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HOUSTON – Argentina's Juan Monaco will defend his US Men's Clay Court Championship title when the tournament returns to River Oaks Country Club April 8-14, and he will be accompanied in the field by American Sam Querrey and Frenchman Gael Monfils.
These three players join the previously announced commitments from top-ranked American John Isner and Spaniards Nicolas Almagro and Fernando Verdasco in the singles field and American twins Bob and Mike Bryan in the doubles field.
These singles entries put five players from the Top 25 of the current ATP World Tour rankings into the field for the tournament at River Oaks. As of Monday, Almagro was No. 11, Monaco No. 15, Isner No. 16, Querry No. 20 and Verdasco No. 24.
"We always take pride in exposing our fans to new players, so it is with great pleasure we can have guys like Monfils, Almagro and Verdasco making their River Oaks debut this year," said Tournament Director Van Barry. "We are also happy to welcome back familiar faces. Juan Monaco was a popular champion last year, and the group of Americans we have returning have long been fan favorites here in Houston."
Monaco will try to be the first repeat champion of the event since the recently retired Andy Roddick won back-to-back titles in 2001-02. The win at River Oaks last year was one of his career-high four titles in 2012. He has reached at least one clay court final in seven of the past eight seasons, and six of Monaco's seven career titles have come on clay.
Querrey teamed with James Blake to win the 2012 doubles title at River Oaks. He's also enjoyed singles success, reaching the final in 2010. He has won seven titles while appearing in 12 finals in his career, and earlier this month helped the US reach the Davis Cup quarterfinal with a pair of singles wins against Brazil.
Monfils has finished in the Top 20 in the World in four of the past five seasons. He has reached 17 career ATP finals, winning four titles. He was a finalist twice early in 2012 before a knee injury forced him to miss nearly four months. He already has reached one semifinal and another quarterfinal early in 2013.
In last year's final, Monaco defeated Isner, who in 2012 reached the Top 10 for the first time. Almagro has led the ATP in clay court match wins three times in the past five seasons and is one of only four players with over 200 career clay court wins. Verdasco has reached 10 career clay court finals and finished in the Top 25 in five straight seasons.
The Bryan Brothers are the World No. 1 doubles team and four-time champions at the US Men's Clay Court Championship. They own the record for Grand Slam titles with 13 together as well as total career titles together with 84.
Individual session tickets and the very popular "Champ Pass" are on sale on now. The Champ Pass for the 2013 US Men's Clay Court Championship includes a ticket to the Friday, Saturday and Sunday sessions. "The Champ Pass" usually sells out before the tournament begins. A limited number of season ticket packages are still remaining. Information on tickets can be found at www.mensclaycourt.com or by calling 713-874-6294.
flashback: tennis masters cup, 2004 (houston)
I was looking for old tennis photos online, and I ran into these pictures taken of the nine guys (including the alternate) who descended upon Houston for the Tennis Masters Cup in 2004.
The Argentines: Guillermo Canas and Gaston Gaudio
The boys: Andy Roddick and Guillermo Coria
The daddies (DILFs?): Lleyton Hewitt and Tim Henman
The ILFs: Marat Safin and Carlos Moya
and Roger Federer
Roger beat Lleyton in straight sets — 6-3, 6-2 — to take his 11th title of 2004 and his second consecutive year-end title.
(photos by Getty Images)
the cyantists
Cyan, teal, aqua, aquamarine. Whatever name you wish to call it, that light shade of blue/green was out in force this week.
From left to right: Davide Sanguinetti (Houston), Marion Bartoli in Nike (Family Circle Cup), Rafael Nadal in Nike (Mallorca), and David Nalbandian in Yonex (Mallorca).
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The worship of serpent deities is present in several old cultures, particularly in religion and mythology, where snakes were seen as entities of strength and renewal.
Snake worship refers to the high status of snakes or (nagas) in Hindu mythology. Nāga (Sanskrit:नाग) is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very large snake, found in Hinduism and Buddhism. The use of the term nāga is often ambiguous, as the word may also refer, in similar contexts, to one of several human tribes known as or nicknamed "Nāgas"; to elephants; and to ordinary snakes, particularly the King Cobra and the Indian Cobra, the latter of which is still called nāg in Hindi and other languages of India. A female nāga is a nāgī. The Snake primarily represents rebirth, death and mortality, due to its casting of its skin and being symbolically "reborn". Over a large part of India there are carved representations of cobras or nagas or stones as substitutes. To these human food and flowers are offered and lights are burned before the shrines. Among some South Indian, a cobra which is accidentally killed is burned like a human being; no one would kill one intentionally. The serpent-god's image is carried in an annual procession by a celibate priestess.
At one time there were many prevalent different renditions of the serpent cult located in India. In Northern India, a masculine version of the serpent named Nagaraja and known as the "king of the serpents" was worshipped. Instead of the "king of the serpents," actual live snakes were worshipped in South India (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 1). The Manasa-cult in Bengal, India, however, was dedicated to the anthropomorphic serpent goddess, Manasa (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 1).
Nāgas form an important part of Hindu mythology. They play prominent roles in various legends:
Lord Shiva also wears a snake around his neck
Nag panchami is an important Hindu festival associated with snake worship which takes place of the fifth day of Shravana. Snake idols are offered gifts of milk and incense to help the worshipper to gain knowledge, wealth, and fame.
Different districts of Bengal celebrated the serpent in various ways. In the Bengal districts of East Mymensing, West Syhlet, and North Tippera, serpent-worship rituals were very similar, however (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 5). On the very last day of the Bengali month Sravana (July–August), all of these districts celebrated serpent-worship each year (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 5). Regardless of their class and station, every family during this time created a clay model of the serpent-deity – usually the serpent-goddess with two snakes spreading their hoods on her shoulders. The people worshipped this model at their homes and sacrificed a goat or a pigeon for the deity's honor (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 5). Before the clay goddess was submerged in water at the end of the festival, the clay snakes were taken from her shoulders. The people believed that the earth these snakes were made from cured illnesses, especially children's diseases (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 6).
These districts also worshipped an object known as a Karandi (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 6).Resembling a small house made of cork, the Karandi is decorated with images of snakes, the snake goddess, and snake legends on its walls and roof (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 6). The blood of the sacrificed animals was sprinkled on the Karandi and it also was submerged in the river at the end of the festival (Bhattacharyya 1965, p. 6).There are several more interesting examples of serpent-worship in India, see "The Serpent as the Folk-Deity in Bengal" for more information.
