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you can see this picture and more if you want in Imago Art Gallery in SL
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These guys have got to be one of the most beautiful visitors to our shores.
Short-Eared Owl - (Asio Flammeus) - female
Yorkshire Dales - Birth Head Place Site
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia officially announced the upgraded Visa-free countries list for visiting Mongolia!
Buy your air tickets and visit Mongolia! Check this out...
1. Austria
2. Belgium
3. Hungary
4. Greece
5. Denmark
6. Italy
7. Latvia
8. Lithuania
9. Lichtenstein
10. Luxemburg
11. Malta
12. Netherlands
13. Poland
14. Portugal
15. Slovakia
16. Slovenia
17. Finland
18. France
19. Croatia
20. Czech
21. Sweden
22. Estonia
23. Norway
24. Iceland
25. Switzerland
26. Bulgaria
27. Ireland
28. Cyprus
29. Romania
30. Monaco
31. UK
32. Australia
33. New Zealand
...good preparation.
find your destination, check your passport and your vaccination certificates, apply for a visa, book your flights
Macro Mondays theme is : sticker.
In 1984, most Visa cards around the world began to feature a hologram of a dove on its face, generally under the last four digits of the Visa number. This was implemented as a security feature — true holograms would appear three-dimensional and the image would change as the card was turned.
Beijing to force out foreign students
OLYMPIC LEAVE: After incurring the ire of the business community with tighter visa rules, Beijing now plans to have all foreign students gone for July and August
DPA, BEIJING, WITH STAFF WRITER
Friday, Apr 18, 2008, Page 1
China plans to order most foreign students to leave Beijing before the Olympic Games in August, strictly regulate the issuing of business and tourist visas, and deport refugees, sources said yesterday.
“Even if you have to continue your studies in September, you need to leave Beijing in July and August,” a spokeswoman for Beijing University said.
The university is one of China’s most prestigious colleges and enrolls hundreds of foreign students annually on Chinese-language and other courses.
The spokeswoman from Beijing University’s international cooperation department said the two-month gap applies to all universities in Beijing and was ordered by “higher authorities” because of the Olympics.
She said all short-term summer courses for foreigners had been canceled this year.
One Western education official estimated that at least 10,000 students could be affected by the order if it applied to the whole country, though some universities outside Beijing said they were unaware of the rule.
The head of the German academic exchange, the DAAD, said a ban on foreign students during the Olympics was not mentioned in recent meetings with officials.
An administrator of dormitories for foreigners at Tongji University in Shanghai said her department had received no notice banning students during the Olympics.
But a woman who assists foreign students in China said at least two universities outside Beijing, Anhui Normal University and Heilongjiang University, had stopped recruiting foreign students for courses running beyond July.
She said she believed any students with visas until the end of this year would be allowed to stay in Beijing, but she added that most student visas would expire in June before the universities’ normal summer vacation.
A foreign ministry official said he was unaware of any ban on students but the normal education of foreign students “will be guaranteed.”
The official China Daily said about 190,000 foreign students from 188 nations attended courses in China last year.
Asked for comment last night, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council Vice Chairman Liu Teh-hsun (劉德勳) said he was unaware of the developments, but that the council would monitor the situation.
China has already severely restricted the issuing of short-term and multi-entry business visas, prompting complaints from business groups and diplomats.
Some Beijing-based businesses said they may be unable to fill vacancies until after the Olympics because of the new restrictions.
“You can be sure that all countries affected will raise the issue with the Chinese side very intensively,” one informed source said of the restrictions on business visas.
“It clearly has to do with the Olympics,” the source said.
China appears to have acted partly in response to recent reports that police uncovered at least two terrorist plots targeting the Olympics, the source said, adding that other nations had taken similar security measures in the past.
China’s Foreign Ministry yesterday defended the move and said visas were issued “according to law.”
“I believe it will have no influence on normal business activities in China,” ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu (姜瑜) said.
But Joerg Wuttke, president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, yesterday criticized China for limiting business visas issued in Hong Kong.
Wuttke called the restrictions “truly annoying” and charged that the new visa rules were unclear and had never been published.
The new measures, which an informed source said were temporary, require non-permanent Hong Kong residents to apply for visas in their home countries.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also said it was concerned about the deportation of vulnerable refugees from China before the Olympics.
In a statement posted on its Web site, UNHCR highlighted the case of a 17-year-old unaccompanied refugee who was returned to his country of origin after being taken from his home in Beijing on April 3.
UNHCR spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis said that some of the deportations among the 180 refugees recorded by UNHCR in China “may well constitute a violation” of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Britain has a thriving wargames hobby scene [table-top model soldiers] and also a thriving historical re-enactment scene. Indeed some wargamers are also re-enactors and visa-versa. Salute, at Excel London in April, is one of our biggest wargames events and attracts several guest re-enactment groups every year.
