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I've had these Nike iDs since February just waiting for the warm weather to start. Thought it was nice enough to wear them today for some captures at Washington Square Park, New York. I choose to do a similar image to my AM1 Curry from last weekend.
This is one of the images that I wish came out sharper in the shoe area. I messed up the settings on my cam when setting up for this shot. The problem is, my screen is almost gone, so I can barely see what the image looks like when I take it. I'm basically just shooting away with no real idea how the capture looks. It's only until it's put into iPhoto at home, that I can see the results. It really sucks, but hopefully my cam will be replaced soon.
Camera - Panasonic DMC ZS3
Photoshop - Used for Levels, Exposure, Brightness & Contrast, and Saturation (-50)
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So I went out to buy a mask today for a picture somewhat like this. It didn't really come out how I planned it to come out =/
But this is what I got.
I'll try something better with the mask tomorrow.
Perfect by nature
Icons of self indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world that
Never was and never will be
Have you no shame? Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled
Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh how we love you
No flaws when you're pretending
But now I know she
Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
Without the mask, where will you hide?
Can't find yourself lost in your lie
I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore
It Never was and never will be
You don't know how you've betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't save me
Somehow now you're everybody's fool
Cornelian Cherry does this mean "Armenian Cherry blossoms" why not, LOL!! Blooming young trees at the new Park.
Wiki:
It is a medium to large deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5-12 m tall, with dark brown branches and greenish twigs. The leaves are opposite, 4-10 cm long and 2-4 cm broad, with an ovate to oblong shape and an entire margin. The flowers are small (5-10 mm diameter), with four yellow petals, produced in clusters of 10-25 together in the late winter, well before the leaves appear. The fruit is an oblong red drupe 2 cm long and 1.5 cm in diameter, containing a single seed.
The fruit is edible, but the unripe fruit is astringent. The fruit only fully ripens after it falls from the tree. When ripe, the fruit is dark ruby red. It has an acidic flavour which is best described as a mixture of cranberry and sour cherry; it is mainly used for making jam, makes an excellent sauce similar to cranberry sauce when pitted and then boiled with sugar and orange, but also can be eaten dried. In Azerbaijan and Armenia, the fruit is used for distilling vodka.
Dancing with the Stars: Results, tonight
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Following, a text, in english, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located in the Piazza Navona. Designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini, it is emblematic of the dynamic and dramatic effects sought by High Baroque artists. It was erected in 1651 in front of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone, and yards from the Pamphilj Palace belonging to this fountain's patron, Innocent X (1644-1655).
The four gods on the corners of the fountain represent the four major rivers of the world known at the time: the Nile, Danube, Ganges, and Plate. The design of each god figure has symbolic importance.
Design
Bernini's design was selected in competition. The circumstances of his victory are described as follows:
So strong was the sinister influence of the rivals of Bernini on the mind of Innocent that when he planned to set up in Piazza Navona the great obelisk brought to Rome by the Emperor Caracalla, which had been buried for a long time at Capo di Bove for the adornment of a magnificent fountain, the Pope had designs made by the leading architects of Rome without an order for one to Bernini. Prince Niccolò Ludovisi, whose wife was niece to the pope, persuaded Bernini to prepare a model, and arrange for it to be secretly installed in a room in the Palazzo Pamphili that the Pope had to pass. When the meal was finished, seeing such a noble creation, he stopped almost in ecstasy. Being prince of the keenest judgment and the loftiest ideas, after admiring it, said: “This is a trick … It will be necessary to employ Bernini in spite of those who do not wish it, for he who desires not to use Bernini’s designs, must take care not to see them.”
Paraphrase from Filippo Baldinucci, The life of Cavaliere Bernini (1682)
Public fountains in Rome served multiple purposes: first, they were highly needed sources of water for neighbors in the centuries prior to home plumbing. Second, they were monuments to the papal patrons. Earlier Bernini fountains had been the Fountain of the Triton in Piazza Barberini, the fountain of the Moor in the southern end of Piazza Navona erected during the Barberini papacy, and the Neptune and Triton for Villa Montalto, whose statuary now resides at Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Each has animals and plants that further carry forth the identification, and each carries a certain number of allegories and metaphors with it. The Ganges carries a long oar, representing the river's navigability. The Nile's head is draped with a loose piece of cloth, meaning that no one at that time knew exactly where the Nile's source was. The Danube touches the Papal coat of arms, since it is the large river closest to Rome. And the Río de la Plata is sitting on a pile of coins, a symbol of the riches America could offer to Europe (the word plata means silver in Spanish). Also, the Río de la Plata looks scared by a snake, showing rich men's fear that their money could be stolen. Each is a river god, semi-prostrate, in awe of the central tower, epitomized by the slender Egyptian obelisk (built for the Roman Serapeum in AD 81), symbolizing by Papal power surmounted by the Pamphili symbol (dove). In addition, the fountain is a theater in the round, a spectacle of action, that can be strolled around. Water flows and splashes from a jagged and pierced mountainous disorder of travertine marble. A legend, common with tour-guides, is that Bernini positioned the cowering Rio de la Plata River as if the sculpture was fearing the facade of the church of Sant'Agnese by his rival Borromini could crumble against him; in fact, the fountain was completed several years before Borromini began work on the church.
The dynamic fusion of architecture and sculpture made this fountain revolutionary when compared to prior Roman projects, such as the stilted designs Acqua Felice and Paola by Fontana in Piazza San Bernardo (1585-87) or the customary embellished geometric floral-shaped basin below a jet of water such as the Fontanina in Piazza Campitelli (1589) by Giacomo della Porta.
Unveiling
he Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was unveiled to the populace of Rome on 12 June 1651. According to a report from the time, an event was organised to draw people to the Piazza Navona. Beforehand, wooden scaffolding, overlaid with curtains, had hidden the fountain, though probably not the obelisk, which would have given people an idea that something was being built, but the precise details were unknown. Once unveiled, the full majesty of the fountain would be apparent, which the celebrations were designed to advertise. The festival was paid for by the Pamphili family, to be specific, Innocent X, who had sponsored the erection of the fountain. The most conspicuous item on the Pamphili crest, an olive branch, was brandished by the performers who took part in the event.
The author of the report, Antonio Bernal, takes his readers through the hours leading up to the unveiling. The celebrations were announced by a woman, dressed as the allegorical character of Fame, being paraded around the streets of Rome on a carriage or float. She was sumptuously dressed, with wings attached to her back and a long trumpet in her hand. Bernal notes that "she went gracefully through all the streets and all the districts that are found among the seven hills of Rome, often blowing the round bronze [the trumpet], and urging everyone to make their way to that famous Piazza." A second carriage followed her; this time another woman was dressed as the allegorical figure of Curiosity. According to the report, she continued exhorting the people to go towards the piazza. Bernal describes the clamour and noise of the people as they discussed the upcoming event.
The report is actually less detailed about the process of publicly unveiling the fountain. However, it does give ample descriptions of the responses of the spectators who had gathered in the Piazza. Once there, Bernal notes, the citizens of the city were overwhelmed by the massive fountain, with its huge life-like figures. The report mentions the "enraptured souls" of the population, the fountain, which "gushes out a wealth of silvery treasures" causing "no little wonder" in the onlookers. Bernal then continues to describe the fountain, making continuous reference to the seeming naturalism of the figures and its astonishing effect on those in the piazza.
The making of the fountain was met by opposition by the people of Rome for several reasons. First, Innocent X had the fountain built at public expense during the intense famine of 1646-48. Throughout the construction of the fountain, the city murmurred and talk of riot was in the air. Pasquinade writers protested the construction of the fountain in September 1648 by attaching hand-written invectives on the stone blocks used to make the obelisk. These pasquinades read, "We do not want Obelisks and Fountains, It is bread that we want. Bread, Bread, Bread!" Innocent quickly had the authors arrested, and disguised spies patrol the Pasquino statue and Piazza Navona
The streetvendors of the market also opposed the construction of the fountain, as Innocent X expelled them from the piazza. The Pamphilij pope believed they detracted from the magnificence of the square. The vendors refused to move, and the papal police had to chase them from the piazza. Roman Jews, in particular, lamented the closing of the Navona, since they were allowed to sell used articles of clothing there at the Wednesday market.
Navona Square (Piazza Navona).
Following, a text, in english, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in first century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium.[1] The ancient Romans came there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as 'Circus Agonalis' (competition arena). It is believed that over time the name changed to 'in agone' to 'navone' and eventually to 'navona'.
Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio, the Piazza Navona is a significant example of Baroque Roman architecture and art. It features sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers (1651) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi; and the Pamphilj palace also by Rainaldi and which features the gallery frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.
The Piazza Navona has two additional fountains: at the southern end is the Fontana del Moro with a basin and four Tritons sculpted by Giacomo della Porta (1575) to which, in 1673, Bernini added a statue of a Moor, or African, wrestling with a dolphin, and at the northern end is the Fountain of Neptune (1574) created by Giacomo della Porta. The statue of Neptune in the northern fountain, the work of Antonio Della Bitta, was added in 1878 to make that fountain more symmetrical with La Fontana del Moro in the south.
At the southwest end of the piazza is the ancient 'speaking' statue of Pasquino. Erected in 1501, Romans could leave lampoons or derogatory social commentary attached to the statue.
During its history, the piazza has hosted theatrical events and other ephemeral activities. From 1652 until 1866, when the festival was suppressed, it was flooded on every Saturday and Sunday in August in elaborate celebrations of the Pamphilj family. The pavement level was raised in the 19th century and the market was moved again in 1869 to the nearby Campo de' Fiori. A Christmas market is held in the piazza.
Other monuments on the Piazza Navona are:
Stabilimenti Spagnoli
Palazzo de Cupis
Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti
Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Palazzo Braschi (Museo di Roma)
Sant'Agnese in Agone
Literature and films
The piazza is featured in Dan Brown's 2000 thriller Angels and Demons, in which the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi "The Fountain of the four rivers"(the Danube, the Gange, the Nile and the River Plate) is listed as one of the Altars of Science. During June 2008, Ron Howard directed several scenes of the film adaptation of Angels and Demons on the southern section of the Piazza Navona, featuring Tom Hanks.
The piazza is featured in several scenes of director Mike Nichols' 1970 adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22.
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was used in the 1990 film Coins in the Fountain. The characters threw coins into the fountain as they made wishes. The Trevi Fountain was used in the 1954 version of the film.
A Fontana Dei Quattro Fiumi, é maior das três fontes, localizada no centro da praça. Na fonte dos rios, Bernini projetou quatro estátuas representando os rios dos quatro continentes: o Nilo, o Danúbio, o rio da Prata e o Ganges. As estátuas estão montadas sobre um obelisco egípcio, sendo circundadas por leões e outros animais fantásticos, tendo no cume uma pomba em bronze, símbolo da paz no mundo e da família Pamphili. Para realçar a rivalidade entre Bernini e Borromini, que fez a igreja de Santa Agnese, os romanos criaram uma lenda em torno da fonte dos rios, que fica em frente a esta igreja. Segundo os romanos, as estátuas duvidam da solidez do projeto de Borromini. A que retrata o rio da Prata, tem a mão erguida, a proteger o corpo do desabamento da igreja; a que retrata o Nilo, traz a cabeça coberta por um véu, a recusar a ver a obra de Borromini.
A seguir um texto, em português, da Wikipédia a Enciclopédia Livre:
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fonte dos Quatro Rios), foi esculpida por Gian Lorenzo Bernini entre 1648 e 1651, artista do barroco italiano, foi concebida por uma ordem do Papa Inocencio X o Papa da familia Pamphili, cujo tinha sua casa nesta praça.
Esta localizada na Praça de Navona, em Roma. Ela representa os quatro principais continentes do mundo cortados por seus principais rios: Rio Nilo, na África; Rio Ganges, na Ásia, Rio da Prata, na América e o Rio Danúbio, na Europa.
A seguir, texto em português do site Wiki lingue:
A escultura da Fonte dos Quatro Rios, encontra-se na Piazza Navona de Roma (Itália) e foi criada e talhada pelo escultor e pintor Gian Lorenzo Bernini em 1651 baixo o papado de Inocencio X, em plena época barroca, durante o período mais prolífico do genial artista e cerca da que em outro tempo fué a Chiesa dei San Giacomo de gli Spagnoli
A fonte compõe-se de uma base formada de uma grande piscina elíptica, coroada em seu centro de uma grande mole de mármol, sobre a qual se eleva um obelisco egípcio de época romana, o obelisco de Domiciano .
As estátuas que compõem a fonte, têm umas dimensões maiores que na realidade e são alegorias dos quatro rios principais da Terra (Nilo, Ganges, Danubio, Rio da Prata), a cada um deles em um dos continentes conhecidos na época. Na fonte a cada um destes rios está representado por um gigante de mármol .
As árvores e as plantas que emergem da água e que se encontram entre as rochas, também estão em uma escala maior que na realidade. Os animais e vegetales, gerados de uma natureza boa e útil, pertencem a espécies grandes e potentes (como o leão, cavalo, cocodrilo, serpente, dragão, etc.). O espectador, girando em torno da fonte, descobre novas formas que dantes estavam escondidas ou cobertas pela massa rocosa. Com esta obra, Bernini quer suscitar admiração em quem olha-a, criando um pequeno universo em movimento a imitação do espaço da realidade natural.
A fonte foi submetida a restauração, um trabalho que se deu por concluído em dezembro de 2008. Constitui um dos palcos finque da novela e o filme Anjos e Demónios, à qual é arrojado um dos cardeais sequestrados, e Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) se lança à água para lhe salvar.
Os animais da fonte
A fonte apresenta figuras de sete animais, além de uma pequena pomba e o emblema dos Pamphili. Para poder observá-las basta com dar uma volta ao redor da fonte. As figuras são: um cavalo, uma serpente de terra (na parte mais alta, cerca do obelisco), uma serpente de mar, um delfín (que funciona também como desagüe), um cocodrilo, um leão e um dragão. Notar também a vegetación esculpida que parece real.
Praça Navona.
A seguir, um texto em português, da Wikipédia a Enciclopédia livre:
A Praça Navona (em italiano: Piazza Navona) é uma das mais célebres praças de Roma. A sua forma assemelha-se à dos antigos estádios da Roma Antiga, seguindo a planificação do Estádio de Domiciano (também denominado entre os italianos de Campomarzio, em virtude da natureza rude e esforçada dos exercícios - manejo de armas - e desportos atléticos que aí se realizavam). Albergaria até 20 mil espectadores sentados nas bancadas. A origem do nome deve-se ao nome pomposo que lhe foi dado ao tempo do Imperador Domiciano (imperador entre 81-96 d.c.): "Circo Agonístico" (do étimo grego Agonia, que significa precisamente - exercício, luta, combate). Actualmente o nome corresponde à corruptela da forma posterior in agone, depois nagone e finalmente navone, que por mero acaso significa também "grande navio" na língua italiana.
As casas que entretanto e com o passar dos anos foram sendo construídas sobre as bancadas, delimitariam e circunscreveriam até à actualidade o tão afamado Circo Agonístico.
