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Scan circa 1956. Me and my brother and sisters. I am the oldest. I am 6 years older than Bob, he looks to be maybe two here. So, I could be 8 or 8 1/2. This could be Fall or Winter. It's on the old living room couch. Notice the old embossed tin walls that are painted and our orchard in the back yard.
We all have on new flannel shirts and courderoy pants lined with flannel. These were handmade by my dad's sister, Margaret from Escanaba, who also took the pic with her camera. We didn't have an indoor camera then, only an old Kodak Brownie which was for outside only and had no flash. So, it's a rare photo of the 4 of us! See previous pic of me in Easter dress in 1955. We lost our Mom {age 41} in 1964 when we were all in school yet. I helped Dad raise these siblings.
Here's a poem I wrote in 1992 and it is in my poetry book, Windows to my Heart, (c) 1993.
THOSE MORNING KISSES
by Kathie Luther
It was our routine, a daily habit,
To kiss our Mumma goodbye.
She'd bend down, four kisses were planted,
Then off to the school bus we'd fly!
How glad we were for that dear old habit
And that last day we kissed Mumma goodbye.
We were just kids who took her for granted.
"Those were the good old days," we sigh.
Those morning kisses, so customary,
Transformed by time and loss we find
Have become so very extraordinary
They're sparkling jewels in our minds!
"For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time,
and then vanisheth away." James 4:14
You should really View On Black
Strobist:
Kicker at 1/4 camera left behind subject
Main at 1/4 thru silver umbrella camera right
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Today has been an amazing day. Everyone has been enormously helpful. This week, we had a photography contest at school.
Tuesday, we got the tasks, came up with ideas, and played around with the studio strobes which I had no experience with until then.
Wednesday, we went to the location. Changes in plans. Set up in a tiny garage, and had a shoot going for two hours. Got a lot of help from Kristine (owner of the garage, the knife, the bunny and the ketchup used to color the bunny; but also batteries for the transmitter). After the shoot, we picked about ten candidates, but ended up with this. Kai used the rest of the day to process it to perfection (atleast so we like to think).
Today, Thursday. We met up together at the printing store at 0900. We went for an A1 print on special paper, and we were truly astonished. The quality was amazing. It was dreadfully expensive, though - but seems already that it will pay off, since the school is willing to buy it for more than we spent printing and framing it. Afterwards, we went to a frame maker who also proved himself very helpful, helping us framing the print which basically was dripping wet, since it only had been drying for an hour or so (usually, you need to dry it for 24 hours, but we had to finish it by 1100).
The end result was just stunning, and wether or not we win the contest is irrelevant. We've had tons of fun in the process of creating this!
Marathoners: First Name: O, P, Q, R
The following is a list of Ottawa, Gatineau and area marathoners who have first names starting with an O, P, Q or R.
The names link to Sportstats' running statistics, as well as race pictures.
Marathon pictures are available for sale from ASI Photos, Zoom Photo, etc.
(in order by first name)
1140….Oliver Brochert….Chesterville
1141….Olivier Duhaime….Gatineau
1142….Olivier Dumetz….Ottawa
1143….Omer Majeed….Ottawa
1144….Ouray Viney….Kanata
1145….Pamela Kalinowski….Alexandria
1146….Pascal Bessette….Ottawa
1147….Pascal Ilboudo….Ottawa
1148….Pascal Peladeau….Jasper
1149….Pascal Renard….gatineau
1150….Pascale Harvey….Ottawa
1151….Pat Barbeau….Ottawa
1152….Pat McNeely….Merrickville
1153….Patricia Coons….Orleans
1154….Patricia Harrison….Gatineau
1155….Patricia Sawarna….Oxford Mills
1156….Patrick Cadieux….L'Ange-Gardien
1157….Patrick Chauvin….Mont-Laurier
1158….Patrick Clarke….Cornwall
1159….Patrick Clermont….Ottawa
1160….Patrick Dumond….Ottawa
1161….Patrick Dupont….Gatineau
1162….Patrick Girard….Ottawa
1163….Patrick Gorman….Ottawa
1164….Patrick Kirby….Ottawa
1165….Patrick Lessard….Stittsville
1166….Patrick Miron….Ottawa
1167….Patrick Murnaghan….nepean
1168….Patrick Owens….Nepean
1169….Patrick St-Pierre….Gatineau
1170….Patrick White….Gatineau
1171….Patti Gamble….Ottawa
1172….Paul Allen….Nepean
1173….Paul Beland….Gatineau
1174….Paul Charron….Nepean
1175….Paul Chouinard….Ottawa
1176….Paul Estes….Ottawa
1177….Paul Hansen….Ottawa
1178….Paul Holmes….Ottawa
1179….Paul Huliganga….Nepean
1180….Paul Menard….Orleans
1181….Paul Mikota….Ottawa
1182….Paul Nightingale….Manotick
1183….Paul Steeves….Ottawa
1184….Paul Tessier….Ottawa
1185….Paul Van Den Bosch….Ottawa
1186….Paul Von Schoenberg….Ottawa
1187….Paula Hall….Ottawa
1188….Paula Lund….Kars
1189….Paula Tejada-Hache….Nepean
1190….Peggy Brochert….Chesterville
1191….Penny Vezina….Ottawa
1192….Pete Laporte….Chelsea
1193….Peter Balogh….Gatineau
1194….Peter Belair….Orleans
1195….Peter Chapman….Kanata
1196….Peter Coe….Ottawa
1197….Peter Foley….Nepean
1198….Peter Harrison….Ottawa
1199….Peter Jurt….Ottawa
1200….Peter Kielstra….Ottawa
1201….Peter Lariviere….Orleans
1202….Peter Lyman….Ottawa
1203….Peter Mason….Ottawa
1204….Peter Page….Nepean
1205….Peter Rautapuro….Cumberland
1206….Peter Saturley….Ottawa
1207….Peter Shand….Ottawa
1208….Peter Valentine….Ottawa
1209….Peter Way….Ottawa
1210….Peter Wismer….Ottawa
1211….Peter Zimmerman….Kanata
1212….Phat Nguyen….Ottawa
1213….Phil King….Ottawa
1214….Phil Tisserand….Gatineau
1215….Philip Hogg….Ottawa
1216….Philip Lynch….Stittsville
1217….Philippe Guiet….Gatineau
1218….Philippe Kearns….Ottawa
1219….Philippe Leblanc….Rockland
1220….Phillip Bennett….Pembroke
1221….Phillipa Thompson….Oxford Mills
1222….Pierre Boudreau….Ottawa
1223….Pierre Daoust….Thurso
1224….Pierre Menard….Gatineau
1225….Pierre Paquette….Ottawa
1226….Pierrick Le Monnier….Ottawa
1227….Prichya Sethchindapong….Ottawa
1228….Pryce Wood….Maitland
1229….Rachel Chan….Kanata
1230….Rachel Fahlman….Ottawa
1231….Rachel Leblanc….Ottawa
1232….Rachel Pankratz….Pembroke
1233….Rafid Haidar….Gatineau
1234….Rajkumar Nagarajan….Ottawa
1235….Ralph Hodgins….Orleans
1236….Ralph Richardson….Stittsville
1237….Randall M. Binnie….Petawawa
1238….Randy Cocek….Nepean
1239….Randy McElligott….Ottawa
1240….Ranjit Bose….Ottawa
1241….Ranjith Senthivadivel….Ottawa
1242….Ray Townsend….Ottawa
1243….Ray Wong….Kanata
1244….Ray Wong….Ottawa
1245….Raymond Boucher….Ottawa
1246….Raymond Dawes….Barry's Bay
1247….Raymond Dawes….Barry's Bay
1248….Rebecca Dunbar….Renfrew
1249….Rebecca Van Den Bosch….Ottawa
1250….Rebecca Volk….Ottawa
1251….Remi Vezina….Gatineau
1252….Rene Bilodeau….Kanata
1253….Rene Dionne….Ottawa
1254….Rene Hawkes….Ottawa
1255….Rene Morin….Cantley
1256….Rene Solymar….Carp
1257….Rene-Louis Bourgeau….Ottawa
1258….Reut Aharony….Kanata
1259….Rex Fyles….Gatineau
1260….Reyse Netzke….Ottawa
1261….Rheal Labelle….Gatineau
1262….Ricardo Araujo….Ottawa
1263….Richard Bellefeuille….Kanata
1264….Richard Bercuson….Ottawa
1265….Richard Borsos….Gatineau
1266….Richard Cawthorn….Ottawa
1267….Richard Dearden….Ottawa
1268….Richard Dunn….Gatineau
1269….Richard F Proulx….Ottawa
1270….Richard Leblanc….Ottawa
1271….Richard Meredith….Ottawa
1272….Richard Pilon….Cornwall
1273….Richard Sevigny….Gatineau
1274….Richard Tanguay….Ottawa
1275….Richard Tarrant….Petawawa
1276….Richard Wall….Ottawa
1277….Rick Dearden….Ottawa
1278….Rick Dobson….Ottawa
1279….Rick Grant….Ottawa
1280….Rick Lage….Manotick
1281….Rick O'Grady….Ottawa
1282….Rick O'Shaughnessy….Nepean
1283….Rick Whitford….Gatineau
1284….Rita Abrahamsen….Ottawa
1285….Rob Gallaher….Ottawa
1286….Rob Illingworth….Carleton Place
1287….Rob Thomas….Ottawa
1288….Robert Armstrong….Dunrobin
1289….Robert Berthiaume….Ottawa
1290….Robert Binette….L'Ange-Gardien
1291….Robert Bowness….Ottawa
1292….Robert Cepella….Ottawa
1293….Robert Fabes….Manotick
1294….Robert Fenton….Kanata
1295….Robert Haddow….Orleans
1296….Robert Kalbfleisch….Ottawa
1297….Robert Lange….Manotick
1298….Robert Leblanc….Orleans
1299….Robert Muir….Nepean
1300….Robert North….Ottawa
1301….Robert Palmer….Nepean
1302….Robert Parenteau….Ottawa
1303….Robert Peterson….Ottawa
1304….Robert Shaw….Kanata
1305….Robert Simard….Orleans
1306….Robin Crowder….Ottawa
1307….Robin Hill….Pembroke
1308….Robin Mounsteven….Ottawa
1309….Robin Sheedy….Ottawa
1310….Robin Tilsworth….Ottawa
1311….Robin Waller….Maxville
1312….Rod Zylstra….Ottawa
1313….Rodney Carriveau….Almonte
1314….Roger Crispin….Richmond
1315….Roger Glidden….Ottawa
1316….Roger Langevin….Ottawa
1317….Roger Larche….Gatineau
1318….Roger Wyllie….Ottawa
1319….Roland Chan….Ottawa
1320….Roman Kaufman….Gatineau
1321….Romano Panopio….Ottawa
1322….Romeo Glenn Sumido….Orleans
1323….Ron Lyen….Ottawa
1324….Ron Newhook….Ottawa
1325….Ron Walker….Ottawa
1326….Ronald Toulouse….Gatineau
1327….Rory Martin….Ottawa
1328….Rosa Lombardi….Orleans
1329….Rosa Pool….Kanata
1330….Rosina Mauro….Ottawa
1331….Ross Galbraith….Ottawa
1332….Ross MacLachlan….Ottawa
1333….Russ Mullen….Nepean
1334….Ryan Allen….Ottawa
1335….Ryan Baker….Nepean
1336….Ryan Lalonde….Ottawa
1337….Ryan Lee….Ottawa
1338….Ryan Macdonald….Ottawa
1339….Ryan Rogers….Ottawa
Big Audio Dynamite II or BADII
"The Globe"
Break it on down
Bless you
Bless you
I wanna bless you
Bless you
Where are you going
My beautiful friend
Is this the road that
You take till the end
And if we left behind
Is this the highway
Of our mankind
Axes spins so round and round we go
Where we're goin' no one really knows
Here we here we here we here we go
Feel the fire
Way down below
Come on dim the lights
It's party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
Gonna have a ball tonight
Let's have a ball
Down at the Globe
Come on dim the lights
Switch on the strobe
We're gonna have a ball tonight
Down at the Globe
Get up and clean your teeth and have a shave
It's 1 a. m. let's go out to a rave
One more and before we hit that grave
It's harder than a microwave wave
(Chorus)
Come on dim the lights
It's party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
Gonna have a ball tonight
Let's have a ball
Down at the Globe
(Repeat Chorus)
Where's the party officer?
(Repeat Chorus)
Here we go party time break it all down
Where is the failure
Not in this land
But still you try to
Get what you can
You know that it's bad but
If you insist
Here's one more chance now
That you just missed
(Repeat Chorus)
I believe you
I believe you
(Repeat Chorus)
Waking up the global warning way
Nepal cornflakes for my special kay
What's the halth departement got to say
Don't smoke more than 50 fags a day
(Repeat Chorus)
Come on party on down
(Repeat Chorus)
Not there best song, but a fun song
My favourite by these guys (actually the original BAD or Big Audio Dynamite) is the song "Contact"
Helluva dub punk reggae hip hop mix up..very nice fusion..I have always loved fusion is done right...which means treating all parts with the equal amount of respect...
Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land?
The idea is strange to us.
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water,
how can you buy them?
Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people.
Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.
The sap which courses through the trees carries the memory and experience of my people.
The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man.
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars.
Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.
The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.
The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and the man, all belong to the same family.
So, when the Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land, he asks much of us.
The Great White Chief sends word he will reserve us a place so that we can live comfortably to ourselves.
He will be our father and we will be his children.
So we will consider your offer to buy land.
But it will not be easy.
For this land is sacred to us.
This shining water that moves in streams and rivers is not just water but the blood of our ancestors.
If we sell you land, you must remember that it is sacred blood of our ancestors.
If we sell you land, you must remember that it is sacred, and you must teach your children that it is sacred and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes tells of events in the life of my people.
The waters murmur is the voice of my father's father.
The rivers of our brothers they quench our thirst.
The rivers carry our canoes and feed our children.
If we sell you our land, you must remember to teach your children that the rivers are our brothers, and yours, and you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness that you would give my brother.
We know that the white man does not understand our ways.
One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.
The Earth is not his brother, but his enemy and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
He leaves his father's graves behind, and he does not care.
He kidnaps the Earth from his children, and he does not care.
BIRTHRIGHT
His father's grave, and his children's birthright are forgotten.
He treats his mother, the Earth, and his brother, the same, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads.
His appetite will devour the Earth and leave behind only a desert.
I do not know.
Our ways are different from yours ways.
The sight of your cities pains the eyes of the red man.
But perhaps it is because the red man is a savage and does not understand.
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities.
No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings.
But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand.
The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of a whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night.
I am a red man and do not understand.
The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, and the smell of the wind itself, cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with the pinon pine.
PRECIOUS
The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath.
The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes.
Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.
But if we sell you our land, you must remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh.
And if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where even the white man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow's flowers.
So we will consider your offer to buy our land.
If we decide to accept, I will make one condition - the white man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.
I am a savage and do not understand any other way.
I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train.
I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.
What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man.
All things are connected.
RESPECT
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers.
So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the Earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the Earth is our mother.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
This we know - the Earth does not belong to man - man belongs to the Earth.
This we know.
All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth - befalls the sons of the Earth.
Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
We may be brothers after all.
We shall see.
One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover - Our God is the same God.
You may think now that you own Him as you wish to own our land, but you cannot.
He is the God of man, and His compassion is equal for red man and the white.
The Earth is precious to Him, and to harm the Earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
The whites too shall pass, perhaps sooner than all other tribes.
But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you dominion over this land and over the red man.
That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo are slaughtered, the wild horses tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires.
Where is the thicket?
Gone.
Where is the Eagle?
Gone.
The end of living and the beginning of survival.
“Como você pode comprar ou vender o céu, o calor da terra? A idéia é estranha para nós.
Se nós não somos donos da frescura do ar e do brilho da água, como você pode comprá-los?
Cada parte da Terra é sagrada para o meu povo.
Cada pinha brilhante, cada praia de areia, cada névoa
nas florestas escuras, cada inseto transparente, zumbindo,
é sagrado na memória e na experiência de meu povo.
A energia que flui pelas árvores traz consigo a memória
e a experiência do meu povo.
A energia que flui pelas árvores traz consigo as memórias
do homem vermelho.
Os mortos do homem branco se esquecem da sua pátria quando
vão caminhar entre as estrelas.
Nossos mortos nunca se esquecem desta bela Terra,
pois ela é a mãe do homem vermelho.
Somos parte da Terra e ela é parte de nós.
As flores perfumadas são nossas irmãs, os cervos, o cavalo,
a grande águia, estes são nossos irmãos.
Os picos rochosos, as seivas nas campinas, o calor do corpo do pônei,
e o homem, todos pertencem à mesma família.
Assim, quando o Grande Chefe em Washington manda dizer que
quer comprar nossa terra, ele pede muito de nós.
O Grande Chefe manda dizer que reservará para nós um lugar
onde poderemos viver confortavelmente.
Ele será nosso pai e nós seremos seus filhos.
Então vamos considerar sua oferta de comprar a terra.
Mas não vai ser fácil.
Pois esta terra é sagrada para nós.
A água brilhante que se move nos riachos e rios não é
simplesmente água, mas o sangue de nossos ancestrais.
Se vendermos a terra para vocês, vocês devem se lembrar de que
ela é o sangue sagrado de nossos ancestrais.
Se nós vendermos a terra para vocês, vocês devem se lembrar de que
ela é sagrada, e vocês devem ensinar a seus filhos que ela é sagrada
e que cada reflexo do além na água clara dos lagos fala de coisas
da vida de meu povo.
O murmúrio da água é a voz do pai de meu pai.
Os rios nossos irmãos saciam nossa sede.
Os rios levam nossas canoas e alimentam nossas crianças.
