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It is strange how the light changes a landscape. I was shooting moving waves and a wonderful sunset at the adriatic coast accompanied by my patient family. When we were about to head back I saw this beautiful photographic scene and decided to do a couple of long exposures to try to capture the moon reflection in the sea. The D80 captured the colors wonderfully and a perfect day got a perfect ending.
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Man Mo Temple or Man Mo Miu (traditional Chinese: 文武廟) is a temple in Hong Kong, China, that reveres the God of Literature, Man Tai (文帝), Man Cheong （文昌） and the God of War, and Mo Tai (武帝) or Kuan Ti, Kwan Yu（關羽).
The temple itself also made an appearance in the video game Shenmue II for the Dreamcast and Xbox consoles. You can explore the temple and its grounds, however its location in the game is different from its true location.
The one on Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan was built in 1847. It has been managed by Tung Wah Group of Hospitals since 1908. It is one of Grade I historic buildings in the District.
The Gaol was erected in 1826 under the direction of Captain James Butler who taken over as commandant of the penal settlement the previous year. Butler had adopted the ideas of Jeremy Bentham, the English philosopher and social reformer. In the area of prison reform Bentham advocated abolishing the practice of flogging and argued instead for the use of sensory deprivation in silence and darkness as a means of discipline. The notion was that under these conditions the miscreants would be caused to reflect and realise the errors of their ways. Following these theories, Butler constructed the gaol on Sarah Island to be, in his words, a reformatory. The cells were approximately three feet wide, seven feet long and eight and a half feet high; and they were completely dark except when warders were observing a prisoner through a system of shutters. For convicts who had broken the rules, Butler saw this as a more humane form of discipline than flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails. However, the practice was eventually discredited because the sensory deprivation drove many men insane.
For other photographs and further information about the Sarah Island penal settlement, see my images 0224 and 0225. For photographs and information related to the convict system in general (and to the Port Arthur penal settlement in particular), take a look at my images 0254 to 0262.
© Irwin Reynolds, all rights reserved. If you are interested in using one of my images or would like a high quality fine art print, please send an email to irwinreynolds@me.com.
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when habanero is the very first ingredient listed on the nutrition label, you know its gunna be hot. this sauce is rated at 50,000 scoville units. to put that in perspective, a jalapeno is between 2500 and 8000. habaneros are between 100,000 and 580,000. the scale goes up to 16,000,000. a couple drops of this is all you need to warm a bowl of chili. this is one of the latest additions.. i love hot sauce.
shot taken for strobist sundays, theme fruits & vegetables.
im also gunna use this for macro mondays, theme nuts.. cuz you've gotta be nuts to eat this stuff straight up!
strobist: lumopro lp120 fired via rf-602 at 1/1 power at wall behind subject with black foam core gobo. 580exii fired via rf-602 at 1/4 power held in my hand above subject. see setup shot below...
explored..
Peregrine Falcon; an immature
Found in Golf of Aden about 50 km at sea (North Of Somalia) It was about 30 cm heigh sitting on the ships deck and very shy.
Peregrine Falcon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the Peregrine,[2] and historically as the "Duck Hawk" in North America,[3] is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a large, crow-sized falcon, with a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache". It can reach speeds over 320 km/h (200 mph) in a dive, making it the fastest animal in the world.[4] As is common with bird-eating raptors, the female is much bigger than the male.[5][6] Experts recognize 17–19 subspecies, which vary in appearance and range; there is disagreement over whether the distinctive Barbary Falcon is a subspecies or a distinct species.
The Peregrine's breeding range includes land regions from the Arctic tundra to the Tropics. It can be found nearly everywhere on Earth, except extreme polar regions, very high mountains, and most tropical rainforests; the only major ice-free landmass from which it is entirely absent is New Zealand. This makes it the world's most widespread bird of prey.[7] Both the English and scientific names of this species mean "wandering falcon", referring to the migratory habits of many northern populations.
While its diet consists almost exclusively of medium-sized birds, the Peregrine will occasionally hunt small mammals, small reptiles or even insects. It reaches sexual maturity at one year, and mates for life. It nests in a scrape, normally on cliff edges or, in recent times, on tall human-made structures.[8] The Peregrine Falcon became an endangered species in many areas due to the use of pesticides, especially DDT. Since the ban on DDT from the beginning of the 1970s onwards, the populations recovered, supported by large scale protection of nesting places and releases to the wild.[9]
hey guys!!
sorry i wouldve uploaded sooner.. but today i had (wait for it...) HOMEWORK. O___O
yuup, on the third day.
it sucks.
oh well. :P
ALGEBRA IS HARD.
well not really.
but i hate ittttttt.
at least i dont have to take it in highschooooool.
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also, sorry for the sucky picture. it looked a lot better in my mind.
OHHHHH,
and this was inspired by stef! specifically by this. check out her stream, shes amazing!:D
i promise ill catch up on my tags later, im just way super tired right now and im about to drop dead in front of the computer.
hope you guys are having a good week, and have an awesome friday tomorrow!
10,000+ views?! ahhh, thank you guys so much! one of my goals for this year is now compleeete. (:
if you join ill love you forever:D
La Mussara, Tarragona (Spain).
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La Mussara is a town in Tarragona that has been left about 50 years ago. It is on the edge of a cornice of the Muntanyes de Prades, at 990m. height, and thence there are spectacular views of all Tarragona.
It appears mentioned in documents in 1173 where it states that the town already was inhabited. The church of La Mussara appears mentioned in a bull of Celestine III in 1194. The temple maintained the category of parish until in 1534 it passed to depend on the one on Vilaplana. Nowadays about the church of San Salvador, built on the previous one of gothic style, it only left the four walls and the bell tower of 1859. As peculiar things of this town, it was named ranas to its inhabitants because when it rained a little, it formed a great pool in the only street of the town. Also from here it comes the Catalan saying “baixar de La Mussara” (to lower of La Mussara), equivalent to the Castilian “bajar de la higuera” or “bajar de la parra”.
The Mussara gave up exist officially in January 1960, and nobody knows so that of its depopulation. It is attributed mainly to the phylloxera plague, but that is not a zone in which the culture of the grapevine is important, reason why almost surely that the abandonment could have to the water shortage... or simply that the population was scattered and there they lacked the more basic things like a doctor, a rector, electricity or telephone. All this halo of mystery in the disappearance of the town and the place in which it has given cause to a series of histories and legend that borders the fantasy and the superstition, cataloguing La Mussara like a “damn town”.
Inside the church and in the cemetery black masses are celebrated. Proof of it is the esoteric symbols that sometimes appear painted in the walls. In many corners of the town also they are deposited branches of flowers. There is one who has heard helmets of horses in the neighborhood of the church, or even chimes of the same church (that does not have bell). There is people who say to feel a species of call that it impels to him to go to La Mussara. A friend mine, who is neighboring of the zone, commented me that some years ago a man raised in his car, stopped minutes next to the pool, and soon he went at full speed to the precipice of the viewpoint.
Some hikers who have themselves bold to spend the night there have seen luminous shades, or figures moving between the houses and losing themselves behind the trees. Even there are witnesses of UFO sightings. But in which they agree more most of phenomena it is in the cold fog that appears suddenly and that it disorients people immersed in her, in such a way that what for them can seem minutes, soon they discover in its clocks that have spent hours. The electrical apparatuses also are altered.
From remote times to well entered 20th century, that zone has been land of witches. It counts the legend that during the carlists wars soldiers went to the cemetery of La Mussara to unearth a carlist general called Cercós (really Isidre Pàmies i Borràs, named general for a reason or purpose posthumous by Carlos VII) to shoot it (or to hang it, according to other sources), although already was dead. The fog confused to them and unearthed and shot the body of a old witch (l'àvia Boronada). This caused that the fog thickened still more to his around and that the soldiers fled terrified when occurring account of the error. One tells that this unleashed a curse on them.
Another legend talks about a rock near, which who steps on it or it jumps it passes to a parallel dimension, “Vila del Sis” (Town of the Six). It is know the case of a pair of “boletaires” (pickers of mushrooms) that went by the zone looking for mushrooms in October 1991. They were speaking one with another one calmly, watching the ground, when one of them, Enrique Martinez Ortiz, it let respond, and until now it has not been known nothing else about him. He was neighboring of the place and he perfectly knew the land, reason why doubt that was had lost. Searches by the zone were organized during days, with the participation of soldiers of a close barracks, with unfruitful result.
It is all truth or lie, which is clear is that La Mussara is a place surrounded by natural beauty by its landscape, and of mystery by its undocumented history.
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La Mussara es un pueblo de Tarragona que lleva unos 50 años abandonado. Está al borde de una cornisa de las Muntanyes de Prades, a unos 990m. de altura, y desde allí hay unas vistas espectaculares de toda Tarragona.
