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That's my little guy...turning 3 in 6 days. I'm not sure I'm ready for that. I thought 2 was bad, but 3, it seems so old, so non-toddlerish. He's been acting so old lately. He's sick right now, and told me this morning that he needed "medisum" and has to go to the hospital to get a shot, then said he needed "ear pops" (ear drops) lol. He kisses me when I'm sad and tells me it'll be ok. He usually gets up in the middle of the night and runs to our bed, and I'm ok with this because every morning I'm awaken by him saying "mommy, I sleep good, now give me a hug" and he'll hug me, then say "and a kiss" and I get a big smooch. He's potty trained, which I always hoped for by age 3 but didn't expect it to come so easily. Word of advice for those wanting to train soon, wait til they are ready!!! We tried when he turned 18 months up until recently and we would have saved a lot of stress and messes if we just waited til he was ready for it.
Age 3...that means 2 more years until he goes to school. God help me.
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Photos taken at the Grounds for Sculpture on JANUARY 6th, 2010 in
Hamilton, New Jersey USA
Photos of a male house finch - carpodacus mexicanus- up in a tree.
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House Finch (carpodacus mexicanus)-is a medium-sized finch.
Adults have a long brown tail and are a brown or dull-brown color across the back with some shading into deep grey on the wing feathers. Breast and belly feathers may be streaked. In most cases, adult males have a reddish color to their heads, necks and shoulders. This color sometimes extends to the stomach and down the back, between the wings. The male coloration varies in intensity with the seasons and is derived from the berries and fruits in its diet. As a result, the colors range from pale, straw yellow, to bright orange, to deep, intense red. Adult females have brown upperparts and streaked underparts.
These birds are mainly permanent residents; some eastern birds migrate south. Their breeding habitat is urban and semi-open areas from southern Canada to Mexico.
House Finches forage on the ground or in vegetation. They primarily eat grains, seeds and berries, being voracious consumers of weed seeds such as nettle and dandelion; included are incidental small insects, such as aphids and plant lice. They are frequent visitors to feeders throughout the year, particularly if stocked with sunflower seeds or Nyjer/thistle seed, and will congregate at hanging Nyjer sock feeders. They are considered a pest in fruit orchards.
Nests are made in cavities, including openings in buildings, and also on various kinds of vegetation, sometimes nests abandoned by other birds will be used. Nests may be re-used for subsequent broods or in following years. The nest is built by the female, sometimes in as little as two days. It is well made of twigs and debris, forming a cup shape, usually 1.5m to 2m above the ground.
Eggs are laid from February through August, two or more broods per year with 2 to 6 eggs per brood. The eggs are a pale, bluish-green with few black spots and a smooth, somewhat glossy surface. The female incubates the eggs for 12 to 14 days and the young leave the nest about 11 to 19 days after hatching. Dandelion seeds are among the preferred seeds fed to the young.
During courtship, the male may present the female with choice bits of food and, if she imitates the posture of a hungry chick, he may actually feed her. The male may also feed the female during the breeding and incubation period.
House Finches are one of the few birds that are aggressive enough to keep House Sparrows out of their birdhouse and evict them.
Originally only a resident of Mexico and the southwestern United States, they were introduced to eastern North America in the 1940s. The birds were being sold illegally in New York while marketed as the "Hollywood Finch." Many vendors and owners released the birds into the wild in order to avoid prosecution. The released birds spread rapidly and, in some unforested areas, have displaced the native Purple Finch. In 1870, they were introduced into Hawaii.
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I walked up to the tree, admiring the tiny white flowers on the branches
Not long ago, these trees held nothing; all the leaves had died
I asked the flowers, "What made you decide to bloom this year?
Why didn't you stay hidden in your branches, where it was safe?
Why do you always do the same thing every year?"
They looked back at me and quivered slightly with the wind
"Well," the flowers said, "the world is sad and dreary for so long
and we bring happiness back to it."
I considered this. "What makes people so happy when spring comes?"
The flowers looked up at the sun. "Change," the smallest bloom sighed.
"The world needs that every once in a while; it brings happiness.
If the world did not need to change, then we would never grow."
I nodded and smiled at the idea. I hadn't thought of it that way before.
I could only hear the slight rustle of the branches as I walked back the way I had come.
Esta fotografia foi tirada em 11 de Junho de 2010, quase no Verão. Apesar disso, tem este ar invernoso resultado da densa neblina que existia na altura.
A serra do Marão tem sido fonte de inspiração para grandes autores portugueses, como Miguel Torga e outros. Mas, para Teixeira de Pascoaes ela é a Montanha Sagrada, por meio da qual toda a natureza ascende ao Cosmo (panteísmo) e, daí, ao espírito universal.
Ele escreve a propósito do Marão no seu poema mais conhecido (o Marânus):
"Espectros nebulosos,
Remotos ascendentes
Emergem na penumbra que flutua
E rodeiam-nos tristes, misteriosos..."
This photograph was taken on June 11, 2010, almost Summer time, though the wintry look. This Northern Mountain, Marão, also has heavy mists and has been a source of inspiration to many Portuguese Authors, like Miguel Torga and others. But, toTeixeira de Pascoaes, my favourite, Marão is the Sacred Mountain through which Natures aspires to Cosmos (pantheism), thus attaining the Universal Spirit. He wrote a well known poem (Marânus) and described the atmosphere in Marão this way:
"Fuzzy Ghosts,
Of ancient ancestors
Emerge in the misty shadows
And surround us, sad and mysterious ...."
Translated by Chilliwack Jack
I found a very interesting site in English about this poet and his philosophy.
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: SHIN VISITS NOIREL (1 of 1) /
SHIN VISITA A NOIREL (1 de 1)
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 28 of 55) 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.
FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español
Shin: (All that robots... it can only be Near's... but how is this he has all his stuff at Noirel's room?? O_O)
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Shin: (Todos esos robots.. solo pueden ser del enano ese... pero como es que los tiene en el cuarto de Noirel?? O_O)
LINKS:
- FOTOHISTORIAS en casa de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr
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She is her biggest fan! Other than myself of course!
So sorry I have been so slow at returning comments, am trying to catch up, but have simply been very very busy!
Will see each of you real soon,
Like I said I need some time to catch up, but this is the end of the Lady Blanche photo's for a while, so just wanted to slip this in and try and explain, my slowness at returning your comments!
Thanks for all your love and support!
And Lady Blanche and I had a wonderful birthday for her. She got lot's of treats, a pedicure, a grooming, and a major message by one of her favorite friends!
Love and hugs, and you know all that jazz,
Will be with each of you soon, but am working on my First One Woman Exhibit and trying to get everything done by next Tuesday!
We both love you all!
billie and the lady!
We appreciate your multi invites but simply don't have the time right now! thanks anyway!
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Piazza San Marco (often known in English as St Mark's Square), is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as "the Piazza". All other urban spaces in the city (except the Piazzetta and the Piazzale Roma) are called "campi" (fields). The Piazzetta (the 'little Piazza') is an extension of the Piazza towards the lagoon in its south east corner (See plan). The two spaces together form the social, religious and political centre of Venice and are commonly considered together. This article relates to both of them.
A remark usually attributed to Napoleon calls the Piazza San Marco "the drawing room of Europe". (The attribution to Napoleon is unproven).[1] It is one of the few great urban spaces in Europe where human voices prevail over the sounds of motorized traffic.
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 29 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
Ren: - whispering – It was a kind of welcome party because we just finished building our first dioramas, but that night you had a meeting with the producers.
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Ren: - susurrando- Era una especie de Fiesta de inauguración porque acabamos de construir los primeros dioramas, pero ese día tu tenías reunión con los productores.
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
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La curruca capirotada (Sylvia atricapilla) es una especie de ave paseriforme del género Sylvia dentro de la familia Sylviidae. Es un pájaro de pequeño tamaño de color sobrio y discreto, canto agradable, vuelo ágil, comportamiento activo e inquieto, que se alimenta de insectos y frutas. Habita principalmente en sotobosques y está ampliamente distribuido por Europa. Se trata de una curruca frecuente, y localmente abundante, que está muy repartida por toda España. Descripción Mide entre 13 y 15 cm de longitud, con una envergadura de entre 20 y 23 cm, y un peso de unos 14 a 20 g. Presenta el cráneo levemente aplanado. El pico (en ambos sexos adultos) es negruzco con la mandíbula inferior gris pizarra. Los tarsos y los pies son gris azulado. El iris es de 3,5 mm de diámetro y de color castaño. Plumaje A simple vista tiene un aspecto discreto e insignificante, ya que la sobriedad de su plumaje le permite pasar desapercibido para todo aquel que no haya aprendido a identificarlo, que lo confundirán con el gorrión común cada vez que se lo crucen fugazmente en su camino (ocurriendo esto más veces de lo que cabe imaginarse). El macho, para quien sabe identificar esta especie, resulta inconfundible; el macho adulto presenta sus partes superiores (laterales de la cabeza, del cuello y el pecho) de color verde oliva, o bien puede describirse como un tono pardo grisáceo. El obispillo es gris claro. El vientre blanco. Su cola y las alas son de un gris negruzco. El píleo y la frente son de color negro brillante.2 La hembra se diferencia del macho principalmente por el píleo que es pardo o castaño rojizo. El resto de las partes superiores son pardo oliváceas, y en los lados de la cara hay un tinte grisáceo. El pecho y los flancos son de un tono más pálido, algunas veces con un tinte gris, pero siempre se presenta con un color más pardo que el del macho. Los ejemplares inmaduros son similares a las hembras adultas, con el capirote castaño jengibre. Tal vez se pueda apreciar en la espalda y dorso de las alas un tinte más rojizo que en los adultos. El color de las partes inferiores, como son el pecho y los flancos, se presentan considerablemente más oscuros que en los adultos. Nota: Apenas se observan diferencias entre las distintas subespecies de Sylvia atricapilla, no obstante, morfológicamente sí que podrían encontrarse leves diferencias fácilmente apreciables. Es una especie forestal que cría en terrenos arbolados, umbríos y con denso sotobosque, aunque también pueden hacerlo en parques y jardines con abundante maleza, ya que siempre van de copa en copa, de mata en mata, e inquietamente de rama en rama. Ejemplos donde estas currucas se desarrollan son los robledales, fresnedas y otras formaciones de planifolios. También habitan bosques de coníferas, quejigares y bosques mixtos, monte bravío, huertos de frutales y también olivares. Evitan zonas muy secas por ello son frecuentes en la vegetación de riberas, junto a los arroyos, donde los índices de humedad son mayores y donde los árboles se presentan más desarrollados. Cuando las ciudades ofrecen mayor cantidad de alimento, o por motivos climáticos, etc., recurren a estas, pasando desapercibidas por ser desconfiadas y a la vez activas. Altitudinalmente esta especie ocupa rangos muy dispares, desde el nivel del mar hasta los 1.500 m (en Tenerife), incluso 1.700 m en Pirineos centrales o los 1.800 en el Sistema Central y 1.850 m en las Cordilleras Béticas. Alimentación Fruto del espino común. La curruca capirotada se alimenta de insectos, fruta cultivada y bayas o frutos silvestres. Durante la primavera se centra básicamente en la captura coleópteros y dípteros, aunque no son estos los únicos insectos que caen presa de este pajarillo. A partir del nacimiento de sus pollos se dedican a recoger infinidad de pequeñas orugas y larvas, mas estos también son cebados con cerezas, higos y otros frutos silvestres del tiempo. Durante el invierno ingieren gran cantidad de manzana, aprovechándose de las cosechas más próximas lo que les permite resistir el invierno sin apenas moverse de zonas reducidas. Les gustan los frutos de la hiedra, así como las bayas de las plantas de adorno que encuentran en jardines o parques. Presentes en su dieta podrían estar, el saúco, el espino, el aligustre, la rosa silvestre, la zarzamora, la madreselva, el tejo, el acebo, etc., sintiendo especial predilección por todos ellos. Nido Curruca con hierba seca en el pico para construir su nido. El nido es una construcción muy pobre, "transparente", ligero y escaso en materiales. Normalmente es el macho quien elige el lugar de emplazamiento colocando allí dos o tres hierbas secas, aunque es la hembra quien principalmente lo construye. Entre el macho y la hembra consiguen terminarlo en unos 3 o 5 días generalmente. Los materiales de construcción usados por esta curruca son básicamente hierbas secas, musgo, y raicillas, estando forrado interiormente con pelos y hierba más fina, para lograr un cierto confort. Se localizan escondidos en arbustos u otra maleza, sujetos en ramas débiles y a una altura del suelo que no suele bajar de 80 cm ni subir por encima del 1,70 m. Los polluelos permanecen en el nido durante un periodo de tiempo que oscila en unos 11 y 14 días.Enfermedades Los parásitos que hospedan a Sylvia atricapilla son motivo de las posibles distintas enfermedades infecciosas que pueden afectar a estas aves. Un ejemplo es el parásito de la malaria de la curruca capirotada, que puede hacer bastante daño a la especie si su capacidad de transmisión y dispersión se presenta con demasiada potencia y facilidad. Predadores Como toda pequeña ave de sotobosque, desde que es un simple polluelo la curruca capirotada puede ser presa de todo tipo de vertebrados, pues reptiles, diferentes pequeños mamíferos, y otras aves (como una simple urraca), codician este tipo de capturas. También el ser humano puede convertirse en un "predador parcial" para un gran número de especies de aves, entre ellas la curruca capirotada, pues el dulce canto de estas aves las hace muy atractivas para mantenerlas en cautiverio, y existen todo tipo de prácticas ilegales por medio de las que se captura con redes y otros sistemas a estos pajarillos
Not completely happy with today's 365 photo... but that's okay. You can't win them all!
