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En tu cuerpo flor de fuego
tienes paloma,
un temblor de primaveras,
palomitay,
un volcán corre en tus venas.
Y mi sangre como brasa
tienes paloma,
en tu cuerpo quiero hundirme
palomitay,
hasta el fondo de tu sangre.
El sol morirá, morirá,
la noche vendrá, vendrá
Envuélvete en mi cariño
deja la vida volar
tu boca junto a mi boca
paloma, palomitay.
¡Ay! paloma.
En tu cuerpo flor de fuego
tienes paloma,
una llamarada mía
palomitay,
que ha calmado mil heridas.
tierna paloma
no pierdas las esperanzas
palomitay,
la flor crece con el agua.
El sol volverá, volverá,
la noche se irá, se irá.
Envuélvete en mi cariño
deja la vida volar
tu boca junto a mi boca
paloma, palomitay.
¡Ay! paloma.
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{Deja la vida volar - Victor Jara / Interpretada por Mercedes sosa y Pedro Aznar}
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Una tardecita de febrero en San Clemente del Tuyú - Partido de la Costa - Buenos Aires - Argentina
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“Y estos derechos... a respetarlos, ¿eh? ¡No vaya a pasar como con los diez mandamientos!” (Mafalda)
One day, Brother Matthias found a mysterious egg lying in the middle of the meditation path outside the monastery walls in the mountains.
He picked it up and brought it back to Redwall, his monastic enclave at the top of the mountain.
Finally, after much searching, he found some old records in the gatehouse stating that it was the egg of the Rary Bird, an extremely rare breed. Abbot Mortimer agreed they could keep the egg.
Once it hatched, the Rary Bird grew very fast and very big, though its wings were too small for it to fly. At first it happily lived on fish, but one day it suddenly attacked one of the friars.
Two novice brothers managed to overpower it before it killed anyone, but they were now stuck with the problem of what to do with the bird. They could hardly keep it tied up forever, and no one dared get close enough to kill it.
Finally, Abbot Mortimer, being the wisest of the monks came up with an idea.
"The bird cannot fly, so we shall bind it and take it to the top of the watch tower at the top of the monastery at the top of the mountain and throw it off."
Reaching the great height, Brother Matthias looking over the edge agreed saying,
"That should do it as ....
(are you ready? you can still turn back, no? okay, but don't blame me)
".... it's a long way to tip a Rary.
It's a long way to go."
From www.artic.edu/artexplorer/search.php?tab=2&resource=65:
Will the apples fall off the table? Explore the tension between stability and imbalance in this late still life by Cezanne.
Many of Paul Cézanne's late still lifes depict complex arrangements whose artificial character underscores the artist's role as contriver. They are, however, very different from the seventeenth-century Dutch prototypes to which they are sometimes compared. Cézanne never aimed at illusionism, and his still-life compositions can be anthropomorphic, expressive of psychological tension, in ways never dreamt of by his Baroque predecessors.
The Basket of Apples exemplifies this effect. The theatrical tilt of the basket implies that the apples on the tabletop have rolled out of it; yet the way they huddle and nestle in the crumpled napkin suggests that they possess independent minds. The biscuits on a plate are carefully stacked, but they too seem animate, as if straining to take in the drama unfolding before them. The bottle—slightly askew and off center, teasingly close to stabilizing union with the picture's upper edge—presides over the scene like a dark sentinel. Poised between resolution and imbalance, sensation and ponderation, The Basket of Apples makes tangible the complex eye-mind interplay that determines visual experience.
Cézanne's grave attentiveness to this dynamic gives his art a philosophical cast, but the pleasures afforded by his robust color chords, lively touch, and sure compositional instincts make it seductive. Here, his considered juxtapositions of autumnal hues, like the resolutely disjointed table edges and intentionally "unfinished" contours, draw attention to the deliberative nature of art-making.
Cézanne's determination to recognize the provisional nature of perception derives from Impressionism, but his stress on the tension between optical sensation and aesthetic transformation sets him apart. In his mature work, he found beauty of a new kind in the inherently charged dialogue between contingency and contemplation, thereby facilitating the more radical break with realistic representation effected by the Cubists and other modernists in the early twentieth century.
An examination of Cezanne's dynamic composition of fruit and objects in this still life from the mid-1890s.
Paul Cezanne spent most of his working life in and around the southern French city of Aix-en-Provence and, partially as a result of his self-imposed isolation, was for many years all but unknown in Paris. In 1895, he was persuaded by the dealer Ambroise Vollard to have a one-man show in Paris. The exhibition, held at Vollard's popular gallery, was not an important financial success, but it had a profound effect on the history of French art. It was the first time in nearly twenty years that French artists who had heard about this painter from Provence could actually see his work. Basket of Apples was among the paintings selected by Cezanne and Vollard for inclusion in this exhibition. Like several of the other paintings in the exhibition, it was signed, most probably at the insistence of Vollard, who felt that an unsigned painting might be considered unfinished and, hence, would fail to sell. Cezanne grudgingly complied, and, for that reason, the paintings in the Vollard exhibition are among the few the artist actually signed.
Basket of Apples is among Cezanne's "baroque" still lifes painted in the late 1880's and 1890's. Its pictorial structure derives from seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes. Like the Dutch artists, Cezanne sought to establish a dynamic, asymmetrical arrangement of objects that are held in place only by the painter's compositional skills. Yet, where such an effect of imbalance was merely a compositional device of the Dutch painters, it was an essential element of Cezanne's conception of the still life. Cezanne recognized the fact that the artist is not bound to represent real objects in real space. He was able, therefore, to impart to everything a strength and relative position that could not possibly be duplicated in an actual studio arrangement.
Here, the basket filled with apples tilts improbably on a small base or stand, its contents held in check only by a bottle and a cloth, in whose complex, craggy folds lie many other pieces of fruit. The table, like virtually every one in a Cezanne still life, has four edges that cannot be aligned to form an exact rectangle. At the raised upper right corner of the table, the artist created a latticed "log-cabin" of the French pastry called dents de loup, contrasting the informal and unstable arrangement of the circular apples on the table with the architectonic stack of cookies. Both arrangements vie for dominance around the central form of the bottle, which, with its own silhouette shifting from left to right, acts as an anchor for a composition in endless flux. Thus, the balance that Cezanne achieved is a purely pictorial one: the actual arrangement of objects he painted in his studio could never have possessed the dynamism and tension with which it is endowed in Basket of Apples.
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Garrotxa. Catalonia.
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The Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park (Catalan: Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa) is a natural park area covering a Holocene volcanic field (also known as the Olot volcanic field) in Catalonia, northeastern Spain. The volcanos, of which there are about forty within the park, are no longer active, with the last eruption (Croscat) occurring about 11,000 years ago.[1] However, the region is still seismically active, and a large earthquake in 1428 caused damage to buildings and twenty deaths in Barcelona, 90 kilometres (56 mi) to the south.
The park covers 12,093.02 hectares, and includes territory from eleven municipalities in the comarca of Garrotxa.[2] The built-up areas of Olot, Santa Pau, Sant Joan les Fonts and Castellfollit de la Roca are completely surrounded by the park. Including these urban areas, the population of the park is more than 40,000 people, and the economic development of the zone is one of the objectives of the park management, while trying to avoid the damage caused by quarrying, urban sprawl and illegal waste disposal. Some 980.86 ha of the park, including the best preserved volcanic cones, are fully protected as nature reserves.
Rupit, Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
Rupit and Pruit (in Catalan Rupit i Pruit) are a municipality of the region of Osona located to the northeast of the region and the east of the Sierra de Cabrera. It is integrated by two urban nuclei: Rupit and Pruit, that they were independent until year 1980. It is the last town of the province of Barcelona in the highway that unites the municipalities of Vic, capital of the region of Osona and Olot, capital of the region of the Garrotxa (Girona).
The origin of the town we found in the castle that was constructed around year 1000, replacing the one of Fàbregues, where they went constructing houses around.
In 14th century the population underwent a reduction but it recovered, arriving in 17th and 18th centuries at the maximum splendor that has never had the town. The church was possibly built between 13th and 14th centuries, and it was dedicated to San Miguel Arcángel.
Pruit already names in year 955, when it belonged to viscounts of Osona. Always there is been united to the castle and jurisdiction of Rupit.
Sources: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupit_y_Pruit and pieraedicions.com/rupitpruitbreuhistoria.htm.
