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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.
...♪♫♪♪ (...my eyes)
Es siempre tan especial esta hora, esta noche, este destino.
Es siempre tan oscuro y tan perverso,
siempre tan revelador... como el mejor de los engaños.
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It is always so special this hour, this night, this destination.
It is always so dark and so mean,
always so illuminating... like the best of the deceits
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.- Este Busardo ratonero fue encontrado con heridas de perdigon (probablemente causadas por algun cazador). Llevado al Centro de Recuperacion de Fauna del Parc Natural dels Aiguamolls de l'Empordá, donde lograron recuperarlo y finalmente devolverlo a su medio en libertad. Este es el momento de su liberación. Foto realizada en condiciones controladas.
.- Wounded by a shotgun (probably by hunters), this Buzzard was found and took to the recovery unit in the Parc Natural dels Aiguamolls de l'Empordá (Girona, Spain). With great success, this is the moment of his release. Picture made under controlled conditions.
www.snakecatchers.com.au/snake-information.php
The common death adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) is a species of death adder native to Australia. It is one of the most venomous land snakes in Australia and globally. While it remains widespread (unlike related species), it is facing increased threat from the ongoing Australian cane toad invasion.[citation needed]
The common death adder has a broad flattened, triangular head and a thick body with bands of red, brown and black with a grey, cream or pink belly. It can reach a maximum body length of 70–100 centimetres (2.3–3.3 ft). Death adders possess the longest fangs of any Australian snake. Unlike the common or European adder (Vipera berus), the common death adder is a member of the Elapidae family, rather than the Viperidae family of snakes, which are not found in Australia.[2]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
The common death adder occurs over much of eastern and coastal southern Australia – Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It is more scarce in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and the west parts of South Australia.[2] It is also native to Papua New Guinea.[1]
Common death adders are found in forests, woodlands, grasslands and heaths of the eastern coast of Australia. The death adder is a master of camouflage, due to its band stripes, hiding beneath loose leaf litter and debris in woodland, shrubland and grassland.[2]
Diet[edit]
Common death adders eat small mammals and birds as a primary diet. Unlike other snakes, the common death adder lies in wait for its prey (often for many days) until a meal passes. It covers itself with leaves—making itself inconspicuous—and lies coiled in ambush, twitching its grub-like tail close to its head as a lure. When an animal approaches to investigate the movement, the death adder quickly strikes, injecting its venom and then waits for the victim to die before eating it. The death adder is not aggressive and less of a threat to humans.[2]
Reproduction[edit]
Unlike most snakes, death adders produce litters of live young. In the late summer, a female death adder will produce a litter of live babies, approximately 3–20, however over 30 young have been recorded in a single litter.[2]
Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques (France).
♪♫ Listen / Escuchar (Celine Dion - Ave Maria) ♫♪
Vertorama of 2 shots.
ENGLISH
Oloron-Sainte-Marie is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in southwestern France.
Oloron Cathedral (Cathédrale Sainte-Marie d'Oloron-Sainte-Marie) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the town of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France. It was the seat of the Bishopric of Oloron, suppressed by the Concordat of 1801.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oloron-Sainte-Marie, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oloron_Cathedral
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CASTELLANO
Oloron-Sainte-Marie es un municipio del sudoeste de Francia situado en el departamento de los Pirineos Atlánticos (64), en la región de Aquitania. Tiene, según el censo de 1999, 10.992 habitantes.
El nombre proviene de la fusión decretada en 1858 de los dos municipios vecinos de Oloron y Sainte-Marie. El nombre tradicional gascón es Auloron, escrito modernamente Aülourou. Auloron a su vez proviene del ibero Iluro, nombre con el que era conocida una ciudad situada en el lugar de la actual Oloron en la época romana.
La catedral de Santa María de Oloron es un edificio religioso construido por el vizconde de Bearn Gastón IV el Croata. Fue la sede episcopal de la antigua diócesis de Oloron, suprimida en 1802.
Su construcción comienza en 1102, año en que Gastón IV volvió de las cruzadas. De este primer estilo románico sólo queda la fachada esculpida por dos artistas. El primero realizó el tímpano (descenso de la cruz), cuatro capiteles y la entreventana.
El «Maestro de Santa María», tal como se conoce al segundo escultor, tenía mayor talento aún: la arquivolta más alta evoca el cielo con los 24 viejos de la apocalipsis. De cada lado surge un grupo esculpido: a la izquierda, un monstruo se traga un hombre, condenado por sus pecados; a la derecha, un caballero pisotea un enemigo vencido, la cara del cual muestra el espanto. Estas obras continúan siendo tradicionales por el tema, pero son originales por la variedad de las actitudes y el vigor de las expresiones. La otra arquivolta ofrece un contraste total: consagrada a las escenas de la vida terrestre, enseña una cacería de jabalí, la pesca de salmones y los diversos preparativos de un festín: todas estas figuras son sorprendentes por su vida y naturaleza.
El resto del edificio es de estilo gótico, y comprende una torre campanario, dos torres cuadradas y una cabecera con capillas radiantes.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oloron, ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Santa_Maria_d'Auloron
"Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave the way open for [God's] wrath; for it is written, Vengeance is Mine, I will repay (requite), says the Lord"
(Romans 12:19, AMP).
We all go through situations where we’re not being treated fairly. Maybe somebody is talking behind your back or trying to make you look bad, maybe you were overlooked for a promotion or cheated in a business deal. When we’re being mistreated, the natural thing is to try to defend ourselves and set the record straight. Human nature wants to get even and get revenge. But the scripture says, “Vengeance is Mine… says the Lord.” That means God wants to make your wrongs right. He wants to pay you back for every unfair thing that has happened. He is a God of justice.
Notice what today’s scripture says: you can either avenge yourself or you can let God be your avenger, but you can’t have it both ways. If you take matters into your own hands, then God is going to step back and say, “Go ahead, do it your way. Looks like you don’t need My help.” But on the other hand, if we choose to stay on the high road and say, “No, I’m going to let God be my avenger and trust God to bring justice into my life”, then you are leaving the way open for God to move mightily on your behalf!
