% of all British ones;[22] by 1920, half of all cars in the U.S. were Model Ts. (The low price also killed the cyclecar in the U.S.)[23] The assembly line transformed the industry; soon, companies without it risked bankruptcy. Of 200 U.S. car makers in 1920, only 17 were left in 1940.[24]
It also transformed technology. Henry Ford is reported to have said, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." Before the assembly line, Ts had been available in a variety of colors, including red, blue, and green, but not black. Now, paint had become a production bottleneck; only Japan Black dried quickly enough, and not until Duco lacquer appeared in 1926 would other colors reappear on the T.[25]
In 1915, Henry Ford went on a peace mission to Europe aboard a ship, joining other pacifists in efforts to stop World War I. This led to an increase in his personal popularity. Ford would subsequently go on to support the war effort with the Model T becoming the underpinnings for Allied military vehicles.
[edit] History of the blue oval
The Ford oval trademark was first introduced in 1907. The 1928 Model A was the first vehicle to sport an early version of the Ford script in the oval badge. The dark blue background of the oval is known to designers as Pantone 294C. The Ford script is credited to Childe Harold Wills, Ford's first chief engineer and designer. He created a script in 1903 based on the one he used for his business cards. Today, the oval has evolved into a perfect oval with a width-to-height ratio of 8:3. The current Centennial Oval was introduced on June 17, 2003 as part of the 100th anniversary of Ford Motor Company.[26]
[edit] Post-World War I developments
In 1919, Edsel Ford succeeded his father as president of the company, although Henry still kept a hand in management. Although prices were kept low through highly efficient engineering, the company used an old-fashioned personalized management system, and neglected consumer demand for improved vehicles. So, while four wheel brakes were invented by Arrol-Johnson (and were used on the 1909 Argyll),[27] they did not appear on a Ford until 1927. (To be fair, Chevrolet waited until 1928.)[28] Ford steadily lost market share to GM and Chrysler, as these and other domestic and foreign competitors began offering fresher automobiles with more innovative features and luxury options. GM had a range of models from relatively cheap to luxury, tapping all price points in the spectrum, while less wealthy people purchased used Model Ts. The competitors also opened up new markets by extending credit for purchases, so consumers could buy these expensive automobiles with monthly payments. Ford initially resisted this approach, insisting such debts would ultimately hurt the consumer and the general economy. Ford eventually relented and started offering the same terms in December 1927, when Ford unveiled the redesigned Model A, and retired the Model T after producing 15 million units.
[edit] Lincoln Motor Company
On February 4, 1922 Ford expanded its reach into the luxury auto market through its acquisition of the Lincoln Motor Company, named for Abraham Lincoln whom Henry Ford admired, but Henry M. Leland had named the company in 1917. The Mercury division was established in 1938 to serve the mid-price auto market.[29] Ford Motor Company built the largest museum of American History in 1928, The Henry Ford.
Henry Ford would go on to acquire Abraham Lincoln's chair, which he was assassinated in, from the owners of the Ford Theatre. Abraham Lincoln's chair would be displayed along with John F. Kennedy's Lincoln limousine in the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in Dearborn, known today as The Henry Ford. Kennedy's limousine was leased to the White House by Ford.
[edit] Fordlândia
Main article: Fordlândia
In 1928, Henry Ford negotiated a deal with the government of Brazil for a plot of land in the Amazon Rainforest. There, Ford attempted to cultivate rubber for use in the company's automobiles. After considerable labor unrest, social experimentation, and a failure to produce rubber, and after the invention of synthetic rubber, the settlement was sold in 1945 and abandoned.
[edit] The Great Depression
During the great depression, Ford in common with other manufacturers, responded to the collapse in motor sales by reducing the scale of their operations and laying off workers. By 1932, the unemployment rate in Detroit had risen to 30%[30] with thousands of families facing real hardship. Although Ford did assist a small number of distressed families with loans and parcels of land to work, the majority of the thousands of unskilled workers who were laid off were left to cope on their own. However, Henry Ford angered many by making public statements that the unemployed should do more to find work for themselves.
