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Sant Pere de Rodes, Girona (Spain).
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Sant Pere de Rodes is a former Benedictine monastery in the comarca of Alt Empordà, in the North East of Catalonia, Spain.
It is in the municipal area of El Port de la Selva in the province of Girona, Spain. It has been constructed in the side of the Verdera mountain below the ruins of the castle of Sant de Verdera that had provided protection for the monastery. It offers exceptional views over the bay of Llançà, to the north of Cap de Creus. Near the monastery Santa Creu de Rodes is the ruins of a medieval town, of which its pre-Romanesque style church is the only remains dedicated to Saint Helena.
The true origin of the monastery is not known, which has given rise to speculation and legend; such as its foundation by monks who disembarked in the area with the remains of Saint Peter and other saints, to save them from the Barbarian hordes that invaded the Western Roman Empire. Once the danger had passed the Pope Boniface IV commanded them to construct a monastery.
The first documentation of the existence of the monastery dates 878, when it was mentioned as a simple monastery cell consecrated to Saint Peter, but it is not until 945 when an independent Benedictine monastery was founded, led by an abbot. Connected with the County of Empúries, it reached its maximum splendor between the 11th and 12th centuries until its final decay in 17th century. Its increasing importance is reflected in its status as a point of pilgrimage.
In the 17th century it was sacked in several occasions and in 1793 was deserted by the benedictine community, which was transferred to Vila-sacred and finally settled in Figueres in 1809, until it was dissolved.
The monastery was declared a national monument in 1930. In 1935 the first restoration work was initiated.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Pere_de_Rodes
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CASTELLANO
El monasterio benedictino de Sant Pere de Rodes se halla en el término municipal del Port de la Selva en la provincia de Gerona de Cataluña (España). Construido en la falda de la montaña de Verdera por debajo de las ruinas del castillo de Sant Salvador de Verdera que le había dado protección, con una vista excepcional sobre la bahía de Llansá y del Port de la Selva, al norte del Cabo de Creus. Cerca del monasterio están las ruinas del poblado medieval de la Santa Cruz de Rodes, del que sólo queda en pie su iglesia de estilo prerrománico dedicada a Santa Helena.
Fue restaurado a raíz de la publicación del libro que presentó el hallazgo y análisis de un reducido maletín conteniendo reliquias identificables como de san Pedro Apóstol, las cuales en el año 610 fueron alejadas por mar de la ciudad de Roma donde habían sido veneradas en la subterránea cripta ("la Confesión" bajo el altar) de San Pedro del Vaticano. Allí nunca regresaron.
Dentro de un "maletín" decorado con láminas de hueso, y envuelto con un delantal a la medida del pontífice Gregorio I "El Magno" había diminutos relicarios. Además incluyó en su interior una ara portátil (con inscripciones) destinada a celebrar misa los religiosos custodios durante su travesía marítima, cuando Roma estuvo seriamente amenazada por una invasión oriental.
El lote de relicarios (sin tapa) fue accidentalmente recuperado justo doce siglos después de su ocultación en el muro de la cripta subterránea bajo el altar mayor de Sant Pere de Rodes. Las excavaciones arqueológicas posteriores a 1990 dieron muy buenos resultados, promoviendo incluso la restauración de todo el complejo abacial, y en especial la iglesia.
Hasta descubrirse las dichas reliquias, era imposible justificar las vastas dimensiones de la iglesia y del monasterio, al ser un sector muy aislado en la costa del Golfo de Rosas, pero posteriormente se hallaron allí varios tesoros: Monedas de oro y plata, antiguas baldosas de cerámica, e incluso pinturas románicas en los muros de un claustro inferior, desconocido hasta mediados del siglo XX.
Se desconoce el verdadero origen del monasterio, lo que dio lugar en el pasado a especulaciones y leyendas, como la de la fundación por monjes que desembarcaron en la zona con los restos de San Pedro y otros santos, que debían custodiar para no ser profanados por las hordas bárbaras que caían sobre Roma. Pasado el peligro, el papa Bonifacio IV habría mandado construir el templo. Sin embargo, la primera documentación de la existencia del establecimiento data del año 878 siendo mencionado como una simple celda monástica consagrada a San Pedro, pero no es hasta el año 945 cuando se considera un monasterio benedictino independiente, regido por un abad. Ligado al Condado de Ampurias, llega a su máximo esplendor entre los siglos XI y XII. En él se celebran jubileos hasta su decadencia en el siglo XVII. Su importancia creciente lleva a convertirlo en un punto de peregrinaje de la época. A partir del siglo XVII es saqueado en varias ocasiones y en 1793 fue abandonado por la comunidad benedictina que se trasladó a Vila-sacra y, finalmente, se instaló en Figueras en 1809 hasta que fue disuelta. En 1930 fue declarado monumento nacional, y en 1935 la Generalidad de Cataluña inicia las primeras restauraciones.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterio_de_Sant_Pere_de_Rodes
La iglesia de San Juan de Otero, ahora dedicada a San Bartolomé, se ubica en el interior del Parque Natural del Cañón del Río Lobos, realmente en el término no municipal denominado: Comunero de San Bartolomé, regentado por los municipios sorianos de: Herrera de Soria, Nafría de Ucero y Ucero en Castilla y León (España); fue construida en el primer cuarto del siglo XIII, cuando el estilo románico daba paso al gótico, transición que quedó plasmada en la obra arquitectónica. Formaba parte de un cenobio templario del que sólo se conserva la capilla.
De su vinculación a la Orden de los Caballeros del Temple no cabe duda. La especulación se genera únicamente en torno a sus antecedentes. En una bula papal de 1170, el papa Alejandro III hace referencia al Monasterio de San Juan de Otero, perteneciente a la diócesis de Osma. Puede que estuviera localizado en el mismo lugar que San Bartolomé y fuese reemplazado por la construcción protogótica que ha perdurado, pero también hay quien apunta la posibilidad de que estuviera situado en el otero donde se asienta el castillo, y que se edificara a la par que éste a mediados del siglo XII. Las ruinas de la pequeña iglesia que subsisten podrían ser, en tal caso, las del primitivo santuario templario.
La iglesia tiene planta de cruz latina, disposición que se acusa ostensiblemente al exterior. Llama la atención la escasa altura del transepto en relación con la de la nave. La cumbre de la bóveda de aquél queda por debajo de la línea de imposta de la bóveda de cañón apuntado de la nave, de tal manera que ambas bóvedas no se intersecan y no dan lugar al establecimiento de una cúpula o un cimborrio sobre el crucero.
Las pilastras de sección rectangular adosadas a los muros exteriores del ábside, así como las que flanquean la portada, y la misma puerta que luce seis arquivoltas muy apuntadas, ponen de manifiesto el momento de transición del románico al gótico en que se edificó esta iglesia.
