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Full name: Club Atlético de Madrid,
Nickname: Los Colchoneros, Los Rojiblancos
Founded: 1903
Stadium: Vicente Calderon (54 851)
President: Enrique Cerezo
Website: www.clubatleticodemadrid.com
Atletico Madrid Clubs that one city with Real Madrid was established on 26 April 1903 by three Basque mahaiswa living in Madrid. At first the club was founded as a branch of the club Atletico Bilbao who had previously established (1898). Many former players from Barcelona FC to join the new club, where the club was originally white blue costume costumes worn Atletico Bilbao. In 1921 the club officially broke away from Atletico Bilbao. And in 1923, Atletico Madrid who changed his costume into the red and white stripes establishes the first stadium, which is named Metropolitan. A number of top players ever to play at this club, including the following: Spain coach Luis Aragones at the 2006 World Cup, Vava, Brazilian star in the 1970 World Cup, while Argentina goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol World Cup 1978 and the striker Christian Vieri of Italy. Atltico has won both La Liga and the Copa del Rey on nine occasions, including a double winner in 1996. , In Europe, they won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1962, the European Cup runners-up in 1974, won the Intercontinental Cup in 1975, and won the Europa League in 2010, where Los Colchoneros to end their 48-year wait for continental honors , defeating Flam 2-1 in the final, which was held at the Hamburg Arena in Hamburg. Cages Los Colchoneros is Vicente Calderón, which currently holds up to 54,960 spectators. In 2012, Atletico moved into their new home Estadio La Peineta, which will have a capacity of 73,000. Jersey Atletico shirt is red and white vertical stripes, with blue shorts, accompanied by blue and red socks, this combination has been used since 1911. Nike is a manufacturer of Jersey, sponsor only Kyocera. During their history, the club has been recognized by a number of nicknames, including Los Colchoneros (The Mattress Makers in English), as the first lines of their team to be the same color as the old-fashioned mattresses. During the 1970s, they became known as Los Indios, allegedly due to the club to buy South American players after several restrictions on signing foreign players was appointed. However, there are a number of counter theories which claim they were so named because their stadium is “camp” on the river bank, or because Los Indios were the traditional enemy of Los Blancos (The Whites), which is the nickname of the club’s city rivals Real Madrid.
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Interesting discovery.
I can use my M42 to AR (Konica) adapter to affix the new ancient and dirty East German CZ Jena unbadged "Biotar" 58mm f2 lens to my Nikon D40.
The Tessar, however, is perfect and mostly lives behind a Rollei 30.5mm UV filter.
The Halberstadt cathedral features a prominent late Gothic rood screen (Lettner) from 1505 which partitions the church between the main nave and the choir.
The so-called Triumphkreuzgruppe (triumphal cross group) is affixed above the rood screen (Lettner) of 1505. It was created around 1215 and already was part of the previous Romanesque cathedral. The remarkable group of five wooden sculptures shows the crucifixion scene. It is referred to as triumphal cross because Christ is shown standing like ruler as it was common in Romanesque art (as opposed to hanging in later art where Christ is hanging with his feet crossed and attached with a single nail). But the slight curvature of Christ's body indicates the transition. Jesus is flanked by Mary (to his right) and John the Evangelist (to his left). On the outsides are two Cherubims. Cherubims were shown to have four wings in medieval art, as opposed to Seraphims who have six wings. The Halberstadt Cherubims actually have six wings (the two on the back are not visible here), yet still are referred to as Cherubims. The group stands on the apostle beam on which the twelve apostles are shown.
The Dom St. Stephanus und St. Sixtus is one of only a handful of Gothic cathedrals in Germany that followed the design of French cathedrals. A first church at this location was dedicated in 859. The bishopric of Halberstadt was founded in 968--which required the construction of a larger Romanesque cathedral. This cathedral was completely rebuilt in stages in a Gothic style starting in 1260 with a main nave that now measured 28 meters in height The current Gothic cathedral was completed and dedicated in 1491.
