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OSTIA ANTICA
is a district in the commune of Rome, Italy, five kilometers away from the coast. It is distinct from Ostia.
For ancient history of the site, see Ostia Antica.
Under the Romans, Ostia Antica reached a peak of some 75,000 inhabitants in the 2nd and 3rd century AD. A slow decline began with the time of Constantine I, and the decaying conditions of the city were mentioned by St. Augustine when he passed through in the late 4th century. His mother, St. Monica, died in an inn here. The poet Rutilius Namatianus also reported the lack of maintenance of the city in 414. Ostia became an episcopal see as early as the 3rd century AD, with the cathedral (titulus) of Santa Aurea erected over the tomb of St. Monica.
As the centuries passed, Ostia fell into ruin but remained an access from the sea for visitors to Rome. Saracen pirates were a frequent concern; the naval Battle of Ostia was fought off the coast in 849. Pope Gregory IV fortified the existing burgh and it was rechristened Gregoriopolis. By this time, the shifting course of the Tiber had landlocked the ancient port, and the town was mainly a shelter for the workers of the nearby salt mills.
In the late 15th century, the bishop Giuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II) commissioned the rebuilding of the main church and town walls under the direction of the architect Baccio Pontelli. The Castle of Julius II, also built at this time, remains the most striking feature of modern Ostia. The castle was abandoned after a flood in 1587 flooded its moat and turned the surrounding area into a marsh.
The castle and the town were restored again in the 20th century.
In popular culture
Ostia was featured in the novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, both written by British novelist Robert Graves. The novels include scenes set at Ostia spanning from the reign of Augustus to the reign of Claudius, including the departure of Agrippa to Syria and Claudius's reconstruction of the harbour. In the 1976 television series, Ostia was frequently mentioned but never actually seen.
Ostia appears briefly towards the end of the Roman Empire section of the 1981 comedy film History of the World, Part I, where the main characters board a galleon (bearing the El Al logo) bound for Judaea. In the film, however, Ostia is only ever referred to as simply "the port".
Adam and I went with our friends Jesse and Natalie down to the Hal & Mal's St. Patty's Day Parade today. This parade is one of my favorite holiday traditions. The fun to be had is endless. And our parade is ranked one of the best in the country. So, with that being said, i had a complete blast! I got hella sunburned, drank way to much beer, and ate a waaaay yummy mexican meal at 3 in the afternoon! Ahhh, what a glorious day. More parade pics coming...Right now, I am off to bed. I'm exhausted!!!
Oh, and in case you want to know more about our little parade, here are some facts from a little Q&A session that I found:
Q: Who is Mal, anyway?
A: "Mal" is Malcolm White...Jackson's resident club owner/restauranteur/promoter/head of the Mississippi Arts Commission,
writer/publisher/piano-playing blues-ologist/philanthropist/philosopher, and most importantly, "Leprechaun-at-Large."
Q: Why a St. Paddy's Parade?
A: Because Jackson didn't have one! It all started way back in late '70's when a young(er) Mal lived and worked in New Orleans' French Quarter. Mal was fascinated and excited by the concept of parades. There were Mardi Gras Parades, Jazz Funeral Marches, and small street parades happening all the time, and Mal became a "Parade Man" for life.
Q: When was the first parade?
A: The first one was in 1982 (or was it '83?).
Q: How about a little parade history?
A: The original idea was to have a "pub crawl" from CS's to George Street Grocery. But when the inspiration for a parade struck him, Mal figured "We might as well take a dip through downtown." What ensued made headlines in the Clarion Ledger: "PARADE STOPS RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC!" It was quite a news story and all that was needed to capture the attention and imagination of Irishmen (both real and imagined) across the state. This first parade was an amazing assortment of enthusiastic participants and was, in retrospect, a surreal sight to see. Highlights included the first Grand Marshal, the late ARTHUR MAHONEY, a true Irishman and ex-boxer in his 90's waving to onlookers from a convertible...the debut of the venerable and voluptuous "SWEET POTATO QUEENS' ...the inaugural appearance of the "RUDE BOYS", a "frat party on wheels' ...the great blues legend "SWEET" SAM MYERS standing in the sunroof of "BROTHER PETE'S BLUES VAN" waving an Irish flag ... the fondly remembered KENDALL WILSON on roller skates being pulled by a motorcycle ... the newly-formed "BLUZ BOYS" band playing loudly on a flat-bed
trailer with the assistance of a generator ... neighborhood kids on bicycles ...parade co-conspirators MARSHALL, JOEY, and PAT surely wondering "What the BLARNEY-hell have we let Malcolm talk us into?!?" ... SERGIO FERNANDEZ recording the whole thing for posterity while perched atop a beer truck driven by DINK ... and of course, leading the procession, MAL himself decked out in green (what else?) Army pants, his beard spray-painted red, carrying an Irish walking stick and flanked by his beloved Dalmation "PEARL" ...
What a "MAL-function"!!!
Q: How about the parade today?
A: It's gotten bigger and better than ever. You still have the "SWEET POTATO QUEENS",
"RUDE BOYS" and other annual favorites plus more recent traditions like the "O'TUX SOCIETY", "KREWE of KAZOO", "GREEN LADIES", and a real New Orleans brass marching band. And new
entries are lining up every year! 2009 Grand Marshal Leland Speed will be joining an illustrious list of luminaries which includes the late, great TINY TIM, musician MAC McANALLY, THALIA MARA, MAESTRO COLMAN PEARCE, O.C. McDAVID, "Toons til Two" radio personality DAVID ADCOCK, "COUSIN" CLETA ELLINGTON, DEUCE McALLISTER, CAT CORA, and BERT CASE, and many others.
Q: Where does all that money from the entry fees go?
A: There is a function to all this frivolity. In recent years, the parade has raised over $250,000 for the Blair E. Batson Hospital for Children.
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Parus caeruleus
El herrerillo común (Parus (Cyanistes) caeruleus) es un ave de la familia de los páridos. Es uno de los pájaros de mayor colorido de Europa: su librea azul, verde, amarilla y blanquinegra es inconfundible. Ave ampliamente distribuida por el continente europeo, norte de África y Oriente Medio, se conocen varias subespecies.
Taxonomía
Herrerillo en una rama.
La especie fue descrita por primer vez por Lineo en su Systema naturae de 1758 como Parus caeruleus.1
La mayor parte de las autoridades mantiene Cyanistes como subgénero de Parus, aunque la Unión Británica de Ornitólogos trata Cyanistes como un género distinto.
Existen dos subespecies africanas. Una en las islas Canarias (P. c. teneriffae), con una mancha negra en la cabeza, y otra en el noroeste de África, desde el norte de Marruecos al norte de Libia, (P. c. ultramarinus), con la espalda o manto azul.
before we got inside the mission inn, we had heard that they did not allow photography inside by people who weren't guests of the hotel or customers of their restaurants. we assumed that they would have security posted and that our group, albeit a small one, of photographers would easily be spotted and we would not get shots inside. however, that wasn't the case at all. it was so busy in the main lobby that it was esay for us to walk by the hotel employees into the areas that were designated for hotel guests only and walk around and take shots as much as we wanted. now i'm not sure if this is the case all the time... maybe at other times of the year it might not be possible. i don't want to give others the impression that this place is completely open for exploration and photography if you aren't a paying customer. it all depends i guess. i really wanted this shot of the rotunda having seen other people's shots... i think i might have been distracted by the supposed rules that i had mentioned earlier but i wasn't too happy with most of my shots inside the hotel. ehhh... at least i got this one i guess.
Burgos (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Burgos Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de Burgos) is a Gothic-style cathedral in Burgos, Spain. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and is famous for its vast size and unique architecture. Its construction began in 1221, following French Gothic parameters.
It had very important modifications in the 15th and 16th centuries (spires of the principal façade, Chapel of the Constable, cimborio of the transept: these elements of advanced Gothic give the cathedral its distinguished profile). The last works of importance (the sacristy or the Chapel of Saint Thecla) occurred during the 18th century, the century in which the Gothic statuary of the doors of the principal façade was also transformed.
At the beginning of the 20th century, some semidetached construction to the cathedral was eliminated, such as the Archepiscopal Palace and the upper floor of the cloister. The style of the cathedral is Gothic, although it has some Renaissance and Baroque works.
The cathedral was declared a "World Heritage Site" by UNESCO on October 31 of 1984. It is the only Spanish cathedral that has this distinction independiently, without being joined to the historic center of a city (as in Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Ávila, Córdoba, Toledo or Cuenca) or in union with others buildings, as in Seville.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgos_Cathedral
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CASTELLANO
La Catedral de Santa María de Burgos (Castilla y León, España) es un templo católico dedicado a la Virgen María. Su construcción comenzó en 1221, siguiendo patrones góticos franceses. Tuvo importantísimas modificaciones en los siglos XV y XVI: las agujas de la fachada principal, la Capilla del Condestable y el cimborrio del crucero, elementos del gótico avanzado que dotan al templo de su perfil inconfundible. Las últimas obras de importancia (la Sacristía o la Capilla de Santa Tecla) pertenecen ya al siglo XVIII, siglo en el que también se retiraron las portadas góticas de la fachada principal. El estilo de la catedral es el gótico, aunque posee, en su interior, varios elementos renacentistas y barrocos. La construcción y las remodelaciones se realizaron con piedra caliza extraída de las canteras del cercano pueblo burgalés Hontoria de la Cantera.
La catedral burgalesa fue declarada Monumento Nacional el 8 de abril de 1885 y Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco el 31 de octubre de 1984. Es la única catedral española que tiene esta distinción de la Unesco de forma independiente, sin estar unida al centro histórico de una ciudad (como en Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Ávila, Córdoba, Toledo o Cuenca) o en compañía de otros edificios, como en Sevilla.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_de_Burgos
José Honorato Lozano
Albun de M L
1850 - 51
Carruage de alquiler
1851
20.2 x 29.7 cm (8 x 11 ½ in)
A lot of 12 watercolors
Estimate: PHP 5,500,000 - 7,000,000
Lot 143 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on 17-18 September 2016. Please see <a href="http://www.salcedoauctions.com"
The painter José Honorato Lozano (1821-1885) is known today as the visual chronicler and ethnographic painter par excellence of life in the Philippines in the second and third quarters of the 19th Century. He is also renowned as the father of the art form known as Letras y Figuras - literally ‘Letters and Figures.’ Mostly watercolors on Manila paper, these artworks depict views of quotidian Philippine life in the 19th century, wherein the artist ingeniously and meticulously painted what on close scrutiny appear as human figures and their environs (houses, flora, fauna, work tools, produce, etc.), but when seen from a distance spell out names or words (e.g. Edward A. Westley, Views of Manila).