I suppose this is my attempt at getting in the spirit for Christmas (which I'm really not.)
I'm miss home and bucket loads of snow! Scotland is great, but there is no snow (and probably wont be for Christmas! Boooo) Though, there is no shortage of hot chocolate with baileys and curling up under warm blankets, so that is nice!
Song of the Day - St. Vincent (with Andrew Bird) - What Me Worry
(this video makes me react in unexplainable ways... it is probably what I would consider the best video on youtube... so PLEASE watch it! Oh, and also... I fucking LOVE the lyrics, and can relate to them in a big way)
"What me worry? I never do
I'm always amused and amusing you
Sans le fear of impending doom
Life is like banquet food: pleasure to peruse
Do I amuse you, dear? Would you think me queer
if while standing beside you I opted instead to disappear? Disappear
In no hurry I'll sing my tune
All my skies the hue of a ruddy bruise
In my finest threads couture I'll call up my favorite muse
for a drink - half full - or two
Have I abused you, dear? You have had it to here
You say, "Love is just a bloodmatch to see who
endures lash after last with panache"
In the spring I'll dust off my lute, stuff my suitcase full of blues
and stir the dust underneath the thrust of my clicking heels
C'est la vie
What me worry? I never do
Life is one charming ruse for us lucky few
Have I fooled you, dear?
The time is coming near when I'll give you my hand and I'll say,
"It's been grand, but... I'm out of here
I'm out of here" "
Ref. 202.
Nissan Patrol corto Cabriolet.
Escala 1/64. (?)
Mira.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Años 80-90. (?)
- Miniatura basada en el ´88 Nissan Patrol corto.
Fuente: www.foro.pieldetoro.net/foro/index.php?threads/lista-de-m...
- Esta miniatura se vendía en blíster y probablemente llevara de origen pegatinas en los laterales y el capó.
- "(...) 8 distintos, el más raro, además del cabrio, el de decoración "fantástico".
Fuente: uno64.mforos.com/2092588/11203045-historia-mira-1972-2000/
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Nissan Patrol
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Nissan Patrol (Japanese: 日産・パトロール Nissan Patorōru) is a series of large four-wheel drive vehicles manufactured by Nissan in Japan since 1951.
The Patrol is generally regarded as a tough and utilitarian 4×4 in Australia and New Zealand, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Japan, and the Caribbean, where it competes directly with the Toyota Land Cruiser which is its main rival in those markets.
In the United States and Canada, it competes in the luxury SUV segment where it carries the upscale Infiniti brand.
The Patrol has been available as either a short-wheelbase (SWB) three-door or a long-wheelbase (LWB) five-door chassis.
The LWB version has also been offered in pickup truck and cab chassis variants alongside the wagon."
(...)
"(...) in some European countries the Patrol was, for a short while marketed by Ebro [Spain] as the Ebro Patrol."
(...)
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- Third generation (1980–1989)
. 160 (1980–1989)
"The 160 series was introduced in 1980 to replace the 60 series. In Australia, these are officially known as the MQ Patrol. In 1980, the engines available were the L28, P40 and SD33. All models were available with a four-speed manual transmission, albeit a three-speed automatic was optional on long wheelbase vehicles fitted with the L28 engine. All 160 series Patrols came with a two-speed offset transfer case, which featured a 1:1 high gear and a low gear."
(...)
"In 1983, the MQ model was updated. These are commonly known as an MK Patrol, however this does not appear on any Nissan literature or service manuals. Nissan parts dealers do not recognise these initials either.
Updates included revised front end with rectangular headlights and an upgraded front suspension.
The four-speed gearbox was revised and a fifth gear was added for most models.
The four-speed was still used in some lower specced utes, presumably to run out stock.
A high roof ("Super Roof") version of the wagon was added at the same time, which was also when the SD33T turbodiesel option was first made available. With 110 PS (81 kW) the turbodiesel can reach 145 km/h (90 mph)."
(...)
"These were the last Patrols to carry the Datsun brand—in line with the rest of the Nissan lineup, the Patrol lost its Datsun branding in 1984 in most markets."
. 260 (1986–2002)
"The 260 series was a Spanish-built version of the 160 (easily spotted by the rectangular headlamps) sold in Europe and was available in SWB and LWB with L28, SD33 and RD28T engines. The SD-engined version, at least in the UK market, had a 24-volt electrical system.
Nissan Ibérica-built Patrols also received a Spanish-made Perkins diesel engine and Spanish transmission to meet local content regulations It also helped Nissan Ibérica amortize plant investments.
The 260 Patrol later received a facelift with a new grille similar to that of the Y60 series which succeeded this generation elsewhere.
Spanish production continued until 1994 for export and until 2002 for the Spanish domestic market."
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Third generation (260)
Also called
Ebro Patrol (Spain, 1986–1993)
Sanxing Desert King (China)
Production
1986–2002
Assembly
Iran: Tehran (Pars Khodro; 1989–2000)
Italy: Rome (1988–1993)
Spain: Barcelona
Class
Full-size off road vehicle
Body style
3-door hardtop
5-door wagon/van
2/4-door pickup
Layout
Front-engine, rear-wheel drive
Front-engine, four-wheel drive
Engine
2.7 L Perkins MD27 I4 (diesel)
2.8 L L28 I6 (petrol)
2.8 L RD28T I6-T (diesel)
3.3 L SD33 I6 (diesel)
3.3 L SD33T I6-T (diesel)
Transmission
5-speed manual
Dimensions
Wheelbase
SWB: 2,350 mm (92.5 in)
LWB: 2,970 mm (116.9 in)
Length
SWB: 4,230 mm (166.5 in)
LWB: 4,690 mm (184.6 in)
Width
1,689 mm (66.5 in)
Height
1,980 mm (78.0 in)
(...)
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Patrol
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Patrol
More info:
www.auto10.com/4x4pasion/30-anos-del-nissan-patrol-1/9175
nissanpatrolhistoria.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/evolucion-de...
Even I had to catch my breath in awe and had to scratch my head when I found this antique timepiece at an auction. I knew I just had to bring it home. It is in a perpetual state of rigor mortis. But ever as exquisite and beautiful, or at least close to being what it once looked like...
This is the closest I could get to an era when time was held precious, when time was unhurried unlike of today... Perhaps a period when every advance of the hands signified what a golden age was...
I am a pathetic romantic for nostagia, eh?
Oda a mirar pájaros
Ahora
a buscar pájaros!
Las altas ramas férreas
en el bosque,
la espesa
fecundidad del suelo,
está mojado
el mundo,
brilla
lluvia o rocío, un astro
diminuto
en las hojas:
fresca
es la matutina
tierra madre,
el aire
es como un río
que sacude
el silencio,
huele a romero,
a espacio
y a raíces.
Arriba
un canto loco,
una cascada,
es un pájaro.
Cómo
de su garganta
más pequeña que un dedo
pueden caer las aguas
de su canto?
Facultad luminosa!
Poderío
invisible,
torrente
de la música
en las hojas,
conversación sagrada!
Limpio, lavado, fresco
es este día,
sonoro
como cítara verde,
yo entierro
los zapatos
en el lodo,
salto los manantiales,
una espina
me muerde y una ráfaga
de aire como una ola
cristalina
se divide en mi pecho.
Dónde
están los pájaros?
Fue tal vez
ese
susurro en el follaje
o esa huidiza bola
de pardo terciopelo
o ese desplazamiento
de perfume? Esa hoja
que desprendió el canelo
fue un pájaro? Ese polvo
de magnolia irritada
o esa fruta
que cayó resonando,
eso fue un vuelo?
Oh pequeños cretinos
invisibles,
pájaros del demonio,
váyanse
al diablo
con su sonajera,
con sus plumas inútiles!
Yo que solo quería
acariciarlos,
verlos resplandeciendo,
no quiero
en la vitrina
ver los relámpagos embalsamados,
quiero verlos vivientes,
quiero tocar sus guantes
de legítimo cuero,
que nunca olvidan en las ramas,
y conversar con ellos
en los hombros
aunque me dejen como a ciertas estatuas
inmerecidamente blanqueado.
Imposible.
No se tocan,
se oyen
como un celeste
susurro o movimiento,
conversan
con precisión,
repiten
sus observaciones,
se jactan
de cuanto hacen,
comentan
cuanto existe,
dominan
ciertas ciencias
como la hidrografía
y a ciencia cierta saben
dónde están cosechando
cereales.
Ahora bien,
pájaros
invisibles
de la selva, del bosque,
de la enramada pura,
pájaros de la acacia
y de le encina,
pájaros
locos, enamorados,
sorpresivos,
cantantes,
vanidosos,
músicos migratorios,
una palabra
última
antes
de volver
con zapatos mojados, espinas
y hojas secas
a mi casa:
vagabundos,
os amo
libres,
lejos de la escopeta y de la jaula,
corolas
fugitivas,
así
os amo,
inasibles,
solidaria y sonora
sociedad de la altura,
hojas
en libertad,
campeones
del aire,
pétalos
del humo,
libres,
alegres,
voladores y cantores,
aéreos y terrestres,
navegantes del viento,
felices
constructores
de suavísimos nidos,
incesantes
mensajeros del polen,
casamenteros
de la flor, tíos
de la semilla,
os amo,
ingratos:
vuelvo
feliz de haber vivido con vosotros
un minuto
en el viento.
Pablo Neruda
Hecho, Huesca (Spain).
ENGLISH
Valle de Hecho is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 984 inhabitants.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_Hecho
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CASTELLANO
Valle de Hecho (Val d'Echo en aragonés) es un municipio del partido judicial de Jaca, provincia de Huesca. Pertenece a la comarca de la Jacetania.
La capital del municipio se encuentra en la población de Hecho (Echo en aragonés). Otras localidades pertenecientes al término municipal de Valle de Hecho son: Siresa (Ziresa en aragonés), Embún, Urdués y Santa Lucía. Hasta finales del siglo XX, el nombre del municipio era Hecho.
La vitalidad de las gentes del valle se muestra a través de la vida cotidianda y de sus constumbres. La fabla chesa, el folclore, la gastronomía, las fiestas... se miman y celebran para disfrute de vecinos, visitantes y amigos.
Es uno de los lugares en los que sigue en uso la lengua aragonesa, en la variante conocida como cheso, nombre tomado del gentilicio que se aplica a los habitantes del valle.
La música y los bailes tradicionales, junto con la rica indumentaria antigua, se exhiben gracias al Grupo Folclórico de la Val d'Echo, al palotiaú d'Embún y al grupo A Ronda d'Os Chotos d'Embún. Sus músicas traspasan las fronteras de Aragón pregonando constumbres y tradiciones ancestralesy el sentir de las gentes de hoy.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_Hecho
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Beginning of the firefighters' demonstration in Denfert Rochereau, the main banner in the middle says "All together" (Tous ensemble). This is taken from the top of bus stop.