Serpents, or nāgas, play a particularly important role in Cambodian mythology. A well-known story explains the emergence of the Khmer people from the union of Indian and indigenous elements, the latter being represented as nāgas. According to the story, an Indian brahmana named Kaundinya came to Cambodia, which at the time was under the dominion of the naga king. The naga princess Soma sallied forth to fight against the invader but was defeated. Presented with the option of marrying the victorious Kaundinya, Soma readily agreed to do so, and together they ruled the land. The Khmer people are their descendants.[1]
Ancient Mesopotamians and Semites believed that snakes were immortal because they could infinitely shed their skin and appear forever youthful, appearing in a fresh guise every time. [1] Before the arrival of the Israelites, snake cults were well established in Canaan in the Bronze Age, for archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata at several pre-Israelite cities in Canaan: two at Megiddo,[2] one at Gezer,[3] one in the sanctum sanctorum of the Area H temple at Hazor,[4] and two at Shechem.[5]
in the surrounding region, serpent cult objects figured in other cultures. A late Bronze Age Hittite shrine in northern Syria contained a bronze statue of a god holding a serpent in one hand and a staff in the other.[6] In sixth-century Babylon a pair of bronzer serpents flanked each of the four doorways of the temple of Esagila.[7] At the Babylonian New Year's festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker and a goldsmith two images one of which "shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right [hand] to the god Nabu".[8] At the tell of Tepe Gawra, at least seventeen Early Bronze Age Assyrian bronze serpents were recovered.[9]
Ancient Egyptians worshiped snakes, especially the cobra. The cobra was not only associated with Ra, but also many other deities such as Wadjet, Renenutet, and Meretseger. Serpents could also be evil and harmful such as the case of Aapep. They were also referenced in the Book of the Dead, in which spell number 39 was made to help repel an evil snake in the underworld. "Get back! Crawl away! Get away from me, you snake! Go, be drowned in the Lake of the Abyss, at the place where your father commanded that the slaying of you should be carried out."[10] Wadjet was the patron goddess of Upper Egypt, and was represented as a cobra with spread hood, or a cobra-headed woman. She later became one of the protective emblems on the pharaoh's crown once Upper and Lower Egypt were united. She was said to 'spit fire' at the pharaoh's enemies, and the enemies of Ra. Sometimes referred to as one of the eyes of Ra, she was often associated with the lioness goddess Sekhmet, who also bore that role.
Serpents figured prominently in archaic Greek myths. According to some sources, Ophion ("serpent", a.k.a. Ophioneus), ruled the world with Eurynome before the two of them were cast down by Cronus and Rhea. The oracles of the Ancient Greeks were said to have been the continuation of the tradition begun with the worship of the Egyptian cobra goddess, Wadjet.
The Minoan Snake Goddess brandished a serpent in either hand, perhaps evoking her role as source of wisdom, rather than her role as Mistress of the Animals (Potnia theron), with a leopard under each arm. It is not by accident that later the infant Heracles, a liminal hero on the threshold between the old ways and the new Olympian world, also brandished the two serpents that "threatened" him in his cradle. Classical Greeks did not perceive that the threat was merely the threat of wisdom. But the gesture is the same as that of the Cretan goddess.
Typhon the enemy of the Olympian gods is described as a vast grisly monster with a hundred heads and a hundred serpents issuing from his thighs, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus, or confined beneath volcanic regions, where he is the cause of eruptions. Typhon is thus the chthonic figuration of volcanic forces. Amongst his children by Echidna are Cerberus (a monstrous three-headed dog with a snake for a tail and a serpentine mane), the serpent tailed Chimaera, the serpent-like chthonic water beast Lernaean Hydra and the hundred-headed serpentine dragon Ladon. Both the Lernaean Hydra and Ladon were slain by Heracles.
Python was the earth-dragon of Delphi, she always was represented in the vase-paintings and by sculptors as a serpent. Pytho was the chthonic enemy of Apollo, who slew her and remade her former home his own oracle, the most famous in Classical Greece.
Amphisbaena a Greek word, from amphis, meaning "both ways", and bainein, meaning "to go", also called the "Mother of Ants", is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end. According to Greek mythology, the mythological amphisbaena was spawned from the blood that dripped from Medusa the Gorgon's head as Perseus flew over the Libyan Desert with her head in his hand.
Medusa and the other Gorgons were vicious female monsters with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes whose origins predate the written myths of Greece and who were the protectors of the most ancient ritual secrets. The Gorgons wore a belt of two intertwined serpents in the same configuration of the caduceus. The Gorgon was placed at the highest point and central of the relief on the Parthenon.
Asclepius, the son of Apollo and Koronis, learned the secrets of keeping death at bay after observing one serpent bringing another (which Asclepius himself had fatally wounded) healing herbs. To prevent the entire human race from becoming immortal under Asclepius's care, Zeus killed him with a bolt of lightning. Asclepius' death at the hands of Zeus illustrates man's inability to challenge the natural order that separates mortal men from the gods. In honor of Asclepius, snakes were often used in healing rituals. Non-poisonous snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept. The author of the Bibliotheca claimed that Athena gave Asclepius a vial of blood from the Gorgons. Gorgon blood had magical properties: if taken from the left side of the Gorgon, it was a fatal poison; from the right side, the blood was capable of bringing the dead back to life. However Euripides wrote in his tragedy Ion that the Athenian queen Creusa had inherited this vial from her ancestor Erichthonios, who was a snake himself and receiving the vial from Athena. In this version the blood of Medusa had the healing power while the lethal poison originated from Medusa's serpents.
Laocoön was allegedly a priest of Poseidon (or of Apollo, by some accounts) at Troy; he was famous for warning the Trojans in vain against accepting the Trojan Horse from the Greeks, and for his subsequent divine execution. Poseidon (some say Athena), who was supporting the Greeks, subsequently sent sea-serpents to strangle Laocoön and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus. Another tradition states that Apollo sent the serpents for an unrelated offense, and only unlucky timing caused the Trojans to misinterpret them as punishment for striking the Horse.
Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great and a princess of the primitive land of Epirus, had the reputation of a snake-handler, and it was in serpent form that Zeus was said to have fathered Alexander upon her; tame snakes were still to be found at Macedonian Pella in the 2nd century AD (Lucian, Alexander the false prophet) and at Ostia a bas-relief shows paired coiled serpents flanking a dressed altar, symbols or embodiments of the Lares of the household, worthy of veneration (Veyne 1987 illus p 211).
Aeetes, the king of Colchis and father of the sorceress Medea, possessed the Golden Fleece. He guarded it with a massive serpent that never slept. Medea, who had fallen in love with Jason of the Argonauts, enchanted it to sleep so Jason could seize the Fleece.
See Lamia (mythology).
Serpent worship was well known in ancient Europe. There does not appear to be much ground for supposing that the roman god Aesculapius was a serpent-god in spite of his connection with serpents. On the other hand, we learn from Herodotus of the great serpent which defended the citadel of Athens. The Roman genius loci took the form of a serpent where a snake was kept and fed with milk in the temple of Potrimpos, an old Slavonic god. On the Iberian Peninsula there is evidence that before the introduction of Christianity, and perhaps more strongly before invasions of the Romans, Serpent worship was part of local religion. To this day there are numerous traces in popular belief, especially in Germany, of respect for the snake, which seems to be a survival of ancestor worship, such as still exists among the Zulus and other tribes; the "house snake" cares for the cows and the children, and its appearance is an omen of death; and the lives of a pair of house snakes are often held to be bound with that of the master and the mistress. Tradition states that one of the Gnostic sects known as the Ophites caused a tame serpent to coil around the sacramental bread, and worshipped it as the representative of the Savior.