In his book José Honorato Lozano, Filipinas 1847, art historian Ambassador Jose María A. Cariño states “The origins of Lozano’s Letras y Figuras can be traced to the Middle Ages in Europe when calligraphers embellished the first letter of each chapter (Capitulares) of the Bible or Psalm or Prayer Book. . . Lozano may have seen copies of these and considered adapting this style and Filipinizing it through over-decorating and illuminating not just the first letter but every letter in the word. Thus, letras y figuras was born”.
It was only in the last twenty years - after several albums painted by Lozano were sold at auctions in London, Madrid, Singapore and Hong Kong - that Filipinos realized the important role of José Honorato Lozano in Philippine art history. His meticulous depiction of Tipos Filipinos (Philippine Types), costumes, customs, traditions, flora, fauna, buildings, houses, fruits, shells, tribes, uniforms (military, school, religious orders, militia), weapons, reptiles, sheet music, views, modes of land transportation, marine vessels, etc. are a treasure trove of visual information about the Philippines in the 19th century.
One of the most famous albums limned by Lozano is the Ayala Karuth Album. Since the watercolors contained therein were unsigned, for many years the works were mistakenly attributed to Carl Johann Karuth, a German employee of Jacobo Zóbel Hinsch (Botica Zóbel), as Karuth’s name was engraved in the leather cover of the album.
The Philippine art market went wild when the Nyssens Flebus Album containing twenty-five watercolors measuring approximately 13 ½ by 9 ¾ inches was auctioned at Christie’s London on in July 1995, with the hammer price reaching GBP 265,000. Emile Nyssens who commissioned the album was a Belgian tobacco trader.
Two other famous albums by Lozano were commissioned by Spanish military officials, namely: 1) The Gervasio Gironella Album; and 2) The José de la Gándara Album. Gervasio Gironella was the Superintendente y Intendente del Ejercito y de la Hacienda (Superintendent of the Armed Forces and Quarter Master General of the Treasury), making him the second most important official in the Philippines during the Spanish period. On the other hand, José de la Gándara y Navarro was Governor General of the Philippines from 1866 to 1867. He also served as Governor General in Cuba. Due to his achievements during his stint in the Philippines including beautification projects and the construction of new roads and the widening of narrow streets in Manila, Gándara Street was named after him. The Gándara Album contains twenty-seven spectacular watercolors.
THE ML ALBUM
The ML Album is the first album by José Honorato Lozano to be auctioned in the artist’s country of birth. All the recently discovered albums by the artist were either bought privately or sold at auctions in Singapore and Hong Kong, and in Europe.
More importantly, the ML Album’s provenance can be traced to one of the Grandees of Spain. ML was an important businessman based in Andalucia who traded in sugar and textiles. Due to his business successes and charitable works, ML was conferred the title of marquis by Queen Isabella II in the 1860’s. The family was also involved in railways, financing and in the olive oil and soap industries. One of the descendants made a fortune in the liquor industry. Today, the descendants of the family are gentlemen farmers dabbling in the fruit and real estate businesses. ML never set foot in the Philippines and therefore did not commission the album. It was a gift from a Philippine sugar producer and business partner. The marquis died during a business trip in France in 1873.
The heir who inherited the album informed Salcedo Auctions that the paintings were never bound into an album and were never framed or displayed as the family had so many Spanish artworks that there was no space in the marquis’ palace to hang them. Throughout its existence, the twelve watercolors of the album were stashed away and all but forgotten in an antique chest containing other gifts and exotic artworks that were gifted to the marquis. As the watercolors were never displayed, today the colors are vibrant and there are no signs of water damage or foxing. This is one of the best preserved albums by Lozano.
For Philippine collectors, one of the important features of this album is the existence of an ‘ML’ letras y figuras as the first page of the album, featuring fishermen holding a fish net forming the letter ‘M’ and two Igorrotes conversing beside a cooking pot forming the letter ‘L’. The Puente Colgante de Manila serves as a backdrop, and on top an angel carries the flag of Spain. The old Spanish word ‘Albun’ identifies this as the frontispiece of a set of pictures – an ‘album’ as it is now known owing to the influence of the English language.
Another interesting feature of the album is that, with the exception of one sheet, all the works are either signed or signed and dated. The signature of the last watercolor appears to have been torn off accidentally, and was not restored. Four of the works feature Tipos Filipinos in their colorful attire while another four are typical views of the Philippines. Two of the most outstanding paintings in the set are the Carruaje de Alquiler (Carriage for Hire) and the Entierro de un Parbulo (Funeral for a School Child), where a band in colorful attire is featured playing lively music while the child is dressed like a bishop or a saint and paraded on the way to the cemetery. This particular scene is borne out of the idea that when a child passes, he goes straight to heaven, thus a cause for celebration rather than sadness.
The return of the ML Album to the Philippines is a cause for joy, especially since there are very few surviving mid 19th century Philippine art works in the country and even less works by this artist whom Rafael Díaz Arenas praised in his book Memorias Históricas y Estadísticas de Filipinas (published in Manila in 1850): “There is a landscape painter using distemper, who is also a watercolorist without rival in the country… I speak of Lozano.” The recent discovery of three oil on canvas paintings by Lozano, namely Vista de la Casa de Campo de Malacañan and two studies of Philippine fruits, flowers and vegetables also confirm Rafael Diaz Arena’s words that “Lozano was a virtuoso in oil and watercolor.”
The provenance of the album and the identity of ML will be provided to the buyer.
The fountain on the Place de la Concorde. Behind: the Hôtel de Crillon; to the left: the embassy of the United States of America.
Since childhood, my life has been about full filling my own dreams. Sometimes, it's difficult to accomplish and sometimes it's really simple.
I was in 9th grade back in 1999 in my school where I read about this short story "The Diamond Necklace" where they mentioned about Champs-Élysées.
I always wanted to see how it looked like! I came to France once in 2004 but I didn't have the opportunity to explore it in length and breadth. During my research visit this year, I got some time to spend in Paris and it was like full filling my child hood dreams! Taking photographs here was one my dream.
This one is an HDR from 5 exposures. I used my own script for tone-mapping. This one was shot with Shutter Priority. The EXIF from 100 ISO image is availble.
Enjoy seeing it Large On Black screen
If you have 2 minutes spare , do have a look at some other Night Shots that I made
When at ease, take out some time to take a Slide Tour of HDRs that I made. It will be worth your time and efforts.
© 2008 Ayush Bhandari
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Si apre il sipario sulla 69esima Mostra del Cinema di Venezia
Pochi ritocchi ancora e poi si aprirà il sipario su questa nuova edizione
della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. Gli ultimi allestimenti da sistemare, le
ultime disposizioni impartite alle manovalanze e poi il cinema prenderà il
sopravvento sulla tangibilità. La scenografia sostituirà i cantieri. Le persone,
anche quelle più comuni, reciteranno le loro imprescindibili parti.
La commistione tra finzione e realtà è palpabile. Basta fare due passi sulla
spiaggia antistante l’Hotel Excelsior per averne sentore. All’alba quando
ancora in molti riposano i propri pensieri, sono solo le impronte di piedi scalzi
a lasciare traccia. Un veritiero passaggio che lascia il proprio calco su una
sabbia ancora umida. Un battito d’ali di un gabbiano che prende il volo.
Una struttura d’acciaio che prende forma davanti alle mura di uno storico
albergo. All’orizzonte un responsabile della sicurezza sorveglia l’area che
ha in custodia, mentre una squadra di operai sopraggiunge con il passo di
protagonisti durante la sfilata su il red carpet.
E’ un’illusione. O forse no. Intanto anche la luce del sole che si alza dal mare
sembra provare la sua l’intensità filtrando la presenza tra le nuvole. Non
sembra mancare proprio nulla. Anche i suoni del risveglio sono una perfetta
colonna sonora. In lontananza pure un fotografo nell’attesa d’immortalare il
nuovo giorno, sposta il suo obiettivo verso ciò che sta per avere inizio.
Se proprio qualcosa deve essere assente è una voce. Quella di un regista
che in tono solenne gridi “… and…action!”. Ma è solo questione d’istanti.
Con un pizzico di attenzione si potrà sentire pure quella.
Perché anche questo, è la Mostra del Cinema di Venezia.
(testo di Andrea Bettini)
" Lady Bunny "
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Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR). The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. The auction will feature Vipp pedal bins re-imagined by 35 leading creative personalities.
Public viewing and bidding from October 15 - 28 at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am-7pm). Gala auction to be held October 28.
Danish design company Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary this October by hosting Can It!!! - a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR). The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Thirty-five leading figures in the worlds of architecture, art, design, fashion and entertainment have put their signature touch on the iconic Vipp bin for the occasion.
PUBLIC VIEWING AND BIDDING, OCTOBER 15 – 28
From October 15 – 28, the 35 customized Vipp bins will be on display for public viewing and bidding at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am–7pm). Those who place bids on one or more of the customized Vipp bins, will be invited to a special gala auction on Wednesday, October 28, hosted by Veronica Webb, Vipp, DWR and DIFFA.
PARTICIPATING DESIGNERS
Ami James, Avi Adler, Calvin Klein, Camilla Stærk, Cole and Garrett, David Rockwell, David Stark, Evette Rios, Helena Christensen, Izhar Patkin, James Charles, Jes Gordon, John Baldessari, Jonas Hecksher/E-types, Lady Bunny, Lady Pink, Magnus Berger, Michael Aram, Mike Perry, Nigel Barker, Olaf Breuning, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Kiril Kirov/Razortooth, Richard Colman, Rikke Korff/The Furies, Robert Geller, Robert Verdi, Shelly Sabel, Sune Rose Wagner/The Raveonettes, Swathi Ghanta/Kidrobot, The Selby, Veronica Webb, Yoko Ono, Yves Béhar/Fuseproject.
For more information call DIFFA @ 212-727-3100
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VIPP 70TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION
Vipp is celebrating its 70th anniversary by hosting a charity auction in New York City in collaboration with design retailer Design Within Reach (DWR).
The auction will benefit DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. Thirty-five leading figures in the worlds of architecture, art, design, fashion and entertainment have put their signature touch on the iconic Vipp bin for the occasion, including Yoko Ono, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren & David Stark.
