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Cara Giulietta,
ho sentito il bisogno imminente di scrivervi guidato dal mio sentimento per vostra signoria.
Questa distanza fisica sta allontanando i nostri cuori giorno dopo giorno, non possiamo continuare a vivere platonicamente il nostro amore, il tempo passa e la vita brucia, una vita fatta di sacrifici e stenti solo per avere quello che ci servirà quando saremo ormai troppo vecchi, per godere del nostro amore.
Affacciamo i nostri cuori ad una nuova vita più semplice e giusta di modo che possiate ritrovare la Felicità che da troppo tempo questa vita vi ha privato.
Giulietta mia fatevi coraggio e abbiate forza di rinunciare alle pretese della vostra famiglia che da sempre vi ostacola nella scelta del vostro futuro, non rimanete prigioniera in un mondo che non vi appartiene, rompete le catene e gridate il vostro sentimento ingiustamente soffocato e soppresso da chi vi circonda, perché vi stanno usando come loro ultimo baluardo.
Questo mare di sofferenza dovrà finire in qualche modo o tutti pagheranno col sangue le loro colpe e i loro pregiudizi.
Alziamo gli sguardi a Dio sarà lui a proteggerci come Unico e Supremo Giudice.
Ve lo prometto tutto ciò dovrà finire.
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Dear Juliet,
I felt the need to write imminent guided by my feelings for your lordship.
This physical distance moving away our hearts day after day, we can not continue to live platonically our love, time passes and life burns, a life of sacrifice and hardship just to have that will help us when we are too old now, to enjoy our love.
Look out our hearts to a new life easier and just so you can find the happiness that for too long there has deprived this life.
Juliet's my take heart and have strength to renounce the claims of your family that always hinders the choice of your future, do not be a prisoner in a world that does not belong to you, break the chains and cry your feeling unfairly stifled and suppressed by those who around you, because you are using it as their last bastion.
This sea of suffering will end up in some way or all will pay in blood for their sins and their prejudices.
Let us raise our eyes to God he will protect us as the One and Supreme Judge.
I promise everything will end.
Rafael Cruz
Pastor, Professor, Father of US Senator Ted Cruz
Rafael Cruz is the father of US Senator Ted Cruz. Rafael embodies the American Dream. Born in Cuba, he suffered under a cruel, oppressive dictator. He began fighting Batista’s regime as a teenager and was imprisoned and tortured – beaten nearly to death – simply to be free.
Rafael arrived in Texas in 1957 with nothing but the clothes on his back and one hundred dollars sewn into his underwear.
He got a job as a dishwasher, making 50 cents an hour, and worked his way through the University of Texas, while learning English.
Ted Cruz’s father then built a small business in further pursuit of the American Dream.
Rafael Cruz became active in conservative politics during the 1980 Presidential Campaign of Ronald Reagan. He also joined the State Board of The Religious Roundtable, a grassroots Judeo-Christian organization that had an important impact on the future of political dialogue.
Today, he is a pastor based in North Texas serving as the Director of Purifying Fire Ministries, ministering in the U.S., Mexico and Central America. He is also a professor of Bible and Theology, and the president of Kingdom Translation Services.
Welcome to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference
May 21-23 promises to be a rendezvous with destiny in Oklahoma City. The unofficial start of the 2016 Republican Presidential campaign begins here, in the new energy capital of America!
The 2016 election will be one of the most important in our lifetime. The choices we make in the next two years will define America for the next 50 years.
On behalf of the Oklahoma Republican Party and the entire SRLC Committee, please join us as we begin our shared Republican journey towards capturing the White House and renewing our nation.
It is our distinct privilege to invite you to attend the 2015 Southern Republican Leadership Conference, to be held at the Cox Convention Center and Downtown Oklahoma City Renaissance Convention Center Hotel on May 21-23, 2015. We hope you will join us!
The SRLC has a star-studded history as one of the premier conferences for all Republicans and conservative activists. This year we anticipate 50 speakers, break-out sessions with energy, utility and manufacturing opinion leaders, and 75 partnering organizations. In addition, we are hosting the largest regional presidential straw poll of the year.
We look forward to your participation in this historic conference as we energize the Grand Old Party and America together!
SRLC 2015 Committee
Had to come in to work on Dec 27 as our RAID Array for our VMs had a bad drive and just locked the whole thing up?!? That should not have happened.