Part of "Au feu, les pompiers !" (please watch in the order of the set, to better understand the chronology of events)
Check it out on black or at 1280 x 850 pixel if you feel like it.
About this shot
I almost can't believe it but it appears to be true... the gherkin (or St. Mary Axe 30) is 180 meters tall. The Euromast in Rotterdam (where I live) is 185 meters. Only a 5 meter difference, but it actually *feels* as if it's twice the size of this bulky building!
No wonder I couldn't get it all in here, going landscape! ;-)
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Date: Taken on March 11, 2012 at 7.50pm CET
Exif data
Camera Nikon D700
Exposure 30 sec.
Aperture f/22.0
Focal Length 12 mm (Sigma 12-24mm DG HSM)
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias -5/3 EV
Single RAW shot processed with Photoshop CS5.
San Lorenzo 2008 - Huesca (Spain).
According to the tradition, the eve of the 10 of August a member of a group is raised to place in the statue of the saint the typical green "pañoleta" (kerchief). This statue is at considerable height, on the entrance of the Church of San Lorenzo.
Según la tradición, la víspera del 10 de agosto un miembro de una peña es alzado para colocar a la figura del santo la típica pañoleta verde. Esta figura está a considerable altura, sobre la entrada de la Iglesia de San Lorenzo.
ENGLISH
Saint Lawrence (c. 225 – 258) (Latin: Laurentius, meaning "laurelled") was one of the seven deacons of ancient Rome who were martyred during the persecution of Roman Emperor Valerian in the year 258.
The "Acts" of St Lawrence were lost by the time of Saint Augustine, one of whose sermons on Saint Lawrence (Sermo 302, de Sancto Laurent.) admits that his narration was gained from tradition instead of reciting the Acts as was his preferred custom. Such early legends made Lawrence a native of Huesca (Roman Osca) in Hispania Tarraconensis who had received religious instruction from Archdeacon Sixtus in Rome. When Sixtus became Bishop of Rome in 257, Lawrence was ordained a deacon and was placed in charge of the administration of Church goods and care for the poor. For this duty, he is regarded as one of the first archivists and treasurers of the Church and was made the patron of librarians.
According to lore, among the treasure of the Roman church entrusted to Lawrence for safe-keeping was the Holy Chalice, the cup from which Jesus and the Apostles drank at the Last Supper. Lawrence was able to spirit this away to Huesca with a letter and a supposed inventory, where it lay hidden and unregarded for centuries.
By tradition, Lawrence was sentenced at San Lorenzo in Miranda, martyred at San Lorenzo in Panisperna, and buried in the Via Tiburtina in the Catacomb of Cyriaca by Hippolytus and Justinus, a presbyter. Tradition holds that Lawrence was burned or "grilled" to death, hence his association with the gridiron. During his torture Lawrence cried out "This side’s done, turn me over and have a bite. (Assum est, inquit, versa et manduca.)".
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Rome
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CASTELLANO
San Lorenzo fue uno de los siete diáconos de Roma, ciudad donde fue martirizado con una parrilla en 258. En latín se llamaba Laurentius (‘laureado’).
Se sitúa el nacimiento de Lorenzo de Roma en Huesca, en la Hispania Tarraconensis. Cuando en 257 Sixto fue nombrado papa, Lorenzo fue ordenado diácono, y encargado de administrar los bienes de la Iglesia y el cuidado de los pobres. Por esta labor, es considerado uno de los primeros archivistas y tesoreros de la Iglesia, y es el patrón de los bibliotecarios.
La leyenda dice que entre los tesoros de la Iglesia confiados a Lorenzo se encontraba el Santo Grial (la copa usada por Jesús y los Apóstoles en la Última Cena) y que consiguió enviarlo a Huesca, junto a una carta y un inventario, donde fue escondido y olvidado durante siglos.
Según la leyenda, Lorenzo fue quemado vivo en una hoguera, concretamente en una parrilla, cerca del Campo de verano, en Roma. Se dice que en medio del martirio, exclamó: Assum est, inqüit, versa et manduca (‘asado estoy, denme vuelta y coman’). Se considera que este hecho fue creado por los hagiógrafos, ya que no hubo testigos cristianos.
Su santo se celebra el 10 de agosto, día en el cual según la tradición recibió martirio.
Went out for a pretty darn spontaneous shoot this evening...My buddy Shuck called up our two friends Alex and Morgan and asked if they wanted to shoot today....they agreed....
We ended up getting some killer sunset shots in this big open field a few minutes from my house. There will DEFINITELY be more where this came from, so KEEP CHECKING BACK!...also, make sure you check out Shuck's stream...he got some outstanding shots (it was his first real shoot!)
Lets hear what you think!
p.s. this was Alex's first time modeling!....I'd say she did an awesome job!
Canon 5d w/ 50 1.8 II
Natty light with slight fill from reflector
For TRP's tribute to Tori Amos! WIN!
Please, View On Black.
One of my very favorite songs by her, "Silent All These Years" -
Excuse me but can I be you for awhile,
My dog won't bite if you sit real still,
I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yellin' at me again
Yeah I can hear that
Been saved again by the garbage truck
I got something to say you know but nothing comes
Yes I know what you think of me you never shut up
Yeah I can hear that
But what if I'm a mermaid, in these jeans of his
With her name still on it
Hey but I don't care 'cause
Sometimes, I said sometimes
I hear my voice and it's been here
Silent all these years
So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts
Boy you best pray that I bleed real soon
How's that thought for you
My scream got lost in a paper cup
I think there's a heaven once the screams have gone
I got 25 bucks and a cracker do you think it's enough
To get us there 'cause...
What if I'm a mermaid in these jeans of his
With her name still on it
Hey but I don't care 'cause
Sometimes, I said sometimes
I hear my voice and it's been here
Silent all these -
Years go by, will I still be waiting
For somebody else to understand
Years go by if I'm stripped of my beauty
And the orange clouds raining in my hand
Years go by, will I choke on my tears
'Til finally there is nothing left
One more casualty you know
We're too easy easy easy...
Well I love the way we communicate
Your eyes focus on my funny lip shape
Let's hear what you think of me now
And baby don't look up, the sky is falling
Your mother shows up in a nasty dress
It's your turn now to stand where I stand
Everybody lookin' at you
You take hold of my hand
Yeah I can hear them...
But what if I'm a mermaid, in these jeans of yours
With her name still on it
Hey but I don't care 'cause
Sometimes, I said sometimes
I hear my voice
I hear my voice
I hear my voice and it's been here
Silent all these years
I've been here
Silent all these years
Silent
All these
Silent all these years
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Tail from this photo and hair from this photo .
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: AFTER THE CONCERT (6 of 9): Shin and Near /
DESPUÉS DEL CONCIERTO (6 de 9): Shin y Near
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 97 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.
FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español
Near: (I heard you... ¬¬)
L: Remember what I told you about patience... ^_^u
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Near: (Te he oido...¬¬)
L: Recuerda lo que te he dicho de tener paciencia... ^_^u
LINKS:
- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
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I think I may have confused a few people with yesterday's image. I apologize. I posted it with only the title "Platform 9 3/4s". Never thought to explain it given the Harry Potter coverage. Sometimes I'm too geeky. Apologies to everyone who didn't get it. Some people did get it though, and I think some that did get the reference believed it was a joking reference.
I wasn't joking. That is Platform 9 3/4s. Honest. The real thing.
I took that shot in King's Cross Station, which is the train station where J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, has Harry and his friends leave from at the start of each year to travel to Hogwart's School of Wizardry and Witchcraft.
That column is the actual column you see in all the Harry Potter films and read about in the books. When Harry and the Hogwart's students from London leave for their year at Hogwart's they run "into" that brick column. It's a sort of gateway to a special train platform that's hidden in another "dimension" so normal non-magical people (called "muggles") can't see it. The platform is number "9 3/4s" as it lies 3/4s of the way from platform 9. Actually, I think J. K. Rowling called it that because it's just a more interesting name than Platform 9 1/2 or Platform 9A (there actually is a 9A and a 9B Platform in the real world so that really wouldn't have worked).
However there was a problem that was only discovered after the books were published. The column to Platform 9 3/4s is in the older part of King's Cross. The problem is: the older part of King's Cross only goes up to Platform 8. Platforms 9 through 11 are in a modern addition to King's Cross and look nothing like the older section.... and there are no brick columns. As well, Platform 9 lies on the other side of the ticket booth behind a security wall. The kids of Hogwarts couldn't get to the platform without "muggle" tickets, and even if they did their parents definitely couldn't have accompanied them as they do in the books. I suppose magic could have solved all that though.
So the film crew had to fudge it and pretend the landing between Platform 4 and 5 is where Platform 9 3/4's is. And frankly, who's to say that the Wizards didn't add it to King's Cross magically but get the platform location wrong? ;-)
The management of King's Cross didn't have it so easy, though. When the books became popular they were inundated with thousands of children who wanted to see Platform 9 3/4s, but where do you hang the sign?? If in the old section it would be wrong (and goodness, think of all the little children who would be so confused by that encounter they could never again navigate their way through a British Train Station! ;-). Unfortunately, there was nothing to hang a sign on in the new wing, and you couldn't let any kids past the security to see it anyway! So a compromise was come to: Management found a quiet little archway next to the entrance to the new wing where they could hang the sign. Technically it's close to being the right location, but it's not in the new spiffy, steel and glass wing that has no brick columns and it's outside the security area. To finish it off they also took one of the station luggage carts the Hogwarts students use in the books and mounted the rear section to the wall so it looks like it's "passing through" the wall on its way to Platform 9 3/4s.
Hence the title of this shot: "Platform 9 3/4s Official Location"
Preparada para el concurso mensual de AFA dee Octubre "ROJO"
En la reunión anual de la CIRSE (Cardiovascular & Interventional Rariology Society of Europe) nos escapamos una tarde Salva y Gorge para intentar surfear, Quique por salir un poco del congreso y yo para hacer fotos. Era una puesta de sol fantástica, aunqu no tan roja, claro.
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: THE DATE (1 of 1) /
LA CITA (1 de 1)
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 18 of 36) 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.
FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español
Reira: Here you are! ^^
Shin: Hi Reira...
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Reira: Has venido! ^^
Shin: Hola Reira...
LINKS:
- FOTOHISTORIAS en casa de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr
A Larger view to see them better?
When you are asked, "What is the first thing that comes to your mind when I say 'Washington, DC'", what would you say?
Washington Monument?
The Capitol?
White House?
Memorials?
National Mall?
Smithsonial Institute?
Well I think I would say Traffic Chaos. There are so many diversions and roadblocks that even if you have lived your entire life there in the neighborhood you have a good chance of getting lost. I was lost, driving and I was in front of a road block barricade and an officer next to it. I asked him for directions and he kindly gave me the same. The directions involved crossing a one-way street. Unbeknowest to that officer, there was another one in my way, right in the middle of the road, parked car with lights on asking me to turn around. Thanks to the One way, I couldnt get back to the same place again to ask to be rerouted (I should have taken the $10.99 GPS offer). Bottom line? Lets say, I saw the entire DC driving around in a couple of hours, unintentionally :D
The signs above were all photographed on the same morning, while walking around the downtown and tourist areas of DC. On the background is Washington Monument.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
in acqua i pinguini sono agili e veloci ma fuori sono proprio buffi :-)
Life at the zoo
Pairs with this one
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There are 15 web pages listing Ottawa, Gatineau & area half marathoners. This web page lists the area half-marathoners who have first names starting with a Kristine to Maria.
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For the names of the other half-marathon runners, go to the set called "Ottawa-area Half-marathoners" which has links to the full directory of names i.e., all 15 web pages.
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To access race statistics AND pictures (if available), first click on this Sportstats’ link and enter the runner's last and first names, and then click on Search.
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The names are derived from the following half-marathon races:
i) 2010 Canada Army Run (link for photos only) *no longer available
ii) 2010 Ottawa Fall Colours (link for photos only)
iii) 2010 Nine Run Run (link for photos only)
iv) 2011 Winterman (link for photos only)
v) 2011 Ottawa Race Weekend (link for photos only) *no longer available
vi) 2011 Canada Army Run (link for photos only)
vii) 2011 Scotiabank Waterfront (link for photos only)
The pictures are available for sale from ASI Photos, Zoom Photo, etc.