From October 15 – 28, the 35 customized Vipp bins will be on display for public viewing and bidding at DWR: Tools for Living located at 142 Wooster Street, New York City, during regular store hours (11am–7pm). Those who place bids on one or more of the customized Vipp bins, will be invited to a special gala auction on Wednesday, October 28, hosted by Veronica Webb, Vipp, DWR and DIFFA.
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Ami James, Avi Adler, Calvin Klein, Camilla StÊrk, Cole and Garrett, David Rockwell, David Stark, Evette Rios, Helena Christensen, Izhar Patkin, James Charles, Jes Gordon, John Baldessari, Jonas Hecksher/E-types, Lady Bunny, Lady Pink, Magnus Berger, Michael Aram, Mike Perry, Nigel Barker, Olaf Breuning, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Kiril Kirov/Razortooth, Richard Colman, Rikke Korff/The Furies, Robert Geller, Robert Verdi, Shelly Sabel, Sune Rose Wagner/The Raveonettes, Swathi Ghanta/Kidrobot, The Selby, Veronica Webb, Yoko Ono, Yves BÈhar/Fuseproject.
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The elegant princess led a leisurely life of pleasure and debauchery. She sat on her balcony sipping cheap champagne and smoking a slim. Her long hair dangled from the tower, whipping in the air just inches beyond the fingertips of the many princes and princesses who had come from afar to see her.
She flicked her ash into the crowd, and smiled distantly as the foreign royalty clambered to turn their faces upward into the snowfall of dusted tobacco.
“Rescue me,” she murmured quietly, but she smiled to herself: the simple smile of someone who had not bothered to stand up and rescue herself. High above her crowd of admirers, the princess was free.
She rose to her feet, and lifted a dainty foot onto the ledge, where she could see the edge of the earth just beyond the forest in the west. She stretched her arms to the north and to the south, and tiptoed across the narrow railing, her body tipping and dipping as her glass slippers scraped against the stone ledge, champagne and ash tumbling from the edges of her grasp.
The crowd below her gasped and cooed, and the elegant princess waivered for a moment, unsure whether they wished her to balance or fall.
She hopped down from the ledge. It felt like there were pebbles in her shoe. She lifted the shoe from her foot, and reached inside. Deep inside, shimmering in the crystal toe, was a tiny pink bag labeled “Eat This and Perish.”
The elegant princess tossed her shoe over her shoulder, into the greedy air, and tore open the pink packet.
“Skittles,” she cried out when she saw the tiny blue pebbles inside.
She turned her face to the sky and tipped the pack into her mouth.
They tasted like socks and forgotten memories.
The princess coughed a little, and spit the pebbles back into the palm of her hand. They glistened and shimmered in the evening air, a beautiful shade of pink.
The elegant princess felt sick. She tumbled to her knees, and her hair fell all around her, enclosing her. It was peaceful inside a canopy of her own hair. She couldn’t hear the crowd, or feel the pressure of her princessly duties.
Here, she thought, I could sleep for one hundred years.
classic goofy Elizabeth face seen HERE
Dudes. I made it to 300! (this photo is a nod to day 137, which is my favourite number)
This whole 365 project has been a crazy ride. I plan on doing a huge look back, a "Retrospective" if you like, when I am finished but I have to say 300 is a huge milestone! I'm pretty proud of myself for actually sticking with it. I'm a fairly determined and ambitious person, but I'm honestly surprised I've lasted this long!
Starting this project is weird though... I don't think many people realise just what they're getting into. A whole YEAR of your life is devoted to this (if you stick with it) and if you're as diligent as I have been, you are committed to not only taking a photo everyday but loading it, editing it, writing your little description, putting it into groups so people actually see your efforts... for me it's about two hours of work a day, at least!
I do think I'm a bit obsessive compulsive about my project... I strive to create something above average everyday. I'm not one of those half-ass people! Sure, some of my photos are kind of shitty, but I have grown so much in the past 300 days and some of my stuff is actually (in my opinion) quite remarkable. It's remarkable to me because I know me. I'm not as cool/ put together/ pretty in real life as I appear in my photos. Needless to say, I never knew I was capable of coming up with some of the cooler stuff I've come up with.
I do think I give a lot of myself in this project, but it definitely doesn't always show who I truly and completely am. For example, it would be REALLY hard for me to do a photo without any make up on. (And infact I spent about 45 minutes editing my skin in this photo... my skin is probably my most hated feature... but I wont go on about it)
ANYWAYS, what I'm trying to say is that I'm kind of a perfectionist. These photos are kind of an idealised version of myself. In real life I'm actually just a really goofy, down-to-earth, overly kind, and completely sincere girl who is just trying her hand at photography.
I'm going to shut up now.
I LOVE YOU FLICKR :-)
Song of the Day - Deftones - Change
bon cap de setmana - nice weekend
desnuda y con sombrilla / Silvio Rodriguez
tú, sentada en una silla
yo, de pie con expresión de lord
tu, desnuda y con sombrilla
yo, vestido pero con calor.
Tú, con uñas y con dientes
mirándome de frente
con brillo de matar.
Yo, retrocediendo un poco
llenándome de un loco deseo de sangrar.
Tú, besando tus rodillas
yo, discreto pero sin rubor.
Pero tú creando maravillas
yo soñándome esquimal sin sol.
Tú, con un ritmo tan lento
buscando un alimento
frotado con alcohol.
Yo de pronto ensimismado
mirándote alelado colmada de licor.
Tú, ardiente y sin capilla
yo, quitándome el sombrero alón
pero tú, dispuesta la vajilla
yo, al filo de mi pantalón.
Yo, a punto del delirio
extraigo un solo cirio
que poso ante tu flor.
Tú, susurrando un misterio
de un no sé qué venéreo
me das un protector.
Tú, sentada en una silla
yo, de pie con expresión de lord.
Pero tú, desnuda y con sombrilla.
Yo, vestido pero con calor.
Tú.
Yo.
Él.
This is my friend Marclino you have all seen him
before but you probably dont recognize him maby
its because he has shaved his head bald lol i was with him
today and when i saw him i just burst out laughing he just looked
so different i said marcilino what have you done so he said
have a guess english oh and by the way thats what they call me
out here in the north of portugal they never ask me what my name is
all they no is that i am from england so they call me english i no its
very strange but thats how it is out here.again this was taken with the wifes
P+S but as a contact friend of mine macro marcie has pointed out
to me the most important thing is catching the essence.....and that can be done with any camera.again thankyou so much for your time and your comments
and kind regards to you all.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=487
Beginning in the early 1830s, cholera epidemics killed thousands of United States citizens. People who contract cholera generally suffer from severe diarrhea, vomiting, and cramps. The disease is spread by drinking water or eating food that is contaminated with human feces. People with this illness can die from dehydration within a few hours after the symptoms first appear.
Asiatic Cholera appears to have started on the Indian subcontinent, ca. 1826. By 1831, it had spread to Russia. Cholera first appeared in the United States in 1832. European immigrants apparently brought the disease with them to America. With poor sanitation systems, cholera tended to be most virulent in cities. By the autumn of 1832, the illness had reached Cincinnati, probably brought by people traveling along the Ohio River. The Ohio and Mississippi Rivers allowed the disease to spread quickly across the United States in all directions.
One of the most common treatments for cholera in the United States up through the Civil War was the medicine calomel (Mercurous Chloride; Calogreen; Mercury Monochloride; Mercury Chloride). It was commonly used as a purgative (laxative) for the treatments of bowel illnesses ranging from diarrhea to cholera; unfortunately calomel’s effects were seriously harmful. It may have cleansed the bowels, but at the same time it caused teeth to loosen, hair to fall out and could destroy the patient’s gums and intestines. In other words, it could cause acute mercury poisoning.
The worst epidemic to affect Ohio occurred in 1849. Eight thousand people in Cincinnati died in this epidemic, including Harriet Beecher Stowe's infant son. www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/interpret/exhibits/hedrick/hedr...
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin was precipitated by two events, one in her personal life: in 1849 her sixth child, Samuel Charles, died in the cholera epidemic. Cholera was a relatively new disease in the Western hemisphere and inspired dread partly for that reason and partly because it was so deadly. To people in the nineteenth century it was an act of God, a biblical plague. All Harriet could do was watch helplessly while her eighteen-month-old child was wracked by convulsions and lost all the fluids in his body. She later wrote that there were circumstances of such bitterness in the manner of Charley's death that she didn't think she could ever be reconciled for it unless his death allowed her to do some great good to others. She also wrote that losing Charley made her understand what a slave woman felt when her child was taken away at the auction block.
Many Cincinnati residents fled the city and ended up in Mt. Pleasant, a community that escaped the illness. The town residents soon changed its name to Mt. Healthy in honor of its good fortune.
It wasn't until 1854, when Cholera struck England once again, that Dr. John Snow was able to legitimate his argument that cholera was spread through contaminated food or water. Snow, in investigating the epidemic, began plotting the location of deaths related to Cholera. At the time, London was supplied its water by two water companies. One of these companies pulled its water out of the Thames River upstream of the main city while the second pulled its water from the river downstream from the city. A higher concentration of Cholera was found in the region of town supplied by the water company that drew its water from the downstream location. Water from this source could have been contaminated by the city's sewage. Furthermore, he found that in one particular location near the intersection of Cambridge and Broad Street, up to 500 deaths from Cholera occurred within 10 days.
Cholera epidemics continued in the United States until the early 1900s. As sanitation improved within the United States, including chlorination of water, the illness weakened. In modern nations, cholera cases are very rare. In under-developed countries, outbreaks remain common. In 1991, cholera struck both South America and Africa, killing thousands of people. The standard treatment for cholera today is to keep the ill person hydrated.
Remember my previous post about stairs and little hill? This is to the left of it but still closed to the public with barricades on top and bottom of the stairs. I'll go back to find out what they had in mind for this. The view on Lower Manhattan, Statue of Liberty and Governor's Island is just beautiful!! Love the textures and tones here that almost matches the texture of the Majestic Brooklyn Bridge in the background!!
3 shots HDR
Of course when I was there for sunrise shot, Kenny and I didn't really care about the barricades on the top and just move them a little and parked our gears in front of those flimsy things, LOL!! The rangers making their tours saw us, and couple other photographers, didn't mind knowing well we'll be there for few minutes only!!