A Navona passou de fato a caracterizar-se como praça nos últimos anos do século XV, quando o mercado da cidade foi transferido do Capitólio para aí. Foi remodelada para um estilo monumental por vontade do Papa Inocêncio X, da família Pamphili e é motivo de orgulho da cidade de Roma durante o período barroco. Sofreu intervenções de Gian Lorenzo Bernini (a famosa Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fonte dos Quatro Rios, 1651) ao centro); de Francesco Borromini e Girolamo Gainaldi (a igreja de Sant'Agnese in Agone); e de Pietro de Cortona, que pintou a galeria no Palácio Pamphilj, sede da embaixada do Brasil na Itália desde 1920.
O mercado tradicional voltou a ser transferido em 1869 para o Campo de' Fiori, embora a praça mantenha também um papel fundamental em servir de palco para espectáculos de teatro e corridas de cavalos. A partir de 1652, em todos os Sábados e Domingos de Agosto, a praça tornava-se num lago para celebrar a própria família Pamphili.
A praça dispõe ainda duas outras fontes esculpidas por Giacomo della Porta - a Fontana di Nettuno (1574), na área norte da praça, e a Fontana del Moro (1576), na área sul.
Na extremidade norte da praça, por debaixo dos edifícios, foram postas a descoberto ruínas antiquíssimas, a uma cota muito abaixo da actual, comprovando a primeva utilização daquele imenso terreiro. Outros monumentos com entrada para a praça:
Stabilimenti Spagnoli
Palazzo de Cupis
Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti
Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Curiosidades
Na Piazza Navona, está localizado o Palazzo Pamphilj, propriedade da República Federativa do Brasil, sede da Embaixada Brasileira e da Missão Diplomática do Brasil para a Itália.
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Canal TV en YOUTUBE NightPhotography
En compañía de mi amigo Carles de www.terradeningu.com en el curso del fin de semana pasado en Prades (Tarragona)
Y aprovecho también para agradecer su amabilidad a Rafa por sacarnos de la autovía perdida a altas horas de la madrugada después de pasar 10 horas en el aeropuerto de Barajas por culpa de Iberia y llegar a mi destino casi 12 horas más tarde de lo previsto.
Exif:
Camera: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D700
Exposure: 68.7
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 200
WB: 3030
White light and a light painting tool.
Autumn
Autumn or fall is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in March (Southern Hemisphere) or September (Northern Hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.
The equinoxes might be expected to be in the middle of their respective seasons, but temperature lag (caused by the thermal latency of the ground and sea) means that seasons appear later than dates calculated from a purely astronomical perspective. The actual lag varies with region, so some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn" whilst others with a longer lag treat it as the start of autumn. Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere and March, April and May in the southern hemisphere.
Personification of Autumn (Currier & Ives lithograph, 1871).
Autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on about 7 November in traditional East Asian solar term. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are September, October and November. However, according to the Irish Calendar which is based on ancient Celtic traditions, autumn lasts throughout the months of August, September, and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In Australia, autumn officially begins on 1 March and ends 31 May. The vast diversity of the ecological zones of the South American, African and Australian continents renders the rigid European, North Asian and North American seasonal calendar an imposed cultural concept rather than relevant to climactic conditions. The seasonal cycles as named and described by the various indigenous Aboriginal peoples of Australia differ substantially from one another according to their local geographical and ecological environment and are intricately dependent on local environmental events and resources.
Etymology
The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French), and was later normalised to the original Latin word autumnus. There are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but it became common by the 16th century.
Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season. However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns (especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.
The alternative word fall is now mostly a North American English word for the season. It traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".
During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America, where autumn is nonetheless preferred in scientific and often in literary contexts.
Harvest association
Association with the transition from warm to cold weather, and its related status as the season of the primary harvest, has dominated its themes and popular images. In Western cultures, personifications of autumn are usually pretty, well-fed females adorned with fruits, vegetables and grains that ripen at this time. Most ancient cultures featured autumnal celebrations of the harvest, often the most important on their calendars. Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full moon harvest festival of "tabernacles" (huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance). There are also the many North American Indian festivals tied to harvest of autumnally ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many others. The predominant mood of these autumnal celebrations is a gladness for the fruits of the earth mixed with a certain melancholy linked to the imminent arrival of harsh weather.
This view is presented in English poet John Keats' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of 'mellow fruitfulness'.
Melancholy association
A brightly colored tree contrasts the green foliage which surrounds it
Autumn in poetry has often been associated with melancholy. The possibilities of summer are gone, and the chill of winter is on the horizon. Skies turn grey, and people turn inward, both physically and mentally. Rainer Maria Rilke, a German poet, has expressed such sentiments in one of his most famous poems, Herbsttag (Autumn Day), which reads
Who now has no house, will not build one (anymore).
Who now is alone, will remain so for long,
will wake, and read, and write long letters
and back and forth on the boulevards
will restlessly wander, while the leaves blow.
Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own aging self. Like the natural world that he observes he too has reached his prime and now must look forward to the inevitability of old age and death. French poet Paul Verlaine's "Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") is likewise characterized by strong, painful feelings of sorrow. Keats' To Autumn, written in September 1819, echoes this sense of melancholic reflection, but also emphasises the lush abundance of the season.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;'
Other associations
Halloween pumpkins
Autumn is also associated with the Halloween season (which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival),[12] and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it. The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.
Since 1997, Autumn has been one of the top 100 names for girls in the United States.
In Indian mythology, autumn is considered to be the preferred season for the goddess of learning Saraswati, who is also known by the name of "goddess of autumn" (Sharada).
source: Wikipedia
Rupit, Barcelona (Spain).
This duck not yet has class, and must swim in dangerous waters of the river.
Este pato aún no tiene categoría, y tiene que nadar en las peligrosas aguas del río.
ENGLISH
Aluminium foil (known as aluminum foil in North America) is aluminium prepared in thin sheets with a thickness less than 0.2 mm / 0.008 in, although much thinner gauges down to 0.006 mm are commonly used. As a result of this, the foil is extremely pliable, and can be bent or wrapped around objects with ease. However, thin foils are fragile and easily damaged, and are usually laminated to other materials such as plastics or paper to make them useful. It replaced tin foil towards the end of the 19th century.
Foil made from a thin leaf of tin was commercially available before its aluminium counterpart. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, tin foil was in common use, and some people continue to refer to the new product by the old name. Tin foil is much stiffer than aluminium foil. It tends to give a slight tin taste to the food wrapped in it, which is one major reason it has largely been supplanted by aluminium and other materials for wrapping food. The first audio recordings on phonograph cylinders were made on tin foil.
Tin was first replaced by aluminium in 1910, when the first aluminium foil rolling plant, “Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie. and Emmishofen.” was opened in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. The plant, owned by J.G. Neher & Sons, the aluminium manufacturers, started in 1886 in Schaffhausen and Switzerland, at the foot of the Rhine Falls - capturing the falls' energy to produce aluminium. Neher's sons together with Dr. Lauber discovered the endless rolling process and the use of aluminium foil as a protective barrier on December 1907.
The first use of foil in the United States was in 1913 for wrapping Life Savers, candy bars and gum. Processes evolved over time to include the use of print, colour, lacquer, laminate and the embossing of the aluminium.
The extensive use of aluminium foil has been criticised by some environmentalists because of the high resource cost of extracting aluminium, primarily as a result of the large amount of electricity used to decompose bauxite. However, this cost is greatly reduced via recycling, reduced energy requirements during transport due to lighter weight packages, and the fact that many foods that would otherwise perish can be protected over long periods without refrigeration. Many aluminium foil products can be recycled at around 5% of the original energy cost, although many aluminium laminates are not recycled due to difficulties in separating the components and low yield of aluminium metal.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_foil
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CASTELLANO
El papel aluminio (conocido también como papel plateado) es una hoja fina de aluminio que, a consecuencia de ello, es extremadamente maleable y permite numerosos usos en la vida cotidiana, entre las que está la de poder hacer de envoltorio de diversos objetos. conductor de electricidad y se utiliza también como papel de embalaje para envolver alimentos. En España se conoce popularmente como "papel Albal" por la marca Albal, que lo comercializa. Millones de toneladas de papel de aluminio se emplean a diario en todo el mundo en el embalaje y protección de alimentos, cosméticos y productos químicos diversos. Por regla general con una capa extremadamente delgada que suele rondar desde los 20 µm a los 6.5 µm, en algunos casos es laminado con otros materiales tales como plástico o papel.
Mucho antes que el moderno papel de aluminio, se empleaban y distribuían hojas finas de estaño para propósitos similares. A finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del siglo XX las hojas delgadas de estaño eran ya muy populares y cuando empezaron a aparecer en el mercado las nuevas hojas de papel de aluminio la gente las seguía denominando como hojas de estaño. El nuevo producto era mejor que las antiguas hojas de estaño debido a diversas razones, el estaño dejaba sabores 'extraños' en los alimentos envueltos con este papel y su resistencia y prestaciones eran mejores. No obstante, las primeras grabaciones de audio en los fonógrafos de cilindro se hicieron en finas hojas de estaño.
Las láminas de estaño se reemplazaron por las de aluminio en el año 1910, justo cuando se estableció la primera planta de elaboración de láminas de aluminio bajo la empresa Dr. Lauber, Neher & Cie., Emmishofen, que fue instalada en Kreuzlingen (Suiza). La planta pertenecía J.G. Neher & Sons (manufactureros del aluminio) que comenzaron su trabajo ya en el año 1886 en los alrededores de la ciudad de Schaffhausen, Suiza cerca de las cataratas del Rhine - capturaban la energía de las cataratas para producir el aluminio-. Los hermanos Neher junto con el Dr. Lauber descubrieron el proceso de laminado sin fin y el uso del papel de aluminio como barrera protectora. Los primeros usos de estas hojas fueron el embalaje de los productos del tabaco, las barras de chocolate. a lo largo del tiempo los productores fueron añadiendo lacas que coloreaban las hojas de aluminio.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papel_de_aluminio
2010 5k
