Just to clarify, I didn't "Sea Diddley Doo" anything.

The image for today was taken this morning in the City Centre of Coventry. It is a view of part of what remains of the Medieval Town Wall. This section of the wall that is located in Lady Herbert's Garden is connected to the Swanswell Gate (one of only 2 surviving Town Gates in the City). It is also one of the largest surviving sections of wall that remain.

 

The photo was taken using the app ExposerGL on my iPhone 6.

 

First I used the app Snapseed to edit the photo. I Cropped the image and applied the Tonal Contrast filter. I then boosted the Saturation, Ambiance and Warmth. I also decreased the Highlights and added a little extra Structure and Sharpening. Next I used the app Mextures to apply the formula called Shiver by Ana Gōmez de Leōn. After this I used the app DistressedFX to add the Stirred overlay and the Lade texture. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Clarify preset, the Stark FX and a Medium Dark Vignette. I then applied the Scratched texture and the Leather frame.

A few days ago, I took this photo while taking a walk around Stanley Park and Coal Harbour. It seems that it will still be another few weeks until the autumn colours in the Vancouver reach their peak. However, the changing colours in the leaves throughout the city are already very beautiful and a great sight to see...

 

EF35mm f/1.4L USM

f/3.2, 1/160 sec, ISO 100

 

By the way, for low-angle shots like this, I do not lay down on the ground, as I prefer to stay clean. Instead, I shoot blindly, similar to shooting from the hip...I just wanted to clarify that, as many people thought I was laying down for low-angle shots like this...Have a great day, everyone!

 

Previously,

Können sie das differenzieren?

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old slide Show

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TZ41 Exifs

 

Intelligent Exposure - Standard

 

Captured Location:

GPS =~ 505m , above sea Level summits of the Steinenberg aka stonehill

 

Country - Deutschland

State - Baden-Württemberg

City - Tübingen

Landmark - Campus Morgenstelle, University

  

Let me clarify a point.

This is not the ex wife. It's a toad, although there is a striking similarity !!!

it almost looked like lightning to me.

A feature known as "Little Baldy" in Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, USA. To clarify, Little Baldy is not the bald rock on the left, but the entirety of this small mountain.

(More pics below)

 

Really do need to get some of my identification up to scratch, It looks like a broad bodied chaser but is a different colour.

 

Can anyone clarify?

I’m the one of the left but you get the idea

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As the title says, it's time for a true confession.

 

And who's confession you are asking ?

 

Well, that would be my confession!

 

Last few weeks my old body has been beat

pretty badly. You've all heard me complaining,

whining, sniveling and crying in my beer. Just to

clarify that, I quit drinking so long ago I can't even

remember what year that was. Didn't have any kind

of problem with alcohol, just got tired of drinking ;)---

 

So, a list was made of all the broken body parts, and

it was lengthy. There's still a robin egg size knot on

my jaw from the other day and my groin muscle

is not going away any time soon. The thorn

that was stuck in my gum line is another

slow healer. And the list goes on & on.

 

And just what do I plan to do about it you ask ?

 

Hard to say, but my gut feeling says, "Slow Down !"

 

I was saying to no# 1 wife that I think the floor

has gotten further down than it was before.

She looked puzzled so I explained that

it's taking me way longer to reach

the floor and twice as long

to stand back up ;0-

 

She shook her lovely little head and smiled.

Then she said, " you be old old man now."

My reply, "you be old old woman too."

With that being said I wrapped my

arms around her while she tried

to resist, then she relented ;)

Earth girls are so easy.

 

OK, lets talk dogs. Nothing there will change.

We will be going to the mud cobra field but

most likely I will spend more time resting

at the rest area. That means fighting my

way through the cornucopia of palm

fronds will be slowing way down.

 

My body needs 2 mend and at my age

it seems to be taking way to long ;(---

Now 2 get around that problem I've

got a good plan.. Every-year come

birthday time I will be subtracting

one year, so, the next B-party

I will be a young man of 77 .

I'm feeling better already :)

 

Looks like, next week we are being

taken out to the temple to see the

nuns & take care of all the dogs.

 

Thanks for all of your ongoing support;)

 

Jon&Crew.

 

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I have these little white butterflies in my garden. They must be attracted to a certain flower. I only see these little white ones. It looks green here...lol...hmmmm....must be the new fancy techniques I am using .... haha!

 

Just wanted to clarify this is how it came out of the camera - no photoshop here :)

This photo was originally posted in January 2017 along with his quote from that time. Now in January 2018 this same guy is claiming to be like a "very stable genius." Lucky he tells everyone.

 

www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/twitter-roasts-trump-st...

I purchased this photo from the RCTS, partly cleaned and coloured by me to clarify.

Annotated after a bit of research.

 

The train is approaching from the Warrington direction on Saturday 27th April 1963.

Clarifying the question

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Tor

  

Glastonbury Tor is a hill near Glastonbury in the English county of Somerset, topped by the roofless St Michael's Tower, a Grade I listed building.[2] The whole site is managed by the National Trust, and has been designated a scheduled monument.[1][3]

 

The conical hill of clay and Blue Lias rises from the Somerset Levels. It was formed when surrounding softer deposits were eroded, leaving the hard cap of sandstone exposed. The slopes of the hill are terraced, but the method by which they were formed remains unexplained. Artefacts from human visitation have been found, dating from the Iron Age to Roman eras.

 

Several buildings were constructed on the summit during the Saxon and early medieval periods; they have been interpreted as an early church and monks' hermitage. The head of a wheel cross dating from the 10th or 11th century has been recovered. The original wooden church was destroyed by an earthquake in 1275, and the stone Church of St Michael built on the site in the 14th century. Its tower remains, although it has been restored and partially rebuilt several times. Archaeological excavations during the 20th century sought to clarify the background of the monument and church, but some aspects of their history remain unexplained. The Tor is mentioned in Celtic mythology, particularly in myths linked to King Arthur, and has a number of other enduring mythological and spiritual associations.

  

Etymology

  

The origin of the name "Glastonbury" is unclear, but when the settlement was first recorded in the late 7th and early 8th centuries it was called Glestingaburg.[4][5] Of the latter name, Glestinga is obscure, and may derive from an Old English word or Celtic personal name.[4][6] It may derive from a person or kinship group named Glast.[4] The second half of the name, -burg, is Anglo-Saxon in origin and could refer to either a fortified place such as a burh or, more likely, a monastic enclosure.

 

Tor is an English word referring to a high rock or a hill, deriving from the Old English torr.[note 1][7] The Celtic name of the Tor was Ynys Wydryn, or sometimes Ynys Gutrin, meaning "Isle of Glass". At this time the plain was flooded, the isle becoming a peninsula at low tide.[8][9]

  

Location and landscape

  

The Tor is in the middle of the Summerland Meadows, part of the Somerset Levels,[10] rising to an elevation of 518 feet (158 m).[1] The plain is reclaimed fen above which the Tor is clearly visible for miles around. It has been described as an island but actually sits at the western end of a peninsula washed on three sides by the River Brue.[11]

 

The Tor is formed from rocks dating from the early Jurassic Period, namely varied layers of Lias Group strata. The uppermost of these, forming the Tor itself, are a succession of rocks assigned to the Bridport Sand Formation. These rocks sit upon strata forming the broader hill on which the Tor stands; the various layers of the Beacon Limestone Formation and the Dyrham Formation.[12][13] The Bridport Sands have acted as a caprock protecting the lower layers from erosion. The iron-rich waters of Chalice Well, a spring at the base of the Tor, flow out as an artesian well impregnating the sandstone around it with iron oxides that have reinforced it to produce the caprock.[14] Iron-rich but oxygen-poor water in the aquifer carries dissolved iron (II) "ferrous" iron, but as the water surfaces and its oxygen content rises, the oxidised iron (III) "ferric" iron drops out as insoluble "rusty" oxides that bind to the surrounding stone, hardening it.[15]

 

The low-lying damp ground can produce a visual effect known as a Fata Morgana when the Tor appears to rise out of the mist.[16] This optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are strongly bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed.[17] The Italian term Fata Morgana is derived from the name of Morgan le Fay, a powerful sorceress in Arthurian legend.[18]

  

Terraces

  

Terraces on the Tor

  

The sides of the Tor have seven deep, roughly symmetrical terraces, or lynchets. Their formation remains a mystery[19] with many possible explanations. They may have been formed as a result of natural differentiation of the layers of Lias stone and clay used by farmers during the Middle Ages as terraced hills to make ploughing for crops easier.[20] Author Nicholas Mann questions this theory. If agriculture had been the reason for the creation of the terraces, it would be expected that the effort would be concentrated on the south side, where the sunny conditions would provide a good yield, but the terraces are equally deep on the northern side, which would provide little benefit. Additionally, none of the other slopes of the island have been terraced, even though the more sheltered locations would provide a greater return on the labour involved.[21] Alternatively, the flattened paths may have been created by the hooves of grazing cattle.[22]

  