Have a great week, it is gloomy and raining here!! :((
Thanks for stopping by and commenting!!
yeah, that's probably deep enough.
alright, as promised, here is the story of all the mill photographs.
there has been an old flour mill in my family for quite some time now, and while the bottom two floors are currently being rented by a lovely antiques shop, the top three and the loft are quite empty and covered in grime. my grandad has wanted me to come and document the building for posterity for a while, as i suppose he wants to be able to remember it if it falls in sometime in the near future.
getting up the stairs from the first floor is a bit of an adventure in itself. to tell the truth, it's a bit like going into narnia because you open what like a closet at first because it's so small and full of junk, but is actually a narrow staircase that rises so steeply you don't notice at first that it isn't the back wall.
so once you climb over all the storage bins and make your way up to the next floor, it's like this whole world of abandoned building opens up around you. there's interesting machinery everywhere, lovely lighting and grit and grain and god knows what else all over the place. so i spent a very happy couple of hours photographing everything of interest.
...that's about it. not much of a story, after all.
Canon AE-1, Fujicolor Superia 400, SOOC
Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: Naruto VS Sasuke
(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 01 of 23) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.
LINKS:
- Las FOTOHISTORIAS de Sheryl en el Foro de Pullips: Pullip .es
- Sheryl Photostories at Flickr
- Hilo de Naruto en Grupo en el Foro: miPullip
- See more photos at: Renske‘s Flickr
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Where: Sweden, Skåne, Stenshuvud National Park: google maps.
When: 20100513, on a photo trip top Skåne
How and Why: Little bugs scramblings around on plants is a great scene for a macro shot, and here I got all the pleasure of colour contrasts too.
Editing: Minor adjustments.
Affichage fond noir | View on black
Cette année, j'ai eu la chance, à l'occasion du brame du cerf, de rencontrer cet animal à l'approche très difficile pour le photographe, en particulier.
En effet, le cerf ne pointe le museau dehors qu'au lever du jour ou à la tombée de la nuit; au moment où la lumière est très faible, de plus il s'expose très peu de temps , a un odorat très puissant qu'il est difficile de tromper.
Pas facile dans ces conditions d'obtenir de bons clichés. Souvent, je suis revenu bredouille, mais quand même j'y suis retourné avec l'espoir d'avoir un peu plus de chance.
J'y retournerai l'annèe prochaine, un peu plus aguerri peut-être.
This year, I had the chance, at the call of the deer, meet the animal to approach very difficult for the photographer in particular.
Indeed, the deer does not point out the muzzle at daybreak or dusk, when the light is very low, the more it exposes a very short time, has a very strong smell that it is difficult to deceive.
Not easy in these conditions to get good shots. Often, I returned empty-handed, but still I went back hoping to have a bit more luck.
I will return next of year, a little more seasoned, perhaps.
Este año, tuve la oportunidad, a la llamada de los ciervos, conocer al animal a acercarse muy difícil para el fotógrafo en particular.
En efecto, el venado no señala el hocico al amanecer o al atardecer, cuando la luz es muy baja, más se expone a un tiempo muy corto, tiene un olor muy fuerte que es difícil de engañar.
No es fácil en estas condiciones para obtener buenas tomas. A menudo, volví con las manos vacías, pero aún así me volvió la esperanza de tener suerte un poco más.
Voy a volver al lado de año, un poco más experimentado, tal vez.
Este ano, tive a oportunidade, ao chamado do cervo, conhecer o animal se aproximar muito difícil para o fotógrafo em particular.
Na verdade, o veado não apontar o focinho ao amanhecer ou ao anoitecer, quando a luz é muito baixa, mais ele expõe um tempo muito curto, tem um cheiro muito forte de que é difícil de enganar.
Não é fácil, nestas condições, para obter boas fotos. Muitas vezes, voltei de mãos vazias, mas ainda voltei com a esperança de ter um pouco mais de sorte.
Voltarei próximo do ano, um pouco mais experiente, talvez.
Bonne journée à tous. merci pour vos visites et commentaires.
Have a nice day. Thanks for your visits and comments.
Buenos días a todos. gracias por sus visitas y comentarios.
EXPLORED
You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness there inside you
Makes you feel so small
But I see your true colours
Shining through
I see your true colours
That's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colours
True colours are beautiful,
Like a rainbow.
Lyrics: Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly
Madrid (Spain).
ENGLISH
The Plaza Mayor built during the Habsburg period is a central plaza in the city of Madrid, Spain. It is located only a few blocks away from another famous plaza, the Puerta del Sol. The Plaza Mayor is rectangular in shape, measuring 129 by 94 meters, and is surrounded by three-story residential buildings having 237 balconies facing the Plaza. It has a total of nine entranceways. The Casa de la Panadería, serving municipal and cultural functions, dominates the Plaza Mayor.
The origins of the Plaza go back to 1581 when Philip II of Spain asked Juan de Herrera, a renowned Renaissance architect, to devise a plan to remodel the busy and chaotic area of the old Plaza del Arrabal. Juan de Herrera was the architect who designed the first project in 1581 to remodel the old Plaza del Arrabal but construction didn't start until 1617, during Philip III's reign. The king asked Juan Gomez de Mora to continue with the project, and he finished the porticoes in 1619. Nevertheless, the Plaza Mayor as we know it today is the work of the architect Juan de Villanueva who was entrusted with its reconstruction in 1790 after a spate of big fires. Giambologna's equestrian statue of Philip III dates to 1616, but it was not placed in the center of the square until 1848. Amazingly enough if you go in there today you can still see the blood on the walls from some of the bull fights held there in earlier years.
The Plaza Mayor has been the scene of multitudinous events: markets, bullfights, soccer games, public executions, and, during the Spanish Inquistion, "autos de fe" against supposed heretics and the executions of those condemned to death. The Plaza Mayor also has a ring of old and traditional shops and cafes under its porticoes. Celebrations for San Isidro, patron saint of Madrid, are also held here. The Plaza Mayor is now a major tourist attraction, visited by thousands of tourists a year.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Mayor_of_Madrid
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CASTELLANO
La Plaza Mayor de Madrid está situada en el centro de la ciudad, a pocos metros de la plaza de la Puerta del Sol y de la Plaza de la Villa junto a la calle Mayor.
Los orígenes de la plaza se remontan al siglo XV, cuando en la confluencia de los caminos (hoy en día calles) de Toledo y Atocha, a las afueras de la villa medieval, se celebraba en este sitio, conocido como "Plaza del Arrabal", el mercado principal de la villa, construyéndose en esta época una primera casa porticada, o lonja, para regular el comercio en la plaza.
En 1580, tras haber trasladado la corte a Madrid en 1561, Felipe II encargó el proyecto de remodelación de la plaza a Juan de Herrera, comenzándose el derribo de las "casas de manzanas" de la antigua plaza ese mismo año. La construcción del primer edificio de la nueva plaza, la Casa de la Panadería, comenzaría en 1590 a cargo de Diego Sillero, en el solar de la antigua lonja. En 1617, Felipe III, encargó la finalización de las obras a Juan Gómez de Mora, quién concluirá la plaza en 1619.
La Plaza Mayor ha sufrido tres grandes incendios en su historia, el primero de ellos en 1631, encargándose el mismo Juan Gómez de Mora de las obras de reconstrucción. El segundo de los incendios ocurrió en 1670 siendo el arquitecto Tomás Román el encargado de la reconstrucción. El último de los incendios, que arrasó un tercio de la plaza, tuvo lugar en 1790, dirigiendo las labores de extinción Sabatini. Se encargó la reconstrucción a Juan de Villanueva, que rebajó la altura del caserío que rodea la plaza de cinco a tres plantas y cerró las esquinas habilitando grandes arcadas para su acceso. Las obras de reconstrucción se prolongarían hasta 1854, continuándolas, tras la muerte de Villanueva, sus discípulos Antonio López Aguado y Custodio Moreno.
La Plaza Mayor se convirtió desde sus inicios, no solo en el principal mercado de la villa, tanto de alimentación (surtida por los numerosos tablajeros vigilados por el Repeso) como de otros géneros (instalándose en sus soportales los principales gremios); sino también en el escenario de numerosos actos públicos, como corridas de toros, autos de fe, inmortalizando el pintor Francisco Ricci el celebrado en 1680, ejecuciones públicas, colocándose el patíbulo delante del portal de pañeros si la pena era de garrote; frente a la Casa de la Panadería, si era de horca, y ante la Casa de la Carnicería, si era de cuchillo o hacha. También se celebró en la Plaza Mayor la beatificación de San Isidro, santo patrón de Madrid.
La Plaza Mayor es actualmente un importante punto turístico, visitado por miles de turistas al año. En los locales comerciales ubicados bajo los soportales, abundan los comercios de hostelería, que instalan terrazas junto a los soportales de la plaza.
Todos los meses de diciembre, se celebra el tradicional mercado navideño, costumbre que se mantiene vigente desde el año 1860.
También se celebra todos los domingos y festivos por la mañana el mercado de Filatelia y Numismática.
Matthiessen Surprise on black.
On the main trail at Matthiessen State Park in Illinois, there is a place called Cedar Point. From there, you can see up a small tributary that quickly turns a corner. I had always wondered what was up there and since I was completely prepared to walk through all kinds of water yesterday in my awesome Merrill water shoes, I ventured across the river and up the little stream.
It's interesting because just a few feet later, you round a small corner and you see the falls on the right. Had things been ever so slightly different at Cedar Point, you'd see the falls from there, but they are not. To see this you have to be curious enough to cross the river.
That was exciting enough but then I turned a 90 degree corner just behind where I was standing to see the table-top cascade to the left. It literally made me gasp. I love little table-top falls more then any other I think and I had no idea this was even in the park. I was actually headed over to Starved Rock later in the day to find a cascade like this, but this changed everything. I had the entire place to myself and just drank it in.
If you continue to follow the river up to the left, there are another five cascades above this one - all within about 300 yards. It may be my new favorite spot in the park.
Exposición LA VIDA OCULTA DEL AGUA; en la UNED de Barbastro
Hoy con nuestro agradecimiento a Bárbara Barrera por su precioso artículo sobre diatomeas en la revista Vidriooh!
Artículo LA BIODIVERSIDAD OCULTA
Bajo el hielo, la vida en el agua no se interrumpe, continúa latiendo en mil formas, despierta o dormida, preparándose para aprovechar cada instante. Muchos ciliados parecen ser ajenos al frío y en veloz carrera lo desafían buscando entre los fondos el alimento que los mantendrá despiertos hasta la llegada de la primavera, algunas algas como los désmidos acostumbradas al aire helado de la montaña, parecen encontrar en el agua su abrigo, otros seres duermen su sueño invernal encerrados en su cápsula del tiempo que sólo se abrirá cuando una señal misteriosa del agua dé su aprobación.