Se vendermos nossa terra para vocês, vocês devem lembrar-se de
ensinar a seus filhos que os rios são irmãos nossos, e de vocês,
e consequentemente vocês devem ter para com os rios o mesmo
carinho que têm para com seus irmãos.
Nós sabemos que o homem branco não entende nossas maneiras.
Para ele um pedaço de terra é igual ao outro, pois ele é um estranho
que chega à noite e tira da terra tudo o que precisa.
A Terra não é seu irmão, mas seu inimigo e quando ele o vence,
segue em frente.
Ele deixa para trás os túmulos de seus pais, e não se importa.
Ele seqüestra a Terra de seus filhos, e não se importa.
O túmulo de seu pai, e o direito de primogenitura de seus filhos
são esquecidos.
Ele ameaça sua mãe, a Terra, e seu irmão, do mesmo modo, como
coisas que comprou, roubou, vendeu como carneiros ou contas brilhantes.
Seu apetite devorará a Terra e deixará atrás de si apenas um deserto.
Não sei.
Nossas maneiras são diferentes das suas.
A visão de suas cidades aflige os olhos do homem vermelho.
Mas talvez seja porque o homem vermelho é selvagem e não entende.
Não existe lugar tranqüilo nas cidades do homem branco.
Não há onde se possa escutar o abrir das folhas na primavera, ou
o ruído das asas de um inseto.
Mas talvez seja porque eu sou um selvagem e não entendo.
A confusão parece servir apenas para insultar os ouvidos.
E o que é a vida se um homem não pode ouvir o choro solitário
de um curiango ou as conversas dos sapos, à noite, em volta de uma lagoa.
Sou um homem vermelho e não entendo.
O índio prefere o som macio do vento lançando-se sobre a face do lago, e
o cheiro do próprio vento, purificado por uma chuva de meio-dia, ou
perfumado pelos pinheiros.
O ar é precioso para o homem vermelho, pois todas as coisas
compartilham o mesmo hálito – a fera, a árvore, o homem,
todos compartilham o mesmo hálito.
O homem branco parece não perceber o ar que respira.
Como um moribundo há dias esperando a morte,
ele é insensível ao mau cheiro.
Mas se vendermos nossa terra, vocês devem se lembrar de que o ar
é precioso para nós, que o ar compartilha seus espíritos
com toda a vida que ele sustenta.
Mas se vendermos nossa terra, vocês devem mantê-la separada e sagrada,
como um lugar onde mesmo o homem branco pode ir para sentir o vento
que é adoçado pelas flores da campina.
Assim, vamos considerar sua oferta de comprar nossa terra.
Se resolvermos aceitar, eu imporei uma condição – o homem branco
deve tratar os animais desta terra como se fossem seus irmãos.
Sou um selvagem e não entendo de outra forma.
Vi mil búfalos apodrecendo na pradaria, abandonados pelo
homem branco que os matou da janela de um trem que passava.
Sou um selvagem e não entendo como o cavalo de ferro que fuma
pode se tornar mais importante que o búfalo, que nós só matamos
para ficarmos vivos.
O que é o homem sem os animais?
Se todos os animais acabassem, o homem morreria
de uma grande solidão do espírito.
Pois tudo o que acontece aos animais, logo acontece ao homem.
Todas as coisas estão ligadas.
Vocês devem ensinar a seus filhos que o chão sob seus pés
é as cinzas de nossos avós.
Para que eles respeitem a terra, digam a seus filhos que a Terra
é rica com as vidas de nossos parentes.
Ensinem as seus filhos o que ensinamos aos nossos,
que a Terra é nossa mãe.
Tudo o que acontece à Terra, acontece aos filhos da Terra.
Se os homens cospem no chão, eles cospem em si mesmos.
Isto nós sabemos – a Terra não pertence ao homem –
o homem pertence à Terra.
Isto nós sabemos.
Todas as coisas estão ligadas como o sangue que une uma família.
Todas as coisas estão ligadas.
Tudo o que acontece à Terra – acontece aos filhos da Terra.
O homem não teceu a teia da vida – ele é meramente um fio dela.
O que quer que ele faça à teia, ele faz a si mesmo.
Mesmo o homem branco, cujo Deus anda e fala com ele como de
amigo para amigo, não pode ficar isento do destino comum.
Podemos ser irmãos, afinal de contas.
Veremos.
De uma coisa nós sabemos, que o homem branco pode um dia
descobrir – nosso Deus é o mesmo Deus.
Vocês podem pensar agora que vocês O possuem como desejam
possuir nossa terra, mas vocês não podem fazê-lo.
Ele é Deus do homem, e Sua compaixão é igual tanto para com
o homem vermelho quanto para com o branco.
A Terra é preciosa para Ele, e danificar a Terra é acumular desprezo
por seu criador.
Os brancos também passarão, talvez antes de todas as outras tribos.
Mas em seu desaparecimento vocês brilharão com intensidade,
queimados pela força do Deus que os trouxe a esta terra e para algum
propósito especial lhes deu domínio sobre esta terra
e sobre o homem vermelho.
Esse destino é um mistério para nós, pois não entendemos quando os
búfalos são mortos, os cavalos selvagens são domados, os recantos
secretos da floresta carregados pelo cheiro de muitos homens, e a vista
das montanhas maduras manchadas por fios que falam.
Onde está o bosque?
Acabou.
Onde está a águia?
Acabou.
O fim dos vivos e o começo da sobrevivência.”
Better view on large / Mejor vision en grande
Pequeño homenaje a la portada de un disco de uno de mis grupos favoritos (Gracias a Alba por aguantarme tanto con estas fotos).
Small homage to of one of my favorite groups discs front cover.
Best, you've got to be the best
You've got to change the world
And use this chance to be heard
Your time is now
Cheating Chance
by James Buchanan
Publisher: Torquere Press
Length: Novel (177 pages / 83500 words)
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-1-60370-303-1, 1-60370-303-9
Available file types - html, lit, pdf, prc
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Nick O'Malley is an agent for the Nevada Gaming Commission. He's also a Goth
with a hearse he's restoring, and an ex lover he's only just getting over.
Brandon Carr is a cop with the Riverside PD. Lucky for him, he's in Vice
where his tattoos and biker boy looks serve him well.
The two meet at a Goth convention in San Diego and the sparks fly
immediately. So much so that a weekend fling turns into more and Brandon
spends his four day weekend visiting Nick.
Things aren't all sparks and roses though: the two do live a nine hour drive
apart, and Brandon's not out. Add to that a murder right in front of them, a
company trying to cheat the system and the Mexican Mafia, and Brandon and
Nick's relationship will need to overcome a whole slew of obstacles in order
to work.
Despite everything, can Brandon and Nick make a go of it?
Taken a chance on these two and find out:
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Review: Mychael Black, popular Torquere author, writes:
Brandon Carr is firmly in the closet. Very firmly. Safely hidden where no
one else can see that he has a penchant for men. As a cop for Riverside
Police, he knows how to keep his needs and desires tucked away. And up until
now, he's managed just fine. Then Nevada Gaming Commission Agent, Nick
O'Malley, waltzes into his life and turns Brandon's world upside down in a
heartbeat.
Nick is out and perfectly at home in his skin. He knows what he wants and
Brandon fits the bill perfectly. They play hard and despite Brandon's
avoidance of anything remotely resembling love, Nick already knows how he
feels about the closeted detective. Unfortunately, fate has other ideas.
When Nick's job lands him into a nasty mess, it'll be up to Brandon to get
him out.
Hot cops. Hot sex. Tons of action. What's not to love??
From the first words on the page, it's impossible NOT to become entangled in
this story. Brandon and Nicky are both insanely hot. Together, they leave
you speechless. The tension is strong, in and out of their relationship. The
sex? Dear God. The rope bondage scenes are intense and you feel as if you're
right there, feeling the slide of rope over your skin as Brandon does.
If you've never read anything from Buchanan, this is a perfect time (and
book) to start. It sets the tone for Buchanan's work: gritty, real, and hot
as hell.
Read a Sample:
Nick looked up into a pair of crystal blue eyes. He started, thumping the
back of his head on the hood of the Endloader.
Brandon leaned back against the driver side door, laughing. Black jeans rode
low across his hips. His chest was bare except where the tattoos reached
around his sides. A shower had softened the spikes and his black hair
drifted in wisps across his forehead. For one brief moment Nick forgot just
how mad he was and allowed himself to stare in awe at the muscles and the
tats and the incredible smile. Then the memory of the previous night reared
up. Hinges screeched as he slammed the hood down hard.
"So this is the hearse?" Brandon raised his eyebrows. "Are you sure it's a
restoration project and not a junk yard?"
Nick offered up a thin smile. "Yeah, this is the rust bucket." As he pushed
past Brandon and slid into the front seat, Nick twisted the key in the
ignition. The hearse roared to life with a throbbing, primal growl.
"Whoa, she lives, I'm impressed." Brandon started to reach in and touch
Nick's hair. Nick caught the movement in the rearview, slamming the door
shut to stop him. "What the?"
The driver's window was down, semi-permanently. It had to be physically
pulled into place. "Garage door's open." He slung his arm over the door and
picked at the rotting weather strip. "Wouldn't want anyone to see us
together."
"Nicky, what's up?"
"It's me, not you." His boot heel drew a red-brown line from the gas pedal
back. "Don't worry about it." Probably time to order carpeting through
Kanter. Probably should get floor panels first. or maybe fix the window and
do weather stripping. Shit, there was still a lot to do. He'd hoped a
certain someone could help him with that. That's what he got for letting his
fantasies overstep reality.
Both hands on the door, Brandon leaned down to peer at Nick. "About what?
Tell me."
"I'll get over it." Mouth set hard, his eyes slid toward Brandon. "Don't
worry about it."
"Before I leave on Sunday? Come on tell me." Silence answered him. Brandon
switched tactics. "I had a lot of fun last night, at least before everything
went to hell."
"Yeah, you were having fun." Nick reverted to staring out the windshield.
"You weren't?"
"At first." Nick killed the engine. "When we first got to Purgatory and
Miri's birthday that was fun."
"And..." Brandon prompted.
Nick tried not to let the pain show in his eyes. "Then you went to get a
drink at the bar. And you stayed at the bar flirting with that girl. I mean,
shit, we haven't seen each other in two months and you ditch me to chase
tail... which, as far as I know, you're not going to do anything with
anyway."
"Nick, I told you I'm not out."
"Okay. No!" Nick ran his nails across his scalp. "Not out is no public
displays of affection. I can't tell anyone we're seeing each other. I get
it. It's bad enough, but I understand why." His hand slammed the steering
wheel. "It is not ignoring me for an hour while you grab some bitch's ass!
You wanna cover... I'm seeing someone. Gee, you're cute, but I can't get
involved now. I've really been looking forward to seeing you again, and that
just fucking hurt."
"Listen, Nicky, I didn't do it to hurt you. I'm sorry. It's just habit."
More black flecks found their way to the floor. "You know what really hurt?"
"What?"
"That your first thought wasn't me... it was protecting your cover in the
easiest way possible."
"I'm sorry, Nicky. I should have handled it better. All I can do is say I'm
sorry."
"I know. I'll get over it. Like I said it's my problem."
Hard silence broke between them for a time. "No, it's my problem. I really,
really like you, Nicky. It's been a long time since I felt this way about
anybody. Hell, I drove four hours across the desert, pulling bugs outta my
teeth to see you." Nick snorted a laugh. "Let's not go out tonight. Stay
home, just you and I. I'll give you all the attention you need. I want to. I
want to be with you." Brandon leaned in through the window and turned Nick's
chin with his fingers.
"The garage door's still open."
"I know." Brandon kissed him. Brandon hadn't shaved yet. Stubble tickled the
edge of Nick's lips. "You broken it in yet?"
He pulled back. "Broken what in?"
"Big ol' back area." Brandon's chin jerked towards the rear of the hearse.
"Plenty of room." Nick's skin tingled under Brandon's feather light touch as
the other man reached in and pulled the t-shirt over Nick's head. The black
material landed in a pile somewhere near the bike. Holy shit, Brandon was
intense. A smile flashed, the latch clicked and the door eased open.
"You're fucking crazy, you know that?" Nick rolled his eyes, sliding back
across the bench. "Jake would never have gone for that. He was always after
me to sell it and use the money for a down payment on a Toyota."
It was almost feral how Brandon moved, crawling across the seat on all
fours. "That's just tragic." The deep voice was mellow, soothing, sensual.
Nick could get off just listening to Brandon talk.
Already things were beginning to tingle and tighten. "Well, this wasn't his
lifestyle."
"How the hell did you meet him then?" Strong arms were on either side of
Nick's hips as Brandon leaned in.
"He's part of the fetish crowd, dress up to party on weekends." Why the fuck
was he talking about Jake? Especially with Brandon licking just behind his
ear; damn it was really getting hot. "You know, club bleed over and stuff.
Otherwise he's pretty conservative." A strong hand stroked him through the
camouflage. He began to swell in response to the touch. "He thought the
Hearse was weird. A sling in his bedroom, okay. A car that used to haul
around dead people, gross."
Brandon's lips were working down the side of his neck. "I think it's wicked.
What'd ya name her?" Fingers of frost danced under Nick's skin wherever the
kisses landed.
Nick's skin clung to the vinyl against his back. "Querida." His own hands
were tracing the ridges of Brandon's biceps, his hips grinding into the
caress. "It means 'I desire you'. it's what Gomez called Morticia."
"I always wondered about that. Querida." The way Brandon said it, Nick knew
he wasn't talking about the car. "Wanna climb in the back and fool around?"
Brandon was just too damn sexy to stay mad at for long.
Nick's breathing was already heavy. The heat in the garage didn't help. "For
a guy who's not out you certainly like to have sex in some risky places."
Well, not that risky, they were almost sixty feet back from the street and
in a garage. Still, if someone were standing at the end of the drive they'd
get a show. "Besides, I didn't bring anything out with me."
Brandon chuckled. "Cops and Boy Scouts always come prepared." A thin foil
package dropped between Nick's legs.
He twisted the packet in his fingers, sliding his gaze up to meet Brandon's
eyes. "Make up sex."
"Oh, hell, yeah, baby." Burning hard kisses stole what little remained of
Nick's resistance. "One of the best types around."
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Hi guys. Thanks for welcoming me back with open arms after so long. The last semester of study was waaay too demanding for me to even contemplate flickr. I'm so glad to be back. Also... I have just created a series of 2011 calendars at redbubble that I'd like you to have a look at if you have the time. The link is here. It's not a hard sell or anything... just wanting your opinion if you arent already a redbubble member.
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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk II
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
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ISO Speed: 100
Accessories: Manfrotto 190XB Tripod, Manfrotto 322RC2 Heavy Duty Grip Ball Head, Canon RC1 Wireless Remote
Date and Time: 19 November 2010 7.51pm
Post Processing:
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Tonemap generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Exported tonemapped image to CS5
Curves layer for contrast adjustment
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Re-imported back into Lightroom
Cropped to 17x6 panoramic proportions
Added keyword metadata
Exported as JPEG
From Wikipedia:
Eureka Tower is a 297.3-metre (975 ft) skyscraper located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Construction began in August 2002 and the exterior completed on 1 June 2006. The plaza was finished in June 2006 and the building was officially opened on 11 October 2006. The project was designed by Melbourne architectural firm Fender Katsalidis Architects and was built by Grocon (Grollo Australia). The developer of the tower was Eureka Tower Pty Ltd, a joint venture consisting of Daniel Grollo (Grocon), investor Tab Fried and one of the Tower's architects Nonda Katsalidis. It was the world's tallest residential tower when measured to its highest floor, until surpassed by Ocean Heights and the HHHR Tower in Dubai. It is now the fourth-tallest, after Q1 located on Queensland's Gold Coast and the two Dubai skyscrapers.
Free 8th Annual College Park Blues Festival (CPBF)
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Memphis or Bust! IBC Fundraiser to send The DC Blues Society Battle of the Bands winner to Memphis, TN.
Live Bands ~ Vendors ~ Dancing ~ Craft Beer
WHEN: Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 6pm to 11:30pm
FREE: Free entry and free Parking
WHERE: 7675 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD 20742
WHO: Patty Reese Band, Jesi Terrell & The Love Mechanic Band, Ron Hicks Project, DCBS Battle of the Bands winner announced after October 10 competition
SPONSORS: City of College Park, University of Maryland, Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, UMD Dining Services, DC Blues Society, Atomic Music, Audio Event Services Inc., Original Ledo Restaurant, College Park Arts Exchange, Phillips-Kleiner VFW, Shop College Park, UMD WMUC 88.1fm, WPFW 89.3fm
Featuring
• DCBS Battle of the Band Winner – attend the competition on October 10
• Ron Hicks Project
• Jesi Terrell & The Love Mechanic Band
• Patty Reese Band
CPBF 2015 brought to you by the College Park Recreation Board and the DC Blues Society.
Festival on the Web: www.dcblues.org/ or shopcollegepark.org/events/cpbf/
Follow on Twitter: #FreeCPBF
Sponsors / Vendors - contact cp@dcblues.org
Artists and schedule subject to change.
© Brian Callahan 2010 All rights reserved.
This one in the central dome of the Belle Isle conservatory.
Bromeliads are a varied group of organisms, adapted to a number of climates. Foliage take different shapes, from needle thin to broad and flat, symmetrical to irregular, spiky and soft. The foliage, which usually grows in a rosette, is the most widely patterned and colored of any plant in the world. Leaf colors range from maroon, through shades of green, to gold. Varieties may have leaves with red, yellow, white and cream variegations. Others may be spotted with purple, red, or cream, while others have different colors on the tops and bottoms of the leaves.
