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Un Poco de la Historia del ColóN
El colón fue la unidad monetaria de El Salvador desde 1892 hasta 2001, año en que fue sustituido progresivamente por el Dólar estadounidense, aunque oficialmente no ha dejado de tener curso legal.[1]
El colón era emitido desde 1934 por el Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador, organismo gubernamental encargado de la política monetaria del país. El colón se dividía en 100 centavos. En el momento de su desaparición circulaban monedas, de 1, 5, 10, 25 y 50 centavos de colón, y de 1 colón. En cuánto a papel moneda, circulaba billetes de 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 y 200 colones.
El 1 de octubre de 1892, el gobierno del presidente Carlos Ezeta, decidió que el peso salvadoreño se denominaría Colón, en homenaje al descubridor de América. El 19 de junio de 1934 se creó el Banco Central de Reserva como único organismo autorizado para emitir moneda en la nación. El 1 de enero de 2001, entró en vigencia la Ley de Integración Monetaria, promovida por el partido gobernante Alianza Republicana Nacionalista, que autorizaba la libre circulación del dólar estadounidense en el país, con un tipo de cambio fijo de 8,75 colones. En la práctica, la ley provocó que en pocos meses el Colón dejara de circular en el territorio salvadoreño. Los partidos de oposición, en especial el FMLN, han propuesto en varias ocasiones. abandonar el sistema dolarizado y emitir nuevamente la antigua moneda.[2]
La moneda antes y durante la colonia
EL CACAO
Desde que existe el comercio, las cosas han sido valoradas en términos de la unidad del objeto más apreciado localmente. En tal sentido, es lógico que los nativos del territorio salvadoreño antes de la llegada de los españoles, usasen el cacao como "moneda", puesto que el Chocolate era considerada la "bebida de los dioses".[3]
El uso del cacao como valor de cambio se remonta al auge de la civilización Maya, cuando la unidad monetaria era el Xontle, compuesta por cuatrocientas almendras de cacao.[4] La llegada de los conquistadores supuso la introducción de la moneda española, el Real. Pese al cambio, el cacao se siguió utilizando a razón de ciento sesenta almendras por un Real.[5] Todas las monedas utilizadas en América fueron acuñadas en España, hasta que en 1731, se fundó la Casa de la Moneda en Guatemala.[3]
EL MACACO
Las monedas más usadas durante la colonia fueron los Macacos. Consistían en piezas de plata de forma no definida, acuñadas en Perú o México; en su mayoría eran cortadas con tenazas y figuraban un grabado de las columnas de Hércules con la inscripción Plus Ultra. Su valor nominal era menos importante que su peso en metal, es decir, no tenían un valor absolutamente definido. Aun después de la independencia de los países centroamericanos, el macaco siguió en circulación, siendo oficializado el 9 de julio de 1856
MONEDA POSTERIOR A LA COLONIA
A mediados del siglo XIX, aparecieron las fichas de finca, las cuales eran monedas fabricadas de lata, en su mayoría de forma circular. Se les grababa el nombre de la finca y era la forma de pago a los empleados de la misma; la ficha solamente tenía valor en la tienda de finca que la emitía, por lo que se creaba una especie de monopolio.[6]
Durante la existencia de la Federación Centroamericana, el sistema monetario no cambió con respecto al colonial; se siguió usando el peso de plata como moneda principal, aunque con circulación de los macacos y de las fichas de finca.
Una vez disuelta la federación, el gobierno salvadoreño decretó la emisión de la primera moneda nacional; los reales, monedas de oro con una "R" grabada y los Escudos, monedas de plata con una "E" grabada.[3]
En 1883, bajo la presidencia del doctor Rafael Zaldívar, se decretó la Primera Ley Monetaria, adoptándose el "Peso" como unidad monetaria, descartándose el sistema español de división en 8 reales. La nueva ley ocupó como base el sistema métrico decimal, donde el peso equivalía a 10 reales.
Finalizando el siglo XIX, aparecieron los primeros billetes de banco. El nuevo papel-moneda pasó a jugar un rol importante como instrumento de cambio, como unidad de medida del valor de los bienes y como elemento de ahorro.
La emisión de los billetes estaba a cargo de bancos privados autorizados por el Gobierno. El primer banco emisor fue el Banco Internacional, fundado en 1880; a este banco se le otorgó de manera exclusiva la emisión de billetes, aunque después perdió la exclusividad ante las autorizaciones al Banco Occidental y al Banco Agrícola Comercial.
Bajo la presidencia de Carloz Ezeta, se inauguró la Casa de la Moneda el 28 de agosto de 1892; el 1 de octubre del mismo año, como homenaje a Cristobal Colón en el IV Centenario del Descubrimiento de América, la Asamblea Legislativa reformó la ley monetaria y cambió el nombre de a "Colón". El cambio con respecto al dólar estadounidense en ese momento era de 2 colones por un dólar.
En 1919 se volvió a reformar la Ley Monetaria, estipulando que las monedas desgastadas por el manejo diario serían retiradas de circulación y las piezas recortadas o perforadas no serían aceptadas en el curso legal. Mediante esa ley, quedó prohibido el uso de fichas, vales u homólogos en sustitución de la moneda oficial. Además, dio al Ministerio de Hacienda la facultad de controlar la circulación de la moneda.
Pese a la prosperidad económica relativa de los años 20, la depresión mundial de 1929, la caída internacional de los precios del café y la desregulación estatal del sistema monetario causaron una crisis económica nacional.
El problema principal era la carencia de una institución especializada que se dedicase a velar porque la moneda mantuviera su valor y a controlar la actividad bancaria; en tal sentido, el gobierno del general Maximiliano Hernández Martínez contrató a un experto ingles llamado Frederick Francis Joseph Powell, quien debía analizar y estructurar el cuerpo bancario salvadoreño.
En su informe final, recomendó que el sistema bancario debía organizarse en torno a un banco central que resguardase la moneda y su valor, así como emitir la unidad monetaria y controlar los créditos. Es así que por iniciativa de la presidencia de la república del 19 de junio de 1934, la Asamblea Legislativa aprobó la ley de creación del Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador, institución cuyo objetivos se fijó en el control del volumen del crédito y la demanda de moneda circulante, así como se le confirió la facultad exclusiva de emitir especie monetaria.
Emisión de la primera familia de colones
El 31 de agosto de 1934, la nueva institución bancaria puso en circulación la primera familia de billetes en la historia salvadoreña. Emitió billetes de uno, cinco, diez, veinticinco y cien colones; añadiéndose en 1955 la denominación de dos colones y el de cincuenta colones en 1979. El diseño de los billetes fue cambiando paulatinamente y de manera individual; también se dejaron de emitir algunas denominaciones con el pasar del tiempo.
Las monedas emitidas en la primera familia fueron de uno, dos, tres, veinticinco y cincuenta centavos; agregándose luego la moneda de un colón. Al igual que con los billetes, algunas denominaciones fueron desapareciendo con el tiempo y las que quedaron, fueron siendo modificadas en su diseño y en su tamaño.
Segunda familia de colones
En 1997, el Banco Central de Reserva emitió una segunda familia de billetes, introduciendo la denominación de doscientos colones
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Manaus é um município brasileiro, capital do estado do Amazonas e o principal centro financeiro, corporativo e econômico da região norte do Brasil. Situa-se na confluência dos rios Negro e Solimões. É a cidade mais populosa da Amazônia, de acordo com as estatísticas do IBGE, sendo uma das cidades brasileiras mais conhecidas mundialmente, principalmente pelo seu potencial turístico e pelo ecoturismo, sendo o décimo maior destino de turistas no Brasil. Manaus pertence à mesorregião do Centro Amazonense e à microrregião homônima. É localizada no extremo norte do país, a 3.490 quilômetros da capital federal, Brasília.
Fundada em 1669 com o forte de São José do Rio Negro. Foi elevada a vila em 1832 com o nome de Manaus, que significa "mãe dos deuses", em homenagem à nação indígena dos Manaós, sendo legalmente transformada em cidade no dia 24 de outubro de 1848 com o nome de Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro. Somente em 4 de setembro de 1856 voltou a ter seu nome atual.
Ficou conhecida no começo do século XX, na época áurea da borracha. Nessa época foi batizada como Coração da Amazônia e Cidade da Floresta. Atualmente seu principal motor econômico é o Polo Industrial de Manaus, em grande parte responsável pelo fato de a cidade deter o 7º maior PIB do país, atualmente.
Sexta cidade mais rica do Brasil, a cidade possui a segunda maior região metropolitana do norte do país e a décima segunda do Brasil, com 2.006.870 habitantes (IBGE/2009). Em Manaus residem atualmente (2009) 1,73 milhão de pessoas, sendo a oitava cidade mais populosa do Brasil de acordo com dados do IBGE. A cidade aumentou gradativamente a sua participação no PIB brasileiro nos últimos anos, passando a responder por 1,4% da economia do país. Uma evidência do desenvolvimento da cidade nos últimos tempos é o ranking da revista América Economía, no qual Manaus aparece como uma das 50 melhores cidades para fazer negócios da América Latina em 2009, ficando à frente de capitais de países como San Salvador, Caracas e La Paz. O crescimento constante de Manaus tentando se estabelecer como uma das cidades mais importantes não foi despercebido. Em 2008, o World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC), do Reino Unido, incluiu o nome da cidade em uma lista de cidades classificadas por sua economia, cultura, acontecimentos políticos e patrimônios históricos. A cidade foi classificada na mesma categoria de outras áreas metropolitanas do mundo de grande destaque, como Ancara, Salt Lake City, Gaborone, Tashkent, Marselha e Durban, sendo que a cidade ficou acima de outras como Tijuana, Sevilha, Libreville e Halifax.
Abriga a universidade mais antiga do Brasil, a Universidade Federal do Amazonas, fundada em 1909. Representa sozinha 49,9% da população do Amazonas e 10,89% da população de toda a Região Norte do Brasil.
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Took this the other night without a tripod (!) from my room window. Also caught a small weird glowing reddish sphere below the moon although I don't know exactly where it is in relation its definitely there. I edited this image in Photoshop but only used the sharpen and shadow/highlight options to bring out the detail more. That small reddish orb below is in the original and its not a fault in the camera either. Don't know what it is but its interesting. Anyone know?
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Mother-in-law: Dan, what does this look like?
Me: A giant gnarly vagina.
Mother-in-law: [laughs] Yeah. Take a picture of it.
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Graffiti (plural; singular graffiti or graffito, the latter rarely used except in archeology) is art that is written, painted or drawn on a wall or other surface, usually without permission and within public view. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Roman Empire (see also mural).
Graffiti is a controversial subject. In most countries, marking or painting property without permission is considered by property owners and civic authorities as defacement and vandalism, which is a punishable crime, citing the use of graffiti by street gangs to mark territory or to serve as an indicator of gang-related activities. Graffiti has become visualized as a growing urban "problem" for many cities in industrialized nations, spreading from the New York City subway system and Philadelphia in the early 1970s to the rest of the United States and Europe and other world regions
"Graffiti" (usually both singular and plural) and the rare singular form "graffito" are from the Italian word graffiato ("scratched"). The term "graffiti" is used in art history for works of art produced by scratching a design into a surface. A related term is "sgraffito", which involves scratching through one layer of pigment to reveal another beneath it. This technique was primarily used by potters who would glaze their wares and then scratch a design into them. In ancient times graffiti were carved on walls with a sharp object, although sometimes chalk or coal were used. The word originates from Greek γράφειν—graphein—meaning "to write".