-Joel Osteen
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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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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..
there is always loads of sunshine the week of Thanksgiving-slash-my birthday. and this always irritates me slightly.
by now, i'm more than ready for cooler weather. and usually we've had a taste of it in the weeks prior. colder nights, sweater weather during the day, sometimes a bit of rain.
so, when Thanksgiving rolls around, i'm always disappointed at the flip flops and t-shirt weather that accompanies this handful of days.
i don't know why it seems to happens so frequently, but i can count on one hand the number of times that this week has actually been properly cold in the past dozen or so years (well, properly cold for Los Angeles, anyway).
i'm so ready to swap out the flip flops for a pair of comfy flat boots that i can tuck my jeans into. and some rain. and some hot cocoa.
EDIT: i'm well aware that it's a bit silly to be complaining about the weather when i live in Southern California. i love love love our weather for the most part. and no, i wouldn't want to live somewhere that goes freezing and hurls snow at me.
but dammit! i just would love it if it was BELOW 70 degrees for Thanksgiving! :)
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"3 x 5," by John Mayer
maybe I will tell you all about it when I'm
in the mood to lose my way
but let me say
you should have seen that sunrise with your own eyes
it brought me back to life
you'll be with me next time I go outside
no more 3x5's
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.
It was a sunny Tuesday afternoon and it was approximately 84 degrees outside.
You were sitting in my room complaining about how hot it was. I didn't complain because you already knew how much I adored this weather. I observed you, and I could see this expression of "I'm dying." upon your face. I suggested we go to the beach for a while. You got up right away and said "You're so smart. That's a great idea." I giggled because even you could have come up with that, but I suppose you were too hot to even think.
I changed into some denim ripped shorts and a flowy tank top. You, of course, we're screwed because you wore jeans and a t-shirt. but it didn't matter.
you always seemed to manage.
i grabbed some sun-block and towels and we headed out to your car.
It was pretty hot in there. I said "Wow, I can't even breathe." and so we rolled down the windows. We got on the 10 freeway and there wasn't much traffic, which was awesome because the faster we got there, the better. We put on our ipods, you started off with some loud hardcore music, i didn't mind. I was actually getting the hang of it and even started building a like for it. Then, I blasted some Taylor Swift. You weren't such a big fan, but you didn't mind it either. While you kept your eyes on the road, I kept my eyes on the sky and started imagining all the fun we were going to have on this really hot day.
You held my hand and I started playing with your fingers. We held hands until our palms started getting sweaty. We released them, and we started giggling saying "ewwwwwww." we were such children.
we're about 5 minutes away and we can already see the pier and the ocean. we make our way into the parking lot. once we're parked, we get out of the car and I start running away from you, making my way towards the sand. you go after me and say "Girl, where do you think you're going?" I laugh and let you catch up to me. You wrap your arm around me and we see what looks like a huge family of seagulls. You look at me and give me that smirk. I already know what you're thinking. I say "Honey, leave them alone. They're just cute little birds. They aren't doing a thing to us." You laugh because I always had the habit of defending animals. You take me by the hand and start running. I couldn't stop myself and so there we were. We chased after the seagulls making funny noises at them, scaring them away. I couldn't help but to just laugh. You say "Wasn't that fun?" I reply "it was a workout." after the seagull chase, we find ourselves a nice spot to lay our stuff down. There's children everywhere playing with their shovels and buckets, making mud pies. I suggest that we build a sandcastle. and so we do. at the end, we're both very satisfied with our castle and I proudly declare that you're the prince and I'm the princess. you give me a soft kiss on the cheek and call me "dork."
the sun kissed our skin beautifully with its warmth and its rays shining down upon us.
you roll up your jeans halfway and we start to walk towards the ocean. as the waves come crashing down, I start squealing because I can feel the cold water wash over my feet. You begin splashing me with your hands and I kick you on the side of your leg. I then start splashing you back. You don't care that you didn't bring extra clothes. you simply enjoy the moment you're having and forget about everything that doesn't matter. After an hour of spending some time in the water, we walk back to our things and I dip my little red-painted toes in the sand and giggle like a child as I move them around. You pull up and sit next to me. We both start shivering because we got completely wet. I grab a towel and wrap it around our frail little shoulders. I ask how you're feeling and you reply "Much better, I'm so happy we did this." As you look up into the sky, I look at you. Amazed. Of what? Only I knew. We never had a day like this. It felt completely magical. As the sun starts going down, we question if we should stay or leave. In the end, we decide to stay. We fall asleep for a while on the towels we laid out.
we wake up and its already dark. you help me up and we walk towards a lifeguard dock. we then just sit there, observing the stars. I look afar, and I see what looks like a big sparkly star. Amused, i say to you "oh my gosh! do you see that star?! its so big! and it sparkles like no other!" You look, and then you reply "Oh baby. That's not a star, that's a helicopter." To my dissapointment, you were right. I look down feeling stupid, and you simply lift my chin up and say "You know, some things aren't what they seem. But you and I, we're real. We're up in the night sky, and we sparkle, twice as much as all the other stars." You point out a star, one that I had not seen, and it was sparkling, so bright. It made its reflection upon the ocean, and you were right. Once again.
I lay there in your arms, with my head resting upon your chest, and I can feel your heartbeat. As I'm there, the lyric "You belong with me, not swallowed in the sea." makes its way into my head.
The night was perfect.
Our day at the beach, it was perfect.
and it will forever remain in my heart.
[P.s. Ta-da! I hope you enjoyed this little story that I made up lol. I'm working on my writing and story-telling soooo, bear with me. One day I'll write a perfectly nice story that makes sense. :) and I uploaded this photo in the past, but deleted it, and uploaded it once again to tell this story.]
This is the second Baz Luhrmann film that I'm quoting in this series.
Continuing on with my affinity for twisted love stories....Luhrman's 1996 film Romeo+Juliet is a modern interpretation of the classic Shakespeare, anachronistically juxtaposing Shakespeare's original language against a modern landscape of consumption and capitalism.
