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From September 1939 to the Summer of 1944 a total of 11,537 Vultees were built to meet the needs

of the US Army Air Corps and the US Navy, making the plane one of the most important American trainer aircraft of World War II. The BT-13 production run outnumbered all other Basic Trainer (BT) types produced.

The BT-13 was an important step in the training syllabus of combat pilots-to-be of WW II. The Vultee Valiant was the next aircraft cadet pilots flew after learning to fly in primary trainers such as the PT-17 Stearman, Fairchild PT-19 or the Ryan PT-22. Unlike the primary trainers that were fitted with fixed pitch propellers, the BT-13 was somewhat less forgiving than the primary trainers which introduce the feel of a more powerful and complex aircraft having a controllable two-position variable pitch propeller with an electrical system, flight instruments and two-way radio communications. Training included formation flight, instrument flying and aerobatics.

After mastering the BT-13, pilots would then advance to the North American AT-6/SNJ Texan for fighter pilot training and then to twin engine advance training for bombers or transport type aircraft.

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I have only a couple of weeks left here in Japan and kept realizing that there were quite a few shots that I did not have due to my short notice move to Turkey before last summer. Now that I am back, I now have only a few weekends left before leaving Japan for good. We basically only had this last weekend as our only time when we don’t have something planned and getting a good shot of Fuji was one of “those shots” I was missing out on. So we threw our sleeping bags into our small little Toyota Starlet to camp out on Friday night for a 4am viewing of Fuji across Lake Motosu as long as our luck way for clear viewing conditions.

Two people sleeping in a Toyota Starlet goes against the grain of the universe and I would never recommend anyone ever try that. On top of not being able to sleep in 3 cubic feet worth of space, I also omitted my allergy meds, and allergies in Japan kick my ass. Luckily the weather cooperated and we had our first clear skies in what seemed like weeks. Not only did we get an awesome viewing at Lake Motosu, but we were also able to get some nice warm light paint on Fuji across nearby Lake Saiko.

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W is for Working to make my whacked out back better....

Guess who just ordered a Macbook???? That'd be me!!!!

Ok guys. I'm sorta back. Sorta. I have a extruded L5 disc in my lower back. I went and had an MRI and is seems that the disc has leaked a bit of 'goo' and that 'goo' is sitting on top of the nerve that runs down my lower back and all the way down my right leg. So, my whole right leg is in hella pain and I have to take it easy the next week so that the inflammation will go down and the pain will stop. SOOO, another week off work laying around this house and doing nothing. I'm still a bit bummed cause the Dr. said that my disc will be like this the rest of my life. I won't be in pain all the time...but, there is risk that the inflammation will come back over and over again. I will NOT have surgery on my back unless there is nothing else that can be done. I have lots of work to do to make this thing get better and I am determined to do it. I will not let this beat me.

Thank you all for the well wishes and love that you have sent my way this past week! I love and miss you all so much!! I'll be back on the regular soon, I promise. I'll also do my best to catch up on everyone's streams this week! I can't wait to see what you've all been up to!!

xoxo

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"The Day before Tomorrow." 1999

two screen slide projection installation

Installation view: “Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, ” Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France. 6th of February – 18th of April, 2010

Collection Whitney Museum of American Art:

collection.whitney.org/object/33136

Exhibition history of the installation “The Day Before Tomorrow”(1999):

1999 “Chronos & Kairos,” Curator René Block. Participating artists including: Darren Almond, Janine Antoni, Joseph Beuys, Barbara Bloom, George Brecht, Marcel Broodhaers, John Cage, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Fillou, Dick Higgins, Christian Jankowski, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, Joseph Kosuth, George Maciunas, Tatsuo Miyajima, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Thomas Ruff, Sam Taylor Wood, Endre Tot, Rosemarie Trockel, Ben Vautier, Wolff Vostell, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Emmett Williams, Maaria Wirkkala, La Monte Young/Marian Zazeela. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 5 Sept.-7 Nov. Kassel, Germany. Catalog:

www.flickr.com/photos/artexh/7610743052/in/album-72157633...

2002 “Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky”. Lisson Gallery London.

2005 “Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky,” Curator Loretta Yarlow. Fine Arts Center UMass, Amherst, Massachusetts. Catalog with an introduction by René Block and Loretta Yarlow and texts by Adam D. Weinberg, Barry Schwabsky, Andreas Bee, Anthony Bond, Kai-Uwe Hemken. (English and German),

2005-6 “Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: The Day Before Tomorrow,” Curator René Block. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. Catalog with an introduction by René Block and Loretta Yarlow. Texts by Adam D. Weinberg, Barry Schwabsky, Andreas Bee, Anthony Bond, Kai-Uwe Hemken. (English and German).

Information: www.flickr.com/photos/artexh/14066015496/in/album-7215763...

Installation view: www.flickr.com/photos/artexh/6577909915/in/album-72157633... www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=1817&menu

2007 “Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky,” ESPOO Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), Catalog with texts by Timo Valjakka, Anthony Spira, Barry Schwabsky, (English, Finnish, Swedish), EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki.

Installation view: www.flickr.com/photos/artexh/5596767254/in/album-72157633...

2008 “Taking Time,” Curators Isabel Carlos and Iñaki Martinez Antelo. Artists: Ignasi Abali, Jorge Barbi, Fernando Bryce, Matthew Buckingham, Victor Burgin, Mircea Cantor, Tacita Dean, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, William Eggleston, Douglas Gordon, João Maria Gusmão, On Kawara, David Lamelas, Tatsuo Miyajima, Jonathan Monk, Allan Ruppersberg, Sam Taylor Wood. Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo. MARCO, Spain. Catalog:

2010 “Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, ” Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole. 6th of February – 18th of April, France. Catalog with texts by John Hanhardt and Philippe-Alain Michaud: www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=1817&menu

Installation view: www.flickr.com/photos/artexh/7598098558/in/album-72157633...

Vulcani in podcast su Freerumble.

In questo audio il vulcanologo dell'Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) Girolamo Milano, ci descrive il seamount Palinuro, posto nel Tirreno meridionale.

La figura mostra una mappa schematica tridimensionale del complesso vulcanico sottomarino del seamount Palinuro. L'immagine è stata ottenuta da dati batimetrici multibeam. I risultati dello studio sono pubblicatin in: S. Passaro, G. Milano, C. D’Isanto, S. Ruggieri, R. Tonielli, P. P. Bruno, M., E. Marsella (anno 2010): DTM-Based morphometry of the Palinuro seamount (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea): Geomorphological and volcanological implications. Geomorphology, Vol. 115, issue 1-2, 129-140.

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In this podcast the INGV volcanologist Girolamo Milano, shows us the seamount Palinuro, located in the southern Tyrrhenian sea.

The figure shows a map of the Palinuro seamount, resulting from the processing of multibeam swath bathymetry. Figure from: S. Passaro, G. Milano, C. D’Isanto, S. Ruggieri, R. Tonielli, P. P. Bruno, M., E. Marsella (year 2010): DTM-Based morphometry of the Palinuro seamount (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea): Geomorphological and volcanological implications. Geomorphology, Vol. 115, issue 1-2, 129-140

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wöhnen lassen. Bis zu 50 Passagiere können auf den

Fahrten die Geeste aus einer ganz neuen Perspektive

kennenlernen und die Reize der Uferlandschaft genießen.

Schwerpunkt sind die Fahrten von Bremerhaven nach

Bederkesa, oder Flußfahrten von Bederkesa nach

Bremerhaven mit kleinen Zwischenstopps unter anderem

am Anleger Kührstedt und der Lintiger Stauschleuse. Die „DEUTSCHLAND“ bietet eine Auswahl an

verschiedenen Rahmenprogrammen während der

kleinen Zwischenstopps oder in Bederkesa.