Aparece citado en documentos de 1173 donde consta que el pueblo estaba ya habitado. La iglesia de La Mussara aparece citada en un bula de Celestino III de 1194. El templo mantuvo la categoría de parroquia hasta que en 1534 pasó a depender de la de Vilaplana. Hoy en día de la iglesia de San Salvador, construída sobre la anterior de estilo gótico, sólo quedan las cuatro paredes y el campanario de 1859. Como cosas curiosa de este pueblo, a sus habitantes se les llamaba ranas porque cuando llovía un poco se formaba una gran charca en la única calle del pueblo. También de aquí proviene el dicho catalán "baixar de la Mussara" (bajar de la Mussara), equivalente al castellano "bajar de la higuera" o "bajar de la parra".
La Mussara dejó de existir oficialmente en enero de 1960, y nadie sabe el por qué de su despoblación. Se atribuye principalmente a la plaga de filoxera, pero aquella no es una zona en que el cultivo de la vid sea importante, por lo que casi seguro que el abandono se pudo deber a la escasez de agua... o simplemente que la población ya estaba muy diseminada y allí faltaban las cosas más básicas, como médico, rector, electricidad o teléfono. Todo este halo de misterio en la desaparición del pueblo y el lugar en que se encuentra han dado pie una serie de historias y leyendas que rozan la fantasía y la superstición, catalogando La Mussara como "pueblo maldito".
En el interior de la iglesia y en el cementerio se celebran misas negras. Prueba de ello son los símbolos esotéricos que a veces aparecen pintados por las paredes. En muchos rincones del pueblo también se encuentran depositados ramos de flores. Hay quien ha oído cascos de caballos en los alrededores de la iglesia, o incluso campanadas de la misma iglesia (que no tiene campana). Hay gente que dice sentir una especie de llamada que le impulsa a ir a La Mussara. Un amigo mío, que es vecino de la zona, me comentó que no hace muchos años un hombre subió en su coche, se detuvo unos minutos al lado de la charca, y luego se dirigió a toda velocidad al barranco del mirador.
Algunos excursionistas que se han atrevido a pasar la noche allí han visto sombras, o figuras luminosas moviéndose entre las casas y perdiéndose tras los árboles. Incluso hay testigos de avistamientos OVNI. Pero en lo que más coinciden la mayoría de fenómenos es en la fría niebla que aparece de repente y que desorienta a los que se ven inmersos en ella, de tal modo que lo que para ellos pueden parecer minutos, luego descubren en sus relojes que han pasado horas. Los aparatos eléctricos también se ven alterados.
Desde tiempos remotos hasta bien entrado el siglo XX, aquella zona ha sido tierra de brujas. Cuenta la leyenda que durante las guerras carlistas unos soldados fueron al cementerio de La Mussara a desenterrar a un general carlista llamado Cercós (realmente Isidre Pàmies i Borràs nombrado general a título póstumo por Carlos VII) para fusilarlo (o colgarlo, según otras fuentes), aunque ya estuviera muerto. La niebla les confundió y desenterraron y fusilaron el cuerpo de una anciana bruja (l'àvia Boronada). Esto provocó que la niebla se espesara aún más a su alrededor y que los soldados huyeran despavoridos al darse cuenta del error. Se cuenta que esto desató una maldición sobre ellos.
Otra leyenda habla de una roca cercana, que quien la pisa o la salta pasa a una dimensión paralela, a la "Vila del Sis" (Villa del Seis). Se conoce el caso de una pareja de "boletaires" (recolectores de setas) que iban por la zona buscando setas en octubre de 1991. Iban hablando uno con otro tranquilamente, mirando al suelo, cuando uno de ellos, Enrique Martínez Ortiz, dejó de responder, y hasta ahora no se ha sabido nada más de él. Era vecino del lugar y se conocía perfectamente el terreno, por lo que se duda que se hubiera perdido. Se organizaron batidas por la zona durante días, con la participación de soldados de un cuartel próximo, con resultado infructuoso.
Sea todo ello verdad o mentira, lo que está claro es que La Mussara es un lugar rodeado de belleza natural por su paisaje, y de misterio por su historia indocumentada.
Más info: ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Mussara, www.franrecio.com/investigaciones/la_mussara_pueblo_maldi...
www.cornwallinfocus.co.uk/mining/levant.php
Levant Mine is located 2 miles north of St.Just and is bounded to the east by Geevor Mine, to the west by Wheal Unity and to the south by Spearn Moor and Spearn Consols mines. Levant appears as a mine in its own right on maps dating from 1748 on and consists of an amalgamation of several smaller and more ancient concerns. Their names such as Boscregan and Unity live on as shaft names. What we would consider today as modern Levant was formed in about 1820 by a group of investors - known in the trade as 'mining adventurers', who agreed to raise the sum of £400 by purchasing 80 shares at £5 each.
Two of the main investors in the company were Lewis Charles Daubuz and Mr John Batten. Their leadership along with some excellent prospecting helped the company to locate a large copper deposit at a depth of 20 fathoms (120 feet) below the surface. The adventurers rapidly got a handsome return on their investment and further exploratory work was carried out. From 1835 Levant began raising tin and was soon to become an important tin producer too. In the period 1820 to 1930 Levant produced over 130,000 tons of copper ore of high (10%) grade and 24,000 tons of black tin. In 1912 5,278 ounces of silver and 4 ounces of gold were also sold.
Levant swallowed up the nearby mine of Spearne Consols - now known as Higher Bal. Shafts were opened up at Angwin's shaft, Tresize's shaft, Goldsworthy's shaft and Batten's shaft. The underground workings of Levant extended out under the sea but in general due to the bedrock being the impervious greenstone there were very few problems with flooding.
A 'man engine' was installed on Daubuz's shaft in 1856 reached by a tunnel from the Miner's Dry. The shaft subsequently became known as engine Shaft one of only a dozen or so installed in Cornish mines. The journey time from surface to work place was radically reduced from over an hour to less than half an hour in most cases. The workers arriving fresher and more ready for work into the bargain. Along with all the new shafts and the installation of the man engine all the usual associated surface buildings sprang up around the site - stamps, both Cornish stamps and Californian stamps types; a calciner for roasting the ore and a mill area containing rag frames and buddles.
Levant is quite unusual amongst Cornish mines in one respect as it did use pit ponies for a short time from 1893 to tram the ore on the main 278 fathom (below adit) tramming level some 1600 feet underground. Levant is also remembered for the Levant Mine Disaster in October 1919. The second worst loss of life underground in a Cornish mine. 31 men were lost when the man engine snapped and fell down through the shaft.
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America isn't known for castles or treasure from past kings on display in countless museums. America's crown jewels are it's wilderness, landscapes and natural wealth. Nothing probably signifies that more than Yellowstone, our first National Park.
Here we have an icon of the Park that has to be one of the most photographed things on earth: Old Faithful Geyser erupting. Behind lurks another national treasure: Old Faithful Inn.
Designed by architect Robert Reamer, Old Faithful Inn is a magnificent example of “Parkitecture” on a massive scale. From the National Park Service:
The building is an exposed log and wood-frame structure of rustic design and gigantic proportions: nearly 700 feet in length and a central core seven stories high.
Old Faithful Inn is one of the few remaining log hotels in the United States. The Inn is a masterpiece of rustic architecture in its stylized design and fine craftsmanship. Its influence on American architecture, particularly park architecture, was immeasurable in its uses of natural materials to create a feeling of high-style rusticity. In a broad sense the design of the Inn parallels architectural ideas being used in hotel construction today with its enormous multi-story lobby surrounded by levels of galleries.
Old Faithful Inn undoubtedly is the queen of rustic hotels in the national parks. Its use of natural materials, allusions to pioneer building techniques, and strong ties with its site through the use of onsite materials are three key principles of rustic design with which National Park Service architects worked through World War II.
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I scare myself, and I don't mean lightly
I scare myself, it can get frightening
I scare myself, to think what I could do
I scare myself -- it's some kind of voodoo...
Shades of MAC.
Lipstick is a cosmetic product containing pigments, oils, waxes, and emollients that applies color and texture to the lips.
Lipstick is known to have been used around 5000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, when semi-precious jewels were crushed and applied to the lips and occasionally around the eyes. Women in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization applied lipstick to their lips for face decoration. Cleopatra had her lipstick made from crushed carmine beetles, which gave a deep red pigment, and ants for a base. Lipsticks with shimmering effects were initially made using a substance found in fish scales called pearlescence.
Lipstick started to gain popularity in the 16th century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who made blood-red lips and stark white faces a fashion statement. By that time, lipstick was made from a blend of beeswax and red stains from plants
A study by US consumer group Campaign For Safe Cosmetics, in October 2007 found 60 percent of lipsticks tested contained traceable amounts of lead. One third of the lipsticks containing lead exceeded the 0.1ppm limit set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for lead in candy.
