a walk through Montreal...

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setup and processing (in response to shetha's question): I do have a polarizing filter, but I'm pretty sure I didn't use it here (because I pretty much never do). I think I used a 3 stop ND filter so I could keep the aperture wide open in the middle of the day. Shhh... It's our little secret. Don't tell anyone =D I took 3 bracketed exposures, but there was way too much movement to use multiple exposure-based HDR so I took this one at -2EV (good exposure for the sky) and increased the Fill Light to illuminate the foreground and increased the Recovery to get back some of the highlights from the RAW file that had blown out. Ends up being a similar process to what's usually referred to as single-exposure HDR, since what's really being described there is the tone mapping from the high dynamic range data stored in a single RAW file (while not nearly as high of a dynamic range you can get from multiple-exposures) into something visible on a monitor and storable in an 8-bit JPG. I'm really loving how easy it is to play around with all the most common Photoshop knobs in Lightroom when you don't need to do any local editing.

shout-out to the SetSeeker group which is a very cool forum to learn from other's setups: "We like all kind of photos taken with a previous setup, like lighting, subject selection and arrangement of the objects to be shot. The idea is that the photographer shows to group members its capture and a short description of how it was taken. A second picture as a comment, is a good way to show it, but is not required; just plain English or Spanish will work."

Sunday:

i'm catching up on my 365 and upoading late because it's been hectic here...

our car broke down and we're waiting for it to get fixed...

also my uncle left his girlfriend a few days ago (again!) and moved in with us (again!) and the crazy bitch girlfriend our phone number and after she called and tried screaming at me over the phone i had to have our number changed...i really can't stand her...she's a psychotic alcoholic on crank (no i'm not actually kidding) and i hate how when my uncle leaves her she stalks not just him, but all of us and that's the last thing my mum needs...she calls all of our phones daily, swearing at us, leaving us empty drunken threats...i just wish she would grow up and get help but she refuses to believe she has a problem...rawr...

**also, i know people have left me comments with questions in them, i often forget what they were and sometimes can't find them...like now :( if anyone ever needs/wants to ask me something, feel free to message me...i'm sometimes to slow to answer depending on my work day, but i never lose the message at least :D**

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Cementerio de San José de Granada:

l actual cementerio surgió a partir del Cementerio de las Barreras, levantado en 1805 junto al Palacio de los Alixares, debido a una epidemia de fiebre amarilla que asoló la ciudad. Siguiendo las directrices racionalistas de la Real Cédula de 1787 del rey Carlos III de España, se ubicó a extramuros de la ciudad, en el entorno monumental y paisajístico de la Alhambra. Esta ubicación fue escogida por una comisión de médicos tras años de tardanza que llevaron, junto a la negligencia de las autoridades, a una situación límite en la que la población enterraba los cadáveres en terrenos que no estaban ni acotados ni bendecidos para ello.

Panteones y lápidas del patio primero del cementerio.

Panteón de la familia Navarrete-Medina, en el patio segundo.

El 18 de abril de 1805, la comisión elige una serie de ubicaciones idóneas que acuerda con las autoridades. La más apropiada es la denominada Haza de las Escaramuzas, al este de la ciudad, a una gran altura, nivelada y con una tierra de buena calidad. Se establece provisionalmente ahí el Cementerio de las Barreras en 1805. La prohibición de enterramientos en suelo urbano y el gusto por el emplazamiento del cementerio, con excelentes vistas tanto de la ciudad de Granada y su Vega como de Sierra Nevada llevan al cementerio de las Barreras a convertirse en el principal cementerio de Granada. Así, en 1842 se propone establecer de manera definitiva y oficial allí el cementerio de la ciudad, construyendo los patios primero y segundo. El nuevo cementerio proyectado suma 5000 sepulturas a las 7000 del antiguo cementerio de las Barreras.

Desde entonces, el cementerio de Granada se ha seguido desarrollando de una forma un tanto caótica, según las necesidades y modas constructivas de cada época, mediante proyectos inconexos sin un plan de desarrollo integral y armónico. Así, se encuentran fosas de tierra, prohibidas a finales de los años setenta y ya desaparecidas, edificios de nicho de párvulos, columbarios y bóvedas de distintas formas y alturas, panteones y tumbas sin orden en su distribución, patios civiles ya desaparecidos, recintos religiosos y pequeñas zonas ajardinadas.

Está incluido en la lista de Bienes de Interés Cultural de la ciudad de Granada por la Junta de Andalucía, debido a que posee importantes muestras de la arquitectura y la escultura funerarias, románticas y de épocas posteriores, catalogadas y realizadas por los artistas e imagineros locales, y algunos foráneos, más significativos. Además, posee los restos del Palacio de los Alixares (que data del siglo XIII-XIV) junto al que fue construido, principalmente el fortín y las canalizaciones de agua instaladas en el siglo XIX por los franceses.

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Morella, Castelló (Spain).

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This is the Catxo, the dungeon where Juan II of Aragón had prisoner his own son Carlos, Prince of Viana, in 1461.

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The castle of Morella (Province of Castellón, Spain), constructed at the top of the town on the “Mola” taking advantage of the rock, is a fortification of 13th century of Islamic architecture with later reforms of medieval architecture. It consists of the square of arms (1,070 ms), the palace of the governor, the Rain tank, the tower of the Pardalea, retreats to the flight by where entered the Carlistas in 1838, prison of Cacho, rest of real palaces, towers of Tribute, and official pavilions, by where are passed different forms from civilization and cultures.

In the area of the castle they have appeared prehistoric rest, Iberian and Roman. After it reconquers it began the present walls and the dependencies that already existed were qualified for the Christian kings.

The castle is divided in three levels: a first level located in the lower part of the rock in which there is the entrance and the Palace of the Governor. In the second level the artillery batteries were located. And in the third level would be the castle itself. The lower part this surrounded by walls and towers, of which they are the majority semicircular, that arises from the west part in zigzag form.

The castle, in the upper part, underwent modifications in the war of Succession and during the carlistas wars, being bombed the celoquia tower in 1813. To this more elevated zone it is acceded through stairs, that had 90 steps of which 54 are conserved, that leads to a door that takes step to the square by a passage that ends at the square of arms.

In center of the same one is a rain tank of Roman time, on which there are a sentry box of 19th century and the rest of a guardhouse. In the South part are the rest of a construction composed by semibasement that communicated with the celoquia tower.

To the Southeast is the celoquia tower, that it was the Christian tower of the tribute. It was reformed in 13th century, according to documents of 18th century it has three plants, with vault the ground floor and first, with outer cover to four waters. It did not have stairs, and the interior communication was made by the adjacent buildings. It had in its cellar the chapel of Santa Barbara and Santa Magdalena until 18th century, then become a jail.

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CASTELLANO

Éste es el Catxo, el calabozo donde Juan II de Aragón tuvo preso a su hijo Carlos, Príncipe de Viana, en 1461.

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El castillo de Morella (Provincia de Castellón, España), construido en lo alto de la población sobre la "Mola" aprovechando la roca, es una fortificación del siglo XIII de arquitectura islámica con reformas posteriores de arquitectura medieval. Consta de la plaza de armas (1.070 m), el palacio del gobernador, el Aljibe, la torre de la Pardalea, retretas al vuelo por donde entraron en 1838 los Carlistas, prisión de Cacho, restos de palacios reales, torres de Homenaje, y pabellones oficiales, por donde han pasado diferentes formas de civilización y culturas.

En el área del castillo han aparecido restos prehistóricos, ibéricos y romanos. Tras la reconquista se iniciaron las actuales murallas y las dependencias que ya existían fueron habilitadas para los reyes cristianos.

El castillo se divide en tres niveles: un primer nivel situado en la parte inferior del peñón en el que se encuentras la entrada y el Palacio del Gobernador. En el segundo nivel se situaban las baterías de artillería. Y en el tercer nivel se encontraría el castillo propiamente dicho. La parte inferior esta rodeada de murallas y torres, de las cuales son la mayoría semicirculares, que surgen de la parte oeste en forma de zigzag.

El castillo, en la parte superior, sufrió modificaciones en la guerra de Sucesión y durante las guerras carlistas, siendo bombardeada la torre celoquia en 1813. A esta zona más elevada se accede a través de una escalera, que tenía 90 peldaños de los que se conservan 54, que conduce a una puerta que da paso a la plaza por un pasadizo que desemboca en la plaza de armas.

En el centro de la misma se encuentra un aljibe de época romana, sobre el que hay una garita del siglo XIX y los restos de un cuerpo de guardia. En la parte sur se encuentran los restos de una edificación compuesta por semisótano que se comunicaba con la torre celoquia.

Al sudeste se encuentra la torre celoquia, que fue la torre del homenaje cristiana. Fue reformada en el siglo XIII, según documentos del siglo XVIII tenia tres plantas, con bóveda la planta baja y la primera, con cubierta exterior a cuatro aguas. No tenía escalera, y la comunicación interior se realizaba por los edificios colindantes. Tuvo en su sótano la capilla de Santa Bárbara y Santa Magdalena hasta el siglo XVIII, luego paso a ser un calabozo.

Fuente: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Morella

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About this shot

The shot above is almost two years old and actually only a 'vehicle' for some hints and tips I want to share with you for when you're preparing a (city) trip.

I took this shot with my (old and now sold) D90 + Nikon 18-200mm VRII travel lens, shooting from the back of the deck of a speedy moving river bus. It's fantastic travelling by boat in and around London! Glad I wasn't in the rowing boat though. :)

Preparing your city trip

In the 20th century (remember?) when you were sort of planning your trip, you went to a library or bookstore and got yourself a couple of books and/or travelguides from the place you we're going to visit. That's kinda old skool now.

Here's three simple tips to help you out planning your trip, picking spots with dusk/dawn in mind, and how to get inspired - all in 21st century stylee!

Tip number one: Let Flickr be your inspiration

Unless you're preparing a city trip to Atlantis (*blub, blub*), you'll find out that plenty of other excellent photographers have been visiting and shooting your destination. Take advantage of their efforts by browsing through their images, and learn from their spots and angles. You'll see the stuff that's been shot to death, so maybe you want to avoid these. Most likely though the work of others will inspire you to go out there shooting and give it your own 'personal touch/twist'.

I use Flickr search to get an idea about the possibilities of a certain location. It's a good idea to use more than one search keyword. So instead of using 'London' (for example), use 'London Thames barrier' or even better 'London Thames barrier night' to narrow down more specific results.

My personal tip is to use the filter 'Recent' on your search results. This way you'll find out the famous object you were planning to shoot is being renovated, surrounded by scaffolding - saving you the time and effort of going there all excited and end up sobbing.

An example: London Thames Barrier - Recent.

It's also a good idea to check out websites of a special spot you prepare to visit. For example: This way I found out the St. Paul (London) was being renovated and the excellent view over London you can get there is closed in March/April. I'd rather be dissapointed in advance than finding out about this after standing in a cue for 10 minutes or something.

Sometimes you're curious from what spot a photograph is taken, because you like that angle very much. Unfortunately not a lot of Flickr folks add maps to their images. Maybe to avoid that other people will 'copy' their angles? Tsk, tsk. We will find out anyhow! This brings us to my second tip...

Tip number two: Google Earth / Streetview

You'd like to explore the locations you're planning to visit beforehand? That's possible with (for example) the help of a couple of Google web applications.

Google Earth A useful download, especially with 3D elements.

Google Streetview Limited, but nonetheless useful.

While Google Streetview is very useful - it gives an excellent idea of 'being there' while you're still in front of your computer - it's rather limited because in the end it's only what it is: 'street view'. What does your photographic object look like from a boat in the middle of a river? What's a nice angle from that pedestrian bridge? How's the view from that hill? You can only find out with Google Earth. Pinpoint your location and you can check it out from any given angle. Together with the first tip (using Flickr search results) you'll get a pretty good idea if a location is promising and worthwhile enough for you. Plus you most likely will find out if there are any obstacles or unpleasant surprises making it difficult or impossible to take the shot you had in mind. No surprises for you if you prepared yourself using the tips above!

Tip number three: The Photographer's Ephemeris

Every photographer knows this, or should know it. Scott Kelby told me. ;-) There's only two periods in a day you can take shots that make a difference: at dusk and at dawn. No really!

Well, at home you can probably 'dream' where exactly the sun is coming up (east, right? hehe) and where it goes down (west - just a wild guess), which buildings it hits from that specific angle, where it sinks in the sea or where to find that nice view/spot at dusk/dawn. Now you're going to visit a different city you don't know *that* well. You know about the east and west thing and all that, but it won't be enough to be at the right spot at the right time at dusk or dawn! *Panic!*

Where's the sun going down while facing your object of photographic desire? Where's the moon? Do you want to plan a city trip with full moon? You want to prepare an evening or night session but want to know if it's in your view from *that* specific spot? Now what!?

Here comes the rather excellent Photographer's Ephemeris in handy! This little program is free for PC and Mac, and you will find it here. You pay for the iPhone/iPad/Android versions, but they're well worth it, especially the iPad edition.

You simply pick your spot (wherever!) and the date (of your future visit for example) and you'll get all the info on the whereabouts of the sun (dusk, dawn and everything in between) percentage and position of the moon, everything you'd like to know beforehand about the perfect light conditions.

Excellent stuff! That's the third and final tip, an awesome tool to plan your perfect city trip.

I also recommend Star Walk for iPhone by the way, an excellent app! Tells you everything about sunrise/sunset, the moon and all that. It's not free, but worth the money!

Summing it up and some extra tips

Free inspiration through Flickr, no more time wasting on location finding your way towards your favourite spots, and no surprises finding out the sun is out of range when you thought of catching a brilliant sunset over that stunning city view.

That being said, it's also a pretty smart idea to keep an eye on the weather conditions at all times - huge chance the unpredictable weather's going to be the biggest spoiler of your perfectly planned trip - especially going to the UK - but hey, that's life!

Even when the weather is not really cooperative you should always try to get the most out of your visit, so go out and try some rain shots or even better - when there's plenty of dark clouds floating by - bring your tripod and ND filters to create stunning Long Exposures!

Inspiration with the ND110!

I wish all of you out there a lot of fun with these hints and tips - if you already didn't use them - and happy shooting! Keep looking for that perfect angle, treat it with your personal touch!

My English is not perfect but I hope you can 'catch my drift'! :-)

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Maresme. Catalonia.

