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Je fais souvent ce rêve étrange et pénétrant
D'une femme inconnue, et que j'aime, et qui m'aime
Et qui n'est, chaque fois, ni tout à fait la même
Ni tout à fait une autre, et m'aime et me comprend.
Car elle me comprend, et mon coeur, transparent
Pour elle seule, hélas ! cesse d'être un problème
Pour elle seule, et les moiteurs de mon front blême,
Elle seule les sait rafraîchir, en pleurant.
Est-elle brune, blonde ou rousse ? - Je l'ignore.
Son nom ? Je me souviens qu'il est doux et sonore
Comme ceux des aimés que la Vie exila.
Son regard est pareil au regard des statues,
Et, pour sa voix, lointaine, et calme, et grave, elle a
L'inflexion des voix chères qui se sont tues.
Paul Verlaine
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My familiar dream
I often have this dream, strange and penetrating
of a woman, unknown, whom I love, who loves me,
and who’s never, each time, the same exactly,
nor exactly different, she knows me, she’s loving.
Oh she knows me, and my heart, growing
clear for her alone, is no longer a problem,
for her alone, she alone understands, then,
how to cool the sweat of my brow with her weeping.
Is she dark, blonde, or auburn? - I’ve no idea.
Her name? I remember it’s vibrant and dear,
as those of the loved that life has exiled.
Her eyes are the same as a statue’s eyes,
and in her voice, distant, serious, mild,
the tone of dear voices, of those who have died.
Paul Verlaine
Addendum: it seems the dream is running fast to an end . . . and it is a sad one
A dictator always says "My people!" as if it were a herd to be gathered in a stable, in fences, uses demagogy to get people's consensus and stops freedom of thought, speech, religion and condemns and punishes each diversity.
A wise chief of his state always addresses the free citizens that believed his non demagogist plan to preserve their freedom, and knows that diversities ar richness and fuel for freedom and democracy and protects them and promotes free debate, exchange and peaceful coexistence.
The boundary between Asia and Europe is almost everywhere uncertain, but in one place it's perfectly delineated: along the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
So Istanbul, that spans on both sides of Bosphorus Channel, is the only city in the world being subdivided in two continents.
Şemsi Pasha (Üsküdar): Istanbul - Asia
Galata Tower (Beyoğlu): Istanbul - Europe (in the background)
Bosphorus Channel in the middle
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Years ago, a friend told me a story from her childhood that I'd not heard before, and I think of it often. The story goes like this:
One morning, a little girl was looking across the valley from her house, admiring the beautiful golden windows on a house on the top of the hill.
"Mom," she said, "Do you see that house on the hill with golden windows? It must be so beautiful there, and the people who live there must be so wealthy! I'll bet they have no problems and their lives are filled with happiness every day. I wish OUR HOUSE had golden windows."
"Oh, darling," replied the mother, "no one's life is perfect. Even people who live in a house with golden windows."
"No, I think you are wrong! I want to go see for myself!" So the mother packed the daughter a lunch, and away the daughter went to cross the valley and see how wonderful life was for the people who lived in the house with golden windows.
The girl walked all day long. As she reached the bottom of the valley, she lost sight of the house but kept going. It was dusk by the time she reached the top of the other hill. But to her surprise, all she found was an ordinary house. She saw no golden ornaments, nothing that made the house look different or more special than any other house. The people looked ordinary, just like the people in her own family. She was puzzled.
Disappointed, she turned around to gaze at her own house across the valley she'd just crossed. And to her surprise, her house was ablaze with light. The windows shone with gold as the setting sun lit them up. In disbelief, she looked again at the ordinary house in front of her, then back to her house gleaming across the way.
"MY house has golden windows!" she said in amazement. She stood for a moment, struck by how beautiful her house looked from this side of the valley. She took off running back down the hill, eager to return to her family.
Callier, a childhood friend of Curtis Mayfield, began recording in 1963 but never reached stardom despite a series of regional hits in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1983, he gained custody of his 12-year-old daughter Sundiata and decided to retire from music to look for a steadier income. He took classes in computer programming and landed a job at the University of Chicago in 1984.
He reemerged from obscurity when British DJs discovered his old recordings and began to play his songs in clubs in the late 1980s. Acid Jazz Records head Eddie Piller brought Callier to play clubs in Britain beginning in 1991 and he began to make regular trips to play gigs during his vacation time from work.
In the late 90s Callier began his comeback to recorded music, contributing to Beth Orton's Best Bit EP in 1997 and releasing the album Timepeace in 1998, which won the United Nations' Time For Peace award for outstanding artistic achievement contributing to world peace. Curiously, his colleagues at the University of Chicago never learned of Callier's life as a musician, but after the award the news of his secret life became widely known and subsequently led to his firing.
Callier today is continuing his recording career having currently released five albums since Timepeace.
May 2009 saw his album Hidden Conversations featuring Massive Attack released on Mr Bongo records.
For the 5 kilometre race results and photos...here are the local (Ottawa & area) participants -- sorted by cities and first name -- in the September 19, 2010, Canada Army Run held in Ottawa, Ontario.
Click here and enter the bib numbers for the full individual race results. Race photos here. (6,760 runners in the 5 km race)
Thank-you to Sportstats.
Part A. Ottawa (see below)
Part B. Other Communities (Alexandria to Navan) (Click here.)
Part C. Other Communities (Nepean to Woodlawn) (Click here.)
Part A:
12036…Aaron Kennedy
12454…Acton Kilby
7417…Adam Daniow
10248…Adam Mcleod
12409…Adam Yahn
13856…Ademir Vrolijk
14356…Adrien Barrieau
12050…Afton Maisonneuve
8420…Agathe Houle
14250…Ahmad Sakr
14321…Ahsan Ahmed
14600…Aidan Westdal
9010…Aime Larochelle
7952…Airi Trant
8265…Al Charron
7187…Al Thompson
14035…Alain D'arbelles
9532…Alain Desgranges
10416…Alain Dionne
7861…Alain Rabeau
7504…Alan Bolster
7001…Alan Tomalty
8715…Alana Blouin
14025…Alana Detenbeck
12757…Alana Fong
14499…Alana Macewen
9662…Alanna Macaulay
12132…Alanna Yaraskavitch
7983…Alecks Zarama
10172…Alex Braden
14052…Alex Graham
14102…Alex Lyon
12729…Alex Patch
13192…Alexander Gaillard
10699…Alexander Leslie
13108…Alexandra Desouza L'heureux
9008…Alexandra Laplante
12105…Alexandra Vincent
13636…Alexandre Poiget
14153…Alexandre Prenoveau
12894…Alexandria Beck
11577…Alexandria Gerrior
9743…Alexis Leblanc
14322…Ali Belbachir
14036…Ali El-Jaby
10402…Alice Leung
10095…Alicia Li
10008…Alicia Noonan
14423…Alicia Whiting
12911…Alison Benn
8853…Alison Evans Adnani
8468…Alison Jerome
14363…Alison Mckittrick
12825…Alison Morris
9474…Alison Pier
8753…Allison Cassie
8343…Allison Coons
10422…Allison Desroches
14031…Allison Downton
8137…Allison Ellis
14109…Allison Mackenzie
13372…Ally Lamothe
10360…Allysan Dinn
13439…Almut Macdonald
8777…Amanda Colton
12815…Amanda Elliott
8965…Amanda Kalbfleisch
11944…Amanda Krisciunas
5786…Amanda Pavlovic
10440…Amanda Pyykonen
13867…Amanda Watson
10150…Amanda Weatherdon
7950…Amanda-Kate Tracy
7820…Amber Nickerson
11904…Amelie Armstrong
9881…Amelie O'sullivan
7793…Amira Mohamed
8675…Amy Arcand
14489…Amy Cambell
13313…Amy Johnson
12176…Amy Jutras
12097…Amy Muller
9823…Amy Read
13690…Ana Robert
8532…Anaek Jande
9304…Anastasia Tserotas
8013…Andre Marin
14115…Andre Materman
7941…Andre Thivierge
8682…Andrea Auger
12109…Andrea Brauner
8285…Andrea Chippa
9491…Andrea Ethier
12541…Andrea Evans
8969…Andrea Karklins
10902…Andrea Mccaffrey
4782…Andrea Mrozek
7874…Andrea Rousseau
12690…Andrea Szenteszky/Merils
10976…Andrea White
8466…Andreas Reichert
12372…Andreas Vander Pluym
9374…Andree Ball
12982…Andrew Buchan
7528…Andrew Butson
9822…Andrew Cooney
12485…Andrew Currie
12275…Andrew Fainer
12009…Andrew Fourney
8488…Andrew Harris
7290…Andrew Keleher
10152…Andrew Klassen
12527…Andrew Leslie
14319…Andrew Lessard
10113…Andrew Maffre
14111…Andrew Mallam
12863…Andrew Mcdougall
14515…Andrew Mendes
11901…Andrew Mulawyshyn
13630…Andrew Pinsent
7362…Andrew Roberts
8599…Andrew Robertson
12741…Andrew Woolsey
14206…Andrew Zurowski
10401…Andy Burgess
10238…Andy Shelp
9569…Andy Wielgosz
9427…Angeline Law
7429…Angelo Garcia
9202…Angelo Ricci
9714…Angie Ermel
9550…Anika Rowland
8678…Ann Arsenault
9328…Ann Walton
11194…Anna Macintyre
14239…Anna Von Dadelszen
8072…Anne Bailliu
12504…Anne Bauer
3838…Anne Biscope
8719…Anne Bowker
14493…Anne Edwards
14443…Anne Ethier
12143…Anne Fitzpatrick
13946…Anne Thombs
13957…Anne-Sophie Alarie
8362…Annette Lebel
10677…Annik Beaudry
7866…Ann-Marie Reid
13975…Anthony Barnshaw
12643…Anthony Glaser
10240…Anthony Ippolito
10532…Anthony Weeks
14151…Antoine Plenderleith
14476…Anyk Glussich
10169…April Whitehead
12251…Arlene Maciver
13320…Armin Kamal
9113…Arthur Moulie
10256…Aruna Rajulu
12850…Ash Ahmadzadeh
13528…Asha Mohiddin
7826…Ashlee Oleinikow
9971…Ashley Browne
12394…Ashley Butcher
7214…Ashley Lavery
7775…Ashley Mccann
6259…Ashley Tannis
8236…Ashley Tuttle
14150…Audrey Perreault
12736…Audrey Vermette
9884…Austen Brown
8130…Avery Stirling
13710…Barbara Routliffe
11305…Barbara Saville
9377…Barry Dupont
13391…Barry Le Grys
12714…Barry Lemoine
8459…Barry Rowland
13465…Beatrice Maluski-Cain
13556…Ben Murray
7529…Benjamin Buttera
8029…Benjamin Oman
9533…Benny Ling
14338…Bernard Tremblay
13718…Beth Sabourin
13644…Beth-Anne Poulin
11409…Betty Letendre
10798…Bev Carroll
8879…Bev Furniss
10197…Bill Grand
10455…Bill Mackay
7376…Bill Rostek
11903…Bill Salminen
7533…Bingbing Cai
13069…Blair Crawford
7345…Blake Carruthers
9530…Blake Dooley
13638…Blake Poirier
13829…Blanche Tree
9501…Bob Eagleson
14117…Bob Mccrindle
13551…Bob Muise
9523…Bob Ryan
13947…Bob Thombs
13515…Bogaah Mensah
12276…Bonnie Boretsky
11985…Bonnie Vinet-Paradis
9548…Borishka Croteau
9622…Brad Mills
13905…Brad Young
7585…Bradley Davis
9084…Brady Meldrum
14268…Breanna Muller
7543…Brenda Cerson
8404…Brenda Etchells
9405…Brenda Quinlan
14632…Brendan Potter
9135…Brent Odonnell
7167…Brent Pilon
7246…Brent Weatherdon
8527…Brett Mac Lean
9789…Brett Maxwell
9894…Brian Blanche
12898…Brian Deeks
13157…Brian Fava
10215…Brian Kells
13534…Brian Montgomery
7029…Brian Radey
7011…Brian Rolfe
13251…Brianna Harris
13206…Bridget Gervais
14581…Bridget Kehoe
7225…Bridget Mallon
14520…Brigid Bedard
10026…Brigitte Archambault
13121…Brigitte Dionne
12008…Brigitte Menard
9559…Britt-Mari Sykes
10176…Bronwyn Anderson
10083…Bruce Covington
7310…Bruce Donaldson
12389…Bruce Fischer
9702…Bruce Waid
13591…Bruno Paltrinieri
9464…Bryan Mackay
14288…Bryce Halls
11546…Bryce Lemoine
7332…Bunny - Andy Fong
8518…Bunny - Gary Rush
7326…Bunny - Liam Ohuiginn
8519…Bunny- Bruce Moquin
7333…Bunny- Ellen Campbell
7329…Bunny- James Wildsmith
7331…Bunny- Julia Fournier
7330…Bunnypatrick Girard
11123…C Soulodre
12087…Caitlin Devlin
14172…Caitlin Salvino
7728…Caludia Langevin
11126…Calum Urzinger
7663…Calvin Hanselmann
8795…Cameron Cribb
13637…Camille Poiget
13876…Camille West
7087…Candace Anderson
8491…Candi Ager
12060…Candi Munroe
7699…Carey Jones
12064…Carl Perreault
8389…Carla Pino
13679…Carleen Ridley
10135…Carly Parrish
9138…Carol Anne Owen
8595…Carol Campbell
14064…Carol Huffman
7204…Carol Mclean
12107…Carol Rosenthall
10746…Carol Skillen
9760…Carole Quenneville
13813…Carole Thomas
11906…Caroline Ebata
8058…Caroline Lavigne
14232…Caroline Matt
7805…Caroline Murray
7545…Carolyn Chacksfield
12173…Carolyn Charters
12257…Carolyn Fornataro
9100…Carolyn Montague
7286…Carolyn Turner
9209…Carrie Roberts
9037…Carrol Lunau
12069…Carter Saunders
13008…Casey Carswell
7544…Casey Cerson
7032…Cassidy Leclerc
7530…Catarina Buttera
14425…Catharine Brady
7596…Catherine Desmarais
11973…Catherine Griffin
9495…Catherine Jackson
14447…Catherine Jolicoeur
12084…Catherine Mackin
7862…Catherine Radatus
10251…Catherine Sainte-Marie
13752…Catherine Siot
14456…Catherine Winters
7977…Catherine Wood
8108…Cathy Jackson
9044…Cathy Maclean
12245…Cathy Nolan
7949…Cavell Townley
10465…Celeste Irvine-Jones
7505…Celia Bond
7436…Chandrashan Premakanthan
12492…Chantal Brisson
8351…Chantal Evans
9605…Chantal Nicholson
9480…Chantal Rosenberger
8239…Chantal Roy
13736…Chantal Sayde
7563…Chantale Cobbold
9419…Charlene Winchester
10558…Charles Bernard
8067…Charles Frost
14407…Charles Trombley
7439…Chelsey Quirk
12833…Chenchen Hou
14543…Cheri Reddin
14208…Cherinet Seid
12495…Cheryl Brouse
12574…Cheryl Caldwell
7464…Chloe Adlard
8587…Chris Anderson
12971…Chris Brown
14462…Chris Bygrove
8122…Chris Carruthers
8762…Chris Chartrand
9508…Chris Coveny
7579…Chris Dauphinais
7582…Chris Davey
9835…Chris Davis
14599…Chris Denison
14227…Chris Garrioch
11431…Chris Goddard
14485…Chris Goy
10264…Chris Hale