Listed below are the participants (sorted by cities and chip times) in the Bushtukah Canada Day 2010 5k road race, held in Kanata, Ontario.
Click here and enter the name or bib number for the full individual race results, race photos and finish-line videos.
Thank-you to Sportstats.
Photo (above): Maya Aden (15:06.3), In My Sights photograhy.
Local runners (Ontario)
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bib # 1986…… Sandra MOORE……Almonte……22:32.0
bib # 257…… Jonas BARTER……Almonte……26:37.1
bib # 1157…… Harold KUEHN……Ashton……23:25.6
bib # 1158…… Nancy KUEHN……Ashton……35:54.1
bib # 296…… Scott BLAIN……Beachburg……20:32.2
bib # 447…… Louis-Philippe DEMERS……Bourget……26:45.6
bib # 1140…… Diana KING……Carleton Place……24:34.4
bib # 1898…… Wade MACMILLAN……Carleton Place……25:48.7
bib # 2469…… Sean MUIR……Carleton Place……26:31.3
bib # 2470…… Victoria MUIR……Carleton Place……26:32.2
bib # 1910…… Serge MARGUERIE……Carleton Place……27:08.6
bib # 217…… Simon AMIRAULT……Carleton Place……27:09.2
bib # 2149…… Momena ROUF……Carleton Place……38:41.0
bib # 1897…… Ivana MACMILLAN……Carleton Place……38:41.9
bib # 440…… Garrett DE JONG……Carlsbad Springs……16:28.7
bib # 2224…… Brent SULLIVAN……Carp……23:57.2
bib # 229…… Beth ANVARI……Carp……24:16.1
bib # 2225…… Mark SULLIVAN……Carp……25:10.0
bib # 2017…… Jordan NESBIT……Carp……26:20.7
bib # 1899…… Steve MACMILLIAN……Carp……26:42.2
bib # 527…… Kathy FISCHER……Carp……28:07.9
bib # 2131…… Spencer ROBERTS……Carp……28:22.1
bib # 2128…… Micheael ROBERTS……Carp……28:22.5
bib # 528…… Peter FISCHER……Carp……30:25.7
bib # 499…… Allison ECKFORD……Carp……33:53.6
bib # 1959…… Nicole MCMURRAY……Carp……38:18.7
bib # 281…… Andy BEST……Chalk River……21:27.1
bib # 2035…… Bruce OATTES……Cobden……20:11.9
bib # 2451…… Dylan SPENCER……Cobden……23:05.6
bib # 2452…… Leslie SPENCER-HITCHINS……Cobden……23:05.7
bib # 2036…… Dylan OATTES……Cobden……32:37.9
bib # 2037…… Janet OATTES……Cobden……32:42.1
bib # 1132…… Debra KENNETTE……Crysler……27:57.1
bib # 231…… Rachel APPS……Dunrobin……28:58.9
bib # 1088…… Roger HUNTER……Gloucester……27:42.4
bib # 1089…… Ryan HUNTER……Gloucester……27:42.9
bib # 2337…… Glenda WRIGHT……Gloucester……28:39.6
bib # 2077…… Shaun PIERCE……Gloucester……28:58.0
bib # 1085…… Kathy HUNTER……Gloucester……43:13.8
bib # 1086…… Kristen HUNTER……Gloucester……43:13.8
bib # 449…… Brooke DENNIS BOWSER……Greely……42:58.3
bib # 423…… Faun DANSON……Greely……43:00.3
bib # 2069…… Jasmin PAYANT……Hammond……19:52.2
bib # 2070…… Raphael PAYANT……Hammond……24:13.8
bib # 316…… Graham BOWES……Kanata……15:52.1
bib # 1651…… Tyson LONEY……Kanata……16:20.0
bib # 432…… Kieran DAY……Kanata……16:20.7
bib # 434…… Mickey DAY……Kanata……17:00.7
bib # 493…… Wayne DUSTIN……Kanata……17:07.1
bib # 212…… Jarvis ALEC……Kanata……17:14.8
bib # 891…… Brendon HOWARD……Kanata……17:34.1
bib # 2228…… Benjamin SWAN……Kanata……19:22.9
bib # 237…… Susan ATHERLEY……Kanata……20:03.7
bib # 1922… Tanyon MATHESON-FITCHETT..Kanata...20:10.2
bib # 532…… Jeff FITCHETT……Kanata……20:10.3
bib # 538…… Vincent Andy FONG……Kanata……20:10.5
bib # 411…… Mark CROZIER……Kanata……20:33.3
bib # 2143…… Ronald ROSS……Kanata……20:55.1
bib # 1189…… Charles LEBELLE……Kanata……20:55.4
bib # 1723…… Kenneth MACASKILL……Kanata……21:16.7
bib # 1712…… Jonathan MACASKILL……Kanata……21:16.9
bib # 2084…… Matthew POLLEX……Kanata……21:23.2
bib # 584…… Dave GRAHAM……Kanata……21:25.3
bib # 610…… Susan HALVORSEN……Kanata……22:04.9
bib # 1979…… Brendan MOLONEY……Kanata……22:48.3
bib # 591…… Jade GREGORY……Kanata……22:55.6
bib # 1200…… Cheryl LEVI……Kanata……23:14.5
bib # 2338…… Hugh WRIGHT……Kanata……23:23.2
bib # 555…… Graeme FRY……Kanata……23:33.3
bib # 1980…… Terance MOLONEY……Kanata……23:35.9
bib # 2191…… David SIM……Kanata……23:47.1
bib # 2254…… Ben TREMBLAY……Kanata……23:56.0
bib # 436…… Mike DAY……Kanata……24:08.8
bib # 1160…… Jasmyne LABONTE……Kanata……24:13.7
bib # 2196…… Yan SIM……Kanata……24:36.0
bib # 2252…… Christina TOWERS……Kanata……24:36.8
bib # 615…… Emily HAMMOND……Kanata……25:15.7
bib # 1915…… Jeremiah MARSHALL……Kanata……25:24.0
bib # 1917…… Theresa MARSHALL……Kanata……25:31.0
bib # 2213…… Kari SPARKES……Kanata……25:32.6
bib # 614…… Carolyn HAMMOND……Kanata……25:52.0
bib # 2195…… Wei SIM……Kanata……25:59.1
bib # 232…… Jane ARMSTRONG……Kanata……26:23.6
bib # 358…… Joanne CALLOW……Kanata……26:25.4
bib # 204…… Sue ACKERMAN……Kanata……26:38.2
bib # 2142…… Pamela ROSS……Kanata……26:45.1
bib # 1193…… Jordyn LEIGHTON……Kanata……26:54.4
bib # 2002…… Marianne MURAWSKY……Kanata……27:23.3
bib # 2206…… Isobel SMITH……Kanata……27:28.5
bib # 2164…… Sherry SANI……Kanata……27:29.2
bib # 897…… Shelby HOWARD……Kanata……27:34.2
bib # 2258…… Natalie TREMBLAY……Kanata……27:34.8
bib # 2202…… Adrian SMITH……Kanata……27:35.6
bib # 2205…… Holly SMITH……Kanata……27:36.3
bib # 2253…… Mary TOWERS……Kanata……27:41.6
bib # 1146…… Jeffrey KNIGHT……Kanata……27:54.5
bib # 1147…… Sylvie KNIGHT……Kanata……27:54.6
bib # 1120…… David JORGENSON……Kanata……27:59.5
bib # 1121…… Mark JORGENSON……Kanata……27:59.6
bib # 2130…… Nicholas ROBERTS……Kanata……28:10.6
bib # 2132…… Stephen ROBERTS……Kanata……28:11.0
bib # 416…… Morgan CUTTS……Kanata……28:28.5
bib # 2009.. Joanne & Mini-M MURRAY..Kanata…28:28.5
bib # 2039…… Jeff O'CONNOR……Kanata……28:46.5
bib # 406…… Christine COUTURE……Kanata……28:51.8
bib # 230…… Judith APPS……Kanata……28:59.2
bib # 384…… Lori CIARALLI……Kanata……29:00.2
bib # 525…… Peter FILLMORE……Kanata……29:05.7
bib # 218…… Alkarim AMLANI……Kanata……29:06.4
bib # 415…… Cindy CUTTS……Kanata……29:17.7
bib # 585…… Noah GRAHAM……Kanata……29:58.3
bib # 365…… James CANTELLOW……Kanata……29:59.2
bib # 1728…… Kim MACASKILL……Kanata……30:03.2
bib # 1849…… Olivia MACASKILL……Kanata……30:03.2
bib # 2298…… Ct VIVIANE……Kanata……30:11.1
bib # 2292…… Eugene VIGNERON……Kanata……30:15.6
bib # 579…… Sydney GOOLD……Kanata……30:19.8
bib # 574…… Andrea GOODMAN……Kanata……30:20.3
bib # 577…… Hannah GOOLD……Kanata……30:21.7
bib # 2291…… Anna VIGNERON……Kanata……30:30.5
bib # 562…… Juli GAGNON……Kanata……30:31.5
bib # 2052…… Season OSBORNE……Kanata……30:33.3
bib # 2124…… Casey RINGHAM……Kanata……30:42.6
bib # 315…… Rhonda BOUDREAU……Kanata……30:46.0
bib # 2342…… Erin YAMAZAKI……Kanata……30:48.8
bib # 1994…… Heather MOSES……Kanata……30:51.5
bib # 576…… Emily GOOLD……Kanata……31:04.3
bib # 431…… Ellen DAY……Kanata……31:06.4
bib # 498…… Sienna EBBINGHAUS……Kanata……32:16.4
bib # 497…… Lakmini EBBINGHAUS……Kanata……32:16.7
bib # 2004…… Emma MURDOCH……Kanata……32:25.6
bib # 2101…… Tim RAIZENNE……Kanata……32:28.4
bib # 1186…… Alexandra LAYER……Kanata……32:33.7
bib # 2112…… Yvonne RELF……Kanata……33:15.5
bib # 481…… Emily DOWNEY……Kanata……33:26.3
bib # 482…… Michael DOWNEY……Kanata……33:29.1
bib # 211…… Kristen AKINSULIE……Kanata……33:30.4
bib # 267…… Patra BEAULIEU……Kanata……33:36.7
bib # 1931…… Alastair MCCARTNEY……Kanata……33:36.8
bib # 2299…… Sophie WAHL……Kanata……34:00.0
bib # 526…… Sarah FILLMORE……Kanata……34:05.3
bib # 524…… Michael FILLMORE……Kanata……34:05.4
bib # 1192…… Erica LEIGHTON……Kanata……34:05.9
bib # 1194…… Robert LEIGHTON……Kanata……34:06.0
bib # 2229…… Brenda SWAN……Kanata……34:07.1
bib # 1932…… Christine MCCARTNEY……Kanata……34:11.4
bib # 2293…… Jeffrey VIGNERON……Kanata……34:11.7
bib # 1965…… Richard MICHAUD……Kanata……34:14.4
bib # 442…… Guylaine DECK……Kanata……34:38.6
bib # 219…… Alyssa AMLANI……Kanata……34:40.7
bib # 554…… Emma FRY……Kanata……34:43.3
bib # 2134…… Shaun ROBIN……Kanata……34:44.0
bib # 2148…… Will ROTOR……Kanata……34:55.9
bib # 2147…… Elaine ROTOR……Kanata……35:31.0
bib # 2146…… David ROTOR……Kanata……35:31.6
bib # 2192…… Elizabeth SIM……Kanata……36:05.3
bib # 1144…… Chris KITCHEN……Kanata……36:10.2
bib # 2330…… Daniel WINTERS……Kanata……36:12.6
bib # 2329…… Dale WINTERS……Kanata……36:12.7
bib # 221…… Shalina AMLANI……Kanata……37:56.4
bib # 540…… John FORSTER……Kanata……40:58.2
bib # 220…… Pamela AMLANI……Kanata……43:08.4
bib # 2107…… Belinda REED……Kemptville……27:53.2
bib # 518…… Isabelle FERNANDEZ……Long Sault……29:51.9
bib # 1940…… Karen MCDONALD……L'Orignal……25:28.3
bib # 495…… Harley EASTMAN……Manotick……25:36.3
bib # 1944…… Stephanie MCEVOY……Munster……32:01.7
bib # 1942…… Isaac MCEVOY……Munster……33:02.1
bib # 2048…… Erin O'HIGGINS……Nepean……19:51.8
bib # 2285…… Chris VAN NORMAN……Nepean……20:29.2
bib # 1182…… Robert C J LAUGHTON……Nepean……20:52.8
bib # 2231…… Michele TAKOFF……Nepean……21:43.6
bib # 2123…… Morgan RILEY……Nepean……22:38.9
bib # 531…… Ed FITCHETT……Nepean……22:49.1
bib # 501…… Randy EDGE……Nepean……23:06.3
bib # 638…… Christopher HILL……Nepean……23:17.2
bib # 2016…… Melanie NASON-GREEN……Nepean……23:59.3
bib # 2049…… Maureen O'HIGGINS……Nepean……24:30.0
bib # 318…… Trevor BOYD……Nepean……24:31.5
bib # 2237…… Linda TAYLOR……Nepean……24:35.1
bib # 2099…… Joe RAETSEN……Nepean……25:40.9
bib # 1111…… James JOHNSTON……Nepean……27:14.2
bib # 1155…… Martin KOU……Nepean……27:15.3
bib # 1981…… Susan MOLSON……Nepean……27:26.7
bib # 435…… Mike DAY……Nepean……27:45.0
bib # 311…… Valerie BONSALL……Nepean……27:47.0
bib # 2061…… Margeaux PARKINSON……Nepean……29:24.4
bib # 561…… Jessica GAGE……Nepean……29:37.1
bib # 2121…… Brendan RILEY……Nepean……30:46.7
bib # 588…… Brian GREEN……Nepean……30:48.1
bib # 2122…… Lisa RILEY……Nepean……30:49.4
bib # 317…… Angus BOYD……Nepean……30:55.3
bib # 582…… Shawn GOUDGE……Nepean……31:11.4
bib # 2154…… Marion RUNSTEDLER……Nepean……32:38.7
bib # 2110…… Sheila REID……Nepean……33:44.1
bib # 433…… Leah DAY……Nepean……34:41.9
bib # 2328…… Roseanne WILSON……Nepean……34:49.3
bib # 399… Andrea COPPERTHWAITE……Nepean……35:05.4
bib # 2219…… Stephanie STEPHENS……Nepean……35:12.4
bib # 2030…… Kerry NOLAN……Nepean……35:37.8
bib #581…… Lesley GOUDGE……Nepean……36:29.4
bib # 1908…… Jill MARCHAND……Nepean……41:19.6
bib # 2097…… Carina QUINN……North Gower……35:00.4
bib # 189…… BRUCE BRUNELLE……Orleans……25:46.0
bib # 842…… Stephanie HORVAT……Orleans……43:17.3
bib # 81…… Maya ADEN……Ottawa……15:06.3
bib # 2473…… Joshua ROUNDELL……Ottawa……15:37.4
bib # 2214…… Matthew STACEY……Ottawa……16:17.7
bib # 1958…… Derek MCMASTER……Ottawa……16:52.8
bib # 223…… Robbie ANDERSON……Ottawa……16:55.6
bib # 1935…… Larry MCCLOSKEY……Ottawa……17:05.2
bib # 310…… Brett BONISTEEL……Ottawa……17:07.8
bib # 2300…… Harold WALKER……Ottawa……17:08.7
bib # 2440…… Sebastian SAVILLE……Ottawa……17:14.8
bib # 2153…… Jon RUDDY……Ottawa……17:15.2
bib # 1556…… Rob LIVINGSTON……Ottawa……17:22.6
bib # 83…… Chris BRERS……Ottawa……17:33.3
bib # 2336…… Frank WRIGHT……Ottawa……17:57.5
bib # 1177…… Leah LAROCQUE……Ottawa……18:01.9
bib # 149…… Drew BURSEY……Ottawa……18:26.8
bib # 2422…… Bill ROSTEK……Ottawa……18:34.7
bib # 1173…… Stacey LANCE……Ottawa……18:37.7
bib # 2289…… Carlos VERVLOET……Ottawa……18:39.6
bib # 2496…… Rebecca STALLWOOD……Ottawa……18:39.9
bib # 2441…… David SAVILE……Ottawa……18:40.6
bib # 2024…… Ari NIEMI……Ottawa……19:07.6
bib # 2032…… Shantelle NOVAK……Ottawa……19:13.7
bib # 529…… Peter FISHER……Ottawa……19:13.8
bib # 90…… Bart KELLY……Ottawa……19:33.0
bib # 306…… George BODONI……Ottawa……19:36.5
bib # 158…… Kerry ROCHELEAY……Ottawa……19:36.6
bib # 171…… DAVID MCQUINN……Ottawa……19:39.9
bib # 2390…… Marian COKE……Ottawa……19:42.2
bib # 2301…… Steven WALKER……Ottawa……19:43.0
bib # 252…… Lisa BALERNA……Ottawa……19:44.3
bib # 2401…… Mark ROUNDEL……Ottawa……19:44.8
bib # 2067…… Melanie PATINA……Ottawa……19:50.3
bib # 586…… Ken GRANT……Ottawa……19:53.0
bib # 131…… Neil SNIDER……Ottawa……19:57.4
bib # 144…… Phil TESSIER……Ottawa……20:15.2
bib # 82…… Matt HEROD……Ottawa……20:19.7
bib # 2364…… Mike BIGELOW……Ottawa……20:34.2
bib # 2261…… Jim TUNNEY……Ottawa……20:34.8
bib # 2263…… Ronan TUNNEY……Ottawa……20:34.8
bib # 537…… Peter FOLEY……Ottawa……20:42.8
bib # 397…… Patrick CONRAD……Ottawa……20:50.5
bib # 2319…… Lawrence WILLIAMS……Ottawa……20:59.8
bib # 190…… JASMINE VIAU……Ottawa……21:01.1
bib # 2428…… Stephanie GORDON……Ottawa……21:01.1
bib # 1988…… Kyle MORGAN……Ottawa……21:08.7
bib # 270…… Bobby BEGIN……Ottawa……21:12.2
bib # 2429…… Patrick OWENS……Ottawa……21:14.4
bib # 117…… Mike BARNES……Ottawa……21:16.4
bib # 100…… Tyrus GIBSON……Ottawa……21:21.0
bib # 95…… Geordie GIBSON……Ottawa……21:21.6
bib # 2407…… Jeff AVON……Ottawa……21:27.5
bib # 550…… Nick FRENETTE……Ottawa……21:31.2
bib # 1950…… Katie MCGRATH……Ottawa……21:35.7
bib # 135…… Jim MCEACHERN……Ottawa……21:42.7
bib # 333…… Rob BROOKS……Ottawa……21:43.5
bib # 1129…… Carol KELLY……Ottawa……21:46.0
bib # 2170…… Suzanne SCHRIEK……Ottawa……21:46.8
bib # 102…… Doug GIBSON……Ottawa……22:04.7
bib # 150…… Terry STEWART……Ottawa……22:20.1
bib # 134…… Pete MACLENNAN……Ottawa……22:22.0
bib # 130…… Spencer EDWARDS……Ottawa……22:23.4
bib # 2193…… Greg SIM……Ottawa……22:25.5
bib # 2442…… Barbara SAVILLE……Ottawa……22:26.5
bib # 421…… Graham DALY……Ottawa……22:39.6
bib # 631.. Michele HERLEY-TREMBLAY……Ottawa……22:46.3
bib # 94…… Robert GIBSON……Ottawa……22:47.6
bib # 606…… Michelle HAINES……Ottawa……22:53.0
bib # 98…… Kiana GIBSON……Ottawa……23:00.5
bib # 268…… Brigid BEDARD……Ottawa……23:03.0
bib # 2439…… Tom SAVILLE……Ottawa……23:05.6
bib # 153…… Christopher HOULD……Ottawa……23:29.4
bib # 120…… Krista SULLIVAN……Ottawa……23:33.1
bib # 80…… Stephane BEDARD……Ottawa……23:34.2
bib # 2105.. Raahulan RATHAGIRISHNAN…Ottawa…23:39.0
bib # 246…… Rick BAIRD……Ottawa……23:39.9
bib # 124…… Alexandra DA COSTA……Ottawa……23:41.5
bib # 1974…… Tracy MINICHIELLO……Ottawa……23:46.3
bib # 259…… Zinab BASSUNY……Ottawa……23:48.3
bib # 2211…… Jamie SNIDER……Ottawa……23:49.8
bib # 2262…… Rita TUNNEY……Ottawa……23:49.8
bib # 106…… Kevin CHAPMAN……Ottawa……23:55.7
