Huge Painting framed with Christmas decorations at Duane's Prime Steak & Seafood Restaurant inside Mission Inn, Riverside, California.

The Mission Inn is a "whimsical, mysterious and slightly bizarre" historic landmark hotel in downtown Riverside, California.

The core of the property was a 2-story, 12-room adobe boarding house called the "Glenwood Cottage", begun by Christopher Columbus Miller in 1876. It predated the founding of Riverside. Miller's son Frank expanded the boarding house in 1902 and essentially continued obsessively building, in a wild variety of shapes, until he died in 1935.

The building now occupies an entire city block. It is often considered an oasis in the middle of a city.

Miller built in reinforced concrete and developed an accomplished, expressive vernacular style drawn from random historical styles. Accumulating one section over another, addition upon addition, the result is an enormously complicated and intricate built environment, comparable to the Winchester House, or to a self-contained medieval European city.

The Mission contains narrow passageways like a Tuscan village, exterior arcades, a prominent medieval-style clock overlooking the Spanish patio, a deep but sun-drenched five-story rotunda, innumerable patios and windows, towers, minarets, a Cloister Wing (with Catacombs), a high pedestrian bridge, and a five-story spiral staircase, among many other features. The 1914 Spanish Wing in itself contains a castle courtyard, open arcades, Mexican tiled roofs, flying buttresses and Mediterranean domes.

Miller also traveled and collected over these thirty years, bringing his treasures back to the hotel for display. The various collections and museum-quality artifacts on the property has an estimated value of $5 million. The St. Francis Chapel houses four large original stained-glass windows and two original mosaics by Tiffany, and the Mexican Baroque Rayas Altar, 25 feet tall, 16 feet across, carved from cedar and covered in gold leaf. For his Garden of Bells, Miller collected over 800 bells, including one dating from the year 1274 and described as the "oldest bell in Christendom".

In the context of other important cultural losses in Riverside, the hotel was closed in 1985, restored at a cost of $55 million, and re-opened in 1992. As of 2006 it is an operating hotel with 4 restaurants, a day spa and 239 guest rooms with 9 rooms designated as presidential suites, each of them with unique views and features. Reportedly the most spacious and comfortable are the Moorish rooms along "Author's Row". The hotel's 4 restaurants include a Mexican style restaurant named Las Campanas featuring fountains and fire pits under the Californian sky. The Mission Inn Restaurant with Californian and Italian cuisine, seating can be requested to view the exceptional Spanish Patio. Bella Trattoria, a small Italian Bistro located on the Main Street pedestrian walking mall. And Duane's Prime Steak & Seafood, famed as being the only four diamond restaurant in the Inland Valley.

For 125 years it has been the proverbial center of Riverside, host to a number of seasonal and holiday functions, as well as occasional political functions and other major social gatherings. Pat and Richard Nixon were married at one of the two wedding chapels here; the Reagans honeymooned here. The hotel has had nearly 10 presidents stay at the Inn, including President Taft whom Frank Miller had a custom large chair made for Taft to sit in, although it is known he took offense to the size of the chair. The Inn continues to be a getaway for presidents to this day with George W. Bush as the most recent. Arnold Schwarzenegger has also stayed there during his tenure as governor.

Of its seasonal functions, the Festival of Lights is well known for its nearly 3 million Christmas lights, and over 400 animated figures. Although the Festival lasts all throughout the holiday season, the day after Thanksgiving is the lighting ceremony. On this day city officials and the owner of the hotel, Duane Roberts, give speeches before fireworks light up the sky and nearly 25,000 people attend annually to view the unique hotel and its holiday decorations.

The hotel is a National Historic Landmark and a California Historical Landmark. (Wikipedia)

Official Website = www.missioninn.com/

As promised.. here goes the "faces" collection from my Day 1 at Times square.. got about 40+ "good" photos of different people in 2 hours .. What a place.. totally loved the time..

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They are images that remain in our memories and for some reasons human beings remain frozen in awe before a sunset over water. It is like the time is slowing down and we are waiting to see the end of this magic moment we try to keep in our memories for ever.

The silhouette of this mother and young son admiring the colors of the sun and its reflections on the lake reminds us, adults, of similar memories of a time that seemed remote and peaceful in comparison with the aggressions we feel in our current and modern city lives.

Hopefully this child will remember this magic moment spent with his mom.

Nikon D700 and lens Leica Telyt-R 350mm f/4.8. Taken with Monopod at ISO 1600, f/8 and 1/4000s.

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OSTIA ANTICA

is a district in the commune of Rome, Italy, five kilometers away from the coast. It is distinct from Ostia.

For ancient history of the site, see Ostia Antica.

Under the Romans, Ostia Antica reached a peak of some 75,000 inhabitants in the 2nd and 3rd century AD. A slow decline began with the time of Constantine I, and the decaying conditions of the city were mentioned by St. Augustine when he passed through in the late 4th century. His mother, St. Monica, died in an inn here. The poet Rutilius Namatianus also reported the lack of maintenance of the city in 414. Ostia became an episcopal see as early as the 3rd century AD, with the cathedral (titulus) of Santa Aurea erected over the tomb of St. Monica.

As the centuries passed, Ostia fell into ruin but remained an access from the sea for visitors to Rome. Saracen pirates were a frequent concern; the naval Battle of Ostia was fought off the coast in 849. Pope Gregory IV fortified the existing burgh and it was rechristened Gregoriopolis. By this time, the shifting course of the Tiber had landlocked the ancient port, and the town was mainly a shelter for the workers of the nearby salt mills.

In the late 15th century, the bishop Giuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II) commissioned the rebuilding of the main church and town walls under the direction of the architect Baccio Pontelli. The Castle of Julius II, also built at this time, remains the most striking feature of modern Ostia. The castle was abandoned after a flood in 1587 flooded its moat and turned the surrounding area into a marsh.

The castle and the town were restored again in the 20th century.

In popular culture

Ostia was featured in the novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, both written by British novelist Robert Graves. The novels include scenes set at Ostia spanning from the reign of Augustus to the reign of Claudius, including the departure of Agrippa to Syria and Claudius's reconstruction of the harbour. In the 1976 television series, Ostia was frequently mentioned but never actually seen.

Ostia appears briefly towards the end of the Roman Empire section of the 1981 comedy film History of the World, Part I, where the main characters board a galleon (bearing the El Al logo) bound for Judaea. In the film, however, Ostia is only ever referred to as simply "the port".

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Parus caeruleus

El herrerillo común (Parus (Cyanistes) caeruleus) es un ave de la familia de los páridos. Es uno de los pájaros de mayor colorido de Europa: su librea azul, verde, amarilla y blanquinegra es inconfundible. Ave ampliamente distribuida por el continente europeo, norte de África y Oriente Medio, se conocen varias subespecies.

Taxonomía

Herrerillo en una rama.

La especie fue descrita por primer vez por Lineo en su Systema naturae de 1758 como Parus caeruleus.1

La mayor parte de las autoridades mantiene Cyanistes como subgénero de Parus, aunque la Unión Británica de Ornitólogos trata Cyanistes como un género distinto.

Existen dos subespecies africanas. Una en las islas Canarias (P. c. teneriffae), con una mancha negra en la cabeza, y otra en el noroeste de África, desde el norte de Marruecos al norte de Libia, (P. c. ultramarinus), con la espalda o manto azul.

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before we got inside the mission inn, we had heard that they did not allow photography inside by people who weren't guests of the hotel or customers of their restaurants. we assumed that they would have security posted and that our group, albeit a small one, of photographers would easily be spotted and we would not get shots inside. however, that wasn't the case at all. it was so busy in the main lobby that it was esay for us to walk by the hotel employees into the areas that were designated for hotel guests only and walk around and take shots as much as we wanted. now i'm not sure if this is the case all the time... maybe at other times of the year it might not be possible. i don't want to give others the impression that this place is completely open for exploration and photography if you aren't a paying customer. it all depends i guess. i really wanted this shot of the rotunda having seen other people's shots... i think i might have been distracted by the supposed rules that i had mentioned earlier but i wasn't too happy with most of my shots inside the hotel. ehhh... at least i got this one i guess.

Montblanc, Tarragona (Spain).

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Spinning at 33 rpm in the show window of a store.

Dando vueltas a 33 rpm en el escaparate de un tienda.

ENGLISH

The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.

The famous phonograph was the fourth device for recording and replaying sound. The term phonograph ("sound writer") is derived from the Greek words φωνή (meaning "sound" or "voice" and transliterated as phoné) and γραφή (meaning "writing" and transliterated as graphé). Similar related terms gramophone and graphophone have similar root meanings. The coinage, particularly the use of the -graph root, may have been influenced by the then-existing words phonographic and phonography, which referred to a system of phonetic shorthand; in 1852 The New York Times carried an advertisement for "Professor Webster's phonographic class", and in 1859 the New York State Teachers' Association tabled a motion to "employ a phonographic recorder" to record its meetings.

F. B. Fenby was the original author of the word. An inventor in Worcester, Massachusetts, he was granted a patent in 1863 for an unsuccessful device called the "Electro-Magnetic Phonograph". His concept detailed a system that would record a sequence of keyboard strokes onto paper tape. Although no model or workable device was ever made, it is often seen as a link to the concept of punched paper for player piano rolls (1880s), as well as Herman Hollerith's punch card tabulator (used in the 1890 United States census), a distant precursor of the modern computer.

Arguably, any device used to record sound or reproduce recorded sound could be called a type of "phonograph", but in common practice it has come to mean historic technologies of sound recording.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, the alternative term talking machine was sometimes used. This term was more in line with Thomas Edison's early view that his invention was better suited for spoken recordings such as dictation than for musical recordings.

