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A lot of people have asked what comes next.
The answer? We don't know any better than you do.
I know that I met this amazing, funny, sweet person, and I'm completely wild over her. That I've had her in every minute of my life for the last week, and that every minute felt right. And that tomorrow everything changes.
After that?
I really can't say. I wish I knew. Really, we're taking it minute by minute and sometimes it feels like we're spinning out of control.
We say our strange goodbyes and go back to phonecalls and webcams - the technologies that once seemed fresh and exciting are a step backward; a step apart. It's going to be hard. I know that much.
I'm hoping a California trip is in the cards.
But I can only see as far as Monday. School begins. Xelia will be gone. We're left with memories and marks; a cold spot in the bed where someone is missing.
Shooter: Il COE -- Tommaso Coerini [aggiungimi su Facebook]
Post Producer: Il COE
Model & Performer:
- Francesca "La Scaccia" Rodella
- il COE
- Patrick Savinelli
- Diego Piovani
Make & Hair Styling: Everyones thought himself
Location: Da Laghetti "Paradiso Terreste" di San Giuliano
Gears: Canon 5D Mark II + Canon 16-35 LII mm (the "Plasticone")
Stuff: Manfrotto 190XPro-B + Ball Head 486Rc2
Settings: ISO100
Strobes: 2 x Nissin Di866
Strobe Position:
- 1 x Nissin Di866 camera left
- 1 x Nissin Di866 camera right
Processing:
a) "Trekking in Mountain" Hard Boiles Photoshop EXTREME II [maybe more than 40 levels...]
b) COE's Magic Post-Processing touch©
- (the only one original "COE's magic touch"...all the other "Touches"...are simply REAL FAKES! ;)
- (il solo, originale, Magic Touch© è quello del COE...tutti gli altri "Touch" sono semplici IMITAZIONI! ;)
Drugs taken: Freesh Mountain Air + Holyday freetime relaz
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From Wikipedia
The Huntington Beach Pier is a municipal pier located in Huntington Beach, California. At 1,850 feet (560 m) in length, it is one of the longest public piers on the West Coast. (The longest is Oceanside Pier at 1,942 feet). It has been damaged or destroyed four times; in 1912, 1939, 1983 and most recently on January 17, 1988 destroying the End Cafe for the second time in the decade.
The most recent reincarnation of the pier is designed of reinforced concrete to withstand 31-foot (9.4 m) waves or a 7.0 magnitude earthquake and uses an increased space between piles to accommodate surfers - as requested by the City. The pier slopes gently up toward the seaward end in a straight line which alternates with three octagonal platforms and one rotated square (108 feet on a side) that forms a diamond at the pier's seaward end. Not only is the pier structurally sound, it also retains a number of design elements from the original pier including haunches at the pile caps and corbels supporting light standards.
The pier is frequented by sport fishermen as well as surfing spectators. A restaurant is located at the end of the pier.
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Fort De Soto revisited. This was voted America's #1 beach in 2005 and its beautiful. Its right on the south tip below Clearwater. We were there for a sunset but with the long exposure on the clouds I liked this in B&W. Taken with the Sigma 10-20mm.
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La basilica paleocristiana fu edificata nell'VIII secolo per celebrare la vittoria dei Napoletani sui Saraceni. Si eleva, in posizione scenografica, al sommo della seicentesca scalinata, dominando l'intera piazza San Gaetano.
Fu costruita sul sito in cui si apriva originariamente il foro greco-romano, sui ruderi dell'antico tempio dei Dioscuri, di cui aveva la stessa ampiezza e ne conservava il portico ed il timpano.
Nel 1538, la chiesa paleocristiana fu affidata ai Chierici Regolari Teatini presenti a Napoli dal 1532 con il loro fondatore San Gaetano Thiene, da cui prende appunto nome la piazza in cui si trova. La stessa basilica viene anche detta di San Gaetano.
Dal 1583, diedero inizio ad alcune trasformazioni: dapprima il transetto, l'abside e la nuova navata sotto la direzione dell'architetto teatino Francesco Grimaldi e dal 1588 al 1589 seguiti da Giovan Battista Cavagna.
La chiesa fu costruita inizialmente ad unica navata, ma dal 1626 al 1630 l'interno fu trasformato ed ampliato grazie all'opera di Giovan Giacomo di Conforto, che aggiunse le due navate minori e le cappelle laterali.
Nel 1671, la facciata della chiesa fu ampliata e collegata al pronao del tempio pagano eliminando la distanza tra i due edifici precedentemente sistemata a giardino.
L'ampliamento ed alcuni crolli avvenuti a causa del terremoto del 1688 portarono ad interventi sulla facciata ad opera di Arcangelo Guglielmelli, che inglobò nel prospetto due colonne corinzie dell'antico tempio romano ai lati dell'ingresso, uniche superstiti di otto colonne, che furono legate alla facciata per mezzo di due architravi.
La facciata fu modificata poi di nuovo, nella seconda metà del Settecento.
Ai lati della colonne sono presenti in due nicchie le statue dei Santi Pietro e Paolo.
San paolo Maggiore, internoPriva di cupola, è a croce latina, a tre navate con cappelle laterali ed abside poligonale, fiancheggiata da due cappelle. Le navate minori presentano un'alternanza di cupolette ellittiche e di volte a crociera.
Nella facciata interna, Santolo Cirillo, nel 1737, rappresentò la Dedicazione del tempio di Salomone.
Sulla sinistra del presbiterio, è presente la cappella Firrao (la cui impostazione complessiva si deve al Fanzago), elegantemente decorata da tarsie marmoree tra il 1640 ed il 1642; conserva due sculture di Giulio Mencaglia raffiguranti la Madonna delle Grazie e Antonino Firrao posto sulla destra, mentre sulla sinistra il ritratto di Cesare Firrao è opera di Giuliano Finelli, collaboratore del Bernini a Roma.
Nella navata destra, c'è l'ingresso al succorpo di San Gaetano ed all'ipogeo che fu disegnato da Francesco Solimena all'inizio del XVIII secolo e da lui affrescato.
L'altare maggiore del presbiterio è del teatino Anselmo Cangiano così come il ciborio di pietre rare, a forma di tempietto, che fu realizzato da Raffaele Mytens, detto il Fiammingo.
Nella volta della navata centrale, si conserva in stato frammentario uno stupendo ciclo di affreschi tra i più importanti di Massimo Stanzione del 1644, gravemente danneggiati durante i bombardamenti del 1942, raffiguranti le gesta degli apostoli Pietro e Paolo.
Nella sagrestia, è presente un ciclo pittorico tardo barocco affrescato da Francesco Solimena negli anni 1689-90, la Caduta di Simon Mago e la Conversione di San Paolo, nelle due pareti di fondo, e le Allegorie delle Virtù, nella volta.
Nell'antisagrestia, un gruppo marmoreo dell'Angelo Custode, opera di Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, che può considerarsi tra le più importanti realizzazioni scultoree del Settecento napoletano, databile tra il secondo ed il terzo decennio del secolo.
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Wicklow, Irish: Cill Mhantáin, meaning "church of the toothless one"[1][2]) is the county town of County Wicklow in Ireland. Located south of Dublin on the east coast of the island, it has a population of 10,070 according to the 2006 census.[3] The town is situated to the east of the N11 route between Dublin and Wexford. Wicklow is also connected to the rail network, with Dublin commuter services now extending to the town. Additional services connect with Arklow, Wexford and Rosslare Europort, a main ferry port. There is also a commercial port, mainly importing timber and textiles.