bib # 2457…… Bruce BATEMAN……Ottawa……24:11.1
bib # 1094…… Keren JACKMAN……Ottawa……24:12.3
bib # 191…… GAVIN LUMSDEN……Ottawa……24:12.3
bib # 91…… Ian CHAPMAN……Ottawa……24:12.8
bib # 422…… Richard DALY……Ottawa……24:14.6
bib # 2381…… Matthew PELLETIER……Ottawa……24:16.9
bib # 637…… Bryan HIGGINS……Ottawa……24:19.2
bib # 76…… Matthew BAFIA……Ottawa……24:21.1
bib # 2434…… Brad MAKEPEACE……Ottawa……24:27.2
bib # 2433…… Adam MAKEPEACE……Ottawa……24:30.5
bib # 2310…… Ed WHITE……Ottawa……24:38.8
bib # 1103…… Sylvie JACQUES……Ottawa……24:40.0
bib # 152…… Jacob HOULD……Ottawa……24:42.6
bib # 385…… Jasmine CLANCY……Ottawa……24:46.0
bib # 386…… Sean CLANCY……Ottawa……24:46.5
bib # 530…… Steven FISHER……Ottawa……24:50.3
bib # 1197…… Dominic LESSARD……Ottawa……24:51.2
bib # 2383…… Clayton HOY……Ottawa……24:59.2
bib # 373…… Andrei CHAREPKA……Ottawa……25:00.5
bib # 164…… Jordan FRASER……Ottawa……25:00.7
bib # 2075…… Lydia PEPIN……Ottawa……25:03.9
bib # 2269…… Nick TYLER……Ottawa……25:12.3
bib # 2388…… Kyle DYKES……Ottawa……25:18.7
bib # 2384…… Melanie KOWALSKI……Ottawa……25:19.8
bib # 129…… Alex EDWARDS……Ottawa……25:28.6
bib # 249…… Ethan BALAKRISHNAN……Ottawa……25:36.1
bib # 285…… Serge BIDNYK……Ottawa……25:38.7
bib # 1196…… Nathalie LEROUX……Ottawa……25:43.5
bib # 2432…… Jason MAKEPEACE……Ottawa……25:47.5
bib # 2349…… Chris JOHNSON……Ottawa……25:49.4
bib # 2311…… Janet WHITE……Ottawa……25:53.1
bib # 99…… Sean GIBSON……Ottawa……25:53.9
bib # 2396…… Andrea PERCH……Ottawa……25:54.5
bib # 2498…… Maria BABINEAU……Ottawa……26:13.4
bib # 2459…… Jennifer BOULIANNE……Ottawa……26:15.8
bib # 1909…… Paul MARCHAND……Ottawa……26:22.7
bib # 2416…… Daniel MORRIS……Ottawa……26:27.1
bib # 1176…… Joe LAROCQUE……Ottawa……26:34.0
bib # 2194…… Lauren SIM……Ottawa……26:37.1
bib # 1850…… Alanna MACAULAY……Ottawa……26:39.8
bib # 2212…… Patrick SNIDER……Ottawa……26:42.3
bib # 396…… Laura COLLISHAW……Ottawa……26:42.5
bib # 85…… Elizabeth BUTTERFIELD……Ottawa……26:43.4
bib # 788…… Jim HOGAN……Ottawa……26:45.2
bib # 145…… Melissa Cinicolo……Ottawa……26:51.8
bib # 2060…… Caroline PAQUETTE……Ottawa……26:57.5
bib # 1118…… Paul JONES……Ottawa……27:14.6
bib # 272…… Nathalie BELAIR JONES……Ottawa……27:14.7
bib # 407…… Alana COUVRETTE……Ottawa……27:15.8
bib # 2168…… Jasmine SAVOIE……Ottawa……27:19.2
bib # 626…… Valerie HAVEMAN……Ottawa……27:19.9
bib # 170…… SALLY MCQUINN……Ottawa……27:28.7
bib # 2042…… Jennifer OFFORD……Ottawa……27:45.5
bib # 2456…… Margarit BAAR……Ottawa……27:56.1
bib # 160… Donna-Lynne MACARTHUR……Ottawa…27:57.4
bib # 2476…… Vincent GRAJEWSKI……Ottawa……28:01.4
bib # 1969…… Bruce MILLER……Ottawa……28:03.8
bib # 2268…… Tara Frances TURNER……Ottawa……28:11.3
bib # 116…… Koni BENNETT……Ottawa……28:13.1
bib # 2185…… Vivian SHIH……Ottawa……28:18.9
bib # 77…… Lauren BAFIA……Ottawa……28:19.0
bib # 539…… Jackie FORMAN……Ottawa……28:20.6
bib # 619…… Trina HARPER……Ottawa……28:30.6
bib # 605…… Chantal HAINES……Ottawa……28:31.5
bib # 2026…… Jennie NIERADKA……Ottawa……28:33.3
bib # 580…… Michelle GOUCHIE……Ottawa……28:35.3
bib # 118…… John LARODA……Ottawa……28:42.4
bib # 2365…… Lisa JONES……Ottawa……29:05.4
bib # 2471…… Adina MANOLI……Ottawa……29:09.7
bib # 816…… Hannah HOPKINS……Ottawa……29:23.7
bib # 161…… Kathryn DARKINSON……Ottawa……29:27.4
bib # 2399…… Sarah ZAHAB……Ottawa……29:42.3
bib # 111…… Joshua TOLMIE……Ottawa……29:45.3
bib # 101…… Christopher GIBSON……Ottawa……29:48.7
bib # 1458…… Wit LEWANDOWSKI……Ottawa……29:54.1
bib # 303…… Debbie BLOOM……Ottawa……29:54.8
bib # 1954…… Robert MCINTYRE……Ottawa……29:59.0
bib # 75…… nick BAFIA……Ottawa……30:04.4
bib # 478…… Shannon DOW……Ottawa……30:04.7
bib # 73…… tim BAFIA……Ottawa……30:13.0
bib # 2379…… Fred PELLETIER……Ottawa……30:17.3
bib # 2382…… Jeffrey PELLETIER……Ottawa……30:17.9
bib # 484…… Shannon DUBOIS……Ottawa……30:22.3
bib # 964…… Dean HUCKLA……Ottawa……30:22.5
bib # 2179…… Mary-Pat SHAW……Ottawa……30:24.3
bib # 2180…… Stephen SHAW……Ottawa……30:26.3
bib # 1949…… Kerri MCGLADE……Ottawa……30:37.9
bib # 410…… Nathalie CROTEAU……Ottawa……30:40.3
bib # 507…… Keith ENNIS……Ottawa……30:45.2
bib # 1108…… Wendy JERMYN……Ottawa……30:48.3
bib # 2103…… Sandhya RAO……Ottawa……30:48.4
bib # 2350…… Chris VANDERPOL……Ottawa……30:49.7
bib # 2351…… melanie VANDERPOL……Ottawa……30:49.7
bib # 2354…… christina SYKES……Ottawa……30:50.8
bib # 2353…… teresa SYKES……Ottawa……30:50.9
bib # 312…… Edith BOSTWICK……Ottawa……30:56.3
bib # 599…… Sabrina GUSCHKE……Ottawa……30:58.9
bib # 87…… Stacey PEDLEY……Ottawa……31:03.0
bib # 1998…… Andrea MUNDAY……Ottawa……31:13.2
bib # 2378…… Johanne BERTRAND……Ottawa……31:26.1
bib # 2391…… Joanne GAGE……Ottawa……31:28.4
bib # 2114…… Karen RICHARD……Ottawa……31:29.3
bib # 1945…… Penny MCEWEN……Ottawa……31:33.0
bib # 248…… Ashok BALAKRISHNAN……Ottawa……31:37.6
bib # 2041…… Tracy O'CONNOR……Ottawa……31:41.2
bib # 1164…… Stacey LACROIX……Ottawa……31:46.8
bib # 367…… Marie-Jeanne CAROLA……Ottawa……31:50.7
bib # 103…… Denis GINGRAS……Ottawa……32:05.0
bib # 2492…… Cathy TAKAHASHI……Ottawa……32:09.5
bib # 2008…… Mary MURPHY……Ottawa……32:20.3
bib # 1136…… Najam KHAN……Ottawa……32:31.9
bib # 2406…… John CHARBONNEAU……Ottawa……32:32.1
bib # 154…… Silas MARSTON……Ottawa……32:38.4
bib # 833…… Annie HORRICKS……Ottawa……32:50.3
bib # 2054…… Raymond OUIMET……Ottawa……32:52.9
bib # 1101…… Laura JACKMAN……Ottawa……32:53.0
bib # 2464…… Martin BEAULIEU……Ottawa……33:02.0
bib # 52…… Raphael ROWLEY……Ottawa……33:19.3
bib # 51…… Vincent ROWLEY……Ottawa……33:20.8
bib # 424…… Laura DARLINGTON……Ottawa……33:24.6
bib # 2371…… Gdward BRADY……Ottawa……33:25.4
bib # 74…… Leslie BAFIA……Ottawa……33:25.8
bib # 612…… Shelley HAMILL……Ottawa……33:27.0
bib # 332…… Darrell BRIDGE……Ottawa……33:29.6
bib # 2446…… Danielle GAUTHIER……Ottawa……33:33.3
bib # 323…… Brandon BRADY……Ottawa……33:36.6
bib # 322…… Anthony BRADY……Ottawa……33:39.3
bib # 2493…… Emily TAKAHASHI……Ottawa……33:40.9
bib # 2305…… Marilyn WARREN……Ottawa……33:41.4
bib # 324…… Colleen BRADY……Ottawa……33:41.4
bib # 325…… Nancy BRADY……Ottawa……33:41.7
bib # 1938…… Pauline MCCLUSKIE……Ottawa……34:01.8
bib # 1937…… Mike MCCLUSKIE……Ottawa……34:02.1
bib # 2402…… Randi JEWER……Ottawa……34:02.5
bib # 1115…… Chelsea JONES……Ottawa……34:04.5
bib # 2243…… Pushpa TEJWANI……Ottawa……34:22.0
bib # 629…… Paul HEMPEL……Ottawa……34:27.0
bib # 557…… Robert FUENTES……Ottawa……34:34.5
bib # 234…… Aiden ARSCOTT……Ottawa……34:44.9
bib # 235…… Olivia ARSCOTT……Ottawa……34:58.0
bib # 226…… Lindsay ANDRUSEK……Ottawa……35:13.2
bib # 2376…… Judy FENTIMAN……Ottawa……35:19.3
bib # 556…… Kyle FUENTES……Ottawa……35:21.4
bib # 793…… Jennifer HOOD……Ottawa……35:38.6
bib # 261…… Jenn BEARZATTO……Ottawa……35:39.2
bib # 2481…… Melanie AMYOTTE……Ottawa……36:06.9
bib # 2393…… Claire-Anne LALONDE……Ottawa……36:07.2
bib # 2398…… Eileen SARKAR……Ottawa……36:10.4
bib # 2395…… Pam PELEATO……Ottawa……36:11.3
bib # 2201…… Oksana SMERECHUK……Ottawa……36:23.1
bib # 2394…… Ariana MURESAN……Ottawa……36:25.8
bib # 2431…… Shawna COLBEY……Ottawa……36:26.1
bib # 1138…… Maureen KILPATRICK……Ottawa……36:32.4
bib # 2403…… Ron PITT……Ottawa……36:37.0
bib # 571…… Alexandria GERRIOR……Ottawa……36:52.9
bib # 572…… Randy GERRIOR……Ottawa……36:54.2
bib # 2063…… Isabelle PATENAUDE……Ottawa……37:33.3
bib # 1133…… Frans KES……Ottawa……37:39.0
bib # 2324…… Heather WILSON……Ottawa……38:45.3
bib # 299…… Sabrina BLANCHARD……Ottawa……40:23.0
bib # 1167…… Maria LAHIFFE……Ottawa……41:25.6
bib # 1657…… Max LOSIER……Ottawa……42:39.7
bib # 1653…… Jonah LOSIER……Ottawa……42:40.5
bib # 123…… Jennifer LOW……Ottawa……42:56.9
bib # 328…… Mike BRAZEAU……Ottawa……43:15.0
bib # 1135…… Susan KES……Ottawa……43:22.1
bib # 207…… John ADDISON……Ottawa……43:54.7
bib # 1134…… Sharon KES……Ottawa……50:16.9
bib # 617…… Marjorie HANSON……Ottawa……50:31.0
bib # 1956…… Shelley MCINTYRE……Pembroke……25:37.2
bib # 2190…… Sonya SILVER……Pembroke……28:43.6
bib # 151…… Thor STEWART……Perth……16:50.3
bib # 459…… Maggie DEWAR……Richmond……26:01.7
bib # 181…… JASON HANDS……Richmond……26:57.0
bib # 107…… Michael KENNEDY……Richmond……27:16.0
bib # 460…… Sue DEWAR……Richmond……27:33.2
bib # 469…… Gabby DOIRON……Richmond……33:10.6
bib # 2079…… Kristina PISTOR……Richmond……34:23.7
bib # 513…… Nicholas FAVERO……Rockland……17:15.4
bib # 512…… Jonathan FAVERO……Rockland……21:57.7
bib # 1933…… Nancy MCCARTNEY……Smiths Falls……34:12.2
bib # 2318…… David WILLIAMS……Stittsville……18:53.9
bib # 289…… Heather BIJMAN……Stittsville……19:00.1
bib # 2216…… Lisa STEELE……Stittsville……21:41.4
bib # 347…… Nick BULITKA……Stittsville……22:10.1
bib # 1188…… Nicholas LAYER……Stittsville……22:28.3
bib # 2232…… Amy TALBOT……Stittsville……24:23.5
bib # 233…… Jonathan ARNOTT……Stittsville……24:39.2
bib # 636…… Ian HICKMAN……Stittsville……24:42.7
bib # 634…… Rebecca HICKMAN……Stittsville……24:59.3
bib # 2108…… Holly REID……Stittsville……25:23.9
bib # 1990…… Eric MORRISON……Stittsville……25:29.8
bib # 2111…… Stefanie REID……Stittsville……25:40.4
bib # 1109…… Grahame JOHNSON……Stittsville……25:50.0
bib # 2320…… Owen WILLIAMS……Stittsville……26:18.3
bib # 1903…… Ryan MACNEIL……Stittsville……26:23.6
bib # 1930…… Deborah MCCARTHY……Stittsville……27:14.8
bib # 359…… Kristen CAMERON……Stittsville……27:35.9
bib # 2140…… Don ROOKE……Stittsville……27:52.5
bib # 2109…… Liane REID……Stittsville……27:58.8
bib # 597…… Andrew GUMLEY……Stittsville……28:52.3
bib # 308…… Jocelyn BOND……Stittsville……29:00.4
bib # 2159…… Dakota SABOURIN……Stittsville……29:18.0
bib # 2138…… Gina ROMANI……Stittsville……29:27.9
bib # 1976…… Barb MOFFITT……Stittsville……30:04.5
bib # 266…… Jack BEAULIEU……Stittsville……30:05.1
bib # 2028…… Manda NOBLE-GREEN……Stittsville……30:05.6
bib # 1989…… Denise MORRISON……Stittsville……30:20.2
bib # 506…… Tracy ELLIOTT……Stittsville……30:36.8
bib # 2152…… Jenn RUDDICK……Stittsville……30:42.7
bib # 2160…… Doug SABOURIN……Stittsville……30:43.7
bib # 632…… Danya HERNANDEZ……Stittsville……30:45.2
bib # 2150…… Bethany ROY……Stittsville……30:46.0
bib # 222…… Jennifer ANDERSON……Stittsville……31:01.8
bib # 2085…… Brian PORTER……Stittsville……31:10.4
bib # 2321…… Rebecca WILLIAMS……Stittsville……31:11.5
bib # 2161…… Judy SABOURIN……Stittsville……31:39.2
bib # 1187…… Chris LAYER……Stittsville……32:33.9
bib # 265…… Karan BEAULIEU……Stittsville……33:28.0
bib # 2086…… Doug PORTER……Stittsville……33:28.1
bib # 1946…… Deb MCGEACHY……Stittsville……34:05.2
bib # 2158…… Caitlin SABOURIN……Stittsville……35:03.6
bib # 458…… Laura DEVENNY……Stittsville……36:41.7
bib # 457…… Kathleen DEVENNY……Stittsville……36:53.7
bib # 1900…… Amy MACNEIL……Stittsville……37:13.8
bib # 1901…… Curtis MACNEIL……Stittsville……37:24.3
bib # 298…… Paul BLANCHARD……Stittsville……40:22.6
bib # 1110…… Julia JOHNSON……Stittsville……42:56.6
bib # 1952…… Carine MCINTYRE……Vanier……32:59.7
bib # 491…… Alexandre DUPUIS……Vankleek Hill……26:07.4
bib # 492…… Pierre DUPUIS……Vankleek Hill……26:45.1
bib # 1652…… Chantale LORTIE……Vankleek Hill……41:19.0
bib # 227…… Kerry ANTONELLO……White Lake……28:10.0
bib # 541…… Jonas FOSSITT……Winchester……26:49.5
bib # 1126…… Ryan KEELING……Woodlawn……25:42.1
bib # 1127…… Shannon KEELING……Woodlawn……29:32.4
Local runners (Québec)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
bib # 241…… Mark AVON……Cantley……26:46.9
bib # 242…… Owen AVON……Cantley……26:47.9
bib # 374…… Marc-Andre CHARETTE……Gatineau……17:50.2
bib # 623…… Marie-France HARVEY……Gatineau……20:47.5
bib # 2475…… Mathieu PAQUETTE……Gatineau……22:15.2
bib # 560…… Rex FYLES……Gatineau……22:34.2
bib # 1912…… Dario MARKOVINOVIC……Gatineau……24:15.0
bib # 334…… Stephanie BROUILLARD……Gatineau……29:30.2
bib # 2284…… Schuyler VAN DUSEN……Gatineau……29:55.5
bib # 2283…… Derek VAN DUSEN……Gatineau……29:58.7
bib # 2176…… Veronique SEMEXANT……Gatineau……30:56.6
bib # 409…… Brenda COX……Gatineau……31:08.4
bib # 2081…… Sonia PLOUFFE……Gatineau……34:05.0
bib # 2053…… Claudie OUELLET……Gatineau……37:38.1
bib # 2006…… James MURPHY……Hull……18:31.6
bib # 2246.. Nathalie THEORET……Lochaber Partie……36:07.1
bib # 380…… Jake CHICOINE……Wakefield……18:39.3
bib # 379…… Ed CHICOINE……Wakefield……18:58.0
bib # 381…… Karina CHICOINE……Wakefield……27:27.6
Other Ontario runners
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
bib # 2082…… Jeremiah POINT……Akwesasne……25:34.8
bib # 427…… Kim DAVIS……Bracebridge……32:17.7
bib # 1948…… Lindsay MCGINN……Guelph……30:19.1
bib # 214…… Ron ALQUIST……Kingston……24:35.0
bib # 331…… Abigail BREWER……Peterborough……31:27.9
bib # 2249…… Jon TIERNAN……Peterborough……31:29.1
bib # 2478…… Matthew DUDZIAK……Scarborough……23:03.3
bib # 2477…… Daniel DUDZIAK……Scarborough……28:01.4
bib # 188…… IAIN DORAN-DESBRISAY……Toronto……24:05.2
bib # 592…… Emily GRISE……Toronto……33:18.4
Other Canada runners
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bib # 2210…… Graydon SNIDER……Montreal……15:27.4
bib # 2436…… Charmaine KREUGER……Moose Jaw……40:27.3
bib # 2435…… Isabelle KREUGER……Moose Jaw……40:28.7
bib # 2437…… Claire KREUGER……Moose Jaw……40:34.2
bib # 2260…… Natelle TULK……St. John's……29:18.6
bib # 338…… Marilyn BRUCE……St. John's……1:04:03.3
bib # 92…… Judy TULK……Traytown, N&L……1:03:18.3
Foreign runners
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bib # 2092…… Antony PRINGLE……Hong Kong……20:15.4
bib # 2094…… Lesia PRINGLE……Hong Kong……30:30.9
bib # 1907…… Igor MAKSYMIV……Ivano-Frankivsk……22:05.3
(this really is a must view on black)