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(list no. 9, in order by first name)
1….Kristine Simpson….Ottawa….F20-29
2….Kristjan Wallner….Ottawa….M35-39
3….Kristopher Prince….Stittsville….M20-29
4….Kristopher Reeves….Petawawa….M30-39
5….Kristy Belanger….Ottawa….F25-29
6….Kristyn Berube….Ottawa….F20-29
7….Krystal Hess….Ottawa….F20-24
8….Krystel Carrier-Sabourin….Ottawa….F20-29
9….Krysten Chase….Ottawa….F20-29
10….Krystle Hedderson….Orleans….F20-29
11….Kudzayi Dondo….Nepean….F40-49
12….Kumar Saha….Ottawa….M40-49
13….Kurt Grabinsky….Ottawa….M40-49
14….Kurtis Langevin….Pembroke….M20-29
15….Ky Tuong Ly….Nepean….M30-34
16….Kyla Daw….Kanata….F20-29
17….Kyla Kelly….Ottawa….F20-29
18….Kyla Stockdale….Ottawa….F25-29
19….Kyle Biggar….Ottawa….M20-29
20….Kyle Den Bak….Ottawa….M20-29
21….Kyle Durand….Ottawa….M25-29
22….Kyle Ferguson….Ottawa….M20-29
23….Kyle Gibbens….Ottawa….M20-29
24….Kyle Miersma….Ottawa….M35-39
25….Kyle Scott….Ottawa….M25-29
26….Kyle Turk….Ottawa….M25-29
27….Kyle Villenuve….Ottawa….M19 & under
28….Kylie Chadwick….Cornwall….F20-24
29….Kym Martin….Ottawa….F45-49
30….Kym Shouldice….Ottawa….F30-39
31….Kymberlee Lightowlers….Ottawa….F20-29
32….Kyra Kavanagh….Nepean….F19 & under
33….L. Pelly….Ottawa….F30-39
34….Laco Kovac….Ottawa….M40-49
35….Laen Hanson….Ottawa….M30-34
36….Lam Pham….Ottawa….F20-29
37….Lamar Mason….Ottawa….F50-59
38….Lambros Pezoulas….Ottawa….M30-39
39….Lana Hochman….Ottawa….F20-29
40….Lana Pieroway….Greely….F40-49
41….Lance Valcour….Orleans….M50-59
42….Langis Parise….Gatineau….M60-69
43….Lanny Underhill….Kanata….M40-49
44….Lara Cohen….Ottawa….F35-39
45….Lara Kaplan….Ottawa….F40-49
46….Lara Mylly….Beachburg….F40-44
47….Lara Wong….Ottawa….F30-39
48….Larry Brunet….Nepean….M40-49
49….Larry Chamney….Ottawa….M50-59
50….Larry Nafziger….Ottawa….M50-54
51….Lars Juergensen….Ottawa….M40-44
52….Laura Andersen….Kemptville….F30-39
53….Laura Bayne….Ottawa….F35-39
54….Laura Blackadar….Ottawa….F35-39
55….Laura Bogaert….Nepean….F20-29
56….Laura Bradley….Val-des-Monts….F30-39
57….Laura Brown….Ottawa….F25-29
58….Laura Carlone….Ottawa….F40-49
59….Laura Clark….Nepean….F25-29
60….Laura Cluney….Ottawa….F40-44
61….Laura Conway….Ottawa….F35-39
62….Laura Cunningham….Gananoque….F40-49
63….Laura Forbes….Ottawa….F25-29
64….Laura Gauley….Petawawa….F30-39
65….Laura Gover….Ottawa….F20-29
66….Laura Griffin….Ottawa….F30-39
67….Laura Grohn….Ottawa….F20-29
68….Laura Hunt….Ottawa….F20-24
69….Laura James….Smiths Falls….F19 & under
70….Laura Jane Johnson….Ottawa….F30-39
71….Laura Johnston….Nepean….F35-39
72….Laura Johnston….Ottawa….F25-29
73….Laura Jones….Ottawa….F35-39
74….Laura K Veitch-Vilela….Gatineau….F35-39
75….Laura Lemon….Cumberland….F30-39
76….Laura Lu….Ottawa….F20-24
77….Laura Maclean….Ottawa….F20-29
78….Laura Madokoro….Ottawa….F35-39
79….Laura May….Ottawa….F30-39
80….Laura McGuire….Kanata….F20-29
81….Laura McLellan….Nepean….F20-29
82….Laura Nichols….Ottawa….F40-49
83….Laura O'Neil….Stittsville….F40-49
84….Laura Raynard….Ottawa….F20-24
85….Laura Regnier….Orleans….F40-49
86….Laura Sanford….Ottawa….F25-29
87….Laura Simpson….Ottawa….F30-34
88….Laura Smith….Ottawa….F20-29
89….Laura Stafford….Wakefield….F30-39
90….Laura Stellato….Arnprior….F20-29
91….Laura Walker-Ng….Ottawa….F20-29
92….Laura Wilson….Manotick….F20-29
93….Laure Kresz….Ottawa….F20-29
94….Laureen Robinson-Skilliter….Ottawa….F40-49
95….Laurel Andrews….Stittsville….F40-49
96….Laurel Clegg….Ottawa….F30-34
97….Lauren Armstrong….Ottawa….F25-29
98….Lauren Edwards….Ottawa….F25-29
99….Lauren Eyre….Ottawa….F50-59
100….Lauren Gamble….Ottawa….F20-29
101….Lauren Gouchie….Ottawa….F20-29
102….Lauren Kappius….Ottawa….F20-29
103….Lauren Laberge….Ottawa….F25-29
104….Lauren Polowyk….Ottawa….F25-29
105….Lauren Sullivan….Ottawa….F20-24
106….Laurence Ahoussou….Ottawa….F30-39
107….Laurence Beauchesne….Orleans….F19 & under
108….Laurence Davidson….Ottawa….M45-49
109….Laurence Rot….Metcalfe….F40-44
110….Laurent Bellard….Gatineau….M30-39
111….Laurent Dutrisac….Ottawa….M40-49
112….Laurent Potiez….Ottawa….M30-39
113….Laurent Roy….Ottawa….M40-44
114….Lauri Lynch….Stittsville….F30-39
115….Lauriane Boulet….Ottawa….F25-29
116….Laurie Bigelow….Ottawa….F40-44
117….Laurie Boulet….Ottawa….F40-49
118….Laurie Cairns….Ottawa….F30-34
119….Laurie Davis….Kanata….F40-49
120….Laurie Gorman….Ottawa….F30-34
121….Laurie Hardage….Ottawa….F50-59
122….Laurie Kizik….Ottawa….F40-44
123….Laurie Macleod-Kyd….Ottawa….F30-39
124….Laurie Maybury….Ottawa….F30-39
125….Laurie Maynard….Ottawa….F30-39
126….Laurie Meaney-Tobin….Ottawa….F45-49
127….Laurie Parisien….Cornwall….F40-49
128….Laurie Shusterman….Ottawa….F50-59
129….Laurie Spratt….Dunrobin….F40-49
130….Laurie Thompson….Madoc….F40-49
131….Laurie Thorlakson….Pembroke….F30-39
132….Laurie Wheeler….Brockville….F40-44
133….Lavoie Curtis….Ottawa….M40-49
134….Lawrence Brierley….Stittsville….M40-49
135….Lawrence Oppenheimer….Ottawa….M55-59
136….Lawrence Varga….Ottawa….no age
137….Lawrence Wong….Ottawa….M40-44
138….Le My Trang Nguyen….Gatineau….F35-39
139….Leah Andrews….Ottawa….F20-29
140….Leah Beaudette….Ottawa….F20-29
141….Leah Carson….Ottawa….F30-39
142….Leah Macarthur….Petawawa….F40-49
143….Leah Posluns….St. Albert….F30-39
144….Leah Randall….Stittsville….F20-29
145….Leah Reinberger….Orleans….F30-39
146….Leah Schwartz….Ottawa….F20-24
147….Leah Sherriff….Ottawa….F25-29
148….Leah Skuce….Ottawa….F30-39
149….Leah Syrie….Ottawa….F30-39
150….Leah Timmermann….Carp….F20-29
151….Leah Wills Pocrnich….Gatineau….F25-29
152….Leanna Knox….Carleton Place….F40-49
153….Leanne Beking….Ottawa….F20-24
154….Leanne Foster….Ottawa….F25-29
155….Leanne Jones….Stittsville….F35-39
156….Leanne Monaghan….A….F40-49
157….Leanne Pelley….Kanata….F30-39
158….Leanne Richardson….Orleans….F40-44
159….Leanne Van Bavel….Pembroke….F40-49
160….Lee Blue….Ottawa….F40-49
161….Lee Dixon….Gloucester….M30-39
162….Lee Mccambley….Ottawa….M40-49
163….Lee Merklinger….Ottawa….F20-29
164….Lee Petrin….Gatineau….M30-39
165….Lee Ralph….Richmond….M30-34
166….Lee Saunders….Constance Bay….M30-39
167….Lee Trainer….Ottawa….M30-39
168….Lee Warywoda….Carleton Place….M30-39
169….Lee Wyndham….Ottawa….F25-29
170….Lee-Anne Clare….Kanata….F30-39
171….Leendert Bolle….Petawawa….M30-39
172….Leia Richards….Oxford Mills….F30-39
173….Leigh Ann Butler….Ottawa….F20-29
174….Leigh Howe….Ottawa….F30-39
175….Leigh Perreault….Ottawa….F40-49
176….Leigh-Andrea Watson….Renfrew….F30-39
177….Leila Ahad….Ottawa….F30-39
178….Leisa Mcgillivray….Gatineau….F35-39
179….Leisha Moulton….Hawkesbury….F20-29
180….Lemy Nguyen….Hull….F30-39
181….Len Ireland….Ottawa….M55-59
182….Lena Maione….Ottawa….F45-49
183….Lena Trickey….Ottawa….F40-44
184….Lenny Sabourin….Gatineau….M30-34
185….Lenny Van Loon….Martintown….M50-54
186….Lenoard Lajoie….Ottawa….M35-39
187….Lenore Macartney….Ottawa….F60-69
188….Leo Kadota….Ottawa….M19 & under
189….Leo Murphy….Ottawa….M60-64
190….Leo Strawczynski….Ottawa….M60-64
191….Leon Sutherland….Ottawa….M20-29
192….Leona Crabb….Ottawa….F45-49
193….Leona Emberson….Ottawa….F25-29
194….Leonie Maciag….Gatineau….F30-34
195….Leopold St Juste….Ottawa….M19
196….Leroux Thoma Leroux….Cornwall….M45-49
197….Les Cardillo….Ottawa….M50-54
198….Les Woolsey….Ottawa….M60-69
199….Lesia Kozyra….Cumberland….F40-44
200….Lesia Partyka….Ottawa….F35-39
201….Leslee Davis Einmann….A….F40-49
202….Leslee Warren….Ottawa….F50-54
203….Lesleigh Smith….Gatineau….F40-44
204….Lesley Dewsnap….Kanata….F30-39
205….Lesley Grignon….Ottawa….F40-49
206….Lesley Mackay….Ottawa….F30-39
207….Lesley Mcintosh….Stittsville….F40-49
208….Lesley O'brien….Kanata….F50-54
209….Leslie Anne Bailliu….Ottawa….F40-49
210….Leslie Anne Patry….Cumberland….F50-54
211….Leslie Ashton….Ottawa….F40-44
212….Leslie Cameron….Petawawa….F40-49
213….Leslie Dauncey….Ottawa….F40-49
214….Leslie Doering….Nepean….M40-49
215….Leslie Laskarin….Wakefield….F50-54
216….Leslie Levita….Ottawa….F40-49
217….Leslie Love….Ottawa….F55-59
218….Leslie Mckay….Ottawa….F30-39
219….Leslie Mclean….Ottawa….F35-39
220….Leslie Robertson….Ottawa….F20-29
221….Leslie Rodgers….Nepean….F25-29
222….Leslie Sheedy….Ottawa….F50-54
223….Leslie-Anne Bailliu….Ottawa….F45-49
224….Lester Mundt….Ottawa….M30-39
225….Lexy Scott….Ottawa….F30-39
226….Leyla Di Cori….Ottawa….F30-34
227….Lia Eichele….Ottawa….F60-69
228….Lia Pirili….Ottawa….F50-59
229….Liam Cleary….Ottawa….M20-24
230….Liam Kennedy….Ottawa….M20-29
231….Liam Ohuiginn….Stittsville….M25-29
232….Lian Bleckmann….Ottawa….F50-59
233….Liane Sauer….Ottawa….F40-44
234….Liang Chen….Ottawa….M45-49
235….Lianna Macdonald….Kanata….F20-29
236….Lianne Mcaughey….Ottawa….F35-39
237….Libbie Wallace….Ottawa….F40-44
238….Lida Koronewskij….Kanata….F50-59
239….Lidnina Rodriguez….Ottawa….F25-29
240….Liisa Vexler….Ottawa….F35-39
241….Liliane Langevin….Ottawa….F19 & under
242….Lillian Hayward….Nepean….F30-39
243….Lillian Ng….Kanata….F20-29
244….Lillian Serrouya Thibault….Ottawa….F50-59
245….Lily Lemay….Ottawa….F40-49
246….Lily Yip….Nepean….F40-49
247….Lina Seto….Ottawa….F25-29
248….Linda Berkloo….Almonte….F50-59
249….Linda Billyard….Nepean….F40-49
250….Linda Boucher….Alfred….F40-44
251….Linda Coleman….Ottawa….F20-29
252….Linda Corke….Greely….F50-59
253….Linda Corriveau….Stittsville….F50-54
254….Linda Descarie….Ottawa….F40-49
255….Linda Dillon….Dunrobin….F50-59