The term graffiti originally referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, and such, found on the walls of ancient sepulchres or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii. Historically, these writings were not considered vanadlism, which today is considered part of the definition of graffiti.
The only known source of the Safaitic language, an ancient form of Arabic, is from graffiti: inscriptions scratched on to the surface of rocks and boulders in the predominantly basalt desert of southern Syria, eastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. Safaitic dates from the first century BC to the fourth century AD.
Some of the oldest cave paintings in the world are 40,000 year old ones found in Australia. The oldest written graffiti was found in ancient Rome around 2500 years ago. Most graffiti from the time was boasts about sexual experiences Graffiti in Ancient Rome was a form of communication, and was not considered vandalism.
Ancient tourists visiting the 5th-century citadel at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka write their names and commentary over the "mirror wall", adding up to over 1800 individual graffiti produced there between the 6th and 18th centuries. Most of the graffiti refer to the frescoes of semi-nude females found there. One reads:
Wet with cool dew drops
fragrant with perfume from the flowers
came the gentle breeze
jasmine and water lily
dance in the spring sunshine
side-long glances
of the golden-hued ladies
stab into my thoughts
heaven itself cannot take my mind
as it has been captivated by one lass
among the five hundred I have seen here.
Among the ancient political graffiti examples were Arab satirist poems. Yazid al-Himyari, an Umayyad Arab and Persian poet, was most known for writing his political poetry on the walls between Sajistan and Basra, manifesting a strong hatred towards the Umayyad regime and its walis, and people used to read and circulate them very widely.
Graffiti, known as Tacherons, were frequently scratched on Romanesque Scandinavian church walls. When Renaissance artists such as Pinturicchio, Raphael, Michelangelo, Ghirlandaio, or Filippino Lippi descended into the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea, they carved or painted their names and returned to initiate the grottesche style of decoration.
There are also examples of graffiti occurring in American history, such as Independence Rock, a national landmark along the Oregon Trail.
Later, French soldiers carved their names on monuments during the Napoleonic campaign of Egypt in the 1790s. Lord Byron's survives on one of the columns of the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion in Attica, Greece.
The oldest known example of graffiti "monikers" found on traincars created by hobos and railworkers since the late 1800s. The Bozo Texino monikers were documented by filmmaker Bill Daniel in his 2005 film, Who is Bozo Texino?.
In World War II, an inscription on a wall at the fortress of Verdun was seen as an illustration of the US response twice in a generation to the wrongs of the Old World:
During World War II and for decades after, the phrase "Kilroy was here" with an accompanying illustration was widespread throughout the world, due to its use by American troops and ultimately filtering into American popular culture. Shortly after the death of Charlie Parker (nicknamed "Yardbird" or "Bird"), graffiti began appearing around New York with the words "Bird Lives".
Modern graffiti art has its origins with young people in 1960s and 70s in New York City and Philadelphia. Tags were the first form of stylised contemporary graffiti. Eventually, throw-ups and pieces evolved with the desire to create larger art. Writers used spray paint and other kind of materials to leave tags or to create images on the sides subway trains. and eventually moved into the city after the NYC metro began to buy new trains and paint over graffiti.
While the art had many advocates and appreciators—including the cultural critic Norman Mailer—others, including New York City mayor Ed Koch, considered it to be defacement of public property, and saw it as a form of public blight. The ‘taggers’ called what they did ‘writing’—though an important 1974 essay by Mailer referred to it using the term ‘graffiti.’
Contemporary graffiti style has been heavily influenced by hip hop culture and the myriad international styles derived from Philadelphia and New York City Subway graffiti; however, there are many other traditions of notable graffiti in the twentieth century. Graffiti have long appeared on building walls, in latrines, railroad boxcars, subways, and bridges.
An early graffito outside of New York or Philadelphia was the inscription in London reading "Clapton is God" in reference to the guitarist Eric Clapton. Creating the cult of the guitar hero, the phrase was spray-painted by an admirer on a wall in an Islington, north London in the autumn of 1967. The graffito was captured in a photograph, in which a dog is urinating on the wall.
Films like Style Wars in the 80s depicting famous writers such as Skeme, Dondi, MinOne, and ZEPHYR reinforced graffiti's role within New York's emerging hip-hop culture. Although many officers of the New York City Police Department found this film to be controversial, Style Wars is still recognized as the most prolific film representation of what was going on within the young hip hop culture of the early 1980s. Fab 5 Freddy and Futura 2000 took hip hop graffiti to Paris and London as part of the New York City Rap Tour in 1983
Commercialization and entrance into mainstream pop culture
Main article: Commercial graffiti
With the popularity and legitimization of graffiti has come a level of commercialization. In 2001, computer giant IBM launched an advertising campaign in Chicago and San Francisco which involved people spray painting on sidewalks a peace symbol, a heart, and a penguin (Linux mascot), to represent "Peace, Love, and Linux." IBM paid Chicago and San Francisco collectively US$120,000 for punitive damages and clean-up costs.
In 2005, a similar ad campaign was launched by Sony and executed by its advertising agency in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Miami, to market its handheld PSP gaming system. In this campaign, taking notice of the legal problems of the IBM campaign, Sony paid building owners for the rights to paint on their buildings "a collection of dizzy-eyed urban kids playing with the PSP as if it were a skateboard, a paddle, or a rocking horse".
Tristan Manco wrote that Brazil "boasts a unique and particularly rich, graffiti scene ... [earning] it an international reputation as the place to go for artistic inspiration". Graffiti "flourishes in every conceivable space in Brazil's cities". Artistic parallels "are often drawn between the energy of São Paulo today and 1970s New York". The "sprawling metropolis", of São Paulo has "become the new shrine to graffiti"; Manco alludes to "poverty and unemployment ... [and] the epic struggles and conditions of the country's marginalised peoples", and to "Brazil's chronic poverty", as the main engines that "have fuelled a vibrant graffiti culture". In world terms, Brazil has "one of the most uneven distributions of income. Laws and taxes change frequently". Such factors, Manco argues, contribute to a very fluid society, riven with those economic divisions and social tensions that underpin and feed the "folkloric vandalism and an urban sport for the disenfranchised", that is South American graffiti art.
Prominent Brazilian writers include Os Gêmeos, Boleta, Nunca, Nina, Speto, Tikka, and T.Freak. Their artistic success and involvement in commercial design ventures has highlighted divisions within the Brazilian graffiti community between adherents of the cruder transgressive form of pichação and the more conventionally artistic values of the practitioners of grafite.
Graffiti in the Middle East has emerged slowly, with taggers operating in Egypt, Lebanon, the Gulf countries like Bahrain or the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and in Iran. The major Iranian newspaper Hamshahri has published two articles on illegal writers in the city with photographic coverage of Iranian artist A1one's works on Tehran walls. Tokyo-based design magazine, PingMag, has interviewed A1one and featured photographs of his work. The Israeli West Bank barrier has become a site for graffiti, reminiscent in this sense of the Berlin Wall. Many writers in Israel come from other places around the globe, such as JUIF from Los Angeles and DEVIONE from London. The religious reference "נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן" ("Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman") is commonly seen in graffiti around Israel.
Graffiti has played an important role within the street art scene in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), especially following the events of the Arab Spring of 2011 or the Sudanese Revolution of 2018/19. Graffiti is a tool of expression in the context of conflict in the region, allowing people to raise their voices politically and socially. Famous street artist Banksy has had an important effect in the street art scene in the MENA area, especially in Palestine where some of his works are located in the West Bank barrier and Bethlehem.
There are also a large number of graffiti influences in Southeast Asian countries that mostly come from modern Western culture, such as Malaysia, where graffiti have long been a common sight in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur. Since 2010, the country has begun hosting a street festival to encourage all generations and people from all walks of life to enjoy and encourage Malaysian street culture.
The modern-day graffitists can be found with an arsenal of various materials that allow for a successful production of a piece. This includes such techniques as scribing. However, spray paint in aerosol cans is the number one medium for graffiti. From this commodity comes different styles, technique, and abilities to form master works of graffiti. Spray paint can be found at hardware and art stores and comes in virtually every color.
Stencil graffiti is created by cutting out shapes and designs in a stiff material (such as cardboard or subject folders) to form an overall design or image. The stencil is then placed on the "canvas" gently and with quick, easy strokes of the aerosol can, the image begins to appear on the intended surface.
Some of the first examples were created in 1981 by artists Blek le Rat in Paris, in 1982 by Jef Aerosol in Tours (France); by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney, and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis
Tagging is the practice of someone spray-painting "their name, initial or logo onto a public surface" in a handstyle unique to the writer. Tags were the first form of modern graffiti.
Modern graffiti art often incorporates additional arts and technologies. For example, Graffiti Research Lab has encouraged the use of projected images and magnetic light-emitting diodes (throwies) as new media for graffitists. yarnbombing is another recent form of graffiti. Yarnbombers occasionally target previous graffiti for modification, which had been avoided among the majority of graffitists.
Theories on the use of graffiti by avant-garde artists have a history dating back at least to the Asger Jorn, who in 1962 painting declared in a graffiti-like gesture "the avant-garde won't give up"
Many contemporary analysts and even art critics have begun to see artistic value in some graffiti and to recognize it as a form of public art. According to many art researchers, particularly in the Netherlands and in Los Angeles, that type of public art is, in fact an effective tool of social emancipation or, in the achievement of a political goal
In times of conflict, such murals have offered a means of communication and self-expression for members of these socially, ethnically, or racially divided communities, and have proven themselves as effective tools in establishing dialog and thus, of addressing cleavages in the long run. The Berlin Wall was also extensively covered by graffiti reflecting social pressures relating to the oppressive Soviet rule over the GDR.
Many artists involved with graffiti are also concerned with the similar activity of stenciling. Essentially, this entails stenciling a print of one or more colors using spray-paint. Recognized while exhibiting and publishing several of her coloured stencils and paintings portraying the Sri Lankan Civil War and urban Britain in the early 2000s, graffitists Mathangi Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A., has also become known for integrating her imagery of political violence into her music videos for singles "Galang" and "Bucky Done Gun", and her cover art. Stickers of her artwork also often appear around places such as London in Brick Lane, stuck to lamp posts and street signs, she having become a muse for other graffitists and painters worldwide in cities including Seville.
Graffitist believes that art should be on display for everyone in the public eye or in plain sight, not hidden away in a museum or a gallery. Art should color the streets, not the inside of some building. Graffiti is a form of art that cannot be owned or bought. It does not last forever, it is temporary, yet one of a kind. It is a form of self promotion for the artist that can be displayed anywhere form sidewalks, roofs, subways, building wall, etc. Art to them is for everyone and should be showed to everyone for free.
Graffiti is a way of communicating and a way of expressing what one feels in the moment. It is both art and a functional thing that can warn people of something or inform people of something. However, graffiti is to some people a form of art, but to some a form of vandalism. And many graffitists choose to protect their identities and remain anonymous or to hinder prosecution.
With the commercialization of graffiti (and hip hop in general), in most cases, even with legally painted "graffiti" art, graffitists tend to choose anonymity. This may be attributed to various reasons or a combination of reasons. Graffiti still remains the one of four hip hop elements that is not considered "performance art" despite the image of the "singing and dancing star" that sells hip hop culture to the mainstream. Being a graphic form of art, it might also be said that many graffitists still fall in the category of the introverted archetypal artist.