More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph

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CASTELLANO

Un tocadiscos es un sistema de reproducción del sonido hijo del fonógrafo ya que usa el mismo tipo de tecnologia, sustituyendo el cilindro por un Disco de vinilo. El tocadiscos también ha sido conocido como platina de discos, giradiscos, tornamesa, fonochasis o pickup. Ninguna de estas cuatro últimas nomenclaturas tiene demasiada aceptación.

El fonógrafo, fue el dispositivo más común para reproducir sonido grabado desde la década de 1870 hasta la década de 1980.

La primera invención conocida de un dispositivo capaz de grabar sonido fue el "autofonógrafo", inventado por el francés Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville y patentado el 25 de marzo de 1857. Podía transcribir sonido a un medio visible, pero no tenía un modo de ser reproducido después. El aparato consistía de un cuerno o un barril que recogía las ondas hacia una membrana a la que estaba atado una cerda. Cuando llegaba el sonido, ésta vibraba y se movía y el sonido podía grabarse en un medio visible. Inicialmente, el fonoautógrafo grababa en un cristal ahumado. Una versión posterior usaba un papel también ahumado en un tambor o cilindro. Otra versión dibujaba una línea representando el sonido en un rollo de papel. El fonoautógrafo era una curiosidad de laboratorio para el estudio de la acústica. Era usado para determinar la frecuencia de un tono musical y para estudiar el sonido y el habla. No se entendió hasta después del desarrollo del fonógrafo que la onda grabada por el fonoautógrafo era de hecho una grabación del sonido que sólo necesitaba un medio de reproducción adecuado para sonar.

El fonógrafo fue el que, hasta 1876, se creyó el primer aparato capaz de grabar sonido, aunque sí fue el primero que pudo reproducirlo después. Thomas Alva Edison anunció la invención de su primer fonógrafo, el 21 de noviembre de 1877, mostró el dispositivo por primera vez el 29 de noviembre de ese mismo año y lo patentó el 19 de febrero de 1878.

El fonógrafo utiliza un sistema de grabación mecánica analógica en el cual las ondas sonoras son transformadas en vibraciones mecánicas mediante un transductor acústico-mecánico. Estas vibraciones mueven un estilete que labra un surco helicoidal sobre un cilindro de fonógrafo. Para reproducir el sonido se invierte el proceso.

Al principio se utilizaron cilindros de cartón recubiertos de estaño, más tarde de cartón parafinado y, finalmente, de cera sólida. El cilindro de cera, de mayor calidad y durabilidad, se comercializó desde 1889, un año después de que apareciera el gramófono.

El 2 de diciembre de 1889 un representante de la casa Edison, Theo Wangeman, grabó una interpretación del celebérrimo compositor Johannes Brahms. Se trataba de un segmento de las Danzas Húngaras en una versión para piano solo. Esta grabación aún se conserva, pero su calidad es pésima.

Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocadiscos, es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fon%c3%b3grafo

Burgos (Spain).

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ENGLISH

The Burgos Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de Burgos) is a Gothic-style cathedral in Burgos, Spain. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and is famous for its vast size and unique architecture. Its construction began in 1221, following French Gothic parameters.

It had very important modifications in the 15th and 16th centuries (spires of the principal façade, Chapel of the Constable, cimborio of the transept: these elements of advanced Gothic give the cathedral its distinguished profile). The last works of importance (the sacristy or the Chapel of Saint Thecla) occurred during the 18th century, the century in which the Gothic statuary of the doors of the principal façade was also transformed.

At the beginning of the 20th century, some semidetached construction to the cathedral was eliminated, such as the Archepiscopal Palace and the upper floor of the cloister. The style of the cathedral is Gothic, although it has some Renaissance and Baroque works.

The cathedral was declared a "World Heritage Site" by UNESCO on October 31 of 1984. It is the only Spanish cathedral that has this distinction independiently, without being joined to the historic center of a city (as in Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Ávila, Córdoba, Toledo or Cuenca) or in union with others buildings, as in Seville.

More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgos_Cathedral

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CASTELLANO

La Catedral de Santa María de Burgos (Castilla y León, España) es un templo católico dedicado a la Virgen María. Su construcción comenzó en 1221, siguiendo patrones góticos franceses. Tuvo importantísimas modificaciones en los siglos XV y XVI: las agujas de la fachada principal, la Capilla del Condestable y el cimborrio del crucero, elementos del gótico avanzado que dotan al templo de su perfil inconfundible. Las últimas obras de importancia (la Sacristía o la Capilla de Santa Tecla) pertenecen ya al siglo XVIII, siglo en el que también se retiraron las portadas góticas de la fachada principal. El estilo de la catedral es el gótico, aunque posee, en su interior, varios elementos renacentistas y barrocos. La construcción y las remodelaciones se realizaron con piedra caliza extraída de las canteras del cercano pueblo burgalés Hontoria de la Cantera.

La catedral burgalesa fue declarada Monumento Nacional el 8 de abril de 1885 y Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco el 31 de octubre de 1984. Es la única catedral española que tiene esta distinción de la Unesco de forma independiente, sin estar unida al centro histórico de una ciudad (como en Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Ávila, Córdoba, Toledo o Cuenca) o en compañía de otros edificios, como en Sevilla.

Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Burgos

The fountain on the Place de la Concorde. Behind: the Hôtel de Crillon; to the left: the embassy of the United States of America.

Since childhood, my life has been about full filling my own dreams. Sometimes, it's difficult to accomplish and sometimes it's really simple.

I was in 9th grade back in 1999 in my school where I read about this short story "The Diamond Necklace" where they mentioned about Champs-Élysées.

I always wanted to see how it looked like! I came to France once in 2004 but I didn't have the opportunity to explore it in length and breadth. During my research visit this year, I got some time to spend in Paris and it was like full filling my child hood dreams! Taking photographs here was one my dream.

This one is an HDR from 5 exposures. I used my own script for tone-mapping. This one was shot with Shutter Priority. The EXIF from 100 ISO image is availble.

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If you have 2 minutes spare , do have a look at some other Night Shots that I made

When at ease, take out some time to take a Slide Tour of HDRs that I made. It will be worth your time and efforts.

© 2008 Ayush Bhandari

" Lady Bunny "

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Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR). The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. The auction will feature Vipp pedal bins re-imagined by 35 leading creative personalities.

Public viewing and bidding from October 15 - 28 at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am-7pm). Gala auction to be held October 28.

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Danish design company Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary this October by hosting Can It!!! - a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR). The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Thirty-five leading figures in the worlds of architecture, art, design, fashion and entertainment have put their signature touch on the iconic Vipp bin for the occasion.

PUBLIC VIEWING AND BIDDING, OCTOBER 15 – 28

From October 15 – 28, the 35 customized Vipp bins will be on display for public viewing and bidding at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am–7pm). Those who place bids on one or more of the customized Vipp bins, will be invited to a special gala auction on Wednesday, October 28, hosted by Veronica Webb, Vipp, DWR and DIFFA.

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Ami James, Avi Adler, Calvin Klein, Camilla Stærk, Cole and Garrett, David Rockwell, David Stark, Evette Rios, Helena Christensen, Izhar Patkin, James Charles, Jes Gordon, John Baldessari, Jonas Hecksher/E-types, Lady Bunny, Lady Pink, Magnus Berger, Michael Aram, Mike Perry, Nigel Barker, Olaf Breuning, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Kiril Kirov/Razortooth, Richard Colman, Rikke Korff/The Furies, Robert Geller, Robert Verdi, Shelly Sabel, Sune Rose Wagner/The Raveonettes, Swathi Ghanta/Kidrobot, The Selby, Veronica Webb, Yoko Ono, Yves Béhar/Fuseproject.

For more information call DIFFA @ 212-727-3100

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VIPP 70TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION

Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR).

The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Thirty-five leading figures in the worlds of architecture, art, design, fashion and entertainment have put their signature touch on the iconic Vipp bin for the occasion, including Yoko Ono, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren & David Stark.

From October 15 – 28, the 35 customized Vipp bins will be on display for public viewing and bidding at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am–7pm). Those who place bids on one or more of the customized Vipp bins, will be invited to a special gala auction on Wednesday, October 28, hosted by Veronica Webb, Vipp, DWR and DIFFA.

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Ami James, Avi Adler, Calvin Klein, Camilla StÊrk, Cole and Garrett, David Rockwell, David Stark, Evette Rios, Helena Christensen, Izhar Patkin, James Charles, Jes Gordon, John Baldessari, Jonas Hecksher/E-types, Lady Bunny, Lady Pink, Magnus Berger, Michael Aram, Mike Perry, Nigel Barker, Olaf Breuning, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Kiril Kirov/Razortooth, Richard Colman, Rikke Korff/The Furies, Robert Geller, Robert Verdi, Shelly Sabel, Sune Rose Wagner/The Raveonettes, Swathi Ghanta/Kidrobot, The Selby, Veronica Webb, Yoko Ono, Yves BÈhar/Fuseproject.

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Not been here for some years , Sunrise was the plan The Lake Llyn Cwm-lIwch , as we started our climb around 6.50 am We had clouds and Stars , Wind chill said it would feel like - 5 Brrrrrrrrr , 10 minutes into the walk we had 20 Meters visability as the clouds and mist came down , As we got to the point where you climb down 600 feet to the lake this is the site that greeted us :-) It was freezing the wind made your nostrils run down your face , Numb with cold i waited for the shot and the bank of cloud covering the peaks of Brecon Beacons to be burnt out as the sun came above the horizon !!! This was the first shot i took before the climb down to the lake !!