14509…Chris Holmes
11954…Chris Isaac Mckay
12774…Chris Jourdeuil
7725…Chris Lamarre
13373…Chris Landry
14097…Chris Li
7334…Chris Lynam
13519…Chris Mick
9096…Chris Moffit
7800…Chris Morash
14411…Chris Mullins
13641…Chris Polowick
9588…Chris Schroeder
7403…Chris Sheridan
9303…Chris Travers
7062…Christa Van Sickle
12327…Christene White
11889…Christian Figueredo
10368…Christian Giguere
7931…Christie Swann
12670…Christina Chevrette
8516…Christina Kaeser
9460…Christina Leclerc
14369…Christina Leibbrandt
14220…Christina Silmser
8317…Christina Sluyter
10093…Christina Yee
14552…Christina Young
11898…Christine Atwood
11920…Christine Besnard
7517…Christine Bray-Duhamel
8860…Christine Fikis
9490…Christine Ford
8299…Christine Foster
13408…Christine Leon
11008…Christine Nicasio
10874…Christophe Kervegant-Tanguy
9630…Christopher Cullen
9441…Christopher Fillmore
14432…Christopher Knowlton
10359…Christopher Macarthur
13471…Christopher Marton
7873…Christopher Rotherforth
9492…Christopher St. Jacques
13604…Christy Peeters
7142…Chuck Bing
7726…Chuck Lamarre
14200…Cici Waugh
13980…Cindy Bennett
13109…Cindy Desouza L'heureux
7940…Cindy Termorshuizen
13979…Claire Baudry
9698…Claire Cockburn
7684…Claire Horwich
12070…Clara Saunders
7591…Clare Demerse
7743…Clarissa Lewis
7896…Claude Schryer
12420…Claudette Moise
10297…Claudia Hintz
9947…Clayton Ryder
12157…Clinton Laidlaw
10321…Cody Gaudet
7586…Cole Davis
8640…Colin Kelly
7216…Colin Muldoon
7551…Colt Charlebois
14242…Colt Hardcore
12044…Connie Paris
9040…Connor Macdonald
13447…Connor Mackenzie
13520…Conor Middleton
10258…Conrad Hladik
14466…Corinne Ginnish
12152…Corrina Morehouse
13156…Costas Farassoglou
13959…Courtney Anderson
7855…Courtney Powless
4785…Craig King
7718…Craig Kuziemsky
8556…Cricket Riberdy
9928…Criss Gibran
12807…Crystal Foubert
9035…Crystal Louie
12468…Crystal-Lee Rooney
12874…Crystel Marly Arseneault
7418…Curtis Smith
9543…Cyndi Demers
13021…Cynthia Chaput
12112…Cynthia Desnoyers
9679…Cynthia Gee
12586…Cynthia Horvath
13900…Dalaila Wyse
9587…Dale Brown
7289…Dale Potter
12823…Dalelle Mensour
13440…Damian Macdonald
7121…Dan Mckinney
10456…Dan Mikaelian
8656…Dan Newell
12446…Dana Pandolfi
9159…Dana Paul
14216…Daniel Albahary
9918…Daniel Giguere
13302…Daniel Jamieson
13492…Daniel Mcguire
12646…Daniel Morris
14133…Daniel Muir
10027…Daniel Poulin
14408…Daniel Raymond
7442…Daniele Riendeau
9977…Danielle Bernier
12924…Danielle Bisson
13035…Danielle Cirillo
8199…Danielle Cormier
7046…Danielle Fainer
12338…Danielle Grenier
13270…Danielle Hoegy
7735…Danielle Lee
9183…Danielle Plunkett
7554…Danny Chin
7156…Dany Huard
12764…Daphne Vaudry
13580…Dara Ohuiginn
7215…Darcy Lavery
8637…Darcy Terrell
9959…Darl Dimillo
9995…Darlene Charron
9117…Darlene Mulvihill
7188…Darren Clark
13068…Darren Coyle
8920…Darren Handley
12556…Darren Jerome
7283…Darren Knight
7039…Darren Poole
12904…Dave Bellefleur
12512…Dave Carlson
12474…Dave Etchells
8377…Dave Johnson
12715…Dave Johnston
14203…Dave Young
12737…David Badour
14007…David Claxton
14566…David Davidson
8316…David Dimitri
9859…David Elms
13169…David Foster
7655…David Hall
12349…David Leahy
13500…David Mclaren
12255…David Molnar
13651…David Pratt
13683…David Rietkoetter
7889…David Sankoff
8524…David Thorpe
10223…Davide Pisanu
11989…Dawn Styan
11125…Dawn Urzinger
14614…Dean Corno
8066…Dean Duteau
9672…Dean Morewood
10298…Deanne Chafe
10599…Debbie Murray
13613…Debbie Peterson
10407…Debby Barsi
11952…Deborah Broad
11486…Deborah Trotman
12047…Debra Hughes
10454…Deena El-Sawy
12277…Delphine Wallace
9644…Demian Seiden
12552…Denise Gillam-Gledhill
9273…Denise St. Jean
8573…Dennis St. Louis
13869…Dennis Weatherdon
14178…Derek Smith
733…Derrick Marshall
7803…Desirai Moyer
7991…Deven Bhatla
12810…Devon Kampman
10211…Devon Shulist
12077…Devon Taylor
8857…Diana Farah
7580…Diane Dauphinais
12636…Diane Dupuis
12611…Diane Gallant
13039…Dianne Clarke
9985…Dimitris Foss
13428…Dino Luberti
7213…Dominic Lessard
7200…Dominik Rymsza
10336…Dominique Ansell
9553…Dominique Baker
7211…Dominique Chiasson
13470…Dominique Martel-Lamothe
9488…Dominique St-Denis
7953…Dominique Trudeau
10647…Don Eatherley
9376…Don Rooke
7467…Donald Allan
8798…Donald Cumming
9403…Donna Blois
12074…Donna Dufour
8031…Donna Mirasty
13747…Donna Sianchuk
14188…Doreen Taylor-Claxton
9766…Doris Chu
1069…Doris Mclean
13572…Dorota Nierobis
12602…Doug Crummey
14426…Douglas Briscoe
13421…Douglas Loader
13892…Douglas Wong
7210…Duncan Elbourne
8724…Ed Brady
12342…Edith Bernard
14459…Edith Bostwick
7761…Edmund Mah
12753…Edouard Larocque
7244…Edward Boushey
7987…Edward Miner
8971…Eileen Keefe
9338…Eileen Whyte
13055…Elaine Copson
13293…Elena Ienzi
10186…Elena Pecherskaya
7849…Elena Petre
9703…Elise Vandette
7008…Elizabeth Burn
10355…Elizabeth Conway
7622…Elizabeth Finnigan
10613…Elizabeth Fournier
14445…Elizabeth Fry
11404…Elizabeth Glover
8896…Elizabeth Goheen
7656…Elizabeth Hall
11956…Elizabeth Hayman
13331…Elizabeth Kerr
7956…Elizabeth Valentine
12762…Elizabeth Vaudry
14224…Elizabeth W12
9549…Ella Rowland
7923…Ella Stewart
11986…Ellen Hogan
9002…Ellen Lamarre
14574…Elly Crow
7248…Elly Robertson
8638…Emery Terell
8659…Emilie Adams
11919…Emilie Plater
11700…Emily Coleman
14266…Emily Gerbasi
8645…Emily Hamilton
10271…Emily Hewitt
14565…Emily Lafreniere
14293…Emily Lister
13535…Emily Montgomery
13676…Emily Rick
12481…Emily Thomas
9855…Emily Vingerhoeds
11403…Emma Cianfaglione
9125…Emma-Lee Newby
13353…Engelina Kruizinga
13150…Eric Eryou
13409…Eric Lepine
10358…Eric Macarthur
10457…Eric Noel
7903…Eric Shear
13824…Eric Torelli
12557…Erica Leslie
12263…Erich Farrell
11990…Erik Jolliffe
12696…Erika Williams
7486…Erin Beasley
14615…Erin Beck
7564…Erin Collins
333…Erin Drybrough
8344…Erin Johnstone
8020…Erin O'higgins
8621…Erin Sarsfield
12014…Erma Seekings
7473…Ernesto Angeles
10324…Eryn O'niell
7513…Estelle Bourlon
12229…Esther Moghadam
13357…Ethan Labelle
12455…Ethan Macdonald
13877…Eunice West
14080…Eva Lacelle
8164…Eva Rehder
8581…Evelyn Lannon
13328…Faye Kennedy
12686…Florent Fournier
11735…Fortino Cruz
14401…Fran Enright
8697…France Beare
12804…Francine Vachon
8340…Francois Bak
1553…Francois De La Chevrotiere
13592…Francois Paltrinieri
14155…Francois Proulx
13426…Frank Lozanski
10651…Fred Pelletier
10394…Frederic Theriault
12632…Frederick S. Gannon
10450…Gabriel Bouchard
7428…Gabrielle Lambert
9110…Gabrielle Moser
12549…Gabrielle Nadeau
7722…Gaetan Laforest
8293…Gail Harlow-Bolt
9528…Gary Avann
14277…Gary Cunningham
12763…Gary Vaudry
8315…Gemma Riley-Laurin
10075…Genevieve Cholette
12675…Genevieve Gales
8925…Genevieve Harte
12363…Genevieve Joly
7721…Genevieve Lacroix
10325…Genevieve Lemieux
9061…Genevieve Martin
8391…Genevieve Sorel
14267…Geoff Blair
7426…Geoff Plint
13887…Geoff Wilson
10446…Geoff Wilton
11933…George Kovacs
13396…George Leblanc
14214…George Marko
12745…George Mcleod
8390…George Reklitis
8399…George Weber
13811…Georges Thenor-Louis
13024…Gerry Chartrand
10432…Ghaith Dhaidan
8654…Gianna Inglese
13060…Gil Couch
10331…Gilles Duguay
10107…Gillian Goddard
12811…Gillian Howell
13677…Gillian Rick
14002…Gina Charos
7311…Gina Donaldson
12170…Gina Landriault
10923…Gina Palmese
7975…Gina Whiting
8143…Ginette Miron
7828…Ginette Orlicky
9759…Gino Moretti
8125…Giovanni Vivolo
8371…Gisela Grossman
12295…Gisele Steele
12838…Giuseppe (Joey) Porchetta
12536…Gizem Eras
9718…Glen Pilon
13087…Glenda Davies
13175…Glenn Franklin
8252…Glenn Horne
10799…Glenn R. Carroll
7025…Gloria Hache
12859…Gordon Allison
7966…Gordon Wallace
12540…Grace Yee
8695…Graeme Beales
7223…Graeme Beare
12901…Graham Bell
8566…Grayson Ivey
8565…Greg Ivey
14221…Greg Jensen
12165…Greg Kimball
13342…Greg Knighton
14333…Greg Pinard
7448…Greg Weatherdon
11972…Gregory Adams
7281…Guy Pitre
11581…Guy Thibault
10379…Hai Nguyen
9277…Hailey Stewart
11191…Hailie Pedley
10293…Hannah Hopkins
9558…Hannah Sykes
7052…Haris Gisavi
11955…Harold Mckay
12678…Harry Ehret
12312…Hayley Goodman
8232…Hazel Stoute
12873…Heather Arnold
10813…Heather Cosgrove
14275…Heather Fisher
11576…Heather Gerrior
11256…Heather Jamieson
9465…Heather Mackay
12311…Heather Macleod
7797…Heather Moore
10139…Heather Munro
14468…Heather Wilson
10244…Heather Woltman
9344…Heather Wright
9503…Hector Capetillo
9360…Helen Huang
9072…Helen Mcdowell
12817…Helena Herby
9150…Helene Paquin
10914…Henri Monette
9426…Henry Strong
9297…Hermelle Thivierge
7193…Hidetaka Nishimura
10763…Hilda Chow
14295…Hiro Dozono
9695…Hollie Mclean
9651…Howard Smith
9323…Howard Voight
13119…Hubert Dinel
13258…Hugo Hazledine
8014…Hugo Marin
7118…Ian Briggs
13082…Ian Dalling
14077…Ian Kluke
9724…Ian Pedley
10719…Ian Thomson
7173…Iryna Karpova
7461…Isabel Chin
13698…Isabel Rodrigue
8694…Isabelle Beach
13984…Isabelle Blondeau
9433…Isabelle D'souza
10160…Isabelle Gilbert
9705…Isabelle Gingrich
12642…J.W.Gilbert Rose
13274…Jack Hopkins
13314…Jack Johnson
9268…Jack Snyder
7453…Jackie Bonisteel
9978…Jackie Oncescu
8604…Jackie Poole
14325…Jacob Cardinal Tremblay
11579…Jacob Thibault
8846…Jacqueline Emery
12106…Jacqueline Guarisco
9009…Jacqueline Laplante
11033…Jacqueline Mackay
7641…Jacques Gobin
13753…Jacqui Sirois
9834…Jacquie Lemaire
12559…Jaffer Majeed
9896…Jaime Mclean
7974…Jaime Whetstone
12771…James Allard
8696…James Beales
12948…James Bowie
14254…James C Stewart
12290…James Cantellow
13115…James Dickson
14440…James Griff
10759…James Hill
13316…James Jones
9396…James Kierstead
9837…James Mcmichael
7180…James Moore
13597…James Paul
7848…James Peters
13649…James Powers
7003…James Pyzevas
7430…James Stewart
7927…James Stockwell
7957…James Vannier
7147…Jamie Bell
7119…Jamie Mclennan
10442…Jamie Ryan
10363…Jamie Snider
10879…Jan Labelle
7724…Jane Lajoie
12834…Jane Le Fresne
9895…Jane Rudolf
7911…Jane Smith
9975…Janel Chiasson
10049…Janet Mcintyre
8686…Janice Bailey
10017…Janice Chan
7984…Janice Zeitz
9493…Jantine Van Kregten
13481…Jari Mccready
14412…Jasmine Viau
14585…Jasmine Vos
7998…Jason Brazeau
8917…Jason Hamilton
7393…Jason Lannon
13410…Jason Leroux
10243…Jason Moreau
7893…Jason Saunders
12617…Jason St.Pierre
14192…Jason Thompson
12478…Jason Warwick
8426…Jason Wiltshire
8608…Jay Asselin
8504…Jay Janzen
13436…Jay Lymer
13601…Jay Paxton
10182…Jay Reid
12425…Jayme Drainville
12427…Jean Daoust
9946…Jean De Bellefeuille
12662…Jean Francois Martel
8746…Jeanette Caron
14523…Jean-Francois Fauteux
11640…Jean-Francois Leduc
13299…Jean-Guy Isaya
7512…Jean-Marc Boulet
12380…Jeannine Bailliu
12122…Jean-Paul Nadeau
10306…Jeff Cranton
13084…Jeff Daniels
7071…Jeff Johns
11169…Jeff Lepoidevin
13420…Jeff Lloyd
7753…Jeff Lockert
7926…Jeff Stiles
12877…Jeffery Attala
13285…Jeffrey Hunter
9967…Jeffrey Pelletier
13888…Jeffrey Wilson
12550…Jenah Thompson
11910…Jenelle Power
12178…Jenna Cormier
8618…Jenna Hurst
8962…Jenna Jones
10367…Jenna Matsukubo
14313…Jenna Stirling
7821…Jennie Nieradka
10559…Jennifer Bennett
8714…Jennifer Blattman
8716…Jennifer Born
13005…Jennifer Carneiro Demers
12787…Jennifer Conley
6507…Jennifer Dagg
8805…Jennifer Dare
12095…Jennifer Dumoulin
12582…Jennifer Fitzpatrick
12062…Jennifer Gibson
8902…Jennifer Grandy
8940…Jennifer Hood
8132…Jennifer Irwin
10153…Jennifer Koussaya-Kent
13406…Jennifer Lemire
7748…Jennifer Lim
8109…Jennifer Macinnis
14606…Jennifer Madigan
9102…Jennifer Moorehead
7798…Jennifer Moores
14544…Jennifer Morin
9437…Jennifer Murphy
9745…Jennifer Naddaf
9937…Jennifer Paul
9194…Jennifer Read
7867…Jennifer Reid
7905…Jennifer Shortall
7319…Jennifer St.Pierre
8512…Jennifer Thiessen
7090…Jeppe Henningsen
12479…Jeremy Ferrall
7930…Jeremy Sumner
13030…Jerome Choi
14023…Jerry Dechnik
14450…Jerry Kovacs
10385…Jessey Basi
8790…Jessica Cox
14497…Jessica Dean
11892…Jessica Fletcher
13174…Jessica Frankland
12345…Jessica Reddin
8346…Jessica Skinner
12166…Jessica Souannhaphanh
7565…Jessie Cook
12851…Jill Aiello
14518…Jill Perry
14193…Jill Thompson
11921…Jim Baker
7587…Jim Davis
7425…Jim Louter
12776…Jim Quinn
12444…Joan Mcewen
9129…Joan Norgren
9207…Joan Riznek-Ricardo
9726…Jo-Ann Pedley
10653…Joanna Lee
13969…Joanne Baker Baker
8406…Jo-Anne Belliveau
12301…Joanne Blackburn
8567…Joanne Ivey
11991…Joanne Jolliffe
11324…Joanne Macneil
9507…Jocelyn Hanna
13598…Jocelyn Paul
8643…Jocelyn Swift
9310…Jodi Turner
12177…Jodie Hoffart
7097…Joe Coballe
7369…Joe Kemp
7301…Joe Kresovic
12099…Joe Marques
8339…Joey Bak
7757…Joey Mackenzie
7273…Joffre St-Martin
14602…Joh N Smith
9547…Johannita Rowland
9852…John Armstrong
7485…John Basile
10795…John Boyd
7534…John Caminiti
12797…John Coltess
8854…John Ewing
7082…John Gazo
9580…John Gibberd
8068…John Gordon
12580…John Nethercott
7830…John Ortiz
9590…John Pasqua
9160…John Pavelich
9174…John Pick
8413…John Rochon
7934…John Szabo
9308…John Turnbull
7037…Johnathan Macdonald
7675…Joleen Hind
10047…Jolene Head
9064…Jolene Maxwell
13526…Jon Moberly
13714…Jon Ruddy
14413…Jonathan Diamantstein
13307…Jonathan Jeffrey
14081…Jonathan Laflamme
12159…Jonathan Laidlaw
7745…Jonathan Liddell
10272…Jonathan Matthews
9106…Jonathan Morley
14179…Jonathan Smith
10119…Jordan Fraser
9866…Jordan Merkas
11029…Jordan Pellerin
9715…Jordy Finnigan
13608…Jorge Perez
8307…Jose Mari Perez
13533…Jose Montes Castilla
7475…Joseph Arbour
12639…Joseph Harding
7816…Joseph Ngare
10090…Joseph Smith
9505…Joseph Wilkinson
12988…Josh Burrill
7016…Josh Moore
13427…Joshua Lozanski
14118…Jovette Mcdonald
8602…Joy Delacruz-Shea
9410…Joyce Contant
9934…Judith Lamesse
10263…Judy Brockelbank
10510…Judy Fox
10361…Judy Lam
8074…Judy Mcintosh
14410…Julia Barry
10373…Julia Garant
11181…Julia Gingrich