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Maresme's territory occupies a long and narrow area between the Mediterranean Sea and the hills of Serralada Litoral (Catalonia's coastal mountains), and specifically Montnegre's and Corredor's hills in the northern half and Sant Mateu's hills in the southern half. This particular shape has conditioned both the geography and the history of this comarca. Probably the main distinct elements of its geography are the characteristic rieres (torrents). These short, intermittent water streams, which cross the comarca transversally almost every hundred meters, produce powerful and dangerous floods when it rains.

Canet des de els Tarongers

Maresme has been historically very well connected with the rest of the comarca as well as with Barcelona thanks to old Camí Ral (Royal Way) (actual N-II main road) and railroad (The Barcelona–Mataró railroad route, finished in 1848, was the first ever in all the Iberian Peninsula). Communications were enhanced in recent years with the construction of the C-32's Barcelona–Mataró section (1969), which was the first autopista (highway) ever in Spain, and its subsequent enlargement, the Mataró-Palafolls's section (1995).

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The Gothic loftiness of Notre-Dame dominates the Seine and the Ile-de-la-Cité as well as the history of Paris.

Notre-Dame de Paris is a church, a place of Roman Catholic worship, where Christians come together to pray. It opens its doors to people to participate in services or to freely visit the cathedral all year long.

Notre Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress (arched exterior supports). The building was not originally designed to include the flying buttresses around the choir and nave. After the construction began and the thinner walls (popularized in the Gothic style) grew ever higher, stress fractures began to occur as the walls pushed outward. In response, the cathedral's architects built supports around the outside walls, and later additions continued the pattern.

For a look at the upper parts of the church, the river, and much of Paris, climb the 387 steps to the top of one of the towers.

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Jan Kochanowski (6 VI 1530 - 22 VIII 1584)

TREN VIII

Wielkieś mi uczyniła pustki w domu moim,

Moja droga Orszulo, tym zniknieniem swoim!

Pełno nas, a jakoby nikogo nie było:

Jedną maluczką duszą tak wiele ubyło.

Tyś za wszytki mówiła, za wszytki śpiewała,

Wszytkiś w domu kąciki zawżdy pobiegała.

Nie dopuściłaś nigdy matce się frasować

Ani ojcu myśleniem zbytnim głowy psować,

To tego, to owego wdzięcznie obłapiając

I onym swym uciesznym śmiechem zabawiając.

Teraz wszytko umilkło, szczere pustki w domu,

Nie masz zabawki, nie masz rozśmiać się nikomu.

Z każdego kąta żałość człowieka ujmuje,

A serce swej pociechy darmo upatruje."

J.K.

Tren VIII

Your flight, my dearest, caused

This vast emptiness in my house.

We are so many yet no one's here:

One tiny soul and so much is gone.

You spoke and sang for all alone,

Skipped around in every corner of the house,

Never let your mother fret,

Never let your father brood,

Hugging one and then the other,

Cheering all with joyful laughter.

Now all is silent, the house stands bare,

There's no laughter, song or joy.

From every corner stares remorseless grief

As gnawing heartache vainly seeks relief.

TRANSLATIONS BY ADAM CZERNIAWSKI

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Gracias a mi amigo Agustín, he tenido noticia de un espléndido artículo escrito por Antonio Lorca para el diario "El País", que transcribo a continuación porque creo que describe a la perfección el ADN de este valeroso torero.

¿HÉROES?: UNOS MÁS QUE OTROS...

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La mejor noticia es que el diestro Juan José Padilla está vivo. Se lo llevaron en volandas, casi sin vida, al hospital tras su tremenda cogida en la Feria del Pilar y, más pronto que tarde, seguro que volverá a hombros, victorioso, otra vez, frente a la durísima adversidad de su arriesgada profesión. Es el sino irremediable de los héroes del toreo. Y Padilla es uno de ellos.

Todos los toreros lo son, porque todos ellos se juegan la vida frente a un animal salvaje que, en cualquier momento, puede hacer añicos la ilusión tantas veces soñada de alcanzar o mantener el reconocimiento como figura del toreo.

Pero unos lo son más que otros, también es verdad. Porque no todos los que se visten de luces les rozan las barbas al mismo tipo de toro. Y Juan José Padilla es integrante principal de ese reducido grupo de avezados toreros que debe sortear cada tarde los hierros más duros, los toros más bastos, los más grandes y peligrosos.

Quizá, porque Padilla es un torero fuera de tiempo, fuera de su tiempo; un lidiador de antaño, un torero de ribetes antiguos. Él mismo promueve esa imagen con sus patillas largas y anchas y el diseño singular de sus trajes de luces. Pero está fuera del tiempo, sobre todo, porque la tauromaquia de hoy solo admite y venera al torero de pellizco y sentimiento, al artista creador de filigranas. Y Padilla no lo es. Él es un torero valiente; un luchador indómito, un lidiador con todas las de la ley, un matador que ha tenido la gallardía de abrirse camino en un mundo que no parece hecho a su semejanza. Hoy, los héroes de antaño han dejado paso a los artistas. Desde que Juan Belmonte revolucionó la esencia de la fiesta ni el toro, ni el público ni el torero son ya lo mismo. El primero ha dulcificado su comportamiento, ha ganado en volumen, pero ha perdido movilidad, fiereza y carácter; el torero ya no es un aguerrido luchador contra una fiera, y el público es más sensible, y prefiere arte con becerros que hazañas con toros.

Es la fiesta misma la que se ha modificado por completo, de modo que la lucha -que no es otra cosa que la lidia- entre un hombre y un toro ha dado paso a la sensibilidad artística.

Quizá, por eso, la afición no valora de igual manera al lidiador y al artista. La figura de hoy es un torero elegante, fino, creativo y, muchas veces, algo parecido a un enfermero ante un animal escaso de fortaleza, bonancible y colaborador. Al torero de hoy se le exige un alma embrujada para interpretar con fidelidad la armonía ante una embestida pastueña.

Y quedan los lidiadores, -y Padilla lo es en grado sumo-, que deben buscar la gloria ante legendarias ganaderías, duras, correosas, denostadas por todas las figuras y poco valoradas por el público, ante las que el riesgo, siempre presente en el ruedo, se agiganta.

Sin ser un artista, sin que sus muñecas estén bañadas por la gracia, Juan José Padilla se ha ganado el respeto y la admiración de todos por su entrega, su corazón, su capacidad de lucha y su fuerza para seguir adelante a pesar de tantas tardes imposibles.

El pasado viernes, el infortunio se cruzó en la vida de este torero, y a punto ha estado de perder para siempre su sonrisa. Pero esa horripilante, pavorosa y espantosa cogida no podrá con la fortaleza de este extraordinario lidiador, de este heroico torero que, como todos, está fabricado de otra pasta, capaz de sobreponerse a las más duras desventuras de la vida.

Ojalá vuelva pronto a los ruedos Juan José Padilla. Ojalá esa tarde zaragozana no sea más que una cicatriz en la castigada piel de este bravo torero. Ojalá la imagen escalofriante del diestro herido sirva para renovar el reconocimiento a los héroes que, como Padilla se juegan la vida. Aunque no sean artistas.

Artículo publicado también en el diario "El País" sobre la evolución del diestro.

El torero Juan José Padilla, que sufrió una pavorosa cornada en la cara el pasado viernes en la plaza de toros de Zaragoza, está en una evolución "incierta", ha declarado hoy el equipo médico que le atiende en el hospital Miguel Servet de la capital aragonesa. El diestro, herido grave por asta de toro, aún sufre riesgo de infección aunque podría recibir el alta en seis o siete días si evoluciona favorablemente, han señalado los médicos.

El torero fue trasladado en la tarde de ayer lunes desde la UCI de Traumatología a una habitación de planta con atención especial y acceso restringido. El último parte médico señala que se encuentra sin fiebre, hemodinámicamente estable, ingiriendo alimentos y sin síntomas de infección. Aun así, los doctores mantienen reservado el pronóstico por temor a infecciones, que, según la doctora Saura, son muy posibles cuando penetra en el cuerpo "un elemento tan contaminante, un campo de gérmenes, como es un asta de toro".

Por lo tanto, será difícil que el torero reaparezca a finales de noviembre en América, tal y como era su deseo, ha indicado la jefa del Servicio de Cirugía Maxilofacial, Esther Saura. La terrible cogida se produjo en la segunda corrida de la feria del Pilar. En el tercio de banderillas del cuarto toro, el astado, de nombre Marqués, de la ganadería de Ana Romero, le esperó al prender el último par. Una vez en el suelo, el toro le corneó en la cara. El pitón entró por la parte inferior de la mandíbula, debajo de la oreja, y salió por la órbita ocular izquierda.

La doctora Saura ha indicado que la parálisis facial que sufre el torero por el arrancamiento del nervio "está pendiente de una cirugía correctiva, que no se podía hacer de urgencia" y que se "buscará un cierto tono de la motricidad muscular, porque el cabo del nervio facial está desprendido de la base del cráneo". En opinión de Saura, Padilla "está reaccioando con absoluta serenidad, asume las lesiones con preocupación y tristeza, pero con entereza y tranquilidad".

El doctor Luis Pablo, jefe del Servicio de Oftalmología, ha añadido que "el globo ocular del ojo izquierdo conserva el tono, aunque con una opacidad que impide la visualización. La importante elongación sufrida en el nervio óptico hace incierto el pronóstico de conservación del órgano y su misión". "De continuar así -explicó el doctor Pablo- el ojo se degradaría por no cumplir su función y habría que extirparlo. Pero hay que esperar aún unas semanas, o incluso algún mes, para ver cómo evoluciona".

Padilla, apodado en sus inicios El ciclón de Jerez, es un experimentado matador, especialista en ganaderías de las denominadas duras. Nació en Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) el 23 de mayo de 1973. Su debut con picadores fue el 17 de septiembre de 1980, en su ciudad natal. Tomó la alternativa el 18 de junio de 1994 en Algeciras (Cádiz) de manos de Pedro Castillo y con El Niño de la Taurina como testigo frente a reses de Fermín Bohórquez.

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I took this photo of the New York Stock Exchange, draped with the American Flag, on Wall Street, on my first trip to New York City in October 2004.

After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the NYSE building is well protected. Not only is the entrance guarded 24/7, it is surrounded by an iron fence and concrete barriers (the planters), AND there was a big pickup truck parked across the entrance to Wall Street here, and since Wall Street is so narrow, it blocked all vehicular traffic on the street.

MORE INFORMATION OF THE NYSE:

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the "Big Board", is a New York City-based stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and, with 2,764 listed securities, has the second most securities of all stock exchanges. Its share volume was exceeded by that of NASDAQ during the 1990s. As of December 31, 2006, the combined capitalization of all New York Stock Exchange listed companies was $25.0 trillion.

The NYSE is operated by NYSE Euronext, which was formed by its merger with the fully electronic stock exchange Archipelago Holdings and Euronext. The New York Stock Exchange trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street, and is composed of four rooms used for the facilitation of trading. The main building, located at 18 Broad Street between the corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978.

The origin of the NYSE can be traced to May 17, 1792, when the Buttonwood Agreement was signed by twenty-four stock brokers outside of 68 Wall Street in New York under a buttonwood tree. On March 8, 1817, the organization drafted a constitution and renamed itself the "New York Stock & Exchange Board". (This name was shortened to its current form in 1863.) Anthony Stockholm was elected the Exchange's first president.In 1922, a building designed by Trowbridge & Livingston was added at 11 Broad Street for offices, and a new trading floor called "the garage". Additional trading floor space was added in 1969 and 1988 (the "blue room") with the latest technology for information display and communication.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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Tyle bylo dni do utraty sil

Do utraty tchu, tyle bylo chwil

Gdy zalujesz tych, z ktorych nie masz nic

Jedno warto znac, jedno tylko wiedz

Ze wazna sa tylko te dni, ktorych jeszcze nie znamy

Waznych jest kilka tych chwil, tych na ktore czekamy

Pewien znany ktos, kto mial dom i sad

Zgubil nagle sens i w zle kregi wpadl

Choc majatek prysl, on nie stoczyl sie

Wytlumaczyc umial sobie wtedy wlasnie ze

Ze wazna sa tylko te dni, ktorych jeszcze nie znamy

Waznych jest kilka tych chwil, tych na ktore czekamy

Jak rozpoznac ludzi, ktorych juz nie znamy

Jak pozbierac mysli z tych nieposkladanych

Jak oddzielic nagle serce od rozumu

Jak uslyszec siebie posrod spiewu tlumu

Jak rozpoznac ludzi, ktorych juz nie znamy

Jak pozbierac mysli z tych nieposkladanych

Jak odnalezc nagle radosc i nadzieje

Odpowiedzi szukaj, czasu jest tak wiele

Ze wazna sa tylko te dni, ktorych jeszcze nie znamy

Waznych jest kilka tych chwil, tych na ktore czekamy

Principality of Monaco.

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Monaco is a principality governed under a form of constitutional monarchy, with Prince Albert II as head of state.[19] Even though Prince Albert II is a constitutional monarch, he still has immense political power.[20] The House of Grimaldi have ruled Monaco, with brief interruptions, since 1297.[21] The official language is French, but Monégasque, Italian, and English are widely spoken and understood.[note 1] The state's sovereignty was officially recognized by the Franco-Monegasque Treaty of 1861, with Monaco becoming a full UN voting member in 1993, after much political debate.[8] Despite Monaco's independence and separate foreign policy, its defence is the responsibility of France.[22] However, Monaco does maintain two small military units, totaling 255 officers and men, the Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers de Monaco, and the Compagnie des Carabiniers du Prince.

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Caliraya Lake, Laguna, Philippines. i had the privilege of visiting this place last year with a group of 30 some fellow Filipino Flickrites. i believe i had used up every byte of my 8GB CFC card that's why i had to resort to my iPhone. didn't turn out so badly, i must say. i may have another chance to visit this place in January 2010 - that's only 330 days away.

i think i'm going to sound like a broken record, about not having had the chance to visit all your streams the past few days. that pesky work has been getting in the way of my Flickring. i actually just got home less than a couple of hours ago - that's past 10pm west coast time. but i thought i'd post one from my archives so that you won't think i've gone AWOL again. it's almost end of the week! hang in there, you all (that includes me)!