Other explanations have been suggested for the terraces, including the construction of defensive ramparts.[22] Iron Age hill forts including the nearby Cadbury Castle in Somerset show evidence of extensive fortification of their slopes. The normal form of ramparts is a bank and ditch, but there is no evidence of this arrangement on the Tor. South Cadbury, one of the most extensively fortified places in early Britain, had three concentric rings of banks and ditches supporting an 18-hectare (44-acre) enclosure. By contrast, the Tor has seven rings and very little space on top for the safekeeping of a community.[23] It has been suggested that a defensive function may have been linked with Ponter's Ball Dyke, a linear earthwork about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) east of the Tor.[24][25] It consists of an embankment with a ditch on the east side.[25] The purpose and provenance of the dyke are unclear. It is possible that it was part of a longer defensive barrier associated with New Ditch, three miles to the south-west, which is built in a similar manner. It has been suggested by Ralegh Radford that it is part of a great Celtic sanctuary, probably 3rd century BC, while others, including Philip Rahtz, date it to the post-Roman period and link it to the Dark Age occupation on Glastonbury Tor. The 1970 excavation suggests the 12th century or later.[26] The historian Ronald Hutton also mentions the alternative possibility that the terraces are the remains of a medieval "spiral walkway" created for pilgrims to reach the church on the summit,[27] similar to that at Whitby Abbey.[28]

 

Another suggestion is that the terraces are the remains of a three-dimensional labyrinth,[29] first proposed by Geoffrey Russell in 1968. He states that the classical labyrinth (Caerdroia), a design found all over the Neolithic world, can be easily transposed onto the Tor, so that by walking around the terraces a person eventually reaches the top in the same pattern.[30][31] Evaluating this hypothesis is not easy. A labyrinth would very likely place the terraces in the Neolithic era,[32] but given the amount of occupation since then, there may have been substantial modifications by farmers and/or monks and conclusive excavations have not been carried out.[28] In a more recent book, Hutton writes that "the labyrinth does not seem to be an ancient sacred structure".[33]

  

History

  

Pre-Christian

  

Some Neolithic flint tools recovered from the top of the Tor show that the site has been visited, perhaps with lasting occupation, since prehistory. The nearby remains of Glastonbury Lake Village were identified at the site in 1892, which confirmed that there was an Iron Age settlement in about 300–200 BC on what was an easily defended island in the fens.[34][35] There is no evidence of permanent occupation of the Tor, but finds, including Roman pottery, do suggest that it was visited on a regular basis.[36]

 

Excavations on Glastonbury Tor, undertaken by a team led by Philip Rahtz between 1964 and 1966,[37] revealed evidence of Dark Age occupation during the 5th to 7th centuries[1][38] around the later medieval church of St. Michael. Finds included postholes, two hearths including a metalworker's forge, two burials oriented north-south (thus unlikely to be Christian), fragments of 6th century Mediterranean amphorae (vases for wine or cooking oil),[39] and a worn hollow bronze head which may have topped a Saxon staff.[40][41][42]

  

Christian settlement

  

Ruin of St Michael's Church

  

During the late Saxon and early medieval period there were at least four buildings on the summit. The base of a stone cross demonstrates Christian use of the site during this period and it may have been a hermitage.[43] The broken head of a wheel cross dated to the 10th or 11th centuries was found part way down the hill and may have been the head of the cross that stood on the summit.[44][45][46] The head of the cross is now in the Museum of Somerset in Taunton.[47]

 

The earliest timber church, which was dedicated to St Michael,[48] is believed to have been constructed in the 11th or 12th century from which post holes have since been identified.[49][50] Associated monk cells have also been identified.[50]

 

St Michael's Church was destroyed by an earthquake on 11 September 1275.[51] According to the British Geological Survey, the earthquake was felt in London, Canterbury and Wales,[52] and was reported to have destroyed many houses and churches in England. The intensity of shaking was greater than 7 MSK, with its epicentre in the area around Portsmouth or Chichester, South England.[51]

 

A second church, also dedicated to St Michael, was built of local sandstone in the 14th century by the Abbot Adam of Sodbury, incorporating the foundations of the previous building. It included stained glass and decorated floor tiles. There was also a portable altar of Purbeck Marble;[53] it is likely that the Monastery of St Michael on the Tor was a daughter house of Glastonbury Abbey. In 1243 Henry III granted a charter for a six-day fair at the site.[54]

 

St Michael's Church survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 when, except for the tower, it was demolished.[1] The Tor was the place of execution where Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, was hanged, drawn and quartered along with two of his monks, John Thorne and Roger James.[55] The three-storey tower of St Michael's Church survives. It has corner buttresses and perpendicular bell openings. There is a sculptured tablet with an image of an eagle below the parapet.[2]

  

Post-dissolution

  

In 1786, Richard Colt Hoare of Stourhead bought the Tor and funded repair of the tower in 1804, including the rebuilding of the north-east corner.[1][56] It was then passed on through several generations to the Reverend George Neville and included in the Butleigh Manor until the 20th century. It was then bought as a memorial to a former Dean of Wells, Thomas Jex-Blake, who died in 1915.[57]

 

The National Trust took control of the Tor in 1933, but repairs were delayed until after the Second World War.[56] During the 1960s, excavations identified cracks in the rock, suggesting the ground had moved in the past. This, combined with wind erosion, started to expose the footings of the tower, which were repaired with concrete. Erosion caused by the feet of the increasing number of visitors was also a problem and paths were laid to enable them to reach the summit without damaging the terraces. After 2000, enhancements to the access and repairs to the tower, including rebuilding of the parapet, were carried out. These included the replacement of some of the masonry damaged by earlier repairs with new stone from the Hadspen Quarry.[56]

 

A model vaguely based on Glastonbury Tor (albeit with a tree instead of the tower) was incorporated into the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. As the athletes entered the stadium, their flags were displayed on the terraces of the model.[58][59][60]

  

Mythology and spirituality

  

The Tor seems to have been called Ynys yr Afalon (meaning "The Isle of Avalon") by the Britons and is believed by some, including the 12th and 13th century writer Gerald of Wales, to be the Avalon of Arthurian legend.[61] The Tor has been associated with the name Avalon, and identified with King Arthur, since the alleged discovery of his and Queen Guinevere's neatly labelled coffins in 1191, recounted by Gerald of Wales.[62][63] Author Christopher L. Hodapp asserts in his book The Templar Code for Dummies that Glastonbury Tor is one of the possible locations of the Holy Grail, because it is close to the monastery that housed the Nanteos Cup.[64]

 

With the 19th century resurgence of interest in Celtic mythology, the Tor became associated with Gwyn ap Nudd, the first Lord of the Otherworld (Annwn) and later King of the Fairies.[65][66] The Tor came to be represented as an entrance to Annwn or to Avalon, the land of the fairies. The tor is supposedly a gateway into "The Land Of The Dead (Avalon).[67]

 

A persistent myth of more recent origin is that of the Glastonbury Zodiac,[68] a purported astrological zodiac of gargantuan proportions said to have been carved into the land along ancient hedgerows and trackways,[69] in which the Tor forms part of the figure representing Aquarius.[70] The theory was first put forward in 1927 by Katherine Maltwood,[71][72] an artist with an interest in the occult, who thought the zodiac was constructed approximately 5,000 years ago.[73] But the vast majority of the land said by Maltwood to be covered by the zodiac was under several feet of water at the proposed time of its construction,[74] and many of the features such as field boundaries and roads are recent.[75][71]

 

The tor and other sites in Glastonbury have also been significant in the modern-day Goddess movement, with the flow from the Chalice Well seen as representing menstrual flow and the tor being seen as either a breast or the whole figure of the Goddess. This has been celebrated with an effigy of the Goddess leading an annual procession up the Tor.

I think this is a Europa, if someone can clarify that I'd be grateful. Edit - thanks to Aaron (F98AJM) for doing so! We've had really heavy winds this week and it seems that the cover was being held down by those blocks and it's subsequently blown off. I absolutely love the colour of this car too. That's not all though - this has been off the road since August 1988! It's clearly been cherished as it looks immaculate, not like a car that's been off the road 27 years.

Album : UK Buses 1990's.

 

Smartly presented LRT Atlantesn's '577' & '508'. The pair are seen at the Clermiston terminus. A shared terminus for the No1 and No69 route in 1992.

 

With thanks to Willie Love www.flickr.com/photos/132899570@N04/ for clarifying the location.

  

Scan from a slide. Edinburgh. February 14th 1992.

He did. Really!

 

This should clarify the issue, once and for all.

again, just to clarify

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

強調技巧也無可厚非，只要技巧可以簡化澄清攝影者的想法。

 

～Ansel Adams

 

P.S. Non-HDR.

Editor’s Note: This story was updated on 22 August 2019 to clarify our data source.

 

In the Amazon rainforest, fire season has arrived.

 

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured these images of several fires burning in the states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso on August 11 and August 13, 2019.

 

In the Amazon region, fires are rare for much of the year because wet weather prevents them from starting and spreading. However, in July and August, activity typically increases due to the arrival of the dry season. Many people use fire to maintain farmland and pastures or to clear land for other purposes. Typically, activity peaks in early September and mostly stops by November.

 

As of August 16, 2019, an analysis of NASA satellite data indicated that total fire activity across the Amazon basin this year has been close to the average in comparison to the past 15 years. (The Amazon spreads across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and parts of other countries.) Though activity appears to be above average in the states of Amazonas and Rondônia, it has so far appeared below average in Mato Grosso and Pará, according to estimates from the Global Fire Emissions Database, a research project that compiles and analyzes NASA data. (Note that while the chart label says 2016, the 2019 data is listed on all of the plots as a green line. Roll your cursor over the green 2019 block below the plot to isolate the 2019 numbers.)

 

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Caption by Adam Voiland.

 

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7822 "Foxcote Manor" applies the power shortly after departure from Market Bosworth, en route to Shackerstone, Just to clarify, I was given permission by the railway to be lineside.

So this is the view from Artist Point.

Well, let me clarify. This is my artistic view from Artist Point.

Being that this is Artist Point, I decided to take more artistic license than I ever have in the past to produce this. This photograph is so far removed from SOOC that I don't even call it a photograph anymore.

