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Soldiers from 18 different countries stand together during a Rapid Trident 2015 ceremony July 20, 2015, in Yavoriv, Ukraine. Rapid Trident is a long-standing U.S. Army Europe-led cooperative training exercise focused on peacekeeping and stability operations. More than 1,800 personnel from 18 different nations are participating in the exercise. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alexander Skripnichuk, 13th Public Affairs Detachment)
Lifetime Dream # 138 of my list of 155: I will keep a personal journal of 3,000 pages, reflecting the many different journeys, triumphs, and struggles that I have worked through in my life. I will keep the journal in an old world texting style where every page is styled and written different from every other page.
Completed On: December 16, 2008
I was in second grade when I started my first journal. I remember the first line of the page in my mind’s eye (yes that’s they joyous part of having a photographic memory). I remember where I was when I was writing it and what I wrote about. Over the years I have had several different journals written in several different types of books and locations. I once had a journal just on my personal experiences, camping experiences, travel experiences, musical experiences, and so on… exhausting.
When the world I was living in bottomed out, I actually was NOT journaling believe it or not. It is a part of my history that I don’t really understand why I wasn’t. When the dust started to settle and my life began to have some life, light and hope to it again I started planning out my next “be all, end all journal”. I wanted one journal- not half a dozen. I wanted one written in a cool style that was consistent and in an “old world texts”.
I can still remember nights at work writing down different ideas that I wanted to incorporate in the journal; the upper and lower lines of the pages are all written in rune code… texts that have moved and inspired my life, and they are re arranged in orders that bring order within the order… it took a while to design the pages, but once they were created I had my journal…
I have touched on so many things in the first journal. I completed it in another hard time of my life in 2008, and I have since begun a new journal. I don’t write in it like I once did, but I am going to be writing more and more this year. I get so much release from writing, and especially how I’m writing them now… few could really read them or understand the code I write in… I highly suggest writing to anyone who needs release. It’s the writing that brings the release… and for the record I’ve never gone back and re-read what I wrote.
The Roman Forum (Latin: Forum Romanum, Italian: Foro Romano), sometimes known by its original Latin name, is located between the Palatine hill and the Capitoline hill of the city of Rome, Italy. It is the central area around which the ancient Roman civilization developed. Citizens referred to the location as the "Forum Magnum" or just the "Forum".
The oldest and most important structures of the ancient city were located in the forum, including its ancient former royal residency, the Regia which burned and was rebuilt in the Imperial age in a slightly different location, and the surrounding complex of the Vestal virgins, also rebuilt after the fall of the Republic. The Old Republic had its formal Comitium there where the senate, as well as Republican government began. The forum served as a city square and central hub where the people of Rome gathered for justice, and faith. The forum was also the economic hub of the city and considered to be the center of the Republic and Empire.
History
The area of the forum was originally a grassy wetland. It was drained in the 7th century BC by building the Cloaca Maxima, a large covered sewer system that drained into the Tiber River, as more people began to settle between the two hills.
According to tradition, the forum's beginnings are connected with the alliance between Romulus, the first king of Rome controlling the Palatine hill, and his rival, Titus Tatius who occupied the Capitoline hill. Accordingly, an alliance formed after combat had been halted by the prayers and cries of the Sabine Women. Because the valley lay between the two settlements it was the designated place for the two peoples to meet. Since the early forum area was mostly pools of stagnant water the only accessible area was the northern part of the valley which was designated as the comitium. It was here that the two parties laid down their weapons and formed an alliance.[1]
The forum was outside the walls of the original Sabine fortress, which was entered through the Porta Saturni. These walls were mostly destroyed when the two hills were joined.[2]
The second king, Numa Pompilius, is said to have begun the cult of Vesta, building its house and temple as well as the Regia as the city's first royal palace. Later Tullus Hostilius erected the Curia and enclosed the Comitium. In 600 BC Tarquinius Priscus had the area paved for the first time.
Over time the Comitium was lost to the ever-growing Curia and Julius Caesar's rearranging of the forum before his assassination in 44 BC. After Caesar's death Octavius finished the work.
Many of the forum's temples are from either the kingdom or the Republican era. Many have been destroyed and rebuilt several times
Structures within the Forum
The ruins within the forum clearly show how urban spaces were utilized during the Roman Age. The Roman Forum includes a modern statue of Julius Caesar and the following major monuments, buildings, and ancient ruins:
Temples
•Temple of Castor and Pollux
•Temple of Saturn
•Temple of Vesta
•Temple of Venus and Roma
•Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
•Temple of Caesar
•Temple of Vespasian and Titus
•Temple of Concord
•Temple of Romulus
•Shrine of Venus Cloacina
Basilicas
•Basilica Aemilia
•Basilica Julia
•Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine
Arches
•Arch of Septimius Severus
•Arch of Titus
•Arch of Tiberius
•Arch of Augustus
Other structures
•Regia, originally the residence of the kings of Rome or at least their main headquarters, and later the office of the Pontifex Maximus, the high priest of Roman religion.
•Rostra, from where politicians made their speeches to the Roman citizens.
•Curia Hostilia (later rebuilt as the Curia Julia), the site of the Roman Senate.
•Tabularium, the records office of Rome.
•Gemonian stairssteps situated in the central part of Rome, leading from the Arx of the Capitoline Hill down to the Roman Forum.
•Clivus Capitolinus was the street that started at the Arch of Tiberius, wound around the Temple of Saturn, and ended at Capitoline Hill.
•Umbilicus Urbi, the designated centre of the city from which and to which all distances in Rome and the Roman Empire were measured.