Banksy is one of the world's most notorious and popular street artists who continues to remain faceless in today's society. He is known for his political, anti-war stencil art mainly in Bristol, England, but his work may be seen anywhere from Los Angeles to Palestine. In the UK, Banksy is the most recognizable icon for this cultural artistic movement and keeps his identity a secret to avoid arrest. Much of Banksy's artwork may be seen around the streets of London and surrounding suburbs, although he has painted pictures throughout the world, including the Middle East, where he has painted on Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side. One depicted a hole in the wall with an idyllic beach, while another shows a mountain landscape on the other side. A number of exhibitions also have taken place since 2000, and recent works of art have fetched vast sums of money. Banksy's art is a prime example of the classic controversy: vandalism vs. art. Art supporters endorse his work distributed in urban areas as pieces of art and some councils, such as Bristol and Islington, have officially protected them, while officials of other areas have deemed his work to be vandalism and have removed it.
Pixnit is another artist who chooses to keep her identity from the general public. Her work focuses on beauty and design aspects of graffiti as opposed to Banksy's anti-government shock value. Her paintings are often of flower designs above shops and stores in her local urban area of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some store owners endorse her work and encourage others to do similar work as well. "One of the pieces was left up above Steve's Kitchen, because it looks pretty awesome"- Erin Scott, the manager of New England Comics in Allston, Massachusetts.
Graffiti artists may become offended if photographs of their art are published in a commercial context without their permission. In March 2020, the Finnish graffiti artist Psyke expressed his displeasure at the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat publishing a photograph of a Peugeot 208 in an article about new cars, with his graffiti prominently shown on the background. The artist claims he does not want his art being used in commercial context, not even if he were to receive compensation.
Territorial graffiti marks urban neighborhoods with tags and logos to differentiate certain groups from others. These images are meant to show outsiders a stern look at whose turf is whose. The subject matter of gang-related graffiti consists of cryptic symbols and initials strictly fashioned with unique calligraphies. Gang members use graffiti to designate membership throughout the gang, to differentiate rivals and associates and, most commonly, to mark borders which are both territorial and ideological.
Graffiti has been used as a means of advertising both legally and illegally. Bronx-based TATS CRU has made a name for themselves doing legal advertising campaigns for companies such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Toyota, and MTV. In the UK, Covent Garden's Boxfresh used stencil images of a Zapatista revolutionary in the hopes that cross referencing would promote their store.
Smirnoff hired artists to use reverse graffiti (the use of high pressure hoses to clean dirty surfaces to leave a clean image in the surrounding dirt) to increase awareness of their product.
Graffiti often has a reputation as part of a subculture that rebels against authority, although the considerations of the practitioners often diverge and can relate to a wide range of attitudes. It can express a political practice and can form just one tool in an array of resistance techniques. One early example includes the anarcho-punk band Crass, who conducted a campaign of stenciling anti-war, anarchist, feminist, and anti-consumerist messages throughout the London Underground system during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In Amsterdam graffiti was a major part of the punk scene. The city was covered with names such as "De Zoot", "Vendex", and "Dr Rat". To document the graffiti a punk magazine was started that was called Gallery Anus. So when hip hop came to Europe in the early 1980s there was already a vibrant graffiti culture.
The student protests and general strike of May 1968 saw Paris bedecked in revolutionary, anarchistic, and situationist slogans such as L'ennui est contre-révolutionnaire ("Boredom is counterrevolutionary") and Lisez moins, vivez plus ("Read less, live more"). While not exhaustive, the graffiti gave a sense of the 'millenarian' and rebellious spirit, tempered with a good deal of verbal wit, of the strikers.
I think graffiti writing is a way of defining what our generation is like. Excuse the French, we're not a bunch of p---- artists. Traditionally artists have been considered soft and mellow people, a little bit kooky. Maybe we're a little bit more like pirates that way. We defend our territory, whatever space we steal to paint on, we defend it fiercely.
The developments of graffiti art which took place in art galleries and colleges as well as "on the street" or "underground", contributed to the resurfacing in the 1990s of a far more overtly politicized art form in the subvertising, culture jamming, or tactical media movements. These movements or styles tend to classify the artists by their relationship to their social and economic contexts, since, in most countries, graffiti art remains illegal in many forms except when using non-permanent paint. Since the 1990s with the rise of Street Art, a growing number of artists are switching to non-permanent paints and non-traditional forms of painting.
Contemporary practitioners, accordingly, have varied and often conflicting practices. Some individuals, such as Alexander Brener, have used the medium to politicize other art forms, and have used the prison sentences enforced on them as a means of further protest. The practices of anonymous groups and individuals also vary widely, and practitioners by no means always agree with each other's practices. For example, the anti-capitalist art group the Space Hijackers did a piece in 2004 about the contradiction between the capitalistic elements of Banksy and his use of political imagery.
Berlin human rights activist Irmela Mensah-Schramm has received global media attention and numerous awards for her 35-year campaign of effacing neo-Nazi and other right-wing extremist graffiti throughout Germany, often by altering hate speech in humorous ways.
In Serbian capital, Belgrade, the graffiti depicting a uniformed former general of Serb army and war criminal, convicted at ICTY for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnian War, Ratko Mladić, appeared in a military salute alongside the words "General, thank to your mother". Aleks Eror, Berlin-based journalist, explains how "veneration of historical and wartime figures" through street art is not a new phenomenon in the region of former Yugoslavia, and that "in most cases is firmly focused on the future, rather than retelling the past". Eror is not only analyst pointing to danger of such an expressions for the region's future. In a long expose on the subject of Bosnian genocide denial, at Balkan Diskurs magazine and multimedia platform website, Kristina Gadže and Taylor Whitsell referred to these experiences as a young generations' "cultural heritage", in which young are being exposed to celebration and affirmation of war-criminals as part of their "formal education" and "inheritance".
There are numerous examples of genocide denial through celebration and affirmation of war criminals throughout the region of Western Balkans inhabited by Serbs using this form of artistic expression. Several more of these graffiti are found in Serbian capital, and many more across Serbia and Bosnian and Herzegovinian administrative entity, Republika Srpska, which is the ethnic Serbian majority enclave. Critics point that Serbia as a state, is willing to defend the mural of convicted war criminal, and have no intention to react on cases of genocide denial, noting that Interior Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vulin decision to ban any gathering with an intent to remove the mural, with the deployment of riot police, sends the message of "tacit endorsement". Consequently, on 9 November 2021, Serbian heavy police in riot gear, with graffiti creators and their supporters, blocked the access to the mural to prevent human rights groups and other activists to paint over it and mark the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism in that way, and even arrested two civic activist for throwing eggs at the graffiti.
Graffiti may also be used as an offensive expression. This form of graffiti may be difficult to identify, as it is mostly removed by the local authority (as councils which have adopted strategies of criminalization also strive to remove graffiti quickly). Therefore, existing racist graffiti is mostly more subtle and at first sight, not easily recognized as "racist". It can then be understood only if one knows the relevant "local code" (social, historical, political, temporal, and spatial), which is seen as heteroglot and thus a 'unique set of conditions' in a cultural context.
A spatial code for example, could be that there is a certain youth group in an area that is engaging heavily in racist activities. So, for residents (knowing the local code), a graffiti containing only the name or abbreviation of this gang already is a racist expression, reminding the offended people of their gang activities. Also a graffiti is in most cases, the herald of more serious criminal activity to come. A person who does not know these gang activities would not be able to recognize the meaning of this graffiti. Also if a tag of this youth group or gang is placed on a building occupied by asylum seekers, for example, its racist character is even stronger.
By making the graffiti less explicit (as adapted to social and legal constraints), these drawings are less likely to be removed, but do not lose their threatening and offensive character.
Elsewhere, activists in Russia have used painted caricatures of local officials with their mouths as potholes, to show their anger about the poor state of the roads. In Manchester, England, a graffitists painted obscene images around potholes, which often resulted in them being repaired within 48 hours.
In the early 1980s, the first art galleries to show graffitists to the public were Fashion Moda in the Bronx, Now Gallery and Fun Gallery, both in the East Village, Manhattan.
A 2006 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum displayed graffiti as an art form that began in New York's outer boroughs and reached great heights in the early 1980s with the work of Crash, Lee, Daze, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. It displayed 22 works by New York graffitists, including Crash, Daze, and Lady Pink. In an article about the exhibition in the magazine Time Out, curator Charlotta Kotik said that she hoped the exhibition would cause viewers to rethink their assumptions about graffiti.
From the 1970s onwards, Burhan Doğançay photographed urban walls all over the world; these he then archived for use as sources of inspiration for his painterly works. The project today known as "Walls of the World" grew beyond even his own expectations and comprises about 30,000 individual images. It spans a period of 40 years across five continents and 114 countries. In 1982, photographs from this project comprised a one-man exhibition titled "Les murs murmurent, ils crient, ils chantent ..." (The walls whisper, shout and sing ...) at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
In Australia, art historians have judged some local graffiti of sufficient creative merit to rank them firmly within the arts. Oxford University Press's art history text Australian Painting 1788–2000 concludes with a long discussion of graffiti's key place within contemporary visual culture, including the work of several Australian practitioners.
Between March and April 2009, 150 artists exhibited 300 pieces of graffiti at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Spray paint has many negative environmental effects. The paint contains toxic chemicals, and the can uses volatile hydrocarbon gases to spray the paint onto a surface.
Volatile organic compound (VOC) leads to ground level ozone formation and most of graffiti related emissions are VOCs. A 2010 paper estimates 4,862 tons of VOCs were released in the United States in activities related to graffiti.
In China, Mao Zedong in the 1920s used revolutionary slogans and paintings in public places to galvanize the country's communist movement.
Based on different national conditions, many people believe that China's attitude towards Graffiti is fierce, but in fact, according to Lance Crayon in his film Spray Paint Beijing: Graffiti in the Capital of China, Graffiti is generally accepted in Beijing, with artists not seeing much police interference. Political and religiously sensitive graffiti, however, is not allowed.
In Hong Kong, Tsang Tsou Choi was known as the King of Kowloon for his calligraphy graffiti over many years, in which he claimed ownership of the area. Now some of his work is preserved officially.
In Taiwan, the government has made some concessions to graffitists. Since 2005 they have been allowed to freely display their work along some sections of riverside retaining walls in designated "Graffiti Zones". From 2007, Taipei's department of cultural affairs also began permitting graffiti on fences around major public construction sites. Department head Yong-ping Lee (李永萍) stated, "We will promote graffiti starting with the public sector, and then later in the private sector too. It's our goal to beautify the city with graffiti". The government later helped organize a graffiti contest in Ximending, a popular shopping district. graffitists caught working outside of these designated areas still face fines up to NT$6,000 under a department of environmental protection regulation. However, Taiwanese authorities can be relatively lenient, one veteran police officer stating anonymously, "Unless someone complains about vandalism, we won't get involved. We don't go after it proactively."
In 1993, after several expensive cars in Singapore were spray-painted, the police arrested a student from the Singapore American School, Michael P. Fay, questioned him, and subsequently charged him with vandalism. Fay pleaded guilty to vandalizing a car in addition to stealing road signs. Under the 1966 Vandalism Act of Singapore, originally passed to curb the spread of communist graffiti in Singapore, the court sentenced him to four months in jail, a fine of S$3,500 (US$2,233), and a caning. The New York Times ran several editorials and op-eds that condemned the punishment and called on the American public to flood the Singaporean embassy with protests. Although the Singapore government received many calls for clemency, Fay's caning took place in Singapore on 5 May 1994. Fay had originally received a sentence of six strokes of the cane, but the presiding president of Singapore, Ong Teng Cheong, agreed to reduce his caning sentence to four lashes.