As with all of Luhrman's films, the visual style is rich and detailed, vibrantly coloured and surreal. He paints a rather sickening view of modern society, with petty vanities slathered upon the grotesque criminals of upper class society. In the midst of such ugliness, Romeo and Juliet emerge, as yet untouched by the poisonous world around them.
I've read criticism that claims Romeo and Juliet must die in order to keep their love untainted. This film takes that purity one step further: In the end Romeo and Juliet have no choice but to die, or to succumb to the grotesqueries that their parents have grown into.
This film accomplishes the ideal that I believe all film adaptations of stage plays should strive toward: it brings the work of theatre to life in a manner unique to film, using the capabilities of the medium to inform a new, deeper understanding of the original work. The play is incredibly powerful on its own. Luhrmann has built upon Shakespeare's original work to create something contemporary, relevant, beautiful and impassioned. I am in awe of his work.
Big thanks to Happy_Peasant for sending me a bird image just so I could have my wings!
And again....textures by kittykatfish.
Addetti al rifornimento carburante stazione OMV di viale della Repubblica, Treviso.
TREVISO. Domenica 28 febbraio in tutto il capoluogo (tangenziale esclusa) scatterà il blocco totale del traffico. Ci saranno pochissime deroghe, legate alle emergenze sanitarie. Tutti a piedi o in bicicletta contro lo smog, nei quartieri come in centro storico, con la biblioteca ex Bailo aperta e visite guidate con ingresso gratuito al museo di Santa Caterina. Auto ferme in garage, compresi i modelli più moderni e meno inquinanti, per lanciare un messaggio forte: i Comuni del nord devono allearsi contro le polveri sottili, strisciante peste nera del terzo millennio. E’ questo il piano d’azione che l’assessore all’Ambiente di Ca’ Sugana Vittorio Zanini porterà mercoledì prossimo in giunta forte del sostegno del sindaco Gobbo, che di fatto ha già informalmente dato il via libera - anche se con un certo scetticismo - alla partecipazione del Comune di Treviso al blocco del traffico che il 28 febbraio coinvolgerà un centinaio di capoluoghi della pianura padana. Ieri mattina Zanini, insieme al dirigente del settore Ambiente di Ca’ Sugana Paolo Pierobon, ha partecipato a Milano al grande summit anti-smog organizzato a palazzo Marino dai sindaci Letizia Moratti (Milano) e Sergio Chiamparino (Torino), artefici della proposta. L’allarme polveri sottili (Pm10) è ormai un’emergenza quotidiana: d’inverno gli sforamenti dei limiti di guardia non si contano, l’aria è irrespirabile, anziani e bambini sono a rischio bronchiti o peggio. Da qui la decisione di fare quadrato tra le amministrazioni locali del «catino» padano, area più inquinata d’Europa, tanto che Zanini - con il plauso della Moratti - ieri a Milano ha proposto addirittura di chiedere all’Unione europea lo stato di calamità naturale per la pianura padana. Una domenica a piedi (ne seguirà una seconda il 14 marzo, per la Treviso Marathon) non servirà certo a invertire la tendenza, ma per i Comuni è un primo passo importante. E infatti ieri a Milano è nato un coordinamento permanente dei sindaci della pianura padana che avrà il compito di stilare un protocollo da presentare al consiglio dei ministri affinché adotti provvedimenti per ridurre gli effetti dell’i nquinamento da traffico ma anche da riscaldamento privato e industriale, altra causa del boom delle Pm10.
I sindaci chiederanno al governo Berlusconi di incentivare tutto ciò che è ecologicamente sostenibile sul piano della mobilità (veicoli a gas, a metano, elettrici) ma anche il miglioramento delle condizioni energetiche degli edifici e il teleriscaldamento.
Altro obiettivo: nell’arco di tre anni, bisogna arrivare a sostituire con modelli ecologici tutto il parco dei mezzi pubblici per il trasporto di persone ma anche di merci e per la raccolta dei rifiuti.
Ma torniamo al blocco del traffico fissato per domenica 28 febbraio: la stragrande maggioranza dei capoluoghi di Provincia del Nord ha già aderito alla proposta lanciata da Moratti e Chiamparino - che è anche presidente dell’Anci - comprese le città di Padova, Venezia e Vicenza. «E Treviso non sarà da meno - assicura Zanini - Anche perché come capoluogo, da tempo, cerchiamo di fare il possibile nella lotta alle Pm10». Il 28 sarà una sorta di prova generale: il coordinamento permanente dei sindaci della pianura padana intende far scattare misure straordinarie, come il blocco del traffico, ogni volta si profileranno «condizioni di eccezionale persistenza di inquinanti in atmosfera». Altra idea emersa dal summit milanese di ieri: introdurre una piccola sovratassa sui grandi assi autostradali e sulle tangenziali, da spendere sempre per politiche di miglioramento del trasporto pubblico. Zanini rilancia: «Chiederò al coordinamento che una parte dell’accisa sulla benzina venga data ai Comuni per finanziare interventi sulla viabilità su rotaia».
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* am not sure if i'm meant to note that this is my entry in the 64 challenge group
saturday night saw me at my third concert in one year of The Band Who Shall Not Be Named. our seats were off to the side and i was able to capture the near-exact moment that the delicate, rainbow colored, paper butterflies were shot out into the air to float down onto the roaring crowd, during "Love in Japan" it's a brilliant sight and everyone goes mental when they are released.
bonus: the Lead Singer Who Shall Not Be Named is doing his spastic, like-he's-just-been-shot, dance down the runway with his blue jacket flying up behind him.
and still, as i said prior to this:
shhhhhh. for they are my guilty pleasure.
hipsters (and loads of others!) will undoubtedly mock me for lack of "coolness". Coldplay is far too palatable for the mainstream audience to ever have an edge. and being cool and liking bands that are edgy is clearlythe way to go.
so, if you accuse me of liking Coldplay? i will deny it aloud vehemently. maybe.
or perhaps, after this weekend, i think i don't care that much anymore about being "cool". ;)
Pat Metheny & Charlie Haden: Spiritual, original de Josh Haden (con la luz apagada mucho mejor).