The inflorescence produced by bromeliads are also regarded as considerably more diverse than any other plant family. Some flower spikes may reach 10 meters tall while others only measure 2–3 mm across. Upright stalks may be branched or simple with spikes retaining their color from two weeks up to twelve months, depending on species. In some species the flower remains unseen, growing deep in the base of the plants.
Root systems vary according to plant type. Terrestrial bromeliad species have complex root systems that gather water and nutrients while epiphytic bromeliads only grow hard, wiry roots to attach themselves to trees and rocks.
An epiphytic bromeliad
Some bromeliads are faintly scented while others are heavily perfumed. Blooms from the species Tillandsia cyanea resemble the smell of clove spice.
One study found 175,000 bromeliads per hectare (2.5 acres) in one forest; that many bromeliads can sequester 50,000 liters (more than 13,000 gallons) of water.
A wide variety of organisms take advantage of the pools of water trapped by bromeliads. A study of 209 plants from the Ecuadorian lowlands identified 11,219 animals, representing more than 300 distinct species, many found only on bromeliads; for instance, some species of ostracods, small salamanders approximately 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in length and tree frogs. Jamaican bromeliads are home to Metopaulias depressus, a reddish-brown crab 2 cm (0.75 inch) across, which has evolved social behavior to protect its young from predation by Diceratobasis macrogaster, a species of damselfly whose larvae live in bromeliads. Some bromeliads even form homes for other species of bromeliads.
Wikipedia
Las Médulas, León (Spain).
ENGLISH
Las Médulas, located near the town of Ponferrada in the region of El Bierzo (León province, Castile and León, Spain), used to be the most important gold mine in the Roman Empire. Las Médulas Cultural Landscape is listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites.
The spectacular landscape of Las Médulas resulted from the Ruina Montium, a Roman mining technique described by Pliny the Elder in 77 AD consisted of undermining the mountain with large quantities of water supplied by at least seven long aqueducts tapping the rivers in the nearby mountains. The same aqueducts were used to wash the extensive gold deposits, a precursor of Californian hydraulic mining. The area Hispania Tarraconensis had been invaded in 25 BC by the emperor Augustus, so the mining was initiated some time after the region had been subdued.
To bring the necessary water from the Sierra de La Cabrera mountains to Las Médulas, a system of at least seven parallel aqueducts more than a hundred kilometers long in total were constructed, with some parts still well preserved in precipitous locations, and including some rock-cut inscriptions.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_M%c3%a9dulas
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CASTELLANO
Las Médulas, situado en las inmediaciones del pueblo homónimo, en la comarca de El Bierzo, provincia de León, Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León, España, es un entorno paisajístico formado por los restos de una antigua explotación minera de oro de la época romana, cuando la zona pertenecía a la provincia de Gallaecia. El enorme trabajo de ingeniería realizado para la extracción del mineral supuso una gran destrucción del medio ambiente, pero dio como resultado un paisaje grandioso y espectacular de arenas rojizas, perfectamente integrado con la vegetación de castaños y robles, que fue declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1997.
Las Médulas fue en su origen una explotación romana de oro a cielo abierto, aunque los pueblos indígenas prerromanos ya habían explotado el yacimiento, lavando los lodos y las arenas. Seguramente los romanos empezaron a trabajar en la zona en la época del emperador Octavio Augusto, quien dirigió personalmente la mayor parte de las acciones que entre los años 26 y 19 a. C. conquistaron definitivamente los pueblos del norte de la península Ibérica.
Cabe destacar la acción del monte Medulio, donde se verifica el holocausto de cántabros y astures, que prefieren darse muerte antes que entregarse. No obstante, la ubicación del monte Medulio es todavía objeto de discusión.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_M%c3%a9dulas_(Le%c3%b3n)
The beautiful Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York City. I took several photos of the Statue of Liberty from a ferry boat on my first trip to Liberty Island and New York City in October 2004. In this version I applied my new Photoshop filter plug-in called "Fractalius" to create a drawing effect.
INFORMATION ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty (Statue de la Liberté), is a large statue that was presented to the United States by France in 1886. It stands at Liberty Island, New York in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship from France to America. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue, and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel Tower) engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the repoussé technique.
The statue is of a female figure standing upright, dressed in a robe and a seven point spiked rays representing a nimbus (halo), holding a stone tablet close to her body in her left hand and a flaming torch high in her right hand. The tablet bears the words "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1776), commemorating the date of the United States Declaration of Independence.
The statue is made of a sheeting of pure copper, hung on a framework of steel (originally puddled iron) with the exception of the flame of the torch, which is coated in gold leaf. It stands atop a rectangular stonework pedestal with a foundation in the shape of an irregular eleven-pointed star. The statue is 151' 1" (46.5 m) tall, with the pedestal and foundation adding another 154 feet (46.9 m).
Worldwide, the Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the United States, and, more generally, represents liberty and escape from oppression. The Statue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the jet age, often one of the first glimpses of the United States for millions of immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe. The Statue of Liberty's obviously classical appearance (Roman stola, sandals, facial expression) derives from Libertas, ancient Rome's goddess of freedom from slavery, oppression, and tyranny. Broken shackles lie at her feet. The seven spikes in the crown represent the Seven Seas and seven continents. Her torch signifies enlightenment. The tablet in her hand shows the date of the nation's birth, July 4, 1776.
Since 1903, the statue, also known as "Lady Liberty," has been associated with Emma Lazarus's poem “The New Colossus” and has been a symbol of welcome to arriving immigrants. The interior of the pedestal contains a bronze plaque inscribed with the poem, which reads:
“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
There are 354 steps inside the statue and its pedestal. There are 25 windows in the crown which comprise the jewels beneath the seven rays of the diadem. The tablet which the Statue holds in her left hand reads, in Roman numerals, "July 4, 1776" the day of America's independence from Britain. The Statue of Liberty was engineered to withstand heavy winds. Winds of 50 miles per hour cause the Statue to sway 3 inches (7.62 cm) and the torch to sway 5 inches (12.7 cm). This allows the Statue to move rather than break in high [wind load] conditions.
Source: Wikipedia
That's a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote :) he always has the best quotes.
This is my first diptych, tell me what you think of it :D
It was sunny again today, so i took full advantage >:]
I have a tennis tournament tomorrow ! I'm excited! Hopefully i've improved since my last tournament.
Anyways, unknown thing about me #15:
I love Audrey Hepburn movies :) She's such an amazing actress and the plots of the movies are always so good!! I still need to see Funny Face, but I will get around to that
Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, don’t help them to bury the light
Dont give in, without a fight.
Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, Im coming home.
But it was only fantasy.
The wall was too high,
As you can see.
No matter how he tried,
He could not break free.
And the worms ate into his brain.
Hey you, out there in the road
Always doing what youre told,
Can you help me?
Hey you, out there beyond the wall,
Breaking bottles in the hall,
Can you help me?
Hey you, dont tell me theres no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall
Pink Floyd
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.
Also check out the interactive view of this panorama on my website:
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OK I have to tell you the story of the Barbies. Y'all know My 100 possibilities project is a Barbie. Well I am always on the lookout for clothes, props etc. I saw these 2 Top Model Barbies with extra outfits, shoes, and stands for 9.99 each at Food Lion. And since they are Model Muse Barbies. (Better posers) I grabbed 2 and proceeded to the checkout with my groceries. The checker asked who the Barbies were for, IDK why I did it people, but I lied and said they were for my nieces, thinking that would be the end of it. OH NO! Not to happen. Next comes the interrogation! How old are your Nieces? Where do they live?, Do they go tho School with so-n-so?, Do they watch Top Model?... OMG I wanted to shrink!
The moral of the story is, Dont Do It People.... One lie leads to another and another and another....;-)
I Thought it was Damn funny. It woulda been so much easier to explain the whole 100 possibilities project!
Santa Coloma de Queralt, Tarragona (Spain).
1ª Sortida enfoca: Guimerà-Conesa (gener 2009).
En Conesa nos despedimos todos y cada uno volvió a su casa. En el camino de regreso a mi casa pasé por este pueblo y decidir pararme un rato a conocerlo y sacar algunas fotos, que aunque no pertenezcan a la salida oficial, para mí es como si lo fueran.
ENGLISH
Santa Coloma de Queralt is a municipality in the comarca of the Conca de Barberà in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated in the north-east of the comarca. The four medieval gateways to the old town have been preserved. The gothic church of Santa Coloma dates from the fourteenth century.
There are settlements nearby to the town that they date of the Neolithic, but the first center of population of Santa Coloma is Iberian.
The first document that makes reference to the population of "Sancta Columba" it dates from 976 and places it in the territory of the "marca, in front of the limits of Spain", that is, land of border between the Christian and the Muslim Catalonia.
Almost during a thousand years Santa Coloma was the parental home of the barony of the Queralt, one of the feudal families more powerful of Middle Ages, firm allied of the count of Barcelona. Of this period are the main monuments: part of the castle, the wall (of which four portals stay), Jewish Jewry, parish church... The Jewish community, represented an important percentage of the population. The Jews dedicated themselves to commercial activities and were never an object of persecution.
During 16 and 17th centuries the castle went being to stately residence and was modified with Baroque and Renaissance styles.
In the national wars of the 17 and 18th centuries Santa Coloma believer to the Catalan institutions always stayed. During the War of the Reapers (Segadors), the town declared "enemy of the homeland" the count of Santa Coloma and viceroy of Catalonia Dalmau III of Queralt. Afterwards it put itself under the protection of the king of France and renounced to name Queralt to be called Santa Coloma "the Royal".
In the War of Succession, the town declared adherent to archduke Charles of Austria and collaborated in the fight against the Franco-Castilian troops of Philip V. After the defeat of 1714 and during all the 18th century, the town experienced a strong growth of the population, who provoked the disappearance of the walls on building the outskirts. Today some towers are visible still and they subtract four portals intact.
In the 19th century and until mid 20th the textile industry supposed an important economic growth and demographic of the population, which increased in more than a thousand inhabitants and arrived at its historical maximum of 3.500 inhabitants in 1932. During the war of 1936-1939, the town changed its historical name for that of Segarra de Gaià.
Source: www.stacqueralt.altanet.org/municipi/descripcioihistoria.php
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CASTELLANO
Santa Coloma de Queralt, es un municipio español, situado en la provincia de Tarragona (Cataluña), en la comarca de la Conca de Barberá, a la derecha del río Gayá, protegido por la sierra de Aguiló (811 m) y del Codony (789 m). Tiene diversos torrentes, que son los que surten de agua al término.
El municipio tiene su origen en la primitiva iglesia dedicada a Santa Coloma, perteneciente al castillo de Queralt. Este edificio aparece documentado en 976 cuando fue adquirido por el vizconde Guitard. Fue el primer centro de la baronía de Queralt. La primera denominación de la villa fue la de Santa Coloma Samora. Durante el siglo XIII aparece citada como Samarca o de la Marca aunque el término de Queralt ya aparece en algunos dodumentos.
Entre el siglo XIII y 1492 tuvo una importante comunidad judía de la que aún se conservan algunas calles.
Durante la Guerra de los Segadores, el pueblo apoyó a la Generalidad. El rey Luis XIV le concedió a Santa Coloma el título de "villa real" y abolió la señoría. Al finalizar la guerra, el pueblo volvió a quedar en manos de la familia Queralt.
De su población medieval se conserva parte de la muralla y las puertas de Cervera, del Martí, de Santa María y de Santa Coloma. En 1294 había tres puertas que se ampliaron a seis en el año 1471.La baronía de Queralt perteneció a los señores de Gurb hasta el 1213 que vendieron el término a los Timor, que se quedaron con el nombre de Queralt para fundar un linaje.
El castillo de Queralt en el siglo X pertenecía a los señores de Barcelona, durante los siglos XI -XIII al condado de Osona-Manresa.
La iglesia parroquial esta dedicada a Santa Maria (siglo XIV). Es de estilo gótico. Aunque su construcción se inició en 1331 no fue culminada hasta 1587. En su interior se encuentra un retablo de alabastro dedicado a San Lorenzo, del año 1386 realizado por el escultor Jordi de Déu. Tiene un alto campanario cuadrado del siglo XVII.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colom%c3%adn
Dawn breaking over Nandhi hills yesterday at 5:53 am.
There were 100s of young spectators to witness the same!
Tv 1/8sec, Av 5.6, ISO800, Handheld Shot!
Canon 400D, 18-55mm at 18mm.
The hills are located about 60 km north of Bangalore and about 3940 ft above sea level.
Sir Mark Cubbon, when he was Commissioner of Bangalore made this his summer residence. Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Queen Elizabeth II were among the other dignitaries who enjoyed their stay here.
You can visit this place at any time of the year. Its best if you are on top of the hill before sunrise. The wind, fog and clouds that blow towards you in the morning is just amazing.
Part of BWS Nandhi hills shoot out
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Exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA; en el Centro del Agua de Daimiel del 21 de diciembre al 20 de febrero.
Artículo LA BIODIVERSIDAD OCULTA
Un acordeón de cristal es el instrumento que han construido las diatomeas hermanas de hoy. Arropadas y alineadas pueden flotar mejor y así, a coro, interpretan su música acuática, que es la música de la vida. En el interior de cada una de ellas la transparencia de su estuche de cuarzo deja ver dos grandes cloroplastos verdosos y dorados entre los que se dispone el núcleo que dirige sus vidas que en este instante parece haber cautivado la atención de la pequeña Chilomonas
Sorprende el labrado de sus cubiertas de cristal, anárquico y hermoso, tan diferente a los perfectos surcos que casi todas las diatomeas llevan tallados como firma de su especie. Hoy poco podemos decir de su nombre, recuerda por su forma y por el remate de sus valvas a algunas especies de Eunotia, pero también pudiera ser Fragilaria…o cualquier otra diatomea caprichosa que no alcanzamos a conocer.
Sea quien sea soporta el frío y recibe la luz bajo el ventanal de hielo que cubre la laguna y alegra con sus colores, con sus formas y con su vida el agua en este invierno, con su música silenciosa de acordeón vivo.
La fotografía, tomada a 400 aumentos con la técnica de contraste de interferencia, procede de una pequeña laguna, la laguna Grande, situada en las inmediaciones de la localidad zamorana de Ricobayo.
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☁ la nube negra de una justicia pervertida en nuestro país, movida por la envidia y la venganza, permanecerá aquí, hasta que soplen los vientos limpios que todos necesitamos. La Justicia es uno de los cimientos necesarios para la Paz. Desde aquí todo nuestro apoyo al Juez Baltasar Garzón -el buen Juez de Saramago- y a las personas de buena voluntad como él que trabajan por la Justicia.
www.familistere.com/site/index.php
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_de_Guise
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_(Guise)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_André_Godin
« Ne pouvant faire un palais de la chaumière ou du galetas de chaque famille ouvrière, nous avons voulu mettre la demeure de l’ouvrier dans un palais ; le Familistère, en effet, n’est pas autre chose, c’est le palais du travail, c’est le PALAIS SOCIAL de l’avenir.
Ce qu’il n’est pas possible de faire au profit de familles éparpillées et sans lien, les améliorations qu’on ne peut introduire dans le tohu-bohu des habitations ouvrières, ni à la ville, ni à la campagne, ni dans les caves, ni dans les mansardes habitées ; ce que ne permettent pas même les habitations ouvrières isolées les mieux construites, quel qu’en soit le système : le Familistère le permet, le palais social le rend possible, bien plus, il le rend nécessaire. »
Jean-Baptiste-André Godin La Richesse au service du peuple, le Familistère de Guise. 1875.
Les chiffres du Familistère : ( source Wikipédia )
10 millions de briques sont nécessaires à la construction des trois pavillons du Palais Social.
30 000 m² de surfaces sont offerts par l’ensemble des trois pavillons.
1 kilomètre de coursives parcourt les trois pavillons du Palais.
500 fenêtres percent les façades des trois unités d’habitation.
495 appartements sont aménagés dans l’ensemble des cinq pavillons du Familistère avant 1918.
1 748 personnes habitent au Familistère en 1889.
50 berceaux peuvent être installés dans la nourricerie du Familistère.
796 invités participent au banquet de la cinquième fête du Travail dans la cour du pavillon central en 1872.
1 000 spectateurs prennent place au théâtre en 1914.
1 526 employés travaillent dans les usines de la Société du Familistère en 1887.
2 500 est le nombre de record d’employés de l’Association du Familistère de Guise et à Bruxelles en 1930.
4 000 modèles d’appareils et d’accessoires sont fabriqués par la Société du Familistère en 1914.
210 000 appareils sont expédiés par les usines de Guise et Bruxelles en 1913-1914.
664, c’est le nombre de pages qui composent le livre Solutions Sociales publié par Godin en 1871.
JEAN-BAPTISTE GODIN ( ENGLISH )
Jean-Baptiste André Godin (26 January 1817 -29 January 1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne).
The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman. Returning to Esquéhéries in 1837, he started a small factory for the manufacture of castings for heating-stoves. The business increased rapidly, and for the purpose of railway facilities was transferred to Guise in 1846. At the time of Godin's death in 1888 the annual output was over four millions of francs (4,160,000), and in 1908 the employees numbered over 2000 and the output was over 280,000.
An ardent disciple of Charles Fourier, he advanced a considerable sum of money towards the disastrous Fourierist experiment of V. P. Considerant (q.v.) in Texas (known as La Reunion. He profited, however, by its failure, and in 1859 started the Familistère, or community settlement, of Guise on more carefully laid plans.
The Familistère forms a town within the town of Guise. It comprises, in addition to a large factory, three large buildings, each four stories high, capable of housing all the work-people, each family having two or three rooms. The main building consists of three rectangular blocks joined at the corners. Each of these blocks has a central court covered with a glass roof under which children can play in all weather. There is no church of any sort. (There are, of course, churches within the rest of Guise). At the back of the main block there was a nursery. There is a separate block, known as the "economat", containing various shops, refreshment rooms and recreation rooms of various kinds(?), stores for the purchase of groceries, drapery and every necessity. This has recently (2008) been restored and is now a cafe, a shop selling books, postcards etc and an exhibition area. There were also allotments for the workers.
Opposite the main block there was a building containing a theater for concerts and dramatic entertainments and a primary school. There was also a communal laundry and swimming pool. This was a few years ago derelict but has now been restored. The swimming pool is still a swimming poll but the laundry is a meeting room and the drying room is now (2008) an exhibition room. In 1880 the whole was turned into a co-operative society, with provision by which it eventually became the property of the workers.
Godin manufactured cookers and heating stoves of many kinds mainly made from cast iron castings. Sometimes these were enameled. These are still to be found in use all over France. They can be found for sale on eBay.
This business was still owned by the workers in the 1950s but soon after was taken over by Le Creuset. It is not obvious that the factory is still functioning. It is seems the domestic building were privatised. The state of the domestic buildings was deteriorating but has recently been awarded EU money for it to be restored.
In 1871 Godin was elected deputy for Aisne, but retired in 1876 to devote himself to the management of the Familistère. In 1882 he was created a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Godin was the author of Solutions sociales (1871); Les Socialistes et les Droits du travail (1874); Mutualité sociale et association du capital et du travail (1880); La Republique du travail et la reforme parlementaire (1889). See Bernardot, Le Familistère de Guise et son fondateur (Paris, 1887); Fischer, Die Familistère Godins (Berlin, 1890); Lestelle, Etude sur le Familistère de Guise (Paris, 1904); D. F. P., Le Familistère illustr, résultals de vingt ans d'association, 1880-1900 (Eng. trans., Twenty-eight years of co-partnership at Guise, by A. Williams, 1908).
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Went out to do some strobing during the sunset today with Morten Hoff, and also to give the K-7 a good spin :)
Here's one result, this is the statue "Livet, leiken og draumane" - "Life, Play and Dreams" located near Solheimsviken, Danmarksplass and Arenum in Bergen.
Really not much editing done, it's all just gels and wb set in camera.
Camera: Pentax K-7 with DA*16-50/2.8. White balance set to Fluorescent.
Lighting: 2x Nikon SB-28 @ 1/4, with 1/2 CTO gels.. One at each side.
So... since I'm basically Mr. Gadget (only beaten by sveinmb) - I ended up getting the new Pentax flagship.. meh.. I've sold loads of camera-stuff lately (2 dslr, 1 slr, 2 flashes, couple of lenses.. etc..), so why not :) Getting the K-7 was a big step up for me since I never had the k20d, I have to say I'm quite impressed with it - it fixes many of the quirks one sometimes have with pentax (such as slow af, bad AWB, 1/3 stop underexposure). This new one is a bad ass machine, it's small, it's compact, solid as a brick (magnesium alloy body), handles even more water and sub-zero temperatures than the old ones (you could bring the old ones into the shower or drop them in a river, or even launch them into space.)
It's also the new secret weapon in the Bergen horizon conflict, it has a built in electronic spirit level. And, since the sensor is hovering in a magnetic field - you can set it to correct horizons by rotating the sensor (changing the magnetic field) automatically according to the electronic level. Think I'll leave it at manual though, just showing the horizon-level in the viewfinder (so if this one is wrong it's my fault) :p
De Ommetje publieksprijs.
Afgelopen zaterdag viel mij de eer te beurt om de ‘Ommetje publieksprijs’ in ontvangst te nemen.
De meeste Vlielanders en Vlielandfans zijn vermoedelijk wel bekent met de website ‘Het Ommetje’ van Folkert Janssens.
Folkert weet met ontzettend veel enthousiasme deze website te vullen met allerlei wetenswaardigheden, nieuwsfeiten en verslagen over Vlieland en haar bewoners.
Vorig jaar heeft Folkert de Ommetje publieksprijs ingesteld, op Het Ommetje wordt daar het volgende over gemeld;
Website www.hetommetje.nl kent jaarlijks een publieksprijs toe aan iemand die zich heeft ingezet voor de beeldvorming van het eiland Vlieland of die Vlieland op de één of andere wijze belangeloos heeft gepromoot.
In 2011 resulteerde dit bijvoorbeeld in een optreden van de Vlielander zanger Sjoerd op het festival Into the Great Wide Open alwaar hij zijn onderscheiding in ontvangst mocht nemen.
U als lezer van deze website mag meebeslissen over wie om welke reden in aanmerking moet komen voor deze prijs die bestaat uit een onderscheiding in de vorm van een door Peter Petersen vervaardigde bronzen penning en er wordt altijd gepoogd om de uitreiking passend naar de verdienste(n) van de betreffende persoon of organisatie aan te kleden.
Kent u iemand die in aanmerking komt voor deze onderscheiding, neem dan even contact met ons op.
Enige weken terug zocht Folkert mij op in De Noordwester en liet mij weten dat Het Ommetje voornemens was mij de Ommetje publieksprijs uit te reiken.
Folkert en de lezers van het Ommetje waren tot de voordracht gekomen vanwege mijn inzet voor de beschrijving van Vlieland tijdens de oorlogsjaren in het algemeen, en de inspanningen voor het voor het publiek open stellen van het Stützpunkt 12H in het bijzonder.
Ik ging schoorvoetend akkoord met het in ontvangst nemen van de prijs, ik houdt er niet zo van om het middelpunt van de belangstelling te staan.
Ik ging er daarna van uit dat Folkert voor de uitreiking op zijn fiets naar de Lange-Paal zou komen, om mij daar aan de deur een attentie te overhandigen, een fotootje te maken voor de website Het Ommetje, en dat het daarmee gedaan zou zijn.
Daarbij had ik even buiten Folkert gerekend; een maandje later viel bij mij de uitnodiging in de bus, met daarbij het programma van de uitreiking.
Dit luidde als volgt;
Het programma:
Vrijdag 12 oktober 2012, omstreeks 15.30 uur
Aankomst op Vlieland van Luitenant Kolonel Schmidt (Militaire attaché van de Duitse ambassade in Nederland), officiële ontvangst door commandant Klu-detachement Vlieland, Jan Houter, Folkert Janssens en eventueel Burgemeester Haan.
Aankomst militair materieel (2 st. Amerikaans tbv Veldkeuken en 1 stuks Duitse Kubelwagen met bemanning in historische uniformen).
17.00 – 18.30 Speciale editie “Vlieland toen” door Jan Houter in Podium Vlieland (vertelling over Vlieland ten tijde van WOII met beeldmateriaal)
Zaterdag 13 oktober 11.30
Vertrek bus vanaf terminal Rederij Doeksen naar locatie CSK. Tevens vertrek militaire colonne naar CSK (met mogelijkheid mee te rijden voor gasten)
12.00 Start militaire lunch
12.30 Militair verzamelsignaal geblazen door Niek Strous
12.31 Toespraak Luitenant Kolonel Schmidt en aansluitend uitreiking Ommetje Publieksprijs
13.00 Rondleiding en uitleg bij statische tentoonstelling legervoertuigen
14.00 Einde programma CSK, vertrek bus en colonne (colonne maakt rondrit over het eiland met gasten, bus rijdt rechtstreeks terug naar terminal)
14.30 Optioneel in verband met weersomstandigheden: Bezoek aan stelling 12H.
16.30 De Noordwester: Voor genodigden en pers presentatie plannen renovatie en openstelling stelling 12H.
Daar werd ik toch enigszins beduusd van.
Folkert had alle registers open getrokken om van de uitreiking een ware happening te maken.
Omdat ik meteen inzag dat er nu geen weg terug meer was, nam ik mij voor mij er aan over te geven en de hele gebeurtenis te ondergaan.
Afgelopen vrijdag maakte ik bij Podium Vlieland kennis met Luitenant-kolonel i.G. Joachim Schmidt, de militaire attaché van de Duitse ambassade en hoorden we met een select gezelschap een enthousiaste lezing van Jan Houter aan.
De zaterdag was het zover; verzamelen van de militaire voertuigen bij de Veerdam en daarna met het hele gezelschap naar het Cavalerie Schiet Kamp.
Ik mocht voor gaan op mijn Harley-Davidson 1943, en verzorgde het escorte samen met Erik de Boer en Rein Schokker beiden op hun Moto Guzzi V50 in Koninklijke Landmacht uitvoering.
Rein had zijn Go Pro op zijn helm, en maakte deze reportage van de rit naar het CSK.
Op het CSK troffen we Jorrit Volkers uit Leeuwarden, die speciaal voor deze gelegenheid met zijn GMC CCKW- 352, met in de laadbak een originele Amerikaanse veldkeuken, naar Vlieland was gekomen. Jorrit en zijn keukenteam hadden op deze veldkeuken een heerlijk geurende nasi bereidt.
De aanwezigheid van deze en de overige legervoertuigen was tot stand gekomen door vooral de bemiddelingen van Wietze Kikstra en Klaas Houter.
Het gezelschap verzamelde zich in de kantine van het Klu-detachement op Vlieland en werd welkom geheten door de commandant van het Detachement, de majoor Pieter Bruinink.
Na de voortreffelijke nasi-maaltijd begon het officiële gedeelte, en nam de Luitenant-kolonel i.G. Joachim Schmidt het woord om mij en het gezelschap toe te spreken.
De Oberstleutnant Schmidt hield een mooie toespraak, de tekst daarvan vindt u hier onder.
Ik werd wel enigszins ongemakkelijk van de lofuitingen die ik mocht aanhoren, maar ontving deze dankbaar.
Na de toespraak van Oberstleutnant Schmidt kreeg ik de fraai legpenning gemaakt door Peter Petersen behorende bij de Ommetje publieksprijs overhandigd en, ook erg aardig, een dinerbon voor Anke en mij bij restaurant Zuiver.
Na de overhandiging van de publieksprijs van het Ommetje nam ik zelf nog even het woord om een korte schets te geven van het ontstaan van mijn interesse voor de geschiedenis van de oorlogsjaren op Vlieland en sprak ik mijn dank uit naar met name Folkert, aan alle anderen die op enige wijze hun bijdrage hadden geleverd aan deze dag.
Na dit officiële gedeelte kon men weer instijgen in de voertuigen en werd via het Kantonnierspad onder langs de zeeduinen koers gezet naar de Stelling 12H.
Bij 12H mocht ik nog een rondleiding geven langs de diverse verscholen bunkers, kon ik uitleg geven over de functie en uitrusting van de stelling en een toelichting op de plannen voor de openstelling van het geheel voor het publiek.
Altijd leuk om voor een oprecht geïnteresseerd publiek een inleiding te geven over een onderwerp waar ik goed van op de hoogte ben.
Ook aardig om mensen die al heel lang op Vlieland wonen dingen te laten zien waar men geen notie van had dat die nog in het terrein zijn terug te vinden.
Bij het vertrek richting dorp vielen de eerste spatjes van de verwachtte regen, gelukkig arriveerden de verwachtte buien pas op het einde van het ‘buiten programma’.
Ter afsluiting was er nog de mogelijkheid voor de geïnteresseerden om de tentoonstelling ‘Vlieland tijdens de Oorlogsjaren’ waarbij ik voor de aanwezigen nog een toelichting gaf op hetgeen daar allemaal te zien valt.
Na nog een kop koffie kwam deze gebeurtenis tot een eind, en na afscheid van de Luitenant Kolonel Schmidt en zijn vrouw en nog een hand en een Hartelijke Dank aan Folkert en Nancy reed ik met een tevreden en voldaan gevoel door de regen op mijn Harley-Davidson naar de Lange-Paal.
Dirk Bruin – oktober 2012
Nawoord;
Folkert moet ontzettend veel werk gehad hebben met de organisatie van de uitreiking van de Ommetje Publieksprijs, en ik wil hem vanaf deze plaats nogmaals heel hartelijk danken.
Ik besef ook dat Folkert van veel mensen en bedrijven hulp heeft gehad, en dat het zonder deze belangeloze medewerking nooit zo’n geslaagde gebeurtenis had kunnen realiseren.
Zonder tot in detail te weten wie hier allemaal bij betrokken waren, wil ik ook dezen zeer hartelijk danken!
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Toespraak ter gelegenheid van de ‘Ommetje Publieksprijs’ aan de heer Dirk Bruin op 13 oktober 2012.
Geachte meneer Janssens, meneer de burgemeester, geachte meneer Bruin, geachte dames en
heren,
Het is voor alle aanwezigen vast een beetje ongewoon dat de defensie-attaché van de Duitse
ambassade in Nederland vandaag tot u spreekt. Ik wil u, geachte meneer Janssens, ook namens
mijn vrouw, allereerst danken voor uw uitnodiging voor deze prijsuitreiking. Ik wil u allen de
hartelijke groeten overbrengen van de Duitse ambassadeur in Nederland, dr. Heinz-Peter Behr. Hij
was graag zelf gekomen, maar was verhinderd en heeft mij verzocht naar Vlieland te gaan om
deze prijs uit te reiken.
Dat doe ik natuurlijk graag. Want het is ook voor mijn vrouwen mij om diverse redenen een
bijzondere manifestatie. Zo zijn wij voor het eerst op Vlieland. Over Vlieland hoorde ik voor het
eerst in 1988. Ik was compagniecommandant van een verkenningseenheid in Lüneburg in
Nedersaksen. Wij hadden een mooie en levendige peetschap met het B-Eskadron van het
verkennings bataljon 103 in Seedorf. De officieren van dit bataljon hadden voorgesteld dat wij een
van onze toentertijd regelmatige ontmoetingen met onze gezinnen eens op Vlieland konden
houden. Mijn Nederlandse kameraden hadden hoog opgegeven van dit eiland, dat zij kenden van
hun oefeningen. Mijn vrouwen ik weten sinds gisteravond waarom.
Helaas is het toen niet meer van een trip naar Vlieland gekomen. Enerzijds was dit jammer, maar
anderzijds kwam er een gebeurtenis in de wereldpolitiek tussen, die men toen en zeker ook nu
nog als een wonder kan zien: de val van de Berlijnse muur.
Het ijzeren gordijn was weg, de koude oorlog ras zonder bloedvergieten geëindigd. De Bondsrepubliek Duitsland had dankzij haar betrokkenheid bij het westen en dankzij de steun van haar vrienden, waartoe ook toen al Nederland hoorde, niet alleen de koude oorlog overwonnen, maar ook haar eenheid
teruggekregen. Wij Duitsers zijn hierover zeer verheugd en het is zeker ook nu - na meer dan 22
Jaar - nog steeds gepast deze vrienden en daarmee u allen ervoor te bedanken dat u tijdens de
koude oorlog en de tijd na de ommekeer standvastig aan onze kant stond.
Zoals bekend was de koude oorlog een nasleep van de Tweede Wereldoorlog die Duitsland had
veroorzaakt en die zoveel onheil met zich mee heeft gebracht. Ook Vlieland bleef niet gespaard.
De Duitse Wehrmacht hield het eiland langer bezet dan de rest van Nederland. Dit eiland hoorde -
zoals de gehele Noordzeekust van Skagerrak tot aan Frankrijk - tot de zogenoemde Atlantikwall.
Met stellingen over een lengte van meer dan 2685 km geloofde men aan Duitse kant effectief het
hoofd te kunnen bieden aan een dreigende invasie vanaf de Atlantische Oceaan, het Kanaal en de
Noordzee en hier aan de Nederlandse Noordzeekust de heerschappij van het naziregime over uw
vaderland te verlengen.
Dames en heren, de sporen van deze Atlantikwall zijn ook nu nog aan te treffen. Sporen van beton
en steen, die getuigen van een tijd, die goddank allang achter ons ligt. Maar het zijn sporen die
voor het nageslacht moeten worden behouden, omdat zij deel uitmaken van onze gezamenlijke
geschiedenis. Zij herinneren Vlieland en al zijn bezoekers aan een donkere tijd vol ontberingen en
het verlies van vrijheid. Het zijn sporen die ons Duitsers altijd weer onder ogen brengen hoever
grootheidswaan en verblinding kunnen gaan. Alleen al de blik op zulke bunkers middenin een
natuurparadijs als Vlieland sterkt mij als Duits soldaat in de mening dat wij er alles voor moeten
doen om niet alleen lering te trekken Uit deze ontzettende geschiedenis, maar dit ook aan onze
kinderen en volgende generaties moeten doorgeven.
U, meneer Bruin, doet dit al vele jaren. Het is uw verdienste dat de herinnering aan de Tweede
Wereldoorlog op Vlieland levend gehouden blijft. Met zeer grote persoonlijke inzet draagt u al heel
lang toe bij dat de geschiedenis hier op Vlieland tastbaar blijft. Wat is er zinvoller dan een
geschiedenisles juist daar aan te bieden, waar de geschiedenis zich daadwerkelijk heeft
afgespeeld? Men mag de beschouwers van deze geschiedenis niet aan zich zelf overlaten: de
geschiedenis moet worden verklaard. U, meneer Bruin, maakt ons en alle bezoekers daar in de
duinen deze geschiedenis duidelijk. Dat is uw verdienste en dat waarderen wij vandaag.
De organisatoren van de huidige manifestatie rond Folkert Janssens hebben besloten u de
Ommetje publieksprijs 2012 toe te kennen.
Ik vind dit een heel goede beslissing• en feliciteer de verantwoordelijken met hun keuze.
U, geachte meneer Bruin, feliciteer ik van harte, ook namens de Duitse ambassadeur in
Nederland, met deze mooie onderscheiding. Ik wens u ook verder de grote motivatie toe om uw
werk met hetzelfde enthousiasme voort te zetten. En natuurlijk wens ik u ook dat u met uw
verdienstelijke werk het interesse en de erkenning krijgt van diegenen die ten slotte dit
geschiedenis project nog financieel moeten ondersteunen. Hier moet zeker ook dank uitgaan aan
de ondernemer en sponsoren van Vlieland die zich in het verleden ook al geëngageerd hebben.
