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The vessel, built in 1975, spent its heyday trawling the North Sea for mackerel and herring. Latterly, MV Dayspring had been used as a houseboat berthed at Camusnagaul Bay.
Although now worse for wear, far from its days trawling the North Sea for mackerel and herring, the charm of this once commanding fishing boat is not all lost.
Resting idly on the shingle beach overlooking Loch Linnhe, Dayspring has taken up permanent residency on the Kilmallie shoreline, listing as if reclined, admiring the view.
We spend a brief moment doing likewise, marvelling at the vista across the loch towards Fort William and the majestic Nevis mountain range, before clumsily navigating the rocky foreshore towards the beached trawler.
Better known among locals as the ‘Corpach Wreck’, Dayspring has become an iconic landmark in Lochaber, with photographers from all over the world traipsing along the beach, tripod in hand, each day to capture a dramatic shot.
It has remained a cause of intrigue for locals, too, since it appeared perched on the shorefront one morning after a fierce storm hit the area in December 2011. That night eight years ago was particularly fateful for Lukas, who not only saw his beloved boat washed ashore, but his home too.
Sitting below the high tide line, Dayspring is still classed as being afloat and so does not fall within the remit of the Receiver of Wrecks, despite being land-bound for the best part of a decade. As it is not polluting the area, not posing a hazard and, as Lukas puts it, he is ‘not causing any trouble’, no laws are being broken.
These days seven of them have taken up semi-permanent residency in the yard. They cannot resist the lure of the peanuts. This one is checking out the old man in the Adirondack hiding behind that giant contraption and watching his right hand clutching the Krombacher to soothe a parched throat. Normally they are very jittery and take off before I even have the chance to get me and my equipment outside. I suspect she was comfortable in the knowledge that there would be no way for the old guy to extricate himself from the Adirondack, get his legs disentangled from the tripod, set down the beer carefully so that no unnecessary spillage would occur and engage in a possible yet somewhat unlikely frontal assault. Translation: I’m not afraid. And thus we both remained enjoying a great summer day and forgetting about the insanity of the state of the world. All of it made so much easier by the fact it was a Sunday and Canada Day. Yes, and that Krombacher helped as well.
And for those of you wondering what this is, it's a crow. Actually, super crow.
This rare visitor to the CA Central Coast has been here and photographed for over 6 months; I hope he finds a mate and takes up permanent residency; Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus); Laguna Lake; SLO County; CA; USA
It's been a hectic few weeks as I prepare to apply for permanent residency here in Canada and life seems to be moving at an astonishing pace right now. This has meant that there's been little room in my life to go out and do what I love most which is photograph gorgeous landscapes!
Thankfully I had the opportunity to head to the stunning Bow Lake at the weekend and partake in a bit of photography for the first time in weeks. It was a well-needed break from the daily grind which truly refreshed my soul!
Artist: Wang Shugang (born 1960, China)
The Meeting was originally exhibited at the 2007 G8 summit meeting in Heiligendamm, Germany. After a few years in various locations, it returned to the West Coast in 2021 to take up permanent residency at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development in the city of White Rock, BC.
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After snowfall flic.kr/p/2mTN6da
“FIRST READING: Ottawa sets target to keep Canada labour force 25 per cent immigrant” – National Post
“Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada instructed to ensure one quarter of labour force ‘is made up of immigrants and refugees’”
When the Canadian government is subsidizing 70% of an immigrant’s wage, who do you think the corporations will hire: immigrant or Canadian? Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing corporations:
“Governments in Canada spent more than $350 billion on corporate welfare” – Fraser Institute
So taxpayer’s money is being used to kill small businesses by subsidizing corporations. Canadian taxpayers are subsidizing the wages of immigrants, making it harder for Canadians to find work. And the United Nations has called on the Canadian Government to intensify its efforts to safeguard workers’ rights and offer a clear pathway to permanent residency for all migrants. Of course, the “World State” gives everyone their “Human Rights.”
Here is a recap: small businesses are being killed. (Not to mention Net-zero policies are killing our industry). Canadians are losing their jobs to foreigners. (Not to mentioned subsidized housing for immigrants and drug addicts). These things are killing the middle class. Woohoo…less jobs and lower wages, less housing and higher housing costs! Of course, the United Nations is pushing for their communist agenda of “equality for all.” So we give insane amounts of money in foreign aid to the third world, in order to “spread the wealth” and help make the world a more “equal place.” We also bring in the third world, in order to “spread the wealth” and make the world a more “equal place.” As the Bible says, the New World Order will be a mixture of people, and in the end, these people will not remain united.
Yet Big Brother tells us that the Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory. This reminds me of the book 1984. A person can point out the obvious, but the sheeple are so brainwashed that they cannot see the obvious. Even though their eyes can see what is happening, their brains are programmed by Big Brother to unsee these things.
Justin Trudeau called Canada the world’s first postnational state, saying that Canada had no core identity. Justin Trudeau actually told the truth! Canada’s identity is multiculturalism, which is no identity at all.
Lamentations 3:12 “He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.”
(Continuation of story)
When one lives in a foreign country without having permanent residency, it is a legal requirement that you must leave the country and come back in with a new tourist visa. I had to do this in Portugal and then in Thailand. With the three months quickly approaching, one of the Americans who I met around the pool at the Miami Hotel suggested that I meet him in Karachi Pakistan where he was working with an American company Now, this sounded like an adventure, I thought.
It was not easy to get a visa. I was a single American woman and Pakistan was still a very strict Muslim country. After several trips to their embassy in Bangkok, I was finally granted one right before the Pam Am plane was high jacked in Karachi. I didn’t waiver on my plans to go, even though the very intrepid folks at Lucy’s Tiger Den didn’t think it was wise. My thoughts were that terrorists usually don’t strike the same target again; at least not with in a short time frame.
In 1987, the security screening of passengers in Karachi resembled those of today. Other new sights and customs also filled my mind while I was almost blown over by the intense dry heat of Karachi. It was truly stifling and by this time I was used to temperatures in the 100’s (F). Many days I could only find strength to swim in the pool at the hotel.
The relationship between the American man and myself was not very compatible and soon I wished I had never ventured on this trip. He apparently felt the same way and said asked if had ever wanted to travel to another country in the region. I told him Sri Lanka and he gave me a ticket to go to this war torn country. I was not in the habit of taking such gifts from men, but in this case it seemed like the expedite thing to do.
Before I left Pakistan I went to the Thai embassy and asked for a new visa so I could return there. By this time, Thailand truly felt like my home. I also had my film developed and learned that Pakistan did superior work. I still cherish the few pictures I took in Pakistan.
This is a picture of the beautiful and poignant mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the father and founder of Pakistan.
The photo was taken as I was exiting a subway station in Manhattan.So,who actually was the Lady in Red in history?Some say it was Polly Hamilton,played by Pamela Sue Martin in the 1979 movie drama titled "The Lady in Red".Polly Hamilton (née Edythe Gertrude) was one of the two women who left the Biograph Theater with American gangster John Dillinger the night he was gunned down by FBI agents in 1934 as they were closing in on him.In the film Polly Hamilton was coaxed into wearing a red dress as a means of identifying and betraying Dillinger to the FBI agents.
In real life however the Lady in Red was actually the other woman in the trio,a Romanian and former madam named Anna Sage (née Cumpanaș).Facing deportation for "bad moral behavior"Sage used Dillinger as a bargaining chip to gain permanent residency in the U. S. as well as get cash reward for his arrest,so she tipped him off to the Feds.On the night of Dillinger's betrayal Sage wore a white blouse and reddish-orange skirt.After leaving the theater with Dillinger and Polly Hamilton,Sage separated herself from them.Then with her skirt turning red from the theater lights,she walked in front of Dillinger.Ohhh,I got it!😮
I've now finished editing the pictures from my shoots with Char. This is the walk I did with Scott last week in which I decided I wanted to shoot here. I couldn't of picked a better time than in the sunset. I adore sunsets and the warm light that kisses everything laying underneath it. I love the depth of field in this, and I love how the light from in front and behind the shed is picking up the contours of Char's body. I really do love the country side so much.