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I've brought a corrot to this Nutria..., everybody feeds the ducks and swans.., but nobody this poor little fellow....and he loved it... :-)
Die Biberratte (Myocastor coypus), auch Nutria oder seltener Sumpfbiber, Schweifbiber, Schweifratte, Coypu, Wasserratte genannt, ist eine aus Südamerika stammende und in Mitteleuropa eingebürgerte Nagetierart. Sie wird entweder in einer eigenen Familie, Myocastoridae, oder als Unterfamilie Myocastorinae innerhalb der Stachelratten (Echimyidae) eingeordnet.
Die Biberratte wird gelegentlich mit der aus Nordamerika stammenden Bisamratte verwechselt, die sich gleichfalls in Europa als Neozoon etabliert hat, allerdings kleiner ist und einen seitlich abgeplatteten Schwanz hat.
Die Biberratte erreicht eine Körperlänge von bis zu 65 cm und wiegt erwachsen zwischen acht und zehn Kilogramm. Ihr runder, schuppenbedeckter, kaum behaarter Schwanz hat zudem eine Länge von etwa 30 bis 45 Zentimetern. Die Tiere erreichen damit fast dieselbe Körpergröße wie ein Biber. Männliche Biberratten werden generell etwas größer als die Weibchen. An den Hinterfüßen haben Biberratten jeweils zwischen den ersten vier Zehen Schwimmhäute. Auffällig sind bei erwachsenen Tieren auch die orangefarbenen Nagezähne.
Die Fellfarbe der Biberratte ist rötlichbraun, an der Bauchseite leicht gräulich. Aus Pelztierzuchten entflohene Tiere zeigen daneben eine Reihe farblicher Varianten. Bei ihnen kommen hellgraue, dunkelgraue, schwarze, braune, rötliche, gelbliche oder fast weiße Fellfarben vor.
Die ursprüngliche Heimat der an Flüssen, Seen, Teichen und in Sümpfen lebenden Biberratte ist das subtropische und gemäßigte Südamerika. Dort kommt sie vom südlichen Brasilien bis nach Feuerland vor und stand im 19. Jahrhundert kurz vor der Ausrottung. Grundsätzlich leben die Tiere sehr standorttreu und verteidigen engagiert ihr Revier.
Die Biberratte gilt heute als in weiten Teilen Nordamerikas und Eurasiens eingebürgert.
Der Bestand in Eurasien ist auf ab dem 18. Jahrhundert aus Pelztierfarmen entflohene Tiere wie auch auf bewusste Auswilderungen zurückzuführen. Insbesondere nach dem Zusammenbruch des Pelzmarktes im 20. Jahrhundert entkamen zahlreiche Tiere und konnten sich aufgrund einer nicht mehr stattfindenden Bejagung stark vermehren.
In den USA wurden in den 1930er-Jahren die ersten Tiere nach Louisiana exportiert. Dort wurden sie wegen der Felle in Pelztierfarmen gehalten. Von dort aus haben wieder so genannte Gefangenschaftsflüchtlinge aufgrund des für Nutrias günstigen lokalen Klimas und ihrer hohen Vermehrungsrate sehr schnell eine nach Millionen zählende Population begründet. Auch gezielte Auswilderungen kamen vor.
Vereinzelte Vorkommen gibt es zudem in Kenia (am Naivashasee), Japan (südlich der Stadt Okayama) und West-Australien.
In Deutschland ist die Biberratte an etlichen Gewässern in allen Bundesländern zu finden. Größere und weitgehend beständige Populationen gibt es unter anderem an den Flüssen Niers, Schwalm und Cloer am Niederrhein und an der Spree im Osten Deutschlands, insbesondere im Spreewald. Meistens sind die Tiere, insbesondere in Parkanlagen oder auf Golfplätzen, an den Besuch von Spaziergängern gewöhnt und lassen sich ohne viel Scheu mit Gemüse füttern . Eine wirklich starke Verbreitung findet in Deutschland allerdings nicht statt, weil Mitteleuropa den verwilderten Farmtieren kein günstiges Klima bietet. Manche Populationen brechen daher nach wenigen Jahren wieder zusammen.
The coypu, or nutria (Myocastor coypus), is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent and the only member of the family Myocastoridae. Originally native to temperate South America, it has since been introduced to North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, primarily by fur ranchers.[2] Although it is still valued for its fur in some regions, its destructive feeding and burrowing behaviors make this invasive species a pest throughout most of its range.
There are two commonly-used names in the English language for Myocastor coypus. The name nutria (or local derivatives such as "nutria- or nutra- rat") is generally used in North America and Asia; however, in Spanish-speaking countries, the word nutria refers to the otter. To avoid this ambiguity, the name coypu (derived from the Mapudungun word kóypu)[3] is used in Latin America and Europe.[4] In France, the coypu is known as a ragondin. In Dutch it is known as beverrat (beaver rat). In Italy, instead, the popular name is, like in North America and Asia, nutria, but it is also called castorino (little beaver), by which its fur is known.
Nutria and the damage they cause, in particular the damage to the levees before Hurricane Katrina, were featured in a first season episode of the A&E Television series, Steven Seagal: Lawman. Some were shot by police officers and the dead animals were fed to alligators. Seagal, who is a practicing Buddhist, says he is opposed to personally harming another creature without cause and did not actually shoot them. However, he said that he was happy that the food chain was being respected.
The coypu somewhat resembles a very large rat. Adults are typically 5–9 kg (11–20 lb) in weight, and 40–60 cm (16–24 in) in body length, with a 30–45 cm (12–18 in) tail. They have a coarse, darkish brown outer fur with a soft under-fur. Two distinguishing marks are the presence of a white patch on the muzzle, and webbed hind feet. They can also be identified by their bright orange-yellow incisor teeth (unlike rats, which have brownish yellow incisors). The nipples of female coypu are high on her flanks. This allows their young to feed while the female is in the water.
Coypu can also be mistaken for another widely dispersed semi-aquatic rodent that occupies the same wetland habitats, the muskrat. The muskrat, however, is smaller, more tolerant of cold climates, and has a laterally flattened tail that it uses to assist in swimming, whereas the tail of a coypu is round. It can also be mistaken for a small beaver, as beavers and coypus have a very similar body design. They can be differentiated by the tail.
They are herbivorous, feeding on river plants, and live in burrows alongside stretches of water.
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This image is a view looking east from the riverfront in Windsor, Ontario. This is Belle Isle Bridge (Douglas MacArthur Bridge) which takes you from east Detroit to Belle Isle Island which sits in the middle of the Detroit River between Detroit and Windsor and almost at the opening of Lake St. Clair. It was a bit of a hazy day and I was experimenting with some filters....and of course some editing...and ended up with this minimalist rendition. This was inspired by another one of my flickr friends (Digit_AL)...fantastic minimalistic work!
a rare, quiet and calm moment captured of caesar just a few moments ago..usually during the day he's so full of energy and just wants to play fetch with his soccer ball and while i got a bunch of shots of him trying to catch a ball in the backyard, those looked boring and plain to me. they show off his physical abilities but i wanted to show his softer, more gentle side.
it took a few minutes to get him to lay like this..the treat i had in my one hand initially made him even more excited but i waited it out and it paid off...if there's one thing this dog teaches me, it's patience. i do love him for that as well as the incredible companionship he provides us all.
technically, someone had asked me about my indoor shots and while i'm not really great at using my (external) flash..i have figured out that bouncing it over and behind my head works best..i shoot with the camera on manual as well as the flash, that way i can take a few test shots then adjust +/- a few stops if need be.