•Milliarium Aureum After Augustus erected this monument, all roads were considered to begin here and all distances in the Roman Empire were measured relative to that point.
•Lapis Niger, a shrine also known as the Black Stone.
•Atrium Vestae, the house of the Vestal Virgins.
•A processional street, the Via Sacra, linked the Atrium Vestae with the Colosseum. By the end of the Empire, it had lost its everyday use but remained a sacred place.
•Column of Phocas, the last monument built within the Forum.
•Tullianum, the prison used to hold various foreign leaders and generals.
•The Lacus Curtius, the site of a mysterious pool venerated by Romans even after they'd forgotten what it signified.
Excavation and preservation
An anonymous 8th century traveler from Einsiedeln (now in Switzerland) reported that the Forum was already falling apart in his time. During the Middle Ages, though the memory of the Forum Romanum persisted, its monuments were for the most part buried under debris, and its location was designated the "Campo Vaccino" or "cattle field," located between the Capitoline Hill and the Colosseum. The return of Pope Urban V from Avignon in 1367 led to an increased interest in ancient monuments, partly for their moral lesson and partly as a quarry for new buildings being undertaken in Rome after a long lapse. Artists from the late 15th century drew the ruins in the Forum, antiquaries copied inscriptions in the 16th century, and a tentative excavation was begun in the late 18th century.
Sequences of remains of paving show that sediment eroded from the surrounding hills was already raising the level of the forum in early Republican times. Originally it had been marshy ground, which was drained by the Tarquins with the Cloaca Maxima. Its final travertine paving, still visible, dates from the reign of Augustus.
A cardinal took measures to drain it again and built the Alessandrine neighborhood over it. But the excavation by Carlo Fea, who began clearing the debris from the Arch of Septimius Severus in 1803, and archaeologists under the Napoleonic regime marked the beginning of clearing the Forum, which was only fully excavated in the early 20th century.
Remains from several centuries are shown together, due to the Roman practice of building over earlier ruins.
Other fora existed in other areas of the city; remains of most of them, sometimes substantial, still exist. The most important of these are a number of large imperial fora forming a complex with the Forum Romanum: the Forum Iulium, Forum Augustum, the Forum Transitorium (also: Forum Nervae), and Trajan's Forum. The planners of the Mussolini era removed most of the Medieval and Baroque strata and built the Via dei Fori Imperiali road between the Imperial Fora and the Forum. There is also:
•The Forum Boarium, dedicated to the commerce of cattle, between the Palatine Hill and the river Tiber,
•The Forum Holitorium, dedicated to the commerce of herbs and vegetables, between the Capitoline Hill and the Servian walls,
•The Forum Piscarium, dedicated to the commerce of fish, between the Capitoline hill and the Tiber, in the area of the current Roman Ghetto,
•The Forum Suarium, dedicated to the commerce of pork, near the barracks of the cohortes urbanae in the northern part of the campus Martius,
•The Forum Vinarium, dedicated to the commerce of wine, in the area now of the "quartiere" Testaccio, between Aventine Hill and the Tiber.
Other markets were known but remain unidentifiable due to a lack of precise information on the function of the sites. Among these, the Forum cuppedinis, was known as a general market for many goods.
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Locomotives and trains from different eras pass each other at Maitland. X45, X51 and 48158 haul a loaded domestic grain on the up main, while 9014, 9012 and 9034 haul an empty coal on the down coal road.
This is a photograph from the Cork City Marathon 2014 which was held in Cork City, Ireland on Bank Holiday Monday June 2nd 2014 starting at 09:00. There are three different events: The full marathon, The Half Marathon, and a full relay of the full marathon course.
Electronic Timing and Event Management and Registration was provided by Precision Timing - their website will have results of the race (www.precisiontiming.net/results.aspx)
We have a set of photographs from today's races at various points. Firstly at the 1 mile mark and then along the Mardyke (around 3:15 - 3:30 marathon finish time) and finally at the finish around 4:50 to 5:00 marathon finish time. The full set is available at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644970559902/
Some links, related to this race, which you might find useful:
Official Race Website: www.corkcitymarathon.ie/
Running in Cork Blog: corkrunning.blogspot.ie/
Running in Cork Blog: corkrunning.blogspot.ie/2014/06/results-photos-of-2014-co...
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Transport UK London Bus 2410 (SN61DGF) on 278 terminating at Heathrow Central Bus Station after finishing its service from Ruislip Station and a National Express BV73ZWZ
Last stop in Rajasthan: Udaipur. Rajasthan is known for its palaces, forts, and history. Udaipur is no exception. It doesn’t have a “kingdom” to speak of as Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Jaisalmer did, but there is a City Palace, a museum now, which happens to be the state’s largest with a façade 244 meters long and 30 meters high. The palace was begun by the city’s founder, Maharaja Udai Singh II, and completed by subsequent maharanas. There is a uniformity to the palace and it’s not terribly different from some of the others we’d seen: cupolas, courtyards, balconies, towers. All in all, it’s a nice visit and certainly a “must see” if you have a tourist checklist for this town.
The biggest difference between Udaipur and the previous cities we’d visited is the setting. In southern Rajsasthan, Udaipur (population around half million) is nestled among the Aravalli Hills and is on the eastern shore of Lake Pichola. Now, this lake was always here, but not quite at these dimensions. It was enlarged by Maharana Udai Singh II (city founder) to its current size of 4 km (north-south) by 3 km (east-west) by flooding the village of Picholi. Being manmade (or…man-enlarged), it’s shallow and can dry up completely during severe droughts.
