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걸그룹 티아라 지연이 28일 오후 경상북도 경주 시민운동장에서 열린 ‘2014 한류 드림 페스티벌’에서 화려한 공연을 펼치고 있다. 이날 콘서트에는 엑소-케이(EXO-K)를 비롯해 카라, 씨스타, 포미닛, 빅스, 비투비, 블락비, 에일리, 시크릿, 비에이피, 크레용팝, 티아라, 달샤벳, 탑독, 포커즈, 갓세븐, 베스티, 딕펑스, 레드벨벳, 소년공화국, 헤일로, 루커스 등이 출연했다.
My buddy over at SoupUp Magazine (http://soupupmagazine.com) is doing a story on an old dirt track racer from Waco, Texas who competed in the 1960's. This newspaper article is of him and in the background of the picture is a VW bus in the background. He was kind enough to pass this along! Look close!
Truly the ultimate! Inspiration for my first HO Aurora Model Motoring race track in the late sixties, and still for my more recent custom-routed small-scale track.
I stumbled across this article on scanning film with a DSLR and I thought I’d give it a try. I picked up the cheapest extension tubes I could find on Amazon that would autofocus, etc (about $15). Before buying a light box I thought I’d see if it worked. So I set up the negative in a film holder from my enlarger, clamped it to a light stand in front of a white wall, and bounced my flash off the wall behind the negative. It took a little fiddling to get the camera in the right spot but I got there eventually. Bracket the exposure, and then play with it in photoshop. Not bad for a first try. And, this means I don’t need to spend several hundred dollars on a scanner. Win!
Original illustration sketch By Mitchell Jamieson for an article about brain investigation science in the Washington Post/ Evening Star. From the Jamieson Estate.
From the New York Times of August 10, 2009: "WideNoise: Monitor Noise Levels on Your iPhone" by Richard McManus
nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/08/10/10readwritew...
"Using WideNoise I discovered that I live in a "sleeping cat" area -- although it felt more like a "rock concert area" last Friday about 2am when the neighbour had his mates around! So your mileage may vary. ... Both WideNoise and OpenSpime are the creation of the company WideTag, Inc., which looks to be building some innovative Internet of Things products. iPhone users can purchase WideNoise for US$1.99 from the Apple App Store."
This image was used here with permission of Dolls Magazine.
Dolls Magazine was so kind to feature my face up work as well as the work of FroggyDuds clothing design in the September 2009 issue. Not all these photos fit in the article of course, but I liked them enough to share here anyway. :0)
You can view Dolls online at www.dollsmagazine.com. The full article can be seen here on pages 18 and 19: viewer.zmags.com/publication/8cd690b8
here's an article on the history of this amazing, 11m tall portrait (in spanish)
www.elpais.com/articulo/madrid/esencia/Malasana/elpepucul...
originally everyone thought that the picture was of a she. it turns out that "she's" a he.
I want to share this link with everybody who wasn't able to get an issue of the Treasures magazine that featured the article on Haeger Pottery. The author published the story in several magazine and I found a link to one of them where you can see and read the story for free. So check out the link and I hope you enjoy it. :-) www.antiquesandauctionnews.net/Article+Display/Haeger+-+1...
151st day of protests infront of the US State Department, by Iranians demanding end to harrasment and delisting of the MEK/PMOI by the US.
the article explains:
MEK provides hope for Iranian people
Sadegh Sistani - 8/5/2011
Much has been said and discussed about the MEK/PMOI in the press and among policy makers, some behind closed doors and others in high-level diplomatic meetings. The most prominent Iranian opposition group (Mojahedin as known by the Iranian people) is a main battleground which will determine lives of millions in Iran and the whole region.
The charge that the MEK has no support in Iran is, frankly, baseless.
The 2009 uprisings and latest official purge within the clerical hierarchy leave no doubt for appeasers that democracy is void in Iran and therefore it would be only self suicide for any Iranian to display an iota of sympathy for the MEK, which is classified as “Moharebe”* by a fatwa released by Khomeini.
I endured 17 years of prison and torture under the clerical regime in Iran.
During the 2009 uprisings, I met in prison tens of youth, tortured and beaten and accused of correlating and working with the MEK. We were submerged in a wave of desperate negative propaganda against the organization. Press titles read:” The commander of Ashura day incidents was the PMOI and rioters chanted their slogans” and that” Saying no to Velayat-e Faqih (Iranian Supreme Leader) means that you have accepted the rule of Maryam Rajavi instead.”