 

You can scroll down to see the images as they were processed and merged to create this, but here is the breakdown of how this came about. I was shooting his scene and for some stupid reason, I was not using a tripod. I think I was mostly just lost in the moment of a beautiful scene.

Later, I get home, and this picture just jumped out at me. The problem is, every picture was either over, or under exposed. So, I tried several processing versions, and nothing really worked for me.

A few days later, I started over from scratch. About an hour or so hours later, I had a photo I almost liked, but not quite. I put it aside again, and a couple days later came back to it. This time, after about 2-3 hours, I had a photo that I again almost liked, but not quite. It didn't seem real. That is when It clicked for me. Who the f'ck cares if it looks real. Just try to make it some what good. A this point, I had a slight vision of what I wanted. In stead of starting from scratch, I took what I had, and began work everthing together. A few hours later, I had something that I liked. I put it aside, and came back to it he next day. A few touch ups, a few adustments and fixes, and I was left with what you see now.

 

I am still not sure how I feel about it, but I am currious what you think. I know I will be revisiting this image again. Even better, I will hopefully be revisiting this scene again.

 

EXPLORE #38 (Highest Position)

 

NOTE: Thanks to Lord V for clarifying that this is a kind of Hylaeus Bee which look a lot like Wasps.

 

It was quite odd to me that one of these usually very active wasps was just laying there on the flower.....presumably doing nothing of any sort. So I managed to get really close and get a lot of shots. I do hate the fact that the flower bud is blocking a part of the mouth but I also like this shot because this little guy is one of my favorites to shoot in Macro.

   

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Geraniaceae

To clarify the name of this widespread plant: The greek "geranos" means crane. It referes to the inflorescence of the plant, rather than the blossom.

 

Vintage lens:

Oscillo-Quinon, 1:1.9/75mm Steinheil München

I've been doing some research on aesthetics, something which has helped clarify a term I thought I understood. It is more than appreciation of physical beauty or attractiveness. The aesthetics of a thing is not about how it looks; rather, it is about how something looks makes you feel. It is an emotional response to visually contemplating something. In other words, aesthetics is more than skin deep.

 

My research into aesthetics is related to a completely different subject than crossdressing, but recently I started to think about the two subjects together.

 

The aesthetics of crossdressing, I suppose, is how the act of a man dressing up as a woman makes the man feel and, by extension, how others feel when they see said man so dressed.

 

I have a sort of look I aim for based on archetypes of women I admire. Once I achieve this look, it makes me feel good. The good feeling is not about feeling like a women; rather, it is about appreciating a job well done. There is, of course, a sexual component, but this piece is not physically expressed.

 

The act of taking photos of myself crossdressed serves a few purposes. First, there is a lot of work that goes into the process and it seems a shame not to capture the essence of the activity in a physical way. Second, posting the photos to Flickr, sometimes with commentary, is a means to crossdress vicariously since I am unable to do so 99% of the time. Finally, it is a means to inspire others, to enable them to feel something about the results of my crossdressing.

 

On this last point, I almost always receive positive feedback, and for this I am very appreciative. I feel a good deal of guilt sometimes for failing to recognize all the lovely comments. There is no excuse for that beyond pure laziness, but I nevertheless feel thankful for those of you who visit my photos and feel compelled to share your thoughts. But there are some that say nasty things, from those who think what I do is filthy to others who think what I do is...filthy, but get turned on by it and reach out to me hoping for a rendezvous (not in a million years).

 

I guess the point of this post is to say that crossdressing has an obvious aesthetic component. I just never quite considered it in a detailed way before.

 

Dress: Vince Camuto

Cardigan: Jessica Howard

Shoes: SHEIN

Gold 1966 Jaguar E-Type Roadster 4.2 Litre - TRC 93 - seen on display at the Bo'ness Revival Classic Show & Hill Climb, September 2018.

 

Any additional information clarifying the vehicle's make, model, modifications made and its specific history will be welcomed.

 

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Just to clarify, I'm in no way suggesting Vero as a substitute for Flickr. This is meant as a "plug" for folks that also follow me on Instagram, which has become rat-crapp! It's def meant as a substitute for IG!

Dave: My goodness Aggie.

Agnes: Yes. I am very very good.

Dave: Not what I was saying, but we can go with that.

Agnes: Glad I could clarify your thoughts for you.

Dave: Sure thing. But what I was going for is more of an expression of disbelief. Are you comfortable enough?

Agnes: Close to comfortable enough.

Dave: Really? Only close to comfortable?

Agnes: Well, it would be a bit better if someone were to rub my belly a bit right now.

Dave: And the fact that you've taken over the king sized bed isn't enough right now?

Agnes: Well, when you brought me home from the shelter you told me that I should make myself at home.

Dave: Yes, we did say that.

Agnes: Well, I'm no lawyer but that seem like all the permission I need to make your bed my bed.

Dave: Hard to argue with that logic.

Agnes: Now further to my concept of home, I seriously believe in the expression of "Home is where the belly rubs are". So, can you hook me up?

 

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Agnes having a good Sunday morning lounge. It did take her a while to warm up to us people, but I think she's now very happy that she did.

The hawks were classified as birds of prey.

Although research has clarified that falcons are not closely related to the traditional birds of prey,

but are closest to parrots and passerines.

Judging by the comments this shot has attracted, I really feel the need to clarify that this was taken at the very end 0f 20911-01 as I was returning from Florida. I decided to post it only now, since "Winter is (finally) over!"

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* My winter images displayed at flickr.

* Flickriver:winter portfolio of images tagged "winter" via "flickriver".

* fluidr^winter My images tagged "winter" via "fluidr".

* Diigo (test mode)

* ...

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* Integrate this into the Niagara portfolio.

Please see the first comment if you are curious about these links.

Just me creepin in to wish everyone a HBW!!!!!!!

curiosity's

Oh sh_t!

 

LEGO 365: Jar Jar Having A Bad Year

Just to clarify, nothing to do with the Reign of the Supermen storyline. Just needed a good title, and, well, it fit. So, judging as the Superman of the Overlords-verse has been around over a century, I thought it wasn't unreasonable for others to have tried to create Super-beings for their own nefarious purposes *cough* Lex Luthor *cough*. So, I came up with this lot, and improved Project Kr a bit too while I was at it. I'm also gonna put some dates before the stories, just for e, so I can keep track of what's happening when. So, onto their stories (L to R):

 

Cyborg Superman (1993) - The first successful attempt by Lex-corp at a Superman Luthor could control. Hank Henshaw was just one of many test subjects. A former astronaut, his shuttle had been hit by a solar flare, which had caused the untimely deaths of his fellow crewmates. Henshaw, by some miracle, had survived the initial flare, but was now suffering the after-effects. His body was changing, poisoned against him, and he knew he didn't have long. And so, he volunteered himself to be experimented upon, and hopefully be reborn as a cyborg. The process was long and painful, countless surgeries were performed, and with every one, Hank lost a little bit of himself.

 

After nearly two years, he was ready. He awoke standing in front of a small group of scientists. Their mouths were agape, and sheer horror was spread across their faces. Though his hearing wasn't quite working yet, he caught the odd word. "freak" "mistake" "abomination". He stumbled his way through the lab, pushing and shoving his way to the doors. They were locked. He flew into a mad fury, destroying everything he could reach, his newly found heat vision setting the lab ablaze. As the sprinklers settled the fire, Hank looked down, and saw himself reflected in a piece of polished steel. He was a freak. Those scientists and doctors had turned him into a nightmarish, twisted version of himself. Hell, he wasn't even himself, just a distorted image of Superman. Launching himself into the air, he flew through the night sky, straight up, away from it all. He needed...time away, to reflect. to try to come to terms with what had been done to him. as he drifted through space, he focussed his mind, tried to home in on something, anything to stop himself going mad. His hatred for Superman, the man he resembled so much, but was nothing like. That alien was a hero, loved by billions. He was just an astronaut who'd run out of luck, forgotten. All he was now, was a bad imitation of the man of steel.

 

Kr 1.0 (Bizarro) (2004) - Kr 1.0 was the first 'successful' clone of Superman that Lexcorp was able to produce. It had been years in the making, cost billions of dollars, but finally, it was ready. After the initial failure of the cyborg Superman, this was to be a success, a good investment. However, it was not meant to be. The tank was drained, and the clone was let out. It took a few steps, before falling to the floor, It was weak, barely able to move. No wonder, having spent all of its life in a tank. It was taken away to be clothed, and most importantly, assessed. Luthor and his scientists were eager to see what their investment could do. After many weeks, the scientists were able to confirm that though the clone had all the powers of Superman, it was a bit behind in cognitive ability. It often got lost in thought, which meant it struggled to control its powers. Luthor spent a small fortune in funerals for those it had incinerated while it wasn't paying attention.