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well, i've been doing this project for two weeks now. so far, it hasn't really been all that hard, but starting tuesday i'll be having pit orchestra rehearsals for my school musical and things are going to get tough when i get home after sunset. hopefully i'm going to order a set of studio lights soon, which will make indoor photos a lot easier!
thank you:
www.flickr.com/photos/35438367@N00/
for the testimonials!! :)
View On Black Photo ©2010 Angela A. Stanton, All rights reserved. Contact: angela@stantonphotostudios.com for further information.
Flowers of the Santa Rosa Plum tree - original photograph was taken a couple of days ago in my backyard. The picture itself was a bad one--out of focus and very dark but with some potential because of the background blur. I used a new software: Viveza2. If you are not familiar with it, I recommend you download a trial--they have a 15-day trial. The name of the company is Nik. I find it extremely useful to choose certain points on the picture make brighter and others to make darker, with the associated adjustment options of contrast, saturation, and sharpness/detail combo (called structure).
After Viveza2 I used Topaz Adjust to create extreme colors and detail, then Topaz Colored Pencil Sketch and modified it until it was a mild color sketch with painterly effect. I finally used Photoshop's "smudge" to create the brush-like strokes. Amazing what technology can do!
--Rabindranath Tagore
Explore--3/28/10
"How long does a monarch live?" "Why do monarchs migrate south?"
The answers to these two questions go hand-in-hand. Children ask them all the time. Most monarchs live from two to six weeks as an adult butterfly, but the Monarch's migration is the KEY to its yearly life cycle.
The total time frame for one butterfly's life cycle (one generation) is about 6-8 weeks . . . egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly. It grows inside the egg for about 4 days. It then munches milkweed and grows as a monarch caterpillar (larvae) for about 2 more weeks. The caterpillar's life inside the chrysalis (pupa) lasts about 10 days and its wonderful life as an adult butterfly lasts from 2 - 6 weeks.
February/March - hibernating monarchs in Mexico and southern California reawaken, become active, find a mate, begin the flight northward and lay their eggs. Finally they die. These special monarchs have lived about 4-5 months through the long winter.
March/April -the 1st generation monarchs are born -egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly;
May/June - the 2nd generation is born - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly;
July/August - the 3rd generation is born - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly;
Sept/Oct - the 4th generation is born - egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly . . . but THIS generation does not die. It MIGRATES south and lives 6-8 months in Mexico or Southern California. They begin awakening and mating in February/March of the NEXT SPRING, and then lay their eggs! Withered and tattered from their migration and hibernation . . . they finally die.
The cycles goes on as the new baby caterpillars are born each spring and the cycle continues throughout the year into the next spring. MAGICAL and AMAZING!
Orix fighting at Etosha Nat. Park, Namibia.August 2004.
Antílope africano perteneciente al género Oryx. Vive en manadas de hasta 40 individuos, pero en estación lluviosa, se reúnen cientos. En sequía, puede pasar muchos días sin beber, sobreviviendo de la humedad que contienen frutos y raíces. Mide hasta 1,6 metros de largo y la altura de la cruz llega hasta el 1,2 m. Armados con largos cuernos rectos y anillados, de un metro o más de longitud, en contraste con sus pequeñas orejas. Son resistentes a las temperaturas extremas, a la sed, y además pueden mantener un galope sostenido durante muchos kilómetros. Como particularidad, pueden aumentar la temperatura de su cuerpo para poder irradiar el calor al ambiente en lugar de absorberlo, gracias a un sofisticado sistema de irrigación sanguínea que también permite que la sangre más fría sea la que riegue el cerebro tras pasar previamente por las aberturas de la nariz (narinas), donde se refresca. Su carácter temperamental se puede comparar al de un toro bravo, de forma que su caza es peligrosa para cualquier predador. Los machos luchan embistiendose con los cuernos en paralelo, de forma que se produce un forcejeo entre ellos sin que se llegue a herir al rival, mientras que a la hora de defenderse de depredadores, embisten apuntando con su cornamenta de forma que pueden ensartar a su enemigo. Es la única especie de antílope cuyos descendientes ya nacen armados.
Artist: Styx
Album: Return To Paradise
Title: Come Sail Away
I'm sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea
I've got to be free, free to face the life that's ahead of me
On board, i'm the captain, so climb aboard
We'll search for tomorrow on every shore
And i'll try, oh lord, i'll try to carry on
I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory
Some happy, some sad
I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had
We live happily forever, so the story goes
But somehow we missed out on that pot of gold
But we'll try best that we can to carry on
A gathering of angels appeared above my head
They sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they said
They said come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise
They climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies
Singing come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away
Come sail away with me
Harlequins cheerleaders .
HARLEQUINS RUGBY LEAGUE
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RUGBY LEAGUE
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LONDON BRONCOS RUGBY LEAGUE
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RUGBY LEAGUE
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CHEERLEADERS
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Ahora en Biodiversidad virtual
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Una tras otra, las céulas de Pseudanabaena se van dividiendo y dibujando líneas, como si fuesen manojos de hierba, se esparcen en el agua, unas veces flotando y en otras ocasiones, sumergidas, esperan que las corrientes cálidas las eleven hacia la superficie para ser bañadas allí por la luz del Sol, luz necesaria para su vida.
Pseudanabaena catenata es una cianobacteria que puede vivir en solitario o agruparse formando pequeñas alfombras mucilaginosas. Los filamentos de Pseudanabaena suelen ser rectos o ligeramente ondulados, pero nunca se ramifican y están construidos por celulas cilíndiricas y alineadas.
Las células en este género de cinaobacterias son siempre más largas que anchas y a veces contienen gránulos o vesículas de gas localizadas en los extremos lo que facilita su flotación. Al igual que todas la cianobacterias Pseudanabaena es un organismo fotosintético y probablemente tenga capacidad para fijar el Nitrógeno disuelto en el agua.
Las especies de este género pueden ser planctónicas o bentónicas y vivir en aguas desde pobres en materia orgánica hasta ligeramente eutrófizadas, otras pueden crecer en el suelo, asociarse en simbiosis con algunos rotíferos o desarrollarse sobre la superficie de otras algas . Pocas especies se conocen de biotopos extremos como fuentes de agua caliente, o ambientes salinos.
La fotografía se ha realizado a 400 aumentos con la técncia de contraste de interferencia y se ha encontrado en una muestra recogida a 48 metros de profundidad en el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora), desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
The Black Chin Hummingbirds are a summer visitor to our area. Although they hold their own among the rowdy behavior at the feeders, they tend to be a bit more shy about having their photo taken! The males sport the rich purple iridescent necklace of color and usually announce their movement with a high whirred pitch sound.
Understanding that
heavy things can't fly,
she let go of what was weighing her heart,
the things she could no longer control or carry,
and she gave herself a chance.
A chance to reach into the unassuming blue,
to embrace the possibility of an open sky,
with an open heart.
She gave herself
a chance to soar.
i'm sick in bed today.
it's a gorgeous, sunny day outside and i have tons i should be doing, but instead, here i lie.
posting photos and feeling like crap.
ugh.
i was just going to post a short quote with this photo, but this bird so gave me the creeps yesterday ( it was the size of a cat and never stopped watching me out of the corner of his eye ), that i felt he deserved the whole poem.
i don't know, maybe it's just my fevered brain...
it's a long piece, but fun if you have the time. ;)
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The Raven. By, Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,'
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!'
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!'
Merely this and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
'Tis the wind and nothing more!'
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.'
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "Never-nevermore."'
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.'
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,' I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Following, a text, in english, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located in the Piazza Navona. Designed by Gianlorenzo Bernini, it is emblematic of the dynamic and dramatic effects sought by High Baroque artists. It was erected in 1651 in front of the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone, and yards from the Pamphilj Palace belonging to this fountain's patron, Innocent X (1644-1655).
The four gods on the corners of the fountain represent the four major rivers of the world known at the time: the Nile, Danube, Ganges, and Plate. The design of each god figure has symbolic importance.
Design
Bernini's design was selected in competition. The circumstances of his victory are described as follows:
So strong was the sinister influence of the rivals of Bernini on the mind of Innocent that when he planned to set up in Piazza Navona the great obelisk brought to Rome by the Emperor Caracalla, which had been buried for a long time at Capo di Bove for the adornment of a magnificent fountain, the Pope had designs made by the leading architects of Rome without an order for one to Bernini. Prince Niccolò Ludovisi, whose wife was niece to the pope, persuaded Bernini to prepare a model, and arrange for it to be secretly installed in a room in the Palazzo Pamphili that the Pope had to pass. When the meal was finished, seeing such a noble creation, he stopped almost in ecstasy. Being prince of the keenest judgment and the loftiest ideas, after admiring it, said: “This is a trick … It will be necessary to employ Bernini in spite of those who do not wish it, for he who desires not to use Bernini’s designs, must take care not to see them.”
Paraphrase from Filippo Baldinucci, The life of Cavaliere Bernini (1682)
Public fountains in Rome served multiple purposes: first, they were highly needed sources of water for neighbors in the centuries prior to home plumbing. Second, they were monuments to the papal patrons. Earlier Bernini fountains had been the Fountain of the Triton in Piazza Barberini, the fountain of the Moor in the southern end of Piazza Navona erected during the Barberini papacy, and the Neptune and Triton for Villa Montalto, whose statuary now resides at Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Each has animals and plants that further carry forth the identification, and each carries a certain number of allegories and metaphors with it. The Ganges carries a long oar, representing the river's navigability. The Nile's head is draped with a loose piece of cloth, meaning that no one at that time knew exactly where the Nile's source was. The Danube touches the Papal coat of arms, since it is the large river closest to Rome. And the Río de la Plata is sitting on a pile of coins, a symbol of the riches America could offer to Europe (the word plata means silver in Spanish). Also, the Río de la Plata looks scared by a snake, showing rich men's fear that their money could be stolen. Each is a river god, semi-prostrate, in awe of the central tower, epitomized by the slender Egyptian obelisk (built for the Roman Serapeum in AD 81), symbolizing by Papal power surmounted by the Pamphili symbol (dove). In addition, the fountain is a theater in the round, a spectacle of action, that can be strolled around. Water flows and splashes from a jagged and pierced mountainous disorder of travertine marble. A legend, common with tour-guides, is that Bernini positioned the cowering Rio de la Plata River as if the sculpture was fearing the facade of the church of Sant'Agnese by his rival Borromini could crumble against him; in fact, the fountain was completed several years before Borromini began work on the church.