256….Linda Doyle….Ottawa….F30-34
257….Linda Erickson Brown….Stittsville….F50-54
258….Linda Ferguson….Ottawa….F45-49
259….Linda Gemmell….Brockville….F45-49
260….Linda Geraldo….Orleans….F30-39
261….Linda Greene-Finestone….Ottawa….F50-54
262….Linda Hall….Ottawa….F45-49
263….Linda Hamelin….Ottawa….F40-49
264….Linda Hobbs….Woodlawn….F40-49
265….Linda Koenders….Nepean….F50-54
266….Linda Leblanc….Orleans….F50-54
267….Linda Lewis….Ottawa….F50-59
268….Linda Mcalpine….Nepean….F50-54
269….Linda Melbrew….Almonte….F45-49
270….Linda Newton….Ottawa….F40-49
271….Linda Parmelee….Nepean….F45-49
272….Linda Patterson-Descarie….Orleans….F45-49
273….Linda Payne….Ottawa….F50-54
274….Linda Roy….Cobden….F40-49
275….Linda Sabourin….Stittsville….F50-59
276….Linda Scott….Ottawa….F40-49
277….Linda Searson….Stittsville….F40-44
278….Linda Simard….Gloucester….F30-39
279….Linda Stewart….North Gower….F40-49
280….Linda Wambolt….Kanata….F40-44
281….Linda Yeung….Kanata….F40-49
282….Linda Yusak….Ottawa….F45-49
283….Lindi Andrews….Petawawa….F20-24
284….Lindsay Beattie….Ottawa….F20-24
285….Lindsay Bennett….Kanata….F20-29
286….Lindsay Bourk….Pakenham….F25-29
287….Lindsay Grace….Ottawa….F20-29
288….Lindsay Gracey….Ottawa….F20-29
289….Lindsay Grimster….Ottawa….F20-29
290….Lindsay Gwyer….Orleans….F20-29
291….Lindsay Harrison….Ottawa….F20-29
292….Lindsay Holmes….Winchester….F20-29
293….Lindsay Macpherson….Prescott….F30-39
294….Lindsay Miller….Petawawa….F30-39
295….Lindsay Walker….Ottawa….F20-29
296….Lindsey Gresham….Ottawa….F19 & under
297….Line Gosselin….Ottawa….F50-59
298….Line Paquette….Orleans….F50-54
299….Line Richard….Orleans….F40-49
300….Line Robitaille….Ottawa….F25-29
301….Linnea Sedvall….Kanata….F35-39
302….Linsey Hollett….Ottawa….F30-39
303….Lionel Dubois….Stittsville….M40-44
304….Lisa Allan….Ottawa….F30-39
305….Lisa Austin….Ottawa….F40-44
306….Lisa Balerna….Ottawa….F40-49
307….Lisa Bambrick….Ottawa….F30-39
308….Lisa Bebyck….Nepean….F30-34
309….Lisa Bond….Carp….F30-34
310….Lisa Butler….Ottawa….F30-39
311….Lisa Cybulskie….Killaloe….F20-24
312….Lisa Dalla Rosa….Ottawa….F30-39
313….Lisa Dineen….Nepean….F40-49
314….Lisa Duffett….Ottawa….F30-39
315….Lisa Dulude….Kanata….F40-44
316….Lisa Fenton….Pembroke….F25-29
317….Lisa Fischer….Ottawa….F30-39
318….Lisa Francis….Ottawa….F25-29
319….Lisa Gerrard….Ottawa….F35-39
320….Lisa Gibson….Ottawa….F35-39
321….Lisa Gorman….Ottawa….F20-29
322….Lisa Grison….Ottawa….F20-24
323….Lisa Hans….Ottawa….F45-49
324….Lisa Hansen….Ottawa….F30-34
325….Lisa Headley….Ottawa….F30-39
326….Lisa Hogan….Kanata….F40-44
327….Lisa Hubers….Ottawa….F20-29
328….Lisa Hughes….Ottawa….F35-39
329….Lisa Hutchison….Brockville….F40-44
330….Lisa Hyttenrauch….Gloucester….F35-39
331….Lisa Julian….Ottawa….F30-34
332….Lisa Kawaguchi….Ottawa….F50-59
333….Lisa Kinloch….Chelsea….F30-39
334….Lisa Macgillivray….Gloucester….F40-49
335….Lisa Marie Bambrick….Nepean….F30-39
336….Lisa Mayhew….Kanata….F30-34
337….Lisa Mcavoy….Perth Road….F45-49
338….Lisa Mccutcheon….Ottawa….F35-39
339….Lisa Monette….Gatineau….F30-39
340….Lisa Moody….Ottawa….F40-44
341….Lisa Murphy….Ottawa….F30-34
342….Lisa Ouellette….Petawawa….F20-29
343….Lisa Peixoto….Orleans….F30-39
344….Lisa Phelan….Ottawa….F30-39
345….Lisa Piercey….McDonalds Corners….F40-44
346….Lisa Piers….Nepean….F40-44
347….Lisa Pitel….Kanata….F35-39
348….Lisa Pougnet….Ottawa….F20-29
349….Lisa Rice….Westport….F30-39
350….Lisa Setlakwe….Ottawa….F40-44
351….Lisa St. Pierre….Osgoode….F35-39
352….Lisa Steele….Stittsville….F40-49
353….Lisa Thompson….Ottawa….F40-44
354….Lisa Whalen….Brockville….F40-44
355….Lisa-Jane Mcmahon….Ottawa….F40-49
356….Lisa-Marie Inman….Ottawa….F30-39
357….Lisanne Brousseau….Ottawa….F40-44
358….Lisanne Laframboise….Ottawa….F30-34
359….Lise Arseneau….Ottawa….F30-39
360….Lise Bourgon….Ottawa….F40-44
361….Lise Chabot….Stittsville….F40-49
362….Lise Dixon….Orleans….F50-54
363….Lise Gray….Kanata….F55-59
364….Lise Harris….Perth….F45-49
365….Lise Irwin….Cornwall….F40-49
366….Lise King….Orleans….F40-49
367….Lise Marshall….Chelsea….F50-59
368….Lise Meloche….Orleans….F50-54
369….Lise Patterson….Ottawa….F55-59
370….Lise Perrier….Ottawa….F55-59
371….Lise Scott….Ottawa….F55-59
372….Liseanne Forand….Gatineau….F50-54
373….Lissa Allaire….Orleans….F30-39
374….Lissa Boyd….Ottawa….F25-29
375….Lissa Comtois-Silins….Gatineau….F19 & under
376….Lissa Lamarche….Chelsea….F40-44
377….Lissa Seymour….Ottawa….F45-49
378….Livain Michaud….Gatineau….M50-59
379….Livia Wright….Rockland….F50-59
380….Liz Benoit….Orleans….F40-49
381….Liz Bielajew….Ottawa….F20-29
382….Liz Braddon….Kanata….F30-39
383….Liz Gerrie….Ottawa….F50-54
384….Liz Paproski….Nepean….F40-44
385….Liz Perras….Casselman….F40-49
386….Liz Vandenbygaart….Kanata….F40-44
387….Liz Williams….Stittsville….F20-29
388….Liza Primard….Ottawa….F35-39
389….Liza Rozina….Ottawa….F20-29
390….Lo C Le Bihan….Gatineau….M30-39
391….Logan Daley….Kanata….M35-39
392….Lois Ann Graham….Carleton Place….F50-59
393….Lois Gouthro….Wendover….F40-49
394….Lois Jacobs….Dunrobin….F50-59
395….Lois Kirkup….Kanata….F40-49
396….Lois Simms-Baldwin….Orleans….F45-49
397….Lorenzo De Franco….Ottawa….M60-64
398….Loretta Masaro….Kanata….F40-49
399….Lori Birmingham….Arnprior….F30-39
400….Lori Blais….Ottawa….F40-49
401….Lori Camilucci….Ottawa….F40-49
402….Lori Chapman….Kemptville….F45-49
403….Lori Howell….Ottawa….F30-39
404….Lori James….Smiths Falls….F40-44
405….Lori Koroluk….Gatineau….F45-49
406….Lori Mockson Burcsik….Ottawa….F40-49
407….Lori Mousseau….Gatineau….F40-49
408….Lori Neil….Cornwall….F40-49
409….Lori Peckham….Ottawa….F30-39
410….Lori Rogers….Ottawa….F40-44
411….Lori Rolofs….Pembroke….F40-49
412….Lori Stewart….Lanark….F35-39
413….Lori Swift….Ottawa….F50-54
414….Lori Timmins….Ottawa….F40-44
415….Lori Trautmanis….Ottawa….F25-29
416….Lori-Ann May….Ottawa….F40-49
417….Lorna Duguay….Ottawa….F50-59
418….Lorna Felske….Eganville….F40-44
419….Lorna Mccrea….Ottawa….F60-69
420….Lorne Murdock….Ottawa….M60-69
421….Lorne Schmidt….Ottawa….M50-54
422….Lorne Thomas….Hawkesbury….M40-49
423….Lorraine Atkinson….Kanata….F50-59
424….Lorraine Casselman….Prescott….F50-59
425….Lorraine Chapman….Stittsville….F40-49
426….Lorraine England….Ottawa….F50-59
427….Lorraine Schofield….Ottawa….F50-59
428….Lorretta Pinder….Ottawa….F30-34
429….Lorri Thompson….Gatineau….F30-39
430….Lorrin Ledwell….Ottawa….F40-44
431….Lou Descarie….Ottawa….M60-69
432….Louis Belair….Gatineau….M45-49
433….Louis Berube….Plantagenet….M50-54
434….Louis Bisson….Gatineau….M45-49
435….Louis Bunny Tay….Ottawa….M40-44
436….Louis Christophe Laurence….Ottawa….M20-29
437….Louis Comerton….Ottawa….M65-69
438….Louis Cyr….Embrun….M35-39
439….Louis Duchesne….Gatineau….M50-59
440….Louis Dupont….Gatineau….M50-59
441….Louis Hebert….Gatineau….M20-29
442….Louis Jordon….Ottawa….M20-29
443….Louis Lapointe….Ottawa….M30-39
444….Louis Lariviere….Gatineau….M40-49
445….Louis Lavoie….Gatineau….M35-39
446….Louis Nadeau….Embrun….M45-49
447….Louis P. Gauvreau….Ottawa….M20-24
448….Louis Simon….Gatineau….M40-49
449….Louis Sirois….Gatineau….M25-29
450….Louis Tay….Ottawa….M40-49
451….Louise Beasley….Nepean….F40-49
452….Louise Beauchamp….Brockville….F60-64
453….Louise Berger….Gatineau….F45-49
454….Louise Boudreault….Gatineau….F30-39
455….Louise Cesario….Ottawa….F35-39
456….Louise Chayer Ayers….Stittsville….F40-49
457….Louise Fortier….Gatineau….F40-49
458….Louise Galipeau….Hammond….F50-59
459….Louise Gresham….Ottawa….F19 & under
460….Louise Hamelin….Ottawa….F50-59
461….Louise King….Kanata….F50-59
462….Louise Laplante….Gatineau….F55-59
463….Louise Lavoie….Embrun….F50-54
464….Louise Macdonald….Kanata….F40-49
465….Louise Martin….Orleans….F50-59
466….Louise Morel….Rockland….F50-59
467….Louise Morin….Ottawa….F50-59
468….Louise Morneault….Ottawa….F55-59
469….Louise Neville….Ottawa….F30-34
470….Louise Rachlis….Ottawa….F60-69
471….Louise Ramsay….Ottawa….F45-49
472….Louise Reid-Schloen….Kanata….F35-39
473….Louise Roberts….Gatineau….F30-34
474….Louise Rousseau….Gatineau….F50-59
475….Louise Soloski….Orleans….F50-59
476….Louise Sweeney….Ottawa….F60-64
477….Louise Swinden….Ottawa….F30-34
478….Louise Wood….Portland….F60-69
479….Louise Wylie….Ottawa….F40-49
480….Louis-Jacque Paquette….Gatineau….M40-44
481….Louis-P Daigle….Ottawa….M25-29
482….Louis-Philip Plante….Cantley….M20-24
483….Louis-Philippe D. Lefebvre….Gatineau….M20-29
484….Luan Phung….Gatineau….M19
485….Luc Aubrey….Metcalfe….M40-49
486….Luc Beaudoin….Gatineau….M30-39
487….Luc Bentolila….Ottawa….M40-49
488….Luc Chaine….Gatineau….M40-44
489….Luc Duguay….Ottawa….M35-39
490….Luc Fleurant….Pembroke….M40-49
491….Luc Fraser….Smiths Falls….M19
492….Luc Joly….Ottawa….M30-39
493….Luc Lacombe….Aylmer….M40-49
494….Luc Lapensee….Ottawa….M40-44
495….Luc Perrier….Gatineau….M60-64
496….Luc Phung….Gatineau….M20-24
497….Luc Richer….Gatineau….M55-59
498….Luc Rodier….Cantley….M40-49
499….Luc Santerre….Gatineau….M40-49
500….Luc Seguin….Gatineau….M35-39
501….Luc St-Jean….Orleans….M30-34
502….Luc St-Martin….Ottawa….M45-49
503….Lucas Angeli….Ottawa….M20-29
504….Lucas Post….Ottawa….M20-29
505….Lucas Smith….Ottawa….M30-39
506….Luce Blouin….Ottawa….F50-54
507….Lucette Laflamme….Gatineau….F55-59
508….Lucie Beaulieu….Gatineau….F25-29
509….Lucie Berthiaume….Ottawa….F50-54
510….Lucie Charbonneau….Embrun….F30-39