Victim of the Beacons

The story of little Tommy Jones

August 4th, 1900, was the Saturday before the Bank Holiday. A miner from Maerdy, at the head of the Rhondda Fach, decided to take his five-year-old son with him to visit the child's grandparents who still farmed near Brecon. They arrived in the town by train at about six o'clock in the evening. From there they had to walk four miles to reach Cwm-llwch, the little farmhouse deep in the valley to the north of the Beacons.

By about eight o'clock they had reached the Login (today in ruins) where soldiers were encamped for training at the rifle range up the valley. It had been a warm walk, and though they had only a quarter of a mile further to go, William Jones was glad to stop for refreshment and buy little Tommy a pennyworth of biscuits at the canteen. By chance, within a few minutes the grandfather also arrived, with 13-year-old Willie John, Tommy's cousin. Willie was sent back to Cwm-lIwch to warn the household of the arrival of visitors, and Tommy ran off with him up the valley.

They had to cross two rough plank bridges, one without a handrail. In the failing light, the streams and trees were perhaps frightening to a small boy brought up amongst closely-packed houses. He may have been afraid of meeting farm animals also. At any rate, when the two of them had got about half way , Tommy started to cry and wanted to go back to his father. So the two boys parted. Willie completed his errand and was back at the camp within about quarter of an hour of leaving it - but Tommy had not returned. Father and grandfather immediately started looking for him. Soon (perhaps about twenty minutes later) they were joined by soldiers from the camp: the hunt was truly on. At midnight the search was halted, but at 3 o'clock on the Sunday morning it started again. Police and the general public joined in and the net spread wider. But no sign of the boy was discovered that day.

So it continued through the following weeks. Every day search parties of police, troops, farmers and other volunteers combed the area systematically. The tall bracken was cut, the woodland ransacked, It was at one point suggested that Llyn Cwm-lIwch should be dragged, but it was thought unlikely that the boy could have gone as far up the mountain as that. It seemed more probable that he had fallen off one of the footbridges into the stream, or had simply wandered straight on down the valley, instead of turning right to cross the second bridge to the camp. Thus the search was concentrated in the close and wooded country around the Login and down the valley as far as Brecon waterworks.

Inevitably, with the continued failure to find trace of the boy, theories of kidnapping gained favour. These now held the only hope that the boy might still be found alive, Kidnapping, at that time, meant gypsies in the first instance, and though they are rarely mentioned in The Brecon County Times of the period, it appears that there were numerous camps of them in Breconshire and neighbouring counties. All were unceremoniously ransacked by the police during the search, without success.

The affair aroused national concern, and reports of the missing boy and suggestions for lines of enquiry came from all parts of the country. The Daily Mail took an interest in the matter and offered a reward of £20 to anyone who could solve the mystery. (The announcement of the reward was made, among other means, by the Brecon Town Crier). The Daily Mail also sent a special commissioner to Brecon, who during the time he was there won considerable admiration and respect for his indefatigable work on the problem. It was under his influence that the gypsy theory lost ground, and abduction by a childless woman or couple thought more likely. He also mentioned the possibility of murder, but dismissed it in the very same sentence.

Only after several weeks did Tommy's father yield to the pleas of friends to return home to Maerdy. But he was soon back again, and was one of several people who climbed to the top of the Beacons in their despairing searches. It was not he who made the discovery. however.

A Mrs. Hamer, a gardener's wife at Castle Madoc, some miles north of Brecon, having read accounts of the search, is said to have dreamed of the very spot where Tommy was to be found. She spent a couple of restless days before finally persuading her husband to borrow a pony and trap on Sunday, September 2nd, to take her and some relatives to the Beacons - which they had never climbed before. Mr. Hamer did not believe that they would succeed where so many had failed. But later that day he was to be able to lay claim to the reward. 'They had reached the top of the ridge immediately above Llyn Cwm.llwch ',the newspaper later reported, 'and were making their way towards the peaks across some open ground when suddenly Mr. Hamer, who was a few yards in front of the others, started back with an exclamation of horror, for there in his path lay the remains of a body. . .' It was identified and brought down the same day.

At the inquest on the Tuesday the jury had no difficulty in bringing in a verdict of death through exhaustion and exposure. But no one managed to explain how this little five-year-old, 'short and stout of his age', tired and hungry after a long day and the walk from Brecon, had managed to reach the spot where his body was found. It was 2,250 ft. above sea level, a climb of 1300 ft. from the Login: at least two miles over difficult ground, probably in the dark. Certainly it had not been considered worthwhile to make a systematic search of high ground. The father must have passed within a dozen yards of the body a few days before its discovery, but by this time it would have looked much like a boulder in the long grass.

Various people with detailed local knowledge had suggested that Tommy might have wandered uphill to the left of his path when he started to return to the camp, or that he crossed the first footbridge, but not the second (just below the junction of the two streams and lying at right-angles to the first; both have now disappeared, though the ford beside the first remains in use). In retrospect, the latter seems the more likely explanation. If he turned left here instead of right he would soon have started up the side of Pen Milan, following what was presumably the most direct route between the soldiers' camp and the rifle range. Alternatively he might have continued downstream a little further and then veered to the left on the path towards Llwyn-bedw. In either case, he probably joined the track which zig-zags up Pen Milan, climbing steeply to high ground. Perhaps by this time, confused and panic-stricken in the failing daylight, he hoped he was returning uphill to his grandfather's farm, not realising until later how hopelessly lost he was. We only know with certainty how far his stamina and courage took him.

For many years his family kept the sailor suit with collarette which he had been wearing, the new light boots with pathetically worn soles; and the whistle which he had carried on a string round his neck. (Could this have saved his life if he had thought to use it while he still had energy?) Today the spot where Tommy's body was found is marked by an obelisk. The jurors at the inquest gave their fees to start a fund for this memorial. They were joined by Mr.Hamer, who contributed a part of his £20 reward, and many other citizens. By July the following year the inscribed stone was ready, and was hauled on a horse-drawn sledge up to the ridge. Since then thousands of walkers must have paused beside it, and been reminded of the small boy who fell victim to the Beacons through exhaustion and exposure.

Nonagenarian Recalls The Tommy Jones' Tradegy

(Details from a newspaper article 1980/1981).

Ninety years old Mrs. R. M. Martin of Hitchen, Hertfodshire sends her recollections of the tradegy:-

"I must be one of the very few left to have vivid recollections of that time, August 1900. I was 9¾ years old, born in the Postern, Brecon, the youngest daughter of P.C. Frederick George Harwood.

"My father was in charge of a search party that went daily for a month tramping all over the area. He even got the local farmers to cut down the shoulder-high bracken in some parts to help the search. Also the South Wales Borderers had a search party daily.

"How well I recall that Sunday, 2nd September, 1900! It was Sunday School Anniversary Service at the Dr. Coke Memorial Wesleyan Chapel, Lion Street, and the service had just finished when a tremendous outcry went up. 'The little boy is found.' We rushed out, and several boys cycled up to the spot, including Sidney Martin, whom I married many years later.

"The photograph on the front of the now out-of-print Victim of the Beacons pamphlet was taken by Jack Clark who for many years had a souvenir and postcard business in the High Street. He was 16 years old at the time and interested in amateur photography.

"Many years later from this photograph, I was able to recognise those standing around as the little boy's remains were carried down the mountain-side on an improvised stretcher, my father leading the way with Sgt. Hands at the rear. My father was so concerned that the photograph showed him smoking a clay pipe, for smoking on duty was definitely against the rules. It was I who supplied the information that a farmer at the scene had given him this to counteract the odour which prevailed. I remember my father got the negative from Jack Clark and scratched the pipe out on the glass plate so that no further prints would show it, but this made the fact more noticeable and the negative was destroyed.

"The idea of an obelisk was my father's and it was he who obtained £20 of the £100 reward to start the subscriptions towards it and also suggested that the jurymen might contribute their fees. He also suggested that the obelisk should be erected a little distance from the actual spot where the body was found, to be in a more visible position.

"Many years later, my brother-in-law, Walter Martin, of 'Clovelly,' Llanfaes, who was Overseer for the parish of St. David's, finding the obelisk was in very poor condition, went up with a family party armed with buckets and brushes and cleaned the stonework and Walter re-lettered the inscription.

The Obelisk and Inscription

The obelisk can be found on the approach to Corn Du (SO 000217) upon which is written:

"This obelisk marks the spot where the body of Tommy Jones aged 5 was found. He lost his way between Cwmllwch Farm and the Login on the night of August 4th 1900. After an anxious search of 29 days his body was found on September 2nd."

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The deaths of 45 men killed 50 years ago in a colliery explosion have been remembered with a service at the site.

A gas explosion ripped through the Six Bells colliery near Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent at 10.45am on 28 June 1960.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, led a service of remembrance at the site.

He also unveiled a memorial to the tragedy, a 20m high sculpture of a miner by Sebastian Boyesen.

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Les Enfants de Don Quichotte ont organisé un campement sur la Seine face à Notre Dame, immédiatement évacué par la police. Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set

Un "enfant de Don Quichotte" à la fin de l'évacuation.

Part of Don Quichotte à Notre Dame (Recommended as a slideshow)

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La Mola Kuna es hecha por las mujeres Kuna (Tule o Dule), que habitan las Islas de San Blas en Panamá (también conocida como Kuna Yala). La palabra mola significa vestido o blusa en Tule Gaya, el idioma de los Kunas y es una pieza de arte intrincadamente diseñada y cosida que las mujeres Kuna utilizan para embellecer sus vestidos.

The artistry of a mola reflects a synthesis of traditional Kuna culture with the influences of the modern world. Mola art developed when Kuna women had access to store bought yard goods. Mola designs are often inspired by modern graphics such as political posters, labels, pictures from books and TV cartoons, as well as traditional themes from Kuna legends and culture.