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this is my first actual post for this project (04.27.2010). if you've missed my previous declaration--i will be posting a photograph with an accompanying memory on every full moon.

the moon is currently 100% full.

i have yet to see it--still a bit light outside.

but at around 10 i'm going to drive around just so i can gaze at it for a while.

i'm jealous that my brother get's a full moon on his birthday. (happy birthday, big bruddah! love you & miss you so much)

memory #001.

day: 04.13.2009

my family and i flew to east texas to visit my grandfather's grave.

on our way--i witnessed the most surreal sky of my entire existence.

the atmosphere had a belly fully of the plumpest clouds, for miles and miles.

i kept forgetting to breath.

i thought of my grandfather the entire way.

'Mon rêve familier' On Black

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Je fais souvent ce rêve étrange et pénétrant

D'une femme inconnue, et que j'aime, et qui m'aime

Et qui n'est, chaque fois, ni tout à fait la même

Ni tout à fait une autre, et m'aime et me comprend.

Car elle me comprend, et mon coeur, transparent

Pour elle seule, hélas ! cesse d'être un problème

Pour elle seule, et les moiteurs de mon front blême,

Elle seule les sait rafraîchir, en pleurant.

Est-elle brune, blonde ou rousse ? - Je l'ignore.

Son nom ? Je me souviens qu'il est doux et sonore

Comme ceux des aimés que la Vie exila.

Son regard est pareil au regard des statues,

Et, pour sa voix, lointaine, et calme, et grave, elle a

L'inflexion des voix chères qui se sont tues.

Paul Verlaine

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My familiar dream

I often have this dream, strange and penetrating

of a woman, unknown, whom I love, who loves me,

and who’s never, each time, the same exactly,

nor exactly different, she knows me, she’s loving.

Oh she knows me, and my heart, growing

clear for her alone, is no longer a problem,

for her alone, she alone understands, then,

how to cool the sweat of my brow with her weeping.

Is she dark, blonde, or auburn? - I’ve no idea.

Her name? I remember it’s vibrant and dear,

as those of the loved that life has exiled.

Her eyes are the same as a statue’s eyes,

and in her voice, distant, serious, mild,

the tone of dear voices, of those who have died.

Paul Verlaine

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Addendum: it seems the dream is running fast to an end . . . and it is a sad one

A dictator always says "My people!" as if it were a herd to be gathered in a stable, in fences, uses demagogy to get people's consensus and stops freedom of thought, speech, religion and condemns and punishes each diversity.

A wise chief of his state always addresses the free citizens that believed his non demagogist plan to preserve their freedom, and knows that diversities ar richness and fuel for freedom and democracy and protects them and promotes free debate, exchange and peaceful coexistence.

The boundary between Asia and Europe is almost everywhere uncertain, but in one place it's perfectly delineated: along the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.

So Istanbul, that spans on both sides of Bosphorus Channel, is the only city in the world being subdivided in two continents.

Şemsi Pasha (Üsküdar): Istanbul - Asia

Galata Tower (Beyoğlu): Istanbul - Europe (in the background)

Bosphorus Channel in the middle

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Years ago, a friend told me a story from her childhood that I'd not heard before, and I think of it often. The story goes like this:

One morning, a little girl was looking across the valley from her house, admiring the beautiful golden windows on a house on the top of the hill.

"Mom," she said, "Do you see that house on the hill with golden windows? It must be so beautiful there, and the people who live there must be so wealthy! I'll bet they have no problems and their lives are filled with happiness every day. I wish OUR HOUSE had golden windows."

"Oh, darling," replied the mother, "no one's life is perfect. Even people who live in a house with golden windows."

"No, I think you are wrong! I want to go see for myself!" So the mother packed the daughter a lunch, and away the daughter went to cross the valley and see how wonderful life was for the people who lived in the house with golden windows.

The girl walked all day long. As she reached the bottom of the valley, she lost sight of the house but kept going. It was dusk by the time she reached the top of the other hill. But to her surprise, all she found was an ordinary house. She saw no golden ornaments, nothing that made the house look different or more special than any other house. The people looked ordinary, just like the people in her own family. She was puzzled.

Disappointed, she turned around to gaze at her own house across the valley she'd just crossed. And to her surprise, her house was ablaze with light. The windows shone with gold as the setting sun lit them up. In disbelief, she looked again at the ordinary house in front of her, then back to her house gleaming across the way.

"MY house has golden windows!" she said in amazement. She stood for a moment, struck by how beautiful her house looked from this side of the valley. She took off running back down the hill, eager to return to her family.

For the 5 kilometre race results and photos...here are the local (Ottawa & area) participants -- sorted by cities and first name -- in the September 19, 2010, Canada Army Run held in Ottawa, Ontario.

Click here and enter the bib numbers for the full individual race results. Race photos here. (6,760 runners in the 5 km race)

Thank-you to Sportstats.

Part A. Ottawa (see below)

Part B. Other Communities (Alexandria to Navan) (Click here.)

Part C. Other Communities (Nepean to Woodlawn) (Click here.)

Part A:

12036…Aaron Kennedy

12454…Acton Kilby

7417…Adam Daniow

10248…Adam Mcleod

12409…Adam Yahn

13856…Ademir Vrolijk

14356…Adrien Barrieau

12050…Afton Maisonneuve

8420…Agathe Houle

14250…Ahmad Sakr

14321…Ahsan Ahmed

14600…Aidan Westdal

9010…Aime Larochelle

7952…Airi Trant

8265…Al Charron

7187…Al Thompson

14035…Alain D'arbelles

9532…Alain Desgranges

10416…Alain Dionne

7861…Alain Rabeau

7504…Alan Bolster

7001…Alan Tomalty

8715…Alana Blouin

14025…Alana Detenbeck

12757…Alana Fong

14499…Alana Macewen

9662…Alanna Macaulay

12132…Alanna Yaraskavitch

7983…Alecks Zarama

10172…Alex Braden

14052…Alex Graham

14102…Alex Lyon

12729…Alex Patch

13192…Alexander Gaillard

10699…Alexander Leslie

13108…Alexandra Desouza L'heureux

9008…Alexandra Laplante

12105…Alexandra Vincent

13636…Alexandre Poiget

14153…Alexandre Prenoveau

12894…Alexandria Beck

11577…Alexandria Gerrior

9743…Alexis Leblanc

14322…Ali Belbachir

14036…Ali El-Jaby

10402…Alice Leung

10095…Alicia Li

10008…Alicia Noonan

14423…Alicia Whiting

12911…Alison Benn

8853…Alison Evans Adnani

8468…Alison Jerome

14363…Alison Mckittrick

12825…Alison Morris

9474…Alison Pier

8753…Allison Cassie

8343…Allison Coons

10422…Allison Desroches

14031…Allison Downton

8137…Allison Ellis

14109…Allison Mackenzie

13372…Ally Lamothe

10360…Allysan Dinn

13439…Almut Macdonald

8777…Amanda Colton

12815…Amanda Elliott

8965…Amanda Kalbfleisch

11944…Amanda Krisciunas

5786…Amanda Pavlovic

10440…Amanda Pyykonen

13867…Amanda Watson

10150…Amanda Weatherdon

7950…Amanda-Kate Tracy

7820…Amber Nickerson

11904…Amelie Armstrong

9881…Amelie O'sullivan

7793…Amira Mohamed

8675…Amy Arcand

14489…Amy Cambell

13313…Amy Johnson

12176…Amy Jutras

12097…Amy Muller

9823…Amy Read

13690…Ana Robert

8532…Anaek Jande

9304…Anastasia Tserotas

8013…Andre Marin

14115…Andre Materman

7941…Andre Thivierge

8682…Andrea Auger

12109…Andrea Brauner

8285…Andrea Chippa

9491…Andrea Ethier

12541…Andrea Evans

8969…Andrea Karklins

10902…Andrea Mccaffrey

4782…Andrea Mrozek

7874…Andrea Rousseau

12690…Andrea Szenteszky/Merils

10976…Andrea White

8466…Andreas Reichert

12372…Andreas Vander Pluym

9374…Andree Ball

12982…Andrew Buchan

7528…Andrew Butson

9822…Andrew Cooney

12485…Andrew Currie

12275…Andrew Fainer

12009…Andrew Fourney

8488…Andrew Harris

7290…Andrew Keleher

10152…Andrew Klassen

12527…Andrew Leslie

14319…Andrew Lessard

10113…Andrew Maffre

14111…Andrew Mallam

12863…Andrew Mcdougall

14515…Andrew Mendes

11901…Andrew Mulawyshyn

13630…Andrew Pinsent

7362…Andrew Roberts

8599…Andrew Robertson

12741…Andrew Woolsey

14206…Andrew Zurowski

10401…Andy Burgess

10238…Andy Shelp

9569…Andy Wielgosz

9427…Angeline Law

7429…Angelo Garcia

9202…Angelo Ricci

9714…Angie Ermel

9550…Anika Rowland

8678…Ann Arsenault

9328…Ann Walton

11194…Anna Macintyre

14239…Anna Von Dadelszen

8072…Anne Bailliu

12504…Anne Bauer

3838…Anne Biscope

8719…Anne Bowker

14493…Anne Edwards

14443…Anne Ethier

12143…Anne Fitzpatrick

13946…Anne Thombs

13957…Anne-Sophie Alarie

8362…Annette Lebel

10677…Annik Beaudry

7866…Ann-Marie Reid

13975…Anthony Barnshaw

12643…Anthony Glaser

10240…Anthony Ippolito

10532…Anthony Weeks

14151…Antoine Plenderleith

14476…Anyk Glussich

10169…April Whitehead

12251…Arlene Maciver

13320…Armin Kamal

9113…Arthur Moulie

10256…Aruna Rajulu

12850…Ash Ahmadzadeh

13528…Asha Mohiddin

7826…Ashlee Oleinikow

9971…Ashley Browne

12394…Ashley Butcher

7214…Ashley Lavery

7775…Ashley Mccann

6259…Ashley Tannis

8236…Ashley Tuttle

14150…Audrey Perreault

12736…Audrey Vermette

9884…Austen Brown

8130…Avery Stirling

13710…Barbara Routliffe

11305…Barbara Saville

9377…Barry Dupont

13391…Barry Le Grys

12714…Barry Lemoine

8459…Barry Rowland

13465…Beatrice Maluski-Cain

13556…Ben Murray

7529…Benjamin Buttera

8029…Benjamin Oman

9533…Benny Ling

14338…Bernard Tremblay

13718…Beth Sabourin

13644…Beth-Anne Poulin

11409…Betty Letendre

10798…Bev Carroll

8879…Bev Furniss

10197…Bill Grand

10455…Bill Mackay

7376…Bill Rostek

11903…Bill Salminen

7533…Bingbing Cai

13069…Blair Crawford

7345…Blake Carruthers

9530…Blake Dooley

13638…Blake Poirier

13829…Blanche Tree

9501…Bob Eagleson

14117…Bob Mccrindle

13551…Bob Muise

9523…Bob Ryan

13947…Bob Thombs

13515…Bogaah Mensah

12276…Bonnie Boretsky

11985…Bonnie Vinet-Paradis

9548…Borishka Croteau

9622…Brad Mills

13905…Brad Young

7585…Bradley Davis

9084…Brady Meldrum

14268…Breanna Muller

7543…Brenda Cerson

8404…Brenda Etchells

9405…Brenda Quinlan

14632…Brendan Potter

9135…Brent Odonnell

7167…Brent Pilon

7246…Brent Weatherdon

8527…Brett Mac Lean

9789…Brett Maxwell

9894…Brian Blanche

12898…Brian Deeks

13157…Brian Fava

10215…Brian Kells

13534…Brian Montgomery

7029…Brian Radey

7011…Brian Rolfe

13251…Brianna Harris

13206…Bridget Gervais

14581…Bridget Kehoe

7225…Bridget Mallon

14520…Brigid Bedard

10026…Brigitte Archambault

13121…Brigitte Dionne

12008…Brigitte Menard

9559…Britt-Mari Sykes

10176…Bronwyn Anderson

10083…Bruce Covington

7310…Bruce Donaldson

12389…Bruce Fischer

9702…Bruce Waid

13591…Bruno Paltrinieri

9464…Bryan Mackay

14288…Bryce Halls

11546…Bryce Lemoine

7332…Bunny - Andy Fong

8518…Bunny - Gary Rush

7326…Bunny - Liam Ohuiginn

8519…Bunny- Bruce Moquin

7333…Bunny- Ellen Campbell

7329…Bunny- James Wildsmith

7331…Bunny- Julia Fournier

7330…Bunnypatrick Girard

11123…C Soulodre

12087…Caitlin Devlin

14172…Caitlin Salvino

7728…Caludia Langevin

11126…Calum Urzinger

7663…Calvin Hanselmann

8795…Cameron Cribb

13637…Camille Poiget

13876…Camille West

7087…Candace Anderson

8491…Candi Ager

12060…Candi Munroe

7699…Carey Jones

12064…Carl Perreault

8389…Carla Pino

13679…Carleen Ridley

10135…Carly Parrish

9138…Carol Anne Owen

8595…Carol Campbell

14064…Carol Huffman

7204…Carol Mclean

12107…Carol Rosenthall

10746…Carol Skillen

9760…Carole Quenneville

13813…Carole Thomas

11906…Caroline Ebata

8058…Caroline Lavigne

14232…Caroline Matt

7805…Caroline Murray

7545…Carolyn Chacksfield

12173…Carolyn Charters

12257…Carolyn Fornataro

9100…Carolyn Montague

7286…Carolyn Turner

9209…Carrie Roberts

9037…Carrol Lunau

12069…Carter Saunders

13008…Casey Carswell

7544…Casey Cerson

7032…Cassidy Leclerc

7530…Catarina Buttera

14425…Catharine Brady

7596…Catherine Desmarais

11973…Catherine Griffin

9495…Catherine Jackson

14447…Catherine Jolicoeur

12084…Catherine Mackin

7862…Catherine Radatus

10251…Catherine Sainte-Marie

13752…Catherine Siot

14456…Catherine Winters

7977…Catherine Wood

8108…Cathy Jackson

9044…Cathy Maclean

12245…Cathy Nolan

7949…Cavell Townley

10465…Celeste Irvine-Jones

7505…Celia Bond

7436…Chandrashan Premakanthan

12492…Chantal Brisson

8351…Chantal Evans

9605…Chantal Nicholson

9480…Chantal Rosenberger

8239…Chantal Roy

13736…Chantal Sayde

7563…Chantale Cobbold

9419…Charlene Winchester

10558…Charles Bernard

8067…Charles Frost

14407…Charles Trombley

7439…Chelsey Quirk

12833…Chenchen Hou

14543…Cheri Reddin

14208…Cherinet Seid

12495…Cheryl Brouse

12574…Cheryl Caldwell

7464…Chloe Adlard

8587…Chris Anderson

12971…Chris Brown

14462…Chris Bygrove

8122…Chris Carruthers

8762…Chris Chartrand

9508…Chris Coveny

7579…Chris Dauphinais

7582…Chris Davey

9835…Chris Davis

14599…Chris Denison

14227…Chris Garrioch

11431…Chris Goddard

14485…Chris Goy

10264…Chris Hale

14509…Chris Holmes

11954…Chris Isaac Mckay

12774…Chris Jourdeuil

7725…Chris Lamarre

13373…Chris Landry

14097…Chris Li

7334…Chris Lynam

13519…Chris Mick

9096…Chris Moffit

7800…Chris Morash

14411…Chris Mullins

13641…Chris Polowick

9588…Chris Schroeder

7403…Chris Sheridan

9303…Chris Travers

7062…Christa Van Sickle

12327…Christene White

11889…Christian Figueredo

10368…Christian Giguere

7931…Christie Swann

12670…Christina Chevrette

8516…Christina Kaeser

9460…Christina Leclerc

14369…Christina Leibbrandt

14220…Christina Silmser

8317…Christina Sluyter

10093…Christina Yee

14552…Christina Young

11898…Christine Atwood

11920…Christine Besnard

7517…Christine Bray-Duhamel

8860…Christine Fikis

9490…Christine Ford

8299…Christine Foster

13408…Christine Leon

11008…Christine Nicasio

10874…Christophe Kervegant-Tanguy

9630…Christopher Cullen

9441…Christopher Fillmore

14432…Christopher Knowlton

10359…Christopher Macarthur

13471…Christopher Marton

7873…Christopher Rotherforth

9492…Christopher St. Jacques

13604…Christy Peeters

7142…Chuck Bing

7726…Chuck Lamarre

14200…Cici Waugh

13980…Cindy Bennett

13109…Cindy Desouza L'heureux

7940…Cindy Termorshuizen

13979…Claire Baudry

9698…Claire Cockburn

7684…Claire Horwich

12070…Clara Saunders

7591…Clare Demerse

7743…Clarissa Lewis

7896…Claude Schryer

12420…Claudette Moise

10297…Claudia Hintz

9947…Clayton Ryder

12157…Clinton Laidlaw

10321…Cody Gaudet

7586…Cole Davis

8640…Colin Kelly

7216…Colin Muldoon

7551…Colt Charlebois

14242…Colt Hardcore

12044…Connie Paris

9040…Connor Macdonald

13447…Connor Mackenzie

13520…Conor Middleton

10258…Conrad Hladik

14466…Corinne Ginnish

12152…Corrina Morehouse

13156…Costas Farassoglou

13959…Courtney Anderson

7855…Courtney Powless

4785…Craig King

7718…Craig Kuziemsky

8556…Cricket Riberdy

9928…Criss Gibran

12807…Crystal Foubert

9035…Crystal Louie

12468…Crystal-Lee Rooney

12874…Crystel Marly Arseneault

7418…Curtis Smith

9543…Cyndi Demers

13021…Cynthia Chaput

12112…Cynthia Desnoyers

9679…Cynthia Gee

12586…Cynthia Horvath

13900…Dalaila Wyse

9587…Dale Brown

7289…Dale Potter

12823…Dalelle Mensour

13440…Damian Macdonald

7121…Dan Mckinney

10456…Dan Mikaelian

8656…Dan Newell

12446…Dana Pandolfi

9159…Dana Paul

14216…Daniel Albahary

9918…Daniel Giguere

13302…Daniel Jamieson

13492…Daniel Mcguire

12646…Daniel Morris

14133…Daniel Muir

10027…Daniel Poulin

14408…Daniel Raymond

7442…Daniele Riendeau

9977…Danielle Bernier

12924…Danielle Bisson

13035…Danielle Cirillo

8199…Danielle Cormier

7046…Danielle Fainer

12338…Danielle Grenier

13270…Danielle Hoegy

7735…Danielle Lee

9183…Danielle Plunkett

7554…Danny Chin

7156…Dany Huard

12764…Daphne Vaudry

13580…Dara Ohuiginn

7215…Darcy Lavery

8637…Darcy Terrell

9959…Darl Dimillo

9995…Darlene Charron

9117…Darlene Mulvihill

7188…Darren Clark

13068…Darren Coyle

8920…Darren Handley

12556…Darren Jerome

7283…Darren Knight

7039…Darren Poole

12904…Dave Bellefleur

12512…Dave Carlson

12474…Dave Etchells

8377…Dave Johnson

12715…Dave Johnston

14203…Dave Young

12737…David Badour

14007…David Claxton

14566…David Davidson

8316…David Dimitri

9859…David Elms

13169…David Foster

7655…David Hall

12349…David Leahy

13500…David Mclaren

12255…David Molnar

13651…David Pratt

13683…David Rietkoetter

7889…David Sankoff

8524…David Thorpe

10223…Davide Pisanu

11989…Dawn Styan

11125…Dawn Urzinger

14614…Dean Corno

8066…Dean Duteau

9672…Dean Morewood

10298…Deanne Chafe

10599…Debbie Murray

13613…Debbie Peterson

10407…Debby Barsi

11952…Deborah Broad

11486…Deborah Trotman

12047…Debra Hughes

10454…Deena El-Sawy

12277…Delphine Wallace

9644…Demian Seiden

12552…Denise Gillam-Gledhill

9273…Denise St. Jean

8573…Dennis St. Louis

13869…Dennis Weatherdon

14178…Derek Smith

733…Derrick Marshall

7803…Desirai Moyer

7991…Deven Bhatla

12810…Devon Kampman

10211…Devon Shulist

12077…Devon Taylor

8857…Diana Farah

7580…Diane Dauphinais

12636…Diane Dupuis

12611…Diane Gallant

13039…Dianne Clarke

9985…Dimitris Foss

13428…Dino Luberti

7213…Dominic Lessard

7200…Dominik Rymsza

10336…Dominique Ansell

9553…Dominique Baker

7211…Dominique Chiasson

13470…Dominique Martel-Lamothe

9488…Dominique St-Denis

7953…Dominique Trudeau

10647…Don Eatherley

9376…Don Rooke

7467…Donald Allan

8798…Donald Cumming

9403…Donna Blois

12074…Donna Dufour

8031…Donna Mirasty

13747…Donna Sianchuk

14188…Doreen Taylor-Claxton

9766…Doris Chu

1069…Doris Mclean

13572…Dorota Nierobis

12602…Doug Crummey

14426…Douglas Briscoe

13421…Douglas Loader

13892…Douglas Wong

7210…Duncan Elbourne

8724…Ed Brady

12342…Edith Bernard

14459…Edith Bostwick

7761…Edmund Mah

12753…Edouard Larocque

7244…Edward Boushey

7987…Edward Miner

8971…Eileen Keefe

9338…Eileen Whyte

13055…Elaine Copson

13293…Elena Ienzi

10186…Elena Pecherskaya

7849…Elena Petre

9703…Elise Vandette

7008…Elizabeth Burn

10355…Elizabeth Conway

7622…Elizabeth Finnigan

10613…Elizabeth Fournier

14445…Elizabeth Fry

11404…Elizabeth Glover

8896…Elizabeth Goheen

7656…Elizabeth Hall

11956…Elizabeth Hayman

13331…Elizabeth Kerr

7956…Elizabeth Valentine

12762…Elizabeth Vaudry

14224…Elizabeth W12

9549…Ella Rowland

7923…Ella Stewart

11986…Ellen Hogan

9002…Ellen Lamarre

14574…Elly Crow

7248…Elly Robertson

8638…Emery Terell

8659…Emilie Adams

11919…Emilie Plater

11700…Emily Coleman

14266…Emily Gerbasi

8645…Emily Hamilton

10271…Emily Hewitt

14565…Emily Lafreniere

14293…Emily Lister

13535…Emily Montgomery

13676…Emily Rick

12481…Emily Thomas

9855…Emily Vingerhoeds

11403…Emma Cianfaglione

9125…Emma-Lee Newby

13353…Engelina Kruizinga

13150…Eric Eryou

13409…Eric Lepine

10358…Eric Macarthur

10457…Eric Noel

7903…Eric Shear

13824…Eric Torelli

12557…Erica Leslie

12263…Erich Farrell

11990…Erik Jolliffe

12696…Erika Williams

7486…Erin Beasley

14615…Erin Beck

7564…Erin Collins

333…Erin Drybrough

8344…Erin Johnstone

8020…Erin O'higgins

8621…Erin Sarsfield

12014…Erma Seekings

7473…Ernesto Angeles

10324…Eryn O'niell

7513…Estelle Bourlon

12229…Esther Moghadam

13357…Ethan Labelle

12455…Ethan Macdonald

13877…Eunice West

14080…Eva Lacelle

8164…Eva Rehder

8581…Evelyn Lannon

13328…Faye Kennedy

12686…Florent Fournier

11735…Fortino Cruz

14401…Fran Enright

8697…France Beare

12804…Francine Vachon

8340…Francois Bak

1553…Francois De La Chevrotiere

13592…Francois Paltrinieri

14155…Francois Proulx

13426…Frank Lozanski

10651…Fred Pelletier

10394…Frederic Theriault

12632…Frederick S. Gannon

10450…Gabriel Bouchard

7428…Gabrielle Lambert

9110…Gabrielle Moser

12549…Gabrielle Nadeau

7722…Gaetan Laforest

8293…Gail Harlow-Bolt

9528…Gary Avann

14277…Gary Cunningham

12763…Gary Vaudry

8315…Gemma Riley-Laurin

10075…Genevieve Cholette

12675…Genevieve Gales

