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South of Jenner, CA at the mouth of the Russian River
©2008 David S. Nadal. This photo may not be used in any form without prior permission. All rights reserved.
The story of the cow that was in a place no cow had any business being.
I wanted to be in Ft. Bragg before 11:30 that night. After driving up from Monterey, I survived the fun and joy of damn near running out of gas between SF and Bodega Bay (there were 18,000 effing people at Stinson Beach...not one gas station? I scored half a tank at Pt. Reyes Station, and then topped off at Bodega Bay...at which point I relaxed, toddling alongside Tomales Bay, taking a little side trip to see St. Theresa de Avila Church in Bodega (Ansel shot it, and the classroom in back was the one you see in Hitchcock's The Birds), and then wandering up the Sonoma Coast. Loved it; have to go back.
I found this place called Goat Rock State Beach, and it was beautiful...the sign up the road from the park entrance said 30 mi. to Ft. Bragg, so I figured I was golden for the sunset. I pulled over on the headland overlooking the beach, and a stream of hippies trundled past on their way down to do who knows what. I set up, pulled the folding chair out of the truck and kicked out until the light show started. Well worth staying, don't you think?
After the show ended, there were other things going on on the hillside behind me, so I was shooting some loooong exposures of the leftover light when the hippies began their exodus. I was timing the 20" exposures between cars...and dust. All of a sudden, one of them pulls over in a big cloud of dust, and a serious hemp-wearing modern-day pagan woman with essential oils in her dreadlocked hair sticks her head out the window and says, "Duuuude! Did you catch the green flash, man? Tell me you caught the green flash...ever so righteous!" Uh, no, and you're getting dust on my gear. Head retreats into vehicle, "Oh, dude is too harsh." Zip, up goes the window and off they go. More dust.
I hope all that doesn't make me sound like some kind of crew-cut reactionary, it's just that any kind of large group with similar interests tends to reinforce the worst aspects of its particular obsession...hippies, gun people, photographers, whatever...and these folks were living up to every NorCal/Lost Coast stereotype you could imagine.
Anyway, they fled...to the nearest spirit lodge, I don't know, and I dusted off the gear and packed up. I get back out there on the 101---or is it the 1 by then?---and, as I'm driving past, I notice that the sign that I thought said 30 miles to Bragg had been amended by the local nonhippies: in reality, I had 80 miles to go. And I had no idea what those 80 miles were like!
We've established that I'm not a fan of edges, particularly when I'm behind the wheel. The Pacific Coast Highway may not be the hairiest road ever, but damn! it has its moments, and the section north of Jenner is right up there on the hairy scale. I tootle northward, when all of a sudden, in the twilight, Satan's Rollercoaster begins. At every hairpin, 220° corner, there's just enough light to see the 500,000-foot drops to the ocean below. And my brakes were not feeling their freshest (they were wearing, but not worn out, and the wear wasn't precisely even, so odd noises and pulling ensued). I'm managing 15 to 25 miles an hour, when an early 70s, avocado-green, Cadillac Coupe deVille convertible arrives on my back bumper. You know, those enormous things you could sleep stretched out in either front or back seat, or play ping-pong on the hood. Obviously a local: knows the road blindfolded and drunk, and begins to try to push me faster.
The dance goes on for four or five miles: no passing zones, no pullovers. Finally, we hit a spot that runs maybe 150 yards straight, and he roars by, saluting...evidently not on his way to the spirit lodge. I am quite pleased by this turn of events, and return the salute with equal vigor. We both feel better, and I settle back in to the 15-25 mph routine I'd established.
Then, I come upon it. Downhill, outside hairpin, 245° degrees, those shitty CCC/WPA rock 'guardrails'...the ones that look like headstones. This one is subsiding so bad that CalTrans has preset materials and equipment and a jobshack so they can get right to work every time it fails. The brakes are groaning, my innards are turning to whatever Clif Bars turn into when that's all you've eaten since breakfast, and I am cursing the Governator roundly. I'm gritting my teeth, and watching the edge, when I look to the inside of this curve from hell, and there is a lone cow, standing there, looking back at me, chewing its cud.
The drop off to the ocean side is sheer; the cliff on the inside of the curve is just as steep...and it's been that way all the way through the curve, and it continued on that way for quite a while after. Me and the cow, we made a connection, and shared a moment: I'm wondering, how the hell did you get out here? Cow is thinking, "Dunno, but the grazing is killer-diller, dude." At which point, I redirect my attention to the rapidly approaching EDGE, and drag my vehicle back from impending doom and into its assigned lane.
After that, a strange, bovine placidity infused me; the curves and edges, they were still there, and they were still hairy, but it was OK. My friend the cow managed to pass along that deep, deep cow-tao-like wisdom, bordering on catatonia, and I was going to make it. And I did. After cell service resumed somewhere around Pt. Arenas, I was able to call ahead to the Super 8 and let 'em know I was late. They left the keycard under the mat for me. I arrived at 11:30 on the dot. But that was OK. Moo, moo, buckaroo.
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They are images that remain in our memories and for some reasons human beings remain frozen in awe before a sunset over water. It is like the time is slowing down and we are waiting to see the end of this magic moment we try to keep in our memories for ever.
The silhouette of this mother and young son admiring the colors of the sun and its reflections on the lake reminds us, adults, of similar memories of a time that seemed remote and peaceful in comparison with the aggressions we feel in our current and modern city lives.
Hopefully this child will remember this magic moment spent with his mom.
Nikon D700 and lens Leica Telyt-R 350mm f/4.8. Taken with Monopod at ISO 1600, f/8 and 1/4000s.
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Artículo LA BIODIVERSIDAD OCULTA
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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FRATELLI COMUNI
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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.
Da piccola realtà di nicchia, Gargoyle mira a diventare una grande casa editrice, proponendo un ampio
spettro di letteratura popolare che spazia dal giallo all’avventura, dal fantasy alla fantascienza – generi
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.
Dettagli volume: Fratelli Comuni - centocinquantesimo Italia (1861-2011), Collana “Accadimenti”, pp.608,
formato album rilegato 22x30, euro 90.
Copie numerate.
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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
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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.
HBM!!!! :D
Special thanks to my dad who moved the bench and three different vehicles around the back and front yard, trying to get the headlights just right for this picture. :)
Deer In The Headlights by Owl City One of my favorite music videos. ^_^
I am doing well! So much going on this week! Work, and preparing my grandma's old house to move into (She's doing fine, just at an assisted living care center now), and Saturday Is my best friend's wedding!!! :D
I'm so happy for her!!
Next week school stars, and I'm glad, but also wish I had another week or two to get ready for it.
Also, we are starting up a young adult group at my church finally! I'm really excited about it :D
So that's what's up with me!
I hope you all had a wonderful Monday and have a blessed rest of the week!
:D
my bench monday group (you should join!)
Oh The Places You'll Go! <New group! Check it out!
PLEASE KEEP PRAYING FOR MY FRIEND ANDREW! (He's doing so much better!! Thanks for all your prayers!)