Hoy Chaetophora empieza a desperezarse y regala una gota de su vida al agua, dentro de unas semanas su cuerpo se habrá alargado y convertido en un collar de gotas verdes, gotas que se ramificarán formando filamentos que se fijan a los fondos o a otras algas, gotas que se prolongarán en finos y larguísimos brazos transparentes, gotas para tapizar las orillas de la las lagunas y sembrarlas de vida.
Chaetophora es un alga pluricelular de talos ramificados y cortos y de color verde claro. Las células terminales de las ramas de más edad se suelen prolongar en un largo pelo transparente que es característico de este género. Chaetophora vive en aguas con cierta carga de materia orgánica fija sobre otras plantas acuáticas, algas o piedras y con frecuencia se extiende dando lugar a densas poblaciones.
La fotografía de hoy procede de una muestra de agua recogida ayer en la Laguna de Ajamil y ha sido tomada a 400 aumentos empleando conjuntamente la técnica de campo oscuro y la de polarización.
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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.
A recent thread at Asterisk (this is APOD's discussion forum) got me looking at this beautiful object and the data in Hubble's archive. I noticed there was a very intimate look at the center of this starburst galaxy featuring many bright, young stars comprising super star clusters and decided to process it, making sure not to over brighten the star clusters so that as many details would remain preserved as possible.
In the center is Cluster A, which is actually two clusters which are called A1 and A2. At lower left, the next brightest cluster is called Cluster B. To the upper right is Cluster C, which is somewhat enshrouded in nebula.
Other star clusters are also visible as dimmer, soft yellow blobs which almost look like elliptical galaxies because it's very hard to make out any individual members. I'm not sure what kind of star clusters those are. To me they look a lot like small globular clusters. One may be tempted to conclude that we are seeing the life cycle of globular clusters in some kind of holy grail moment, but something tells me that if that were the case it would have made headlines somewhere. Our knowledge about the formation of globular clusters is murky at best. Does NGC 1569 offer any insights?
This image is possible thanks to the following HST proposal:
Starburst Galaxies and Their Population of Super Star Clusters
Red: HST_10885_06_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci
Green: HST_9300_02_ACS_HRC_F555W_sci
Blue: HST_9300_02_ACS_HRC_F330W_sci
North is NOT up. It is 18.4° clockwise from up.
Montmeló, Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
The pits usually comprise of a pit lane which runs parallel to the start/finish straight and is connected at each end to the main track, and a row of garages (usually one per team) outside which the work is done. Pit stop work is carried out by anywhere from five to twenty mechanics (also called a pit crew), depending on the series, while the driver waits in the vehicle (except where a driver change is involved).
In Formula One, cars make pit stops with the primary purpose of refueling and changing tyres, although during the 2005 season tyre changing during the race was prohibited. Teams sometimes also make adjustments to the front and rear wings and perform minor repairs, most commonly replacing the nose and front wing assembly. Pit strategies generally call for between one and three scheduled stops, depending on the course.
When the car is approximately one lap away from making its stop, the team's pit crew will set up fresh tyres and all needed pit equipment. Because of the overhead fuel and pneumatic rig, the team may have all pit mechanics in position prior to the car's arrival, with the exception of the rear jack man.
A pit stop involves about twenty mechanics, with the aim of completing the stop as quickly as possible. It lasts for six to twelve seconds depending on how much fuel is put into the car. However, if there is a problem, such as a fuel pump failing or the engine stalling, or repairs having to be made, it can take much longer. Cars are fuelled at a rate of more than 12 litres per second. This is accomplished by a fairly complex closed system that pumps air out of the car's fuel tank as the fuel is being pumped in.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_stop
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CASTELLANO
Los boxes comprenden el "pit lane", o carril de boxes, que corre paralelo a la recta de salida/meta y conectado a ella por los extremos, y una hilera de garajes (normalmente uno por equipo). El trabajo de la parada en boxes, que se lleva a cabo fuera de los garages, lo realiza un equipo de entre 5 y 20 mecánicos dependiendo del tipo de deporte, mientras el piloto espera en el vehículo (excepto cuando hay cambio de piloto).
En Fórmula 1, los coches hacen una parada en boxes con el prpósito principal de recargar combustible y cambiar ruedas, aunque en la temporada 2005 estuvo prohibido el cambio de ruedas. Los equipos a veces hacen ajustes en los alerones delanteros y traseros, así como reparaciones menores, como cambiar el morro. Las estrategias de boxes suelen comprender entre una y tres paradas, dependiendo de la carrera.
Cuando el coche está a una vuelta de la parada, el equipo de boxes prepara ruedas nuevas y todo el equipamiento necesario. Todos los mecánicos están en sus posiciones cuando llega el coche, excepto el encargado del elevador trasero.
Una parada en boxes implica veinte mecánicos, con el objetivo de completar la parada en el mínimo tiempo posible, que son entre seis y doce segundos dependiendo de la cantidad de combustible repostada. Sin embargo, su ocurre un problema como un fallo en la bomba de combustible o una parada de motor, o hay reparaciones adicionales, el tiempo se puede prolongar. Los coches repostan a razón de 12 litros por segundo. Este rápido repostaje se lleva a cabo por un complejo sistema cerrado que bombea aire fuera del depósito a medida que se llena de combustible.
Strangers are friends you’ve never met…
This last full moon cycle was like no other. I normally don’t post in a timely fashion or share many details about my experiences while shooting, but I can’t get this last trip out of my mind. It was six days and five long nights in the Mojave. We battled wind up to 45mph and faced possible thunderstorms. We were treated like family by some and thought we were going to be assaulted by others.
The Mojave is filled with a variety of people. The old saying one mans trash is another mans treasure really takes meaning in this mystical desert. Every walk of life inhabits the desert, from artist to outcast.
I had the opportunity to meet and talk with quite a few locals on this trip. The names of the locals and the towns they live in have been changed for privacy. I also met two other night photographers on this trip that I now consider friends, Cody and Joe. They are both great guys and I look forward to shooting with them again! They both are dedicated and have that special kind of crazy required to shoot at night.
Day 1
Picked up an old friend, Zach, in Tulare. Zach is the younger brother of a childhood friend of mine. His brother died about 8 years ago. Shortly after his brothers death he was diagnosed with brain tumors and had brain surgery. He has been dealing with the ill effects ever since. I think of him as my little bother and try to get him out as much as possible.
Zach and I hit the road with the intentions of doing a rolling photo shoot on route 66. After passing thru Barsoap, I decided to check on a few things outside of Dingleberry Springs. We arrived at an unnamed waterpark around 2pm. We were driving around the perimeter roads when a couple cars rolled right into the place like they owned it. We spent some time observing them from a distance. We even busted out the binoculars at one point.
We saw four men and a young boy just standing around and talking. I decided to drive in and talk to them. They were all very polite, two of them took off right away and the other two stayed and talked. One man, Jack, built the original water park that was here with his father. The other guy, Don, was just a really nice local that had a bunch of great stories himself. We talked for a while and they let me know that the locals keep an eye on the waterpark and still fish in the lake that was named after Jack’s mom. Our conversation went well and they let me shoot the park without interference from the locals.
After our conversation with Jack and Don we decided to drive around and get some more recon in. Found lots of good stuff to shoot in the future, but picked up a nail in the sidewall. It was getting dark so we headed back to the waterpark. One thing we never found during the day was a campground close enough to the waterpark. I have always wanted to camp at an abandonment, so we decided this would be a good place to do it at.
The wind was gusting around 45 mph and made setting up camp a chore. We finished setting up camp just as darkness set in. Just then a local was cruising around the waterpark on a dirt bike. Hiding was not an option, not like we could hide our tents. It took him no time to spot us and he hauled over to our location. He started by telling us we needed to pull up our tents and leave. I told him about my conversation with Jack earlier in the day. He was shocked to hear I knew Jack, cause most people don’t know Jack, and let me know he would be checking out my story with him. We never saw him the rest of the night, so I guess my new friend Jack covered for me like he said he would.
Now that all the locals had left and the sun had set it was time to shoot. It was a decent night of shooting, lost a lot of images due to the wind, but just kept clicking away. I was the only photographer this night so I was able to get a lot of work done without dodging the light of others.
The wind never died down, and about 0330 in the morning Zach and I decided we had enough and headed back to camp. The tents were set up behind some buildings in hopes that they would block the wind. They helped a little, but it was a sleepless night with all the noises. The tents were getting slapped around and doors inside the waterpark were slamming open and closed as the wind fluctuated violently. Day one was over.
Forty six & 2 è una canzone che non smetterei mai di ascoltare, ho cercato di tradurla in foto..
Joining my
Joining my child
As I'm digging through
My old numb shadow
My shadow's
Shedding skin and
I've been picking
Scabs again
I'm down
Digging through
My old muscles
Looking for a clue
I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been
I've been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in
I wanna feel the changes coming down
I wanna know what I've been hiding
In my shadow
My shadow
Change is coming through my shadow
My shadow
Shedding skin
I've been picking
My scabs again
Joining my
Joining my child
As my shadow moves
Closer to me now
I've been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could've been
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
And insecure delusions
I wanna feel the change consume me
Feel the outside turning in
I wanna feel the metamorphosis and
Cleansing I've endured
Within my shadow
My shadow
Change is coming
Now is my time
Listen to my muscle memory
Contemplate what I've been clinging to
Forty-six and two just ahead of me
I choose to live and to grow
Take and give and to move
Learn and love and to cry
Kill and die and to be
Paranoid and to lie
Hate and fear and to do
What it takes to move through
I Choose to live and to lie
Kill and give and to die
Learn and love and to do
What it takes to step through
See my shadow changing
Stretching up and over me
Soften this old armor
Hoping I can clear the way by
Stepping through my shadow
Coming out the other side
Step into the shadow
Forty six and two are just ahead of me.. [TOOL]
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These photos of the Starlings were taken almost exactly a year ago from my kitchen window. They are frequenting my backyard and the feeders in large groups again this year.
December is very busy for me so I reluctantly put my camera away to avoid temptation. Once I have a camera in my hand, I am very easily distracted and the time just flies by. It would be nice to have a few extra hours in a day to fit everything in!
Hope that everyone is enjoying December and your preparations for the holiday season are going well. I don't have much time to comment but I do try to at least view your photos. I promise I will take time to make comments soon!
If you have the time, click here to see my photos on Darckr.
Halloween Projects from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.