The punishment and “Verdict for protestors is death “in Iran (Mohseni-Ejei, former Minister of Intelligence- Mehr stat-run news agency, January 4, 2010) and “Anyone who helps PMOI in any way will be deemed Moharebe* (First Deputy of Judiciary- Channel 2 TV, December 30, 2009).
The number of street protestors arrested for association with the Mojaheden (MeK) also depicts its role in demonstrations as do slogans echoing Mojahedin chants, e.g., calling for a democratic change by chanting “down with the principle of Velayat-e Faqih” (referring to Supremacy of one man -Khamenei).
The aftermath of the 2009 uprising there was a wave of executions, mainly MEK members, such as Jafar Kazemi, Ali Aghaei,… and tens of death orders for its supporters who were charged with either visiting Camp Ashraf or taking part in the protests.
The clerical regime’s fear of the MEK has already reflected in increasing widening of the rift and escalation of qualms in the Hierarchy of the regime which is adamantly leading to an implosion of the entirely of this illegitimate regime.
Only during the last two weeks, the MEK/PMOI has occupied 90 percent of clerical regime propaganda spur referring to the organization at least 100 times.
It is time to resolve the long argued paradox: “The MEK cannot be an isolated little sect and the most powerful and feared element by the clerical regime at the same time."
All this illustrates just how significant the Mujahedeen of Iran are in the Iranian puzzle and how urgently the US needs to stand alongside the people in their choice to bring about a complete change through its capable and well rooted organization , the MEK by delisting the organization from its FTO list.
The Mujahedeen are a well-organized, highly-educated, and devoted group of Iranian activists who have stood alone on the frontline to terror and Islamic fundamentalism for at least 27 years now well before the West finally realized the threat. They have warned of, and urged vigilance against, the clerical regime for years, only to be brushed aside by skeptical intellectuals and pro engagement pundits in Europe and the US. They have tried to educate a duped Western audience about the enormous capacity of the Islamic fundamentalists to inflict pain and suffering on the social fabric of modern society, ripping it asunder and thrusting it into a convulsion of crises that it can benefit from.
At the same the fear the clerical regime has towards its only serious enemy, the MEK as its anti-thesis.
However, the US policy to confront the clerical fascist regime in Iran is incoherent. Appeasers in Capitol Hill steered by lobbies of the Iranian regime somehow manage to combine colossal moral failure with strategic imbecility with the overpowering stench of hypocrisy to pass over the huge loss of National interest of the United States in the game over Iran. Nevertheless, the Iranian people, having 35 years of priceless struggle against the religious fascist ruling Iran distinguish best and stand with their only chance for Democracy: the MEK.
Recognizing the people’s right to resist the tyrannical rule in Iran and lending support to the opposition who aspires to establish the principles of a free secular Republic, is the only beacon for the Iranian populous in Iran. This will send a true message of good will gesture to the Iranian people and also the people of the region; The United States to pave way for peace and security in Iran and the region by siding with the people and not their henchmen.
The only necessary step should be to recognize the Mojahedin –e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) as the true voice of the Iranian people who desire complete change in their homeland.
On July 30, the Iranian resistance announced the results of a 64-hour telethon, during which Iranians contributed $3.28 million dollars to the INTV (the Iranian resistance Satellite Television broadcasting to four continents and covering Iran with anti- government news and broadcast).The extensive support displayed during the programme is only one example of millions of the love and respect the Iranian people have towards the Mojahedin (MEK).
I would like to end with the words of one of the supporters of the MEK in Iran, Mohammad, who had participated in telethon:
“The MEK is like a mirror, reflecting one's true self; for some showing tyranny and decadents and others; honor and dignity in self-sacrifice for a people and their struggle for freedom."
References:
*The commander of Ashura day incidents was the PMOI and rioters chanted their slogans
State-run News Network TV-December 30, 2009
Ahmad Alamolhoda, the city of Mashhad’s Friday Prayer Leader said ; “The Ashura day act was commanded by the PMOI, The PMOI commanded the Ashura day operation. They [protestors] not only cooperated with them but actually served as the foot soldiers of PMOI.”
*First Deputy of Judiciary: Anyone helping the PMOI in any way and under any circumstances will be considered as Mohareb
Channel 2 TV-December 30, 20009
*Ayatollah Seyyed Yousef Tabatabainejad, the Leader of Isfahan’s Friday Prayers, said: Saying no to Velayat-e Faqih means that you have accepted rule of Maryam Rajavi instead.”
State-run Fars news agency-January 1, 2010
Mr. Sistani has been a prominent political prisoner who escaped Iranian dungeons in April 2011 and has endured 17 years and 8 months of torture and interrogation by the Iranian Intelligence service.