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CASTELLANO
Rupit y Pruit (en catalán Rupit i Pruit) es un municipio de la comarca de Osona situado al noreste de la comarca y al este de la Sierra de Cabrera. Está integrado por dos núcleos urbanos: Rupit y Pruit, que fueron independientes hasta el año 1977. Es el último pueblo de la provincia de Barcelona en la carretera que une los municipios de Vic, capital de la comarca de Osona y Olot, capital de la comarca de La Garrotxa (Gerona).
La iglesia de Sant Joan de Fàbregues y su castillo están documentados desde el año 968. Hacia el siglo XII surgió el pueblo de Rupit habitado por familias nobles. En 1878, la iglesia de Rupit dejó de depender de Sant Joan de Fàbregues y en 1959 el municipio pasó a llamarse Rupit. En 1977 se unieron los municipios de Rupit y Pruit.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupit_i_Pruit
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The Gothic loftiness of Notre-Dame dominates the Seine and the Ile-de-la-Cité as well as the history of Paris.
Notre-Dame de Paris is a church, a place of Roman Catholic worship, where Christians come together to pray. It opens its doors to people to participate in services or to freely visit the cathedral all year long.
Notre Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress (arched exterior supports). The building was not originally designed to include the flying buttresses around the choir and nave. After the construction began and the thinner walls (popularized in the Gothic style) grew ever higher, stress fractures began to occur as the walls pushed outward. In response, the cathedral's architects built supports around the outside walls, and later additions continued the pattern.
For a look at the upper parts of the church, the river, and much of Paris, climb the 387 steps to the top of one of the towers.
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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
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9711…Michelle Zakrison
7203…Miguel Bussiere
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13207…Mike Giles
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8250…Mike Scott
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9923…Mithony Phan
12981…Moe Bsat
8288…Molly Goodman
12082…Monica Waterhouse
9615…Monique Lecompte
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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
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8398…Nadine Carroll
12278…Nammie Patel
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8835…Nancy Dudek
9969…Nancy Dupuis
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7166…Natalie Pilon
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13412…Nathalie Levasseur
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13213…Ngatho Githii
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Ducketts Grove was designed in a Castellated Gothic revival style by Thomas A. Cobden for John Davidson Duckett circa 1825. The 18th, 19th and early 20th century home of the Duckett family, was formerly at the centre of a 12,000 acre estate that has dominated the Carlow landscape for over 300 years.The building incorporates numerous towers and turrets of varying shapes – round, square and octagonal. One tall octagonal turret rises from the structure. It is elaborately ornamented with oriels and niches containing statues.
The house itself is situated in the townland of Rainstown, between Carlow and Tullow but the estate itself comprised several large townlands and parts of others.
In September 2005 during Heritage Week, Carlow Country Council acquired Duckett’s Grove and commenced the restoration of two inter-connecting walled gardens.
Even in ruin, the surviving towers and turrets of Duckett’s Grove form a romantic profile making it one of the most photogenic historic buildings in the country.
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LE NORMAND ou LENORMAND MARIE-ANNE (1772-1843)
Marie-Anne Le Normand, plus connue sous le nom de «Mademoiselle Lenormand», est sans doute la voyante la plus célèbre des temps modernes...
Cette popularité, elle la doit à un jeu de cartomancie, pourtant apocryphe, plus qu’à ses écrits – quelque quatorze ouvrages aujourd’hui largement oubliés – dans lesquels elle raconte ses songes et ses visions, et se vante de rencontres prestigieuses, pour la plupart douteuses. Son sens de la publicité, jusque dans la mort, et la prolixité de ses biographes, prompts à broder de nouveaux exploits, ont fait d’elle un personnage assez éloigné de la réalité.
Marie-Anne-Adélaïde Le Normand est née à Alençon le 27 mai 1772, seconde fille de Jean-Louis Le Normand, mort l’année suivante, et d’Anne-Marie Gilbert, qui devait mourir cinq ans plus tard. Devenue orpheline, l’enfant est mise en pension chez les sœurs, d’abord chez les Bénédictines, puis chez les Visitandines, où elle se sent déjà des dons de voyance. À l’âge de 11 ans, elle est placée en apprentissage chez une couturière. En 1786, elle s’installe à Paris où son père adoptif vient d’ouvrir un magasin. Elle fréquente peut-être alors son compatriote Jacques-René Hébert. L’année suivante, elle est arrêtée pour pratique magique, mais n’est pas poursuivie. Une tradition que rien ne permet de confirmer prétend qu’elle se rend ensuite à Londres et qu’elle y pratique l’astrologie, gagnant suffisamment d’argent pour rentrer enrichie (à 18 ans!) à... Alençon l’année suivante (1790). Revenue à Paris, Marie-Anne Le Normand devient lectrice de d’Armeval de La Saussotte, personnage assez trouble et libertin. Attirée par le théâtre, elle connaît ses premiers succès de voyante dans le milieu des acteurs, qu’elle fréquente en tentant d’y placer les pièces qu’elle écrit (mais dont il ne reste rien). Elle s’installe alors rue de Tournon, où elle prétendra plus tard avoir accueilli quelques visiteurs huppés, dont le comte de Provence (futur Louis XVIII), Fouché, encore inconnu, Camille Desmoulins, Robespierre et même Bonaparte! La présence d’un club jacobin au 8, rue de Tournon lui a probablement amené une clientèle de politiques.
En réalité, les activités de Marie-Anne Le Normand paraissent avoir été moins glorieuses. Elle fait à ce moment-là la connaissance d’une tireuse de cartes et de son acolyte, un garçon boulanger; devenue leur associée en 1793, elle rend des oracles déguisée en «Américaine». Mais un client mécontent, conventionnel, la fait arrêter pour charlatanisme, avec ses comparses; incarcérées à Saint-Martin, les deux femmes sont condamnées solidairement à dix livres d’amende comme «diseuses de bonne aventure». Toujours surveillée par la police, qui la soupçonne de s’acoquiner avec des «ennemis du peuple», Marie-Anne Le Normand est à nouveau arrêtée le 17 juin 1794 et enfermée à la prison de la Force. Thermidor la libérera.
En octobre 1797 (vendémiaire an VI), elle fonde un journal, Le Mot à l’oreille, ou le Don Quichotte des dames, dont elle se dit «propriétaire-rédactrice». Rien de divinatoire là-dedans: cette modeste gazette enfile les banalités, nouvelles, rumeurs («on-dit»), scènes de rue sur le vif, décisions du Conseil des Cinq-Cents. Mais Mademoiselle Le Normand était démangée par la passion d’écrire. Son adresse est alors 115, rue de Tournon, faubourg Saint-Germain. Le Mot à l’oreille n’alla pas au-delà de huit numéros. La vraie notoriété vient avec l’Empire. Marie-Anne est-elle alors, comme elle l’a prétendu dans les Mémoires historiques et secrets de l’impératrice Joséphine (Paris, chez l’auteur, 1820), la confidente de Joséphine? On peut en douter quand on sait le jugement sans appel formulé par les historiens sur ce document entièrement apocryphe. Mais les rapports de police le disent: «la demoiselle Le Normand demeurant rue de Tournon fait journellement des dupes»; elle se dit «cousine de Charlotte Corday ... tenant un bureau d’écrivain public pour couvrir ses manœuvres» (rapport de septembre 1804). Nombre de célébrités parisiennes la consultent, tels Talleyrand, Madame de Sta‘l, Talma, et même Metternich qui lui rend visite en mars 1808. Cette célébrité lui vaut des ennemis. D’autant plus que Mademoiselle Le Normand est royaliste et s’en cache à peine. Le 11 décembre 1809, elle est arrêtée, pour être relâchée douze jours plus tard. Douze jours longuement et complaisamment narrés dans Les Souvenirs prophétiques d’une sibylle sur les causes secrètes de son arrestation le 11 décembre 1809 qu’elle publie en 1814. La clientèle continue pourtant d’affluer, sa popularité est au zénith. Depuis 1810, Marie-Anne Le Normand possède aussi une librairie rue du Petit-Lion-Saint-Sulpice (actuelle rue Saint-Sulpice). Elle y vendra essentiellement ses propres livres, tous publiés à compte d’auteur.