The dynamic fusion of architecture and sculpture made this fountain revolutionary when compared to prior Roman projects, such as the stilted designs Acqua Felice and Paola by Fontana in Piazza San Bernardo (1585-87) or the customary embellished geometric floral-shaped basin below a jet of water such as the Fontanina in Piazza Campitelli (1589) by Giacomo della Porta.
Unveiling
he Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was unveiled to the populace of Rome on 12 June 1651. According to a report from the time, an event was organised to draw people to the Piazza Navona. Beforehand, wooden scaffolding, overlaid with curtains, had hidden the fountain, though probably not the obelisk, which would have given people an idea that something was being built, but the precise details were unknown. Once unveiled, the full majesty of the fountain would be apparent, which the celebrations were designed to advertise. The festival was paid for by the Pamphili family, to be specific, Innocent X, who had sponsored the erection of the fountain. The most conspicuous item on the Pamphili crest, an olive branch, was brandished by the performers who took part in the event.
The author of the report, Antonio Bernal, takes his readers through the hours leading up to the unveiling. The celebrations were announced by a woman, dressed as the allegorical character of Fame, being paraded around the streets of Rome on a carriage or float. She was sumptuously dressed, with wings attached to her back and a long trumpet in her hand. Bernal notes that "she went gracefully through all the streets and all the districts that are found among the seven hills of Rome, often blowing the round bronze [the trumpet], and urging everyone to make their way to that famous Piazza." A second carriage followed her; this time another woman was dressed as the allegorical figure of Curiosity. According to the report, she continued exhorting the people to go towards the piazza. Bernal describes the clamour and noise of the people as they discussed the upcoming event.
The report is actually less detailed about the process of publicly unveiling the fountain. However, it does give ample descriptions of the responses of the spectators who had gathered in the Piazza. Once there, Bernal notes, the citizens of the city were overwhelmed by the massive fountain, with its huge life-like figures. The report mentions the "enraptured souls" of the population, the fountain, which "gushes out a wealth of silvery treasures" causing "no little wonder" in the onlookers. Bernal then continues to describe the fountain, making continuous reference to the seeming naturalism of the figures and its astonishing effect on those in the piazza.
The making of the fountain was met by opposition by the people of Rome for several reasons. First, Innocent X had the fountain built at public expense during the intense famine of 1646-48. Throughout the construction of the fountain, the city murmurred and talk of riot was in the air. Pasquinade writers protested the construction of the fountain in September 1648 by attaching hand-written invectives on the stone blocks used to make the obelisk. These pasquinades read, "We do not want Obelisks and Fountains, It is bread that we want. Bread, Bread, Bread!" Innocent quickly had the authors arrested, and disguised spies patrol the Pasquino statue and Piazza Navona
The streetvendors of the market also opposed the construction of the fountain, as Innocent X expelled them from the piazza. The Pamphilij pope believed they detracted from the magnificence of the square. The vendors refused to move, and the papal police had to chase them from the piazza. Roman Jews, in particular, lamented the closing of the Navona, since they were allowed to sell used articles of clothing there at the Wednesday market.
Navona Square (Piazza Navona).
Following, a text, in english, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Piazza Navona is a city square in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in first century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium.[1] The ancient Romans came there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as 'Circus Agonalis' (competition arena). It is believed that over time the name changed to 'in agone' to 'navone' and eventually to 'navona'.
Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century, when the city market was transferred to it from the Campidoglio, the Piazza Navona is a significant example of Baroque Roman architecture and art. It features sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers (1651) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi; and the Pamphilj palace also by Rainaldi and which features the gallery frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.
The Piazza Navona has two additional fountains: at the southern end is the Fontana del Moro with a basin and four Tritons sculpted by Giacomo della Porta (1575) to which, in 1673, Bernini added a statue of a Moor, or African, wrestling with a dolphin, and at the northern end is the Fountain of Neptune (1574) created by Giacomo della Porta. The statue of Neptune in the northern fountain, the work of Antonio Della Bitta, was added in 1878 to make that fountain more symmetrical with La Fontana del Moro in the south.
At the southwest end of the piazza is the ancient 'speaking' statue of Pasquino. Erected in 1501, Romans could leave lampoons or derogatory social commentary attached to the statue.
During its history, the piazza has hosted theatrical events and other ephemeral activities. From 1652 until 1866, when the festival was suppressed, it was flooded on every Saturday and Sunday in August in elaborate celebrations of the Pamphilj family. The pavement level was raised in the 19th century and the market was moved again in 1869 to the nearby Campo de' Fiori. A Christmas market is held in the piazza.
Other monuments on the Piazza Navona are:
Stabilimenti Spagnoli
Palazzo de Cupis
Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti
Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Palazzo Braschi (Museo di Roma)
Sant'Agnese in Agone
Literature and films
The piazza is featured in Dan Brown's 2000 thriller Angels and Demons, in which the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi "The Fountain of the four rivers"(the Danube, the Gange, the Nile and the River Plate) is listed as one of the Altars of Science. During June 2008, Ron Howard directed several scenes of the film adaptation of Angels and Demons on the southern section of the Piazza Navona, featuring Tom Hanks.
The piazza is featured in several scenes of director Mike Nichols' 1970 adaptation of Joseph Heller's novel, Catch-22.
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi was used in the 1990 film Coins in the Fountain. The characters threw coins into the fountain as they made wishes. The Trevi Fountain was used in the 1954 version of the film.
A Fontana Dei Quattro Fiumi, é maior das três fontes, localizada no centro da praça. Na fonte dos rios, Bernini projetou quatro estátuas representando os rios dos quatro continentes: o Nilo, o Danúbio, o rio da Prata e o Ganges. As estátuas estão montadas sobre um obelisco egípcio, sendo circundadas por leões e outros animais fantásticos, tendo no cume uma pomba em bronze, símbolo da paz no mundo e da família Pamphili. Para realçar a rivalidade entre Bernini e Borromini, que fez a igreja de Santa Agnese, os romanos criaram uma lenda em torno da fonte dos rios, que fica em frente a esta igreja. Segundo os romanos, as estátuas duvidam da solidez do projeto de Borromini. A que retrata o rio da Prata, tem a mão erguida, a proteger o corpo do desabamento da igreja; a que retrata o Nilo, traz a cabeça coberta por um véu, a recusar a ver a obra de Borromini.
A seguir um texto, em português, da Wikipédia a Enciclopédia Livre:
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fonte dos Quatro Rios), foi esculpida por Gian Lorenzo Bernini entre 1648 e 1651, artista do barroco italiano, foi concebida por uma ordem do Papa Inocencio X o Papa da familia Pamphili, cujo tinha sua casa nesta praça.
Esta localizada na Praça de Navona, em Roma. Ela representa os quatro principais continentes do mundo cortados por seus principais rios: Rio Nilo, na África; Rio Ganges, na Ásia, Rio da Prata, na América e o Rio Danúbio, na Europa.
A seguir, texto em português do site Wiki lingue:
A escultura da Fonte dos Quatro Rios, encontra-se na Piazza Navona de Roma (Itália) e foi criada e talhada pelo escultor e pintor Gian Lorenzo Bernini em 1651 baixo o papado de Inocencio X, em plena época barroca, durante o período mais prolífico do genial artista e cerca da que em outro tempo fué a Chiesa dei San Giacomo de gli Spagnoli
A fonte compõe-se de uma base formada de uma grande piscina elíptica, coroada em seu centro de uma grande mole de mármol, sobre a qual se eleva um obelisco egípcio de época romana, o obelisco de Domiciano .
As estátuas que compõem a fonte, têm umas dimensões maiores que na realidade e são alegorias dos quatro rios principais da Terra (Nilo, Ganges, Danubio, Rio da Prata), a cada um deles em um dos continentes conhecidos na época. Na fonte a cada um destes rios está representado por um gigante de mármol .
As árvores e as plantas que emergem da água e que se encontram entre as rochas, também estão em uma escala maior que na realidade. Os animais e vegetales, gerados de uma natureza boa e útil, pertencem a espécies grandes e potentes (como o leão, cavalo, cocodrilo, serpente, dragão, etc.). O espectador, girando em torno da fonte, descobre novas formas que dantes estavam escondidas ou cobertas pela massa rocosa. Com esta obra, Bernini quer suscitar admiração em quem olha-a, criando um pequeno universo em movimento a imitação do espaço da realidade natural.
A fonte foi submetida a restauração, um trabalho que se deu por concluído em dezembro de 2008. Constitui um dos palcos finque da novela e o filme Anjos e Demónios, à qual é arrojado um dos cardeais sequestrados, e Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) se lança à água para lhe salvar.
Os animais da fonte
A fonte apresenta figuras de sete animais, além de uma pequena pomba e o emblema dos Pamphili. Para poder observá-las basta com dar uma volta ao redor da fonte. As figuras são: um cavalo, uma serpente de terra (na parte mais alta, cerca do obelisco), uma serpente de mar, um delfín (que funciona também como desagüe), um cocodrilo, um leão e um dragão. Notar também a vegetación esculpida que parece real.
Praça Navona.
A seguir, um texto em português, da Wikipédia a Enciclopédia livre:
A Praça Navona (em italiano: Piazza Navona) é uma das mais célebres praças de Roma. A sua forma assemelha-se à dos antigos estádios da Roma Antiga, seguindo a planificação do Estádio de Domiciano (também denominado entre os italianos de Campomarzio, em virtude da natureza rude e esforçada dos exercícios - manejo de armas - e desportos atléticos que aí se realizavam). Albergaria até 20 mil espectadores sentados nas bancadas. A origem do nome deve-se ao nome pomposo que lhe foi dado ao tempo do Imperador Domiciano (imperador entre 81-96 d.c.): "Circo Agonístico" (do étimo grego Agonia, que significa precisamente - exercício, luta, combate). Actualmente o nome corresponde à corruptela da forma posterior in agone, depois nagone e finalmente navone, que por mero acaso significa também "grande navio" na língua italiana.
As casas que entretanto e com o passar dos anos foram sendo construídas sobre as bancadas, delimitariam e circunscreveriam até à actualidade o tão afamado Circo Agonístico.
A Navona passou de fato a caracterizar-se como praça nos últimos anos do século XV, quando o mercado da cidade foi transferido do Capitólio para aí. Foi remodelada para um estilo monumental por vontade do Papa Inocêncio X, da família Pamphili e é motivo de orgulho da cidade de Roma durante o período barroco. Sofreu intervenções de Gian Lorenzo Bernini (a famosa Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fonte dos Quatro Rios, 1651) ao centro); de Francesco Borromini e Girolamo Gainaldi (a igreja de Sant'Agnese in Agone); e de Pietro de Cortona, que pintou a galeria no Palácio Pamphilj, sede da embaixada do Brasil na Itália desde 1920.
O mercado tradicional voltou a ser transferido em 1869 para o Campo de' Fiori, embora a praça mantenha também um papel fundamental em servir de palco para espectáculos de teatro e corridas de cavalos. A partir de 1652, em todos os Sábados e Domingos de Agosto, a praça tornava-se num lago para celebrar a própria família Pamphili.
A praça dispõe ainda duas outras fontes esculpidas por Giacomo della Porta - a Fontana di Nettuno (1574), na área norte da praça, e a Fontana del Moro (1576), na área sul.
Na extremidade norte da praça, por debaixo dos edifícios, foram postas a descoberto ruínas antiquíssimas, a uma cota muito abaixo da actual, comprovando a primeva utilização daquele imenso terreiro. Outros monumentos com entrada para a praça:
Stabilimenti Spagnoli
Palazzo de Cupis
Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti
Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Curiosidades
Na Piazza Navona, está localizado o Palazzo Pamphilj, propriedade da República Federativa do Brasil, sede da Embaixada Brasileira e da Missão Diplomática do Brasil para a Itália.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever Gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance,
My head is bloodied but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade.
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate,
Nor how charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
-- William Ernest Henley
At the age of 12 Henley became a victim of tuberculosis of the bone. In spite of this, in 1867 he successfully passed the Oxford local examination as a senior student. His diseased foot had to be amputated directly below the knee; physicians announced the only way to save his life was to amputate the other. Henley persevered and survived with one foot intact. He was discharged in 1875, and was able to lead an active life for nearly 30 years despite his disability. With an artificial foot, he lived until the age of 54. "Invictus" was written from a hospital bed.
Patio de los Cipreses - El Generalife, Granada (Spain).
ENGLISH
This patio has a central pond surrounded by a myrtle hedge and in the middle of the pond there is another little pond with a stone fountain. The patio is so called because of the old cypresses that are in the verandas, the most famous of which is the Cypress of the Sultana (Ciprés de la Sultana) in which, according to the legend, Boabdil's wife used to meet a knight of the Abencerrajes family. This triggered the death of the people of this noble tribe, whose throats were slit.
A big 19th century stone staircase with a portico and two lions made of glazed pottery of Granada leads to the high part of the gardens, which go from the Hill of the Sun (Cerro del Sol) to the street Rey Chico. These gardens are hanging gardens that include simple vegetable gardens, myrtle clumps, trimmed boxes or hundred-year-old cypresses.
One of the staircases that are in these gardens is especially beautiful because of its beauty and originality. It is supposed to be the oldest staircase in these gardens (it already existed in the Muslim period). The staircase is divided in three flights, each with a fountain and handrails that are channels with running water. The staircase is surrounded by laurels that join their crowns and form a vault. The sun shines through this laurel vault and the light contributes to the extremely beautiful scene.
Two regal pleasure palaces, Palace of Dar al-Arusa and Palace of the Alixares, stood on the lands covering the area between the valley of the river Darro and that of the river Genil. They were abandoned and the passing of time has ended up destroying them. Recent excavations discovered them and showed their richness and magnificence, as well as the beautiful decorative elements that have been found.
Source: www.alhambradegranada.org/historia/alhambrageneralifepcip...
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CASTELLANO
Este patio tiene un estanque central rodeado por setos de arrayán y en el centro del estanque existe otro pequeño estanque con una fuente de piedra. El patio recibe su nombre de los viejos cipreses que encontramos en los cenadores, el más famoso de los cuales es el Ciprés de la Sultana en el que, según la leyenda, se veían la esposa de Boadbil y un caballero abencerraje, lo que desencadenó finalmente la muerte de los señores de esta noble tribu, que fueron degollados.