Sahyadri is one of the toughest mountains in the world. You can enjoy it's beauty in various places. Shivthar Ghal is one of such places. It is comparatively a small and rare place but must be seen and especially in the rainy season.
It is a place where Samarth Ramdas had written 'Dasbodh'- his famous manuscript. You must be amazing about this place and why Ramdas Swami had chosen this place, for his holy book but you never know it until you enter a small hall where Ramdas Swami used to sit, pray and write.
Shivthar Ghal is an area of silent beauty consists of lush green views of trees, mountains, a big waterfall and a river. Its a place where you can enjoy the clam and quite nature and really concentrate. It took almost 12 years to complete Dasbodh as Ramdas Swami dictated it and Kalyan Swami wrote it down. Now a days, the place is maintained by Shri Samarth Seva Mandal' and 'Sundarmath Seva samiti'.
Shivthar Ghal is a place worth to visit and enjoy the quite beauty of the nature and remember the famous saint in Maharashtra - Saint Ramdas and his Dasbodh.
Icy wind blows between the houses, flashes quickly in the night on the streets of the rotten city. A shade, a woman, her eyes are shiver and charm, her look magnetize you, it won't let you go.
The photoshoot shows the creature in an own perspective, who became nowadays very popular in books, films and series. The vampire. The immortal being of the past, the present and the future.
Look at the whole series!
Az időn át - Vámpír krónikák (a jövő)
Jeges szél süvít a házak közt, fürgén cikázik az éjszakában a romlott város utcáin. Egy árny, egy nő, a szeme borzongás és igézet, megbűvöl a tekintete, nem ereszt.
A sorozat saját szemszögünkből mutatja be azt a lényt, aki mára oly divatossá vált könyvekben, filmekben és tévésorozatokban. A vámpírt. A múlt, a jelen és a jövő alakját, aki halhatatlansággal bír.
Nézd meg a sorozat többi darabját is!
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Concept, model: Ágnes Vincze
Makeup artist: Dóra Vízhányó
Hair stylist: Gábor Antal
Clothing designer: Zsuzsa Pócs
Strobist info:
Metz 58 AF-1 @ 1/2 power + Carena CA21 @ full power at camera left 45º into a reflective white umbrella, fired with Phottix Tetra PT-04II wireless trigger
Strobist.hu info:
Metz 58 AF-1 @ 1/2 teljesítményen + Carena CA21 @ max. teljesítményen kamera bal 45º-ról, fehér visszaverő ernyőbe Phottix Tetra PT-04II-vel indítva.
The last three times I have gone to see the Barred Owls, I was only able to see one sleep. So, I am back to reality; I don't get to commune with the owls everytime I "want" to.
This is one of the two kids, quite interested in me and the dance I was doing to get closer.
Barred Owls
Barred owls are large owls with round heads and NO ear tufts. They are brownish-gray with brown and white bars across their chest. (That’s why they’re called "barred" owls.) Their legs are covered with feathers. The barred owls’ eyes are dark brown, while most other owls have yellow eyes. Their beaks are sharp, but very small, so they are almost covered up by facial feathers. Owls can see very well at night, but they can also see during the day.
They have a special inner eyelid which blocks bright sunlight - owl sunglasses! Most birds have eyes on their sides of their head. This helps them to see sideways and backwards. Owls, however, have both eyes in the front. This gives them good depth perception (helps them to tell how far away something is). Unfortunately, it means they can’t see sideways or backwards. To deal with this, owls can turn their head ALMOST all the way around. But they can’t spin their head in a full circle; their head would twist off!
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Hlavní železniční trať spojující Rusko s Mongolskem vede mezi městy Ulan-Ude a Sükhbaatar. V pohraniční oblasti trať využívá údolí řeky Selenga, která dosahuje délky toku 5539 km, což jej řadí na páté místo mezi nejdelšími řekami světa. Zároveň se jedná o největší přítok jezera Bajkal. Ve zmíněném údolí trať na několika místech přetnula původní tok této řeky a vzniklo několik slepých ramen, které s oblibou využívají rybáři. Na jednom takovém místě mezi mongolskou pohraniční stanicí Khoit a stanicí Sükhbaatar byl dne 2. října 2024 zachycen kontejnerový vlak, který směřoval z Ruska do Číny, v jehož čele byla ruská lokomotiva 2TE10M-2102 z depa Ulan-Ude. V roce 2024 zajišťovaly přeshraniční vozbu Ruské železnice (RŽD - Rossijskije železnyje dorogi), které se na této vozbě střídají v ročním intervalu s Mongolskými železnicemi (UBTZ - Ulaanbaatar Temer Zam).
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Where: Sweden, Östergötland, Linköping. google maps
When: 20101222
How and why: The heron is a pretty elusive bird and this is the best I ever managed to catch it, so of course I had to share. I don't have the patience for animal photography, but sometimes you get lucky. It was darker than is een here, so it was difficult to spot too! It completely disappears in its surroundings when it's darker too.
Editing: Brightening the scene, smoothing out the noise with added blur on everything but the heron itself.
El palacio fue proyectado por el arquitecto inglés Selden Wornun, en 1888, pero fue llevado a cabo por Benito Olasagasti, bajo la dirección del arquitecto José Goicoa. El palacio consta de sótano y tres plantas, las dos primeras eran las de uso privado y la última, abuhardillada, estaba reservada para la servidumbre.
San Sebastián se había convertido en la capital del turismo desde que a mediados del siglo XIX la familia real española comenzara a veranear en la ciudad. Esto dio lugar a que el Ayuntamiento empezara a barajar diferentes ubicaciones para edificar una residencia digna de los monarcas.
La Corporación Municipal finalmente optó por la ubicación actual tras desechar el adquirir el Palacio de Aiete, propiedad de la Duquesa de Bailén, y que, desde 1887, era utilizado por los Reyes como residencia de verano.
Sin embargo, la Reina María Cristina, "por no querer aceptar el sacrificio que supondría para el Ayuntamiento", compró, en 1888, la posesión que el Conde de Moviana tenía en Miraconcha
La primitiva finca ha ido ampliándose con diferentes adquisiciones, lo que le ha permitido crear un entorno envidiable de jardines y bosque.
La finca y Palacio de Miramar es, desde agosto de 1972, propiedad del Ayuntamiento de San Sebastián. Su situación sobre la Playa de La Concha y la Playa de Ondarreta hacen de él uno de los lugares más visitados por los donostiarras y por aquellos que visitan la ciudad.
fr: Un coup d'oeil sur la bastide à travers les arcades III, Monpazier, Périgord, Dordogne, France
*"HDR" from 3 different exposures - no Photomatix - blending mean + minimum of 3 pictures - EXIF from -1ev Exposure - Tripod - WB asjusted to 3000K High fluorescent.
you REALLY have to view it BIGGER On Black or the boogeyman will get you! :-)
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The real challenge on this series is to find the right WB setting for a consistant look and feel. Still more pictures from this series coming soon...
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See my most interesting pictures here or take some time to view the slideshow .
*History: This town was founded in 1284 by the English King, Edward I, who was also had the title of Duke of Aquitaine. It is an example of an almost completely preserved bastides, which were fortified towns, built in the areas disputed by England and France in the 12th century. This attractive and peaceful village has a turbulent and violent history at the hands of various protagonists.
*Histoire: Monpazier est sans nul doute la bastide anglaise la mieux conservée du périgord par sa place à arcades, ses ruelles, ses maisons, ses églises et les vestiges de ses fortifications.
La ville forme un quadrilatère de 400 mètres sur 220 mètres dont le grand axe est orienté du Sud vers le nord. Toutes les maisons sont d'égales dimensions et sont séparées par d'étroits intervalles (andrones) prévus pour limiter la propagation des incendies.
Cette bastide fut fondée le 7 janvier 1284 par Edouard 1er, roi d'angleterre et duc d'angleterre sur des terrains cédés par le baron Pierre de Gontaut Biron. Ses habitants bénéficiaient de nombreux avantages comme l'exemption d'impôt et l'abolition du droit seigneurial.
Pendant la guerre de cent ans, Monpazier changea plusieurs fois de main. En 1637 une révolte de 8000 croquant naquit à Monpazier.
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I'm a day behind on posting and likely won't post today's until tomorrow because I can't find my USB cord! I hate when that happens but like I've said, if it goes in my hands, odds are I'll lose it :D
Yesterday was a nice easy going day though but we spent nearly all of it looking at houses which can be so exhausting! We'd like to find just the right house too which is stressful since none of us really agree on what we want...But hey, as long as my dogs have a nice yard and I have a phone outlet in my room for my laptop, I'm pretty much happy...
The otehr day though my mum let Dash out with Tanda by accident. I've been keeping the two apart because Tanda has such a srong hatred toward him. She seriously looks like she'd enjoy ripping his head off...