Geometric molas are the most traditional, having developed from ancient body painting designs.

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Beginning in the early 1830s, cholera epidemics killed thousands of United States citizens. People who contract cholera generally suffer from severe diarrhea, vomiting, and cramps. The disease is spread by drinking water or eating food that is contaminated with human feces. People with this illness can die from dehydration within a few hours after the symptoms first appear.

Asiatic Cholera appears to have started on the Indian subcontinent, ca. 1826. By 1831, it had spread to Russia. Cholera first appeared in the United States in 1832. European immigrants apparently brought the disease with them to America. With poor sanitation systems, cholera tended to be most virulent in cities. By the autumn of 1832, the illness had reached Cincinnati, probably brought by people traveling along the Ohio River. The Ohio and Mississippi Rivers allowed the disease to spread quickly across the United States in all directions.

One of the most common treatments for cholera in the United States up through the Civil War was the medicine calomel (Mercurous Chloride; Calogreen; Mercury Monochloride; Mercury Chloride). It was commonly used as a purgative (laxative) for the treatments of bowel illnesses ranging from diarrhea to cholera; unfortunately calomel’s effects were seriously harmful. It may have cleansed the bowels, but at the same time it caused teeth to loosen, hair to fall out and could destroy the patient’s gums and intestines. In other words, it could cause acute mercury poisoning.

The worst epidemic to affect Ohio occurred in 1849. Eight thousand people in Cincinnati died in this epidemic, including Harriet Beecher Stowe's infant son. www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/interpret/exhibits/hedrick/hedr...

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin was precipitated by two events, one in her personal life: in 1849 her sixth child, Samuel Charles, died in the cholera epidemic. Cholera was a relatively new disease in the Western hemisphere and inspired dread partly for that reason and partly because it was so deadly. To people in the nineteenth century it was an act of God, a biblical plague. All Harriet could do was watch helplessly while her eighteen-month-old child was wracked by convulsions and lost all the fluids in his body. She later wrote that there were circumstances of such bitterness in the manner of Charley's death that she didn't think she could ever be reconciled for it unless his death allowed her to do some great good to others. She also wrote that losing Charley made her understand what a slave woman felt when her child was taken away at the auction block.

Many Cincinnati residents fled the city and ended up in Mt. Pleasant, a community that escaped the illness. The town residents soon changed its name to Mt. Healthy in honor of its good fortune.

It wasn't until 1854, when Cholera struck England once again, that Dr. John Snow was able to legitimate his argument that cholera was spread through contaminated food or water. Snow, in investigating the epidemic, began plotting the location of deaths related to Cholera. At the time, London was supplied its water by two water companies. One of these companies pulled its water out of the Thames River upstream of the main city while the second pulled its water from the river downstream from the city. A higher concentration of Cholera was found in the region of town supplied by the water company that drew its water from the downstream location. Water from this source could have been contaminated by the city's sewage. Furthermore, he found that in one particular location near the intersection of Cambridge and Broad Street, up to 500 deaths from Cholera occurred within 10 days.

Cholera epidemics continued in the United States until the early 1900s. As sanitation improved within the United States, including chlorination of water, the illness weakened. In modern nations, cholera cases are very rare. In under-developed countries, outbreaks remain common. In 1991, cholera struck both South America and Africa, killing thousands of people. The standard treatment for cholera today is to keep the ill person hydrated.

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A reworked previous post based on constructive criticism to give a larger perspective and show more of the face whislt aiming to satisfy those thinking a closer crop may be better through the use of creative framing and texture added to by using an ice texture in a hard light blending mode and erasing the section over the face a colour cast has been further added using glamour glow plugin from nic software at 20% and reducing the temp til it looked right iv further tweaked with curves and exposure blending painted in... I really must write all this down caus I can never create it the same!

the texture was a sheet of ice from the garden..

the eyes were tweaked as before using an inverted mask and painted in screen mode and then with lighten to give them that shiny marble look... total process time around 35 mins and im sure i could do more to it with dodge and burn to give more of a movie poster feel.

I hope this helps in demystifying my processing a little.

Cheers Andy

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Dies sind die natürlichen Farben dieses Vogels.... nicht bearbeitet bzw. intensiviert...

These are the true natural colors of this bird... the foto has not been edited..

Die Loris (Loriinae), seltener auch Lories geschrieben oder Honigpapageien genannt,[1] sind eine Nektar trinkende Unterfamilie aus der Familie der Eigentlichen Papageien (Psittacidae). Stellenweise werden sie noch als eigenständige Familie (Loriidae) innerhalb der Ordnung der Papageienvögel (Psittaciformes) betrachtet.

Außerdem bezeichnet Loris auch die baumbewohnende Primaten der Familie Lorisidae oder Loridae. Um Verwechslungen zu vermeiden, wird für die Vögel (Loriinae) stellenweise die Schreibweise Lories verwendet. Im Singular und bei der Artbezeichnung mittels vollständigem Trivialnamen heißt es in allen Fällen Lori.

Loris sind kleine bis mittelgroße, farbenprächtige, baumbewohnende Papageien. Ihr Gefieder ist dicht und glänzend. Grün, Rot und Blautöne dominieren. Eine Besonderheit liegt in ihrer Ernährungsweise. Sie ernähren sich hauptsächlich von Pollen und Nektar, aber auch von weichen, saftigen Früchten. Zur besseren Nahrungsaufnahme ist ihre Zungenspitze mit bürsten- oder pinselartig aufrichtbaren Papillen besetzt.

Das Verbreitungsgebiet der Loris umfasst Australien und die benachbarte Inselwelt, von Sulawesi (Indonesien) und Mindanao (Philippinen) im Westen, über die Karolinen im Norden zu den Marquesas-Inseln und Pitcairn in Osten und Tasmanien im Süden. In Australien kommen allerdings mit Allfarb-, Moschus-, Schuppen-, Blauscheitel-, Zwergmoschus- und Buntlori nur sehr wenige Arten vor. Das größte Verbreitungsgebiet in Australien weist der Allfarblori auf, der auch urbane Lebensräume besiedelt. Am weitesten nördlich ist in Australien der Buntlori verbreitet. Besonders viele Arten sind auf Neuguinea zu finden. In Neuseeland fehlt die Familie.

Loris besitzen eine lange, schmale Zunge, deren Spitze dicht mit Papillen besetzt ist. Wenn ein Lori seine Zunge in eine Blüte steckt, richten sich diese Papillen auf. Wie ein Schwamm wird dadurch der Nektar aufgesogen. Zieht der Vogel die Zunge zurück in den Schnabel, wird der Nektar an Hautfalten im Gaumen ausgedrückt. Dieser Vorgang wird in schneller Folge wiederholt. Pollen und Nektar zusammen stellen den Hauptanteil der Nahrung. Daneben nehmen sie aber auch weiche Früchte auf.

Werden Loris als Ziervogel gehalten, werden sie mit einer speziellen Lori-Suppe ernährt, die im Handel erhältlich ist und nur mit Wasser angerührt werden muss. Das Futter wird je nach Art ergänzt mit Pollen, Obst, stärkehaltigen Samen, Keimfutter, Lebendfutter und Zweigen mit Knospen.

Lories and lorikeets are small to medium-sized arboreal parrots characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar and soft fruits. The species form a monophyletic group within the parrot family Psittacidae. Traditionally, they were considered one of the two subfamilies in that family (Loriinae), the other was the subfamily Psittacinae, but new insights show that it is placed in the middle of various other groups. To date, this issue has not been resolved scientifically. They are widely distributed throughout the Australasian region, including south-eastern Asia, Polynesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia, and the majority have very brightly colored plumage.

Lories and lorikeets have specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar and soft fruits. They can feed from the flowers of about 5,000 species of plants and use their specialised tongues to take the nectar. The tip of their tongues have tufts of papillae (extremely fine hairs), which collect nectar and pollen.

Lorikeets have tapered wings and pointed tails that allow them to fly easily and display great agility.[citation needed] They also have strong feet and legs. They tend to be hyperactive and clownish in personality both in captivity and the wild

Traditionally, lories and lorikeets are either classified as the subfamily, Loriinae, or as a family on their own, Loriidae.[1] Both traditional views are not confirmed using molecular studies. Those studies show that the lories and lorikeets form s single group, closely related to the fig parrot (Cyclopsitta and Psittaculirostris) and the budgerigar.[2][3][4][5][6]

Within the lories and lorikeets, two main groups are recognized. The first group consist of the genus Charmosyna[3][2] and the closely related Pacific Ocean genera Phigys and Vini.[2] All remaining genera, except Oreopsittacus are in the second group.[3][2] The position of Oreopsittacus is unknown, although one study suggests it could be a third group next to the other two.[6]

The multi-colored Rainbow Lorikeet was one of the species of parrots appearing in the first edition of The Parrots of the World and also in John Gould's lithographs of the Birds of Australia. Then and now, lories and lorikeets are described as some of the most beautiful species of parrot.

The usage of the terms "lory" and "lorikeet" is subjective, like the usage of "parrot" and "parakeet". Species with longer tapering tails are generally referred to as "lorikeets", while species with short blunt tails are generally referred to as "lories".

Montmeló, Barcelona (Spain).

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The pits usually comprise of a pit lane which runs parallel to the start/finish straight and is connected at each end to the main track, and a row of garages (usually one per team) outside which the work is done. Pit stop work is carried out by anywhere from five to twenty mechanics (also called a pit crew), depending on the series, while the driver waits in the vehicle (except where a driver change is involved).

In Formula One, cars make pit stops with the primary purpose of refueling and changing tyres, although during the 2005 season tyre changing during the race was prohibited. Teams sometimes also make adjustments to the front and rear wings and perform minor repairs, most commonly replacing the nose and front wing assembly. Pit strategies generally call for between one and three scheduled stops, depending on the course.