A través de una escalinata de piedra del siglo XIX con pórtico y dos leones de cerámica vidriada granadina, se llega a la parte alta de los jardines, que se extienden desde el cerro del Sol hasta el camino del Rey Chico, jardines colgantes que van desde simples huertas hasta macizos de arrayán, bojes recortados o cipreses centenarios.
Cabe destacar una de las escalinatas de las que encontramos a lo largo de los jardines por su belleza y originalidad, y que supuestamente es la más antigua del jardín (ya existía en tiempos de los árabes). Está dividida en tres tramos, en cada uno de los cuales se encuentra una fuente con surtidor, flanquedada por canales que conforman las barandillas y por donde bajan ruidosamente las aguas. La escalinata se encuentra rodeada por laureles, que unen sus copas formando una bóveda por la que se filtran los rayos del sol, configurando una estampa de una belleza indescriptible.
En los terrenos que van desde el valle del Darro al del Genil se alzaban dos regios palacios de recreo, el de Dar al-Arusa y el de los Alixares, que el abandono y el paso del tiempo terminaron por destruir, hasta que recientes excavaciones señalaron su situación, poniendo de relieve su riqueza, la magnitud de las ruinas descubiertas y los elementos decorativos encontrados.
Fuente: www.alhambradegranada.org/historia/alhambraGeneralifePCip...
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Datura stramonium es una especie botánica de planta del género Datura, de la familia de las SolanaceaeGeneralidades
El estramonio es una planta venenosa cosmopolita, de la familia de las solanáceas naturalizada en zonas templadas de todo el mundo. El género datura contiene varias especies parecidas y polimorfas, todas ellas tóxicas de las cuales esta es la más extendida. Crece en zonas eutrofizadas como orillas de ríos, establos, estercoleros, escombreras y vertederos de basuras. Es indiferente al tipo de suelo, siendo más vigorosa en los húmedos con nitratos abundantes. No es consumida por el ganado, quizá por su desagradable olor. Popularmente se conoce como burladora, chamico, toloache, estramonio, revientavacas, hierba del diablo, hierba hedionda, higuera del infierno, higuera loca o manzana espinosa1 Suele confundirse con el toloatzin o toloache mexicano (Datura innoxia) y con el floripondio o floripón (Brugmansia arborea). Entre las sustancias constituyentes se encuentran alcaloides tropánicos, que en pequeñas cantidades son tóxicos o estupefacientes, como atropina, hiosciamina y escopolamina, caracterizados por provocar reacciones anticolinérgicas y en cantidades mayores, causan síndrome atropínico o la muerte.
Ecología
Es una planta anual que alcanza alturas de 1,5 metros, caracteristica del género datura de la familia de las solanaceas. su aspecto recuerda a una pimentera (capsicum) ya que tiene un vago parecido en el porte y en el fruto, sobre todo en la disposición de las semillas en el fruto.
Tiene flores blancas a veces tirando a amarillentas o verdosas en forma conica o de trompeta, bastante grandes en relación a la planta. La planta florece en verano y comienzos de otoño. Las hojas son lobuladas y de color verde oscuro. Presenta una raíz blanquecina y numerosas raicillas. El tallo y las ramas son redondos, lisos y verdes matizandose el verde a tonos más claros. Toda la planta es lampiña. La planta desprende un olor fuerte y es llamativa. Facilmente reconocible por sus flores y el fruto espinoso. El fruto es al principio bilocular, pero cuando madura se forma un falso tabique, excepto en las inmediaciones del ápice, con lo que el fruto maduro consta, casi por completo, de cuatro cavidades. El fruto maduro es una cápsula espinosa de unos 3-4 cm de longitud. Las semillas de estramonio son de color pardo oscuro o negruzcas de contorno reniforme y de unos 3 mm de largo.
Es especie de hábitat terrestre y en México crece en bosques de encino, pino, pino-encino y otras coníferas, a una altitud de 1900 a 2500 msnm, ruderal, arvense. En España y otras zonas de clima templado se dá desde el nivel del mar.
Se puede encontrar también a menor altitud, especialmente en terrenos que han sufrido perturbaciones y tienen altos contenidos en nitrógeno como huertas recién labradas y terrenos removidos para construcción, entre otros.
Aunque es planta nativa en Sudamérica y la India, en la actualidad es cosmopolita y muy común en Europa, donde se usa en jardinería.Historia
venenoso
El estramonio fue cultivado en Inglaterra por John Gerard, hacia el final del siglo XVI, a partir de semillas obtenidas en Constantinopla (Turquía). El uso de la droga se debe, en gran parte, a las experiencias de Störck.
La denominación genérica Datura deriva del nombre del veneno dhât, que se prepara a partir de especies indias y fue utilizado por los miembros de la letal secta thag.
Es una planta psicoactiva y sus alcaloides a partir de determinadas dosis presentan efectos neurotóxicos. De todas las partes de este vegetal, las semillas son las más tóxicas, ya que más de 30 pueden constituir una dosis letal. Cinco gramos de la planta causan envenenamiento. Contiene los alcaloides: hiosciamina, escopolamina y atropina. La actividad anticolinérgica de estos alcaloides produce un delirio alucinatorio incontrolable de numerosas horas, cuando no la muerte2 , puesto que es la más venenosa de todas las solanáceas, potencialmente peligrosa incluso en su uso chamánico, aunque ha sido empleada para prácticas adivinatorias desde la antigüedad. A partir de Datura stramonium el químico alemán Albert Ladenburg aisló en 1881 la escopolamina.
Su uso está restringido a algunas poblaciones nativas de América, sobre todo las hojas que las usan en altares, los chamanes la fumaban junto con el tabaco para entrar en trance. Evidencias arqueológicas y arqueobotánicas indican su presencia en contextos funerarios en el período alfarero temprano del centro de Chile (Planella et al. 2006). En la cultura mapuche existe la práctica de suministrar a los niños una vez en su vida esta planta, llamada «miyaye» en idioma mapudungun, para predecir su futuro de acuerdo con el comportamiento que tengan al estar bajo sus efectos.
Muy pequeñas cantidades bastan para inducir una intoxicación grave o mortal y la ingestión de cuatro o cinco gramos de hojas basta para matar a un niño.2 Se ha documentado un caso de intoxicación colectiva ocurrido en Jamestown, Estados Unidos, en 1616, cuando con ocasión de una rebelión el capitán John Smith dio a sus soldados una ensalada que contenía unas pocas hojas de datura.
En caso de envenenamiento, conviene hospitalización de urgencia. Normalmente se tratará de manera sintomática: lavado de estómago, sedación por inyección de benzodiazepinas y rehidratación. Se reproduce fácilmente por semilla. No recibe manejo especial. Para reproducirla hay que dejar remojando sus semillas una noche en agua tibia, a la mañana siguiente hay que sembrarlas.
An early morning mist rises off Beardy Waters just north of Glen Innes as the suns rays start to find their way through the trees and light up the countryside.
Taken during the 1200kms for Kids Charity Bike Ride... as the riders braved the icy air, I stopped to grab some of the pretty countryside in this part of the world.
The Beardy Waters is a river, which is about 70 kilometres (43 mi) in length, in the Northern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia.
The Beardy Waters rises near Ben Lomond Mountain south of Glen Innes in the New England region. It flows north to the east of Glen Innes, New South Wales and then north-west to where it joins the Severn River (New South Wales) below Rangers Road.
The name of the river derives from two bearded stockmen who were among the first European settlers of the district through which the river flows. The river was previously known as: Maybole Creek, The Beardy Water, Beardy River and The Beardy Waters.
A weir construction across the Beardy Waters was commenced in October 1930 after a grant of ₤5,500 was made available for the work. This money was granted to pay men working on unemployment relief. Completed in July 1932 at a cost of ₤10,847 it has a capacity of 100 million imperial gallons (450,000 m3) with the flood gates closed.
Sant Romà de Sau, Girona (Spain).
Title thanks to / Título gracias a carolinabalmes (Karol).
ENGLISH
The reservoir of Sau, constructed between 1949 and 1962, covered the town of Sant Romà de Sau, the rest of which, specially of the bell tower of the romnesque church of 11th century, they are visible when the level of the dammed water is low and at times of drought prolonged the town is in the open and even it is possible to visit.
The origins of Sau go back to year 917, and the parochial church to 11th century. The present population formed in 1962 when finalizing the construction of the dam and the waters had to cover the old town of Sant Romà de Sau. Although he was enough uninhabited (in the nomenclator of 1860 the parish appeared like “uninhabited”), counted with some masias, a Romanesque bridge and a Romanesque church of 11th century of Lombard style.
At the moment of the photos the reservoir is approximately at 10% of its capacity, its historical minimum, mainly because the long run drought that has been undergoing this part of Catalunya for years. The proliferation of nonnative fish introduced by practisers of sport fishing, the low water level and the high insolation of the zone cause a high level of plancton and microscopic seaweed that contaminates the water, reason why in autumn of the 2005 began a draining of this dam in the one of Susqueda to improve the quality of the drinking water, and the collection of fish before they die by lack of oxygen and gets worse still more the quality of the water. Rains of October 2005 temporarily interrupted the draining, that has become to reactivate at beginning of 2008.
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CASTELLANO
El pantano de Sau, construido entre 1949 y 1962, cubrió el pueblo de Sant Romà de Sau, los restos del cual, especialmente del campanario de la iglesia románica del siglo XI, son visibles cuando el nivel del agua embalsada es bajo e incluso en épocas de sequia prolongada el pueblo queda al descubierto y es posible visitarlo.
Los orígenes de Sau se remontan al año 917, y la iglesia parroquial al siglo XI. La población actual se formó cuando en 1962 al finalizar la construcción del embalse y las aguas debían cubrir el antiguo pueblo de Sant Romà de Sau. Aunque estaba bastante despoblado (en el nomenclátor de 1860 la parroquia figuraba como "deshabitada"), contaba con algunas masías, un puente románico y una iglesia de estilo románico lombardo del siglo XI.
En el momento de las fotos el embalse está aproximadamente al 10% de su capacidad, su mínimo histórico, debido principalmente a la larga sequía que sufre esta parte de Catalunya desde hace años. La proliferación de peces no autóctonos introducidos por practicantes de pesca deportiva, el bajo nivel de agua y la alta insolación de la zona provocan un alto nivel de plancton y algas microscópicas que contaminan el agua, por lo que en otoño del 2005 se inició un vaciado de este embalse en el de Susqueda para mejorar la calidad del agua potable, y la recogida de peces antes de que mueran por falta de oxígeno y empeore aún más la calidad del agua. Las lluvias de octubre del 2005 interrumpieron temporalmente el vaciado, que se ha vuelto a reactivar a primeros del 2008.
Sliced strawberries with yogurt dip.
INFORMATION ON THE STRAWBERRY:
The Garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa and related cultivars) is the most common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide. Like other species of Fragaria (strawberries), it belongs to the family Rosaceae. Technically, its fruit is known as an accessory fruit, in that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries (achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium that holds the ovaries.
The Garden Strawberry was first bred in Europe in the early 18th century, and represents the accidental cross of Fragaria virginiana from eastern North America, which was noted for its flavor, and Fragaria chiloensis from Chile, which was noted for its large size.
Cultivars of Fragaria × ananassa have replaced in commercial production the Woodland Strawberry, which was the first strawberry species cultivated in the early 17th century.
Several theories exist in popular etymology as to the origin of the English name "straw" berry:
It could come from gardeners' practice of mulching strawberries with straw to protect the fruits from rot (a pseudoetymology that can be found in non-linguistic sources such as the Old Farmer's Almanac 2005).
It might derive from the Anglo-Saxon verb for "strew" (meaning to spread around) which was streabergen (Strea means "strew" and Bergen means "berry" or "fruit") and thence to streberie, straiberie, strauberie, straubery, strauberry, and finally, "strawberry," the word which we use today. The name might have come from the fact that the fruit and various runners appear "strewn" along the ground.
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This is the weirdest pice of rock I've seen. Taken on the way up the mountain where I shot my last upload. this rock is in the middle of the trail. The weird thing about it is all the small holes that makes it look like the surface of a golf ball. All the way up the mountain the rocks were like this. Not only this type of sand coloured rock, but "normal" grey rock as well. (PLease excuse my horrible geological skills).
Anyway, I liked the way the sun coming in from the left giving character to the mountain in the back while at the same time lighting the foreground. A great sky over the background mountains which the pola really made "pop" was the icing on the cake.
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This ran in shorter, more readable form on Seattlest.
This is Red Mill Burgers, in Seattle's Interbay neighborhood at 1613 West Dravus.
This store opened in 1998. The first store was a bit north in the Phinney Ridge, and opened a few years earlier.
The old photo at the Seattle Municipal Archives shows the same building in 1960, with "Interbay Pharmacy" painted on the side. Needless to say there was no Starbucks in the background.
Whenever I look at photos taken by government employees, I think "why?" More than 9 times out of 10 there was a good reason to take the photo and then subsequently archive it -- it wasn't a random photo like you or I take. Sometimes you can tell by the file that it's in, or the assession number. Other times it's the story of the building or business that clear it up. It takes a bit of digging to find that.
A quick web search shows that Interbay Pharmacy is older than 1960. Google Books has several trade magazines like a 1907 edition of "The Pharmaceutical Era" which mention Interbay Pharmacy. This first mention is worth quoting:
"W. S. Pierce, proprietor of the Interbay Pharmacy, Seattle, Wash., was blown by a gas explosion from the rear end of his store almost to the front door the other day. When he opened his store, Pierce started a fire in the gas stove, but he had no sooner applied the match to the jet than he felt himself propelled toward the door. The explosion had driven out the glass, thus making a clear path into the street."
A 1916 issue of "The Era Druggist's Directory of the United States..." lists Interbay Pharmacy, but gives a different address: 1500 Grand Boulevard. I've looked at enough engouh old plat maps of Magnolia to know that Dravus used to be known as Grand Boulevard. So the pharmacy used to be over at 15th.
But we're still missing the story here. I'm going to switch to tutorial mode to show you how I found out the "why" and at the same time learned an important part of this neighborhood's history.
When I'm dealing with a property, after a quick web search the next thing I like to do is open King County's Property Viewer or iMap to check it out. I'll cheat for you. Here's 15th and Dravus. Down in the bottom right, expand "Imagery" and choose "1936 B/W Aerial Photos". After the map refreshes, it shows that 15th Avenue used to look quite a bit different. It was just a small local road like 14th or 16th. 1500 Dravus, which would be the northwest corner, is right in the middle of the blank space. (The square are property, and long lines are roads; blank space is public property, usually streets.)
The assessor's report for 1613 Dravus, meanwhile, tells us that the Red Mill building was constructed in 1959.
The scenario is beginning to play out... a city employee photographs the new home of Interbay Pharmacy in 1960. The old home at some point became a city street.
The next step is to hit the Seattle Times archives and see what it says. These archives are one of the greatest and most frustratingly hidden secrets in local history. 1900-1923 are currently only available through a database called World Newspaper Archive, available locally through the University of Washington. From 1923-1980 are also covered in a database called America's GenealogyBank, which you can get at from home with your library card, click the link here.