This barn is on a public footpath. It belongs to a farmer although It looks like it once burned down since all the plastic windows were shrivelled up. I love the idea of derelict places. Imagining the activities and the lives of people before the place became derelict. I know this is only a barn but I bet it holds loads of memories.
I was reading my favourite photographers blog for about an hour tonight. I get so absorbed in other peoples lives. The poetic way they speak and how angelic their lives sound but I guess it all comes down to choice of words. Even so, I began missing Australia and all the magic I felt when I lived over there, even if it was just one year. People capture photographs over there that make me miss it more than anything else I've ever experienced. And then it hurts that in reality, I don't have the career that's going to gain me permanent residency. And then I have to snap myself out of my dreams. Even so, Scott and I will try our very best next year.
Elliðaey,there has never been a permanent residency there due to lack of water.This is a cottage for bird hunters and the singer Björk has never put a foot on the island.Calling this Bjork´s lonliest house is a folklore.
aka our mantelpiece. We are a nation of animal lovers , especially cats and dogs. Unfortunately if you are allergic, like i am, then this is as close as they get to permanent residency. ☺
The impetus to visit White Rock was to check out "The Meeting" by Wang Shugang now on permanent display at the courtyard at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development.
John reluctantly offered shot scale.
Prior to their arrival in White Rock, the Bosa Properties & Vancouver Biennale's sculpture “The Meeting” – by Chinese artist Wang Shugang travelled extensively.
2007
The work was a commissioned work for the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
2008
I think the sculpture was at Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center, east garden.
2009-2011
The art made its North American debut as part of the Vancouver Biennale exhibition and was displayed in Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour neighbourhood in a park adjacent the the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
2014-2016
Vancouver Biennale, The Meeting was relocated to Rey Sargent Park in the city of North Vancouver.
2017-2019
The Meeting was loaned to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for the 375th anniversary of Montreal, the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 and the 150th anniversary of Canada.
2020
The Vancouver Biennale loaned The Meeting to the Arts on the Avenue Edmonton Society, a registered non-profit charitable organization in Edmonton, Alberta.
2021
The Meeting returned to the West Coast to take up permanent residency at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development in the city of White Rock, BC.
ABOUT WANG SHUGANG:
Born in Beijing in 1960, Wang Shugang lived for ten years in Germany’s Ruhr region.
He returned to live in Beijing in 2000, at 40 years old.
Wang Shugang is one of the leading contemporary artists in the post revolutionary breakout period of the mid 1990s, referred to as Cynical Realism.
He, together with his contemporaries Yue Minjun and Ai Weiwei, playfully and astutely mocks the history and political events of the Cultural Revolution and Maoist China.
Since 1991, Wang Shugang’s works are regularly seen in solo exhibitions in Germany and China.
Wang Shugang’s figurative sculptures have been influenced by both the Western art tradition and contemporary twentieth-century realism while also expressing Buddhist iconography combined with Chinese everyday culture.
The artist generally uses only a few colours on his sculpture, painting them solid red, white, black or bronze.
These colors have become a kind of language or a trademark of the artist. Typical of the work of Wang Shugang are the red “sweeping monks” and the “squatting” figures.
It appears that a family of Western Bluebirds have taken up permanent residency at Fort Mason in San Francisco. After successfully rearing young this past summer (for the first time), they are staying around and hopefully will raise more young next year. This one-ounce bird nests in cavities, but doesn't have the ability to make its own hole, so it will rely on those created by woodpeckers.
The impetus to visit White Rock was to check out "The Meeting" a bronze sculpture by Wang Shugang now on permanent display at the courtyard at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development.
Our last White Rock visit was to friends wedding in 2015. Wow, has the downtown seen big changes!
Prior to their arrival in White Rock, the Bosa Properties & Vancouver Biennale's sculpture “The Meeting” – by Chinese artist Wang Shugang travelled extensively.
2007
The sculpture was a commissioned work for the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
2008
I think the sculpture was at Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center, east garden.
2009-2011
The art made its North American debut as part of the Vancouver Biennale exhibition and was displayed in Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour neighbourhood in a park adjacent the the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
2014-2016
Vancouver Biennale, The Meeting was relocated to Rey Sargent Park in the city of North Vancouver.
2017-2019
The Meeting was loaned to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for the 375th anniversary of Montreal, the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 and the 150th anniversary of Canada.
2020
The Vancouver Biennale loaned The Meeting to the Arts on the Avenue Edmonton Society, a registered non-profit charitable organization in Edmonton, Alberta.
2021
The Meeting returned to the West Coast to take up permanent residency at Miramar Village, a Bosa Properties development in the city of White Rock, BC.
ABOUT WANG SHUGANG:
Born in Beijing in 1960, Wang Shugang lived for ten years in Germany’s Ruhr region.
He returned to live in Beijing in 2000, at 40 years old.
Wang Shugang is one of the leading contemporary artists in the post revolutionary breakout period of the mid 1990s, referred to as Cynical Realism.
He, together with his contemporaries Yue Minjun and Ai Weiwei, playfully and astutely mocks the history and political events of the Cultural Revolution and Maoist China.
Since 1991, Wang Shugang’s works are regularly seen in solo exhibitions in Germany and China.
Wang Shugang’s figurative sculptures have been influenced by both the Western art tradition and contemporary twentieth-century realism while also expressing Buddhist iconography combined with Chinese everyday culture.
The artist generally uses only a few colours on his sculpture, painting them solid red, white, black or bronze.
These colors have become a kind of language or a trademark of the artist. Typical of the work of Wang Shugang are the red “sweeping monks” and the “squatting” figures.
Bodie, California, is a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located at 38°12′42″N, 119°00′46″W, at an elevation of 8369 feet (2550 m).
Discovery
Gold was discovered in 1859 by prospector W. S. Bodey (also spelled Body), after whom the town was named. Bodey died in November after making a supply trip to Monoville and perishing in a blizzard.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp of few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of nearly 10,000.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie was famous for its lawlessness. At its peak it had 60 saloons. Murders, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Legend has it that a little girl, upon finding out that her family was moving there, prayed one night, "Goodbye God, we are going to Bodie." But a local editor claimed she had really prayed, "Good. By God we are going to Bodie."
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada by way of Aurora, Wellington, and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by an armed guard. Once the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
A first in electrical power
In 1893 the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant, located approximately 13 miles away on Green Creek, above Bridgeport, California. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower and 6,600 volts alternating current to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation is marked as one of the first transmissions of electricity over long-distance.
Interesting points about town
Bodie had its own Chinatown, which had several hundred Chinese residents at one point, and even included a Taoist temple. Chinese workers earned their incomes mainly from selling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling, and selling firewood.
Bodie has a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary which is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation from the intense summer heat which would make undertaking a malodorous job.
As with most remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestinely important red light district on the north end of town. From this is told the unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She was attributed to giving life-saving care to many, but was denied burial within the gates of the town cemetery, remaining a social outcast even to her death.