Original photos can be found here:
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THE WATTS TOWERS
"The Watts Towers, consisting of seventeen major sculptures constructed of structural steel and covered with mortar, are the work of one man - Simon Rodia. Rodia, born Sabato Rodia in Ribottoli, Italy in 1879, was known by a variety of names including Don Simon, Simon Rodilla, Sam and Simon. Although his neighbors in Watts knew him as "Sam Rodilla", the official name of his work is "the Watts Towers of Simon Rodia".
Rodia's older brother immigrated to the United States in 1895 and settled in Pennsylvania where he worked in the coal mines. Rodia followed his brother a few years later. Little is known about his early life in the United States except that he moved to the west coast and found work in rock quarries and logging and railroad camps as a construction worker.
In 1921, Rodia purchased the triangular-shaped lot at 1761-1765 107th Street in Los Angeles and began to construct his masterpiece, which he called "Nuestro Pueblo" (meaning "our town"). For 34 years, Rodia worked single-handedly to build his towers without benefit of machine equipment, scaffolding, bolts, rivets, welds or drawing board designs. Besides his own ingenuity, he used simple tools, pipe fitter pliers and a window-washer's belt and buckle.
Construction worker by day and artist by night, Rodia adorned his towers with a diverse mosaic of broken glass, sea shells, generic pottery and tile, a rare piece of 19th-century, hand painted Canton ware and many pieces of 20th-century American ceramics. Rodia once said, "I had it in mind to do something big and I did it." The tallest of his towers stands 99½ feet and contains the longest slender reinforced concrete column in the world. The monument also features a gazebo with a circular bench, three bird baths, a center column and a spire reaching a height of 38 feet. Rodia's "ship of Marco Polo" has a spire of 28 feet, and the 140-foot long "south wall" is decorated extensively with tiles, sea shells, pottery, glass and hand-drawn designs.
In 1955, when Rodia was approaching 75, he deeded his property to a neighbor and retired to Martinez, California to be near his family. A fire ruined Rodia's little house in 1956. Within a few years the Department of Building and Safety ordered the property demolished. A group of concerned citizens, calling themselves "The Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts", fought successfully to save the Towers by collecting signatures and money and devising an engineering test in 1959 that proved the Towers' strength and safety.
In 1975, the committee, which had persevered the unique work of art for 16 years, gave the 'Towers and adjoining Arts Center building to the City of Los Angeles for operation and maintenance. In 1978, the Towers were deeded to the State, which undertook extensive restoration of the three main towers. . In 1985, continuing restoration responsibilities were given to the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and currently both the Towers and the Watts Towers Arts Center are under the operation of the Cultural Affairs Department.
While the Towers fall into no strict art category, international authorities and the general public alike have lauded them as a unique monument to the human spirit and the persistence of a singular vision. The Watts Towers, listed on the National Register of Historic Places are a National Historic Landmark, a State of California Historic Park and Historic-Cultural Monument No. 15, as designated by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission."
www.wattstowers.us/history.htm
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Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: DATING AT CINEMA (2 of 5): The movie /
CITA EN EL CINE (2 de 5): La Peli
(Read in this order) PAG: 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286.
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Somaliland, a place to be discovered!
July 31, 2008
Tourists in Somaliland
Last week we went to Somalia as American tourists. We stayed only a night, but that was plenty of time to wander unescorted through the local market, explore town in a battered Toyota station wagon, and even head out into the desert to admire some ancient cave paintings.
It might seem an odd choice of vacation spot, given that Somalia, so long synonymous with "failed state," appears to be growing ever more dangerous. The insurgency against the American-backed Ethiopian occupation persists, and just last week it was reported that a particularly radical group has launched a campaign to murder relief workers, who are there trying desperately to avert an oncoming famine.
Indeed, we were able to travel safely to Somalia only because of a peculiar but important technicality: The world makes no distinction between the Republic of Somaliland, the autonomous and self-governing territory that we visited, and the rest of Somalia to its south.
Since declaring independence in 1991, Somaliland has achieved a level of peace and stability beyond the wildest dreams of the quasi-government in Mogadishu. Yet remarkably, throughout the many years the international community has funded, fed and sought vainly to stabilize Somalia, it has studiously ignored the peaceful and democratic polity to Somalia’s north.
This is not an oversight but a conscious policy decision: No country on earth will recognize Somaliland as a peer. The African Union has occasionally "studied" the issue, but its members are loath to endorse what would amount to secession from one of their own.
The United States and many European states have said they will defer to the African Union’s policy - despite their willingness last year to proactively promote the controversial independence of Kosovo.
With the world averting its eyes, the remarkable achievements of Somaliland have gone unnoticed. In one of the world’s most dangerous and unstable areas, it has managed to establish peace and stability, and gone on to develop a unique democratic regime that incorporates both direct elections and formal roles for traditional clan elders. It has established a legal system that carefully balances local tribal custom, Islamic jurisprudence, and Western constitutional tradition. While democracy’s reputation is precarious throughout much of the Muslim world, this devout country has held elections on its own initiative and at considerable cost to its national reserves.
The international community’s approach to Somaliland not only ignores these accomplishments; it might actually destroy them.
Without formal recognition, Somaliland cannot enter into trade agreements with other countries, and is unable to exploit the natural resources under its earth and its Red Sea port of Berbera. It struggles to attract foreign investors willing to operate in an "ungoverned" area. It can’t even receive normal development aid from donor countries and agencies, because they cannot channel aid through an unrecognized government. Instead, the people of Somaliland receive only a portion of the aid designated for "Somalia."
The situation has left Somaliland underdeveloped and desperately poor, with the government often unable to provide even the most basic public services. Of no less concern, the durability of its democracy has recently come into question, with scheduled presidential elections delayed until next March. (The official explanation was that the authorities in this nation of nomadic goat herders needed more time to register voters.)
It’s hard to know which is more improbable: that an impoverished country in a chaotic but strategically important region would develop its own fragile democracy, or that the United States would deliberately ignore its requests for assistance.
In the absence of Western political and economic engagement, Somaliland is pursuing investment and support from China and Gulf countries. Such support might be enough to ensure Somaliland’s survival and eventual growth, but it will crowd out America’s chance to win the gratitude of a potentially valuable ally in a very troubled area.
From the journalist who took us to lunch to the guide who took us to the cave paintings, the people we met in Somaliland were welcoming, hopeful and bewildered by the absence of recognition from the West. They were frustrated to still be overlooked out of respect for the sovereignty of the failed state to their south.
"Every member of Parliament in Mogadishu gets a salary paid mostly by U.S. and EU funds," one Somaliland official told us. "And every one of them is a killer. If you kill enough people, you are called a warlord and you get invited to conferences. Meanwhile, I was elected by thousands of votes in a free election, but the international community does not consider us a country. They should be rewarding democracy, not killing."
Peter Buttigieg is a management consultant in Chicago and a fellow at the Truman National Security Project. Nathaniel Myers is a political analyst in Ethiopia.
International Herald Tribune
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Tell the swine we will make it out alive
There's a note in the pages of the book
So sleep tonight, we'll sleep dreamlessly this time
When we awake we'll know that everything's all right.
And sing to me about the end of the world
End of these hammers and needles for you.
Hold on to the world we all remember fighting for,
There's still strength left in us yet.
Hold on to the world we all remember dying for,
There's still hope left in it yet.
The snow on your face, and your razor blades;
The twilight is bruised and there you lie.
15/30: I sit back and observe everyone's ambitions and wants,
And I smile and encourage them. And it's not that I don't believe
they can do as they wish; I just know that they won't. There are
some things in life that some people just can't do. And at this
age, your dreams are bound to be crushed. I know that 80% of
the people I know hardly work hard enough for what they want.
Not in school, not anywhere else. There are about two or three
people I can think of that I figure will get what they want in life.
And one of those people, I'm sure, will be me. In some form or
another. I am completely modest in everything that I do, but when
it comes to this, I KNOW I can persevere. I have a wonderful boy
at my side and a strong will to achieve what I feel is what is for me.
Sometimes I just want to tell people to give it up; I know you aren't
going to get anywhere. That may be harsh. But with the paths you
are going down... you know, honies, money can't buy everything.
Schools, stop giving your kids those pointless speeches. Because
the ones you're speaking to don't give a shit about their education.
And when they do, it's just for selfish reasons.
(famous)
Thanks again for all your friendships.
** Edit** Feel free to add a tag to your stream. I might get it to it eventually but I didn't have time after I created it. Digital Agent added his which is a great idea. I added a few tonight.
And of course not everyone that I've connected with in some way or another is on here. Please understand you all are important.
Hopefully FINAL EDIT: I had a lot of fun doing this and learned a few things about Flickr and settings etc.
You can only add so many people to a photo. So I probably would have set this up differently had I known I would add you all to the photo.
Not everyone likes being added to photos therefore a setting is available that allows you to block this feature. You can also remove yourself from a photo. So if you don't care to have yourself listed in this fashion please feel free to remove your name.
Lastly the people that appear on this photo that I couldn't add a "face" for have been done over here.
www.darckr.com/username.php?username=9099757@N05 --- Turkey, Antalya, Amarok Adventure World, Safari Tour ---- www.vianobilis.com/amarok-adventure-world-7e5 ---- Amarok Adventure World ---- Selge (griechisch Σέλγη) war eine antike Stadt in der kleinasiatischen Landschaft Pisidien beim heutigen Altınkayaköy (früher Zerk) (Türkei). Er lag 56 km nordwestlich von Side auf ca. 1000 m. ü. M. im oberen Tal des Eurymedon (heute: Köprüçay) am westlichen Ende des Taurusgebirges.Der Überlieferung nach soll Selge nach dem Krieg um Troja durch den Seher Kalchas gegründet und durch Griechen aus Sparta besiedelt worden sein. Auf Münzen ist der Ort seit dem 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. nachweisbar. Wirtschaftliche Grundlage war der Anbau von Wein und Oliven auf der umgebenden fruchtbaren Hochebene. Politisch bestanden zu Aspendos gute Beziehungen, ansonsten war die Stadt kriegerisch gegen ihre Nachbarn ausgerichtet. Als Alexander der Große durch Kleinasien zog, verbündete sich die Stadt mit ihm, um, allerdings erfolglos, die nahe Stadt Termessos zu belagern. Polybios beschreibt einen Krieg zwischen Selge und Pednelissos 220 v. Chr., in dem Pednellissos Achaios, den Statthalter von Side, zu Hilfe rief. 25 v. Chr. verlor Selge die Selbstständigkeit und wurde in die römische Provinz Galatien eingegliedert. Laut Strabon soll die Stadt zu dieser Zeit etwa 20.000 Einwohner gehabt haben. Seine größte Blüte erreichte Selge zur Zeit des römischen Kaiserreiches. Im Jahr 339 kam es zu einer erfolglosen Belagerung durch die Goten. In byzantinischer Zeit war Selge Bischofssitz. Die Stadt wurde später in seldschukischer Zeit aufgegeben.Es sind die Reste der Stadtmauer, eines Theaters, eines Stadions, der Agora mit Säulenhallen, eines Gymnasions und einer Basilika erhalten. Das Theater wurde im 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. neu gebaut. Außerhalb der Stadtmauer lagen ein Aquädukt und einige Kammergräber. ---- Selge (in Greek Σελγη) was an important city in Pisidia, on the southern slope of Mount Taurus, modern Antalya Province, Turkey, at the part where the river Eurymedon River (Turkish: Köprüçay)forces its way through the mountains towards the south.