Wij moeten de herinnering aan de oorlog voor onze huisdeur levend houden. Alleen zo kunnen de
verschrikkingen van die tijd geloofwaardig aan de jongere generatie worden doorgegeven en als
afschrikking dienen. U, meneer Bruin, heeft zich hiervoor in bijzondere mate verdienstelijk
gemaakt,.
Luitenant Kolonel (GS) Joachim Schmidt
Defensie attaché – Ambassade van de Bondsrepubliek Duitsland
" C'est un endroit qui ressemble à la Louisiane
A l'Italie
Il y a du linge étendu sur la terrasse
Et c'est joli
On dirait le Sud
Le temps dure longtemps
Et la vie sûrement
Plus d'un million d'années
Et toujours en été.
Il y a plein d'enfants qui se roulent sur la pelouse
Il y a plein de chiens
Il y a même un chat, une tortue, des poissons rouges
Il ne manque rien
On dirait le Sud
Le temps dure longtemps
Et la vie sûrement
Plus d'un million d'années
Et toujours en été.
Un jour ou l'autre il faudra qu'il y ait la guerre
On le sait bien
On n'aime pas ça, mais on ne sait pas quoi faire
On dit c'est le destin
Tant pis pour le Sud
C'était pourtant bien
On aurait pu vivre
Plus d'un million d'années
Et toujours en été."
[Nino Ferrer - Le Sud]
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: SHIN CALLS GABRIEL (1 of 1) /
SHIN LLAMA A GABRIEL (1 de 1)
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 01 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.
LINKS:
- Hilo de las Fotohistorias de Shin y Gabriel en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Hilo de la Relación entre Shin y Gabriel en la sección de Penpals de Pullip .es
- FOTOHISTORIAS en casa de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Saw Canceled and Sheryl PHOTOSTORIES at Flickr
Ahora en Biodiversidad virtual y el fin de semana en El País -en pdf- gracias a Elisabet Sans
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Gieysztoria es un poco más grande que muchos protozoos y algo más pequeña que algunos de ellos, sus movimientos, sus contorsiones, sus continuos cambios de forma y su cuerpo aplastado podrían hacernos confundirla, a veces, con cualquier ciliado plano, por ejemplo, con Frontonia, pero si miramos fijamante a Dalyellia ella devolverá la mirada: dos puntitos arriñonados y oscuros son sus ojos y detrás de ellos una potente y gruesa faringe da paso a un intestino en forma de saco sin salida, en cuyo interior se maceran y digieren restos vegetales y otros desechos que este organismo consume…pero ¿Quién es?
Aunque rodeado de cilios y en movimiento gracias a ellos, Gieysztoria no es un ciliado, es un organismo pluricelular, un gusano plano turbelario, emparentado con las prodigiosas planarias inmortales que se multiplican cada vez que se rompen en mil fragmentos. Muchos turbelarios se caracterizan por tener sobre la piel unos cuerpos alargados, los rabdites, de función defensiva, que expulsan hacia el exterior agua y mucus formando una maraña protectora alrededor de estos animales. En ocasiones esa secreción mucosa es tóxica y puede tener función paralizante y aunque, Gieysztoria no es depredadora, sí lo son otros géneros hermanos que se alimentan con gran voracidad de pequeños crustáceos, otros gusanos y larvas de insectos.
Llama la atención en nuestro protagonista de hoy el remate de su cola, como una mano con dedos cortos con la que se sujeta al fondo y se impulsa para rebuscar entre los sedimentos algo que llevarse a la boca.
Los turbelarios son organismos cosmopolitas pero muchos de ellos habitan específicamente en lugares en los que las condiciones del agua son muy concretas, a Gieysztoria le gustan las aguas ácidas y limpias procedentes de la fusión de las nieves.
Gieysztoria también ha venido con las muestras recogidas en unas praderas inundadas de las inmediaciones de la Laguna de Peñalara y como todos los seres encontrados en ellas va dedicada a todos estos amigos con quienes tuve la suerte de compartir este maravilloso proyecto de Biodiversidad virtual. La fotografía se ha tomado a 200 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste de interferencia.
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☁ la nube negra de una justicia pervertida en nuestro país, movida por la envidia y la venganza, permanecerá aquí, hasta que soplen otros vientos limpios. La Justicia es uno de los cimientos necesarios para la Paz. Desde aquí todo nuestro apoyo al Juez Baltasar Garzón -el buen Juez de Saramago- y a las personas de buena voluntad como él que trabajan por la Justicia.
www.familistere.com/site/index.php
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_de_Guise
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_(Guise)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_André_Godin
« Ne pouvant faire un palais de la chaumière ou du galetas de chaque famille ouvrière, nous avons voulu mettre la demeure de l’ouvrier dans un palais ; le Familistère, en effet, n’est pas autre chose, c’est le palais du travail, c’est le PALAIS SOCIAL de l’avenir.
Ce qu’il n’est pas possible de faire au profit de familles éparpillées et sans lien, les améliorations qu’on ne peut introduire dans le tohu-bohu des habitations ouvrières, ni à la ville, ni à la campagne, ni dans les caves, ni dans les mansardes habitées ; ce que ne permettent pas même les habitations ouvrières isolées les mieux construites, quel qu’en soit le système : le Familistère le permet, le palais social le rend possible, bien plus, il le rend nécessaire. »
Jean-Baptiste-André Godin La Richesse au service du peuple, le Familistère de Guise. 1875.
Les chiffres du Familistère : ( source Wikipédia )
10 millions de briques sont nécessaires à la construction des trois pavillons du Palais Social.
30 000 m² de surfaces sont offerts par l’ensemble des trois pavillons.
1 kilomètre de coursives parcourt les trois pavillons du Palais.
500 fenêtres percent les façades des trois unités d’habitation.
495 appartements sont aménagés dans l’ensemble des cinq pavillons du Familistère avant 1918.
1 748 personnes habitent au Familistère en 1889.
50 berceaux peuvent être installés dans la nourricerie du Familistère.
796 invités participent au banquet de la cinquième fête du Travail dans la cour du pavillon central en 1872.
1 000 spectateurs prennent place au théâtre en 1914.
1 526 employés travaillent dans les usines de la Société du Familistère en 1887.
2 500 est le nombre de record d’employés de l’Association du Familistère de Guise et à Bruxelles en 1930.
4 000 modèles d’appareils et d’accessoires sont fabriqués par la Société du Familistère en 1914.
210 000 appareils sont expédiés par les usines de Guise et Bruxelles en 1913-1914.
664, c’est le nombre de pages qui composent le livre Solutions Sociales publié par Godin en 1871.
JEAN-BAPTISTE GODIN ( ENGLISH )
Jean-Baptiste André Godin (26 January 1817 -29 January 1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne).
The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman. Returning to Esquéhéries in 1837, he started a small factory for the manufacture of castings for heating-stoves. The business increased rapidly, and for the purpose of railway facilities was transferred to Guise in 1846. At the time of Godin's death in 1888 the annual output was over four millions of francs (4,160,000), and in 1908 the employees numbered over 2000 and the output was over 280,000.
An ardent disciple of Charles Fourier, he advanced a considerable sum of money towards the disastrous Fourierist experiment of V. P. Considerant (q.v.) in Texas (known as La Reunion. He profited, however, by its failure, and in 1859 started the Familistère, or community settlement, of Guise on more carefully laid plans.
The Familistère forms a town within the town of Guise. It comprises, in addition to a large factory, three large buildings, each four stories high, capable of housing all the work-people, each family having two or three rooms. The main building consists of three rectangular blocks joined at the corners. Each of these blocks has a central court covered with a glass roof under which children can play in all weather. There is no church of any sort. (There are, of course, churches within the rest of Guise). At the back of the main block there was a nursery. There is a separate block, known as the "economat", containing various shops, refreshment rooms and recreation rooms of various kinds(?), stores for the purchase of groceries, drapery and every necessity. This has recently (2008) been restored and is now a cafe, a shop selling books, postcards etc and an exhibition area. There were also allotments for the workers.
Opposite the main block there was a building containing a theater for concerts and dramatic entertainments and a primary school. There was also a communal laundry and swimming pool. This was a few years ago derelict but has now been restored. The swimming pool is still a swimming poll but the laundry is a meeting room and the drying room is now (2008) an exhibition room. In 1880 the whole was turned into a co-operative society, with provision by which it eventually became the property of the workers.
Godin manufactured cookers and heating stoves of many kinds mainly made from cast iron castings. Sometimes these were enameled. These are still to be found in use all over France. They can be found for sale on eBay.
This business was still owned by the workers in the 1950s but soon after was taken over by Le Creuset. It is not obvious that the factory is still functioning. It is seems the domestic building were privatised. The state of the domestic buildings was deteriorating but has recently been awarded EU money for it to be restored.
In 1871 Godin was elected deputy for Aisne, but retired in 1876 to devote himself to the management of the Familistère. In 1882 he was created a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Godin was the author of Solutions sociales (1871); Les Socialistes et les Droits du travail (1874); Mutualité sociale et association du capital et du travail (1880); La Republique du travail et la reforme parlementaire (1889). See Bernardot, Le Familistère de Guise et son fondateur (Paris, 1887); Fischer, Die Familistère Godins (Berlin, 1890); Lestelle, Etude sur le Familistère de Guise (Paris, 1904); D. F. P., Le Familistère illustr, résultals de vingt ans d'association, 1880-1900 (Eng. trans., Twenty-eight years of co-partnership at Guise, by A. Williams, 1908).
There is an Anheuser-Busch InBev beer plant in Cartersville, Georgia, one of twelve the conglomerate operates in the United States. No tours, but visible to the east on I-78 in Georgia, near exit 296, Cassville-White Road. The brewery itself is on Busch Drive, naturally.
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Flag: Germany
Port of registry: Cuxhaven
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M'kay, hii guys. First of all- Merry Christmas if you celebrate it! <3 Second of all- I'm starting a new series! "Life on Earth." It's going to be conceptual shots with interpreting something of the earth into it. ( 'Be the beauty you see' Would be a good example of what it will be, too.) I'm really excited to do things like this more. Third of all- This was inspired by a painting I did earlier today, then realized it'd be a good picture! Fourth of all- Next month, I am officially taking Photography classes once a week at Gainesville Uni! Thank you so much to my parents for finding it, and paying for it, so I can do what I love. I love you guys! <3
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Access to Observation Deck Granted
Far away
This ship has taken me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die
THE Starlight
I will be chasing a starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore
Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold you in my arms
Starlight by muse...the song been in my head for DAYS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgum6OT_VH8
I forgot i was tagged. Very well, here are a few facts.
1. My favorite late night host is Craig Ferguson.
2. I don't really have a favorite color. (do you guys remember like in 1st grade when you learn how to mix colors? And you have the bright idea to mix them all together, and get all excited because clearly, all the colors together should make a awesome one? only to discover.. brown.....
3. One of my new favorite movies is fantastic mr.fox...differently making its way onto my ipod.
4. Just finished reading Bram Stoker's Dracula and playing Mass effect 2.
www.familistere.com/site/index.php
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_de_Guise
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familistère_(Guise)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_André_Godin
« Ne pouvant faire un palais de la chaumière ou du galetas de chaque famille ouvrière, nous avons voulu mettre la demeure de l’ouvrier dans un palais ; le Familistère, en effet, n’est pas autre chose, c’est le palais du travail, c’est le PALAIS SOCIAL de l’avenir.
Ce qu’il n’est pas possible de faire au profit de familles éparpillées et sans lien, les améliorations qu’on ne peut introduire dans le tohu-bohu des habitations ouvrières, ni à la ville, ni à la campagne, ni dans les caves, ni dans les mansardes habitées ; ce que ne permettent pas même les habitations ouvrières isolées les mieux construites, quel qu’en soit le système : le Familistère le permet, le palais social le rend possible, bien plus, il le rend nécessaire. »
Jean-Baptiste-André Godin La Richesse au service du peuple, le Familistère de Guise. 1875.
Les chiffres du Familistère : ( source Wikipédia )
10 millions de briques sont nécessaires à la construction des trois pavillons du Palais Social.
30 000 m² de surfaces sont offerts par l’ensemble des trois pavillons.
1 kilomètre de coursives parcourt les trois pavillons du Palais.
500 fenêtres percent les façades des trois unités d’habitation.
495 appartements sont aménagés dans l’ensemble des cinq pavillons du Familistère avant 1918.
1 748 personnes habitent au Familistère en 1889.
50 berceaux peuvent être installés dans la nourricerie du Familistère.
796 invités participent au banquet de la cinquième fête du Travail dans la cour du pavillon central en 1872.
1 000 spectateurs prennent place au théâtre en 1914.
1 526 employés travaillent dans les usines de la Société du Familistère en 1887.
2 500 est le nombre de record d’employés de l’Association du Familistère de Guise et à Bruxelles en 1930.
4 000 modèles d’appareils et d’accessoires sont fabriqués par la Société du Familistère en 1914.
210 000 appareils sont expédiés par les usines de Guise et Bruxelles en 1913-1914.
664, c’est le nombre de pages qui composent le livre Solutions Sociales publié par Godin en 1871.
JEAN-BAPTISTE GODIN ( ENGLISH )
Jean-Baptiste André Godin (26 January 1817 -29 January 1888) was a French industrialist and social experimentor born on the 26th of January 1817 at Esquéhéries (Aisne).
The son of an artisan, he entered an iron-works at an early age, and at seventeen made a tour of France as journeyman. Returning to Esquéhéries in 1837, he started a small factory for the manufacture of castings for heating-stoves. The business increased rapidly, and for the purpose of railway facilities was transferred to Guise in 1846. At the time of Godin's death in 1888 the annual output was over four millions of francs (4,160,000), and in 1908 the employees numbered over 2000 and the output was over 280,000.
An ardent disciple of Charles Fourier, he advanced a considerable sum of money towards the disastrous Fourierist experiment of V. P. Considerant (q.v.) in Texas (known as La Reunion. He profited, however, by its failure, and in 1859 started the Familistère, or community settlement, of Guise on more carefully laid plans.
The Familistère forms a town within the town of Guise. It comprises, in addition to a large factory, three large buildings, each four stories high, capable of housing all the work-people, each family having two or three rooms. The main building consists of three rectangular blocks joined at the corners. Each of these blocks has a central court covered with a glass roof under which children can play in all weather. There is no church of any sort. (There are, of course, churches within the rest of Guise). At the back of the main block there was a nursery. There is a separate block, known as the "economat", containing various shops, refreshment rooms and recreation rooms of various kinds(?), stores for the purchase of groceries, drapery and every necessity. This has recently (2008) been restored and is now a cafe, a shop selling books, postcards etc and an exhibition area. There were also allotments for the workers.
Opposite the main block there was a building containing a theater for concerts and dramatic entertainments and a primary school. There was also a communal laundry and swimming pool. This was a few years ago derelict but has now been restored. The swimming pool is still a swimming poll but the laundry is a meeting room and the drying room is now (2008) an exhibition room. In 1880 the whole was turned into a co-operative society, with provision by which it eventually became the property of the workers.
Godin manufactured cookers and heating stoves of many kinds mainly made from cast iron castings. Sometimes these were enameled. These are still to be found in use all over France. They can be found for sale on eBay.
This business was still owned by the workers in the 1950s but soon after was taken over by Le Creuset. It is not obvious that the factory is still functioning. It is seems the domestic building were privatised. The state of the domestic buildings was deteriorating but has recently been awarded EU money for it to be restored.
In 1871 Godin was elected deputy for Aisne, but retired in 1876 to devote himself to the management of the Familistère. In 1882 he was created a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Godin was the author of Solutions sociales (1871); Les Socialistes et les Droits du travail (1874); Mutualité sociale et association du capital et du travail (1880); La Republique du travail et la reforme parlementaire (1889). See Bernardot, Le Familistère de Guise et son fondateur (Paris, 1887); Fischer, Die Familistère Godins (Berlin, 1890); Lestelle, Etude sur le Familistère de Guise (Paris, 1904); D. F. P., Le Familistère illustr, résultals de vingt ans d'association, 1880-1900 (Eng. trans., Twenty-eight years of co-partnership at Guise, by A. Williams, 1908).
www.bap.de/start/musik/songtexte/titel/verdamp-lang-her --- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghi2xReyFYA&feature=related --- www.worldvision.de/unsere-arbeit-wie-wir-arbeiten-entwick... ---
Bap Colognian (Kölsch) pronunciation: [/bap/] is a German rock group. With ten albums reaching the number one in the German record charts, Bap is one of the most successful rock acts in their home country.
Nearly all of Bap's lyrics are written in Kölsch, the dialect of Cologne, or more precisely in a Kölsch-influenced derivation of Eifelplatt, a regional variant of the Ripuarian language spoken in the nearby rural Eifel. Niedecken's most prominent musical influences, especially early in his career, were Bob Dylan, the Kinks, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and Wolfgang Ambros.