511….Lucie Dufour….La Peche….F40-49
512….Lucie Gilbert….Ottawa….F35-39
513….Lucie Labelle….Ottawa….F30-39
514….Lucie Lalonde….Gatineau….F50-54
515….Lucie Mainguy….Orleans….F40-49
516….Lucie Roberge….Ottawa….F40-49
517….Lucie Tessier….Gatineau….F30-34
518….Lucie Theriault….Gatineau….F45-49
519….Lucie Villeneuve….Ottawa….F50-59
520….Lucien Cattrysse….Ottawa….M45-49
521….Lucien Descarie….Orleans….M60-64
522….Lucille Marion….Hammond….F60-64
523….Lucille Roy….Ottawa….F50-59
524….Lucinda Jagger….Ottawa….F30-39
525….Lucy Edgerton….Ottawa….F25-29
526….Lucy Macdonald….Ottawa….F50-59
527….Luis Ramirez….Ottawa….M35-39
528….Luis Villegas….Ottawa….M40-49
529….Luisa De Amicis….Kanata….F40-44
530….Luisa De Amicis….Kanata….F40-49
531….Luisa Przybycien….Ottawa….F45-49
532….Luke Foster….Kemptville….M30-39
533….Luke Senecal….Kanata….M40-49
534….Luvy Gonzalez….Ottawa….F30-39
535….Lydia Butler….Ottawa….F50-59
536….Lydia Ouellette….Gatineau….F30-34
537….Lydia Wilson….Chelsea….F30-39
538….Lyn-Anne Cote….Orleans….F35-39
539….Lynda Baker….Ottawa….F55-59
540….Lynda Beaudoin….Gatineau….F50-54
541….Lynda Bordeleau….Ottawa….F40-49
542….Lynda Cavanagh….Brockvillle….F60-69
543….Lynda Ciavaglia….Kanata….F55-59
544….Lynda Cronin….Ottawa….F40-49
545….Lynda Hamrioui….Ottawa….F35-39
546….Lynda Jamieson….Arnprior….F40-49
547….Lynda Kalapati….Russell….F50-59
548….Lynda Morgan….Ottawa….F50-59
549….Lynda Robertson….Ottawa….F45-49
550….Lynda Weaver….Ottawa….F50-59
551….Lyndsey Hill….Ottawa….F30-39
552….Lyne Cholette….Gatineau….F40-49
553….Lyne Denis….Kanata….F40-49
554….Lyne Fauvel….Gatineau….F35-39
555….Lyne Lapointe….Gatineau….F45-49
556….Lyne Michaud….Carp….F30-39
557….Lyne Orser….Orleans….F30-34
558….Lyne Pelletier….Gatineau….F45-49
559….Lynette Martin….Ottawa….F20-29
560….Lynette Pike….Ottawa….F35-39
561….Lynn Campbell….Ottawa….F60-69
562….Lynn Champagne….Ottawa….F45-49
563….Lynn Chiniborch….Smiths Falls….F20-29
564….Lynn Diggins….Ottawa….F45-49
565….Lynn Firkins….Orleans….F40-44
566….Lynn Galarneau….Orleans….F45-49
567….Lynn Lalonde….Gananoque….F45-49
568….Lynn Lebeau….Bourget….F40-49
569….Lynn Lowe….Orleans….F40-49
570….Lynn Marchildon….Ottawa….F40-49
571….Lynn Mclewin….Ottawa….F45-49
572….Lynn Melancon….Gatineau….F30-39
573….Lynn Messager….Stittsville….F35-39
574….Lynn Nightingale….Ottawa….F50-54
575….Lynn Norris….Ottawa….F50-54
576….Lynn Palmer….Ottawa….F55-59
577….Lynn Sewell….Ottawa….F60-69
578….Lynn Stewart….Ottawa….F30-39
579….Lynn Wallace….Ottawa….F30-34
580….Lynn Ward….Orleans….F55-59
581….Lynn Wright….Manotick….F50-54
582….Lynne Charette….Cumberland….F45-49
583….Lynne Eisener….Ottawa….F45-49
584….Lynne Grandmaitre….Gatineau….F50-54
585….Lynne Patry….Orleans….F50-54
586….Lynne Russell….Ottawa….F40-49
587….Lynne Santerre….Ottawa….F25-29
588….Lynne Seguin….Orleans….F40-49
589….Lynne Smart….Ottawa….F40-44
590….Lynne Villeneuve….Cornwall….F40-44
591….Lyse Langevin….Ottawa….F50-59
592….Lyse Patenaude….Ottawa….F50-54
593….Lyson Simard….Orleans….F40-49
594….Lyzane Trepanier….Gatineau….F30-34
595….M Gabriele Castelnuovo….Kanata….F50-59
596….M Guy….Ottawa….F30-39
597….M Henschel….Ottawa….F50-59
598….M Lanie Lauzon….Gatineau….F30-39
599….M Lanie Losier….Ottawa….F30-39
600….M Lanie Menard….Gatineau….F20-29
601….M Lanie Mertens….Orleans….F30-39
602….M Lanie Vivier….Gatineau….F30-39
603….M Lissa Lafrance….Gatineau….F30-39
604….M Lissa Lavictoire….Rockland….F20-29
605….M Smith….Carleton Place….M30-39
606….Mac Graham….Carleton Place….M50-59
607….Maciek Hawrylak….Ottawa….M30-34
608….Madaire Marcel….Ottawa….M40-49
609….Madeleine Gravel….Ottawa….F40-49
610….Madeleine Krayem….Ottawa….F19 & under
611….Madeleine Linkruus….Ottawa….F40-49
612….Madeleine Marshall….Ottawa….F30-34
613….Madeleine Woods….Ottawa….F25-29
614….Madeline Bongers….Kars….F20-24
615….Madeline Edwards….Ottawa….F20-24
616….Madeline Gibson….Ottawa….F20-24
617….Madeline Pekary….Manotick….F19 & under
618….Mae Johnson….Ottawa….F40-49
619….Magal Cloutier Provencher….Gatineau….F20-24
620….Magali Couture….Gatineau….F30-34
621….Magali Johnson….Ottawa….F20-29
622….Magali Peries….Gatineau….F40-49
623….Magalie Fondjo….Ottawa….F30-34
624….Magda Kwasniewska….Ottawa….F20-29
625….Magda Lebouthillier….Orleans….F40-44
626….Maggie Caiger-Watson….Ottawa….F30-34
627….Maggie Jeffrey….Ottawa….F20-29
628….Maggie Wakeling….Pembroke….F55-59
629….Maja Muharemagic….Gatineau….F20-29
630….Malcolm Duigenan….Ottawa….M20-29
631….Malcolm Imray….Ottawa….M50-54
632….Malcolm Mackenzie….Ottawa….M19
633….Malcolm Parsons….Orleans….M40-49
634….Malcolm Saravanamutto….Ottawa….M40-44
635….Malcolm Todd….Manotick….M30-39
636….Malcolm Williams….Ottawa….M19 & under
637….Malette Genevieve….Ottawa….M20-29
638….Mallory Gooding….Ottawa….F20-29
639….Mallory Macwilliams….Ottawa….F20-29
640….Mallory Procunier….Ottawa….F20-24
641….Mallory Troup….Ottawa….F20-24
642….Mami Sasaki….Ottawa….F35-39
643….Man Nguyen….Kanata….M40-49
644….Manas Dan….Ottawa….M40-49
645….Manasa Sridhara….Ottawa….F20-29
646….Mandy Fisher….Ottawa….F30-39
647….Mandy Fowler….Ottawa….F45-49
648….Mandy Inglis….Fitzroy Harbour….F30-39
649….Mandy Lawson….Ottawa….F35-39
650….Mandy Smith….Ottawa….F30-39
651….Maneesh Sharma….Kanata….M40-44
652….Manjit Kerr-Upal….Ottawa….F40-44
653….Mannix Velho….Ottawa….M30-39
654….Manon Damboise….Gatineau….F30-39
655….Manon Fillion….Gatineau….F45-49
656….Manon Labelle….Gatineau….F45-49
657….Manon Lachance….Gatineau….F40-49
658….Manon Laliberte….Gatineau….F20-29
659….Manon Lavergne….Rockland….F35-39
660….Manon Methot….Ottawa….F40-49
661….Manon Parisien….L'Orignal….F40-49
662….Manon Salicco….Rockland….F50-54
663….Manon Therriault….Ottawa….F30-39
664….Manorie Edirisinghe….Kanata….F40-49
665….Maple Yap….Ottawa….F30-39
666….Marc Allaire….Gatineau….M50-59
667….Marc Andre Nault….Gatineau….M20-29
668….Marc Bastien….Gatineau….M30-39
669….Marc Beauchamp….Ottawa….M40-49
670….Marc Beauvais….Stittsville….M40-49
671….Marc Belanger….Gatineau….M40-49
672….Marc Bellemare….Limoges….M30-39
673….Marc Benoit….Crysler….M45-49
674….Marc Besner….Cornwall….M40-49
675….Marc Bjerring….Ottawa….M20-29
676….Marc Blanchette….Ottawa….M25-29
677….Marc Brisebois….Carp….M40-49
678….Marc Champagne….Gatineau….M40-49
679….Marc Cholette….Ottawa….M30-39
680….Marc Cohen….Gatineau….M35-39
681….Marc Courneyea….Embrun….M30-39
682….Marc Dureau….Gatineau….M50-59
683….Marc Fortier….Ottawa….M30-34
684….Marc Gaudet….Chelsea….M20-29
685….Marc Gelineau….Ottawa….M35-39
686….Marc Gregoire….Stittsville….M40-49
687….Marc Grenier….Ottawa….M35-39
688….Marc Huot….Ottawa….M40-49
689….Marc Lacerte….Gatineau….M40-49
690….Marc Laliberte….Ottawa….M40-44
691….Marc Langlois….Gatineau….M45-49
692….Marc Latremouille….Orleans….M40-49
693….Marc Lesage….Petawawa….M30-39
694….Marc Macmaster….Ottawa….M35-39
695….Marc Magierowicz….Ottawa….M30-34
696….Marc Martin….Gatineau….M30-39
697….Marc Melancon….Chelsea….M45-49
698….Marc Molgat….Gatineau….M40-49
699….Marc Mousseau….Gatineau….M50-59
700….Marc Noel….Gatineau….M60-64
701….Marc O'Ray….Ashton….M30-39
702….Marc Ostrowski….Ottawa….M30-39
703….Marc Parisien….Gatineau….M50-59
704….Marc Patry….Rockland….M40-44
705….Marc Pilloud….Gatineau….M20-29
706….Marc Poirier….Cornwall….M30-39
707….Marc Pominville….Alfred….M30-39
708….Marc Primeau….Ottawa….M40-49
709….Marc Rancourt….Nepean….M30-39
710….Marc Rose….Ottawa….M30-39
711….Marc Saint-Yves….Pembroke….M40-44
712….Marc Therrien….Gatineau….M40-44
713….Marc Tremblay….Gatineau….M40-49
714….Marc Vunak….Orleans….M40-49
715….Marc-Andre Blais….Ottawa….M30-39
716….Marc-Andre Blanke….Orleans….M30-39
717….Marc-Andre Lafrance….Gatineau….M30-34
718….Marc-Andre Lussier….Ottawa….M45-49
719….Marc-Andre Paris-Cloutier….Cantley….M20-29
720….Marcel Brugger….Orleans….M50-59
721….Marcel Butz….Kanata….M30-39
722….Marcel Crepeau….Gatineau….M30-39
723….Marcel Halle….Ottawa….M40-49
724….Marcel Lachance….Ottawa….M40-49
725….Marcel Roy….Ottawa….M30-34
726….Marcel Savard….Ottawa….M65-69
727….Marcela Szucko….Ottawa….F20-24
728….Marcella Macdonald….Navan….F40-49
729….Marcella Ost….Ottawa….F40-49
730….Marcelle Gauthier….Ottawa….F35-39
731….Marcelle Lapointe….Ottawa….F60-64
732….Marc-Etienne Lesieur….Gatineau….M30-39
733….Marci Dearing….Ottawa….F20-29
734….Marcia Golding….Gatineau….F45-49
735….Marcia Jones….Gatineau….F30-39
736….Marcia Matsuo….Ottawa….F35-39
737….Marcio Gomes….Ottawa….M40-44
738….Marco Champagne….Gatineau….M50-54
739….Marco Cruz….Gatineau….M30-34
740….Marco De Franco….La Peche….M30-34
741….Marco Houle….Gatineau….M45-49
742….Marco Panarotto….Ottawa….M20-29
743….Marcos Magalhaes….Ottawa….M35-39
744….Marcus Scheidegger….Ottawa….M35-39
745….Maresa Otte….Embrun….F19 & under
746….Marg Macgillivray….Ottawa….F50-59
747….Margaret Barron….Ottawa….F20-29
748….Margaret Davidson….Ottawa….F20-29
749….Margaret Elliott….Ottawa….F50-59
750….Margaret Fleming….Carleton Place….F60-64
751….Margaret Grant….Ottawa….F20-24
752….Margaret King….Ottawa….F45-49
753….Margaret Langill….Ottawa….F70-74
754….Margaret Lerhe….Ottawa….F50-59
755….Margaret Mcewen….Ottawa….F50-54
756….Margaret Meroni….Ottawa….F40-44
757….Margaret Michalski….Ottawa….F30-39
758….Margaret Story….Brockville….F40-44
759….Margaret Struthers….Navan….F50-54
760….Margaret Taylor Picard….Athens….F50-54
761….Margaret Thake….Westport….F50-59