Zusätzlich haben die Gäste die Möglichkeit, unter einem

großen kulinarischen Angebot während der Charter-

fahrten zu wählen.

Weiterhin besteht die Möglichkeit, mit der

„DEUTSCHLAND“ eine Hafenrundfahrt im Bremer-

havener Fischereihafen mit Schleusung in der

Doppelschleuse zu erleben. Die Geestefahrt dauert

ca. 3,5-4 Std. und die Hafenrundfahrt ca. 2 Std. An- und

Ablegestelle ist in Bremerhaven der Ponton am

Morgenstern-Museum und in Bederkesa der Anleger

am Kanal. Shuttle-Service wird angeboten.

Fahrtzeit: Mai bis Oktober und ausserhalb der

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Bosque galería

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Se denomina bosque en galería, bosque de ribera o soto, a la vegetación riparia, es decir, que sobrevive fundamentalmente por la humedad del suelo, y que crece, por lo general frondosamente, en las orillas de un río.

Algunos tienen características excepcionales, como los de la ribera del río Tajo en Aranjuez, convertidos en Jardines del Real Sitio, que han obtenido la calificación de Patrimonio de la Humanidad. La alteración de los bosques en galería, o bosques de ribera, por distintos aprovechamientos humanos es muy intensa, y quedan pocos intactos en España. En sudamérica, fundamentalmente en la región selvática que incluye el Brasil, Paraguay y otros países, estos valiosos ecosistemas están siendo protegidos y la explotación humana controlada.

En algunos lugares recibe nombres locales, como soto (entre otras zonas, en el Valle del Ebro), canuto (en la provincia de Cádiz, con una vegetación relicta de Era Terciaria similar a la laurisilva).

Dan cobijo a gran cantidad de animales, y particularmente de aves, y muestran una capacidad de recuperación ante los incendios muy superior a la de los montes cercanos. El nombre "galería" proviene del hecho de que su vegetación cubre al río formando una especie de túnel, como en la galería de una mina. Se identifican claramente en el paisaje por ceñirse al curso del río, formando un pasillo o corredor completamente distinto del resto de la vegetación, en color y altura, además de caracterizarse por poder mantener especies caducifolias en climas con sequía de verano, como el clima mediterráneo, al depender esencialmente de la humedad del suelo y de las características azonales de éste.

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week of confessions ends today!

So... I'm running out of things to confess. I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve. I guess that in itself is a confession... I'm either revealing too much or I don't tell ANYONE (save for a very special few). I think I should go back to being more secretive. I think sometimes that I reveal too much of my true genuine emotions and someday they are going to come back and bite me in the ass. Some such examples of me revealing too much can be seen here, here, and here. (just three examples) I look back at them now and think, "what a melodramatic baby..." but I guess they documented how my day was that day. Man, this 365 project is making me realise a lot about myself. It's getting TOO HEAVY, PEOPLE! :-P

I really can't imagine my life without this project, actually. I don't know what I'll do in January when it's done. Do a second year? Thoughts on that..?

Song of the Day - Handsome Furs - Sing! Captain

"There's a town, just a little town

Raining cloud, a hollow sound

When our lover gather round

And if they're cold

Then they're cold

Feed them wine, feed them chrome

We hate this place here

It's our home, It's our home

And your car-collapsing trees and I

Could turn them back to sound

With the torches in our hands we will reduce it

To the ground"

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That is what he is known as, so at this point i think you should open up another window in your internet browser and google him or check out the website www.thejesusguy.com . The site was made by a movie director whom actually has made a documentary film on James.

James which he goes by is his middle name and he does not say he is Jesus but at first glance he sure does look like him, wearing only a robe and walking the country barefoot, James has traveled to 47 states and several different countries. With only a bible and his toothbrush. He doesnt use money and wont accept it, he lives off of what he is given.

So today i was killing a hour before i had to pick my father up from a meeting and i saw a man who looked like Jesus walking down a major road bare foot, so having my camera on me i instantly turned around and snapped some shots of him while he was walking. I then decided to get out of the car and talk to him, i talked to him for almost a hour and even walked about a mile with him as he was heading to Tampa.

He never once pressed Religion on me, he asked about my beliefs but never went further than that, i then brought it up later on. He was the most warm hearted man i have ever met in my life and if anyone ever see him, i really think you should take the time to talk to him.

I am not a very religious person and its a rather hot topic with me, but after speaking with him i feel my spiritual beliefs have become more open.

Thank you James and i hope to see you again in the future, my prayers are with you on your Journey.

Best big.

My return home from Pennsylvania required a stopover in Phoenix, Arizona. Remind me to never fly so far south when flying across the country -- going from Pittsburgh to San Francisco by way of a city near the Mexican border doesn't do anything to shorten your travel time.

On the flight from Phoenix to the Bay Area, I sat next to the most nervous flyer I've ever encountered. On the ground, she was friendly, conversational, ordinary. In the air, she was wild-eyed and terrified. When the plane hit turbulence, she'd cower into the wall next to her window seat. Sometimes she'd flail her arms or cover her face. Her hands shook. I'd never been around someone who was feeling such primal terror.

The weather was stormy in the Bay Area, and the landing approach was rough. Her convulsions reached a frenzy, and she turned to me and apologized. I put my hand on her arm. "It's okay. Just remember: this is safer than the car you're getting into when you land. It's the safest way to travel."

"I know. I'm trying." Then she looked at me. "My sister and her husband were killed in a plane crash."

Oh.

Nothing refutes statistics like experience. All I could do was sympathize and share a similar story. I'm not sure it helped, but at least we were on the ground by the time I was done.

Incredibly, my fearful flyer has to face her terror every two weeks. She likes to sit in the front of the plane, where she can watch the flight attendants when they're strapped into their takeoff and landing seats. "If they look nervous, then I know something's really wrong."

Every two weeks she faces the worst demons in her world. She stares down the scars of the past in order to make her way. I guess you can't ask more than that of anyone.

It's good to be home.

Bares, A Coruña (Spain).

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Solanum dulcamara, also known as bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, climbing nightshade, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet berry, snakeberry, trailing bittersweet, trailing nightshade, violet bloom, or woody nightshade, is a species of vine in the potato genus Solanum, family Solanaceae. It is native to Europe and Asia, and widely naturalised elsewhere, including North America, where it is an invasive problem weed. It occurs in a very wide range of habitats, from woodlands to scrubland, hedges and marshes. It is an invasive species in the Great Lakes region and was first spotted in 1843.

Bittersweet is a semi-woody herbaceous perennial vine, which scrambles over other plants, capable of reaching a height of 4 m where suitable support is available, but more often 1-2 m high. The leaves are 4-12 cm long, roughly arrowhead-shaped, and often lobed at the base. The flowers are in loose clusters of 3-20, (1-1.5 cm) across, star-shaped, with five purple petals and yellow stamens and style pointing forward. The fruit is an ovoid red berry about 1 cm long, soft and juicy, poisonous to humans and livestock but edible for birds, which disperse the seeds widely. As with most Solanum species, the foliage is also poisonous to humans.

Bittersweet is used in naturopathy and herbalism. Its main usage is for conditions that have an impact on the skin, mucous membrane and the membrane (synovial membrane) around the joints. Bittersweet is considered by some to be a herbal remedy for treating herpes and allergies.

Although fatal human poisonings are rare, several cases have been documented. The poison is believed to be solanine.

Other common names for Solanum dulcamara include trailing nightshade, bittersweet, trailing bittersweet, climbing nightshade, blue bindweed, bitter nightshade, fellenwort, dogwood, woody nightshade, poisonflower, poisonberry, snakeberry, and scarlet berry.