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Valle de Pehuenco, Región de la Araucanía, Chile central.
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Here is another in my new ongoing series. The plan is to pair each picture in the set with a poem by our best known local poet, Byron Herbert Reece, who lived and wrote in the Choestoe area of Union County, Georgia, less than 20 miles from my home. The name Choestoe - pronounced "Chowee Stowee" is a Cherokee Indian word usually translated as "the place of the Dancing Rabbits.
I've started the set with a few pictures that I took in early July at the Byron Herbert Reece Farm and Heritage Center. If you click on the set to the right you can learn more about the poet and the efforts to preserve his legacy.
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Poem # 6:
A GREATER SHINING
Man for his morsel has a dusty bread
served up for nurture from time's under-table
where it was stored to feed him by the dead.
This diet of darkness had suborn him sable
save that his form's wrapped in a shawl of sun
whose needles plying on the crimson course
the blood conducts about his warp of bone
web his frail flesh into that firey source.
When in death's attitude the cells go dark
and earth has back again that flesh that rose
from the primeval posture of repose
to reason and unrest, the sun must mark
its buried atoms, and command them make
a greater shining for the shadow's sake.
from Bow Down in Jericho - 1950
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Please - NO INVITES and AWARDS from now on - Thank you...
Taken on the 9th of September by Taty while on the way to Enkhuizen. She's on another antibiotic now as the previous two did not work.
Wishing to all of you a splendid Sunday from me Willem and - Taty.
No Post Processing used - no treatments, except for cropping, and added is the water mark - signature.
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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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Made my first trip to Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie last weekend. I wasn't all that impressed with the area I hiked around in. In fact, I didn't take a shot until I got back to the parking lot and saw the rays coming from behind these clouds. The original title was "Morning Rays," but after listening to one of my favorite songs while cruising Flickr tonight, I decided to change it. Have a listen. If your from my generation its probably one of your favorites too: www.goear.com/listen/1f4c6bf/Knockin-on-heavens-door-aute
And the most hauntingly beautiful remake of this song I've ever heard, in the last album ever recorded by Warren Zevon: www.goear.com/listen/fb0e5b8/Knockin-On-Heavens-Door-warr...:
Morro Rock, Morro Bay, California
It is 581ft tall, 23 million years old, and is one of 9 extinct volcano plugs in the area.
"When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle."
— Dr. Seuss (Fox in Socks)
First half decent high speed result.
Setup: home made flash trigger with light beam to activate when drop passes. Trigger is connected to an eBay wireless flash trigger to set off the flash. Single 540EZ to camera right at about 45 degrees set to 1/128 power. Tin foil reflector camera left. White plastic card as base and black plastic card as background. EOS 350D 60mm macro lens.
The photo has not been converted to B&W, that's all the colour there is although I do intend taking some more colourful versions in the future.
This was from my second session with my high speed trigger and I'm reasonably happy with the result although there's a long way to go before I get the sort of results some people are getting. Quite pleased with the reflection.
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Warm spring!
But still chilly in early morning&late night, isn't it?
So! We've prepare special Long knit cardigan for your dollXD
We've prepare this cardigan for bunnynine, MSD, SD13 and SD17 boys. Two colors available;Grey and Black!
So please visit our online store and see more pictures in there;3
(We will provide new long knit cardigan for girls with different color soon!)
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Canon EOS 50D + Canon 100mm macro f/ 2,8 Usm X190PROB manfrotto tripod+ 322RC2 manfrotto heavy duty grip ball head; Canon remote switch RS-80N3, Live view, manual focus 1sec., f/14, ISO100, flash off.
Argiope bruennichi è un aracnide dall’aspetto decisamente appariscente, sia per livrea che per dimensioni. La colorazione dell’addome è inconfondibile nelle sue striature trasversali nere e gialle; il disegno come anche l'intensità del colore varia di esemplare in esemplare. La parte inferiore è marrone scuro, con due bande gialle longitudinali disposte lateralmente. Il cefalotorace è bianco e presenta un aspetto vellutato; le zampe, irte di setae nere e rade, sono color ambra con anulature nere piuttosto marcate.
Dimorfismo sessuale: le femmine raggiungono i 2 cm di corpo e 5 cm leg-span e sono nettamente più grandi dei maschi, che arrivano a 1,2 cm di corpo e 3 cm leg-span. Questi ultimi presentano un addome più esile e sono privi della colorazione "marcata", mantenendo quella bianco-gialla tipica di esemplari giovani.
Fonte: www.aracnofilia.org/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBkXfsTWXXw
JASMINUM NUDIFLORUM
Gelsomino d'inverno o di San Giuseppe
Generalità: questa specie di gelsomino è originaria della Cina, ed è un arbusto a foglie caduche, resistente al freddo. Si presenta come un ciuffo, più o meno denso, di sottili rami verde scuro, dritti e rigidi; le foglie sono lucide, leggermente cuoiose, verde scuro anch'esse, e sono costituite da tre piccole foglioline. Questo arbusto verso la fine dell'inverno ci regala una splendida fioritura di piccoli fiorellini gialli, che sbocciano a partire dalla base dei rami, prima della comparsa delle foglie. Il gelsomino spesso tende a crescere abbondantemente, raggiungendo anche i 2-3 metri di altezza, per ottenere una forma compatta è consigliabile potarlo appena dopo la fioritura; ogni 3-4 anni è possibile procedere ad un rinnovo totale dei rami, potando il gelsomino a 10-15 cm dalla base. Il portamento parzialmente strisciante rende la pianta adatta anche come tappezzante, oppure come rampicante, ma solo se collocata a ridosso di apposite strutture su cui farla crescere.
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With some Haiku Notes:
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Other dimensions
providing information,
just don't look; but see.
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Take aim and you'll see
truth behind reality
in both yin and yang
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It's all in your mind
concentrate and be mindful
sense reality
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The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the Four Noble Truths it constitutes the gist of Buddhism. Great emphasis is put on the practical aspect, because it is only through practice that one can attain a higher level of existence and finally reach Nirvana. The eight aspects of the path are not to be understood as a sequence of single steps, instead they are highly interdependent principles that have to be seen in relationship with each other.