8925…Genevieve Harte

12363…Genevieve Joly

7721…Genevieve Lacroix

10325…Genevieve Lemieux

9061…Genevieve Martin

8391…Genevieve Sorel

14267…Geoff Blair

7426…Geoff Plint

13887…Geoff Wilson

10446…Geoff Wilton

11933…George Kovacs

13396…George Leblanc

14214…George Marko

12745…George Mcleod

8390…George Reklitis

8399…George Weber

13811…Georges Thenor-Louis

13024…Gerry Chartrand

10432…Ghaith Dhaidan

8654…Gianna Inglese

13060…Gil Couch

10331…Gilles Duguay

10107…Gillian Goddard

12811…Gillian Howell

13677…Gillian Rick

14002…Gina Charos

7311…Gina Donaldson

12170…Gina Landriault

10923…Gina Palmese

7975…Gina Whiting

8143…Ginette Miron

7828…Ginette Orlicky

9759…Gino Moretti

8125…Giovanni Vivolo

8371…Gisela Grossman

12295…Gisele Steele

12838…Giuseppe (Joey) Porchetta

12536…Gizem Eras

9718…Glen Pilon

13087…Glenda Davies

13175…Glenn Franklin

8252…Glenn Horne

10799…Glenn R. Carroll

7025…Gloria Hache

12859…Gordon Allison

7966…Gordon Wallace

12540…Grace Yee

8695…Graeme Beales

7223…Graeme Beare

12901…Graham Bell

8566…Grayson Ivey

8565…Greg Ivey

14221…Greg Jensen

12165…Greg Kimball

13342…Greg Knighton

14333…Greg Pinard

7448…Greg Weatherdon

11972…Gregory Adams

7281…Guy Pitre

11581…Guy Thibault

10379…Hai Nguyen

9277…Hailey Stewart

11191…Hailie Pedley

10293…Hannah Hopkins

9558…Hannah Sykes

7052…Haris Gisavi

11955…Harold Mckay

12678…Harry Ehret

12312…Hayley Goodman

8232…Hazel Stoute

12873…Heather Arnold

10813…Heather Cosgrove

14275…Heather Fisher

11576…Heather Gerrior

11256…Heather Jamieson

9465…Heather Mackay

12311…Heather Macleod

7797…Heather Moore

10139…Heather Munro

14468…Heather Wilson

10244…Heather Woltman

9344…Heather Wright

9503…Hector Capetillo

9360…Helen Huang

9072…Helen Mcdowell

12817…Helena Herby

9150…Helene Paquin

10914…Henri Monette

9426…Henry Strong

9297…Hermelle Thivierge

7193…Hidetaka Nishimura

10763…Hilda Chow

14295…Hiro Dozono

9695…Hollie Mclean

9651…Howard Smith

9323…Howard Voight

13119…Hubert Dinel

13258…Hugo Hazledine

8014…Hugo Marin

7118…Ian Briggs

13082…Ian Dalling

14077…Ian Kluke

9724…Ian Pedley

10719…Ian Thomson

7173…Iryna Karpova

7461…Isabel Chin

13698…Isabel Rodrigue

8694…Isabelle Beach

13984…Isabelle Blondeau

9433…Isabelle D'souza

10160…Isabelle Gilbert

9705…Isabelle Gingrich

12642…J.W.Gilbert Rose

13274…Jack Hopkins

13314…Jack Johnson

9268…Jack Snyder

7453…Jackie Bonisteel

9978…Jackie Oncescu

8604…Jackie Poole

14325…Jacob Cardinal Tremblay

11579…Jacob Thibault

8846…Jacqueline Emery

12106…Jacqueline Guarisco

9009…Jacqueline Laplante

11033…Jacqueline Mackay

7641…Jacques Gobin

13753…Jacqui Sirois

9834…Jacquie Lemaire

12559…Jaffer Majeed

9896…Jaime Mclean

7974…Jaime Whetstone

12771…James Allard

8696…James Beales

12948…James Bowie

14254…James C Stewart

12290…James Cantellow

13115…James Dickson

14440…James Griff

10759…James Hill

13316…James Jones

9396…James Kierstead

9837…James Mcmichael

7180…James Moore

13597…James Paul

7848…James Peters

13649…James Powers

7003…James Pyzevas

7430…James Stewart

7927…James Stockwell

7957…James Vannier

7147…Jamie Bell

7119…Jamie Mclennan

10442…Jamie Ryan

10363…Jamie Snider

10879…Jan Labelle

7724…Jane Lajoie

12834…Jane Le Fresne

9895…Jane Rudolf

7911…Jane Smith

9975…Janel Chiasson

10049…Janet Mcintyre

8686…Janice Bailey

10017…Janice Chan

7984…Janice Zeitz

9493…Jantine Van Kregten

13481…Jari Mccready

14412…Jasmine Viau

14585…Jasmine Vos

7998…Jason Brazeau

8917…Jason Hamilton

7393…Jason Lannon

13410…Jason Leroux

10243…Jason Moreau

7893…Jason Saunders

12617…Jason St.Pierre

14192…Jason Thompson

12478…Jason Warwick

8426…Jason Wiltshire

8608…Jay Asselin

8504…Jay Janzen

13436…Jay Lymer

13601…Jay Paxton

10182…Jay Reid

12425…Jayme Drainville

12427…Jean Daoust

9946…Jean De Bellefeuille

12662…Jean Francois Martel

8746…Jeanette Caron

14523…Jean-Francois Fauteux

11640…Jean-Francois Leduc

13299…Jean-Guy Isaya

7512…Jean-Marc Boulet

12380…Jeannine Bailliu

12122…Jean-Paul Nadeau

10306…Jeff Cranton

13084…Jeff Daniels

7071…Jeff Johns

11169…Jeff Lepoidevin

13420…Jeff Lloyd

7753…Jeff Lockert

7926…Jeff Stiles

12877…Jeffery Attala

13285…Jeffrey Hunter

9967…Jeffrey Pelletier

13888…Jeffrey Wilson

12550…Jenah Thompson

11910…Jenelle Power

12178…Jenna Cormier

8618…Jenna Hurst

8962…Jenna Jones

10367…Jenna Matsukubo

14313…Jenna Stirling

7821…Jennie Nieradka

10559…Jennifer Bennett

8714…Jennifer Blattman

8716…Jennifer Born

13005…Jennifer Carneiro Demers

12787…Jennifer Conley

6507…Jennifer Dagg

8805…Jennifer Dare

12095…Jennifer Dumoulin

12582…Jennifer Fitzpatrick

12062…Jennifer Gibson

8902…Jennifer Grandy

8940…Jennifer Hood

8132…Jennifer Irwin

10153…Jennifer Koussaya-Kent

13406…Jennifer Lemire

7748…Jennifer Lim

8109…Jennifer Macinnis

14606…Jennifer Madigan

9102…Jennifer Moorehead

7798…Jennifer Moores

14544…Jennifer Morin

9437…Jennifer Murphy

9745…Jennifer Naddaf

9937…Jennifer Paul

9194…Jennifer Read

7867…Jennifer Reid

7905…Jennifer Shortall

7319…Jennifer St.Pierre

8512…Jennifer Thiessen

7090…Jeppe Henningsen

12479…Jeremy Ferrall

7930…Jeremy Sumner

13030…Jerome Choi

14023…Jerry Dechnik

14450…Jerry Kovacs

10385…Jessey Basi

8790…Jessica Cox

14497…Jessica Dean

11892…Jessica Fletcher

13174…Jessica Frankland

12345…Jessica Reddin

8346…Jessica Skinner

12166…Jessica Souannhaphanh

7565…Jessie Cook

12851…Jill Aiello

14518…Jill Perry

14193…Jill Thompson

11921…Jim Baker

7587…Jim Davis

7425…Jim Louter

12776…Jim Quinn

12444…Joan Mcewen

9129…Joan Norgren

9207…Joan Riznek-Ricardo

9726…Jo-Ann Pedley

10653…Joanna Lee

13969…Joanne Baker Baker

8406…Jo-Anne Belliveau

12301…Joanne Blackburn

8567…Joanne Ivey

11991…Joanne Jolliffe

11324…Joanne Macneil

9507…Jocelyn Hanna

13598…Jocelyn Paul

8643…Jocelyn Swift

9310…Jodi Turner

12177…Jodie Hoffart

7097…Joe Coballe

7369…Joe Kemp

7301…Joe Kresovic

12099…Joe Marques

8339…Joey Bak

7757…Joey Mackenzie

7273…Joffre St-Martin

14602…Joh N Smith

9547…Johannita Rowland

9852…John Armstrong

7485…John Basile

10795…John Boyd

7534…John Caminiti

12797…John Coltess

8854…John Ewing

7082…John Gazo

9580…John Gibberd

8068…John Gordon

12580…John Nethercott

7830…John Ortiz

9590…John Pasqua

9160…John Pavelich

9174…John Pick

8413…John Rochon

7934…John Szabo

9308…John Turnbull

7037…Johnathan Macdonald

7675…Joleen Hind

10047…Jolene Head

9064…Jolene Maxwell

13526…Jon Moberly

13714…Jon Ruddy

14413…Jonathan Diamantstein

13307…Jonathan Jeffrey

14081…Jonathan Laflamme

12159…Jonathan Laidlaw

7745…Jonathan Liddell

10272…Jonathan Matthews

9106…Jonathan Morley

14179…Jonathan Smith

10119…Jordan Fraser

9866…Jordan Merkas

11029…Jordan Pellerin

9715…Jordy Finnigan

13608…Jorge Perez

8307…Jose Mari Perez

13533…Jose Montes Castilla

7475…Joseph Arbour

12639…Joseph Harding

7816…Joseph Ngare

10090…Joseph Smith

9505…Joseph Wilkinson

12988…Josh Burrill

7016…Josh Moore

13427…Joshua Lozanski

14118…Jovette Mcdonald

8602…Joy Delacruz-Shea

9410…Joyce Contant

9934…Judith Lamesse

10263…Judy Brockelbank

10510…Judy Fox

10361…Judy Lam

8074…Judy Mcintosh

14410…Julia Barry

10373…Julia Garant

11181…Julia Gingrich

11322…Julia Marshall

14332…Julia Nikonorova

11485…Julia Trotman-St. Hill

8075…Juliana Laboucane

9742…Julie Beaulieu

14522…Julie Bedard

10806…Julie Chouinard

9478…Julie Chubb

8837…Julie Dufour

12790…Julie Emond

14075…Julie Keith

13403…Julie Leger

10888…Julie Lesperance

13523…Julie Milligan

10055…Julie Nault

13623…Julie Pickering

13885…Julie Wills

7992…Justin Bhatla

7065…Justin Lalonde

9669…Justin Vienneau

10369…Kaitie Jourdeuil

8483…Kaitlin Bell

7413…Kaitlynn Dinn

7951…Kamil Tracz

6260…Kammal Tannis

9660…Kane Newell

8677…Karen Armstrong

11932…Karen Brown

10010…Karen Elchakieh

11356…Karen Elliott

10842…Karen Frederick

8564…Karen Hurley

12051…Karen Johnstone

8998…Karen Lahay

8447…Karen Leslie

9059…Karen Marshall

10199…Karen Mcnaught

9203…Karen Richard

9466…Karen Sutherland

12001…Karen Vandenhoven

9614…Karen Vinczeffy

7181…Karine Dion

12486…Karyn Lessard

9733…Karyn O'flaherty

7482…Kate Barbosa

8171…Kate Clost

12782…Kate Costello

11649…Kate Headley

13546…Kate Morrison

12637…Kate Todd

9746…Katerina Naddaf

13849…Katerina Venderova

10384…Katherine Swim

13804…Katherine Taylor

7257…Katherine Yee

10108…Kathleen Hurley

7500…Kathryn Blair

12282…Kathryn Gibson

14495…Kathryn Gough

8231…Kathy Crowe

9028…Kathy Litalien

7577…Katie Dalton

14108…Katie Macdonnell

12210…Katie Malcolm

13548…Katie Morrissey

10255…Katrina Ellis

9200…Kayt Render

7040…Kazutoshi Nishizawa

12309…Keith Hendricks

12505…Keith Kawall

7127…Kelly Crawford

10537…Kelly Jung

13333…Kelly Keyes

9831…Kelly Louie

7322…Kelly Mccann

14526…Kelly Patrick

12080…Kelly Stirling

8283…Kelly-Anne Campbell

14442…Kelsey Saha

14580…Kendra Kehoe

14291…Kenneth Coleman

8648…Kerri Hunter

12085…Kerry Maloney

7063…Kerstyn Farrell

8001…Kevin Buttle

9576…Kevin Cotten

13448…Kevin Maclean

9067…Kevin Mccarragher

10412…Kevin Moher

10717…Kevin Platford

10426…Kevin Smith

7235…Kevin Swan

10096…Kevin Wong

12043…Khallad Karime

8748…Kim Carriere

14511…Kim Holmes

13404…Kim Lehto

11802…Kim Ling

8111…Kimberley Coleman

12347…Kimberley Merkas

9728…Kimberly Stewart

8693…Kimby Barton

12640…Kingston Harding

14541…Kirstie Parisien

13346…Klaus Kollenberg

7457…Koni Bennett

13483…Koreena Mcculloch

13742…Kris Shaw

10225…Krista Brown

13889…Krista Wilson

11402…Kristen Cianfaglione

8810…Kristen Decaire

13289…Kristen Hutchinson

13443…Kristen Macgowan

7841…Kristen Parker

7732…Kristin Le Saux-Farmer

8839…Kristina Dyck

14479…Kristina Jensen

12490…Kristine Baker

14348…Kristine Dempster

10307…Kristy Fleet

7365…Krzysztof Malczynski

13107…Kyle Desormeaux

6504…Kyle Klumper

13502…Kyle Mclaughlin

14344…Landen Moore

9650…Larkin Mosscrop

8309…Larry Hoskins

52…Larry Mccloskey

13578…Larry O'brien

12980…Lars Brusven

14022…Laura Dawson

9981…Laura Garrow

9911…Laura Griffin

13244…Laura Halpenny

8489…Laura Harris

12180…Laura Johnson

12731…Laura Kealey

8189…Laura May

12330…Laura Meaney

13509…Laura Medeiros

13660…Laura Radey

14173…Laura Scholtes

8325…Laura Ziebell

14628…Laureen Harper

11915…Laurel Murray

7646…Lauren Gouchie

8954…Lauren Hutchings

8302…Laurie Hunt

12742…Leanne Forman

9858…Lee Jacobs

8526…Leif Thorpe

12635…Lenka Acreman

9694…Leo Kiu

8437…Leonard Post

12068…Lesley Kathnelson

11999…Lesley Mackay

13866…Lesley Warren

11968…Leslie Blades

14096…Leslie Levita

9099…Leslie Mondle

13669…Leslie Rendell

8303…Leslie Youngson

8350…Lia Hiltz

14289…Liam Bell

13218…Liam Gordon

9118…Liam Mulvihill

14539…Liam Price

12259…Liam Wood

12941…Lianne Bouffard

14608…Lianne Wright

10584…Lilly Wood

8701…Linda Beehler

12142…Linda Desgranges

10849…Linda Hall

9369…Linda Leung

8438…Linda Post

12189…Linda Yusak

12865…Lindsay Andrusek

12806…Lindsay Doyle

8276…Lindsay Sinclair

10235…Lindy Ledohowski

10688…Linsay Janzen

8097…Lisa Calloway

9950…Lisa Cox

8867…Lisa Forbes

13204…Lisa Georges

8892…Lisa Gibson

10046…Lisa Hamilton

12840…Lisa Mouchet

9185…Lisa Poirier

10712…Lisa St-Denis

8627…Lisa Valentino

10396…Lise Brandi-Hansen

7096…Lise Piche

8427…Lise St-Andre

12949…Lissa Boyd

8287…Liz Goodman

7293…Liz Maguire

12480…Loretta Saunders

10988…Lori Di Pierdomenico

12028…Lori Eagleson

10736…Lori Pepper

10583…Lori Wood

14572…Louis Romeo Montgrain

9440…Louise Fortin

9114…Louise Moulie

12459…Lucas Mcgreal

10241…Lucia Monique Ippolito

14434…Lucie Tasse

13547…Lucy Morrison

9057…Luize Marie Marquez

9494…Lukas Ratkowski

8401…Luke Allan

12227…Luke Young

9469…Lyn Crozier

10816…Lynda Cronin

13173…Lynda Franc

8237…Lyne Billings

9178…Lynette Pike

8872…Lynn Fournier

12824…Lysann Boisvert

14467…Lyse Patenaude

9451…Mackie Elliot

12780…Maddy Gibson

13895…Madeleine Woods

9589…Madison Schroeder

10309…Maggie Pawelec

10817…Magnus Cronin

7606…Manon Drake

14364…Marc Andre Bouchard

7058…Marc Berube

14514…Marc Dumaine

9017…Marc Lefebvre

7282…Marc Magierowicz

11942…Marc St Pierre

7053…Marcel Losier

8852…Marcia Evans

7769…Marcia Matsuo

12443…Marco Vocisano

8653…Marcus Ibbotson

9768…Marek Szymborski

8065…Marg Duteau

12220…Margaret Coleman-Mclean

9910…Margaret Hazel

11117…Marguerite Joyce

12246…Maria Barrett

12181…Maria Gomez

11908…Maria Lemus

10466…Maria Menard

7802…Maria Mottillo

9916…Marian Kneitz

10050…Marie Andree Paquin

12201…Marie Avila

9938…Marie Cocking

13138…Marie Dupuis

9531…Marie Engelmann

8891…Marie Gervais

10072…Marie Martin

12603…Marie Paul

10535…Marie Poirier

13599…Marie-Eve Paul

12664…Marie-France Horton

12362…Marie-France Joly

8086…Marie-France Sexton

7212…Marie-Jeanne Carola

8921…Marie-Lise Handley

12158…Marilyn Laidlaw

12033…Marina Murphy

11893…Marion Ings

8337…Marion Lapham

7772…Marion May

8942…Marisa Hopp

9512…Mark Bracko

13994…Mark Budd

8755…Mark Caverson

8885…Mark Gaillard

13217…Mark Goodchild

10265…Mark Menary

7850…Mark Phillips

7370…Mark Thompson

13825…Mark Totten

11951…Marlene St Pierre

13583…Marni Oliver

12183…Marta Gomez

10365…Marta Jarzabek

10249…Marta Piresferreira

13816…Martell Thompson

7498…Martin Bisson-Dubois

7056…Martin Gerrits

13363…Martin Laflamme

10299…Martin Stahl

14496…Martine Goulet

8698…Mary Beaudry

11966…Mary Brassard

11897…Mary Van Buren

12449…Mary-Ellen Maybee

13719…Mathew Sabourin

7601…Mathias Dormann

12411…Mathieu Stanton

7144…Matt Closs

8960…Matt Jelly

7837…Matt Paquette

8529…Matt Riopelle

8028…Matthew Arnott

7420…Matthew Bernhardt

12961…Matthew Brean

12965…Matthew Britt

13027…Matthew Chiasson

14008…Matthew Claxton

10809…Matthew Clement

12812…Matthew Colvil

7773…Matthew Mayer

10602…Matthew Pappas

9966…Matthew Pelletier

13411…Matthieu Leroux

13392…Maud Le Monnier

12171…Maureen Carroll

12581…Maureen Mccann

7315…Maureen O'connor

7833…Maureen O'Higgins

8893…Max Gibson

9368…Maxime Plater

10287…Maximilien Haghighat Talab

8767…May Chow

7995…Maya Aden

13168…Maylanye Fortin

7845…Meena Paul

7044…Megan Halhed

13287…Megan Hurley

14586…Megan Mcleod

12316…Megan Paterson

7360…Megan Rocquin