Le retour des Bourbons apporte à Mademoiselle Le Normand une nouvelle clientèle. La «sibylle» polémique volontiers dans la presse, qui l’accuse d’être une «sorcière». Les échotiers et les publicistes la brocardent. Elle se justifie, parlant de ses «horoscopes» et de son «génie». Elle se lance dans l’écriture de livres pour y raconter ses souvenirs ou ceux de personnages importants qu’elle dit avoir rencontrés. Ainsi paraissent successivement Les Souvenirs prophétiques d’une sibylle (1814), Anniversaire de la mort de l’impératrice Joséphine (1815), La Sibylle au tombeau de Louis XVI (1816), Les Oracles sibyllins, ou la suite des souvenirs prophétiques (1817).
En octobre 1818, Mademoiselle Le Normand décide de se rendre en grand équipage à Aix-la-Chapelle où les souverains de la Sainte-Alliance (tsar, roi de Prusse, empereur) tiennent congrès. Après quelques péripéties à la frontière, elle arrive à Aix, où elle retrouve les têtes couronnées qui la consultent depuis longtemps. Puis elle se rend à Bruxelles où elle est accueillie avec ferveur. Ces aventures donnent matière à un nouveau livre: La Sibylle au congrès d’Aix-la-Chapelle, suivi d’un coup d’œil sur celui de Carlsbad, ouvrage faisant suite aux Oracles sibyllins, avec des notes politiques, historiques, philosophiques, cabalistiques, etc., etc., qui paraît en 1819. En 1820, la publication contestée des Mémoires historiques et secrets de l’impératrice Joséphine, Marie-Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, première épouse de Napoléon Bonaparte fait scandale. Le livre sera réédité en 1827, traduit en allemand en 1822, en suédois en 1831, puis en anglais aux États-Unis en 1847 assurant sans doute la popularité de l’auteur très largement au-delà de nos frontières. La presse ridiculise pourtant à nouveau Marie-Anne Le Normand. Humiliée, elle décide de partir et choisit de se rendre à Bruxelles où elle s’installe en mars 1821. La police la surveille, elle déménage, puis est arrêtée en avril, accusée d’escroquerie. Finalement, après plusieurs interrogatoires et perquisitions, un procès se tient devant le tribunal correctionnel de Louvain. L’accusée est populaire, la presse s’en mêle, le public est nombreux. L’accusation de sorcellerie est en filigrane. Marie-Anne Le Normand est condamnée aux dépens et invitée à quitter la Belgique. D’août à octobre 1821, elle séjourne dans le Nord de la France où elle consulte. Revenue à Paris, elle se lance dans la préparation d’un torrent de livres, à commencer par le récit de ses aventures en Belgique: Souvenirs de la Belgique: cent jours d’infortunes, ou le procès mémorable, avec des notes historiques et politiques, qui paraît en octobre 1822. Suivent quelque sept ouvrages «historiques» où sont convoquées les mânes de Louis XVIII, qui vient de mourir, d’Alexandre Ier de Russie, ou encore L’Ombre de Henri IV au palais d’Orléans (1831). En 1833, Mademoiselle Le Normand prend un peu vite le parti de la duchesse de Berry, alors discréditée par ses tentatives rocambolesques de restauration légitimiste. La «sibylle» paraît moins inspirée: elle ne publiera plus de livre. Pourtant son nom continue de susciter des vocations: on ne compte plus les voyantes qui se disent – abusivement – ses élèves. Un peu oubliée, elle meurt le 25 juin 1843. Son enterrement à Paris en grande cérémonie baroque (gigantesque catafalque, pleureuses, église toute tendue de blanc) en présence d’une foule nombreuse provoque les sarcasmes des journaux.
Aussitôt, «biographes» et imitatrices se multiplient: trois récits assez fantaisistes de la vie de Mademoiselle Le Normand paraissent avant la fin de l’année, rapidement suivis par «vérités» et «souvenirs authentiques» dus à des thuriféraires improvisés. Les grands dictionnaires biographiques du moment, tels que la Nouvelle Biographie générale du Dr Hoefer et la Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne de L.-G. Michaud, la font entrer dans leur panthéon sans délai. Dès 1845, paraît en cinq petits volumes un Grand Jeu de société et pratiques secrètes de Mlle Le Normand entièrement apocryphe, préparé par une «Mme la comtesse de ***» qui se dit disciple de la sibylle et qui n’est sans doute que Mme Breteau, femme d’un éditeur peu scrupuleux. Le jeu de 54 cartes qui y est joint, devenu depuis un classique de la cartomancie et parfois présenté comme un «tarot», n’en est pas moins aux antipodes de ce que nous savons des méthodes et des thèmes ressassés par Marie-Anne Le Normand. Cette réputation de cartomancienne a même franchi les frontières, au point qu’un petit jeu de société à 36 cartes né en Allemagne, au style très germanique, est rebaptisé «Petit Lenormand».
Malgré sa passion d’écrire et ses nombreux ouvrages, Mademoiselle Le Normand n’a laissé ni théorie ni méthode pratique. Souvenirs arrangés et «prophéties» rétrospectives constituent l’essentiel de son témoignage; mais son sens très moderne de la communication lui vaut une postérité sans égal.
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
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The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located in the Piazza Navona. Designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini, it is emblematic of the dynamic and dramatic effects sought by High Baroque artists. It was erected in 1651 in front of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone, and yards from the Pamphilj Palace belonging to this fountain's patron, Innocent X (1644-1655).
The four gods on the corners of the fountain represent the four major rivers of the world known at the time: the Nile, Danube, Ganges, and Plate. The design of each god figure has symbolic importance.
Design
Bernini's design was selected in competition. The circumstances of his victory are described as follows:
So strong was the sinister influence of the rivals of Bernini on the mind of Innocent that when he planned to set up in Piazza Navona the great obelisk brought to Rome by the Emperor Caracalla, which had been buried for a long time at Capo di Bove for the adornment of a magnificent fountain, the Pope had designs made by the leading architects of Rome without an order for one to Bernini. Prince Niccolò Ludovisi, whose wife was niece to the pope, persuaded Bernini to prepare a model, and arrange for it to be secretly installed in a room in the Palazzo Pamphili that the Pope had to pass. When the meal was finished, seeing such a noble creation, he stopped almost in ecstasy. Being prince of the keenest judgment and the loftiest ideas, after admiring it, said: “This is a trick … It will be necessary to employ Bernini in spite of those who do not wish it, for he who desires not to use Bernini’s designs, must take care not to see them.”
Paraphrase from Filippo Baldinucci, The life of Cavaliere Bernini (1682)
Public fountains in Rome served multiple purposes: first, they were highly needed sources of water for neighbors in the centuries prior to home plumbing. Second, they were monuments to the papal patrons. Earlier Bernini fountains had been the Fountain of the Triton in Piazza Barberini, the fountain of the Moor in the southern end of Piazza Navona erected during the Barberini papacy, and the Neptune and Triton for Villa Montalto, whose statuary now resides at Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Each has animals and plants that further carry forth the identification, and each carries a certain number of allegories and metaphors with it. The Ganges carries a long oar, representing the river's navigability. The Nile's head is draped with a loose piece of cloth, meaning that no one at that time knew exactly where the Nile's source was. The Danube touches the Papal coat of arms, since it is the large river closest to Rome. And the Río de la Plata is sitting on a pile of coins, a symbol of the riches America could offer to Europe (the word plata means silver in Spanish). Also, the Río de la Plata looks scared by a snake, showing rich men's fear that their money could be stolen. Each is a river god, semi-prostrate, in awe of the central tower, epitomized by the slender Egyptian obelisk (built for the Roman Serapeum in AD 81), symbolizing by Papal power surmounted by the Pamphili symbol (dove). In addition, the fountain is a theater in the round, a spectacle of action, that can be strolled around. Water flows and splashes from a jagged and pierced mountainous disorder of travertine marble. A legend, common with tour-guides, is that Bernini positioned the cowering Rio de la Plata River as if the sculpture was fearing the facade of the church of Sant'Agnese by his rival Borromini could crumble against him; in fact, the fountain was completed several years before Borromini began work on the church.
The dynamic fusion of architecture and sculpture made this fountain revolutionary when compared to prior Roman projects, such as the stilted designs Acqua Felice and Paola by Fontana in Piazza San Bernardo (1585-87) or the customary embellished geometric floral-shaped basin below a jet of water such as the Fontanina in Piazza Campitelli (1589) by Giacomo della Porta.