762….Margaret West….Smiths Falls….F40-44
763….Margaret-Ann Kellett….Nepean….F40-49
764….Margarita Gorbounova….Ottawa….F20-29
765….Margo Scott….Ottawa….F45-49
766….Margot Sunter….Ottawa….F45-49
767….Maria Blanchard….Nepean….F35-39
768….Maria Bosley….Ottawa….F40-49
769….Maria Foley….Ottawa….F50-54
770….Maria Georgescu….Manotick….F25-29
771….Maria Harwood….Manotick….F60-64
772….Maria I. Mccloskey….Ottawa….F25-29
773….Maria Jacko….Ottawa….F35-39
774….Maria Kriellaars….Ottawa….F25-29
775….Maria Lahiffe….Ottawa….F40-49
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Inutile de commenter cette perspective que je conseille à tous de visiter un jour avec le regard du photographe !
For foreign people that don't know this place, La Défense is a major business district for the city of Paris. It is centered in an oval freeway loop straddling the towns of Nanterre, Courbevoie and Puteaux.
The district is at the westernmost extremity of Paris' 10 km long Historical Axis, which starts at the Louvre in Central Paris and continues along the Champs-Élysées, well beyond the Arc de Triomphe before culminating at La Défense.
Around its 110-metre (360 ft)-high Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), the district holds many of the Paris urban area's tallest high-rises. With its 77.5 acres (314,000 m2), its 72 glass-and-steel slick buildings including 14 high-rises above 150 metres (490 ft), its 150,000 daily workers and 3.5 million square metres (37.7 million sq ft) of office space, La Défense is Europe's largest business district.
The kids live in a sleep-deprived culture. Our society has been very cavalier about our disregard for needing sleep. Changing school times is just a small piece of the discussion.
So yeah... Last night was bad. I couldn't sleep no matter how hard I tried, so I stayed up texting a friend of mine because he was sick and not able to sleep either. We kept each other company. I tossed and turned and just gave up.
Then I thought... I started to pray. Not the regular, "Our father, who art in heaven..." but I just started talking.... It was kind of nice to just talk. Then I directed it towards my aunt. I spent a good half an hour to an hour doing that. After I was finished, I just lied still and waited until the alarm went off.
But the weird thing was... I was completely hyper and energetic running on empty. My friends were getting a bit annoyed/scared haha.
Anyway, I'm off to teach karate! I have to be a hard-ass tonight =/ Well, oh well. It's their promotional tomorrow.
Anyway, now that teaching is over... I have more and more shit to deal with. Have you every felt so useless as your best friend tells you how much she wants to die? I have. I feel it right now. If she goes through with this, it will be another death on my hands, more blood. Another death I had to sit by and watch because there was nothing I could do. What's wrong with me? I used to be so good at helping people.
And now I don't know if she's listening.
"As I look out outside
I can see the rain about to start
The air is damp but warm
And I remember how you used to feel
And I see your face
My cold reflection scares me at this hour
How I wish I could sleep
If only I could slow my mind a bit
(Chorus)
Then when I see you I forget the pain
And melt away with you
Only a day is passed and
I can't help but feel that I've lost you
Your room confines my thoughts
And then my worries drift when I'm with you
But I don't want to live
I never know just when we'll meet again
(Chorus)
What is it that feeds this
Haven't I learned enough from yesterday
I really don't need this
Haven't I had enough of this today
Then I sit at home
My walls reflect how my life is so bleak
And I feel so alone
I break down and call you 'cuz I'm weak
If I can see what you are
If I could blow away my clouded sight
Realize you made me a fool
If I mean nothing what else can I say
(Chorus)
I've lost you
I've lost you."
("Only A Day" by Goldfinger)
Kristie from Tilburg
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New Yorkers Protest the US$850 BILLION Wall Street BAILOUT: Wall Street, NYC - September 25, 2008
Phototgrapher: a. golden, eyewash design - c. 2008.
This is actually a GOOD guy. See: billionairesforbush.com/index.php for more information.
Friends,
The richest 400 Americans -- that's right, just four-hundred people -- own MORE than the bottom 150 million Americans COMBINED! 400 of the wealthiest Americans have got more stashed away than half the entire country! Their combined net worth is $1.6 trillion. During the eight years of the Bush Administration, their wealth has increased by nearly $700 billion -- the same amount that they were demanding We give to them for the "bailout." Why don't they just spend the money they made under Bush to bail themselves out? They'd still have nearly a trillion dollars left over to spread amongst themselves!
Of course, they are not going to do that -- at least not voluntarily. George W. Bush was handed a $127 billion surplus when Bill Clinton left office. Because that money was OUR money and not HIS, he did what the rich prefer to do -- spend it and never look back. Now we have a $9.5 trillion debt that will take seven generations from which to recover. Why -- on --earth – did -- our -- "representatives" -- give -- these -- robber -- barons -- $US850 BILLION -- of – OUR -- money?
Last week, proposed my own bailout plan. My suggestions, listed below, were predicated on the singular and simple belief that the rich must pull themselves up by their own platinum bootstraps. Sorry, fellows, but you drilled it into our heads one too many times: THERE...IS...NO…FREE... LUNCH ~ PERIOD! And thank you for encouraging us to hate people on welfare! So, there should have been NO HANDOUTS FROM US TO YOU! Last Friday, after voting AGAINST this BAILOUT, in an unprecedented turn of events, the House FLIP-FLOPPED their "No" Vote & said "Yes", in a rush version of a "bailout" bill vote. IN SPITE OF THE PEOPLE'S OVERWHELMING DISAPPROVAL OF THIS BAILOUT BILL... IN SPITE OF MILLIONS OF CALLS FROM THE PEOPLE CRASHING WASHINGTON "representatives'" PHONE LINES...IN SPITE OF CRASHING OUR POLITICIAN'S WEBSITES...IN SPITE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE PROTESTING AROUND THE COUNTRY... THEY VOTED FOR THIS BAILOUT! The People first succeeded on Monday with the House, but failed do it with the Senate and then THE HOUSE TURNED ON US TOO!
It is clear, though, we cannot simply continue protesting without proposing exactly what it is we think THESE IDIOTS should/'ve do/one. So, after consulting with a number of people smarter than Phil Gramm, here’s the proposal, now known as "Mike's Rescue Plan." (From Michael Moore's Bailout Plan) It has 10 simple, straightforward points. They are that you DIDN'T, BUT SHOULD'VE:
1. APPOINTED A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO CRIMINALLY INDICT ANYONE ON WALL STREET WHO KNOWINGLY CONTRIBUTED TO THIS COLLAPSE. Before any new money was expended, Congress should have committed, by resolution, to CRIMINALLY PROSECUTE ANYONE who had ANYTHING to do with the attempted SACKING OF OUR ECONOMY. This means that anyone who committed insider trading, securities fraud or any action that helped bring about this collapse should have and MUST GO TO JAIL! This Congress SHOULD HAVE called for a Special Prosecutor who would vigorously go after everyone who created the mess, and anyone else who attempts to scam the public in future. (I like Elliot Spitzer ~ so, he played a little hanky-panky...Wall Street hates him & this is a GOOD thing.)
2. THE RICH SHOULD HAVE PAID FOR THEIR OWN BAILOUT! They may have to live in 5 houses instead of 7. They may have to drive 9 cars instead of 13. The chef for their mini-terriers may have to be reassigned. But there is no way in hell, after forcing family incomes to go down more than $2,000 dollars during the Bush years, that working people and the middle class should have to fork over one dime to underwrite the next yacht purchase.
If they truly needed the $850 billion they say they needed, well, here is an easy way they could have raised it:
a) Every couple makeing over a million dollars a year and every single taxpayer who makes over $500,000 a year should pay a 10% surcharge tax for five years. (It's the Senator Sanders plan. He's like Colonel Sanders, only he's out to fry the right chickens.) That means the rich would have still been paying less income tax than when Carter was president. That would have raise a total of $300 billion.
b) Like nearly every other democracy, they should have charged a 0.25% tax on every stock transaction. This would have raised more than $200 billion in a year.
c) Because every stockholder is a patriotic American, stockholders should have forgone receiving a dividend check for ONE quarter and instead this money would have gone the treasury to help pay for the bullsh*t bailout.
d) 25% of major U.S. corporations currently pay NO federal income tax. Federal corporate tax revenues currently amount to 1.7% of the GDP compared to 5% in the 1950s. If we raised the corporate income tax BACK to the levels of the 1950s, this would give us an extra $500 billion.