10339…Megan Trottier

9668…Meggan Phelan

8000…Meghan Bryant

9885…Melanie Burston

10357…Melanie Carkner

12250…Melanie Dubeau

7619…Melanie Farrell

13319…Melanie Jupp

10644…Melanie Mitchell

7381…Melanie Patina

9097…Melinda Mollineaux

13576…Melinda Nycholat

8789…Melissa Cosman

7576…Melissa Dahabieh

12344…Melissa Favaro

13310…Melissa Jess

10004…Melissa Radford

9872…Mercedes Marin

14444…Meredith Rocchi

12658…Merina Shulist

10404…Mia Mackechnie

9408…Mia Meldrum

12883…Michael Bamber

12946…Michael Boutet

8754…Michael Cassie

8284…Michael Chippa

9593…Michael Cuddihy

12375…Michael Davie

14258…Michael Diamond

12188…Michael Faulkner

8904…Michael Greene

7450…Michael Howitt

13351…Michael Krkic

9007…Michael Langlois

11098…Michael Mcginn

7183…Michael Mckiernan

9133…Michael Noynay

13614…Michael Petryk

12354…Michael St. Denis

9863…Michael Sulyha

12816…Michael Thompson

9314…Michael Van Aanhout

8484…Michael W Fawcett

9130…Michaela Norgren

7088…Michel Anglehart

7611…Michel Duhamel

12089…Michele Burkholder

7415…Michele Motiuk

10146…Michelle Blundell

8780…Michelle Conway

12781…Michelle Costello

12667…Michelle Crawley

12129…Michelle Gravelle

7340…Michelle Haines

9506…Michelle Joos

12583…Michelle Lefebvre

8575…Michelle Lindsay

13480…Michelle Mccombs

7808…Michelle Naylor

10926…Michelle Pineo

9210…Michelle Robichaud

12115…Michelle Straver

9912…Michelle Taylor

9983…Michelle Toutant

10443…Michelle Whitty

9711…Michelle Zakrison

7203…Miguel Bussiere

12663…Mikael Tremblay-Martel

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12622…Mike Bushey

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9923…Mithony Phan

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10257…Morgan Hladik

10533…Morgan Weeks

9986…Mumtaz Jaffer

10024…Murray Beare

7817…My-Chau Nguyen

13023…Mylene Charron

12179…Mylene Gomez

10242…Myriam Bower

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8398…Nadine Carroll

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8835…Nancy Dudek

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7166…Natalie Pilon

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13412…Nathalie Levasseur

13842…Navpreet Uppal

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9095…Neil Mispelaar

9280…Nelson Stokes

13213…Ngatho Githii

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12969…Nicholas Brousseau

13214…Nicholas Glennon

7660…Nicholas Handfield-Jones

9515…Nicholas Johnstone

14311…Nicholas Laughton

7352…Nicholas Newell

7073…Nicholas Schroeder

7456…Nicholas Tyler

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14210…Nick Doucette

13343…Nick Knighton

13429…Nick Luberti

13807…Nick Taylor-Vaisey

12621…Nickola Hockey

12847…Nicola Adams

12945…Nicolas Bourgogne

14040…Nicole Flanagan

10335…Nicole Loreto

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13260…Oscar Hazledine

7789…Oscar Metcalfe

13095…Oweeny De Silva

12698…Owen Savage

7402…Padme Raina

13254…Pam Hatton

12149…Pamela Bazinet

8304…Pamela Louie

8151…Pamela Vezina

10700…Pamela Wilson

12930…Parker Blois

7493…Pascal Bessette

10581…Pascale Castonguay

12548…Pascale Robillard

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12118…Pat Horner

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12800…Patricia Innes

12417…Patricia Maloney

9112…Patricia Mosher

10437…Patricia Pearson

12098…Patricia Slaunwhite

12364…Patricia Turner

9324…Patricia Voight

12852…Patrick Alden

8057…Patrick Calnan

9540…Patrick Fletcher

8490…Patrick Harris

13268…Patrick Hodges

7010…Patrick Kirkham

7343…Patrick Lennox

7891…Patrick Saumur

13851…Patrick Vienneau

13977…Paul Barnshaw

9610…Paul Bazinet

7050…Paul Desgranges

8827…Paul Dionne

9955…Paul Duff

8862…Paul Finnigan

12551…Paul Gledhill

13229…Paul Greene

10288…Paul Haghighat Talab

8011…Paul Jonah

8646…Paul Karpiak

11943…Paul Krisciunas

9003…Paul Lamarre

7764…Paul Marchand

12124…Paul Racine

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7942…Paul Thompson

9315…Paul Van Aanhout

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13932…Paull Leamen

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9123…Penny Napke

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10122…Peter Mackay

13449…Peter Maclean

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9181…Peter Pilgrim

7865…Peter Redekop

13731…Peter Saunders

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9674…Petra Morewood

12770…Phil Jourdeuil

7364…Phil Rogers

9401…Phil Shilling

7250…Philip Corey

9716…Philip Pilon

12732…Philipp Guerin

8722…Philippe Boyer

14204…Philippe-Jacques Zaor

7690…Phillip Hughes-Morash

8655…Pia Newell Santiago

8003…Pierre Elhamoui

9799…Pierre Langevin

12356…Pierre-Pascal Duquette

10903…Pierrette Mccartney

11435…Pippa Leslie

9979…Pippa Sellers

7674…Pj Hewitt

10323…Porter Heffernan

7012…Predrag Bosnjak

10949…Prem Sharma

7497…Prescilla Bisier

9641…Quy Ha

8405…R Harman

8976…Rachael Kennedy

10691…Rachel Archer

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7527…Rachel Burgess

7832…Rachel Oueis

12808…Rachel Sheil

13418…Radek Linhart

9364…Rajiv Bhatla

14253…Raluca Dobre

11575…Randall Gerrior

14315…Randall Wilson

9538…Raquel Vinhais

7894…Rasha Saymeh

9143…Ray O'flaherty

14154…Raymond Prenoveau

13611…Real Perriard

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11939…Rebecca Knowlton

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9699…Rebecca Ross

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12575…Regan Braund

12853…Reji Alex

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14304…Remy Poulin

9034…Renee Longpre

7787…Renee Mendrisky

8819…Ricardo Dias

12429…Richard Bisier

8721…Richard Boyd

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10818…Richard Cronin

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7836…Rick Palmer

9038…Ricky Ma

13893…Ricky Wong

10210…Rigel Shulist

9717…Riley Finnigan

8689…Ritu Banerjee

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7536…Rob Carrick

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13729…Rob Saric

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10177…Robert Charrois

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7271…Robert Lamothe

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13837…Ronan Tunney

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9719…Ross Ermel

12120…Roxanne Temple

7221…Roya Macdonald

10291…Ruben Saikaley

7677…Ruby Ho

10236…Rueban Balasubramaniam

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14207…Russell Christie

10233…Russell Francis

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7628…Ryan Fortner

13924…Ryan Garrett

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10372…Ryan Jankovich

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11227…Ryan Squires

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12224…S Slade

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8649…Sabrina Dadrian-Kassabian

8880…Sabrina Gagne

8609…Said Hussien

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12317…Sam Paquette

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8467…Samantha Jerome

10080…Samantha Marcotte

12752…Samantha Mongeon

7404…Samantha Tysick

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7098…Sammy Diamantstein

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7064…Sandra Lalonde

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14365…Sandy Macleod

10138…Sara Jefferson

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14446…Sarah Bennett

12303…Sarah Blackburn

13097…Sarah Degen

13123…Sarah Donahue

12683…Sarah El-Saliby

10118…Sarah Fraser

10780…Sarah Gisele

13242…Sarah Hahn

13288…Sarah Hurley

14083…Sarah Laliberte

12542…Sarah Leighton

7027…Sarah Leverton

13430…Sarah Luberti

8218…Sarah Michelle Pham

13567…Sarah Nesbitt

9230…Sarah Rudolph

12298…Sarah Turcotte

11996…Sarah Vandenhoven

9929…Sarah Verreault

14424…Sarto Leblanc

9583…Sasha Poirier

7758…Scot Maclean

14409…Scott Barry

14287…Scott Dupont

7116…Scott Evans

12022…Scott Gillespie

13280…Scott Howat

7750…Scott Lindsay

13615…Scott Phelan

13806…Scott Taylor

9399…Scott Thompson

7639…Sean Giovannetti

7701…Sean Jorgensen

10377…Sean Murtha

8093…Sean O'reilly

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7186…Sebastian Saville

8622…Sebastien Ares

7509…Sebastien Bouchard

9574…Serge Bidnyk

7682…Shana Hopkins

8934…Shane Hennessy

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12703…Shannon King

9524…Shannon Ryan

10982…Shannon Youmelle

8937…Sharon Hiebert

10178…Shauna Maclean

7476…Shawn Arcand

9511…Shawn Boeyen

11907…Shawn Goudge

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7831…Shawn Osborne

9177…Shawn Pigeon

13697…Shawn Rodgers

8776…Shawna Colbey

12435…Shawna Grosskleg

14621…Sheefra Brisbin

9046…Sheila Macleod

12445…Shelley Fleming

9425…Shelley Hale

12020…Sheri Curkovic

8742…Sherri-Ann Cameron

6508…Shona Mcculloch

7763…Simmi Mangat

10185…Simon Ferrand

9739…Simon Gagne

13929…Simon Jacques

7233…Simon Jones

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7794…Sonia Moioli

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10387…Spencer Rolfe

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10136…Stacey Lacroix

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7636…Stephane Gauthier

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9149…Stephanie Paolin

10221…Stephanie Parisien

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7047…Stephen Difruscio

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12002…Tanya Cullen

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7070…Tara Read

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8275…Terri Sinclair

7568…Terry Cowan

9968…Terry Warren

13177…Tess Fremont-Cote

13321…Tessa Kampman

12119…Thea Temple

8865…Theresa Flaherty

7691…Theresa Humphrys

7749…Thiago Lima

14314…Thivisha Rajagopal

10290…Thom Haghighat Talab

14273…Thomas Gallagher

10883…Thomas Lamarre

12390…Thomas Pereira

11304…Thomas Saville

13596…Thusyanthan Pathmalingam

7746…Thuy Lieu

7469…Tiago Alves De Jesus

11367…Tiana Burton

12595…Tiffany Patten

7859…Tiffany Pursoo

14557…Tim Gibel

10850…Tim Hanley

9908…Tim Norman

10254…Timothy Hopkins

10586…Tina Meldrum

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10092…William Yee

9774…Wojciech Kulacz

13754…Xander Sirois

8219…Xuan Huyen Pham

7346…Yannick Brisebois

7807…Yasir Naqvi

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13748…Yves Sikubwabo

14307…Yvonne Burton

7629…Zander Fraser

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7396…Zu Vuong

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For and From Martha........ www.youtube.com/watch?v=emq3n4KKPdk

After filtering out space noise and other galactic interference……

LSD has succeeded in bring forth a very detailed close-up image of the “A Man Of War” Nebulae

Photo taken from the ……Lunar Space Depot……LSD has been a major player in space observation

Details are still a bit sketchy….This Video should help………. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gxgWCHStxg

A planetary nebula is an astronomical object consisting of a glowing shell of gas and plasma formed by many stars

as they approach the end of their lives, while a nova is a cataclysmic nuclear explosion

caused by the accretion of hydrogen onto the surface of a nearly-dead white dwarf star in a close binary.

The star which erupted was a nova, an event caused when matter is transferred from one star in a close binary system onto its companion,

eventually triggering a runaway thermonuclear explosion. The nebula surrounding this nova is a planetary nebula,

which must have formed during an earlier phase in the binary star's existence, when the outer layers of one of the companions were expelled.

Only one previous nova has been seen to occur inside a planetary nebula – Nova Persei in 1901.

The opportunity to watch in detail as the nova flash interacts with the nebula is a first in astronomy.

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Callier, a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, began recording in 1963 but never reached stardom despite a series of regional hits in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1983, he gained custody of his 12-year-old daughter Sundiata and decided to retire from music to look for a steadier income. He took classes in computer programming and landed a job at the University of Chicago in 1984.

He reemerged from obscurity when British DJs discovered his old recordings and began to play his songs in clubs in the late 1980s. Acid Jazz Records head Eddie Piller brought Callier to play clubs in Britain beginning in 1991 and he began to make regular trips to play gigs during his vacation time from work.

In the late 90s Callier began his comeback to recorded music, contributing to Beth Orton's Best Bit EP in 1997 and releasing the album Timepeace in 1998, which won the United Nations' Time For Peace award for outstanding artistic achievement contributing to world peace. Curiously, his colleagues at the University of Chicago never learned of Callier's life as a musician, but after the award the news of his secret life became widely known and subsequently led to his firing.

Callier today is continuing his recording career having currently released five albums since Timepeace.

May 2009 saw his album Hidden Conversations featuring Massive Attack released on Mr Bongo records.

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Kids playing baseball, Cuba's most popular sport, in the streets of Habana Vieja.

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en Biodiversidad virtual, y en Twiter y en Instagram como @proyectoagua

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Apenas un trazo alargado y en forma de arco, hacen un leve rasguño en las gotas. Dibujan así los finos contornos de esta alga aguja que en su navegar pausado va cosiendo el agua con tenues suturas sin dejar ni

rastro de una cicatriz. discretamente como pidiendo disculpas se esconde en el río calmado dentro de su delgadez.