In South Korea, Park Jung-soo was fined two million South Korean won by the Seoul Central District Court for spray-painting a rat on posters of the G-20 Summit a few days before the event in November 2011. Park alleged that the initial in "G-20" sounds like the Korean word for "rat", but Korean government prosecutors alleged that Park was making a derogatory statement about the president of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, the host of the summit. This case led to public outcry and debate on the lack of government tolerance and in support of freedom of expression. The court ruled that the painting, "an ominous creature like a rat" amounts to "an organized criminal activity" and upheld the fine while denying the prosecution's request for imprisonment for Park.
In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.
In September 2006, the European Parliament directed the European Commission to create urban environment policies to prevent and eliminate dirt, litter, graffiti, animal excrement, and excessive noise from domestic and vehicular music systems in European cities, along with other concerns over urban life.
In Budapest, Hungary, both a city-backed movement called I Love Budapest and a special police division tackle the problem, including the provision of approved areas.
The Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 became Britain's latest anti-graffiti legislation. In August 2004, the Keep Britain Tidy campaign issued a press release calling for zero tolerance of graffiti and supporting proposals such as issuing "on the spot" fines to graffiti offenders and banning the sale of aerosol paint to anyone under the age of 16. The press release also condemned the use of graffiti images in advertising and in music videos, arguing that real-world experience of graffiti stood far removed from its often-portrayed "cool" or "edgy'" image.
To back the campaign, 123 Members of Parliament (MPs) (including then Prime Minister Tony Blair), signed a charter which stated: "Graffiti is not art, it's crime. On behalf of my constituents, I will do all I can to rid our community of this problem."
In the UK, city councils have the power to take action against the owner of any property that has been defaced under the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (as amended by the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005) or, in certain cases, the Highways Act. This is often used against owners of property that are complacent in allowing protective boards to be defaced so long as the property is not damaged.
In July 2008, a conspiracy charge was used to convict graffitists for the first time. After a three-month police surveillance operation, nine members of the DPM crew were convicted of conspiracy to commit criminal damage costing at least £1 million. Five of them received prison sentences, ranging from eighteen months to two years. The unprecedented scale of the investigation and the severity of the sentences rekindled public debate over whether graffiti should be considered art or crime.
Some councils, like those of Stroud and Loerrach, provide approved areas in the town where graffitists can showcase their talents, including underpasses, car parks, and walls that might otherwise prove a target for the "spray and run".
Graffiti Tunnel, University of Sydney at Camperdown (2009)
In an effort to reduce vandalism, many cities in Australia have designated walls or areas exclusively for use by graffitists. One early example is the "Graffiti Tunnel" located at the Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney, which is available for use by any student at the university to tag, advertise, poster, and paint. Advocates of this idea suggest that this discourages petty vandalism yet encourages artists to take their time and produce great art, without worry of being caught or arrested for vandalism or trespassing.[108][109] Others disagree with this approach, arguing that the presence of legal graffiti walls does not demonstrably reduce illegal graffiti elsewhere. Some local government areas throughout Australia have introduced "anti-graffiti squads", who clean graffiti in the area, and such crews as BCW (Buffers Can't Win) have taken steps to keep one step ahead of local graffiti cleaners.
Many state governments have banned the sale or possession of spray paint to those under the age of 18 (age of majority). However, a number of local governments in Victoria have taken steps to recognize the cultural heritage value of some examples of graffiti, such as prominent political graffiti. Tough new graffiti laws have been introduced in Australia with fines of up to A$26,000 and two years in prison.
Melbourne is a prominent graffiti city of Australia with many of its lanes being tourist attractions, such as Hosier Lane in particular, a popular destination for photographers, wedding photography, and backdrops for corporate print advertising. The Lonely Planet travel guide cites Melbourne's street as a major attraction. All forms of graffiti, including sticker art, poster, stencil art, and wheatpasting, can be found in many places throughout the city. Prominent street art precincts include; Fitzroy, Collingwood, Northcote, Brunswick, St. Kilda, and the CBD, where stencil and sticker art is prominent. As one moves farther away from the city, mostly along suburban train lines, graffiti tags become more prominent. Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.
In February 2008 Helen Clark, the New Zealand prime minister at that time, announced a government crackdown on tagging and other forms of graffiti vandalism, describing it as a destructive crime representing an invasion of public and private property. New legislation subsequently adopted included a ban on the sale of paint spray cans to persons under 18 and increases in maximum fines for the offence from NZ$200 to NZ$2,000 or extended community service. The issue of tagging become a widely debated one following an incident in Auckland during January 2008 in which a middle-aged property owner stabbed one of two teenage taggers to death and was subsequently convicted of manslaughter.
Graffiti databases have increased in the past decade because they allow vandalism incidents to be fully documented against an offender and help the police and prosecution charge and prosecute offenders for multiple counts of vandalism. They also provide law enforcement the ability to rapidly search for an offender's moniker or tag in a simple, effective, and comprehensive way. These systems can also help track costs of damage to a city to help allocate an anti-graffiti budget. The theory is that when an offender is caught putting up graffiti, they are not just charged with one count of vandalism; they can be held accountable for all the other damage for which they are responsible. This has two main benefits for law enforcement. One, it sends a signal to the offenders that their vandalism is being tracked. Two, a city can seek restitution from offenders for all the damage that they have committed, not merely a single incident. These systems give law enforcement personnel real-time, street-level intelligence that allows them not only to focus on the worst graffiti offenders and their damage, but also to monitor potential gang violence that is associated with the graffiti.
Many restrictions of civil gang injunctions are designed to help address and protect the physical environment and limit graffiti. Provisions of gang injunctions include things such as restricting the possession of marker pens, spray paint cans, or other sharp objects capable of defacing private or public property; spray painting, or marking with marker pens, scratching, applying stickers, or otherwise applying graffiti on any public or private property, including, but not limited to the street, alley, residences, block walls, and fences, vehicles or any other real or personal property. Some injunctions contain wording that restricts damaging or vandalizing both public and private property, including but not limited to any vehicle, light fixture, door, fence, wall, gate, window, building, street sign, utility box, telephone box, tree, or power pole.
To help address many of these issues, many local jurisdictions have set up graffiti abatement hotlines, where citizens can call in and report vandalism and have it removed. San Diego's hotline receives more than 5,000 calls per year, in addition to reporting the graffiti, callers can learn more about prevention. One of the complaints about these hotlines is the response time; there is often a lag time between a property owner calling about the graffiti and its removal. The length of delay should be a consideration for any jurisdiction planning on operating a hotline. Local jurisdictions must convince the callers that their complaint of vandalism will be a priority and cleaned off right away. If the jurisdiction does not have the resources to respond to complaints in a timely manner, the value of the hotline diminishes. Crews must be able to respond to individual service calls made to the graffiti hotline as well as focus on cleanup near schools, parks, and major intersections and transit routes to have the biggest impact. Some cities offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of suspects for tagging or graffiti related vandalism. The amount of the reward is based on the information provided, and the action taken.
When police obtain search warrants in connection with a vandalism investigation, they are often seeking judicial approval to look for items such as cans of spray paint and nozzles from other kinds of aerosol sprays; etching tools, or other sharp or pointed objects, which could be used to etch or scratch glass and other hard surfaces; permanent marking pens, markers, or paint sticks; evidence of membership or affiliation with any gang or tagging crew; paraphernalia including any reference to "(tagger's name)"; any drawings, writing, objects, or graffiti depicting taggers' names, initials, logos, monikers, slogans, or any mention of tagging crew membership; and any newspaper clippings relating to graffiti crime.
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Altar día 28 de Octubre del 2011, este día hubo 2 Altares dedicados a quienes murieron en algún accidente, éste realizado por la Familia González Vásquez, para su hijo accidentado ese año
Las flores que adornan este Altar son principalmente de Color BLANCO, ya que platicaba el papá del joven difunto que así se acostumbra cuando es una persona que NO ha sido casada.
“…Decían los antiguos que cuando morían los hombres no perecían si no que de nuevo comenzaban a vivir, casi despertando de un sueño”
Tochimilco
Esta parte de tierra cercana al Volcán Popocatépetl, porta gran riqueza cultura, durante la conmemoración de los fieles difuntos; las ofrendas aun conservan la antigua forma artesanal, el revestimiento de la estructura se hace exclusivamente con papel picado, papel de colores y cartoncillo.
Ofrendas del día de muertos
Las familias pasan largas horas trabajando en el altar, muchos de estos altares son considerados verdaderas obras de arte, ya que reflejan el trabajo, dedicación y creatividad de la gente.
Características
A diferencia de otros lugares del estado, en Tochimilco particularmente, la estructura de la ofrenda tiene su propia representación: la ofrenda echa en forma escalonada, según la creencia es por esos escalones por los cuales llegara el familiar fallecido y por otro lado la que esta dividida en tres niveles representan la tierra, el purgatorio y el cielo.
Generalmente se coloca en lugares donde exista un espacio grande, el cual debe ser barrido con hierbas aromáticas hacia los cuatro vientos un día antes del día de muertos. Los olores y de los alimentos, las flores, las ceras encendidas, el incienso y el copal, al mezclarse producen un aroma inigualable muy característico de esta actividad orgullosamente mexicana, con el toque característico de la creencia de Tochimilco.
Recibimiento de las ánimas
A las doce del día los familiares acuden a la puerta de la casa a recibir las animas de los fieles difuntos, formando un camino de flor de muerto en el caso de las personas mayores y si es un niño de flor blanca, acompañado del aroma del copal.
Cada escalón es forrado y adornado de tal forma que cada escalón tiene un significado y debe contener ciertos objetos en específico, por lo que generalmente se coloca lo siguiente:
* Se prenden cuatro velas principales formando una cruz orientando a los cuatro puntos cardinales.
* Papel picado que da colorido y alegría de vivir.
* Las flores son la bienvenida para el alma, la flor blanca representa el cielo; flor amarilla la tierra y la morada el luto.
* Velas que con sus llamas representan la ascensión del espíritu. También significan luz, guía del camino.
* Lienzo blanco y nuevo que representa la pureza, el cielo.
* El cirio representa el alma sola.
* El copal cuyo humo simboliza el paso e la vida a la muerte.
* El maíz representa la cosecha.
* Las frutas son las ofrendas que nos brinda la naturaleza. Generalmente son cañas de azúcar, naranjas, tejocotes, jícaras, cajinocuiles, ciruelas, aguacates, nueces, chayotes, conservas, manzana, calabaza, cacahuates, etc.; así mismo la miel no debe faltar.
* Las calaveras de azúcar que son una costumbre indígenas.
* El agua que da vida y energía para el camino.
Los platillos con los que se trata de agradar al difunto compartiendo los alimentos que le gustaban, por lo que tradicionalmente se coloca el mole, las tortilla recién hechas, tamales, chocolate casero, el atole hecho de maíz, el chacualote hecho de calabaza, cacahuate y miel o panela, chapulines, el pulque.
* El pan tradicional, las hojaldras que en Tochimilco le llaman el pan de muerto, los bollos, las cachetonas, los rosquetes embetunados, los colorados.
* Fotografía de la persona a quien se dedica el tributo.
* Un Cristo para que haya bendiciones.
*Una cruz de flor de cempasúchil que simboliza los 4 puntos cardinales.
* Objetos personales del difunto.
