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¡¡LLEGA EL BIKE 3.0!!
En esta ocasión, hemos querido homenajear el Punk/Rock o "Rock Radical Vasco" de la década de los 80.
Para ello diez grupos de nuestro entorno (Insertbeat, Dr. J, Mimoloco, J. L. Canal, Gose, PlanetaLeta, Lab 7, Dr Pinsapo Vs LaHaine, Backbone eta GZK) han realizado versiones electrónicas de temas míticos de aquella época.
Los grupos seleccionados han sido Eskorbuto, Zarama, Cicatriz, Las Vulpes, La polla Records, Delirium Tremens, Hertzainak, Kortatu, Barricada y RIP. Además, en algunas de las canciones hemos tenido la suerte de contar con la colaboración de los cantantes originales. Así, "El Drogas" de Barricada, Roberto Moso de Zarama, Mamen de Las Vulpes y Andoni de Delirium Tremens han tomado parte en el proyecto.
¡Preparaos para escuchar temas que ya son clásicos de una manera completamente nueva!
Bilbao Kolektibo Elektronikoa
Taken at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington.
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Photo by Ryan Somma of ideonexus.com.
These were taken during the week of 6/11-6/18 while staying at Backbone State Park.
Everytime I go to Backbone I find something old and something new. This was Iowa's first state park and a destination I visit as often as I can.
Steve W.
Big Drift
(48.697474, -113.709281)
Elevation: 6503 ft.
++ 2019 Newspaper Report: Going To The Sun Road
WEST GLACIER — Crews plowing Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road from the east and west sides have met near the middle, finishing the bulk of the snow removal project this year.
Officials say the crews on Wednesday (June 5th) broke through the "big drift," a site east of Logan Pass where snow depths reach between 40 and 80 feet.
The spot on the 50-mile road is where the crews from the two sides usually meet. The teams met up two days earlier than they did last year.
The teams started clearing snow on April 1, using excavators to reduce the walls to a manageable level. They then used snowplows to clear the rest.
The park expects the road to reopen June 22.
++ The Big Drift
The Big Drift is the result of winter snows and blowing winds. Located east of the Continental Divide along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, this snowdrift can accumulate over 100 feet deep. Winds push snow up and over the Continental Divide onto a thin ridge of rock (that was formed by glaciers), which is known as the Garden Wall.
In the spring, a helicopter surveys the area in preparation for snow removal of Going-to-the-Sun Road. They use GPS and visual signs to identify potential avalanche risks and to help locate the road, which is completely hidden by snow.
Usually in early April, crews begin removing snow working from both ends of the 53 mile road. The Big Drift is typically reached sometime in late May, and it can take a month to clear that one mile stretch of road. The crews use explosives and front-end loaders to remove the snow by pushing it over the cliff or hauling it away in dump trucks. Plowing the entire stretch of road takes about ten weeks. Logan Pass can usually be accessed by passenger vehicles in early to mid June. glaciernationalpark.mobi/going-sun-road/big-drift/
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Miss Michael Finsterbusch, Queen Mary, University of London
This image is of a pericyte, a specialised cell that wraps around blood vessels. The red lines running along the length of the perticyte are actin fibres, providing strength to the cell like a skeleton.
The green dots are receptor proteins. These are essential for the pericytes to interact with their environment. The scientists hope to discover how pericytes behave during inflammation. Inflammation is a key part of the processes that happen during heart disease.
These were taken during the week of 6/11-6/18 while staying at Backbone State Park.
Everytime I go to Backbone I find something old and something new. This was Iowa's first state park and a destination I visit as often as I can.
Steve W.
#BeyondDenial - The Elephant in the Room is Racism
Photos by : Alex Garland, Damien Conway, Andy Clark, and John Duffy.
On August 17th in downtown Seattle passersby were invited to take part in a public interactive art installation to expose racism as the “elephant in the room.” The event was organized by activists from the pacific northwest and around the country who participated in Backbone Campaign's annual week-long Localize This! Action Camp.
About a week prior in the same location white progressives attending an event where Bernie Sanders was speaking were challenged by activists identifying themselves as part of #BlackLivesMatter. The Elephant in the Room action was a response to the request by people of color for white people to educate themselves to see racism and white privilege and then take actions to end racism.