Jörmungandr, alternately the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent, of the Norse mythology, is the middle child of Loki and the giantess Angrboða. However, there is nothing to indicate that the Norsemen ever worshipped this or other snake-like beings such as Fafnir.
According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki's three children, Fenrisúlfr, Hel and Jörmungandr. He tossed Jörmungandr into the great ocean that encircles Midgard. The serpent grew so big that he was able to surround the Earth and grasp his own tail, and as a result he earned the alternate name of the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent. Jörmungandr's arch enemy is the god Thor.
In Africa the chief centre of serpent worship was Dahomey, but the cult of the python seems to have been of exotic origin, dating back to the first quarter of the 17th century. By the conquest of Whydah the Dahomeyans were brought in contact with a people of serpent worshippers, and ended by adopting from them the beliefs which they at first despised. At Whydah, the chief centre, there is a serpent temple, tenanted by some fifty snakes. Every python of the danh-gbi kind must be treated with respect, and death is the penalty for killing one, even by accident. Danh-gbi has numerous wives, who until 1857 took part in a public procession from which the profane crowd was excluded; a python was carried round the town in a hammock, perhaps as a ceremony for the expulsion of evils. The rainbow-god of the Ashanti was also conceived to have the form of a snake. His messenger was said to be a small variety of boa. but only certain individuals, not the whole species, were sacred. In many parts of Africa the serpent is looked upon as the incarnation of deceased relatives. Among the Amazulu, as among the Betsileo of Madagascar, certain species are assigned as the abode of certain classes. The Maasai, on the other hand, regard each species as the habitat of a particular family of the tribe.
Eva Meyerowitz wrote of an earthenware pot that was stored at the Museum of Achimota College in Gold Coast. The base of the neck of this pot is surrounded by the rainbow snake (Meyerowitz 1940, p. 48). The legend of this creature explains that the rainbow snake only emerged from its home when it was thirsty. Keeping its tail on the ground the snake would raise its head to the sky looking for the rain god. As it drank great quantities of water, the snake would spill some which would fall to the earth as rain (Meyerowitz 1940, p. 48).
There are four other snakes on the sides of this pot: Danh – gbi, the life giving snake, Li, for protection, Liwui, which was associated with Wu, god of the sea, and Fa, the messenger of the gods (Meyerowitz 1940, p. 48). The first three snakes Danh – gbi, Li, Liwui were all worshipped at Whydah, Dahomey where the serpent cult originated (Meyerowitz 1940, p. 48). For the Dahomeans, the spirit of the serpent was one to be feared as he was unforgiving (Nida & Smalley 1959, p. 17). They believed that the serpent spirit could manifest itself in any long, winding objects such as plant roots and animal nerves. They also believed it could manifest itself as the umbilical cord, making it a symbol of fertility and life (Nida & Smalley 1959, p. 17).
The Ancient Egyptians worshiped a number of snake gods, including Apophis and Set, and the Sumerians before them had a serpent god Ningizzida.
In Australia, the Aboriginal people worship a huge python, known by a variety of names but universally referred to as the Rainbow Serpent, that was said to have created the landscape, embodied the spirit of fresh water and punished lawbreakers. The Aborigines in southwest Australia called the serpent the Waugyl, while the Warramunga of the east coast worshipped the mythical Wollunqua.
In America some of the Native American tribes give reverence to the rattlesnake as grandfather and king of snakes who is able to give fair winds or cause tempest. Among the Hopi of Arizona the serpent figures largely in one of the dances. The rattlesnake was worshipped in the Natchez temple of the sun and the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl was a feathered serpent-god. In many MesoAmerican cultures, the serpent was regarded as a portal between two worlds. The tribes of Peru are said to have adored great snakes in the pre-Inca days and in Chile the Mapuche made a serpent figure in their deluge beliefs. The Mound Builders associated great mystical value to the serpent, as the Serpent Mound demonstrates, though we are unable to unravel the particular associations.
Contemporary Christian culture identifies the snake as a symbol of evil. Snake handling is a religious ritual in a small number of Christian churches in the U.S., usually characterized as rural and Pentecostal, particularly the Church of God with Signs Following. Practitioners believe it dates to antiquity and quote the Bible to support the practice, especially:
The serpent deceives Adam and Eve in The Garden of Eden, this is most likely a reference to predating religions that were involved in snake worship.
The Snake God Naga and his consort.The photo is taken at the cave temples clusters of Ajanta, Maharastra, India
A motif of snake goddess. Carving on volcanic rock at the Kailash Temple, Ellora, India
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We first travel to the remote Lower Omo Valley, home to a variety of semi -nomadic tribes. Isolated from the rest of the world for centuries, these tribes have maintained their unique culture, dress, language and customs. The Mursi women are known for inserting clay plates in their lips, the Hamer women wear thick copper necklaces and the Karo people paint their bodies with white chalk. To gain special access to the tribes we spend one night camping near a village. From our camp you will have plenty of time to photograph the tribe's daily life, their traditional farming practices and rituals, and concentrate on creating intimate environmental portraits.
We then travel north to the holy city of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, know for its monolithic rock carved churches. These churches are exceptional examples of a long established Ethiopian building tradition of rock-cut architecture. The eleven medieval cave churches are clustered in groups, of which the Northern Group, Bet Medhane Alem, home to the Lalibela Cross is believed to be the largest monolithic church in the world.
This workshop offers unique opportunities to photograph Ethiopia's many diverse & vibrant tribes, the Rift Valley's rich landscape and the remarkable architecture of Lalibela's rock churches. Learn to perfect your portrait, landscape and architecture photography, and your video storytelling skills.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is for the serious amateur and professional photographer or videographer, who has a working knowledge of their camera and who wants to combine advancing their photography skills with a great travel experience. Participants are encouraged to shoot still images and/or video throughout this workshop. Participants should be motivated, technically self-sufficient, and capable of navigating in foreign cultures and physically fit. We spend one night camping with no modern conveniences, no running water and no electricity
Required Equipment
Participants should bring their camera(s), lenses, extra camera battery, plenty of memory cards, all chargers, all instruction manuals, flash light for working at night, notebook and writing utensil, and optional but highly recommended is a flash unit and tripod. You may bring your laptop computer for back up and critiques. Most of our lodges should have sufficient power.
Workshop Fee
The workshop fee is $8,750.00 and includes share accommodation, all regional transportation, all regional flights, private touring, a private full time English speaking guide and local guides, most meals, camping gear and some photography fees. A $1,500.00 deposit must accompany your registration forms to secure your place in this workshop. Final Payment is due by March 1, 2012.
Not included are international flights, airport taxes, visas, and gratuities for our guides and drivers, personal expenses, personal photography fees when photographing individuals in the villages, some meals and beverages. The single supplement charge is $950.00. Trip cancellation and interruption insurance is strongly recommended.
Your Deposit is payable directly to the Maine Media Workshops. Thee balance of the workshop cost and registration is completedwith Arlene Collins Photography, LLC at email@example.com
Participants are responsibly for obtaining their own Ethiopia visa,
You are encouraged to bring a companion, however there is no fee reduction.