When the car is approximately one lap away from making its stop, the team's pit crew will set up fresh tyres and all needed pit equipment. Because of the overhead fuel and pneumatic rig, the team may have all pit mechanics in position prior to the car's arrival, with the exception of the rear jack man.

A pit stop involves about twenty mechanics, with the aim of completing the stop as quickly as possible. It lasts for six to twelve seconds depending on how much fuel is put into the car. However, if there is a problem, such as a fuel pump failing or the engine stalling, or repairs having to be made, it can take much longer. Cars are fuelled at a rate of more than 12 litres per second. This is accomplished by a fairly complex closed system that pumps air out of the car's fuel tank as the fuel is being pumped in.

More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_stop

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Los boxes comprenden el "pit lane", o carril de boxes, que corre paralelo a la recta de salida/meta y conectado a ella por los extremos, y una hilera de garajes (normalmente uno por equipo). El trabajo de la parada en boxes, que se lleva a cabo fuera de los garages, lo realiza un equipo de entre 5 y 20 mecánicos dependiendo del tipo de deporte, mientras el piloto espera en el vehículo (excepto cuando hay cambio de piloto).

En Fórmula 1, los coches hacen una parada en boxes con el prpósito principal de recargar combustible y cambiar ruedas, aunque en la temporada 2005 estuvo prohibido el cambio de ruedas. Los equipos a veces hacen ajustes en los alerones delanteros y traseros, así como reparaciones menores, como cambiar el morro. Las estrategias de boxes suelen comprender entre una y tres paradas, dependiendo de la carrera.

Cuando el coche está a una vuelta de la parada, el equipo de boxes prepara ruedas nuevas y todo el equipamiento necesario. Todos los mecánicos están en sus posiciones cuando llega el coche, excepto el encargado del elevador trasero.

Una parada en boxes implica veinte mecánicos, con el objetivo de completar la parada en el mínimo tiempo posible, que son entre seis y doce segundos dependiendo de la cantidad de combustible repostada. Sin embargo, su ocurre un problema como un fallo en la bomba de combustible o una parada de motor, o hay reparaciones adicionales, el tiempo se puede prolongar. Los coches repostan a razón de 12 litros por segundo. Este rápido repostaje se lleva a cabo por un complejo sistema cerrado que bombea aire fuera del depósito a medida que se llena de combustible.

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Kicker at 1/4 camera left behind subject

Main at 1/4 thru silver umbrella camera right

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Today has been an amazing day. Everyone has been enormously helpful. This week, we had a photography contest at school.

Tuesday, we got the tasks, came up with ideas, and played around with the studio strobes which I had no experience with until then.

Wednesday, we went to the location. Changes in plans. Set up in a tiny garage, and had a shoot going for two hours. Got a lot of help from Kristine (owner of the garage, the knife, the bunny and the ketchup used to color the bunny; but also batteries for the transmitter). After the shoot, we picked about ten candidates, but ended up with this. Kai used the rest of the day to process it to perfection (atleast so we like to think).

Today, Thursday. We met up together at the printing store at 0900. We went for an A1 print on special paper, and we were truly astonished. The quality was amazing. It was dreadfully expensive, though - but seems already that it will pay off, since the school is willing to buy it for more than we spent printing and framing it. Afterwards, we went to a frame maker who also proved himself very helpful, helping us framing the print which basically was dripping wet, since it only had been drying for an hour or so (usually, you need to dry it for 24 hours, but we had to finish it by 1100).

The end result was just stunning, and wether or not we win the contest is irrelevant. We've had tons of fun in the process of creating this!

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Queen Elizabeth Country Park

Hampshire's biggest country park... 20 miles of trails for walkers, cyclists and horse riders... Butser Hill National Nature Reserve and the highest point on the south downs. 1,400 acres of open access woodland and downland within the East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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By far if I have to choose the best one among my photographs, I will choose this one first. Actually while taking this shot, I was waiting for her to take off. The moment she lifted I started firing my camera and the result is what you see.

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Parc Natural del Garraf - Jafra, Barcelona (Spain).

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Garraf is a place little documented, and for that reason it is surrounded by mystery and legend.

Jafra, a deserted and ruinous town, is named already in 1139, and in 1332 a castle is mentioned. Apparently in 14th century all the inhabitants died due to the Black Death epidemic, although shortly after it became to populate, and in 1432 it became to open the parish. In 17th century the barons of Jafra named a mayor (1683) and recovered the church, dedicated to Santa Maria (1688). In 1819 Jafra lost its last mayor and it joined to the town of Olivella (the parishes already were tie). The culture of the vine made increase the population during 17th century. In 1820 there were 83 inhabitants, and in 1850 the church was recovered again. The plague of phylloxera of end of 19th century caused the desertion of lands, and in 1960 they were left only 19 inhabitants, scattered by farms of the environs.

At the moment only it is left still on the church (in restoration), the walls of rectory and the house of the barons, and those of the house of the servants. About the cemetery only left some walls and two great cypresses, and by the environs it has scattered ruins of which they could be other small houses.

When I arrived at the entrance of the church I was a little rare, with a discomfort sensation, of not feeling very at ease in this place, so I did not entertain myself in making many photos. I do not know why, but I had desire to go away there. And it was later, already in house, when documenting about the place I found the explanation of those strange sensations.

Jafra is considered damn town, and it is object of investigation by different parapsychology studious groups. It comments that at night lights have been seen roam by the zone, and in the house of the servants, called “the enchanted house” have been poltergeist phenomena, like blows, sudden changes of temperature, voices and until some appearance. Here they have been possible to record psychophonies. Also it comments that years ago a boy fell into a well near the cemetery and died drowned, and since it have been heard moans and it has been believed to see a figure roam near the cypresses of the cemetery.

I do not believe in these things, but the strange sensations that I experimented there are well certain...

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El Garraf es un lugar poco documentado, y por ello está rodeado de misterio y de leyenda.

Jafra, un poblado abandonado y ruinoso, ya es nombrado en el año 1139, y en 1332 se menciona un castillo. Por lo visto en el siglo XIV murieron todos los habitantes debido a la epidemia de peste, aunque poco después se volvió a poblar, y en 1432 se volvió a abrir la parroquia. En el siglo XVII los barones de Jafra nombraron un alcalde (1683) y restauraron la iglesia, dedicada a Santa María (1688). En 1819 Jafra perdió su último alcalde y se incorporó al pueblo de Olivella (las parroquias ya estaban vinculadas). El cultivo de la viña hizo aumentar la población durante el siglo XVII. En 1820 había 83 habitantes, y en 1850 se restauró nuevamente la iglesia. La plaga de filoxera de finales del siglo XIX provocó el abandono de las tierras, y en 1960 quedaban tan solo 19 habitantes, diseminados por las masías de los alrededores.

Actualmente sólo queda en pie la iglesia (en restauración), los muros de la rectoría y de la casa de los barones, y los de la casa de los criados. Del cementerio apenas quedan unos muros y dos grandes cipreses, y por los alrededores hay diseminadas ruinas de lo que podrían ser otras casas pequeñas.

Cuando llegué a la entrada de la iglesia me encontré un poco raro, con una sensación de incomodidad, de no sentirme muy a gusto en el lugar, así que no me entretuve en hacer muchas fotos. No sé por qué, pero tenía ganas de marchar de allí. Y fue después, ya en casa, cuando documentándome acerca del lugar encontré la explicación a esas extrañas sensaciones.

Por lo visto Jafra es considerado un pueblo maldito, y es objeto de investigación por parte de diferentes grupos estudiosos de parapsicología. Se comenta que de noche se han visto luces merodear por la zona, y en la casa de los criados, llamada "la casa encantada" ha habido fenómenos poltergeist, como golpes, cambios súbitos de temperatura, voces y hasta alguna aparición. En ella se han podido grabar psicofonías. También se comenta que hace años cayó un niño a un pozo cerca del cementerio y murió ahogado, y desde entonces se han oído lamentos y se ha creído ver una figura merodear cerca de los cipreses del cementerio.

Yo no creo en estas cosas, pero las extrañas sensaciones que experimenté allí son bien ciertas...

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Thank you, Jason, for sending me this song. :D

Obviously this was taken on the same day as the previous picture.

I'm not quite sure what I think about this but I like it for its strangeness.

Opened up, proudly on display

What we tried so hard to hide away

Blinding light illuminates the scene

Try to fill the spaces in between

Arms entwined in a final pose

Narrative drawing to a close

Still remain the things we couldn't kill

In your eyes I can see it still

How we choose the framing of the scene

Hate begins to spill across the screen

Blinding light illuminates the scene

Try to fill the spaces in between.

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I'm thinking about writing a sort of hectic autobiography. Maybe just throwing together a whole bunch of events into a general framework and going with it. I can't seem to keep my stories and writings consistent and together, and often end up losing my thought for the next section of the piece or I just lose all creativity and motivation for writing said piece. Maybe this will keep me on track. It does interest me, I must admit. Though I'm only sixteen, I believe I would have quite a bit of events to list. A friend told me that my life is like opening a large book, and she feels like she is only an extra. Like one of those characters that "don't particularly matter." I told her that every character within my story that chooses to matter will matter to me dearly. They will do so long after they no longer want to be a part of my story as well. I do mean that. And love, you do matter.

Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (1 of 5): Minao Theatre /

CITA EN EL CINE (1 de 5): Cines Minao

(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.

FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español

Akari: Hahaha, thank you (^________^)

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Akari: Jajaja, muchas gracias. (^________^)

COLLABORATION:

- Minao's Akari Collaboration

- Dom y Akari en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es

- Cinema's diorama by Minao. Sweets shop's diorama by Sheryl and Minao Collaboration.