Well, we did it, we went camping. It was so nice when we got there. We got the tent set up had some beers and mom some wine. I went and got us some firewood so we could have a campfire that night. The campfire didn't happen because the rain came in. It was scary, with the lightening and then seconds later the thunder. That storm last a long time and by the time it was over, it was to dark to have a fire and make dinner over it. So we had a sandwich for dinner. The next day the we went fishing in this beautiful little lake but we didn't catch anything but the rocks on the bottom of the lake. After fishing I drove mom around the campground and then around Show Low. When we returned the Ranger told us that the storm the night before was the worst storm they had all summer. We got back to the tent and guess what....you got it, it started to rain. This time it rained for 7 hours straight. It did lighten up enough for me to start a quick campfire to grill our hot dogs but that didn't last long and back to the downpour. In the few days that we were gone, we go to know the inside of our tent very well. I told mom she had to go again because this wasn't what it was suppose to be. So, we will be heading off again one of these weekends.
Thanks to Kim Klassen for the use of your textures.
Another well-named room in the long-abandoned 3rd Bn 112th Armor HQ building in Brownwood, Texas. By the way, this is exactly the condition in which Rob Fuel and I found this room. You can see his take on this room here.
In civilian terms, an "Orderly Room" is roughly equivalent to a conference room; a place where members of the unit would get together to discuss official matters. Personally, I was amused by the fact that they had one room they called a "mess", and another they referred to as "orderly", and that after over half a century of neglect, they were still living up to their names!
Night, almost completely dark room, natural Maglite and natural LED flashlight.
Inukshuk (singular), meaning "likeness of a person" in Inuktitut (the Inuit language) is a stone figure made by the Inuit. The plural is inuksuit. The Inuit make inuksuit in different forms and for different purposes: to show directions to travellers, to warn of impending danger, to mark a place of respect, or to act as helpers in the hunting of caribou. Similar stone figures were made all over the world in ancient times, but the Arctic is one of the few places where they still stand. An inukshuk can be small or large, a single rock, several rocks balanced on each other, round boulders or flat. Inuit tradition forbids the destruction of inuksuit.
About The English Bay Inukshuk in Vancouver... Text from the plaque to be found at the foot of this statue situated at the southern end of English Bay Beach.
"Ancient symbols of Inuit culture traditionally used as landmarks and navigation aids, this grey granite statue representing a human form with outstretched arms is a well-known symbol in Canada of northern hospitality and friendship. "
Constructed originally by Alvin Kanak of Rankin Inlet, this monument was commissioned by the Government of the Northwest Territories for its pavilion at Expo 86, and given to the City of Vancouver.
Permanent location of the Inukshuk on this site was sponsored as a gift to the city in 1987 by Coast Hotels through the Vancouver Legacies Programs.
Architect: József Vágó www.art-nouveau.hu/art.php?menuid=2&id=107
Cooperating artists were the greatest Hungarian painters and sculptors of the period:
József Rippl-Rónai
www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/r/rippl-ro/index.html
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Béla Iványi-Grünwald
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Vilmos Fémes Beck
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hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9mes_Beck_Vilmos
Zsolnay:
About the building, architect and owner:
www.sziabudapest.com/text/2011april_en.php
www.sziabudapest.com/text/vago_jozsef_en.php
Magyarul:
hg.hu/cikk/epiteszet/12623-a-szecesszio-elfelejtett-meste...
artportal.hu/kislexikon/vago_jozsef
Magyarul:
vam.gov.hu/muzeum/pages/schiffer_villa.html
There was a fountain in front of the window, work of Vilmos Fémes Beck, it was destroyed during WW2.
Stained glass windows by Károly Kernstok (Budapest, 1873 - 1940)
www.google.hu/search?q=kernstok+k%C3%A1roly&hl=hu&...
One of Hungary's most influential early twentieth century artists, Karoly Kernstok first studied painting techniques at the Budapest School of Design. He then went to Munich in 1892 to study under Simon Hollosy. Karoly Kernstok concluded his formal education at the Academie Julian, Paris, from 1893 to 1895 and at Benczur's School, Budapest, from 1896 to 1899. Kernstok's first major exhibitions took place in Budapest in 1897. Three years later one of his paintings was awarded a bronze medal at the Universal Exposition in the United States.
Karoly Kernstok's initial works were figure studies and genre depictions, largely in the vein of Hungarian turn-of-the-century early social realist painting. By 1906, however, his art began exploring stylized elements and postimpressionist techniques, and thus he became a leading exponent of modernism. In 1910, Karoly Kernstok was a founding member of the Nyolcak (Group of Eight) painters. Briefly this important movement advocated expressionism and an emphasis upon the body within space. It drew upon such divergent forms as Art Nouveau, Fauvism and native Hungarian art forms. The Nyolcak was also somewhat political and, through the art of its participants, attempted to move Habsburg Hungary toward a democratic republic. Karoly Kernstok's 1910 painting, Riders on the Shore, became a major catalyst for the art of Nyolcak (Group of Eight). During this period, Karoly Kernstok designed and painted major frescoes and glass windows for the Schiffer-villa (1911) and the County Hall, Debrecen.
Karoly Kernstok moved to Berlin in 1919. He both lived and exhibited in that city until his 1926 return to Hungary. For the following fourteen years the artist continued to paint and etch major works of art, often exploring and incorporating elements of ancient Etruscan art. As well, Karoly Kernstok established an art school in the Nyergesújfalu region of Hungary.
Today the art of Karoly Kernstok is found in most major Hungarian collections, including the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Kernstok Károlyról (Ady csodálatos versével):
02-01-2010
Passo Oclini-Fiemme Valley-Italy (1989 mt.)
Verso la malga Gurndin/ A walk to the alpine hut Gurndin
Not my usual stuff but at times need to explore different things to refresh the creative mind .
Have wanted to go to this place since i saw the 1st images on WFC FLICKR over a year ago, Met up with Sally for my 1st real URBEX , this place does get into your head as you walk around the place - i so smelll of stale urine , sorry if i made you jump at one point sally :-)
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This is one of artist Dale Chihuly's glass art displays at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona. The exhibition at the Garden is named "Chihuly: The Nature of Glass" and Chihuly's work is displayed from November 22, 2008 to May 31, 2009. The Nature of Glass exhibit features new and unique works of glass artfully located throughout the Garden. Dale Chihuly is known for his innovative glass sculptures, and his work is immediately recognizable for its grand scale and vibrant colors. This is Chihuly's first exhibition in an outdoor desert environment.
“The artist permits and encourages photography of the artwork in this exhibition for educational and non-commercial use only.”
INFORMATION ON ARTIST DALE CHIHULY:
Dale Patrick Chihuly (b. September 20, 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, United States) is an American glass sculptor. Chihuly graduated from high school in Tacoma. Supported by his mother, after his brother George's death in a flight-training accident in Florida and his father's death of a heart attack, he enrolled at the College of the Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound) in 1959.
In 1967, he received a Master of Science in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chihuly lives and works in his 25,000 square foot (2300 m²) studio, nicknamed "The Boathouse" for its former use, on Lake Union. Since losing the vision in one of his eyes in a car accident in 1976, Chihuly (who wears an eyepatch) no longer has the depth perception necessary to handle the molten glass himself. Instead, he conceptualizes each project with paint and canvas and then employs a team of artists to do the work.