In town's center stands the Miners Union Hall, a general meeting place for residents. It now serves as a quasi town museum. As a State Park, the ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
Weather
Summers in Bodie were hot, but in winter, temperatures often plummeted well below 0°F, and winds could sweep across the valley at close to 100 miles per hour. These days nights stay plenty cold even throughout the summer months, and to this day the ghost town most often holds the nightly records for coldest temperature in the nation. The harsh weather is due to a particularly bad combination of a very high altitude, (8,400 ft.), and a very exposed plateau, with little in the way of a natural surrounding wall to protect the long, flat piece land from the elements. Plenty of firewood was needed to keep residents warm through the long winters, possibly related to the fact that there are very few trees today in the area. Many inadequately prepared residents perished during the winter of 1878–1879, which was particularly harsh.
Authentic ghost town
Though greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Bodie is now the Wild West's most authentic, intact ghost town, even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of over 10,000 people. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.
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Sitting in line with the Pacific Flyway, the rice fields of Rancho Esquon have played host to numerous waterfowl over the years during winter migration. A number of different wildlife species now find permanent residency in the area including at least 165 different bird species.
What started in 1990 as a 320 acre endeavor, is now just over 900 acres of prior rice land dedicated to wildlife habitat. The rice fields have undergone quite a transformation with the construction of wetland contours of levees and swales. Water input and drainage is managed throughout the year. Thousands of trees and riparian vegetation have been planted. There are currently close to a thousand Black Willow seedlings grown from cuttings, that are being nurtured next to the hatchery for future planting. It is a goal of the ranch to share the importance of conservation with the public. Youth groups are encouraged to share in this effort through several programs offered by Rancho Esquon. Rancho Esquon is also included in tours to help educate the public during the annual winter Snow Goose Festival.
The largest object ever built in space celebrates 23 years of continuous human presence today. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this picture while flying around the International Space Station, looking back at the amazing piece of spacecraft engineering he called home for six months during his Alpha mission.
“It was absolutely incredible to view the Space Station from afar with the cosmos as backdrop,” said Thomas of his fly around the Space Station during the trip back to Earth on the Crew Dragon capsule.
Expedition 1 was the first crew to inhabit the orbital outpost for a long stay of over four months. NASA astronaut William M. Shepherd and Russia’s Yuri P. Gidzenko and Sergei K. Krikalev opened the hatch on 2 November 2000, beginning an uninterrupted chain of missions.
Since then, there have always been humans in space. Anyone 23 years old or younger has lived with a crewed station travelling 400 km above their heads at 28 000 km per hour, orbiting Earth approximately 16 times every day.
The first tasks of the Expedition 1 crew included turning on the lights and the hot water dispenser, as well as activating the toilet and looking for connector cables. The Space Station was much smaller back then – just three habitable modules compared to the 16 it boasts today. Today’s outpost has the size of a football field with dozens of science experiments running at any given time.
Over these 23 years, 269 astronauts and 70 expeditions from more than 20 countries have visited the Space Station. A collaboration between five space agencies, the International Space Station has become a symbol of peaceful cooperation across borders. It has brought humankind together to work in space and keeps pursuing scientific knowledge and exploration.
Both the space landscape and the International Space Station have evolved in the last two decades. Over the past few years, a new economy is developing in low-Earth orbit, where private companies are joining the adventure supporting research, cargo deliveries and human trips into space.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
Bodie, California, is a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located at 38°12′42″N, 119°00′46″W, at an elevation of 8369 feet (2550 m).
Discovery
Gold was discovered in 1859 by prospector W. S. Bodey (also spelled Body), after whom the town was named. Bodey died in November after making a supply trip to Monoville and perishing in a blizzard.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp of few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of nearly 10,000.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie was famous for its lawlessness. At its peak it had 60 saloons. Murders, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Legend has it that a little girl, upon finding out that her family was moving there, prayed one night, "Goodbye God, we are going to Bodie." But a local editor claimed she had really prayed, "Good. By God we are going to Bodie."
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada by way of Aurora, Wellington, and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by an armed guard. Once the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
A first in electrical power
In 1893 the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant, located approximately 13 miles away on Green Creek, above Bridgeport, California. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower and 6,600 volts alternating current to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation is marked as one of the first transmissions of electricity over long-distance.
Interesting points about town
Bodie had its own Chinatown, which had several hundred Chinese residents at one point, and even included a Taoist temple. Chinese workers earned their incomes mainly from selling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling, and selling firewood.
Bodie has a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary which is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation from the intense summer heat which would make undertaking a malodorous job.
As with most remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestinely important red light district on the north end of town. From this is told the unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She was attributed to giving life-saving care to many, but was denied burial within the gates of the town cemetery, remaining a social outcast even to her death.
In town's center stands the Miners Union Hall, a general meeting place for residents. It now serves as a quasi town museum. As a State Park, the ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
Weather
Summers in Bodie were hot, but in winter, temperatures often plummeted well below 0°F, and winds could sweep across the valley at close to 100 miles per hour. These days nights stay plenty cold even throughout the summer months, and to this day the ghost town most often holds the nightly records for coldest temperature in the nation. The harsh weather is due to a particularly bad combination of a very high altitude, (8,400 ft.), and a very exposed plateau, with little in the way of a natural surrounding wall to protect the long, flat piece land from the elements. Plenty of firewood was needed to keep residents warm through the long winters, possibly related to the fact that there are very few trees today in the area. Many inadequately prepared residents perished during the winter of 1878–1879, which was particularly harsh.
Authentic ghost town
Though greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Bodie is now the Wild West's most authentic, intact ghost town, even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of over 10,000 people. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.
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expo, lisboa, portugal @ sunrise | nascer do dia
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the sunrise madness strike force is back Paulo Dias, Estabas and CResende
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Expo '98 closed its doors on September 30, 1998. The site remained closed until February 1999, when it reopened as "Parque das Nações" (Park of the Nations), a free-access park, keeping the gardens, Oceanarium (Europe's then largest aquarium), observation tower, funicular, and the Virtual Reality pavilion. Other buildings were repurposed for the opening, including:
* the main entrance(sun door), converted to Centro Vasco da Gama, a regional shopping mall (opened on April 27 1999)
* the main exhibition pavilions, converted to Feira Internacional de Lisboa (Lisbon International Exhibition Fair)
* Utopia Pavilion, converted to Pavilhão Atlântico, Lisbon's main multi-purpose indoor arena
* Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion, converted to Knowledge Pavilion, a hands-on science museum
* another exhibition pavilion, converted to a bowling alley, but subsequently demolished
* Future Pavilion, now the Casino Lisboa.
Within Parque das Nações, every other building or vacant parcel lot was sold for office or living space, to offset the Expo's costs. The Virtual Reality Pavilion is currently scheduled for demolition.
The area today is thriving, modern, stylish, and safe, attracting 18 million tourists a year to its gardens, museums, commercial areas and modern buildings. It has also become permanent residency for up to 25,000 people and one of Lisbon's premier business centers, with many multinational corporations basing their headquarters in its main avenue.
Parque Expo has lived beyond Expo '98, not just being still the manager of Parque das Nações but, having acquired the know-how in urban conversion and planning, sells its advising and consultancy services to other cities around the world.
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One way to prevent broken window theory from applying to your down-filtered roadside motel is to just not have any windows at all.
This seems to be the last survivor of the King Oscar chain of motels in the Pacific Northwest, and since the beginning of the pandemic (if not a little bit before that), this motel has provided crucial housing for people who had been living in their cars or on the street or in encampments. It does show some of the signs of that kind of semi-permanent residency, but not all of the signs are so dire as the worst photos in one-star reviews online. There were some outdoor grills, evidence of a nice little BBQ patio party, residents carrying clean loads back from the laundry and enjoying a laugh together. At least some of the rooms are still bookable by travelers. $65 appears to be the going rate on Booking.com for this place.
Bodie, California, is a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located at 38°12′42″N, 119°00′46″W, at an elevation of 8369 feet (2550 m).