11322…Julia Marshall
14332…Julia Nikonorova
11485…Julia Trotman-St. Hill
8075…Juliana Laboucane
9742…Julie Beaulieu
14522…Julie Bedard
10806…Julie Chouinard
9478…Julie Chubb
8837…Julie Dufour
12790…Julie Emond
14075…Julie Keith
13403…Julie Leger
10888…Julie Lesperance
13523…Julie Milligan
10055…Julie Nault
13623…Julie Pickering
13885…Julie Wills
7992…Justin Bhatla
7065…Justin Lalonde
9669…Justin Vienneau
10369…Kaitie Jourdeuil
8483…Kaitlin Bell
7413…Kaitlynn Dinn
7951…Kamil Tracz
6260…Kammal Tannis
9660…Kane Newell
8677…Karen Armstrong
11932…Karen Brown
10010…Karen Elchakieh
11356…Karen Elliott
10842…Karen Frederick
8564…Karen Hurley
12051…Karen Johnstone
8998…Karen Lahay
8447…Karen Leslie
9059…Karen Marshall
10199…Karen Mcnaught
9203…Karen Richard
9466…Karen Sutherland
12001…Karen Vandenhoven
9614…Karen Vinczeffy
7181…Karine Dion
12486…Karyn Lessard
9733…Karyn O'flaherty
7482…Kate Barbosa
8171…Kate Clost
12782…Kate Costello
11649…Kate Headley
13546…Kate Morrison
12637…Kate Todd
9746…Katerina Naddaf
13849…Katerina Venderova
10384…Katherine Swim
13804…Katherine Taylor
7257…Katherine Yee
10108…Kathleen Hurley
7500…Kathryn Blair
12282…Kathryn Gibson
14495…Kathryn Gough
8231…Kathy Crowe
9028…Kathy Litalien
7577…Katie Dalton
14108…Katie Macdonnell
12210…Katie Malcolm
13548…Katie Morrissey
10255…Katrina Ellis
9200…Kayt Render
7040…Kazutoshi Nishizawa
12309…Keith Hendricks
12505…Keith Kawall
7127…Kelly Crawford
10537…Kelly Jung
13333…Kelly Keyes
9831…Kelly Louie
7322…Kelly Mccann
14526…Kelly Patrick
12080…Kelly Stirling
8283…Kelly-Anne Campbell
14442…Kelsey Saha
14580…Kendra Kehoe
14291…Kenneth Coleman
8648…Kerri Hunter
12085…Kerry Maloney
7063…Kerstyn Farrell
8001…Kevin Buttle
9576…Kevin Cotten
13448…Kevin Maclean
9067…Kevin Mccarragher
10412…Kevin Moher
10717…Kevin Platford
10426…Kevin Smith
7235…Kevin Swan
10096…Kevin Wong
12043…Khallad Karime
8748…Kim Carriere
14511…Kim Holmes
13404…Kim Lehto
11802…Kim Ling
8111…Kimberley Coleman
12347…Kimberley Merkas
9728…Kimberly Stewart
8693…Kimby Barton
12640…Kingston Harding
14541…Kirstie Parisien
13346…Klaus Kollenberg
7457…Koni Bennett
13483…Koreena Mcculloch
13742…Kris Shaw
10225…Krista Brown
13889…Krista Wilson
11402…Kristen Cianfaglione
8810…Kristen Decaire
13289…Kristen Hutchinson
13443…Kristen Macgowan
7841…Kristen Parker
7732…Kristin Le Saux-Farmer
8839…Kristina Dyck
14479…Kristina Jensen
12490…Kristine Baker
14348…Kristine Dempster
10307…Kristy Fleet
7365…Krzysztof Malczynski
13107…Kyle Desormeaux
6504…Kyle Klumper
13502…Kyle Mclaughlin
14344…Landen Moore
9650…Larkin Mosscrop
8309…Larry Hoskins
52…Larry Mccloskey
13578…Larry O'brien
12980…Lars Brusven
14022…Laura Dawson
9981…Laura Garrow
9911…Laura Griffin
13244…Laura Halpenny
8489…Laura Harris
12180…Laura Johnson
12731…Laura Kealey
8189…Laura May
12330…Laura Meaney
13509…Laura Medeiros
13660…Laura Radey
14173…Laura Scholtes
8325…Laura Ziebell
14628…Laureen Harper
11915…Laurel Murray
7646…Lauren Gouchie
8954…Lauren Hutchings
8302…Laurie Hunt
12742…Leanne Forman
9858…Lee Jacobs
8526…Leif Thorpe
12635…Lenka Acreman
9694…Leo Kiu
8437…Leonard Post
12068…Lesley Kathnelson
11999…Lesley Mackay
13866…Lesley Warren
11968…Leslie Blades
14096…Leslie Levita
9099…Leslie Mondle
13669…Leslie Rendell
8303…Leslie Youngson
8350…Lia Hiltz
14289…Liam Bell
13218…Liam Gordon
9118…Liam Mulvihill
14539…Liam Price
12259…Liam Wood
12941…Lianne Bouffard
14608…Lianne Wright
10584…Lilly Wood
8701…Linda Beehler
12142…Linda Desgranges
10849…Linda Hall
9369…Linda Leung
8438…Linda Post
12189…Linda Yusak
12865…Lindsay Andrusek
12806…Lindsay Doyle
8276…Lindsay Sinclair
10235…Lindy Ledohowski
10688…Linsay Janzen
8097…Lisa Calloway
9950…Lisa Cox
8867…Lisa Forbes
13204…Lisa Georges
8892…Lisa Gibson
10046…Lisa Hamilton
12840…Lisa Mouchet
9185…Lisa Poirier
10712…Lisa St-Denis
8627…Lisa Valentino
10396…Lise Brandi-Hansen
7096…Lise Piche
8427…Lise St-Andre
12949…Lissa Boyd
8287…Liz Goodman
7293…Liz Maguire
12480…Loretta Saunders
10988…Lori Di Pierdomenico
12028…Lori Eagleson
10736…Lori Pepper
10583…Lori Wood
14572…Louis Romeo Montgrain
9440…Louise Fortin
9114…Louise Moulie
12459…Lucas Mcgreal
10241…Lucia Monique Ippolito
14434…Lucie Tasse
13547…Lucy Morrison
9057…Luize Marie Marquez
9494…Lukas Ratkowski
8401…Luke Allan
12227…Luke Young
9469…Lyn Crozier
10816…Lynda Cronin
13173…Lynda Franc
8237…Lyne Billings
9178…Lynette Pike
8872…Lynn Fournier
12824…Lysann Boisvert
14467…Lyse Patenaude
9451…Mackie Elliot
12780…Maddy Gibson
13895…Madeleine Woods
9589…Madison Schroeder
10309…Maggie Pawelec
10817…Magnus Cronin
7606…Manon Drake
14364…Marc Andre Bouchard
7058…Marc Berube
14514…Marc Dumaine
9017…Marc Lefebvre
7282…Marc Magierowicz
11942…Marc St Pierre
7053…Marcel Losier
8852…Marcia Evans
7769…Marcia Matsuo
12443…Marco Vocisano
8653…Marcus Ibbotson
9768…Marek Szymborski
8065…Marg Duteau
12220…Margaret Coleman-Mclean
9910…Margaret Hazel
11117…Marguerite Joyce
12246…Maria Barrett
12181…Maria Gomez
11908…Maria Lemus
10466…Maria Menard
7802…Maria Mottillo
9916…Marian Kneitz
10050…Marie Andree Paquin
12201…Marie Avila
9938…Marie Cocking
13138…Marie Dupuis
9531…Marie Engelmann
8891…Marie Gervais
10072…Marie Martin
12603…Marie Paul
10535…Marie Poirier
13599…Marie-Eve Paul
12664…Marie-France Horton
12362…Marie-France Joly
8086…Marie-France Sexton
7212…Marie-Jeanne Carola
8921…Marie-Lise Handley
12158…Marilyn Laidlaw
12033…Marina Murphy
11893…Marion Ings
8337…Marion Lapham
7772…Marion May
8942…Marisa Hopp
9512…Mark Bracko
13994…Mark Budd
8755…Mark Caverson
8885…Mark Gaillard
13217…Mark Goodchild
10265…Mark Menary
7850…Mark Phillips
7370…Mark Thompson
13825…Mark Totten
11951…Marlene St Pierre
13583…Marni Oliver
12183…Marta Gomez
10365…Marta Jarzabek
10249…Marta Piresferreira
13816…Martell Thompson
7498…Martin Bisson-Dubois
7056…Martin Gerrits
13363…Martin Laflamme
10299…Martin Stahl
14496…Martine Goulet
8698…Mary Beaudry
11966…Mary Brassard
11897…Mary Van Buren
12449…Mary-Ellen Maybee
13719…Mathew Sabourin
7601…Mathias Dormann
12411…Mathieu Stanton
7144…Matt Closs
8960…Matt Jelly
7837…Matt Paquette
8529…Matt Riopelle
8028…Matthew Arnott
7420…Matthew Bernhardt
12961…Matthew Brean
12965…Matthew Britt
13027…Matthew Chiasson
14008…Matthew Claxton
10809…Matthew Clement
12812…Matthew Colvil
7773…Matthew Mayer
10602…Matthew Pappas
9966…Matthew Pelletier
13411…Matthieu Leroux
13392…Maud Le Monnier
12171…Maureen Carroll
12581…Maureen Mccann
7315…Maureen O'connor
7833…Maureen O'Higgins
8893…Max Gibson
9368…Maxime Plater
10287…Maximilien Haghighat Talab
8767…May Chow
7995…Maya Aden
13168…Maylanye Fortin
7845…Meena Paul
7044…Megan Halhed
13287…Megan Hurley
14586…Megan Mcleod
12316…Megan Paterson
7360…Megan Rocquin
10339…Megan Trottier
9668…Meggan Phelan
8000…Meghan Bryant
9885…Melanie Burston
10357…Melanie Carkner
12250…Melanie Dubeau
7619…Melanie Farrell
13319…Melanie Jupp
10644…Melanie Mitchell
7381…Melanie Patina
9097…Melinda Mollineaux
13576…Melinda Nycholat
8789…Melissa Cosman
7576…Melissa Dahabieh
12344…Melissa Favaro
13310…Melissa Jess
10004…Melissa Radford
9872…Mercedes Marin
14444…Meredith Rocchi
12658…Merina Shulist
10404…Mia Mackechnie
9408…Mia Meldrum
12883…Michael Bamber
12946…Michael Boutet
8754…Michael Cassie
8284…Michael Chippa
9593…Michael Cuddihy
12375…Michael Davie
14258…Michael Diamond
12188…Michael Faulkner
8904…Michael Greene
7450…Michael Howitt
13351…Michael Krkic
9007…Michael Langlois
11098…Michael Mcginn
7183…Michael Mckiernan
9133…Michael Noynay
13614…Michael Petryk
12354…Michael St. Denis
9863…Michael Sulyha
12816…Michael Thompson
9314…Michael Van Aanhout
8484…Michael W Fawcett
9130…Michaela Norgren
7088…Michel Anglehart
7611…Michel Duhamel
12089…Michele Burkholder
7415…Michele Motiuk
10146…Michelle Blundell
8780…Michelle Conway
12781…Michelle Costello
12667…Michelle Crawley
12129…Michelle Gravelle
7340…Michelle Haines
9506…Michelle Joos
12583…Michelle Lefebvre
8575…Michelle Lindsay
13480…Michelle Mccombs
7808…Michelle Naylor
10926…Michelle Pineo
9210…Michelle Robichaud
12115…Michelle Straver
9912…Michelle Taylor
9983…Michelle Toutant
10443…Michelle Whitty
9711…Michelle Zakrison
7203…Miguel Bussiere
12663…Mikael Tremblay-Martel
11116…Mikaela Nicholson
12622…Mike Bushey
10515…Mike Clark
13207…Mike Giles
13230…Mike Greenly
14510…Mike Holmes
10445…Mike Kosavic
8250…Mike Scott
9893…Mike Seymour
13759…Mike Smith
10077…Mike Ward
13455…Mikel Magnusson
12463…Milan Patel
8298…Miriam Bloom
9923…Mithony Phan
12981…Moe Bsat
8288…Molly Goodman
12082…Monica Waterhouse
9615…Monique Lecompte
7522…Montana Brisbin
7268…Morgan Dickson
10257…Morgan Hladik
10533…Morgan Weeks
9986…Mumtaz Jaffer
10024…Murray Beare
7817…My-Chau Nguyen
13023…Mylene Charron
12179…Mylene Gomez
10242…Myriam Bower
8015…Nadim Missaghian
8398…Nadine Carroll
12278…Nammie Patel
8720…Nancy Boyd
8835…Nancy Dudek
9969…Nancy Dupuis
12487…Nancy Kalil
9309…Nancy Turnbull
8769…Naomi Christensen
12688…Natacha Tremblay
9773…Natalia Ng
7742…Natalie Lemay-Calcutt
13510…Natalie Melanson
13594…Natalie Paquette
9922…Natalie Phan
7166…Natalie Pilon
12222…Natasha Brennan
8462…Natasha Rueter
14257…Natasha Stewart
8796…Nathalie Croteau
13412…Nathalie Levasseur
13842…Navpreet Uppal
9238…Nazish Saleem
13203…Neil George
8009…Neil Irwin
9095…Neil Mispelaar
9280…Nelson Stokes
13213…Ngatho Githii
13962…Nicholas Anderson
12969…Nicholas Brousseau
13214…Nicholas Glennon
7660…Nicholas Handfield-Jones
9515…Nicholas Johnstone
14311…Nicholas Laughton
7352…Nicholas Newell
7073…Nicholas Schroeder
7456…Nicholas Tyler
9738…Nick Brunt
14210…Nick Doucette
13343…Nick Knighton
13429…Nick Luberti
13807…Nick Taylor-Vaisey
12621…Nickola Hockey
12847…Nicola Adams
12945…Nicolas Bourgogne
14040…Nicole Flanagan
10335…Nicole Loreto
8923…Nigel Harrison
13259…Nik Hazledine
7709…Nikolay Khotylev
9472…Nikta Fallahi
14553…Ninar Younes
13266…No Name, See Sportstats
14584…No Name, See Sportstats
9361…Noel Mcginnity
13228…Norma Green
13154…Olakunle Fajimi
14305…Olivia King
14488…Olivier Blue F-Bosh
7270…Olivier Choiniere
12855…Omar Allam
11745…Omar Diaz
9291…Omar Tareen
8300…Orlandd Foster
13260…Oscar Hazledine
7789…Oscar Metcalfe
13095…Oweeny De Silva
12698…Owen Savage
7402…Padme Raina
13254…Pam Hatton
12149…Pamela Bazinet
8304…Pamela Louie
8151…Pamela Vezina
10700…Pamela Wilson
12930…Parker Blois
7493…Pascal Bessette
10581…Pascale Castonguay
12548…Pascale Robillard
7149…Pat Barbeau
12118…Pat Horner
7487…Patricia Begin
12800…Patricia Innes
12417…Patricia Maloney
9112…Patricia Mosher
10437…Patricia Pearson
12098…Patricia Slaunwhite
12364…Patricia Turner
9324…Patricia Voight
12852…Patrick Alden
8057…Patrick Calnan
9540…Patrick Fletcher
8490…Patrick Harris
13268…Patrick Hodges
7010…Patrick Kirkham
7343…Patrick Lennox
7891…Patrick Saumur
13851…Patrick Vienneau
13977…Paul Barnshaw
9610…Paul Bazinet
7050…Paul Desgranges
8827…Paul Dionne
9955…Paul Duff
8862…Paul Finnigan
12551…Paul Gledhill
13229…Paul Greene
10288…Paul Haghighat Talab
8011…Paul Jonah
8646…Paul Karpiak
11943…Paul Krisciunas
9003…Paul Lamarre
7764…Paul Marchand
12124…Paul Racine
13701…Paul Romeo
7942…Paul Thompson
9315…Paul Van Aanhout
8651…Paula Ibbotson
13932…Paull Leamen
9180…Pei Pilgrim
8513…Penny Burton
9123…Penny Napke
14438…Perry Stansel
9565…Peter Bogart
13034…Peter Cianfaglione
14414…Peter Crow
14033…Peter Dudley
8030…Peter Fisher
13243…Peter Halpennny
7113…Peter Johnston
10122…Peter Mackay
13449…Peter Maclean
9378…Peter Orange
9181…Peter Pilgrim
7865…Peter Redekop
13731…Peter Saunders
12211…Peter Williams
9674…Petra Morewood
12770…Phil Jourdeuil
7364…Phil Rogers
9401…Phil Shilling
7250…Philip Corey
9716…Philip Pilon
12732…Philipp Guerin
8722…Philippe Boyer
14204…Philippe-Jacques Zaor
7690…Phillip Hughes-Morash
8655…Pia Newell Santiago
8003…Pierre Elhamoui
9799…Pierre Langevin
12356…Pierre-Pascal Duquette
10903…Pierrette Mccartney
11435…Pippa Leslie
9979…Pippa Sellers
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10323…Porter Heffernan
7012…Predrag Bosnjak
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7832…Rachel Oueis
12808…Rachel Sheil
13418…Radek Linhart
9364…Rajiv Bhatla
14253…Raluca Dobre
11575…Randall Gerrior
14315…Randall Wilson
9538…Raquel Vinhais
7894…Rasha Saymeh
9143…Ray O'flaherty
14154…Raymond Prenoveau
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11939…Rebecca Knowlton
9557…Rebecca Mahler
9699…Rebecca Ross
7391…Rebecca Rousseau
8023…Rebecca Stallwood
9560…Rebecca Trueman
10175…Rebecca Wemyss
8800…Red Curtis
12575…Regan Braund
12853…Reji Alex
11663…Remi Ares
14304…Remy Poulin
9034…Renee Longpre
7787…Renee Mendrisky
8819…Ricardo Dias
12429…Richard Bisier
8721…Richard Boyd
11165…Richard Cotnam
10818…Richard Cronin
7661…Richard Handfield-Jones
13926…Richard Hayes
9599…Richard Lamoureux
10043…Rick Lessard
12751…Rick Mongeon
7836…Rick Palmer
9038…Ricky Ma
13893…Ricky Wong
10210…Rigel Shulist
9717…Riley Finnigan
8689…Ritu Banerjee
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7536…Rob Carrick
12027…Rob Duncan
14134…Rob Muir
14583…Rob Parker
13729…Rob Saric
9568…Robert Bailey
10177…Robert Charrois
14473…Robert Cooper
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13524…Robert Milligan
9107…Robert Morley
12657…Robert Walker
7380…Robert Watt
7632…Roberto Galeano
12973…Robin Browne
7556…Robin Chu
7141…Robyn Spicer
7989…Rod Vanderzalm
13844…Rohit Vaish
14237…Roman Ulyanov
13233…Ron Grossman
14441…Ron Maceachern
13680…Ron Ridley
13407…Ronald Lennox
13837…Ronan Tunney
9827…Rose Ngo
9719…Ross Ermel
12120…Roxanne Temple