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: THE DATE (1 of 1) /
LA CITA (1 de 1)
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 31 of 36) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36.
FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español
Shin: … O_O
/
Shin: … O_O
LINKS:
- FOTOHISTORIAS en casa de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr
**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. :)
Adam and I went with our friends Jesse and Natalie down to the Hal & Mal's St. Patty's Day Parade today. This parade is one of my favorite holiday traditions. The fun to be had is endless. And our parade is ranked one of the best in the country. So, with that being said, i had a complete blast! I got hella sunburned, drank way to much beer, and ate a waaaay yummy mexican meal at 3 in the afternoon! Ahhh, what a glorious day. More parade pics coming...Right now, I am off to bed. I'm exhausted!!!
Oh, and in case you want to know more about our little parade, here are some facts from a little Q&A session that I found:
Q: Who is Mal, anyway?
A: "Mal" is Malcolm White...Jackson's resident club owner/restauranteur/promoter/head of the Mississippi Arts Commission,
writer/publisher/piano-playing blues-ologist/philanthropist/philosopher, and most importantly, "Leprechaun-at-Large."
Q: Why a St. Paddy's Parade?
A: Because Jackson didn't have one! It all started way back in late '70's when a young(er) Mal lived and worked in New Orleans' French Quarter. Mal was fascinated and excited by the concept of parades. There were Mardi Gras Parades, Jazz Funeral Marches, and small street parades happening all the time, and Mal became a "Parade Man" for life.
Q: When was the first parade?
A: The first one was in 1982 (or was it '83?).
Q: How about a little parade history?
A: The original idea was to have a "pub crawl" from CS's to George Street Grocery. But when the inspiration for a parade struck him, Mal figured "We might as well take a dip through downtown." What ensued made headlines in the Clarion Ledger: "PARADE STOPS RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC!" It was quite a news story and all that was needed to capture the attention and imagination of Irishmen (both real and imagined) across the state. This first parade was an amazing assortment of enthusiastic participants and was, in retrospect, a surreal sight to see. Highlights included the first Grand Marshal, the late ARTHUR MAHONEY, a true Irishman and ex-boxer in his 90's waving to onlookers from a convertible...the debut of the venerable and voluptuous "SWEET POTATO QUEENS' ...the inaugural appearance of the "RUDE BOYS", a "frat party on wheels' ...the great blues legend "SWEET" SAM MYERS standing in the sunroof of "BROTHER PETE'S BLUES VAN" waving an Irish flag ... the fondly remembered KENDALL WILSON on roller skates being pulled by a motorcycle ... the newly-formed "BLUZ BOYS" band playing loudly on a flat-bed
trailer with the assistance of a generator ... neighborhood kids on bicycles ...parade co-conspirators MARSHALL, JOEY, and PAT surely wondering "What the BLARNEY-hell have we let Malcolm talk us into?!?" ... SERGIO FERNANDEZ recording the whole thing for posterity while perched atop a beer truck driven by DINK ... and of course, leading the procession, MAL himself decked out in green (what else?) Army pants, his beard spray-painted red, carrying an Irish walking stick and flanked by his beloved Dalmation "PEARL" ...
What a "MAL-function"!!!
Q: How about the parade today?
A: It's gotten bigger and better than ever. You still have the "SWEET POTATO QUEENS",
"RUDE BOYS" and other annual favorites plus more recent traditions like the "O'TUX SOCIETY", "KREWE of KAZOO", "GREEN LADIES", and a real New Orleans brass marching band. And new
entries are lining up every year! 2009 Grand Marshal Leland Speed will be joining an illustrious list of luminaries which includes the late, great TINY TIM, musician MAC McANALLY, THALIA MARA, MAESTRO COLMAN PEARCE, O.C. McDAVID, "Toons til Two" radio personality DAVID ADCOCK, "COUSIN" CLETA ELLINGTON, DEUCE McALLISTER, CAT CORA, and BERT CASE, and many others.
Q: Where does all that money from the entry fees go?
A: There is a function to all this frivolity. In recent years, the parade has raised over $250,000 for the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children.
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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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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This is the weirdest pice of rock I've seen. Taken on the way up the mountain where I shot my last upload. this rock is in the middle of the trail. The weird thing about it is all the small holes that makes it look like the surface of a golf ball. All the way up the mountain the rocks were like this. Not only this type of sand coloured rock, but "normal" grey rock as well. (PLease excuse my horrible geological skills).
Anyway, I liked the way the sun coming in from the left giving character to the mountain in the back while at the same time lighting the foreground. A great sky over the background mountains which the pola really made "pop" was the icing on the cake.
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Cheers
Håkon
PS: Thanks for all your comments and favs! Trying to reach over as many other photo streams as I can!
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You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness there inside you
Makes you feel so small
But I see your true colours
Shining through
I see your true colours
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colours
True colours are beautiful,
Like a rainbow.
Lyrics: Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly
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2.000.000 heavy Trucks are crossing Tyrol per Year - Trend straight upwards. Tyrol has the shortest and lowest Way through the Alps (Brennerpass). But the EU don't even allow us to collect the Road Charge, that we want and we must tolerate the Trucks without any Limit, because the EU commands us (and our wise Politicians made a glorious "Century-Contract" with them - that's how they called this Contract 15 Years ago...). So we don't have that clean, fresh Air which you may believe. The Inntal-Valley - which crosses Tyrol - is a whole Smog-Dome.
I hope this desastrous "Union" goes to Hell soon - the Chances are good.
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Deep Purple . . . Listen (ok . . . listen . . . but close your eyes . . . you don't want to watch) : www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHjq4venrCM
Texture from Joessistah: www.flickr.com/photos/27805557@N08/4394806366/
Montblanc, Tarragona (Spain).
Spinning at 33 rpm in the show window of a store.
Dando vueltas a 33 rpm en el escaparate de un tienda.
ENGLISH
The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.
The famous phonograph was the fourth device for recording and replaying sound. The term phonograph ("sound writer") is derived from the Greek words φωνή (meaning "sound" or "voice" and transliterated as phoné) and γραφή (meaning "writing" and transliterated as graphé). Similar related terms gramophone and graphophone have similar root meanings. The coinage, particularly the use of the -graph root, may have been influenced by the then-existing words phonographic and phonography, which referred to a system of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 The New York Times carried an advertisement for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the New York State Teachers' Association tabled a motion to "employ a phonographic recorder" to record its meetings.
F. B. Fenby was the original author of the word. An inventor in Worcester, Massachusetts, he was granted a patent in 1863 for an unsuccessful device called the "Electro-Magnetic Phonograph". His concept detailed a system that would record a sequence of keyboard strokes onto paper tape. Although no model or workable device was ever made, it is often seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls (1880s), as well as Herman Hollerith's punch card tabulator (used in the 1890 United States census), a distant precursor of the modern computer.