About his work: His fascination with abstract nature forms comes from his mother's garden in Tacoma, Washington. One of his sculptures would be prominently displayed on the sitcom Frasier, which is set in nearby Seattle. His love for the ocean and its creatures is also reflected in his art.
Over the past forty years, Chihuly's glass sculptures have explored color, design, and assemblage. Although his work varies in size and color, he is best known for his multipart blown masterpieces. Also interested in Irish culture, he has produced a sizeable volume of "Irish cylinders," which are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.
Some of Chihuly's works cover whole ceilings of casinos and hotels, while others are hand-sized abstract flowers. Chihuly uses intense colors to bring his work to life. He is also known for using neon and argon.
Chihuly uses nature as a setting for his pieces, and tries to create his pieces as though they are part of nature. He sometimes entwines his pieces around tree branches and trunks. He also suspends them in space and floats them in water. Although it is not widely known, some components of Chihuly's installations (for example, the stacked aqua-colored chunks that decorate the Tacoma "Bridge of Glass") are made of an acrylic-type material rather than glass.
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN:
Nestled amid the red buttes of Papago Park, the Desert Botanical Garden hosts one of the world’s finest collections of desert plants. One of only 44 botanical gardens accredited by the American Association of Museums, this one-of-a-kind museum showcases 50 acres of beautiful outdoor exhibits. Home to 139 rare, threatened and endangered plant species from around the world, the Garden offers interesting and inspiring experiences to more than 300,000 visitors each year.
A charter member of the Museum Association of Arizona and National Center for Plant Conservation, the Garden is fully accredited with the American Association of Museums and American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta. It continues to build on its 63-year legacy of environmental stewardship, and has become nationally and internationally renowned for its plant collections, research and educational programs.
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Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: SHIN'S BASS SOLO (1 of 1) /
EL SOLO DE SHIN (1 de 1)
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 05 of 48) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48.
FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español
Shin: I can follow you with anything (Sit tight...)
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Shin: Yo te sigo lo que quieras. (Te vas a enterar...)
LINKS:
- FOTOHISTORIAS en casa de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Hilo de las Fotohistorias de Shin y Yashiro en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Hilo de la Relación entre Shin y Yashiro en la sección de Penpals de Pullip .es
- Ayrin and Sheryl PHOTOSTORIES at Flickr
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: AFTER THE CONCERT (3 of 9): L and Near. Part 2 /
DESPUÉS DEL CONCIERTO (3 de 9): L y Near. Parte 2
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 35 of 184) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107,108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184.
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Taken from the garage of my Sister's home in Virginia Beach. A lot of thunder and lightning, and all I was able to get is this one shot. I definitely missed out on a few potential winners. Any hesitation equates to a miss. I'll be better prepared next lightning storm... I hope. That said, I'll take this one... it's my best so far.
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This is for my dearest friend ITALA, a most special person, full of "Joie de Vivre" who gives joy and all .. a special person with a huge heart, an artist and so much more... so on occasion of her birthday I dedicate this photo and these roses (which she knows have a special meaning - sao "suas" rosas)) . HAPPY BIRTHDAY - PARABENS amiga querida tudo de bom para voce sempre !! Amor, Harmonia, Saude e Felicidade. You give all near you so much JOY!! ...its true )) - Obrigada pela sua amizade.
"A alegria de ver e entender é o mais perfeito dom da natureza." (Albert Einstein)
"The joy of "being" and being understood is the most perfect gift of Nature "
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” Kahlil Gibran
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Annapurna trekking region of Nepal enjoy with magnificent view close to highest and impressive mountain range in the world. Day exploration in Pokhara and morning morning flight to Jomsom or drive to Besishisahar from Kathmandu begin of trek. High destination, Muktinath 3800m and in generally highest point of whole Annapurna is 5416m. Thorangla la is situated in Buddhist Monastery, an eternal flame, and Hindus Vishnu Tempe of Juwala Mai making it a pilgrimage site for both Hindus and Buddhists and Muktinath is on the way down from popular trekking it call Thorang la pass which is incredible view in Annapurna region. Whenever possible we will arrive at lodging mid-afternoon, which should leave plenty time for explore the local villages, enjoy the hot springs at Tatopani, continue to Ghorepani where there is forever the possibility of sunrise hike to Poon Hill for spectacular views of Dhaulagiri, Fishtail, Nilgiri and the Annapurna Himalaya range. Continue on to Birethanti finally between with the Baglung road where we will catch cab to Pokhara, next day drive or fly to Kathmandu.
region, although fairly effortless compare to some of other trek, takes you high along trails to Tengboche monastery Everest Solu Khumbu is the district south and west of Mount Everest. It is inhabited by sherpa, cultural group that has achieve fame because of the develop of its men on climbing expeditions. Khumbu is the name of the northern half of this region above Namche, includes highest mountain (Mt. Everest 8848m.) in the world. Khumbu is in part of Sagarmatha National Park. This is a short trek but very scenic trek offers really superb view of the world's highest peaks, including Mt. Everest, Mt. Lhotse, Mt. Thamserku, Mt. Amadablam and other many snowy peaks. Fly from Kathmandu to Lukla it is in the Khumbu region and trek up to Namche Bazzar, Tyangboche and into the Khumjung village, a very nice settlement of Sherpas people. This trek introduction to Everest and Sherpa culture with great mountain views, a very popular destination for first time trekkers in Nepal. Justifiably well-known world uppermost mountain (8848m.) and also for its Sherpa villages and monasteries. Few days trek from Lukla on the highland, takes you to the entry to Sagarmatha National Park and town of Namche Bazaar is entrance of Everest Trek. Environment of the towering Himalayas is a very delicate eco-system that is effortlessly put out of balance.
Langtang trekking region mixture of three beautiful trek taking us straight into some of the wildest and most pretty areas of Nepal. Starting from the lovely hill town of Syabrubensi our trek winds during gorgeous rhododendron and conifer forests throughout the Langtang National Park on the way to the higher slopes. Leads up to the high alpine yak pastures, glaciers and moraines around Kyanging. Along this route you will have an chance to cross the Ganja La Pass if possible from Langtang Valley. Trail enters the rhododendron (National flower of Nepal) forest and climbs up to alpine yak pastures at Ngegang (4404m). From Ngegang we make a climb of Ganja La Pass (5122m). We start southwest, sliding past Gekye Gompa to reach Tarkeghyang otherwise we take a detour and another unique features of trekking past, the holy lakes of Gosainkund (4300 m.) cross into Helambu via Laurebina to Ghopte (3430 m) and further to Trakegyang. Northern parts of the area mostly fall within the boundaries of Langtang National park.
Peak Climbing in Nepal is great view of Himalayas and most various geological regions in asia. Climbing of peaks in Nepal is restricted under the rules of Nepal Mountaineering Association. Details information and application for climbing permits are available through Acute Trekking. First peak climbing in Nepal by Tenzing Norgey Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hilary on May 29, 1953 to Mt. Everest. Trekking Agency in Nepal necessary member from Nepal Mountaineering Association. Our agency will arrange equipment, guides, high altitude porters, food and all necessary gears for climbing in Nepal. Although for some peaks, you need to contribute additional time, exertion owing to improved elevation and complexity. Climbing peaks is next step beyond simply trekking and basic mountaineering course over snow line with ice axe, crampons, ropes etc under administration and coaching from climbing guide, who have substantial mountaineering knowledge and for your climbing in mountain.