Strobist: YN565EX with red gel @ 1/4 power bounce off wall in the background. RF622C triggers
Chérie is wearing 'Springtime Promise'
This one is a lot more chunky compared to the other flower crowns. In retrospect someone with a bigger head & hair perhaps should of modelled such a big crown but I do love little Chérie in these colours :)
This is Zoe and I met her at camp and she is the cutest girl I have ever met. She has the prettiest blue eyes I have ever seen and she is so sweet. I miss her so much!
Yes the title is Hannah Montana lyrics: Ordinary Girl
I leave for Nantucket today. I can't promise any pictures because I'm not sure if I'm gonna have internet or not.. sadface
I hope you all are having a great summer!!
...of sunkissed southern Italian rooftops - but the reality a is mildly depressing motorway services on the M6 northbound on a winters morning at 06:17.
Gambling, expensive coffee, naff WHSmith merchandise or dirty loos anyone?
“When I first came to Leeds, I didn’t realise what this city would mean to me. It taught me how to be independent. I laughed, I cried. I broke up, I fell in love. It taught me about life. Nobody says it will be easy; they just promise it will be worth it.”
Models: Christiana Xevion and Darzian Silverfall
: Taken at the gorgeous Tempura Island :
"An Angel's female human rapture; that one out of thousands.''
A scan from my old Boy Scout Handbook from 1985. That I still have this page saved since then speaks to the depth of my interest in knighthood I suppose.
There are probably countless versions of the knighting ceremony, the simplest being a hard slap on the shoulder with the command "Be a knight".
John Boorman's "Excalibur" may have been fantastic and outlandish in many respects, but it's knighting ceremony was pretty standard: "In the name of God, Saint Michael, and Saint George, I make you a knight. Rise Sir ___"
The film "Dragonheart" touted a somewhat stodgy, idealized version called the Old Code: "A knight is sworn to valor, his heart knows only virtue, his blade defends the helpless, his might upholds the weak, his word speaks only truth, his wrath undoes the wicked."
Most recently Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" delivers a well written version of the ceremony: "Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong; that is your oath. [Slap!] And that is so you remember it. Rise a knight."
Such virtues are mostly cast aside in popular culture nowadays. Most people view this stuff with doubt, dislike, and oddly enough, suspicion. Anyone who tries to behave this way clearly must have some ulterior motive, right?
I think Jeremy Irons sums up a realistic interpretation of an oath to be a good knight when he meets Orlando Bloom: "I pray God and Jerusalem that you can accomodate such a rarity as a perfect knight."
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believe it or not, there is not much editing here... all i did is adjust the contrast, which served to intensify the colors a bit. no other editing, however.
Andrew Dickson White Library
Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University’s co-founder and first president, built a great library. Although seldom identified today as one of the foremost collectors of the 19th century, his achievements have left a remarkable legacy. Unlike other famous book collectors of his time—J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Edwards Huntington, John Jacob Astor, and James Lenox—he did not establish a separate institution to house his personal collections of books and manuscripts. Instead, White donated his entire collection of 30,000 books to the Cornell University Library—at a time when the Library possessed a collection of just 90,000 volumes. White’s great generosity reveals his utilitarian approach to collecting and, in his words, a “strong belief in the didactic value of books.” As an educator and historian he believed that one could not have a great university without a great library, and he wanted his books to be read and used by Cornell’s faculty and students.
White’s collections of materials on architecture, witchcraft, the Reformation, the French Revolution, Abolitionism and the Civil War were among the finest in the world during his lifetime. Originally shelved in the large, three-story room within Uris Library that bears his name, White’s collections are no longer kept together in one place. Many of his books were moved to the stacks in Olin Library when it opened in 1961. In recent years, most of White’s books have been transferred to the Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections for their continued protection and preservation. Today, the Andrew Dickson White Library holds a portion of the humanities and social science collections found in the combined Olin and Uris Libraries.
It is perhaps more fitting and accurate to say that Andrew Dickson White built two great libraries. The first was his large and significant personal book collection. The second was the Cornell University Library. White hired Willard Fiske to be Cornell’s first University Librarian, and he worked closely with him to develop innovative and progressive policies for their library. White purchased its first books, and played an active role throughout his life in developing the library’s collections.