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Day 1 depart the U.S
Mon. June 18
Day 2 arrive in Addis Ababa
Tue. June 19 Hotel Hilton Addis Ababa
Evening orientation meeting & welcome dinner at a local restaurant (D)
Day 3 Addis Ababa - Arba Minch Kanta Lodge
Wed. June 20 Transfer to the airport for our Ethiopian Airline flight to Arbaminch where our jeeps await our arrival and transports us for a 2 hour drive to the town of Konso, where we will process our regional permits and then check in to our hotel. After lunch we will visit a traditional Konso village. The Konso have UNESCO World Heritage status and are know for their unique carved wooden grave markers. (B, L & D)
Day 4 Lower Omo Valley – Jinka Resort
Thu. June 21 after breakfast we visit the King of the Konso tribe to photograph his life - we then drive 160 km to the town of Jinka, stopping on route at Key Afar for the Ari, Bana and Hammer tribes market. Jinka is 1490 meters above sea level located in the hills north of the Tama Plains. (B, L & D)
Day 5 Lower Omo Valley – Jinka Resort
Fri. June 22 after breakfast we travel 65 kms thru the bush to visit a Mursi tribe - the women are know for wearing lip plates. The larger the plate a woman can wear the greater her value when she is married! Time permitting on our drive back to Jinka we will stop at an Ari Village. (B, L & D)
Day 6 Lower Omo Valley – Murulle Lodge
Sat. June 23 This morning we photograph the Dimeka market where the tribes gather to buy and sell items such as grain, butter, their local alcoholic brew, animals and pottery. After the market we then drive 160 km to a Korcho village to photograph the Karo people, known for body scarification and painting. Their faces and bodies are painted with white chalk to prepare for a ceremony. The men's scars represent an enemy or a dangerous animal killed. Korcho village is a short 7 km from the Murulle Lodge. (B, L & D)
Day 7 Lower Omo Valley - Buska Lodge
Sun. June 24 Today we drive 18 km from Murulle to Kangaten to photograph the Nyangatom tribe, who are known as cattle riders and for the men's elaborate hair dressing. After spending the day at the village we have a 3 - 4 hour drive to our lodge. (B, L & D)
Day 8 Omo Valley – Turmi Buska Lodge
Mon. June 25 Late morning we visit the local Hammar, Bena and Karo tribe's market in Turmi. In the late afternoon we will visit a Hammar village where the women are ornately dressed in heavy metal bracelets and sheep or goatskin clothes. Men decorate their hair with ostrich feathers and wear a small wooden chair, which is used as a chair or a pillow. (B, L & D)
Day 9 Omorate Camping
Tue. June 26 after an early morning breakfast we leave for a 75 km drive south of Turmi to visit the Dassanech tribe. We then travel to a Hammer village for a Bulling Jumping ceremony. There are two purposes for this ritual: one is a boy's passage to manhood and the other is when boys and girls adorn themselves in a courting ceremony. (B, L & D)
Day 10 Arba Minch Swaynes Hotel
Wed. June 27 Today we have a long 285 kms drive to Arbaminch. On the way we stop at an Erbore tribe's village. The Erbore build their huts in an oval shape and are known for their body mutilation of raised dots on the chest and abdomen.
Day 11 Lake Chamo & Lake Langano Sabana Lodge
Thu. June 28 after breakfast enjoy a cruise on Lake Chamo home to Africa's largest crocodile. We then drive 260 km to Lake Langano where you can relax by Lake Langano. (B, L & D)
Day 12 Return to Addis Ababa Hilton Hotel
Fri. June 29 today we drive 200 kms returning to Addis Ababa. On route we stop at Bishoftu for lunch. (B & L)
Day 13 Addis Ababa – Lalibela Mountainview Hotel
Sat. June 30 at 5:00 am transfer to the airport for our 7:40 am light to Lalibela. After checking into our hotel we will visit our first group of churches. (B)
Day 14 Lalibela Mountainview Hotel (B)
Sun. July 1 we spend the day photographing the rock churches.
Day 15 Lalibela - Addis Ababa Hilton Hotel
Mon. July 2 11:55 am depart Lalibela and arrive at 13:55 in AA.
This is a free day in AA with day rooms at the Hilton
Farewell dinner and transfer to the airport.
Day 16 On route to the US
Tues. July 3
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Apartment recently renovated.Typical building of the last century with few apartments,consist of a large bedroom with kitchen and bathroom.wi fi (website hidden) located on the second floor without (email hidden)n Lorenzo is the area of the biggest university of Rome,is very central,7 to 10 min by bus (n71 just outside the building) from all the most famous touristic destinations.Walking dinstance from Coliseum (25 min) Termini central station and the nearest metro (15 min).The neighborhood full of restaurants and bars.You can get excellent food for the best price.San Lorenzo is a famous trendy area where the locals are going to have fun in Rome.Supermarket,pharmacy,bank,any kind of shop...everything you need ,just next the apartment.We provide hair dryer and iron.We usually receive in person at the nearest train station our guests!
Merci à Marco pour son accueil. Logement très agréable qui correspondait bien à la description.
Sono stata benissimo a casa di Amen e Marco! L appartamento è perfettamente fornito di tutto ciò che occorre, in cucina, bagno, e camera da letto. La disponibilità degli host, poi, è impagabile: attenti a ogni esigenza senza mai risultare invadenti! Un grazie particolare per il passaggio dalla stazione a casa, datomi per ben due volte ;)! L'appartamento si trova a sanlorenzo, un quartiere frequentato dagli studenti della vicina università, pieno di vita, ristoranti e locali tutti dai prezzi abbordabili; la movida la si sconta un po nelle notti del weekend, quando potreste sentire la gente in strada che si diverte...se nn avete particolari problemi a dormire, comunque, non vi dovrebbe disturbare troppo!! Diversi autobus vi portano nelle diverse zone del centro, e a piedi potrete raggiungere sia la metro A che la B. Ho già consigliato alle mie sorelle, in visita a Roma, di soggiornare da loro, e lo consiglio vivamente anche a voi :)
1. Марко встретил у Термини, довез на машине до квартиры. Нам не пришлось в первый раз с чемоданами блуждать в поисках нужного дома. спасибо ему! 2. до Термини идти бодрым шагом 10 минут. не меньше 3. в двух шагах бюджетные супермаркеты с хорошим выбором продуктов, в т.ч. овощей, свежего хлеба. сыров, прошутто, колбас и т.п. а также хорошая кондитерская, работающая с 18 до 3 ночи)) 4. очень крутая лестница, лифта нет. 5. интернета нет, что можно компенсировать бесплатным интернетом в кафе/ресторанах 6. при выключенном отоплении квартира быстро остывает зимой. поэтому выключать зимой на ночь отопление не стоит, утром будет весьма холодно. 7. есть посуда для готовки еды. правда, сковородка плохая) в целом место хорошее
Very comfortable appartments. You have all what is necessary for life. Quiet and central location. Thank you for hospitality, Amen and Marco! One problem are narrow steps to the 3rd floor.