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ASHBURN, Va. -- It would be wrong to blame Monday’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins. It would not be wrong to think he could have done more to help them win.
This wasn’t about stats: Cousins’ numbers were solid as he posted a 101.4 passer rating. But that also shows how unreliable that statistic can be, because it suggests a terrific game. That wasn’t the case as it does not factor in some missed chances.
But also keep in mind that Cousins led two scoring drives at the end of the half and the game for 10 of their 16 points. He completed nine-of-12 passes on third downs, converting five into firsts (they had five third downs where they needed at least 10 yards). Cousins didn't lift the play of others and played a rather pedestrian game, but the main issue offensively remains the running game.
Here’s a little look at his game overall:
Throw I liked: The completion to Pierre Garcon on third-and-14. For starters, the line gave him time to throw against a three-man rush. Cousins looked middle, right, middle, left and back to the middle where he saw Garcon break over the middle for a first-down catch. The throw was a little behind Garcon, but give Cousins credit for hanging in the pocket and finding him. Also liked the 23-yard gain to Garcon when Cousins hit him in stride; well-designed play cleared out the middle. There were a couple bad throws in the game, sometimes with poor footwork. But other times he kept plays alive, sliding outside or scrambling with his eyes still downfield.
Throw I almost liked: This one looked a little dangerous initially, but I credit Dallas cornerback Mo Claiborne for a good play. But Cousins nearly connected with Reed down the left seam. It was a very tight window and Reed got his hands on the ball. But Claiborne, aligned to the outside with Matt Jones in his area, cheated a little to the inside paying more attention to Reed. With Reed a favorite target, perhaps in that situation it might have been better to have a different receiving option alongside Reed, just to keep Claiborne from paying more attention to the tight end. He’s the one who knocked the ball loose.
Missed chance: This one had to bug Cousins and the coaches. On a third-and-7 in the fourth quarter, Jackson had a half-step on cornerback Brandon Carr with no safety over the top. Not sure why, but Cousins seemed to look there, but did not make the throw, instead dumping to the right for Chris Thompson and a two-yard gain, setting up a missed field goal. For those wanting more downfield throws, the Redskins did go deep on two other occasions, both incomplete, to Garcon and Jackson. Both were in one-on-one situations to the outside, and both were missed by less than a yard.
Second chance: Cousins, of course, did go back to Jackson with a perfect ball for the 28-yard touchdown. It wasn’t the same play; this time Jackson ran a go route from the No. 2 receiver position (the middle of three wideouts on the right side).Jackson released to the outside and, with the safety aligned on the left hash (where the ball had been placed), there was no help.
Missed chance, part 11: On a first-and-10 in the second quarter, Jamison Crowder was in the slot to the left. His man blitzed, leaving him solo with the safety. Crowder gains leverage and a shot was there, but Cousins threw to Jackson on that side for seven yards. They still got a field goal, but Crowder had a step.
Against tendencies: The Redskins gained 20 yards on a bootleg pass to Crowder, thanks in part to breaking tendency. They had Tom Compton at tight end and Ryan Grant at receiver. In the past two games, that has meant run on 12 of their 15 plays (and 18 out of 27 for the season), according to ESPN Stats & Information. That’s one reason both safeties were within eight yards before the snap (dropping to a single-high look afterward). Two linebackers ran with Reed as he crossed to his left, leaving a gap for Crowder, against man coverage, on the bootleg. Earlier in the half, the Redskins threw with both Grant and Compton in the game on a bootleg to the left, hitting Reed for 16 yards.
Not sure about: A third-and-17 in the first half on which Cousins looked at Reed the whole way and then threw incomplete on an out route. If Reed had caught the ball, he would have been tackled well short of a first down. On the other side, Garcon ran a deep-in and was open at the 32-yard line for a first down. Now, I don’t know if Garcon should have been part of the progression or not (not every receiver is on every play; there were three targets to the left). If not, against this coverage they might want to add him or at least peek his way.