Even in his student days, White had considered the merits of the most prestigious European libraries, imagining what it would be like to build an important new research library. White conceived and developed his vision for an upstate New York university during a miserable first year at college. White’s visions of a beautiful university were honed during his first year at a college whose architecture he called “sordid,” and later at Yale, where he urged classmates to “adorn and beautify the place.” While his classmates occupied themselves with shenanigans, the sixteen-year-old consoled himself in the library, where he found a book on the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. As a University of Michigan professor in the late 1850s, he planted elms and evergreens with the help of his students and was appointed superintendent of grounds. Two decades later he would preside over an institution that embodied the vision of his youth. The faculty included professors of modern history and literature, as well as classics and mathematics. They were free of control by religious sects and political parties. And learning was accomplished not by rote memorization and recitation, but through analysis, discussion, and experience. The Victorian beauty of the A. D. White Reading Room in Uris Library would probably have satisfied White’s exacting standards.
A trace of this inspiration can be found in the stained-glass windows that line the room. They portray the crests of several Oxford and Cambridge colleges. In the north windows, for instance, the blue escutcheon contains the motto for Oxford University, “Dominus Illuminatio Mea.” Translated from Psalm 27, it means, “The Lord is my Light.” Visitors from a new generation find the room’s ambiance comes from another source, calling it the “Harry Potter” library.
When White offered his personal library to the university, he set two conditions. He asked that the university provide a suitable space to house his collection—he stipulated a fire-proof room—and he requested that proper provision be made for the ongoing maintenance of his collections. That “suitable space” is the Andrew Dickson White Library. White played an active role in helping the building’s architect, William Henry Miller, design and ornament this space.
The maintenance and cataloging of the collection became the responsibility of George Lincoln Burr, a member of the Cornell class of 1871. Burr was White’s secretary and personal librarian as well as the first curator of the White Historical Library. Originally hired by White when he was a Cornell sophomore, Burr worked closely with White to develop and care for his library. We can safely posit that after 1879, the White collection must be seen as a collaborative effort between the two scholars. Each traveled to Europe on extended book-buying tours. Burr, also a renowned professor in the Cornell History department, is given special credit for building and enriching the Library’s collections on the Reformation and witchcraft.
Burr’s portrait by Cornell art professor Christian Midjo is prominently displayed on the north wall of the room, and a small drawing by R. H. Bainton on the first tier shows Burr as Cornell historian Carl Becker once described him: an “indefatigable scholar and bibliophile . . . browsing and brooding in the stacks.”
The Andrew Dickson White Library is filled with art work, furniture, and artifacts from White’s academic and diplomatic careers. He served as U.S. minister to Germany while still president of Cornell, and later also served as minister to Russia. Several pictures and photographs in the room depict Russian scenes. The artwork and the case of plaster casts of European coins and medallions were all collected by Mr. White.
Originally, this space had skylights and an open archway into the adjacent Dean Room (where the Burr portrait now hangs). Those features were lost to renovations, but the original three tiers of wrought-iron stacks still offer an open and dramatic display of their books. Upon first seeing these shelves filled with White’s books in September of 1891, George Lincoln Burr wrote that it “gave one such an idea of a multitude of books. You see and feel them all. They quite overawe one.” Setting the objective for the collection, he promised to make the White Library, in his words, “the great living, growing historical workshop of the University.
Carved Wooden Manuscript Case
•Creator: unknown (unknown nationality, artist)
•Title: Carved wooden manuscript case
•Work Type: desks
•Location: Uris Library, Andrew D. White Library, Cornell University
•Description: Carved folding top, supported by two dogs. Possible attribution: Luigi Frullini.
•Repository: Cornell University
•Collection: Cornell: Campus Art and Artifacts
This is Tyra Dominique once again with her Thai traditional dress. Using my 50mm I decided to choose the upper perspective so I can set her red Thai dress as the background. Comments are welcome :)
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A commissioned piece given as a wedding gift to a couple with a little daughter.
Hand forged steel, copper and silicon bronze.
17 1/2 " x 16 1/2" x 1"
By Lisa
I love these tri-color roses!
My poor roses had a rough time of it last year: Insect infestations like crazy; disease they had not previously succumbed to; weather that beat them up. So they're getting extra-special treatment early now -- they have begun to show new growth, so they have been carefully pruned, given plenty of water, fed, and sprayed for insects and disease.
Hopefully this year they will rebound and produce bountiful blooms, 'cause shooting these rascals makes me feel good, and I hope you enjoy the results, too. (And truthfully I have almost as much fun growing them and tending to them as I do photograping them!)
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