1. Right View
Right view is the beginning and the end of the path, it simply means to see and to understand things as they really are and to realise the Four Noble Truth. As such, right view is the cognitive aspect of wisdom. It means to see things through, to grasp the impermanent and imperfect nature of worldly objects and ideas, and to understand the law of karma and karmic conditioning. Right view is not necessarily an intellectual capacity, just as wisdom is not just a matter of intelligence. Instead, right view is attained, sustained, and enhanced through all capacities of mind. It begins with the intuitive insight that all beings are subject to suffering and it ends with complete understanding of the true nature of all things. Since our view of the world forms our thoughts and our actions, right view yields right thoughts and right actions.
2. Right Intention
While right view refers to the cognitive aspect of wisdom, right intention refers to the volitional aspect, i.e. the kind of mental energy that controls our actions. Right intention can be described best as commitment to ethical and mental self-improvement. Buddha distinguishes three types of right intentions: 1. the intention of renunciation, which means resistance to the pull of desire, 2. the intention of good will, meaning resistance to feelings of anger and aversion, and 3. the intention of harmlessness, meaning not to think or act cruelly, violently, or aggressively, and to develop compassion.
3. Right Speech
Right speech is the first principle of ethical conduct in the eightfold path. Ethical conduct is viewed as a guideline to moral discipline, which supports the other principles of the path. This aspect is not self-sufficient, however, essential, because mental purification can only be achieved through the cultivation of ethical conduct. The importance of speech in the context of Buddhist ethics is obvious: words can break or save lives, make enemies or friends, start war or create peace. Buddha explained right speech as follows: 1. to abstain from false speech, especially not to tell deliberate lies and not to speak deceitfully, 2. to abstain from slanderous speech and not to use words maliciously against others, 3. to abstain from harsh words that offend or hurt others, and 4. to abstain from idle chatter that lacks purpose or depth. Positively phrased, this means to tell the truth, to speak friendly, warm, and gently and to talk only when necessary.
4. Right Action
The second ethical principle, right action, involves the body as natural means of expression, as it refers to deeds that involve bodily actions. Unwholesome actions lead to unsound states of mind, while wholesome actions lead to sound states of mind. Again, the principle is explained in terms of abstinence: right action means 1. to abstain from harming sentient beings, especially to abstain from taking life (including suicide) and doing harm intentionally or delinquently, 2. to abstain from taking what is not given, which includes stealing, robbery, fraud, deceitfulness, and dishonesty, and 3. to abstain from sexual misconduct. Positively formulated, right action means to act kindly and compassionately, to be honest, to respect the belongings of others, and to keep sexual relationships harmless to others. Further details regarding the concrete meaning of right action can be found in the Precepts.
5. Right Livelihood
Right livelihood means that one should earn one's living in a righteous way and that wealth should be gained legally and peacefully. The Buddha mentions four specific activities that harm other beings and that one should avoid for this reason: 1. dealing in weapons, 2. dealing in living beings (including raising animals for slaughter as well as slave trade and prostitution), 3. working in meat production and butchery, and 4. selling intoxicants and poisons, such as alcohol and drugs. Furthermore any other occupation that would violate the principles of right speech and right action should be avoided.
6. Right Effort
Right effort can be seen as a prerequisite for the other principles of the path. Without effort, which is in itself an act of will, nothing can be achieved, whereas misguided effort distracts the mind from its task, and confusion will be the consequence. Mental energy is the force behind right effort; it can occur in either wholesome or unwholesome states. The same type of energy that fuels desire, envy, aggression, and violence can on the other side fuel self-discipline, honesty, benevolence, and kindness. Right effort is detailed in four types of endeavours that rank in ascending order of perfection: 1. to prevent the arising of unarisen unwholesome states, 2. to abandon unwholesome states that have already arisen, 3. to arouse wholesome states that have not yet arisen, and 4. to maintain and perfect wholesome states already arisen.
7. Right Mindfulness
Right mindfulness is the controlled and perfected faculty of cognition. It is the mental ability to see things as they are, with clear consciousness. Usually, the cognitive process begins with an impression induced by perception, or by a thought, but then it does not stay with the mere impression. Instead, we almost always conceptualise sense impressions and thoughts immediately. We interpret them and set them in relation to other thoughts and experiences, which naturally go beyond the facticity of the original impression. The mind then posits concepts, joins concepts into constructs, and weaves those constructs into complex interpretative schemes. All this happens only half consciously, and as a result we often see things obscured. Right mindfulness is anchored in clear perception and it penetrates impressions without getting carried away. Right mindfulness enables us to be aware of the process of conceptualisation in a way that we actively observe and control the way our thoughts go. Buddha accounted for this as the four foundations of mindfulness: 1. contemplation of the body, 2. contemplation of feeling (repulsive, attractive, or neutral), 3. contemplation of the state of mind, and 4. contemplation of the phenomena.
8. Right Concentration
The eighth principle of the path, right concentration, refers to the development of a mental force that occurs in natural consciousness, although at a relatively low level of intensity, namely concentration. Concentration in this context is described as one-pointedness of mind, meaning a state where all mental faculties are unified and directed onto one particular object. Right concentration for the purpose of the eightfold path means wholesome concentration, i.e. concentration on wholesome thoughts and actions. The Buddhist method of choice to develop right concentration is through the practice of meditation. The meditating mind focuses on a selected object. It first directs itself onto it, then sustains concentration, and finally intensifies concentration step by step. Through this practice it becomes natural to apply elevated levels concentration also in everyday situations.
An Additional Haiku Note:
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Take time be aware
we are no-thing but our thoughts
so said the Buddha
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Personal Thoughts from August 07, 1976
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Energy is one.
Individuals are parts of that one.
Individuals through a source such as Love
(or other emotion or virtue) are one.
Thoughts are a source of energy.
Energy is neither created or destroyed.
Thoughts are neither created or destroyed.
Individuals are tuned-in to thoughts.
We do not think; we experience thought.
Our level of development is how we use
these thoughts to experience other
thoughts.