Balat (IsIstanbul
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul,_Turkey
Toponymy
Main article: Names of Istanbul
Byzantium (Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion) is the first known name of the city. Around 660 BC,[note 1] Greek settlers from the city-state of Megara founded a Doric colony on the present-day Istanbul, and named the new colony after their king, Byzas.[12] After Constantine I (Constantine the Great) made the city the new eastern capital of the Roman Empire in 330 AD, the city became widely known as Constantinopolis or Constantinople, which, as the Latinised form of "Κωνσταντινούπολις" (Kōnstantinoúpolis), means the "City of Constantine".[13] He also attempted to promote the name Nea Roma ("New Rome"), but this never caught on.[14] Constantinople remained the official name of the city throughout the Byzantine period, and the most common name used for it in the West until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.
By the 19th century, the city had acquired a number of names used by either foreigners or Turks. Europeans often used Stamboul alongside Constantinople to refer to the whole of the city, but Turks used the former name only to describe the historic peninsula between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara. Pera was used to describe the area between the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, but Turks also used the name Beyoğlu, which is still in use today.[15] However, with the Turkish Postal Service Law of 28 March 1930, the Turkish authorities formally requested foreigners to adopt İstanbul, a name in existence since the 10th century,[16] as the sole name of the city within their own languages.[17]
Etymologically, the name "İstanbul" (Turkish pronunciation: [isˈtanbuɫ], colloquially [ɯsˈtambuɫ]) derives from the Medieval Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" [is tin ˈpolin] or, in the Aegean dialect, "εἰς τὰν Πόλιν" [is tan ˈpolin] (Modern Greek "στην Πόλη" [stin ˈpoli]), which means "in the city" or "to the city".[13][16] In modern Turkish, the name is written "İstanbul", with a dotted İ, as the Turkish alphabet distinguishes between a dotted and dotless I. Also, while in English the stress is on the first syllable ("Is"), in Turkish it is on the second syllable ("tan"). Like Rome, Istanbul has been called "The City of Seven Hills" because the oldest part of the city is supposedly built on seven hills, each of which bears a historic mosque.[18]
History
First settlements
Main article: Byzantium
Byzantine remains of a column found at Byzantium's acropolis, located today within the Topkapı Palace complex.
Recent construction of the Marmaray tunnel unearthed a Neolithic settlement underneath Yenikapı on Istanbul's peninsula. Dating back to the 7th millennium BC, before the Bosphorus was even formed, the discovery indicated that the peninsula was settled thousands of years earlier than previously thought.[19] Thracian tribes established two settlements—Lygos and Semistra—on the Sarayburnu, near where Topkapı Palace now stands, between the 13th and 11th centuries BC. On the Asian side, artifacts have been found in Fikirtepe (present-day Kadıköy) that date back to the Chalcolithic period.[20] The same location was the site of a Phoenician trading post at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC as well as the town of Chalcedon, which was established by Greek settlers from Megara in 685 BC.[10]
However, the history of Istanbul generally begins around 660 BC,[note 1] when the settlers from Megara, under the command of King Byzas, established Byzantion (Latinised as Byzantium) on the European side of the Bosphorus. By the end of the century, an acropolis was established at the former locations of Lygos and Semistra, on the Sarayburnu.[12] The city experienced a brief period of Persian rule at the turn of the 5th century BC, but the Greeks recaptured it during the Greco-Persian Wars.[21] Byzantium then continued as part of the Athenian League and its successor, the Second Athenian Empire, before ultimately gaining independence in 355 BC.[22] Long protected by the Roman Republic, Byzantium officially became a part of the Roman Empire in AD 73.
Byzantium's decision to side with the usurper Pescennius Niger against Roman Emperor Septimus Severus cost it dearly; by the time it surrendered at the end of 195, two years of siege had left the city devastated.[23] Still, five years later, Severus began to rebuild Byzantium, and the city regained—and, by some accounts, surpassed—its previous prosperity.[24]
Rise and fall of Constantinople
Main article: Constantinople
Further information: Fall of Constantinople
Created in 1422 by Cristoforo Buondelmonti, this is the oldest surviving map of Constantinople and the only one that predates the Ottoman conquest.