This led to Detroit’s Unemployed Council organizing the Ford Hunger March. On March 7, 1932 some 3,000 - 5,000 unemployed workers assembled in West Detroit to march on Ford's River Rouge plant to deliver a petition demanding more support. As the march moved up Miller Road and approached Gate 3 the protest turned ugly. The police fired tear gas into the crowd and fire trucks were used to soak the protesters with icy water. When the protesters responded by throwing rocks, the violence escalated rapidly and culminated in the police and plant security guards firing live rounds through the gates of the plant at the unarmed protesters. Four men were killed outright and a fifth died later in hospital. Up to 60 more were seriously injured.[31]
[edit] Soviet Fords and the Gorki
In May 1929 the Soviet Union signed an agreement with the Ford Motor Company. Under its terms, the Soviets agreed to purchase $13 million worth of automobiles and parts, while Ford agreed to give technical assistance until 1938 to construct an integrated automobile-manufacturing plant at Nizhny Novgorod. Many American engineers and skilled auto workers moved to the Soviet Union to work on the plant and its production lines, which was named Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod (GAZ), or Gorki Automotive Plant in 1932. A few American workers stayed on after the plant's completion, and eventually became victims of Stalin's Great Terror, either shot[32] or exiled to Soviet gulags.[33] In 1933, the Soviets completed construction on a production line for the Ford Model-A passenger car, called the GAZ-A, and a light truck, the GAZ-AA. Both these Ford models were immediately adopted for military use. By the late 1930s production at Gorki was 80,000-90,000 "Russian Ford" vehicles per year. With its original Ford-designed vehicles supplemented by imports and domestic copies of imported equipment, the Gorki operations eventually produced a range of automobiles, trucks, and military vehicles.
[edit] World War II
President Franklin Roosevelt referred to Detroit as the "Arsenal of Democracy." The Ford Motor Company played a pivotal role in the allied victory during World War I and World War II. As a pacifist, Henry Ford had said war was a waste of time, and did not want to profit from it. He was concerned the Nazis during the 1930s might nationalize his factories in Germany. During the Great Depression Ford's wages may have seemed great to his employees but many of the rules of the factories were very harsh and strict. Those were tense times for American companies doing business in Europe. In the spring of 1939, the Nazis assumed day to day control of Ford factories in Germany.
With Europe under siege, Henry Ford's genius would be turned to mass production for the war effort. After Bantam invented the Jeep, the War Department handed production over to Ford and Willys. When Consolidated Aircraft could at most build one B-24 Liberator a day, Ford would show the world how to produce one an hour, at a peak of 600 per month in 24 hour shifts. The specially-designed Willow Run plant broke ground in April 1941. At the time, it was the largest assembly line in the world, with over 3,500,000 square feet (330,000 m2) under one roof. Edsel Ford, under severe stress, died in the Spring of 1943 of stomach cancer, prompting his grieving father to resume day-to-day control of Ford. Mass production of the B-24 began by August 1943. Many pilots slept on cots waiting for takeoff as B-24s rolled off the line.[34]
In the United Kingdom, Ford built a new factory in Trafford Park, Manchester during WW2 where over 34,000 Rolls-Royce Merlin aero engines were completed by a workforce trained from scratch.
[edit] Post-World War II developments
At the behest of Edsel Ford's widow Eleanor and Henry's wife Clara, Henry Ford would make his oldest grandson, Henry Ford II, President of Ford Motor Company.
A Ford Taurus, one of Ford's best-selling models. In its 21 year lifespan, it sold 7,000,000 units. It is the 4th best selling car in Ford's history, behind only the F-150, the Model T, and the Mustang.
Henry Ford II served as President from 1945–1960, and as Chairman and CEO from 1960–1980. "Hank the Deuce" led Ford to become a publicly traded corporation in 1956. However, the Ford family maintains about 40 percent controlling interest in the company, through a series of Special Class B preferred stocks.
In 1947, Henry Ford died. According to A&E Biography, an estimated 7 million people mourned his death.
Ernest R. Breech was hired in 1946 and became the Executive Vice President. Then later became Board Chairman in 1955.
In 1946, Robert McNamara joined Ford Motor Company as manager of planning and financial analysis. He advanced rapidly through a series of top-level management positions to the presidency of Ford on 9 November 1960, one day after John F. Kennedy's election. The first company head selected outside the Ford family, McNamara had gained the favor of Henry Ford II, and had aided in Ford's expansion and success in the postwar period. Less than five weeks after becoming president at Ford, he accepted Kennedy's invitation to join his cabinet, as Secretary of Defense.