Arguably, any device used to record sound or reproduce recorded sound could be called a type of "phonograph", but in common practice it has come to mean historic technologies of sound recording.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, the alternative term talking machine was sometimes used. This term was more in line with Thomas Edison's early view that his invention was better suited for spoken recordings such as dictation than for musical recordings.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph
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CASTELLANO
Un tocadiscos es un sistema de reproducción del sonido hijo del fonógrafo ya que usa el mismo tipo de tecnologia, sustituyendo el cilindro por un Disco de vinilo. El tocadiscos también ha sido conocido como platina de discos, giradiscos, tornamesa, fonochasis o pickup. Ninguna de estas cuatro últimas nomenclaturas tiene demasiada aceptación.
El fonógrafo, fue el dispositivo más común para reproducir sonido grabado desde la década de 1870 hasta la década de 1980.
La primera invención conocida de un dispositivo capaz de grabar sonido fue el "autofonógrafo", inventado por el francés Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville y patentado el 25 de marzo de 1857. Podía transcribir sonido a un medio visible, pero no tenía un modo de ser reproducido después. El aparato consistía de un cuerno o un barril que recogía las ondas hacia una membrana a la que estaba atado una cerda. Cuando llegaba el sonido, ésta vibraba y se movía y el sonido podía grabarse en un medio visible. Inicialmente, el fonoautógrafo grababa en un cristal ahumado. Una versión posterior usaba un papel también ahumado en un tambor o cilindro. Otra versión dibujaba una línea representando el sonido en un rollo de papel. El fonoautógrafo era una curiosidad de laboratorio para el estudio de la acústica. Era usado para determinar la frecuencia de un tono musical y para estudiar el sonido y el habla. No se entendió hasta después del desarrollo del fonógrafo que la onda grabada por el fonoautógrafo era de hecho una grabación del sonido que sólo necesitaba un medio de reproducción adecuado para sonar.
El fonógrafo fue el que, hasta 1876, se creyó el primer aparato capaz de grabar sonido, aunque sí fue el primero que pudo reproducirlo después. Thomas Alva Edison anunció la invención de su primer fonógrafo, el 21 de noviembre de 1877, mostró el dispositivo por primera vez el 29 de noviembre de ese mismo año y lo patentó el 19 de febrero de 1878.
El fonógrafo utiliza un sistema de grabación mecánica analógica en el cual las ondas sonoras son transformadas en vibraciones mecánicas mediante un transductor acústico-mecánico. Estas vibraciones mueven un estilete que labra un surco helicoidal sobre un cilindro de fonógrafo. Para reproducir el sonido se invierte el proceso.
Al principio se utilizaron cilindros de cartón recubiertos de estaño, más tarde de cartón parafinado y, finalmente, de cera sólida. El cilindro de cera, de mayor calidad y durabilidad, se comercializó desde 1889, un año después de que apareciera el gramófono.
El 2 de diciembre de 1889 un representante de la casa Edison, Theo Wangeman, grabó una interpretación del celebérrimo compositor Johannes Brahms. Se trataba de un segmento de las Danzas Húngaras en una versión para piano solo. Esta grabación aún se conserva, pero su calidad es pésima.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocadiscos, es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fon%c3%b3grafo
Burgos (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Burgos Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de Burgos) is a Gothic-style cathedral in Burgos, Spain. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and is famous for its vast size and unique architecture. Its construction began in 1221, following French Gothic parameters.
It had very important modifications in the 15th and 16th centuries (spires of the principal façade, Chapel of the Constable, cimborio of the transept: these elements of advanced Gothic give the cathedral its distinguished profile). The last works of importance (the sacristy or the Chapel of Saint Thecla) occurred during the 18th century, the century in which the Gothic statuary of the doors of the principal façade was also transformed.
At the beginning of the 20th century, some semidetached construction to the cathedral was eliminated, such as the Archepiscopal Palace and the upper floor of the cloister. The style of the cathedral is Gothic, although it has some Renaissance and Baroque works.
The cathedral was declared a "World Heritage Site" by UNESCO on October 31 of 1984. It is the only Spanish cathedral that has this distinction independiently, without being joined to the historic center of a city (as in Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Ávila, Córdoba, Toledo or Cuenca) or in union with others buildings, as in Seville.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgos_Cathedral
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CASTELLANO
La Catedral de Santa María de Burgos (Castilla y León, España) es un templo católico dedicado a la Virgen María. Su construcción comenzó en 1221, siguiendo patrones góticos franceses. Tuvo importantísimas modificaciones en los siglos XV y XVI: las agujas de la fachada principal, la Capilla del Condestable y el cimborrio del crucero, elementos del gótico avanzado que dotan al templo de su perfil inconfundible. Las últimas obras de importancia (la Sacristía o la Capilla de Santa Tecla) pertenecen ya al siglo XVIII, siglo en el que también se retiraron las portadas góticas de la fachada principal. El estilo de la catedral es el gótico, aunque posee, en su interior, varios elementos renacentistas y barrocos. La construcción y las remodelaciones se realizaron con piedra caliza extraída de las canteras del cercano pueblo burgalés Hontoria de la Cantera.
La catedral burgalesa fue declarada Monumento Nacional el 8 de abril de 1885 y Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco el 31 de octubre de 1984. Es la única catedral española que tiene esta distinción de la Unesco de forma independiente, sin estar unida al centro histórico de una ciudad (como en Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Ávila, Córdoba, Toledo o Cuenca) o en compañía de otros edificios, como en Sevilla.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Burgos
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Happy Hour time!!! DUMBO!! Brooklyn, NY.
I thought this capture is a nice prelude for few future posts!!! I am joining the second annual Photowalk!! This event is in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY. I wonder if some of you will be there, I know at least one who will. If everything goes right, I will have some good shots to share with you all!!! Meanwhile enjoy your Saturday/Sunday, it's gorgeous weather here in NY, for now!! LOL!! Hope does'nt rain on our photowalk!!
P.S. I guess I am having flickr problem, if you have new posts, they are not showing on my contact list :(((((((((( I will for sure return comments and faves when I see yours or in my contact list!!! :))))))))
Thanks for stopping by and commenting!!
OSTIA ANTICA
is a district in the commune of Rome, Italy, five kilometers away from the coast. It is distinct from Ostia.
For ancient history of the site, see Ostia Antica.
Under the Romans, Ostia Antica reached a peak of some 75,000 inhabitants in the 2nd and 3rd century AD. A slow decline began with the time of Constantine I, and the decaying conditions of the city were mentioned by St. Augustine when he passed through in the late 4th century. His mother, St. Monica, died in an inn here. The poet Rutilius Namatianus also reported the lack of maintenance of the city in 414. Ostia became an episcopal see as early as the 3rd century AD, with the cathedral (titulus) of Santa Aurea erected over the tomb of St. Monica.
As the centuries passed, Ostia fell into ruin but remained an access from the sea for visitors to Rome. Saracen pirates were a frequent concern; the naval Battle of Ostia was fought off the coast in 849. Pope Gregory IV fortified the existing burgh and it was rechristened Gregoriopolis. By this time, the shifting course of the Tiber had landlocked the ancient port, and the town was mainly a shelter for the workers of the nearby salt mills.