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because snapshots are all I do ^_^ Awww but they look so happy together! Danielle is holding Richard's hand!!! Considering it was a very rushed, arranged marriage, complete with kid, he's taking it well bless him ^_^ Well they are gorgeous girls, which helps!
This is what usually happens when something good runs on the Trenton Sub - it runs at the worst possible time and on the one day where the sun decides to make an appearance. Oh well, can't win em all!
Because of their strength, eagles have been a symbol of war and imperial power since Babylonian times.
City of London Bus Route #149 Bishopsgate Police Station Emergency Response Incident with Rescue Vehicle and Metropolitan Police Road Closure Because of Motorcycle Accident
Because of the restriction to 1000 photographs imposed by flickr, I moved most of the pictures of my silkstone dolls here : essai12457855.blogspot.com
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All Saints, Drinkstone, Suffolk
I've been here many times, but one visit stands out in my mind. I remember that it was a spring day, back in 2006. I had left Woolpit, and was cycling out into the hills. Woolpit is a good village, with pubs and shops and fine old houses, as well as one of Suffolk's most interesting churches, despite its faintly ridiculous 19th century steeple. The village is smaller than you'd expect from its centre, and soon I was threading through narrow lanes that dog-legged and climbed beside open fields.
Not long after leaving the houses behind I entered Drinkstone parish, and here side by side were two windmills, both now without sails but majestic still in the early spring sunshine. They are particularly interesting because the 16th Century post mill is the oldest in Suffolk. The smock mill beside it is not much younger, although it has been successively rebuilt over the years. Both were still in use into the 20th Century.
The sky clouded suddenly, and then there was the most tremendous thunderstorm. Soaked to the skin, I came down the hill into the village of Drinkstone. The infant River Blackbourn runs alongside the village street, and you cross it and climb up to All Saints. The rain stopped, the sun came out and the setting was lovely, the church above the road on a soft cushion of green, the old school beside it.
It might surprise you learn that the tower is neither medieval or Victorian. It was one of the earliest Suffolk towers built specifically to accommodate recreational bell-ringing, dating as it does from the last years of the 17th century, when this sport was beginning to take off. We know it was built at the behest of the Rector Thomas Cambourne, who also paid for the bells. A plaque remembering this is set in the west wall of the tower.
It is interesting to compare Drinkstone's tower with earlier Tudor red-brick towers like Hemley and Charsfield, and later 18th century ones ones like Grundisburgh and Cowlinge. It has more in common with the former than the latter, except that here there are classical louvred arches, perfectly designed for the bells to sound out from. If it looks more medieval than it is then it may be because of the lancet in the base stage, part of an 1860s upgrading by Edward Hakewill, whose trademark, a quatrefoil clerestory, is also in evidence above the aisles, looking very like the same thing at his Thurston across the A14. He appears to have raised the nave roof, or at least the angle at which it cuts into the tower, because this now looks rather awkward. If so, the east wall of the nave must also be his. The tracery in the east window certainly is, and that whole face of the chancel has been rebuilt. The 1860s glass in the east window is by Lavers & Barraud.
I find it hard to warm to Hakewill's work. His introduction of high gloom into the churches he restored seems intentional, and is often coupled with low aisles that only increase the austerity. Luckily, the great aisles here make the nave as wide as it is long, and you step in to a feeling of lightness. The great tower arch contains a modern ringing chamber in light wood, which looks splendid, and suggests that Cambourne's work is still very much appreciated.
One of the best things about this church is its scattering of 14th and 15th Century glass, Some of which is unusual, but all of it quite heavily restored. In the upper lights of the south chancel window are angels of the Precious Blood swinging censers. Christ in Majesty is at the top, and the two figures either side are two Marys and St John, reset here from a rood group.