Everest Base Camp Trek well noon its spectacular mountain peaks and the devotion and openness of its inhabitants, the Everest region is one of the most popular destination for tourists in Nepal. While numerous of the routes through the mountains are difficult, there are plenty places to rest and enjoy a meal along the way. Additionally, don't worry about receiving lost. Just ask a local the way to the next village on your route, and they will direct you. Most Sherpas under the age of fifty can at least understand basic English, and many speak it fluently.
Annapurna Base Camp Trek is the major peaks of the western portion of the great Annapurna Himalaya, Annapurna South, Fang, Annapurna, Ganagapurna, Annapurna 3 and Machhapuchhare and including Annapurna first 8091 meters are arranged almost exactly in a circle about 10 miles in diameter with a deep glacier enclosed field at the center. From this glacier basin, known as the Annapurna base camp trek (Annapurna sanctuary trek), the Modi Khola way south in a narrow ravine fully 12 thousand ft. deep. Further south, the ravine opens up into a wide and fruitful valley, the domain of the Gurungs. The center and upper portions of Modi Khola offer some of the best short routes for trekking in Nepal and the valley is situated so that these treks can be easily joint with treks into the Kali Gandaki (Kali Gandaki is name of the river in Nepal) region to the west.
Upper Mustang Trekking name Make an escapade beginning from world deepest gorge Kaligandaki valley into world's highest area of Lo-Mangthang valley that passes through an almost tree-less barren landscape, a steep stony trail up and down hill and panorama views of high Annapurna Himalaya including Nilgiri, Annapurna, Dhaulagiri and numerous other peaks. The trek passes through high peaks, passes, glaciers, and alpine valleys. The thousands years of seclusion has kept the society, lifestyle and heritage remain unaffected for centuries and to this date.
Helicopter Tour in Nepal having high mountains and wonderful landscape of countryside but is effortlessly reachable by land transport, is known as helicopter tours country. Helicopter services industry in Nepal is now well well-known with many types and categories of helicopters for the fly to different of Nepal. The pilots are very knowledgeable expert with 1000 of flying hours knowledge in Nepal. We have service for helicopter is outstanding reputations and established records for reliable emergency and rescue flight too. Here we would like to offer some of amazing helicopter tour in Himalaya country of Nepal. Further more details information about Nepal tour itinerary for helicopter tour in different part of Nepal contact us without hesitation.
Kathmandu Pokhra Tour is an exclusive tour package specially designed for all level travelers. Kathmandu Pokhara tour package is effortless tour alternative for Nepal visitors. This tour package vacation the historically significant and ethnically rich capital (Kathmandu ) of Nepal and the most stunning city of world by the nature, Pokhara. Mountain museum and world peace stupa are another charming of Pokhara tour. Pokhara is the center of escapade tourism in Nepal. Package tour to Kathmandu Pokhara is design to discover highlighted areas of Kathmandu and Pokhara valley. Nepal is the country which is socially and geographically different that’s why we powerfully recommend you discover Nepal to visit once in life time. It is hard to explore all Nepal in one Nepal tours trip in this way we design this trip to show you the highlights of Nepal especially in Kathmandu and Pokhara.
Adventure trekking in the southern part of the asia continent there lays a tiny rectangular kingdom squeezed between two hugely populated countries, China to the north and India to the south, this country is Nepal a world of its own. Adventure trekking is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic and possibly hostile areas. Adventure trekking in Nepal is rapidly growing in popularity, as tourists seek different kinds of vacations. The land of contrast is presumably the exact way to define the scenery of Nepal for you will find maximum world highest peaks high high up above the clouds determined for the gods above. Straight, active and attractive learning experience adventure trekking in Nepal that engross the whole person and have real adventure. Mt. Everest, Kanchenjunga, Daulagiri, and Annapurna and many more are there for the offering for mountain-lovers, adventurers and travelers.
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home-roasted harar horse lot 14659 ethiopian coffee from sweet marias. this is the third ethiopian coffee i've roasted, looking for something resembling Peet's ethiopian super natural. the absolute best we've had so far is Organic Yirgacheffe beans from Burman Coffee. The green coffee beans cost ~1/3 to 1/2 the price of roasted coffee, and they taste much better than store-bought roasted beans during the first week or two (nothing has lasted two weeks yet).
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Thanks everyone for all the kind well-wishes. I'm going to try and answer them all personally. Made a start of it but I've actually spent most of today sleeping so haven't had the chance yet.
First the good news: my Mom was discharged today and is back home! Her energy is back up. Tamiflu is a wonderful thing! We still don't know if it's H1N1 though. We should get the test results in a day or two. That's longer than I thought it would be, but she says the moment she left Emergency the bed was filled with another flu victim, so it looks like the labs are backed-up running H1N1 tests.
In my case I'm still suffering from dizziness, but no serious periods. Just a feeling like my head is fuzzy. Also have a dull and very slight ache in my head, but no other symptoms; no fever, no aches, no coughing or sneezing, and my appetite is actually larger than normal! I've noticed if I eat the symptoms almost completely disappear. I'm beginning to think I don't have the flu but some kind of inner ear infection. That said, no fever is weird. I'm going to give it another day, see if it improves and if not head to my family doctor on Tuesday. Not sure what he can do that Emergency couldn't, but a second opinion couldn't hurt!
Finally thank you all again for your well wishes and warmth. It's been a really stressful week with next week seeing the bulk of our layoffs hit, so it was wonderful and extremely helpful to read everyone's messages. Take care of yourselves! Here's a website on H1N1 I found useful over the last week. It's aimed at Canadians but the information is true for anyone:
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/h1n1/index-eng.php
And I promise to have the Queen Mary tour back up and finished soon!
The Struggle
by Begary
Have you ever traveled down a road to find there was no end
For every corner that you turned there was another bend
The faster that you walked, the longer that it seemed
And you were all alone, in this crazy dream
Crazy dreams that you dream alone
When the lights go out and no one's home
You see the day for what it's been
And you wish to God you could stay clean
The morning brings you to the road you didn't want to travel
and every step you take again makes your life unravel
You keep on walking down the path, wondering what you'll find,
and pray that when you find it you wont have lost your mind
It's halfway through another day and you're looking for those dreams
knowing they can make your life better than it seems
If only to forget your pain for a little while
you can travel down the road just another mile
The night is now upon you, the miles are on your face,
But you keep going forward to your final place.
You know the end is coming soon, you see it straight ahead
And if they don't forget you, you never will be dead
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1. agronoms L'home de ferro 2007, 2. eixting. La cursa del Eix comercial Lleida, 3. vista de la SEu vella, 4. Santes Creus, Monestir del Cister, 5. els paisatges a la treko, 6. ballarina., 7. Mis amigos , mi familia y yo casi al agua., 8. pintor : robado,
9. HDR pont de camarasa i Montsec, 10. recreació, 11. caga tió- se ofrece para animar las fiestas catalanas Navideñas
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Preparing already for a full week of photography in London! Keywords: Ultra wide angle, HDR and (especially at) night! Going alone, exploring parts of London I've never been to - by bike!
Can't wait for March!
This shot was from my last visit back in May 2010. University of Greenwich, Queen's House plus Royal Observatory in the back - taken from one of those speedy commuters boats. Loved it!
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Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, is the location of what was from January 1, 1892, until November 12, 1954 the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States. It is owned by the Federal government and is now part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, under the jurisdiction of the US National Park Service. It is situated predominantly in Jersey City, New Jersey, although a small portion of its territory falls within neighboring New York City.
The Ellis Island Immigrant Station was designed by architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Alciphron Boring. They received a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition for the building's design. The architecture competition was the second under the Tarsney Act which had permitted private architects rather than government architects in the Office of the Supervising Architect to design federal buildings.