Well, she let's Dash out by accident and in a split second Tanda attacks him. Now, Dash is okay, Mum yelled and Tanda left him alone in a second, but it left everyone shaken up...I wasn't home for this though which of course made Mum more nervous...
I didn't get upset with Tanda though because really, in her mind she's asserting her territory and place as Alpha and Dash is the new little Omega popping his head around...I'm concerned about what to do though...I don't want either dog being harmed but I would like them to get along...I have a few plans though:
1. Tanda will be spayed and soon. I'm calling the vet Tuesday morning and finding out how much it will cost. This will balance her hormones a little and she really needs the boost for her immune system because even the vet advised it because of how badly in shape her body used to be.
2. I want to take Tanda and Dash to a park and walk them around. I know that might sound odd but see, each dog believes they're the Alpha and I believe if I remove them from their own territory into foreign land, they'll of course be more interested in what's going on around them than each other. I'm hoping by doing this they'll get used to being in each other's presence and will eventually start to tolerate each other's company and hopefully one day not want to attack one another. It will also exhaust them and therefore also tone down aggression on both ends...
Of course I would really appreciate any and all input advice :D
Now I'll work on TODAY'S photo hehe and post it tomorrow because I feel so worn out...I need more sleep please :D
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Iridonia, the gateway to the Outer Rim.
The red sphere was a dry, harsh world, the home to the hardy Zabrak. The Zabrak had a centuries-long tradition of hyperspace trade, rivalries with the Duros, and a shareholder’s slice of the pie when it came to making decisions about hyperspace tariffs. Their homeworld’s placement provided leverage, leverage that the current regime was glad to exploit.
The House of Kesh had ruled Iridonia for decades. Lord Kesh had proven himself a violent, unstable, vain tyrant who murdered outsiders and made his own people slaves. The rest of the galaxy might have ignored this, but Kesh also made a habit of choking the Coruscant-Dantooine hyperlanes. Hitting people’s bottom lines was a good way to draw their attention.
For over a month, a growing team of CFS diplomats had been hunkered down on Iridonia to try to negotiate a deal with its government, working to arrive at some sort of agreement, both among themselves and the Iridonian leadership. Everyone in the room had different priorities: some represented the CFS Merchant Core and just wanted to relax tariffs, others had the plight of the people in mind. Some wanted to take Kesh before a trial, deal with things peacefully. Others at the table would rather see him dead.
A sandstorm of intrigue surrounded the diplomats since the moment they arrived. Spies hung on every corner and doorway: CFS spies and Iridonian spies, and spies working for individual diplomats, advancing causes unbeknownst to their colleagues. While the gears of diplomacy grinded on, some had initiated more direct action.
Forgun Bohani had been the third diplomat to arrive in the Iridonian court. He was a clever old man, always watching and listening, who found himself on the side of a peaceful transition of power. He had listened to the bickering in the court long enough to decide a fresh voice was needed. He knew exactly who to summon: a young diplomat who had negotiated terms at Kril’Dor after the Pyerce insurrection, a rising star named Lan Honn. Honn seemed intelligent, studious, and honorable, precisely what was needed here. Bohani sent a message asking for Honn’s help, offering himself as a sponsor.
When the message arrived, Lan Honn was struck speechless. Once he had composed himself, calmed his excited nerves, and closed his gaping jaw, he jumped at the opportunity with appropriate seriousness. He became a tireless student of the Iridonian situation as he traveled, pouring over not only the current stakes of the negotiation, but Iridonian culture, art, and history. Anything that might help him understand their point of view. He stared out the viewport of his transport at the grim, dust-red planet’s surface.
Though he would soon join the CFS entourage, he chose to mask his arrival by docking at a swoop slum far from the city center. He traveled in plainclothes accompanied only by his bodyguard, the dangerous Esno Bo’Barbi.
The landing pad was deserted. The only people in sight were offworlders who looked more than worse-for-wear. As Honn and Bo’Barbi walked down the gangplank, a fat, bearded Lannik approached.
Honn turned to his companion. “Here comes Dak Sirah, a rogue if ever there was one, true and merry-faced though he be.”
“Aye,” replied the gruff Bo’Barbi. “Untiring after his own interest. Though if his and ours overlap, he becomes a useful fellow.”
Honn smiled at Sirah. “Dak! It’s good to see you. Live you on borrowed credits, or your own?”
“Lan Honn!” cried the bearded man. “Prince among men! Don’t you look…discrete. For once, I’m the handsomer of us two! For a diplomat, you make a lousy first impression, y’know. Don’t jest about my finances, I try to do my best.”
Honn grinned. “You’ve never once succeeded, though you’re not without other merit.”
Sirah peered at him. “Honest for a diplomat, too. Let’s put aside the squabbling, eh? I’m here on Bohani’s behalf, he got your message and sent me to lead you to the courts. I’d say welcome, but there’s nothing welcoming about Iridonia at present. What do you know about the situation, Honn?”
“I’ve read up on my way.”
“Ah! Of course you have. I should’ve known.”
“But pretend I haven’t. I want to hear it from your perspective.”
Dak sighed. “It’s a port of wolves, Honn. The Iridonians waste no pity or kindness on their own people, much less the Duros or offworlders. Both sides watch each other, constant with their spies. Yours truly, in fact, does some work on the side for Lord Bohani! Though, come to think of it, I wasn’t meant to let on to that.”
“I would think Bohani would bring on tighter-lipped spies. Though he’d be hard-pressed to find one more likable.”
“Ahhh, that’s my trick, there. No one suspects a guy like me to do anything more subtle than a public one-man-show! Keeps ‘em off the scent. It’s a good thing you’re here, Honn. It’s all been infighting and circling so far. Every day new proposals, new amendments, but nothin’ seems to stick. They’ve needed some fresh ideas, I think you’re just the one for it.”
“Thank you, Dak. I mean to be of service.”
Sirah scoffed. “You seem nervous. You kidding me? You’ll do great, you’re a bright guy. A lot brighter than some of the statues they’ve got at the table right now. Scaft, I nearly forgot to greet your bodyguard. Mister Bo’Barbi, the most dangerous man in the galaxy, enemy to nere’do’wells! A title I hope I don’t merit.”
Bo’Barbi raised an eyebrow. “An enemy to flatterers, too, mister Sirah.”
“Ah . . . Point taken. Lovely to make your acquaintance, sir! Ol’ Dak means no harm, no harm at all.” Sirah crinkled his jolly face. “Not unless you’re a bottle of Mantelli Scotch, anyway.”
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just when i thought i found it, i lost it.
today love is the movement. :)
To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
To Write Love On Her Arms Day is a day where anyone can write the words love on their arms, to support those who are fighting against depression and those who are trying to recovering. On this day, just write love on your arms, and show it off, other people will ask why you have love written on your arms, and you tell them you are supporting to write love on her arms day, and how its benefiting a non profit organization helping stop depression, and make love the movement.
i had this on my hand all day today. it's only written on my hand because i wore long sleeves, okay? i thought this was one cool cause, and i know how it feels. i've been adddicted before. i've been so upset before too, my best friend thought i was seriously going to go in depression. believe me. i know how this feels, and this is why i decided to support this. and if any of you want to also for the rest of the day, pick up a marker/pen and go! write "love" on your arms! :)
ps. happy friday the 13th.
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INCREDIBLE.. raid on Castle Greyskull . Do you see your favourite hero or villain !!
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This picture was taken on the way down form the Cevedale peack (3769 mt) on the italian alps. An easy mountain to climb but with an amazing view on one of the larger glacier of Europe (at least it was in the past)
Questa foto l'ho scattata durante la discesa dal Cevesale (3769 mt) una montagna senza troppe difficoltà, ma che regala una vista incredibile.
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Verteros de labios quebrados
zamponias y quenas sonando
antigüo respiro en la boca
besos, besos de mi raza.
Perdido en la noche el silencio
la tarde que se hace distancia
misterios que el tiempo descifra
ese, ese es su respiro.
que encierran el sol en su corazón
Siento quenas que en el viento huyen
trayendo amores y silencios de las peñas
Entre airampos de luna
samponias que en el viento huyen
en viaje buscando el cielo un cóndor va
como mi ser resucitará buscando la luz.. ♪♫
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Si la ves... es para vos... porque volviste, porque me hizo feliz saber de vos. Porque de tu mano empecé a crecer en esto que tanto me apasiona. Sé que aún no estoy a tu altura, sé que posiblemente nunca lo este, pero quería regalartela porque me hizo feliz saber de vos. Un besote!
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En el borde del mapa: Rio de La Plata - Bahia de Samborombon - San Clemente del Tuyú - Buenos Aires - Argentina
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No usar esta imagen en páginas web, blogs u otros soportes sin mi autorización, © Todos los derechos reservados.
Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
“Y estos derechos... a respetarlos, ¿eh? ¡No vaya a pasar como con los diez mandamientos!” (Mafalda)
"To take away a chapel from the sick, disadvantaged and downtrodden is one of the lowest acts this government could approve."