The group was made up of predominantly white activists who were looking inwards and reaching out to their peers to join them in this action. They are challenging themselves and others to commit to taking at least one concrete step towards racial justice and to share their challenge.
Pitch-in to support the Localize This Action Camp at www.BackboneCampaign.org/Donate/
Read more about this action and learn how you can bring it to your community at
These were taken during the week of 6/11-6/18 while staying at Backbone State Park.
Everytime I go to Backbone I find something old and something new. This was Iowa's first state park and a destination I visit as often as I can.
Steve W.
A weekend drive through northeast Iowa included a stop at Backbone State Park ... the oldest state park in Iowa.
These were taken during the week of 6/11-6/18 while staying at Backbone State Park.
Everytime I go to Backbone I find something old and something new. This was Iowa's first state park and a destination I visit as often as I can.
Steve W.
These were taken during the week of 6/11-6/18 while staying at Backbone State Park.
Everytime I go to Backbone I find something old and something new. This was Iowa's first state park and a destination I visit as often as I can.
Steve W.
Taken about 9am Thursday Oct 6th along the South Lake trail. We stayed in the beautiful campground Oct 4 - 7, 2011.
Tom M.
The monastery consists of two courtyards surrounded by low buildings.
In the centre of each courtyard there is a small church built in the Byzantine style.
One of them, the smaller Old Church dates from 1695, while the more recentGreat Church was built in 1846.
The monastery of Sinaia was built in 1695 by the great backbone Mihai Cantacuzino, the son of the late Constantine, and named by Dositei, Patriarch of Jerusalem, "Buceagul Monastery".
The appointment of Sinaia gave the Cantacuzino backpack to the monastery, as can be seen from the "foundation act".
Initially the monastery was built so as to house twelve monks (following the model of the Savior Jesus Christ who chose twelve apostles), but over time their number increased, and it was necessary to build another larger church and some additional cells.
The new constructions, which is called today the "new courtyard", were made between 1842-1846, by the care of the abbot Joasaf and Paisie.
Due to its strategic position, the Sinaia Monastery met numerous Turkish and Austrian invasions, which partially destroyed the monastery.
At Sinaia Monastery there are not only three hundred years of history, but a true museum of Romanian art and spirituality.
The old church is built in the Brancovan style, characteristic architecture of the Romanian Country, style bearing the name of St. Voivode Constantin Brancoveanu (martyred in Constantinople by the Turks in 1714).
Particularly impressive is the church portal, which is carved, depicting Moses with the Tables of the Law on the right, and on his left side his brother, Aaron, with the leafy staff.
In the middle of the portal is the coat of arms of the founding family - the Cantacuzino family - the bicephal eagle that holds in the claws the imperial signs of power: the scepter and the cross.
The porch and naos painting is the original one, made by Pârvu Mutu Zugravul, the favorite painter of the Cantacuzinians.
It should be noted that he was the one who built the first hospital in the Romanian Country - Colțea Hospital, in Bucharest, and that his whole life encouraged charitable works.
The Sinaia monastery also has a beautiful paraclis, dating from the same period - 1695.
The paraclis is a small church, a chapel, specific to the bishops and to the episcopal or metropolitan monasteries where daily services are held.
Also in the courtyard of the old monastery, near the paraclis, is the tomb of Tache Ionescu, prime minister during the First World War, which played a very important role in uniting the Romanian countries after the war.
Being ill, he healed at the Sinaia Monastery, leaving by will the desire to be buried at the monastery where he was healed.
Located in the new premises and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, the great Church was built of stone and brick between 1842-1846 through the efforts of the monks who lived here.
The oil painting was executed on a mosaic gold background, in a non-Byzantine style, by the Danish painter Aage Exner.
He made a synthesis of the Romanian religious architectural culture, a church with thick walls and strong buttresses, characteristic of the monasteries of Moldova on which he engraved the specific elements of the Brancovan style of the Romanian Country.
Through the care of King Carol I, the large church of the Sinaia Monastery was endowed with electricity, being the first electrified church and monastery in Romania.
The royal family lived during their vacations in Sinaia, at the monastery for 11 years, starting with 1871.
After their relocation to the castle, when they celebrated 200 years since the monastery was founded, they were arranged in these spaces (old residences).