The town was believed to be a Greek colony, for Strabo[1] states that it was founded by Spartans, but adds the somewhat unintelligible remark that previously it had been founded by Calchas. The acropolis of Selge bore the name of Kesbedion.[2] The district in which the town was situated was extremely fertile, producing abundance of oil and wine, but the town itself was difficult of access, being surrounded by precipices and beds of torrents flowing towards the Eurymedon and Cestrus (today Aksu), and requiring bridges to make them passable. In consequence of its excellent laws and political constitution, Selge rose to the rank of the most powerful and populous city of Pisidia, and at one time was able to send an army of 20,000 men into the field. Owing to these circumstances, and the valour of its inhabitants, for which they were regarded as worthy kinsmen of the Spartans, the Selgians were never subject to any foreign power, but remained in the enjoyment of their own freedom and independence. When Alexander the Great passed through Pisidia (333 BC), Selge sent an embassy to him and gained his favour and friendship.[3] At that time they were at war with Termessos.
At the period when Achaeus had made himself master of Western Asia, Selge were at war with Pednelissus, which was besieged by them; and Achaeus, on the invitation of Pednelissus, sent a large force against Selge (218 BC). After a long and vigorous siege, the Selgians, being betrayed and despairing of resisting Achaeus any longer, sent deputies to sue for peace, which was granted to them on the following terms: they agreed to pay immediately 400 talents, to restore the prisoners of Pednelissus, and after a time to pay 300 talents in addition.[4] We now have for a long time no particulars about the history of Selge; in the 5th century AD Zosimus[5] calls it indeed a little town, but it was still strong enough to repel a body of Goths. It is strange that Pliny does not notice Selge, for we know from its coins that it was still a flourishing town in the time of Hadrian; and it is also mentioned in Ptolemy[6] and Hierocles. Independently of wine and oil, the country about Selge was rich in timber, and a variety of trees, among which the storax was much valued from its yielding a strong perfume. Selge was also celebrated for an ointment prepared from the iris root.[7]
The remains of the city consist mainly of parts of the encircling wall and of the acropolis. A few traces have survived of the gymnasium, the stoa, the stadium and the basilica. There are also the outlines of two temples, but the best conserved monument is the theater, restored in the 3rd century AD.
Halfway on the road to Selge from the Pamphylian coastal plain, a well-preserved Roman Bridge crosses the deep Eurymedon valley
This is a 4 second exposure. Taken with Nikon d90 DSLR using a Tamron 18-270 zoom lens. Focal legnth @ 230 mm. Stopped down to f32 @!SO 200 with a -10/3 Exposure correction. An 8x ND filter (2 stop) was on the lens.
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We did a walk that started on the green at Westerham and took in the countryside around the Weald of Kent, including Chartwell, the residence of Sir Winston Churchill (the bulldog of the title). A feature of the green are two statues, one of Sir Winston Churchill (Chartwell is just outside of the town) and one of Major General James Peter Wolfe who was born in Westerham. As I walked up to the statue of Churchill this idea of forced perspective came to me. No Photoshop trickery was used here to get the Major General standing on Winston's knee, waving his sword in the air and giving him some sort of lecture, to which he is listening intently :-)
It is a bit of fun and I might just go back and spend a bit more time trying to perfect it, hopefully when the sky is a bit more interesting.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
Churchill was born into an aristocratic family as the grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns.
At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He returned to government as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air. After the War, Churchill served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative (Baldwin) government of 1924–29, controversially returning the pound sterling in 1925 to the gold standard at its pre-war parity, a move widely seen as creating deflationary pressure on the UK economy. Also controversial was his opposition to increased home rule for India and his resistance to the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII.
Out of office and politically "in the wilderness" during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister. His steadfast refusal to consider defeat, surrender, or a compromise peace helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult early days of the War when Britain stood alone in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. Churchill was particularly noted for his speeches and radio broadcasts, which helped inspire the British people. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had been secured.
After the Conservative Party lost the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition to the Labour (Attlee) government. After winning the 1951 election, he again became Prime Minister, before retiring in 1955. Upon his death, Elizabeth II granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen in history. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential people in British history.
Major General James Peter Wolfe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe
Major General James Peter Wolfe (3 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of Quebec in Canada in 1759. The son of a distinguished general, Lieutenant-General Edward Wolfe, he had received his first commission at a young age and saw extensive service in Europe where he fought during the War of the Austrian Succession. His service in Flanders and in Scotland, where he took part in the suppression of the Jacobite Rebellion, brought him to the attention of his superiors. The advancement of his career was halted by the Peace Treaty of 1748 and he spent much of the next eight years in garrison duty in the Scottish Highlands. Already a brigade major at the age of eighteen, he was a lieutenant-colonel by the age of twenty-three.
The outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756 offered Wolfe fresh opportunities for advancement. His part in the aborted raid on Rochefort in 1757 led William Pitt to appoint him second-in-command of an expedition to capture the Fortress of Louisbourg. Following the success of the Siege of Louisbourg he was made commander of a force which sailed up the Saint Lawrence River to capture Quebec City. After a lengthy siege Wolfe defeated a French force under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm allowing British forces to capture the city. Wolfe was killed at the height of the battle due to injuries from three musket balls.
Wolfe's part in the taking of Quebec in 1759 earned him posthumous fame and he became an icon of Britain's victory in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion. He was depicted in the painting The Death of General Wolfe, which became very famous around the world. Wolfe was posthumously dubbed "The Hero of Quebec", "The Conqueror of Quebec", and also "The Conqueror of Canada" since the capture of Quebec led directly to the capture of Montreal which ended French control of the country.
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Schiffstyp:Seenotkreuzer
Heimathafen:DGzRS-Station in Cuxhaven
Bauwerft: Lürssen-Werft
Baujahr: 1985 Werft-Nr. 13507
Rufzeichen: DBAM
Schiffsklasse: 27 m-Klasse
Verdrängung: 103 t
Länge: 27,50 m
Breite: 6,53 m
Tiefgang:2,10 m
Geschwindigkeit: 24 kn
Motorleistung Mittelmaschine: 1.632 PS
Motor: MTU Dieselmotor
Typ: 12 V 396 TB 93TBD 234 V 12
Motorleistung: 2 Seitenmaschinen: je 781 PS
Antriebskraft: 3.194 PS (3 Propeller)
Besatzung: 8 Mann, davon 4 ständig an Bord
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Type of ship: Rescue cruiser
Flag: Germany
Home Port: DGzRS-Station in Cuxhaven
Call Sign: DBAM
Ship Class: 27 m-class
Shipyard: Lürssen-Werft
Year built: 1985 Yard-No. 13507
Displacement 103 tons
Length: 27,50 m
Beam: 6.53 m
Draft: 2.10 m
Speed: 24 knots
Engine performance: 1632 bhp center engine
Engine Type: MTU diesel motor 12 V 396 TB 93
Engine power side engines: 2 side engines 781 hp each
Driving Power: 3,194 bhp (3 props)
Crew: 8 men
4 constantly on board
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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Our final visit to this session that we truly love so much shows this sweetest baby all wrapped in white, still snoozing away. If you missed Part One or Two of this session, please check them out! She was sweet for every snap, and we just can’t get enough. Here’s our Happy New Year ...
www.sobenstudios.com/blog/index.php/favorites-and-snoozes...
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Chilodonella es un ciliado de vientre plano y espalda abultada como la del dromedario. Chilodonella se desliza patinando entre los sedimentos del agua y se aplasta y retuerce como el humo, sobre todo cuando tiene que colarse por algún paso estrecho para buscar o conseguir su alimento, que está constituido por algas y bacterias.
La boca de Chilodonella se sitúa en posición ventral y se abre en el extremo de un tubo que recuerda a una canasta y que es una ancha faringe, reforzada por varillas longitudinales. Esta estructura tan especial, que recibe el nombre de cyrtos, la presentan también algunos otros ciliados como Nassula y puede succionar el agua como un potente aspirador, pero además, los extremos de las varillas que forman la canasta pueden raspar las superficies sobre las que están adheridas bacterias y algas para aspirarlas después...todo un sofisticado y eficaz sistema de captura de alimento...y de limpieza.
La superficie del cuerpo de Chilodonella está labrada en finos surcos paralelos sobre los que se disponen hileras de cortos cilios que se encuentran más desarrollados en la parte anterior y en la de la cola, son los suaves remos que hacen de este ciliado se deslice como un hábil patinador ▷.
Dentro de Chilodonella dos núcleos, uno pequeño, el micronúcleo y otro mayor, el macronúcleo se encargan de dirigir las funciones de la célula y de controlar la reproducción, al mismo tiempo que oquedades en forma de cráter, que son vacuolas contráctiles, bombean el exceso de agua acumulado en el interior, achicándola hacia el exterior de cuerpo.
Es seguro que Chilodonella no tiene ni ojos ni nariz, pero rastrea y parece olfatear el agua como si los tuviese. De este modo encontrará las bacterias y algas con las que se preparará su microscópica ensalada ▷.
La especie que hoy aparece en la galería posiblemente corresponda a Chilodonella cucullulus que vive en aguas con una moderada cantidad de materia orgánica en suspensión.
Chilodonella ha sido fotografiada a 400 aumentos con la técncia de contraste de interferencia a partir de una muestra recogida sobre la milenrama acuática Myriophyllum alternifolium en el Lago de Sanabria (Zamora), desde el catamarán Helios Sanabria el primer catamarán construido en el Planeta propulsado por energía eólica y solar.
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I spent 3 hours at the Missouri Botanical Garden this morning. . . and, as is typical, came home with 250 shots.
That means a lot of work and time going through them, deleting them down to about the 50 best, and then processing them. I just got started when I got this result, (partially a happy accident) and I thought it was an exciting image, so I wanted to share it with my friends here on flickr.