The group was founded in 1976 under the name Wolfgang Niedecken's Bap in Cologne, Germany by Wolfgang Niedecken and Hans Heres. In 1981 they released their most famous song "Verdamp lang her" (English: Damn long time ago), in which Niedecken describes regrets he has about his relationship with his then recently deceased father. The band's name "BAP" derived from "BAPP", both, a play-on-words on the Kölsch word "Papp" (related to the German word Papa for dad), but pronounced differently, and Niedecken's then-times nickname. BAP ist eine Kölschrockband um den Frontmann Wolfgang Niedecken und gilt als eine der erfolgreichsten Rockbands deutscher Sprache. Von den 23 BAP-Alben erreichten 19 die Top 10, zehn wurden sogar Nummer 1 der Charts.Die Gruppe um Sänger und Songschreiber Wolfgang Niedecken besteht seit 1976. Die Band traf sich zu Beginn in wechselnder Besetzung, um „einen Kasten Bier leerzuproben“.[1] Der erste Auftritt erfolgte 1977 im Mariensaal in Köln-Nippes mit zwei akustischen Gitarren (Wolfgang Niedecken, Hans Heres) und Perkussion (Afro Bauermann). Das erste Album, Wolfgang Niedecken's BAP rockt andere kölsche Leeder. erschien 1979, die Band bestand zu dieser Zeit aus Wolfgang Niedecken, Hans „Honçe“ Heres, Wolfgang „Gröön“ Klever, Manfred „Schmal“ Boecker, Wolfgang „Wolli“ Boecker und Bernd Odenthal. Die zweite LP Affjetaut folgte 1980, wie die Debüt-Platte noch unter der Bezeichnung „Wolfgang Niedeckens BAP“, da Niedecken sich bereits als Solo-Künstler mit Gitarre und Mundharmonika als „Bob Dylan der Südstadt“ einen Namen gemacht hatte; beide Platten wurden noch beim Kölner Independent-Label Eigelstein Musikproduktion veröffentlicht.
Der Bandname BAP entstand aus Niedeckens Spitzname, der seinen Vater so nannte. Diese Aussprache entstammt der Herkunft der Familie aus Rheinland-Pfalz, und weil sie vom kölschen „Pap“ abwich, entstand so Niedeckens Spitzname.[2] Als ein erster Auftritt geplant wurde, für den mit einem Plakat geworben werden sollte, musste ein Bandname erdacht werden. Hans Heres schlug dem Veranstalter vor, „BAPP“ zu nehmen.[3] Da sich die Bandmitglieder aber einig waren, dass „BAPP“ – mit zwei „P“ geschrieben – auf der Bassdrum nicht gut aussah, wurde einfach ein „P“ gestrichen.[4]
Der musikalische und inhaltliche Stil der BAP-Songs wird wesentlich von Bob Dylan, den Kinks und den Rolling Stones geprägt. Auch Bruce Springsteen, mit dem Sänger Wolfgang Niedecken eine persönliche Freundschaft verbindet, gilt als wichtiger Orientierungspunkt für BAP. Verschiedene BAP-Lieder, vor allem melancholische (z. B. Helfe kann dir keiner, Paar Daach fröher) zeigen in den Arrangements und der Stimmung deutliche Ähnlichkeiten mit Stücken von Wolfgang Ambros, etwa von dessen Album 19 Class A Numbers. Die Texte beschäftigen sich oft mit gesellschaftlichen oder persönlichen Problemen.1979 fanden unter dem Bandnamen "Wolfgang Niedeckens BAP" erste Auftritte außerhalb von Köln und der näheren Umgebung statt; so zum Beispiel auch anlässlich der Bundesgartenschau 1979 in der Bonner Rheinaue.[5] Im Mai 1982 machte BAP ihre erste professionell organisierte Deutschlandtournee. Im Mittelpunkt standen Songs des aktuellen Albums Für Usszeschnigge, das 1981 als erstes beim Major-Label EMI-Electrola erschienen war. Für den Wechsel von Eigelstein zur EMI mussten BAP in der lokalen Kultur-Szene viel Kritik einstecken, wurden jedoch mit Platz 1 in den deutschen Album-Charts prompt belohnt.
Im Sommer 1982 folgten verschiedene Auftritte im Rahmen von Großveranstaltungen und Fernsehproduktionen: Rockpop In Concert für das ZDF in der Dortmunder Westfalenhalle 1, Demonstration gegen die Nachrüstung der NATO am 10. Juni 1982 (Zehnter Juni) auf den Bonner Rheinwiesen, Vorprogramm der Rolling Stones am 4. und 5. Juli 1982 im Müngersdorfer Stadion in Köln und als erste deutsche Band bei einem Festival des WDR-Rockpalast am 28. August 1982 auf der Loreley-Freilichtbühne.
Nach Erscheinen des vierten Albums Vun drinne noh drusse war die Band zwischen Oktober 1982 und Oktober 1983 sieben Monate lang unterwegs. Neben Deutschland standen auch Konzerte in Österreich, der Schweiz und den Benelux-Ländern auf dem Programm. Insgesamt wurden etwa 130 Auftritte gespielt. Die Tournee endete mit einem Konzert im Kölner „Stollwerck“. Das vom Abriss bedrohte Bürgerhaus Stollwerck erhielt die Einnahmen dieses Konzerts zur Finanzierung seiner weiteren Arbeit. Am 28. Mai 1983 spielte BAP auf einem Festival im niedersächsischen Schüttorf im Vorprogramm von Rod Stewart und am 22. Oktober 1983 auf einer weiteren Großdemonstration gegen die NATO-Nachrüstung im Bonner Hofgarten.
Für den Januar 1984 war – nach langen Verhandlungen mit der staatlichen Künstleragentur – eine Tournee mit 14 Konzerten in 13 Städten der DDR geplant. Im Vorfeld der Tour zeichnete das DDR-Fernsehen ein Interview mit Wolfgang Niedecken inklusive zweier Unplugged-Versionen von BAP-Liedern auf. Dieses wurde später jedoch sinnentstellend verkürzt gesendet. So entschloss sich Niedecken, einige politische Statements, die der Band wichtig waren, in einem eigenen Lied darzustellen. Es wurde als Deshalv spill’ mer he betitelt und erstmals auf dem letzten „West-Konzert“ vor der Tour in Wolfsburg gespielt. Als die Band bereits in Ost-Berlin im Hotel Unter den Linden war, gab es am Vorabend des ersten Konzerts heftige Auseinandersetzungen über dieses Lied mit der DDR-Seite. Als die Band sich weigerte, es von der Setlist zu nehmen, kam es zum Eklat. Die Tournee wurde abgebrochen, bevor das erste Konzert auf dem Boden der DDR gespielt werden konnte. In einer Sendung des DDR-Fernsehens war die Ansage eines Moderators während eines Konzerts im Berliner Palast der Republik zu sehen, zu dem BAP geladen war. Er nannte als Begründung ihrer Absage, die Band wolle „nicht unter dem Symbol der weißen Taube auf blauem Grund auftreten“.[6]
Die Tournee zum Album Zwesche Salzjebäck un Bier begann am 15. und 16. Juni 1984 mit zwei Konzerten im Archäologischen Park in Xanten. Sie wurden vom ZDF aufgezeichnet und später in einer Zusammenfassung gesendet. Die Tour dauerte bis zum Februar 1985 und übertraf von der Zuschauerresonanz her noch die von 1982/83.
Am 2. März 1986 begann in Lohmar bei Köln die Tournee Ahl Männer, aalglatt. BAP spielte zunächst einige Konzerte im ländlichen Raum, bevor die Band am 15. März 1986 in der Essener Grugahalle bei der 17. und letzten Rocknacht des WDR-Rockpalast auftrat. Die Rocknacht, bei der auch Jackson Browne und Big Country auftraten, wurde wie schon das Festival auf der Loreley 1982 via Eurovision von vielen europäischen Radio- und Fernsehstationen ausgestrahlt.
Von April bis Juli folgten zahlreiche weitere Konzerte. Wegen der anhaltenden Popularität wurden teilweise auch größere Hallen ausgewählt. So fanden die „Heimspiele“ der Kölner Band erstmals in der bis zu 8000 Zuschauer fassenden Kölner Sporthalle, der damals größten Veranstaltungshalle der Domstadt, statt. Bei dieser Tournee gab es mit Christian Schneider erstmals auf einer Tournee einen Gastmusiker, weil die zum Teil sehr komplexen Keyboard-Arrangements des neuen Albums live mit nur einem Keyboarder nicht zu realisieren gewesen wären. Schneider spielte neben Keyboards bei einigen Stücken auch Saxophon. Den letzten Auftritt der Tour absolvierte die Band am 26. Juli 1986; genau drei Monate nach der Atomreaktor-Katastrophe von Tschernobyl auf dem legendären Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival gegen die Wiederaufbereitungsanlage von Wackersdorf in Burglengenfeld.
Nach Ende der Tournee 1986 legte BAP eine kreative Pause ein (u. a. bedingt durch bandinterne, künstlerische Meinungsverschiedenheiten), die Wolfgang Niedecken zur Veröffentlichung seines Albums Schlagzeiten und zu einigen Solo-Konzerten nutzte. BAP stand erst im September 1987 bei zwei Festivals wieder auf der Bühne, um sich auf eine Tournee durch China vorzubereiten. Diese Tournee ist im Buch BAP övver China dokumentiert.
Das Album Da Capo wurde von Oktober bis Dezember 1988 zunächst bei einer ausgedehnten Hallentournee präsentiert. Bei dieser Tournee legte BAP die Scheu vor den ganz großen Konzertarenen endgültig ab. So standen auch die Frankfurter Festhalle und die Münchener Olympiahalle auf dem Programm. Im Sommer 1989 folgten weitere Konzerte, teilweise auch im Rahmen von Festivals gemeinsam mit Joe Cocker. Eines dieser Events fand in der Berliner Waldbühne statt.
Auch die Tournee 1991 wurde in mehreren Teilen durchgeführt. Kurz nach der Vollendung der deutschen Einheit standen im Januar 1991 zunächst die ersten Konzerte der Band auf dem Gebiet der ehemaligen DDR auf dem Programm. Anschließend ging BAP in Westdeutschland auf Club-Tour und absolvierte eine Reihe von Auftritten in beschaulichem Rahmen, zumeist in kleinen Hallen. Das Konzert im Kölner E-Werk wurde aufgezeichnet und später auf dem Album Live – Affrocke veröffentlicht.
Im Mai und Juni 1991 folgte eine Tournee ausschließlich durch die größten deutschen Konzerthallen und bei verschiedenen Open-Air-Festivals. Als Gast bei den Konzerten trat Julian Dawson auf. Am 26. Januar 1994 startete die Tournee zum im August 1993 erschienenen Album Pik Sibbe. Nach wie vor war die Nachfrage in der BAP-Hochburg Köln groß, in einigen anderen Städten blieben die Zuschauerzahlen etwas hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Die folgende Tournee zum Album Amerika begann im November 1996. Der Tourneestart in Koblenz wurde für den WDR-Rockpalast mitgeschnitten und später im Fernsehen ausgestrahlt.
Mit dem Ausstieg von Bassist Steve Borg und von Gründungsmitglied Manfred „Schmal“ Boecker verließen zwei Musiker die Band, die BAP über viele Jahre mitgeprägt haben. 1999 stieg auch Gitarrist Klaus „Major“ Heuser aus, der während 19 Jahren Bandmitgliedschaft die überwiegende Zahl der Lieder komponierte. Außerdem verließ Keyboarder Alexander „Effendi“ Büchel die Firma BAP. Diese Abgänge und die darauf folgenden Neubesetzungen veränderten den musikalischen Ausdruck von BAP nachhaltig.
Zu den Gründen für den Ausstieg von Major sagt Wolfgang Niedecken rückblickend im März 2011:
„Der Major ist ein toller Gitarrist. Aber er wollte, dass BAP international ausgerichteten Radio-Pop spielt. Ich wollte beim Kölsch-Rock bleiben. Beide Positionen waren nicht vereinbar. Ich bin ihm dankbar, dass er selbst gegangen ist. Ich hätte ihn nämlich nie rausgeschmissen.[7]“
Als Neuzugang an den Keyboards stieg Michael Nass bei BAP ein, der zuvor in den 1980er Jahren in der DDR-Musikszene musikalisch sehr aktiv war, u. a. bei P 16 und später in Liselotte Rezniceks Frauenband Mona Lise. Gitarrist wurde Helmut Krumminga. Im Sommer 2001 gab BAP vor der eigentlichen Aff un zo-Tour ab Herbst 2001 zwei Vorabkonzerte, darunter das „Konzert an der toten Brücke“ (Soda-Brücke) in Euskirchen, das auch vom WDR aufgezeichnet und wenige Tage später in der Sendung Rockpalast gesendet wurde. Das Album selbst stieg wie der Vorgänger Tonfilm auf Platz 1 in die deutschen Charts ein.
Im Januar 2006 war die Kölnarena zwar anlässlich des Starts der Jubiläumskonzerte zum 30-jährigen Bestehen der Band mit 25.000 Zuschauern an zwei aufeinander folgenden Tagen fast ausverkauft. Bei anderen Auftritten hatte man sich von vorneherein durch die Wahl kleinerer Konzertorte angepasst.
Auch das im Mai 2008 erschienene Album Radio Pandora stieg auf Platz 1 in die deutschen Charts ein. Im Winter 2008 startete die Tournee dazu, am 2. Weihnachtstag gab es das Heimspiel in der Köln-Arena (Lanxess-Arena); sie dauerte (mit Unterbrechungen) bis zum Sommer 2009, wobei die Band von Anne de Wolff (Violine, Bratsche, Gesang) und teilweise von Rhani Krija (Percussion) begleitet wurde.
Für November 2011 war der Start der aktuellsten Tournee geplant. Aufgrund einer schweren Erkrankung Wolfgang Niedeckens wurde der Start der Tour auf Anfang Mai 2012 verschoben.[8][9][10]
Auslandsauftritte [Bearbeiten]
BAP ist im Laufe der bisher 35-jährigen Bandgeschichte in vielen Ländern der Welt aufgetreten. Nachdem sich die Bandmitglieder anfangs kaum vorstellen konnten, dass ihre kölschen Texte außerhalb des Rheinlandes verstanden würden, durften sie erleben, dass ihre Platten weit darüber hinaus gekauft wurden. Tourneen waren dadurch auch im Ausland möglich.
Die ersten Auftritte außerhalb Deutschlands waren im Dezember 1982 in der Schweiz (Basel und St.Gallen)[11] und bis Mitte der 1980er Jahre in Österreich, Luxemburg, Belgien und Dänemark (Roskilde-Festival). Seitdem gehören Auftritte in diesen Nachbarländern zum Bestandteil jeder Tournee.
Spätere Fernreisen wurden zumeist als Begleitung zu künstlerischen oder politischen Themen organisiert; häufig war nicht die komplette Gruppe unterwegs; manchmal auch nur Wolfgang Niedecken alleine oder in Begleitung von Musikern seiner Solo-Projekte:
Mit einigen Gästen tourte BAP im Oktober 1987 vier Wochen durch China. Acht Auftritte wurden in Peking, Shanghai und Kanton absolviert.[12]
Wolfgang Niedecken spielte 1987 auf Einladung der Kulturstiftung Casa de los tres Mundos (ein Projekt des Schauspielers Dietmar Schönherr, des Produzenten Peter Reichelt und des Kulturministers Ernesto Cardenal) mit seiner Complizen-Band in Nicaragua.
In ähnlicher Zusammensetzung spielten Wolfgang Niedecken & Complizen 1988 in Mosambik eine kleine Tour.
Die politischen Veränderungen in der Sowjetunion unter Gorbatschow machten es möglich, dass BAP im Mai 1989 je drei Konzerte in Moskau und Wolgograd gab.[13] Dort kamen die Musiker auch mit Fans aus der DDR ins Gespräch. Nachdem die BAP-Tour durch Ostdeutschland 1984 abgesagt wurde, war der Umweg über die UdSSR die einzige Möglichkeit, als DDR-Bürger mit der Band zu sprechen.
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The Captives surrounded the pedestal of the statue of Louis XIV on foot in the Place des Victoires. They are by Martin Desjardins, the gallicized name of an eminent Dutch sculptor active during the reign of Louis XIV, who had already made his name with the decoration of the Hôtel Salé (now the Musée Picasso). The monument was commissioned in 1679 by François d'Aubusson, duke of La Feuillade and marshal of France, who had distinguished himself in the campaigns in Franche-Comté and Sicily. He was an astute courtier, and thought it opportune to raise a grandiose monument to the glory of his king. As a setting for the statue, he persuaded the city to open up an immense square and he had the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart design it. The square was named Place des Victoires in homage to France's victories in the Dutch War, which ended in 1679 with the Treaty of Nijmegen. The monument was inaugurated in 1686.
The captives, four larger-than-life bronze figures, symbolize the four nations defeated at the time of the Treaty of Nijmegen. Each represents one of the ages of man and a different attitude to captivity. Spain is a smooth-faced young man with streaming hair. His naked, upright body and heavenward gaze all indicate hope. The Holy Roman Empire is a bearded old man dressed in an ancient tunic. His head is bowed and his body sags in dejected resignation. Holland is young man with virile features and a short beard. His naked body poised to leap, his shoulder thrust forward in a defiant gesture and his wild expression speak of rebellion. Brandenburg is a mature man dressed like an ancient barbarian (like the Farnese Prisoners, classical marbles highly appreciated by many artists). The hand clutching his cloak, the drooping right shoulder and contorted face express grief. The Captives are all turned to the right, which encourages viewers to walk around the monument in a clockwise direction. Desjardins brilliantly varied his figures, alternating old and young, nude and clothed, upright and stooping figures, and arranging their arms and legs in different positions.
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Aqua is an 82-story mixed-use residential skyscraper in the Lakeshore East development in downtown Chicago designed in the Modern architectural style. The building's height of 819 ft (250 m), includes six levels of parking below ground. The building's eight-story, 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) base is topped by a 82,550 sq ft (7,669 m2) terrace with gardens, gazebos, pools, hot tubs, a walking/running track and fire pit. Each floor will cover approximately 16,000 sq ft (1,500 m2). The Aqua was named the Emporis 2009 skyscraper of the year.