- Little interpretation of Mad_Pullip's Emily as a MUSE fan.

SHERYL LINKS:

- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl

- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012

Point to the right stuff.

Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: THAT'S HOW I MET HIM (1 of 2) /

ASÍ LO CONOCÍ (1 de 2)

(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33.

PHOTOSTORY: In English / En Español

Pepa: Morgana... there's a man in your bed... O__O

Morgana: …

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Pepa: Morgana... hay un tío en tu cama... O__O

Morgana: ...

COLLABORATION:

- Miercole's Morgana Collaboration

- Morgana y Valo en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es

SHERYL LINKS:

- Pullip .es: Las Fotohistorias de Sheryl

- Sheryl's Flickr: Photostories 2011 - Sketches 2011 / Photostories 2012 - Sketches 2012

You have to see peekaboo close up

Spilostethus pandurus is a species of ground bugs belonging to the family Lygaeidae, subfamily Lygaeinae.

It is found in the Euro-mediterranean-Turaniaan Region, with a more southern spread in respect of Spilostethus saxatilis.

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Two children playing Peekaboo (1895 painting by Georgios Jakobides).

Sneekaboo (also spelled Peek-a-boo) is a game played with babies. In the game, the older player hides their face, pops back into the baby's view, and says Peekaboo! sometimes followed by I see you!

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Type: Container feeder

Flag: Antigua & Barbuda

Port of Registry: St. John's

Year built: 1994

Built by: J.J. Sitas shipyard, Hamburg

Owner: Reederei Speck GbR, Hörsten, Germany

Length: 96.40m

Beam: 15.90m

Draft: 5.94m max.

Gross tonnage: 2.997 tons

Net tonnage: 1.320 tons

Deadweight: 4.530 tons

Container capacity: max 304 TEU

Reefer points: 25

Engine: MaK 8 M 453 C

Power: 2.700 kW

Speed​​: 15 knots

MMSI: 304010515

Call Sign: V2AF7

IMO: 9101156

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La ninfa de efímera se muestra nerviosa después de varios meses de vida acuática. Es ninfa porque todavía no ha alcanzado la madurez, pero lo hará pronto. Casi ha completado su desarrollo, apenas un par de cambios más, cambios de magia sin truco y pasará de la vida en el agua a la vida aérea. En el tórax se desplegarán pronto uno o dos pares de alas y las branquias, que agitadas vibran en el agua, se reabsorberán en tubos traqueales para comenzar a respirar aire ▷.

Una nueva vida efímera la espera en el aire, apenas durará lo que un suspiro, con suerte veinticuatro horas, las imprescindibles para encontrar una pareja, aparearse y asegurar una nueva generación de descendientes que repetirán el ciclo. Casi un año viviendo inadvertida en el agua, alimentándose de plantas y algas para brillar en el aire, como una estrella fugaz durante apenas un día.

La efímera nos muestra hoy su vida menos efímera, la acuática, la agitación de sus aladas branquias, el fluir rápido de su sangre recorriendo su interior, como con prisa por salir y brillar por un día.

Las efímeras, Ephemeroptera, constituyen el orden de insectos más primitivo que existe sobre el planeta, están representadas por cerca de tres mil especies que viven en cualquier tipo de hábitat excepto en la Antártida. Siempre las fases juveniles son acuáticas mientras que las adultas son aéreas, muy frágiles y de corta vida.

La imagen de hoy, una ninfa de efímera, fotografiada a cien aumentos con la técnica de campo oscuro, procede de una muestra de agua recogida por Marcos Ochoa en el río Tirón, en las inmediaciones de Tirgo (La Rioja).

Gracias a África podemos mostrar la imagen de algunos efímeros individuos adultos 1 , 2 y 3

Con nuestra gratitud para Pilar Gil por la publicación en Qúo, a Antonio Martínez Ron ...y también Paul/

Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA

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También en la galería de Fotolog

Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz

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yesterday a very old friend and i went to China town and got some shots, for the majority of the time i was using his old Minolta camera while he used my D40. I'm proud to say yesterday was my first ever roll of film (: I'm going to develop them on Monday, but I'm not looking forward to seeing how well they came out, because i know they wont be the best ! but no one is perfect and although getting lots of practice wont make me perfect, it will get me close to it!

anyway about this shot she was a street vendor, selling scarfs and other items, it was kind of late into the day and it was overcast the whole day so at that time it was already getting dark so i couldnt get much.

the blue tones are a preset on lightroom 3 then i took it over to photoshop and did a bit more tweaking around.

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Multipurpose Vessel of the Water and Shipping Office Cuxhaven

Year: 1998

Flag: Germany

Port of Registry: Cuxhaven

Callsign: DBJM

IMO-No. 9143984

Technical data:

Length: 78.91 m

Beam: 18.63 m

Draft, max: 5.79 m

Max speed: 15 knots or 27.8 km / h

Crew: 16 people

Shipyard: Volksweft Stralsund

Building Number: 415

Gross tonnage: 3422 tons

Net tonnage: 1026 tons

Displacement: 3099 tons

GL-class ship: +100 A5 E3 FF1 "Oil and Chemical Recovery Vessel", "Tug", "Icebreaker"

GL-class machine: + MC E3 AUT FF1 RP505

Drive Concept: Diesel / Electric,

2x rudder propeller in nozzle (Eiskl.4) Diameter: 300 cm with 4 wings, from Schottel, and 1x 5800kW at 1074UpM Pumpjet, 2600kW at 913 rpm

Main drive: 3 x MTU 16V 595 TC 50, 3000kW at 1500UpM

Auxiliary Diesel: 1 x MTU 12V 396 TC 54, 969kW at 1500UpM

Auxiliary Diesel: 1 x MTU 8V 183 TE 52, 300kW at 1500UpM

Crane: NFM-pillar crane to hoist 220 kN at 25 m design for recovery (eg for lost container) and linkage with swell 125 kN at 15 m tons of work interpretation

Towing winch: 1130 kN bollard pull, 2,000 kN holding power, tow rope diameter 62 mm, 1000 m tow length

Responsibilities: oil skimming, tons laying, breaking ice, emergency towing, fire fighting, navigation police duties.

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These photos of the Starlings were taken almost exactly a year ago from my kitchen window. They are frequenting my backyard and the feeders in large groups again this year.

December is very busy for me so I reluctantly put my camera away to avoid temptation. Once I have a camera in my hand, I am very easily distracted and the time just flies by. It would be nice to have a few extra hours in a day to fit everything in!

Hope that everyone is enjoying December and your preparations for the holiday season are going well. I don't have much time to comment but I do try to at least view your photos. I promise I will take time to make comments soon!

If you have the time, click here to see my photos on Darckr.

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For more than 8 years, I have been sharing a little piece of December with three friends from my old days at school. During these days we enjoy lovely moments of joy and sorrow by withdrawing ourselves from the rest of the world diving into our favorite things: films, music, food and nature.

These photos were taken using a very old camera someone gave it to me while I was a kid, probably the same time I met the "horchatas"(*) (an extremely appropriate name given by my sister to my friends from school).

In particular, this series of photographies belongs to a film which has been kept on purpose during a year inside this camera, waiting for me to clearly make out our imminent reunion. It makes all the sense: future and past are equally present during our dangling conversations.

This photo series intends to represent the atmosphere we create during our stay together.

(*) Horchata is a chufa refreshing drink from Valencia. However, in Spanish we say "Horchata blood" for a extremely calm character

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In the 1970’s the ship building companies that dominated the harbor area of Amsterdam collapsed. In the 1980’s, the NDSM Wharf (the site of the project) bankrupted. The city of Amsterdam North applied for EU-subsidies in order to promote alternative industries and made in 1992 a contract with industrial companies for renting the NDSM hall / dry dock.

In the background, you can see Silodam Building (Amsterdam)

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My mum got me this orchid for my birthday. Isn't it pretty? My birthday wasn't as terrible as I thought it was going to be. It was nothing special but it was good. I was surprisingly content. I woke up late, watched tv and then JT played video games with me. He can be a pretty cool kid when he wants to be. My dad got me a portable hard drive, 500G so I can stop bitching about not having enough space.

I know my 365 probably looks weird, alot of shots I'm posting private because I'm getting lazy and just blind shooting myself before I go to sleep so I wake up with these terrible pictures of me on my camera that probably scare you all away if I posted them public. Hah.

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I think it's not fair to let the old year go by

without saying Thank You for all the wonderful motifs and moments,

which it presented to us all

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Jan. Come Together, Our more and more frequent guest ...,

Feb. Waterline, Last Years Colours #4,

Mar. Crocus Season, Colour Collection,

Apr. A Single Pearl, Out of the blue,

May 'Red Devil' at work !!, Peony Symphony,

Jun. A Heart for You, Green Magic,

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Jul. Under the Bridge, Old Town Colours,

Aug. Dahlia Portrait (#1), Shapes and Colours,

Sep. She works hard for the honey, Two plus One,

Oct. Variations of Red, ... just a little bit closer,

Nov. Abstract Red, Back from Costa Rica,

Dec.Monarch Abstract, Magic Dragon

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

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Chased this little butterfly for almost fifteen minutes while my neighbor sat on his front stoop drinking beer and laughing at the idiot in the funny hat chasing butteflies with a camera. At least I keep him amused !

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"The night we take the tram the trams we don't know where are goin'."

@ Lisboa, Portugal.