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

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Dulcamara es una planta trepadora del género Solanum. Es nativa de Europa y Asia, extendiéndose por todo el mundo, en Norteamérica esta considerada un problema por ser una hierba invasora. Se desarrolla en todo tipo de terrenos.

La dulcamara es una planta herbácea perenne capaz de alcanzar los 4 metros de altura, aunque la mayoría no llega a los 2 m. Las hojas son de 4-12 cm de largo en punta de flecha y lobuladas. Las flores están en racimos de 3 a 20 y están formadas por cinco pétalos púrpura y estambres amarillos. La fruta es una baya roja ovoide, venenosa para los humanos y el ganado pero comestible para los pájaros que dispersan sus semillas. El follaje es también venenoso para los seres humanos.

La Dulcamara se utiliza como planta medicinal para afecciones de la piel y alergias del Herpes.

El botánico francés Gastón Bonnier, quién conoció la planta en Manaos-Brasil y en el alto Amazonas, al llegar a Paris, cura a muchas personas que padecían un número de enfermedades. Los misioneros salesianos le dieron el nombre de dulcamara ya que en latín significa “agridulce”, también se la conoce como hoja de la vida.

El tallo o la raíz es la utilizada para las infusiones, las hojas se las digiere puras, no se las puede poner en agua caliente porque le quita todo el valor curativo.

En tintura madre, el extracto total de dulcamara es empleado en fitomedicina para el tratamiento de las alergias; sola o asociada a otras plantas. Debe cuidarse la dosis para no acarrear toxicidad.

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

Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es:

LENN AND SAWL SNEEK OUT(1 of 1) /

LA ESCAPADA DE LENN Y SAWL (1 de 1)

(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 48 of 49) 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.

FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español

Sawl: YOU ALMOST DIED ASSHOLE??? YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!!!! Ò_Óuuuuuu Shit!!!!!

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Sawl: QUE CASI TE MATAS CAPULLO???? CASI ME MATAS A MI!!!!! Ò_Óuuuuuu Joder!!!!!

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Trying to chose between the black & white and the color on this one nearly killed me (see first comment for the color image). You really can't imagine how much time I spent flipping back and forth and agonizing and changing my mind. At last I made the decision to post the black & white because I noticed I had a pattern going with my last few shots: color, b/w, color, b/w, color ... well, it was b/w's turn I guess.

I really do love both versions, and both types of presentation in general. For my recent work, the b/w I feel can present a stronger overall composition and image - without the "distraction" of color. However, the color often seems more beautiful, and more reminiscent of the scene itself.

When I was a painter (and still, as a designer) I am very colorful and think of my strength in the use of color to be among my greatest talents as an artist. So, it's not so easy for me to leave the beauty of color behind. But, the strength and impact of b/w, well ... ahhhh! I just go back and forth a million times.

I know that whichever I choose there will be many who will prefer the other (but also many who will be quite happy with the choice). I value critique and the opinions of others, but ultimately it is my own opinion that I need to find each time. Usually I can find it. With this photo, I could not.

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How you see yourself will determine what kind of life you live. If you’re going to be successful in life and in your Christian walk, you have to have a vision of victory and see yourself the way God sees you: as the head and not the tail, above and not beneath, a victor and not a victim. You will move toward the image that’s in your mind and eventually produce what you keep in front of you.

- Joel Osteen

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SAC to raze 1908 house

A 105-year-old house near San Antonio College will likely be demolished to make room for a campus facility that will promote environmental sustainability.

The Historic and Design Review Commission denied a landmark designation Wednesday for a 1908 house at 811 Ogden St., less than a block east of the SAC campus and just west of the Tobin Hill Historic District. Representatives of Alamo Colleges said the structure will be carefully disassembled, with doors, windows and other materials saved for repairs to other historic structures. The demolition will make room for a community garden and B-cycle station, as part of the city's bicycle sharing program.

The house is near EcoCentro, a 3,000-square-foot urban sustainability center under development at SAC at 1802 N. Main Ave. It will accommodate courses and community workshops on renewable energy and other environmental topics, including gardening, composting, recycling and water conservation.

The city's Office of Historic Preservation determined the house still has much of its structural integrity, despite being used as apartments at least since the early 1950s, and request the designation.

But Molly Cundari, an architect on the project, told commissioners the house lost much of its integrity when it was converted to apartments.

“We think that the house has been altered beyond the point which it would be considered” for landmark designation, Cundari said.

Frederica Kushner, a Tobin Hill resident, appealed to the board to support the designation, which would ultimately be ruled on by the City Council, to save the house. Use of the house as a “rooming home” did not lessen its historic value, she said.

But Commissioner Harry Shafer, who made a Feb. 27 site visit, said the house is worse off than it appears, with a foundation in “terrible shape,” a leaky roof and rotting wood. Commissioner Victor Salas said it would cost “more than it would be worth” to restore it.

City staff research revealed that Henry C. Feldman, a prominent real estate agent, was among the first occupants of the house. A 1908 testimonial in the San Antonio Light said Feldman “put through some of the largest and most important real estate transfers” in the city in the early 1900s.

College district officials said they tried to find a buyer to move the house, but were unsuccessful. Despite a 6-foot perimeter fence, the district also has reported problems with vandals tearing apart walls of the vacant house in search of copper wiring.

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Quiapo Church, officially known as Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene, is a Roman Catholic church located in the District of Quiapo, Manila, in the Philippines. The church is one of the most popular churches in the country. It is home to the Black Nazarene, a much venerated statue of Jesus Christ which many people believe has miraculous attributes. The church was painted cream after the original Mexican Baroque edifice was burned down in 1928. Also known as St. John the Baptist Parish, the church at present belongs to the Archdiocese of Manila. The current rector is Rev. Msgr. Jose Clemente Ignacio, who succeeded Msgr. Josefino Ramirez (the Vicar General of the archdiocese) upon the latter's appointment as rector of the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Maysilo, Mandaluyong City.

The Quiapo Church holds a weekly novena every Friday and a procession every year on January 9 devoted to the Black Nazarene. Both are attended by thousands of devotees. Many sick people come to see the Black Nazarene, hoping that getting a chance to pray in front of its miraculous image would heal their sicknesses.

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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

Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es: LIVING ROOM (7 of 7): Sun /

LA SALA DE ESTAR (7 de 7): Sun

(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 101 of 106) 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.

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Sun: - whispering – What if we tie him with a dog lasso? XD

Cíen: … (I figured that out hundreds of times... ¬¬)

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Sun: - susurrando - Y si lo dejamos atado con correa? XD

Cíen: … (Me lo he planteado muchas veces... ¬¬)

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- Minao's Akari Collaboration

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Listado de artistas publicados en la sección EXP: Adam White, Agnosix, Arnaud Loumeau, blindSALIDA, Boogieman Media, C86, Crispy/Crystal, Eika, Enrico Fioraso, Ezequiel de San Pablo, Feli, Felipe Solano, George 'Geo' Atherton, Jimena Ramírez, Lateralideas, Luis Alfonso Villalobos, Mankey y Flextatowa, Nick Nenov, Pinkyvision, Sorin Bericha, Tim Green, Uranus Design Lab. + Lechatrose y Vritis.

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In this Belio book you can find artists whose work we consider a contemporary step towards a new conception of psychedelia. A reflection of the fractal and mathematic nature, the alteration of the human perception and the exploration of the infinite spacial content in our mind. In short, an ode to the beauty of a still inexplicable reality. Articles about artists like Daniel Zeller, Robert Hardgrave, Philip Metten, Dhear, Oliver Hibert, Jimmy Joe Roche, Transphormetic, Yoshi Sodeoka and Damon Soule. At INKjection section you have dossiers of the artists Android, Arn Vleespapier, Base23 and Tabasco Raremaster.