It is a slightly missaligned 3-shot High Dynamic Range (hdr) image of a waterlily and its reflection. The water was somewhat dirty, but I liked the resulting texture. I turned it sideways, and that hopefully adds to the interest, because it then isn't automatically seen as a waterlily and it's reflection.
An interesting article on photography and copyrights:
www.flickr.com/groups/professionalphotography/discuss/721...
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Panorama 8 Bilder Hochformat f=24mm. Am besten in "Originalgröße" zu sehen!
Links oben über dem Jochberg geht gerade der Mond auf; gegenüber in der Bildmitte das Karwendelgebirge.
Der Walchensee ist einer der tiefsten (maximale Tiefe: 192,3 m) und zugleich mit 16,40 km² auch einer der größten Alpenseen Deutschlands. Der See liegt 75 km südlich von München inmitten der Bayerischen Alpen. Er gehört mit seiner gesamten Fläche einschließlich der Insel Sassau zur Gemeinde Kochel am See. Im Osten und Süden grenzt er mit seinem Ufer an die Gemeinde Jachenau.
Die Bezeichnung Walchen kommt aus dem mittelhochdeutschen und bedeutet ursprünglich Fremde. So waren alle romanischen Völker (auch die z.T. romanisierte Bevölkerung der Alpen) südlich von Bayern für die Einheimischen Welsche oder eben Walche. Die gleiche Etymologie trifft auch auf den Schweizer Walensee und den Salzburger Wallersee zu.
Eine andere Interpretation geht vom lateinischen Lacus vallensis aus, was soviel heißt wie ein im Tal gelegener See. Auf Landkarten des 16. Jahrhunderts wurde der See auch als Italico dicto (nach Italien führend) bezeichnet, was seinen Ursprung vermutlich daher hat, dass durch das Walchenseetal ein Reiseweg über Mittenwald und Innsbruck nach Italien führte.
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The ultimate Yogi, the diety of salvation, the highest source of attaining a state of bliss and absolute energy for man, Shiva is the personification of enlightenment - the state of nirvana, a freedom from suffering and the transcendence of the mind to the spiritual realm of limitless joy.
Shiva signifies absolute action and at the same time He is the stillness in the movement and the absorption of co-existing contradictions - the absolute reality beyond time, space and reason. He is the conciousness which bestows bliss and the eternal experience of energy, the portrayal of the potential energy contained in every atom.
The dance of Shiva is the divine motion that goes on inside every atom and the universe as a whole - the spectacular celestial dance, the display of all movements that occur in the inside and the outside of us. Represented in the form of a cylinder, the most stable and elementary shape in creation, He sustains all creation and is the source of all energies emanating from what he represents - Silence and Space.
As described on an audio CD titled The Chants of Shiva. Author - Anonymous.
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Om Namah Shivaya is a popular mantra (chant/prayer) in Hinduism.
Its translation is "adoration (namas) to Shiva", preceded by the mystical syllable "Om".
The meaning of the Namaḥ Śivāya mantra was explained by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami:
Namaḥ Śivāya is the most holy name of God Śiva, recorded at the very center of the Vedas and elaborated in the Śaiva Agamas.
Na is the Lord's concealing grace, Ma is the world, Śi stands for Śiva, Va is His revealing grace, Ya is the soul. The five elements, too, are embodied in this ancient formula for invocation. Na is earth, Ma is water, Śi is fire, Vā is air, and Ya is ether, or Ākāśa. Many are its meanings.
Namaḥ Śivaya has such power, the mere intonation of these syllables reaps its own reward in salvaging the soul from bondage of the treacherous instinctive mind and the steel bands of a perfected externalized intellect. Namaḥ Śivāya quells the instinct, cuts through the steel bands and turns this intellect within and on itself, to face itself and see its ignorance. Sages declare that mantra is life, that mantra is action, that mantra is love and that the repetition of mantra, japa, bursts forth wisdom from within.
The book "The Ancient Power of Sanskrit Mantra and Ceremony: Volume I" by Thomas Ashley-Farrand defines Om Namah Shivaya as:
"This mantra has no direct translation. The sounds relate directly to the principles which govern each of the first five chakras on the spine...Earth, water, fire, air, ether. Notice that this does not refer to the chakras themselves which have a different set of seed sounds, but rather, the principles which govern those chakras in their place. A very rough, non-literal translation could be something like, 'Om and salutations to that which I am capable of becoming.' This mantra will start one out on the path of subtle development of spiritual attainments. It is the beginning on the path of Siddha Yoga, or the Yoga of Perfection of the Divine Vehicle."
"Na" refers to the Gross Body (annamayakosa), "Ma" refers to the Pranic Body (pranamayakosa), "Shi" or "Chi" refers to the Mental Body (manonmayakosa), "Va" refers to the Intellectual Body (vignanamayakosa) and "Ya" refers to the Blissful Body (anandamayakosa) and "OM" or the "silence" beyond these syllables refers to the Soul or Life within.
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The metaphoric representations of Shiva as per the Holy scriptures:
Shiva's form:
Shiva has a Trident in the right lower arm, with a crescent moon on his head. He is said to be fair like camphor or like an ice clad mountain. He has fire and Damaru (drum) and Mala (beads) or a kind of weapon. In some depictions, he wears five serpents as ornaments, and a garland of skulls. He is pressing with his feet the demon Muyalaka, a dwarf holding a cobra. He faces south. Panchakshara (five syllables/elements) itself is his body. It is believed that Shiva became a god through meditating everyday.
Third eye:
Shiva is often depicted with a third eye, with which he burned Desire (Kāma) to ashes, called "Tryambakam", which occurs in many scriptural sources. It is said to symbolize him as the destroyer of all evil and ignorance.
Crescent moon:
Shiva bears on his head the crescent moon. The epithet "Chandraśekhara" - "Having the moon as his crest" (chandra = "moon"; śekhara = "crest, crown") refers to this feature. The crescent moon is shown on the side of the Lord's head as an ornament. The waxing and waning phenomenon of the moon symbolizes the time cycle through which creation evolves from the beginning to the end. Since the Lord is the Eternal Reality, He is beyond time. Thus, the crescent moon is only one of His ornaments. The wearing of the crescent moon in his head indicates that He has controlled the mind perfectly, is the master of time and is Himself timeless.
Sacred Ganges:
The Ganges river flows from the matted hair of Shiva. The epithet Gaṅgādhara ("bearer of the river Gaṅgā") refers to this feature. The Gaṅgā (Ganges), one of the major rivers of the country, is said to have made her abode in Shiva's hair. The flow of the Ganges is said to represent the nectar of immortality as well as signify the flow of scriptural teachings passing wisdom from one generation to the next.
Tiger skin:
He is often shown seated upon a tiger skin, an honour reserved for the most accomplished of Hindu ascetics, the Brahmarishis. Tiger represents lust. His sitting on the tiger’s skin indicates that He has conquered lust and is fearless.
Serpents:
Shiva is often shown garlanded with a snake. His wearing of serpents on the neck denotes wisdom and eternity. It is also said to signify the ego, which once mastered can be worn as an ornament.
Deer Skin:
Represents that He has removed the "Chanchalata" (tossing) of the mind. Deer jumps from one place to another swiftly. The mind also jumps from one object to another.
Trident:
Shiva's particular weapon is the trident. Held in His right hand it represents the three Gunas (qualities) — Sattva, Rajas and Tamas - Knowledge, Desire and Implementation. That is the emblem of sovereignty. He rules the world through these three Gunas.
Drum
The Damaru (hourglass shaped drum) in His left hand represents the Eternal Sound. It represents OM from which all languages are formed. It is He who formed the Sanskrit language out of the Damaru sound. With this language He gave us the teachings of the Holy Scriptures to guide us through life.
Beads:
The wearing of the beads denotes purity, sometimes with a rosary in the right hand denoting concentration.
Nandī:
Nandī, is the name of the bull that serves as Shiva's mount. Shiva's association with cattle is reflected in his name Paśupati, or Pashupati, translated "lord of cattle" or "lord of animals". The bull represents Dharma (righteousness). Lord Siva rides on the bull. This denotes that Lord Siva is the protector of Dharma, is an embodiment of Dharma or righteousness.
i'm clearly phoning this one in.
i wanted to play again in Musically Challenged. but i've hardly time to take any photos to pair with songs right now.
instead i sifted through the lyrics of the ten weekly songs and then i dug, dug, dug through the photos i've taken in the past several weeks, looking for a hit. however, nothing stood out to me, nothing was that well suited. no cobblestone streets or a halo streetlamp that scream 'Sound of Silence'. (or whisper, as the case may be)
so i leave you, once again, with further proof that my predilection towards the pacific ocean and kid reflections is alive and well.
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"American Boy," by Estelle
Take me on a trip, I'd like to go some day
Take me to New York, I'd love to see LA.
I really want to come kick it with you.
You'll be my American Boy. American Boy.
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* i'm actually delighted to have discovered this song, though. thanks, Musically Challenged!
it's got this funky but tranquil thing going. not something i'd normally gravitate to, but glad i had a listen. plus it's got three Best Things Ever in it: a British singer, Kanye West, and Adidas shell toes.
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edit: this totally fits with TOTW: "Happy Happy, Joy Joy", as well! the kid is clearly happy splashing around!
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The Marmora Mine
Marmora is located between the towns of Madoc and Havelock along highway 7 in Hastings County. The name Marmora is taken from the latin word for "marble".
The area was known for its rich iron content and mining operations began as early as the 1820's to extract and smelt this mineral. Today you will find the remains of the water-powered refinery along the eastern bank of the Crowe River while the northern bank of the Crowe held the richest ore deposits.
At its prime, the area was home to as many as two dozen mines. Perhaps the most successful of the mines was that of the Marmoraton which opened in 1955. The Marmoraton was owned by Bethlehem Steel Mills of New York and exported iron ore pellets.
In 1953, before the Marmoraton could open, engineers first had to blast through 120 feet of limestone before reaching the high grade ore which was underneath. One blasted out, the open pit mine measured approximately 1700 feet by 1200 feet and reached 600 feet deep.
The mine employed some 300 men who worked to fill the 30 to 35 railway cars daily for transport south to Picton port where it was loaded into boats. The mine produced 520,000 tons of pellets anually.
When the mine closed in 1979, it had mined almost 1.3 million tons of iron ore. Over time, underground streams and rainfall have slowly filled two thirds of the mine with water. So much so that it is now officially classified as a lake.