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La vecchiaia la solitudine e io e poi una malinconia tutti

e quattro camminiamo fianco a fianco senza parlarci

(Nazim Hikmet)

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Le mont Ventoux est un sommet français culminant à 1 912 mètres. Il fait environ 25 kilomètres de long sur un axe est-ouest pour 15 kilomètres de large sur un axe nord-sud. Surnommé le Géant de Provence ou le mont Chauve, il est le point culminant du massif des Baronnies et le plus haut sommet de Vaucluse. Son isolement géographique le rend visible sur de grandes distances, ce qui lui confère son nom actuel. Il constitue d'ailleurs la frontière linguistique entre le nord et le sud-occitan.

Avant d'être parcourue par trois routes principales, ce qui a permis le développement du tourisme vert et des sports d'hiver ainsi que l'organisation de grandes courses cyclistes, de bolides motorisés ou autres défis, la montagne était sillonnée de drailles tracées par les bergers à la suite de l'essor de l'élevage ovin. Ces chemins ont désormais été transformés en sentiers de randonnée.

Sa nature essentiellement calcaire est responsable de sa vive couleur blanche et d'une intense karstification due à l'érosion par l'eau, avec la présence de nombreux pierriers dans la partie sommitale. Les précipitations sont particulièrement abondantes au printemps et à l'automne. L'eau de pluie s'infiltre dans des galeries et rejaillit au niveau de résurgences au débit variable telles la Fontaine de Vaucluse.

www.bap.de/start/musik/songtexte/titel/verdamp-lang-her --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghi2xReyFYA&feature=related --- www.worldvision.de/unsere-arbeit-wie-wir-arbeiten-entwick... ---

Bap Colognian (Kölsch) pronunciation: [/bap/] is a German rock group. With ten albums reaching the number one in the German record charts, Bap is one of the most successful rock acts in their home country.

Nearly all of Bap's lyrics are written in Kölsch, the dialect of Cologne, or more precisely in a Kölsch-influenced derivation of Eifelplatt, a regional variant of the Ripuarian language spoken in the nearby rural Eifel. Niedecken's most prominent musical influences, especially early in his career, were Bob Dylan, the Kinks, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and Wolfgang Ambros.

The group was founded in 1976 under the name Wolfgang Niedecken's Bap in Cologne, Germany by Wolfgang Niedecken and Hans Heres. In 1981 they released their most famous song "Verdamp lang her" (English: Damn long time ago), in which Niedecken describes regrets he has about his relationship with his then recently deceased father. The band's name "BAP" derived from "BAPP", both, a play-on-words on the Kölsch word "Papp" (related to the German word Papa for dad), but pronounced differently, and Niedecken's then-times nickname. BAP ist eine Kölschrockband um den Frontmann Wolfgang Niedecken und gilt als eine der erfolgreichsten Rockbands deutscher Sprache. Von den 23 BAP-Alben erreichten 19 die Top 10, zehn wurden sogar Nummer 1 der Charts.Die Gruppe um Sänger und Songschreiber Wolfgang Niedecken besteht seit 1976. Die Band traf sich zu Beginn in wechselnder Besetzung, um „einen Kasten Bier leerzuproben“.[1] Der erste Auftritt erfolgte 1977 im Mariensaal in Köln-Nippes mit zwei akustischen Gitarren (Wolfgang Niedecken, Hans Heres) und Perkussion (Afro Bauermann). Das erste Album, Wolfgang Niedecken's BAP rockt andere kölsche Leeder. erschien 1979, die Band bestand zu dieser Zeit aus Wolfgang Niedecken, Hans „Honçe“ Heres, Wolfgang „Gröön“ Klever, Manfred „Schmal“ Boecker, Wolfgang „Wolli“ Boecker und Bernd Odenthal. Die zweite LP Affjetaut folgte 1980, wie die Debüt-Platte noch unter der Bezeichnung „Wolfgang Niedeckens BAP“, da Niedecken sich bereits als Solo-Künstler mit Gitarre und Mundharmonika als „Bob Dylan der Südstadt“ einen Namen gemacht hatte; beide Platten wurden noch beim Kölner Independent-Label Eigelstein Musikproduktion veröffentlicht.

Der Bandname BAP entstand aus Niedeckens Spitzname, der seinen Vater so nannte. Diese Aussprache entstammt der Herkunft der Familie aus Rheinland-Pfalz, und weil sie vom kölschen „Pap“ abwich, entstand so Niedeckens Spitzname.[2] Als ein erster Auftritt geplant wurde, für den mit einem Plakat geworben werden sollte, musste ein Bandname erdacht werden. Hans Heres schlug dem Veranstalter vor, „BAPP“ zu nehmen.[3] Da sich die Bandmitglieder aber einig waren, dass „BAPP“ – mit zwei „P“ geschrieben – auf der Bassdrum nicht gut aussah, wurde einfach ein „P“ gestrichen.[4]

Der musikalische und inhaltliche Stil der BAP-Songs wird wesentlich von Bob Dylan, den Kinks und den Rolling Stones geprägt. Auch Bruce Springsteen, mit dem Sänger Wolfgang Niedecken eine persönliche Freundschaft verbindet, gilt als wichtiger Orientierungspunkt für BAP. Verschiedene BAP-Lieder, vor allem melancholische (z. B. Helfe kann dir keiner, Paar Daach fröher) zeigen in den Arrangements und der Stimmung deutliche Ähnlichkeiten mit Stücken von Wolfgang Ambros, etwa von dessen Album 19 Class A Numbers. Die Texte beschäftigen sich oft mit gesellschaftlichen oder persönlichen Problemen.1979 fanden unter dem Bandnamen "Wolfgang Niedeckens BAP" erste Auftritte außerhalb von Köln und der näheren Umgebung statt; so zum Beispiel auch anlässlich der Bundesgartenschau 1979 in der Bonner Rheinaue.[5] Im Mai 1982 machte BAP ihre erste professionell organisierte Deutschlandtournee. Im Mittelpunkt standen Songs des aktuellen Albums Für Usszeschnigge, das 1981 als erstes beim Major-Label EMI-Electrola erschienen war. Für den Wechsel von Eigelstein zur EMI mussten BAP in der lokalen Kultur-Szene viel Kritik einstecken, wurden jedoch mit Platz 1 in den deutschen Album-Charts prompt belohnt.

Im Sommer 1982 folgten verschiedene Auftritte im Rahmen von Großveranstaltungen und Fernsehproduktionen: Rockpop In Concert für das ZDF in der Dortmunder Westfalenhalle 1, Demonstration gegen die Nachrüstung der NATO am 10. Juni 1982 (Zehnter Juni) auf den Bonner Rheinwiesen, Vorprogramm der Rolling Stones am 4. und 5. Juli 1982 im Müngersdorfer Stadion in Köln und als erste deutsche Band bei einem Festival des WDR-Rockpalast am 28. August 1982 auf der Loreley-Freilichtbühne.

Nach Erscheinen des vierten Albums Vun drinne noh drusse war die Band zwischen Oktober 1982 und Oktober 1983 sieben Monate lang unterwegs. Neben Deutschland standen auch Konzerte in Österreich, der Schweiz und den Benelux-Ländern auf dem Programm. Insgesamt wurden etwa 130 Auftritte gespielt. Die Tournee endete mit einem Konzert im Kölner „Stollwerck“. Das vom Abriss bedrohte Bürgerhaus Stollwerck erhielt die Einnahmen dieses Konzerts zur Finanzierung seiner weiteren Arbeit. Am 28. Mai 1983 spielte BAP auf einem Festival im niedersächsischen Schüttorf im Vorprogramm von Rod Stewart und am 22. Oktober 1983 auf einer weiteren Großdemonstration gegen die NATO-Nachrüstung im Bonner Hofgarten.

Für den Januar 1984 war – nach langen Verhandlungen mit der staatlichen Künstleragentur – eine Tournee mit 14 Konzerten in 13 Städten der DDR geplant. Im Vorfeld der Tour zeichnete das DDR-Fernsehen ein Interview mit Wolfgang Niedecken inklusive zweier Unplugged-Versionen von BAP-Liedern auf. Dieses wurde später jedoch sinnentstellend verkürzt gesendet. So entschloss sich Niedecken, einige politische Statements, die der Band wichtig waren, in einem eigenen Lied darzustellen. Es wurde als Deshalv spill’ mer he betitelt und erstmals auf dem letzten „West-Konzert“ vor der Tour in Wolfsburg gespielt. Als die Band bereits in Ost-Berlin im Hotel Unter den Linden war, gab es am Vorabend des ersten Konzerts heftige Auseinandersetzungen über dieses Lied mit der DDR-Seite. Als die Band sich weigerte, es von der Setlist zu nehmen, kam es zum Eklat. Die Tournee wurde abgebrochen, bevor das erste Konzert auf dem Boden der DDR gespielt werden konnte. In einer Sendung des DDR-Fernsehens war die Ansage eines Moderators während eines Konzerts im Berliner Palast der Republik zu sehen, zu dem BAP geladen war. Er nannte als Begründung ihrer Absage, die Band wolle „nicht unter dem Symbol der weißen Taube auf blauem Grund auftreten“.[6]

Die Tournee zum Album Zwesche Salzjebäck un Bier begann am 15. und 16. Juni 1984 mit zwei Konzerten im Archäologischen Park in Xanten. Sie wurden vom ZDF aufgezeichnet und später in einer Zusammenfassung gesendet. Die Tour dauerte bis zum Februar 1985 und übertraf von der Zuschauerresonanz her noch die von 1982/83.

Am 2. März 1986 begann in Lohmar bei Köln die Tournee Ahl Männer, aalglatt. BAP spielte zunächst einige Konzerte im ländlichen Raum, bevor die Band am 15. März 1986 in der Essener Grugahalle bei der 17. und letzten Rocknacht des WDR-Rockpalast auftrat. Die Rocknacht, bei der auch Jackson Browne und Big Country auftraten, wurde wie schon das Festival auf der Loreley 1982 via Eurovision von vielen europäischen Radio- und Fernsehstationen ausgestrahlt.