Marco went to termini station to take us to the flat. The apartment is located in the student area. 20 min by feet from termini, easy to access by bus. If you want to discover Rome nightlife it's perfect. However it's a bit noisy on saturday night.
The flat is modern and clean, and looks like as in pictures.
It's worth the value.
Our host was helpful on arrival. We were given a map of the city, a phone with useful telephone numbers, and some more general information about places to eat in the local area.
The flat is spacious, bright, and modern; it's located in a student area, so there are lots of cafes and bars - although you have to really try to find something which isn't a pizzeria! There's a great cafe just opposite the apartment for breakfast coffee and croissants.
Regarding tourist attractions, it doesn't take too long to walk to the Colosseum, and in any case, it's a pleasant walk for someone who doesn't know the city. Walking back to the apartment at night from the nearby Termini train station can be a little unpleasant as there seems to be a few shady characters about. On the other hand, being close to Termini is great for getting to and from the airport. Swings and roundabouts!
Overall, a great flat in a vibrant area.
The flat is perfectly adequate and decently sized for two people. It's clean and fairly renovated. It is situated on a very busy and lively (bordering dodgy on certain occasions) neighbourhood with lots of night life that continues into the morning sometimes. To top that the windows are not double-glazed so i wouldn't recommend this place to the light sleepers out there. On the up side if you are looking for bars that play rock, jazz etc you are in good luck. The location is not ideal but the Termini is 15 mins walk away. There is also a metro station 10 mins walk from the place. Amen was nice and polite. She gave us a ride from the Termini on our arrival which was very considerate i should say. She also left a mobile phone for us to reach her in case we need anything.
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Using Tbird Ver 17. When sending it states "SMTP server smtp.live timed out" Outgoing Server settings are: Server Name; smtp.live.com Port; 995 Auth Method; Normal Password Connection Security; SSL/TLS
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I know 25 o/going works in Out Express so have set that in Tbird but still doesn't work. Also tried 995, no good.
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When was this written? Still no good. Can only set Security to SSL/TLS or STARTTLS or None.
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Posted December 11, 2012 at 6:11PM
I have this set up for POP and it works fine - Server name is pop3.live.com.
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How to set up your Hotmail account on Thunderbird
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outgoing should be port 587 server: smtp.live.com
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Thanks all for efforts BUT still no b....y good! I get "The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server smtp.live.com timed out".
Server is set to smtp.live.com, Port is 587, Connection Security is SSL/TLS.
Any further suggestions? Clean ones!
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Posted December 12, 2012 at 1:26PM
Have you tried clearing the set-up completely, re-starting pc and starting all over again.
Port 25 should work but if not 587 - is your anti virus set to scan outgoing e-mails.
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Thanks Difarn but done all that. Shut down MS Sec Essentials and tried both ports. Sure it's something stupid but at the mo cant crack it.
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mine has security set to SSL (both for in and out) and has 'Server requires Authentication' ticked.
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Posted December 14, 2012 at 7:29PM
Thanks Lotvic
I can only set security to either SSl/TLS, None or Starttls, NOT SSL alone. Where is the option 'Server requires Authentication' to tick?
Hang on, think I've cracked it. Tried with STARTTLS and it's sent. What the 'ell is STARTTLS and why has no one else mentioned using it?
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An arroyo (/əˈrɔɪoʊ/; Spanish: [aˈroʝo], "brook"), also called a wash, is a dry creek or stream bed—gulch that temporarily or seasonally fills and flows after sufficient rain.[1] In Latin America any small river might be called an arroyo, even if it flows continually all year and is never dry; because of this is prefered the terms of arab origin rambla or wadi.
Arroyos can be natural fluvial landforms or constructed flood control channels. The term usually applies to a sloped or mountainous terrain in xeric and desert climates. In addition: in many rural communities arroyos are also the principal transportation routes; and in many urban communities arroyos are also parks and recreational locations, often with linear multi-use bicycle, pedestrian, and equestrian trails. Flash flooding can cause the deep arroyos or deposition of sediment on flooded lands. This can lower the groundwater level of the surrounding area, making it unsuitable for agriculture. However a shallow water table lowered in desert arroyo valleys can reduce saline seeping and alkali deposits in the topsoil, making it suitable for irrigated farming.
In the U.S. state New Mexico, the Doña Ana County Drainage Ordinance defines an arroyo as "a watercourse that conducts an intermittent or ephemeral flow, providing primary drainage for an area of land of 40 acres (160,000 m2) or larger; or a watercourse which would be expected to flow in excess of one hundred cubic feet per second as the result of a 100 year storm event." Research has been conducted in the hydrological modeling relative to arroyos.[2] Natural arroyos are made through the process known as arroyo-cutting. This occurs in arid regions such as New Mexico, where heavy rains can lead to enlargement of rivers cutting into surrounding rock creating ravines which are dry under normal weather conditions.[3] It is argued, however, whether these excessively stormy periods are the sole cause of arroyo-cutting as other factors such as long-term climate changes must also be taken into account.[4] Arroyo cutting which occurred in the 1900s in the southwestern United States caused serious farming issues such as a lowered water table and the destruction of agriculture and grazing lands.
In agriculture areas in climates needing irrigation, farmers traditionally relied on small constructed arroyos, zanjas or aqueduct channels and ditches for the distribution of water.
An example of larger constructed arroyos is in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are several miles of open-air concrete lined drainage channels that drain an area into the main North Diversion Channel, a tributary of the Rio Grande joining upstream of Albuquerque. After the San Juan Project Water Treatment Plant here, the Rio Grande's flow exceeding that needed for the river's silvery minnow habitat is available for municipal water supply diversion. Signs are posted at the constructed arroyos warning to keep out due to danger of flash flooding.
The Arroyo Seco and Los Angeles River are more famous examples in Southern California of former natural arroyo seasonal watercourses that became constructed open drainage system arroyos.
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Passing: T. Rees (ND) - 235 YDS, 1 TD, 1 INT
Rushing: C. McDaniel (ND) - 24 CAR, 117 YDS
Receiving: D. Daniels (ND) - 6 REC, 107 YDS, 1 TD
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Tommy Rees, booed a year ago at Notre Dame Stadium when he was brought in late against Purdue, finished his last home game to chants of "Tommy" as the clock ran out in a 23-13 victory over BYU on Saturday.
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"That was a very special moment. We've been through a lot, this entire senior class. Not only on the team, but everybody here," Rees said. "They could have chanted anyone's name, it's a whole senior class effort, but that was definitely a memory I'll hold very closely for a long time."
Rees got the Fighting Irish (8-3) going with a 61-yard touchdown pass to DaVaris Daniels on Notre Dame's first possession, then set up a 2-yard TD run by Tarean Folston with a 30-yard pass to TJ Jones as the Irish rebounded from a disappointing 28-21 loss to Pittsburgh.