We are actually experiencing energies.
Our level of development is how we can
tune-in to these energies.
Our true purpose is to think and develop;
think and develop; become the source of energy.
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La catedral de Cuernavaca (Templo de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción) se encuentra ubicada en el Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de Cuernavaca.
En 1525, cuatro años después de la conquista, llegaron a las costas de México varios grupos de misioneros, siendo los primeros en establecerse en el Valle de Morelos los 12 primeros frailes franciscanos; procedían a edificar la capilla abierta para colaborar en convertir a la fe cristiana a los indígenas. En 1529 se ratificó la fundación formal del monasterio. En 1891 fue elevado a la categoría de Catedral por Leon XIII.
De la primera etapa constructiva sólo sobreviven el casco de la iglesia y las arcadas de la planta baja del convento.
La Catedral de Cuernavaca esta formada por un conjunto de tres templos: Dolores, del Carmen y de la Tercera Orden, una capilla abierta de San José, el atrio, la Iglesia de La Asunción y el propio convento.
El Arde Lucus es la segunda fiesta más importante de la ciudad de Lugo.
La fiesta consiste en un representación de la ciudad del siglo III en la que los romanos eran los que mandaban en nuestra bella ciudad amurallada patrimonio de la humanidad. Para ello todo el mundo se viste de época con las características togas, sandalias y capas de estos antiguos ciudadanos romanos. La fiesta es muy popular y la población se mete mucho en el papel, por lo que lo raro será ver gente vestida normal, y abundaran los niños y mayores caracterizados de esta manera. Como en toda fiesta medieval que se realiza por nuestras tierras la ciudad se viste de colores y se llena de mercados medievales, exposiciones, conciertos, desfiles y demás diversiones.
Tienen un especial atractivo la lucha de gladiadores, los juegos romanos en los que caballeros pelearan montados a caballos y harán varias pruebas de habilidad, y la carrera de cuadrigas.
No dudéis en ver también la representación de las bodas celtas, conciertos de música tradicional y moderna, la narración de leyendas por cuenta cuentos, tambores de fuego, talleres de panadería, Gincanas celtas, espectáculos de magia realizados por los druidas celtas, demostraciones de soplado de vidrio, preparación de caballos para Roma, Venta de esclavos, conciertos de arpas o incluso la representación de alguna batalla
Pleaseplease View On Black.
Sorry for the wait on this. My plan for this month is to physically integrate text or illustrations into my photos. The point is to experiment with tangible collage techniques; I don't want to fake the text in photoshop.
So no posting until I had time to print it, steal a typewriter, and add the text in by hand. I got two copies of each of my shots, thinking that one backup would be enough....but I already wish I had more than two prints to play with. The spacing is really finickie.
I don't have a scanner though so I had to photograph the image back in. Not very effective when I'm only shelling out for 4x6 prints. It came out so soft that I ended up integrating it back onto the original digital image. Sorry for the cheating. If I had a scanner you'd get more of a literal product!
EXPLORE Dec. 25 2009
Leven onder de as van de vulkaan, dag in, dag uit... alle hotels zijn leeg en verwoest. De stad lijkt heel hallucinant. Ook de huizen zitten onder de as. Nog één hotel blijft met staats-steun open voor de enkele verdwaalde toeristen. De lokale bevolking is erg uitgedund. Alleen heel arme mensen zijn genoodzaakt om te blijven wonen. Aan ons hotel is er elke dag een ploeg paraat om de as weg te scheppen, een heel ongezond werk. De as is heel zacht en voelt aan als losse zachte poeder. Er valt voortdurend as uit de lucht en na enkele uren zit je onder het stof. Veel mensen lopen voortdurend met een masker voor de mond, om de longen te beschermen. De rode tong en tanden bij veel mensen wordt veroorzaakt door het kauwen van 'betelnut'. Een mengsel van mosterdzaadjes, kalk en beetlenoot.
De Tavurvur is een actieve stratovulkaan nabij de Papoea-Nieuw-Guineaanse stad Rabaul op de noordoostelijke punt van het eiland Nieuw-Brittannië. Het vormt het meest actieve onderdeel de Rabaulcaldera (8 bij 14 km), waarbinnen het gelegen is aan de oostelijke rand. De vulkaan is binnen de stad Rabaul berucht om de vele verwoestende uitbarstingen.
Lees nog meer over de verwoestingen:
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavurvur
Tavurvur is an active stratovolcano near Rabaul in East New Britain province, Papua New Guinea. It is a sub-vent of the Rabaul caldera and lies on the eastern rim of the larger feature. The volcano is most well known for its devastating eruptions over Rabaul.
The volcano is the most active feature of the Rabaul caldera, and has erupted as recently as January 2009
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Die ehemalige Klosterkirche St. Jakob in Regensburg wurde im 11. Jh. von irischen Benediktinermönchen errichtet. Da die irischen Mönche im Volksmund Skoten genannt wurden, wird die Kirche bis heute auch Schottenkirche genannt. Nach mehreren Umbauten wurde vor 1200 die noch heute vorhandene Kirche vollendet. Sie zählt zu den Hauptwerken der romanischen Architektur in Süddeutschland. Heute dient das Kloster als Priesterseminar.
The former abbey church of St. Jakob in Regensburg was built in the 11th Century by Irish Benedictine monks. As the Irish monks were called in the vernacular Scots, the church today is called the Scots Church. After several modifications was completed the still existing church before 1200. It is one of the major works of Romanesque architecture in southern Germany. Today, the monastery serves as a seminary.
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It's hard to think of a more devastating feeling than losing what you had put all your hopes in. Maybe that's a feeling you know if you've lost your health, the love of your life, your job, your retirement, an anchor person in your life, the thing you've invested so much in, the thing - or the person - that's been the glue sort of holding your life together. I have friends who have been told by their marriage partner of decades, "I don't love you anymore." When I asked one of those friends how he's doing, he just said, "I'm crushed."