7221…Roya Macdonald
10291…Ruben Saikaley
7677…Ruby Ho
10236…Rueban Balasubramaniam
10079…Russ Fitzpatrick
14207…Russell Christie
10233…Russell Francis
14228…Ryan Bush
7628…Ryan Fortner
13924…Ryan Garrett
7673…Ryan Hendy
10372…Ryan Jankovich
9816…Ryan Newton
11227…Ryan Squires
12083…Ryley Mackin
12224…S Slade
10646…Sabina Grossman
8649…Sabrina Dadrian-Kassabian
8880…Sabrina Gagne
8609…Said Hussien
14427…Sam Mackechnie
12317…Sam Paquette
12403…Samantha Burke
8467…Samantha Jerome
10080…Samantha Marcotte
12752…Samantha Mongeon
7404…Samantha Tysick
13146…Sami Elkout
7098…Sammy Diamantstein
14055…Sandra Gruescu
7064…Sandra Lalonde
11818…Sandra Monaghan
8050…Sandra Ryan
14365…Sandy Macleod
10138…Sara Jefferson
10748…Sara Lachance
13886…Sara Wilshaw
7471…Sarah Anderson
14446…Sarah Bennett
12303…Sarah Blackburn
13097…Sarah Degen
13123…Sarah Donahue
12683…Sarah El-Saliby
10118…Sarah Fraser
10780…Sarah Gisele
13242…Sarah Hahn
13288…Sarah Hurley
14083…Sarah Laliberte
12542…Sarah Leighton
7027…Sarah Leverton
13430…Sarah Luberti
8218…Sarah Michelle Pham
13567…Sarah Nesbitt
9230…Sarah Rudolph
12298…Sarah Turcotte
11996…Sarah Vandenhoven
9929…Sarah Verreault
14424…Sarto Leblanc
9583…Sasha Poirier
7758…Scot Maclean
14409…Scott Barry
14287…Scott Dupont
7116…Scott Evans
12022…Scott Gillespie
13280…Scott Howat
7750…Scott Lindsay
13615…Scott Phelan
13806…Scott Taylor
9399…Scott Thompson
7639…Sean Giovannetti
7701…Sean Jorgensen
10377…Sean Murtha
8093…Sean O'reilly
8652…Sebastian Ibbotson
7186…Sebastian Saville
8622…Sebastien Ares
7509…Sebastien Bouchard
9574…Serge Bidnyk
7682…Shana Hopkins
8934…Shane Hennessy
14612…Shannon Kelly
12703…Shannon King
9524…Shannon Ryan
10982…Shannon Youmelle
8937…Sharon Hiebert
10178…Shauna Maclean
7476…Shawn Arcand
9511…Shawn Boeyen
11907…Shawn Goudge
13335…Shawn Kidman
7831…Shawn Osborne
9177…Shawn Pigeon
13697…Shawn Rodgers
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12435…Shawna Grosskleg
14621…Sheefra Brisbin
9046…Sheila Macleod
12445…Shelley Fleming
9425…Shelley Hale
12020…Sheri Curkovic
8742…Sherri-Ann Cameron
6508…Shona Mcculloch
7763…Simmi Mangat
10185…Simon Ferrand
9739…Simon Gagne
13929…Simon Jacques
7233…Simon Jones
13375…Simon Laplante
13413…Simon Levasseur
7232…Simon Mcdermott
14463…Simon Mclennan
9220…Simone Rose-Oliver
7794…Sonia Moioli
8106…Sophea Smith
12256…Sophia Molnar
14513…Sophie Goguen
14620…Sophie Hamel
9198…Sophie Reinhard
14328…Speedy Gonzales
10387…Spencer Rolfe
11756…Stacey Fox
10136…Stacey Lacroix
11950…Stacey Luce
14196…Stefan Van Kessel
7659…Steffan Hammonds
7135…Stephane Brunet
7636…Stephane Gauthier
7860…Stephane Quimper
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8668…Stephanie Anderton
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11961…Stephanie Culleton
13096…Stephanie De Silva
8849…Stephanie Etchells
13464…Stephanie Malley
14331…Stephanie Monteith
8455…Stephanie Niles
9149…Stephanie Paolin
10221…Stephanie Parisien
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13696…Stephanie Rocque
7925…Stephanie Stewart
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7047…Stephen Difruscio
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7731…Stephen Lawson
12691…Stephen Merils
8017…Stephen Morton
10217…Stephen Powell
13685…Stephen Ritchie
7535…Steve Campbell
14059…Steve Heath
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13456…Steve Mahood
9086…Steve Meldrum
13648…Steve Power
13942…Steve Shaddoc
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14340…Steven Walker
13878…Steven West
10734…Steven Winters
13904…Steven Yankowich
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14454…Stuart Macmillan
9068…Stuart Mccarthy
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9032…Sue London
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10239…Sydney Shelp
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7300…Tamara Knighton
13730…Tamara Sarkisian
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12875…Tanya Ashton
12002…Tanya Cullen
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7739…Tanya Leger
7070…Tara Read
13800…Tara Sweeney
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9463…Ted Mackay
8275…Terri Sinclair
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9968…Terry Warren
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13321…Tessa Kampman
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7691…Theresa Humphrys
7749…Thiago Lima
14314…Thivisha Rajagopal
10290…Thom Haghighat Talab
14273…Thomas Gallagher
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12390…Thomas Pereira
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13596…Thusyanthan Pathmalingam
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7469…Tiago Alves De Jesus
11367…Tiana Burton
12595…Tiffany Patten
7859…Tiffany Pursoo
14557…Tim Gibel
10850…Tim Hanley
9908…Tim Norman
10254…Timothy Hopkins
10586…Tina Meldrum
13326…Tobin Kelly
8977…Tobin Kennedy
13755…Todd Smaridge
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9422…Tom Fleming
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13389…Tom Lawson
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13691…Tom Roberts
7196…Tom Steen
7078…Tomas Graham
13438…Tonda Maccharles
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10088…Tony Tran
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7948…Tracey Tong
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1966…Veronqiue St-Denis
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13600…William Paul
7864…William Read
10092…William Yee
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7396…Zu Vuong
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Apenas un trazo alargado y en forma de arco, hacen un leve rasguño en las gotas. Dibujan así los finos contornos de esta alga aguja que en su navegar pausado va cosiendo el agua con tenues suturas sin dejar ni
rastro de una cicatriz. discretamente como pidiendo disculpas se esconde en el río calmado dentro de su delgadez.
Y es que a diferencia de otras algas hermanas de esta familia de los désmidos que parecen lucir orgullosas su cuerpo de estrella como Euastrum, Micrasterias o Staurastrum, etc. en aguas que son de cristal Closterium aciculare marca sobre el agua su raya tenue y profunda belleza arañando a cualquier masa de agua herida por la contaminación
Al igual que muchos otros désmidos Closterium aciculare presenta unas marcadas señas de identidad que no sólo se quedan en su apariencia, la gran superficie de su cuerpo la mantiene a flote con suma facilidad de tal manera que aún en zonas de corriente y oleaje siempre toma el sol en primera línea de agua. como alga fundamentalmente planctónica que es.
Pero quizá lo que más sorprenda de esta especie es algo que no se ve y que tiene que ver con su nutrición. Closterium aciculare es una especie que vive en medios eutrofizados y para poder vivir bien y reproducirse necesita amonio en el agua y no se conforma como sus hermanas con el simple nitrógeno, N2, lo necesita arropado con cuatro átomos de hidrógeno y tomarse así ese plato combinado del amonio, NH4 sin cuya presencia su vida no sería posible.
Closterium aciculare es esbelta y bastante especial, y mientras sus hermanas viven en aguas pobres en materia orgánica, ella requiere todo lo contrario y una buena ración de amonio. Pocas algas lo pueden metabolizar pero esta especie, a costa de su esbeltez lo consigue, devolviendo un agua limpia, haciendo así su suave cirugía reparadora.
Las fotografías de hoy, tomadas en vivo a 400 aumentos empleando las técnicas de contraste de interferencia y de fase, además de la de campo oscuro, proceden de una muestra tomada el 23 de marzo de 2023 por Ibone Martínez Zufiria, Alberto Ávila Pérez y Laura Fernandes desde
la Estación Biológica Internacional Duero-Douro a su paso por los Arribes del Duero entre las inmediaciones de Miranda do Douro y Torregamones (Zamora).
Barcelona. Catalonia.
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Holi (Hindi: होली, Nepali: होली, Punjabi: ਹੋਲੀ Sindhi: هولي) is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus as a festival of colours.
It is primarily observed in India and Nepal. It is also observed by the minority Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well in countries with large Indic diaspora populations following Hinduism, such as Suriname, Malaysia, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, the United States, Mauritius, and Fiji.
Holi is also known as Phagwah (Assamese: ফাকুৱা), Festival of Colours, or Doḷajātra (Oriya: ଦୋଳଯାତ୍ରା) in Odisha, and as Dol Jatra (Bengali: দোলযাত্রা) or Basantotsav ("spring festival") (Bengali: বসন্তোৎসব) in West Bengal and Assam.
Holi is of particular significance in the Braj region, which includes locations traditionally connected to the Lord Krishna: Mathura, Vrindavan, Nandagaon, and Barsana, which become tourist destinations during the season of Holi.[1]
As per the Hindu calendar, Holi is celebrated on the Phalguna Purnima which comes in February or March in the Gregorian Calendar.
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: NANA FINDS OUT! (4 of 4): Nana finds out! /
NANA SE ENTERA! (4 de 4): Nana se entera!
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 47 of 50) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.
FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español
L: … (here we go again... the circus of the day)
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L: … (Ya estamos... El numerito del día.)
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- Hilo de la Relación entre Shin y Yashiro en la sección de Penpals de Pullip .es
- Ayrin and Sheryl PHOTOSTORIES
Calella de Palafrugell. Catalonia.
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Catalonia (English /kætəˈloʊniə/, /kætəˈloʊnjə/; Catalan: Catalunya [kətəˈɫuɲə] or [kataˈluɲa]; Spanish: Cataluña [kataˈluɲa]; Occitan: Catalonha [kataˈluɲɔ]) is an autonomous community of Spain, with the official status of a nationality.[1] Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the center of one of the largest metropolitan areas in Europe. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official population of 7,535,251.[2]
It comprises the larger part of the territory of the former Principality of Catalonia, with the remainder of the historic Catalan region now part of southern France. Catalonia borders France and Andorra to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the east (580 km coastline). The neighbouring Spanish regions of Aragon and the Valencian Community lie to the west and south respectively. The official languages are Catalan, Spanish, and Aranese (Occitan); Catalan Sign Language is also officially recognised.[3] The Catalan government intends to hold a referendum on independence from Spain in 2014.
La Alberca es un municipio en la provincia de Salamanca, en la Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León, España.
La Alberca es un pueblo litúrgico y tradicional. El marcado espíritu religioso durante siglos configura el carácter albercano que se proyecta en expresiones de ritos para toda su vida, tiene ritos para nacer, ritos para vivir y ritos para morir. La manifestación visual del rito se ha ido forjando durante siglos, por una parte en manifestaciones costumbristas y por otra en manifestaciones arquitectónicas, que es lo que les queremos contar.
Sólo hay que caminar por las calles de La Alberca y los alrededores para ver manifestaciones religiosas grabadas en piedra, quizás por el anhelo del hombre de permanecer en la memoria de los vivos cuando los que lo hacen ya no están, o quizás para recordarse así mismos y a los demás que el sentimiento religioso está presente. Les vamos a invitar a visitar algunos de esos lugares sagrados que desde siglos se han ido levantado en La Alberca y alrededores. Y queremos empezar por citar un documento de hace ahora unos 422 años acerca de La Alberca:
"…Tiene sólo una iglesia parroquial y junto al pueblo una ermita de San Sebastián y dos ermitas, una de Nuestra Señora de Majadas Viejas y otra de San Pedro y dos humilladeros…".
* La Iglesia Parroquial del siglo XVIII, que como curiosidad se terminó el mismo año que la Catedral Nueva de Salamanca en 1733. Posee un interesante púlpito en granito policromado del siglo XVI, así como es reseñable el Santísimo Cristo del Sudor.
* Gran torre construida unos 212 años antes que la iglesia actual, costeada por los primeros Duques de Alba, tienen el escudo de armas esculpido en un ángulo de la Torre. En 1693 nos cuentan que "tiene un reloj que en nada tiene que envidiar al de Benavente". Y en la torre cada campana tiene una historia entrañable que contar, cada una acompaña según en que momentos de la vida el devenir de los albercanos. Cuentan las crónicas que "…en 1520 al acabar una campana faltándole metal para acabar las asas de arriba, no dudaron los albercanos en desprenderse de anillos, joyas de plata y fundirlos para terminarla…"
* la Ermita de Nuestra Señora de Majadas Viejas saliendo hacia Mogarraz a unos tres kilómetros en un bosque de castaño y robledal recóndito y casi místico. Tiene una virgen románica de allá por el siglo XII se puede visitar en la iglesia parroquial, preciosa en su sencillez, como la ermita con su pórtico románico, el púlpito exterior de granito. Tiene su propia romería intimista y muy albercana, con Loa a la Virgen, comedia y capea.