The game was played in intermittent snow, with temperatures in the 20s and winds gusting to 30 mph. The field was worn and torn despite being replaced a little more than a month ago. Several times, ball carriers fell as they tried to make cuts. But the Irish improved to 13-1-3 all-time in games where it snows, with the lone loss coming to Indianapolis Artillery in 1895.
Coach Brian Kelly said the Notre Dame staff asked the Irish to focus on doing the little things right, which they lacked against Pitt.
"I think all of our players, in particular our seniors, really rallied to those things," Kelly said.
Rees was 15-of-28 passing for 235 yards and the Irish rushed for 235 yards, led by a career-high 117 by Cam McDaniel. Folston added 78 yards on 13 carries as the Irish amassed 470 yards of total offense.
"It was kind of an offensive lineman's dream today, with the wind and running the ball," tackle Zack Martin said. "We wanted to impose our will on them, and in the snow, it was kind of a nice little ending there."
Kyle Brindza kicked three field goals, including a 51-yarder, for the Irish. Kelly said despite the weather conditions, Brindza was in his face wanting to try the long field goal.
"When you've got a guy with that kind of confidence asking to kick the football, it makes it easier for me to make a decision to put him out there," Kelly said. "He's a great weapon for us."
BYU (7-4), which had a 7-yard TD pass from Taysom Hill to JD Falslev in the first quarter, closed to 20-13 when Justin Sorensen kicked a 27-yard field goal with 39 seconds left in the third quarter. The Cougars couldn't get any closer.
BYU had a chance to make a game of it with less than five minutes remaining when Paul Lasike broke off a 46-yard run, running over Notre Dame safety Matthias Farley, before being tackled by KeiVarae Russell at the 6. But the Cougars could only gain 2 yards on the next three plays. A 22-yard field goal attempt by Sorensen was deflected by nose guard Jarron Jones, ending BYU's last threat.
"The defense did a good job of stopping us in the red zone," Falslev said. "We just have to execute. If we execute, this is a whole different ballgame."
Hill passed for 168 yards and he and Lasike each rushed for 101 yards for BYU. But Notre Dame held Jamaal Williams, who entered the game averaging 116 yards a game, to 43.
"I think excluding the first series, they did a nice job on Jamaal, especially on inside runs," BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall said. "I thought they did a nice job on Taysom on our designed runs."
Several Irish players switched numbers for the game. Freshman linebacker Jaylon Smith wore No. 13, instead of his usual No. 9, to honor linebacker Danny Spond, who ended his playing career before the season after suffering a paralyzing migraine headache. Senior wide receiver Luke Massa wore No. 78 in honor of high school teammate Matt James, a Notre Dame recruit who died when he fell from a Florida balcony during spring break.
The victory marked the first time Notre Dame hadn't trailed in a game since the opener against Temple. Rees improved to 22-7 as a starter, and may be best remembered for the role he played as a backup last season in helping the Irish to the national championship game.
He said simply being a winner is good enough.
"It doesn't matter how you win games, as long as you get that W," he said. "Just someone that gave everything he had to this university and this football program."
Team Stat Comparison
1st Downs | 23 | 24 |
Total Yards | 415 | 470 |
Passing | 168 | 235 |
Rushing | 247 | 235 |
Penalties | 6-47 | 4-25 |
3rd Down Conversions | 11-20 | 8-16 |
4th Down Conversions | 0-2 | 0-2 |
Turnovers | 1 | 1 |
Possession | 26:09 | 33:51 |
Scoring Summary
TD | 10:11 | DaVaris Daniels 61 Yd Pass From Tommy Rees (Kyle Brindza Kick) | 0 | 7 | |
TD | 06:48 | JD Falslev 7 Yd Pass From Taysom Hill (Justin Sorensen Kick) | 7 | 7 | |
TD | 04:43 | Tarean Folston 2 Yd Run (Kyle Brindza Kick) | 7 | 14 | |
FG | 07:35 | Kyle Brindza 26 Yd | 7 | 17 | |
FG | 12:48 | Kyle Brindza 26 Yd | 7 | 20 | |
FG | 08:20 | Justin Sorensen 31 Yd | 10 | 20 | |
FG | 00:39 | Justin Sorensen 27 Yd | 13 | 20 | |
FG | 06:53 | Kyle Brindza 51 Yd | 13 | 23 |


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Long story short, I broke two connecting rods on my truck.
I've recently pulled the old motor and replaced with a new-used one. The new engine I got was remarkably complete so I have a ton of perfectly good parts available. All parts are pulled from my 2004 Tacoma that had 47,000 miles on it so they are all still plenty good.
I'm not trying to make much money on this, just trying to help fellow TWers out if you need something. So let me know if you need anything.
Pretty much everything you see attached to the motor in the picture is for sale (well except the block...there's a hole in that). Although not pictured, I also have the upper part of the intake manifold, timing belt cover, coils and spark plug wires.
Cylinder heads, I don't think I'll be able to ship them easily, but local pickup welcome. I'd like to get $100 each for those. Everything else, price will be....lets say $5-$10 depending on the item + whatever the cost of the flat rate box to ship it in. If you need more than one item, no problem, still 5-10 bucks as long as it fits it in one box.
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Ok after reading every post in this thread I would once again like to thank everyone for their opinions even the ones that seemed a bit more hostile. All feedback is good feedback. On page 17 a guy explained perfectly Diana's Q. It is hard to dodge hut unreliable to hit. Her Q is basically a chess game. At the end of the day I want assassin Diana to work and hve Riot say yes this is balanced. If she gets far enough ahead she will 100-0 a squishy target. That is not toxic. Having someone dump their whole kit on you whnr you build no defense and having it actually kill you is FAIR. If that were not possible this game would not actually be anything. Also as someone else pointed out Riven has a shield that scales with AD. In fact almost every champion that has a shield has one that either scales with their primary stat. For example Nautilus has a shield that scales with health. Luc has a shield that is capable of protecting her ENTIRE team that scales with AP. A fed Lux may not guaranteed 100-0 another squishy but you are not gonna stay in that lane afterwards. Jarvan has a shield that scales with being near enemies. To be honest shields aren't really that bad especially not Diana's when you look at other champions. Gragas has an 18% damage reduction. Do you know how insane it would be if they actually went abyssal and zhonya's Void staff Athene's(for car) and a Ga with boots. His damage may not be as high but that would still be around 300 AP and his durability would make Diana's shield more hilarious than the idea of jungle sona on pro play with no armor runes. Lulu shield scales off of AP Janna shield? Nidalee heal has a high AP ratio for a heal. She builds AP for damage so clearly her heal is completely toxic. I am aware that some people feel that is true but moreover my point is Diana is not your biggest offender of getting survivability out of offense or something that is very much within the ideal build path. And maybe that is not a bad thing.
How about her passive applying the moonlight debuff? Of course that would make her more of an assassin. Could also try her passive consuming the moonlight debuff. I would just enjoy building her as an AS/AP melee fighter. She is just so fun.
I really love the way Diana feels to play, but I agree it would be a lot more satisfying if she had the tools to get into a fight and stay there instead of just vaporizing a squishy and then exploding.