Discovery
Gold was discovered in 1859 by prospector W. S. Bodey (also spelled Body), after whom the town was named. Bodey died in November after making a supply trip to Monoville and perishing in a blizzard.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp of few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of nearly 10,000.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie was famous for its lawlessness. At its peak it had 60 saloons. Murders, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Legend has it that a little girl, upon finding out that her family was moving there, prayed one night, "Goodbye God, we are going to Bodie." But a local editor claimed she had really prayed, "Good. By God we are going to Bodie."
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada by way of Aurora, Wellington, and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by an armed guard. Once the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
A first in electrical power
In 1893 the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant, located approximately 13 miles away on Green Creek, above Bridgeport, California. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower and 6,600 volts alternating current to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation is marked as one of the first transmissions of electricity over long-distance.
Interesting points about town
Bodie had its own Chinatown, which had several hundred Chinese residents at one point, and even included a Taoist temple. Chinese workers earned their incomes mainly from selling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling, and selling firewood.
Bodie has a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary which is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation from the intense summer heat which would make undertaking a malodorous job.
As with most remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestinely important red light district on the north end of town. From this is told the unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She was attributed to giving life-saving care to many, but was denied burial within the gates of the town cemetery, remaining a social outcast even to her death.
In town's center stands the Miners Union Hall, a general meeting place for residents. It now serves as a quasi town museum. As a State Park, the ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
Weather
Summers in Bodie were hot, but in winter, temperatures often plummeted well below 0°F, and winds could sweep across the valley at close to 100 miles per hour. These days nights stay plenty cold even throughout the summer months, and to this day the ghost town most often holds the nightly records for coldest temperature in the nation. The harsh weather is due to a particularly bad combination of a very high altitude, (8,400 ft.), and a very exposed plateau, with little in the way of a natural surrounding wall to protect the long, flat piece land from the elements. Plenty of firewood was needed to keep residents warm through the long winters, possibly related to the fact that there are very few trees today in the area. Many inadequately prepared residents perished during the winter of 1878–1879, which was particularly harsh.
Authentic ghost town
Though greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Bodie is now the Wild West's most authentic, intact ghost town, even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of over 10,000 people. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.
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Bodie, California, is a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located at 38°12′42″N, 119°00′46″W, at an elevation of 8369 feet (2550 m).
Discovery
Gold was discovered in 1859 by prospector W. S. Bodey (also spelled Body), after whom the town was named. Bodey died in November after making a supply trip to Monoville and perishing in a blizzard.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp of few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of nearly 10,000.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie was famous for its lawlessness. At its peak it had 60 saloons. Murders, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Legend has it that a little girl, upon finding out that her family was moving there, prayed one night, "Goodbye God, we are going to Bodie." But a local editor claimed she had really prayed, "Good. By God we are going to Bodie."
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada by way of Aurora, Wellington, and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by an armed guard. Once the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
A first in electrical power
In 1893 the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant, located approximately 13 miles away on Green Creek, above Bridgeport, California. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower and 6,600 volts alternating current to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation is marked as one of the first transmissions of electricity over long-distance.
Interesting points about town
Bodie had its own Chinatown, which had several hundred Chinese residents at one point, and even included a Taoist temple. Chinese workers earned their incomes mainly from selling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling, and selling firewood.
Bodie has a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary which is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation from the intense summer heat which would make undertaking a malodorous job.
As with most remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestinely important red light district on the north end of town. From this is told the unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She was attributed to giving life-saving care to many, but was denied burial within the gates of the town cemetery, remaining a social outcast even to her death.
In town's center stands the Miners Union Hall, a general meeting place for residents. It now serves as a quasi town museum. As a State Park, the ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
Weather
Summers in Bodie were hot, but in winter, temperatures often plummeted well below 0°F, and winds could sweep across the valley at close to 100 miles per hour. These days nights stay plenty cold even throughout the summer months, and to this day the ghost town most often holds the nightly records for coldest temperature in the nation. The harsh weather is due to a particularly bad combination of a very high altitude, (8,400 ft.), and a very exposed plateau, with little in the way of a natural surrounding wall to protect the long, flat piece land from the elements. Plenty of firewood was needed to keep residents warm through the long winters, possibly related to the fact that there are very few trees today in the area. Many inadequately prepared residents perished during the winter of 1878–1879, which was particularly harsh.
Authentic ghost town
Though greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Bodie is now the Wild West's most authentic, intact ghost town, even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of over 10,000 people. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.
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Photographed near Kennicott(Rio Tinto) smelter in Salt Lake County, Utah.
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John C. Fremont and Kit Carson made the first known, non-Native American, journey to Antelope Island in 1843. They observed several antelope on the island, thus giving Antelope Island its name. Fielding Garr established a permanent residency on Antelope Island in 1848. He not only tended his own herds, but those of other stockmen as well. In 1849, Brigham Young asked Garr to manage the LDS Church's Tithing Herd, which was kept on the island until 1871. The Tithing Herd was utilized by the Perpetual Emigration Fund, which was established to help needy Mormon converts immigrate to Utah. Recipients would reimburse the fund when circumstances would allow them to do so. Reimbursement often was made in the form of livestock, which was considered better than cash. During this time, the LDS Church also invested thousands of dollars in valuable stallions and brood mares, which were turned loose on the island.
Captain Howard Stansbury used Antelope Island as a base camp for a government-funded survey of the Great Salt Lake during the years of 1849-50. During the 1870s, several private homesteads were established on the island.
The George Isaac Frary family stayed longer on the Island than any other homesteaders. The family moved to the desert island about 1891. George only cultivated about 16 of his 160 acres, as he preferred sailing to farming. Alice Frary, George's wife, was a schoolteacher.
In September 1897, Alice became very ill. George went to Ogden for medicine, but on the midnight return trip, his small boat capsized in a strong wind and he lost the medicine. He held onto his capsized craft and by morning he had made it to the beach. Alice Frary died that afternoon. Alice requested to be buried on her island home. In 1990, the Syracuse Historical Commission placed a monument near Alice Frary's Gravesite.
On February 15, 1893, twelve head of bison were transported to Antelope Island. George Frary and John Dolly loaded the bison into a sailboat and nearly capsized as they sailed the bison to Antelope Island.
The Island Improvement Company owned most of the island from 1884 through 1972. Cattle and sheep were the company's primary ranching commodity, although buffalo and horses were always kept on the island. In the 1930s, Antelope Island was the largest private sheep sheering operation west of the Mississippi River.
Recognizing the recreation potential of Antelope Island, the north 2,000 acres were acquired for a state park in 1969. In 1981, the state was able to acquire the rest of the island, thus preserving Antelope Island as a state park.
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Bodie, California, is a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located at 38°12′42″N, 119°00′46″W, at an elevation of 8369 feet (2550 m).
Discovery
Gold was discovered in 1859 by prospector W. S. Bodey (also spelled Body), after whom the town was named. Bodey died in November after making a supply trip to Monoville and perishing in a blizzard.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp of few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of nearly 10,000.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie was famous for its lawlessness. At its peak it had 60 saloons. Murders, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Legend has it that a little girl, upon finding out that her family was moving there, prayed one night, "Goodbye God, we are going to Bodie." But a local editor claimed she had really prayed, "Good. By God we are going to Bodie."
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada by way of Aurora, Wellington, and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by an armed guard. Once the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
A first in electrical power
In 1893 the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant, located approximately 13 miles away on Green Creek, above Bridgeport, California. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower and 6,600 volts alternating current to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation is marked as one of the first transmissions of electricity over long-distance.
Interesting points about town
Bodie had its own Chinatown, which had several hundred Chinese residents at one point, and even included a Taoist temple. Chinese workers earned their incomes mainly from selling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling, and selling firewood.