Today's Advertiser published a reader's letter about the closure of the chapel:
"MANY citizens are appalled at the closure of the chapel on the Glenside campus.
The chapel, a heritage building, is now owned by the Arts Department and a room has been set up in the Grove division of Glenside as a "contemplation room".
This new ownership was confirmed by staff at Glenside.
When I enquired about this room I was ushered down a corridor to a room with six chairs and an organ - this was the substitute:
A contemplation room and it was locked.
What a disgrace. We should be able to pride ourselves on religious freedom.
This would be one of the most disgusting and insensitive episodes on the Glenside campus.
To take away a chapel from the sick, disadvantaged and downtrodden is one of the lowest acts this government could approve.
The "old chapel" has been used for numerous funerals by the next of kin/relations and friends for deceased patients.
Many comments have been made by the loved ones on the serenity and beauty of this chapel during their times of bereavement and sadness.
Many of our forefathers came to this state to seek religious freedom and for this Government to accept and sanction this closure defies description.
Shame on you, Mr Rann, to allow this to happen."
JS, Burnside. From letter to The Advertiser.
After 139 years of being a mental health service facility, patients will no longer be able to sit here and watch the sunset. This has now become the playground for the South Australian Film Corporation as part of the new $43 million Adelaide Film and Screen Hub. The patients will have to wait another 5 years or more until the new hospital and associated non-denominational space are constructed.
Originally built as a combined chapel and dining room in 1880, it was used solely as a dining room until 1970 as well as for screening films for patient entertainment. After renovations were completed in 1970/1971, it became the hospital chapel.
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Faz tempo que eu não apareço em imagens e por ser sexta, nada mais justo do que uma sexta poser.
Fui taggeado por Larissa Lari
1 - Poste essas regras:
2 - Cada pessoa indicada deve dizer 8 coisas aleatórias sobre si;
3 - Poste uma foto comprometedora;ou nao ! rs
4 - No final, indique 8 outras pessoas;
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1. Meus estilos de fotografia preferidos são: Street Photography, Fashion e Portrait.
My favorite styles of photography are: Street Photography, Fashion and Portrait.
2. Não vivo sem música, sou eclético, podendo ir de N'Sync à Gilberto & Getz, dependendo do estado de espírito.
I can not live without music, I'm eclectic, can go from N'Sync to Getz & Gilberto, depending on the mood.
3. Já abri a cabeça três vezes e quebrei o braço duas quando era pequeno, sem contar quando cortei meu pulso na porta de vidro, o que acarretou no rompimento do tendão do meu braço.
Already opened the head three times and broke his arm twice when I was little, apart from when I cut my wrist on the glass door, which resulted in the disruption of the tendon in my arm.
4. Quase nada me deixa nervoso, sou muito calmo.
Almost nothing makes me nervous, I'm very calm.
5. Eu tive apenas 3 namoradas em minha vida, sendo que a primeira durou quatro meses, a segunda dois meses e a terceira quase dois anos.
I just had three girlfriends in my life, and the first lasted four months, the second two months and the third almost two years.
6. Minha mãe diz que eu tenho Transtorno Obssessivo Compulsivo, tenho manias de dispor certos objetos da forma como quero, exemplo, se você colocar o controle remoto de uma forma que não me agrade, possívelmente eu o pegarei e trocarei de posição.
My mom says I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, I have delusions of certain objects in the way I want, example, if you put the remote in a way that displeases me, possibly I'll get him and change positions.
7. Em uma sociedade que prega o desapego, e onde se veêm inúmeros divórcios, eu sou uma das poucas pessoas que acreditam no AMOR e que creêm que ele pode durar pela eternidade.
In a society that preaches detachment, and where they find themselves many divorces, I'm one of the few people who believe in LOVE and who believe it can last for eternity.
8. Eu prefiro as loiras, e sempre foi assim.
I prefer blond girls, and always has been.
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Peregrine Falcon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the Peregrine,[2] and historically as the "Duck Hawk" in North America,[3] is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a large, crow-sized falcon, with a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and "moustache". It can reach speeds over 320 km/h (200 mph) in a dive, making it the fastest animal in the world.[4] As is common with bird-eating raptors, the female is much bigger than the male.[5][6] Experts recognize 17–19 subspecies, which vary in appearance and range; there is disagreement over whether the distinctive Barbary Falcon is a subspecies or a distinct species.
The Peregrine's breeding range includes land regions from the Arctic tundra to the Tropics. It can be found nearly everywhere on Earth, except extreme polar regions, very high mountains, and most tropical rainforests; the only major ice-free landmass from which it is entirely absent is New Zealand. This makes it the world's most widespread bird of prey.[7] Both the English and scientific names of this species mean "wandering falcon", referring to the migratory habits of many northern populations.
While its diet consists almost exclusively of medium-sized birds, the Peregrine will occasionally hunt small mammals, small reptiles or even insects. It reaches sexual maturity at one year, and mates for life. It nests in a scrape, normally on cliff edges or, in recent times, on tall human-made structures.[8] The Peregrine Falcon became an endangered species in many areas due to the use of pesticides, especially DDT. Since the ban on DDT from the beginning of the 1970s onwards, the populations recovered, supported by large scale protection of nesting places and releases to the wild.[9]
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Icy wind blows between the houses, flashes quickly in the night on the streets of the rotten city. A shade, a woman, her eyes are shiver and charm, her look magnetize you, it won't let you go.
The photoshoot shows the creature in an own perspective, who became nowadays very popular in books, films and series. The vampire. The immortal being of the past, the present and the future.
Az időn át - Vámpír krónikák (a múlt)
Jeges szél süvít a házak közt, fürgén cikázik az éjszakában a romlott város utcáin. Egy árny, egy nő, a szeme borzongás és igézet, megbűvöl a tekintete, nem ereszt.
A sorozat saját szemszögünkből mutatja be azt a lényt, aki mára oly divatossá vált könyvekben, filmekben és tévésorozatokban. A vámpírt. A múlt, a jelen és a jövő alakját, aki halhatatlansággal bír.
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Concept, model: Ágnes Vincze
Makeup artist: Dóra Vízhányó
Hair stylist: Gábor Antal
Strobist info:
Metz 58 AF-1 @ 1/2 power at camera right 45º into a reflective white umbrella, fired with PC cord
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Metz 58 AF-1 @ 1/2 teljesítményen kamera jobb 45º-ról, fehér visszaverő ernyőbe szinkronkábellel indítva.
The Star of India at San Diego Harbor, August 2006. The Star of India was launched in 1863 and is the oldest ship in the world that still maintains a regular sailing schedule. She is a unique and cherished community icon that has been welcoming visitors on the San Diego waterfront for more than 75 years. Onboard are exhibits chronicling her career as an immigrant ship and commercial vessel during which she made 21 trips around the world.
MORE INFORMATION ON THE STAR OF INDIA:
The Star of India was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship in Ramsey, Isle of Man. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India then to New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska then to California route. After retirement, she was restored and is now a seaworthy museum ship ported in San Diego. The ship is both a California and National Historic Landmark, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
As Euterpe: Named for Euterpe, the muse of music, she was a full-rigged ship (a ship that has 3 masts and squaresails on all 3 masts) built of iron in 1863 by Gibson, McDonald & Arnold, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, British Isles, for the Indian jute trade of Wakefield Nash & Company of Liverpool. She was launched on November 14, 1863, and assigned British Registration No.47617 and signal VPJK.
Euterpe's career had a rough beginning. She sailed for Calcutta from Liverpool on January 9, 1864, under the command of Captain William John Storry. A collision with an unlighted, hit-and-run Spanish brig off the coast of Wales carried away the jib-boom and damaged other rigging. The crew became mutinous, refusing to continue, and she returned to Anglesey to repair; 17 of the crew were confined to the Beaumaris Gaol at hard labor. Then, in 1865, Euterpe was forced to cut away her masts in a gale in the Bay of Bengal off Madras and limped to Trincomalee and Calcutta for repair. Captain Storry died during the return voyage to England and was buried at sea.
After her near-disastrous first two voyages Euterpe was sold, first in 1871 to David Brown of London for whom she made four more relatively uneventful voyages to India, then again (displaced by steamers after the opening of the Suez Canal) in 1871 to Shaw, Savill & Company of London. In late 1871 she began twenty-five years of carrying passengers and freight in the New Zealand emigrant trade, each voyage going eastward around the world before returning to England. The fastest of her 21 passages to New Zealand took 100 days, the longest 143 days. She also made ports of call in Australia, California, and Chile. A baby was born on one of those trips en route to New Zealand, and was given the middle name Euterpe.