Merecen ser resaltados los dos rosetones, uno en cada astial del transepto, cuyas celosías evocan influencias musulmanas en la forma del entrelazado que compone una estrella lobulada de cinco puntas. Poseen tres arquivoltas de las que sólo la externa está decorada.
The church of San Juan de Otero, now dedicated to Saint Barthelemy, is located inside the Natural Park River Canyon Lobos, really in no municipality called: Comunero of St. Bartholomew, run by the sorianos municipalities of Herrera Soria Ucero Ucero and Nafría of Castile and Leon (Spain); was built in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, when the Romanesque style gave way to Gothic transition was reflected in the architectural work. It was part of a Templar monastery of which only the chapel remains.
Its link to the Order of the Knights Templar no doubt. Speculation is generated solely around their background. In a papal bull of 1170, Pope Alexander III refers to the Monastery of San Juan de Otero, belonging to the diocese of Osma. Maybe he was located in the same place as San Bartolomé and was replaced by protogótica construction that has endured, but also who points out the possibility that was located on the hill where the castle is located, and which will be built at the same time this mid-twelfth century. The ruins of the small church that could subsist be in such a case, the primitive Templar sanctuary.
The church has a Latin cross, provision is ostensibly accused abroad. Particularly striking is the low height of the transept in relation to the ship. The summit dome that is below the impost of the pointed barrel vault of the nave, so that both vaults do not intersect and do not lead to the establishment of a dome or a dome over the transept.
The pilasters of rectangular section attached to the outer walls of the apse, as well as flanking the doorway, and the door which boasts six archivolts very targeted, reveal the moment of transition from Romanesque to Gothic that this church was built.
They deserve to be highlighted the two rosettes, one in each astial the transept, whose lattices evoke Muslim influences in the form of interlaced comprises a lobed five-pointed star. They have three archivolts of which only the outer is decorated.
For some reason 66424 just arrived in the bay of platforms 7 and 8 at Crewe. The driver jumped out and got in the other cab, waited for a few minutes before getting the road to leave.
Its these little workings that keep us meere uninformed mortals fascinated and intrigued with the railway network. I can imagine several conversations around Crewe's enthusiast community that spent a pleasant hour or so speculating the purpose of that move.
My speculation however, was brief and i quickly focused camera and mind on capturing the moment. The unplanned event had my creative juices flowing and having several conventional pictures in the bag i was on the hunt for that special opportunity.
The Crewe station anti suicide squad had recently set me free having convinced themselves that i was not a danger to myself nor society and had no intention of putting one toe beyond the yellow line thus endangering the lives of hundreds of other passengers.
I was behaving impeccably until they disappeared and then behaving like a crazy man i dropped to one knee to get a different angle my knee grazing the yellow line. Phew ! i got away with it.
The approaching Pendo had me fiddling with my camera settings to induce some intentional in camera movement whilst still keeping the Class 66 as sharp as i could. Referring to the manual step 1 said place camera on tripod......Bollocks ! tripod was in the car. Manual discarded i decided to wing it as carriage after carriage glided by.
Bingpot...this is pretty much what i had hoped for and no railway enthusiasts were harmed during the recording of this picture.
Oh sure, there was speculation, rumours, even some open gossip at the local coffee shop but, in the end, the mystery went to the grave. However, the undeniable fact was, someone... somebody with a reason to annually mark an unknown occasion, or perhaps just a date that meant something to the two of them, anonymously left a token... a symbol... an acknowledgment.
Semper Desiderari
Thy soul shall find itself alone
’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone—
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy.
-Edgar Allen Poe
The central idea in the mysticism of Catherine of Siena is not speculation about various forms of union, not inquisitive examination of how union takes place, or how to ascend to higher degrees of love and fruition: it is total self-sacrifice for the Church, concern for the purity and perfection of the Church rather than her own, a love for sinners and desire for their redemption. The fact that she was a laywoman is not secondary but absolutely primary: it stresses the relative unimportance of belonging to this or that order and the supreme importance of union with Christ Crucified for the redemption of sinners.
--A course in Christian mysticism : thirteen sessions with the famous Trappist monk Thomas Merton / edited by Jon M. Sweeney.
Wood Stork descending.
On warm days the Wood Storks often soar on thermals thousands of feet in the air - much like a vulture.
If they are not on nest building or child rearing duty, they often descend to a tree perch by slowly flying long circular passes toward where they want to land. During this time their flaps and landing gear are lowered. They may do three or four long circular passes like this before they land on a tree branch.
My speculation as to why they do it - it's fun!!
The Marine Jealopus has a widespread distribution throughout the global ocean however mating only occurs within the Solway Firth between England and Scotland. Males unable to find a mate often congregate off the coast of Silloth causing annoyance to the local porpoises. There is speculation that the myth of the mermaid originated from sightings of the Marine Jealopus by desperate drunken sailors from the ports of Maryport and Whitehaven.
The bizarre appearance of this Jealopus species is credited by marine biologists as the reason why dolphins are always laughing.
Thunderstorm clouds race in front of the crescent moon from the Continental Divide Overlook in Eldorado Canyon State Park, Colorado.
Hiking to this vantage in the dark frequently provides some form of excitement or intrigue. I mentioned in a previous post that the trail to this point ascends what is apparently the very aptly-named Rattlesnake Gulch. More mundane but no less interesting, at least to me, over the past several years my friend and I first assumed we were losing our minds when we thought we observed small, bright points of phosphorescent light scattered irregularly amongst the rocks on a few of the slopes near here. The light looked distinctly like that of fireflies, though the obvious lack of flight was befuddling. I also could not figure out why it would be advantageous for a creature, that for all intents and purposes looked very much like a worm, to perch amongst the rocks at night and emit light. The probability of any other worm of similar species even seeing the light would be very low due to hill slope angles and the significant micro-topography that would obstruct views if one were worm-sized. Then, on the off-chance that another worm did see the light, what would be the chances of that individual reaching the source at worm-pace before the emitter got tired and gave up for the night? I remained confused by these questions for quite some time.
I finally relented and decided to replace idle and infrequent speculation with actual knowledge, such as it exists in the phosphorescence-studying corners of the internet. It turns out that my first incorrect assumption was that males and females of this species of insect look the same. I learned that in the State of Colorado there are records from more southern counties of a firefly called Microphotus pecosensis - sadly, I could not find a common name. I also could not find a record of individuals of this species being present in Boulder County where I live. However, internet searches are imperfect in terms of a satisfying completeness, leaving me uncertain whether our sightings are novel for Boulder County in terms of European-style record keeping, or whether this species is long-known in these parts.
For the sexually dimorphic M. pecosensis, the females are flightless and appear worm- or grub-like. When she deems the time is ripe, she moves to a visible place and emits green bursts of light from the tip of her abdomen. Males, on the other hand, do not emit light but are quite capable of flight. Her light is easy to discern from the air, and he wastes no time approaching and courting her affections. The excellent pictures on BugGuide.net show the manifestations of this dimorphism well. Mystery solved, and the night-time becomes yet more intriguing. I photographed a female M. pecosensis glowing but the photo quality is poor due to a relatively long hand-held exposure.