Unveiling
he Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was unveiled to the populace of Rome on 12 June 1651. According to a report from the time, an event was organised to draw people to the Piazza Navona. Beforehand, wooden scaffolding, overlaid with curtains, had hidden the fountain, though probably not the obelisk, which would have given people an idea that something was being built, but the precise details were unknown. Once unveiled, the full majesty of the fountain would be apparent, which the celebrations were designed to advertise. The festival was paid for by the Pamphili family, to be specific, Innocent X, who had sponsored the erection of the fountain. The most conspicuous item on the Pamphili crest, an olive branch, was brandished by the performers who took part in the event.
The author of the report, Antonio Bernal, takes his readers through the hours leading up to the unveiling. The celebrations were announced by a woman, dressed as the allegorical character of Fame, being paraded around the streets of Rome on a carriage or float. She was sumptuously dressed, with wings attached to her back and a long trumpet in her hand. Bernal notes that "she went gracefully through all the streets and all the districts that are found among the seven hills of Rome, often blowing the round bronze [the trumpet], and urging everyone to make their way to that famous Piazza." A second carriage followed her; this time another woman was dressed as the allegorical figure of Curiosity. According to the report, she continued exhorting the people to go towards the piazza. Bernal describes the clamour and noise of the people as they discussed the upcoming event.
The report is actually less detailed about the process of publicly unveiling the fountain. However, it does give ample descriptions of the responses of the spectators who had gathered in the Piazza. Once there, Bernal notes, the citizens of the city were overwhelmed by the massive fountain, with its huge life-like figures. The report mentions the "enraptured souls" of the population, the fountain, which "gushes out a wealth of silvery treasures" causing "no little wonder" in the onlookers. Bernal then continues to describe the fountain, making continuous reference to the seeming naturalism of the figures and its astonishing effect on those in the piazza.
The making of the fountain was met by opposition by the people of Rome for several reasons. First, Innocent X had the fountain built at public expense during the intense famine of 1646-48. Throughout the construction of the fountain, the city murmurred and talk of riot was in the air. Pasquinade writers protested the construction of the fountain in September 1648 by attaching hand-written invectives on the stone blocks used to make the obelisk. These pasquinades read, "We do not want Obelisks and Fountains, It is bread that we want. Bread, Bread, Bread!" Innocent quickly had the authors arrested, and disguised spies patrol the Pasquino statue and Piazza Navona
The streetvendors of the market also opposed the construction of the fountain, as Innocent X expelled them from the piazza. The Pamphilij pope believed they detracted from the magnificence of the square. The vendors refused to move, and the papal police had to chase them from the piazza. Roman Jews, in particular, lamented the closing of the Navona, since they were allowed to sell used articles of clothing there at the Wednesday market.
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.
A Fontana Dei Quattro Fiumi, é maior das três fontes, localizada no centro da praça. Na fonte dos rios, Bernini projetou quatro estátuas representando os rios dos quatro continentes: o Nilo, o Danúbio, o rio da Prata e o Ganges. As estátuas estão montadas sobre um obelisco egípcio, sendo circundadas por leões e outros animais fantásticos, tendo no cume uma pomba em bronze, símbolo da paz no mundo e da família Pamphili. Para realçar a rivalidade entre Bernini e Borromini, que fez a igreja de Santa Agnese, os romanos criaram uma lenda em torno da fonte dos rios, que fica em frente a esta igreja. Segundo os romanos, as estátuas duvidam da solidez do projeto de Borromini. A que retrata o rio da Prata, tem a mão erguida, a proteger o corpo do desabamento da igreja; a que retrata o Nilo, traz a cabeça coberta por um véu, a recusar a ver a obra de Borromini.
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fonte dos Quatro Rios), foi esculpida por Gian Lorenzo Bernini entre 1648 e 1651, artista do barroco italiano, foi concebida por uma ordem do Papa Inocencio X o Papa da familia Pamphili, cujo tinha sua casa nesta praça.
Esta localizada na Praça de Navona, em Roma. Ela representa os quatro principais continentes do mundo cortados por seus principais rios: Rio Nilo, na África; Rio Ganges, na Ásia, Rio da Prata, na América e o Rio Danúbio, na Europa.
A seguir, texto em português do site Wiki lingue:
A escultura da Fonte dos Quatro Rios, encontra-se na Piazza Navona de Roma (Itália) e foi criada e talhada pelo escultor e pintor Gian Lorenzo Bernini em 1651 baixo o papado de Inocencio X, em plena época barroca, durante o período mais prolífico do genial artista e cerca da que em outro tempo fué a Chiesa dei San Giacomo de gli Spagnoli
A fonte compõe-se de uma base formada de uma grande piscina elíptica, coroada em seu centro de uma grande mole de mármol, sobre a qual se eleva um obelisco egípcio de época romana, o obelisco de Domiciano .
As estátuas que compõem a fonte, têm umas dimensões maiores que na realidade e são alegorias dos quatro rios principais da Terra (Nilo, Ganges, Danubio, Rio da Prata), a cada um deles em um dos continentes conhecidos na época. Na fonte a cada um destes rios está representado por um gigante de mármol .
As árvores e as plantas que emergem da água e que se encontram entre as rochas, também estão em uma escala maior que na realidade. Os animais e vegetales, gerados de uma natureza boa e útil, pertencem a espécies grandes e potentes (como o leão, cavalo, cocodrilo, serpente, dragão, etc.). O espectador, girando em torno da fonte, descobre novas formas que dantes estavam escondidas ou cobertas pela massa rocosa. Com esta obra, Bernini quer suscitar admiração em quem olha-a, criando um pequeno universo em movimento a imitação do espaço da realidade natural.
A fonte foi submetida a restauração, um trabalho que se deu por concluído em dezembro de 2008. Constitui um dos palcos finque da novela e o filme Anjos e Demónios, à qual é arrojado um dos cardeais sequestrados, e Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) se lança à água para lhe salvar.
Os animais da fonte
A fonte apresenta figuras de sete animais, além de uma pequena pomba e o emblema dos Pamphili. Para poder observá-las basta com dar uma volta ao redor da fonte. As figuras são: um cavalo, uma serpente de terra (na parte mais alta, cerca do obelisco), uma serpente de mar, um delfín (que funciona também como desagüe), um cocodrilo, um leão e um dragão. Notar também a vegetación esculpida que parece real.
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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The Magic Fountain of Montjuïc (Catalan: Font màgica de Montjuïc, Spanish: Fuente mágica de Montjuic) is a fountain located at the head of Avenida Maria Cristina in the Montjuïc neighborhood of Barcelona, Catalonia. The fountain is situated below the Palau Nacional on the Montjuïc hill and near the Plaça d'Espanya. The fountain, like most of the surrounding developments, was constructed for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition.
The Magic Fountain was designed by Carles Buigas, who had designed illuminated fountains as early as 1922. The site where the fountain was constructed was the previous location of The Four Columns. The columns, representative of the Catalanism movement, were demolished in 1928 under the rule of Prime Minister Migel Primo de Rivera[1] and were re-erected in 2010 a few meters away from the original location.
Buigas submitted his design a year before the exhibition, with many calling the plan too ambitious, with too little time to complete. The construction project utilized over 3000 workers. The first show took place on May 19, 1929, the day before the start of the Exposition.[2] The fountain was badly damaged in the Spanish Civil War and did not operate until 1955, after Buigas oversaw needed repairs.
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L: Sheryl... por un casual... no se te ha pasado por la cabeza hacer a Watari para no cargar yo con toda la responsabilidad? ¬¬
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I know that, nearly every day, when talking with parents of neuro-typical children, at least one mom will tell me her son/daughter/both have signs of autism.
Now, we all know it's extra common these days, but do not panic. Be informed. Sure, it is life-changing, but in ways you would never imagine. My life is better. Beyond measure.
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And for those of you who are wannabees (seriously, it happens, A LOT), please don't overstate (read: exaggerate or make shit up about) your child's issues to a parent who is actually living with actual autism. It doesn't make us feel better, or like we think you understand. We are on to you. We *know* what you are doing. /soapbox
I might delete this part because it sounds like I am crazy and mean. And I am not mean. Usually.
Cunit, Tarragona (Spain).