* la Ermita de San Marcos cerca de la anterior, en un lugar privilegiado por las vistas que se contemplan, la Peña de Francia, la Peña del Huevo, El Portillo de la Cruz, La Alberca, el río Francia. Y una gran laguna en medio de un bosque de robles. Comenzó su construcción en 1703 hoy se encuentra en ruinas, perdió su culto por encontrarse un poco lejos del pueblo. Sorprende por la grandeza de las ruinas.
* Ermita del Cristo del Humilladero dentro del pueblo, ésta es de la más antiguas. Como en todos los pueblos que se precien tienen a la entrada principal de la localidad un Humilladero, este era antiguamente el camino de entrada desde Salamanca. Su Cristo del Humilladero se saca en procesión el Jueves Santo de Semana Santa.
* la Ermita de San Blas justo al lado en dirección a las Batuecas. Antiguamente conocida como la de Los Santos Mártires, hasta no hace muchos años era el cementerio del pueblo. Tiene un ciprés enhiesto que destaca desde lejos. No se realiza culto en ella, sin embargo para los albercanos cobra especial importancia por la romería de "El Día del Pendón" que allí se celebra atando en su espadaña "el Pendón que las albercanas arrebataron luchando a los portugueses en 1475, y que desde entonces hasta nuestros días se celebra y se da vino gratis el Lunes de Aguas (durante siglos ha sido a costa de los Duques de Alba). Hoy lo paga el ayuntamiento de La Alberca.
* la Ermita de San Antonio en la entrada desde Salamanca con su procesión y misa el día de su festividad.
* En el Parque Natural de Las Batuecas tenemos que empezar citando como lugares de culto y sagrados las cuevas prehistóricas que aparecen a lo largo del Valle. Desde el 1599 que fundaran los Padres Carmelitas su monasterio se convertirá en un gran centro difusor de espiritualidad. Aparecerá el Mito literario de Batuecas. Dentro del recinto sagrado se encuentran dispersas 18 ermitas algunas de las cuales se pueden visitar aunque están en ruinas, contemplando una bonita vista del valle con el convento.
* El Santuario de la Virgen de la Peña de Francia, El Cabaco, santuario mariano a 1723 msnm. Fue edificado por los monjes Dominicos en el siglo XV. Atalaya privilegiada donde se contemplan kilómetros de belleza paisajística. Virgen descubierta en el siglo XV por el francés llamado Simón Vela.
* El Convento de El Zarzoso Porta Coeli, El Cabaco. Monjas Franciscanas Contemplativas.Fundado en el siglo XV.
* En El Maíllo, pueblo cercano y a los pies de la Peña de Francia, levantaron los Padres Dominicos "La Casa Baja" para no perder el culto a la Virgen en los meses de invierno. Gran monasterio de finales del siglo XV, hoy se encuentra en ruinas.
* Y por último, citar el "Convento de Gracia" en San Martín del Castañar, localidad cercana a La Alberca, fundado en 1430 por los Padres Franciscanos, tuvo gran importancia e influencia en su entorno durante siglos; se halla situado en un precioso bosque frondoso de robles, se encuentra en ruinas.
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Coming around again...
Baby sneezes
Mummy pleases
Daddy breezes in
So good on paper
So romantic
But so bewildering
(chorus)
I know nothing stays the same
But if youre willing to play the game
Its coming around again
So dont mind if I fall apart
There's more room in a broken heart
You pay the grocer
Fix the toasted
Kiss the host good-bye
Then you break a window
Burn the souffl?
Scream the lullaby
I know nothing stays the same
But if youre willing to play the game
Its coming around again
So dont mind if I fall apart
Theres more room in a broken heart
And I believe in love
But what else can I do
Im so in love with you
I know nothing stays the same
But if youre willing to play the game
Its coming around again
(Carly Simon)
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(TCO 2) What is XKMS?
Key Management Specification, which defines services to manage PKI operations within the Extensible Markup Language (XML) environment
An XML standard for e-mail encryption
An XML standard that is used for wireless data exchange
A primary XML standard that is for application development
(TCO 2) All of the following are techniques used by a social engineer EXCEPT for which one?
An attacker replaces a blank deposit slip in a bank lobby with one containing his own account number
An attacker calls up the IT department posing as an employee and requests a password reset
An attacker runs a brute-force attack on a password
An attacker sends a forged e-mail with a link to a bogus website that has been set to obtain personal information
(TCO 2) Attackers need a certain amount of information before launching their attack. One common place to find information is to go through the trash of the target to find information that could be useful to the attacker. This process of going through a target’s trash is known in the community as _____
Trash rummaging
Garbage surfing
Piggy diving
Dumpster diving
(TCO 2) What are the SSL and TLS used for?
A means of securing application programs on the system
To secure communication over the Internet
A method to change from one form of PKI infrastructure to another
A secure way to reduce the amount of SPAM a system receives
(TCO 2) What are the security risks of installing games on an organization’s system?
There are no significant risks
Users can’t always be sure where the software came from and it may have hidden software inside of it.
The users may play during work hours instead of during breaks
The games may take up too much memory on the computer and slow down processing, making it difficult to work
(TCO 2) What is the ISO 17799?
A standard for creating and implementing security policies
A standard for international encryption of e-mail
A document used to develop physical security for a building
A document describing the details of wireless encryption
(TCO 3) A(n) _____ is a network typically smaller in terms of size and geographic coverage, and consists of two or more connected devices. Home or office networks are typically classified as this type of network
Local-area network
Office-area network
Wide-area network
(TCO 3) What is the main difference between TCP and UDP packets?
UDP packets are a more widely used protocol
TCP packets are smaller and thus more efficient to use
TCP packets are connection oriented, whereas UPD packets are connectionless
UDP is considered to be more reliable because it performs error checking
Internal-area network
(TCO 3) Unfortunately, hackers abuse the ICMP protocol by using it to _____.
Send Internet worms
Launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks
Steal passwords and credit card numbers
Send spam
(TCO 3) Which transport layer protocol is connectionless?
UDP
TCP
IP
ICMP
(TCO 3) Which of the following is a benefit provided by Network Address Translation (NAT)?
Compensates for the lack of IP addresses
Allows devices using two different protocols to communicate
Creates a DMZ
Translates MAC addresses to IP addresses
(TCO 3) Which transport layer protocol is connection oriented?
UDP
RCP
IS
ICMP
(TCO 3) Which of the following is an example of a MAC address?
00:07:H9:c8:ff:00
00:39:c8:ff:00
00:07:e9:c8:ff:00
00:07:59:c8:ff:00:e8
(TCO 4) All of the following statements sum up the characteristics and requirements of proper private key use EXCEPT which one?
The key should be stored securely
The key should be shared only with others whom you trust
Authentication should be required before the key can be used
The key should be transported securely
(TCO 4) It is easier to implement, back up, and recover keys in a _____.
Centralized infrastructure
Decentralized infrastructure
Hybrid infrastructure
Peer-to-peer infrastructure
(TCO 4) When a message sent by a user is digitally signed with a private key, the person will not be able to deny sending the message. This application of encryption is an example of _____.
Authentication
Nonrepudiation
Confidentiality
Auditing
(TCO 4) Outsourced CAs are different from public CAs in what way?
Outsourced services can be used by hundreds of companies
Outsourced services provide dedicated services and equipment to individual companies
Outsourced services do not maintain specific servers and infrastructures for individual companies
Outsourced services are different in name only. They are essentially the same thing
(TCO 4) Cryptographic algorithms are used for all of the following EXCEPT _____.
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Authentication
(TCO 6) A hub operates at which of the following?
Layer 1, the physical layer
Layer 2, the data-link layer
Layer 2, the MAC layer
Layer 3, the network layer
(TCO 6) Alice sends an e-mail that she encrypts with a shared key, which only she and Bob have. Upon receipt, Bob decrypts the e-mail and reads it. This application of encryption is an example of _____.
Confidentiality
Integrity
Authentication
Nonrepudiation
(TCO 6) The following are steps in securing a workstation EXCEPT _____.
Install NetBIOS and IPX
Install antivirus
Remove unnecessary software
Disable unnecessary user accounts
(TCO 8) Which of the following is a characteristic of the Patriot Act?
Extends the tap-and-trace provisions of existing wiretap statutes to the Internet, and mandates certain technological modifications at ISPs to facilitate electronic wiretaps on the Internet
A major piece of legislation affecting the financial industry, and also one with significant privacy provisions for individuals
Makes it a violation of federal law to knowingly use another’s identity
Implements the principle that a signature, contract, or other record may not be deleted
Denies legal effect, validity, or enforceability solely because it is electronic form
(TCO 8) The Wassenaar Arrangement can be described as which of the following?
An international arrangement on export controls for conventional arms as well as dual-use goods and technologies
An international arrangement on import controls
A rule governing import of encryption in the United States
A rule governing export of encryption in the United States
(TCO 8) What is the Convention on Cybercrime?
A convention of black hats who trade hacking secrets
The first international treaty on crimes committed via the Internet and other computer networks
A convention of white hats who trade hacker prevention knowledge
A treaty regulating international conventions
(TCO 8) The electronic signatures in the Global and National Commerce Act _____.
Implement the principle that a signature, contract, or other record may not be denied legal effect, validity, or enforceability solely because it is electronic form
Address a myriad of legal privacy issues resulting from the increased use of computers and other technology specific to telecommunications
Make it a violation of federal law to knowingly use another’s identity
Are a major piece of legislation affecting the financial industry, and contains significant privacy provisions for individuals
(TCO 2) Give an example of a hoax and how it might actually be destructive
(TCO 2) What are the various ways a backup can be conducted and stored?
Backups should include the organization’s critical data, and…
(TCO 2) List at least five types of disasters that can damage or destroy the information of an organization
(TCO 2) List the four ways backups are conducted and stored.
Full back up, differential backup,…
(TCO 2) List at least five types of disasters that can damage or destroy the information of an organization.
Flood, chemical spill…
(TCO 2) Your boss wants you to give him some suggestions for a policy stating what the individual user responsibilities for information security should be. Create a bulleted list of those responsibilities.
Do not divulge sensitive information to individuals…
(TCO 3) What is the difference between TCP and UDP?
UDP is known as a connectionless protocol, as it has very few…
(TCO 3) List three kinds of information contained in an IP packet header
A unique identifier, distinguishing this packet from other packets…
(TCO 4) What are the laws that govern encryption and digital rights management?
Encryption technology is used to protect digital…
(TCO 5) Describe the laws that govern digital signatures
Digital signatures have the same…
(TCO 6) What are some of the security issues associated with web applications and plug-ins?
Web browsers have mechanisms to enable…
(TCO 6) What are the four common methods for connecting equipment at the physical layer?
Coaxial cable, twisted-pair…
(TCO 6) Describe the functioning of the SSL/TLS suite
SSL and TLS use a combination of symmetric and…
(TCO 6) Explain a simple way to combat boot disks
Disable them or… them in the…
(TCO 7) What are some ethical issues associated with information security?
Ethics is the social-moral environment in which a person makes…
(TCO 9) What are password and domain password policies?
Password complexity policies are designed to deter brute force attacks by increasing the number of possible passwords…
- Linda Ellinor
Bethy would want you to View On Black
I'm already feeling the let down now that my 30 Song in 30 Days journey is over. It wasn't the first time I've used music to inspire my photography, and it certainly won't be the last, but I do need a bit of a break. So I tried to think about where to find my source of inspiration and it dawned on me that I am most inspired by the people who touch my life on a daily basis. My friends. So I decided that I am going to spend some time paying tribute to some of the wonderful flickr folks who have inspired me in the past and continue to do so every day that they post their beautiful works of art here for us to see.
In case you couldn't guess, today I am paying tribute to my good friend, Bethy. Bethy was one of my first real friends here in flickrland, and to this day remains one of my closest. Her photography is intense, dark, moody, and emotional. She pulls off this particular genre better than anyone I've seen and in such a perfectly Bethy way. As a person she is honest, open, caring and so fun. I can't believe with as close as we now live to each other, that we haven't gotten together in person yet. However, that is going to change in just a little over a week! And I cannot wait! I had so much fun playing around and trying to capture the essence of her style today. I'm not sure if I really did her justice, but I sure tried my best! I even selected an esoteric Bethy-style quote for my title. :)
Bethy, I love you, girl!
365 Days (self portraits): Day 184
Tributes to My Homies: JustCallMe Bethy
Dedica a mis amigos/as de Flickr en Tierra de Fuego.
Se no es el impresionismo de Monet, el usaba pinceles óleos y lienzos, pero…..
Como es sabido el color rojo es el tradicional del amor. Todo esto se relaciona con el clásico mensaje de un “Te quiero”, con una rosa, orquídeas, dalias o un largo etc. etc.
¿Pero y de las amapolas que se dice?
Yo prefiero asociar estas amapolas con esta mi reflexión:
En el campo, sola está la roja amapola, dos días de vida le ha otorgado la naturaleza para que sus hojas se marchiten y caigan al húmedo o seco suelo, ya sin vida ni consuelo.
Tristeza siento de ver morir a una amapola que su belleza florida me mostraba en mis paseos por el campo y ahora ya no es nada.
El viento ya se ha llevado mi flor; necesitaba verla; me daba vida y alegría, pues ella era toda poesía, ella era toda inocencia de una infancia; ella era………….. Una simple flor.
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Dedicated to my friends on Flickr Tierra del Fuego.
It is not the impressionism of Monet, the oils used brushes and canvases, but ... ..
As you know the red is the traditional color of love. All this is related to the message of a classic "I love you" with a rose, orchids, dahlias and a long etcetera. etc.
But poppies and that is said?
I prefer to associate with these poppies is my reflection:
In the field, one is the red poppy, two days of life has given to the nature of their leaves wither and fall to the wet or dry soil, and without life or comfort.
I feel sad to see the death of a poppy beauty florida showed me in my walks through the countryside and now it is nothing.
The wind has already taken my flowers, I need to see him, gave me life and joy as she was all poetry, it was all an innocent child, she was ... ... ... ... .. A simple flower.
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Železničná trať medzi Linares-Baeza a prímorským mestom Almería nachádzajúcim sa na juhu Španielska vedie medzi pohoriami Sierra Nevada a Sierra de Segura. Hoc by sa dalo povedať, že trať vedie v údolí medzi pohoriami, nie je to tak ľahko definovateľné a taktiež musí prekonávať okrem výškových rozdielov aj iné údolia. Jedným z tých najznámejších prekonávaní je práve údolie ponad rieku Guadahortuna, tesne pred železničnou stanicou Alamedilla-Guadahortuna, po železničnom moste (španielsky Puente del Hacho), pomenovanom podľa priľahlej osady El Hacho.
Ten pôvodný bol postavený medzi rokmi 1893–1897 francúzskou spoločnosťou Fives Lille, ktorá poverila projektom mostu štúdio Gustava Eiffela. Tým sú jeho črty podobné nie len Eiffelovej veži, ale napríklad aj mostu San Juan v Porte (Portugalsko). Jeho pôvodná konštrukcia bola (je) oceľová, priehradová, umiestnená na 11 pilieroch, z ktoých 7 bolo taktiež železných s kamennou podstavou. Svojimi parametrami, dĺžkou 624,6 metra a výškou 49,85 metra v najvyššom bode určite zaujme aj okoloidúcich a na konvenčných tratiach sa jedná o najdlhší most na sieti španielskych železníc. Sprevádzkovaný bol 22. marca 1898.
Vzhľadom k postupnému opotrebovávaniu a hlavne problémom s prevádzkou nových, ťažkých motorových lokomotív dochádzalo postupne k zhoršeniu technického stavu natoľko, že došlo k záveru postaviť vedľa novší most stavaný na vyššie záťaže. Ten je železobetónový a otvorením v roku 1970 vyradil z prevádzky pôvodný most. Ten bol následne predaný spoločnosti zoberajúcej sa nakladaním s kovovými odpadmi, ktorá ho mala rozmontovať a zošrotovať. Našťastie, vďaka protestom občanom a snahe o zachovanie mosta ako významnej technickej pamiatky bolo doslova "v hodine dvanástej" v spolupráci guvernéra Granady s aktivistami zabránené odpáleniu mosta dynamitom a tak sa zachoval, byť v spoločnosti nového, až do dnešných dní. Paradoxne, za kultúrnu pamiatku a historické dedičstvo Španielska sa ho podarilo zapísať až 4. júna roku 2024.
A hoc dnes už ani po novšom, prevádzkovanom moste moc vlakov neprejde, tak stále sa denne na ňom môžeme stretnúť s jedným párom osobných vlakov a jedným párom diaľkových vlakov. Do čela toho diaľkového, v zložení jednotky Talgo VI sa 11. septembra 2024 postavila 334.024 a tvorila tak vlak IC 276 [Madrid-Chamartin – Almería], ktorý môžeme vidieť na fotografií.