Technical notes: Single-exposure with low-level-lighting (LLL) pointing into the scene from the right to illuminate the foreground rock and trees.
Susquehanna RS-3 No. 104 is at Susquehanna, PA that is, after being set off due to toasting a traction motor going up Gulf Summit grade. There's still speculation that the old Alco was put in the consist to die, and the plan worked. The damage turned out to be a career ending injury. Seen here on 8 October 1985 when the future was still up in the air.
"Chocolat is my favorite because it's beloved by everyone who sees it. I've never had that experience: I've never had a movie where people come up to you and say, 'Thank you.'"
-- Producer David Brown
Mmmmm....
Chocolat is sweet! In it, mysterious strangers, Vianne (Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), wander into a quiet French village and set up a chocolate shop. For these villagers, such a change to the status quo--in the middle of Lent, no less--sparks endless speculation and gossip. While the town mayor, Comte De Reynaud (Alfred Molina), is determined to evict these newcomers from his town, the villagers are more receptive to Vianne's magical concoctions and unique views. Affecting everyone's lives, Vianne not only tips the town's status quo but also finds herself changed for the better. "I think what's wonderful about the story is that by Vianne selling small dreams and little comforts through chocolates, she's going to bit-by-bit transform people's lives." Juliette Binoche said. "That's always frightening when you have an outsider because things can change."
Based on the best-selling novel by Joanne Harris, Chocolat reunited Johnny Depp with What's Eating Gilbert Grape? director Lasse Hollstrom. I was very excited about that! I was also thrilled with the rest of the cast. Aside from Chocolat's star, Juliette Binoche, it includes Alfred Molina (who worked with Johnny in Dead Man), Lena Olin (Lasse Hollstrom's wife, who costarred with Johnny in The Ninth Gate), Carrie-Anne Moss (the lady from The Matrix), and Judy Dench. (They don't call her Dame for nothing.) Although she has a small part, most exciting to me was that Leslie Caron was also in this movie. Yeah, Leslie Caron of An American in Paris (Gene Kelly's Oscar-winning musical, which I've seen a zillion times)! Johnny gets to work with the coolest people.
Who doesn't want some Chocolat?
With an international cast, French subject, and Swedish director, Chocolat was a surprise hit around the world. From Kansas City to Berlin, producer David Brown noted, "The audience reaction is almost identical. It's remarkable how universal this story is." I can attest to this, as I saw Chocolat in Akron, Ohio, with my parents and a visiting Japanese business associate: We all really enjoyed it.
Chocolat has so many unique ingredients--a mix of interesting characters with strong personalities, a sprinkling of fantasy, a splash of adventure--It's hard not to find something to like about it. Even though it takes place in France, audiences related to this story and its characters, recognizing that the village could just as easily be their hometown. "Chocolat is a fable-like story. There are elements of fantasy in it, but Lasse always keeps it grounded in a kind of emotional reality," scriptwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs said. "Even if there's something magical going on, there's an emotional honesty about the performances and how the scenes are done that I think is one of Lasse's great strengths as a director."
"Hey, Melissa, where's Johnny?"
My dad asked me this, in a loud whisper from a few seats over, midway through Chocolat. While my eyes rolled at the time, it's a fair question: Johnny doesn't show up until the second half of this movie. But he was keen to work with Lasse Hollstrom again, hoping to show that he was in a better mood and easier to work with than he was during the Gilbert Grape shoot 7 years before.
This time, Johnny plays Roux, a traveling Irishman with his gypsy family--more outsiders (or, as Compte De Reynaud describes them, "ruthless, godless drifters"). Johnny was hooked as soon as he read Chocolat's screenplay and connected to the story's theme: "It's okay to break the sort of boundaries of what's normal," he said. "You've got to step outside of that and break the routine and not be so afraid to try new things."Aside from a new accent, Johnny shows off his guitar-playing skills in Chocolat, tackling some blues and Django Reinhardt tunes. (Now, that's exciting!) "He's a terrific musician," Lasse Hollstrom observed. "And he really enjoyed the whole angle of this story, of this character."
Lasse Hollstrom created a relaxed, happy set, even though everyone was sick of eating chocolate--some even physically--by the end of the shoot. (Johnny doesn't even like chocolate!) The director allowed all the actors to contribute ideas on any level. "Lasse is always hypersensitive to not just the emotions of the scene, but the emotions of the actors before going into the scene, the emotions of the crew," Johnny explained. "It allows you the freedom to be comfortable, to just create something on the spot, not just stick exactly to the words, but maybe find something different." As he did on the Gilbert Grape set, Lasse Hollstrom encouraged such improvisation. The collaborative atmosphere garnered positive results: While filming Chocolat, he noted, "I think it will show on the screen that we actually had fun making it."
Chocolat was nominated for a bunch of different awards all over the place, and won a few. Its five Oscar nominations included acting honors for Juliette Binoche and Judi Dench as well as nods for best music, best writing, and best picture.
The Kitties are chocolat-covered.
There are too many great characters in this movie to fit into one scene, so I created my own mixture. On the morning of the chocolate festival, Vianne (Lily) feels defeated, that everyone in town is against her. Having always travelled with the Northern wind, she feels it calling her to her next unknown destination. Just as she and Anouk (Mini) are set to leave, however, Josephine (Lena Olin/Ashes) reminds them of all the lives they've touched and the loving community they've harvested.
-- Armande Voizin (Judi Dench/The Mother Kitty) and her daughter Caroline (Carrie-Ann Moss)
are finally on good terms.
-- Caroline has eased up on worrying so much: Allowing her son Luc (Aurelien Parent Koenig/Simon) to ride his dad's bike around town is a big step!
-- Guillaume Blerot (John Wood/B.J). and Madame Audel (Leslie Caron) are finally out on a date, taking Charlie (the dog) out for a stroll.
-- Roux (Gordon) has returned! Maybe it's to check his handy-work on Vianne's front door, or maybe he's realized something more important.
-- Of course, Pantoufle is there too...for now. (All good stories should include a kangaroo, don't you think?)
-- And, don't worry--I don't think anyone but Pere Henri (Hugh O'Conor/Comet) has noticed Comte. De Reynaud (Norman), who has passed out after a valiant battle against Vianne's blasphemous window display of chocolates and all that it and she stand for.
When Comte. De Reynaud awakens, will he finally give in to all these changes in his town and accept Vianne with an open heart? Will the townspeople embrace the newfound lightness Vianne has instilled in them? Will Vianne be willing to break her own traditions by staying put, surrounded by a community she helped create? See the movie to find out. (I don't want to tell you everything!) For once, I recommend a chocolate snack instead of popcorn.