In the late 15th century, the bishop Giuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II) commissioned the rebuilding of the main church and town walls under the direction of the architect Baccio Pontelli. The Castle of Julius II, also built at this time, remains the most striking feature of modern Ostia. The castle was abandoned after a flood in 1587 flooded its moat and turned the surrounding area into a marsh.
The castle and the town were restored again in the 20th century.
In popular culture
Ostia was featured in the novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, both written by British novelist Robert Graves. The novels include scenes set at Ostia spanning from the reign of Augustus to the reign of Claudius, including the departure of Agrippa to Syria and Claudius's reconstruction of the harbour. In the 1976 television series, Ostia was frequently mentioned but never actually seen.
Ostia appears briefly towards the end of the Roman Empire section of the 1981 comedy film History of the World, Part I, where the main characters board a galleon (bearing the El Al logo) bound for Judaea. In the film, however, Ostia is only ever referred to as simply "the port".
before we got inside the mission inn, we had heard that they did not allow photography inside by people who weren't guests of the hotel or customers of their restaurants. we assumed that they would have security posted and that our group, albeit a small one, of photographers would easily be spotted and we would not get shots inside. however, that wasn't the case at all. it was so busy in the main lobby that it was esay for us to walk by the hotel employees into the areas that were designated for hotel guests only and walk around and take shots as much as we wanted. now i'm not sure if this is the case all the time... maybe at other times of the year it might not be possible. i don't want to give others the impression that this place is completely open for exploration and photography if you aren't a paying customer. it all depends i guess. i really wanted this shot of the rotunda having seen other people's shots... i think i might have been distracted by the supposed rules that i had mentioned earlier but i wasn't too happy with most of my shots inside the hotel. ehhh... at least i got this one i guess.
Does anyone know what year or model this might be? I originally thought that this might be an International Harvester, but have since found out that I was wrong…
Thanks to pspeak60 I found out that this was NOT an International Harvester and that he thought it was either a Diamond T/Diamond Reo (getting closer-but not cigar)! However, pspeak60 did put me in touch with Hank Suderman of www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm whom told me right off that it was definitely a Federal Motor Truck. Thank you Hank ~ you know your trucks! I have since found this information about the Company however I am still not sure of the year or model …
The Federal Motor Trucks
Between 1910 and 1959, over 160,000 Federals were assembled. As of February 29, 2004, 183 of the surviving Federal trucks have been located, ranging from the smallest pickups up to the largest WWII tank haulers and crash wreckers. All but a few of these trucks are in the U.S., thus a large part of the Federal output made for export remains unknown.
Links…
www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm
A Book about Federal Trucks… www.amazon.com/Federal-Trucks-Archive-Robert-Gabrick/dp/1...
Video… www.metacafe.com/watch/3471194/federal_a_picture_history_...
Truck Manuals, Reviews and Articles…
www.archive.org/details/Tm9-8212_12Ton4X2Truckfederal
www.archive.org/stream/Tm9-8212_12Ton4X2Truckfederal/TM9_...
The Spokesman-Review - Feb 22, 1920
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003433463056 ad Fb nhé :) ít onl fl* :d
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Bạn cảm ơn mẹ bằng cách ko bao giờ đàn để luyện tập
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Hãy luôn yêu thương mẹ bạn, vì bạn chỉ có duy nhất 1 người mẹ trên đời này thôi. Duy nhất một !!
Not been here for some years , Sunrise was the plan The Lake Llyn Cwm-lIwch , as we started our climb around 6.50 am We had clouds and Stars , Wind chill said it would feel like - 5 Brrrrrrrrr , 10 minutes into the walk we had 20 Meters visability as the clouds and mist came down , As we got to the point where you climb down 600 feet to the lake this is the site that greeted us :-) It was freezing the wind made your nostrils run down your face , Numb with cold i waited for the shot and the bank of cloud covering the peaks of Brecon Beacons to be burnt out as the sun came above the horizon !!! This was the first shot i took before the climb down to the lake !!
Victim of the Beacons
The story of little Tommy Jones
August 4th, 1900, was the Saturday before the Bank Holiday. A miner from Maerdy, at the head of the Rhondda Fach, decided to take his five-year-old son with him to visit the child's grandparents who still farmed near Brecon. They arrived in the town by train at about six o'clock in the evening. From there they had to walk four miles to reach Cwm-llwch, the little farmhouse deep in the valley to the north of the Beacons.
By about eight o'clock they had reached the Login (today in ruins) where soldiers were encamped for training at the rifle range up the valley. It had been a warm walk, and though they had only a quarter of a mile further to go, William Jones was glad to stop for refreshment and buy little Tommy a pennyworth of biscuits at the canteen. By chance, within a few minutes the grandfather also arrived, with 13-year-old Willie John, Tommy's cousin. Willie was sent back to Cwm-lIwch to warn the household of the arrival of visitors, and Tommy ran off with him up the valley.
They had to cross two rough plank bridges, one without a handrail. In the failing light, the streams and trees were perhaps frightening to a small boy brought up amongst closely-packed houses. He may have been afraid of meeting farm animals also. At any rate, when the two of them had got about half way , Tommy started to cry and wanted to go back to his father. So the two boys parted. Willie completed his errand and was back at the camp within about quarter of an hour of leaving it - but Tommy had not returned. Father and grandfather immediately started looking for him. Soon (perhaps about twenty minutes later) they were joined by soldiers from the camp: the hunt was truly on. At midnight the search was halted, but at 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning it started again. Police and the general public joined in and the net spread wider. But no sign of the boy was discovered that day.
So it continued through the following weeks. Every day search parties of police, troops, farmers and other volunteers combed the area systematically. The tall bracken was cut, the woodland ransacked, It was at one point suggested that Llyn Cwm-lIwch should be dragged, but it was thought unlikely that the boy could have gone as far up the mountain as that. It seemed more probable that he had fallen off one of the footbridges into the stream, or had simply wandered straight on down the valley, instead of turning right to cross the second bridge to the camp. Thus the search was concentrated in the close and wooded country around the Login and down the valley as far as Brecon waterworks.
Inevitably, with the continued failure to find trace of the boy, theories of kidnapping gained favour. These now held the only hope that the boy might still be found alive, Kidnapping, at that time, meant gypsies in the first instance, and though they are rarely mentioned in The Brecon County Times of the period, it appears that there were numerous camps of them in Breconshire and neighbouring counties. All were unceremoniously ransacked by the police during the search, without success.
The affair aroused national concern, and reports of the missing boy and suggestions for lines of enquiry came from all parts of the country. The Daily Mail took an interest in the matter and offered a reward of £20 to anyone who could solve the mystery. (The announcement of the reward was made, among other means, by the Brecon Town Crier). The Daily Mail also sent a special commissioner to Brecon, who during the time he was there won considerable admiration and respect for his indefatigable work on the problem. It was under his influence that the gypsy theory lost ground, and abduction by a childless woman or couple thought more likely. He also mentioned the possibility of murder, but dismissed it in the very same sentence.