It’s all for God.
Not only were you created by God; you were
created for him, too. The ultimate goal of the
universe is to show the glory of God. It is the
reason for everything that exists, including
you. God made it all for his glory. Without
God’s glory, there would be nothing.
What is the glory of God? It is who God is.
It is his nature, his character, and his power.
Where is the glory of God? Just look around.
Everything created by God reflects his glory in
some way. We see it everywhere, from the most
microscopic form of life to the vast Milky Way,
from sunsets and stars to storms and seasons.
Creation reveals our Creator’s glory. You can
learn a lot about God’s character just by
looking around. Through nature we learn that
God is powerful, that he enjoys variety, loves
beauty, is organized, and is wise and creative.
The Bible says, “The heavens declare the glory of
God.”
- Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life
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Essa planta rasteira originária da Rússia, que geralmente tem entre 25 e 30 centímetros na fase de florescimento, possui pequenas flores azuis, flores brancas e flores rosadas presentes durante as primaveras dos mais belos jardins do planeta.
Ela deve ser cultivada sob o sol ou à meia sombra e é utilizada como forração e bordas em canteiros, além de fornecer um toque especial em composições de jardins de pedras. O Miosotis gosta de baixa temperatura, sendo que o seu cultivo é mais indicado em lugares de altitude como os que existem na região sul do Brasil, lá o Miosotis se adaptou muito bem.
Aquilo que pensamos ser as flores do Miosotis, na verdade são inflorescências terminais que se assemelham a espigas, longas, com formações de flores muito curtas e azuis..
A sua beleza é apreciada e encontrada em nos jardins de diversos países em razão da facilidade do seu cultivo. Além disso, ela apresenta mais de 50 variedades.
O Miosotis também é conhecido como Verônica. Presentear com essa planta pode representar uma bela declaração como, por exemplo: “meu amor por ti é sincero”. A forma das flores, com seus reduzidos tamanhos, sugerem simplicidade, humildade e união como condições acima de interesses materiais.
Curiosidades
As flores Miosotis também são conhecidas como “não se esqueça de mim” ou ”não me esqueças” em várias línguas — non-ti-scordar-di-me, na Itália, forget-me-not na língua inglesa etc. São várias as formas de se explicar o seu nome, são diversas as lendas e estórias que passaram de pai para filho. Em uma antiga e romântica lenda alemã, conta-se esse nome está relacionado à última frase de um cavaleiro que, tentando alcançar uma flor para oferecer para a sua companheira, por conta do peso da armadura caiu em um rio e se afogou. Em outra lenda, conta-se que o nome teria sido dado por Adão, ainda no Éden, que ao nomear as flores do jardim esquecera desta e, mais tarde, ao constatar que essa planta havia sido esquecida, deu-lhe então o nome de Miosotis como forma de compensação por seu esquecimento. Uma terceira lenda, cristã e popular, diz-se que as flores dessa planta teriam ficado da cor azul quando a Virgem Maria lhes derramou lágrimas por cima. Na Europa há um folclore que costuma atribuir diversos poderes mágicos ao Miosotis, tratando-o, por exemplo, como chave mágica para tesouros enfeitiçados.
Guia de Plantas
Canon EOS 5D mark II + EF 16-35 f/2.8L II USM
21mm
1/50 sec @ f/2.8
ISO 400
It's was quite dark already as I took this, so that's why I used the full aperture. No added vignette, what you see is natural vignetting of the lens. (:
Tagged by Latryx, so here is my thoughts:
1. What I like to photograph the most:
All kind of objects and compositions using my beloved 50mm f/1.4 and 100mm f/2.8 macro lenses. I am probably some kind of bokeh addict for most of the time nice bokeh is something I’m after. Moreover, I enjoy shooting during school exercises if I just have time to do that. :D
2. What I like to photograph the least:
I would like to do more portraits but I have very little experience of those. I don’t know why I’m so shy to take photos of others. However, candid shots are something I like to do when I’m just enough confident that I won’t be noticed (of course it doesn’t matter if the subject is somehow familiar to me).
3. Photography Peeves:
- People looking at while taking pictures, nowadays I don’t care so much about that than before…
- Being very strict about lens changes and exaggerated fear of sensor dust. :D
- My gear is quite heavy and challenging to carry all places that I would like to.
4. What I admire from other photographers:
- The eye of notices very interesting compositions and places
- Landscape photographers making big effort and carrying a lot of gear to difficult places just in order to take great image.
- Street photographing, it’s not the easiest thing, you have to be very observant, fast and inconspicuous at the same time.
5. What I'd like to learn better:
- landscape photography
- wide angle HDRs
- minimalistic art
- ultra wide angle stitches (like the previous image in my stream)
- portraits with strobist stuff (reflectors and strobes)
- candid shots of great moments
- wedding photography and generally photography in every kind of events
Finally here is some of my friends I want to tag:
Julia Lillqvist
lala keynes
magdaes
penwren
eetwo
Chelsea
serend1p1tyx
Peter Rosbjerg
Karppikala
syahril
m_szeremieta
Ola_nyc
bartoffel
Varanasi. India.
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Varanasi is one of the holiest cities and centres of pilgrimage for Hindus of all denominations.[107] It is one of seven Hindu holiest cities (Sapta Puri), considered the giver of salvation (moksha).[108][109] Over 50,000 Brahmins live in Varanasi, providing religious services to the masses.[108] Hindus believe that bathing in the Ganges remits sins and that dying in Kashi ensures release of a person's soul from the cycle of its transmigrations. Thus, many Hindus arrive here for dying.[110]
As the home to Kashi Vishwanath Temple Jyotirlinga, it is very sacred for Shaivism. Varanasi is also a Shakti Peetha, where the temple to goddess Vishalakshi stands believed to the spot where the goddess Sati's earrings fell.[12] Hindus of the Shakti sect make a pilgrimage to the city because they regard the river Ganges itself as the Goddess Shakti.[citation needed] Adi Shankara wrote his commentaries on Hinduism here,[citation needed] leading to the great Hindu revival.
As of 2001, Hindus made up approximately 84% of the population of Varanasi District
El Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña está situado al suroeste de Jaca, Huesca, Aragón.
El fenómeno eremítico fue importante en Aragón, al igual que en otras zonas del norte de España. Tras la entrada de Tarik en España y derrotado en 711 don Rodrigo en Guadalete, el ejército islámico avanzó con rapidez por la península ibérica. El 712, Acisclo, obispo de Huesca huyó de la misma ante el avance infiel, llevando consigo el Grial que San Lorenzo había hecho llegar a esa ciudad. Se refugió en una cueva-santuario en Yebra de Basa.
Y como él, muchos cristianos buscaron refugio en cuevas, permaneciendo bastantes de las mismas con santuarios rupestres hasta la actualidad. Por nombrar algunas de las aragoneses citaré: Virgen de la Peña en Aniés, San Cristóbal en Bolea, Gorgas de San Julián en Lierta, San Martín de la Val D´Onsera, San Martín de Capella, Virgen de la Peña en Santa Cilia de Jaca, Virgen de la Cueva en Oroel, o la propia de San Juan de la Peña, entre muchas otras.
Todas ellas en su origen son lugares sencillos, como corresponde a los eremitas que las ocupan. Sin más edificación que lo necesario para proveer sus austeras necesidades corporales y espirituales.
San Juan de la Peña, una más entre las nombradas, llegó a ser lugar preferente en la consolidación del reino de Aragón.
Aquí es donde interviene la tradición o la leyenda. Cuenta que a principios del siglo VIII, un noble joven de Zaragoza llamado Voto persiguiendo un ciervo cayó con su caballo por el acantilado de la sierra de la Peña. Habiéndose encomendado en su caída a San Juan, se posó el caballo con suavidad en una roca donde dejó sus cascos marcados. A partir de ese lugar siguió una senda que le condujo a la cueva en la que yacía el cuerpo del eremita Juan de Atarés. Su cabeza reposaba en una piedra en la que había la siguiente inscripción: "Ego Ioannes. Primus. In hoc loco, heremita, qui ab amorem Dei, hac ecclesiam fabricavi, in honorem sancti Ioannis Baptiste. Hic, requiesco, Amen".
Ambos murieron allí y fueron sepultados junto al beato Juan de Atarés. Tras ellos, otros anacoretas mantuvieron habitado el lugar: Marcelo y Benedicto, entre otros. Hacia el año 858 García Jiménez, rey de Pamplona y Galindo II conde de Aragón favorecieron al pequeño eremitorio, haciéndose enterrar allí el rey pamplonés.
En el año 920 fue consagrada la iglesia mozárabe en tiempo del conde de Aragón Galindo Aznárez II. En 959 el rey García Sánchez concedió a los monjes derecho de jurisdicción y Sancho II García y su hijo Sancho III el Mayor continuaron con la política de protección. El propio Sancho III fundó en 1025 un monasterio nuevo sobre el mozárabe existente.
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The monastery of San Juan de la Peña is located at the south-west of Jaca, in Huesca,Aragón,Spain.
As a result of the Muslim invasion, a number of hermits vanished themselves to this remote spot in the Pyrinees and they created a meeting point for hermit life which lived on until the 10th century.
In the year 920, Galindo Aznarez II, Count of Aragón, conquered the lands South of the river Aragón, reaching the mountains of San Juan de la Peña, where he founded a monastery devoted to St Julián and St Basilisa, which was erected in the same place where the hermits used to live.
In 1701, Sancho Ramírez (second king of Aragón) created the Monastery of San Juan de la Peña over the old one, and he designed it as a burying place for the kings of Aragón. He also endowed the monastery with a vast estate and began the construction of its high Church.
The second half of the 12th century was disastrous for the monastery; it lost the Pope's favor and also the King's, who moved the capital of the kingdom of Aragón to Huesca. Later on, in 1157, when complete bankruptcy was looming, it was saved by Pope Adrian VI and by the Count Ramón Berenguer IV, Prince of Aragón.
In 1245, with abbot Iñigo at its head, the monastery reached an agreement that allowed it to start another peaceful spell and to become once again one of the main Benedictine centers of Aragón.
In the 16th century, the monastery underwent yet another decrease in its patrimony, owing to the separation of the dioceses of Jaca and Huesca.
In 1675 there was a great fire; the refectory, the guesthouse and the rich archive burnt in the fire. The monastery was left in a pitiful state, which led the monks to build a new monastery on the plains of San Indalecio.
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not posted an Australian photo for a while ;-) there is a rumour we are going back in 2010 :-)
My first person in 2010... ma première personne de 2010.
There's no point in a project if you're perfect to start with is there? :-)
C'est pas logique de faire un projet si tu es parfaite tout au début, n'est-ce pas? :-)
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Si vous aimez les gens vous risquez d'aimer cette expo ...
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Fonte do Mouro (Fontana del Moro) - Fountain of the Moor - At the southern end of Piazza Navona, in front of the brazilian embassy, we find the Fontana del Moro, designed by Giacomo della Porto and erected in 1575. The fountain has statues of four Tritons and the basin is made of special antique rose marble. In 1654, Bernini carved the central figure, a muscular Triton riding a dolphin, that resembles a "Moor". Thus, the fountain is called the Fountain of the Moor. During a restoration in 1874, the original sculptures were moved to the Villa Borghese and substitute copies were made and are still on the fountain.
Navona Square (Piazza Navona).
Following, a text, in english, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in first century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium.[1] The ancient Romans came there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as 'Circus Agonalis' (competition arena). It is believed that over time the name changed to 'in agone' to 'navone' and eventually to 'navona'.
Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio, the Piazza Navona is a significant example of Baroque Roman architecture and art. It features sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers (1651) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi; and the Pamphilj palace also by Rainaldi and which features the gallery frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.
The Piazza Navona has two additional fountains: at the southern end is the Fontana del Moro with a basin and four Tritons sculpted by Giacomo della Porta (1575) to which, in 1673, Bernini added a statue of a Moor, or African, wrestling with a dolphin, and at the northern end is the Fountain of Neptune (1574) created by Giacomo della Porta. The statue of Neptune in the northern fountain, the work of Antonio Della Bitta, was added in 1878 to make that fountain more symmetrical with La Fontana del Moro in the south.
At the southwest end of the piazza is the ancient 'speaking' statue of Pasquino. Erected in 1501, Romans could leave lampoons or derogatory social commentary attached to the statue.
During its history, the piazza has hosted theatrical events and other ephemeral activities. From 1652 until 1866, when the festival was suppressed, it was flooded on every Saturday and Sunday in August in elaborate celebrations of the Pamphilj family. The pavement level was raised in the 19th century and the market was moved again in 1869 to the nearby Campo de' Fiori. A Christmas market is held in the piazza.
Other monuments on the Piazza Navona are:
Stabilimenti Spagnoli
Palazzo de Cupis
Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti
Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Palazzo Braschi (Museo di Roma)
Sant'Agnese in Agone
Literature and films
The piazza is featured in Dan Brown's 2000 thriller Angels and Demons, in which the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi "The Fountain of the four rivers"(the Danube, the Gange, the Nile and the River Plate) is listed as one of the Altars of Science. During June 2008, Ron Howard directed several scenes of the film adaptation of Angels and Demons on the southern section of the Piazza Navona, featuring Tom Hanks.
The piazza is featured in several scenes of director Mike Nichols' 1970 adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22.
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was used in the 1990 film Coins in the Fountain. The characters threw coins into the fountain as they made wishes. The Trevi Fountain was used in the 1954 version of the film.
Fonte do Mouro.
Fontana del Moro está localizada ao sul da Piazza Navona. Tem este nome devido à representação de um etíope (mouro) a lutar com um golfinho. A obra foi projetada por Bernini, para dar conclusão à fonte de Giacomo Della Porta, construída em 1576, e esculpida por Giovanni Antonio Mari, em 1654. A estátua do etíope é acompanhada por tritões e máscaras, que são cópias das originais hoje postas em algumas fontes dos jardins da Villa Borghese.
Praça Navona.
A seguir, um texto em português, da Wikipédia a Enciclopédia livre:
A Praça Navona (em italiano: Piazza Navona) é uma das mais célebres praças de Roma. A sua forma assemelha-se à dos antigos estádios da Roma Antiga, seguindo a planificação do Estádio de Domiciano (também denominado entre os italianos de Campomarzio, em virtude da natureza rude e esforçada dos exercícios - manejo de armas - e desportos atléticos que aí se realizavam). Albergaria até 20 mil espectadores sentados nas bancadas. A origem do nome deve-se ao nome pomposo que lhe foi dado ao tempo do Imperador Domiciano (imperador entre 81-96 d.c.): "Circo Agonístico" (do étimo grego Agonia, que significa precisamente - exercício, luta, combate). Actualmente o nome corresponde à corruptela da forma posterior in agone, depois nagone e finalmente navone, que por mero acaso significa também "grande navio" na língua italiana.
As casas que entretanto e com o passar dos anos foram sendo construídas sobre as bancadas, delimitariam e circunscreveriam até à actualidade o tão afamado Circo Agonístico.
A Navona passou de fato a caracterizar-se como praça nos últimos anos do século XV, quando o mercado da cidade foi transferido do Capitólio para aí. Foi remodelada para um estilo monumental por vontade do Papa Inocêncio X, da família Pamphili e é motivo de orgulho da cidade de Roma durante o período barroco. Sofreu intervenções de Gian Lorenzo Bernini (a famosa Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fonte dos Quatro Rios, 1651) ao centro); de Francesco Borromini e Girolamo Gainaldi (a igreja de Sant'Agnese in Agone); e de Pietro de Cortona, que pintou a galeria no Palácio Pamphilj, sede da embaixada do Brasil na Itália desde 1920.
O mercado tradicional voltou a ser transferido em 1869 para o Campo de' Fiori, embora a praça mantenha também um papel fundamental em servir de palco para espectáculos de teatro e corridas de cavalos. A partir de 1652, em todos os Sábados e Domingos de Agosto, a praça tornava-se num lago para celebrar a própria família Pamphili.
A praça dispõe ainda duas outras fontes esculpidas por Giacomo della Porta - a Fontana di Nettuno (1574), na área norte da praça, e a Fontana del Moro (1576), na área sul.
Na extremidade norte da praça, por debaixo dos edifícios, foram postas a descoberto ruínas antiquíssimas, a uma cota muito abaixo da actual, comprovando a primeva utilização daquele imenso terreiro. Outros monumentos com entrada para a praça:
Stabilimenti Spagnoli
Palazzo de Cupis
Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti
Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Curiosidades
Na Piazza Navona, está localizado o Palazzo Pamphilj, propriedade da República Federativa do Brasil, sede da Embaixada Brasileira e da Missão Diplomática do Brasil para a Itália.