The font is set against a pillar in the south arcade in the traditional manner, and is one of those arcaded octagonal fonts you find mainly in the east of the county, usually made from Purbeck marble. Or, at least, it appears to be, but I couldn't help wondering if it was actually an older, square font that had been cut down and decorated by someone locally. It just doesn't have the same finish as other fonts in this style. The benches are Victorian, and there are some hefty bench end carvings. Mortlock thought they might be from the studio of the great Ipswich woodcarver Henry Ringham, whose work is much in evidence up the road in Woolpit, but I wasn't so sure. They don't seem to me to be of the usual delicacy of his work. The dove with an olive branch, for example, looks more like a chicken.
There are also a couple of medieval bench ends at the back, and they repay more than a passing glance. Although the bench ends are very badly damaged, they both have carvings on them. One is an angel who has had his front neatly sliced off, presumably by an iconoclast to eradicate the design on his shield, while the other is a version of the carving at Blythburgh which is often referred to as 'scandal' - a face carved into the poppyhead with an outstretched tongue.There is another near here at Bradfield St George. This version is rather more elaborate than those two, because there are two further heads sticking out their tongues to left and right beneath the top head, and they have not been vandalised like he has.
Despite being repainted, the roodscreen is beautiful, the upper tracery boiling like lace into the air. The roodloft stairway set in the north wall beside it is one of the most complete in Suffolk, retaining all its original steps and even the handrail. There is a very curious stone platform stretching west of here. Today it is used for the lectern, but it may have been part of a tombchest originally, or even what Mortlock calls a preaching platform. It is certainly very unusual.
The drop-sill sedilia in the sanctuary has lost its arching, but the wooden panelling set into the back of it is medieval. Perhaps it came from the roodloft here. It was probably set there during the 19th century restoration, and may have come from anywhere originally, I suppose.
The family at Drinkstone Hall for many years were the Grigbys, and they've left their mark here. Two matching, elegant 18th century memorials with urns on flank the vestry door, with a simpler one above.
But more interesting are two memorials in the nave. Thomas Grigby was killed in the Peninsula war of 1811 - on board a transport bound for Cadiz, he was run down by the Franchise frigate off Falmouth and perished together with 233 souls. Almost forty years later, during the Indian Mutiny, fourth son of the Rector John Peloquin Cosserat was shot in the mouth by a musket ball while commanding his regiment the first Punjaub Cavalry against the rebels at Koorsee, an incident which seems to have stepped out of the pages of The Siege of Krishnapur.
As you can see, All Saints is full of interest. It doesn't wear its heart on its sleeve, and there must be very few of the many hundreds who visit Woolpit every year who ever make it down the road to here. I wandered around the graveyard in the sunshine. Although the area to the west of the tower has been partly cleared, the rest is fun to explore, with lots of 19th century graves and even some 18th century survivals. The massive yew tree by the south porch must have seen a fair few funeral processions in its time. I wandered further eastwards, and, as I approached it, one of the largest cats I've ever seen bestirred itself lazily from the long grass and wandered off. I guess there must be rich pickings for a hunting cat in a place like this.
And there are riches for church explorers in this area, many of them as little known as Drinkstone. The next parishes in each direction are Gedding, Rattlesden, and the wonderful Hessett, all worth an hour of your time, all as open and welcoming as this one.
Bruno and Tempest have been particularly annoying today, so I did what any woman pushed to the brink of sanity would do: I photographed them with my bra on their heads. Passive torture. Cruel? Maybe, but no boxer dogs were harmed in the making of this picture.
Bruno's turned out better than Tempy's, but now when he brings girls over I can pull out the photo album and show them how cute he was back then. ;)
Because I can't drive for a while because I am one handed.. I have been waiting for John to take me out for a drive.It took a while it get around to it and by the time we got to New Brighton the rain started. Lucky it wasn't too heavy so managed to get a few shots!
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Christchurch December 21, 2013 New Zealand.