Bodie has a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary which is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation from the intense summer heat which would make undertaking a malodorous job.
As with most remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestinely important red light district on the north end of town. From this is told the unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She was attributed to giving life-saving care to many, but was denied burial within the gates of the town cemetery, remaining a social outcast even to her death.
In town's center stands the Miners Union Hall, a general meeting place for residents. It now serves as a quasi town museum. As a State Park, the ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
Weather
Summers in Bodie were hot, but in winter, temperatures often plummeted well below 0°F, and winds could sweep across the valley at close to 100 miles per hour. These days nights stay plenty cold even throughout the summer months, and to this day the ghost town most often holds the nightly records for coldest temperature in the nation. The harsh weather is due to a particularly bad combination of a very high altitude, (8,400 ft.), and a very exposed plateau, with little in the way of a natural surrounding wall to protect the long, flat piece land from the elements. Plenty of firewood was needed to keep residents warm through the long winters, possibly related to the fact that there are very few trees today in the area. Many inadequately prepared residents perished during the winter of 1878–1879, which was particularly harsh.
Authentic ghost town
Though greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Bodie is now the Wild West's most authentic, intact ghost town, even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of over 10,000 people. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.
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Patria o Muerte - Homeland or Death - National Cuban motto in front of American Embassy in Havana, Cuba
After revolution in 1959, Cubans were not allowed to travel overseas or immigrate to other countries. From 1959 through 1993, 1.2 million Cubans (about 10% of the current population) left the island for the United States, to escape the communist regime, often by sea in small boats and rafts to Miami. Many attempts ended with death. In the early years, a number of those who could claim dual Spanish-Cuban citizenship left for Spain. Over time a number of Cuban Jews were allowed to immigrate to Israel. The majority of the 10,000 or so Jews who were in Cuba in 1959 have left.
In 1995 U.S. introduced the ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy that essentially said that anyone who fled Cuba and entered the United States would be allowed to pursue residency a year later. Others caught at sea on the way to Miami were brought back to Cuba. Some Cubans went to the extent of harming themselves in order to be taken to the closest hospital in Miami by US Coast Guard and stay permanently.
In 1995 the US government entered into an agreement with the Cuban government to resolve the emigration crisis, when Castro opened the docks to anyone who wanted to leave. The result of the negotiations was an agreement under which the United States was required to issue 20,000 visas annually to Cuban emigrants. Bush Administration refused to comply with the act.
The US Coast Guard reports that the interceptions in high seas were characterized as violent confrontations with authorities and by the deaths of immigrants. According to the same authorities, the Cubans are taken to the US on speed boats by a network of criminals specialized in human trafficking, former drug traffickers, based in southern Florida which now find contraband of humans more lucrative than drugs. These criminals charge thousands of dollars per person, overcrowding the small vessels. The majority of those that attempt to emigrate are individuals that have relatives in the United States, others who do not qualify to be considered as legal immigrants in the US, or those who do not want to wait their turn in the annual quota, assigned under the migratory treaties for legal immigrants.
Currently, to apply for an immigrant visa in U.S., a Cuban citizen must be sponsored by a U.S. citizen relative, U.S. lawful permanent resident (that includes a spouse under International Marriage Broker Act), or by a prospective employer, and be the beneficiary of an approved petition. Due to the restrictions in U.S. Law, Cuban citizens generally do not qualify for employment-based immigrant visas. In some cases, Cubans are eligible for family reunion parole program which enables them to come to U.S. without visa and apply for permanent residency after a period of one year.
A large number of Cubans now live in Mexico and Canada.
I was behind Laura and her girlfriend in the queue at the Nespresso shop and couldn't help overhearing and noticing their Scottish accents. I tapped Laura on the shoulder and asked if I could take her photo. Laura laughed and said yes and we left her girlfriend Tracey to buy the coffee and went outside, on the way I explained the concept of the 100 strangers project. The first location we tried I wasn't quite happy with the light and I was fiddling a fair bit with the controls of my newly acquired Olympus E-M1 feeling very much like a learner. Luckily Laura was very comfortable in front of the lens and happily reminded me that it may help if I took the lens cover off. Tracey joined us and I asked if they were in a hurry, they said they weren't going anywhere special so I asked if they minded if we walked up to Wolf lane, one of my favourite locations for photos. We wandered around admiring the street art and Tracey and Laura weren't aware of it's existence so I was pleased to be able to have shared the location with them. I took a few more photos and found out Tracey is 27 and from Dumfries. She is trying to get her permanent residency and is in the process of jumping through the hoops and having to change job every six months due to her visa restrictions. Laura and Tracey were great fun and great company, I hope our paths cross again as I really enjoyed spending time with them both. Thanks Laura for helping me with my project and for being so patient as I fiddled around trying to work out my new camera. I hope you like the photos, as promised I will send the originals on to Tracey to pass on to you.
I was behind Laura and her girlfriend in the queue at the Nespresso shop and couldn't help overhearing and noticing their Scottish accents. I tapped Laura on the shoulder and asked if I could take her photo. Laura laughed and said yes and we left her girlfriend Tracey to buy the coffee and went outside, on the way I explained the concept of the 100 strangers project. The first location we tried I wasn't quite happy with the light and I was fiddling a fair bit with the controls of my newly acquired Olympus E-M1 feeling very much like a learner. Luckily Laura was very comfortable in front of the lens and happily reminded me that it may help if I took the lens cover off. Tracey joined us and I asked if they were in a hurry, they said they weren't going anywhere special so I asked if they minded if we walked up to Wolf lane, one of my favourite locations for photos. We wandered around admiring the street art and Tracey and Laura weren't aware of it's existence so I was pleased to be able to have shared the location with them. I took a few more photos and found out Tracey is 27 and from Dumfries. She is trying to get her permanent residency and is in the process of jumping through the hoops and having to change job every six months due to her visa restrictions. Laura and Tracey were great fun and great company, I hope our paths cross again as I really enjoyed spending time with them both. Thanks Laura for helping me with my project and for being so patient as I fiddled around trying to work out my new camera. I hope you like the photos, as promised I will send the originals on to Tracey to pass on to you.
This picture is #58 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Bodie, California, is a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located at 38°12′42″N, 119°00′46″W, at an elevation of 8369 feet (2550 m).
Discovery
Gold was discovered in 1859 by prospector W. S. Bodey (also spelled Body), after whom the town was named. Bodey died in November after making a supply trip to Monoville and perishing in a blizzard.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp of few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of nearly 10,000.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie was famous for its lawlessness. At its peak it had 60 saloons. Murders, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Legend has it that a little girl, upon finding out that her family was moving there, prayed one night, "Goodbye God, we are going to Bodie." But a local editor claimed she had really prayed, "Good. By God we are going to Bodie."
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada by way of Aurora, Wellington, and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by an armed guard. Once the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
A first in electrical power
In 1893 the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant, located approximately 13 miles away on Green Creek, above Bridgeport, California. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower and 6,600 volts alternating current to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation is marked as one of the first transmissions of electricity over long-distance.
Interesting points about town
Bodie had its own Chinatown, which had several hundred Chinese residents at one point, and even included a Taoist temple. Chinese workers earned their incomes mainly from selling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling, and selling firewood.
Bodie has a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary which is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation from the intense summer heat which would make undertaking a malodorous job.
As with most remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestinely important red light district on the north end of town. From this is told the unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She was attributed to giving life-saving care to many, but was denied burial within the gates of the town cemetery, remaining a social outcast even to her death.