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Can you smell it, this wonderful aroma of the sea blown to the beach by a calm sea breeze? I'm back from a short trip to the Baltic Sea for a visit at my parents. After extreme rainfall on Friday and Saturday, we spent a wonderful evening at the beach yesterday.
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Der Cotopaxi ist mit 5.897 m der zweithöchste Berg Ecuadors und einer der höchsten aktiven Vulkane der Erde. Obwohl aktiv, ist er der am häufigsten bestiegene Berg des Landes und einer der meistbesuchten Gipfel Südamerikas.
Topographie
Der Cotopaxi liegt in dem nach ihm benannten Nationalpark in der gleichnamigen ecuadorianischen Provinz Cotopaxi ca. 50 km südlich von Quito. Er gehört zur „Allee der Vulkane“ in den östlichen Anden.
Als ecuadorianischer Berg ist der Chimborazo mit 6.310 m zwar höher, aber nicht mehr vulkanisch aktiv. Als weltweit höchster aktiver Vulkan gilt derzeit der 6.893 m hohe Ojos del Salado in Argentinien/Chile.
Durch seine regelmäßige, konische Form und die Eiskappe auf dem Gipfel entspricht der Cotopaxi dem Idealbild eines Stratovulkans. Der Krater hat am Gipfel einen Durchmesser von 800x550 m und ist ca. 350 m tief.
Geschichte
Der Name Cotopaxi bedeutet „Thron des Mondes“. Den einheimischen Völkern der Region galt der Berg schon vor dem Beginn der Inkaherrschaft im 15. Jahrhundert als Heiliger Berg. Er wurde als Regenspender und damit Garant für die Fruchtbarkeit des Landes und als Sitz von Göttern verehrt.
Der erste Europäer, der versuchte den Berg zu besteigen, war Alexander von Humboldt im Jahre 1802. Er erreichte eine Höhe von ca. 4.500 m. 1858 erforschte Moritz Wagner den Berg, aber auch er erreichte nicht den Gipfel. Bis zum Gipfel gelangte siebzig Jahre später, am 27. November 1872, der Geologe Wilhelm Reiß. 1873 bestieg Moritz Alphons Stübel, 1880 Edward Whymper den Cotopaxi. Bekannt wurde auch die Besteigung des Malers Rudolf Reschreiter und Hans Meyer im Jahr 1903. Reschreiter fertigte mehrere Gemälde des Berges an.
Heutzutage werden regelmäßig Besteigungen mit Bergführern durch ecuadorianische Reisebüros angeboten. Hierbei kann heute bis 4.600 m mit dem Auto gefahren werden. Auf 4.800 m Höhe befindet sich die Jose-Ribas-Schutzhütte, in der Touristen übernachten können und von der aus der Aufstieg beginnt.
Vulkanismus
Seit 1738 ist der Cotopaxi etwa 50 Mal ausgebrochen. Davon waren die gewaltigsten Eruptionen die der Jahre 1744, 1768 und 1877. Die große Eruption 1877 schmolz den Gipfelgletscher vollständig ab, so dass die entstehende Schlammlawine das umliegende Land mehr als 100 km weit überflutete und die Stadt Latacunga komplett zerstörte. Der letzte größere Ausbruch war 1904, die letzte größere Aktivität 1975–76 bestand in einer Temperaturerhöhung, Rauchbildung und kleineren Erdbeben. Auch heute ist oft Rauchausstoß zu beobachten.
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I became a lover of red later in life.
I took a course on colours years ago, very interesting, a real eye-opener... all very logical!
HOW THE COLOR RED AFFECTS US PHYSICALLY:
It increases enthusiasm.
It stimulates energy and can increase the blood pressure, respiration, heartbeat, and pulse rate.
It encourages action and confidence
It provides a sense of protection from fears and anxiety.
Red stands for Happiness, Celebration and Ceremony!
Red is the color most commonly associated with joy and well being. It is the color of celebration and ceremony. A red carpet is often used to welcome distinguished guests. Red is also traditional color of seats in opera houses and theaters. Scarlet academic gowns are worn at by new Doctors of Philosophy at degree ceremonies at Oxford University and other schools. In China, it is considered the color of good fortune and prosperity, and it is the color traditionally worn by brides. In Christian countries, it is the color traditionally worn at Christmas by Santa Claus, because in the 4th century the historic Saint Nicholas was the Greek Christian Bishop of Myra, in modern-day Turkey, and bishops then dressed in red
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Collection Rodger Hamilton: The War Photos
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Medic attending to wounded officer. German staff car. Note the bullet hole in the rear window.
Une Peugeot 202 portières ouvertes avec une balle qui a traversé la vitre arrière immatriculée WH soit Wehrmacht, l'écusson à l'arrière droit de la voiture reste une énigme !
Au sol étendu sur le dos un officier de la Luftwaffe partiellement déshabillé est soigné par un medic US.
Il s'agit d'un "Oberleutnant" membre non combattant/ fonctionnaire /administratif de la Luftwaffe (beamte der Luftwaffe). Son grade, très caractéristique, est visible sur le revers de sa veste, sous son coude droit. Les "ailes" sont remplacées par deux petits triangles.
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Malheureusement la spécialité générale étant " connue " par la couleur de la patte de col ici en N&B et comme l'on ne voit pas si les pattes d'épaules disposent d'un insigne de spécialité (comme le glaive pour la justice, le caducée pour les membres administratifs du service de santé..) cela sera difficile d'en faire état.
La scène se passe devant le château de Spoir près de Thivars au sud de Chartres :
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Source : Dans la revue 39/45 Magazine N°196 de décembre 2002 un article d'Eric Santin " Chartres, la bataille oubliée " avec cette photo ainsi légendée :
" Le 15 août dans l'après-midi, le château de Spoir près de Thivars [juste au sud de Chartres] abritait un détachement allemand ainsi que des camions de ravitaillement. Après un bref combat, une partie du 10th Combat Team réduit les Allemands au silence. Un officier de la Luftwaffe, blessé dans l'affrontement, reçoit les soins d'un infirmier américain ".
10th Combat Team soit le 10th Infantry Rgt du Col. Robert P. Bell (5th US ID) dont on voit du matériel et des homes en arrière-plan.
Dans le fond une pancarte en allemand mais illisible.
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Once used as a location for the James Bond movie "From Russia with Love", this subterranean cistern is a Roman engineering feat which supplied the local neighbourhood with water, obtained by lowering buckets through holes in basements. Brick vaults are supported on 336 columns spaced at 4m intervals.
It was built during Emperor Justinian's reign and was left derelict for centuries until a Frenchman named Peter Gillius re-discovered it in 1545. It was fully restored in 1987 and nowadays provides a cool place from which to escape the heat of Istanbul during the hotter months. At the far end of the site, you will find 2 Medusa heads recovered from some other ancient site and used as column bases.
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i was tagged by Vera ♥ pics, here goes:
1. What I like to photograph the most:
people! i love portraiture, i think it would be really fun to do fashion photography someday.
2. What I like to photograph the least:
architecture & abstract photography
3. Photography Pet Peeves:
overprocessed things. i hate most HDR photos, they look soso fake. i don't mind if things aren't sooc as long as they aren't sickeningly overprocessed.
4. What I admire from other photographers:
the ability to capture sunset lighting in every photo.
5. What I'd like to learn better:
photoshop. i recently got into using curves and all that but i think it's amazing how much you can do with an otherwise boring photo, though as i said i don't like things that are too overprocessed.
alright, i'm gonna tag:
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Nathan stood alone on the steps of the ruined Jedi Temple, the dunes of Ossus cascading before him. High above he could make out the dim shape of the Imperial Light Cruiser hanging in orbit. Even closer were the pristine white angles of the Shuttle soaring down to the planet, coming for them.
His mind raced. Why was the Empire here? Were they followed? Was the Empire tracking the Lucky Star? Had they led them right to a temple full of dangerous Jedi and Sith secrets?
Worst of all was the thought that Mayla was somehow involved. That he had been stupid to trust her, that she’d been playing him all along.
There wasn’t time to think about that now. It didn’t matter. What mattered was dealing with the situation.
Ozz and Eefo were safely away to the Searcher’s camouflaged outpost on the speeder bike. They couldn’t risk the Empire following them and finding the outpost, there was too much to lose there. That’s why Nathan had stayed behind: he was going to be the distraction. How very brave of him, he thought wryly. How was he going to find Mayla as a corpse?
He had a blaster pistol and one of Eefo’s storm conductors. It wasn’t one of his better ideas, but he could make this work.
Step one: draw their attention. It was crucial that he make them forget about the speeder bike. The process for this step was a little inelegant, but sometimes the obvious choice was the best one.
He flicked off the safety on Eefo’s blaster pistol. He couldn’t help but laugh. This was going to look absurd.
He raised the pistol, aimed at the shuttle, and pulled the trigger. He did this several more times, firing enough shots at the starship that it might draw its pilot’s attention. It was impossible to do any damage--especially from a few hundred feet away--but their sensors would notice, and he had to hope they’d choose the temple and the source of the blaster fire as a more interesting landing zone than wherever the speeder bike was headed.
It worked. He watched the shuttle nervously, but soon he could tell it had worked. Based on their flight path, they were coming in an arc towards him. He punched the air in triumph, but he didn’t have time to rest on his laurels. It was time for step two, and he had always been disciplined when it came to processes. That’s probably a part of why he had so few friends.
Eefo showed him how to operate her Conductor before she’d left. The Searchers used the charged chromium poles to attract Ossus’ giant storms and drain them for energy. Energy wouldn’t do him much good; all he needed was the storm.
He flicked the switch to reverse the charge on the pole, and left it planted in the ground. Nothing seemed to happen, and he looked at the sky anxiously. He guessed it took a few minutes.
The shuttle alighted a few hundred feet away, its wide wings closing gracefully with its dorsal fin, its ramp lowering with a hiss. Down walked an Imperial officer clad in gray, accompanied by a tall figure in black robes, and a squad of remnant stormtroopers.
It must’ve been the sight of the stormtroopers that did it. Suddenly it felt real. Those people could shoot and kill him. Nathan felt every fiber of his body push him to run and hide. But he had to wait for the storm.
The sky began to darken as the group of Imperials crossed the dunes toward the temple, creating a dramatic shadow over the flatlands. Lighting arced in the sky above, occasionally flashing down and striking the conductor, forcing Nathan to cover his eyes to avoid being blinded. The stormtroopers were close enough that he could make out the vents on their helmets. The storm was here, he had to move now.
He raised the blaster once more, and fired a bolt at the conductor.
With a dramatic burst of energy, it exploded, knocking him off his feet and into the temple atrium. He scrambled to his feet to find some sort of cover. He located the dead droid chassis on the staircase and clambered behind it, like a rabbit running to its warren.
Outside, things had become dangerous. Lighting, previously contained and directed toward the conductor, now had no conductor on which to focus. Bolts now struck the ground freely and often, crystalizing the orange sand. A flash of light incinerated a stormtrooper and created a rush of activity among the group, who dashed towards the temple doors for cover.
Lt. Syfot brushed himself off once indoors, surveying his squad for casualties. The Vu’othh stood by, disturbingly serene as always.
Syfot turned to scan the empty atrium. There was obviously someone here. Someone who would presently be killed.
“Come out, swine! Pathetic,” he sneered. “Troopers, find them!”
The stormtroopers, emblazoned with the Pyerce colors, fanned out into the ruins, E-11s raised.
Two approached the staircase where Nathan was hiding. Any second now and he’d be done for.
He turned to stare at the darkness of the tunnels. He had only just emerged from that pitch-black pit, no part of him wanted to go back down there. But he knew the way, at least better than the Imperials. It was his only chance to survive.
So he allowed himself to be pushed further inside the temple. He scrambled down the stairs, ignored the shout from the stormtroopers above, jumped to dodge the blaster bolts that flashed past, and ran at a sprint through one of the lower doorways. He would disappear into the dark.
Nathan ran, and turned, and ran, and turned, until he was sure he had taken a convoluted enough path that the stormtroopers wouldn’t easily be able to follow. It was silent now, in the horrible way that caves sometimes are, where the pressure of the rock above seems to bear down and muffle everything in a quiet dark.
The blaster, he realized, had fallen when the exploding conductor knocked him down. He had nothing to fight with.
He felt terribly alone.
He really didn’t want to die in the dark.
Thoughts of Mayla helped brighten his mood, and her smile appeared in his mind’s eye. But those thoughts were quickly soured by the possibility that she was behind the Imperials’ appearance. Instead, he remembered the only people he knew he trusted, or at least closest to it. He wished Ozz were with him; he’d be just as terrified, of course, but at least they could banter back-and-forth about the hellishness of the situation. At least he’d have a friend.
“You must be Nathan.”
His heart flew out of his chest and he stumbled to the ground. A soft blue glow touched the dusty ground under his fingers, and illuminated his arms as he raised them in defense.
“Woah!” he shouted. “What--”
A woman stood there, though what she was doing was closer to floating. She was ageless and calm, and smiled at him softly in a way that the caretakers at the orphanage had, when he looked particularly foolish and in need of rescue.
“I met your friend, Ozzamandes. We enjoyed a lovely conversation.”
Nathan starred in the way one does when encountered with a ghost, when they had previously believed ghosts to be entirely fictional. Despite his shock, he was able to mutter a skeptic, “Doesn’t sound like the Ozz I know.”
He climbed to his feet with some effort, suddenly afraid this glowing...whatever-it-was would give him away. And that he was going crazy.
The woman became suddenly urgent.
“Come with me, young one. They search for you. I can show you a way out.”
“Yes,” Nathan burst. “Please, please. Thank you!”
She smiled, and gestured for him to follow.
They hurried through the tunnels, away from the distant sounds of stormtrooper chatter and the barks of the officer.
“Dark spirits haunted these tunnels, until today. Your friend convinced me to banish them.”
Nathan wasn’t sure what to do with this information. “Wow,” is what he settled for.
“Come, it isn’t far now--” she turned suddenly, alarm flashing across her noble face. “What--? Such...evil,” she scowled. “That presence, do you sense it? But I banished--”
In a horrible dying of the light, as though her glow suddenly sickened and withered, the woman disappeared. Nathan was left alone, once more.
“Hello?” he called in a unnerved whisper. “W-Where did you go?”
He gasped and jumped. A facemask peered at him from the half-dark, a long-fingered hand outstretched.
“What did you do to her?” Nathan demanded, backing slowly away from this new figure.
The creature stepped slowly toward him, its black robes swishing against the rock-strewn ground.
“The spirit returned to the Force. Do not be afraid,” slithered a voice.
Nathan felt himself go still, bound by unseen, unfelt hands. He grunted and struggled, but the ghastly mask appeared in his vision, craning down at him. The pallid fingers pressed against his face.
“Come, speak to Absalom.”
Nathan came to with labored, frantic breaths, his body numb. He slumped against the stairs in the atrium, the crumbled edge digging into his back. Thunder rolled overhead, shaking the ground.
The creature from the tunnels stood watching him, but it was the Imperial officer who now filled his sight. He grinned like a madman, the sort of grin only moments away from killing you.
“What...the--” Nathan managed. Lt. Syfot had no patience for blubbering.
“You, boy. I came here for something, and--congratulations--you are in the fortunate position of giving it to me.” He cast a glance to the Vu’othh, saying quietly, “If my...consultant, is to be believed.” He then straightened and said, once again in his loudest, most in-charge tone of voice, “You seem to know these ruins well. I suspect your presence here indicates familiarity with the subject of my search. Yes, yes...I’d wager good money on that. You little leech.”
“Uh,” Nathan said, raising an eyebrow. “ I’m sorry, but...what the krif are you going on about?”
Syfot turned and whacked him painfully across the face.
“Shut your mouth, until I order otherwise.”
Hanging his head and wincing in pain, Nathan considered that maybe mouthing off hadn’t been the right move. One of his teeth felt loose.
“Don’t worry, I’ll have plenty of time for you to talk soon. Garel, Targonn, Yavin VI...you have been busy, haven’t you?”
No way, Nathan thought. He couldn’t know that was them.
“Yavin is, naturally, the odd one out. But to lose two spies in the same sector, in the same week? These, I am sure, were you. And from there you picked up the trail, found your way to the temples of Yavin’s moon, and of course, to here. How do I know this? Because I am brilliant, you little fool. Hit him!”
Before Nathan could react, a stormtrooper stepped forward and slammed the butt of his blaster carbine into his gut, knocking the air out of him. He doubled over, his side aching.
“And if you started on Targonn, well, I wonder which of our agents it was you encountered first…the girl?”
Nathan felt any number of sudden, powerful emotions. He did his best to keep all of them away from his face. He went slack, diligently avoiding Syfot’s gaze.