The federal immigration station opened on January 1, 1892 and was closed on November 12, 1954, but not before 12 million immigrants were inspected there by the US Bureau of Immigration. 1907 was the peak year for immigration at Ellis Island with 1,004,756 immigrants processed. The all-time daily high also occurred this year on April 17 which saw a total of 11,747 immigrants arrive - Per Wiki
EXPLORE #145 on June 19, 2009! Many thanks for the views and comments!
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National Botanic Garden.
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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.
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.
I took this before my first class of the day.
The park area I went to yesterday was awesome, so I decided to check it out again.
Most of my recent photos have something to do with the fall season. That's just because the colors this time of the year are amazing!
I'm pretty busy with coursework, but I think that photography helps me deal with stress. When I really need a break, I'm going to try to go shoot some pictures.
Gear:
Nikon D90
Nikkor 18-105mm
I hope you like the result!
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Former President Bill Clinton
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Former President Bill Clinton walking along the National Mall on his way to the dedication ceremonies for the National World War 2 Memorial, May 2004
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William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. Prior to his election as President, Clinton served a total of nearly 12 years as the 50th and 52nd Governor of Arkansas. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is the junior U.S. Senator from New York. Clinton founded and currently heads the William J. Clinton Foundation to promote "the values of fairness and opportunity for all."
Presenting himself as a moderate and a member of the New Democrat wing of the Democratic Party, he headed the moderate Democratic Leadership Council in 1990 and 1991. He was a darkhorse candidate but won the nomination and was elected President in 1992 with Al Gore as his running mate. Clinton was handily re-elected in 1996 making him the first Democrat to serve two full terms as President since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
His domestic priorities as President included efforts to create a universal health care system, improve education, increase local police forces, restrict handgun sales, balance the federal budget, strengthen environmental regulations, improve race relations, promote equal rights, and protect the jobs of workers during pregnancy or medical emergency. With approval from Congress, he raised income taxes on the wealthiest taxpayers in 1993. His most dramatic domestic move was the radical reform of the welfare system in 1996 in cooperation with Republicans who had taken control of Congress.
Internationally, his priorities included reducing trade barriers, supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement, preventing nuclear proliferation, mediating the Northern Ireland peace process and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, and commanding military intervention to end the wars in Bosnia and the Kosovo. He engaged in air attacks on Iraq, most notably in Operation Desert Fox, and funded efforts to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
Clinton was the first baby boomer President and the first Democratic President to be re-elected since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Clinton was the third youngest President in history at 46, while Vice President Al Gore was 44. Clinton was one of only two Presidents in American history to be impeached. The vote to impeach was along party lines in the Republican-dominated congress. He was acquitted by a vote of the United States Senate on February 12, 1999. Clinton remained popular with the public throughout his two terms as President, ending his presidential career with a 65% approval rating, the highest end-of-term approval rating of any President in the post-Eisenhower era.
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Trivia about Bill Clinton:
Clinton is 6' 1½" (1.87m) tall.
Clinton is left-handed (other sinistral Presidents include James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush).
Following the death of Pope John Paul II on 2005-04-02 Clinton stirred up a mini-controversy saying the late pontiff, "may have had a mixed legacy…there will be debates about him. But on balance, he was a man of God, he was a consistent person, he did what he thought was right." Clinton sat with both President George W. Bush and former President George H.W. Bush as the first current or former American heads of state to attend a papal funeral.
On 2006-05-13, Clinton was the commencement speaker along with George H. W. Bush at Tulane University in New Orleans. They both received honorary Doctorates of Laws from Tulane University. Clinton spoke to the students, faculty and alumni of Tulane and of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina that Tulane students know firsthand.
Clinton is an amateur saxophonist (other recent musical presidents include pianists Harry Truman and Richard Nixon).
Clinton is allergic to dust, mold, pollen, and cat dander, mildly allergic to beef and dairy products.
Clinton was a brother of Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity and Kappa Kappa Psi, a band service fraternity.
Clinton was the only President to be married to a member of Congress: Hillary Rodham
Clinton's service as a Senator officially began 18 days before his second term ended.
Clinton has basic knowledge of German; he studied German in college as his language-of-choice.
Clinton owned two pets during his presidency: a male chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever named "Buddy" and a cat named "Socks". Socks arrived in 1993 and was the first cat to live in the White House since President Carter's daughter's cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang. Clinton acquired Buddy as a puppy in 1997 and named him after his late uncle. Buddy and Socks fought frequently at the White House and were kept in separate quarters. Since this would be no longer possible in the Clintons' smaller home in Chappaqua, New York, Socks was given away to Clinton's secretary when he left office. Buddy died after being run over by a car near the Clintons' Chappaqua house in 2002.
Centraal Beheer, a Dutch insurance company famous for its humorous commercials, once had a TV commercial involving Clinton and a voodoo doll. This commercial was taken down after a few weeks at the request of the White House.
Clinton reportedly owned a 1970 El Camino at one time. Speaking to a group of GM employees, Clinton joked, "It had astro-turf in the back. You don't want to know why."
In November of 1997 President Clinton made history by being the first sitting President to speak to a gay rights organization. He gave a speech at a formal dinner hosted by the Human Rights Campaign .
The Clinton thumb gesture was popularized by Clinton.
Clinton's campaign song during his first Presidential campaign was "Don't Stop" [Thinking About Tomorrow] by Fleetwood Mac. He even managed to persuade the then-defunct group to perform for his inaugural ball in 1993.
Clinton is, to date, the only sitting U.S. President to have shaken hands with Cuban President Fidel Castro. The two leaders found themselves standing next to each other at a U.N. photo op in September 2000. As the 150 leaders in attendance were exiting for lunch, a chance bottle neck at the door put the two leaders side by side and the handshake took place. They shook hands and exchanged what was described as small talk for a couple of minutes. Richard Nixon shook Castro's hand when he was Vice-President, and Jimmy Carter has done so during his post-presidential years.
The first presidential Webcast, held by President Bill Clinton on 1999-11-08 live from Georgetown University, is currently the only bona fide Internet-age broadcast in a Presidential library. The two hour internet broadcast entitled Townhall with President Clinton, hosted by Al From of the Democratic Leadership Council and directed by Marc Scarpa, was billed as an "Online Town Hall Meeting" ushering in 'The New Politics of the Information Age'".
Appeared in a commercial with preceding president George Herbert Walker Bush encouraging donations to the Red Cross and other charities after the 2004 Tsunami.
Appeared in a commercial for Nickelodeon's Let's Just Play Get Healthy Challenge.
During the 1998 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Clinton made a bet with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on the playoff series between the Washington Capitals and the Ottawa Senators where the loser of the series had to wear the opposing team's jersey, The Capitals won the series four games to one and Chretien had to wear a Capitals jersey.
In 2003, he became the only politican to be the highlight of an E! True Hollywood Story.
Ballygluin is now best remembered as the station in the opening scene of John Fordes Irish epic “The Quiet Man”. Ballygluin posed as “Castletown” station as a bemused John Wayne steps from the train, enquiring from curious locals for the way to his ancestorial home of “Innisfree” in the 1952 academy award winning movie.