Bon Bon, anyone?
Next, Johnny gets dressed up for two cameo roles in Before Night Falls. One is clearly prettier than the other....
(To see images from Chocolat, visit Melissa's Kitties' blog here: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com/2012/05/johnny-kitties-celeb...)
This is Naked Paisley Pete.
He is currently on parole and would like your digits.
He's from a monstrous-looking, furred race. They have enormous eyes. They are omnivores. They are famous for producing negotiators. They have only one child at a time making Naked Paisley Pete a rare breed indeed. Their government is a technocracy that is entirely dysfunctional. They were once a dead people - what brought them back to life is a matter of speculation. Their world of origin is icy and is known for being an excellent place to observe astronomical phenomena.
He is approximately 5" tall and made of light tan fleshy felt with chocolate brown paisley accents. Naked Paisley Pete kicks a super duty chocolate felt back.
He is stuffed full with Poly-fil. Which makes him very huggable.
Naked Paisley Pete is a combination of hand sewn and machine sewn stitches. And he comes shipped to you in a sealed UltraPunch package.This is Naked Paisley Pete.
He is currently on parole and would like your digits.
He's from a monstrous-looking, furred race. They have enormous eyes. They are omnivores. They are famous for producing negotiators. They have only one child at a time making Naked Paisley Pete a rare breed indeed. Their government is a technocracy that is entirely dysfunctional. They were once a dead people - what brought them back to life is a matter of speculation. Their world of origin is icy and is known for being an excellent place to observe astronomical phenomena.
He is approximately 5" tall and made of light tan fleshy felt with chocolate brown paisley accents. Naked Paisley Pete kicks a super duty chocolate felt back.
He is stuffed full with Poly-fil. Which makes him very huggable.
Naked Paisley Pete is a combination of hand sewn and machine sewn stitches. And he comes shipped to you in a sealed UltraPunch package.This is Naked Paisley Pete.
He is currently on parole and would like your digits.
He's from a monstrous-looking, furred race. They have enormous eyes. They are omnivores. They are famous for producing negotiators. They have only one child at a time making Naked Paisley Pete a rare breed indeed. Their government is a technocracy that is entirely dysfunctional. They were once a dead people - what brought them back to life is a matter of speculation. Their world of origin is icy and is known for being an excellent place to observe astronomical phenomena.
He is approximately 5" tall and made of light tan fleshy felt with chocolate brown paisley accents. Naked Paisley Pete kicks a super duty chocolate felt back.
He is stuffed full with Poly-fil. Which makes him very huggable.
Naked Paisley Pete is a combination of hand sewn and machine sewn stitches. And he comes shipped to you in a sealed UltraPunch package.This is Naked Paisley Pete.
He is currently on parole and would like your digits.
He's from a monstrous-looking, furred race. They have enormous eyes. They are omnivores. They are famous for producing negotiators. They have only one child at a time making Naked Paisley Pete a rare breed indeed. Their government is a technocracy that is entirely dysfunctional. They were once a dead people - what brought them back to life is a matter of speculation. Their world of origin is icy and is known for being an excellent place to observe astronomical phenomena.
He is approximately 5" tall and made of light tan fleshy felt with chocolate brown paisley accents. Naked Paisley Pete kicks a super duty chocolate felt back.
He is stuffed full with Poly-fil. Which makes him very huggable.
Naked Paisley Pete is a combination of hand sewn and machine sewn stitches. And he comes shipped to you in a sealed UltraPunch package.
CN Q116 doubles up on 7 Lead at Homewood behind a pair of Illinois Central SD70s that came in on E271 the previous night. Despite ongoing speculation that they would continue south towards Champaign, the set was put on the eastbound Q116 back towards Michigan.
There's gold in them there trees!
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THE AELIN QUAN AFFAIR : NO MORE BODIES... NO MORE VICTIM !
The Decay Observer, Thurdsay 30 September 2010
DECAY SIM (SL) - What is now known as the "Aelin Quan affair" continues to generate intense speculation both within the Decay District community and the media. As relayed by the national and international press, the latest investigations confirmed Mrs Quan had no twin - the only plausible explanation proposed so far for the existence of two strictly identical bodies. One can thus easily imagine why the discovery of a THIRD body, similar in every aspect to the two already found, left yesterday the police and the community even more baffled.
As most questions concerning the murders, their underlying motive, the victim(s), etc., remain unanswered to date, speculations are at rife. Many theories have already surfaced, including the suggestion that the event could be the first sign of an alien invasion, or that Mrs. Quan was the first human to be cloned - her clones having been "silenced" by a secret government agency trying to keep the program secret at all costs. The one hour-long documentary shot by the Japanese television added virtually nothing to what was already known, besides confirming that nobody was sure of anything concerning the mysterious Mrs. Quan. Some people even dared to cast doubts about her mere existence.
The best was yet to come, however. This afternoon, as the autopsy of the victims was scheduled, it appeared that the three bodies were missing. The room was locked with no sign of a break-in, police said.
Later this evening, Mrs. Quan was spotted attending a photography exhibition opening party. "When I asked her what she was doing there and how she managed to get back to life, she laughed and asked me if she was under arrest for being alive!", said Chief Inspector Jo Linden, visibly shaken. "This is the most bizarre investigation of my career. I think I'll go fishing for a week or two with my family...", the policeman concluded.
Special thanks to Ava Verino for the texture and to Frigg Ragu for the pose.
Priyanka Chopra Supports Save the Children Campaign. Sizzling Hot Priyanka Chopra gives a shot to reporters at a press conference to announce her association with Bvlgari Save the Children campaign in Mumbai. At the event, she was constantly showing her left hand on which there was a ring, now there are speculation that it is her engagement ring, now who the hell she is engaged with ? Shahid or Harman or else ? Any Check Priyanka Chopra is mini dress.
SWAN LAKE
“Ballet is also a symphony”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“The Ballet of ballets” - this is how the masterpiece of Piotr Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake is often referred to.
Since very few records concerning the first production of the work have survived, there can be only speculation about who was the author of the original libretto or the original idea of the ballet. The most authoritative theory claims Vladimir Begichev, director of the Moscow Imperial Theatres during the time that the ballet was originally produced, to be the one, and Vasily Geltser, Premiere Danseur of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre to be his co-author.
First production
In 1875 Begichev commissioned the score of Swan Lake from Tchaikovsky for a rather modest fee of 800 rubles, and began to choose artists that would participate in the creation of the ballet. The choreographer assigned to the production was the Czech Julius Reisinger (1827-1892), who had been engaged as Balletmaster to the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre (today known as the Bolshoi Ballet) since 1873. Most of the Julius Reisinger 's previous work for the company had not been successful due to their mediocre quality.