Only after several weeks did Tommy's father yield to the pleas of friends to return home to Maerdy. But he was soon back again, and was one of several people who climbed to the top of the Beacons in their despairing searches. It was not he who made the discovery. however.
A Mrs. Hamer, a gardener's wife at Castle Madoc, some miles north of Brecon, having read accounts of the search, is said to have dreamed of the very spot where Tommy was to be found. She spent a couple of restless days before finally persuading her husband to borrow a pony and trap on Sunday, September 2nd, to take her and some relatives to the Beacons - which they had never climbed before. Mr. Hamer did not believe that they would succeed where so many had failed. But later that day he was to be able to lay claim to the reward. 'They had reached the top of the ridge immediately above Llyn Cwm.llwch ',the newspaper later reported, 'and were making their way towards the peaks across some open ground when suddenly Mr. Hamer, who was a few yards in front of the others, started back with an exclamation of horror, for there in his path lay the remains of a body. . .' It was identified and brought down the same day.
At the inquest on the Tuesday the jury had no difficulty in bringing in a verdict of death through exhaustion and exposure. But no one managed to explain how this little five-year-old, 'short and stout of his age', tired and hungry after a long day and the walk from Brecon, had managed to reach the spot where his body was found. It was 2,250 ft. above sea level, a climb of 1300 ft. from the Login: at least two miles over difficult ground, probably in the dark. Certainly it had not been considered worthwhile to make a systematic search of high ground. The father must have passed within a dozen yards of the body a few days before its discovery, but by this time it would have looked much like a boulder in the long grass.
Various people with detailed local knowledge had suggested that Tommy might have wandered uphill to the left of his path when he started to return to the camp, or that he crossed the first footbridge, but not the second (just below the junction of the two streams and lying at right-angles to the first; both have now disappeared, though the ford beside the first remains in use). In retrospect, the latter seems the more likely explanation. If he turned left here instead of right he would soon have started up the side of Pen Milan, following what was presumably the most direct route between the soldiers' camp and the rifle range. Alternatively he might have continued downstream a little further and then veered to the left on the path towards Llwyn-bedw. In either case, he probably joined the track which zig-zags up Pen Milan, climbing steeply to high ground. Perhaps by this time, confused and panic-stricken in the failing daylight, he hoped he was returning uphill to his grandfather's farm, not realising until later how hopelessly lost he was. We only know with certainty how far his stamina and courage took him.
For many years his family kept the sailor suit with collarette which he had been wearing, the new light boots with pathetically worn soles; and the whistle which he had carried on a string round his neck. (Could this have saved his life if he had thought to use it while he still had energy?) Today the spot where Tommy's body was found is marked by an obelisk. The jurors at the inquest gave their fees to start a fund for this memorial. They were joined by Mr.Hamer, who contributed a part of his £20 reward, and many other citizens. By July the following year the inscribed stone was ready, and was hauled on a horse-drawn sledge up to the ridge. Since then thousands of walkers must have paused beside it, and been reminded of the small boy who fell victim to the Beacons through exhaustion and exposure.
Nonagenarian Recalls The Tommy Jones' Tradegy
(Details from a newspaper article 1980/1981).
Ninety years old Mrs. R. M. Martin of Hitchen, Hertfodshire sends her recollections of the tradegy:-
"I must be one of the very few left to have vivid recollections of that time, August 1900. I was 9¾ years old, born in the Postern, Brecon, the youngest daughter of P.C. Frederick George Harwood.
"My father was in charge of a search party that went daily for a month tramping all over the area. He even got the local farmers to cut down the shoulder-high bracken in some parts to help the search. Also the South Wales Borderers had a search party daily.
"How well I recall that Sunday, 2nd September, 1900! It was Sunday School Anniversary Service at the Dr. Coke Memorial Wesleyan Chapel, Lion Street, and the service had just finished when a tremendous outcry went up. 'The little boy is found.' We rushed out, and several boys cycled up to the spot, including Sidney Martin, whom I married many years later.
"The photograph on the front of the now out-of-print Victim of the Beacons pamphlet was taken by Jack Clark who for many years had a souvenir and postcard business in the High Street. He was 16 years old at the time and interested in amateur photography.
"Many years later from this photograph, I was able to recognise those standing around as the little boy's remains were carried down the mountain-side on an improvised stretcher, my father leading the way with Sgt. Hands at the rear. My father was so concerned that the photograph showed him smoking a clay pipe, for smoking on duty was definitely against the rules. It was I who supplied the information that a farmer at the scene had given him this to counteract the odour which prevailed. I remember my father got the negative from Jack Clark and scratched the pipe out on the glass plate so that no further prints would show it, but this made the fact more noticeable and the negative was destroyed.
"The idea of an obelisk was my father's and it was he who obtained £20 of the £100 reward to start the subscriptions towards it and also suggested that the jurymen might contribute their fees. He also suggested that the obelisk should be erected a little distance from the actual spot where the body was found, to be in a more visible position.
"Many years later, my brother-in-law, Walter Martin, of 'Clovelly,' Llanfaes, who was Overseer for the parish of St. David's, finding the obelisk was in very poor condition, went up with a family party armed with buckets and brushes and cleaned the stonework and Walter re-lettered the inscription.
The Obelisk and Inscription
The obelisk can be found on the approach to Corn Du (SO 000217) upon which is written:
"This obelisk marks the spot where the body of Tommy Jones aged 5 was found. He lost his way between Cwmllwch Farm and the Login on the night of August 4th 1900. After an anxious search of 29 days his body was found on September 2nd."
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Cette année, j'ai eu la chance, à l'occasion du brame du cerf, de rencontrer cet animal à l'approche très difficile pour le photographe, en particulier.
En effet, le cerf ne pointe le museau dehors qu'au lever du jour ou à la tombée de la nuit; au moment où la lumière est très faible, de plus il s'expose très peu de temps , a un odorat très puissant qu'il est difficile de tromper.
Pas facile dans ces conditions d'obtenir de bons clichés. Souvent, je suis revenu bredouille, mais quand même j'y suis retourné avec l'espoir d'avoir un peu plus de chance.
J'y retournerai l'annèe prochaine, un peu plus aguerri peut-être.
This year, I had the chance, at the call of the deer, meet the animal to approach very difficult for the photographer in particular.
Indeed, the deer does not point out the muzzle at daybreak or dusk, when the light is very low, the more it exposes a very short time, has a very strong smell that it is difficult to deceive.
Not easy in these conditions to get good shots. Often, I returned empty-handed, but still I went back hoping to have a bit more luck.
I will return next of year, a little more seasoned, perhaps.
Este año, tuve la oportunidad, a la llamada de los ciervos, conocer al animal a acercarse muy difícil para el fotógrafo en particular.
En efecto, el venado no señala el hocico al amanecer o al atardecer, cuando la luz es muy baja, más se expone a un tiempo muy corto, tiene un olor muy fuerte que es difícil de engañar.