Because of its setting, Udaipur is considered one of the most romantic spots in India and, while I haven’t seen much of India, I can certainly say that I can see how this could/would be a romantic spot. My Udaipur experience began when we arrived via overnight bus around 4:00 in the morning on Friday, October 2.
Udaipur was one of the cities where I was not able to actually reserve a guesthouse, but I did have one in mind (Lal Ghat Guesthouse) and we hopped in a tuktuk and made our way there now. Bless their souls and wonderful Indian hospitality for opening the door before the sun had come up and giving us a comfortable – though like most other places, bare necessities – room. (I’m always pleased and impressed, both in China and India, that hotels allow you to check in very early without charging an extra day.)
Needing a few hours of actual sleep, since the bus sleepers felt more like a sarcophagus than a sleeper, we got a slightly late-morning start to the day. The Lal Ghat Guesthouse is located just north of City Palace and on the shores of Lake Pichola. From our room, if you crane your neck just a little bit, you could see the lake (with some flowers in bloom) and the Lake Palace. More on that later.
For now, the first order of business was to find food. I can’t recall the name of the restaurant, but I enjoyed it so much I ate there a second time on my own. It was a few doors south of the guesthouse and, like the guesthouse, was lakeside and afforded wonderful views. Fortified by a delicious lunch of chicken biriyani and reshmi chicken, we made our way to the City Palace (and Palace Museum) and wandered around there for a while.
It’s a very nice palace, mind you, but I was beginning to become a bit anesthetized to grandiose palaces by this point, having been to Jaipur, Jaisalmer, and Jodhpur in the past seven days. Though this is the largest, it didn’t rank as my favorite. (Jaisalmer Fort was my favorite as it’s a living fort, followed by Mehrangarh in Jodhpur, then City Palace here in Udaipur; Jaipur didn’t really have a comparable palace to speak of, though it’s the capital of the state.)
Though I was starting to suffer palace fatigue, I still did enjoy myself quite a bit, though I know I was rushing a little. I was more interested in finding “unique” here, which was only with views of the lake. Other than that, it was standard fare for palace museums with the women’s quarters, various displays, and so on. However, it is a pretty building, and I’m certainly glad to have gone there.
From City Palace, we walked out the south gate to take a boat ride around Lake Pichola. This is where Udaipur comes into play in pop culture. James Bond fans may recognize the scenery around Udaipur and Lake Pichola in particular as the main setting from the movie Octopussy. (It was said to have been an Afghan palace in Octopussy.) You’d also have to be a pretty die hard 007 fan to have seen that movie, I think; it’s usually ranked among the worst of the Bond franchise. But, I digress…
There are really two islands in the middle of Lake Pichola: Jagniwas with its Lake Palace Hotel (Taj Lake Palace) and Jagmandir with its own palace. I’ll start with Jagniwas. It’s not a private island, but you can only go there if you are a guest of the hotel…with rooms that start from 40,000 rupees/night. (I don’t know the high end, but that translates to close to 4,000 RMB or over $600 USD/night for the cheapest available. I’ve seen pictures and, while beautiful, I’m not Daddy Warbucks, and don’t expect I ever will be…so will just settle for their promotional pictures on their website: www.tajhotels.com .)
Jagmandir, on the other hand, is an island you can visit, and we did. The boat left the mooring south of City Palace, went northward to give a close-up view of City Palace from the lake, along with Bagore-ki-Haveli up to the north end before veering south and around Jagniwas and docking at the north end of Jagmandir, 800 meters south of Jagniwas (and roughly in the west central part of the lake).
Jagmandir’s palace was built in 1620 by Maharana Karan Singh, and was expanded by his successor, Maharana Jagat Singh. Not much has changed from those days until recently when it was convereted into a small hotel (nothing like the neighboring Taj Lake Hotel). For the Bond aficionados, the Taj Lake Hotel was the main palace of Octopussy, and I believe Jagmandir’s palace is where Bond stayed in the movie. There was also some filming at the nearby Monsoon Palace, but we didn’t have the time to visit there.
Jagmandir didn’t offer much at all in the way of things to do. Once you get to the island, you’re pretty much limited to wandering around an interior palace courtyard (where you can have very, very overpriced drinks and possibly a bite to eat, though the drink prices kept me from looking further, so I’m not certain). After staying in the courtyard as long as you’d like – and the views from and in the courtyard are lovely, though don’t require too much time or effort – you can walk outside to the boat dock where there is also an outer garden that’s quite pleasing, and affords beautiful views of the wooded Aravalli Hills in the west.
After an hour or two on Jagmandir, we finally took a boat back to the mainland (a whole 10-15 minute ride, tops), and then tooled around the area near City Palace and the guesthouse. We eventually had dinner at a rooftop restaurant down the lane from where we stayed which had a nice view of the lake with its shimmering palaces (well-lit by night) and a bit of a nice view for sunset. The best sunset views, I would say, would have been from the islands, though – especially Jagniwas – as you could have an unobstructed view of the sun setting over the hills with the lake in the foreground. The food at the restaurant, like most every other restaurant we ate at, was spectacular. It was a good way to end the first day in Udaipur.
Saturday morning came along and we didn’t have much planned. I was actually glad to spend the majority of the day alone. After running a few errands, I went to Jagdish Temple. This is an “Indo-Aryan temple..built by Maharana Jagat Singh in 1651. The wonderfully carved main structure enshrines a black stone image of Vishnu as Jagannath, Lord of the Universe; there’s a brass image of the Garuda (Vishnu’s man-bird vehicle) in a shrine facing the main structure.” (Per Lonely Planet India.) This is one of the smallest temples I’ve ever been to, though the details were delightful. I was pretty impressed with how intricate the temples were both here and at Jaisalmer.
After a quick half hour at Jagdish Temple, I went back to roaming the streets of Udaipur, eventually finding my intended destination, the Bagore-ki-Haveli. This is a pretty large haveli in the Gangaur Ghat area. It was built by a Mewar prime minister and has 138 carefully restored rooms around courtyards on three levels. These days, it’s kind of a klitschy museum. There are a few rooms that have interesting exhibits of Indian musical instruments (a sitar, obviously, and many others that I don’t recall the names of), and exhibits with turbans – including the world’s biggest turban. (This, by the way, was a bit strange; don’t know why anyone would want such a huge turban. Anyway, it was in a glass case, didn’t photograph terribly well, and none of us are the worse off for that.) The nicest part about this haveli is that, like the guesthouse, it was on the water’s edge, so had a few rather pleasant views.
After finishing up here, I wandered back to the previous day’s restaurant for lunch (and would even eat dinner there on Saturday night; they were probably happy with me…). For either lunch or dinner, I had hariyali murg tikka and cheese naan. Now…I would gladly eat murg tikka (chicken pieces generally made in a tandoor) any day of the week. Hariyali…is a coriander-yogurt-mint marinade. It’s heavenly. I really need to learn how to make that one, though I don’t really have any way to make tandoori chicken.
The afternoon and early evening was spent eating very well and relaxing, and really waiting for the last thing I had planned for Udaipur: Dharohar. This is a cultural event at the Bagore-ki-Haveli that hosts Rajasthani folk dancing, singing, performance, and so on. It’s an hour long and pretty interesting, in addition to being in a nice setting.
Before bidding farewell to Udaipur, I returned for the last time to Lake Pichola to try to get a few pictures of the Lake Palace and Jagmandir by night. A few turned out alright, but not spectacularly.
All told, Rajasthan was an absolutely brilliant way to spend a week, and I was looking forward to the last few days in Uttar Pradesh, beginning with the Taj Mahal in Agra after yet another long overnight train ride across the Indian countryside.
Maybe it's just me, but I see a series of different faces in these rocks along the Grand River in Fergus.
Dimanche matin, le lent cortège des différentes embarcations à voiles, des plus traditionnelles aux plus high-tech, a pris le départ de Saint-Malo. Sous une légère brise, les équipages ont croisé au large et ont rejoint la pointe du Grouin, puis ont longé le littoral depuis Port-Mer, Port-Picain, Port-Briac, l'île des Rimains, le Rocher de Cancale puis le port de la Houle, à marée haute.
Les touristes et les amateurs de navigation étaient à terre pour observer ce ballet depuis les chemins côtiers et le port. Pour les néophytes, cette manifestation est davantage un spectacle qu'un défi nautique et les résultats des régates importent surtout pour les marins, qui pourront garder un souvenir de leur participation au dos de leur tee-shirt.
Vers Chausey et Granville
« Un concours photo a lieu pendant quatre jours, jusqu'à mardi. Les équipages et les spectateurs peuvent participer, a rappelé l'un des organisateurs. La meilleure photo prise sur l'eau sera récompensée par un tirage de l'affiche du Branlebas de régates édition 2015, signé par l'artiste et l'équipe organisatrice du Branlebas. À terre, la personne dont le cliché remportera l'adhésion du jury gagnera deux places pour une sortie en mer sur un trimaran avec Gilles Lamiré. »
À l'origine, ces challenges permettaient aux plaisanciers et aux pêcheurs de se mesurer sur leurs aptitudes de tacticiens à tirer le meilleur parti de leurs bateaux. Une longue histoire sportive en mer, qui perdure. Cet événement est très attendu des passionnés, car les conditions physiques entrent en ligne de compte.
Une parade des voiliers à la Houle a clos les épreuves en fin d'après-midi, suivie d'un moment de détente et de camaraderie à Port-Mer, dans une ambiance de chants de marin avec le groupe des Pirates.
Une nouvelle étape est prévue vers Chausey depuis Cancale, puis jusqu'à Granville, nouveauté 2015, avec, enfin, le retour sur Saint-Malo.
Le Branlebas s'est élancé. Plus de 70 bateaux inscrits dont 22 classiques, ce qui marque un record dans cette catégorie et permet même deux classements différents : gréements auriques et les gréements marconis. Un temps magnifique a accompagné, hier, la première journée du Branlebas de Régates. Parade sous le soleil La première course du matin a dû être annulée faute de vent mais la flotte est bien repartie dès l'après-midi des Ébihens pour rentrer vers la cité corsaire. Un vent de face a permis de tirer de longs bords de près et une belle redescente au portant jusqu'à Saint-Malo. À 16 h 45 a commencé la course parade entre Classiques, Osiris et Muscadets. Le spectacle était visible depuis la cité d'Aleth, le Môle des Noires, mais aussi des plages du Môle et de Bonsecours bondées de monde. Côté course, en temps réel, c'est le Class 40, de Thibaut Vauchel Camus, qui a remporté la deuxième manche à près de six minutes du second. Chez les Classiques, c'est le cotre aurique de 1908 qui est arrivé premier. Parmi les Muscadets, Bouge Tranquille a pris la première place. Mais rien n'est joué : les temps doivent être compensés par les différents handicaps et le Branlebas dure encore trois jours. Aujourd'hui, c'est la jetée de la Houle de Cancale qui accueille le spectacle dès 15 h.
Pendant quatre jours, près de 80 équipages vont batailler, dans une ambiance bon enfant, au large de la Cité corsaire, et même jusqu'à Granville (Manche).
Inspiré des grandes joutes nautiques organisées au milieu du XIXe siècle dans la région, le Branlebas de régates part du port des Bas Sablons, ce samedi matin, à 9 h 55. Pendant quatre jours, jusqu'à mardi, près de 80 équipages vont se tirer la bourre entre Saint-Malo, Les Hébihens, Cancale, Chausey, et, pour la première fois, jusqu'à Granville (Manche). « Le port de Granville fête ses quarante ans cette année. On a donc souhaité y passer pour participer aux festivités », explique Christian Rouxel, responsable de la communication de la Société nautique de la baie de Saint-Malo (SNBSM).
Une course parade se tient aujourd'hui dans la baie de Saint-Malo, visible par le public depuis le Môle des Noires. « On a essayé de reproduire l'esprit des régates du XIXe, qui se déroulaient en public pour le 14-Juillet. »
Bonne ambiance
Le Branlebas permet aux plaisanciers, désireux de participer à la course, de se mesurer aux pêcheurs et vieux loups de mer. « Mais la course se déroule dans une très bonne ambiance ! » souligne Marie, agent immobilier, qui prend le départ de la course pour la deuxième fois.
Des embarcations exceptionnelles prendront le départ de la régate, comme le Marie-Fernand, un voilier havrais classé monument historique. Aussi, la course séduit de grands navigateurs, tels que Servane Escoffier, Gilles Lamiré et Thibaut Vauchel-Camus, second de la Route du Rhum 2014 en monocoque Class 40.
Le Branlebas des Régates est une course de bateaux historiques qui se disputera du 8 au 11 août.
La Société nautique de la baie de Saint-Malo, organisatrice, espère réunir cent concurrents, notamment des Anglais. La flotte ira alors, et c'est une nouveauté, à Granville.
Les régates historiques de la côte d'émeraude de la fin du XIXe siècle voyaient se mesurer les bisquines, les bateaux de pêche, les yachts de plaisanciers.
Le spectacle haut en couleur était visible de la terre. L'esprit est resté. Sur le Branlebas, on s'affronte à bord de la Cancalaise, la Granvillaise, le Reder Mor et les cotres pilotes malouins Yseult et Marie-Claude.
On se mesure aussi en IRC, osiris, muscadets, HN1, HN2 et Cornish crabber, sans oublier les Old gaffers.
C'est à la fois une belle fête sur l'eau et à terre pendant les escales et un parcours technique sur quatre jours.
Cette année, les Anglais pourraient embarquer les plus nombreux. Motiver les skippers La course a été relancée dans le milieu des années 90 par l'équipe de la SNBSM (Société nautique de la baie de Saint-Malo) autour de Jean-François Revert.
Son ambition : motiver les jeunes à participer aux régates et faire sortir les bateaux des bassins.
Depuis, au gré des éditions, près d'une centaine de bateaux participent à l'événement.
Une fête de la voile et de l'amitié, puisque des soirées festives attendent les marins dans les ports.
Pour François Lognoné, le coordinateur de l'édition 2015, « l'objectif est d'atteindre les cent bateaux ». Alors, et ce sera la grande nouveauté, la flotte ira à Granville. «
On se tourne vers l'Est, vers Chausey et Granville. C'est important pour attirer les Anglais. On met le paquet pour avoir les classiques », ajoute Christian Rouxel, chargé des relations partenaires.
Rendez-vous pour quatre jours de régates ouvertes à tous les voiliers habitables, du 8 au 11 août 2015.
L'histoire du Branlebas de régates se conjugue avec celle de Saint-Malo.
Au milieu du XIXe siècle, de grandes joutes nautiques opposaient pêcheurs aux yatchmen.
La SNBSM, associée aux clubs de la Côte d'Emeraude, entend faire revivre ce temps fort en organisant une fête de la mer du 8 au 11 août.
À la Fête de la mer, il y a bien sûr le côté sportif où on voit les bateaux de tout type, Muscadet, Shrimpers, Cornish-crabber, cotres, bisquines... se mesurer pour espérer une place sur le podium. Mais ce qui prédomine, c'est le côté convivial d'une manifestation nautique qui veut rassembler le plus largement possible en espérant retrouver l'esprit qui régnait à l'époque des grandes régates municipales.
Le public à terre n'est pas laissé de côté. Bien au contraire : Malouins, Cancalais et touristes pourront jouir du spectacle sur l'eau en se postant sur les deux ports de la Côte d'Émeraude.
Invitation aux jeunes « On essaie d'avoir le plus de bateaux, confirme de son côté Christian Rouxel, le chargé de communication de la société nautique malouine. De Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France mais aussi de Grande-Bretagne ».
Cette année, le record à battre est de 106. « L'idée est aussi d'attirer les jeunes et leur donner le gout de la mer. Pour cela, le club s'engage à leur payer leur licence tout en incitant les propriétaires de bateaux à embarquer des novices. Côté prix, justement, on a voulu jouer soft.
Pour quatre jours, il se monte à 50 €. » Quatre jours intenses Ces quatre jours seront bien remplis.
Le samedi, la flotte mettra le cap sur les Ébihens avant de revenir à Saint-Malo. Le dimanche, direction Cancale avec, le soir, le traditionnel dîner en plein air à Port-Mer.
Le lundi, les bateaux rallieront Granville via les îles Chausey.
Et le mardi, retour à la cité corsaire. Des prix et trois trophées « Nous sommes heureux de faire escale à Granville qui fête cette année les 40 ans de son port », se réjouit à l'avance François Lognoné, le coordinateur du Branlebas 2015 qui sera accueilli gratuitement dans le port normand.
Au total, huit courses seront organisées avec, à la clé, des prix attribués à chaque catégorie et trois trophées : celui du Yacht club de France (fair play), Raymond Labbé (concours d'élégance) et Marin Marie pour les bateaux classiques.
Living in a different culture course openning session took place at ISCTE-IUL on the 13th of may 2019. Fotografia de Hugo Alexandre Cruz.
On 3rd March 2023, ESCP London Campus hosted its 18th Annual Student Gala. Staged at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, the event attracted 300 students from 7 different degree programmes and many members of ESCP faculty and professional services for what is one of the highlights of the London Campus' social calendar.
The Annual Gala guests celebrated its community and the innovative spirit embedded in ESCP’s genes. A pioneer for more than 200 years, ESCP can be proud of a large number of innovations successfully adopted all around the world. It remains the only pan-European school, with six campuses in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Turin and Warsaw.
The event drew attention to the School’s achievements over the past 12 months and the success of its diverse student community, which the London Campus Dean, Associate Professor Kamran Razmdoost, highlighted in his opening speech.
During the night, the guests were treated to a surprise performance from BOX9, a UK leading drumline and bass collective. Their past performances included shows hosted by Netflix, Strictly Come Dancing, Glastonbury Festival, NFL, Jean Paul Gaultier and many more.
The event continued until late on the dance floor, with music provided by signed Universal Music label artist DJ and ESCP alumnus (2017) Harold Van Lennep.
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“Everyone in my family is in a healthcare profession. I worked for a mental health charity that supported people in crisis. Since then I always wanted to do more. Especially long-term therapy. I’m studying psychotherapy and counselling. It’s very intense. We’re constantly working on ourselves. Our lecturers describe it as ‘breaking you down’. One of the things I learnt about myself was that I put up walls. Big thick metaphorical walls to separate myself from people. They were my defence, to protect me. I experienced a lot of non-acceptance throughout my childhood. People treated me differently. I was the only black kid in school. I’d never been aware of racism before then. Being mixed race made it so much worse. They didn’t know where to place me. So I wasn’t accepted into either groups. It affected me a lot when I was younger. Not so much anymore but it’s important to realise these things. The self therapy gives me a certain level of awareness. And I’m trying to be more open; breaking those walls.”
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One more time... Melody felt on the ground T___T
Her make-up had been crashed >_____<
I had to made it again...
So, this time I made the normal AND the sleeping faceplate! Finally!
But I'm not sure about this make-up...
I wanted something different than before but I don't really recognize her now ^__^'
Female Adult Literacy program was initiated in 2016. At present PEP is running 26 Female Adult Literacy (FAL) Centers with 316 Female Adult Literacy members (Adult Students) in different areas of rural Sindh as follows,
Khipro48
Mirpurkhas47
Khawaja Goth7
Tando Allahyar80
Tando Ghulam Ali134
There are 6 area officers and 1 WEP coordinator for the implementing and monitoring of the adult literacy program.
As a gesture of appreciation Pervaiz Lodhie President and founder LEDtronics Inc. offered a special gift of a Solar Powered LED Solar Light to the 316 student and 7 program officers.
Funding for the solar lights was provided by one of gentleman from USA. His name is not mentioned here on his advice.
First distribution ceremony was held on Thursday October 12, 2017 in Shaleemabad, Achaar Khaskeli & Shanti Nagar ALCs located in Tando Allahyar districts.
Lt. Gen (Retd.) Syed Perwaiz Shahid a renowned educationist was chief guest for the event.
Ms. Lillian Charles Program Manager PEP and other team members from PEP were present in the event.
During the ceremony 72 female students received solar lanterns. PEP will organize another event in Hyderabad for the distribution of remaining solar lights in November 2017.
Hope you are well , I am fine too. We are thankful for all your support through lights that you have provided to Women who are part of Adult literacy classes. As I have received a call from Mr Shahid i am sharing the following information with you.
Women Empowerment groups were started in 2013 in all the PEP schools. The ideas was to provide awareness to women regarding their rights, responsibilities, savings, and issues such as early marriage. These women were provided training on building low cost washroom and they were also provided training on how to save their families during severe floods. At present PEP has 67 groups in total. Each group has a group of 10 females.
In 2016 , on the request of women, adult literacy course is introduced to the women. Project aimed at 5 centres in 2016 but 27 centre were started in 2016. they women were provide free books and no fee was charged from them. A mobilizer from the same village taught these classes.. They course is designed for one year as it is a weekly class.
In 2017 , PEP introduced a centre where women can learn from android tablets. PEP has designed three grade applications in Sindhi on tablets which are useful for these women. They can use those applications and hear sounds and can read the sentences and stories.
Now women are able to read and write sentences. Instead of thumb print they can write their names. They developed their confidence and able to perform theater on sensitive issues. Some of the theatre performances are uploaded on PEP website.
PEP is reaching out to the marginalized communities with a hope of educating them and making them effective citizen of our country.
PEP requested you to distribute these light as a token of thanks and as a resource for them so they can use it in the night too. They are thankful for all the encouragement that you have provided to them.
Please feel free to ask further information.
Cawsand and Kingsand in History
Today always twinned, they were for many centuries on different sides of the border, the tiny stream acting as the boundary, with Cawsand located in Cornwall and Kingsand in Devon. In 1844, Kingsand rejoined Cornwall. The sign on one of the white painted cottages shows where the division occurred.
The villages have an interesting history with much involvement in smuggling and fishing. Remains of old pilchard cellars from the late 16th century can be seen on the shoreline just beyond Kingsand. These 'Pilchard Palaces' were for the storing and processing of this most prized fish.
Smuggling was rife in the 1700s and early 1800s and the villages were the main centre of smuggling in the West country during that period. Thousands of casks of spirits were landed here every year by the fleet of over 50 smuggling vessels which operated out of Cawsand Bay.
This is a photograph from the Cork City Marathon 2014 which was held in Cork City, Ireland on Bank Holiday Monday June 2nd 2014 starting at 09:00. There are three different events: The full marathon, The Half Marathon, and a full relay of the full marathon course.
Electronic Timing and Event Management and Registration was provided by Precision Timing - their website will have results of the race (www.precisiontiming.net/results.aspx)
We have a set of photographs from today's races at various points. Firstly at the 1 mile mark and then along the Mardyke (around 3:15 - 3:30 marathon finish time) and finally at the finish around 4:50 to 5:00 marathon finish time. The full set is available at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644970559902/
Some links, related to this race, which you might find useful:
Official Race Website: www.corkcitymarathon.ie/
Running in Cork Blog: corkrunning.blogspot.ie/
Running in Cork Blog: corkrunning.blogspot.ie/2014/06/results-photos-of-2014-co...
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Who's come to slay the dragon?
Come to watch him fall?
Making arrows out of pointed words
Giant killers at the call?
Too much fuss and bother
Too much contradiction and confusion
Peel away the mystery
Here's a clue to some real motivation
All there really is
The two of us
And we both know why we've come along
Nothing to explain
It's a part of us
To be found within a song
What happened to our innocence
Did it go out of style?
Along with our naivete
No longer a child
Different eyes see different things
Different hearts beat on different strings
But there are times
For you and me, when all such things agree.
Neil Peart
While creating the parfumerie, I was trying out different ideas for the display window, one of which was this one.
Roma - Apertura del percorso del Tempio di Venere e Roma nel Foro romano. MIBAC (12/11/2010).
l Commissario delegato per le aree archeologiche di Roma e di Ostia antica Roberto Cecchi, secondo un programma concordato con la Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, prosegue le operazioni finalizzate alla messa in sicurezza dei monumenti in custodia e all’ampliamento degli itinerari di visita offerti ai visitatori.
È questa la volta del tempio di Venere e Roma che si affaccia sulla valle del Colosseo dall’imponente basamento voluto dall’imperatore Adriano che dedicò l’edificio alla Città Eterna e alla dea Venere, madre di Enea suo fondatore. Costruito sulle pendici della Velia a partire dal 121 d.C., sottende una chiara valenza politica creando la sintesi tra Venere, cui è attribuita una dimensione cosmica, e Roma, rappresentata in forma divinizzata, ma anche la sintesi tra il passato e il futuro dell’Urbe, tra Oriente e Occidente, tra Aeternitas e Fortuna.
La storia
Il tempio, inaugurato nel 141 d.C. dal successore di Adriano, l’imperatore Antonino Pio, fu eretto nel luogo in cui sorgeva in precedenza il vestibolo della Domus Aurea, di cui si mantenne l’orientamento e si riutilizzarono in parte le fondazioni. Il tempio, di forme ellenizzanti, si innalzava al centro del grande podio artificiale: questo era affiancato sui lati lunghi da un doppio portico di colonne in granito grigio, su cui si aprivano al centro i due propilei, mentre sui lati corti era collegato con delle scalinate alla piazza del Colosseo e al Foro. Le colonne ancor oggi visibili furono rialzate durante i restauri degli anni trenta.
Il tempio vero e proprio si presentava come un diptero: all’interno due celle orientate in senso opposto, una per ciascuna divinità, e precedute da un vestibolo. Del peristilio di colonne corinzie non rimane nulla, e della cella verso il Colosseo – quella dedicata a Venere – resta solo l’abside. L’altra abside, invece, fu inglobata nell’ex convento di Santa Francesca Romana. Quanto è giunto sino ad oggi risale, però, in gran parte, al restauro voluto da Massenzio nel 307 d.C. in seguito all’incendio che distrusse tutta la parte centrale del Foro. A questo restauro si devono le celle absidali in laterizio con copertura a volte cassettonate, gli stucchi dei cassettoni (ricopiati anche dal Palladio), le colonne in porfido lungo le pareti e il pavimento in lastre marmoree.
L’abbandono dell’edificio e la seguente spoliazione delle strutture hanno inizio nel VII secolo, quando l’imperatore Eraclio concede a papa Onorio (625-638) le tegole di ottone della copertura del tetto per usarle a San Pietro.
I primi scavi sistematici dell’area vengono realizzati durante l’amministrazione francese della città, tra il 1810 e il 1817 e cominciano le demolizioni delle strutture medievali.
Il culto di Venere e Roma
Come testimonia un testo dello scrittore greco Ateneo (II-III secolo d.C.), la fondazione del culto di Venere e Roma e il voto del tempio alle due divinità da parte dell’imperatore Adriano (117-138 d.C.) avvengono in concomitanza con la riorganizzazione della festa dei Parilia: in base a una moneta l’evento può essere datato con precisione al 21 aprile del 121 d.C.. La costruzione del tempio (locatio) ha inizio subito dopo. Le Palilia o Parilia erano un’antichissima festa pastorale della religione romana che si celebrava il 21 aprile in onore del numen Pale. A partire dal 121 d.C. si iniziò a festeggiare nella stessa data anche il giorno della fondazione di Roma, ovvero la festività di Romaia.