Fecha de Colocación de ofrendas
-28 DE OCTUBRE
dedicadas a quienes murieron en algún accidente (Accidentados)
-31 DE OCTUBRE
dedicadas a los niños
-01 DE NOVIEMBRE
dedicadas a todos los fieles difuntos
-02 de noviembre
El día de los fieles difuntos, es decir el 2 de noviembre, día en el que se celebra la máxima festividad de los muertos en México, particularmente en Tochimilco, a los familiares les gusta ir a dejar flores a las tumbas de sus muerto, pero para otras representa todo un rito que comienza desde la madrugada.
Las familias acuden al cementerio y hacen altares, colocan veladoras, sahumerio y realizan oraciones sobre las tumbas de los familiares, estos altares tienen un gran significado ya que con ellos se cree que se ayuda a sus muertos a llevar un buen camino durante la muerte, el cementerio se cubre de flor de cempasúchil, terciopelo rojo, laurel, romero y enel caso de las tumbas de los niños se adornan con flores blancas como aleli, nube, laurel y romero.
And no car show would be complete without the beauty that is Rolls Royce's best selling car, the Silver Shadow. Saving the best till last I give you the car that took Rolls Royce out of the hands of the aristocracy and placed it into the hands of the people, a tradition that has continued ever since. Once rock-stars, pop-stars, TV presenters and alike were seen driving around in a car that was once the exclusive pride and joy of the established gentry, it was then and there that the Class System had truly disintegrated. The Victorian-era divisions of society were well and truly dead.
In 1965 it was apparent that the nearly 10 year old Silver Cloud was starting to look its age, and as time continued to crawl on the aristocratic look of the Rolls Royce was no longer its biggest selling point. Prior to the 1960's society was clearly defined, with what was known as the 'Glass Ceiling' through which none of the lower classes could rise up through the ranks. It was very easy for the Upper Class and Aristocracy to lose their titles and come down, but even if you were a Lower Class person who'd made it rich, you'd still be socially unacceptable due to your background. However, after World War I the emergence of the new Middle Class was starting to bend the rules, and as time went on the ways in which money could be obtained started to become easier thanks to stage and screen. After World War II the influence of the new generation distorted the lines of society even more with the appearance of the Beatles and Elvis Presley, people from low backgrounds who had managed to get a free ticket to the top due to their fame in the music industry. Of course when someone gets money, the first thing they want to do is spend it on luxury items, and nothing back then was more luxury than owning a Rolls Royce.
However, when the Cloud was designed society was still very much in the same Victorian ideal as before, and so its aristocratic look was about as hip and with-it as a China Cabinet in a Discotheque. In order to survive, Rolls Royce was going to have to adapt, so in 1965 they launched the Silver Shadow, a car that was designed for the new money, and the first Roller to be brought to the masses. What made it so appealing was a case of many things.
For starters, it was the first Rolls Royce to be a 'Driver's' car. Previous models had always been built with chauffeur driven passengers in mind, but the Shadow with upgraded suspension, an updated Rolls Royce V8 engine and the same general driving feel of a regular car (if not better with innovative power steering), made it ideal for the 'posers' of the upmarket realm. Secondly, the car was the first to be built with a monocoque, where the body and chassis are part of the same structure. Previously, Rolls Royce would provide the owner with a chassis, and then it was up to the owner what body would be put on it, with a variety of coachbuilders available to do the job including H.J Muliner Park Ward, Hoopers of London and James Young. The advent of the monocoque meant that potential buyers didn't have to go through the rigmarole of buying a chassis and then having a body constructed for it at extra cost.
As mentioned though, reception was something of a mixed bag, whilst motoring press and many people gave it critical acclaim for its revolutionary design, the usual Rolls Royce customer base saw it as something of a mongrel, appealing to the lowest common denominator rather than holding up the traditional standard that the Double R was famed for. But just because it was built for the masses didn't make it any less a car, each individual Shadow cost £7,000 new, weighed 2.2 tonnes and took 3 months to build. The interior was compiled of 12 square feet of wood, and three cows had to sacrifice themselves to create the leather hides that line the seats. Soft and springy Wilton Carpets made up the floor and power from Rolls Royce's astounding V8 engine could whisk the car to about 100mph, but why would you want a sporty Rolls Royce anyway? *Cough* Rolls Royce Wraith *Cough*
After launch the Silver Shadow was whipped up by pretty much anyone and everyone who wanted to show off their wealth, with a total of 25,000 examples being built during its 15 year production life, making it the most numerous Rolls Royce ever built. The Silver Shadow also formed the basis of several other designs, including the convertible Rolls Royce Silver Shadow 2-Door Saloon which later became the Corniche in 1971, the Bentley T-Series which was exactly the same only with Bentley badge and grille, and the controversial Rolls Royce Camargue of 1975 which was designed by Pininfarina.
For a time the Shadow was on top of the world, but things started to crumble fast in the 1970's. New American legislation meant that the car had to conform at the cost of its class, with the chrome bumpers being replaced by composite or rubber, and the ditch lights being slumped underneath on a rather unsightly chin-spoiler. In 1977 this revised car was launched as the Silver Shadow II, which I consider to be but a shadow of its former self due to the fact that this was when Rolls Royce started to become downplayed and underwhelming. Indeed the best intentions were in mind with safety, but without the chrome to adorn its lovely body, the Shadow was merely a husk.
This was added to by the fuel crisis of the mid-1970's, which made motoring a very expensive practice, especially if you ran a Shadow. Shadow's are incredible gas guzzlers at less than 20MPG, and refilling one will set you back in today's money about £80. At the same time it was considered socially unacceptable to be seen driving around in one of these after such a blow, almost as if you were driving a giant middle-finger down the street to everyone else who couldn't afford to drive. Because of this, owners turned to more subtle cars such as Mercedes so as not to fall victim to vindictive passers by. With sales starting to drop, Rolls Royce had to see off the Silver Shadow as soon as possible. After nearly 10 years of development, 1980 saw the launch of the much more angular and somewhat mundane Silver Spirit/Spur range, and with that now on the go the shadows grew long for the Silver Shadow, which was killed off the same year. Spiritually however, the design of the 60's lived on in the Corniche, which was to be built for another 15 years before that too was ended in 1995.
In some ways the Shadow became a failure of its own success, with Rolls Royce building far too many cars for the market that intended to buy them, with the result that the 2nd hand market became saturated with nearly new cars that fell into some disreputable company. Throughout the 1980's the Shadow was noted for being the ride of sleazy salesmen, gang lords and Members of Parliament (pure evil!). Additionally, many Shadows were bought cheap simply for the way they made the owner look.
If you were intending to use your cheapy Shadow to plunder yourself some girls and didn't have the attraction of money to back you up, you'd be out of luck and soon out of cash, because the bills required to run a hand-built luxury car would very quickly be walking through the door, both in terms of fuel and maintenance. Critical failures are rare and these cars are very reliable (although Jeremy Clarkson would have you think otherwise), but when they do happen, it would probably be cheaper to buy yourself another car. The worst problem you could face is a failure of the hydraulics that controlled the rear suspension, the steering and the brakes, which would render the car inoperable if something were to go awry.
Frequent maintenance of a Shadow however (every 4 to 6 months) will probably even out at about £100, which when you consider the £10,000 or more you'd be paying to replace the hydraulic system, is a small sacrifice. Rust is another problem, especially for early Shadows. The Chrome sills and guttering on the roof are especially prone, although the most critical problem is rust on the chassis, which if left can compromise the whole car and essentially write it off. A bit of a buying tip, if the car's body looks good, be sure to check underneath because you may see some costly rust gremlins down there that could ruin your investment.
Another place the Shadow has found itself is in the world of movies. Of course any film that has an upper-crust theme or feel to it would have to include a Rolls, but since 2nd hand Shadows could be picked up for a song you could easily put them in your movie. Sadly, most movies that feature Shadows are ones which feature them being destroyed.
So why do I love Shadows so much? Basically because it's a mixture of all things you'd want in a car. It has a spacious, luxury interior, it has a world beating design dripping with chrome and adorned with the finest hood ornament, and because it's dimensions aren't that far off a normal car, it can easily be used as an everyday machine unlike the Silver Cloud which is simply too big for everyday use. The Shadow is also a very personable sort of machine, if I was to own one I would treat it like a pet, and probably name it Sally (old girlfriend of mine).
Today, Shadows are by no means rare and the ones you'll find on the road are probably the best. Most of the poorer 2nd Hand ones rusted away and died back in the 1980's and 90's (or were blown up in movies, or put in swimming pools), which means that the survivors are largely under the ownership of avid enthusiasts who cherish their cars. You can find Shadows for next to nothing, with some examples going for as little as £4,000, but you'd have to be very desperate to get one of those as they'd probably be in very bad condition. Minters however can go for about £15,000 to £20,000, which when compared to some of the other cars of comparative size and quality such as the BMW's and Mercs of this world, is not a bad deal.
I have come away without the pictures from the final day, so you will have to make do with some more shots from Shibuya.
Outside it was a glorious day, and felt like summer on the inside of the ceiling to floor plate glass windows. Phew, its gonna be a scorcher! And what better way to spend the day than with our very own private tour guide>
What better indeed.
We met Maki at nine, and after some introductions, it was decided to go to Tokyo Station to exchange our vouchers for rail passes, thus making the rest of the travelling on the holibob possible. It also allowed us to be shown how to use the Metro, swiping our cards and looking at the map to plan a route. Handily, all lines have letter prefixes, and each station is numbered, so we were staying near K19, and to find our way back, get to the K line and go to the end, and Bob's you Aunt's live in lover. As it were.
I was in heaven, I have been dreaming of travelling on the Tokyo Subway, but I was doing it for real, and snapping. All.The.Time.
We arrived at Tokyo Station after a change onto one of the overground lines. Man, it was already hot, but Maki pointed out the profusion of vending machines. Everywhere, and for 110 Yet you can buy a half litre of cool h2o.
She lead us through various parts of the station to the rail tour office, we all filled out a lengthy form, then we were given our pass which gave us unlimited train travel for two whole weeks.
That done and the fact the Imperial Gardens were nearby, that is where we walked to next, through a maze of modern glass skyscrapers, over half empty 6 lane roads, and to the entrance to the gardens. Once upon a time it was the residence of the Emperor, he still have a thridd of it or something, but the rest is a public garden, which is littered with historic buildings, defenceive walls and the remains of castles and storehouses and the like.
Did I mention it was hot? It was hot.
But the gardens were sensational, and gave us an understanding of the different prefectures in Japan, as all were represented. Also there was green tea plants and bamboo. And on the wing I saw three different species of swallowtail butterfly, but I had left my macro in the hotel, so made do with watching them flit about.
We take a time out to have some water from a vending area before completing the tour round the gardens, before walking to Tokyo Station again, but this time getting a bus to the commercial area for a walk round the public fish market.
It was hotter.
It seems all tourists in Tokyo, and a good proportion of its residents also had the same idea, as it was like Venice on a very busy day.
And it was hot.
The sights and smells were fabulous, but the lanes were narrow and chocked with people, all walking at different paces, some eating, some drinking and some walking with their family. We were trying to keep pace with Maki.
After an hour of walking and loking, and it being half one, it was decided that it was lunchtime. Over the main road bordering the market was a swish sushi place, who had tables att eh counter, so we could watch our food being prepared. Only I wasn't hungry, so made do with some rice and simple sushi whilst Jools and Jen had a set meal. I drtank some ice cool beer.
I had another.
After that we walked through the commercial area to the Tokyo version of Harrods to look at their food halls. None of us are big shoppers really, and we did it as Maki made it sound like a great thing, and some of the displays were wonderful for sure.
