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;

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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.

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":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k67p7DN-SWo

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

Nonexistent.

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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www.facebook.com/GunturuSeshendraSharma/

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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’s Writings Copyright © Saatyaki S/o Seshendra Sharma

Contact :saatyaki@gmail.com+919441070985+917702964402

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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.

Stivan, a small settlement on Adriatic Sea island Cres in Kvarner bay, is an almost abandoned place. Incredibly stony ground, almost nonexistent arable soil, not close enough to the sea shore to be of interest for tourists, offers little to survive. Some old fig trees and olive trees and sheep, this is all one can rely on. But it is situated in a great landscape, in an open, rather flat (as the whole south part of the island) Mediterranean landscape, harsh, wind-swept and sunny, with mild spring and autumn climate and hot summers. Yet, 200 years ago men was capable not only to survive here but also to live full lives and to build large stony farmhouses like this one on my pictures. Now it is a ruin worth nothing, defeated by time and overtaken by Wulfen's Spurge (Euphorbia wulfeni).

Nicely posing Willow Flycatcher, low on the trees/shrubs right over the water. While no doubt one or more of the "oh an empid buzzed by" birds I've seen in my life were this species - they're common around here - this is the first one I was able to identify, so a lifer ;-)

I had this photo shoot (and a following less productive one) with this bird, while in one of the gazebos. Shortly after the bird vacated, we had an unexpected rain squall (good timing, being in the roofed gazebo.) Two other birds and I had a nice chat while it rained about what we had seen, and they helped me ID this empid. Around here, that much white beneath combined with the almost-nonexistent eye ring is a good clue for Willow, it's one of the standard empids here that had been reported recently on social media, and Sibley indicates that the 'low above water' behavior is typical for this species. So many other empids do treetops.

A Japanese rock garden (枯山水, karesansui?), sometimes called a Zen garden, is an enclosed shallow sandpit containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass and/or other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water. Plants are much less important (and sometimes nonexistent) in many karesansui gardens. Karesansui gardens are often, but not always, meant to be viewed from a single, seated position. Some Westerners believe that karesansui gardens can be used to calm human minds, but they were not intended for such in their native Japanese settings.

(from wiki)

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.

A reverse lens shot.

This is a Formica worker carrying a dead Asian Needle Ant, Pachycondyla chinensis.

Curiously, while the Formica workers where quite abundant aboveground, the Pachycondyla was almost nonexistent, save for the dead ones that were being carried by Formica. Admittedly, this ant (Pachycondyla) is primarily a subterranean species. A thorough search of the area only brought a single individual under a rock.

I can only infer that the Formica workers were raiding a nest of Pachycondyla chinensis and were carrying the workers killed in the battle.

Edit: P. chinensis is now known as Brachyponera chinensis.

I'm also apparently about to tell those nonexistent darn kids not to make me turn this car around.

Tiffany & Co.

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(*｀_´*) "I have no words"

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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.

My nonexistent train...

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.

I love the opportunity to be backstage at my granddaughter's dance competitions, in spite of the almost nonexistent lighting and cramped (often just plain ugly) dressing rooms. This is from one of favorite routines done by her group choreographed to "All the Best People are Crazy (Mad Hatter)".

A daring Florida couple quit their jobs and sold all their worldly goods then moved into a 12'X14' hut (no electricity or plumbing) on a 3-acre island in the Gulf of Mexico to fulfill a dream: exploring The Ten Thousand Islands and Everglades by canoe -- covering 3,500 miles -- during their 30-month sojourn there, 1957-1960.

University of Florida, Class of 1952: Barbara Home Stewart (BA, Psychology) is featured with her husband Orin Good Fogle in the video Everglades Odyssey, which portrays the couple exploring the Everglades when development of that area was almost nonexistent.

be jealous.

Thank God for Goodwill, otherwise half my wardrobe would be nonexistent right now.

And I would not be in possession of this TIGHT ASS jacket!!!

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.

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.

excerpted from Ariel Parrella Aureli's poem:

Just a Sestina

Sometimes I just need to fly

away to find a new reign,

where my heart jumps as I see the iridescent

rainbow cover my eyes from the nonexistent pressure.

Feeling the freedom on my cloak of twilight,

Nothing better can clear the mind.

Snowdrops fall on my forbidden mind

reminding me that now is time to fly.

Opening the paradoxical world of twilight,

try to understand the tracks of this new reign,

Pushing through the facets of an unknown pressure.

Swimming to find the meaning of iridescent.

Quietly turning to the color iridescent

The sky, stars and moon speak to my mind

Freezing the need to pressure

company when I feel like a useless, invisible fly,

trying to find my own ruler of my own sort of ‘reign’

We are simply stuck in vanilla twilight.

After the last light has blown out, turned to twilight

I wait till my veins feel the iridescent

rainbow circling around my new reign

World of my own; just like my mind.

Where I can sail away and high fly

to my reality, full of no man’s pressure.

What they call peer pressure

does not exist in my world of twilight.

I am best myself when I take off to fly

towards the never ending sunset iridescent

Robbing me of my reality to accept the mind

Entering a true world without true reign.

You can live life without needing to reign.

Lead your own way –

without forceful pressure.

Listen to your heart and follow the mind

Hide yourself within your cloak of twilight.

Catch the snowdrops that fall into the murky puddle of honey, with a

tinted touch of innocent iridescent.

Sip them up as you gather strength to fly.

Look up, you will see me in the sky, free in my mind, ready to fly!

The iridescent moon will reign over the world as the air pressure increases

And I will

start my world with the hues of your vanilla twilight.

Illustration for "The Day the Dam Broke". This was my favorite Thurber story, because I'd so often walked past the "These Are My Jewels" statue on the statehouse grounds and was amused by the idea of people climbing it in a panic to escape a nonexistent flood.

Displayed in "A Mile and a Half of Lines", an exhibit of art by James Thurber at the Columbus Museum of Art.

As a Columbus native, I'm a lifelong fan of Thurber's writing and art.

This Stromberg WA3-219 ("Model W") 1bbl carburetor was original equipment as a production option to the Carter BBS and Holley 1920 on 1963 (only) Dodge and Plymouth B-body (only) cars with 225 engine and automatic transmission (only). No variant of this carb was used on any other year or model. I don't know why this was done, nor does it make any sense for Chrysler to have spent what must have been an enormous sum in tooling for such a low-volume carburetor. Was there some kind of a strike at Carter and/or Holley that reduced the available volume of carburetors? It is worth noting that this carb has the largest venturi of any 1bbl used as factory equipment on a slant-6. I've tried a few of these over the years, but have never gotten one to run quite right. Kits and parts are almost nonexistent.

The sky in this one is horrible (or nonexistent, even), but I console myself with the fact that it was taken at 9 p.m. and the sky was actually that color.