Y es que a diferencia de otras algas hermanas de esta familia de los désmidos que parecen lucir orgullosas su cuerpo de estrella como Euastrum, Micrasterias o Staurastrum, etc. en aguas que son de cristal Closterium aciculare marca sobre el agua su raya tenue y profunda belleza arañando a cualquier masa de agua herida por la contaminación

Al igual que muchos otros désmidos Closterium aciculare presenta unas marcadas señas de identidad que no sólo se quedan en su apariencia, la gran superficie de su cuerpo la mantiene a flote con suma facilidad de tal manera que aún en zonas de corriente y oleaje siempre toma el sol en primera línea de agua. como alga fundamentalmente planctónica que es.

Pero quizá lo que más sorprenda de esta especie es algo que no se ve y que tiene que ver con su nutrición. Closterium aciculare es una especie que vive en medios eutrofizados y para poder vivir bien y reproducirse necesita amonio en el agua y no se conforma como sus hermanas con el simple nitrógeno, N2, lo necesita arropado con cuatro átomos de hidrógeno y tomarse así ese plato combinado del amonio, NH4 sin cuya presencia su vida no sería posible.

Closterium aciculare es esbelta y bastante especial, y mientras sus hermanas viven en aguas pobres en materia orgánica, ella requiere todo lo contrario y una buena ración de amonio. Pocas algas lo pueden metabolizar pero esta especie, a costa de su esbeltez lo consigue, devolviendo un agua limpia, haciendo así su suave cirugía reparadora.

Las fotografías de hoy, tomadas en vivo a 400 aumentos empleando las técnicas de contraste de interferencia y de fase, además de la de campo oscuro, proceden de una muestra tomada el 23 de marzo de 2023 por Ibone Martínez Zufiria, Alberto Ávila Pérez y Laura Fernandes desde

la Estación Biológica Internacional Duero-Douro a su paso por los Arribes del Duero entre las inmediaciones de Miranda do Douro y Torregamones (Zamora).

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El Real Monasterio de Santa María de Poblet es el prototipo de abadía cisterciense española y panteón real de los reyes de la Corona de Aragón, desde Alfonso II.

Localizado en la comarca de la Conca de Barberà, en la localidad de Vimbodí, en Tarragona, el primer cenobio fue impulsado y patrocinado por el conde Ramón Berenguer IV, quien lo entregó a los monjes bernardos de la abadía de Fontfroide en el año 1149 (siglo XII).

Enriquecido con distintas donaciones, alcanzó su máximo esplendor en el siglo XIV, y su total decadencia y abandono en 1835 como consecuencia de la desamortización de Mendizábal. En 1930 se inició su restauración, de forma que en 1935 pudo dedicarse nuevamente la iglesia al culto, y en 1940 retornaban a su abadía algunos monjes. No todos los espacios pueden visitarse, por ser dependencias en clausura utilizadas por los cistercienses que de nuevo ocupan el monasterio.

En 1991 fue declarado por la UNESCO Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Poblet, junto con Guadalupe, El Escorial, San Millán de Yuso y San Millán de Suso son los monasterios en España que gozan de este título.

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet is a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1151, located in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, in Catalonia (Spain). It was founded by Cistercian monks from France.

It was the royal pantheon of the kings of the Crown of Aragon since James I of Aragon.

This monastery was abandoned in 1835 and was restored during the 1940s.

This monastery was the first of three sister monasteries, known as the Cistercian triangle, that helped consolidate power in Catalonia in the 12th century. (The other two are Vallbona de les Monges and Santes Creus)

It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, since 1991.

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Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: NANA FINDS OUT! (4 of 4): Nana finds out! /

NANA SE ENTERA! (4 de 4): Nana se entera!

(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 47 of 50) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.

FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español

L: … (here we go again... the circus of the day)

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L: … (Ya estamos... El numerito del día.)

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- Hilo de las Fotohistorias de Shin y Yashiro en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es

- Hilo de la Relación entre Shin y Yashiro en la sección de Penpals de Pullip .es

- Ayrin and Sheryl PHOTOSTORIES

- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr

- Ayrin PhotoStories at Flickr

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Catalonia (English /kætəˈloʊniə/, /kætəˈloʊnjə/; Catalan: Catalunya [kətəˈɫuɲə] or [kataˈluɲa]; Spanish: Cataluña [kataˈluɲa]; Occitan: Catalonha [kataˈluɲɔ]) is an autonomous community of Spain, with the official status of a nationality.[1] Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the center of one of the largest metropolitan areas in Europe. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,535,251.[2]

It comprises the larger part of the territory of the former Principality of Catalonia, with the remainder of the historic Catalan region now part of southern France. Catalonia borders France and Andorra to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the east (580 km coastline). The neighbouring Spanish regions of Aragon and the Valencian Community lie to the west and south respectively. The official languages are Catalan, Spanish, and Aranese (Occitan); Catalan Sign Language is also officially recognised.[3] The Catalan government intends to hold a referendum on independence from Spain in 2014.

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Coming around again...

Baby sneezes

Mummy pleases

Daddy breezes in

So good on paper

So romantic

But so bewildering

(chorus)

I know nothing stays the same

But if youre willing to play the game

Its coming around again

So dont mind if I fall apart

There's more room in a broken heart

You pay the grocer

Fix the toasted

Kiss the host good-bye

Then you break a window

Burn the souffl?

Scream the lullaby

I know nothing stays the same

But if youre willing to play the game

Its coming around again

So dont mind if I fall apart

Theres more room in a broken heart

And I believe in love

But what else can I do

Im so in love with you

I know nothing stays the same

But if youre willing to play the game

Its coming around again

(Carly Simon)

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(TCO 2) What is XKMS?

Key Management Specification, which defines services to manage PKI operations within the Extensible Markup Language (XML) environment

An XML standard for e-mail encryption

An XML standard that is used for wireless data exchange

A primary XML standard that is for application development

(TCO 2) All of the following are techniques used by a social engineer EXCEPT for which one?

An attacker replaces a blank deposit slip in a bank lobby with one containing his own account number

An attacker calls up the IT department posing as an employee and requests a password reset

An attacker runs a brute-force attack on a password

An attacker sends a forged e-mail with a link to a bogus website that has been set to obtain personal information

(TCO 2) Attackers need a certain amount of information before launching their attack. One common place to find information is to go through the trash of the target to find information that could be useful to the attacker. This process of going through a target’s trash is known in the community as _____

Trash rummaging

Garbage surfing

Piggy diving

Dumpster diving

(TCO 2) What are the SSL and TLS used for?

A means of securing application programs on the system

To secure communication over the Internet

A method to change from one form of PKI infrastructure to another

A secure way to reduce the amount of SPAM a system receives

(TCO 2) What are the security risks of installing games on an organization’s system?

There are no significant risks

Users can’t always be sure where the software came from and it may have hidden software inside of it.

The users may play during work hours instead of during breaks

The games may take up too much memory on the computer and slow down processing, making it difficult to work

(TCO 2) What is the ISO 17799?

A standard for creating and implementing security policies

A standard for international encryption of e-mail

A document used to develop physical security for a building

A document describing the details of wireless encryption

(TCO 3) A(n) _____ is a network typically smaller in terms of size and geographic coverage, and consists of two or more connected devices. Home or office networks are typically classified as this type of network

Local-area network

Office-area network

Wide-area network

(TCO 3) What is the main difference between TCP and UDP packets?

UDP packets are a more widely used protocol

TCP packets are smaller and thus more efficient to use

TCP packets are connection oriented, whereas UPD packets are connectionless

UDP is considered to be more reliable because it performs error checking

Internal-area network

(TCO 3) Unfortunately, hackers abuse the ICMP protocol by using it to _____.

Send Internet worms

Launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks

Steal passwords and credit card numbers

Send spam

(TCO 3) Which transport layer protocol is connectionless?

UDP

TCP

IP

ICMP

(TCO 3) Which of the following is a benefit provided by Network Address Translation (NAT)?

Compensates for the lack of IP addresses

Allows devices using two different protocols to communicate

Creates a DMZ

Translates MAC addresses to IP addresses

(TCO 3) Which transport layer protocol is connection oriented?

UDP

RCP

IS

ICMP

(TCO 3) Which of the following is an example of a MAC address?

00:07:H9:c8:ff:00

00:39:c8:ff:00

00:07:e9:c8:ff:00

00:07:59:c8:ff:00:e8

(TCO 4) All of the following statements sum up the characteristics and requirements of proper private key use EXCEPT which one?

The key should be stored securely

The key should be shared only with others whom you trust

Authentication should be required before the key can be used

The key should be transported securely

(TCO 4) It is easier to implement, back up, and recover keys in a _____.

Centralized infrastructure

Decentralized infrastructure

Hybrid infrastructure

Peer-to-peer infrastructure

(TCO 4) When a message sent by a user is digitally signed with a private key, the person will not be able to deny sending the message. This application of encryption is an example of _____.

Authentication

Nonrepudiation

Confidentiality

Auditing

(TCO 4) Outsourced CAs are different from public CAs in what way?

Outsourced services can be used by hundreds of companies

Outsourced services provide dedicated services and equipment to individual companies

Outsourced services do not maintain specific servers and infrastructures for individual companies

Outsourced services are different in name only. They are essentially the same thing

(TCO 4) Cryptographic algorithms are used for all of the following EXCEPT _____.

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Authentication

(TCO 6) A hub operates at which of the following?

Layer 1, the physical layer

Layer 2, the data-link layer

Layer 2, the MAC layer

Layer 3, the network layer

(TCO 6) Alice sends an e-mail that she encrypts with a shared key, which only she and Bob have. Upon receipt, Bob decrypts the e-mail and reads it. This application of encryption is an example of _____.

Confidentiality

Integrity

Authentication

Nonrepudiation

(TCO 6) The following are steps in securing a workstation EXCEPT _____.

Install NetBIOS and IPX

Install antivirus

Remove unnecessary software

Disable unnecessary user accounts

(TCO 8) Which of the following is a characteristic of the Patriot Act?

Extends the tap-and-trace provisions of existing wiretap statutes to the Internet, and mandates certain technological modifications at ISPs to facilitate electronic wiretaps on the Internet

A major piece of legislation affecting the financial industry, and also one with significant privacy provisions for individuals

Makes it a violation of federal law to knowingly use another’s identity

Implements the principle that a signature, contract, or other record may not be deleted

Denies legal effect, validity, or enforceability solely because it is electronic form

(TCO 8) The Wassenaar Arrangement can be described as which of the following?

An international arrangement on export controls for conventional arms as well as dual-use goods and technologies

An international arrangement on import controls

A rule governing import of encryption in the United States

A rule governing export of encryption in the United States

(TCO 8) What is the Convention on Cybercrime?

A convention of black hats who trade hacking secrets

The first international treaty on crimes committed via the Internet and other computer networks

A convention of white hats who trade hacker prevention knowledge

A treaty regulating international conventions

(TCO 8) The electronic signatures in the Global and National Commerce Act _____.

Implement the principle that a signature, contract, or other record may not be denied legal effect, validity, or enforceability solely because it is electronic form

Address a myriad of legal privacy issues resulting from the increased use of computers and other technology specific to telecommunications

Make it a violation of federal law to knowingly use another’s identity

Are a major piece of legislation affecting the financial industry, and contains significant privacy provisions for individuals

(TCO 2) Give an example of a hoax and how it might actually be destructive

(TCO 2) What are the various ways a backup can be conducted and stored?

Backups should include the organization’s critical data, and…

(TCO 2) List at least five types of disasters that can damage or destroy the information of an organization

(TCO 2) List the four ways backups are conducted and stored.

Full back up, differential backup,…

(TCO 2) List at least five types of disasters that can damage or destroy the information of an organization.

Flood, chemical spill…

(TCO 2) Your boss wants you to give him some suggestions for a policy stating what the individual user responsibilities for information security should be. Create a bulleted list of those responsibilities.

Do not divulge sensitive information to individuals…

(TCO 3) What is the difference between TCP and UDP?

UDP is known as a connectionless protocol, as it has very few…

(TCO 3) List three kinds of information contained in an IP packet header

A unique identifier, distinguishing this packet from other packets…

(TCO 4) What are the laws that govern encryption and digital rights management?

Encryption technology is used to protect digital…

(TCO 5) Describe the laws that govern digital signatures

Digital signatures have the same…

(TCO 6) What are some of the security issues associated with web applications and plug-ins?

Web browsers have mechanisms to enable…

(TCO 6) What are the four common methods for connecting equipment at the physical layer?

Coaxial cable, twisted-pair…

(TCO 6) Describe the functioning of the SSL/TLS suite

SSL and TLS use a combination of symmetric and…

(TCO 6) Explain a simple way to combat boot disks

Disable them or… them in the…

(TCO 7) What are some ethical issues associated with information security?

Ethics is the social-moral environment in which a person makes…

(TCO 9) What are password and domain password policies?

Password complexity policies are designed to deter brute force attacks by increasing the number of possible passwords…

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Dedica a mis amigos/as de Flickr en Tierra de Fuego.

Se no es el impresionismo de Monet, el usaba pinceles óleos y lienzos, pero…..

Como es sabido el color rojo es el tradicional del amor. Todo esto se relaciona con el clásico mensaje de un “Te quiero”, con una rosa, orquídeas, dalias o un largo etc. etc.

¿Pero y de las amapolas que se dice?

Yo prefiero asociar estas amapolas con esta mi reflexión:

En el campo, sola está la roja amapola, dos días de vida le ha otorgado la naturaleza para que sus hojas se marchiten y caigan al húmedo o seco suelo, ya sin vida ni consuelo.

Tristeza siento de ver morir a una amapola que su belleza florida me mostraba en mis paseos por el campo y ahora ya no es nada.

El viento ya se ha llevado mi flor; necesitaba verla; me daba vida y alegría, pues ella era toda poesía, ella era toda inocencia de una infancia; ella era………….. Una simple flor.

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Dedicated to my friends on Flickr Tierra del Fuego.

It is not the impressionism of Monet, the oils used brushes and canvases, but ... ..

As you know the red is the traditional color of love. All this is related to the message of a classic "I love you" with a rose, orchids, dahlias and a long etcetera. etc.

But poppies and that is said?

I prefer to associate with these poppies is my reflection:

In the field, one is the red poppy, two days of life has given to the nature of their leaves wither and fall to the wet or dry soil, and without life or comfort.

I feel sad to see the death of a poppy beauty florida showed me in my walks through the countryside and now it is nothing.

The wind has already taken my flowers, I need to see him, gave me life and joy as she was all poetry, it was all an innocent child, she was ... ... ... ... .. A simple flower.