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Cirrus clouds are characterized by thin, wisplike strands, often accompanied by tufts, leading to their common (non-standard) name of 'mare's tail'. Sometimes these brownish clouds are so extensive that they are virtually indistinguishable from one another, forming a veil or sheet called "cirrostratus". Sometimes convection at high altitudes produces another form of cirrus called "cirrocumulus", a pattern of small cloud tufts which include droplets of supercooled water.
Many cirrus clouds produce hair like filaments made of the heavier [ice] crystals that precipitate from them. These "fall streaks", a form of virga, often indicate the difference in the motion of air (wind shear) between the upper part of the cirrus cloud and the air below it. Sometimes the top of the cirrus cloud is moving rapidly above a slower layer of air, or the streak is falling into a faster moving lower layer. The directions of these winds can also vary.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_cloud
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CASTELLANO
Un cirrus o cirro es un tipo de nube compuesto de cristales de hielo y caracterizado por bandas delgadas, finas, acompañadas por "copetes". A veces estas nubes "en voluta" son tan extensas que virtualmente resultan indistinguibles una de otras, formando una hoja o velo llamado "cirrostratus". Ciertas veces la convección a altas altitudes producen otra forma de cirros, llamadas "cirrocúmulos": patrón de pequeñas nubes en copetes.
El nombre "cirrus" deriva del latín "hebra de cabello."
Muchos cirros producen filamentos como hebras de cabello hechas de cristales de hielo más pesados que precipitan. Estas "rayas de verano", una forma de virga, indican la diferencia en el movimiento del aire (viento cortante) entre la parte superior del cirrus y el aire debajo. A veces los topes de estos cirros se mueven rápidamente por encima de una capa de aire, o estas "rayas" se rompen dentro de una capa más baja y más rápida. Las direcciones de esos vientos pueden también variar.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_(nube)
From the Port Adelaide National Railway Museum Web site:
Dieselisation of Australia's major railway systems got away to a slow start because of a lack of local builders capable of manufacturing this type of locomotive. Initially therefore orders were placed overseas, and it wasn't until 1951, when the Clyde Engineering Co., of Granville, NSW, gained the licence to build General Motors EMD locomotives for the Australian market.
Based on General Motors-EMD's F-7 model, the design for the local product required considerable modification to conform with Australian loading gauges and axle load restrictions. This job fell to Fred Shea who produced a machine with a carbody both lower and longer than its US counterpart. The resulting A-7 (ML1) model was highly successful and aesthetically pleasing. Also, whereas the North American units were carried on four-wheel bogies, the GMs required six-wheel bogies to distribute the weight for the lighter track then in use, the traction motors being mounted on the outer axles.
GM 1 underwent its road trials over New South Wales Railways' tracks on 24th August 1951 and, on its delivery run ran as far as Albury. At Bandiana it was transfered to broad-gauge bogies and hauled the rest of the way to Port Pirie where it was once more lifted onto its own bogies. It was placed in service on 20th September.
Originally the GM1-class was restricted to the Transcontinental route between Port Pirie and Kalgoorlie but, as the standard-gauge network expanded, they ranged further afield. Eventually they were to work in all mainland states except Queensland.
The success of Fred Shea's modifications to the original design can be gauged from the fact that variations of it were ordered by the Victorian Railways, New South Wales Railways and the North-Western Railway of Pakistan. All the GMs passed to the control of Australian National on 1st March 1978, and the first were not condemned until 1988. Most have had a lifespan well in excess of thirty years and only now are they being displaced by the more powerful DL and EL classes.
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I used to think I was terrible at making aircraft, but I am very happy with how this turned out, and was blessed with excellent pictures too, by some freak, haha, because I'm no good at photography and had a bad camera too, lol. But here are the pictures of my Ground Attack Aircraft made for DA3, and I encourage you to scroll through all the pictures, I don't think you'll regret it!! It features movable wings, opening cockpit, removable landing gear, and three weapon systems, and I think it is my most decaled build to date.
Hope you like it, gentlemen! Thanks for stopping by!
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Bruce Springsteen My Hometown
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
Id sit on his lap in that big old buick and steer as we drove through town
Hed tousle my hair and say son take a good look around
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
This is your hometown, this is your hometown
In `65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown, my hometown, my hometown
Now main streets whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there aint nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they aint coming back to
Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown
Last night me and kate we laid in bed talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
Im thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good
Look around
This is your hometown
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Wat Phra Kaew, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, and the adjoining Grand Palace together form perhaps the greatest spectacle for the visitor to Bangkok. Despite the fact that the whole compound is so full of tourists you spend half the time trying to avoid getting in people's photos, it's still a pretty amazing place to visit.
It consists of over 100 brightly colored buildings, golden spires and glittering mosaics, and dates back to 1782, when Bangkok was founded. When you enter the compound, you first of all see Wat Phra Kaew and the nearby attractions, and then move on to the Grand Palace afterwards.
Wat Phra Kaew itself, generally known to the Thais as Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, is perhaps the main attraction. This is Thailand's most important and sacred temple, so you're expected to act with due respect inside it. It houses the tiny (between 60 and 75 cm) Emerald Buddha, which is located high above the heads of the worshippers and tourists. Not much is known for certain about the statue, except that it isn't actually made of emerald but rather of green jade or jasper. Getting a good look at it is difficult as photography is forbidden inside the temple, and it's perched so high up inside it's glass box that it's difficult to really see.
Little bit down in temrs of my photography currently , have seen & done so much and its enhanced my life , its taken over , the web site has not worked but had to try it , many others have and failed that are better than me ! Have has two weeks off work and im back next week , seriously have to think about putting the camera away for some time !!!
I dont post many B&W images , the colour version here was good the sun hit the crops and turned them so golden , may post that soon !!!
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Here is my first published work even though i did it as a freebie its great seeing your work on a web site !
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A view of the beautiful Lions Mountain and Capilano Lake located in North Vancouver, BC, Canada!
About this photo: We've been having beautiful sunny weather for the past 10 days and we have made the most of it. We've visited Capilano Suspension Bridge Park first and after that we drove a bit further up the road to see Capilano Lake and the Lions Mountains. It was such a beautiful and calm day...the view from here was amazing!
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Thank you for dropping by and I hope you like this photo!
Ann :-)
Some information on The Lions and Capilano Lake: The Lions are a pair of pointed peaks consiting of the West Lion with an elevation of 1,646m (5,400 ft) and the East Lion with an elevation of 1,606 m (5,269 ft). This mountain is visible from many areas, but the best view is from Capilano Lake by the Cleveland Dam in North Vancouver. This beautiful lake accounts for about 40% of Greater Vancouver's water supply. The southern part of the lake is within the Capilano River Regional Park and this is where the lake is separated from the Capilano River's southern portion by the Cleveland Dam.
Some information Vancouver: Vancouver is known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Vancouver is Canada's third largest city and is located at the Pacific Ocean on a peninsula surrounded by water and the mountains. Vancouver is considered a pretty clean and safe city with a great variety of shops, museums, theatre, outdoor activities (hiking, walking, kayaking, sailing, skiing on the local mountains in the winter) and more. Walking around Stanley Park is a favourite thing to do for tourist and locals alike. This beautiful park extends from the city centre of Vancouver almost to the North Shore. With wonderful views of the mountains and the ocean around every corner, downtown Vancouver is one of the most picturesque cities in the world. Walk along Robson Street, the most popular shopping street. Experience Chinatown with the different kinds of building and stores, walk on the beaches of English Bay and the seawall of Stanley Park, enjoy a walk in Gastown with the old steam clock and the many gift shops.
Look out for some Hollywood film sets as Vancouver is used for many big Hollywood movies and shows. That's why you might hear that Vancouver is called "Hollywood North". Here are some examples of shows and movies that were/are filmed here: The X-Files, Dark Angel, Stargate-SG1, The 6th Day, Kiss of the Dragon, Small Ville, The Twilight Saga and many more. Then there is also the Canada Place, the stadiums, the Harbour Lookout, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Science World, the Vancouver Art Gallery and much more! All of these attractions are located within minutes from the city centre.
Vancouver is also popular in the winter for winter activities. There are 3 local mountains where you can do any type of winter sport. There is Grouse Mountain, most famous for it's stunning views over the city and fresh powder snow. Grouse Mountain is accessible by skyride...this is a big airtram that will take you up to the top of the mountain. Mount Seymour and Cypress Mountain are famous too and you also get wonderful views from the top of these mountains. As you can see...Vancouver has lots to offer. The Winter Olympics in 2010 were hosted in Vancouver as well.