In the 1950s, Ford introduced the iconic Thunderbird in 1955 and the Edsel brand automobile line in 1958. Edsel was cancelled after less than 27 months in the marketplace in November 1960. The corporation bounced back from the failure of the Edsel by introducing its compact Ford Falcon in 1960 and the Mustang in 1964. By 1967, Ford of Europe was established.
Lee Iacocca was involved with the design of several successful Ford automobiles, most notably the Ford Mustang. He was also the "moving force," as one court put it, behind the notorious Ford Pinto. He promoted other ideas which did not reach the marketplace as Ford products. Eventually, he became the president of the Ford Motor Company, but he clashed with Henry Ford II and ultimately, on July 13, 1978, he was famously fired by Henry II, despite Ford posting a $2.2 billion dollar profit for the year. In 1979 Philip Caldwell became Chairman, succeeded in 1985 by Donald Petersen.
Harold Poling served as Chairman and CEO from 1990-1993. Alex Trotman was Chairman and CEO from 1993-1998, and Jacques Nasser served at the helm from 1999-2001. Henry Ford's great-grandson, William Clay Ford Jr., is the company's current Chairman of the Board and was CEO until September 5, 2006, when he named Alan Mulally from Boeing as his successor. As of 2006, the Ford family owns about 5 percent of Ford's shares and controls about 40 percent of the voting power through a separate class of stock.[35]
In December 2006, Ford announced that it would mortgage all assets, including factories and equipment, office property, intellectual property (patents and trademarks), and its stakes in subsidiaries, to raise $23.4 billion in cash. The secured credit line is expected to finance product development during the restructuring through 2009, as the company expects to burn through $17 billion in cash before turning a profit. The action was unprecedented in the company's 103 year history.
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The Loco
This engine is a beast. If it were a lorry it would be an earth mover, built for shifting massive loads over short distances, with big cylinders and very small wheels. It is rated at 800h.p., a tractive effort of 28,000lb, a weight of 66tons and wheels of only 3' 6" diameter. This compares with the STD class 5 at 26,120 lbs tractive effort, and a weight of 76 tons.
Polish engineering is not known for it's high quality, and the engine is no exception. For example, the cylinder bore on engines should line up with the axle centre - not here, the cylinder centreline is clearly inches above the axle centreline. General construction is simple, for example the smoke box door is made from flat plate welded together, where most engines have a rounded door made from pressings / castings. Many of the steam valves are made from steel / iron, which can corrode, where other loco's would use brass or bronze which doesn't corrode. Oddly, for a simple machine, it has the complexity of superheaters; more superheaters than an LMS Jubilee. On a machine that is for shunting and not designed for speed this is unusual, as superheaters are thought to be effective only when an engine is working for long periods and has time to warm through.
It has been said that we are asking too much of this engine, with its small wheels at 25MPH. An A4 Pacific has 6'8" wheels, and at 75MPH (Network Rail's max speed limit for steam) this equates to 315RPM. 5485, with 3' 6" wheels, at 25MPH is only running at 200 RPM. Indeed, the engine's stated maximum speed is 40km/h, and it has proven itself capable of easily keeping to time.
For the crew it is an easy engine to fire, with a large boiler that has plenty of steam generating capacity, and a medium size firebox where the first time fireman won't have trouble getting coal to the far end of the fire. There is also a drop grate in the firebox and a hopper ashpan, making the disposal of fire and ash simpler. The injectors have been proven to be reliable, after fettling work. For the driver, the controls are well placed and all reachable from the cab window. However, the regulator is difficult, steam can be admitted on a little or lots basis, there's not much in between. If you see the engine starting a train and it slips frequently, you know the driver is battling with the regulator. The engine has the luxury of very bright electric lights, in the cab and above the wheels as well as front and back. Some crew like working in the dark with this loco as you have the rare luxury of being able to see where you are going. Due to the long wheel base, two of the axles have a large amount of side-play. This lets the engine go around curves, but it means that there is a lot of side - side waddle, especially on straight track, and there is a lot of that at Nene Valley!