When Constantine I defeated Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis in September 324, he effectively became the emperor of the whole of the Roman Empire.[25] Just two months later, Constantine laid out the plans for a new, Christian city to replace Byzantium. Intended to replace Nicomedia as the eastern capital of the empire, the city was named Nea Roma (New Rome); however, most simply called it Constantinople ("the city of Constantine"), a name that persisted into the 20th century.[26] Six years later, on 11 May 330, Constantinople was proclaimed the capital of an empire that eventually became known as the Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire.[27]
The establishment of Constantinople served as one of Constantine's most lasting accomplishments, shifting Roman power eastward and becoming a center of Greek culture and Christianity.[27][28] Numerous churches were built across the city, including the Hagia Sofia, which remained the world's largest cathedral for a thousand years.[29] The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople developed in the city, and its leader is still one of the foremost figures in the Greek Orthodox Church. Constantinople's location also ensured its existence would stand the test of time; for many centuries, its walls and seafront protected Europe against invaders from the east as well as from the advance of Islam.[28] During most of the Middle Ages and the latter part of the Byzantine period, Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in the western world.[30]
The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled the end of the Byzantine Empire.
Constantinople began to decline after the Fourth Crusade, during which it was sacked and pillaged.[32] The city subsequently became the center of the Latin Empire, created by Catholic crusaders to replace the Orthodox Byzantine Empire, which was divided into splinter states.[33] However, the Latin Empire was short-lived, and the Byzantine Empire was restored, weakened, in 1261.[34] Constantinople's churches, defenses, and basic services were in disrepair,[35] and its population had dwindled to forty thousand from nearly half a million during the 9th century.[36][37]
Various economic and military policies instituted by Andronikos II, such as the reduction of forces, weakened the empire and left it more vulnerable to attack.[38] In the mid-14th century, the Ottoman Turks began a strategy by which they took smaller towns and cities over time, cutting off Constantinople's supply routes and strangling it slowly.[39] Finally, on 29 May 1453, after an eight-week siege (during which the last Roman Emperor, Constantine XI, was killed), Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" captured Constantinople and declared it the new capital of the Ottoman Empire.[40][41] Hours later, the sultan rode to the Hagia Sofia and summoned an imam to proclaim the Islamic creed, converting the grand cathedral into an imperial mosque.[42]
After putting 15ish miles on her to check for gremlins & finishing the last few jobs this afternoon, I declare this eBike finished :)
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These scans come from my rather large magazine collection. Instead of filling my house with old moldy magazines, I scanned them (in most cases, photographed them) and filled a storage area with moldy magazines. Now they reside on an external harddrive. I thought others might appreciate these tidbits of forgotten history.
Please feel free to leave any comments or thoughts or impressions... Thanks in advance!
For complete article please visit:
occupythefarm.org/category/c27-statements/
"On Saturday, May 11th, Occupy the Farm peacefully marched onto the Gill Tract to challenge the UC’s renewed plans for private, commercial development of this public agricultural resource, replacing 5-foot high weeds with thousands of squash, kale, basil, corn, lettuce and tomato plants, and even flowers.
Rather than recognizing this as an opportunity to position itself on the cutting edge of urban agriculture and participatory research, the University raided the farm on Monday, May 13, at 4:30 a.m. and violently arrested four peaceful farmers, three of whom were held for more than 60 hours before being released without charge. The University then ploughed over the farm that morning, destroying thousands of starts that, if nurtured, would have provided sustenance to local communities.
“This land has been vacant for years,” said an Occupy the Farm member, Matthew McHale, “the UC only destroyed the crops because it’s afraid that if the community sees what an amazing asset this would be as a community farm, they would refuse to let it be paved over.”
In protest of the UC’s actions, more than eighty farmers and community members re-converged on Monday afternoon for a rally, then marched back onto the farm to replant the field and recover some of the starts they had planted over the weekend. The University plowed the farm again Tuesday morning.
Since Occupy the Farm first planted on the Gill tract in April 2012, the group has organized at least 10 public forums focused on the Gill Tract as an asset to community-driven participatory research. The UC Berkeley administration has consistently failed to attend, despite being invited repeatedly. Students on campus however, support turning the land into an urban farm; last Spring the Associated Students of the University of California Senate unanimously passed a resolution in support of Occupy the Farm."
In de serie Mijn geld werd een kijkje in de keuken genomen van het leven van geneeskunde studenten. Ze werden hiervoor geïnterviewd over hun inkomsten en uitgaven.
De portretten werden gemaakt op hun studentenkamer. In een enkel geval werd de aansluiting gemaakt met zijn/haar hobby of passie waar het meeste geld in ging zitten of het werk waar het geld vandaan kwam.
De serie heeft gelopen van februari 2009 tot en met januari 2012 in het blad Arts & auto van de Vereniging voor Arts en Auto (VvAA).
LOVE. STORY
It took 30 years but Anne and Ed Candreva
of Fire Island Pines finally had their dream
wedding. Anne explained.
Ed and I were introduced by mutual
friends during Memorial Day weekend, 1974,
on the boardwalk at Fire Island Pines.