In 1897, after 21 round-the-world trips, Euterpe was sold, first to Hawaiian owners, then in 1899 to the Pacific Colonial Ship Company of San Francisco, California and from 1898 to 1901 made four voyages between the Pacific Northwest, Australia and Hawaii carrying primarily lumber, coal and sugar. She was registered in the United States on October 30, 1900
As Star of India: In 1901, Euterpe was sold to the Alaska Packers' Association of San Francisco, who re-rigged her as a barque (converting the square-rigged aftermost mast to fore-and-aft) and in 1902 began carrying fishermen, cannery workers, coal and canning supplies each spring from Oakland, California to Nushagak in the Bering Sea, returning each fall with holds full of canned salmon. In 1906, the Association changed her name to be consistent with the rest of their fleet, and she became Star of India. She was laid up in 1923 after 22 Alaskan voyages; by that time, steam ruled the seas.
In 1926, Star of India was sold to the Zoological Society of San Diego, to be the centerpiece of a planned museum and aquarium. The Great Depression and World War II caused that plan to be canceled; it wasn't until 1957 that her restoration began. Alan Villiers, a windjammer captain and author, came to San Diego on a lecture tour. Seeing Star decaying in the harbor, he publicized the situation and inspired a group of citizens to form the "Star of India Auxiliary" in 1959 to support the restoration of the ship. Progress was still slow, but in 1976, Star of India finally put to sea again. She currently houses exhibits for the Maritime Museum of San Diego, is kept fully seaworthy, and sails at least once a year. With the many other ships now in the Museum, she hosts frequent docent-led school tours (over 6,000 children a year) and also a Living History Program in which students "step back in time" and are immersed in history and teamwork activities during overnight visits.
The 1863 Star of India is the third oldest ship afloat in the United States, after the 1797 USS Constitution and 1854 USS Constellation, and is the oldest ship in the entire world that still sails regularly. Unlike many preserved or restored vessels, her hull, cabins and equipment are nearly 100% original.
The Star of India is currently home-ported at the San Diego Maritime Museum, just south of Lindbergh Field (San Diego International Airport), on the west side of Harbor Drive at approximately Ash Street - all within the Port of San Diego tidelands. This location is slightly west of downtown San Diego, California.
When she sails, the Star of India often remains within sight of the coast of San Diego County, and usually returns to her dock within a day. She is sailed by a skilled volunteer crew of Maritime Museum members, who train all year for the honor of taking her to sea.
Source: Wikipedia
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La sua spiegazione per questa foto:
"By combining two exposures - one for the night sky and the other for the landscape at twilight, I was able to create this image. I consider it among my most unique images to date. What you are looking at is a remote backcountry in the Tetons and the milky way above. My exposure for the sky takes in more than five times as much light as is discernable to the naked eye, using an extremely high ISO (combined with noise reduction techniques), a big aperture of f/2.8 and keeping the shutter open for 45 seconds. The sky is totally natural in color despite being relatively invisible to us. The glow behind the peaks comes from the moon that set almost an hour before this capture. The bright spot at left is a planet. This shot is a culmination of technical advancements in photography and a great deal of diligence on my own part in the field, figuring out how to put it all together. I camped at this location three nights to achieve this result. " by Marc Adamus
ISO 400 300mm f/32 1/200s. 1 SB-800 @ 24mm 1/8th power snooted left and underneath the subject.
I first tried this shot with the flash on the sand in it's lowest postion, but the light looked flat and lack insperation. Then had the idea to lay the flash and stand on the groung very close to the flower. The end of the 12" snoot was 4 inches from the flower. The quality of the light then changed dramatically, giving me a level of texture and detail that I didn't get from a flash directly above.
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the forest fires which are burning all up and down california are of course nature's way
and yet ..
hearts are with the wild animals for whom this was home!
and with the human folks, and their dear pets and pastured animals, who live where the fires are ferociously encroaching...
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am hesitant to even write of these fires in any personal way ..
yet my heart compels me to ... as two of the places that have been most fiercely engulfed in flames are the places i've most fiercely loved..
big sur and carmel valley
carmel valley is where, right before coming to hawaii, i lived in a cabin in the middle of nowhere ...
owls, bobcat, swallows, rattlesnakes, donkeys, cows and stars were my only neighbors.
on the same land, a little lake was home to many wild things.. including a beloved (albeit crabby :) swan .. many ducks and ducklings .. and fish
and it was a stopover for orchestras of canada geese ...
i so hope this bit of land is safe... have not been able to find out ..
(of all the places i've ever lived, i loved it most.)
and...
over several enchanted years in the 1970's, i lived in four magical places in big sur ... and worked at three.
from what i can tell from the news, all of these homes may be gone .... and all of the places i worked have fire licking at their edges.
the initial big sur fire, called "the coast gallery fire", started from lightning at the coast gallery, high above the sea.
do not know if the gallery, which served all the artists of big sur back then, is now still there..
the "coast gallery" is where i first lived and worked in big sur..
(and where somehow the gallery itself held on when the mountain there collapsed into the sea.. literally right up to my doorstep.. taking with it the sole road, that part of highway 1 .. and, most sadly, a precious soul who was working on the highway in the middle of the night, just after the outset of this sudden landslide.)
the two other places i worked, "ventana" (when it first opened) and the historic "nepenthe", have been evacuated and are in severe danger right now.
the magical house described in another image on my stream .. the one where potato vines grew up and through the walls in my attic home.. then flowered! .. is likely gone.....
as it was above the wonderful "deetjen's big sur inn", where fires came down the mountain and right up to the cottages and restaurant of the inn.
also lived in an artist studio high atop a ridge where the fires have blazed homes..
and, at the other end of big sur, i lived in a cottage with my boyfriend sandy, a harpsichord maker ...
from what i can gather, that cottage and the harpsichord studio that sandy and i built are gone.
so...
these personal connections are only the tiniest of tiny specks in the whole..
but i am sorrowful.
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my whole heart goes out to everyone whose homes all along the coastal areas of california, and inland, are in danger or have burned ...
and especially to the wild animals and their babies of spring.
≈ prayers for them .. all and each ≈
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Frauenau
Die Glashütten im Bayerischen Wald haben eine lange Tradition, sie haben aber heute gegen die Billig-Konkurrenz aus dem Ausland einen schweren Stand - manche mussten schon schließen. In Frauenau gibt es noch 2 Glashütten.
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Rupit, Barcelona (Spain).
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Rupit and Pruit (in Catalan Rupit i Pruit) are a municipality of the region of Osona located to the northeast of the region and the east of the Sierra de Cabrera. It is integrated by two urban nuclei: Rupit and Pruit, that they were independent until year 1980. It is the last town of the province of Barcelona in the highway that unites the municipalities of Vic, capital of the region of Osona and Olot, capital of the region of the Garrotxa (Girona).
The origin of the town we found in the castle that was constructed around year 1000, replacing the one of Fàbregues, where they went constructing houses around.
In 14th century the population underwent a reduction but it recovered, arriving in 17th and 18th centuries at the maximum splendor that has never had the town. The church was possibly built between 13th and 14th centuries, and it was dedicated to San Miguel Arcángel.
Pruit already names in year 955, when it belonged to viscounts of Osona. Always there is been united to the castle and jurisdiction of Rupit.
Sources: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupit_y_Pruit and pieraedicions.com/rupitpruitbreuhistoria.htm.
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CASTELLANO
Rupit y Pruit (en catalán Rupit i Pruit) es un municipio de la comarca de Osona situado al noreste de la comarca y al este de la Sierra de Cabrera. Está integrado por dos núcleos urbanos: Rupit y Pruit, que fueron independientes hasta el año 1977. Es el último pueblo de la provincia de Barcelona en la carretera que une los municipios de Vic, capital de la comarca de Osona y Olot, capital de la comarca de La Garrotxa (Gerona).
La iglesia de Sant Joan de Fàbregues y su castillo están documentados desde el año 968. Hacia el siglo XII surgió el pueblo de Rupit habitado por familias nobles. En 1878, la iglesia de Rupit dejó de depender de Sant Joan de Fàbregues y en 1959 el municipio pasó a llamarse Rupit. En 1977 se unieron los municipios de Rupit y Pruit.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupit_i_Pruit
Sin importar los consejos de técnicos e ingenieros en materia de transporte, en Marzo del corriente, el Diputado de la Coalición Cívica en la Legislatura porteña y uno de los miembros de la Comisión de Tránsito y Transporte, Sergio Abrevaya intenta transformar en Ley el proyecto por el cual se autoriza al Poder Ejecutivo a prolongar la traza de la Línea A de Subterráneos a partir de la Estación Nazca (denominada actualmente como San Pedrito), hasta la intersección de la Av. Juan Bautista Alberdi con la calle Cosquín, a 7 cuadras de la Av. Gral. Paz.