Von April bis Juli folgten zahlreiche weitere Konzerte. Wegen der anhaltenden Popularität wurden teilweise auch größere Hallen ausgewählt. So fanden die „Heimspiele“ der Kölner Band erstmals in der bis zu 8000 Zuschauer fassenden Kölner Sporthalle, der damals größten Veranstaltungshalle der Domstadt, statt. Bei dieser Tournee gab es mit Christian Schneider erstmals auf einer Tournee einen Gastmusiker, weil die zum Teil sehr komplexen Keyboard-Arrangements des neuen Albums live mit nur einem Keyboarder nicht zu realisieren gewesen wären. Schneider spielte neben Keyboards bei einigen Stücken auch Saxophon. Den letzten Auftritt der Tour absolvierte die Band am 26. Juli 1986; genau drei Monate nach der Atomreaktor-Katastrophe von Tschernobyl auf dem legendären Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival gegen die Wiederaufbereitungsanlage von Wackersdorf in Burglengenfeld.

Nach Ende der Tournee 1986 legte BAP eine kreative Pause ein (u. a. bedingt durch bandinterne, künstlerische Meinungsverschiedenheiten), die Wolfgang Niedecken zur Veröffentlichung seines Albums Schlagzeiten und zu einigen Solo-Konzerten nutzte. BAP stand erst im September 1987 bei zwei Festivals wieder auf der Bühne, um sich auf eine Tournee durch China vorzubereiten. Diese Tournee ist im Buch BAP övver China dokumentiert.

Das Album Da Capo wurde von Oktober bis Dezember 1988 zunächst bei einer ausgedehnten Hallentournee präsentiert. Bei dieser Tournee legte BAP die Scheu vor den ganz großen Konzertarenen endgültig ab. So standen auch die Frankfurter Festhalle und die Münchener Olympiahalle auf dem Programm. Im Sommer 1989 folgten weitere Konzerte, teilweise auch im Rahmen von Festivals gemeinsam mit Joe Cocker. Eines dieser Events fand in der Berliner Waldbühne statt.

Auch die Tournee 1991 wurde in mehreren Teilen durchgeführt. Kurz nach der Vollendung der deutschen Einheit standen im Januar 1991 zunächst die ersten Konzerte der Band auf dem Gebiet der ehemaligen DDR auf dem Programm. Anschließend ging BAP in Westdeutschland auf Club-Tour und absolvierte eine Reihe von Auftritten in beschaulichem Rahmen, zumeist in kleinen Hallen. Das Konzert im Kölner E-Werk wurde aufgezeichnet und später auf dem Album Live – Affrocke veröffentlicht.

Im Mai und Juni 1991 folgte eine Tournee ausschließlich durch die größten deutschen Konzerthallen und bei verschiedenen Open-Air-Festivals. Als Gast bei den Konzerten trat Julian Dawson auf. Am 26. Januar 1994 startete die Tournee zum im August 1993 erschienenen Album Pik Sibbe. Nach wie vor war die Nachfrage in der BAP-Hochburg Köln groß, in einigen anderen Städten blieben die Zuschauerzahlen etwas hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Die folgende Tournee zum Album Amerika begann im November 1996. Der Tourneestart in Koblenz wurde für den WDR-Rockpalast mitgeschnitten und später im Fernsehen ausgestrahlt.

Mit dem Ausstieg von Bassist Steve Borg und von Gründungsmitglied Manfred „Schmal“ Boecker verließen zwei Musiker die Band, die BAP über viele Jahre mitgeprägt haben. 1999 stieg auch Gitarrist Klaus „Major“ Heuser aus, der während 19 Jahren Bandmitgliedschaft die überwiegende Zahl der Lieder komponierte. Außerdem verließ Keyboarder Alexander „Effendi“ Büchel die Firma BAP. Diese Abgänge und die darauf folgenden Neubesetzungen veränderten den musikalischen Ausdruck von BAP nachhaltig.

Zu den Gründen für den Ausstieg von Major sagt Wolfgang Niedecken rückblickend im März 2011:

„Der Major ist ein toller Gitarrist. Aber er wollte, dass BAP international ausgerichteten Radio-Pop spielt. Ich wollte beim Kölsch-Rock bleiben. Beide Positionen waren nicht vereinbar. Ich bin ihm dankbar, dass er selbst gegangen ist. Ich hätte ihn nämlich nie rausgeschmissen.[7]“

Als Neuzugang an den Keyboards stieg Michael Nass bei BAP ein, der zuvor in den 1980er Jahren in der DDR-Musikszene musikalisch sehr aktiv war, u. a. bei P 16 und später in Liselotte Rezniceks Frauenband Mona Lise. Gitarrist wurde Helmut Krumminga. Im Sommer 2001 gab BAP vor der eigentlichen Aff un zo-Tour ab Herbst 2001 zwei Vorabkonzerte, darunter das „Konzert an der toten Brücke“ (Soda-Brücke) in Euskirchen, das auch vom WDR aufgezeichnet und wenige Tage später in der Sendung Rockpalast gesendet wurde. Das Album selbst stieg wie der Vorgänger Tonfilm auf Platz 1 in die deutschen Charts ein.

Im Januar 2006 war die Kölnarena zwar anlässlich des Starts der Jubiläumskonzerte zum 30-jährigen Bestehen der Band mit 25.000 Zuschauern an zwei aufeinander folgenden Tagen fast ausverkauft. Bei anderen Auftritten hatte man sich von vorneherein durch die Wahl kleinerer Konzertorte angepasst.

Auch das im Mai 2008 erschienene Album Radio Pandora stieg auf Platz 1 in die deutschen Charts ein. Im Winter 2008 startete die Tournee dazu, am 2. Weihnachtstag gab es das Heimspiel in der Köln-Arena (Lanxess-Arena); sie dauerte (mit Unterbrechungen) bis zum Sommer 2009, wobei die Band von Anne de Wolff (Violine, Bratsche, Gesang) und teilweise von Rhani Krija (Percussion) begleitet wurde.

Für November 2011 war der Start der aktuellsten Tournee geplant. Aufgrund einer schweren Erkrankung Wolfgang Niedeckens wurde der Start der Tour auf Anfang Mai 2012 verschoben.[8][9][10]

Auslandsauftritte [Bearbeiten]

BAP ist im Laufe der bisher 35-jährigen Bandgeschichte in vielen Ländern der Welt aufgetreten. Nachdem sich die Bandmitglieder anfangs kaum vorstellen konnten, dass ihre kölschen Texte außerhalb des Rheinlandes verstanden würden, durften sie erleben, dass ihre Platten weit darüber hinaus gekauft wurden. Tourneen waren dadurch auch im Ausland möglich.

Die ersten Auftritte außerhalb Deutschlands waren im Dezember 1982 in der Schweiz (Basel und St.Gallen)[11] und bis Mitte der 1980er Jahre in Österreich, Luxemburg, Belgien und Dänemark (Roskilde-Festival). Seitdem gehören Auftritte in diesen Nachbarländern zum Bestandteil jeder Tournee.

Spätere Fernreisen wurden zumeist als Begleitung zu künstlerischen oder politischen Themen organisiert; häufig war nicht die komplette Gruppe unterwegs; manchmal auch nur Wolfgang Niedecken alleine oder in Begleitung von Musikern seiner Solo-Projekte:

Mit einigen Gästen tourte BAP im Oktober 1987 vier Wochen durch China. Acht Auftritte wurden in Peking, Shanghai und Kanton absolviert.[12]

Wolfgang Niedecken spielte 1987 auf Einladung der Kulturstiftung Casa de los tres Mundos (ein Projekt des Schauspielers Dietmar Schönherr, des Produzenten Peter Reichelt und des Kulturministers Ernesto Cardenal) mit seiner Complizen-Band in Nicaragua.

In ähnlicher Zusammensetzung spielten Wolfgang Niedecken & Complizen 1988 in Mosambik eine kleine Tour.

Die politischen Veränderungen in der Sowjetunion unter Gorbatschow machten es möglich, dass BAP im Mai 1989 je drei Konzerte in Moskau und Wolgograd gab.[13] Dort kamen die Musiker auch mit Fans aus der DDR ins Gespräch. Nachdem die BAP-Tour durch Ostdeutschland 1984 abgesagt wurde, war der Umweg über die UdSSR die einzige Möglichkeit, als DDR-Bürger mit der Band zu sprechen.

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On Thursday 7, the blockades from the previous day continued, with hundreds of protesters sleeping on the different roads leading to Heiligendamm. But the main action took place in Hinter Bollhagen, one of the 2 entrances to the "red zone" : thousands of people gathered on the fields in front of the fence, while police deployed their full arsenal (troops dropped by helicopters, horses, dogs, and no less than 8 water canons). A couple of isolated people managed to run to the fence and where immediately seized. The mood was however quite relaxed, with very little violence ( a few stones and bottles thrown at some point). The police eventually cleared the field with water canons, and (once and briefly) some tear gas.

Here, a rare photo of Black Block members posing for me, holding a plastic sheet against the water cannon. They usually don't want to have their photo taken, both for practical reasons (to avoid identification) and ideological ones (opposed to the mainstream media). Note that in Germany, it's forbidden for demonstrators to wear masks, scarfs, goggles, etc (preventing identification), as well as any protective gear (helmet, etc.).

For a good and detailed article (in French) about the Black Block, by Francis Dupuis-Déri, read here.

Please read the explanation at the beginning of the set and view the pictures in chronological order.

Part of " G8 summit 2007"

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