The poses are by the amazing Frigg Ragu. Who else? I am addicted. Actually looking forward to taking photos of these things nowadays! Amazing...
This is actually a really old outfit which I completely retextured and added countless attachements to. It is unisex, has male/female skins, skirts for both, capes - one simple the other one more ornate, no less than 4 variations on the necklace (got a tad carried away there - hhh), torso, arm and leg ornaments, boots for boyz and gurlz, and a mohawk of course.
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I loved the unusual coloring and lovely orange legs and feet as well as her plump little body and tiny head. She was marching along quite happily, concentrating on whatever her destination was--I caught her little leg in mid-march.--She was, in my mind, full of the "cuteness factor".
These forest-dwelling birds live in groups of 12 or more. Their diet includes seeds, fruits, insects, and small mollusks. Crested wood partridges build a large domed nest by throwing plant material over their backs, partially covering themselves. The female lays five to six white eggs in the open space within. Both parents care for the young.
The crested wood partridge is a dimorphic species, meaning males and females differ in appearance. Males have bluish-purple feathers as well as a large red crest on the head, which gives the species its name. Females have green feathers and lack a crest.
Range
Myanmar, Thailand, Malay Archipelago
Status
Near threatened due to habitat loss
Thanks lophura for the ID--a female Crested Wood (or Rollulous Roul-roul) Partridge
25 Octobre: cela fait plus de 3 semaines que plus de 150 familles dorment sur les trottoirs de la rue de la Banque, devant le Ministère de la Crise du Logement. Aujourd'hui, une délégation a été reçue par Christine Boutin, Ministre de la Ville et du Logement, mais sans résultat (apparemment, le Ministère aurait demandé une liste permettant d'identifier les familles les plus démunies afin de solutionner leur problème, mais l'ensemble des mal logés exigent une solution globale, et ont refusé cette offre).
Ici, une petite fille a l'air un peu triste ou fatiguée entre les tentes.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
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.
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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I have a lot of nifty pictures from my recent Van Nelle Factory visit during the Open Monumentendag.
I don't want to bother you for two weeks with these pix. So I'll bundle them.
Here's 4 shots, hope you like 'm.
About the main shot above - I took it through a window, sorry for that! (You can see it unfortunately!) It was the only way to get a close-up shot from the huge 'Van Nelle' sign on the roof. It's neon enhanced (fiery red) and it 'walks' after sunset. Gimme a 'V' gimme an 'A' gimme an 'N' etc. etc.
The sky looks rather interesting, but that's HDR for you, because it wasn't. :)
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Date: Taken on Sptember 10, 2011 at 14:59 h / 2.59pm CEST
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HDR - 3 shots into Photomatix into PS CS5 for PPP.
Stratford, Ontario, Canada... View larger on black.
Photo taken from a peddle-boat: me with a camera, my son doing more than his share of peddling, and the swan looking rather more graceful than us.
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A couple of relatively new software toys saved this shot:
(1) The CHDK firmware add-on extends some Powershot models including my SX110 IS and (among many other features) allowed me a raw file to work with.
(2) RawTherapee is free and has been updated recently, and it works very well on these CRW Canon Raw files. In this case, the light parts at the front of the neck were over-exposed, and RawTherapee has some very nice highlight recovery & compression features that worked beautifully.
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After skirmishing with the Empire on OSSUS, Nathan and Ozz begin their search for the artifact called BALAAM'S HEART. On the mysterious world of DAGOBAH they find both knowledge and danger, and for Nathan, a grueling test of his spirit and will.
Nathan recoiled, slumping in his seat in the Lucky Star. He felt a sudden pang of anguish, a ripping in his soul, as spirits were separated from their bodies back on Ossus. He sensed it only faintly, but whatever caused the sensation was so powerful that it hit him with the force of a wave.
“Kid? Kid! What’s wrong!”
He felt Ozz shaking his shoulder as he drifted into unconsciousness, the strain too much to bear. When he finally woke, it was to Ozz’s worried, ugly face. Nathan stared, as though his eyes were trained on something hundreds of parsecs away.
“The Searchers are dead, Ozz. At least, I think so,” he coughed. “They killed them. Abay…all of them.”
Ozz asked how he knew this, but Nathan couldn’t explain. Finally, Ozz nodded and sighed. He believed him. He’d seen enough strange stuff by now that he wasn’t going to question this one.
They flew in silence for the next few hours.
After a brief stop for fuel (“That’s gonna be our last fill unless we start makin’ some money soon,” Ozz had complained) and the purchase of a few cheap blaster pistols, Nathan and Ozz were set to continue their search.
“I’ll need some coordinates if I’m gonna fly somewhere, Nate.”
Nathan had spent nearly all of the time since Ossus huddled in the bunk with Luke’s journal and the inscribed slates they’d found in the deep archives. He was a quick learner and a voracious student, and with the help of a few runes already translated in the journal, he was able to compile a mostly accurate key for unlocking the old tongue Balaam had used for his writings. He had no idea what it was, but it wasn’t pleasant.
The writings of Balaam were primarily daily accounts and impossible to understand musings, but they also mentioned 'home made among vines and home made among flame, whilst tethered mine soul to the dark lord wert'. Of all the planets Nathan could recall from Mayla's manifest, Dagobah was the one most likely to feature vines. At least, according to their gazette. It might just be a wild bantha chase, but it was worth a short.
The planet Dagobah came into view. It looked musty and small and remote. Sensors revealed it was entirely free of settlers, based on a lack of technology readings. But it was packed to the brim with life.
Nathan leaned over the dashboard controls with interest. "Take us in, Ozz."
"I know, I know..." said the Iakaru, rolling his eyes.
They dipped beneath a dense sea of cloud and Ozz pulled back hard on the throttle, easing them down into what was revealing itself to be a tangled, dark mass of trees.
Nathan felt the planet, just as he had felt Ossus. There, it had been the power, the war, and the secrets, but on Dagobah, he felt life. Wildness and strangeness, the circle of things. Not good, but not evil. Just very alive.
"This place gives me the willies," said Ozz, peering out the viewscreen. There wasn't much to see. It was mostly fog and the shapes of trees.
"I can see a weirdo like Balaam living here..." Nathan mused. "You don’t think he put the Heart here, do you?"
“Nah, that’d be giving me a break. Luck hasn’t done that in years.” He glanced around at the damp, dismal surroundings, his face scrunched with dread. “It ain’t gonna start on this planet.”
Ozz set the Lucky Star down on some alarmingly mushy ground, and powered down the craft. He turned to his companion and shrugged.
"Let's go find out, nerd. And hey, let's stick it to those Imps, ey? What happened on Ossus..."
Nathan understood. He clapped a hand on Ozz's shoulder. “I know.”
They gathered their equipment and trekked out into the woods. The sounds of a million living things filled the air. The smell of mildew and bog water floated up into their noses from underfoot. Tendrils of vine hung down around them from the twisting branches overhead.
"Yeah, this has got to be the place...now, Balaam's writings mention landmarks; the shores of the swamp, a grove of mushrooms, and a magic tree."
Ozz scanned the canopy with the barrel of his blaster. Something flew overhead. He jumped, but held his fire. "Yeesh! How do we know they're not on the other side of the planet?"
That was a possibility, one that tempted Nathan to despair. But he kept his hope.
"Honestly, I don't know," he admitted. "But...I don't think they are. I'm not sure why, but I've got a feeling."
The sounds of creatures and the dense foliage became obstacles they were unwilling to brave. Much to their disgust, this forced them to their only remaining option: the water. Nathan cajoled Ozz into joining him, which says something about the noises in the void of the woods and how they affected them both, that they were willing to wade chest-deep into opaque, smoky water.
"What's that smell?" Ozz groaned, the swamp water inches from his nose.
Nathan, who was miserable, gave him an incredulous look. They were soaked in oily, gunky swampwater, dragging at their clothes and limbs. Something in Nathan's mind considered what else could he dragging at his hands and legs, and images of tentacles and eels had to be forcibly pushed from his brain.
Then they saw the strangest thing.
The flicker of firelight.
They pointed it out to each other and squinted against the tepid mist. It was real.
Just as real, they discovered, were the two men sitting at the campfire, their leaning tents pitched feet away. Tall trees reaching down towards them with roots like cages.