History
This engine is fairly modern as steam engines go, being built by Fablok of Chrzanow, Poland in 1959, as one of a large class of 406 loco's, built from 1950 - 1963. 90 of the class were exported to China. Visit hobby.ien.com.pl/kolej/Freight Tank Locomotives/TKp.htm for further info. It worked for 36 years in the Coalfields in Bytom, southern Poland and was withdrawn in 1995, when the mine closed.
The engine was bought by it's current owner in 1996, in working order with a current boiler ticket. It came complete with it's entire service history, all in Polish, from when it was built, on the 14th of Maja 1959! Many of these documents still have their wax seal from the works. The documents show that the engine had a heavy overhaul in 1990, with a new firebox, a new front tubeplate and new portions of the boiler barrel fitted at Olesnica, Poland. The resulting good condition of the boiler is why it was preserved.
The loco was moved to Belgium by rail through Holland and Germany, in a convoy of loco's devoid of their rods, at a cost of £2,500 for each loco; 900 miles at 25mph. One of the loco owners videoed the convoy and saw sparks from the axlebox of loco. A hurried conversation with the driver (in German) followed! The damaged loco went on to be preserved in Northampton.
5485 Came to England in 1997 and was stripped and overhauled at Llangollen. All the steel pipework was replaced with copper, the smokebox was replaced and a new cab and cladding, was fitted. The boiler is now in very good condition; when in steam it is as dry as a bone. Whilst at Nene Valley, the loco has spent much time out of traffic for repairs to badly worn bearings and bushes on the coupling rods and connecting rods, and a failed main steam pipe. The loco is now back in traffic, but further repairs may soon be required. The valves and pistons have always been blowing-by; the leakage of steam can be heard as a whoosh from the chimney when starting away. On occasion, the blow-by is so bad that the loco will move backwards when starting off in forward gear!
(Incidentally, put 'Slask' into your spell checker and it will suggest 'slack' - Bill Gates is well informed!)
Recent Mechanical Group Reports
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New Yorkers Protest the US$850 BILLION (US$3 TRILLION) Wall Street BAILOUT: Wall Street, NYC - September 25, 2008.
This is actually a GOOD guy. See: billionairesforbush.com/index.php for more information.
VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE on 04 NOVEMBER 2008!
Photographer: a. golden, eyewash design - c. 2008.
Friends,
The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four-hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans COMBINED! 400 of the wealthiest Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined net worth is $1.6 trillion. During the eight years of the Bush Administration, their wealth has increased by nearly $700 billion -- the same amount that they were demanding We give to them for the "bailout." Why don't they just spend the money they made under Bush to bail themselves out? They'd still have nearly a trillion dollars left over to spread amongst themselves!
Of course, they are not going to do that -- at least not voluntarily. George W. Bush was handed a $127 billion surplus when Bill Clinton left office. Because that money was OUR money and not HIS, he did what the rich prefer to do -- spend it and never look back. Now we have a $9.5 trillion debt that will take seven generations from which to recover. Why -- on --earth – did -- our -- "representatives" -- give -- these -- robber -- barons -- $US850 BILLION -- of – OUR -- money?
Last week, proposed my own bailout plan. My suggestions, listed below, were predicated on the singular and simple belief that the rich must pull themselves up by their own platinum bootstraps. Sorry, fellows, but you drilled it into our heads one too many times: THERE...IS...NO…FREE... LUNCH ~ PERIOD! And thank you for encouraging us to hate people on welfare! So, there should have been NO HANDOUTS FROM US TO YOU! Last Friday, after voting AGAINST this BAILOUT, in an unprecedented turn of events, the House FLIP-FLOPPED their "No" Vote & said "Yes", in a rush version of a "bailout" bill vote. IN SPITE OF THE PEOPLE'S OVERWHELMING DISAPPROVAL OF THIS BAILOUT BILL... IN SPITE OF MILLIONS OF CALLS FROM THE PEOPLE CRASHING WASHINGTON "representatives'" PHONE LINES...IN SPITE OF CRASHING OUR POLITICIAN'S WEBSITES...IN SPITE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE PROTESTING AROUND THE COUNTRY... THEY VOTED FOR THIS BAILOUT! The People first succeeded on Monday with the House, but failed do it with the Senate and then THE HOUSE TURNED ON US TOO!