Ballygluin was opened as part of the Athenry and Tuam Railway in 1860. Ballygluin was also part of the long straggling route of the Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway. The station saw it’s last regular trains in 1975, Part of this 185Km line (Limerick to Athenry) is due to reopen this year after a multi-million euro refurbishment, when it’s the turn of Athenry to Collooney section is now anybody’s guess. For more info visit www.westontrack.com
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America's Guilty Silence
By JAMES BROOKS
June 18, 2007
Crimes against humanity don't happen unless it is possible to commit them with impunity. Government corruption and gross imbalances of power will bring them closer to the edge of possibility. But the anticipation of impunity must be personal and social as well as legal and political. The perpetrators need to make sense of their crimes within a positive sense of themselves.
A shared sense of impunity that can pay for mass murder and torture chambers without self-reproach requires denial, distortion, and ignorance of swaths of reality. In totalitarian societies, the state handles these chores to try to keep the people unaware of its most criminal activities.
But in societies that enjoy relative freedom of the press, citizens encounter many unsavory facts that are impossible to deny directly. When "democracies" engage in war crimes, this knowledge pressures citizens to internalize a collective sense of impunity, which must be robust enough to neutralize incriminating truth as it appears.
Most informed US citizens are aware that their government runs a global network of secret detention centers where torture is routinely employed. They also know what this activity looks like, having seen photos of their troops' bestial behavior at Abu Ghraib. If they followed the story, they know that this behavior was also reported at several other prisons and detention centers in Iraq, under policy directives from the very top of the Pentagon.
They know about the human rights horrors of Guantanamo and Bagram Air Force base, that the CIA runs a global ring dedicated to kidnappings, "extraordinary rendition", and torture, that hundreds of our detainees have disappeared, and so on.
It is possible to know these things by reading big city newspapers. An objective observer could glean the general shape of these facts from network television news. The American public has been told. And the public has turned the page.
It's also a matter of record that our government has orchestrated an international economic blockade against the occupied Palestinian Authority, while Israel withholds the PA's tax revenues. After 15 months of this policy, an economy that aid experts had previously compared to sub-Saharan Africa has imploded. Social and civic services have ground to a virtual halt. (1) Diligent readers know that the Palestinians' already high rates of malnutrition and food insecurity are now at alarming levels. Doctors warn that skyrocketing numbers of Palestinian children are being crippled for life by chronic malnutrition. (2)
The predictable (and predicted) result of economic siege against an occupied people has been burgeoning chaos and civil strife, eroding what is left of the rule of law in the occupied territories. The informed American knows that this is happening because, in the fairest elections yet seen in the Middle East, the Palestinian people voted for the wrong party.
Yet even the best-informed Americans will be hard put to think of a similar instance in history. When have great powers conspired to destroy the government and economy of a destitute people already crumbling under another power's long colonial war?
To know about our government's global gulag and remain silent requires a reckoning with snatching people and repeatedly subjecting them to depraved acts of torture, knowing that those who do not die will suffer lifelong physical and psychological torment.
This reckoning appears to turn on variants of a calculation; that our collective security is worth more than the cost to a few tens of thousands of foreigners of questionable race and religion. This quantifies and prioritizes an otherwise difficult problem, allowing us to minimize the crimes by rounding our sums.
We don't notice that this pragmatic solution also fingers the people responsible for this inhumanity: us, the 'collective' whose security is so valuable that it's worth committing torture every day of the week to protect it.
To know about the economic siege against the occupied Palestinian territories and say nothing is to acquiesce in crippling collective punishment of millions of poor people, for the crime of holding a democratic election.
Unlike our straightforward torture-for-security deal in the global reign of terror against terror, our justifications for the Palestinian siege are bureaucratic and symbolic.
Hamas is on our "terror list" and therefore beyond the pale of humanity. Before we will end the blockade, Hamas must kiss the three poisoned rings of obeisance: recognize Israel's unique "right to exist" (as a "Jewish state" that refuses to recognize the rights of its current and former Arab residents), "renounce violence" (unlike Fatah, Israel, the US, etc.), and "accept past agreements" (the long sorry record of unreciprocated PLO concessions to Israel).
The public seems to accept this flimsy hypocrisy as reason enough to force Palestinian doctors to beg for syringes and bandages. (3) It goes down as easily as we close the cell door against the screams, to ease our pathetic fear of "terror".
Objectively, the American public is much more responsible for the crimes committed in its name than were the people of Germany for the horrors of the Third Reich. We have far more knowledge, and far greater freedom and opportunity to stop our government's criminal behavior.
But who is even asking the presidential candidates for their positions on torture and starving the Palestinians, or what they think of the respected study that found our war had killed as many as 665,000 Iraqis, as of almost two years ago?
Do we have any excuse for our abject failure to hold our leaders and ourselves responsible for our nation's most heinous crimes?
If we cannot bring ourselves to say, "guilty", then "innocent by reason of insanity" appears to be our only plausible defense before a future court of the world.
We will have to claim that our minds were not our own. The corporate media-government propaganda network had grown so ubiquitous that the people were essentially subjects in a mass brainwashing experiment. Unfortunately, the experiment was a success, so increasingly absurd versions of re-manufactured reality were implanted in the public mind.
At the time, some of us complained about cover-ups, lies, all the things we weren't being told by the media. But the public already knew too much, so our values had already been subverted to accommodate us to our national life of crime. In the reality we were fed, deceit could be virtuous, "terrorists" could destroy us, only leaders could understand the world, and in "extreme" cases the normal questions of morality did not apply. This is why we were silent while "our" government committed these terrible deeds.
The argument has some merit. The elites of this country invented modern propaganda almost a century ago. Today the immense power of corporate-political "opinion formation" in certain reaches the public mind is undeniable. We need to understand how much this system has undermined the public will and dehumanized our lives.
However, to the extent that we as individuals still possess free will and are responsible for our own values, we have no excuse for our mute acceptance of these and other national crimes against humanity. Don't we pay for them with our taxes, continue them with our votes, and support them with our silence?
Combat skills (at least at my base) is a two day course that helps prepare you for combat situations when you deploy. If you go to somewhere more hostile where you'll arm up, they send you through a longer training course, but two days is plenty when you aren't even going to be carrying a weapon at your deployed location. The class is surprisingly a lot of fun, even if it is exhausting. The first day is all classroom instruction with a brief overview of the weapon, refreshing your memory on how painful the low crawl is...that kind of thing. The best part of the course is the last part of day 2 where you actually get to fire off blank rounds. It's challenging and reminds you that "Hey, I really am in the military." I was hoping I would actually be able to take pictures of us in the field the M16 during lunch was all I had. I wish I could say that I'm mad in this picture, I'm just physically exhausted. I'm definitely out of shape...
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A hot air balloon heads for cloudy skies. Shot from my living room window overlooking Catharine Place, Bath.
I love the D40 (the size, the weight, my first DSLR) but one feature I'd like is auto-bracketing. Without it, and without a set of graduated ND filters, getting the right exposure for foregrounds and skies is tough going.
Nikon D40 | Sigma 10-20@10mm | ƒ13 | 1/500s | ISO400 | Handheld
costruito tra il 114 e il 117 d.C. è un arco trionfale dedicato all'imperatore Traiano in occasione dell'apertura della via Traiana, una variante della via Appia che accorciava il cammino tra Benevento e Brindisi.
Si tratta di un arco a un solo fornice, alto 15,60 m e largo 8,60 m. Su ogni facciata quattro semicolonne, disposte agli angoli dei piloni, sorreggono una trabeazione, che sporge al di sopra del fornice. Oltre le architravi si trova un attico, anch'esso più sporgente nella parte centrale, sopra il fornice, che presenta all'interno un vano coperto da una volta a botte.