Unfortunately... this year there was only one re-enactment group present and it caused a great deal of offence. The British-run Second Battle Group of the Waffen SS which displays the divisional badge of the Ist SS Liebstandarte Adolph Hitler.
The first I knew was when I drove into the building to join my own group for table-top medieval wargaming to find two Waffen SS troopers in full regalia, swaggering around the vehicle entrance with slung machine pistols.
Their group had a prime spot in the middle of the hall and had an armoured vehicle, an ambulance, at least two jeeps, several motorcycles, numerous machine guns, a 20mm Flak gun, a 37mm anti-tank gun, a bazooka and a flame thrower. The weapons of course were all de-activated.
About 25 personnel included wives and girlfriends dressed as SS female auxiliaries, a nurse, and a group of children dressed in Hitler Youth uniforms. A female Hitler Youth girl had a real baby in a small pram. There was also a recreated Hitler Youth bedroom full of genuine [and I am sure highly collectable] Nazi memorabilia. I think it was the Hitler Youth aspect which was the greatest shock as no attempt was made to interpret or explain the display. There was not a single display about the consequences of Nazism.
Circling their stand several times I spotted mugs for sale including one [ www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/535878762/ ] celebrating the British Freicorps, the 50 of so Britons who fought for the Waffen SS and another mug I was not allowed to photograph which read: "1932 to 1992 - British Union Still Going Strong". The only British Union formed in 1932 was the British Union of Fascists. Why was this group selling these mugs in the first place? All of the mugs later disappeared back into boxes following complaints.
Salute is organised by the South London Warlords, a group of lovely fluffy British wargamers without a political bone in their body.
Following numerous complaints they issued the following apology which can be found in the June 2007 edition of Miniature Wargames, page 20: "The Committee of the South London Warlords wishes to apologise unreservedly for any offence caused by their choice of a display by German World War 2 re-enactors for Salute 07.
"We failed to provide a clear specification of what we were expecting from the re-enactors and given that we had seen them at other shows, were ourselves dismayed by certain elements of what they provided. Parts of this display were definitely not what we expected.
"However, while steps were taken to address certain issues raised, we accept that our attempts to put things right on the day were clearly inadequate.
"Please rest assured that we did not intend to cause any offence to anyone and will do our best to ensure that a mistake like this does not happen again."
To be fair to the Warlords the mugs for sale WERE removed following our complaints and to be fair it is a little difficult to ask a group in the centre of a public event to remove themselves when they had so many vehicles. It would have been a health and safety nightmare.
Not currently in use, but it was on the road until at least last year, so may still be around.
Quite the stand out old car in a nicer part of Palermo.
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They used to be quite a common sight, but they have not been touched by the hipsterian grace. Time to set a trend?
LOMO Lubitel 166 Universal and its T-22 lens, Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+50 for 9min @ 20°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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I don't see many Visas in Rome, so this especially tidy one was a nice sight. This one road has provided so many decent spots over the years that it just becomes one of those places that I always explore.
Amazing how clean those wheels are.
Even on a day with minimal driving around and just popping into the nearby town it was amazing what could be seen. Having not done very well on Visa hatchbacks I then saw this, in excellent condition.
Naquela manhã os pescadores não apareceram. Talvez pelo movimento do festival de baloismo, que afugenta os peixes. Talvez, por outros fatores. Dessa forma, resolvi assumir a posição do pescador. E pescar o colorido dos balões no céu azul de Torres-RS.
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Base model with the flat twin air cooled engine. On this unit, the tail lights are wrong and come from a Peugeot 104. Probably the lack of parts led to this modification.
Note, it doesn't have side protections, headrests or hubcaps, but they put a chrome tailgate handle !
The black plates indicate that the car is registered as a classic (over 30 years old).
With only slight frilling around the wheel arches this rare Visa Convertible sits unused in a Citroen enthusiast's garage.
Still wearing its final taxed disk which expired in 1997, HML state there are currently 2 Visa Convertibles taxed and 10 SORN.
Citroën introduced the Visa in 1978. As the design with the large unpainted bumpers was not very popular the model was facelifted in 1981 already. The Club model has a 652 cc air-cooled 2-cylinder engine, a larger version of the one in the 2CV6. The Visa was built until 1988.
"... Pra demarcar a divisa,
plantei a velha bandeira,
levantei esta trincheira,
pra rebater o invasor...
Sou eterno bombeador
da pampa continentina,
tive esta graça divina,
sou serrano sim senhor .... "
Fragmento de “Serrano. sim senhor”, de Flori Wegher, Jauro Gehlen e Glenio Vieira
Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil