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This Stromberg WA3-219 ("Mode
This Stromberg WA3-219 (Model W) carburetor was original equipment, as a production option to the Carter BBS and Holley 1920, on 1963 (only) Dodge and Plymouth B- and C-body cars (only) with 225 engine and automatic transmission (only). No variant of this carb was used on any other model or year. I have no idea why Chrysler would've spent what had to be a real whackload of money for tooling an
This Stromberg WA3-219 (Model W) carburetor was original equipment, as a production option to the Carter BBS and Holley 1920, on 1963 (only) Dodge and Plymouth B- and C-body cars (only) with 225 engine and automatic transmission (only). No variant of this carb was used on any other model or year. I have no idea why Chrysler would've spent what had to be a real whackload of money for tooling and production of such a low-volume carburetor. Was there a strike at Holley or Carter that reduced the supply of 1920s and BBSs...? One interesting tidbit: The WA3 has the largest venturi of any 1bbl used from the factory on a slant-6 engine.
I've tried a few of these over the years. Haven't made one run quite right. Kits and parts are almost nonexistent. But the casting and build qu
This Stromberg WA3-219 (Model W) carburetor was original equipment, as a production option to the Carter BBS and Holley 1920, on 1963 (only) Dodge and Plymouth B- and C-body cars (only) with 225 engine and automatic transmission (only). No variant of this carb was used on any other model or year. I have no idea why Chrysler would've spent what had to be a real whackload of money for tooling and production of such a low-volume carburetor. Was there a strike at Holley or Carter that reduced the supply of 1920s and BBSs...? One interesting tidbit: The WA3 has the largest venturi of any 1bbl used from the factory on a slant-6 engine.
I've tried a few of these over the years. Haven't made one run quite right. Kits and parts are almost nonexistent. But the casting and build quality are quite excellent, typical of Stromberg carburetors of the era.
RBMN 3068 illuminates the North Side Portal of White Haven Tunnel on the southbound descent down the grade, been wanting to capture the detail in the ancient stonework with some decent light. During daytime hours light is practically nonexistent in this area so I figured why not wait for the train.
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
Back to Hawaii stuff. Waikiki was very different from our trip last June, because the boogie-boarding scene around Kapahulu Pier was almost nonexistent. (Maybe because school was still in session.) So I stayed farther down the beach and got some shots of surfers and beach boys. Everything was less crowded in general than in June, but a lot of the surfers were from Japan -- not surprising, as it turned out that it was Golden Week, a big vacation time there.
As Allied forces began closing in on Japan by mid-1945, the Japanese found themselves in increasingly desperate straits; the kamikaze was the most visible sign of this desperation. With the American landings on Okinawa and the sinking of the Navy’s flagship Yamato, the Imperial Japanese Army realized that the Home Islands were next. Along with the Imperial Japanese Navy, they intended to unleash a horde of kamikaze attacks that would unnerve the Americans enough that some ceasefire or negotiated settlement would result. Part of this plan included the use of the Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi ("Sabre" or "Sword") in Japanese. The Imperial Japanese Navy named this aircraft Tōka or ("Wisteria Blossom").
By 1945, Japan was virtually out of experienced pilots and was increasingly forced to use roughly untrained men—mostly college students—who were high on patriotic fervor but short on skill. The Japanese were also running out of aircraft, many of which had already been expended in kamikaze attacks in the Philippines and Okinawa. The Ki-115 was designed solely for kamikaze missions. It was intended to be built quickly and with what little materials the Japanese had left: mostly wood and steel.
The landing gear was only used for taxiing and takeoff; it would be dropped after leaving the ground, as there would be no return trip. A universal engine mount was incorporated into the design so that the Tsurugi could use whatever engines were still available—American B-29 bombing raids had utterly devastated the Japanese aviation industry by this time. No defensive armament was included: the Tsurugi was intended solely to be flown into an enemy target, and the only weapon was a single bomb that was carried underneath the aircraft.
The Ki-115 prototype first flew in March of 1945, and Japanese test pilots were not happy with it: even as an aircraft for suicidal purposes, it was poor stuff. Visibility from the cockpit was virtually nonexistent, especially over the long nose. Even taking off was problematic. In the hands of anything aside from one of the few experienced pilots the Japanese had left, the Tsurugi would be more likely to kill its pilot long before the pilot even had the chance to kill themselves. The service understood that most of the projected 8,000 Ki-115s would never reach their targets, but even if only 10% made it, they would cause catastrophic damage to the American landing forces.
Production on the Ki-115s began with the promise that upgraded versions with better handling would be produced, but the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had ended the war before any Tsurugis were used in combat. Only 105 of these aircraft were built between May and August of 1945, but none were used operationally, and all of them fell into the hands of the Americans after the Japanese surrender. Nearly all of them were scrapped, as there was no interest in an aircraft intended for suicidal purposes and only two examples are known to survive today. In order to further improve the aircraft’s performance and reduce cost, an upgraded version, the Ki-115B, was proposed. This included replacing the all-metal wings with ones built of wood. These new wings were larger and had to be equipped with flaps. In order to provide the pilot with a better view, the cockpit was moved to the front. Since it was the end of the war, nothing ever came of this proposal.
Assuming that there is only one Ki-115 remaining, this is it, S/N 1002. It was found by American forces at the Nakajima factory at Iwate and shipped back to the United States, but it was never flown. It was stored at the Smithsonian's Silver Hill storage facility for eventual display at the Udvar Hazy National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. The NASM decided that it was unlikely that the aircraft would ever be restored or that the Smithsonian would ever have room to display it, so it was loaned to the Pima Air and Space Museum in 2012. Very little information is known about the test program or the planned deployment of these aircraft today because Nakajima had destroyed most records before American forces could intervene.
Because of the Tsurugi's wooden and light steel construction, Pima decided to not attempt to restore it for fear that it would simply fall apart; it is displayed in unrestored form. Faint hints of IJAAF markings can still be seen beside the Hinomaru national emblem: the yellow wing leading edges were a hallmark of all IJAAF aircraft. At some point during the journey from Japan to the U.S., the engine mount was severely damaged; as a result, the engine was not attached to the aircraft.
One of the curators I talked to claimed that this is the same Ki-115 that was displayed as a gate guard in front of Yokota Air Base, Japan, during the 1950s. I believe this to be true, as Pima's guidebook mentions that this Ki-115 was owned by the Smithsonian and brought back at war's end. The fate of the Ki-115 at Yokota AB remains unknown, but it is thought to be owned by a Japanese museum. Seeing one of these was a huge surprise to me because I thought none of them survived to the present day.
They introduced the starting Defense individually, but the Offense came out as a unit.
The Defense was on the field most of the night (NYG has the ball 40 of 62 minutes). The Offense couldn't move the ball when it mattered. The running game (28 yards) was almost nonexistent. A passing game alone just didn't cut it.
Bookmobile supporting Meredosia, Bad Catman, The Flips, and Looming at Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield, IL on January 17, 2014.
Words cannot describe how good it felt to be shooting another show at Black Sheep after so long. It doesn't have the greatest lighting and the photo pit is nonexistent, but I just feel so at home there because that community of people is just incredible. They all support each other so much and it's amazing to be a part of that and to get to photograph it every so often. And then getting to be the guest photographer for Harm House's "Record of the Night" was absolutely awesome. Honestly, when I look back, I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am to the Black Sheep venue and community for everything they've done for me. This was my training ground when I was really getting started, and these are the people who took me in and accepted me without question and without reservation. That, and they put on some kick-ass shows =)
Oak wood boards; velvet; brass sheet metal; silver solder; brass wire; bronze casting; brass brads; decorative paper; handmade colored abaca paper; ink; photo intaglio; leather; linen thread.
When love is nonexistent: Aesha Mohammadzai had her nose and ears cut off by husband and father-in-law after serving 5 months in Taliban jail. She tried to leave her husband.
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
Cow at the left, bull in the background. A calm moment, but the annual rut had begun, and elk are very dangerous at this time of year. And of course, despite warning signs and verbal warnings from staff, people were walking right up to these critters with their point and shoot cameras. Monitoring from Parks Canada was almost nonexistent, especially this year, in the wake of massive layoffs (42 staff cut from this park alone) and widespread demoralization among staff. Someone will get hurt. It's only a matter of time. Jasper National Park, Alberta.
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Steven makes a 60-mile round trip from home in Knox County to work every week day. Mileage like that can be tough on the wallet, as we all know. But the fuel prices aren’t so painful when he rides his 2012 Ninja motorcycle. Aside from being good on gas, it’s just a lot of fun. Steven and his wife, Leanna, take day trips on back roads, where the traffic is either light or nonexistent, every chance they get.
I turned 16 today. I got an iPod touch and went out to eat to my favorite Mexican restaurant. It's safe to say that I am in love with Instagram. Sorry for the nonexistent uploads. I've taken them but not uploaded them. I don't know if I will. I've been in a weird photographic mood for the past two weeks.
...or this almost-boston-rotisserie. it's important to note that chicken took over jordan as the most popular meat over goat and lamb (and especially cow) which i believe is completely related to the nonexistent amount of natural resources and topsoil for crops to feed the larger mammals. chickens require less space and materials to grow in large amounts -- yes, i used the word "grow."
A woman laying down in the opposite facing seat briefly gave an amused smile at the little dude excitedly enjoying the passing scenery before returning to her nap.
For post I decided to clone out the passenger's head on the other side of the seat since it was distracting and there was enough background information to do so. I was having issues with color and tone matching sections of the seat back until I realized I was working off of reflections from the nonexistent passenger.
I then spent ten minutes making sure the replaced water reflections were not in any recognizable patterns only to find out that they were going to be blown out to white as the shot was being worked on. Next time prototype before investing so much time lol.
A rivet holding the window's wooden trim down was cloned out because it was too distracting. Finally after experimenting and successfully removing the life preserver latch and zip ties under the seat they were kept to inform that this was a vessel instead of a train or something else.
Originally built between 1793 and 1797 during the Second Spanish Period, this Spanish Colonial and Neoclassical-style cathedral is the fourth church to occupy a prominent position at the heart of the city of St. Augustine. The original church, built of flammable materials, stood from 1565 until 1586, when it was burned during an attack by English Privateer Sir Francis Drake. Not even a year later, the church was rebuilt of palm logs, with a straw roof, which succumbed to fire in 1599. In 1605, thanks to a tithe from Spain, a timber church was constructed, which stood until a failed English attack on the city in 1702 by James Moore, then-governor of Carolina colony. There were attempts to rebuild the church during the First Spanish Period, starting in 1707, but these went nowhere, and the money intended for the church’s reconstruction were misallocated by corrupt officials. Instead, during the remainder of the First Spanish Period, mass was held in the St. Augustine Hospital. Following the transfer of governance of Florida to the British in 1763, the need for a new Catholic church was nonexistent, as the catholic population of the colony fled to other Spanish colonies. At the start of the Second Spanish Period in 1784, the need for a new church became more apparent, and work on the current cathedral’s Coquina stone walls began in 1793. The facade of the church features Neoclassical elements around the front doorway, with the Spanish Colonial style being employed on the roofline and limited fenestration on the front facade. The church stood in its original configuration until a fire in 1887 destroyed the timber roof structure and did major damage to the interior. Following the fire, Henry Flagler led the effort to have the cathedral rebuilt, with James Renwick, Jr. designing an expansion of the old building, giving it a rectangular cruciform layout, and adding the Spanish Renaissance-style bell tower and European-style transept to the building. The interior was rebuilt to feature exposed decorative timbers that supported the roof structure, and a decorative polychromatic tile floor. The building has since received a few more additions, which house a chapel, service areas, and offices, as well as a building to the rear of the cathedral along Treasury Street, built in the Mediterranean Revival style, which houses the offices of the Diocese of St. Augustine. Today, the cathedral remains a prominent landmark in the city, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark as part of the St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District in 1970.
A young boy flies a homemade kite from scrap plastic in what serves as a backyard for his current tent home in Piste Camp on the tarmac of the old original Port-au-Prince airport. Where toys and education materials are almost nonexistent, kids are resourceful and use what they can to create play opportunities.
The Navy Elevated Causeway System is one of many pieces of equipment that will serve as part of the improvised port during Joint Logistics Over The Shore 2008. The crane on the ELCAS lifts the vehicles and containers from the lighterage and smaller ships and provides a conduit to the shore. JLOTS is an annual exercise that increases the Army's and Navy's ability to build improvised ports for transporting equipment from ship to shore when a harbor or pier has been damaged or is nonexistent. Nearly 1,500 pieces of rolling equipment and shipping containers will be moved from ships with a series of lighterage systems (floating roadways) and smaller boats to improvised piers on the shore. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Stephen Proctor, JLOTS Public Affairs)
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
1/24/15
ID thanks to Ken Childs
St. Louis MO
Our backyard and front porch
Ken wrote: "It's denticulata. The third 'tooth' in from the costa would be missing or at least almost nonexistent if it were strigataria."
To fit a pedal sensor, I tapped the boss for the nonexistent chain case to mount the pedal sensor, and stripped all the magnets out of the usual plastic spinner to mount them discreetly to the back side of the chainring. I did have to notch the top plate of the kickstand mount to clear it all, but that was not the only time I went to a lot of unnecessary effort.
Sailors aboard small pieces of lighterage get ready to link up with the Navy Elevated Causeway System where cranes will lift shipping containers to be driven ashore during Joint Logistics Over The Shore. JLOTS is an exercise that increases the Army's and Navy's ability to build improvised ports for transporting equipment from ship to shore when a harbor or pier has been damaged or is nonexistent. Nearly 1,500 pieces of rolling equipment and shipping containers will be moved from ships with a series of lighterage systems (floating roadways) and smaller boats to improvised piers on the shore. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Stephen Proctor, JLOTS Public Affairs)
The Navy Elevated Causeway System is one of many pieces of equipment that will serve as part of the improvised port during Joint Logistics Over The Shore 2008. The crane on the ELCAS lifts the vehicles and containers from the lighterage and smaller ships and provides a conduit to the shore. JLOTS is an annual exercise that increases the Army's and Navy's ability to build improvised ports for transporting equipment from ship to shore when a harbor or pier has been damaged or is nonexistent. Nearly 1,500 pieces of rolling equipment and shipping containers will be moved from ships with a series of lighterage systems (floating roadways) and smaller boats to improvised piers on the shore. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Stephen Proctor, JLOTS Public Affairs)
Originally built between 1793 and 1797 during the Second Spanish Period, this Spanish Colonial and Neoclassical-style cathedral is the fourth church to occupy a prominent position at the heart of the city of St. Augustine. The original church, built of flammable materials, stood from 1565 until 1586, when it was burned during an attack by English Privateer Sir Francis Drake. Not even a year later, the church was rebuilt of palm logs, with a straw roof, which succumbed to fire in 1599. In 1605, thanks to a tithe from Spain, a timber church was constructed, which stood until a failed English attack on the city in 1702 by James Moore, then-governor of Carolina colony. There were attempts to rebuild the church during the First Spanish Period, starting in 1707, but these went nowhere, and the money intended for the church’s reconstruction were misallocated by corrupt officials. Instead, during the remainder of the First Spanish Period, mass was held in the St. Augustine Hospital. Following the transfer of governance of Florida to the British in 1763, the need for a new Catholic church was nonexistent, as the catholic population of the colony fled to other Spanish colonies. At the start of the Second Spanish Period in 1784, the need for a new church became more apparent, and work on the current cathedral’s Coquina stone walls began in 1793. The facade of the church features Neoclassical elements around the front doorway, with the Spanish Colonial style being employed on the roofline and limited fenestration on the front facade. The church stood in its original configuration until a fire in 1887 destroyed the timber roof structure and did major damage to the interior. Following the fire, Henry Flagler led the effort to have the cathedral rebuilt, with James Renwick, Jr. designing an expansion of the old building, giving it a rectangular cruciform layout, and adding the Spanish Renaissance-style bell tower and European-style transept to the building. The interior was rebuilt to feature exposed decorative timbers that supported the roof structure, and a decorative polychromatic tile floor. The building has since received a few more additions, which house a chapel, service areas, and offices, as well as a building to the rear of the cathedral along Treasury Street, built in the Mediterranean Revival style, which houses the offices of the Diocese of St. Augustine. Today, the cathedral remains a prominent landmark in the city, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark as part of the St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District in 1970.
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You may study something your entire life and still never be prepared for what happens. On Friday, the WealthCycles late (working late, of course, in sunny California) were roiled by the news of a downgrade by Standard & Poors. We had studied it, expected it, and we were still surprised by the suddenness of it all.
In one swift stroke, the old standby safe-haven was reveled to be ridden with holes. This wasn’t a black swan event—if you have been paying attention, the United States has been in steady decline for decades.
For the past two years, we have been conned into believing that we were in the midst of a recovery. But saying something over and over again is not a recipe to making it true. The recovery, seen only by traders and bankers on Wall Street, was missing for the vast majority of global citizens. Prices of food and oil have rocketed upwards under the goosing of the Federal Reserve monetary accelerator, job growth has remained nonexistent, growth in wages has flat-lined, and suffering has gone up across the board. In short—the recovery only existed in the words of politicians and the numbers on stock market tickers.
But as easy as illusory wealth goes up, it can come crashing down, and it did—on Monday, in a single day, the S&P 500 lost nearly 80 points—6.66% down after 2 weeks of shedding gains. The mirage of wealth is something easily bought, but things get real when it starts going down.
With that, the Dow/Gold ratio has plunged from 45 during the tech boom to just 6.2 today. In essence, it would cost you 45 ounces of gold back then to purchase one share the Dow, today its is a mere 6.3 ounces. As this cycle plays out, we are looking for a far lower ratio. Until then, we are holding on for the ride.
Illusory wealth, just like an illusory recovery, can disappear before your very eyes and we are watching that unfold as we speak. It will be something special to witness this all unfold.
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Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
I took this on the morning we left for Dzongsar. It's the view across the valley from our room in Palpung monastery. There had been some doubt as to whether our horses for the journey would actually turn up. Communication with the monastery caretaker was difficult owing to his rudimentary and heavily-accented Chinese and our virtually nonexistent Tibetan. Around dawn though we heard the tinkle of their bells outside our window and all was well.
I was visiting Fredericksburg for the weekend and decided I had to make it a point to document some N&W CPL signals before they're inevitably gone. I left Fredericksburg at 7 am, drove through almost two straight hours of violent downpours, and finally landed here. Cell service was nonexistent which I hadn't initially considered. My navigation didn't work so I had to use my internal compass to find exactly where this location was. Lo and behold at 8:40 the rain stopped and I found them. I stood there a good while admiring how fascinatingly ginormous they are in person. I'm hoping to make it back down soon with enough time to actually see a train pass these.
Here we're looking north. This was my initial view as I found them. It was a muggy morning which contributed to the backlit nature of this one but they're still a magnificent sight to behold.
Flickr Group Roulette: Ads For Nonexistent Products. Anybody wanna buy a snow shovelin' Labrador Retriever? Pretty sure they don't exist.
"Kurt Wimmer, hinter dem wo die Margaretner Wirtschaft aber fei voll stehen tut" wäre halt noch schöner gewesen.
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
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I....I ordered a 4th Haruka figma....OTL|||
I was originally going to sell the figure since I just ordered the figure for the bonus it came with, but after a while, the tracking status was nonexistent for it despite the EMS I paid so I just ended up keeping everything. I also wanted to actually keep him but originally was going to sell him to get my mother's money back since she gifted him to me.(In the end I couldn't even have it delivered properly and had to pick it up.)
Coat by me.
Choice: I chose Jordi Koaltic because he has some of the most imaginative and creative pictures I’ve come across. He typically uses many inanimate objects to help enhance his photos. Through these inanimate objects, he managed to create impossible angles, nonexistent depths. All in all, he was able to create photos from scratch.
Intention: A lot of Koaltic’s photos have a colorful color palette and I wanted to do one with many colors.
Reference: “color outside the lines, and use any color you choose”
Outcome: some the editing is pretty obvious because I wasn’t able to fix the edge of the papers perfectly, but overall the phot turned out well.
Edit: I increased the contrast and saturation on the photo. I then had to edit out the strings attached to the papers and the ceiling.
I went back to Jubilee Square in Leicester city centre this afternoon to photograph some more recently-acquired diecast vehicles.
These are the vehicles of Matchbox's Autobahn Express V five-pack, which I found in my local Morrisons yesterday, at long last.
They are, in order from left to right:
2021 Audi e-tron - This Matchbox debuted a couple of years ago but has until now for some reason completely missed the UK. The one in the multipack originally carried the livery of the German Polizei (police), and, to their credit, Matchbox put the tampo on all four sides of the car. However, the lack of a plain-coloured e-tron in my collection meant only one thing: the police markings had to go, courtesy of a whiteboard marker. Sorry, guys...
2006 Porsche 911 997 GT3 - my second example of this casting (the first being a red mainline single from late last year), this time in brown... which is a bit of a weird colour for a Porsche, but hey, ho.
2019 Fiat 500 Turbo - The ICE-powered version of the popular Fiat 500, in production since the mid-2000s over a single generation, has been discontinued as of this year. This 500 Turbo has come out in a strange but likeable shade of silverish-green. Definitely not German, though.
1965 Alfa-Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA - Lovely-looking Italian coupé in a gorgeous shade of blue - but definitely not German either!
VW T3 Transporter Crew Cab - This utilitarian vehicle originally came in a livery for what I can only assume is a vehicle recovery service: Strassendienst (Road Service). Like the e-tron, the T3 has also had the side tampo removed as well as some on the front. However, I also added detailing to the rear that was nonexistent as original. Without the majority of the side tampo, the T3 looks reminiscent of a danfo (a type of small minibus commonly found in Lagos, the former capital of and largest city in Nigeria).
* The Clan Kateda is pleased to welcome you to this event: "the Biggest Tournement of Samorai"
* As each season we are pleased to receive the greatest, bravest, most heroic fighters of the world, If you want to be part of the legend and show everyone that you are the best, we are glad to welcome you come among us to wear with honor the title of champion and pocketing the modest sum of One Million Lindens.
* Championship progress :
The Championship starting the 14th April in 4 am SL time
Each referee teleport fighters in groups of 16 on a suitable arena, fighting knockout rounds is 2 of 3 winning rounds at the end of this first round winner of each group will be focused on another group and that until the quarter-finals
the 8 finalists will be awarded the $ 25,000 Lindens and will continue until the final confrontation where the champion gets the sum of one million.
* Rules of the championship:
Only Katana CSi are allowed, no further attack will be tolerated
Prohibit flight
The anti push and any shield is not allowed
insult or non-compliance during the competition will be sanctioned
Anything that is not part of the settlement is approved
rounds can not go beyond 3 except for the final which is 5 rounds
the crash in the middle of a fight in court postpones round, the lag must be logically nonexistent if indeed this happened we would not be responsible
* Inscription:
All registration made outside of a terminal Kateda or who have not been registered with the shogun "xiu Kateda" is not valid for competition
The Registration fee is $ 2500l
Catch up can be done in the first round for the sum of the $ 500 to settle in the same way as when registering
Rectractation any one week before the competition will not be refunded.
A note "Form" is to be removed from the terminal, to be completed and returned to the shogun Xiu Kateda once your made payment
Terminal place: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ultima/32/235/21
For further information contact the leaders of the Clan;
Xiu Kateda (xiu zobovic) "Shogun Clan Kateda"
An empty hallway in Broad Run High School in Ashburn, Virginia. The nonexistent lines are likely because of the more than 2.7 million Virginians that had already early voted by Monday. Photo by Megan Lee with VCU CNS.
Domino (2016, Reissue)
This LP has been missing from my Pavement collection for way too long. Yes, I have had the Perfect Sound Forever and the other various 7"s that make up the bulk of the songs for a really long time. And sure, the CD version of this is actually the 2nd Pavement record I ever bought back in 1995 after being thoroughly blown away by Wowee Zowee (At the time I thought surely the indie one before they were even on Matador would be even cooler). But I never got around to buying this on LP.
Domino rereleased it a couple of years ago. It's on nice thick 180 gram vinyl and these terribly recorded songs have never sounded more terrible (and by that, I mean they sound great). The fidelity was never the point of any of these songs. They were recorded super early in the bands history and a recording budget was pretty much nonexistent at the time. Still, these songs are some of my favorite all of these years later.
"Box Elder" is a smash hit from the band's very first, self released 7" "Forklift" is a fuzzy bit of weirdness that really connected with me in high school and has been lodged in my brain ever since. "Debris Slide" is just perfect with an anthemic chorus that gets me singing along all these years later (even though it still sounds like they're saying "grease fire" and not "debris slide" to me). Maybe this compilation isn't Pavement's most polished or best outing, but there's something magical in these songs that has kept me coming back over and over again for the past twenty five years.
Pavement - "Box Elder":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_6NEePhHCA
Pavement - "Debris Slide":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwHTMrZptG4
Pavement - "Forklift":
Choice: I chose Jordi Koaltic because he has some of the most imaginative and creative pictures I’ve come across. He typically uses many inanimate objects to help enhance his photos. Through these inanimate objects, he managed to create impossible angles, nonexistent depths. All in all, he was able to create photos from scratch.
Intention: a lot of Koaltic’s pictures have a fun and light aspect to them and I figured bubbles were a perfect fit for the picture
Reference: “the sooner you wean yourself from [your ego] the sooner you’ll make honest art that you want to make”
Outcome: I took these by myself so I couldn’t get the picture exactly how I wanted, but the message of the photo still comes across well.
Edit: I had to heal the creases on the sheet in the background and remove the strings that held up the brushes. I also increased the saturation and vibrancy along with adding a bit of contrast.
At nearly 165 feet long and 57 feet wide the Dolder facility is not your average swimming pool. Over 107,063 square feet of lush green grasses and trees surround this classic outdoor European pool, which is perfect for soaking up the sun! Take a few steps further and you can play in one of two paddling pools or the sandpit. Boredom is nonexistent at this sporty fun filled summer spot! www.thedoldergrand.com/en/
The acoustics in a room are the first thing I notice.
Here, in this bunker the sound is muffled, flat, nonexistent. The entire world has ground to a halt above you. You're being dragged down into a void, into the darkness.
Story I hear of this bomb shelter involves illegal construction by a crazed local during the cold war. The location includes a number of underground rooms and a water tank. Apparently authorities ordered he cease his construction as he didn't have the necessary permissions to build where he did.
Locals had found his unfinished sanctum and burned it in a fit of satanic rage and childish arson.
While I don't know it, the sounds, the warmth, the smell in here leads me to believe the local was with us while we poked and prodded about his citadel.
He didn't like us exploring.
Bookmobile supporting Meredosia, Bad Catman, The Flips, and Looming at Black Sheep Cafe in Springfield, IL on January 17, 2014.
Words cannot describe how good it felt to be shooting another show at Black Sheep after so long. It doesn't have the greatest lighting and the photo pit is nonexistent, but I just feel so at home there because that community of people is just incredible. They all support each other so much and it's amazing to be a part of that and to get to photograph it every so often. And then getting to be the guest photographer for Harm House's "Record of the Night" was absolutely awesome. Honestly, when I look back, I can't even begin to describe how thankful I am to the Black Sheep venue and community for everything they've done for me. This was my training ground when I was really getting started, and these are the people who took me in and accepted me without question and without reservation. That, and they put on some kick-ass shows =)
the power tower is a totally underrated ride here. the lines are almost always nonexistent, the view from 250 ft up is great, and the drop is so scary that even i, manliest of men, screams like a little bitch. dig it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPs3IOs_V0w
Carpenter bees (the genus Xylocopa in the subfamily Xylocopinae) are large bees distributed worldwide. There are some 500 species of carpenter bee in 31 subgenera. Their name comes from the fact that nearly all species build their nests in burrows in dead wood, bamboo, or structural timbers (except those in the subgenus Proxylocopa, which nest in the ground). Members of the related tribe Ceratinini are sometimes referred to as "small carpenter bees". The genus was described by French entomologist Pierre André Latreille in 1802. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek xylokopos/ξῦλοκὀπος "wood-cutter".
In several species, the females live alongside their own daughters or sisters, creating a sort of social group. They use wood bits to form partitions between the cells in the nest. A few species bore holes in wood dwellings. Since the tunnels are near the surface, structural damage is generally minor or nonexistent. Carpenter bees can be important pollinators on open-faced flowers, even obligate pollinators on some, such as the Maypop (Passiflora incarnata), though many species are also known to "rob" nectar by slitting the sides of flowers with deep corollas.
Carpenter bees are traditionally considered solitary bees, though some species have simple social nests in which mothers and daughters may cohabit. However, even solitary species tend to be gregarious, and often several will nest near each other. It has been occasionally reported that when females cohabit, there may be a division of labor between them, where one female may spend most of her time as a guard within the nest, motionless and near the entrance, while another female spends most of her time foraging for provisions.
Carpenter bees make nests by tunneling into wood, vibrating their bodies as they rasp their mandibles against the wood, each nest having a single entrance which may have many adjacent tunnels. The entrance is often a perfectly circular hole measuring about 16 millimetres (0.63 in) on the underside of a beam, bench, or tree limb. Carpenter bees do not eat wood. They discard the bits of wood, or re-use particles to build partitions between cells. The tunnel functions as a nursery for brood and storage for the pollen/nectar upon which the brood subsists. The provision masses of some species are among the most complex in shape of any group of bees; whereas most bees fill their brood cells with a soupy mass, and others form simple spheroidal pollen masses, Xylocopa form elongate and carefully sculpted masses that have several projections which keep the bulk of the mass from coming into contact with the cell walls, sometimes resembling an irregular caltrop. The eggs are very large relative to the size of the female, and are some of the largest eggs among all insects. There are two very different mating systems that appear to be common in carpenter bees, and often this can be determined simply by examining specimens of the males of any given species. Species in which the males have large eyes are characterized by a mating system where the males either search for females by patrolling, or by hovering and waiting for passing females, whom they then pursue. In the other type of mating system, the males often have very small heads, but there is a large, hypertrophied glandular reservoir in the mesosoma, which releases pheromones into the airstream behind the male while it flies or hovers. The pheromone advertises the presence of the male to females.
Is this good? shot him with my 18-55 kit lens without extention tubes or filters or reverse lens technique
7.1 25sec. Dank an die Kulissenbauer für das gutplazierte Schildstativ.
Thanks to the construction managers for the well-placed sign, which I used as stand.
Although the wildflowers in lower Ice Lake Basin were almost nonexistent this year, we found some really nice patches of red paintbrush in the upper basin. This one was about a hundred steps from our camp site.
Originally built between 1793 and 1797 during the Second Spanish Period, this Spanish Colonial and Neoclassical-style cathedral is the fourth church to occupy a prominent position at the heart of the city of St. Augustine. The original church, built of flammable materials, stood from 1565 until 1586, when it was burned during an attack by English Privateer Sir Francis Drake. Not even a year later, the church was rebuilt of palm logs, with a straw roof, which succumbed to fire in 1599. In 1605, thanks to a tithe from Spain, a timber church was constructed, which stood until a failed English attack on the city in 1702 by James Moore, then-governor of Carolina colony. There were attempts to rebuild the church during the First Spanish Period, starting in 1707, but these went nowhere, and the money intended for the church’s reconstruction were misallocated by corrupt officials. Instead, during the remainder of the First Spanish Period, mass was held in the St. Augustine Hospital. Following the transfer of governance of Florida to the British in 1763, the need for a new Catholic church was nonexistent, as the catholic population of the colony fled to other Spanish colonies. At the start of the Second Spanish Period in 1784, the need for a new church became more apparent, and work on the current cathedral’s Coquina stone walls began in 1793. The facade of the church features Neoclassical elements around the front doorway, with the Spanish Colonial style being employed on the roofline and limited fenestration on the front facade. The church stood in its original configuration until a fire in 1887 destroyed the timber roof structure and did major damage to the interior. Following the fire, Henry Flagler led the effort to have the cathedral rebuilt, with James Renwick, Jr. designing an expansion of the old building, giving it a rectangular cruciform layout, and adding the Spanish Renaissance-style bell tower and European-style transept to the building. The interior was rebuilt to feature exposed decorative timbers that supported the roof structure, and a decorative polychromatic tile floor. The building has since received a few more additions, which house a chapel, service areas, and offices, as well as a building to the rear of the cathedral along Treasury Street, built in the Mediterranean Revival style, which houses the offices of the Diocese of St. Augustine. Today, the cathedral remains a prominent landmark in the city, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and listed as a National Historic Landmark as part of the St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District in 1970.
Girl Scout Troop 3201 sent a message to Hershey!
"Troop 3201 has made a pledge to spread the word about Fair Trade cocoa. We have given out Fair Trade chocolates to our community for the past two Halloweens (Reverse Trick or Treating Campaign) and only make our smores with Fair Trade products. It is sad to know that Hershey does not use Fair Trade cocoa in their chocolate products. We ask that you “Have a Heart” this Valentine’s day and consider the suffering that comes with your non-Fair Trade candies. Your company has the power to buy cocoa from farms where workers are paid fairly, and abusive child labor is nonexistent. PLEASE move forward with Fair trade and make Hershey sweet again!"
'WHY DO THEY ASK THE SAME QUESTIONS?'
Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, the renowned poet gave a big jolt to the modern Telugu literary world in the seventies. A multifaceted personality a prolific writer, critic, thinker Sarma has unfurled the flag of Telugu literature in far - off countries like Greece. His peer Somasundar called him the morning star of the 21st century.
Known for his knowledge of classical Indian literature, Sarma has shown unparalleled intellectual ability
in studying and interpreting Valmiki Ramayana.
Now I'm 64. Over the years a number of people have interviewed me. Almost in all these encounters the questions were more or less identical. Obviously the answers also. Instead of asking a poet or a writer about his works, it'd be appropriate to evaluate his work from different angles and assess his contribution. This will help the field of literature as well as the society at large".
Looking back, Sarma says that during his student days he was interested in politics, history and science. "The modern philosophical trends of the West stirred my interest. After studying science in graduation, I did law. In those days, appadorai's book on politics was of great interest. H.G. Wells' writings drew me to history on which I wrote some essays. Later, I scribbled some essays on the basic elements of society, the man woman relationship, etc. In 1961, I wrote about science in Andhra Pradesh. These essays later were published as NaruduNakshatraalu".
Asked why he doesn't write about the present state of affairs, he says, "If I touch these subjects, I've to refer to individuals. Besides, I've to comment on what we find in newspapers. I'm not equipped to do this. I don't think it's an edifying activity.
As the discussion inched towards literature, Sarma dispelled the feeling that there're no intellectuals among Telugu poets. "I don’t agree that we find intellectuals only among prose writers. Even some poets are intellectuals. Poetry is essentially an intellectual exercise.
Why is Kavisena, which was started by you with great pomp and enthusiasm, defunct now? "It's an interesting question. First of all I've to âı¿+O„^Œ 225 clarify one thing. I didn't start Kavisena. The young poets of Andhra Pradesh, particularly some belonging to Anantapur, Narasaraopet, Hyderabad, Vizag and Warangal, used to correspond with me regularly in the early seventies. They dealt with various aspects of literature, particularly poetry. And, inadvertently, I became the young poets' coordinator.... When I was in Ooty I received a letter asking me to go over to Nagarjunasagar urgently. Unable to discourage them, I landed in Nagarjunasagar where young poets with progressive outlook had gathered. They were disappointed that non - poetry was gaining circulation in the name of progressive literature. They felt that the cause of progressive thought can be served better by promoting poetry which had poetic excellence. I agreed with them.... They started kavisena, in my presence, to produce good poetry. With a lot of effort I wrote a manifesto for Kavisena...As years passed by, these young poets had to take up some job or the other and settle down in life. Thus Kavisena became crippled".
Like many of the poets of his generation Sarma was initially a metrical poet. But, later, he took to free verse. Why? "Every poet has to yield to the pressures of his time. Poetry has to be necessarily written in the contemporary language. This is my conviction. It's an artistic necessity but not an opportunistic adoption".
Sarma is content with the recognition he got from the people for his contribution to literature. "Awards aren't necessarily the barometers. For, they are the products of contemporary socio-political milieu.
A lot of confusion is being created in the name of modernity and abstract ideas. And the people are forced to accept them lest they be branded ignorant. Poetry is the manifestation of abstract things into metaphors symbols and figures of speech....So, to appreciate poetry, you've to deliberately cultivate the required taste....But, under the guise of poetry, some poets write ambiguous poetry which doesn't convey anything. In such cases, the complaint is properly based. Otherwise it reflects our own deficiency.
As a responsible writer did you meet the demands of the society?
"As a full - fledged human being I truthfully react to my surroundings and honestly express myself unmindful of the consequences. Reacting to an occurrence is in itself an emotional and volcanic eruption. For, it has the desired impact on the social plane. In this sense, I've fulfilled my obligation to mankind".
Deccan Chronicle
English Daily: Hyderabad Sept 8, 1991
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Visionary Poet of the Millennium
An Indian poet Prophet
Seshendra Sharma
October 20th, 1927 - May 30th, 2007
Visionary Poet of the Millennium
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Rivers and poets
Are veins and arteries
Of a country.
Rivers flow like poems
For animals, for birds
And for human beings-
The dreams that rivers dream
Bear fruit in the fields
The dreams that poets dream
Bear fruit in the people-
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The sunshine of my thought fell on the word
And its long shadow fell upon the century
Sun was playing with the early morning flowers
Time was frightened at the sight of the martyr-
- Seshendra Sharma
"We are children of a century which has seen revolutions, awakenment of large masses of people over the earth and their emancipation from slavery and colonialism wresting equality from the hands of brute forces and forging links of brotherhood across mankind.
This century has seen peaks of human knowledge; unprecedented intercourse of peoples and
perhaps for the first time saw the world stand on the brink of the dilemma of one world or destruction.
It is a very inspiring century, its achievements are unique.
A poet who is not conscious of this context fails in his existence as poet."
-Seshendra Sharma
(From his introduction to his “Poet’s notebook "THE ARC OF BLOOD" )
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B.A: Andhra Christian College: Guntur: A.P: India
B.L : Madras University: Madras
Deputy Municipal Commissioner (37 Years)
Dept of Municipal Administration, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Parents: G.Subrahmanyam (Father) ,Ammayamma (Mother)
Siblings: Anasuya,Devasena (Sisters),Rajasekharam(Younger brother)
Wife: Mrs.Janaki Sharma
Children: Vasundhara , Revathi (Daughters),
Vanamaali ,Saatyaki (Sons)
Seshendra Sharma is one of the most outstanding minds of modern Asia. He is the foremost of the Telugu poets today who has turned poetry to the gigantic strides of human history and embellished literature with the thrills and triumphs of the 20th century. A revolutionary poet who spurned the pedestrian and pedantic poetry equally, a brilliant critic and a scholar of Sanskrit, this versatile poet has breathed a new vision of modernity to his vernacular.Such minds place Telugu on the world map of intellectualism. Readers conversant with names like Paul Valery, Gauguin, and Dag Hammarskjold will have to add the name of Seshendra Sharma the writer from India to that dynasty of intellectuals.
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Seshendra Sharma better known as Seshendra isa colossus of Modern Indian poetry.
His literature is a unique blend of the best of poetry and poetics.
Diversity and depth of his literary interests and his works
are perhaps hitherto unknown in Indian literature.