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Todos conocemos la imperiosa necesidad de extender la red. Pero hay maneras de llevarlo a cabo y sin presupuesto sabemos que las líneas no se extenderán por sí solas o por arte de magia. Ya se sabe que el macrismo decidió no extender la red con la excusa de que el ejecutivo Nacional no le entregó los avales necesarios para llevarlo adelante. También, se sabe que el dinero que debería gastarse para extender la red la utilizó (Macri) en repavimentación y bacheo, priorizando así al automóvil particular y a los colectivos desmereciendo la importancia del subterráneo en una ciudad tan grande y tan compleja como lo es Buenos Aires.
Las buenas intenciones del diputado Abrevaya son bienvenidas para los porteños siempre y cuando se cumpla primero con lo proyectado en la Ley Nº 670 que establece la creación de tres nuevas líneas de subterráneo transversales (la "F", que iría de Constitución a Plaza Italia y luego de Constitución a Barracas; la "G", que iría de Retiro al Cid Campeador y luego hasta Villa del Pque; y la "I", que iría de Pque. Chacabuco a Plaza Italia y luego hasta Barrancas de Belgrano y Ciudad Universitaria. A esto se le suma la terminación total de la línea "H" hacia Retiro, hoy incompleta con sus escasas 5 estaciones que van de Av. Caseros a Plaza Once) que cumplirán un papel importante en la conectividad subterránea porque gracias a ellas, las actuales radiales (A, B, D y E) se verán notablemente aliviadas desalentando de esta manera el uso del automóvil particular y desaturando el flujo de pasajeros en colectivos.
Es así que Abrevaya prefiere saturar la línea A extendiéndola mas allá de los límites establecidos en vez de priorizar y focalizar las energías en la postergada creación de los ramales transversales (F, G, H e I) necesarios para que, en un futuro, podamos extender la mencionada y las demás radiales mas allá de San Pedrito (líneas A y E), Villa Uquiza (línea B) y Congreso de Tucumán (D). Priorizar la extensión de la línea mas antigua de Sudamérica por sobre las demás transversales proyectadas anteriormente sería nefasto si antes no comienzan con lo "cajoneado". Hay un tiempo para todo y apresurarse en materia de subtes no es el camino para lograr el éxito conectivo transversal que le hace falta a Buenos Aires. Otra alternativa sería ejecutar todas las obras (extensiones) en simultáneo pero todos sabemos que raras veces ha sucedido eso, sobre todo en Argentina.
Actualmente, y desde Julio de 2004, andan extendiendo la línea A desde su ex cabecera en Primera Junta hasta San Pedrito. El 22 de Diciembre pasado se inauguró el tramo I que va de Primera Junta a Carabobo. El segundo tramo volverá a fijar su fecha de inauguración cuando el ejecutivo porteño destine mas presupuesto al área donde hace poco (Octubre 2008) comenzaron la construcción de la cochera taller Nazca que irá posterior a la futura terminal de la línea A, San Pedrito; fijado como cabecera definitiva de la línea al Oeste de la Ciudad, en el barrio de Flores.
Similar disparate fue el proyecto presentado por el diputado nacional Norberto Erro, que proponía extender la línea D desde la estación Congreso de Tucumán hasta Puente Saavedra, desconociendo el impacto que tendría la iniciativa.
Ninguna de las actuales líneas, menos la C y la H que son transversales pero de corto trayecto, deben prolongarse mas allá de los límites y estudios técnicos fijados por SBASE (Subterráneos de Buenos Aires S.E.), la empresa estatal del Gobierno de la Ciudad que expande la red.
De todas maneras, no tendrían con que llevarlo a cabo ya que no hay presupuesto ni siquiera para terminar lo que estaba en marcha. Las buenas intenciones se desmoronan cuando un proyecto excede la realidad no resuelta por falta de iniciativa del ejecutivo porteño, o por falta de vocación en la materia. Y todo, pasa por el presupuesto. Sin presupuesto no llegamos a ningún lado muchachos.
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Siguiente texto: Sergio Abrevaya.
PROYECTO DE LEY
Artículo 1º Autorízase al Poder Ejecutivo a prolongar la traza de la Línea A de Subterráneos de Buenos Aires a partir de la Estación Nazca, para que continúe por debajo de las Avdas.: Rivadavia, Olivera y Juan Bautista Alberdi, hasta su intersección con la calle Cosquín, habilitando seis (6) nuevas estaciones en las inmediaciones de las siguientes arterias: Segurola, Carrasco, Olivera, Escalada, Larrazabal y Cosquín.
Artículo 2° Declárase de utilidad pública el subsuelo de los bienes necesarios para la ejecución de la obra indicada en el artículo 1° de la presente Ley, en los términos del artículo 4° de la Ley N° 238.
Artículo 3° Autorízase al Poder Ejecutivo, a través de Subterráneos de Buenos Aires Sociedad del Estado -SBASE-, a efectuar los correspondientes llamados a Licitación Pública para la construcción de las obras de ampliación detalladas en al artículo 1º de la presente Ley, y a efectuar los aportes del valor total de las inversiones para las construcciones antedichas, las que incluyen toda la infraestructura necesaria más el material rodante para garantizar el servicio público.
Artículo 4° El Poder Ejecutivo debe cumplir con lo dispuesto en el artículo 7° de la Ley N° 670, modificada por el artículo 4° de la Ley N° 2.710, en lo que respecta a los informes bimestrales a la Legislatura, en relación a lo determinado por el artículo 1° de la presente Ley.
Articulo 5º Comuníquese, etc.
FUNDAMENTOS
Nos encontramos convencidos de que el servicio de transporte en subterráneo soluciona gran parte de la problemática del tránsito y el transporte que tiene la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
En este marco, la presente iniciativa tiende a mejorar la calidad de vida y de desplazamiento de gran parte de los habitantes del oeste y del sur de nuestra Ciudad, particularmente de los Barrios de Flores, Floresta, Parque Avellaneda y Mataderos.
Es dable destacar, que las grandes ciudades del mundo ya han optado, hace mucho, por desarrollar este medio de transporte que está comprobado que genera eficiencia, conectividad y desarrollo económico. El mismo permite viajar en forma rápida, segura y eficiente.
Consideramos que la extensión de la red de subtes de la Ciudad es la mejor iniciativa para mejorar la problemática del transporte público urbano y es la gran solución para reducir la cantidad de vehículos que transitan por las arterias porteñas diariamente.
En tal sentido, y teniendo en cuenta la postergación crónica en inversiones públicas que padecen algunos sectores de la Ciudad, proponemos la prolongación de la Línea A de Subterráneos de Buenos Aires, a partir de la Estación Nazca, para que continúe por debajo de las Avdas. Rivadavia, Olivera y Jun Bautista Alberdi hasta su intersección con la calle Cosquín, habilitando seis (6) nuevas estaciones en las inmediaciones de las siguientes arterias: Segurola, Carrasco, Olivera, Escalada, Larrazabal y Cosquín.
Por todo lo expuesto solicito la sanción de la presente iniciativa.
Su página: www.sergioabrevaya.com.ar/ver.php?i=3&idart=834
En imagen: Gran andén central de la futura estación San Pedrito de la línea A de subtes. Al fondo, tímpano SudOeste, donde actualmente llega la traza total de esta línea. Próximamente, las máquinas excavadoras avanzarán del otro lado, bajando por la rampa de la calle Azul, en Floresta, en dirección a estos muros demoliéndolos y así enlazar la obra del segundo tramo con las obras complementarias (cochera taller) provenientes de Floresta. Obras que están dentro del límite establecido por Subterráneos de Buenos Aires S.A.
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This is another shot of Prospect Bay bathed in early evening sunlight
It seems I had been tagged a week or two back I had originally said I would never participate in the tagging but as I was asked nicely and the person who tagged be apologized after she tagged me I decided to do a list. Ten things most of you don't know about me hmmmmm ! Anyone else tags me I will hunt you down and sing to you for four hours straight and believe I can't carry a tune even in a bucket !!!!!
1: I am a two time cancer survivor, and when I hear of people undergoing chemo it becomes very personal to me whether I know them or not !
2: My best friend, who is also my photography companion, also happens to be my wonderful wife Ann
3: Further to number two we will be renewing our vows on Aug 29th, our anniversary, this Saturday. (I did give her a chance to run, but she refused)
4: I am as avid a fly tier, as I am a photographer, and I do fish with the flies I tie
catch and release only
5: I was a police officer (Military)
6: A car accident ended my Military Career and put me in the hospial for ten months, almost like Evel Knievel have had just about every bone in my body broken. Now everyone knows why I walk funny I really am not drunk !
7: I really enjoy my evening drink of wine or maybe a Brandy or Appleton Estate 21 year Old Rum
8: I am an environmentalist is every sense of the word.
9: I am a blueberry addict, love them however I can get them and I eat them everyday in one way or another
10: Lastly I am an adrenalin junky, have done a bungee jump, sky diving, hang gliding and para gliding, too old for most of this now but plan to do a solo sky dive on my 65th birthday.