Because of its music, Swan Lake proved to be the first of its kind - a ballet set to the score of a symphonic composer. Up to that point, and for some time afterwards, composers known as “specialists” - composers who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time considered to be appropriate for ballet, - always wrote scores for ballets. Today, the most famous of these composers are the Italian Cesare Pugni and the Austrian Leon Minkus.
Tchaikovsky studied the music of these "specialists" before setting to work on Swan Lake in order to grasp the musical needs of ballet, and it is interesting to note that he had a rather negative opinion of their music until he studied it in detail. Tchaikovsky most admired the ballet music of such composers as Leo Delibes, Adolphe Adam, and later, Riccardo Drigo. It is interesting to mention also that Tchaikovsky re-used material from an opera that he had abandoned in 1868 - The Voyevoda - for Swan Lake.
By March of 1876 the score was complete, and rehearsals began.
Swan Lake (or The Lake of the Swans as it was called then) had its premiere on February 20, 1877. It was given as a benefit performance for the Ballerina Pelagia Karpakova, who created the role of Odette, with the Bolshoi Theatre's Premiere Danseur Victor Gillert as Prince Siegfried. It is not known for certain whether or not Karpakova danced the part Odile, which is today almost always danced by the same Ballerina who dances Odette. The poster of the original production credits the role of Odette to Karpakova, while the character of Odile is listed with three asterisks. It is highly unlikely that Karpakova did not dance Odile, as it is known that she participated in the all of the dances associated with the character in the third act.
The premiere was not well received, with near unanimous criticism concerning the dancers, orchestra, and decor. Unfortunately Tchaikovsky's masterful score was lost in the debacle of the poor production, and though there were a few critics who recognized its virtues, most considered it to be far to complicated for ballet. In spite of the poor reaction to the premiere, the ballet nevertheless continued being performed.
Subsequent productions
Julius Reisinger left Moscow in 1879, and his successor as Balletmaster was Joseph Peter Hansen. Hansen, to his credit, made considerable efforts in the late 1870s/early 1880s to salvage Swan Lake, and on January 13, 1880 he presented a new production of the ballet for his own benefit performance. The part of Odette/Odile was danced by Evdokia Kalmykova, a student of the Moscow Imperial Ballet School, with Alfred Bekefi as Prince Siegfried. This production had far bigger success than the original, though it was by no means a great one. Hansen presented another version of Swan Lake on October 28, 1882, again with Kalmykova as Odette/Odile. This version of Swan Lake was given only four times, the final performance being on January 2, 1883, and soon the ballet was dropped from the repertory altogether.
In all, Swan Lake was given a total of forty-one performances between its premiere and the final performance of - a rather lengthy run for a ballet that was so poorly received upon its premiere.
Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo edition of 1895
In the 1880s Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky several of his greatest works - the operas The Enchantress (1886), and The Queen of Spades (1890); in 1887 - score for Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, a ballet that would prove to be one of both Tchaikovsky and Petipa's greatest masterworks; immediately after The Sleeping Beauty, premiered on January 15, 1890, which became a great success, Vsevolozhsky commissioned a second score for a ballet and an opera from the composer - The Nutcracker and Iolanthe, which premiered together on a double bill on December 6, 1892.
Prior to commissioning Tchaikovsky to score The Sleeping Beauty, Vsevolozhsky had considered reviving one-act of Swan Lake for the 1886-1887 season. Though this production never materialized, Vsevolozhsky continued showing interest in Swan Lake, and he even designed costumes for a possible revival of the work that would be produced by Petipa (Vsevolozhsky was a talented costume designer, having designed the costumes for the first productions of both The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, as well as Raymonda, among many other ballets). Tchaikovsky was delighted at the prospect of Swan Lake being revived by Petipa, of whom he had the greatest respect, proclaiming that "never with anyone but Petipa would I produce ballets".
Tchaikovsky died on November 6, 1893, just when plans to revive Swan Lake were beginning to come close to realization.
Vsevolozhsky then planned a memorial concert to be given at the Mariinsky Theatre in honor of the composer, with the bill consisting of the first act of Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans, his overture from Romeo and Juliet, his Coronation Cantata, and the second scene of Swan Lake, in a staging by Lev Ivanov, Second Balletmaster to the Imperial Ballet. Ivanov's choreography for the memorial concert was unanimously hailed as wonderful.
The Ballerina who danced Odette was the Italian Pierina Legnani.
Soon after Legnani was named Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Imperial Ballet, and it was because of her great talent that a full revival of Swan Lake was soon planned for her benefit performance in the 1894-1895 season. Ivanov and Petipa chose to collaborate on the production, with Ivanov retaining his dances for the second scene while choreographing the fourth, and with Petipa staging the first and third scenes. Ivanov was also entrusted with staging the Neopolitan Dance and the Hungarian Dance in the Grand Divertessment of the third scene.
Tchaikovsky's brother Modest was called upon to make the required changes to the ballet's libretto, the most prominent being his revision of the ballet's finale - instead of the lovers simply drowning at the hand of the wicked Von Rothbart as in the original 1877 scenario, Odette commits suicide by drowning herself, with Prince Siegfried choosing to die as well, rather than live without her, and soon the lovers' spirits are reunited in an apotheosis. The most crucial changes were done to the music. Modest Tchaikovsky recommended that Riccardo Drigo, a celebrated composer in his own right and chief conductor of the Imperial Ballet and director of the Imperial Italian Opera, would revise Tchaikovsky's score. With instruction from Petipa and Ivanov Drigo set to work. All was ready by the beginning of 1895, and the ballet had its premiere on January 15. Pierina Legnani danced Odette/Odile, with Pavel Gerdt as Prince Siegfried, Alexei Bulgakov as Von Rothbart, and Alexander Oblakov as Benno.
It is M. Petipa and L. Ivanov legacy upon which all the subsequent productions and versions of Swan Lake draw.
Swan Lake in Tbilisi
In Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre the first performance of Swan Lake (second act) took place in 1907 and was presented by the Imperial Ballet of Saint Petersburg on a benefit performance for Olga Preobrajenskaya. She Preobrajenskaya performed the role of Odette/Odile herself, and Pavel Kozlov danced the role of Siegfried.
In 1912 ensemble of dancers from the Imperial Ballet under leadership of Fedor Lopukhov performed the third and the forth acts of the ballet with Lubov Egorova and Sergei Andrianov in the main roles.
Michael Mordkin started staging a new production of Swan Lake for the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1922, but he emigrated from the Soviet Union soon, and the production was brought to a premiere by his student Igor Moiseev in 1923.
In 1928 the Italian choreographer R. Balanoti produced Swan Lake for the Georgian company again.
Two great Soviet dancers and balletmasters Vakhtang Chabukiani and Konstantin Sergeev staged their own acclaimed versions of Swan Lake in 1945 and 1975 accordingly.