List of artists published on EXP section: Adam White, Agnosix, Arnaud Loumeau, blindSALIDA, Boogieman Media, C86, Crispy/Crystal, Eika, Enrico Fioraso, Ezequiel de San Pablo, Feli, Felipe Solano, George 'Geo' Atherton, Jimena Ramírez, Lateralideas, Luis Alfonso Villalobos, Mankey y Flextatowa, Nick Nenov, Pinkyvision, Sorin Bericha, Tim Green, Uranus Design Lab. + Lechatrose and Vritis.

List of artists published on FLOG section: Bettina Harvey, Daniel Martin, Javier IA, Noem9 Studio, Pery Burge, Priya Saihgal, Salt, Tomas Rak.

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This is the room I've been dreading. Not because I have a deep, dark secret, but because it's just a hodge-podge room. It's our computer/craft room. Can't provocatively say "Computer/Craft Room Confessions." Sounds lame. I was tempted to keep this room for last, but my natural order (read: "Anal retentive nature") won't allow it.

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Quick background: Last July my husband and I bought this house from my parents. I grew up in this house.

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Middle Room Confessions:

- This room was once my bedroom. My Nana lived with us when she had cancer. This was her room.

- I was sleeping in this room on June 25, 1986. My mom came in my room ridiculously early with laundry. Nana was dead. She died in the hospital.

- Very unlike my mother, she hugged me and cried and told me, "we'll all be together some day." I hated when she said that. I was almost 10 years old. I didn't want to think of the day I would die.

- I cried, but I don't know why. I don't think I could comprehend the situation.

- I didn't go to her funeral; not because I had never been to one, I was curious to see a dead person, I just didn't want to see anyone cry.

- On the morning she died, I didn't come out of my room, even when I heard my grandfather (her husband), my uncle, and the rest of the family come over. I didn't want to see anyone cry.

- Based on an episode of "Growing Pains" I made a pro/con list of why I should go to the funeral. Like I said, I didn't go.

- Shortly after she died, this became my room fulltime. I didn't have to share the backroom with my two younger sisters. One night, I was in bed and I looked at the rocking chair at the base of my bed. I swear I saw her sitting there. She looked transparent. It scared the fucking shit out of me. I covered my head with the blankets.

- Ever since that incident, I was afraid to walk past that room. I don't know why. If it was her, she wouldn't hurt me.

- Whenever a grandparent dies, I'm petrified that they will "appear" to me like she did.

- I don't even remember her. Sure, I remember her as a person, but not her personality. I don't remember her voice. I guess that should make me sad. She no longer seems real to me, just a faded memory, which really sucks because she was my mom's mom.

Piornedo, Lugo (Spain).

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A palloza is a traditional thatched house as found in the Sierra de Ancares in Galicia. They are circular or oval, and about ten or twenty metres in diameter. These houses are built to withstand severe winter weather at a typical altitude of 1,200 metres.

The main structure is stone, and is divided internally into separate areas for the family and their animals, with separate entrances. The roof is conical, made from rye straw on a wooden frame. There is no chimney, the smoke from the kitchen fire seeps out through the thatch.

As well as living space for humans and animals, the palloza has its own bread oven, workshops for wood, metal and leather work, and a loom. In this way, the family could be completely self-sufficient.

Only the eldest couple of an extended family had their own bedroom, which they shared with the youngest children. The rest of the family slept in the hay loft, in the roof space.

These buildings have been described as "pre-Roman", and are similar to Iron Age roundhouse dwellings in Britain and Ireland. They were used in remote parts of the Ancares mountains until the second half of the 20th century, when roads were built that enabled modern construction materials to be brought into the region. Thatched roundhouses and dwellings could also be found in other parts of Galicia up to the 18th century, according the Ensenada Census (catastro de Ensenada) from 1749.

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

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Una palloza (también conocida como pallouza y pallaza) es una construcción tradicional de la Sierra de los Ancares.

De planta circular u oval, de entre diez y veinte metros de diámetro. Con paredes de piedra y cubierta por un tejado cónico, formado por tallos de centeno.

Destinada en parte a vivienda y en parte a cuadra para el ganado vacuno. Su estructura era ideal para resistir los crudos inviernos.

Su origen es prerromano, presumiblemente celta. La pallozas tienen similitudes con las casas redondas de la Edad del Hierro de Gran Bretaña o con las edificaciones del Castro de Chano en el municipio de Peranzanes, El Bierzo). Como nota anecdótica cabe indicar que el poblado de Astérix, el galo, está compuesto, en parte, por pallozas.

El nombre de palloza es en realidad una deformación del término gallego "pallaza", recogido por primera vez a fines del siglo XIX por etnógrafos como el alemán Fritz Krüger, refiriéndose al material con que se realizaba la techumbre de la edificación. La denominación tradicional de estas construcciones es en realidad casa de teito o casa de teitu.

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

Hilo de la Fotohistoria en Pullip .es:

LENN AND SAWL SNEEK OUT(1 of 1) /

LA ESCAPADA DE LENN Y SAWL (1 de 1)

(Read in order, this is: SHOT/FOTO 40 of 49) 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.

FOTOSTORY: In English / En Español

Kuroi: HEEEEEY YOU TWO!!!!

Sawul: O_______O !!!

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Kuroi: EEEEEEEEEH VOSOTROS!!!!

Sawul: O_______O !!!

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Remember my previous picture of the little ECC88 Valve?

Well here's the wee beastie that it belongs to and she's a beauty :-)

This is a 1969/1970 Telequipment S51 Oscilloscope proudly bearing a small metal plate simply stating, "Made In England". Most of the components in there bear similar motifs as well as 'Made in Great Britain' and fair old chokes me up that we used to build such marvels. Not anymore....

This example I bought as a non-worker and after some scrounging about, (without paying through the nose!), I obtained some replacement valves for her and spent some time tidying up historic fiddles, (others previous attempts at repair!)

After a bit of a clean up and final checks I hooked her up to the mains and she finally sprung to life. I stood there with the biggest grin on my face ever :-)

Total cost of purchase and replacment parts - a massive £12:50, very nice.

(Considering there's 5 Mullard valves and a couple of Brimars I did rather well as most 'audiophiles' pay more than that for a single valve!!! Doesn't bear thinking about?!)

Will she languish on a shelf as a 'collectable'? Of course not, she's a good old workhorse and I'll soon be cracking that whip. An addition of a component tester I've already started to build, (makes my DIY electronics from scrap parts much simpler - the amount of times I've scrounged a part from a broken piece of equipment to find the scrounged component was one of the faulty ones!!), and plans for a curve tracer she'll be pressed into hard service. Of course an infra red interface will come in damn handy for checking and adjusting the shutter speeds on my old cameras too.

Much like those valves I get a warm fuzzy feeling that she's working. Unfortunately I'm as old as this piece of equipment and probably smell just as musty, (Ha, ha!)

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"Traffic on Charoen Mueang road (taken in 1971)"

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"San Pa Khoi area is an area situated opposite to Wat Gate area and with Charoen Mueang road in the middle. Before the arrival of railway to Chiang Mai, this San Pa Khoi area was a small community. The first community to settle here was the Ban-tha-sa-toy community (see detail of Tha-sa-toy community) at the back of the present San Pa Khoi market.