Finally she took us to the trendy area, really, so we ccould look round the best souvenir shop in the city. We looked round, bout some stuff, and then said to Maki that we had enough confidence to use the metro, and as we were by Shibuya, where I wanted to snap in the evening, we would bid her farewell one hour early, and we would look for a coffee shop.
After looking in a coule, we found a place in a rooftop place, in the shade, but it was still warm, so we order ice coffee and take the weight off our feet, which after a day's travelling, maybe a seven hour forced march round Tokyo in 30 degree heat wasn't the best thing. But we had survived, but our legs and feet we making some complaints.
We took a Metro to Shibuya, and then went looking for the famous crossing, but we were an hour early, so maybe we should find something to eat. There was flashing neon lights everywhere, and it was all a bit confusing to be honest. Then Jen says there's a place to eat on the top floor of the mega camera store near us.
So we take the lift to the top floor, and are shown to a booth overlooking the street below, and shown how to use the tablet to order food and drinks. Some of it was even in English, which was nice. We order some nibbles and drinks, and pressed send. Twenty minutes later the food arrived, but no drinks, we called the waiter and sent him to fetch beers. And all was good, in fact we mellowed out and enjoyed looking out as the light faded and the neon shone brighter.
We went downstairs and I went looking for the crossing, a six-way pedestrian crossing that is iconic, I took a place looking towards the brightest lights and snapped away. It was a scene you can only imagine, I switched to the wide angle and slowed the shutter speed down and snapped some more. There was still some light in the sky, so the shots were pretty darn perfect, even I says so myself.
Happy with my shots, and the fact our legs and feet were screaming, we made our way back to the Metro then back to the hotel and back to the rooftop bar. It was a heck of a day, and we had achieved so much. And found our way back with no trouble either.
We played cards on the roof, with the Sky Tree shining a mile away, looking wonderful, and so we decided that we would go there the next evening.
Cheers
This was the best I could do without trespassing and was taken from Neptune Close, however this was the only shot I did here, as shortly after I took it a member of Depot Staff noticed me and then Politely called out to me to Leave the Area, and I also noticed that the Security Camera in the picture now seems to "Follow" anybody who walks along the pavement on the Depot side of the road, and I was also warned by staff from a business across the street, that "Bus Spotters" have apparently been sneaking into ASD's Yard Again...
So yeah I don't know if this is actually true but thought it should be mentioned.
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw 2 Weeks Ago!
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it was a silly argument. I didn't mean it when I said a spitfire was better than your Mustang.....
Taken during the 2011 Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk in Sheffield Alabama inside an old church along the route that is actually for sale! The walk was organized and hosted by Dave Reasons- Ken & I had a fantastic time!
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Finally my new long anticipated Fujifilm X100 has arrived. I had a brief moment to test this beauty just before going for our small holiday to Holland.
This shot is straight out of the camera (jpeg) set at the widest aperture f2 and 400ISO 1/280sec.
There are known issues with this camera and all owners are awaiting for Fujifilm to listen to come and solve these with a firmware update.
But even without this update it is a technical masterpiece. The image quality is more than superb. I can't wait to play with it these coming 11 days. Nice weather, beach, family, friends, royal wedding and queensday in Holland.
Thanks to the boyz @ Fujifilm for delivering my new toy with only a small delay, that after the devastating earthquake that hit Japan last month.
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A Praça das Etnias, localizada na Av. Borges de Medeiros, ao lado da Estação Rodoviária de Gramado, foi inaugurada em 22 de novembro de 2013. Em substituição à antiga Praça das Comunicações, o novo espaço tornou-se mais um ponto turístico em Gramado e está pronto para receber os turistas e a comunidade gramadense. A Praça das Etnias recebeu esse nome pois abriga três casas, alemã, italiana e portuguesa, em alusão aos colonizadores da cidade.
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Gramado é um município do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, no Brasil. Localiza-se na Serra Gaúcha, mais precisamente na Região das Hortênsias, a uma latitude 29º 22' 44" sul e a uma longitude 50º 52' 26" oeste, estando a uma altitude de 830 metros. Sua população estimada em 2013 é de 34 110 habitantes. Possui uma área de 237,019 quilômetros quadrados. Seu principal acesso se dá através da RS-115, embora também seja atendida pelas rodovias RS-235 e RS-373.
Sua demografia é etnicamente variada, com forte influência alemã e italiana, o que se reflete especialmente na culinária e na arquitetura urbana e rural.
English
Gramado is a municipality and small tourist town, southeast of Caxias do Sul and east of Nova Petrópolis in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the Serra Gaúcha region. The town was originally settled by Azorean descendants and later received a contingent of German and Italian immigrants. Gramado is one of the towns along the scenic route known as Rota Romântica (Romantic Route).
Spanish
Gramado es un municipio brasileño del Estado de Río Grande del Sur, situado a 115 kilómetros al norte de Porto Alegre, capital del Estado. Limita con los municipios de Caxias do Sul (al norte), Três Coroas (al sur), Canela (al este), Nova Petrópolis y Santa Maria do Herval (al oeste).
Ubicada en la "Sierra Gaucha", la ciudad de Gramado es poseedora de riquezas naturales exuberantes, siendo el polo turístico más importante de Rio Grande do Sul y uno de los destinos más buscados por el turismo interno brasileño. Conocida como la "Suiza del Brasil", Gramado convoca a turistas el año entero atraídos por sus bellezas naturales entre las que predominan sierras, valles, arroyos cristalinos y bosques de pinos, su clima templado y su legado europeo, sobre todo alemán e italiano.
German
Gramado ist eine Stadt in Rio Grande do Sul im Süden Brasiliens. Die Stadtgemeinde hat 31.655 Einwohner. Gramado liegt auf einer Höhe von 830 Metern in der Serra Gaúcha in der Region der Hortensien. Das Gemeindegebiet grenzt an Canela (im Osten), Caxias do Sul (im Norden), Nova Petrópolis (im Westen), Santa Maria do Herval (im Südwesten) und Três Coroas (im Südosten). Gramado liegt 115 km nördlich der Bundesstaatshauptstadt Porto Alegre.
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Have you ever wondered why colorful sculpture animals like cats, racoons, meerkats and alpacas prefer to travel the world with and without backpacks? Well, wonder no more, because I have the answer for you.
First of all, let's talk about why they travel at all. You see, these animals are not ordinary sculptures. They are actually enchanted by a mysterious artist who wanted to give them life and freedom. They can move and talk when no one is looking, and they have a curious and adventurous spirit. They love to explore new places and learn about different cultures and customs. They also enjoy meeting other sculpture animals and making friends with them.
Now, let's talk about why some of them carry backpacks and some of them don't. The backpacks are actually magical too. They can store anything the animals need for their travels, such as food, water, clothes, souvenirs, books, etc. They can also change their appearance to blend in with the environment or to express their personality. For example, a cat might have a backpack that looks like a fish or a ball of yarn, while a racoon might have a backpack that looks like a trash can or a mask.
The animals that carry backpacks are usually more prepared and organized for their travels. They like to plan ahead and have everything they need in case of emergencies. They also like to collect things from their journeys and keep them as memories. They are more likely to stay in one place for a longer time and enjoy the local attractions.
The animals that don't carry backpacks are usually more spontaneous and adventurous for their travels. They like to improvise and go with the flow. They don't need much to survive and they can adapt to any situation. They also like to experience new things and challenge themselves. They are more likely to move from one place to another quickly and explore the unknown.
Both types of travelers have their own advantages and disadvantages. The backpackers are more comfortable and safe, but they might miss out on some opportunities and surprises. The non-backpackers are more flexible and exciting, but they might face some difficulties and dangers. The important thing is that they all have fun and respect each other's choices.
So, next time you see a colorful sculpture animal in your city or somewhere else in the world, don't be surprised if it has a backpack or not. Just smile and wave at it, because it might be on an amazing adventure that you can only imagine.
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Universidade de Paris. Uma das mais antigas da Europa, a Universidade de Paris foi fundada ao redor de 1170, a partir da escola da catedral de Notre-Dame. Escolas semelhantes existiam junto às catedrais em toda França. Era o bispo que nomeava os professores e controlava o ensino por meio de seu Chanceler ou Secretário Geral do Bispado.
Quando o sempre crescente número de estudantes fez que a escola de Notre-Dame se tornasse insuficiente para abrigá-los, os professores particulares foram autorizados a abrir escolas ao redor da catedral. Estes mestres, para defender seus interesses e suas idéias, se reuniram e se associaram formando a sua "corporação", uma "Universitas", um modo de união à semelhança dos modernos sindicatos. Assim nasceu, por volta de 1.170, a Universidade de Paris.
Cada mestre, ou grupo de mestres, tinha sua própria escola; quando a corporação tinha que deliberar sobre algum assunto de interesse comum, eles em geral se reuniam em uma ou outra igreja. A organização dessas reuniões bem como a representação dos mestres perante a Igreja e o governo fez surgir o posto e a figura do Reitor. Os assuntos e as disciplinas e as necessidades práticas comuns a várias escolas terminaram por promover o agrupamento em escolas maiores, as faculdades.
No início do século XII, Abelardo, um dos grandes intelectuais da Idade Média, veio ensinar em Paris e sua fama atraiu milhares de estudantes para a Universidade, vindos de todos os países do mundo cristão. As escolas se expandiram para a outra margem do rio Sena, no monte Sainte Geniève, onde Abelardo ensinou. Lá se encontra ainda a famosa rue du Fouarre, no quartier Latin, onde os mestres da Faculdade das Artes tinham suas escolas; mais adiante encontra-se a igreja de Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, onde muitas vezes se reuniu a velha corporação ou "Universidade" dos professores.
Com o apoio papal, a Universidade de Paris tornou-se o grande centro transalpino de ensino teológico cristão. Durante os anos 1220, as ordens mendicantes Dominicana e Franciscana dominaram o ensino na Universidade que, ao final do século XIII e durante o século XIV foi o maior centro de ensino de toda a cristandade, particularmente em Teologia. Entre seus professores mais famosos contam-se, além de Abelardo, Alexander de Hales, São Bonaventura, Santo Alberto Magno, e São Thomas de Aquino. A universidade ficou dividida em quatro faculdades: três "superiores" compreendendo a de Teologia, a de Direito Canônico, e a de Medicina, e uma "inferior", a Faculdade de Artes.
No decurso dos séculos XVI e XVII a universidade de Paris tornou-se um conglomerado de colégios, à semelhança das universidades inglesas. Os colégios foram inicialmente pensionatos de estudantes, aos quais se acrescentaram depois salas de aula onde os mestres vinham ensinar. Esta é a época em que os Jesuítas foram autorizados e abrir seus Colégios. Os padres da Sociedade de Jesus, hábeis e poderosos, atraíram os jovens para os seus colégios, esvaziando as universidades ou assumindo o seu controle.
Com a Revolução Francesa (1789-99) a universidade foi reorganizada para fins de aplicação do saber, deixando para traz o modelo jesuítico de debates teológicos e estudo de línguas mortas. Foram criadas escolas superiores especializadas e independentes. Surgiram, sucessivamente, o Museu de História Natural, a Escola politécnica, a Escola Normal, três escolas de Saúde e a escola de Línguas, e o ensino tornou-se secular, independente de doutrinas religiosas ou políticas, mas a faculdade de teologia somente foi fechada em 1886. Napoleão manteve as escolas criadas pelo governo revolucionário da Convenção.
Os principais prédios da universidade, apesar de não serem contíguos, têm por centro o edifício da Sorbonne. Esta, originária de uma escola fundada pelo teólogo Robert de Sorbon ao redor de 1257, foi o mais famoso colégio de Paris. Sua proximidade da faculdade de estudos teológicos, e o uso do seu auditório para grandes debates, fez o nome Sorbonne tornar-se a designação popular para a faculdade de teologia de Paris. Sua localização atual no Boulevard Saint-Michel, data de 1627 quando Richelieu a reconstruiu às suas custas. Desde o século XVI, devido a ser a faculdade mais importante, a Sorbonne acabou por ser considerada como o núcleo principal da Universidade. Sorbonne e Universidade de Paris passaram a ser sinônimos. Porém, os edifícios antigos da Sorbonne foram demolidos, com exceção da Igreja erguida por Richelieu e onde está seu túmulo, a qual foi incorporada à construção nova, que forma um retângulo de 21 000 metros quadrados, três vezes maior que a Sorbonne erguida pelo Cardeal. Alberga a faculdade de letras, e também a administração do distrito educacional com centro em Paris e os serviços administrativos da Universidade: gabinete do reitor, escritórios, o salão do conselho, e o grande anfiteatro para 3.000 pessoas.
Nos anos de 1960 a universidade de Paris, mediante uma política de tolerância acadêmica capaz de atrair o ingresso maciço de jovens estrangeiros vindos de países mais atrasados, tornou-se um centro mundial de difusão do socialismo, do marxismo, do comunismo, do anarquismo e do antiamericanismo, superando neste afã a própria Universidade Patrice Lumumba, que fora criada especificamente para esse fim em Moscou no início da mesma década. Resultou a própria França sofrer as conseqüências dessa política, quando suas estruturas se viram ameaçadas pelo levante estudantil de 1968, que também desencadeou uma onda de rebeldia estudantil ao redor do mundo. Nessa fase, o número de estudantes da Universidade havia subido a mais de 115.000.
Após a crise, o governo de direita procedeu a uma reforma geral profunda na organização do ensino superior francês, através do Ato de reforma da educação superior, do mesmo ano de 1968. Com base nesse ato, a partir de 1970 a Universidade de Paris passou a compreender uma série de 13 faculdades de altos estudos, autônomas e financiadas pelo Estado, localizadas principalmente em Paris (Paris I a XIII).
A faculdade ou universidade de Paris I inclui unidades de Economia, Direito, Línguas modernas, e Artes; Paris II, Direito, Tecnologia e Ciências econômicas; Paris III, Artes cênicas, e Língua e Civilização inglesa, latino americana e sul-asiáticas; Paris IV, Artes e Arqueologia, Língua e literatura latina, Musicologia, e Humanidades aplicadas; Paris V, Farmácia e Ciências biológicas; Paris VI, Matemática, Física, e Geociências; Paris VII, Medicina, Ciências físicas e biológicas, Inglês, e Estudos do Extremo Oriente; Paris VIII, Línguas Anglo-Arnericanas, Literatura e civilização francesa, inglesa e alemã, Sociologia, Artes, Economia política; Paris IX, Comércio e Economia aplicada, Informação comercial, e Matemática; Paris X (situada em Nanterre), Economia, História, Sociologia, e Línguas romances; Paris XI (em Sceaux), Matemática, Física, Química e Medicina; Paris XII (em Val-de-Marne), Medicina, Direito, e Letras; Paris XIII (em Saint-Denis), Tecnologia, Letras e Humanidades.
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El Parque del Oeste es un parque de la ciudad de Madrid (España) situado entre la carretera de La Coruña, la Ciudad Universitaria y el distrito de Moncloa. Antes del siglo XX, los terrenos que actualmente ocupa el parque eran el principal vertedero de basuras de la ciudad. El parque es iniciativa de Alberto Aguilera, alcalde de la ciudad a principios del siglo XX, quien en 1906 pidió al paisajista Celedonio Rodrigáñez el trazado de un lugar para el paseo y descanso. Cuenta con lugares únicos y bellos como «La Rosaleda», en la cual se celebra anualmente un concurso internacional de rosas. El Templo de Debod también se encuentra en esta zona.
La obra comenzó en 1893 y quedó inaugurada la primera fase en 1905. Esta fase comprendía una superficie aproximada de 87 Hectáreas entre las actuales calles de Moret, y Séneca, más un Paseo de Coches, hoy Paseo de Camoens.
En 1906 continúan las obras de la segunda fase, llegando hasta el Cuartel de la Montaña (actual ubicación del Templo de Debod). Se extendió en paralelo al Paseo del Pintor Rosales, sobre antiguas escombreras.
Durante la Guerra Civil el Parque del Oeste se convirtió en campo de batalla de la Batalla de la Ciudad Universitaria, abriéndose trincheras y construyéndose búnkeres que todavía hoy se pueden ver en su extremo norte.
Una vez acabada la guerra, D. Cecilio Rodríguez, responsable de los parques municipales, se encargó de su reconstrucción,que duró hasta finales de los años cuarenta. Se respetó el carácter paisajista, el tipo de plantación y el trazado de los caminos.
Durante los años 1956 y 1973 se amplió, ocupando los terrenos del Cuartel de la Montaña, construyéndose La Rosaleda y el Parque de la montaña, ubicando en él el Templo de Debod.
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The Parque del Oeste (in English: Western Park) is a park of the city of Madrid (Spain) situated between the Autovía A-6, the Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid and the district of Moncloa. Before the 20th century, the land that the park currently occupies was the main landfill of the city. The park is the initiative of Alberto Aguilera, the mayor of the city at the beginning of the 20th century, who in 1906 requested the layout of a place for walking and relaxation by landscape artist Celedonio Rodrígáñez. It has unique and beautiful sites such as "The Rose", which is held every year an international tender roses.
One of the monuments in the park is the Temple of Debod, an ancient Egyptian temple. The Egyptian state donated the temple of Debod to Spain in 1968 as a sign of gratitude for the help provided by Spain in saving the temples of Abu Simbel.
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On August 31, 2011, many Canadian television stations made the switch from over-the-air analog to digital. For someone like me with an older set and a pair of rabbit ears, this means my TV now looks like the one in Poltergeist and I have no reception.
Sure I could buy a kit or newer TV that would allow me to pick up digital stations but for now I'm enjoying life without it. It's not a huge transition as I didn't watch a lot of TV before but other than the odd DVD rental, my TV is officially a boat anchor. I suspect these two units spotted while walking Dudley are also victims of progress.
A wonderful IMAX evening, and let me just say, without spoiling any of the story line pre-release, that the word “stay” in the movie is the perfect setup for the Sentinel Mission.
Astronaut Ed Edward Lu opened with a story of how they would sit on the shuttle roof flying upside down and backwards — a glass-bottom boat screaming across the panoply of thunderstorms crackling like muted fireworks below, while eating freeze-dried spaghetti and waxing philosophic about the fate of the Earth.
The Interstellar movie itself sprinkled so many 2001 Space Odyssey allusions that it makes my head spin. Perhaps it’s inevitable with a long movie that ends with a trippy sunsplashed jaunt of awe and wonder, but the soundtrack remix, obelisk bot, docking to spinning station, and gas-giant flyby (swap Saturn for Jupiter) drove the point home. But it continued right on to the cover image from Arthur C Clarke’s subsequent novel Rendezvous with Rama.
The opening previews were the Trial by Fire promo for the Orion capsule and the B612 Impact Video on how the nuclear test ban treaty sensors have detected 26 explosions over the past 13 years, ranging in energy from 1 to 600 kilotons, and all of them from outer space.
Sentinel Mission will enable us to defend Earth from catastrophic impacts by detecting the possible threats and modeling their trajectories for the next 50-100 years, allowing plenty of time for deflection of dangerous paths.
The Cirneco dell'Etna is a small breed of dog originally from Sicily. This hound was historically used to hunt rabbits and can work for hours without food or water.The breed also has a keen sense of smell and is primarily built for endurance over harsh terrain such as that of Mount Etna. It is the smallest of the Mediterranean island hunting hounds, the others being the Pharaoh Hounds and Ibizan Hounds.Today they are increasingly kept for the sport of conformation showing and as pets, due to their low coat maintenance and friendly nature, although as an active hound they do need regular exercise. A Cirneco should measure from 43-51 cm (17-20in) and weigh between 10–12 kg (22-26lb). As with other breeds, those from hunting stock can lie outside these ranges.
The Cirneco dell'Etna is a small hound-type dog used in Sicily for rabbit hunting. It is found all over the Italian island and particularly in the area surrounding the active volcano, Mount Etna,where the dogs hunt on terrain formed by volcanic lava. Its presence in Sicily is noteworthy as one of the few ancient breeds that have undergone very little manipulation by man. Instead, the breed has been rigorously selected by nature for its ability to work for hours. The dog we have today is an extremely hardy breed. Affectionate and friendly, it is considered easier to train than some of its sighthound cousins. The Cirneco has been in Sicily for thousands of years. Most authors agree that the origins of the hound-type dog lie among ancient Egyptian prick-eared dogs. Bas-reliefs discovered along the Nile and dated around 4000 B.C. depict what could be the Cirneco today. Most probably, the Phoenicians spread these prick-eared, hound-type dogs as they sailed along their trade routes between Northern Africa and the Mediterranean coasts. Ancient records of hounds with upright ears and a pointed muzzle are found in many countries in that part of the world. The most vivid proof of the presence of the Cirneco dell’Etna in Sicily for at least the past 2500 years is the many coins minted between the 5th and 3rd centuries B.C. depicting exemplars of the breed. In particular, the Cirneco dell’Etna is used on coins minted at Segesta, with about 150 variations. In 400 B.C., Dionysus was said to have built a temple dedicated to the God Adranos on the south-western slope of the volcano, just outside the city of Adrano. Many dogs were bred there and legend claims that a thousand Cirnechi guarded the temple.The Cirneco was rarely seen and little known outside Sicily until 1932. Now Cirnechi have also been exported to many European countries where their elegant conformation has helped make them a success in the show ring and many have become FCI International Show Champions. The dog's affectionate temperament and adaptability make it an excellent family companion.
Сицилийская борзая или Чирнеко дель Этна — порода собак. Происходит с Сицилии. Изначально выращивалась для охоты на зайца. Классические исследования собачьих пород, распространенных в Средиземноморском регионе, пришли к заключению, что Чирнеко Дель Этна происходят от античных охотничьих собак, выведенных в долине Нила в эпоху фараонов, собак, получивших достигших Сицилии благодаря Финикийцам. Но согласно последним исследованиям получила одобрения теория, согласно которой эта порода имеет непосредственно сицилийское происхождение, зародившись в окрестностях Этны. Монеты и гравюры доказывают, что Чирнеки существовали в этом регионе за много веков до нашей эр Собака примитивного типа, элегантного и утонченного сложения, среднего размера, не громоздкая, сильная и крепкая. По морфологическому сложению — собака удлиненных линий, легкого сложения; квадратного формата; шерсть тонкая.
Охотничья собака, выведенная для охоты на кролика по сложной местности; обладает большим темпераментом, но в то же время мягкая и привязчивая.
Cirneco dell’etna on italialainen koirarotu. Se on vinttikoiran tyyppinen pystykorvainen, alkukantainen ja harvinainen rotu. Cirneco dell’etnan tarkka alkuperä jää hämärän peittoon, mutta se on hyvin vanha rotu ja muuttunut vuosisatojen saatossa vain vähän. Rotu on saanut olla melko rauhassa, ja vasta viime vuosina sen jalostukseen on puututtu.Rotu on nykyisin lähinnä seura- ja harrastekoira. Italiassa sitä käytetään yhä villikaniinien metsästykseen. Cirneco on nopea koira, ja ketteränä se pystyy vaihtamaan suuntaa nopeasti esimerkiksi metsästyksen aikana. Cirneco käyttää metsästäessään kuuloaan, näköään ja hajuaistiaan.Cirneco dell’etna on luonteeltaan temperamenttinen, eloisa, ystävällinen, iloinen ja leikkisä koira. Cirnecon leikkisyys säilyy yleensä vanhoihin päiviin asti. Cirneco on myös hyvin läheisyyttä rakastava koira, ja sen lempipaikka onkin yleensä kainalossa sohvalla tai peiton alla omistajansa vieressä. Cirneco kiintyy voimakkaasti perheeseensä ja tulee yleensä hyvin toimeen ystävällisenä ja lempeänä koirana kaikenikäisten ihmisten kanssa. Miellyttämisenhalua cirnecolla ei ole kovin paljon, joten ilman hyvää motivointikeinoa se ei välttämättä aina tottele ainakaan ensimmäisellä käskyllä. Cirnecolla on kuitenkin miellyttämisenhalua enemmän kuin yleensä vinttikoirilla. Cirneco tarvitsee johdonmukaisen ja määrätietoisen peruskasvatuksen.
Cirneco dell’etna on ikivanha rotu, jonka juuret johtavat 1000-luvulle ennen ajanlaskun alkua. Joidenkin mielestä se polveutuu Egyptin viimeisten dynastioiden faaraoiden koirista ja niistä koirista, joita foinikialaiset kauppiaat toivat Italiaan. Tutkimukset antavat aiheen olettaa, että se olisi Sisilian alkuperäisrotu. Cirneconnäköisiä korkokuvia on löydetty faaraoiden haudoista, mm. Luxorista ja Ben-Hassanista. Sisiliasta on myös löydetty 45 cm korkea luuranko, joka muistuttaa cirnecoa suuresti. Luuranko on paikallistettu vuoteen 1400 eaa. Nykyisin kyseinen luuranko on nähtävissä Pigorini-museossa Roomassa. Myös vanhoista Sisiliasta löytyneistä kolikoista on löydetty cirnecoa esittäviä koiran kuvia.
Il cirneco dell'Etna è un cane appartenente ad una razza molto antica, che ha subito poche manipolazioni nel corso dei secoli.Le origini del cirneco risalgono al 1000 a.C. Si dice che questa razza derivi dai cani dei Faraoni egiziani delle ultime dinastie e da cani importati in Sicilia dai commercianti fenici. Successivi studi hanno indicato che molto probabilmente il Cirneco è una razza autoctona siciliana.Il cirneco dell'Etna appartiene alla classe dei cani da caccia di tipo primitivo; è un animale molto veloce e per questo viene utilizzato soprattutto nella caccia al coniglio selvatico e alla lepre.Si presenta con una figura molto snella, con gambe lunghe, orecchie dritte e con un corpo muscoloso ma nello stesso tempo molto elegante. Ha un fiuto eccezionale ed è agilissimo nel cambiare direzione durante l'inseguimento della preda. Da notare che, sebbene l'aspetto del cirneco ricordi quello dei levrieri, non caccia a vista ma usa l'olfatto, come un cane da cerca; secondo la classificazione della Federazione Cinologica Internazionale (F.C.I.), tutti i cani appartenenti alla razza dei "levrieri" appartengono al 10º gruppo, mentre il cirneco è inserito nel 5º Gruppo, quello delle razze di tipo primitivo.Generalmente raggiunge l'altezza di 46-50 cm al garrese negli esemplari maschi, mentre le femmine misurano dai 42 ai 46. Il peso del maschio si aggira intorno ai 10-12 kg, mentre le femmine raggiungono gli 8-10. La lunghezza del tronco è in media uguale all'altezza al garrese: il cirneco ha dunque una costruzione quadrata. È strutturato da una massa muscolare che comprende l'80% del corpo. Si presenta snello e, se nutrito in modo adeguato, mantiene una linea elegante e slanciata.Cane velocissimo e molto agile, è capace di raggiungere persino i 40/45 km/h nella corsa.I colori del mantello del cirneco dell'Etna vanno dal sabbia dorato al cervo scuro; non necessariamente devono essere presenti macchie bianche, ma possono essercene su tutto il corpo; sebbene molto rari, ne esistono colorati di bianco arancio (come nel setter inglese) e di bianco puro (pur non essendo propriamente albino). Il colore riconosciuto dagli standard di razza è il fulvo più o meno intenso, isabella e sabbia, con lista bianca in fronte, al petto, piedi bianchi, punta della coda bianca e ventre bianco.Dotato di grande intelligenza, è generalmente indipendente e solitario. Generalmente diffidente con gli estranei, si affeziona ad un solo padrone. Si può dire che abbia le sue simpatie e antipatie a pelle: con alcuni individui non socializza e alla loro vista abbaia; con altri inizialmente si mostra aggressivo ma poi socializza e con altri ancora prova un feeling immediato e socializza subito. È un cane che per il padrone darebbe tutto se stesso.Se correttamente socializzato da cucciolo, evidenzia un carattere molto disponibile e gioioso e privo di diffidenze anche verso le persone appena conosciute.Se cresce in un ambiente familiare, dove ha ricevuto tutti gli stimoli nei confronti dell'ambiente esterno, ama essere portato a spasso e incontrare altri cani e persone, anche se sconosciuti. Se lasciato libero, soprattutto in luoghi di campagna, cambia visibilmente espressione; tutti i muscoli si tendono, ama ispezionare l'ambiente circostante e, anche se all'inizio sembra indipendente, in realtà sa sempre dove si trova il suo padrone e puntualmente ritorna sotto la sua attenzione. Prima di liberare un cirneco in un luogo aperto occorre aver rafforzato un rapporto sereno e di fiducia. Il cirneco è un cane primitivo e rispetto ad altri animali domestici, molto spesso è un soggetto che porta rancore se trattato male, non dimentica facilmente uno sgarbo subito, non sopporta di essere rimproverato con eccessiva durezza.La vita media di questo cane è molto elevata, quindici anni circa, ma esistono esemplari che vivono anche venti anni.
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The Beast is without doubt one of the most famous custom cars of the 1970s. The original Beast resembled a Mk. I Capri with a long bonnet and Rolls-Royce grille but that was sadly destroyed in a fire so the builder, John Dodd of Epsom, set about creating a successor that bore more of a resemblance to a Scimitar GTE.
Dodd created the unique body and chassis and fitted a Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 aero engine, hence why he also fitted a Rolls-Royce grille.
The story goes that the Beast was driving along the German autobahn when she overtook a Porsche driver. The Porsche driver proceeded to ring Rolls-Royce to request their new model, although Dodd later revealed that he made the call to amuse himself. Rolls-Royce, lacking a sense of humour, took offence and took Dodd to court over the use of their grille, which he was forced to remove. She now sports a more plain grille surround and Dodd's initals cover the radiator.
The car has been driven at 185m.p.h. and once held the record for the most powerful road car. She now resides in Spain but returned to Britain in June to collect her final tax disc, and attended June's cruise as well as Dragstalgia at Santa Pod and July's Krispy Kreme meet in New Malden.
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A Praça da República situa-se na cidade de Belém, no Brasil.
No início era o Largo da Campina, um imenso terreno descampado que ficava entre o bairro da Campina e a estrada que levava à ermida de Nossa Senhora de Nazaré. Depois, no século XVIII, lá foi construído um imenso armazém para se guardar pólvora, traçando-lhe o nome para Largo da Pólvora. Uma forca foi erguida, mas não há registro de nenhum enforcamento. O que se sabe é que o espaço era usado para sepultar, em cova rasa, escravos e pobres.
Em homenagem ao imperador, lhe deram o nome de Pedro II, mas continuava sendo um grande terreno descampado. Em 1850, até plantaram algumas árvores, mas de forma desordenada. Com a inauguração do Theatro da Paz, em 1878, houve uma urbanização, também modesta. Seu nome definitivo veio com a troca de regime: ”Praça da República”.
O governador Justo Chermont idealizou a construção de um monumento em homenagem à república em 1889. A pedra fundamental foi colocada no ano seguinte, mas foi um concurso que decidiu a forma do monumento. A vencedora foi Michele Sebastiano.
Inaugurado em 15 de novembro de 1897 e, todo em mármore da carrara, o Monumento tem 20 metros de altura. A estátua é de uma mulher, representando o regime democrático, com um ramo de oliveira na mão, simbolizando a paz. O gênio alado, sobre o primeiro degrau da obra apoiado num leão, ergue o estandarte da república gritando: “Liberdade!”. Simbolicamente, trata-se do progresso nacional apoiado sobre a força do novo regime que levanta a Liberdade.
Do outro lado do degrau, a História, sentada sobre vários livros, registra, em uma folha em branco de um grande volume, a data da proclamação da república. Dois pequenos gênios erguem os escudos da “Probidade” e da “União”. As quatro placas em homenagem a Floriano Peixoto, José Bonifácio, Tiradentes e Beijamim Constant foram anexadas ao monumento na segunda gestão de Abelardo Conduru.
A primeira tentativa de urbanização da Praça foi em 1801, com o intendente de Belém, Arthur Índio do Brasil. Ele fez o calçamento nas suas avenidas, acimentou os passeios, colocou chafarizes e bancos e ajardinou as alamedas.
Porém, foi Antônio Lemos, em 1878, que fez a Praça da República merecedora do título “belíssima”. Lemos fez sérias críticas ao projeto urbanístico da praça no relatório ao conselho de intendência municipal. Chamou o ajardinamento do local de “aleijão da arte de floricultura com canteiros de mais de um metro de altura, alinhados perpendicularmente, com simetria fadigante, que irritavam a transeunte mais calmo”. Ele modificou completamente a aparência do logradouro, trocando, inclusive, a pavimentação das ruas que limitavam a praça por paralelepípedos.
Durante o governo de Virgínio Mendonça, foi construído dois pavilhões na praça, o maior hoje é o Teatro Waldemar Henrique; o menor abriga a Escola de Arte da Universidade Federal do Pará. Hoje a praça da República torna-se o palco ideal de grandes comemorações como o Círio de Nazaré, o Dia da Raça e o desfile de 7 de setembro. Nos outros 362 dias do ano, é o lugar ideal para passear com a família, encontrar os amigos ou namorar.
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Shallow depth of field leaves the leaf creating an image with the focus being an attention capturing aspect that leaves you happy with the leaf image, or not most likely down to the focus exhibited in the image up above. At f1.8 without lens stabilisation this is a superb sharp 20mm lens and it can be even better when you have in body stabilisation within your camera. A few trembles of camera shake can destroy an image. At 1/320 second shutter speed with 200 ISO to keep the details bright and clear this narrow depth of field is so remarkable sharp that it makes, or breaks the image. With only a small portion of the image in focus it can be considered imperfect, under considered, badly executed and not worth editing, or uploading. I like this picture enough to edit it and then to add a title to it and to upload the images both the one with and the one without the title in the image.
Other versions of a different leafs with less and more leaf in focus.
Horizontal Depth of Leaf Focus Field in Woodland Sony 20mm f1.8 G 2 pictures 1 with and 1 without title
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Also four focus and image finding pictures here.
Sony 20mm f1.8 G Finding Focus to make a difference 4 pictures 4 with and 4 without titles
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