In town's center stands the Miners Union Hall, a general meeting place for residents. It now serves as a quasi town museum. As a State Park, the ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
Weather
Summers in Bodie were hot, but in winter, temperatures often plummeted well below 0°F, and winds could sweep across the valley at close to 100 miles per hour. These days nights stay plenty cold even throughout the summer months, and to this day the ghost town most often holds the nightly records for coldest temperature in the nation. The harsh weather is due to a particularly bad combination of a very high altitude, (8,400 ft.), and a very exposed plateau, with little in the way of a natural surrounding wall to protect the long, flat piece land from the elements. Plenty of firewood was needed to keep residents warm through the long winters, possibly related to the fact that there are very few trees today in the area. Many inadequately prepared residents perished during the winter of 1878–1879, which was particularly harsh.
Authentic ghost town
Though greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Bodie is now the Wild West's most authentic, intact ghost town, even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of over 10,000 people. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.
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Pixy: I think I have managed to gain permanent residency here.
All other dollies trying to come in will be.. disposed of! You've been warned! You will not compromise me!
Pixy signing off.
Echo, Charlie, Bravo, out!
Expo '98 closed its doors on 30 September 1998. The site remained closed until February 1999, when it reopened as Parque das Nações (Park of the Nations), a free-access park, keeping the gardens, Oceanarium (Europe's then largest aquarium), observation tower, funicular, and the Virtual Reality pavilion. Other buildings were re-purposed for the opening, including:
the main entrance (sun door), converted to Centro Vasco da Gama, a regional shopping mall (opened on 27 April 1999)
the main exhibition pavilions, converted to Feira Internacional de Lisboa (Lisbon International Exhibition Fair)
Utopia Pavilion, converted to MEO Arena, Lisbon's main multi-purpose indoor arena
Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion, converted to Knowledge Pavilion, a hands-on science museum
another exhibition pavilion, converted to a bowling alley, but subsequently demolished
Future Pavilion, now the Casino Lisboa.
Within Parque das Nações, every other building or vacant parcel lot was sold for office or living space, to offset the Expo's costs. The Virtual Reality Pavilion was closed on 31 August 2002 and later demolished. The area today is thriving, modern, stylish, and safe, attracting 18 million tourists a year to its gardens, museums, commercial areas and modern buildings. It has also become permanent residency for up to 25,000 people and one of Lisbon's premier business centers, with many multinational corporations basing their headquarters in its main avenue.
Parque Expo has lived beyond Expo '98, not just managing the infrastructure of Parque das Nações but, having acquired the know-how in urban conversion and planning, sold its advising and consultancy services to other cities around the world. The company was extinct at the end of 2012
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The Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Landtag des Fürstentums Liechtenstein), commonly referred to as the Landtag of Liechtenstein (German: Liechtensteinischer Landtag), is the unicameral parliament of Liechtenstein.
Citizens who have attained the age of 18, have permanent residency in the country and have lived in the country for at least one month before the election can vote, and all eligible voters can run for office. A group of at least 30 voters per constituency has the right to nominate a list of candidates. However, voters can only sign support for nomination for a single list.
Women in Liechtenstein were granted the right to vote in 1984, and thus could not stand for election in the Landtag before then.
The Postcard
A 'Town and City' Series postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Art Publishers to Their Majesties the King and Queen. The card was phototyped in Berlin.
The card was posted in Folkestone on Sunday the 12th. May 1907 to:
Monsieur et Madame Wirrion,
c/o Madame Wirrith-Pellering,
Grand'rue,
Luxembourg,
Grand-Duché.
Folkestone - Gateway to the Trenches
During the Great War, Folkestone was known as the Gateway to the Trenches because of the vast number of troops who set sail for the Western Front from the harbour.
Between 1914 and 1918, an estimated 8 million troops passed through Folkestone on their way to war.
A memorial arch now stands at the top of the hill above the harbour where boats awaited the troops.
So many men failed to return that the steep downhill street leading down to the harbour (formerly known as Slope Road), is now named Road of Remembrance.
Commemorations in Folkestone marking 100 years since Great Britain entered the Great War were organised by Shepway District Council and the charity Step Short, which is named after the order given to the marching men to shorten their stride as they progressed downhill to their destiny.
Leslie Charteris
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 12th. May 1907 marked the birth of Leslie Charteris (born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin). Leslie was a British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, as well as a screenwriter.
He is best-known for his many books chronicling the adventures of the charming antihero Simon Templar, alias 'The Saint.'
Leslie Charteris - The Early Years
Charteris was born in Singapore to a Chinese father, Dr S. C. Yin and Lydia Florence Bowyer, who was English. His father was a physician, who claimed to be able to trace his lineage back to the emperors of the Shang dynasty.
Charteris became interested in writing at an early age. At one point, he created his own magazine with articles, short stories, poems, editorials, serials, and even a comic strip. He attended Rossall School in Fleetwood, Lancashire, England.
Career of Leslie Charteris
Once his first book, written during his first year at King's College, Cambridge, was accepted, he left the university and embarked on a new career. Charteris was motivated by a desire to be unconventional, and to become financially well off by doing what he liked to do.
He continued to write British thriller stories while he undertook various jobs from working on a freighter to being a barman in a country inn. He prospected for gold, dived for pearls, worked in a tin mine and on a rubber plantation, toured Great Britain with a carnival, and drove a bus.
In 1926, he legally changed his last name to Charteris; in a later BBC Radio 4 documentary, his daughter stated that he selected his surname from the telephone directory.
The Origin of Simon Templar
Leslie's third novel, 'Meet the Tiger' (1928), introduced his most famous creation, Simon Templar. However, in his 1980 introduction to a reprint by Charter Books, Charteris indicated he was dissatisfied with the work, suggesting its only value was as the start of the long-running Saint series.
Occasionally, he chose to ignore the existence of 'Meet the Tiger' altogether, and claimed that the Saint series actually began with the second volume, 'Enter the Saint' (1930).
Although he wrote a few other books (including a novelisation of his screenplay for the Deanna Durbin mystery-comedy 'Lady on a Train', and the English translation of 'Juan Belmonte: Killer of Bulls by' Manuel Chaves Nogales), his lifework – at least in the literary world — consisted primarily of Simon Templar Saint adventures.
These were presented in novel, novella, and short-story formats over the next 35 years (with other authors ghost writing the stories on Charteris' behalf from 1963 onward; Charteris acted as an editor for these books, approving stories and making revisions when needed).
Leslie Charteris' Move to the United States
Charteris relocated to the United States in 1932, where he continued to publish short stories and also became a writer for Paramount Pictures, working on the George Raft film, 'Midnight Club'.
However, Charteris was excluded from permanent residency in the United States because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law which prohibited immigration for persons of '50% or greater' Oriental blood. As a result, Charteris was forced to continually renew his six-month temporary visitor's visa.
Eventually, an act of Congress personally granted Charteris and his daughter the right of permanent residence in the United States, with eligibility for naturalisation, which he later completed.
Leslie Charteris' Other Activities
In 1936, Charteris was a passenger on the maiden voyage of the Hindenburg.
In America, 'The Saint' became a radio series starring Vincent Price. In the 1940's, Charteris, besides continuing to write 'The Saint' stories, scripted the Sherlock Holmes radio series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. In 1941, Charteris appeared in a Life photographic adaptation of a short story of 'The Saint', with himself playing the Saint.
'The Saint' on Film
Long-term success eluded Charteris' creation outside the literary arena until RKO produced an eight-film series between 1938 and 1943, all with George Sanders as The Saint. Another Briton, Hugh Sinclair, took over the role in 'The Saint's Vacation' (filmed by RKO's British studio in 1941) and 'The Saint Meets the Tiger' (again produced by RKO in 1941).
A film loosely based on the character simply titled 'The Saint' was released in 1997 with Val Kilmer in the title role.