No es fácil en estas condiciones para obtener buenas tomas. A menudo, volví con las manos vacías, pero aún así me volvió la esperanza de tener suerte un poco más.
Voy a volver al lado de año, un poco más experimentado, tal vez.
Este ano, tive a oportunidade, ao chamado do cervo, conhecer o animal se aproximar muito difícil para o fotógrafo em particular.
Na verdade, o veado não apontar o focinho ao amanhecer ou ao anoitecer, quando a luz é muito baixa, mais ele expõe um tempo muito curto, tem um cheiro muito forte de que é difícil de enganar.
Não é fácil, nestas condições, para obter boas fotos. Muitas vezes, voltei de mãos vazias, mas ainda voltei com a esperança de ter um pouco mais de sorte.
Voltarei próximo do ano, um pouco mais experiente, talvez.
Bonne journée à tous. merci pour vos visites et commentaires.
Have a nice day. Thanks for your visits and comments.
Buenos días a todos. gracias por sus visitas y comentarios.
The fountain on the Place de la Concorde. Behind: the Hôtel de Crillon; to the left: the embassy of the United States of America.
Since childhood, my life has been about full filling my own dreams. Sometimes, it's difficult to accomplish and sometimes it's really simple.
I was in 9th grade back in 1999 in my school where I read about this short story "The Diamond Necklace" where they mentioned about Champs-Élysées.
I always wanted to see how it looked like! I came to France once in 2004 but I didn't have the opportunity to explore it in length and breadth. During my research visit this year, I got some time to spend in Paris and it was like full filling my child hood dreams! Taking photographs here was one my dream.
This one is an HDR from 5 exposures. I used my own script for tone-mapping. This one was shot with Shutter Priority. The EXIF from 100 ISO image is availble.
Enjoy seeing it Large On Black screen
If you have 2 minutes spare , do have a look at some other Night Shots that I made
When at ease, take out some time to take a Slide Tour of HDRs that I made. It will be worth your time and efforts.
© 2008 Ayush Bhandari
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Si apre il sipario sulla 69esima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia
Pochi ritocchi ancora e poi si aprirà il sipario su questa nuova edizione
della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. Gli ultimi allestimenti da sistemare, le
ultime disposizioni impartite alle manovalanze e poi il cinema prenderà il
sopravvento sulla tangibilità. La scenografia sostituirà i cantieri. Le persone,
anche quelle più comuni, reciteranno le loro imprescindibili parti.
La commistione tra finzione e realtà è palpabile. Basta fare due passi sulla
spiaggia antistante l’Hotel Excelsior per averne sentore. All’alba quando
ancora in molti riposano i propri pensieri, sono solo le impronte di piedi scalzi
a lasciare traccia. Un veritiero passaggio che lascia il proprio calco su una
sabbia ancora umida. Un battito d’ali di un gabbiano che prende il volo.
Una struttura d’acciaio che prende forma davanti alle mura di uno storico
albergo. All’orizzonte un responsabile della sicurezza sorveglia l’area che
ha in custodia, mentre una squadra di operai sopraggiunge con il passo di
protagonisti durante la sfilata su il red carpet.
E’ un’illusione. O forse no. Intanto anche la luce del sole che si alza dal mare
sembra provare la sua l’intensità filtrando la presenza tra le nuvole. Non
sembra mancare proprio nulla. Anche i suoni del risveglio sono una perfetta
colonna sonora. In lontananza pure un fotografo nell’attesa d’immortalare il
nuovo giorno, sposta il suo obiettivo verso ciò che sta per avere inizio.
Se proprio qualcosa deve essere assente è una voce. Quella di un regista
che in tono solenne gridi “… and…action!”. Ma è solo questione d’istanti.
Con un pizzico di attenzione si potrà sentire pure quella.
Perché anche questo, è la Mostra del Cinema di Venezia.
(testo di Andrea Bettini)
" Lady Bunny "
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Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR). The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. The auction will feature Vipp pedal bins re-imagined by 35 leading creative personalities.
Public viewing and bidding from October 15 - 28 at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am-7pm). Gala auction to be held October 28.
Danish design company Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary this October by hosting Can It!!! - a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR). The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Thirty-five leading figures in the worlds of architecture, art, design, fashion and entertainment have put their signature touch on the iconic Vipp bin for the occasion.
PUBLIC VIEWING AND BIDDING, OCTOBER 15 – 28
From October 15 – 28, the 35 customized Vipp bins will be on display for public viewing and bidding at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am–7pm). Those who place bids on one or more of the customized Vipp bins, will be invited to a special gala auction on Wednesday, October 28, hosted by Veronica Webb, Vipp, DWR and DIFFA.
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VIPP 70TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION
Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR).
The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Thirty-five leading figures in the worlds of architecture, art, design, fashion and entertainment have put their signature touch on the iconic Vipp bin for the occasion, including Yoko Ono, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren & David Stark.
From October 15 – 28, the 35 customized Vipp bins will be on display for public viewing and bidding at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am–7pm). Those who place bids on one or more of the customized Vipp bins, will be invited to a special gala auction on Wednesday, October 28, hosted by Veronica Webb, Vipp, DWR and DIFFA.
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SB-800 camera left through umbrella @ 35mm 1/8th power triggered with Nikon CLS.
This is Pico. For years we tried to keep this cat confined to the boundaries of our home, with the occasional venture to the screened porch. After several ripped screens and a destroyed cat hutch; we finally gave up the fight and let this cat be free. When my daughter was born he went on hiatis for two weeks. He now acts like a moody teenager with a driver's license, staying out all night and coming home to raid the fridge and sleep all day. I can't blame him, I was young once too!
until tommorow,
enjoy
A Candid shot from Brugges.
Hijab or ħijāb (حجاب, pronounced: [ħi.ˈdʒæːb]) is the Arabic term for "cover" (noun), based on the root حجب meaning "to veil, to cover (verb), to screen, to shelter".
In some Arabic-speaking countries and Western countries, the common meaning of hijab currently is of "modest dress for women," which most Islamic legal systems define as covering everything except the face and hands in public.[1] Since the 1970s, hijab has emerged as a symbol of Islamic consciousness "and an affirmation of Islamic identity and morality" in opposition to "Western materialism, commercialism, and values.
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Beginning in the early 1830s, cholera epidemics killed thousands of United States citizens. People who contract cholera generally suffer from severe diarrhea, vomiting, and cramps. The disease is spread by drinking water or eating food that is contaminated with human feces. People with this illness can die from dehydration within a few hours after the symptoms first appear.
Asiatic Cholera appears to have started on the Indian subcontinent, ca. 1826. By 1831, it had spread to Russia. Cholera first appeared in the United States in 1832. European immigrants apparently brought the disease with them to America. With poor sanitation systems, cholera tended to be most virulent in cities. By the autumn of 1832, the illness had reached Cincinnati, probably brought by people traveling along the Ohio River. The Ohio and Mississippi Rivers allowed the disease to spread quickly across the United States in all directions.