 

It had been almost two months, when Luthor was awoken to an urgent phone call. The clone had broken free of its bonds, and had escaped. Though free, it seemed the clone didn't know what to do with itself. It just hovered, hundreds of feet from the ground, staring absent mindedly at the rising sun. It was transfixed, nothing could get its attention. Before Luthors men could recapture it, it was gone, flying towards the sunrise. It was here it met what it was supposed to be. Superman. It was still transfixed by the sun, just staring at it. 'The light's pretty, isn't it' It said to him. Superman was taken aback. This man, hovering in mid-air. It looked like him, but....something was wrong. The clones eyes glowed, burning with the heat vision it couldn't control. Before Superman could react, the clones eyes erupted with fire, the flames hitting a passing passenger plane, thousands of miles away. Superman shot off to save the plane, but he was too late. though he was able to catch it, the plane broke apart in mid-air, and crashed into a field. After calling in the League to help search the wreckage, he went back to find the man responsible. He had landed now, his head in his hands, weeping uncontrollably. He looked up when Superman landed in front of him. He looked angry. "Where did you come from?" Superman asked the clone. It looked down to the ground, not answering. It was clear it wasn't in its right mind, that something was missing. Then, it spoke, in barely a whisper "Kill me". Superman was taken aback. On one hand, he knew it had to be done, there was no way this man could be allowed to live, especially if he couldn't control his own powers. Before the war, Superman would have taken him to the fortress of solitude, tried to teach him to control his powers. But with everything going on in the world, the state of the world, and with his newly found cousin taken into account, he knew that for once, just this once, he would have to make the tough decision, and choose the easy way. Despite all this, he still tried to reach out to the man, to try to help him. "You don't understand, this was my fault. I killed those people. They're all dead, because of me. If you don't kill me, it'll happen again, and again, I can't control these powers" With this, Superman knew he had to make the choice. He told the man to turn away from him, to look at the flowers, shooting up from the grass. Once the deed was done, he buried the man, in a grave he dug with his own two hands. Having nothing to wrap him in, he took his own cape from his shoulders, and wrapped the body in it. He then laid him to rest, said a prayer, and buried the grave. He then flew off to help the rest of the league in their attempt to save whoever he could from the wreckage.

 

Project Kr - Won't bother with their story, as I've covered it so many times before. Same as before, can't breathe our air, weakened powers, full powers yadda yadda yadda.

 

The Eradicator (2001/2) - When Superman found his cousin hidden away in the ruins of a CADMUS research facility, he discovered many other Kryptonian artefacts. Amongst them was a sentient computer system. When he touched it, it sprung to life, growing a body. Once complete, it rose from the ground, hovering in the air. "Recognised, El bloodline. Kal-El son of Jor-El and Lara-El recognised". All good so far. "Criminal element detected, Crime: high treason, Verdict: Guilty. Punishment: death. Kal-El, son of Jor-El, prepare to be eradicated". Shocked Superman stumbled back, preparing himself for a fight. Though weak, exposed wires and servo units, the eradicator floated towards him, arm outstretched, burning with Yellow light. Using his heat vision, Superman was able to repel the Eradicator, sending it flying into a wall. Though it got up, the ceiling collapsed, an the Already weak eradicator was destroyed. Pulling it's body from the rubble, Superman returned it to the Fortress of solitude, where he could safely study it, as well as find out what it meant when it talked of his recently discovered father, and what it was he had done back on Krypton.

 

So, those are the other Supermen of the Overlords-verse. Quite enjoyed coming up with these, and I'm glad I was able to find a goodish way to tell Bizarro's story. So, as always, please lemme know what you think, and if you'd like to see even more of the Overlords-verse :D

I’m not gonna be on tomorrow so just to clarify lmao

Private Workshops

Processing Instruction

 

Here's another image from last November, a stormy sunrise in central Utah. I've been very slow to work through my rather large 6-month backlog, so I apologize for the drought of new releases lately. More images from these otherworldly badlands, and from winter at Mount Rainier, coming after my relocation back to the Pacific Northwest.

 

Please excuse the oversharpened/over-clarified look here on Flickr, as they downsize my 1200px files and apply some sort of sharpening in the process. Not going to make separate jpegs for a site stuck in the last decade!

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

A little more fun from Halloween.

 

David would like to clarify that if this really were the Mirror of Erised, the reflection would show me with him. And lots of pizza.

 

Now blogged.

-Mark Twain

Could be wrong on the spec of this so if any one can clarify or correct me on this it would be appreciated.

++++ FROM WIKIPEDIA ++++

  

Myanmar (Burmese pronunciation: [mjəmà]),[nb 1][8] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east and China to its north and northeast. To its south, about one third of Myanmar's total perimeter of 5,876 km (3,651 mi) forms an uninterrupted coastline of 1,930 km (1,200 mi) along the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The country's 2014 census counted the population to be 51 million people.[9] As of 2017, the population is about 54 million.[10] Myanmar is 676,578 square kilometers (261,228 square miles) in size. Its capital city is Naypyidaw, and its largest city and former capital is Yangon (Rangoon).[1] Myanmar has been a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since 1997.

 

Early civilisations in Myanmar included the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu city-states in Upper Burma and the Mon kingdoms in Lower Burma.[11] In the 9th century, the Bamar people entered the upper Irrawaddy valley and, following the establishment of the Pagan Kingdom in the 1050s, the Burmese language, culture and Theravada Buddhism slowly became dominant in the country. The Pagan Kingdom fell due to the Mongol invasions and several warring states emerged. In the 16th century, reunified by the Taungoo Dynasty, the country was for a brief period the largest empire in the history of Mainland Southeast Asia.[12] The early 19th century Konbaung Dynasty ruled over an area that included modern Myanmar and briefly controlled Manipur and Assam as well. The British took over the administration of Myanmar after three Anglo-Burmese Wars in the 19th century and the country became a British colony. Myanmar was granted independence in 1948, as a democratic nation. Following a coup d'état in 1962, it became a military dictatorship.

 

For most of its independent years, the country has been engrossed in rampant ethnic strife and its myriad ethnic groups have been involved in one of the world's longest-running ongoing civil wars. During this time, the United Nations and several other organisations have reported consistent and systematic human rights violations in the country.[13] In 2011, the military junta was officially dissolved following a 2010 general election, and a nominally civilian government was installed. This, along with the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and political prisoners, has improved the country's human rights record and foreign relations, and has led to the easing of trade and other economic sanctions.[14] There is, however, continuing criticism of the government's treatment of ethnic minorities, its response to the ethnic insurgency, and religious clashes.[15] In the landmark 2015 election, Aung San Suu Kyi's party won a majority in both houses. However, the Burmese military remains a powerful force in politics.

 

Myanmar is a country rich in jade and gems, oil, natural gas and other mineral resources. In 2013, its GDP (nominal) stood at US$56.7 billion and its GDP (PPP) at US$221.5 billion.[6] The income gap in Myanmar is among the widest in the world, as a large proportion of the economy is controlled by supporters of the former military government.[16] As of 2016, Myanmar ranks 145 out of 188 countries in human development, according to the Human Development Index.[7]

Etymology

Main article: Names of Myanmar

 

In 1989, the military government officially changed the English translations of many names dating back to Burma's colonial period or earlier, including that of the country itself: "Burma" became "Myanmar". The renaming remains a contested issue.[17] Many political and ethnic opposition groups and countries continue to use "Burma" because they do not recognise the legitimacy of the ruling military government or its authority to rename the country.[18]

 

In April 2016, soon after taking office, Aung San Suu Kyi clarified that foreigners are free to use either name, "because there is nothing in the constitution of our country that says that you must use any term in particular".[19]

 

The country's official full name is the "Republic of the Union of Myanmar" (ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်, Pyidaunzu Thanmăda Myăma Nainngandaw, pronounced [pjìdàʊɴzṵ θàɴməda̰ mjəmà nàɪɴŋàɴdɔ̀]). Countries that do not officially recognise that name use the long form "Union of Burma" instead.[20]

 

In English, the country is popularly known as either "Burma" or "Myanmar" /ˈmjɑːnˌmɑːr/ (About this sound listen).[8] Both these names are derived from the name of the majority Burmese Bamar ethnic group. Myanmar is considered to be the literary form of the name of the group, while Burma is derived from "Bamar", the colloquial form of the group's name.[17] Depending on the register used, the pronunciation would be Bama (pronounced [bəmà]) or Myamah (pronounced [mjəmà]).[17] The name Burma has been in use in English since the 18th century.

 

Burma continues to be used in English by the governments of many countries, such as Canada and the United Kingdom.[21][22] Official United States policy retains Burma as the country's name, although the State Department's website lists the country as "Burma (Myanmar)" and Barack Obama has referred to the country by both names.[23] The Czech Republic officially uses Myanmar, although its Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentions both Myanmar and Burma on its website.[24] The United Nations uses Myanmar, as do the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Australia,[25] Russia, Germany,[26] China, India, Bangladesh, Norway,[27] Japan[21] and Switzerland.[28]

 

Most English-speaking international news media refer to the country by the name Myanmar, including the BBC,[29] CNN,[30] Al Jazeera,[31] Reuters,[32] RT (Russia Today) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)/Radio Australia.[33]

 

Myanmar is known with a name deriving from Burma as opposed to Myanmar in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek – Birmania being the local version of Burma in the Spanish language, for example. Myanmar used to be known as "Birmânia" in Portuguese, and as "Birmanie" in French.[34] As in the past, French-language media today consistently use Birmanie.,[35][36]

History

Main article: History of Myanmar

Prehistory

Main articles: Prehistory of Myanmar and Migration period of ancient Burma

Pyu city-states c. 8th century; Pagan is shown for comparison only and is not contemporary.