A shore, Nathan thought. Then he remembered this planet had been on Mayla's list. These strangers could be Imperial spies.
Just as he was about to warn Ozz, one of the men called out.
"Hoy, there! I don't believe it -- people?"
"Wet, stinky people," Ozz replied. "You fellas mind if we come on up?"
The man and his companion smiled. "Please do!"
They were rescued from the swamp waters and joined the strangers around the fire. Wings beat the air above them. Something groaned in the water they'd just left. But the fire was safefy.
"We're pilgrims," explained one of the strangers, with an odd grin. "What about you?"
Nathan and Ozz looked at each other. Even Nathan wasn't willing to extend trust this time, not in a situation like this.
Ozz cleared his throat. "Err, real estate," he lied. "Nice planet like this, with no colonies? I don't get it!"
The 'pilgrims' looked at each other, then broke into laughter. "You're a funny guy. Thanks for cheering up the mood."
Nathan felt paralyzed. Fear danced at the corners of his brain, fear of what might happen if they dropped their guard. He thought about the blaster at his side, and if it would work after being submerged. If he should just shoot them both now. They had to be spies, right?
But no. That would be murder. He couldn’t do something like that. You can't just shoot someone for a suspicion. Reacting to a nebulous fear was never the right opening move, and it was wrong, he decided, to try to prevent the possibility of evil by doing something evil first. Besides, the Searchers were pilgrims, maybe these were similar types.
A glow nearby caught Nathan's attention.
Small blue spots of light scattered across the mossy ground, hidden in and among the roots of the trees.
A grove of mushrooms.
Balaam's second landmark.
He felt something pull at him, a force or energy that wanted him to come searching. It was irresistible, and clouded his mind in such a way that he forgot his fears of Imperials and treachery.
He stared long enough that one of the pilgrims caught him looking.
“What are you, uh, looking at there?” the man asked, watching him keenly.
"Oh, nothing,” Nathan said, emerging from his thoughts. “I thought I saw a...an animal, out there. It was nothing. I, uh, better just go check, though."
Ozz half-rose from his spot. "Want a second?"
And expose their backs? No. "No," he said, and he smiled reassuringly. "You keep resting. I'll be right back."
"Sure thing!" Said one of the pilgrims, and the other nodded silently.
Nathan caught Ozz's eye, and flicked his own towards the Iakaru's blaster. Ozz understood.
"I'll be right back," said the young man, who then walked deeper into the woods.
The sound of cracking fire faded into the distance as it was replaced by the hum of forest life. The mushrooms were just the start, they led him like a trail, becoming larger and wilder as he went. Finally, after chasing their path for several minutes, Nathan looked up to see the tree.
It was old. Its bark was like wrinkles, crevices in a face with no features. Its roots splayed out like enormous fingers that raked the ground. It seemed to heave with breath, to pulse, to live. Now in silence, Nathan found he was utterly alone with this ancient thing. The woods shrank back from it, as if from deference or fear. Nothing ventured close.
It beckoned him.
He felt it in his inward being. The draw.
A dark opening in its roots, like a doorway, stood open to him.
Nathan took hesitating steps. His spirit ached with restlessness, a need to see what was inside that burned and fried the edges of his nerves.
He entered the depths of the Magic Tree.
The hollow was dark.
He was alone in a den of soil. Fibrous sinew traced many-forked veins in the earth.
He felt a presence.
"Who's there?" He whispered.
"It's me, Nathan."
Mayla stepped out from behind a gnarl of root. She looked as he remembered. Sharper, even. Her bangs fell over her face, her dark eyes shone in the bare light. She walked with grace, poise, as if compensating for her stature.
"Why are you here?" She asked.
He wanted to reach out, to touch her cheek. "To...to stop the Empire. To save lives and find…something powerful."
He saw the disappointment in her face. The vulnerability, the openness that had drawn him to her in the first place.
"...I thought you were here for me?"
"I am!" He said quickly. "But...Mayla...I don't know how to find you."
She stepped closer and smiled. "I forgot, you think my name is 'Mayla'...that's okay. You've done everything so well, exactly as I wanted."
"Well, that manifest you left us has been our guide. That’s all thanks to you."
"Yes, it is. Just what was needed, right? I was always told I was resourceful."
Nathan stood a hesitant step back. His mind was swirling. Everything felt completely real, the question of how it could be happening seemed distant and foggy and not worth considering. His skepticism seemed to leave him, soaked into the walls of soil. But his reason wasn’t gone entirely, and her words started to raise flags, even in his currently-dim mind. "...What?"
"You've done just what we needed. You'll find what you seek, and the Empire will win."
Nathan started to speak, but she stepped closer, close enough to smell. She held up a finger to his lips, quieting him.
"I know you don't like that, but if you need a consolation prize...we can be together. It's the only way it'll work. Things will happen fast, Nathan."
The way she said his name made his heart flip.
"They'll happen so fast. That's how things happen, when change is coming. Your pilot will die, Syfot, some others...but you and me? We'll be alive, together, forever. And so many others, too. We'll give them safety," she said, and she winked. He could feel her breath as it mingled with the fog.
"I...want...you," she whispered, and his stomach fell. He stared at her eyes as they closed.
No.
"No," he murmured.
She leant forward, her lips parted.
"No," he repeated, and he stepped back. "You're not her," he said. "I don't want this."
Mayla's eyes flicked open, staring up into his. "You do. You want me, most of all," she smiled, her cheeks dimpling. "Remember what you gave up? Everything else -- everyone else --- was just a way of getting to me."
"No!" He stuttered, and he fell back, tripping on a root. "No, no, no!"
Her eyebrow curved. She frowned. "Nathan..."
"Not anymore!" He said. "No, I...I want to find you so bad, Mayla, but...this isn't just about you and me, not anymore. Things have changed. I'm not just in this for you anymore, I've got to…” He shook his head, trying to clear the fog. “…I’ve got to do what's right. I've got to stand up to these people. It's about the Searchers who died on Ossus, and Abay, and Jep, and...and...Ozz."
Nathan blinked, thinking of his friend. He had left his friend, his best friend, with the enemy.
"Ozz," he repeated.
"That monkey? You've got to be tired of being cooped up with that smelly, stupid thing. Trust me," she whispered, her fingers running up his arm. "I’m much better company than he is."
Nathan, eyes wide, said nothing. With all his strength of will, he pulled away, turned, and fled.
Nathan rushed through the woods. He heard screams. His name.
First from behind, in the voice of the girl he loved.
Then from the shore, echoing, hoarse, in the voice of Ozz Sabaran.
"NATE! NAAATE!" Followed by grunts and shrieks of pain.
Ozz.
The firelight flickered in the mist. A dark shape stepped into his path, weapon raised. The blood-red light of blaster fire struck a tree by his head, sparks and smoke burst from the impact.
Nathan was not afraid. He was not angry. He had to help his friend.
Desperate, he raised his hands.
His fingers curled with the warm mist.
Reached with the roots.
Stretched with the beating wings.
Stood with the soil.
He heard one of the pilgrims cry. The thrash of water and wet cloth and arms. Dragged from the shore, he disappeared beneath the surface.
The wildness of life beat like a drum in his ears.
The other pilgrim—Imperial spy—stumbled and entangled himself in the strong vines. Something seized him and pulled into the air, while he flailed his arms to try and break free of the tightening plants. The flying things took notice, their squawking growing agitated and hungry.
His cries ended abruptly, and the flailing stopped.
Nathan rushed to his friend's side. Ozz's leg was bent wrong, blood trickled from his mouth.
"Too...fast...for me," he choked.
Nathan hurried to tear a piece of tent, his hands shaking.
Ozz wiped his mouth. "What...was...?"
"I don't know," Nathan said shakily. "How about we never speak of it again? Kinda freaked out. Are you okay? I can't believe I left you here!” he cursed himself. “What’d they do?"
"Wanted...to know...what we knew. Turns out, they were spies. Can you believe it?" he said weakly, with a hint of irony.
"Your leg is broken," Nathan said gravely. "Rest here, I'm so sorry, Ozz."
"it's okay, kid, I'm alright. We Iakaru are tough sons of -- ouch!"
Nathan let the leg go, the bone now set.
"What was that?" Ozz winced.
"Oh, a trick from the orphanage. I didn't come up with it."