Architect
Aqua is designed by Jeanne Gang, principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects, and it is her first skyscraper project. This is the largest project ever awarded to an American firm headed by a woman. Loewenberg & Associates are the architects of record, led by James Loewenberg.
Design
The Aqua Tower is located on the 200 block of North Columbus Drive, and is surrounded by high-rises. To capture views of nearby landmarks for Aqua's residents, Gang stretched its balconies outward by as much as 12 feet (3.7 meters).
The result is a building composed of irregularly shaped concrete floor slabs which lend the facade an undulating, sculptural quality. Gang cites the striated limestone outcroppings that are a common topographic feature of the Great Lakes region as inspiration for these slabs.
The building will contain 55,000 square feet (5,100 square meters) of retail and office space, in addition to 215 hotel rooms (floors 1-18), 476 rental residential units (floors 19-52), and 263 condominium units & Penthouses (floors 53-80).[14] Aqua will also be the first downtown building to combine condos, apartments and a hotel. Strategic Hotels & Resorts had agreed to acquire the first 15 floors of hotel space upon completion of the building, but terminated its $84 million contract for the space in August 2008, citing significant changes in the economic environment. On May 12, 2010, it was announced that Carlson Hotels Worldwide agreed to spend $125 million to open the first Radisson Blu hotel in the United States on 18 vacant floors of the highrise.
The name 'Aqua' was assigned to the building by Magellan Development Group LLC. It fits the nautical theme of the other buildings in the Lakeshore East development, and is derived from the wave-like forms of the balconies; the tower's proximity to nearby Lake Michigan also influenced the name.
Sustainability was also an important factor in Aqua's design. Gang and her team refined the terrace extensions to maximize solar shading, and other sustainable features will include rainwater collection systems and energy-efficient lighting. The green roof on top of the tower base will be the largest in Chicago. The tower will seek LEED certification.
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L'antic municipi de Vulpellac tenia, abans de l'annexió de Fonteta i Peratallada, 4,29 quilòmetres quadrats d'extensió. El terme comprèn una zona aturonada, a ponent i al NW amb el punt més elevat al puig Negre (109 m. d'alt), que forma part de la serra de Sant Ramon, límit amb el terme veí de La Bisbal d'Empordà. La part restant del terme és plana i drenada per la riera de Fonteta, de la conca del Daró, que devalla de les Gavarres. La carretera de Palamós a Girona, per la Bisbal, travessa el territori municipal d'est a oest. En aquest lloc s'inicia la carretera local de Vulpellac a Pals. El lloc de Volpeyliacho, del comtat d'Empúries, s'esmenta l'any 894 i, en documents dels anys 904 i 911, és anomenat Vulpiliaco. Hom ha suposat que el topònim pot derivar del gentilici llatí Vulpi8lius, però Joan Coromines el creu d'origen cèltic.
El poble de Vulpellac (51 m d'alt), a l'esquerra de la riera de Fonteta, té un nucli antic de notable interès arquitectònic, centrat pel conjunt que formen el castell-palau i l'església parroquial. Com en tants pobles de l'Empordà, en els darrers anys un bon nombres de cases han estat convertides en segona residència. Fora d'aquest nucli són força nombroses les masies disseminades pel veïnat del pla i una mica per tot el terme, que té altres dos nuclis importants de població: el veïnat de la Bordeta, sorgit el segle XIX al llarg de la carretera de Girona, i la urbanització del Puig de Sant Ramon.
L'església parroquial de Sant Julià i Santa Basilissa és l'antiga capella del castell. L'edifici actual és del segle XVI, d'estil gòtic tardà, amb detalls renaixentistes i fortificada. A migdia de l'església s'ha excavat part d'una necròpolis alt-medieval amb tombes antropomorfes i de lloses que també s'estenien per sota del temple i pel subsòl del castell, on es troba un fragment de sarcòfag decorat. S'han trobat vestigis de l'església anterior, que podrien ésser romànics.
El castell-palau, per la seva banda, manté en una bona part l'estructura essencial del segle XIV, amb nombroses reformes de la primera meitat del XVI, efectuades per ordre de Miquel Sarriera, que afectaren la disposició interior i la decoració, Pels volts de 1725 s'hi van fer altres reformes i més endavant, l'edifici va ser convertit en casa de pagès. És un immoble de dues plantes format per tres crugies, que junt amb l'església, emmarquen un petit pati interior de planta trapezial. El 1931 va ser declarat monument nacional.
A l'entorn de l'església i del palau hi ha restes disperses de la muralla, alguns vestigis de la qual es troben entremig de les cases del poble. L'element més ben conservat és la torre-portal del nord-est, de planta quadrada i amb la porta adovellada. Es conserva una altra torrre, cilíndrica, al sudo-est del poble, encaixada entre les cases. Malgrat l'alteració recent d'algunes cases del nucli urbà, estructurat a l'entorn del castell i de l'església, hi ha alguns edificis dels segles XVII i XVIII que tenen un interès notable com a arquitectura popular als carrerons del nord a la plaça Major, situada extramurs, i al carrer Major, on hi ha cases amb portals adovellats, escuts i alguns finestrals decorats.
A la part muntanyosa del terme hi ha petites zones de pins i alzines, i espais de vinya i oliveres. A la resta dels conreus, principalment de secà, es planten cereals, farratges i llegums. Hi ha un reduït sector de regadiu, que aprofita les aigües subterrànies, dedicat a hortalises, blat de moro i farratges. Les granges avícoles i la cria de bestiar boví i porcí, amb algunes activitats industrials derivades, completen l'economia. Degut a la seva situació —al costat de la carretera C-255 de Girona a Palamós i de la Bisbal—, al seu terme s'hi han anat instal·lant un bon nombre d'indústires, principalment relacionades amb el sector de la ceràmica o la pedra artificial. Per concolidar i ordenar aquest potencial industrial, l'any 1999 es va començar a urbanitzar un polígon que permetrà donar sortida a la gran demanda de sòl industrial que existeix en aquesta zona.
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El antiguo municipio de Vulpellac tenía, antes de la anexión de Fonteta i Peratallada, 4,29 kilómetros cuadrados de extensión. El término comprende una zona aturonada, a ponente|poniente y al NW con el punto más elevado en el monte Negre (109 m. de alto), que forma parte de la sierra de Sant Ramon, límite con el término vecino de La Bisbal d'Empordà. La parte restante del término está plana y drenada por la rambla de Fonteta, de la cuenca del Daró, que devalla de las Gabarras. La carretera de Palamós a Gerona, por|para la Episcopal, atraviesa el territorio municipal de este en oeste. En este lugar|sitio se inicia la carretera local de Vulpellac a Pals. El lugar|sitio de Volpeyliacho, del condado de Empúries, se menciona el año 894 y, en documentos de los años 904 y 911, es nombrado Vulpiliaco. Se ha supuesto que el topónimo puede derivar del gentilicio latín Vulpi8lius, pero Joan Coromines lo cree de origen céltico.
El pueblo de Vulpellac (51 m de 'alto), a la izquierda de la rambla de Fonteta, tiene un núcleo antiguo de notable interés arquitectónico, centrado por el conjunto que forman el castillo-palacio y la iglesia parroquial. Como en tantos pueblos del Empordà, en los últimos años uno bueno números de casas han sido convertidas en segunda residencia. Fuera de este núcleo son bastante numerosas las masías diseminadas por el vecindario del plan|llano y un poco por|para todo el término, que tiene otros dos núcleos importantes de población: el vecindario de la Bordeta, surgido el siglo XIX a lo largo de la carretera de Gerona, y la urbanización del Puig de Sant Ramon.
La iglesia parroquial de Sant Julià i Santa Basilissa es la antigua capilla del castillo. El edificio actual es del siglo XVI, de estilo gótico tardó, con detalles renacentistas y fortificada. A mediodía de la iglesia se ha excavado parte de una necrópolis alto-medieval con tumbas antropomorfas y de losas que también se extendían por debajo del templo y por|para el subsuelo del castillo, donde se encuentra un fragmento de sarcófago decorado. Se han encontrado vestigios de la iglesia anterior, que podrían ser románicos.
El castillo-palacio, por su parte, mantiene en una buena parte la estructura esencial del siglo XIV, con numerosas reformas de la primera mitad del XVI, efectuadas por orden de Miquel Sarriera, que afectaron a la disposición interior y la decoración, Alrededor de 1725 se hicieron otras reformas y más adelante, el edificio fue convertido en casa de campo. Es un inmueble de dos plantas formado por tres crujías, que junto con la iglesia, enmarcan un pequeño patio interior de planta trapecial. En 1931 fue declarado monumento nacional.
En Torno a la iglesia y del palacio hay restos dispersos de la muralla, algunos vestigios de la cual se encuentran en medio de las casas del pueblo. El elemento mejor conservado es la torre-portal del nordeste, de planta cuadrada y con la puerta adintelada. Se conserva otra torrre, cilíndrica, en el sudo-est del pueblo, apretón entre las casas. A pesar de la alteración reciente de algunas casas del núcleo urbano, estructurado en torno al castillo y de la iglesia, hay algunos edificios de los siglos XVII y XVIII que tienen un interés notable como arquitectura popular a las callejuelas|callejones del norte en la plaza Major, situada extramurs, y a la calle Major, donde|dónde hay casas con portales adintelados, escudos y algunos ventanales decorados.
En la parte montañosa del término hay pequeñas zonas de pins y encinas, y espacios de viña y olivos. En el resto de los cultivos, principalmente de secano, se plantan cereales, forrajes y legumbres. Hay un reducido sector de regadío, que aprovecha las aguas subterráneas, dedicado a hortalises, maíz y forrajes. Las granjas avícolas y la cría de ganado bovino y porcino, con algunas actividades industriales derivadas, completan la economía. Debido a su situación -al lado de la carretera C-255 de Gerona a Palamós y de la Episcopal-, a su término se han ido instalando un buen número de indústires, principalmente relacionadas con el sector de la cerámica o la piedra artificial. Por concolidar y ordenar este potencial industrial, el año 1999 se empezó a urbanizar un polígono que permitirá dar salida a la gran demanda de suelo industrial que existe en esta zona.
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One of the wanderflechten, or vagrant lichens, which curls when dry and may blow around like tumbleweed. Moisture causes it to uncurl to facilitate photosynthesis . The upper surface of the branches is dark, while the lower surface features "whitish pruinose patches without a cortex, and functionally equivalent to pseudochyphellae" as described by Brodo.
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www.cpbr.gov.au/lichen/ecology-vagrants.html - "The great majority of lichens grow attached to substrates of some sort but many are able to continue growing if they become unattached. There is also a small number of species which never grow attached to any substrate. These are often referred to as vagrant lichens and I will use the word in that sense on this website. Species that normally grow attached but that are able to survive unattached are often referred to as erratic lichens, but be aware that some authors use the word erratic to include the vagrant species as well and then describe those species as obligatorily erratic. English words such as vagrant and vague are derived from Latin words built on the root VAG, conveying the sense of 'wandering'. In several other languages these lichens are known by names that are easy for an English speaker to understand. Thus they may be lichens vagabondes (French), licheni vaganti (Italian), líquenes migratorios, líquenes vagantes (both Spanish) or Wanderflechten (German). The last is easy to comprehend once you know that Flechten is the German word for lichens."
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CITA EN EL CINE (1 de 5): Cines Minao
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KOKOMO, Ind. – Years from now, when followers of Indiana University Kokomo athletics look back on the 2011 volleyball season, the October 6 win over Trine University will be more than just another game. More than just a footnote in the initial season for women’s volleyball, it will be part of history.
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Substantial metapodium (1), dorsal rim of the foot (2), eye areas (3) and head-crests (4) are all translucent whitish, flecked with opaque white. There are random light spots and a few flecks of green on the dark areas.
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Limapontia capitata (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Revised July 2021.
Current taxonomy; World Register of Marine Species www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140229
Synonyms: Fasciola capitata O. F. Müller, 1774; Pontolimax capitatus (O. F. Müller, 1774); Limapontia nigra G. Johnston, 1835.
GLOSSARY below.
Description
Usually up to 4 mm long, rarely 8 mm (Thompson, 1976). The smooth body has no tubercles, gills or appendages. It is dark brown (fig. 1 flic.kr/p/2m1yssd ) or black (fig. 2 flic.kr/p/2m1C9ti ) except for the dorsal rim of the foot, metapodium, eye areas and head crests which are all translucent whitish, flecked with opaque white. There are often random light spots on the dark areas and, sometimes, small greenish patches and flecks. Usually, there is a large pale patch, often approximating to a heart shape, (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/2m1DbBw ) on the dorsum. Part of the patch is often translucent allowing sight of the heart beating within the translucent pericardium (Jensen, 1977).
The anus is a short distance behind and to the right of the midpoint of the body, but it is often difficult to see when it is not defecating.
The head has a truncated anterior edge and usually extends beyond the foot (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/2m1G6Nd ). There are no digitiform rhinophores but, above and in front of each eye, adults have a strong (fig. 5 flic.kr/p/2m1C9sG ) or weak (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/2m1DbBw ) head crest which is absent from some juveniles.
The foot has a translucent whitish sole spotted with white pigment. The yellow ovotestes of adults and/or green contents of the digestive gland may be visible through the sole (fig. 4 flic.kr/p/2m1G6Nd ). The anterior of the foot is often slightly expanded but there are no propodial tentacles.
The substantial pale metapodium is c. 19-25% of the body length.
Key identification features
Limapontia capitata
1) Curved head crest above and in front of each eye (figs. 3 flic.kr/p/2m1DbBw & 5 flic.kr/p/2m1C9sG ), no ridge below eye. At some angles of view, crests can be mistaken for digitiform rhinophores (fig. 6 flic.kr/p/2m1C9s1 ).
2) Substantial pale metapodium is c. 19-25% of body length.
3) Usually a large pale mark on the dorsum (fig. 3 flic.kr/p/2m1DbBw ).
4) Eye areas and head-crests whitish (fig. 2 flic.kr/p/2m1C9ti )
5) Anus a short distance behind midpoint of body.
6) Sublittoral and all levels of the shore in pools and moist positions. Usually on Cladophora attached to hard substrate. Optimum salinity 30‰, can survive 5‰ to over 40‰, but sustainable population improbable below 10‰, the lower limit for spawning.
Similar species
Limapontia depressa Alder & Hancock, 1862 (fig. 7 flic.kr/p/2m1HAoU )
1) No digitiform rhinophores but most have a raised rim around the pale eye patches which Alder & Hancock (1862) in their original species description refer to as ‘lateral crests’, and which Hancock clearly illustrated (item 4 on fig. 7). Most subsequent authors omit or deny the existence of the rim/crests on L. depressa (Barrett & Yonge, 1958; Gascoigne, 1975; Thompson, 1976; Hayward & Ryland, 1998; Kluijver et al.). Consequently, the rim is often mistaken for head crests of L. capitata. The rim varies in how much it is erected, being low when a specimen is not in good condition, and it may be difficult to discern in dorsal view of very dark specimens.
2) Pale metapodium (‘tail’) absent or negligible when viewed dorsally.
3) No large, pale, pigment mark on dorsum (occasionally a faded area).
4) Pale eye patches.
5) Dorsal anus close to posterior.
6) On tidal saltings in Britain in brackish or full marine salinity. Individuals adapt slowly and with difficulty to salinity change, but local populations are found adjusted to a wide range of salinities, to below 3‰ on the tidal River Dee, Wales. It lives sublittorally in the inner Baltic Sea, where the mean sea surface salinity is below 7‰ (Bendtsen et al.); a specimen near Helsinki, misidentified (when accessed in June 2021) as L. capitata, is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBqOdGHmmI .
Limapontia senestra (Quatrefages, 1844) (fig. 8 flic.kr/p/2m1C9pL )
1) Pair of digitiform rhinophores on head only when full grown. Earlier growth stages with rhinophores not fully developed can resemble head crests of L. capitata; rear in captivity when in doubt; rearing details in Smith (2014).
2) Pale metapodium is 13-18.5% of body length , smaller than on L. capitata but more noticeable than on L. depressa.
3) Often a small pale dorsal spot and lateral spots form a quincunx or similar; missing on translucent specimens with visible pale viscera which can be mistaken for the dorsal mark of L. capitata.
4) Eye patches and tentacles whitish.
5) Anus a short distance behind midpoint of body.
6) Full salinity, lagoons perhaps with salinity c. 20‰, and rock pools up to MHW on exposed coasts.
Habits and ecology
L. capitata tolerates a wide range of salinities; in the Kieler Bucht, Germany, 5‰ to 40‰ at 14°C, but spawning only occurs at over 10‰ (Seelemann, 1968 in Jensen 1977). The optimum salinity in the Kattegat, Denmark, for growth and spawning is 30‰ at 15°C, though spawn is abundant at over 15‰.
Coma occurs from heat at 38-40°C and from cold at about 1°C (Jensen, 1977). Formation of ice on a shore is usually accompanied by local temporary extinction of littoral L. capitata (Jensen, 1976).