'The Saint' on TV
In 1962–1969 the British-produced television series 'The Saint' went into production with Roger Moore in the Simon Templar role.
Many episodes of the TV series were based upon Charteris' short stories. Later, as original scripts were commissioned, Charteris permitted some of these scripts to be novelised and published as further adventures of the Saint in printed form. These later books carried Charteris' name as author, but were in fact written by others.
Charteris lived to see a second British TV series, 'Return of the Saint' starring Ian Ogilvy as Simon Templar, enjoy a well-received, if brief, run in the late 1970's (with Charteris himself making a cameo appearance in one episode) and, in the 1980's, a series of TV movies starring Simon Dutton kept interest in The Saint alive.
Also, an ill-fated attempt at a 1980's TV series was made in the United States, which resulted in only a pilot episode being produced and broadcast. Charteris also produced the original theme tune to the series, as can be seen on the end credits.
Leslie Charteris' Later Life
The adventures of The Saint were chronicled in nearly 100 books (about 50 published in the UK and US, with others published in France). Charteris himself stepped away from writing the books after 'The Saint in the Sun' (1963).
The next year, 'Vendetta for the Saint' was published, and while it was credited to Charteris, it was actually written by science fiction writer Harry Harrison. Following Vendetta came a number of books adapting televised episodes, credited to Charteris, but written by others, although Charteris did collaborate on several Saint books in the 1970's. Charteris appears to have served in an editorial capacity for these later volumes.
He also edited and contributed to The Saint Mystery Magazine, a digest-sized publication. The final book in the Saint series was 'Salvage for the Saint', published in 1983. Two additional books were published in 1997, a novelisation of the film loosely based on the character, and an original novel published by "The Saint Club", a fan club that Charteris himself founded in the 1930's. Both books were written by Burl Barer, who also wrote the definitive history on Charteris and The Saint.
Charteris spent 55 years – 1928 to 1983 – as either writer of or custodian of Simon Templar's literary adventures, one of the longest uninterrupted spans of a single author in the history of mystery fiction, equalling that of Agatha Christie, who wrote her novels and stories featuring detective Hercule Poirot.
Leslie Charteris' Personal Life and Death
Charteris also wrote a column on cuisine for an American magazine, and invented a wordless, pictorial sign language called Paleneo, which he wrote a book on. Charteris was also one of the earliest members of Mensa.
In 1952, Charteris married Hollywood actress Audrey Long (1922–2014); the couple eventually returned to England, where he spent his last years living in Surrey. He died at Princess Margaret's Hospital Windsor, Berkshire, on the 15th. April 1993, survived by his wife and daughter, Patricia.
After the 1855 fire destroyed their original building the seminary was housed in the rectory of St. Stephen’s Church on Napoleon Avenue. Archbishop Shaw sought for permanent residency and considered land the diocese had acquired in the Carrollton area in 1910 would be prefect. he corner stone was laid for the handsome chateau-like building on May 7, 1922. The seminary began functioning on September 18, 1923, with 25 students from the three Louisiana dioceses registering for philosophical and theological courses.
This shot was taken from the boat that I took to reached mount Athos.
Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece
It is home to 20 Orthodox monasteries and forms an autonomous state under Greek sovereignty. Only monks are allowed to establish permanent residency on Athos and the current population numbers around 1,400.
Mount Athos as a monastic community was formally founded in 963
Greek is commonly used in all Greek monasteries, but in some monasteries there are other languages in use, in St. Panteleimon, Russian; in Chilandari, Serbian; in Zographou, Bulgarian; and in the sketae of Prodromou and Lacu, Romanian. Today, many of the Greek monks can also understand English or other European languages
Yesterday we went to the US of A for 5 minutes or so, it's something you need to do to "land" ie. get your permanent residency validated; leave Canada and then re-enter. As you can tell the kids had a great time, actually it wasn't so bad, they got free crayons on the ferry and more free crayons from Canadian immigration.
We were their first experience of a new procedure so it took a while (which was ok once we knew that that was why it was taking a while and not because one of our old addresses had been listed as suspect). Well also a bit stressful when the woman doing the training was going "uh uh uh uh!" as they were filling out paperwork (like hearing a gynocoligyst go "oops!") but it was all worthwhile when every single immigration official in the office came and clapped and smiled and congratulated us. Aw Canada.
I am moving to a new place soon. This time I am not only changing my address, but my permanent residency as well. It's a strange feeling... I have been waiting for this moment to come for many years - to settle down, arrange a flat the way I like, say goodbye to a place where I have spent most of my life. However, it's different than I expected. It is my fourth time moving to a new place, but I do not expect to come back again this time as I am not twenty-something anymore to return after few years again. Getting a mortgage is not something I would just give it a try.
I think a lot lately whether the new flat in a different town will replace my home. What is home after all? Is it a particular place somewhere, or is it rather a feeling of belonging somewhere (regardless where you are)?
I do not like moving, but I do it anyways almost regularly every four to five years. I am wondering whether (and how) it will be different this time...
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Čoskoro ma čaká sťahovanie. Tentokrát však nemením len adresu, ale aj trvalé bydlisko. Je to zvláštny pocit... Na jednej strane som sa dlhé roky nevedela dočkať, kedy sa niekde "usadím", zariadim si bývanie podľa svojich predstáv, rozlúčim sa s miestom, kde som strávila väčšinu života. Ale teraz je to iné. Sťahujem sa už štvrtý krát a vždy bola možnosť návratu. Už nemám dvadsať čosi, aby som sa po pár rokoch zase vracala. A hypotéku na byt si človek tiež neberie, len aby si to na chvíľu vyskúšal.
Veľa v poslednom čase rozmýšľam o tom, či nový byt v novom meste nahradí môj doterajší domov. A čo je to vlastne domov? Je to konkrétne miesto? Alebo skôr pocit "patrenia" niekam?
Nerada sa sťahujem. Ale robím to takmer pravidelne v štvorročných-päť ročných intervaloch. Ktovie, či sa teraz niečo zmení..?
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The Panther's Lair is currently looking for up and coming Dj's, Hosts and Dancers to become part of our family.
We are an adult club so, so clothing is always optional. ;)
- Everyone must be 30 days old.
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Work as much as you want, there are NO minimal shifts or hours to meet.
We have permanent residency slots available.
DJs must have their own stream, be fun and friendly and play a variety of music.
Hosts must have an outgoing personality and be willing and ready to interact with the patrons.
Hosts should have a large friend list so that they can invite as many people to the club and its events.
DJs & Hosts receive 100% tips and are not compensated by the house.
- Please have your own tip jars ready to rez before your events.
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Dancers receive 80% tips and must use the house tip jars.
Dancers MUST have a mesh body and can emote WELL.
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Sometime back in early 2005, my husband and I had a talk about how to make our lives somewhat easier than what it currently was. Granted, it wasn't that bad, but we wanted it to be better.
Jay at the time did not have his green card, but was a temporary visitor so could not work, study, or do pretty much anything legally. I was the one working full time to support our small family, and had grown tired of being the soul breadwinner. So, we had looked into him getting his green card in the US, and also the job opportunities that would be available in our area. To file the necessary paperwork would be costly, and honestly, there wasn't anything around that Jay wanted to do. His dream was to work in the video game industry, and Louisville didn't have anything to offer at that time. The other option was Canada. The cost for permanent residency for me was about $1000, and filing from outside Canada would take, at the most, 6 months. Cost wise, and time wise, Canada was the most logical option for us. We had already spent the first part of our relationship so far apart that we didn't want to do it again since we had been living together for five years. Job opportunities were also looking good for Jay in the industry that he wanted to get into. Needless to say, we chose the route to Canada.