 

Archaeological evidence shows that Homo erectus lived in the region now known as Myanmar as early as 750,000 years ago, with no more erectus finds after 75,000 years ago.[37] The first evidence of Homo sapiens is dated to about 11,000 BC, in a Stone Age culture called the Anyathian with discoveries of stone tools in central Myanmar. Evidence of neolithic age domestication of plants and animals and the use of polished stone tools dating to sometime between 10,000 and 6,000 BC has been discovered in the form of cave paintings in Padah-Lin Caves.[38]

 

The Bronze Age arrived circa 1500 BC when people in the region were turning copper into bronze, growing rice and domesticating poultry and pigs; they were among the first people in the world to do so.[39] Human remains and artefacts from this era were discovered in Monywa District in the Sagaing Division.[40] The Iron Age began around 500 BC with the emergence of iron-working settlements in an area south of present-day Mandalay.[41] Evidence also shows the presence of rice-growing settlements of large villages and small towns that traded with their surroundings as far as China between 500 BC and 200 AD.[42] Iron Age Burmese cultures also had influences from outside sources such as India and Thailand, as seen in their funerary practices concerning child burials. This indicates some form of communication between groups in Myanmar and other places, possibly through trade.[43]

Early city-states

Main articles: Pyu city-states and Mon kingdoms

 

Around the second century BC the first-known city-states emerged in central Myanmar. The city-states were founded as part of the southward migration by the Tibeto-Burman-speaking Pyu city-states, the earliest inhabitants of Myanmar of whom records are extant, from present-day Yunnan.[44] The Pyu culture was heavily influenced by trade with India, importing Buddhism as well as other cultural, architectural and political concepts, which would have an enduring influence on later Burmese culture and political organisation.[45]

 

By the 9th century, several city-states had sprouted across the land: the Pyu in the central dry zone, Mon along the southern coastline and Arakanese along the western littoral. The balance was upset when the Pyu came under repeated attacks from Nanzhao between the 750s and the 830s. In the mid-to-late 9th century the Bamar people founded a small settlement at Bagan. It was one of several competing city-states until the late 10th century when it grew in authority and grandeur.[46]

Imperial Burma

Main articles: Pagan Kingdom, Taungoo Dynasty, and Konbaung Dynasty

See also: Ava Kingdom, Hanthawaddy Kingdom, Kingdom of Mrauk U, and Shan States

Pagodas and kyaungs in present-day Bagan, the capital of the Pagan Kingdom.

 

Pagan gradually grew to absorb its surrounding states until the 1050s–1060s when Anawrahta founded the Pagan Kingdom, the first ever unification of the Irrawaddy valley and its periphery. In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Pagan Empire and the Khmer Empire were two main powers in mainland Southeast Asia.[47] The Burmese language and culture gradually became dominant in the upper Irrawaddy valley, eclipsing the Pyu, Mon and Pali norms by the late 12th century.[48]

 

Theravada Buddhism slowly began to spread to the village level, although Tantric, Mahayana, Hinduism, and folk religion remained heavily entrenched. Pagan's rulers and wealthy built over 10,000 Buddhist temples in the Pagan capital zone alone. Repeated Mongol invasions (1277–1301) toppled the four-century-old kingdom in 1287.[48]

Temples at Mrauk U.

 

Pagan's collapse was followed by 250 years of political fragmentation that lasted well into the 16th century. Like the Burmans four centuries earlier, Shan migrants who arrived with the Mongol invasions stayed behind. Several competing Shan States came to dominate the entire northwestern to eastern arc surrounding the Irrawaddy valley. The valley too was beset with petty states until the late 14th century when two sizeable powers, Ava Kingdom and Hanthawaddy Kingdom, emerged. In the west, a politically fragmented Arakan was under competing influences of its stronger neighbours until the Kingdom of Mrauk U unified the Arakan coastline for the first time in 1437.

 

Early on, Ava fought wars of unification (1385–1424) but could never quite reassemble the lost empire. Having held off Ava, Hanthawaddy entered its golden age, and Arakan went on to become a power in its own right for the next 350 years. In contrast, constant warfare left Ava greatly weakened, and it slowly disintegrated from 1481 onward. In 1527, the Confederation of Shan States conquered Ava itself, and ruled Upper Myanmar until 1555.

 

Like the Pagan Empire, Ava, Hanthawaddy and the Shan states were all multi-ethnic polities. Despite the wars, cultural synchronisation continued. This period is considered a golden age for Burmese culture. Burmese literature "grew more confident, popular, and stylistically diverse", and the second generation of Burmese law codes as well as the earliest pan-Burma chronicles emerged.[49] Hanthawaddy monarchs introduced religious reforms that later spread to the rest of the country.[50] Many splendid temples of Mrauk U were built during this period.

Taungoo and colonialism

Bayinnaung's Empire in 1580.

 

Political unification returned in the mid-16th century, due to the efforts of Taungoo, a former vassal state of Ava. Taungoo's young, ambitious king Tabinshwehti defeated the more powerful Hanthawaddy in the Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War (1534–41). His successor Bayinnaung went on to conquer a vast swath of mainland Southeast Asia including the Shan states, Lan Na, Manipur, Mong Mao, the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Lan Xang and southern Arakan. However, the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia unravelled soon after Bayinnaung's death in 1581, completely collapsing by 1599. Ayutthaya seized Tenasserim and Lan Na, and Portuguese mercenaries established Portuguese rule at Thanlyin (Syriam).

 

The dynasty regrouped and defeated the Portuguese in 1613 and Siam in 1614. It restored a smaller, more manageable kingdom, encompassing Lower Myanmar, Upper Myanmar, Shan states, Lan Na and upper Tenasserim. The Restored Toungoo kings created a legal and political framework whose basic features would continue well into the 19th century. The crown completely replaced the hereditary chieftainships with appointed governorships in the entire Irrawaddy valley, and greatly reduced the hereditary rights of Shan chiefs. Its trade and secular administrative reforms built a prosperous economy for more than 80 years. From the 1720s onward, the kingdom was beset with repeated Meithei raids into Upper Myanmar and a nagging rebellion in Lan Na. In 1740, the Mon of Lower Myanmar founded the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom. Hanthawaddy forces sacked Ava in 1752, ending the 266-year-old Toungoo Dynasty.

A British 1825 lithograph of Shwedagon Pagoda shows British occupation during the First Anglo-Burmese War.

 

After the fall of Ava, the Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War involved one resistance group under Alaungpaya defeating the Restored Hanthawaddy, and by 1759, he had reunited all of Myanmar and Manipur, and driven out the French and the British, who had provided arms to Hanthawaddy. By 1770, Alaungpaya's heirs had subdued much of Laos (1765) and fought and won the Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67) against Ayutthaya and the Sino-Burmese War (1765–69) against Qing China (1765–1769).[51]

 

With Burma preoccupied by the Chinese threat, Ayutthaya recovered its territories by 1770, and went on to capture Lan Na by 1776. Burma and Siam went to war until 1855, but all resulted in a stalemate, exchanging Tenasserim (to Burma) and Lan Na (to Ayutthaya). Faced with a powerful China and a resurgent Ayutthaya in the east, King Bodawpaya turned west, acquiring Arakan (1785), Manipur (1814) and Assam (1817). It was the second-largest empire in Burmese history but also one with a long ill-defined border with British India.[52]

 

The breadth of this empire was short lived. Burma lost Arakan, Manipur, Assam and Tenasserim to the British in the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826). In 1852, the British easily seized Lower Burma in the Second Anglo-Burmese War. King Mindon Min tried to modernise the kingdom, and in 1875 narrowly avoided annexation by ceding the Karenni States. The British, alarmed by the consolidation of French Indochina, annexed the remainder of the country in the Third Anglo-Burmese War in 1885.

 

Konbaung kings extended Restored Toungoo's administrative reforms, and achieved unprecedented levels of internal control and external expansion. For the first time in history, the Burmese language and culture came to predominate the entire Irrawaddy valley. The evolution and growth of Burmese literature and theatre continued, aided by an extremely high adult male literacy rate for the era (half of all males and 5% of females).[53] Nonetheless, the extent and pace of reforms were uneven and ultimately proved insufficient to stem the advance of British colonialism.

British Burma (1824–1948)

Main articles: British rule in Burma and Burma Campaign

Burma in British India

The landing of British forces in Mandalay after the last of the Anglo-Burmese Wars, which resulted in the abdication of the last Burmese monarch, King Thibaw Min.

British troops firing a mortar on the Mawchi road, July 1944.

 

The eighteenth century saw Burmese rulers, whose country had not previously been of particular interest to European traders, seek to maintain their traditional influence in the western areas of Assam, Manipur and Arakan. Pressing them, however, was the British East India Company, which was expanding its interests eastwards over the same territory. Over the next sixty years, diplomacy, raids, treaties and compromises continued until, after three Anglo-Burmese Wars (1824–1885), Britain proclaimed control over most of Burma.[54] British rule brought social, economic, cultural and administrative changes.

 

With the fall of Mandalay, all of Burma came under British rule, being annexed on 1 January 1886. Throughout the colonial era, many Indians arrived as soldiers, civil servants, construction workers and traders and, along with the Anglo-Burmese community, dominated commercial and civil life in Burma. Rangoon became the capital of British Burma and an important port between Calcutta and Singapore.

 

Burmese resentment was strong and was vented in violent riots that paralysed Yangon (Rangoon) on occasion all the way until the 1930s.[55] Some of the discontent was caused by a disrespect for Burmese culture and traditions such as the British refusal to remove shoes when they entered pagodas. Buddhist monks became the vanguards of the independence movement. U Wisara, an activist monk, died in prison after a 166-day hunger strike to protest against a rule that forbade him to wear his Buddhist robes while imprisoned.[56]

Separation of British Burma from British India

 

On 1 April 1937, Burma became a separately administered colony of Great Britain and Ba Maw the first Prime Minister and Premier of Burma. Ba Maw was an outspoken advocate for Burmese self-rule and he opposed the participation of Great Britain, and by extension Burma, in World War II. He resigned from the Legislative Assembly and was arrested for sedition. In 1940, before Japan formally entered the Second World War, Aung San formed the Burma Independence Army in Japan.