È costruito in blocchi di pietra calcarea, rivestiti da opera quadrata in blocchi di marmo pario.
L'arco presenta una ricca decorazione scultorea sulle due facciate principali, con scene che si riferiscono alla pace e alle provvidenze verso i cittadini sul lato interno, rivolto verso la città, e alla guerra e alle provvidenze dell'imperatore verso le province sul lato esterno.
I lati interni del fornice presentano altri due ampi pannelli scolpiti, raffiguranti scene delle attività di Traiano nella città di Benevento.
Sono visibili rapporti abbastanza evidenti tra questi ultimi e il fregio traianeo dell'Arco di Costantino, per cui è stata avanzata l'ipotesi di un'attribuzione, almeno per questi due pannelli, all'officina romana del "Maestro delle Imprese di Traiano", autore della Colonna Traiana.
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (5 of 5): The cliff lookout /
CITA EN EL CINE (5 de 5): El Mirador
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
PHOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Dom: Hahaha, is that okay? Are you happy now? (well, it worth to spend an embarrassing moment if she gets happy)
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Dom: Jajaja, ya? Ya estás contenta? (bueno, merece la pena pasar vergüenza si es para que ella esté contenta)
COLLABORATION:
- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.
- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.
SHERYL LINKS:
- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl
- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012
Entre otras cosas porque o te llenas de cardos, o te llenas de barro o te hace la visita típica la Guardia Civil....
Nuevas galerías en www.mariorubio.com y www.fotografonocturno.com
Canal TV en YOUTUBE NightPhotography
Nuevos dominios en www.lightpainting.es y en www.cursosdefotografianocturna.com
Hay ocasiones en que el sujeto en el visor de la cámara es tan fascinante que olvido apretar el disparador. Ken Padley.
Cita extraída de El lenguaje del arte de José B. Ruiz
Exif:
Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 300.7
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 19 mm
ISO Speed 200
WB 3300
Blue gelled flash and warm light torch
This is perhaps my favourite photo of all the ones I took while I was away.
Not technically brilliant or anything like that, but it captured a 'feeling'. A day of sunshine and white fluffy cloud, walking for miles along a coastline without meeting a soul - a feeling of peace. A beautiful sandy beach, waves rolling in, the mountains rising up in the distance ...
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But it was also the scene of a sad tale of the times we live in ...
At the end of the day I decided to visit somewhere I hadn't been before - the beach at Achnahaird Bay. A short track led down to a carpark which was full ... there must have been at least 6 other cars there! I found somewhere to park and then headed out along the path towards the beach. On the way I met someone else with a camera. He stopped to chat and compare cameras, and I discovered that he was in his mid 70s and had just lost his wife. He seemed rather frail and was obviously upset about her death. He had always had a love of photography and his son had bought him a Nikon D90 which he was loving using. He looked at the photos I had taken, I looked at his, then we both decided that we needed to wait for the clouds to clear from the mountains before taking the shot we wanted. I left him sitting on a rock on the headland while I scrambled down to the shore to take this photo.
A few minutes later I could hear shouting coming from the headland - "Pervert! Taking photos of the kiddies ..." in a strong Yorkshire accent.
I went back up and saw a guy in his 30s trying to grab the camera from the guy I had been talking to. I went over and asked what was going on. The old guy was clearly upset and the younger guy was continuing to shout that he was a pervert who had been "taking photos of the kiddies". Now he was obviously as thick as pig-shit [and twice as ugly] and was clearly unable to understand when I explained that there was no way on earth a man with a 16-85 lens was going to be able to take photos of 'kiddies' who were at least 250 metres away.
He then turned to me and said "So you're a pervert as well then. Have you got pictures of the kiddies?"
To say I saw red would be an understatement. Years of pent-up anger and frustration came bursting out, remembering how I had felt when a few years ago someone had said the same sort of things to me.
I rather impolitely pointed out his shortcomings, his filthy mind for seeing children in the way he was accusing others, his stupidity at not understanding the nature of cameras and that if he wanted to bully someone I was ready and waiting.
He looked more and more shame-faced as I ranted, and after a couple of minutes mumbled "I'm sorry, Can I go now?" I told him that he could.
As he walked back down to the beach several people who had been walking by stood and laughed at him, then came over to say how much they had enjoyed the show. The old guy was by now in tears, sitting holding his camera to his chest and saying that he just wanted to smash it and go home. A few of us sat with him, telling him not to worry about other people's ignorance, and eventually he dried his eyes and began to look better.
I stayed with him for about half an hour as we both took [and mainly deleted!] photos of the sea and the waves breaking on the rocks, the distant hills and beauty of the place. He chatted more and more and I told him about some other places he should visit in the area. He got out his map and we worked out a good route for him to take to find photo opps.
He was a lovely old guy.
I hope he never has to go through that again.
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-->> That's what it was all about, Man .. growin' up in the '90s, Man - - it was alla'bout "BREAKIN' ALL THE RULES" randomly, Man. Not conformin' to society's standards, Man .. and provin' to the world you were a real stinker, Man .. and you enjoyed every single fuggin' minute of it, Man !!
Dive' bomin' a RANDOM ..steamin' hot slice'a pizza,Man - WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED. Vibrant Neon ball-caps tilted to the side let society KNOW ..YOU WERE A NON-CONFORMIST,MAN .. YOU WEREN'T PLAYIN' BY THEM B8TCHES RULES !!
"No, Siree BOB'AROO-SKIE" .. as we used ta say in the '90s, Man. We rode our skateboards down random, obscure suburban streets - causing all sortsa of'a rukus and shenanigans just like out hero Bart Simpson, Man.
Yeah, Man .. we wore our sneakers with the laces untied IN SPITE OF THE LAW, MAN !! !! !! And about a 1/4 of us usually fell off the skateboards, tripped over the laces & slammed our skulls on the pavement rippin' up our fancy Turtle fleeces, and gettin' our blocks knocked off ( as well as our neon ball-caps ) by the big bully that usually had less than flattering things to say about out freakish '90s decorum. Yeh, there's pizza on ya face, Kid !!
Awe' - these fuggin' ol' ad clippings are pretty awesome, Man.
Oi !!
~ t
Umaid Bhavan Palace ( View it, Large On Black) was built with superficial intentions of providing employment to famine stricken farmers. The Palace now is a five star deluxe palace hotel. The museum of the palace is highly recommended for its display of weapons, an array of stuffed leopards, a huge banner presented by Queen Victoria and an incredible collection of clocks.
Maharaja Umaid Singhji who built this palace was fascinated with western lifestyles so he marshalled the services of a well-known Edwardian architect, Henry Vaughan Lanchester, a creditable equal of Edward Lutyens (architect of New Delhi) to construct a three hundred and forty seven roomed Umaid Palace.
This was to become India last of the great palaces and the biggest private residence in the world.
Image-Processing : HDR from 5 Exp. Color enhancement via digital blending of selectively masked regions. Curves and adjustments in PS. Perspective correction applied!
Exploring Further : You can take a look at my new set Jodhpur 2008 which contains latest images from my travels. I shall be updating this set!
More interesting photos: High Dynamic Range images — Night Shots — People — Paris — I Love You
© 2008 Ayush Bhandari
Taken on a mini meet with some of the great folks that make up the a little corner of Flickr "The Cleveland Camera Club" One of our local land marks the Transporter Bridge at Middlesborough recently celebrated its birthday, and the local council lit the structure up with a moving light show, a static image like this fails to show the moving light etc.
Once again please view large on black