From poetry to poetics, from Mantra Sastra to Marxist Politics his writings bear an unnerving pprint of his rare genius.
His scholarship and command over Sanskrit , English and Telugu Languages has facilitated his emergence as a towering personality of comparative literature in the 20th century world literature.
T.S.Eliot ,ArchbaldMacleish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.
His sense of dedication to the genre of art he chooses to express himself and
the determination to reach the depths of subject he undertakes to explore
place him in the galaxy of world poets / world intellectuals.
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Seshendra Sharma : Scholar - Poet
Seshendra Sharma, a scholar - poet was born (October 20, 1927) into a Pujari ( Priests ) family in Nellore District in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India . Seshendra’s father and his grandfather were well versed in Sanskrit Literature, Vedas and scriptures. At home itself, thus from his childhood , Seshendra got the opportunity of learning and training in Sanskrit. This was further nurtured by the Village school of Thotapalligudur, where he spent best part of his childhood.
Seshendra’s father was a well-to-do person, a Munsif ( village officer ) of the village, possessing more than Ten Acres of agricultural Wet land and own house . Father’s desire to see his son flower into a top man turned a new leaf in Seshendra’s life. Seshendra’s father admitted him for B.A. Graduation course in Andhra Christian College in Guntur. Incidentally, Seshendra’s Family Sir Name and this town’s name are one and the same. This is a turning point in the budding poet’s journey. Seshendra got significant exposure to the Western World, particularly to the Western Literature. The makings of a Visionary Poet germinated in him in this Alma Mater. His journey of poetry started with Translation of Mathew Arnold’s “Sohrab and Rustum “ , a long poem , which Seshendra translated into Telugu in Metrical poetry with accomplished finesse . This trend eventually blossomed and Seshendra emerged as an Epic – Poet. His My Country – My People : Modern Indian Epic is observed by learned critics as a land mark in modern poetry ranking it on par with T.S. Eliot’s Waste Land . This long poem was nominated for Nobel Prize in 2004. His subsequent works Gorilla, Turned into water and fled away, Ocean is my name – long poems were reviewed in scholarly strain.
Seshendra’s desire to perform in films took him to Madras, today’s Chennai in Tamil Nadu. In Madras he formally joined B.L. Course with Madras Law College. And was developing contacts in the Telugu Cinema Circles and was working as a freelance journalist. He used to translate articles into Telugu for Janavani , a popular weekly of those times whose editor was Tapi Dharma Rao , a towering personality of Telugu Literature. This facet of journalism of his personality rose to its full heights in 90s. When Soviet Union collapsed he wrote a series of articles in Telugu as well as in English decrying the west’s sinister plot, villainous machinations to pull down Communist Regimes. He sang odes / Laurels to communism and expressed in aggressive tone and style that communism will never die. It remains in the genes of oppressed peoples of the world for ever. Perhaps Seshendra is the only poet from the Indian Subcontinent to pen Anti – Imperialist essays during those times. He completed his Law course but his desire to act in films remained unfulfilled. Seshendra’s Classmates at his Alma Mater, A.C.College, Guntur, N.T.Rama Rao and Kongara Jaggaiah became popular actors of Telugu Cinema. N.T.R became an all time super –hero. Seshendra’s father and maternal uncle forcibly brought him back from Madras, and with the good offices of native Member of Parliament put him in Government service as Deputy Panchayat Officer. In due course of time, on deputation, joined Municipal Administration Department and worked as Municipal Commissioner in all Major cities and towns of Andhra Pradesh. With the result he got wide exposure to conditions of social life of his times. He obtained personal acquaintance of Common Man’s life and his travails. This enriched his vision of life and literature a great deal.
With Seshendra Poetry and Poetics are Siamese Twins. He penned works of Literary Criticism both on classical and contemporary poetry. Sahitya Kaumudi (Telugu ) and his bi-lingual book “ the ARC of Blood : My Note Book “ illustrate this point. His Research work on Valmiki’s Ramayana , Shodasi : Secrets of The Ramayana , questions the very foundations of centuries old assumptions. Seshendra, based on scientific research citing from the original text of Valmiki and Vedas, reveals that The Ramayana is not just story of Rama told in enchanting poetry , But the Sage wrote the epic to spread Kundalini Yoga among the masses of his era. His observations that the concepts of Vishnu and Reincarnation were non –existent during Valmiki’s Epoch constitute a revolt against centuries old beliefs. Sita is the central character of The Ramayana and she is Kundalini Shakti / Adi Para Shakthi . During that era temples and prayers were nonexistent. This hits directly at the very foundation of Temple System.
His Kavisena Manifesto , is a noteworthy work on Modern Poetics. In this work, he compiles cogently definitions of poetry cutting across centuries and countries and writes scintillating commentary. This Manifesto of Modern Poetry is a sort of Wikipedia page of world poetry. Seshendra, finally concludes that poetry is emotions and feelings skilfully garbed in unusual diction, and poetry is a way of life.
Discerning scholars critics and academics are of intrinsic opinion that T.S.Eliot ,Archibald MacLeish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics.
But this Scholar – poet of 20th century is an unsung and unwept genius of his times.
Prime Minister of India honoured Seshendra with Gold Medal in Sahitya Akademi ( India ) Golden Jubilee celebrations and Chief Minister of AP honoured him with Hansa Literary Award on the eve of UGADI , Telugu New Year Day in 2005 .
In one of his poems he says fragrance of stars is calling me. Seshendra left this world and vanished into fragrance of galaxies on May 30, 2007.
Veloso had discovered the body of Jonathan Levin, then-Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin's son. "Because [Veloso] told me so vividly what happened, I couldn’t get these images out of my head,” Nassif says. Nassif barricaded her door that night with a chair (“I was so crazy!”), purchased a dead bolt, and searched for nonexistent blood stains.