With the arrival of railway to Chiang Mai, a lot of Chinese from Bangkok moved into the area to make a living. This resulted in the area becoming an important business center in the city. Shops lay on both sides of Charoen Mueang road making it the center for sending goods to Bangkok. The agricultural products from the surrounding areas of Chiang Mai were rice, pig, tobacco and sealing wax. The community was also the site for distributing goods from Bangkok to other markets around Chiang Mai and upper Chiang Mai. One native of Chiang Mai mentioned that at that time San Pa Khoi area was filled with warehouses for transporting goods to other areas and it was always busy with buyers and ox carts which could be hired to haul goods. The majority of businesses was owned by Chinese business men, like Mr. Song Sae-ung (Ungkhapairoj). He remembers that he rode the train to buy salt, sugar and shrimp paste from Bangkok to be sold at his shop. Merchants from Lam-yai market and other surrounding markets would come to purchase his goods. Khun Anukornburee (an ancestor of Nimakorn family) started Leochunlee shop by selling bicycles shipped from Bangkok by rail.

The important center of this area was Kad-San Pa Khoi (San Pa Khoi market). There are no documents of when this market was established. However, it was believed that it might have been before 1926 because when King Rama VII visited Chiang Mai, the market already existed. There is evidence showing that there was a joint investment between Pra Pijitosod, Khun Anupolnakorn and Major General Anirutteawa (ML Feun Puengboon). At present, this San Pa Khoi market is a market which is well-known for delicious food, especially Chinese. There are shops on both sides of Charoen Mueang road. The famous Salapao Wikul (Chinese steamed bun) and Charoen Mueang restaurant can also be found here.

The center for Buddhists in this area is San Pa Khoi temple. It is situated at the side of San Pa Khoi market. Originally, its name was Wat Nang Leo and was located on the Ping river bank. But when the temple was flooded, it was moved to the present site. Thus, it was called Wat San Pa Khoi after the name of the area. There is evidence showing that the chedi in this temple was built in the era of Prachao Kawilowrojsuriyawongse and the ceremony for the chedi was in 1868. From the survey of this temple, it was found that the present viharn was completed on 14 March, 1929.

Though this area has a separate Chinese temple for Chinese merchants, it is understood that this temple is also the center for Chinese Buddhists in the area.

The San Pa Khoi area met its decline when the road construction between Bangkok and Chiang Mai was completed. The road transportation replaced the railway because it was faster and because the train ran only two days a week. Furthermore, having cars meant that people could go directly to the production sites without having to go through the middlemen at San Pa Khoi market anymore.

References

Anu Neunhard, Pol. Lt. Col.. (2000). Sapa rueang kao (Miscellaneous stories of Chiang Mai in the past. (in Thai). Chiang Mai: Nopburi Printing.

Chiang Mai Cultural Center. (1992). Wat sumkun nai nakorn Chiang Mai

lem song(Important temples in Chiang Mai Vol. 2). (in Thai).

Chiang Mai: Sor. Sap publishing."

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Oddly in La Mussara Isidre Pàmies i Borràs died in 1873, carlist colonel considered guerrilla by his methods. It was born 30 years before in l'Aleixar, a locality close to La Mussara.

Curiosamente en La Mussara murió Isidre Pàmies i Borràs en 1873, coronel carlista considerado guerrillero por sus métodos. Nació 30 años antes en l'Aleixar, una localidad próxima a La Mussara.

ENGLISH

Airsoft is a modern combat sport or recreational hobby in which participants eliminate opponents by hitting each other with spherical non-metallic pellets launched from a compressed-air gun (or airsoft gun) powered by gas, manual spring-load, or an electrically powered gearbox.

Airsoft participants organize meetings, either indoors or outdoors, at dedicated airsoft battlefields to play a variety of games ranging from short-term skirmishes, organized scenarios, military simulations, or historical reenactments.

Combat situations on the battlefield often involve the use of common military tactics to achieve the objectives set in each game. Participants typically use varying types of weaponry designed as replicas of real firearms, tactical gear, and accessories used by modern military and police organizations.

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

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El airsoft es un hobby-deporte basado en simulación militar. Se trata de un juego de guerra, similar al paintball. Surgido en Japón en los años ochenta, pronto se extendió a Estados Unidos. Actualmente florece en numerosos países del mundo.

El término airsoft proviene del inglés; se traduciría como "aire suave". Esto hace referencia a la forma en la que la munición es disparada.

Esta actividad lúdico-deportiva se basa en la simulación de combates usando réplicas de armas reales (las cuales disparan pequeñas bolas de plástico de 6 u 8 mm) en escenarios de juego similares a los de una guerra real, con equipamiento de radiocomunicación, visores nocturnos, linternas adaptadas, punteros láser, bolas trazadoras e indumentaria militar. Aunque no existe una indumentaria concreta, cada equipo prefiere equiparse uniformemente para mayor realismo.

Las bolas empleadas tienen una velocidad de salida aproximada de 90 m/s (en una replica genérica sin modificar). El poco peso de las mismas (entre 0,2 y 0,8 g) hace que su alcance efectivo no vaya más allá de los 20-80 m. Existe una modalidad de jugador, el sniper o francotirador, al que se le permite más potencia y alcance (90 metros o más en algunos casos), dado el rol que asume.

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

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On this day of 8 May 2010 it has been 65 years since the end of world war II. It is celebrated every year in Ukraine with major dances, songs and military parade in Maydan Square in the center of the City. My eye was caught by this beautiful art work made with flowers.

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Rattlesnake Ridge (sometimes called Rattlesnake Ledge or Rattlesnake Mountain) is a mountain ridge located south of North Bend, Washington. It rises from the intersection of State Route 18 and I-90 and runs southeast about seven air miles (11 km) or eleven trail miles (18 km). It is the highest and easternmost of the Issaquah Alps (although Cedar Butte in the gap between Rattlesnake Ledge and the Cascade front at Mount Washington is considered by Harvey Manning to be a quasi-Alp). A complicated maze of abandoned logging roads and constructed trails have been strung together to provide a 13-mile (21 km) foot path from the Snoqualmie Point Trailhead at Exit 27 on I-90 all the way to the Rattlesnake Lake trailhead near Exit 32.

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We zijn aangekomen in Buka. Dit is een eilandje ietsje ten noorden van Bougainville, een buurprovincie van de Solomon eilanden in de stille zuidzee, en je merkt hier dan ook invloeden van dit land in de gebruiken en tradities. De mensen zijn donker van huidskleur.

Vrouwen zijn heel fier op hun halskettingen van geslepen schelpjes. Dit is een huwelijkscadeau. Lichaamsbeschilderingen worden zelden toegepast. Bij speciale gelegenheden dragen ze fel gekleurde borststukjes en rokjes van een soort raffia, gedroogde bladeren.

We worden ontvangen door een lokale stam. Er volgt een aangename begroeting, en onze voeten worden besprenkeld. Dit is hun welkomstgroet.

ook:

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Buka Island is the second largest island in the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville.

Buka is situated on Buka Island, Bougainville Province, Papua New Guinea. It has been the capital of the province during the Bougainville civil war. The former, or proper capital of Bougainville, Arawa was all but destroyed in 1990 as tensions reached a critical level in a civil uprising.

Buka today is a bustling, peaceful town, detached by water from the main island Bougainville, and the much publicized tension there.

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Extremely nice Lotus Eleven hand built replica. You can see his build log for this and his Seven here - www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3137

Fitted with Coventry Climax engine, Sprite/Midget gearbox, Nash Metropolitan rear axle and Triumph spindles. Thanks dave_7

The Eleven was designed by Colin Chapman and fitted with a sleek body designed by aerodynamicist Frank Costin. Its standard version, dubbed Le Mans, was fitted with a 1500 cc (92ci)[1] Coventry Climax engine mounted in the front of a tubular space frame and featured a De Dion rear axle and Girling disc brakes. Fully loaded, the car weighed only about 1,000 lb (450 kg). Versions for a 1100 cc (67ci)[2] Climax engine (Club) and a 1172 cc (72ci)[2] Ford engine (Sport) were also produced; both featured a live rear axle and drum brakes. Some versions of the Le Mans were fitted with a closed body with gullwing doors to meet GT specifications.