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Canon EOS 5D mark II + EF 16-35 f/2.8L II USM

21mm

1/50 sec @ f/2.8

ISO 400

It's was quite dark already as I took this, so that's why I used the full aperture. No added vignette, what you see is natural vignetting of the lens. (:

Tagged by Latryx, so here is my thoughts:

1. What I like to photograph the most:

All kind of objects and compositions using my beloved 50mm f/1.4 and 100mm f/2.8 macro lenses. I am probably some kind of bokeh addict for most of the time nice bokeh is something I’m after. Moreover, I enjoy shooting during school exercises if I just have time to do that. :D

2. What I like to photograph the least:

I would like to do more portraits but I have very little experience of those. I don’t know why I’m so shy to take photos of others. However, candid shots are something I like to do when I’m just enough confident that I won’t be noticed (of course it doesn’t matter if the subject is somehow familiar to me).

3. Photography Peeves:

- People looking at while taking pictures, nowadays I don’t care so much about that than before…

- Being very strict about lens changes and exaggerated fear of sensor dust. :D

- My gear is quite heavy and challenging to carry all places that I would like to.

4. What I admire from other photographers:

- The eye of notices very interesting compositions and places

- Landscape photographers making big effort and carrying a lot of gear to difficult places just in order to take great image.

- Street photographing, it’s not the easiest thing, you have to be very observant, fast and inconspicuous at the same time.

5. What I'd like to learn better:

- landscape photography

- wide angle HDRs

- minimalistic art

- ultra wide angle stitches (like the previous image in my stream)

- portraits with strobist stuff (reflectors and strobes)

- candid shots of great moments

- wedding photography and generally photography in every kind of events

Finally here is some of my friends I want to tag:

Julia Lillqvist

lala keynes

magdaes

penwren

eetwo

Chelsea

serend1p1tyx

Peter Rosbjerg

Karppikala

syahril

m_szeremieta

Ola_nyc

bartoffel

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ISO 200, F14 , 1/320sec, 55mm

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D'ora in poi vivere qui sarà più vario e interessante ...

Noi avremo una nuova ragione di vita.

Ci solleveremo dalle tenebre dell'ignoranza,

ci accorgeremo di essere creature di grande intelligenza e abilità.

Saremo liberi! Impareremo a volare!

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La spiaggia di Romazzino è una zona di grande suggestione architettonica, qui infatti sorge uno degli hotel più belli della Costa Smeralda, oltre ad alcune tra le ville più prestigiose della zona, con la spiaggia che fa da cornice naturale di questo "village" elegante.

Sabbia fine, mare che assume tutte le gradazioni del blu e del verde, vegetazione profumata alle spalle del lido.

Nella stessa zona c'è la famosa spiaggia del Principe

Come arrivare: Da Olbia uscire sulla s.s. 125 per Palau, continuare sulla s.p.73 per la Costa Smeralda, per 7,6 km. sino al bivio per San Panteleo, qui girare a destra e continuare per 8 km., sino all' incrocio per Porto Cervo, dopodichè svoltare a destra per Cala di Volpe e proseguire per 2,4 km. Prima di arrivare a Capriccioli girare a sinistra sulla strada per Romazzino e percorrere ancora 2 km., svoltare quindi ancora a destra prima dell' Hotel Romazzino, e poi a sinistra.

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El Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña está situado al suroeste de Jaca, Huesca, Aragón.

El fenómeno eremítico fue importante en Aragón, al igual que en otras zonas del norte de España. Tras la entrada de Tarik en España y derrotado en 711 don Rodrigo en Guadalete, el ejército islámico avanzó con rapidez por la península ibérica. El 712, Acisclo, obispo de Huesca huyó de la misma ante el avance infiel, llevando consigo el Grial que San Lorenzo había hecho llegar a esa ciudad. Se refugió en una cueva-santuario en Yebra de Basa.

Y como él, muchos cristianos buscaron refugio en cuevas, permaneciendo bastantes de las mismas con santuarios rupestres hasta la actualidad. Por nombrar algunas de las aragoneses citaré: Virgen de la Peña en Aniés, San Cristóbal en Bolea, Gorgas de San Julián en Lierta, San Martín de la Val D´Onsera, San Martín de Capella, Virgen de la Peña en Santa Cilia de Jaca, Virgen de la Cueva en Oroel, o la propia de San Juan de la Peña, entre muchas otras.

Todas ellas en su origen son lugares sencillos, como corresponde a los eremitas que las ocupan. Sin más edificación que lo necesario para proveer sus austeras necesidades corporales y espirituales.

San Juan de la Peña, una más entre las nombradas, llegó a ser lugar preferente en la consolidación del reino de Aragón.

Aquí es donde interviene la tradición o la leyenda. Cuenta que a principios del siglo VIII, un noble joven de Zaragoza llamado Voto persiguiendo un ciervo cayó con su caballo por el acantilado de la sierra de la Peña. Habiéndose encomendado en su caída a San Juan, se posó el caballo con suavidad en una roca donde dejó sus cascos marcados. A partir de ese lugar siguió una senda que le condujo a la cueva en la que yacía el cuerpo del eremita Juan de Atarés. Su cabeza reposaba en una piedra en la que había la siguiente inscripción: "Ego Ioannes. Primus. In hoc loco, heremita, qui ab amorem Dei, hac ecclesiam fabricavi, in honorem sancti Ioannis Baptiste. Hic, requiesco, Amen".

Ambos murieron allí y fueron sepultados junto al beato Juan de Atarés. Tras ellos, otros anacoretas mantuvieron habitado el lugar: Marcelo y Benedicto, entre otros. Hacia el año 858 García Jiménez, rey de Pamplona y Galindo II conde de Aragón favorecieron al pequeño eremitorio, haciéndose enterrar allí el rey pamplonés.

En el año 920 fue consagrada la iglesia mozárabe en tiempo del conde de Aragón Galindo Aznárez II. En 959 el rey García Sánchez concedió a los monjes derecho de jurisdicción y Sancho II García y su hijo Sancho III el Mayor continuaron con la política de protección. El propio Sancho III fundó en 1025 un monasterio nuevo sobre el mozárabe existente.

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The monastery of San Juan de la Peña is located at the south-west of Jaca, in Huesca,Aragón,Spain.

As a result of the Muslim invasion, a number of hermits vanished themselves to this remote spot in the Pyrinees and they created a meeting point for hermit life which lived on until the 10th century.

In the year 920, Galindo Aznarez II, Count of Aragón, conquered the lands South of the river Aragón, reaching the mountains of San Juan de la Peña, where he founded a monastery devoted to St Julián and St Basilisa, which was erected in the same place where the hermits used to live.

In 1701, Sancho Ramírez (second king of Aragón) created the Monastery of San Juan de la Peña over the old one, and he designed it as a burying place for the kings of Aragón. He also endowed the monastery with a vast estate and began the construction of its high Church.

The second half of the 12th century was disastrous for the monastery; it lost the Pope's favor and also the King's, who moved the capital of the kingdom of Aragón to Huesca. Later on, in 1157, when complete bankruptcy was looming, it was saved by Pope Adrian VI and by the Count Ramón Berenguer IV, Prince of Aragón.

In 1245, with abbot Iñigo at its head, the monastery reached an agreement that allowed it to start another peaceful spell and to become once again one of the main Benedictine centers of Aragón.

In the 16th century, the monastery underwent yet another decrease in its patrimony, owing to the separation of the dioceses of Jaca and Huesca.

In 1675 there was a great fire; the refectory, the guesthouse and the rich archive burnt in the fire. The monastery was left in a pitiful state, which led the monks to build a new monastery on the plains of San Indalecio.

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See my imperfections, or just read the words.

"We'll make it I swear"

Thank you to my brother for writing this on me. And for always thinking I'm weird, but never questioning.

Thank you to everyone who read my words and found a little piece of themselves somewhere in there. Thank you to those of you who told me that. Thank you to those of you who didn't. Thank you to those of you who simply read it; that is more than enough. Thank you to those of you who understand. Thank you to those of you who don't; I would be nothing without you. Thank you to those of you who cared and saw my hurting and told me I'm enough.

You give me hope.

It would seem I have a thing for backs.

Edit: Made it to Explore. This is crazy, you guys! Thank you.

You can see my new set of Choghazanbil, Susa Here

چُغازَنبیل نیایشگاهی است باستانی که در زمان ایلامیها و در حدود ۱۲۵۰ پیش از میلاد ساخته شده است. چغازنبیل بخش به‌جا مانده از شهر دوراونتش است.چغازنبیل در جنوب غربی ایران و در استان خوزستان بنا شده‌است. این سازه در ۳۵ کیلومتری جنوب شرقی شهر باستانی شوش در طول جغرافیایی ۴۸ دقیقه و ۳۰ ثانیه و پهنای جغرافیایی ۳۲ دقیقه می‌باشد.این نیایشگاه توسط اونتاش گال (پیرامون ۱۲۵۰ پ.م.)، پادشاه بزرگ ایلام باستان، و برای ستایش ایزد اینشوشیناک، نگهبان شهر شوش، ساخته شده است.

Chogha Zanbil is an ancient Elamite complex in the Khuzestan province of Iran. It is one of the few extant ziggurats outside of Mesopotamia. It lies approximately 42 kilometeres South Southwest of Dezfoul, 30 kilometres West of Susa and 80 kilometres North of Ahvaz.

It was built about 1250 BC by the king Untash-Napirisha, mainly to honor the great god Inshushinak. Its original name was Dur Untash, which means 'town of Untash', but it is unlikely that many people, besides priests and servants, ever lived there. The complex is protected by three concentric walls which define the main areas of the 'town'. The inner area is wholly taken up with a great ziggurat dedicated to the main god, which was built over an earlier square temple with storage rooms also built by Untash-Napirisha. The middle area holds eleven temples for lesser gods. It is believed that twenty-two temples were originally planned, but the king died before they could be finished, and his successors discontinued the building work. In the outer area are royal palaces, a funerary palace containing five subterranean royal tombs.

Although construction in the city abruptly ended after Untash-Napirisha's death, the site was not abandoned, but continued to be occupied until it was destroyed by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in 640 BCE. Some scholars speculate, based on the large number of temples and sanctuaries at Chogha Zanbil, that Untash-Napirisha attempted to create a new religious center (possibly intended to replace Susa) which would unite the gods of both highland and lowland Elam at one site.

Archaeological excavations undertaken between 1951 and 1962 revealed the site again, and the ziggurat is considered to be the best preserved example in the world. In 1979, Chogha Zanbil became the first Iranian site to be inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Explored #183 (8/13/2013, but no longer in the day's top 500). Thanks!

Since I didn't want to brave the weather last August 10, my 366 Snaps shots were taken inside the house.

Several of 'em were of the rain on various windows....

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Actually, I had an idea for a daily photo: I'd shoot a pic of Joan's CD collection. This turned out to be surprisingly difficult, as poor light and the small room worked against me. The bigger problem was the minimum focus distance for the lens, which forced me to lean against the far wall of the room. The smaller problem was that exposures were in the quarter-second range.

I worked at improving the light. I got serious about steadying the camera. I tried several ways to frame the picture. I shot several dozen photographs. Eventually I made a capture I was willing to share.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 87 [you doubted that "dozens"?]

Title of "roll:" Playback

Other photos taken on 8/10/2012: A grey day, but by noon the rain had stopped. All afternoon I was shooting pix of birds at feeders, using both Nikons. I'm pretty sure we never saw any sunshine...

Explored Jun 28, 2009 #107

Temptation On Black?

See Part 1 & 2

This is it. Everything prior to this moment—all pasts hopes and failures become insignificant. It approaches... slowly, unclear on to what to expect. How will she react? Will she scream? Run? More importantly it ponders its own reaction. Will it give in to its predatorily instincts? Is this just another vain attempt to be something it is not? Or will it prove strong enough to control the beast in order to understand this new and strange desire? This much is not clear. But what is clear is no matter the outcome, nothing will ever be the same again. It has changed… It has evolved.

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Well that was fun... Its a good feeling when you go out not exactly sure what to expect and end up with some halfway decent shots. This was all totally random.. Wasnt sure if the idea of a "creature" was even good but it was an idea and I ran with it. Sarah was a great sport for playing along seeing as shes extremely camera shy. While editing this series I couldnt help but see a story so I tried my hand at writing one (rubbish, I know). Hopefully it was enjoyable. If so I may try my hand at another story series in the future.

D90 | 35mm | f/2.2 | ISO500 | Tripod | 10sec timer

Fired w/ Alienbees CyberSync Triggers

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Image acquired April 27, 1997

To view the high res file go to: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4429

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear power accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the Ukrainian-Belarus border. Toxic radionuclides like Cs137 and Sr90 contaminated an area of 155,000 square kilometers in what is today Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, sickened from radiation-induced illnesses, or resettled to uncontaminated land.

Today, the immediate area remains off limits to humans. The plant was permanently closed in 2000. The surrounding agricultural land has been abandoned, and the two nearby towns (Pripyat to the north and Chernobyl to the south) where plant workers lived are largely ghost towns. Instead of people, abundant wildlife—packs of wolves, deer, and birds—roam and live near Chernobyl.

This image, taken from the Russian Mir spacecraft, shows Chernobyl and the surrounding countryside. The power plant is situated on the northwest end of a cooling pond on the Pripyat River, which flows into the Dnepr River just 80 miles north of Kiev. The main features visible in the image are the massive concrete dams and levees that were constructed to contain elements of the power plant and prevent contaminated runoff from entering the local streams. The cooling water canals leading to the pond, and the levees in the middle of the pond that channeled the water circulation can also be seen. The darker green regions are forests and the light green areas are cleared land used for agriculture.

Image NM23-745-116 was taken April 27, 1997, from the Russian Mir Space Station with a Hasselblad medium format camera equipped with a 250-mm lens and is provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The NASA-Mir program was the first phase of the International Space Station Program, which now supports the Earth Observations Laboratory. The program trains astronauts to take pictures of Earth that are of value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.

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The welcome sign to the remote west Texas ghost town of Lobo.

For a ghost town, they have a remarkable website. Established in 1882 as a stop for the railroad that runs past it, the website claims a population of 15 today, but there was no sign of life, of residency, or operational utilities anywhere in town the night I was there.

Night, 3/4 moon, turquoise-gelled flashlight & partially red-gelled strobe. 4 minute exposure.