I mean, what I'm hearing here is "Diana with good numbers is toxic." And then "But I don't think we should make any (sweeping) changes to her kit." Well, you kinda have to pick one don't you? I would be perfectly happy with a couple QOL style buffs and a small numbers tweak to bring her back into competitive play. You don't have to megabuff anything, and say, nerfing her ult damage (SLIGHTLY) while lowering her shield cooldown and cost so she could use it more often would really help her out and I think that's all she'd actually need. Help her survive in a fight without HAVING to 100-0 a carry and then die. Which come to think of it, is the same trouble Rengar has. Only Diana doesn't have stealth to get in and already has to actually land a skillshot (like you are changing Rengar's bola to.) But, then I think Riot is just going to ignore Diana and leave her how she is, because she isn't trash tier she's just not very good. I am sad, because I always loved seeing her in competitive play, and I think she is a very healthy champion in the jungle. And the new skin is gorgeous and I want to buy it very badly, but it feels like a waste of money when I can't play her in anything but bot-game WOTD's.
Personally I think the thing is that her problem is that she is all-in and identity crisis. If you play her as an assassin with a little bulk (zhoyna's abyssal) works fine, and then have some more followup damage in the form of nashor's lich bane After that you can get some more bulk with GA, more damage with VS, or anything I'd rather she stay in this niche state than have riot "buff" her and take away parts of her kit ala rework. But if there were any changes I would have to make is to increase E range, increase q speed, or damage done by orbs.
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For a long time, Elmo was the shining star of "Sesame Street," but when the long-running kids show returns for its 44th season on Sept. 16, it's Cookie Monster who's angling to grab all the buzz (and all the cookies, of course).
"Cookie's Crumby Pictures" is a new segment being introduced that will help teach pre-schoolers self-regulation. But it's also a chance for the big, blue, cookie-loving monster to get seriously hip.
The first segment unveiled by the Sesame Workshop features Cookie Monster parodying Icona Pop's "I Love It!" The Cookie Monster version is "Me Want It" and it's all about learning to temper that seemingly uncontrollable urge for cookies.
Upcoming installments of the series will include such film spoofs as "Life of Whoopie Pie," "The Spy Who Loved Cookies," "Les Mousserables" and "The Hungry Games."
The inspiration for the new segment can no doubt be traced back to last summer's viral hit, "Share It Maybe," which featured Cookie Monster parodying Carly Rae Jepson's "Call Me Maybe." The video has had over 14 million views on YouTube since last July. Now it's Cookie Monster's time to be the hip Muppet of the moment.
The upcoming season of "Sesame Street" also boasts a huge lineup of guest stars from some decidedly un-kid-friendly places, including "Game of Thrones'" Peter Dinklage and Lena Headey, and "True Blood's" Rutina Wesley. Other guest stars for the upcoming season include Charlize Theron, Forest Whitaker, Anna Kendrick, Lauren Graham, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Hank Azaria, Audra McDonald, Tyra Banks, Benjamin Bratt, Tom Bergeron, Usher, Dave Matthews, Romeo Santos, Henry Cavill and Tyler Perry.
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BALTIMORE, Nov. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Thursday, December 5 from 4 p.m.-9 p.m., the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) is hosting a Lady Baltimore Debut Party and Holiday Open House.
The event will be held in conjunction with the annual Baltimore Monument Lighting in Mount Vernon, Baltimore. Beginning at 4 p.m. at The Maryland Historical Society, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will speak about the history of the 190-year old Lady Baltimore statue and its significance to the city. Known as the 'iconic symbol of Baltimore,' this marks the first time that Lady Baltimore will be on view to the general public since its move from atop the Battle Monument in October.
Maryland Historical Society President Burt Kummerow will provide introductory remarks, and Chief Curator Alexandra Deutsch will describe the statue's fascinating relocation process. Fort McHenry National Monument and Shrine's Chief of Interpretation Vince Vaise will speak about his personal connection to Lady Baltimore. Throughout the evening, visitors will receive FREE museum admission and enjoy cookies, cider, hot cocoa, Christmas carol sing-a-longs and more. The Fort McHenry Fife and Drum Corps, 1812 Living History characters, and the Notre Dame Institute and Choir will provide entertainment. In addition, the recreated Star-Spangled Banner flag, which last summer was stitched completely by hand by volunteers from Maryland and around the world, will be on view for one night only in France Hall. About The Maryland Historical Society Open House "It's become an annual tradition here at The Maryland Historical Society," says President Burt Kummerow. "Just as every year, Mount Vernon celebrates the holiday season by illuminating the Washington Monument in festive lights, we decorate our lobby with festive ornaments and feature hot chocolate, cookies and even a visit from carolers singing historical holiday songs! We are especially excited this year to feature not one, but two major new items on public display: Lady Baltimore and our recreated Star-Spangled Banner flag." The Baltimore Monument Lighting, sponsored by Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, will begin at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Washington Monument, with the Lighting Ceremony set to start at 7:00 p.m. A colorful burst of fireworks marks the finale. The Open House at The Maryland Historical Society will run from 4 p.m.-9 p.m., making it the perfect time to stop in before or after the Monument Lighting. "It's an evening of fun the whole family can enjoy," Kummerow continues, "So come in out of the cold and step back in time at MdHS!"Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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All I see is words written down. They dont give me any feling or anything to think about. Writing poetry is more thanjust writing down words.
Horrible poem removed by me gah I'll write another ;/
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All I see is words written down. They dont give me any feling or anything to think about. Writing poetry is more thanjust writing down words.
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Bah I jus wrote it I'm not a poet but I wanted to see the results ;/ guess I'm not good lol Eh I'll make one more but I'll give it time and thought maybe a week? I'm not sure how people actually write poetry it seems so deep in thought... can ya give me pointers or is that something thats a werid thing to ask? O.o
First thing first, you dont have to be a poet to write poetry. And I personally believe there are no bad writrs. And I sure as hell believe no one should give up on anything they're interested in.
All I can say is, in my opinion, poetry is a mix of emotion, literary devices, and voice. If you have something to say, it will come out. Whether in poetry, speaking, or any other type of writing. Dont try to force anything out in your poetry. Go with the flow and try to learn about the literary world.
You can also check out my clan, the fanfics/poetry, we do a lot of exercises to broaden a writer's horizon.
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Hmmmm.... I do have things to say, but I can't really expresse them into sentences I think... I sometimes make a good thought of a poem when I'm really deep in thought but after that its like its forgoten... hmmm is there a way to really expresse something you can't remember?
Well, if you cant remember it how can you express it?
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Hmm... I wrote a poem but I'm gonna msg you I'm kinda shy :/ I never write so sappy poems..
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So i just kegged 20 gallons of beer and used priming suger to carbonate. Well i had a random party last night and we kicked 2 of my kegs. I have some friends coming next weekend that I want to have beer on tap for....so would force carbonating these hurt anything? Would having priming sugar in the beer affect the flavor that bad? Let me know all thoughts and any concerns. thanks
By just priming, did you do it today/yesterday? I'd expect two things then, that the beer with taste green at the worst, sweet at the best, and that if you force carb, if the keg isn't finished, they'll still be producing co2 that you'd have to vent. You know those posts where people know their beer tasted good, then they bottled and tested it a week after, either knowing that it's not ready but curious, or they don't know better and they complain about it tasting wierd and horrible? That's what will likely happen, but carbonated if you force carb. Got any other spare beer?