Dando un paseo por la urbanización que está cerca del campo de golf de la manga, llegamos a un sitio que no había estado en mi vida, y las vistas son extraordinarias, a parte de las vistas, el sentir el aire acariciar tu cara y respirar esa brisa marina no tiene precio, he buscado en el mapa de google para encontrar su ubicación y esta calita esta en dirección la manga Golf oeste- Atamaría (Murcia)
Nota: Si ponéis en el mapa de google, Atamaría , y seguís un camino hasta la costa os lleva al sitio,he puesto la foto en el mapa de Flickr y me ha concretado el lugar y la playa- Playa el Negrete (Murcia)
Cámara: D40
Modo De Exposición: Manual
ISO: 200
Velocidad: 1/125
Focal: 32.0 mm
F/ 16
Objetivo: 18.0-55.0 mm F/ 3.5 -5.6
Procesado: Light room 2
Camera Raw 4.3
Photoshop Cs
Tengo muchos contactos que dominan el B/N, pero escribirconlacabeza los borda
y nunca le he agradecido públicamente su apoyo en casi todas mis fotos ¡Va por ti, Paco! ;-)
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Molino de viento para la extracción de agua. Otros MOLINOS - windmills de Mallorca.
Webs:
www.conselldemallorca.net/mediambient/molins
Información muy interesante sobre los molinos mallorquines (en calalán) lticlientes.net/ceducativa/backnet3/pdf/082ElmoliGarletae...
INVISIBLE - Aurélie Pedron - Montréal Danse / Recto-Verso / Maison pour la danse de Québec
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Présenté en collaboration avec la Maison pour la danse
Pendant 3 nuits et 4 jours consécutifs, la spirale sera le moteur du mouvement de 7 danseurs en situation de performance ininterrompue. Les corps, suspendus entre les mouvements circulaires des infinis (du cosmos aux électrons), incarneront un continuum temporel.
L’expérienceur/spectateur/participant est convié à ponctuer ce continuum temporel en faisant jouer dans l’espace une source sonore qui est importante pour lui. Cette source sonore, dont le contenu peut être très divers, devient une brèche temporelle, un retour à un autre temps, personnel ou collectif. Les sources sonores possibles : votre téléphone (accès à internet possible) ou des vinyles.
Cet espace de recherche est à la fois sacré et ludique, c’est, en quelque sorte, un « jeu de société poétique ». Une occasion d’être ensemble, observateur de notre interdépendance.
Arriver et partir sans horaire précis. Revenir. Dormir. Poser des actions, prendre position. Être en retrait, observer. Rêver. Lire.
Beaucoup de possibles, ensemble.
Durée : en continu
Création : Aurélie Pedron
Performance : Ariane Boulet, Rachel Harris, Ève Rousseau Cyr, Georges-Nicolas Tremblay, Zoe Vos, Arielle Warnke
Assistance : Kathy Casey
L’équipe tient à remercier le Haricot Magique.
Biographie
Loin des sentiers battus, Aurélie Pedron s’affranchit des conventions associées au spectacle pour nous inviter à appréhender le réel autrement. À la lisière de l’installation, de la chorégraphie et de la performance, les œuvres hors-normes qu’elle présente dans des lieux atypiques invitent le spectateur-participant à perdre ses repères pour s’abandonner à l’expérience transformatrice qui lui est offerte. Son travail lui a valu le Prix de la danse de Montréal, catégorie DÉCOUVERTE, en 2015. Appuyée par plusieurs partenaires de choix, sa compagnie, Lilith & Cie, a récemment présenté LA LOBA (Danse Cité 2016) ANTICHAMBRE (Agora de la Danse 2019).
INVISIBLE is a work exploring the dissolution of the ego and questioning the boundaries of the body. How can bodies become bodies? What is the choreography and the space that lets our identities and personalities unspool and become ties, relationships and vectors? This project seeks to make the visible invisible.
Aurélie Pedron started her career by giving birth to two children and 11 video art pieces, which have been shown in more than 17 countries. She went on to focus on space and the living body in several solo pieces and two staged works, CHAIR (French for “ flesh,” her 2011 Master’s project), and CORPS CAVERNEUX(Danse-CIté, 2013). After founding the company Lilith & Cie in 2013, she fine-tuned her work as a choreographer with installation-based works presented in public spaces. ENTRE(at Tangente in 2014) earned her the prestigious Découverte prize from the Prix de la Danse de Montréal in 2016. With the support of Danse-Cité, she presented LA LOBA in 2016.
A concern for social ethics and inclusion led her to develop projects with and for youth who are marginalized or who self-identify as such: RÛEand MARGE(Dare-Dare, 2014-2015) and INDEEP(2016).
FÔVE Diffusion - Diagramme Gestion culturelle - Montréal Danse - RQD - Regroupement québécois de la danse - CCOV - La danse sur les routes du Québec
Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada - Conseil des arts de Montréal - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
#bringingtheartstolife #lartaucoeurdenosvies #ReimagineTheArts
Photo Credit: David Wong - Vanessa Fortin Photographie
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The Viceregal Lodge, Obervatory Hill, Shimla, India, by Henry Irwin. Completed 1888; tower height increased later by Lord Curzon. Local grey sandstone and light blue limestone, with iron girders, beams, and trusses.
Built on a high 331-acre site, levelled for the purpose, this mock-Tudor or baronial-style building is visible from far down the hillside, and was intended as a proud symbol of Empire. Over the portico at the main entrance is a coat of arms with inscriptions above it naming the architect (Irwin), the executive and assistant engineers (F. B. Hebbert and others) and the Earl of Dufferin as the current Viceroy. Dufferin was the first to occupy the new Lodge. The columned arches along the façade are echoed in the arches of alternating widths supporting the verandas. Just visible to the left of the main entrance, on the first floor, is one of the unobtrusive external iron spiral staircases provided for the lowliest menial staff, the bathroom sweepers.
Inside, the main hall is panelled in teak. The unicorn originally carved over the impressive main fireplace has since been replaced by the Indian wheel of progress. The double-galleried corridor off to the left is lit by mullioned windows and a glass ceiling, and leads to the ballroom, now the library of the Institute of Advanced Studies. On the ground floor were also the dining hall, lounge and drawing room. On the upper floors were the Viceroy's office and rooms. To the right of the main hall is a splendid three-storey high teak staircase, the kind of feature, no doubt, that earned Irwin his eulogy in the Madras Mail, to the effect that his genius was displayed in his interiors. In the morning room and visitors' lounge on this side, finishing touches like a walnut ceiling with a Kashmiri design, lavish wall-coverings (some of which remain more or less intact), an original chandelier and so on, can still be seen. Maple & Co, London, were the western suppliers. A large picture of one of the Vicereines, Lady Elgin, hangs over the fireplace of the visitors' lounge.
For its day, the Lodge had state-of-the-art technology. It had its own steam generator, and was the first building in Shimla to employ electric lighting. Indeed, Lady Dufferin, the first Vicereine in residence, is said to have first used an electric light switch here. The original light panel is still in place (with an added fusebox). The Lodge also had running hot and cold water, together with a sophisticated system for collecting and storing bath and rainwater, including two tanks under the front lawn.
Outside in the landscaped grounds stands a tall tulip tree, a rarity in an area dominated by pines and deodars. It was planted during the stay of the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Viceroy who replaced Dufferin in 1888.
L'assetto architettonico dell'attuale abitato si manifestò solo nel medioevo quando, alla fine del Trecento, i Visconti edificarono il poderoso castello dal tipico impianto quadrilatero, con fossato, cortile interno e quattro torri angolari.
Il Castello di Sartirana Lomellina nella calda luce di un tramonto primaverileSotto gli Sforza il castello fu assegnato a Cicco Simonetta, potente ministro ducale in seguito accusato di tradimento e decapitato, che avviò importanti opere di trasformazione. Alla redazione del progetto partecipò l'architetto Bartolomeo Fioravanti, il noto architetto militare che di lì a poco venne chiamato a Mosca dallo zar Ivan II per concorrere alla realizzazione delle difese del Cremlino. Il maniero fu interamente sovralzato e la grande torre rotonda, ora simbolo del paese, rafforzata alla base con una struttura poliedrica.
Il castello ospita oggi il Centro Studi della Lomellina, che realizza interessanti eventi culturali, e la Fondazione Sartirana Arte con le sue collezioni di argenti contemporanei, gioielli d'artista, grafica d'arte, oggetti di cultura contadina, e importanti mostre con rilievo internazionale.
Nel caratteristico abitato sorto attorno al castello sono degni di nota alcuni interessanti edifici come la parrocchiale dedicata all'Assunta (XV secolo) e la chiesa barocca di San Rocco (adiacente al castello), un palazzetto visconteo con belle finestre e decorazioni in cotto ed il camposanto dall'aspetto neo-gotico.
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