Lotus Eleven at Donington Park

Despite the wide variety of engines installed, the car was primarily designed to compete in the 1100 cc class where it was one of the most successful cars during the mid- to late-1950s. In 1956, An Eleven, modified by Costin with a bubble canopy over the cockpit,[2] was driven by Stirling Moss to a class world record of 143 mph (230 km/h) for a lap at Monza. Several class victories at Le Mans and Sebring followed, and the Eleven became Lotus' most successful race car design.

In 1957, the Eleven underwent a major design change, including a new front suspension and improvements to the drivetrain. Although officially called Eleven Series 2, these late models are sometimes informally referred to as Lotus 13s, since they were produced between the 12 and 14 models and the 13 designation was not used by Lotus.

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At 8 PM Monday, December 3, 1837 William Lyon Mackenzie set out by horse down Yonge Street to scout the route for his attack on Toronto. At the top of Gallows Hill (below St Clair) he met Tory alderman John Powell, himself on patrol from the city. Mackenzie and his men took Powell prisoner. "Do you have a gun?" Mackenzie asked Powell. "No", Powell replied. Mackenzie took his word as a gentleman and sent him back towards the rebel headquarters at Montgomery's Tavern.

Powell lied about having a gun. He drew out two pistols and shot one of his guards in the back of the neck, killing him. Mackenzie heard the shot, headed back, saw Powell, fired a shot at him but missed. Powell closed range and fired at Mackenzie point blank but his gun flashed in the pan. Powell rode on to warn Toronto that the rebels were coming.

Trouble had been brewing in Upper Canada for some time and always at its centre was the fiery Scot William Lyon Mackenzie. Always a critic and self-proclaimed voice of the people, Mackenzie got elected to the Upper Canada Assembly and raised such hell that he was expelled three times, each time to be re-elected by his constituents. His primary targets in his newspaper articles and his diatribes were the lieutenant-governor and the colonial elite, dubbed the "Family Compact."

While moderate reformers such as Robert Baldwin tried to find a middle ground, things were made worse with the arrival of a new governor, Sir Francis Bond Head, an adventurer with no political experience. The governor got the reform Assembly dissolved and led a campaign based on fear and "loyalty." Mackenzie responded by issuing a Toronto Declaration, closely modeled on the American Declaration of Independence.

Historians have made note of the extenuating circumstances in the colony that made fertile ground for Mackenzie's agitation. There was an economic squeeze, crops were bad and the banks were foreclosing on farms. But in the final analysis the uprising in Toronto was uniquely the creation of Mackenzie's outrage. His ability to win over intelligent and cautious men was one of his strengths. But organization was one of his weaknesses. After haranguing some crowds in scattered meetings, he rode off to Toronto secure in the belief that thousands would rise to his cause.

The failure of the revolt was not necessarily a foregone conclusion. Confusion reigned in Toronto. The garrison was off quelling the insurrection in Lower Canada. The militia were a laughable lot, armed with some guns along with whips, hoes, canes and umbrellas.

Nevertheless, once surprise was lost, so was the enterprise. Mackenzie took the unfortunate decision of leading the rebels himself. He marched them off on Tuesday morning, December 4, riding at their head and wearing several overcoats to protect against bullets. Though the route seemed clear, the erratic Mackenzie seemed more interested in diversions. By the time the battle occurred, near College Street, a small picket under Sheriff William Jarvis had been organized.

The picket opened fire and being but 20 men, turned and ran. The front rank of rebels fired back and, as they were trained to do, dropped to the ground so that the next rank could fire over them. The back ranks thought the front rank had all been mowed down, panicked and ran away.

Now the initiative was with the loyalist forces, who got reinforcements from Hamilton, Niagara and as far away as Peel County. Militia chief James FitzGibbon organized three impressive columns, totaling 1500 men and on Wednesday marched up Yonge Street. The skirmish was an anticlimax. Only about 200 rebels stood their ground near Gallows Hill and they were quickly routed.

Many of the rebels fled or went into hiding or, like Mackenzie, bolted to the United States. Several prisoners were charged with treason. Twelve stood trial in Toronto. Six were convicted and Peter Matthews and Samuel Lount were hanged.

Historians have had a field day debating the consequences of the Rebellion of 1837. Obviously, as a revolution it was an abject failure. There was a time when Mackenzie's supporters, notably his grandson William Lyon Mackenzie King, argued that the Rebellion hastened the advent of responsible government, but few accept that idea today.

As for Mackenzie, he continued to agitate from a base on Navy Island. He started a newspaper in New York. But he was indicted under the "neutrality laws" and spent a year in prison. The more he saw of his beloved American-style democracy, the less he liked it and the more he repented his attempt at revolution. He returned to Toronto in 1850 after a general amnesty, re-entered politics, got elected and continued his campaign against hypocrisy and corruption. However much historians may denigrate his contribution, there are still many who see him as a unique voice of the people.

James H. Marsh is editor in chief of The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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STOP THE GENOCIDE www.SaveDarfur.org

The Save Darfur Coalition is an alliance of over 180 faith-based, advocacy and humanitarian organizations whose mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of more than two million people in the Darfur region. To learn more, please visit www.SaveDarfur.org.

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At one time, Frank Sinatra and the Beach Boys crooned here nightly, and more people spent their summer vacations sunbathing along the shoreline than hiking in Yosemite National Park. But, the Salton Sea is no longer loved. It's totally abandoned. Falling into disrepair. In fact, being intentionally dismantled. It's like a nature-resort wasteland.

Today, the sea has been left mainly to the birds. It's a 300,000-acre saltwater lake that straddles Riverside and Imperial counties in the hottest, driest part of southeastern California and is a stopping ground for nearly 400 species of birds - more than any other wetland in the United States except the Texas Gulf Coast. Millions of migrating birds, including endangered brown pelicans, rare blue herons, and eared grebes flock to the sea during winter months.

The Salton Sea is a modern day environmental conundrum. It's undeniably one of the most important habitats for birds in the West. But the sea relies mainly on ["wasteful"] irrigation run-off from Imperial Valley agriculture. The farm run-off is a toxic "soup" of salt, fertilizers, selenium and traces of pesticide - all of which encourage the massive growth of plant life & algae in the water, which both richly feeds the fish (contributing to their health & well-being) and then depletes the oxygen (in the hottest months) in the water, thus killing the fish. Mass fish deaths = nasty odor that can be smelled all the way to Palm Springs. Bye, bye tourism. So, the conundrum ... conserve water, eliminate waste = the sea drying up and the birds losing an important wetland sanctuary. Congress has spent millions over the last 10+ years trying to find a solution to this tricky equation. All I know is: if anyone offers you a "hot" investment opportunity in a new Salton Sea resort ... just say no.

If Congress has its way ... the current legislation proposes spending $2billion (!!) to dry up most of the lake, leaving a small brine pit in the center, and a small lake at the south end and a small lake at the north end of the current sea. I dunno. Somehow that seems a sad, sorry "solution."