I narrowed the search to newspapers, in Washington, and just for the kewords "15th widening" in 1952-1960. Result #4, 1959-06-02 page 20, is perfect:
"The city began condemnation proceedings in Superior Court... yesterday for widening 15th Avenue West form West Garfield Street to the Ballard Bridge.
"Twenty-two feet will be taken on much of the west side of the avenue. The east side will not be affected.
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"A six-lane depressed roadway will go beneath Dravus Street, whish will remain at its present grade.
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"Wilcox said 98 pieces of real estate are involved. He said settlements are being arranged with all but five owners."
So there's our story. Interbay Pharmacy, as well as all of the other pioneer businesses at the intersection of 15th and "Grand Boulevard" -- and all of the well-established homes on the main street between Seattle and Ballard -- were destroyed in 1959 to widen 15th to add six lanes of traffic.
It's odd that such a big deal is made about Interstate 5 and the other freeways, but no one talks about major widening projects like this. The monorail project which was supposed to be built to Ballard would have run on 15th. I remember an editorial in the Times or PI which railed that 15th was inhospitable to people, it was a car street that wasn't built for mass transit. There were so many editorials arguing that we couldn't afford to transform our city, which was built for car travel. But when you really look back, you find that our city was, of course NOT built for cars, but built for streetcars and people. We spent truckloads of money to rebuild it for cars.
Strips like 15th are still recovering from the economic hammer that was dropped.
BTW, Red Mill has great burgers. Get some onion rings while you're at it! There's bus service on 15th if you can afford the time and money.
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SHIN LLAMA A GABRIEL (1 de 1)
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 38 of 38) 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.
FOTOHISTORY: In English / En Español
Shin: (How many problems! Everybody here has a personal drama... And I also have to eat the troubles of the rest, damn me! … XD)
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Shin: (Que de marrones! Aquí todo dios tiene un culebrón personal, vaya tela... Y encima tengo que comerme los marrones de los demás, manda cojones... XD)
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- FOTOHISTORIAS en casa de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Saw Canceled and Sheryl PHOTOSTORIES at Flickr
More photographs of Walton-on-Thames, can be viewed by visiting my photography website - Beautiful England
Walton-on-Thames is a riverside town with over 20,000 residents, situated between Sunbury Lock and Shepperton Lock, in the Borough of Elmbridge. It is only 15 miles from central London and has good communications by road, being close to the M25, M4 and M3 motorways. A fast train journey of only 25 minutes to Waterloo station makes it an ideal location for commuting to London. In fact, in 2008, a survey by the Halifax declared the Borough of Elmbridge to be the, "best place to live in Britain", with the highest quality of life in the United Kingdom. The media rapidly produced further commendations declaring Elmbridge to be the "Beverly Hills of Surrey" and claiming that even the weather here was better than the national average.
The town now has a new shopping centre, "The Heart", which is a covered mall with over 50 shops and restaurants and with outside restaurant seating. The development contains 279 apartments with views over Ashley Park. Walton-on-Thames has a modern leisure centre, the Xcel Leisure Complex, which opened in 2006, overlooking the River Thames. In addition to a 25 metre swimming pool, sports halls, climbing wall, health and fitness suite, it has an outside floodlit synthetic football pitch.
In the Domesday Book, Walton-on-Thames was recorded as, 'Waletona' and as having a church, two mills and a fishery.
The River Thames at Walton is an important crossing point. It was thought that Julius Caesar crossed here on his second invasion of Britain, but there is no evidence for this. Walton Bridge was the subject of a painting by Canaletto in 1754, but this wooden bridge was dismantled in 1783. J.M.W. Turner painted Walton Bridge in 1805, but this stone bridge collapsed in 1859. It is doubtful whether anyone would think the current structure is picturesque. It is the fifth bridge to cross the Thames at Walton and dates from 1999, when it was intended only to be temporary. Work on a new bridge is due to start in 2011 and completed in 2013.
Close to Walton Bridge is Desborough Island, which was created when the Desborough Channel was cut in 1935. It was constructed by the Thames Conservancy and named after Lord Desborough, the Chairman of the Board. The cut made a shorter journey possible by avoiding the meandering stretch of the Thames past Shepperton and Halliford.
At Walton Bridge is the garage of H.W. Motors, (Hersham and Walton Motors) who were the first Aston Martin dealership in the world. In the 1950s, they built their own racing cars and Sir Stirling Moss competed in his first Formula One Grand Prix in an H.W. Motors car.
Next to H.W. Motors is the Walton Playhouse. This is a theatre used for community productions and local amateur dramatic societies. It was built by Cecil Hepworth as a power house for Walton Film Studios. They closed in 1924 and its architect, George Carvill, bought the building. For many years, it was known as the, "Walton Hop", reputed to be the first disco in the United Kingdom. It closed in 1990.
St. Mary's Parish Church is of Saxon origin, with parts dating back to the 12th century. It is set at the highest point in the town and has a square flint tower. The churchyard contains the graves of many New Zealand soldiers who died in the First World War. Mount Felix House in Walton, which has now been demolished, was used as a hospital for New Zealand troops. The New Zealand connection is maintained in the street name, 'New Zealand Avenue' and the Wellington pub in the town centre.
As would be expected, the riverside pubs have been visited by notable characters. In 1909, Jerome Kern, the composer of the Broadway musical, "Showboat" and many popular songs, including Ol' Man River, met Eva Leale, the landlord's daughter at the Swan pub. They were married at St. Mary's Church, Walton the following year. The Anglers pub, with its seating on the riverbank, is very popular. A short walk along the towpath towards Hampton Court brings you to The Weir Hotel. Overlooking the Weir, this pub is extremely popular with walkers and cyclists, especially on Sundays, where people enjoy their roast dinners.
Walton-on-Thames has had many famous residents, but Julie Andrews is probably the most notable. She was born Julia Wells in 1935 in Rodney House Maternity Hospital, Rodney Road. She became, at fourteen, the youngest ever solo performer to appear at a Royal Variety Performance in 1948 at the London Palladium. She married her first husband, Tony Walton, in St. Mary's Church, Oatlands, Weybridge in 1959. Her most famous role was as Maria Von Trapp in the film, "The Sound of Music", which became 20th Century Fox's biggest ever film.
In Station Avenue, is a 1960s iconic office building. Formerly the head office of Birds Eye Frozen Foods, it is now a Grade II listed building. My sister worked there and remembers that there were live penguins in the grounds.
Next year will be an exciting time for Walton-on-Thames, when the 2012 Olympic Games commences. On the opening day of the 2012 Games, on Saturday 28th July, the Mens' Cycling Road Race (250km) starts from the Mall in London. The 145 riders will head towards Walton and race along Hurst Road from Hampton Court into Terrace Road, into Walton Town Centre, down Oatlands Drive to Weybridge and then onto the Surrey Hills. The womens' race takes place the following day over a shorter (140km) route, but still through Walton. The 2012 Olympic Games Cycling Time Trials will be held close by on 1st August at Hampton Court. The whole 13 mile section of the route which cuts through Elmbridge will be surfaced with electric blue non-slip Tarmac. This is the internationally recognised cycling blue used on time trials. The blue colour means overhead cameras can track competitors using matt black background enhancements.
On 14th August, 2011, an official test event for the 2012 Summer Olympics Road Race took place over the Olympic route, from The Mall in London, through Walton-on-Thames, to Box Hill, returning to the Mall, passing through Esher. This was the London – Surrey Cycle Classic Race. It was won by Mark Cavendish, MBE, aged 26. He is the top sprinter in the Tour de France, having won twenty stages and in September 2011, went on to win the Road World Championship in Denmark. On 22nd December 2011, Mark was voted the 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He is probably Great Britain’s best prospect for a gold medal in 2012. It is hoped that he can repeat his success next year.
A friend of mine restores classic cars for a hobby/side-job and asked me to come over and shoot one of his cars. This is actually the '65 Mustang that he built for his mother. This classic started out as a coupe, but he changed it to a convertible. He also customized the front end and back end. The engine is also not original. He replaced it with a 302 from a late 80's Mustang. The car is really beautiful. He does nice work.
This was my first attempt at shooting a car and it definitely presented some challenges. I used my two speedlights to light it and ended up compositing several shots in Photoshop to get the right lighting and look I wanted. I was shooting the speedlights at full power and sometimes 1/2 power since I had the aperture tighted up to f10. Could have really used some Alien Bees or something here. Anyway, I think I did a pretty good job and the end result is pretty cool. I showed this final shot to my friend and he was really happy with it, which is what really matters here.
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Strobist: main image and base image for background: 580EX II, camera left, bounced in 45" umbrella, LP120, camera right, bare aimed at side of vehicle.
layer: LP120, camera right, bare, aimed at front fender and wheel.
layer: 580EX II, camera right, handheld over the back end of the car, through umbrella to light up the convertible top cover a bit more.
Im going to be very nervous this wednesday as i get to meet Sebastian Boyesen.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00szzhv/Angel_of_the_Valleys/
While i was at The Miner today was talking to a local who's Husbands father and his brother died in the disaster
Sorry for the poor quality low resolution uploads as you may have gathered this is my first commission for a book on the mining disaster.
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Tragedy at Six Bells
By David John Withers, Brynmawr
My father worked in the colliery all his life and I sort of followed him into the pit. I went to work in Six Bells Colliery at 17 years of age.
When I first went on the 0.18 coal face as a collier's helper I was introduced to my 'batty' Reggie Poe who showed me the tools we were using and two chalk marks 15 yards apart on the coal face. This was our working place, 15 yards long by 4-foot-6 deep by 5 feet high. I thought 'bloody hell' - it seemed a huge amount of coal to shift.
Although the other coal faces in our district were more modern with hydraulic roof supports, we were still using the older friction posts and linked bars. I've still got the scars where one of the bars came down on me!
We had quite a few problems with gas on the 0.18 coal face and the dust was killing. At times the conveyor would start up and you couldn't see each other until the dust settled down.
As boys we often refused to go onto the face because of the amounts of dust there - being youngsters we stuck together even when the officials threatened to send us home. It wasn't much of a threat as I was only earning about £6 odd!
I had been working about two years when the explosion happened. I was working on the 0.18 face at Six Bells on the 'turning shift' and arrived at the colliery on the bus to see the place in turmoil and heard that an explosion had happened. As the explosion had occurred at our place of work, we offered to go down and help as we knew the place, but the Rescue Brigade had it under control and wouldn't let us go down.
It's hard to say my feelings about it all. We knew there was gas there and they said a spark had set it off. I had mostly enjoyed the colliery up to then. I remember four of the men who died - I used to give them snuff with powdered bark mixed in as a joke - there was a good spirit amongst the men at the pit.
Once the explosion had happened it put me off. I finished and I put my notice in soon after. I was too young to lose my life in the colliery. If I had been working the day shift that week it would have been me. The explosion opened my eyes to the dangers and I went into the construction industry instead - I was always good with my hands. The pit made me grow up.
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.
I don't know one damned butterfly from another
my ignorance of the stars is formidable,
also of dogs & ferns
except that around my house one destroys the other
When I reckon up my real ignorance, pal,
I mumble "many returns"—
next time it will be nature & Thoreau
this time is Baudelaire if one had the skill
and even those problems O
At the mysterious urging of the body or Poe
reeled I with chance, insubordinate & a killer
O formal & elaborate I choose you
but I love too the spare, the hit-or-miss,
the mad, I sometimes can't always tell them apart
As we fall apart, will you let me hear?
That would be good, that would be halfway to bliss
You said will you answer back? I cross my heart
& hope to die but not this year.
(Dream Song 265. john berryman. from "His toy, his dream, his rest")
'My creation' On Black and Large.
Photos I chose for Charlie's WebSite. www.charliebrown8989.net/Algo
1. The avenue in mist and sun, 2. Cathedral in the Forest, 3. Autumn Chiltern view, 4. Holding on, 5. refraction of clouds over my garden, 6. Sunday morning mist, 7. dawn and dandy, 8. love you, 9. seeding the sunset, 10. cloud dancer ~ light prancer, 11. morning mist, 12. 100 year hand
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Choose twelve, Charlie instructed. I had no idea how difficult that would be. Anyway, it's stung me into wanting to do better in the future.
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Opened in 1829, the ESP was the first modern prison in the world; it pioneered the idea that if prisoners were given quiet time to reflect rather than being tortured, they would feel penitent (this is the root of the word "penitentiary") and could rejoin society as productive members. Thus, for many decades the prisoners here were kept in their own cells and were prohibited from interacting with their fellow inmates. They exercised in individual, walled outdoor areas that were attached to their cells. It was only much later that "solitary confinement" came to acquire a negative connotation, as a special punishment for infractions committed while already in prison.
Among the ESP's more illustrious inmates in its 142 years of operation were Al Capone (who spent a year here), and the bank robber Willie Sutton. But perhaps its most unusual inmate was a dog, Pep (a black Labrador retriever). Said canine reportedly killed a cat belonging to Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot; the governor retaliated by sentencing the dog to life in prison. I even saw a picture of the dog's admittance papers (he was admitted in 1924). But then the Governor got a lot of bad press over this, so he changed his story and said that the dog was his, and that he had donated it to the prison for the betterment of the inmates. Yeah, right.
In the mid-19th century, the ESP was quite the tourist attraction. Its distinguished visitors in that era included Alexis de Tocqueville and a young Charles Dickens. Before embarking on his first trip to the U.S. in 1842, Dickens said that the two places in this nation that he most wanted to see were Niagara Falls, and the Eastern State Penitentiary.
For Christmas '08, my wife got me a nice shaving kit which included a Gillette Mach 3 razor. (featured here) I used it for a year, and was about to buy another pack of M3s when I realized how freaking expensive they were. I decided to give a Double Edge razor a shot. My per razor cost went from $2.25 to ¢10 (¢25 if I splurge and get the really nice ones.) The dirty little secret that Gillette doesn't want you to know: disposable cartridges with multiple blades do not necessarily give you a better shave. They're simply a matter of convenience, but that convenience comes at a price. If you'd rather not do the DE razor, go with something like a trac II, Atra, or Sensor... anything else is just more expensive, not better. Eventually, using the DE is just second nature.
I used that for a few months and decided to give a straight raozr a shot. Some say it's the closest shave you'll ever have, but I'm not quite there yet. I haven't got the nerve to go against the grain. One thing though... it feels kind of bad ass to shave with a straight. It takes me probably an extra 5-10 minutes to shave this way than it would with a regular razor, but it's worth it. No more wasting of plastic cartridges... and my use of DE razors is greatly reduced.
For this shot, I used a cross processing technique. Here's the tutorial I used. It's specific to GIMP. Mr. Sharp referred me to one for photoshop... I couldn't quite get it to work, which I think is the result of not having 'effect layers' in gimp. I probably could have adapted it to work in GIMP, but the other one seems to work on a similar premise, and required no translation on my part.
I also did the orton effect, in conjunction with the "smart sharpen" (see previous) The smart sharpen is quite a few steps, but worth it.
Question for those that might know: this cross processing technique is very similar to what I've seen for lomo effect. The end result is somewhat similar too. Makes sense because the distinctive use that lomos became famous for was because the film was developed with a cross process technique. So, my question is, what distinguishes digital lomo edits from other types of cross processing?
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.
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/