One of the most common treatments for cholera in the United States up through the Civil War was the medicine calomel (Mercurous Chloride; Calogreen; Mercury Monochloride; Mercury Chloride). It was commonly used as a purgative (laxative) for the treatments of bowel illnesses ranging from diarrhea to cholera; unfortunately calomel’s effects were seriously harmful. It may have cleansed the bowels, but at the same time it caused teeth to loosen, hair to fall out and could destroy the patient’s gums and intestines. In other words, it could cause acute mercury poisoning.
The worst epidemic to affect Ohio occurred in 1849. Eight thousand people in Cincinnati died in this epidemic, including Harriet Beecher Stowe's infant son. www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/interpret/exhibits/hedrick/hedr...
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin was precipitated by two events, one in her personal life: in 1849 her sixth child, Samuel Charles, died in the cholera epidemic. Cholera was a relatively new disease in the Western hemisphere and inspired dread partly for that reason and partly because it was so deadly. To people in the nineteenth century it was an act of God, a biblical plague. All Harriet could do was watch helplessly while her eighteen-month-old child was wracked by convulsions and lost all the fluids in his body. She later wrote that there were circumstances of such bitterness in the manner of Charley's death that she didn't think she could ever be reconciled for it unless his death allowed her to do some great good to others. She also wrote that losing Charley made her understand what a slave woman felt when her child was taken away at the auction block.
Many Cincinnati residents fled the city and ended up in Mt. Pleasant, a community that escaped the illness. The town residents soon changed its name to Mt. Healthy in honor of its good fortune.
It wasn't until 1854, when Cholera struck England once again, that Dr. John Snow was able to legitimate his argument that cholera was spread through contaminated food or water. Snow, in investigating the epidemic, began plotting the location of deaths related to Cholera. At the time, London was supplied its water by two water companies. One of these companies pulled its water out of the Thames River upstream of the main city while the second pulled its water from the river downstream from the city. A higher concentration of Cholera was found in the region of town supplied by the water company that drew its water from the downstream location. Water from this source could have been contaminated by the city's sewage. Furthermore, he found that in one particular location near the intersection of Cambridge and Broad Street, up to 500 deaths from Cholera occurred within 10 days.
Cholera epidemics continued in the United States until the early 1900s. As sanitation improved within the United States, including chlorination of water, the illness weakened. In modern nations, cholera cases are very rare. In under-developed countries, outbreaks remain common. In 1991, cholera struck both South America and Africa, killing thousands of people. The standard treatment for cholera today is to keep the ill person hydrated.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loris_(Papageien)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lories_and_lorikeets
Dies sind die natürlichen Farben dieses Vogels.... nicht bearbeitet bzw. intensiviert...
These are the true natural colors of this bird... the foto has not been edited..
Die Loris (Loriinae), seltener auch Lories geschrieben oder Honigpapageien genannt,[1] sind eine Nektar trinkende Unterfamilie aus der Familie der Eigentlichen Papageien (Psittacidae). Stellenweise werden sie noch als eigenständige Familie (Loriidae) innerhalb der Ordnung der Papageienvögel (Psittaciformes) betrachtet.
Außerdem bezeichnet Loris auch die baumbewohnende Primaten der Familie Lorisidae oder Loridae. Um Verwechslungen zu vermeiden, wird für die Vögel (Loriinae) stellenweise die Schreibweise Lories verwendet. Im Singular und bei der Artbezeichnung mittels vollständigem Trivialnamen heißt es in allen Fällen Lori.
Loris sind kleine bis mittelgroße, farbenprächtige, baumbewohnende Papageien. Ihr Gefieder ist dicht und glänzend. Grün, Rot und Blautöne dominieren. Eine Besonderheit liegt in ihrer Ernährungsweise. Sie ernähren sich hauptsächlich von Pollen und Nektar, aber auch von weichen, saftigen Früchten. Zur besseren Nahrungsaufnahme ist ihre Zungenspitze mit bürsten- oder pinselartig aufrichtbaren Papillen besetzt.
Das Verbreitungsgebiet der Loris umfasst Australien und die benachbarte Inselwelt, von Sulawesi (Indonesien) und Mindanao (Philippinen) im Westen, über die Karolinen im Norden zu den Marquesas-Inseln und Pitcairn in Osten und Tasmanien im Süden. In Australien kommen allerdings mit Allfarb-, Moschus-, Schuppen-, Blauscheitel-, Zwergmoschus- und Buntlori nur sehr wenige Arten vor. Das größte Verbreitungsgebiet in Australien weist der Allfarblori auf, der auch urbane Lebensräume besiedelt. Am weitesten nördlich ist in Australien der Buntlori verbreitet. Besonders viele Arten sind auf Neuguinea zu finden. In Neuseeland fehlt die Familie.
Loris besitzen eine lange, schmale Zunge, deren Spitze dicht mit Papillen besetzt ist. Wenn ein Lori seine Zunge in eine Blüte steckt, richten sich diese Papillen auf. Wie ein Schwamm wird dadurch der Nektar aufgesogen. Zieht der Vogel die Zunge zurück in den Schnabel, wird der Nektar an Hautfalten im Gaumen ausgedrückt. Dieser Vorgang wird in schneller Folge wiederholt. Pollen und Nektar zusammen stellen den Hauptanteil der Nahrung. Daneben nehmen sie aber auch weiche Früchte auf.
Werden Loris als Ziervogel gehalten, werden sie mit einer speziellen Lori-Suppe ernährt, die im Handel erhältlich ist und nur mit Wasser angerührt werden muss. Das Futter wird je nach Art ergänzt mit Pollen, Obst, stärkehaltigen Samen, Keimfutter, Lebendfutter und Zweigen mit Knospen.
Lories and lorikeets are small to medium-sized arboreal parrots characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar and soft fruits. The species form a monophyletic group within the parrot family Psittacidae. Traditionally, they were considered one of the two subfamilies in that family (Loriinae), the other was the subfamily Psittacinae, but new insights show that it is placed in the middle of various other groups. To date, this issue has not been resolved scientifically. They are widely distributed throughout the Australasian region, including south-eastern Asia, Polynesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia, and the majority have very brightly colored plumage.
Lories and lorikeets have specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar and soft fruits. They can feed from the flowers of about 5,000 species of plants and use their specialised tongues to take the nectar. The tip of their tongues have tufts of papillae (extremely fine hairs), which collect nectar and pollen.
Lorikeets have tapered wings and pointed tails that allow them to fly easily and display great agility.[citation needed] They also have strong feet and legs. They tend to be hyperactive and clownish in personality both in captivity and the wild
Traditionally, lories and lorikeets are either classified as the subfamily, Loriinae, or as a family on their own, Loriidae.[1] Both traditional views are not confirmed using molecular studies. Those studies show that the lories and lorikeets form s single group, closely related to the fig parrot (Cyclopsitta and Psittaculirostris) and the budgerigar.[2][3][4][5][6]
Within the lories and lorikeets, two main groups are recognized. The first group consist of the genus Charmosyna[3][2] and the closely related Pacific Ocean genera Phigys and Vini.[2] All remaining genera, except Oreopsittacus are in the second group.[3][2] The position of Oreopsittacus is unknown, although one study suggests it could be a third group next to the other two.[6]
The multi-colored Rainbow Lorikeet was one of the species of parrots appearing in the first edition of The Parrots of the World and also in John Gould's lithographs of the Birds of Australia. Then and now, lories and lorikeets are described as some of the most beautiful species of parrot.