I was from New Jersey and working a summer job at the Blue Whale Restaurant and Bar as a pool lifeguard by day and cock tail waitress by night.
Ed’s family had been living in the Pines
since he was 10. They owned Peter’s Marina
Market, where Ed Iworked for his dad.
Ed would often stop by the pooi for a quick swim while I was working and we’d talk. We had a lot in common, and he was becoming a good friend, I thought.
A few weeks later, Ed and I were both at a
party, when he suddenly asked me to do him
a favor and wear his high school ring.
So anothjer girl would leave him alone , I said ok , but after a while we got so used to being together we had so much in common and were the best of friends , So 6 months later w
We eloped to Elkton, Md., and were married at the stroke of noon. We were 18.
For many years, Ed and I struggled with very little money. Weboth worked hard at the market on Fire Island during the summer, and off-season Ed worked as a carpenter while I managed a drug store.
We purchased a house in Holbrook, raised two beautiful Sons and have 3 Grandchildren We have been active in the Fire Island Pines volunteer Fire Depart ment where Ed is assistant chief. Over the years, we’ve created a fabulous blend of friends and family.
Who all attended our real Disney Fairy Tale wedding
Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme - article 7
Calligraphie gestuelle et Fraktur, aquarelle
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Check out Sigur Whitaker's fine article on Barney Oldfield and Harry Miller's historic Golden Submarine race car.
Barney Oldfield was one of the preeminent race car drivers of the early era in auto racing. He set many speed records ranging from one mile to 100 miles including a 100 mph record for one lap (2.5 miles) at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He was so renown that through the 1940s, if a person was stopped for speeding by a policeman, he was frequently asked, “Who do you think you are, Barney Oldfield?”
Harry Miller, the son of German immigrants, worked for several concerns including Ransom Old’s entry in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup entry before establishing a small engineering shop in Los Angeles specializing in carburetors. He soon expanded to building automobile pistons and fuel pumps. Southern California racers including Barney Oldfield and Bob Burman both used his shop to rebuild their automobile engines. Miller became the preeminent engine builder for race cars during the 1920s.
One of Barney’s friends and competitor, Bob Burman, also set many speed records. After Burman’s left tire exploded and his car rolled over killing him in April 1916 during the Corona road race, Barney approached Harry Miller to build him a revolutionary car.
Unlike the racers of the time, the car had a roof with an enclosed roll bar. It was Miller’s first attempt to build a race car. Constructed with aluminum, it had thin rectangular holes for the driver to look out. Its body and chassis were wind tunnel tested. The weight of the car at 1600 pounds was heavier than its competitors.
Because safety glass had not yet been invented, the small windows were covered by wire mesh to deflect stones and dirt clods. Oldfield claimed that he could smoke a cigar at 100 mph because there was so little wind inside the car. The golden color was achieved from a combination of bronze dust and lacquer. The car cost $15,000 to build which would be $343,000 in 2023.
The Golden Submarine was powered by a 289 cubic inch single-cam four-cylinder engine. The engine, which was partly based upon Burman’s Peugeot engine, was the first that Miller designed.
The car’s first race was at the Chicago Board Speedway in June 1917 where Oldfield qualified for the pole position with a speed of 107.4 mph. The engine failed after 10 miles, but its average speed up to that point was 104 mph. The next week, Oldfield defeated Ralph DePalma driving a Packard three times on the Milwaukee dirt track. In the final of three races at Atlanta in July 1917, Oldfield nearly died when the car lost a wheel and plunged into a pond. He was trying to catch DePalma in a ten-mile race who had a quarter-lap lead when the “Golden Submarine” lost its right front wheel at the southern turn. At the time, Oldfield was going an estimated 70 mph. Earlier in the day, Oldfield had established a southern dirt-track record for one mile at 50 seconds on the first laps of a 25 mile race with DePalma. The race was easily won by Oldfield. During 1917, the Golden Submarine raced thirty-five times and won seventeen times. Oldfield established multiple dirt-track speed records.
Racing resumed after the end of World War I. In the 1919 Indianapolis 500, Roscoe Sarles piloting the Golden Submarine started from the 19th position in the field of thirty-three with a qualifying speed of 97.7 mph. The race was a disappointment for both Sarles and Barney Oldfield who owned the car. It finished in last place after a rocker arm failed on the 9th lap. In 1919, The “Golden Submarine” competed in 19 races and scored three wins. After the 1919 season, the Golden Submarine was sold.
The car was destroyed when J. Allen Sloan’s barn in Joliet, Illinois, burned to the ground. There are replicas of the car including one built by Dan Webb and one built by Charles Glick for Dale Bell.
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