"Geez, rough orphanage.” Ozz shook his head, impressed and relieved. “See? Long as I got you around, I'll be right as rain. Thanks for the save, kid."
"I’ll try to be quicker next time,” Nathan said with a wry look. “Things got weird. Ozz, we have to get out of here."
"You're telling me. Did you uh, get the Heart thing?"
"I didn't get anything, but I found what we need. But I need your help. Will you…” He swallowed his pride, asking his friend openly, “please come with me? I'm...honestly, I’m afraid to go back alone."
Ozz grinned to himself, chuckling at the irony. "You need Ozzie? Even one-legged Ozzie?"
Nathan made a face. "What else is new?"
"Wanna hand me my blaster? I'm really raring for a hike. Gotta get this leg working, that’s the best thing for a hurtin’ leg.”
Nathan stood before the magic tree again, now with Ozz by his side, supported by an old branch.
Nathan had explained what he'd seen to Ozz, but despite Ozz's vigilant eye, nothing appeared from the shadows of the roots.
There was writing on the trunk of the tree. Nathan got as close as he dared. Ozz covered him with the blaster.
"Whatcha got? Anything useful?"
Nathan was scratching down notes in his notebook, thankful for the material Luke had chosen that had endured the bog.
"Coordinates in the Bark, half."
“Coordinates? Like, readable, usable coordinates?”
“Yeah, I guess it’s that simple. Maybe Balaam wasn’t so bad after all. Thanks, pal,” he said quietly to the carving.
"Simple! Ha! You telling me--"
Nathan grimaced. "—He hid the other half on a flame world? Yeah, guess it would be weird for things to get any easier."
Ozz sighed. "Yeesh, another planet with no payout. Can't wait to eat more grayweave..." He shrugged, and gave a lopsided grin to his scribbling companion.
Well, at least we won't get wet again...right, kid?"
Nathan grinned back at him, feeling very glad he was there to joke and lighten the terrible mood. There was no one he could think of he’d rather have by his side.
"Yeah. Right!"
The tree, unmoving, unknown, watched as they left, Nathan supporting Ozz as while he limped along. Soon, the Lucky Star left the atmosphere, and the ancient planet was unchanged for their visit. The roots still dug, the fog still swirled, and the creatures flew between the trees. And despite its appearance, everything was vibrant and alive.
No photoshop or image processing done, straight from camera. I've used effects function in D7100 to select the blue color and make background BW
RogueOlympics has started again, with the first prompt being "As Sweet as Sugar". Also an entry for the Sweet Scenes category of the Adorabuild contest on Bricknerd. I did not have any ideas early in the week, and then didn't have much time when the concept did come. Still had fun assembling this fantasy portrayal of the joy a parent experiences having fun with their kids. 89 parts were used.
Extra images on Brickbuilt.
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.
Si recorres sosegadamente las calles y plazas de La Alberca, te irás encontrando, viajero, con atractivos rincones y perspectivas, en los que resalta una arquitectura popular levantada a base de piedras y geométricos entramados de madera.
Destacan los dinteles cincelados con fechas de fundación de las casas, con inscripciones, signos y anagramas religiosos, que quieren ser profesión visible de fe.
Cada una de las plantas superiores va sobresaliendo sobre la inferior, hasta llegar casi a tocarse los aleros de los tejados de las casas que se hallan frente a frente, lo que hace que en las calles se produzca un curioso juego de luces y sombras.
Se ha dicho que la estructura urbana de La Alberca es la de una judería, por lo intrincado, laberíntico y secreto de sus calles. Pero tampoco han faltado quienes, al recorrer el pueblo, lo han asociado con los arrabales de Damasco.
La Alberca es así la unión, a lo largo de los siglos, de las culturas cristiana, islámica y judaica.
Y no debes, visitante, dejar de ver la Plaza, y de detenerte en ella. Con sus fachadas recorridas por dos series de balcones, con la luz de la cal, con sus soportales e hileras de columnas graníticas y con el crucero presidiéndola. Es, sin duda, el eje central de La Alberca.
(Fuente: pagina web del Ayuntamiento de La Alberca)
View Large On Black Photo taken in the park at the corner of Broadway and 10th St in Red Lodge, MT... where we have a vacation home... Red Lodge was included in the National Geographic Adventure 2008 list of Best Places to live at the number 10 position:
10. Red Lodge, Montana
Set beside Yellowstone National Park in the wooded Beartooth Mountain foothills, Red Lodge is the toned-down Jackson alternative—complete with a smaller (and less intimidating) ski resort on its 9,416-foot signature peak. The town’s epic 71-mile Peaks to Prairie triathlon every April shows outsiders what they’re missing.
Population: 2,455
Median home price: $290,760
Note that I've been told to go back and mark my photos (the images included in my gallery show starting Feb 12, 2010) as mine to guard against the unscrupulous folks out there in the world around us... none of my Flickr friends/contacts fall into that category!
Today, Flickr Group Roulette is one year old. In tribute, we are copying shots from the first month of FGR's existence. I chose to copy Scoutj. If I hadn't seen this shot and all of those crazy tongues showing up in Explore, I never would have found out about this group. FGR is what gave me the last little push to go ahead and dive into 365. So, if it hadn't been for Mikey and his crazy tongue, I wouldn't be here today.
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Cada gota busca su lugar, como las aves buscan una ramita donde descansar
Each drop looks for its place, as the birds look for a small branch where to rest
Jeder Tropfen sucht seinen Platz, wie die Vögel auf einem kleinen Zweig, um auszuruhen!
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Berg-Aster (Aster amellus)
auch Kalk-Aster , liebt Kalkböden
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The first astrophotography test with the D700 was a mixed bag. On the one hand, shooting at ISO 3200 was excellent (my subs were only 15 seconds long, no guiding necessary!) and the result, even though only 2.5 hours worth of images, was very clean noise-wise (especially considering the amount of light pollution I was shooting in).
Unfortunately, I was quite disappointed to see that each bright source in the image had caused a series of bands that spanned the entire image. After a little research, I see that there are other D700 owners that have seen this issue shooting at high ISOs with blown highlights over a dark background (although most of what I found was at ISO 6400 and up). It's difficult to see the banding in each individual shot in the sequence but after adding them all up and stretching the histogram (to bring out the faint details in the image, galaxies etc.) the bands were sorely obvious. I might add that they were quite difficult to edit out too :)
If you're a D700 owner and reading this can you take a moment to leave a comment or send me a message regarding your experiences with banding on the D700? Thanks!
Technical info about the image:
Object: Messier 51, Whirlpool Galaxy
Mount: CGEM
Imaging scope: Orion 80mm ED at f/6
Imaging FL: 480mm
Imaging camera: unmodified Nikon D700
Lights: 600x15s (1h 30m) at ISO 3200
Calibration: 600 darks, 100 bias, 100 flats, 100 flat darks
Guide scope: none (unguided)
Other details: Images acquired with ImagesPlus Camera Control, calibrated and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker, post-processed in Photoshop CS4.
Belgium.
National Botanic Garden.
www.br.fgov.be/PUBLIC/GENERAL/index.php
Melaleuca citrina or Callistemon citrinus is a shrub growing to 5 m (20 ft) tall but more usually in the range 1–3 m (3–10 ft) high and wide. It has hard, fibrous or papery bark and its young growth is usually covered with soft, silky hairs. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are 26–99 mm (1–4 in) long, 4–25 mm (0.2–1 in) wide, hard, flat, narrow egg-shaped with the narrower end near the base and with a pointed but not sharp end. There are between 7 and 26 branching veins clearly visible on both ides of the leaves and a large number of distinct oil glands visible on both surfaces of the leaves.[4][5]
The flowers are red and arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering and sometimes also in the upper leaf axils. The spikes are up to 45–70 mm (2–3 in) in diameter and 60–100 mm (2–4 in) long with up to 80 individual flowers. The petals are 3.9–5.8 mm (0.15–0.23 in) long and fall off as the flower ages. There are 30 to 45 stamens in each flower, with their "stalks" (the filaments) red and "tips" (the anthers) purple.
[fr]: Le vieux pickup GMC, Rue Marie-Anne, Montréal, Québec, Canada
[image info]: HDR from 5 exposures - EXIF from 2 EV exposure - tripod - sigma 10-20mm@20mm
[Level of Retouching]: 25% (HDR, general curves and levels adjustments, vignetting) - total processing: 25 minutes
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