It lives sublittorally and at all levels of the shore in pools and moist situations on its food algae, primarily Cladophora rupestris (figs. 9 flic.kr/p/2m1G6Jq & 10 flic.kr/p/2m1ysh3 ) but also Chaetomorpha linum, Bryopsis plumosa (fig. 11 flic.kr/p/2m1ys8L ) and other Cladophora spp. (Jensen, 1975). These algal species are coenocytic with few or no internal cell walls subdividing the cytoplasm, which is consequently easily extracted by suction. Enteromorpha (currently genus Ulva) is sometimes mentioned as a food alga (Miller, 1962) but this is unlikely as all species in the order Ulvales, having uninucleate cells (Wichard et al. 2015), are not coenocytic, so unsuitable for suctorial feeding. Jensen (1975) observed a L. capitata grasping filaments of Enteromorpha in a feeding position, but it was unable to extract any cytoplasm. Cladophora. spp., Chaetomorpha linum and Bryopsis plumosa were equally favoured in experiments (Jensen, 1975), though in the wild most are found on Cladophora spp. as the other algae are less common. Individual L. capitata could change food in experiments, but were conservative, tending to remain on the first species encountered until all consumed. Cladophora glomerata, a freshwater species which grows well in the very low salinity of the inner Baltic (GBIF map) and forms large algal blooms in the Gulf of Finland (Berezina et al., 2007) was studied by A.-M. Jansson (1966, 1967 and 1970, in Jensen, 1975) on the island of Asko, south of Stockholm, but she found no L. capitata on it. However, L. depressa does feed on it and has been widely misidentified in the inner Baltic as L. capitata (misidentified L. depressa on probable C. glomerata at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBqOdGHmmI )
In L. capitata, the single row of radular teeth, adapted to only slitting and cutting (fig. 12 flic.kr/p/2m1C98J ), confines it to suctorial feeding. The leading tooth is used to puncture algal cell walls whereas the newer, unused teeth function as a spear shaft. Recently worn out older teeth are retained in an ascus sac (Thompson, 1976). Further restrictions on which algal species can be utilized may be due to the chemical structure of the algal polysaccharides and to the algal filament diameters (Jensen, 1975).
The related L. depressa feeds by holding an algal filament vertically in the groove at the front of its head while it punctures it and sucks out the cytoplasm, leaving a colourless filament. There is an apparent upper limit on the diameter of filaments that can fit into the groove, as it was observed in captivity to exhaust all available narrow filaments but to leave the thicker ones unaffected (IFS pers. obs.). The groove in front of the mouth of L. capitata (fig. 13 flic.kr/p/2m1ys1b ) is similar to that of L. depressa . The filaments of a coenocytic species of Trailiella were too thin for adult L. capitata to grip in their groove firmly enough for feeding (Jensen, 1975).
In 1973, at Hellebaek, Denmark, the intertidal population density of L. capitata peaked at 2370-2960 per litre of Cladophora in June, August and October just after settlement of newly metamorphosed juveniles less than 1.25 mm long from what seems to be three breeding events. The recorded population was zero in January to April, when water and air temperatures were below 10°C, and gradually increased in May, presumably originating from larval settlement from deeper water. The large population of L. capitata in summer was estimated to consume 1-10% of the total standing crop of Cladophora at Hellebaek (Jensen, 1975).
Copulation is by penetration by the stylet on the hypodermic penis into the body of the partner which lacks an aperture to receive it. The spawn mass, containing up to 800 ova, is deposited between June and November by two or more generations in Britain (Miller, 1962 in Thompson, 1976). The planktonic, veliger, larval stage lasts about a week at 16-17°C (Thompson, 1976). In Isefjord, Denmark, large numbers of planktonic veligers were recorded in April, August and December (Rasmussen, 1973), corresponding with hatching from the three spawning periods observed by Jensen (1975).
Distribution and status
L. capitata occurs from the Arctic to the Mediterranean and Black Sea. It extends into the Baltic to Rügen, Germany and the Øresund, Sweden further east than which the mean sea surface salinity (msss) is below 10‰ (Bendtsen et al, 2007). It may be over recorded because of incompletely developed rhinophores on juvenile L. senestra being mistaken for the crests of L. capitata. For details of misidentification and misrecording of Limapontia spp. in the inner Baltic, see the appendix below.
Common and widespread around Britain and Ireland. UK distribution map, NBN species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0021056302 .
Appendix: Distribution of L. capitata in the Baltic Sea.
The first description of L. capitata, by Müller in 1774, was in the Baltic, ‘in Mari Balthico’. It is still present, sometimes abundantly (Jensen, 1975), in the outer Baltic to about 30° E. at Rügen, Germany (Schultze, 1849) and Øresund, Sweden. Working in the Kieler Bucht, Seelemann (1968 in Jensen 1977), found that the lower salinity limit for spawning is 10‰. The mean sea surface salinity (msss) of the inner Baltic east of Rügen-Øresund is below 10‰ (Bendtsen, 2007) and would be expected to prevent the establishment of sustainable populations of L. capitata. A study on the shores of Asko Island, south of Stockholm, (Jansson, 1966, 1967 and 1970, in Jensen, 1975), which conforms to expectations, found no L. capitata on Cladophora glomerata, a freshwater alga which grows well in the very low salinity of the inner Baltic and forms large algal blooms in the Gulf of Finland (Berezina et al., 2007).
Contrary to expectations, there are several reports of it east of Rügen-Øresund at,
1) Bornholm in 1863, current msss circa 7.5‰ (Meyer & Möbius, 1865–1872).
2) North of Stockholm at 61.1N, 17.2E, msss circa 5‰, in 1980 by Swedish Ocean Archive database (GBIF map, L. capitata).
3) Estonia, over 170 records, msss circa 5-6‰, 2008-2017 by Estonian Naturalists’ Society (GBIF map, L. capitata).
4) Finland, 450 records, msss circa 5-6‰, mainly 1990-2020, by Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility.
The Bornholm record has several reasons for reserve, apart from the low salinity. While the illustrations from Kieler Bucht (fig. 14 flic.kr/p/2m54gkU ) show that Meyer and Möbius (1865–1872) recognised correctly the features of L. capitata, the Bornholm specimens were found in 1863 when it is unlikely that M&M were familiar with Limapontia depressa, first described by Alder and Hancock only in the previous year and without published image. The specimens were collected for M&M by a fisherman who said that he found them abundantly under littoral stones. This is not the usual habitat of L. capitata, which lives on filamentous algae, mainly Cladophora spp.; one wonders how reliable the reported location is. It is desirable that this record be checked with fieldwork and photography.
The other localities have salinities well below the level suitable for spawning of L. capitata so its presence needs substantiation with detailed images. The only Baltic images labelled L. capitata found by IFS on the web are a video and two photographs from Finnish waters by K. Könönen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBqOdGHmmI and laji.fi/en/taxon/MX.212476/images , which are all misidentified L. depressa lacking the substantial pale metapodium, large pale dorsal mark and distinct head crests of L. capitata. In 2012, on a blog by an artist for the Marine Research Centre at Stockholm University, there was a detailed painting labelled ’L. capitata’ from north of Stockholm, which was a perfect match for Hancock’s image of P. depressa (fig. 7 flic.kr/p/2m1HAoU ). See the ‘Key identification features’ and ‘Similar species’ sections of the main account above for detail of the historical confusion of the two spp.
Pruvot-Fol (1954) aggregated P. depressa with L. capitata as L. nigra as she could find no distinctive features to characterize them. In her description she used poor copies of 110 year old images of Limapontia spp. from Quatrefages (1844) and followed his omission of L. depressa which was not described by Alder and Hancock until 18 years after he wrote. Gascoigne (1975) and Thompson (1976) showed clear, anatomical differences which counter Pruvot-Fol’s opinion.
At the same time (June 2021) as showing multiple records of presumed L. capitata in Estonian and Finnish waters, the GBIF map for L. depressa and the Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility website have a complete absence in the same waters of records for L. depressa which has populations that can breed at the salinities found there, while L. capitata cannot. A video and two photographs from Finland and a painting from north of Stockholm, all mislabelled ‘L. capitata’, show that L. depressa does live in the inner Baltic. Over 30 records (1998-2012) on the GBIF map of L. depressa by the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK) show that L. depressa lives on the coast of the inner Baltic in the Swedish counties of Kalmar and Blekinge.
Jonne Kotta of the Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, agrees that all the Estonian records of L. capitata shown on GBIF are misidentified L. depressa and should be renamed on the database (J. Kotta, 2021, pers. comm., 14 June).
It is desirable that more photographs are obtained of Limapontia in the inner Baltic to substantiate or alter the evidence, reasoning and opinions presented above. This account will be amended if new evidence requires it.
Acknowledgements
I am most grateful to Kathe Jensen, Jonne Kotta and Vollrath Wiese for their help and advice with this account, but any errors or omissions are my (IFS) responsibility. I thank David Fenwick www.aphotomarine.com/index.html and Malcolm Storey www.bioimages.org.uk/ for use of their images.
References and links
Alder, J. and Hancock, A. 1862. Descriptions of a new genus and some new species of naked mollusc. Ann. mag. nat. hist. vol. 10, Third series, number LVIII: 261-265. [Original description of L. depressa on p. 264].
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Barrett, J. and Yonge, C.M. 1958 Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. London, Collins.
Bendtsen, J., Söderkvist, J., Dahl, K., Hansen, J.L.S. and Reker, J. 2007. Model simulations of blue corridors in the Baltic Sea. BALANCE Interim Report No. 9.. Copenhagen. balance-eu.org/xpdf/balance-interim-report-no-9.pdf
Berezina, N. A., Tsiplenkina, I. G., Pankova, E. S. and Gubelit J. I. 2007. Dynamics of invertebrate communities in stony littoral of the Neva Estuary (Baltic Sea) under macroalgal blooms and bioinvasions. Transitional Waters Bulletin 1: 65-76. www.researchgate.net/publication/215447660_Dynamics_of_in...
Eliot, C.N.E. 1910. A monograph of the British nudibranchiate mollusca. London, Ray Society. Supplementary Volume. p. 141 [as L. nigra] archive.org/details/british_nudibranchiate_mollusca_pt8_l... (p. 151 of PDF).
Finnish Biodiversity Information Facility, Limapontia capitata overview page. laji.fi/en/taxon/MX.212476 images laji.fi/en/taxon/MX.212476/images [misidentified L. depressa]. Accessed 17 July 2021.
Gascoigne, T. 1975. A field guide to the British Limapontidae and Alderia modesta. J. Conch. Lond. 28: 359 – 364.
GBIF Distribution map of Limapontia capitata (O.F. Müller) Accessed 25 June, 2021. www.gbif.org/species/2298915
GBIF. Distribution map of Limapontia depressa Accessed 23 July, 2021. www.gbif.org/species/2298918
GBIF Distribution map of Cladophora glomerata (L.) Kütz. Accessed 14 June, 2021. www.gbif.org/species/5272770
Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. 1996. Handbook of the marine fauna of North-west Europe. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Jeffreys, J. G. 1869. British conchology. vol. 5 (1869). London, van Voorst. [As L. nigra] archive.org/details/britishconcholog05jeffr/page/28/mode/1up
Jensen, K. R. 1975. Food preference and food consumption in relation to growth of Limapontia capitata (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa). Ophelia 14(1-2): 1-14. abstract
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Jensen, K. R. 1976. The importance of Limapontia capitata (Mueller) (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa) as a primary consumer in the Cladophora-belt. 10th Europ. Symp. mar. Biol. 2: 339-350.
Jensen, K. R. 1977. Optimal salinity and temperature intervals of Limapontia capitata (Opisthobranchia, Sacoglossa) determined by growth and heart rate measurements. Ophelia, 16 (2): 175 – 185.
Kluijver, M.J. de, Ingalsuo S.S. & Bruyne, R.H. de. Mollusca of the North Sea, Limapontia depressa. Marine Species Identification Portal. (accessed 20 June 2021) species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=moll...
Meyer, H. A. & Möbius, K. 1865 - 1872. Fauna der Kieler Bucht. Band 1: Die Hinterkiemer oder Opisthobranchia. Leipzig, W. Engelmann. [As Pontolimax capitatus]
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Miller, M.C. 1962. Annual cycles of some Manx nudibranchs, with a discussion of the problem of the migration. J. Anim. Ecol. 31(3): 545-569 www.jstor.org/stable/2053?seq=1
Müller, O. F. 1774. Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Vol. 1, Pars Altera: p. 70. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig), Heineck & Faber. [original description as Fasciola capitata] www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344#page/236/mode/1up
Pruvot-Fol, A. 1954. Faune de France. Mollusques opisthobranches. Paris, P. Lechevalier. faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/A.PRUVOT-FOL(FdeFr58)Mollusques.pdf
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Current taxonomy; World Register of Marine Species www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140229
GLOSSARY
coenocytic = (of algae) with parts made up of multinucleate, large masses of cytoplasm enclosed by the wall of each large cell.
cytoplasm = gelatinous liquid that fills the inside of a cell; ‘cell sap’.
digitiform = shaped like a finger.
dorsum = upper outer surface of an organism.
metapodium = hind part of the foot.
MHW = mean high water level.
multinucleate = (of cells) having more than one nucleus per cell, i.e., multiple nuclei share one common cytoplasm.
ovotestes = (plural) hermaphrodite organs serving as both ovary and testes.
pericardium = sac containing the heart.
plankton = animals and plants that drift in pelagic zone (main body of water).
polysaccharides = (in algae) molecular structural components of cell walls.
propodial = (adj.) at the front of the foot.
radula = usually a chitinous ribbon with rows of teeth to rasp food, but on Sacoglossa a line of single, fused teeth used like a scalpel to pierce algal cells.
quincunx = pattern of five as on dominoes or dice.
radular = of the radula.
rhinophore = chemo-receptor tentacle; nudibranch and most sacoglossan sea slugs have a pair on top of the head.
salting = salt tolerant vascular vegetation at MHW to EHWS; preferred synonym for “saltmarsh” as much of a salting is not marshy.
siphonaceous = (of algae) entire thallus (‘plant’) is coenocytic with no internal cell walls subdividing the cytoplasm.
stylet = hard, sharp, slender piercing structure.
suctorial = (adj.) sucking
uninucleate = (of cells) having one nucleus per cell.
veliger = shelled larva of marine gastropod or bivalve mollusc which moves by action cilia on a velum (bilobed flap).
No creo en los astros, jamas leo el horóscopo, pero, respeto a el que crea en el ;-))
Les cuento algo, me persiguen los Aries, jejeje, mis hermanos son Aries, mi hija, Aries y mi papi, el mas bello Aries que conozco;-)), tienen un carácter terrible, pero son amorosos, ( muy importante ;-)),.
Me voy a visitarlo, ya como que me hace falta amor, que sabroso!!
Sus flores favoritas , las orquídeas, y estas son para mi papi y para todos los Aries de flickr .
Tú eres ARIES???
I do not believe in the stars, never read the horoscope, but respect for the people who believe in the ;-))
The story something, I pursue the Aries, jejeje, my brothers are Aries, my daughter, Aries and my daddy, the most beautiful Aries ;-)), I know they are terrible, but they are loving, (very important ;-) ).
I am going to visit him, and as I need love, tasty!
Her favorite flowers, orchids, and they have been to my daddy and all of Aries flickr.
You are Aries?
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Die Cote Albatra ist also unbedingt einen Besuch Wert und das nicht nur wegen des schönen Etretat samt seinem berühmtem Elefantenfelsen.
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The Cote Albatra is necessarily a visit value, and that not just concerning of the beautiful Etretat including his famous elephant rocks
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Son casi infinitamente los seres más abundantes que viven sobre nuestro Planeta y su acción silenciosa transforma el mundo implacablemente sin que apenas nos demos cuenta. Su origen se confunde con el de los océanos de la Tierra, en la que habitan desde hace más de tres mil millones de años, cuando la soledad en los planetas lo inundaba todo. Son las más veteranas pobladoras, las formas de vida más simple y también las que más rápidamente evolucionan. Son las insignificantes y extraordinarias bacterias.
Todas las bacterias necesitan el agua como medio para vivir, incluso, las que habitan en el suelo bucean en la fina película de agua que cubre a las partículas de mineral o a los restos de materia orgánica, allí se alimentan, se mueven y se multiplican cerrando el ciclo de la vida y devolviendo a la tierra los elementos minerales que partieron un día de ella y formaron parte de las entrañas los seres vivos.
La mayor parte de las bacterias se alimentan de materia orgánica, provocan su descomposición y permiten que los elementos químicos se reciclen y se incorporen de nuevo a la cadena de la vida a través del suelo, del aire y del agua. Sus innumerables especies y formas no se pueden diferenciar a la luz del microscopio pues su aspecto es muy parecido, cocos, bacilos, espirilos, vibriones, son las formas más comunes con las que suelen aparecer.
En la imagen de hoy los bacilos se agitan, se mueven en el agua ▷, representando sin duda una de las danzas más ancestrales de cualquier ser vivo. Se ayudan para ello de flagelos invisibles situados en el extremo de sus largos cuerpos de bastón.
Las bacterias no sólo descomponen la materia orgánica, también son las praderas que sirven de alimento a los numerosos organismos microscópicos que dan vida al agua y con ella a todo nuestro Planeta.
La fotografía procede de unas muestras recolectadas en el río Tirón por Marcos Ochoa en las inmediaciones de Tirgo (La Rioja). La fotografía se ha tomado con 400 aumentos empleando la técnica de contraste interferencia.
Con nuestra gratitud para Pilar Gil por la publicación en Qúo, a Antonio Martínez Ron ...y también Paul/
Puedes tener otra infomación en la exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA
Y en este catálogo
También en la galería de Fotolog
Y nuestro granito de arena por la Paz
I think this is Oregon Stonecrop... Sedum oreganum?? NO!
ghs.gresham.k12.or.us/science/ps/nature/gorge/5petal/ston... ???
It was found only a few miles from above link...
according to raystephenson40 it could also be the more common variety Sedum divergens, Pacific Stonecrop.
UPDATE:
i FOUND THIS INFO THAT INDICATES IT IS INDEED DIVERGENS. A close look at the stem leaves shot that they are opposite not alternate.
The basal cluster of leaves seen here are much broader than thick while the leaves of the flowering stems are alternate. The stem leaves of the similar spreading stonecrop (Sedum divergens) are opposite.
FOUND HERE
ghs.gresham.k12.or.us/science/ps/nature/gorge/5petal/ston...
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