The usage of the terms "lory" and "lorikeet" is subjective, like the usage of "parrot" and "parakeet". Species with longer tapering tails are generally referred to as "lorikeets", while species with short blunt tails are generally referred to as "lories".
Panorama 8 Bilder Hochformat f=24mm. Am besten in "Originalgröße" zu sehen!
Links oben über dem Jochberg geht gerade der Mond auf; gegenüber in der Bildmitte das Karwendelgebirge.
Der Walchensee ist einer der tiefsten (maximale Tiefe: 192,3 m) und zugleich mit 16,40 km² auch einer der größten Alpenseen Deutschlands. Der See liegt 75 km südlich von München inmitten der Bayerischen Alpen. Er gehört mit seiner gesamten Fläche einschließlich der Insel Sassau zur Gemeinde Kochel am See. Im Osten und Süden grenzt er mit seinem Ufer an die Gemeinde Jachenau.
Die Bezeichnung Walchen kommt aus dem mittelhochdeutschen und bedeutet ursprünglich Fremde. So waren alle romanischen Völker (auch die z.T. romanisierte Bevölkerung der Alpen) südlich von Bayern für die Einheimischen Welsche oder eben Walche. Die gleiche Etymologie trifft auch auf den Schweizer Walensee und den Salzburger Wallersee zu.
Eine andere Interpretation geht vom lateinischen Lacus vallensis aus, was soviel heißt wie ein im Tal gelegener See. Auf Landkarten des 16. Jahrhunderts wurde der See auch als Italico dicto (nach Italien führend) bezeichnet, was seinen Ursprung vermutlich daher hat, dass durch das Walchenseetal ein Reiseweg über Mittenwald und Innsbruck nach Italien führte.
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That's right, folks. I'm back. Did you miss me while I was sans internet on my camping trip? I feel a little out of sorts right now. I'm going to need to spend some time catching up on your streams. It feels good to be back home with my face paint, though. :) Thought I'd finish August off with one of these shots since I had stick to pretty simple on the camping trip.
I am still so freaking exhausted today. I slept for about eleven hours and I still feel like I'm dragging myself around in a daze. Oh, and to everybody who asked I'm feeling MUCH better as far as my stomach issues from last week and also the mouth/lymph node agony. Thank god. That was some serious pain and misery. I'm glad it started clearing up and improving on the first day of the trip or I would have had a horrible time.
I still have more pictures from the trip to upload, but I figure I'll try to do that slowly, here and there, rather than just bombarding you all. :)
365 Days (self portraits): Day 153
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can't you ever treat anyone nice?
think I'm gonna make the same mistake twice?
gonna make the same mistake twice
it was so cold and windy out and my whole family was home today so i didn't really want to go outside and take pictures. i took this in front of my window and the light really wasn't very bright outside but everything pretty much got totally washed out. i just cloned out the window frame and added the tree layer. this is pretty different from what i usually do.
i'm writing an essay on photography and it would really help if you guys could say what photography means to you in the comments. thank you!
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: ODETTE ARRIVES /
LA LLEGADA DE ODETTE
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 15 of 17) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Odette: There are strawberry cakes?
L: O_O (Thanks God... a normal child... T^T)
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Odette: Hay pasteles de fresa?
L: O_O (Menos mal... una niña normal... T^T)
LINKS:
- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
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Multipurpose Vessel of the Water and Shipping Office Cuxhaven
Year: 1998
Flag: Germany
Port of Registry: Cuxhaven
Callsign: DBJM
IMO-No. 9143984
Technical data:
Length: 78.91 m
Beam: 18.63 m
Draft, max: 5.79 m
Max speed: 15 knots or 27.8 km / h
Crew: 16 people
Shipyard: Volksweft Stralsund
Building Number: 415
Gross tonnage: 3422 tons
Net tonnage: 1026 tons
Displacement: 3099 tons
GL-class ship: +100 A5 E3 FF1 "Oil and Chemical Recovery Vessel", "Tug", "Icebreaker"
GL-class machine: + MC E3 AUT FF1 RP505
Drive Concept: Diesel / Electric,
2x rudder propeller in nozzle (Eiskl.4) Diameter: 300 cm with 4 wings, from Schottel, and 1x 5800kW at 1074UpM Pumpjet, 2600kW at 913 rpm
Main drive: 3 x MTU 16V 595 TC 50, 3000kW at 1500UpM
Auxiliary Diesel: 1 x MTU 12V 396 TC 54, 969kW at 1500UpM
Auxiliary Diesel: 1 x MTU 8V 183 TE 52, 300kW at 1500UpM
Crane: NFM-pillar crane to hoist 220 kN at 25 m design for recovery (eg for lost container) and linkage with swell 125 kN at 15 m tons of work interpretation
Towing winch: 1130 kN bollard pull, 2,000 kN holding power, tow rope diameter 62 mm, 1000 m tow length
Responsibilities: oil skimming, tons laying, breaking ice, emergency towing, fire fighting, navigation police duties.
Neon sign inside Union Station in Portland, Oregon, USA
Published at www.funadium.com/details.php.
Also at www.uncoveryourbliss.com/blog/2007/05/14/permission-for-a...
Also at jump-attack.blogspot.com/2007/08/wheres-grandpa.html.
And buckup.com/blog/2007/08/keep-your-baggage-to-bare-minimum...
and www.gadling.com/2008/04/29/american-airlines-decides-to-c...
and www.appistry.com/blogs/sam/application-fabrics/is-grid-re...
and firedoglake.com/2008/05/28/mccains-cronies-handling-gramm...
and www.pyrodes.com/2008/09/11/my-airline-baggage-story-beats...
and at www.jaunted.com/story/2008/12/3/115421/201/travel/More+Ai...
and www.jaunted.com/story/2008/11/24/111325/61/travel/New+Yor...
and jaunted again (thanks, folks): www.jaunted.com/story/2008/12/9/1471/16677/travel/Baggage...
here's another one: mysuperchargedlife.com/blog/living-in-fear-%e2%80%93-too-...
And here: lanaibeach.blogspot.com/2009/04/baggage-of-secrets.html
Another one: www.bizzia.com/slackermanager/whats-in-your-management-bag/
Now it's my most published photo! Who knew?
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (1 of 5): Minao Theatre /
CITA EN EL CINE (1 de 5): Cines Minao
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Akari: Hahaha, thank you (^________^)
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Akari: Jajaja, muchas gracias. (^________^)
COLLABORATION:
- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.
- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
Parc Natural del Garraf - Jafra, Barcelona (Spain).
Panorama of 2 photos.
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...