The end of August of '05, Jay moved back to Montreal to live with his mom, and I moved back home (eep!) to save money for our little lifestyle change. That was also the first time that I started to live the single parent life. I'll tell you this, even though I had my parents help, it sucked. It's a circumstance to which I never want to go through again.
In the meantime while Jay and I were separated, Jay got a job at Longtail Studios, and moved from Montreal to Quebec City. I tried to spend as much time as I could working my butt off, and spending time with friends and family before the move. Our relationship had turned into what it had started out with due to the process taking longer than planned. At least this time was much easier, and cheaper, to talk to each other each day than it was years prior.
After getting tired of waiting around, and figuring out some time lines between my visa being complete, and Jay having to find a new place, we decided to go ahead with the move earlier than planned. I went ahead and put my notice in at my current job, and started packing again. Jay went looking about for an apartment for all of us in Quebec City.
On 7/7/07, I crossed the border into Canada as a visitor, and was able to stay for six months, and in very much the same situation that Jay was while living in the States, only this time, we knew it wouldn't be for long. My visa application was in process, and within six months, I would have my permanent residence. That, however, is another story.
Sorry about the crappy story, but I just can't concentrate tonight.
The tanker Orchid heading out from the Mersey passing one of the sculptures on Crosby beach. This one is in the middle of soft mud which, along with sandbanks being cut off by the rising tide, was one of the points raised against the installation being placed here. A few people a year do get into trouble but they probably would have anyway so for the rest of us the installation and its permanent residency have been a bonus.
Bodie, California, is a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located at 38°12′42″N, 119°00′46″W, at an elevation of 8369 feet (2550 m).
Discovery
Gold was discovered in 1859 by prospector W. S. Bodey (also spelled Body), after whom the town was named. Bodey died in November after making a supply trip to Monoville and perishing in a blizzard.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp of few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of nearly 10,000.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie was famous for its lawlessness. At its peak it had 60 saloons. Murders, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Legend has it that a little girl, upon finding out that her family was moving there, prayed one night, "Goodbye God, we are going to Bodie." But a local editor claimed she had really prayed, "Good. By God we are going to Bodie."
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada by way of Aurora, Wellington, and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by an armed guard. Once the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
A first in electrical power
In 1893 the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant, located approximately 13 miles away on Green Creek, above Bridgeport, California. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower and 6,600 volts alternating current to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation is marked as one of the first transmissions of electricity over long-distance.
Interesting points about town
Bodie had its own Chinatown, which had several hundred Chinese residents at one point, and even included a Taoist temple. Chinese workers earned their incomes mainly from selling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling, and selling firewood.
Bodie has a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary which is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation from the intense summer heat which would make undertaking a malodorous job.
As with most remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestinely important red light district on the north end of town. From this is told the unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She was attributed to giving life-saving care to many, but was denied burial within the gates of the town cemetery, remaining a social outcast even to her death.
In town's center stands the Miners Union Hall, a general meeting place for residents. It now serves as a quasi town museum. As a State Park, the ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
Weather
Summers in Bodie were hot, but in winter, temperatures often plummeted well below 0°F, and winds could sweep across the valley at close to 100 miles per hour. These days nights stay plenty cold even throughout the summer months, and to this day the ghost town most often holds the nightly records for coldest temperature in the nation. The harsh weather is due to a particularly bad combination of a very high altitude, (8,400 ft.), and a very exposed plateau, with little in the way of a natural surrounding wall to protect the long, flat piece land from the elements. Plenty of firewood was needed to keep residents warm through the long winters, possibly related to the fact that there are very few trees today in the area. Many inadequately prepared residents perished during the winter of 1878–1879, which was particularly harsh.
Authentic ghost town
Though greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Bodie is now the Wild West's most authentic, intact ghost town, even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of over 10,000 people. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.
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This guy was just relaxing on the top deck of the St. Anthony Wreck.....
They say that there are a few turtles that have taken up permanent residency here.
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EF 50mm
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Press L to see it Large.....
Bodie, California, is a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located at 38°12′42″N, 119°00′46″W, at an elevation of 8369 feet (2550 m).
Discovery
Gold was discovered in 1859 by prospector W. S. Bodey (also spelled Body), after whom the town was named. Bodey died in November after making a supply trip to Monoville and perishing in a blizzard.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp of few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1880 Bodie boasted a population of nearly 10,000.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie was famous for its lawlessness. At its peak it had 60 saloons. Murders, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences. Legend has it that a little girl, upon finding out that her family was moving there, prayed one night, "Goodbye God, we are going to Bodie." But a local editor claimed she had really prayed, "Good. By God we are going to Bodie."
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada by way of Aurora, Wellington, and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by an armed guard. Once the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
A first in electrical power
In 1893 the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant, located approximately 13 miles away on Green Creek, above Bridgeport, California. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower and 6,600 volts alternating current to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation is marked as one of the first transmissions of electricity over long-distance.
Interesting points about town
Bodie had its own Chinatown, which had several hundred Chinese residents at one point, and even included a Taoist temple. Chinese workers earned their incomes mainly from selling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling, and selling firewood.
Bodie has a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary which is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation from the intense summer heat which would make undertaking a malodorous job.
As with most remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestinely important red light district on the north end of town. From this is told the unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She was attributed to giving life-saving care to many, but was denied burial within the gates of the town cemetery, remaining a social outcast even to her death.
In town's center stands the Miners Union Hall, a general meeting place for residents. It now serves as a quasi town museum. As a State Park, the ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
Weather
Summers in Bodie were hot, but in winter, temperatures often plummeted well below 0°F, and winds could sweep across the valley at close to 100 miles per hour. These days nights stay plenty cold even throughout the summer months, and to this day the ghost town most often holds the nightly records for coldest temperature in the nation. The harsh weather is due to a particularly bad combination of a very high altitude, (8,400 ft.), and a very exposed plateau, with little in the way of a natural surrounding wall to protect the long, flat piece land from the elements. Plenty of firewood was needed to keep residents warm through the long winters, possibly related to the fact that there are very few trees today in the area. Many inadequately prepared residents perished during the winter of 1878–1879, which was particularly harsh.
Authentic ghost town
Though greatly reduced in prominence, Bodie held a permanent residency through most of the 20th century. Bodie is now the Wild West's most authentic, intact ghost town, even after a fire ravaged much of the downtown business district in 1932. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 it became Bodie State Historic Park
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survives. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of over 10,000 people. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Bodie is open all year, but the most comfortable time to visit is during the summer months.
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I am currently in the middle of applying for Permanent Residency here in the USA and its a scary process. I met my husband on the internet 4 years ago, we were 12 000 miles apart. In the past 4 years we have both moved across the world to be together and now I am here wanting to live in his homeland to be with his family.
Wish us luck!
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This bill would provide conditional permanent residency to certain illegal and deportable alien students who graduate from US high schools, who are of good moral character, arrived in the U.S. legally or illegally as minors, and have been in the country continuously for at least five years prior to the bill's enactment. If they were to complete two years in the military or two years at a four year institution of higher learning, the students would obtain temporary residency for a six year period. Within the six year period, a qualified student must have "acquired a degree from an institution of higher education in the United States or [have] completed at least 2 years, in good standing, in a program for a bachelor's degree or higher degree in the United States," or have "served in the armed services for at least 2 years and, if discharged, [have] received an honorable discharge." Military enlistment contracts require an eight year commitment, with active duty commitments typically between four and six years, but as low as two years. "Any alien whose permanent resident status is terminated [according to the terms of the Act] shall return to the immigration status the alien had immediately prior to receiving conditional permanent resident status under this Act."
In a December 2010 report, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that the November 30th, 2010 version of the dream act would "reduce deficits by about $1.4 billion over the 2011-2020 period."