So many of us have either lost, or will lose, someone or something that we had put a lot of our hopes in. Hope is snatched away by death, divorce, desertion, disease, disaster. Suddenly, our life is thrown into confusion and anxiety, even despair. What we need is something to put our hope in that's "unloseable" - something that can't be touched by death or disease, or divorce, or disaster; something that will never desert us. Actually, someone who will never desert us. Surprisingly, many people have discovered that in losing the source of their hope, they finally found the one hope they could never lose. It could happen to you.
That hope is spelled out beautifully in Psalm 62 , beginning with verse 1, our word for today from the Word of God. "My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress; I will never be shaken...Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him." The only life-anchor, the only life-hope you can never lose is a personal love relationship with God. God alone. Not a religion, but a relationship. It's possible to have a lot of religion and you totally miss the relationship with God that you were made for. Any hope we get from anyone or anything on earth is just an unsatisfying substitute for belonging to God. When you belong to Him and you know you do, your soul finally can, as the psalmist said, "rest." But until you belonging to God, your soul is rest-less.
That unloseable relationship with God comes only one way, because we're away from the God we need so much; away by our choice, not His. We've repeatedly chosen our way instead of His way and we've built an eternal wall between us and God. A wall that God Himself acted to tear down by sending His only Son, Jesus Christ, to pay for all our sins when He died on the cross. That is how much He loves you. That's how much He wants you. But you've got to want Him bad enough to say, "I'm sorry for my sin, God. I don't want it to be this way anymore. I'm putting all my hope and all my trust in Your Son who gave His life so I could belong to You."
If that's what you want, why don't you tell Him that today. And I'd love to have you get more information and more of what the Bible has to say about being sure you have this relationship by just getting to our website. That's really what it's there for. Just go to YoursForLife.net. And I think you'll find there what many others have found - the assurance that you actually belong to Jesus Christ.
The hope you've lost and the emptiness you feel could actually lead you today to the hope that you will never lose. Hope has a name. His name is Jesus.
© Ronald P. Hutchcraft •
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Jose V. Blanco, the folk muralist whose richly colorful and celebratory works of the Tagalog pastorale have been likened to another Angono muralist, the late National Artist Carlos "Botong" Francisco
Born on March 19, 1932, Blanco belonged to a fishing family who thrived on the rich resources of the Laguna de Bay.
But although a folk artist, Blanco was academically trained. He entered the School of Fine Arts of the University of Santo Tomas in 1951. Its faculty included the top firebrand modernists of Philippine art history -- National Artists Victorio Edades, Vicente Manansala and Francisco, as well as Galo Ocampo, Antonio Llamas, Galo Ocampo and Diosdado Lorenzo.
Blanco never abandoned his roots. Even while he was studying, he was still regularly doing his fishing rounds in order to earn enough money for his tuition.
Graduating in 1955 and winning the best thesis award of his batch, Blanco worked for several years as an advertising director.
In 1971, Blanco abandoned advertising in order to paint full-time. It was also the year he held his first one-man show at the Manila Hilton.
Almost instantly, Blanco became known for his murals of Angono life. The Rockefeller Foundation of New York obtained his "Pag-ahon ng Pagoda," a depiction of the fluvial parade in connection with the San Clemente fiesta, in the 1970's.
Art critic Allice Guillermo called Blanco's style "folk realism." Notable is the graphic perspicacity of the work as well as the lushness of its earthy colors.
View On Black and LARGE--Explore #32 at highest position
Busch Gardens
Tampa Bay
Turacos are uniquely African, with 23 species recognised by most authorities. The forest-living species are undoubtedly among the most spectacularly colourful of birds, while the savanna-dwellers (known as "go-away birds") are predominantly grey in plumage. In South Africa, these birds are better known as louries. All are frugivores, specialising in fruit (particularly figs) and sometimes feeding on leaves, buds and flowers. They are usually gregarious, and frequently associate with Green Pigeons, parrots, hornbills and barbets, with individuals and groups often returning day after day to the same fruiting tree, until the crop is exhausted.
Few birds have such harsh and unattractive calls, with croaks and barks being the most apt vocal description for most turacos. Groups of Ross's Turaco - among others - may whip themselves up into a cackling frenzy with gruff echoes through their forest environment.
I enjoyed the show with this Hawk a lot!
He was so keen on food and kept flying around for more...
The keepers did threw something in the air and he captured it in flight,
he landed in front of us and I could see what it was...
According to this big bird: " Nothing better than a skinny chicken leg"
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Y también en Twiter .
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Retenida, el agua en las curvas de las turberas fluye lentamente, acariciada por los musgos entre los que se abre paso, cristalina, como si no quisiera descender. Allí algunos ciliados se afanan, Paramecium trichium la desbroza para asearla y dejarla tan limpia como el aire vivo de la montaña . El Tera nace así, junto a las cumbres, se resiste a descender al hermoso Lago de Sanabria, donde un incendio de espumas de veneno arrasa todo, dejando el agua transparente y vacía como el alma de un cementerio.
Paramecium trichium y otros ciliados chapotean el silencio, fluyen como peces invisibles entre las aguas de musgo dejando su sonido silencioso en su colosal tarea. Van desgranando allí los restos de vida que lo siembran: bacterias, algunas de las diminutas algas que acompañan a estas aguas de cristal, restos y pequeños hilos de cianobacterias .
Pausadamente Paramecium trichium, lo hace sin aparente esfuerzo. Lo mismo se detiene que se pone en movimiento, acelerando, frenando o girando sobre sí mismo pero siempre con actitud confiada y tranquila. Es el rey de los ciliados en un reino en el que escasean sus posibles depredadores, sus competidores son insignificantes en número y en tamaño y, además, Paramecium trichium está bien armado y quizá el saberlo le dé la seguridad que aparenta.
De aspecto aspero y espinoso, Paramecium trichium es tan peligroso como quiera pintarlo nuestra imaginación, pero si lo pudiésemos acariciar, sentiríamos una piel más suave que la más suave de las sedas. Sus cilios desordenados como un pelo electrizado son, en este preciso instante, los remos de una trainera que ahora mismo cambia de dirección, pero tras este desaliño aparente existe el orden de una organización perfecta. El interior abrupto y rocoso, abierto en multitud de cráteres de Paramecium trichium no es otro que el de la vida que bulle en su interior, repleta de fluidos y depósitos donde los seres de los que se alimenta, pasan de estar vivos a ser la vida misma.