All of this combined should have been enough to end the calamity. The rich would have gotten to keep their mansions and their servants and our United States government ("COUNTRY FIRST!") would've have a little leftover to repair some roads, bridges and schools...
3. YOU SHOULD HAVE BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE LOSING THEIR HOMES, NOT THE PEOPLE WHO WILL BUILD AN EIGHTH HOME! There are 1.3 million homes in foreclosure right now. That is what is at the heart of this problem. So, instead of giving the money to the banks as a gift, they should have paid down each of these mortgages by $100,000. They should have forced the banks to renegotiate the mortgage so the homeowner could pay on its current value. To insure that this help wouldn't go to speculators and those who tried to making money by flipping houses, the bailout should have only been for people's primary residences. And, in return for the $100K pay-down on the existing mortgage, the government would have gotten to share in the holding of the mortgage so it could get some of its money back. Thus, the total initial cost of fixing the mortgage crisis at its roots (instead of with the greedy lenders) is $150 billion, not $850 BILLION.
And let's set the record straight. People who have defaulted on their mortgages are not "bad risks." They are our fellow Americans, and all they wanted was what we all want: a home to call their own. But, during the Bush years, millions of the People lost the decent paying jobs they had. SIX MILLION fell into poverty! SEVEN MILLION lost their health insurance! And, every one of them saw their real wages go DOWN by $2,000! Those who DARE look down on these Americans who got hit with one bad break after another should be ASHAMED.! We are a better, stronger, safer and happier society when all of our citizens can afford to live in a home they own.
4. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A STIPULATION THAT IF YOUR BANK OR COMPANY GOT ANY OF OUR MONEY IN A "BAILOUT," THEN WE OWN YOU. Sorry, that's how it's done. If the bank gives me money so I can buy a house, the bank "owns" that house until I pay it all back -- with interest. Same deal for Wall Street. Whatever money you need to stay afloat, if our government considers you a safe risk -- and necessary for the good of the country -- then you can get a loan, but WE SHOULD OWN YOU. If you default, we will sell you. This is how the Swedish government did it and it worked.
5. ALL REGULATIONS SHOULD HAVE BEEN BE RESTORED. THE REAGAN REVOLUTION IS DEAD! This catastrophe happened because we let the fox have the keys to the hen-house. In 1999, Phil Gramm authored a bill to remove all the regulations that governed Wall Street and our banking system. The bill passed and Clinton signed it. Here's what Sen.Phil Gramm, McCain's chief economic advisor, said at the bill signing:
"In the 1930s ... it was believed that government was the answer. It was believed that stability and growth came from government overriding the functioning of free markets.
"We are here today to repeal [that] because we have learned that government is not the answer. We have learned that freedom and competition are the answers. We have learned that we promote economic growth and we promote stability by having competition and freedom.
"I am proud to be here because this is an important bill; it is a deregulatory bill. I believe that that is the wave of the future, and I am awfully proud to have been a part of making it a reality."
FOR THIS NOT TO REOCCUR, This BILL SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPEALED! Bill Clinton could have helped by leading the effort for the repeal of the Gramm bill and the reinstating of even tougher regulations regarding our financial institutions. And when they were done with that, they should have restored the regulations for the airlines, the inspection of our food, the oil industry, OSHA, and every other entity that affects our daily lives. All oversight provisions for any "bailout" should have had enforcement monies attached to them and criminal penalties for all offenders.
6. IF IT'S TOO BIG TO FAIL, THEN THAT MEANS IT'S TOO BIG TO EXIST! Allowing the creation of these mega-mergers and not enforcing the monopoly and anti-trust laws has allowed a number of financial institutions and corporations to become so large, the very thought of their collapse means an even bigger collapse across the entire economy. No ONE or TWO companies should EVER have this kind of power! The so-called "economic Pearl Harbor" can't happen when you have hundreds -- thousands -- of institutions where people have their money. When we have a dozen auto companies, if one goes belly-up, we DON'T FACE A NATIONAL DISASTER! If we have three separately-owned daily newspapers in your town, then one media company can't call all the shots (I know... What am I thinking?! Who reads a paper anymore? Sure glad all those mergers and buyouts left us with a STRONG and "FREE" press!). Laws Should have been enacted to prevent companies from being so large and dominant that with one slingshot to the eye, the GIANT FALLS and DIES. And no institution should be allowed to set up money schemes that NO ONE understands. If you can't explain it in two sentences, you shouldn't be taking anyone's money!
7. NO EXECUTIVE SHOULD EVER BE PAID MORE THAN 40 TIMES THEIR AVERAGE EMPLOYEE, AND NO EXECUTIVE SHOULD RECEIVE ANY KIND OF "PARACHUTE" OTHER THAN THE VERY GENEROUS SALARY HE OR SHE MADE WHILE WORKING FOR THE COMPANY. In 1980, the average American CEO made 45 times what their employees made. By 2003, they were making 254 times what their workers made. After 8 years of Bush, they now make over 400 times what their average employee makes. How We have allowed this to happen at publicly held companies is beyond reason. In Britain, the average CEO makes 28 times what their average employee makes. In Japan, it's only 17 times! The last I heard, the CEO of Toyota was living the high life in Tokyo. How does he do it on so little money? Seriously, this is an OUTRAGE! We have created the mess we're in by letting the people at the top become bloated beyond belief with millions of dollars. THIS HAS TO STOP! Not only should no executive who receives help out of this mess profit from it, but any executive who was in charge of running his company into the ground should be FIRED before the company receives ANY help.
8. CONGRESS SHOULD HAVE STRENGTHENED THE FDIC AND MADE IT A MODEL FOR PROTECTING NOT ONLY PEOPLE'S SAVINGS, BUT ALSO THEIR PENSIONS AND THEIR HOMES. Obama was correct to propose expanding FDIC protection of people's savings in their banks to $250,000. But, this same sort of government insurance must be given to our NEVER have to worry about whether or not the money they've put away for their old age will be there. This should have meant strict government oversight of companies who manage their employees' funds -- or perhaps it means the companies should have been forced to turn over those funds and their management to the government? People's private retirement funds must also be protected, but perhaps it's time to consider not having one's retirement invested in the casino known as the stock market??? Our government should have a solemn duty to guarantee that no one who grows old in this country has to worry about becoming destitute.
9. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO TAKE A DEEP BREATH, CALM DOWN, AND NOT LET FEAR RULE THE DAY. Turn off your TVs! We are NOT in the Second Great Depression. The sky is NOT falling, Chicken Little! Pundits and politicians have lied to us so FAST and FURIOUS it's hard not to be affected by all the fear mongering. Even I wrote to and repeated what I heard on the news last week, that the Dow had the biggest one day drop in its history. Well, that was true in terms of points, but its 7% drop came nowhere close to Black Monday in 1987 when the stock market in one day lost 23% of its value. In the '80s, 3,000 banks closed, but America didn't go out of business. These institutions have always had their ups and downs and eventually it works out. It has to, because the rich do not like their wealth being disrupted! They have a vested interest in calming things down and getting back into their Jacuzzis before they slip into their million thread-count sheets to drift off to a peaceful, Vodka tonic and Ambien-induced slumber.
As crazy as things are right now, tens of thousands of people got a car loan last week. Thousands went to the bank and got a mortgage to buy a home. Students just back to college found banks more than happy to put them into hock for the next 15 years with a student loan. I was even pre-approved for a US$5K personal loan. Yes, life has gone on with little-or-no-change (other than the whopping 6.1% umeployment rate, but that happened last month). Not a single person lost any of his/her monies in bank, or a treasury note, or in a CD. And, the perhaps the most amazing thing is that the American public FINALLY didn't buy the scare campaign. The citizens didn't blink, instead telling Congress to take that bailout and shove it. THAT was impressive. Why didn't the population succumb to the fright-filled warnings from their president and his cronies? Well, you can only say 'Saddam has the bomb' so many times before the people realize you're a lying sack of shit. After eight long years, the nation is worn out and simply can't take it any longer. The WORLD is fed up & I don't blame them.
10. THEY SHOULD HAVE CREATED A NATIONAL BANK, A "PEOPLE'S BANK." Since they're really itching to print up a trillion dollars, instead of giving it to a few rich people, why don't We give it to ourselves? Now that We own Freddie and Fannie, why not set up a People's bank? One that can provide low-interest loans for all sorts of people who want to own a home, start a small business, go to school, come up with the cure for cancer or create the next great invention. And, now that we own AIG - the country's largest insurance company - let's take the next step and PROVIDE HEALTH INSURANCE FOR EVERYONE. MEDICARE FOR ALL! It will SAVE us SO MUCH MONEY in the LONG RUN (not to mention bring peace of mind to all). And, America won't be 12th on the life expectancy list! We'll be able to have a longer lifespan, enjoying our government-protected pension and will live to see the day when the corporate criminals who caused this much misery are let out of prison so that We can help re-acclimate them to plain old ordinary, civilian life -- a life with ONE nice home and ONE gas-free car invented with help from the People's Bank.
P.S. Call your Senators NOW !!! ---> www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Since they voted against passing the extension of unemployment benefits and skipped out to "campaign" to us to be re-elected...call them and tell them you will vote for the other "guy" if they don't get their act together!
Copyright © 2002, Simon Purdy.
The Dead Vlei, located near Sossusvlei in Namibia, contains the remnants of trees that died some 900 years ago after a changing climate and shifting sand dunes cut off the water supply to the clay pan. Due to the intense dry heat, these trees have not decomposed, leaving behind these strikingly beautiful ancient skeletons.
Naughty goats playing on wall.
Nikon D90 | Nikkor 18-200mm @ 105 mm | 1/400 @ f/8.0 | ISO 200 | WB : Daylight
Place: KatasRaj (کٹاس راج). (Pakistan)
Zoo - Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Frill-necked Lizard, or Frilled Lizard also known as the Frilled Dragon, (Chlamydosaurus kingii) is so called because of the large ruff of skin which usually lies folded back against its head and neck. The neck frill is supported by long spines of cartilage, and when the lizard is frightened, it gapes its mouth showing a bright pink or yellow lining, and the frill flares out, displaying bright orange and red scales. The frill may also aid in thermoregulation.
Adult frill-necked lizards may grow up to one metre in total length. They often walk quadrupedally when on the ground. When frightened they begin to run on all-fours and then accelerate onto the hind-legs. In Australia, the frill-necked lizard is also known as the "bicycle lizard" because of this behaviour. Males are significantly larger than females both as juveniles and when mature. The frill of the Australian frilled dragon is used to scare off potential predators — as well as hissing and lunging. If this fails to ward off the threat, the lizard flees bipedally to a nearby tree where it climbs to the top and relies on camouflage to keep it hidden.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frill-necked_Lizard
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CASTELLANO
El clamidosaurio (Chlamydosaurus kingii) es un reptil que habita en el sur de Nueva Guinea, norte y oeste de Australia. Es también conocido con el nombre de "clamidosaurio de King".
Como característica particular, cabe destacar una porción de piel que descansa detrás de su cabeza y sobre su lomo, una especie de collar con largas espinas de cartílago que se abre cuando se siente amenazado.
El clamidosaurio llega a medir unos ochenta centímetros de largo, siendo los machos bastante más grandes que las hembras. Es carnívoro y pasa gran parte del tiempo en los árboles al acecho. Su sentido de la vista es muy desarrollado, siendo capaz de capturar un insecto cuando pasa delante de él.
Este animal posee una gran capacidad de adaptación al medio ambiente. Los científicos australianos notaron que aprovechaba los constantes incendios del norte de Australia: después de un incendio, su estómago es capaz de alojar presas de mayor tamaño a las que captura habitualmente. Si bien muchos de estos reptiles mueren en los incendios, los sobrevivientes prefieren quedarse en la zona devastada para conseguir más fácilmente su alimento.