Syfot apparently found this amusing. He leaned down until they were inches apart, a smile toying at the corner of his mouth. There were scars across his face, subtle ones, ones he had tried to conceal. The violence in his eyes was overwhelming up close. It was as though a wild animal were trying to play dress up as a gentleman.
“Ahhh, the girl. Quite the beauty, but, as I understand, it’s only skin-deep. You must know her as...Mayla, perhaps? Oh, my poor boy. Did she put you up to this? Is she why you’re here?” He tisked sympathetically, and Nathan wanted so badly to hit him. “Then she is truly cruel indeed. Now, I admire a little imagination--let no one say differently--but most of our agents accomplish Moff Pyerce’s goals in more traditional ways. I’m not sure I approve. But…” his grin widened, as did his eyes. “I cannot complain about the results. A most useful tool you’ve proven to be, indeed. You’ve rooted out our weak links beautifully! Congratulations are in order.”
Syfot started to clap, then looked around to his squad. “Come now, congratulate our young friend! Quite the hero.”
Hesitantly, the Stormtroopers began to join in the applause. Some of them added mocking words or cheers.
The Vu’othh just watched.
Nathan stared at the ground defiantly, feeling utterly defeated. What if it was true? It wasn’t unlikely. Of course he’d been played. Of course this had all been for nothing.
Finally, Syfot had had his fun. He gestured for them to stop, and like that, the room was silent but for the sound of thunder. His grin disappeared. He grabbed Nathan’s shoulder and his fingers dug in, his face so close Nathan could smell his breath.
“Now, your chance to be truly useful. Tell me, boy, what you know. Where is Balaam’s Heart?”
As if on queue, the sounds of starships rose over the peals of thunder to reach their ears. The stormtroopers rushed to the doorways, and raised their blasters. Syfot stared at Nathan a moment more, running his tongue over his teeth before releasing him, and turning towards his men.
“What is this? What’s going on!”
Nathan knew, and he managed a weak smile.
The Searchers had arrived.
“Secure my shuttle! Go! You, contact the Rigorous for fighter support!” He turned last to the Vu’othh, whom he stared at as though wondering if it was worth it. When he finally spoke, it was painfully polite. “If it pleases you, any aid would be welcome.”
The Vu’othh bowed its head slightly, and Syfot was glad to leave off there.
Nathan heard the scream of TIE fighters and the sounds of battle outside. He was pulled to his feet; they were going for the shuttle.
They left the temple for the diminished light of the storm-cloud sky, lighting striking with no delay. The Searchers, he saw, were on speeder bikes and on foot. Their freighters were not warships, and were only useful as transports. The stormtroopers had kept the Searchers at bay, engaging them where they’d taken cover behind the rocks. The lightning was a constant danger, and struck unpredictably around the dunes.
Nathan was pulled out into the open, and he saw the open ramp of the shuttle waiting for him. Imprisonment, torture...Imperial victory.
He heard a buzz from his left, and the stormtrooper let go of his arm. A speeder bike came hurtling towards them. Blaster bolts rang past his ears, downing one of the stormtroopers, and he felt someone grab his harness. All of a sudden he was being dragged behind the bike, the sand scraping against his backside. Someone grabbed his arms, tried to help him onboard.
“Gotcha, kid! Not bad for a guy who’s never fished!”
“Ozz!” Nathan grinned. He grabbed the bike as tightly as he could with both arms and legs. Eefo was driving. “Eefo! Thank you!”
As selfless and heroic as their mad dash to Nathan had been, it was bound to cost them something. That’s when the bike lost control. It was struck by blaster fire in the charge, lost one of its balance pylons, and went spinning out from under them. They all had the sense to bail, jumping and rolling roughly into the sand as the bike went smashing into the sand, bouncing, losing parts with every impact.
The battle raged around them. Syfot and the Vu'othh passed by, making their way to the shuttle when step 3 of Nathan's plan miraculously came to pass: a stray bolt of lightning came down in the exact spot where the shuttle had been landed. Superheated molecules made impact with engine fuel, resulting in a blinding flash. A spectacular blue explosion threw sparks and metal out of the left side of its hull, and the entire thing fell unceremoniously onto its side.
Syfot and his entourage stopped in their tracks, staring at what had been their plan of escape.
"No!" Syfot shouted. He turned to survey the battlefield, and that was when he spotted Nathan, Eefo, and Ozz lying a few meters away. The three climbed to their feet, and a stand-off ensued.
"Contact the Rigorous," barked the Lieutenant. "They must send everything! All our forces! Crush these insects!" He ordered, before turning to Nathan with fury in his eyes. "WHERE IS THE HEART, BOY! WHERE IS IT!" He screamed, his dignity long-forgotten.
"You'll never get it!" Nathan taunted, unable to resist the chance to rub it in. "You're a failure! You're pathetic! And you'll never get what you want. I'm going to take it from you." Nathan glanced at Ozz. "We're gonna take it from you."
Ozz had enough to worry about already. He had no axe to grind, and definitely no desire to provoke the near-rabid officer any further. "No, no, just you! You're gonna take it from him. I'll just...eh, watch."
There was a wave of noise from behind them. The Searchers made a push forward, giving the Imperials no choice but to retreat. Abay, newly restored to his former glory, led the charge.
Syfot turned to run. "I'll find you! I'll find the heart! You'll rue this day, boy! You'll wish you'd never crossed my path!"
One of his troopers pulled him into safety behind the wreckage of the shuttle, while the Searchers similarly enveloped Nathan, Ozz, and Eefo into their own battle line.
"Quite a mess!" Exclaimed Abay. "But nothing we can't handle."
Eefo looked at the Duros with barely restrained hope. "Scriptist, are you..."
"Back?" He smiled. "I certainly am." He looked at Nathan. "Did you find what you need, Son?"
"Yes! Once this fight's over, we'll go--"
Abay cut him off with a shake of the head. "No. If it concerns something worthy of the Empire's interest, you must go immedietly. Take one of our speeder's back to your ship. We'll handle these stragglers!"
Nathan struggled with that, but Ozz knew there was no time to waste. "We'll take you up on that, gramps!"
Eefo turned to them, her eyes serious. "I'm really free?"
"Yeah, I meant what I said," Nathan replied.
"Then I'm staying with my people," she said firmly, with another look at Abay as though she couldn't believe it. "I'll make things right. Thank you. Don't let the Heart fall into the wrong hands."
Nathan gave her a wry look, considering their previous conversations. "Are there right hands?"
"There are wrong hands," the Rodian replied bluntly, and she pointed at the waiting speeder. "Now go!"
They hustled away, ducked low to avoid blaster fire. Abay called out once more before they sped away.
"Take heart! Find hope! And may the Force be with you!"
Nathan sensed a funny feeling in himself, in response to those words. A sense of kinship.
"You too!" He called back, and, after checking to make sure Ozz was strapped in behind him, he gunned the speeder's accelerator. They'd get to the Lucky Star and get off this planet. They had to start translating Balaam's writings, and find the next clue, and they had to hurry, before the Empire could catch up.
There was no time to waste.
The battle raged on in Nathan and Ozz's absence. The Searchers pressed their advantage, but ultimately, they were unprepared for the sheer might of the Imperial reinforcements. They fought bravely, but TIE Fighters and the arrival of three more squads of Stormtroopers proved too much to endure.
When they had woken up that day, only a few of their most sensitive had sensed the coming tragedy. Most of them never saw it coming.
Robed warriors lay still on the orange dunes, white-clad troopers walking among them and prodding the bodies with their guns.
Only a few remained alive, including Abay and Eefo. Van Konn died in the fighting. The survivors sat defeated in a circle, some mourned aloud.
Lt. Syfot, now bandaged for a minor blaster wound, commanded the situation. The Vu'othh was at his side.
"The Duros is strong with the force," the Vu'othh told him. "He is dangerous. He must not live."
Syfot listened and considered the Scriptist with an appraising eye. Abay sat kneeling, his head bowed in solemn sorrow.
Syfot made his decision. "Which of you knows the most of things like...this temple?" He asked the circle.
Slowly, Abay looked up. "I do."
"And have you any pupils?"
Eefo struggled to her feet, her head held high. "I have had the honor of learning all he knows!" Then the fire entered her eyes and her voice. "You sick, poor man. You lack knowledge and respect. Your life is a withered one."
Syfot sneered. "Shoot the old man."
Eefo's eyes went wide.
"No!"
A shout went up from the Searchers as the Stormtroopers took aim. They shot Abay, again, and again, until he'd fallen over in the sand, his body smoking. This only happened for a moment, for his body soon disappeared, fading away into nothing.
This disturbed Syfot, but to the eyes of those around he was only thrown off for an instant.
"Bring the Rodian!" He commanded. "The rest will pay for their defiance: you know what to do, Sergeant!"
The squad of Stormtroopers trained their blasters on the defeated Searchers. Many of the robed scholars and warriors reacted bravely. Others bargained.
Troopers dragged Eefo away to a waiting transport, as she struggled and raged.
"No! They have done nothing wrong! Leave them be! LEAVE THEM BE!"
Her cries were muffled by the ship, and the rest of the Searchers joined their fallen brethren in a hail of blasterfire.
When the Imperials were gone, and the Searchers safe at the outpost found them, rites would be performed to return their spirits to the living Force. Each one of the dead would be well mourned and dearly missed.
Already concerned with something else, like a child quickly bored by a toy, Lt. Syfot shook his head in unsettled frustration.
"The boy has our lead on the Heart. Surely he's escaped by now...blast it all to hell. What do you think, Vu'othh?"
The tall creature had watched the execution with passive interest. It now turned to the Leuitenant with a wave of deference and spoke in its persistently unaffected tone.
"Cast away your fears, Absalom," it said, voice filtered by its mask. "The child will continue the hunt as the unknowing servant of the cause. You need only go where you know he must appear."
Syfot thought about where this might be. His eyes grew wide with understanding.
"Back to Mustafar. To the house you first spoke of, yes?"
His tone turned threatening. "Unless he already has that part of the puzzle. If I do as you say, we might very well waste time and lose the trail."
"Waste not your time. Send this one, Absalom. This one submits to your will."
Syfot considered it, enjoying the idea not the least because it meant a great distance between him and this vile thing.
"Very well. Return to the Mustafar system. Wait for the boy there."
"As you desire," said the Vu'othh, and it bowed. Tall and thin as it was, even inclined it towered over the Lieutenant. Another reason he kept their conversations brief.
Syfot turned to survey the battlefield once more, his gaze idle and passive, and entirely unemotional.
That is, except for pride.
The sight of the many bodies, their robed forms at odd angles and in crumpled positions, made him smile. He so enjoyed a lack of loose ends.
"Back to the Rigorous, men!" He announced. "Time is of the essence, and I have a guest to host."
Venetian Red by Irene Becker © All rights reserved
Carnival of Venice 2013
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Ver con fondo negro. View On Black
''El Nini siguió avanzando por la calleja solitaria, arrimado a las casas para eludir el lodazal. Restregaba la moneda que portaba en la mano contra los muros de adobe y al llegar a la primera esquina examinó el brillo nacido en el borde con pueril fruición. El barrizal era allí más espeso, pero el niño lo atravesó sin vacilar, sumergiendo sus pies desnudos en el cieno entreverado de estiércol y escíbalos caprinos, en la pestilente agua estancada de los relejes.''
Fragmento de la obra "Las Ratas" de Miguel Delibes.
Esta foto esta expuesta en la Exposión de los Alumnos de Fotografia de Luis Bernuy en el C. Cívico Parquesol. Hasta el día 31 de Marzo.
To see in Large: View On White
Another installment from the series that I’ve been posting from Anza Borrego Desert. I have to say that shooting out in the desert was very challenging. The brightness and the lack of contrast made it really hard to capture something special, and what was frustrating was that I was surrounded by beauty. I guess going out to shoot around 2pm in the afternoon didn't help either. Next time I visit I’d love to go around sunset. Haha, but I know if I went at that time I’d have to watch out the the critters that live out there. And yes I saw plenty of Rattle snake holes out there during my visit. I definitely wasn’t interested in coming in contact with one of those bad boys. Anyhow, so I hope that this series was able to capture some of what I seen at the time when these photos were taken.
I’d also like to mention that I’ve been tagged by Alex: www.flickr.com/photos/15082599@N08/.
So here are 10 random facts/things about me. Hope you all have a great weekend!
10. I own three photography books and have never taken a class. Most of the stuff I learn how to do is via the internet. Google is my friend.
9. I am a Ph.D student working in a Biochemistry lab. I design proteins and study how they behave.
8. I make my bed every morning.
7. I have a large collection of button up collared shirts.
6. I love learning about new things.
5. When I process pictures I don’t have a set method, I just go with the flow and see what works the best for that image.
4. I often think and listen before I speak.
3. When meeting new friends of friend’s, I’m often quite and enjoy listening to the conversation that is going on.
2. I use to coach American Football while living in Sweden.
1. I don’t like things that have been on the floor to be in my bed or for my pillows to be on the floor, pretty random I know, but hey it’s fact.
And now Tag you are it! Looking forward to knowing more about.
Patrick: www.flickr.com/photos/minkus123/
Jeroen: www.flickr.com/photos/jeroenkoning/
Mubina. H: www.flickr.com/photos/36011007@N04/
Creative.Window: www.flickr.com/photos/creativewindow1/
David 'Art' Wooten: www.flickr.com/photos/kushdarkroom/
ZpanishZcorpio: www.flickr.com/photos/7654252@N08/
Zofrito: www.flickr.com/photos/latuskita/
About the Photo:
A panoramic shot composed of 5 shots in Raw. Each shot was batch processed in Lightroom and then stitched together via photoshop. Further adjustments were done in photoshop. To be honest there wasn’t a whole lot that I did to this processing wise, just some minor color adjustments and cropping.
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Monte Pindo (Carnota, Galicia) visto desde la playa "Boca do Río" en Carnota. Como podeis ver, un lugar impresionante, hay que verlo en persona.
Se trata de un HDR hecho a partir de un solo disparo (RAW) y procesado para luces y para sombras. Personalmente creo que siempre es mejor hacerlo a partir de diferentes disparos, pero a veces no se puede (sujetos en movimiento por ejemplo) o no se hace (porque el HDR no es premeditado y decides hacerlo depués) como en este caso.
También personalmente, prefiero o me gustan más las imágenes HDR que no se note que lo son. Me refiero a que me gusta que sean realistas, que no queden forzadas.
Esta creo que ha quedado bastante bien en el tratamiento HDR, en cuanto a la foto... ustedes dirán!
Subo esta foto porque no tengo nada para subir hoy, bueno la otra tarde que me fui a una rambla a captar fotos de los relámpagos, pues allí también estaba esta torre de luz, no es el sitio más indicado para hacer fotos, pero como me dijo un vez mi amigo Pascual, el que quiere la mejor foto, hay que arriesgar, pero hasta cierto punto, y esas palabras se me quedaron grabadas. Alhama De Murcia (Murcia)
Nota: La foto es tal cual, muy poco de retoque, solo el balance de blanco, y un poco de máscara de enfoque.
Cámara: D40
Modo De Exposición: Manual + Trípode
ISO: 200
Velocidad: 115 Segundos
Focal: 55.0 mm
F/ 22.0
Objetivo: 18.0-55.0 mm F/ 3.5 -5.6
Procesado: Light room 2
Camera Raw 4.3
Photoshop Cs 3
In memory of those who perished 32 years ago today, 30th September, R.I.P.
At about 3am on the 30th September 1976 the Admiral Van Tromp, a new powerful Scarborough trawler ran aground on the scaur at Black Nab, Saltwick Bay. There was thick fog and a heavy swell running.
The Whitby lifeboat, William & Mary Durham, was launched and both Whitby's and Robin Hood's Bay's coastguards were called out. Several rocket lines were fired by the coastguards, but the crew of five trapped in the wheel house, were unable to reach them. The Watson type lifeboat tried to reach the trawler by dropping anchor and drifting back to the wreck. On the first attempt the line parted. A stronger anchor from one of the trawlers standing off was used and Cox'n Robert Allen tried again. However the sea was too strong. With waves washing over her and three of the crew injured the lifeboat got to within 30 feet of the stricken vessel.
As daylight broke the Van Tromp lay on her side with waves breaking over her. One of the crew was spotted clinging to Black Nab, he was saved by the crew of the inshore lifeboat who drove the D class lifeboat at full speed onto a ledge and the man was grabbed just as a large wave broke over the boat and washed it back into the waters. The other four were washed ashore, but sadly two did not survive.
A silver medal was awarded to coxswain Robert Allen and a bronze medal to helmsman Richard Robinson for gallantry.
Extracts from:
www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/north/stations/whitbynorthy...