New version of Swan Lake for the State Ballet of Georgia was created in 2005 by Alexei Fadeyechev, former star and former Artistic Director of the Bolshoi, son of one the greatest Siegfrieds of all times Nikolai Fadeyechev.
SWAN LAKE
“Ballet is also a symphony”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“The Ballet of ballets” - this is how the masterpiece of Piotr Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake is often referred to.
Since very few records concerning the first production of the work have survived, there can be only speculation about who was the author of the original libretto or the original idea of the ballet. The most authoritative theory claims Vladimir Begichev, director of the Moscow Imperial Theatres during the time that the ballet was originally produced, to be the one, and Vasily Geltser, Premiere Danseur of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre to be his co-author.
First production
In 1875 Begichev commissioned the score of Swan Lake from Tchaikovsky for a rather modest fee of 800 rubles, and began to choose artists that would participate in the creation of the ballet. The choreographer assigned to the production was the Czech Julius Reisinger (1827-1892), who had been engaged as Balletmaster to the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre (today known as the Bolshoi Ballet) since 1873. Most of the Julius Reisinger 's previous work for the company had not been successful due to their mediocre quality.
Because of its music, Swan Lake proved to be the first of its kind - a ballet set to the score of a symphonic composer. Up to that point, and for some time afterwards, composers known as “specialists” - composers who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time considered to be appropriate for ballet, - always wrote scores for ballets. Today, the most famous of these composers are the Italian Cesare Pugni and the Austrian Leon Minkus.
Tchaikovsky studied the music of these "specialists" before setting to work on Swan Lake in order to grasp the musical needs of ballet, and it is interesting to note that he had a rather negative opinion of their music until he studied it in detail. Tchaikovsky most admired the ballet music of such composers as Leo Delibes, Adolphe Adam, and later, Riccardo Drigo. It is interesting to mention also that Tchaikovsky re-used material from an opera that he had abandoned in 1868 - The Voyevoda - for Swan Lake.
By March of 1876 the score was complete, and rehearsals began.
Swan Lake (or The Lake of the Swans as it was called then) had its premiere on February 20, 1877. It was given as a benefit performance for the Ballerina Pelagia Karpakova, who created the role of Odette, with the Bolshoi Theatre's Premiere Danseur Victor Gillert as Prince Siegfried. It is not known for certain whether or not Karpakova danced the part Odile, which is today almost always danced by the same Ballerina who dances Odette. The poster of the original production credits the role of Odette to Karpakova, while the character of Odile is listed with three asterisks. It is highly unlikely that Karpakova did not dance Odile, as it is known that she participated in the all of the dances associated with the character in the third act.
The premiere was not well received, with near unanimous criticism concerning the dancers, orchestra, and decor. Unfortunately Tchaikovsky's masterful score was lost in the debacle of the poor production, and though there were a few critics who recognized its virtues, most considered it to be far to complicated for ballet. In spite of the poor reaction to the premiere, the ballet nevertheless continued being performed.
Subsequent productions
Julius Reisinger left Moscow in 1879, and his successor as Balletmaster was Joseph Peter Hansen. Hansen, to his credit, made considerable efforts in the late 1870s/early 1880s to salvage Swan Lake, and on January 13, 1880 he presented a new production of the ballet for his own benefit performance. The part of Odette/Odile was danced by Evdokia Kalmykova, a student of the Moscow Imperial Ballet School, with Alfred Bekefi as Prince Siegfried. This production had far bigger success than the original, though it was by no means a great one. Hansen presented another version of Swan Lake on October 28, 1882, again with Kalmykova as Odette/Odile. This version of Swan Lake was given only four times, the final performance being on January 2, 1883, and soon the ballet was dropped from the repertory altogether.
In all, Swan Lake was given a total of forty-one performances between its premiere and the final performance of - a rather lengthy run for a ballet that was so poorly received upon its premiere.
Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo edition of 1895
In the 1880s Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky several of his greatest works - the operas The Enchantress (1886), and The Queen of Spades (1890); in 1887 - score for Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, a ballet that would prove to be one of both Tchaikovsky and Petipa's greatest masterworks; immediately after The Sleeping Beauty, premiered on January 15, 1890, which became a great success, Vsevolozhsky commissioned a second score for a ballet and an opera from the composer - The Nutcracker and Iolanthe, which premiered together on a double bill on December 6, 1892.
Prior to commissioning Tchaikovsky to score The Sleeping Beauty, Vsevolozhsky had considered reviving one-act of Swan Lake for the 1886-1887 season. Though this production never materialized, Vsevolozhsky continued showing interest in Swan Lake, and he even designed costumes for a possible revival of the work that would be produced by Petipa (Vsevolozhsky was a talented costume designer, having designed the costumes for the first productions of both The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, as well as Raymonda, among many other ballets). Tchaikovsky was delighted at the prospect of Swan Lake being revived by Petipa, of whom he had the greatest respect, proclaiming that "never with anyone but Petipa would I produce ballets".
Tchaikovsky died on November 6, 1893, just when plans to revive Swan Lake were beginning to come close to realization.
Vsevolozhsky then planned a memorial concert to be given at the Mariinsky Theatre in honor of the composer, with the bill consisting of the first act of Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans, his overture from Romeo and Juliet, his Coronation Cantata, and the second scene of Swan Lake, in a staging by Lev Ivanov, Second Balletmaster to the Imperial Ballet. Ivanov's choreography for the memorial concert was unanimously hailed as wonderful.
The Ballerina who danced Odette was the Italian Pierina Legnani.
Soon after Legnani was named Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Imperial Ballet, and it was because of her great talent that a full revival of Swan Lake was soon planned for her benefit performance in the 1894-1895 season. Ivanov and Petipa chose to collaborate on the production, with Ivanov retaining his dances for the second scene while choreographing the fourth, and with Petipa staging the first and third scenes. Ivanov was also entrusted with staging the Neopolitan Dance and the Hungarian Dance in the Grand Divertessment of the third scene.
Tchaikovsky's brother Modest was called upon to make the required changes to the ballet's libretto, the most prominent being his revision of the ballet's finale - instead of the lovers simply drowning at the hand of the wicked Von Rothbart as in the original 1877 scenario, Odette commits suicide by drowning herself, with Prince Siegfried choosing to die as well, rather than live without her, and soon the lovers' spirits are reunited in an apotheosis. The most crucial changes were done to the music. Modest Tchaikovsky recommended that Riccardo Drigo, a celebrated composer in his own right and chief conductor of the Imperial Ballet and director of the Imperial Italian Opera, would revise Tchaikovsky's score. With instruction from Petipa and Ivanov Drigo set to work. All was ready by the beginning of 1895, and the ballet had its premiere on January 15. Pierina Legnani danced Odette/Odile, with Pavel Gerdt as Prince Siegfried, Alexei Bulgakov as Von Rothbart, and Alexander Oblakov as Benno.
It is M. Petipa and L. Ivanov legacy upon which all the subsequent productions and versions of Swan Lake draw.