It is clear, though, we cannot simply continue protesting without proposing exactly what it is we think THESE IDIOTS should/'ve do/one. So, after consulting with a number of people smarter than Phil Gramm, here’s the proposal, now known as "Mike's Rescue Plan." (From Michael Moore's Bailout Plan) It has 10 simple, straightforward points. They are that you DIDN'T, BUT SHOULD'VE:
1. APPOINTED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO CRIMINALLY INDICT ANYONE ON WALL STREET WHO KNOWINGLY CONTRIBUTED TO THIS COLLAPSE. Before any new money was expended, Congress should have committed, by resolution, to CRIMINALLY PROSECUTE ANYONE who had ANYTHING to do with the attempted SACKING OF OUR ECONOMY. This means that anyone who committed insider trading, securities fraud or any action that helped bring about this collapse should have and MUST GO TO JAIL! This Congress SHOULD HAVE called for a Special Prosecutor who would vigorously go after everyone who created the mess, and anyone else who attempts to scam the public in future. (I like Elliot Spitzer ~ so, he played a little hanky-panky...Wall Street hates him & this is a GOOD thing.)
2. THE RICH SHOULD HAVE PAID FOR THEIR OWN BAILOUT! They may have to live in 5 houses instead of 7. They may have to drive 9 cars instead of 13. The chef for their mini-terriers may have to be reassigned. But there is no way in hell, after forcing family incomes to go down more than $2,000 dollars during the Bush years, that working people and the middle class should have to fork over one dime to underwrite the next yacht purchase.
If they truly needed the $850 billion they say they needed, well, here is an easy way they could have raised it:
a) Every couple makeing over a million dollars a year and every single taxpayer who makes over $500,000 a year should pay a 10% surcharge tax for five years. (It's the Senator Sanders plan. He's like Colonel Sanders, only he's out to fry the right chickens.) That means the rich would have still been paying less income tax than when Carter was president. That would have raise a total of $300 billion.
b) Like nearly every other democracy, they should have charged a 0.25% tax on every stock transaction. This would have raised more than $200 billion in a year.
c) Because every stockholder is a patriotic American, stockholders should have forgone receiving a dividend check for ONE quarter and instead this money would have gone the treasury to help pay for the bullsh*t bailout.
d) 25% of major U.S. corporations currently pay NO federal income tax. Federal corporate tax revenues currently amount to 1.7% of the GDP compared to 5% in the 1950s. If we raised the corporate income tax BACK to the levels of the 1950s, this would give us an extra $500 billion.
All of this combined should have been enough to end the calamity. The rich would have gotten to keep their mansions and their servants and our United States government ("COUNTRY FIRST!") would've have a little leftover to repair some roads, bridges and schools...
3. YOU SHOULD HAVE BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE LOSING THEIR HOMES, NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BUILD AN EIGHTH HOME! There are 1.3 million homes in foreclosure right now. That is what is at the heart of this problem. So, instead of giving the money to the banks as a gift, they should have paid down each of these mortgages by $100,000. They should have forced the banks to renegotiate the mortgage so the homeowner could pay on its current value. To insure that this help wouldn't go to speculators and those who tried to making money by flipping houses, the bailout should have only been for people's primary residences. And, in return for the $100K pay-down on the existing mortgage, the government would have gotten to share in the holding of the mortgage so it could get some of its money back. Thus, the total initial cost of fixing the mortgage crisis at its roots (instead of with the greedy lenders) is $150 billion, not $850 BILLION.
And let's set the record straight. People who have defaulted on their mortgages are not "bad risks." They are our fellow Americans, and all they wanted was what we all want: a home to call their own. But, during the Bush years, millions of the People lost the decent paying jobs they had. SIX MILLION fell into poverty! SEVEN MILLION lost their health insurance! And, every one of them saw their real wages go DOWN by $2,000! Those who DARE look down on these Americans who got hit with one bad break after another should be ASHAMED.! We are a better, stronger, safer and happier society when all of our citizens can afford to live in a home they own.
4. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A STIPULATION THAT IF YOUR BANK OR COMPANY GOT ANY OF OUR MONEY IN A "BAILOUT," THEN WE OWN YOU. Sorry, that's how it's done. If the bank gives me money so I can buy a house, the bank "owns" that house until I pay it all back -- with interest. Same deal for Wall Street. Whatever money you need to stay afloat, if our government considers you a safe risk -- and necessary for the good of the country -- then you can get a loan, but WE SHOULD OWN YOU. If you default, we will sell you. This is how the Swedish government did it and it worked.
5. ALL REGULATIONS SHOULD HAVE BEEN BE RESTORED. THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IS DEAD! This catastrophe happened because we let the fox have the keys to the hen-house. In 1999, Phil Gramm authored a bill to remove all the regulations that governed Wall Street and our banking system. The bill passed and Clinton signed it. Here's what Sen.Phil Gramm, McCain's chief economic advisor, said at the bill signing:
"In the 1930s ... it was believed that government was the answer. It was believed that stability and growth came from government overriding the functioning of free markets.
"We are here today to repeal [that] because we have learned that government is not the answer. We have learned that freedom and competition are the answers. We have learned that we promote economic growth and we promote stability by having competition and freedom.
"I am proud to be here because this is an important bill; it is a deregulatory bill. I believe that that is the wave of the future, and I am awfully proud to have been a part of making it a reality."
FOR THIS NOT TO REOCCUR, This BILL SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPEALED! Bill Clinton could have helped by leading the effort for the repeal of the Gramm bill and the reinstating of even tougher regulations regarding our financial institutions. And when they were done with that, they should have restored the regulations for the airlines, the inspection of our food, the oil industry, OSHA, and every other entity that affects our daily lives. All oversight provisions for any "bailout" should have had enforcement monies attached to them and criminal penalties for all offenders.
6. IF IT'S TOO BIG TO FAIL, THEN THAT MEANS IT'S TOO BIG TO EXIST! Allowing the creation of these mega-mergers and not enforcing the monopoly and anti-trust laws has allowed a number of financial institutions and corporations to become so large, the very thought of their collapse means an even bigger collapse across the entire economy. No ONE or TWO companies should EVER have this kind of power! The so-called "economic Pearl Harbor" can't happen when you have hundreds -- thousands -- of institutions where people have their money. When we have a dozen auto companies, if one goes belly-up, we DON'T FACE A NATIONAL DISASTER! If we have three separately-owned daily newspapers in your town, then one media company can't call all the shots (I know... What am I thinking?! Who reads a paper anymore? Sure glad all those mergers and buyouts left us with a STRONG and "FREE" press!). Laws Should have been enacted to prevent companies from being so large and dominant that with one slingshot to the eye, the GIANT FALLS and DIES. And no institution should be allowed to set up money schemes that NO ONE understands. If you can't explain it in two sentences, you shouldn't be taking anyone's money!
7. NO EXECUTIVE SHOULD EVER BE PAID MORE THAN 40 TIMES THEIR AVERAGE EMPLOYEE, AND NO EXECUTIVE SHOULD RECEIVE ANY KIND OF "PARACHUTE" OTHER THAN THE VERY GENEROUS SALARY HE OR SHE MADE WHILE WORKING FOR THE COMPANY. In 1980, the average American CEO made 45 times what their employees made. By 2003, they were making 254 times what their workers made. After 8 years of Bush, they now make over 400 times what their average employee makes. How We have allowed this to happen at publicly held companies is beyond reason. In Britain, the average CEO makes 28 times what their average employee makes. In Japan, it's only 17 times! The last I heard, the CEO of Toyota was living the high life in Tokyo. How does he do it on so little money? Seriously, this is an OUTRAGE! We have created the mess we're in by letting the people at the top become bloated beyond belief with millions of dollars. THIS HAS TO STOP! Not only should no executive who receives help out of this mess profit from it, but any executive who was in charge of running his company into the ground should be FIRED before the company receives ANY help.
8. CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE STRENGTHENED THE FDIC AND MADE IT A MODEL FOR PROTECTING NOT ONLY PEOPLE'S SAVINGS, BUT ALSO THEIR PENSIONS AND THEIR HOMES. Obama was correct to propose expanding FDIC protection of people's savings in their banks to $250,000. But, this same sort of government insurance must be given to our NEVER have to worry about whether or not the money they've put away for their old age will be there. This should have meant strict government oversight of companies who manage their employees' funds -- or perhaps it means the companies should have been forced to turn over those funds and their management to the government? People's private retirement funds must also be protected, but perhaps it's time to consider not having one's retirement invested in the casino known as the stock market??? Our government should have a solemn duty to guarantee that no one who grows old in this country has to worry about becoming destitute.
9. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH, CALM DOWN, AND NOT LET FEAR RULE THE DAY. Turn off your TVs! We are NOT in the Second Great Depression. The sky is NOT falling, Chicken Little! Pundits and politicians have lied to us so FAST and FURIOUS it's hard not to be affected by all the fear mongering. Even I wrote to and repeated what I heard on the news last week, that the Dow had the biggest one day drop in its history. Well, that was true in terms of points, but its 7% drop came nowhere close to Black Monday in 1987 when the stock market in one day lost 23% of its value. In the '80s, 3,000 banks closed, but America didn't go out of business. These institutions have always had their ups and downs and eventually it works out. It has to, because the rich do not like their wealth being disrupted! They have a vested interest in calming things down and getting back into their Jacuzzis before they slip into their million thread-count sheets to drift off to a peaceful, Vodka tonic and Ambien-induced slumber.
As crazy as things are right now, tens of thousands of people got a car loan last week. Thousands went to the bank and got a mortgage to buy a home. Students just back to college found banks more than happy to put them into hock for the next 15 years with a student loan. I was even pre-approved for a US$5K personal loan. Yes, life has gone on with little-or-no-change (other than the whopping 6.1% umeployment rate, but that happened last month). Not a single person lost any of his/her monies in bank, or a treasury note, or in a CD. And, the perhaps the most amazing thing is that the American public FINALLY didn't buy the scare campaign. The citizens didn't blink, instead telling Congress to take that bailout and shove it. THAT was impressive. Why didn't the population succumb to the fright-filled warnings from their president and his cronies? Well, you can only say 'Saddam has the bomb' so many times before the people realize you're a lying sack of shit. After eight long years, the nation is worn out and simply can't take it any longer. The WORLD is fed up & I don't blame them.
10. THEY SHOULD HAVE CREATED A NATIONAL BANK, A "PEOPLE'S BANK." Since they're really itching to print up a trillion dollars, instead of giving it to a few rich people, why don't We give it to ourselves? Now that We own Freddie and Fannie, why not set up a People's bank? One that can provide low-interest loans for all sorts of people who want to own a home, start a small business, go to school, come up with the cure for cancer or create the next great invention. And, now that we own AIG - the country's largest insurance company - let's take the next step and PROVIDE HEALTH INSURANCE FOR EVERYONE. MEDICARE FOR ALL! It will SAVE us SO MUCH MONEY in the LONG RUN (not to mention bring peace of mind to all). And, America won't be 12th on the life expectancy list! We'll be able to have a longer lifespan, enjoying our government-protected pension and will live to see the day when the corporate criminals who caused this much misery are let out of prison so that We can help re-acclimate them to plain old ordinary, civilian life -- a life with ONE nice home and ONE gas-free car invented with help from the People's Bank.
P.S. Call your Senators NOW !!! ---> www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Since they voted against passing the extension of unemployment benefits and skipped out to "campaign" to us to be re-elected...call them and tell them you will vote for the other "guy" if they don't get their act together!
UPDATE:
The Bailout Is A Truly Evil Disaster And Enabler Pelosi Must Go
We are hearing more and more reports of how badly the ill-advised banker's bailout is being handled, multi-million dollar bonuses for Paulson's old cronies at Goldman Sachs, billions going to finance the takeover of rival banks, making the "too big to fail" even bigger, and the taxpayer getting an otherwise rotten deal for their investment. We even heard a Republic senator asking how fast they could blow the money.
NONE of this could have happened without the fawning complicity of Nancy Pelosi, who infamously said it was Bush's proposal, INSTEAD of coming forward with a robust alternative plan. Just like Bush, she believes she is immune, she believes she is unaccountable, and shame on us if we don't do everything we can to defeat her this Tuesday, and replace her with Cindy Sheehan.
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