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This is a 5 pic bracketed HDR, Tripod used. ( 2 stop bracket)

Sadly a huge buildup of threatening Clouds in the late afternoon that came to nothing as usual. No rain :( The Palms in the foreground are the wonderful Foxtail Palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) My favourite palm and the only one in the world named after an Australian Aborigine.

www.pacsoa.org.au/palms/Wodyetia/bifurcata.html

Townsville , North Queensland is located in the "Dry Tropics"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsville,_Queensland

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NQ_Dry_Tropics

I think we have had about 1mm of rain in Five months :(

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Tondo - Smokey Mountain - Manila - Philippine

Tondo - Smoky Mountain - Manila - Philippine

De 'Smoky Mountain' van weleer is nu een grote rokende puinhoop. In de nabije omgeving zijn er op en rond de rivier kleine houten optrekjes ... de Filippijnse overheid is volop 'low cost houses' aan het inrichten ... maar dit kan nog enige jaren duren ...

Smokey Mountain is a large landfill in Manila, Philippines. Consisting of over two million tonnes of waste, it has operated for more than 40 years and is known for decomposing at such high temperatures that it will catch fire, a fact from which the location derives its name. Indeed, fires at Smokey Mountain have caused many deaths.

Smokey Mountain has a large squatter community, and it is estimated that 30,000 people live near the site, and make their living from picking through the rubbish at Smokey Mountain. In 1993, a joint venture agreement between the National Housing Authority (NHA) and R-II Builders Inc. (RBI) was made to build a low-cost housing project at Smokey Mountain. On 15 August 2007, this agreement was declared valid by the Philippine Supreme Court.

Projects have been enforced by the Government and non-government organizations to allow urban resettlement sites for the slum dwellers. According to a UN-Habitat report, over 20 million people in the Philippines live in slums, and in the city of Manila alone, 50% of the over 11 million inhabitants live in slum areas.

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El petirrojo europeo2 (Erithacus rubecula) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Muscicapidae.3 Está distribuido por toda Europa, principalmente en la región meridional y occidental del continente, donde habita todo el año en Centroeuropa y es migrante parcial en el Norte de Europa y Norte de África.

Descripción

Tiene el tamaño de un gorrión común (Passer domesticus) (largo de 14 cm), pero es más ligero. Los adultos se distinguen por el color naranja intenso de su pecho y cara, sobre un plumaje pardo oliváceo. Los jóvenes carecen de color anaranjado y son marcadamente moteados de pardo oscuro y ocráceo. Destacan sus ojos grandes, negros y redondos. Los polluelos mientras están en el nido tienen el interior del pico de color amarillo verdoso. Es relativamente confiado con el hombre, pudiendo llegar a comer de su mano, en algunos casos.

Hábitat

Bosques húmedos (robledales, hayedos y otros) con abundante matorral y bosques de ribera. Muy común en parques y jardines urbanos. Es uno de los pájaros más fáciles de atraer a comederos y cajas nido. En la Península Ibérica, las poblaciones aumentan considerablemente al llegar el otoño, sobre todo en años fríos, cuando los ejemplares del norte buscan refugio en nuestras latitude

Reproducción

En el petirrojo, generalmente es la hembra la que acude al macho en su territorio. Cuando ella está esperando la segunda puesta, el macho se encarga de la alimentación de la primera. Los recién nacidos empiezan a volar a los 13-14 días de salir del huevo.

Periodo de nidificación: de abril a agosto.

Número de crías: 1-2 al año.

Número de huevos: 5-6 en cada puesta. Son blancos con puntitos marrones.

Incubación: 13-14 días.

Costumbres

El petirrojo es un pájaro muy sociable, atrevido y curioso que acostumbra a salir del bosque y plantarse a mitad de un camino para ver quién llega a su propiedad, emitiendo su característica voz de alerta: un chip-chip metálico y seco. Su canto es un gorjeo musical, muy melódico, parecido al del ruiseñor. Construye su nido en alguna oquedad resguardada en el bosque.

Alimentación

El hábitat del petirrojo europeo o común son los jardines, setos, bosquecillos. Se alimenta, mayoritariamente, de invertebrados pequeños que viven en el suelo (insectos, pequeñas arañas,sanguijuelas o gusanos). En otoño y en la primavera se alimenta también de bayas y frutos pequeños.

Abraham Abraham

Birth: 12 Jul 1812 Denmark Court, The Strand, London

Died: 04 Dec 1895 Cincinnati, Ohio

Photograph of Abraham Abraham

The first Jewish child born in Cincinnati was a boy in 1821; apparently Selina was the first Jewish girl born in Cincinnati, in 1823.

The history of the Jews in Cincinnati occupies a prominent place in the development of Jewish secular and religious life in the United States. Cincinnati is not only the oldest Jewish community west of the Allegheny Mountains but has also been an institutional center of American Reform Judaism for more than a century. The American Israelite, the longest-running Jewish weekly still published in the country, opened for business in the city in 1854.

Blue Devils:

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Though in the 1930s Paramin Blue Devils are reported to have used instruments carved from bamboo, known as tamboo bamboo, for their percussive accompaniment, they now ordinarily move to rhythms established by beating biscuit tins, which have sometimes been given a higher pitch by tempering them with fire. According to Ashton Fournillier, a Paramin King Devil, you identify the Blue Devil by the colored paint, generally blue; the pitchfork; and the blood and guts on the tongue. There is a dance that involves hooking the foot to walk together with movements of the head and shoulders simultaneously while thrusting the pitchfork forward and screaming to the beat of the biscuit tin. Blue devils also sometimes carry painted replicas of cutlasses (machetes). Whereas once they dressed only in cutoff shorts without masks, they now often sport wings, sometimes decorated with swastikas, wear other kinds of clothes, increasingly use animal masks, and until they were recently outlawed at times carried snakes. They sometimes uproot small trees, have been seen to eat small raw sharks snatched from fish vendors, or dismember live chickens. Like some other aggressive traditional characters, they scamper up hills, climb poles and occasionally buildings. In addition to the popular blue, they sometimes paint themselves red, green, black, or white. The staccato beat of their biscuit tins, their glistening body colors, combined with their traditional dance step and skillful maneuvers identify them at once. You distinctly hear them comin' down de road. One of their most popular antics is to blow large gusts of fire, either on the ground or in the air, by spitting kerosene into the flames of their flambeaux (torches made out of bottles of kerosene).

Among the devils there is a King Devil, who leads the sometimes aggressively threatening demands for "titi"; (Trinidad dollars). The King Devil is usually on a leash controlled by another jab, sometimes called an imp, who restrains the King, whether as an emblem of enslavement or a figure of authoritative restraint in the festive context. Though the role of King Devil is an honorific that is usually held for some time by one band member, and then sometimes passed to his son, other devils can exchange roles. The usual move is from percussion to performance, so that a person that this year provides the all-important percussive rhythm, next year might become a bulging eyed, drooling monster who moves and writhes with dexterity as he pleads for and plays with the dollars thrown or dangled in front of him. Despite the fact that for the most part they keep within their own boundaries, the ferocity of their demeanor and their elemental, transgressive threats are often frightening.

See the article at www.eriegaynews.com/news/article.php?recordid=201110pride...

Erie Pride Parade & Rally a Great Time!

by Michael Mahler

On Saturday, August 27, about 230 people participated in the Erie Pride Parade & Rally. This year’s Pride events were organized by the Pride Planning committee, which is an informal coalition of groups and individuals.

Parade

About 100 people marched in the parade from the Zone Dance Club to Perry Square. John Daly King was the Grand Marshal for the parade, in a convertible driven by Caitlyn. Also in the parade were beloved local gay icons Jesse and Ricardo, who rode their tandem bike.

Parade units included

Lake Erie Belly Dance

Doctor Who contingent

PFLAG Erie/Crawford County

Erie Gay News

Lake Erie Derby Dames

LBT Women

Latonia Theatre

PFLAG Butler

Erie Sisters

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie

Community United Church

OUT (Pittsburgh newspaper)

There were also many people marching as individuals, as well as a float carrying current and former Miss Eries.