El arma más temible de Paramecium trichium después de su apariencia está escondida bajo la piel, son los tricocistos, estructuras defensivas como dardos envenenados que muchos ciliados poseen, se disponen entre los cilios y son verdaderos arpones cargados de sustancias tóxicas que estos seres disparan para defenderse o para inmovilizar a algunas grandes presas de las que se pueden alimentar.
Paramecium trichium es de talla mediana si lo comparamos con el resto de sus hermanos y está presente en las aguas con mucha materia orgánica. La materia orgánica sirve de alimento a las bacterias y éstas son consumidas por Paramecium trichium, su particular monstruo, que parece sentir especial predilección, además, por las bacterias del azufre como Beggiatoa.
Paramecium trichium no puede tomar las bacterias a cucharadas, así que va absorbiéndolas una a una, o a puñados, con los remolinos de tornado generados con sus cilios y así, poco a poco, le devuelve al agua su transparencia original.
A Antón, Íñigo, José Manuel, Carmen, Manuel, Pablo Carlos y Agustín, por este ascenso para tocar el cielo desde la cumbre de Peña Trevinca, donde la mentira no llega y se respiró un día alegre de esfuerzo, belleza y amistad.
Paramecium trichium ha venido con las muestras recogidas el día 29 de julio de 2017, para mostrarnos siempre la cara de la verdad desde las turberas situadas bajo Peña Trevinca donde se juntan las provincias de Zamora Orense y León, cerca ya del cielo, se ha fotografiado a 400 aumentos con la técnica de contraste de interferencia y se ha salvado del incendio de espumas y corrupción, que nuevamente asola el alma del Lago.
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non volevo commenti perchè so che è una foto strana ma stasera avuto un moto di amore per la mia cavalla così profondo che appena rientrata ho dovuto postare.
poi mi sono detta.. magari qualcuno capisce che è una foto d'amore e punto quindi sarà clemente ;-)
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The Pantheon (meaning "every god" in Greek) is a building in Rome, originally built by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt in the early 2nd century AD. A near-contemporary writer, Cassius Dio, speculates that the name comes from the statues of many gods placed around the building, or from the resemblance of the dome to the heavens. Since the French Revolution, when the church of Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, was deconsecrated and turned into a secular monument, the Panthéon, the generic term pantheon may be applied to any building in which illustrious dead are honoured or buried.
The building is circular with a portico of three ranks of huge granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment opening into the rotunda, under a coffered, concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) open to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft). A rectangular structure links the portico with the rotunda. It is one of the best preserved of all Roman buildings. It has been in continuous use throughout its history. Since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a Roman Catholic church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" but informally known as "Santa Maria Rotonda. [Text adapted from wikipedia]
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The Dervishes Of Cairo which presents the Sufi dance, which called the Tannoura (Skirt) dance, is the one of the most successful artistic achievements of EL Nour Company for art Production and Distribution. On March 2001, Mr. Ahmed Nour, chairman of the company, asked a group of these dancers to present their peculiar art form on the stage. Most of the dancers and singers of the group have learned this art from their fathers and grandfathers. The group started with 15 members but now it has more than 40 between dancers, musicians and singers, so now it is considered one of the biggest groups, which performs this kind of dance, all over the world. The group participated and awarded in many national and internationals festivals inside and outside the country.
It's a show of Sufi dance, but on the Egyptian way which is different from the Turkish. In Egypt, the dancer wears a skirt called "Tannura". It is so heavy and weights more than 11k, but in Turkey the dancer uses a wide jellabah, which weights nothing.
The skirt of the dancer "Tannura" has many colors which represents the Egyptian joy and happiness, not like the Turkish dancer's dress, which only has black & white.
Although the TANNOURA DANCE is based on its circular movements and its intrinsic Islamic "Sufi" feelings, it contains all the elements of a joyful & popular dance due to the following:
1- Its fast tempo.
2- Its departure from the ritualistic concentration on performance and skilful movements.
3- Its richness of its artistic value. All of these make it a unique art–form.
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El grupo Los derviches de El Cairo que presenta la danza Sufí, la que se llama la danza Tannoura (que es también el nombre de la falda que llevan), es uno de los logros artísticos más acertados de la empresa El Nour producciones. En Marzo de 2001, Sr. Ahmed Nour, presidente de la empresa, pidió que un grupo de estos artistas presentara su forma de arte peculiar en el escenario. La mayoría de los componentes del grupo han aprendido este arte de sus padres y abuelos. El grupo empezó con 15 componentes, pero ahora tiene más de 40 entre bailarines, músicos y cantantes, ahora él se considera uno de los grupos más grandes, que realiza esta clase de danza, de todo el mundo. El grupo participó y concedió en muchos festivales nacionales e internacionales dentro y fuera del país.
Es un espectáculo de danza Sufi pero con un aspecto del folklore egipcio, con un ligero aroma envolvente, a la forma egipcia de este tipo de danza, denominada «Altanura». Este nombre proviene de la falda del bailarín, que pesa casi 11 kilos y está llena de colorido y que representa la alegría egipcia. Por ello es mucho más difícil y distinta a la danza turca, que se baila con chilabas, sólo de color blanco y negro.
La Danza Sufí consiste esencialmente en girar sobre el propio eje facilitando estados alterados de conciencia y de éxtasis místico. “Miréis donde miréis el rostro de Dios existe”, dice El Corán.
Girar para vencer la muerte y la oscuridad, girar para elevarse, girar para ponerse en contacto con los principios de la propia vida y las leyes universales subyacentes, girar para soñar que son soles, planetas y astros errantes que giran buscando a Dios.
Es un acto decididamente lúdico y pleno de alegría.
Los danzantes proclaman que durante sus giros el alma deja el cuerpo y viaja desprendiéndose de sus ataduras terrenales y accediendo al infinito hogar del altísimo.
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