Swan Lake in Tbilisi
In Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre the first performance of Swan Lake (second act) took place in 1907 and was presented by the Imperial Ballet of Saint Petersburg on a benefit performance for Olga Preobrajenskaya. She Preobrajenskaya performed the role of Odette/Odile herself, and Pavel Kozlov danced the role of Siegfried.
In 1912 ensemble of dancers from the Imperial Ballet under leadership of Fedor Lopukhov performed the third and the forth acts of the ballet with Lubov Egorova and Sergei Andrianov in the main roles.
Michael Mordkin started staging a new production of Swan Lake for the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1922, but he emigrated from the Soviet Union soon, and the production was brought to a premiere by his student Igor Moiseev in 1923.
In 1928 the Italian choreographer R. Balanoti produced Swan Lake for the Georgian company again.
Two great Soviet dancers and balletmasters Vakhtang Chabukiani and Konstantin Sergeev staged their own acclaimed versions of Swan Lake in 1945 and 1975 accordingly.
New version of Swan Lake for the State Ballet of Georgia was created in 2005 by Alexei Fadeyechev, former star and former Artistic Director of the Bolshoi, son of one the greatest Siegfrieds of all times Nikolai Fadeyechev.
Frankenstein Castle, perched on a hilltop, is an intriguing ruin of medieval architecture and a touch of mystery. This is because the castle shares its name with Mary Shelley's famous novel "Frankenstein." This connection is one of speculation and mystery.
Nevertheless, this ruin is well worth a visit.
Rosslyn Chapel is a 15th-century Episcopal chapel located in the village of Roslin in Midlothian, Scotland. The chapel was founded by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness with a ground-breaking ceremony in 1456. After the Scottish Reformation in 1560, it was largely abandoned but, following a visit by Queen Victoria, it was rededicated in 1862. It was the target of a bombing in 1914 during the suffragette bombing and arson campaign. The interior contains some fine carvings which many historians have sought to interpret.
The original plans for Rosslyn have never been found or recorded, so it is open to speculation whether or not the chapel was intended to be built in its current layout. Its architecture is considered to be among the finest in Scotland.
Construction of the chapel began on 20 September 1456, although it has often been recorded as 1446. The confusion over the building date comes from the chapel's receiving its founding charter to build a collegiate chapel in 1446 from Rome.
Although the original building was to be cruciform, it was never completed. Only the choir was constructed, with the retro-chapel, otherwise called the Lady chapel, built on the much earlier crypt (Lower Chapel) believed to form part of an earlier castle. The foundations of the unbuilt nave and transepts stretching to a distance of 90 feet were recorded in the 19th century. Construction of the planned nave and transepts was abandoned.
The Lower Chapel (also known as the crypt or sacristy) should not be confused with the burial vaults that lie underneath Rosslyn Chapel.
The chapel stands on fourteen pillars, which form an arcade of twelve pointed arches on three sides of the nave. At the east end, a fourteenth pillar between the penultimate pair form a three-pillared division between the nave and the Lady chapel. The three pillars at the east end of the chapel are named, from north to south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar and, most famously, the Apprentice Pillar.
Carvings
Among Rosslyn's many intricate carvings are a sequence of 213 cubes or "boxes" protruding from pillars and arches with a selection of patterns on them. It is unknown if these patterns have any particular meaning attached to them. Many people have attempted to find information coded into them, but no interpretation has yet proven conclusive. Unfortunately, many of these 'boxes' are not original, having been replaced in the 19th century after erosion damage.
One recent attempt to make sense of the boxes has been to interpret them as a musical score. The motifs on the boxes somewhat resemble geometric patterns seen in the study of cymatics. The patterns are formed by placing powder upon a flat surface and vibrating the surface at different frequencies. By matching these Chladni patterns with musical notes corresponding to the same frequencies, the father-and-son team of Thomas and Stuart Mitchell produced a tune which Stuart calls the Rosslyn Motet.
There are more than 110 carvings of "Green Men" in and around the chapel. Green Men are carvings of human faces with greenery all around them, often growing out of their mouths. They are found in all areas of the chapel, with one example in the Lady chapel, between the two middle altars.
Other carvings represent plants, including depictions of wheat, strawberries or lilies. The authors Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight have hypothesised that some carvings in the chapel represent ears of new world corn or maize, a plant which was unknown in Europe at the time of the chapel's construction.[35] In their book they discuss meeting with the wife of botanist Adrian Dyer, and that Dyer's wife told him that Dyer agreed that the image thought to be maize was accurate. In fact, Dyer found only one identifiable plant among the botanical carvings and suggested that the "maize" and "aloe" were stylised wooden patterns, only coincidentally looking like real plants.
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Ah, the allure of social media to see a world that confirms how one wants to see it. When it confirms how one wants to see the world there is no need to fact check. Just connect the dots however one sees fit. And then pass it on. Unfortunately, our traditional institutions are struggling to deal with constituents who have virtual worlds of their own facts and reality.
I've been wondering of late how to visually convey abstract concepts, such as the dilemma of an ever fracturing reality. For example, when one looks at this image, is this the wing pattern of a butterfly? A cone flower? Or, the belief that Covid-19 is only as harmful as any other cold virus? Choose your truth. I wonder what will be passed on, become viral, be the new reality? Nowadays it is incredibly easy to find others to confirm bad information, and to join in.
Come on! Jump into the rabbit hole.
(I'm playing with twirl art on PhotoShop. These swirls are derived from a photograph of a cone flower that I captured.)
Now this might be train 40119 (Rotterdam Botlek - Milano Smistamento) but it would be in the wrong place, seeing as it is traced - like most Gotthard freight trains - via the Bözberg line. However, the ongoing engineering works in the Bözberg tunnel may have led to a diversion via Aarau, but that's just speculation on my part. What is certain, is that the train is hauled by BR 193 464 ("Arth-Goldau") and 474 ("Mannheim"). Frenkendorf, 20-08-2020.
Speculation as to its function here: lookup.london/martin-lane-oven-safe/
Martin Lane, City of London. DSC15113.
Alien art
My picture above is showing that tears are coming from an eye and spreading in space, crying from being alone.
Space, containing matters, didn’t start and will not end at all, existing always and endless. Space has our universe which has a lot of galaxies. Space might have a lot of universes. Our universe is expanding for now, but it would contract and die in a big crunch, like the Big Bang played in reverse.
If universes begin and die over and over again, like inflating and deflating balloons over and over again, space will have matters ( stars, galaxies and universes) just in certain areas of space. What escapes from a universe is light. Light can advance in to the rest of the space and can live billions of years. Light is made of particles called photons, bundles of the electromagnetic field that carry a specific amount of energy. Photons have no rest mass and they do not occupy any volume.
Speculation:
Light is pure energy, not matter, but matter could be created out of photons. Light might start a new universe in different part of space.
Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation states that energy and matter (or mass) are interchangeable. Photons from different universes might collide with each other and create matters.
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric (pronounced /ˈæɡərɪk/) or fly Amanita (pronounced /ˌæməˈnaɪtə/), is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, generally as a symbiont with pine plantations, and is now a true cosmopolitan species. It associates with various deciduous and coniferous trees. The quintessential toadstool, it is a large white-gilled, white-spotted, usually deep red mushroom, one of the most recognizable and widely encountered in popular culture. Several subspecies, with differing cap colour have been recognised to date, including the brown regalis (considered a separate species), the yellow-orange flavivolata, guessowii, and formosa, and the pinkish persicina. Genetic studies published in 2006 and 2008 show several sharply delineated clades which may represent separate species.
Although generally considered poisonous, deaths are extremely rare, and it has been consumed as a food in parts of Europe, Asia, and North America after parboiling in water. Amanita muscaria is now primarily famed for its hallucinogenic properties, with its main psychoactive constituent being the compound muscimol. It was used as an intoxicant and entheogen by the peoples of Siberia and has a religious significance in these cultures. There has been much speculation on traditional use of this mushroom as an intoxicant in places other than Siberia; however, such traditions are far less well-documented.
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There is some speculation about what's in that trunk.
West of Rochelle, Illinois
June 2008
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This series is the second published part from the set "Landscapes from a farm park south Milan" and they are enclosed in my first personal expo i had in 9th of september 2010 to 19 with my friend Mirko Bozzato, graphic designer and photographer. The farm park of south Milan is a reality which Mirko and I appreciate it's the biggest green area of Milan: a beautiful reality that needs to be protected by building speculation.
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Oh Maria
Come slowly
Come slowly to me
I've been waiting
Patient
Patiently
I didn't
But now I can see
That there's a way out
That there's a way out
That there's a way out
That there's a way out
That there's a way out
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[Landscapes from farm park south Milan Series] 02/06
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I know what you're thinking.
"Boss, Doomfist isn't even in the game!"
I know.
A lot of speculation has been circulating the interwebs, and it had me hyped when Orisa wasn't revealed. I'm hoping for an in game Doomfist, like a lot.
Anywho, this figure is my own take on the character.
It's inspired by some concept art, the Numbani map, a little bit of Horizon: Zero Dawn flair, and my own ideas.
I'll just explain the figure.
Doomfist:
The hair is inspired by a lot of Concept Art. It started out as a wolverine hairpiece. The head is fully painted by me, with a little blue body paint added (which is where the Horizon influence came from).
The armor was what I had started for Saw Gerrera, but I painted it all black.
The actual "Doomfist" is made from a four lego hands, a flickfire gun, and other various bits. The other arm is wrapped in etape, with a silver wash, and a few blue additions. I gave him a Rex pauldron, as it fits with the color scheme, along with a custom waist cape.
His legs were extended.
I don't really think the photo does him justice, because he looks so much better in person.
Anywho, thanks for reading!
Boss
#overwatch #doomfist
Duga, also called "russian woodpecker", was a Soviet over the horizon radar system, used as a part of the missile early warning radar network. Operated from 1976 - 1989. Duga broadcasted in the sw radio bands, with reaching over 10 MW it was super powerful.
The Duga signal, a repetitive tapping noise at 10 Hz rate, was source for lots of speculations such as Soviet mind or weather control experiments.
The massive steel construction is 700 meters (2,300 ft) long and 150 meters (490 ft) high.
Not so subtle colour, with the last of the evening light hitting the tree.
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This Video is an atmospherical speculation about what unexpected things might be happening in the unattended flow of light and time. It's a short version of the composition with the same name from the Album "For now I am Winter" by Ólafur Arnalds.
Maybe you know these birds or rather their shadows from an older tour visual i once created for him. So he kindly allowed me to put this piece of animationon on Youtube as I developed the visuals into a miscvideo. I hope you enjoy it.
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"Only The Winds" di Ólafur Arnalds
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Best vision ............
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It's time to dream away...
Festa paesana , nella campagna toscana, la più bella campagna del mondo, dove puoi vivere senza fretta, e dove c'è veramente "amicizia" tra le persone adulte ......e anche tra i bimbi che ti accolgono sempre con sorrisi sinceri.
E non occorre modificarli...., sono sempre così.
Forse una scelta di vita...., e un modo di vivere diverso che ti ripaga sempre.
N. 5 my fav A great smile on Flickr.
Carpe diem,"cogli il giorno", i migliori contatti sono questi,
e lo stare insieme ai bambini , fa crescere sempre...
Non me ne faccio niente dei falsi sorrisi della gente, delle frasi fatte, delle parole di circostanza; preferisco un vaffanculo sincero ad una sorta di falsa apparenza.
Gracias por pasar aquí.
Thanks for visit in Tuscany ...........I'm Dan!
Well after much anticipation and speculation it would appear we do have little ones this year, which is a relief after the disappointment of last years failure :-)
This series is the first published part from the set "Landscapes from a farm park south Milan" and they are enclosed in my first personal expo i had in 9th of september to 19 with my friend Mirko Bozzato , graphic designer and photographer. The farm park of south Milan is a reality which Mirko and I appreciate it's the greenest area of Milan: a beautiful reality that needs to be protected by building speculation. The expo is about a collaboration between us ...we were really good friends since we were kids and he started to take pictures about the awesome landscapes there during the last two years: i proposed to him to re-work with my style on his photos. Im very glad that I finally made a work on landscape images, trying to give them a sense of dramatic force to represent all the pressure by building interesting buildings around the park area: the idea is to use my textures to show a hidden dark side that could ruin the peace and beauty of the place
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Down from my ceiling
Drips great noise
It drips on my head through a hole in the roof
Behind these two hills here
There's a pool
And when I'm swimming in
Through a tunnel
I shut my eyes
Inside the cabin I make sounds
In through the tubes I send this noise
Behind these two hills here
Fall asleep
And when I float in green grass of tunnel
It flows back
Down from my ceiling
Drips great noise
It drips on my head through a hole in the roof
Behind these two hills here
There's a pool
And when I'm swimming in
Through a tunnel....
I shut my eyes.
I shut my eyes
All the textures used for this work are from: JoesSistah... , Lenabem , pareeerica , skeletalmess , les brumes , Sooper Tramp , Eddy 07 , una cierta mirada , Boccacino , Keyimagen-Javi , Sick Little Monkey , xd360 , S3PTIC-STOCK , adamned art, rubyblossom, Visualogist , Brenda Starr , Ava Verino , encounter - Laura , cleanzor's photostream , Dirk Wustenhagen's photostream .Thanks very much for their awesome creations.
Thanks you all for your kind visits, comments, favorites and invitations, much appreciated !
[Landscapes from farm park south Milan Series] 01/05