Rally

The rally in Perry Square begins at 2 PM and will include speakers and performers. Please check in at the registration table when you arrive in Perry Square. The rally will include a variety of vendors and information booths.

Speakers and performers included:

Greg Rabb, Openly gay Jamestown City Council President and Councilman at Large

Misty Kall, Miss Erie 2011

Rich McCarty of Equality PA, Greater Erie Alliance for Equality and Community United Church

Chris Wolfe, Erie Idol finalist 2011

Tammie Johnson, 2 term President of ACLU-NWPA

Brian T, singer, also with Pittsburgh Out TV

Jason Landau Goodman, founding Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition. The first and only youth-led statewide LGBTQ organization in the nation

Michelle Michaels, Former Miss Erie and Coordinator for FACE Show at Zone

Fiona Hensley, Chair of the Student Network Across Pennsylvania, SNAP, Regional Chair of the Erie-West region for SNAP and President of Queers and Allies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA.

Diva D’Vyne

Games

The Dunk a Drag Queen game was very popular! We look forward to making this an annual tradition

Donors

Many businesses and organizations gave generously to help support Pride this year. These included

AdultMart

Allegheny College Bookstore

BeautiControl

Blue Heron Inn

Body Language

Chicory Hill Herbs

Coca-Cola/Erie

Country Fair

Craze Night Club

Crime Victim Center of Erie County

Douglas Kolcun

Drenched Fur

Earthshine Company

Eerie Horror Film Festival

emma's revolution

Erie Book Store

Erie County Democratic Party

Erie County Department of Health

Erie Playhouse

Erie Seawolves

Erie Sisters

Erie Spine and Wellness

Family United Counseling

Gaudenzia / SHOUT Outreach

Giant Eagle - Buffalo Road

Glass Growers

Good Health Rejuvenation

Greater Erie Alliance for Equality, Inc.

Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group

Hollywood Stories

Horomanski's DJ'ing Services

JR's Last Laugh

Kensington Books

La bella

Larese Floral Design

LBT Women

Lion's Den Adult Super Store

MLR Books

Pennsylvania Coaltion to End Homelessness

Pie in the Sky Cafe

Presque Isle Gallery Coffeehouse

Sam's Club

Shakira Nakelle's Mementos, Gifts & More

Silk Screen Unlimited

Smith's Hot Dogs

State Farm Insurance Agent Natalie Braddock

Tanglez Hair and Nail Studio

The Ringbearer

Tops Friendly Markets - W 38th St

Wegman's- Peach St

Wendy's of Erie

Zone Dance Club

Committee Members & Volunteers

Many people from the committee worked hard to make the day enjoyable for everyone! Committee members included

Season

Chris

Preston

Mark H

Erin Moll

Amy

Sue McCabe

Alex

Jeff H

John Daly King

Kerry

In addition to the committee members, volunteers included:

Kevin Schultz

Dok

Johauna

Wanda

Bob H

Eric Rogers

Maria S.

Deb Spilko

Brian

Info Tables & Vendors

Info tables included:

Adagio Health

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), NWPA Chapter

Community United Church

Crime Victim Center of Erie County

Equality Pennsylvania

Erie County Democratic Party

Erie County Human Relations Commission

Erie Gay News

Erie Sisters

Lake Erie Derby Dames

LBT Women

Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition

PFLAG Erie/Crawford County

SafeNet Center

United Way of Erie County

Voices for Independence

Vendors included

BeautiControl

Book Merchant

Christopher's Novelty Gifts

Shakira Nakelle's Mementos, Gifts & More

Collecting Food

We collected 23 pounds of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank of NW PA.

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En lo más alto del pueblo junto al castillo, se alza la soberbia estampa de este antiguo templo.

La iglesia de El Salvador es la decana de todas las iglesias románicas segovianas, se construyó en el año 1.093, y realmente hay que reconocer que para ser la primera, puso el listón realmente alto.

El templo tiene nave única, con ábside semicircular de cinco lienzos y pequeño presbiterio. Torre exenta al norte aunque se conecta con el templo mediante un pequeño pasadizo. Con el tiempo, no se sabe cuando exactamente, se le añadió la galería porticada

La galería está compuesta en el lado sur por cuatro ocho arcadas agrupadas por parejas separadas por pilares. En el lado este otro arco sirve de acceso al pórtico. Los arcos se apoyan en cuatro capiteles sobre columnas simples. Sólo uno de los capiteles tiene decoración vegetal. En el resto se pueden ver unas parejas de aves bebiendo de un cáliz, unos seres monstruosos y una escena que no acabo de interpretar pero que podría tratarse del ciclo de Adán y Eva.

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Going through my archives I found this ...The detail and colour really shine here.........This male Mallard didn't mind me watching him at all.

"Breeding (Alternate) Plumage: Head iridescent dark green. Narrow white neck ring. Breast chestnut-brown. Back and wings brownish gray. Underparts light grayish. Rump and under tail black, with white area just in front along flanks. Tail white on outside with black middle feathers. Central tail feathers curled up toward back. Bill yellow to greenish, with black nail at tip. Eyes dark. Feet red.

Eclipse (Basic) Plumage: Crown dark green. Face pale brownish. Dark line through eye. Breast warm brown. Body and wings mottled brown, white, and buff. Slight upturn to central tail feathers. Bill clear yellowish olive."

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DENVER CITY AND COUNTY BUILDING, DENVER

The construction of a new government center for the combined City and County of Denver was initiated by Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton in 1924, although including it in the Denver Civic Center was first proposed as early as 1906.

This American Renaissance Styled building was completed in 1932. Balancing the State Capitol across an expanse of lawns, it fulfilled the ideals of the City Beautiful Movement proponents who had worked on the Civic Center plans for more than two decades.

The new City Hall replaced two buildings. One was the 1883 City Hall at Speer Boulevard and Larimer Street, a four-story stone structure. The jail was in the basement, and prisoners were in danger of drowning when nearby Cherry Creek flooded. The new City and County Building also replaced the old Arapahoe County Building at Sixteenth Street and Court Place, later the site of Zeckendorf Plaza.

The new City Hall was designed by the Allied Architects Association of Denver, organized by the Colorado Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Its mission was to aid Mayor Stapleton in designing the new civic structure. The site selected was bounded by West Colfax Avenue, West Fourteenth Street, Bannock, and Cherokee, as suggested in the 1917 Civic Center plan.

Ground was broken in March 1929, and the cornerstone laid February 1931. Voters approved a $2.5 million bond issue in 1931, the same year that they voted Stapleton out of office. His successor, George D. Begole, reluctantly continued the project, working with the Allied Architects under the leadership of Denver architect Robert K. Fuller. Supervising architect from 1929 to 1931 was Roland L. Linder. The building was dedicated by Mayor Begole on August 1, 1932.

The four-story building is shaped in a semi-circle, opening east toward Civic Center Park and the State Capitol. At its center is a circular bell tower and a tall Roman temple style portico with Corinthian columns.

The east facade is embellished with engaged Ionic columns. The building was faced with gray granite. The project employed 250 stone carvers, who also detailed the marbles of the interior. Six hundred rail cars brought stone from Georgia and parts of Colorado. Among the building's 200 rooms are City Council Chambers, the Mayor's Office, and spaces once occupied by the Denver Art Museum.

The building has been decked out in colored lights every Christmas since its doors opened. A $10 million refurbishment during 1991 and 1992 restored the grand lobby, Allen True's mural "The Miners' Court" and Gladys Caldwell Fisher's life-sized bas-relief "Orpheus and the Animals."