 

A major battleground, Burma was devastated during World War II. By March 1942, within months after they entered the war, Japanese troops had advanced on Rangoon and the British administration had collapsed. A Burmese Executive Administration headed by Ba Maw was established by the Japanese in August 1942. Wingate's British Chindits were formed into long-range penetration groups trained to operate deep behind Japanese lines.[57] A similar American unit, Merrill's Marauders, followed the Chindits into the Burmese jungle in 1943.[58] Beginning in late 1944, allied troops launched a series of offensives that led to the end of Japanese rule in July 1945. The battles were intense with much of Burma laid waste by the fighting. Overall, the Japanese lost some 150,000 men in Burma. Only 1,700 prisoners were taken.[59]

 

Although many Burmese fought initially for the Japanese as part of the Burma Independence Army, many Burmese, mostly from the ethnic minorities, served in the British Burma Army.[60] The Burma National Army and the Arakan National Army fought with the Japanese from 1942 to 1944 but switched allegiance to the Allied side in 1945. Under Japanese occupation, 170,000 to 250,000 civilians died.[61]

 

Following World War II, Aung San negotiated the Panglong Agreement with ethnic leaders that guaranteed the independence of Myanmar as a unified state. Aung Zan Wai, Pe Khin, Bo Hmu Aung, Sir Maung Gyi, Dr. Sein Mya Maung, Myoma U Than Kywe were among the negotiators of the historical Panglong Conference negotiated with Bamar leader General Aung San and other ethnic leaders in 1947. In 1947, Aung San became Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Myanmar, a transitional government. But in July 1947, political rivals[62] assassinated Aung San and several cabinet members.[63]

Independence (1948–1962)

Main article: Post-independence Burma, 1948–62

British governor Hubert Elvin Rance and Sao Shwe Thaik at the flag raising ceremony on 4 January 1948 (Independence Day of Burma).

 

On 4 January 1948, the nation became an independent republic, named the Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu as its first Prime Minister. Unlike most other former British colonies and overseas territories, Burma did not become a member of the Commonwealth. A bicameral parliament was formed, consisting of a Chamber of Deputies and a Chamber of Nationalities,[64] and multi-party elections were held in 1951–1952, 1956 and 1960.

 

The geographical area Burma encompasses today can be traced to the Panglong Agreement, which combined Burma Proper, which consisted of Lower Burma and Upper Burma, and the Frontier Areas, which had been administered separately by the British.[65]

 

In 1961, U Thant, then the Union of Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations, a position he held for ten years.[66] Among the Burmese to work at the UN when he was Secretary-General was a young Aung San Suu Kyi (daughter of Aung San), who went on to become winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

 

When the non-Burman ethnic groups pushed for autonomy or federalism, alongside having a weak civilian government at the centre, the military leadership staged a coup d’état in 1962. Though incorporated in the 1947 Constitution, successive military governments construed the use of the term ‘federalism’ as being anti-national, anti-unity and pro-disintegration.[67]

Military rule (1962–2011)

 

On 2 March 1962, the military led by General Ne Win took control of Burma through a coup d'état, and the government has been under direct or indirect control by the military since then. Between 1962 and 1974, Myanmar was ruled by a revolutionary council headed by the general. Almost all aspects of society (business, media, production) were nationalised or brought under government control under the Burmese Way to Socialism,[68] which combined Soviet-style nationalisation and central planning.

 

A new constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma was adopted in 1974. Until 1988, the country was ruled as a one-party system, with the General and other military officers resigning and ruling through the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP).[69] During this period, Myanmar became one of the world's most impoverished countries.[70]

Protesters gathering in central Rangoon, 1988.

 

There were sporadic protests against military rule during the Ne Win years and these were almost always violently suppressed. On 7 July 1962, the government broke up demonstrations at Rangoon University, killing 15 students.[68] In 1974, the military violently suppressed anti-government protests at the funeral of U Thant. Student protests in 1975, 1976, and 1977 were quickly suppressed by overwhelming force.[69]

 

In 1988, unrest over economic mismanagement and political oppression by the government led to widespread pro-democracy demonstrations throughout the country known as the 8888 Uprising. Security forces killed thousands of demonstrators, and General Saw Maung staged a coup d'état and formed the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). In 1989, SLORC declared martial law after widespread protests. The military government finalised plans for People's Assembly elections on 31 May 1989.[71] SLORC changed the country's official English name from the "Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma" to the "Union of Myanmar" in 1989.

 

In May 1990, the government held free elections for the first time in almost 30 years and the National League for Democracy (NLD), the party of Aung San Suu Kyi, won 392 out of a total 492 seats (i.e., 80% of the seats). However, the military junta refused to cede power[72] and continued to rule the nation as SLORC until 1997, and then as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) until its dissolution in March 2011.

Protesters in Yangon during the 2007 Saffron Revolution with a banner that reads non-violence: national movement in Burmese. In the background is Shwedagon Pagoda.

 

On 23 June 1997, Myanmar was admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). On 27 March 2006, the military junta, which had moved the national capital from Yangon to a site near Pyinmana in November 2005, officially named the new capital Naypyidaw, meaning "city of the kings".[73]

Cyclone Nargis in southern Myanmar, May 2008.

 

In August 2007, an increase in the price of diesel and petrol led to the Saffron Revolution led by Buddhist monks that were dealt with harshly by the government.[74] The government cracked down on them on 26 September 2007. The crackdown was harsh, with reports of barricades at the Shwedagon Pagoda and monks killed. There were also rumours of disagreement within the Burmese armed forces, but none was confirmed. The military crackdown against unarmed protesters was widely condemned as part of the international reactions to the Saffron Revolution and led to an increase in economic sanctions against the Burmese Government.

 

In May 2008, Cyclone Nargis caused extensive damage in the densely populated, rice-farming delta of the Irrawaddy Division.[75] It was the worst natural disaster in Burmese history with reports of an estimated 200,000 people dead or missing, damage totalled to 10 billion US dollars, and as many as 1 million left homeless.[76] In the critical days following this disaster, Myanmar's isolationist government was accused of hindering United Nations recovery efforts.[77] Humanitarian aid was requested but concerns about foreign military or intelligence presence in the country delayed the entry of United States military planes delivering medicine, food, and other supplies.[78]

 

In early August 2009, a conflict known as the Kokang incident broke out in Shan State in northern Myanmar. For several weeks, junta troops fought against ethnic minorities including the Han Chinese,[79] Wa, and Kachin.[80][81] During 8–12 August, the first days of the conflict, as many as 10,000 Burmese civilians fled to Yunnan province in neighbouring China.[80][81][82]

Civil wars

Main articles: Internal conflict in Myanmar, Kachin Conflict, Karen conflict, and 2015 Kokang offensive

 

Civil wars have been a constant feature of Myanmar's socio-political landscape since the attainment of independence in 1948. These wars are predominantly struggles for ethnic and sub-national autonomy, with the areas surrounding the ethnically Bamar central districts of the country serving as the primary geographical setting of conflict. Foreign journalists and visitors require a special travel permit to visit the areas in which Myanmar's civil wars continue.[83]

 

In October 2012, the ongoing conflicts in Myanmar included the Kachin conflict,[84] between the Pro-Christian Kachin Independence Army and the government;[85] a civil war between the Rohingya Muslims, and the government and non-government groups in Rakhine State;[86] and a conflict between the Shan,[87] Lahu, and Karen[88][89] minority groups, and the government in the eastern half of the country. In addition, al-Qaeda signalled an intention to become involved in Myanmar. In a video released on 3 September 2014, mainly addressed to India, the militant group's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said al-Qaeda had not forgotten the Muslims of Myanmar and that the group was doing "what they can to rescue you".[90] In response, the military raised its level of alertness, while the Burmese Muslim Association issued a statement saying Muslims would not tolerate any threat to their motherland.[91]

 

Armed conflict between ethnic Chinese rebels and the Myanmar Armed Forces have resulted in the Kokang offensive in February 2015. The conflict had forced 40,000 to 50,000 civilians to flee their homes and seek shelter on the Chinese side of the border.[92] During the incident, the government of China was accused of giving military assistance to the ethnic Chinese rebels. Burmese officials have been historically "manipulated" and pressured by the Chinese government throughout Burmese modern history to create closer and binding ties with China, creating a Chinese satellite state in Southeast Asia.[93] However, uncertainties exist as clashes between Burmese troops and local insurgent groups continue.

Democratic reforms

Main article: 2011–12 Burmese political reforms

 

The goal of the Burmese constitutional referendum of 2008, held on 10 May 2008, is the creation of a "discipline-flourishing democracy". As part of the referendum process, the name of the country was changed from the "Union of Myanmar" to the "Republic of the Union of Myanmar", and general elections were held under the new constitution in 2010. Observer accounts of the 2010 election describe the event as mostly peaceful; however, allegations of polling station irregularities were raised, and the United Nations (UN) and a number of Western countries condemned the elections as fraudulent.[94]

U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Aung San Suu Kyi and her staff at her home in Yangon, 2012

 

The military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party declared victory in the 2010 elections, stating that it had been favoured by 80 percent of the votes; however, the claim was disputed by numerous pro-democracy opposition groups who asserted that the military regime had engaged in rampant fraud.[95][96] One report documented 77 percent as the official turnout rate of the election.[95] The military junta was dissolved on 30 March 2011.

 

Opinions differ whether the transition to liberal democracy is underway. According to some reports, the military's presence continues as the label "disciplined democracy" suggests. This label asserts that the Burmese military is allowing certain civil liberties while clandestinely institutionalising itself further into Burmese politics. Such an assertion assumes that reforms only occurred when the military was able to safeguard its own interests through the transition—here, "transition" does not refer to a transition to a liberal democracy, but transition to a quasi-military rule.[97]

 

Since the 2010 election, the government has embarked on a series of reforms to direct the country towards liberal democracy, a mixed economy, and reconciliation, although doubts persist about the motives that underpin such reforms. The series of reforms includes the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission, the granting of general amnesties for more than 200 political prisoners, new labour laws that permit labour unions and strikes, a relaxation of press censorship, and the regulation of currency practices.[98]

 

The impact of the post-election reforms has been observed in numerous areas, including ASEAN's approval of Myanmar's bid for the position of ASEAN chair in 2014;[99] the visit by United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in December 2011 for the encouragement of further progress, which was the first visit by a Secretary of State in more than fifty years,[100] during which Clinton met with the Burmese president and former military commander Thein Sein, as well as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi;[101] and the participation of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the 2012 by-elections, facilitated by the government's abolition of the laws that previously barred the NLD.[102] As of July 2013, about 100[103][104] political prisoners remain imprisoned, while conflict between the Burmese Army and local insurgent groups continues.

Map of Myanmar and its divisions, including Shan State, Kachin State, Rakhine State and Karen State.

 

In 1 April 2012 by-elections, the NLD won 43 of the 45 available seats; previously an illegal organisation, the NLD had not won a single seat under new constitution. The 2012 by-elections were also the first time that international representatives were allowed to monitor the voting process in Myanmar.[105]

2015 general elections

Main article: Myanmar general election, 2015

 

General elections were held on 8 November 2015. These were the first openly contested elections held in Myanmar since 1990. The results gave the National League for Democracy an absolute majority of seats in both chambers of the national parliament, enough to ensure that its candidate would become president, while NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from the presidency.[106]

 

The new parliament convened on 1 February 2016[107] and, on 15 March 2016, Htin Kyaw was elected as the first non-military president since the military coup of 1962.[108] On 6 April 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi assumed the newly created role of State Counsellor, a role akin to a Prime Minister.

Geography

Main article: Geography of Myanmar

A map of Myanmar

Myanmar map of Köppen climate classification.

 

Myanmar has a total area of 678,500 square kilometres (262,000 sq mi). It lies between latitudes 9° and 29°N, and longitudes 92° and 102°E. As of February 2011, Myanmar consisted of 14 states and regions, 67 districts, 330 townships, 64 sub-townships, 377 towns, 2,914 Wards, 14,220 village tracts and 68,290 villages.

 

Myanmar is bordered in the northwest by the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh and the Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh states of India. Its north and northeast border is with the Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan province for a Sino-Myanmar border total of 2,185 km (1,358 mi). It is bounded by Laos and Thailand to the southeast. Myanmar has 1,930 km (1,200 mi) of contiguous coastline along the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea to the southwest and the south, which forms one quarter of its total perimeter.[20]

 

In the north, the Hengduan Mountains form the border with China. Hkakabo Razi, located in Kachin State, at an elevation of 5,881 metres (19,295 ft), is the highest point in Myanmar.[109] Many mountain ranges, such as the Rakhine Yoma, the Bago Yoma, the Shan Hills and the Tenasserim Hills exist within Myanmar, all of which run north-to-south from the Himalayas.[110]

 

The mountain chains divide Myanmar's three river systems, which are the Irrawaddy, Salween (Thanlwin), and the Sittaung rivers.[111] The Irrawaddy River, Myanmar's longest river, nearly 2,170 kilometres (1,348 mi) long, flows into the Gulf of Martaban. Fertile plains exist in the valleys between the mountain chains.[110] The majority of Myanmar's population lives in the Irrawaddy valley, which is situated between the Rakhine Yoma and the Shan Plateau.

Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Myanmar

A clickable map of Burma/Myanmar exhibiting its first-level administrative divisions.

About this image

 

Myanmar is divided into seven states (ပြည်နယ်) and seven regions (တိုင်းဒေသကြီး), formerly called divisions.[112] Regions are predominantly Bamar (that is, mainly inhabited by the dominant ethnic group). States, in essence, are regions that are home to particular ethnic minorities. The administrative divisions are further subdivided into districts, which are further subdivided into townships, wards, and villages.

 

Climate

Main article: Climate of Myanmar

The limestone landscape of Mon State.

 

Much of the country lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator. It lies in the monsoon region of Asia, with its coastal regions receiving over 5,000 mm (196.9 in) of rain annually. Annual rainfall in the delta region is approximately 2,500 mm (98.4 in), while average annual rainfall in the Dry Zone in central Myanmar is less than 1,000 mm (39.4 in). The Northern regions of Myanmar are the coolest, with average temperatures of 21 °C (70 °F). Coastal and delta regions have an average maximum temperature of 32 °C (89.6 °F).[111]

Environment

Further information: Deforestation in Myanmar

 

Myanmar continues to perform badly in the global Environmental Performance Index (EPI) with an overall ranking of 153 out of 180 countries in 2016; among the worst in the South Asian region, only ahead of Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The EPI was established in 2001 by the World Economic Forum as a global gauge to measure how well individual countries perform in implementing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. The environmental areas where Myanmar performs worst (ie. highest ranking) are air quality (174), health impacts of environmental issues (143) and biodiversity and habitat (142). Myanmar performs best (ie. lowest ranking) in environmental impacts of fisheries (21), but with declining fish stocks. Despite several issues, Myanmar also ranks 64 and scores very good (ie. a high percentage of 93.73%) in environmental effects of the agricultural industry because of an excellent management of the nitrogen cycle.[114][115]

Wildlife

 

Myanmar's slow economic growth has contributed to the preservation of much of its environment and ecosystems. Forests, including dense tropical growth and valuable teak in lower Myanmar, cover over 49% of the country, including areas of acacia, bamboo, ironwood and Magnolia champaca. Coconut and betel palm and rubber have been introduced. In the highlands of the north, oak, pine and various rhododendrons cover much of the land.[116]

 

Heavy logging since the new 1995 forestry law went into effect has seriously reduced forest acreage and wildlife habitat.[117] The lands along the coast support all varieties of tropical fruits and once had large areas of mangroves although much of the protective mangroves have disappeared. In much of central Myanmar (the Dry Zone), vegetation is sparse and stunted.

 

Typical jungle animals, particularly tigers, occur sparsely in Myanmar. In upper Myanmar, there are rhinoceros, wild water buffalo, clouded leopard, wild boars, deer, antelope, and elephants, which are also tamed or bred in captivity for use as work animals, particularly in the lumber industry. Smaller mammals are also numerous, ranging from gibbons and monkeys to flying foxes. The abundance of birds is notable with over 800 species, including parrots, myna, peafowl, red junglefowl, weaverbirds, crows, herons, and barn owl. Among reptile species there are crocodiles, geckos, cobras, Burmese pythons, and turtles. Hundreds of species of freshwater fish are wide-ranging, plentiful and are very important food sources.[118] For a list of protected areas, see List of protected areas of Myanmar.

Government and politics

Main article: Politics of Myanmar

Assembly of the Union (Pyidaungsu Hluttaw)

 

The constitution of Myanmar, its third since independence, was drafted by its military rulers and published in September 2008. The country is governed as a parliamentary system with a bicameral legislature (with an executive President accountable to the legislature), with 25% of the legislators appointed by the military and the rest elected in general elections.

Today's photo was taken early this morning in the Cathedral Quarter of the City Centre of Coventry. The view is of the Grade I listed New Cathedral of St Michael. Today was the First day back at Choir in the New Cathedral for my youngest daughter after the Summer break. So I thought that it was a good time to take another photo at one of the Cathedrals. This time the photo was taken standing in the Plaza of Coventry University.

 

The photo was taken using the app Cortex Camera on my iPhone 6.

 

First I used the app Snapseed to edit the picture. I cropped the image and applied the Tonal Contrast preset. I decreased the highlights and boosted the Saturation. I also increased the structure and sharpness of the image. Next I used the app Mextures to apply a custom formula using various textures. After this I used the app Brushstroke to apply the Gloss G3 painterly preset. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Clarify preset and the Green Process FX. I then added the Stucco Texture and the Leather frame.

To clarify this is not my drawing! I showed this to give an example of what I’m building next.

Hello again for one more time and this time STONGER

 

I just wanna exposed him one more time how big lier he is and his making all on his way and thats what he said on his post

 

Julio:Today I woke up to a message from DopeLit, where he threatened me, and stated that I copy-botted him, and that he was filing a DMCA against me, yet I released my bodies first, and I will be showing you the chat where he admitted to copying my body back in May of 2021 when I first contacted him, and where he said he would change things to avoid me filing a DMCA. I wish to clarify that the only reason I am making this public is because he made a threat against me, and the brand I have worked so hard to build, I have no issues with helping someone when asked, nor has it ever been my intention to expose DopeLit, until now.

 

Here is the truth:

 

As he said on the screen shots from my place he left as (friend) as friend i mean he was still on my friend list and that was our convo until the time he left from my place:here is a gyazo pic gyazo.com/4bcf8cc58b2b379d9d7c9dfb1519348a

 

and copy paste :

 

[2022/05/08 21:08] DopeLit: are we done? my girl is waiting

[2022/05/08 21:08] Julio Voxel: You are obviously not going to admit to your wrong doing, the same way you denied it the first time, I know my skins, everyone knows their work, and I certainly know my own. Please do not use this to say I am trying to shut a small brand down, you obviously do not know me. This is not about you being new and me being here long, this is about you blatantly taking my work and calling it your own, not just once, but twice.

[2022/05/08 21:08] Julio Voxel: Yes, we are done tonight

[2022/05/08 21:09] DopeLit: thats your opinion... my new body skin has nothing same with yours

[2022/05/08 21:10] DopeLit: and its gonan be the best body skin on grid

[2022/05/08 21:10] DopeLit: have a good night

[2022/05/08 21:12] DopeLit: and be careful your work on your female skins.. i have heard some stuff about you too.. but i guess is not my business... just watch your female skins.. some lips and this things... you know better

[2022/05/08 21:12] DopeLit: and btw im 16 years in SL

[2022/05/08 21:16] Julio Voxel: Unlike you, I do have all of my sources in order, so I can for sure show my work without an issue. Please stop wasting my time, and trying to intimidate me for whatever reason. Those who know my work know the truth, so we will see how far you get with the "best skin on the grid".

[2022/05/08 21:18] DopeLit: for you to come and check it that means everyone talking about my new skin... so im in a good way

[2022/05/08 21:18] Julio Voxel: (busy response): If you are getting this message there is a possibility that I am away from my computer, please direct all inquiries to Dean Kiyori, he will be happy to assist. Thank you for your support.

  

So Julio left from my place 21:18 PM.... during the night i was sleeping but i always leave my SL open when i wake up i got 2 messages from INITHIUM manager ([2022/05/08 23:57] ֆᴘᴏɪʟᴇᴅ ᴸᶦᴸ ĐᵒᴸᴸY™ (ixipinkyixi): You have been ejected from 'INITHIUM' by IXIPINKYIXI Resident.) that i been ejected from INITHIUM i was like wtf happen here is the gyazo pic gyazo.com/36f59e4605fb2fe2f0be2244197746fb and from Titania Halasy here is in gyazo our convo gyazo.com/1b89b1f7c81abbb7f0945cf3dd6a47dc and here is as a copy paste....

 

[2022/05/09 01:57] Titania Halasy: You have been ejected from 'The Inithium Event' by Titania Halasy.

[2022/05/09 01:59] Second Life: Titania Halasy has given you this notecard:

Intellectual property issue - Revoking dev kit rights

Do you want to keep it? "Mute" will block all future offers or messages from Titania Halasy.

[2022/05/09 05:14] DopeLit: hello... can yous how me the evidence please?

[2022/05/09 05:27] Titania Halasy: The information is in the notecard and email we sent you, and you know the details as you've spoken with Julio. In case you can talk with him and sort out things we will be glad to rethink our decision.

[2022/05/09 05:27] DopeLit: my Kario skin body has nothing to do with his fake problem...

[2022/05/09 05:27] DopeLit: last night he was at my place

[2022/05/09 05:28] DopeLit: comparing my new body skin with his

[2022/05/09 05:29] DopeLit: here

[2022/05/09 05:29] DopeLit: gyazo.com/e9d0c877034e87f4278f41af3b1d539d

[2022/05/09 05:30] DopeLit: and he still on my FL... my best friend lmao

[2022/05/09 05:30] DopeLit: gyazo.com/57c3e6471504f160d05cead36abc21c3

[2022/05/09 05:30] Titania Halasy: We are aware of the issue, as Not Found contacted us. Again we hope you can fix things with him.

[2022/05/09 05:35] DopeLit: but thats not fair tho because of the Notfound its a big store and right away you guys judging me without even try to talk with me first... as i said again my Kario skin body has nothing to do with my last release.... its almost a half year my Kario body skin there and never happen anything and not even close my Kario body skin looks like his.

[2022/05/09 05:39] DopeLit: www.flickr.com/photos/145056446@N08/52053782499/in/datepo...

[2022/05/09 05:40] DopeLit: thats my new release

[2022/05/09 05:40] DopeLit: how the fk my skin looks like his... its damn insane

[2022/05/09 05:41] DopeLit: and on the email i have no evidence.... where is the evidence please

 

And here is the notecard they send me : on Gyazo: gyazo.com/b51b684e846ff5e9348b7f93f254e4f9

and copy paste:

 

Greetings DopeLit Resident,

 

It has come to our attention that you have violated the Inithium Developer Kits Terms of Service regarding intellectual property.

 

The owner of Not Found has lodged a complaint and provided evidence that you have infringed upon his intellectual property by copybotting his skins.

 

As according to the legally binding agreement you signed when you accepted the Inithium Developers Kits Terms of Service, any and all instances of violations of intellectual property rights permanently disqualifies you from being able to use any Inithium intellectual property in your works.

 

We are revoking your permission and access to use any and all content related to and including the Inithium Developer Kits effective immediately.

 

Any further content you release that contains Inithium intellectual property can and will be subject to legal action by the Inithium team.

Thank you for understanding.

 

INITHIUM

  

So here is the thing now and from now i will type with cap on mode

 

MISTER JULIO THE POOR GUY THAT WE COPYBOT HIS SKIN AND HIS WORK THAT HE KNEW ALREADY THAT WE USING THE SAME TEMPLATES AND HE APPROVED IT HERE IS THE GYAZO: gyazo.com/a8d53a95e9e0585d2dea27d30a2a17b3

AND I WANNA ASK SORRY FROM SILVIA BUT THATS THE EVIDENCE I HAVE FROM HER DISCORD BECAUSE JULIO WANTED TO TAKE DOWN MY SKIN FROM ACCESS EVENT SO

 

1ST OF COURSE MAYBE WE GONNA HAVE SOME SIMILAR SMALL PARTS ITS THE DAMN SAME TEMPLATES THAT WE BOTH WORKED ON. FROM HEAD TO BODY AND LEGS.

 

2 MY LAST RELEASE 99% IS TOTAL DIFFERENT FROM HIS BODY SKIN.. I HAVE 3 TYPE OF ABS (FLEX,FIT,FLAT)

JULIO GOT STACK ON THE SIDE OF THE FLAT VERSION BECAUSE OF THE RIBS LOOKS SIMILAR (IM LAUGHING)ALL THE OTHER PARTS HE POINTS ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT

 

SO BACK TO WHERE I LEFT YOU

 

MY LAST MESSAGE TO JULIO WAS AT 21:18 PM

 

I MESSAGE HIM BACK AFTER HE TALKED BEHIND MY BACK TO THE INITHIUM MANAGERS AND OF COURSE I UNDERSTAND THEM AND I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THEM AND THEY TOOK ME OUT.. THE ONLY THINK IM STILL ASKING AND WAITING IS WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE? THEY TOLD ME ON MY EMAIL IS THE EVIDNCE AND HERE IS WHAT THEY SEND ME

 

gyazo.com/e23303b780572bc0ce56f390aecdcbb7

 

THE SAME THING THAT (Titania Halasy) SEND ME IN SECONDLIFE

 

SO OF COURSE AFTER ALL THAT HE DID BEHIND MY BACK BECAUSE HE HAS NO BALLS I SEND HIM THAT I WILL SEND A DMCA TOO ABOUT HIM AT 04:59AM THAT MEANS AFTER 7 HOURS HE LEFT FROM MY PLACE AND THATS WHAT I TOLD HIM ON GYAZO: gyazo.com/42584f9aa9d3bff0a600d713fded34dc AND COPY PASTE:

[2022/05/09 04:59] DopeLit: you choose the wrong game to play with me... i dont know if you forget you send me on facebook my skin templates... this will goes to SL a report that you copyboting skins.

[2022/05/09 04:59] Julio Voxel: (busy response): If you are getting this message there is a possibility that I am away from my computer, please direct all inquiries to Dean Kiyori, he will be happy to assist. Thank you for your support.

[2022/05/09 05:19] DopeLit: [2021/05/13 10:12] DopeLit: i made a DMCA for you too... the filed you showed me on Facebook means you are a copyboter... you can have my files expect LL... Gyazo pictures and everything are send to LL

[2021/05/13 10:14] Julio Voxel: im not a copybooter man, my manager send it to me and i can prove it

[2022/05/09 05:19] DopeLit: wait and see what we happen on flickr.... i will prepare a big show

  

THATS THE HOLE STORY! THATS THE TRUE STORY! WITH EVIDENCE! PICTURES! TIME! NOTE CARDS! AND EMAILS!

 

I NEVER THREAT ANYONE WITHOUT REASON! JULIO DID IT FIRST WITH A SNEAKY WAY!

 

IM STILL WAITING SOMEONE TO TELL ME WHO IS THE COPYBOT THAT THE FIRST TIME JULIO SEND ME ON FACEBOOK MY SKIN TEMPLATES... JULIO OR HIS MANAGER AS HIS SAYING ON THE IM:

 

[2021/05/13 10:12] DopeLit: i made a DMCA for you too... the filed you showed me on Facebook means you are a copyboter... you can have my files expect LL... Gyazo pictures and everything are send to LL

[2021/05/13 10:14] Julio Voxel: im not a copybooter man, my manager send it to me and i can prove it

gyazo.com/b06f4d8b1abb161c86804dc7284dadb5

 

AND ABOUT GAC AKINA STRAYDOG OWNER HIS PROBLEM WAS THE SHADOW AND SOME DOTS LIKE WE CANT DO THIS LMAO YOU ARE BOTH SO FUNNY

 

gyazo.com/5ea77cb582ec10f6830b54cc2bca05b7?fbclid=IwAR3am...

  

WITH LOVE DOPELIT/SKINS (IM STILL HERE) AND THANKS JULIO AND GAC AKINA FOR THE EXTRA SALES AND FOR MAKING ME MORE FAMOUS WITH YOUR POSTS

   

Looking up into the tree - "clarify" and brightness/contrast enhanced.

I believe this is a Vivid Dancer...Maybe someone can correct or clarify that?