Seems like 1/3 cup of priming sugar won't sweeten it up too much, and dropping it to fridge temps will sure slow down the yeast. I say go for it. Any extra CO2 produced by the yeast will cause your reg to rise up a bit, but as you pour pints it'll come back down....just keep an eye on the keg for a couple weeks after you force carb. If the reg goes up, pull the relief valve.


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It says something for how messed up Putin's Russia is that they have managed to turn a grade A arseh*le like Khodorkovsky into a martyr and liberal symbol.
TEN years ago Chrystia Freeland wrote a very good book based on her experiences as the Financial Times' Russia correspondent in the 1990s. The funniest part comes when she's interviewing Mikhail Khodorkovsky, then at the top of his game as CEO of Yukos, over dinner. She asks him, as I recall, whether he feels any guilt for stripping the country's national assets for his own private gain during the infamous loans-for-shares affair, and he freaks out and calls her a "mediocre intellect". It's funny because it's not true! Chrystia Freeland is extremely smart. Meanwhile, this month Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to his second consecutive trumped-up seven-year jail term. (I believe Vladimir Putin has issued an ukaz that Mr Khodorkovsky will serve this term in a palace made entirely of ice.) And Ms Freeland has a new piece in this month's Atlantic that argues that, much like the Russian oligarchs of the 1990s, today's wealthy elites in America, Britain, Europe, the Far East and so forth don't give a damn about the countries where they were born, or where they technically reside in the intervals between private-jet excursions:
Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth. Its members are hardworking, highly educated, jet-setting meritocrats who feel they are the deserving winners of a tough, worldwide economic competition—and many of them, as a result, have an ambivalent attitude toward those of us who didn't succeed so spectacularly. Perhaps most noteworthy, they are becoming a transglobal community of peers who have more in common with one another than with their countrymen back home. Whether they maintain primary residences in New York or Hong Kong, Moscow or Mumbai, today's super-rich are increasingly a nation unto themselves.
...[T]he global "nation" in which they increasingly live and work is doing fine—indeed, it's thriving. As a consequence of this disconnect, when business titans talk about the economy and their role in it, the notes they strike are often discordant: for example, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein waving away public outrage in 2009 by saying he was "doing God's work"; or the insistence by several top bankers after the immediate threat of the financial crisis receded that their institutions could have survived without TARP funding and that they had accepted it only because they had been strong-armed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson...For the super-elite, a sense of meritocratic achievement can inspire high self-regard, and that self-regard—especially when compounded by their isolation among like-minded peers—can lead to obliviousness and indifference to the suffering of others.
Unsurprisingly, Russian oligarchs have been among the most fearless in expressing this attitude. A little more than a decade ago, for instance, I spoke to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, at that moment the richest man in Russia. "If a man is not an oligarch, something is not right with him," Khodorkovsky told me. "Everyone had the same starting conditions, everyone could have done it."...
Though typically more guarded in their choice of words, many American plutocrats suggest, as Khodorkovsky did, that the trials faced by the working and middle classes are generally their own fault. When I asked one of Wall Street's most successful investment-bank CEOs if he felt guilty for his firm's role in creating the financial crisis, he told me with evident sincerity that he did not. The real culprit, he explained, was his feckless cousin, who owned three cars and a home he could not afford.
I agree with that Wall Street investment banker: the global financial crisis was clearly caused by his cousin. Somebody should find that guy! He owes the rest of us a lot of money.
Ms Freeland expresses the hope towards the end of her article that the global super-rich will at some point realise that in the long run, by refusing to pay the taxes that are needed to maintain the infrastructure of the countries they operate in or to educate the workers they expect to staff their businesses, they are courting a disastrous political reaction: protectionism, confiscatory taxes, or something worse and more violent. I'm not entirely sure the super-rich need fear such a reaction. Back in mid-2009, Barack Obama told the assembled plutocrats of Wall Street that they ought to be more grateful to him; he was "the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks." The plutocrats smiled, and departed by helicopter. To the extent any pitchforks have been seen, they were applied to the Democrats' behinds last November. Perhaps, rather than attempting to stand between Wall Street and any hypothetical pitchforks, Mr Obama should have gotten out of the way.
The other day I was on a Singapore Airlines flight in which every video feature on the inflight entertainment system was preceded by an advertisement for condominiums in a luxury beachfront apartment/shopping development with three canted, burnished-steel towers supporting a huge steel lintel with an artificial park on top, trees, lake, and all, 200+ metres up. It looked like the spoiler of some gigantic Formula 1 racecar. As the ad played, a chyron across the bottom of the screen repeated something along the following lines: "Republic of Singapore, zero capital gains tax, zero wealth tax, zero inheritance tax..." ad nauseum. I sort of think this is the world the super-wealthy are operating in, one in which every threat made by some puny government can be flicked away by the threat of moving to Singapore or some other principality slavishly devoted to wealth. Though given that I was watching this ad in economy class, it's probably just some pathetic low-rent imitation of the real thing, which is in fact beyond the imagination of mere wage-earners like me. There's a Victor Pelevin short story along these lines, in which a Russian neuro-physicist discovers that the possession of a certain quantity of dollars propels people's consciousnesses into an alternative dimension; to all outward appearances such oligarchs seem to still function in our reality, but in fact they are experiencing a universe invisible and completely alien to us mortals. State security authorities promptly hook up a couple of money-nauts to a psychic imaging machine developed by the KGB and transfer billions of dollars to their accounts. It turns out that the universe, as they experience it, looks like a long corridor, lit with a faintly greenish light, with something unidentifiable just around the corner. It's a strangely haunting, off-kilter story. As Ms Freeland says, the Russians always seem to be sharper at expressing these kinds of things.
(Free exchange has more on this topic. Painting credit: Valery Ivanovich Jacobi, 1878. Empress Anne of Russia forces Prince Galitsyn to spend his wedding night in a palace of ice.)


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Inside The 2008 Candidates' Marriages
By YourTango
One presidential election. Six frontrunners. You may know their stands on abortion, the Iraq war, and whether two men should be allowed to say "I do." But what do you know about their romantic relationships? Barbara Kantrowitz investigates which couple is most likely to captivate American voters—and which union is best equipped to survive four years in the White House.
NOT SO LONG AGO, WHAT HAPPENED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS in the White House was nobody's business. Some of most celebrated presidents in U.S. history—Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy—enjoyed a little action on the side without having to worry about paparazzi hiding in the bushes. But in the last few campaigns, every aspect of a candidate's life has become fair game. "The line between public and private lives had gotten progressively blurred," says family therapist Terrence Real, author of The New Rules of Marriage. "The flag that everybody waves is that it's a character issue." We've come to believe that a man who respects his marriage vows will treat the country well and provide a higher quality of moral leadership than a serial philanderer.