Il progetto di sistemazione dell’area monumentale
All’intervento del Commissario delegato si devono la manutenzione straordinaria di tutta l’area del tempio e le sistemazioni funzionali per l’apertura al pubblico dell’area monumentale. Le risorse impegnate ammontano a 264.034,80 euro.
Negli anni ottanta del secolo scorso le due metà del tempio, rimaste a lungo divise l’una dall’altra, sono gestite da due diverse amministrazioni (il Comune di Roma amministrava la cella di Venere e il Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali quella di Roma). In seguito a un accordo, vengono riunificate nel complesso monumentale dell’area archeologica del Foro Romano-Palatino, ma di fatto i segni della separazione si rintracciano non solo nelle barriere di divisione, ma anche e soprattutto nella diversità delle funzioni. La cella di Roma fruita come quinta dell’Antiquario Forense, mentre quella di Venere resta un giardino urbano, anche se ormai chiuso alla città.
Le finalità che il nuovo progetto di sistemazione dell’area e di restauro delle strutture ha perseguito sono il superamento di queste differenze e la ricomposizione dei “segni” dell’architettura originaria, per rendere nuovamente palese l’antica grandiosità e restituire l’immagine unitaria del tempio. La nuova sistemazione dell’area ha operato un profondo cambiamento sia dell’immagine sia della funzione dello spazio del tempio rispetto a quelle realizzate nel 1935. Fino agli anni ottanta l’area era occupata da una strada, asfaltata, accessibile perfino alle auto, che conduceva al giardino: piazza di Venere e Roma. Oggi il tempio non è più una piazza urbana ed è tornato a far parte del contesto archeologico cui apparteneva e all’asfalto si è sostituito il manto erboso. Gli interventi, diffusi sulla quasi totalità delle strutture, hanno il solo scopo di ripristinare la continuità e l’omogeneità strutturale delle murature fratturate e lesionate, di contrastare i fenomeni di rotazione provocati dall’asportazione degli appoggi e di permettere il corretto scorrimento e smaltimento dell’acqua, principale responsabile del degrado. Le opere di restauro più impegnative hanno interessato le semicalotte delle absidi e le alte mura del lato sud. I monitoraggi indicavano infatti che la profonda lesione creatasi tra le semicalotte, sulla sommità, progrediva lenta ma inesorabile e che al tempo stesso le infiltrazioni d’acqua all’interno della lesione provocavano il degrado della decorazione in stucco. Il lato sud delle celle si conservava meglio degli altri – arriva a un’altezza di circa m 20 – ma i blocchi della fondazione, per gran parte asportati, avevano dato luogo a un fenomeno di rotazione che, data l’altezza, metteva a rischio la stabilità delle strutture. L’equilibrio era stato messo in crisi anche dal crollo delle scale che in antico occupavano la zona dell’incrocio delle absidi, e che costituivano un valido elemento di irrigidimento funzionale al sistema costruttivo. Il segno di sofferenza delle strutture era visibilmente denunciato dalle lesioni, profonde quanto diffuse, visibili sulle murature. Per il consolidamento è stato realizzato, alla base delle murature, un sistema continuo di contrafforti, collegati da solai armati, che si sostituisce alla fondazione mancante e dà nuovamente l’appoggio adeguato alle alte strutture murarie annullando la rotazione in atto. La parziale ricostruzione del muro perimetrale ha in questo caso una doppia funzione, sia statica sia d’immagine. Le murature delle absidi sono state consolidate con iniezioni di malta, spesso armate, che servono a ripristinare la continuità muraria interrotta dalle lesioni.
Fonti / source: MIBAC (12/11/2010).
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COMUNICATO STAMPA - Apertura del percorso Tempio di Venere e Roma nel Foro romano
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Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860)
This plate shows people from different ethnic groups; Caucasian, Nubian, Malayan, Mongolian, Altai, Native American, Inuit, Aborigine from Australia, Papuan etc.
Gonbad-e Sorkh - the columns flanking the entrance are built with twelve different types of curved and rectangular brick.
In our shed are 2 of my bikes and 2 of Joshua's. They are all different. Joshua has a Choper MkIII, I like this bike as much as he does. He also has a red GT off road bike that has yet to go of road. He has got used to the quick steering of the Chopper and does not like the ponderous steering of a large wheel bike. I kinda know how he feels, I ride a Brompton adn a Moulton and I too don't like the ponderous feel of big wheels. The last time I took the Bob Jackson out I nearly got in trouble on a roundabout as it would not turn as quickly as I wanted it to, the same maneouver would be natural on the Brompton.
My two bike in there are the Moulton TSR and the old Bob Jackson.
The Bob Jackson has not even done 1000 miles and is 22 years old. I built it just before getting my first Moulton. I instantly liked the Moulton and it's comfort and have ridden them ever since. The TSR in the picture is my third Moulton.
If funds permit, in the new year, I wil send the Bob Jackson frame back to Leeds for a repaint. The paintwork has got rather dammaged over the years and I would like the bike to look like new again. It's still got all it's 1980's kit TA, Campag, Weinmann, Brooks and Cinelli. I am rather attached to the bike, even tough I don't ride it, I built it and it is completely set up for me. I'd quite like to take it out on some rides next year.
Some species of ants farm aphids, protecting them on the plants they eat, eating the honeydew the aphids release from the terminations of their alimentary canals. This is a mutualistic relationship. These dairying ants milk the aphids by stroking them with their antennae.