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Apartment near Sagrada Familia with sunny Terrrace
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Velikost75 m²
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- Internet/WiFi
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In this appartament you have 3 rooms, 2 double rooms, The Green Room and The B&W Room and 1 single room, The Red Room.
On your arrival I give you the keys so you have complete freedom to enter and leave the House.
In the price is included, games of sheets, towels and kitchen utensils.
As a detail also find some coffee , sugar , tea, butter , olive oil , etc. to dispose of it in your breakfast
You can make use of the facilities of the House, the kitchen, bathroom, Hall and terrace. On the terrace you can eat, rest and sunbathing on the sunniest days. I have a computer laptop and wifi throughout the House.
The attic is about two stops of subway, red line and loved, Clot, violet line. Clot to Catalonia (Barcelona Centre) are 4 stops and loved this 3 stops from the Centre and 1 stop from Sagrada Familia, also can walk finding the Sagrada Familia to 8min. Also have buses that you move to the Center and beach of Barcelona.
The attic is located in a safe neighborhood. It is a neighbourhood where you can find a lot of trade, supermarkets, pharmacy, bakery, terraces, etc. Also you can visit the Clot market, where you can find everything related to the diet food mediterranea. Also find el Clot Park, shopping centre glories, the Agbar Tower, all of this at 5´de House, walking pedestrian streets.
To 10´ also find the new Diagonal, is the new tourist area of Barcelona, with a great ride that goes to the Forum. Ideal for walks, make joggging or go to trambia.
The beach of Barcelona can be found 30´ walking callejeando by some of the neighborhoods most picturesque of our city.
In the "Green Room" there is air condiciong but it isn´t including in the price, it´s cost you 10 euros per night
The last day of stay will be made to check the whole apartment to check this properly. If there is any damage shall be paid in cash the cost that the Host values for the damage
The apartment must be left clean and picked up, if not cleaning a plus 8 euros per day of stay will be charged.
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Prima locatie, goed gelegen t.o.v. openbaar vervoer en winkeltjes. De kamer is wel erg klein, 5 vierkante meter, en erg gehorig. Weinig privacy als ook de twee andere twee kamers verhuurd zijn. Verder wel erg verzorgd.
Hy monica and roberto. Our stay at your home was fantastic! It was a plasend journeey! We will come ones more to barcelona. :) Your house is really lovely and you was always helping us for every time. The best thing was, that we could made the cookies in your kitchen (fantastic). Also the possibility to be abel to smoke on the terrase is very good.Many thanks for helping us because of our laguage problem. Even at the airoport, our bags are weight onely 17kg!!! We never will understand that. ;) As soon we was getting to our home in switzerland, we allready missed you and your fam. With dog. We wishes you all the best from the world and maybe see you again! Nadja and matea ;)
Sehre schoenes Zimmer, gut gelegen, sauberes Badzimmer, Monica und Alfredo sind sehr Nett.
Me and my boyfriend stayed for a week with Monica. It was great! The flat was very clean and tidy. It had everything we needed. It was situated it a lovely area and we really enjoyed our stay.
Die Unterkunft ist perfekt für eine Städtereise. Zu Fuß sind es 10 min zur Sagrada Familia und die nächste Metro ist ebenfalls nur 5 min entfernt. Das Zimmer ist etwas klein aber völlig ausreichend. Ein Highlight ist die Dachterrasse! Hier kann man einen anstrengenden Sightseeing-Tag ausklingen lassen! Gerne wieder!
Very pleasant stay, superb location (10 min walk to Sagrada Familia, 5 min to metro station). Clean house. Everything was great.
Thanks Monica
Very nice and beautiful flat and in the center of Barcelona.
I would recommend it to everyone. Best thing is the patio on the roof which is ideal for long nights out. :-)
The Room has been very nice and clean, and also the rest of the apartment! And the best thing - the terrace! Sunny, warm and perfekt for a nice breakfast or dinner at the end of a perfect day in Barcelona.
The Room ist only 5 minutes away of the Sagrada Familia, so its perfekt if you go to barcelona for the first time. Also the rest of the interesting places were reachable by foot or very simple by bus or metro.
So we decided to visit Barcelona again - and this is a really good sign, isn`t it?
Klein maar net en schoon appartement. Prima locatie om Barcelona te verkennen, alles op loopafstand. Keukentje en dakterras aanwezig. Auto goed te parkeren om de hoek op bewaakt Pterrein. Voor herhaling vatbaar!
we had a great stay at Momicas Flat, the pictures do not deceive and no problems with kitchen or bath sharing. Sagrada Familia is wuite close and also the Metro to Placa Catalunya, perfect. I really can recommend!!
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The new Screwtape
Q&A | Paying homage to C.S. Lewis, Richard Platt's recent book captures the style and satire of The Screwtape Letters
"The new Screwtape" Continued...
In the 70 years since C.S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters, many writers have tried to write a sequel, and many have failed. Richard Platt succeeds with As One Devil to Another (Tyndale). Lewis biographer Walter Hooper notes, "It reads as if C.S. Lewis himself had written it." Platt, born in 1961, has always loved reading but has only started writing during the past decade. He paid the bills by working in and managing restaurants, and recently retired from that. Here are edited excerpts of our interview.
Did you enjoy the restaurant business? It was physically fatiguing but not mentally fatiguing, so I could come home, sit down, and read. All the writers I have come to revere and love, including C.S. Lewis, I discovered on my own.
And you've been married for 30 years? We just celebrated our 30th anniversary. Easily the smartest thing I've ever done in my entire life.
When did you discover Lewis? A friend who was also a Presbyterian minister handed me Surprised by Joy. He's a soft-sell guy. He just said, "This is a great narrative voice, and I think you'll like it."
Had you been surprised by God at that point? No. I took the book home and thought, "Wow, this is really quite something." We had coffee the next week and I said "Hey, this Lewis guy, what else has he written?" He handed me a copy of The Case for Christianity, which ultimately became the first part of Mere Christianity. I took it home. That was the beginning of the avalanche. I started nodding on page four. Lewis' mind works like a fine cutting tool, paring to the hardened kernel of essential truth in the center. You find yourself going A to B, B to C, C to D.
What did you think about God before reading Lewis? I hadn't thought a whole lot. I was the lazy agnostic from a very loving, nondenominational Christian family. I would say "How come this?" and "Why that?" I got those "Because God said so" answers. I stopped asking those questions.
What happened after you read Lewis? I started praying. Then I started thinking about not just understanding my relationship to God, but my obligations. I started thinking: Everybody's been given some abilities. What are my abilities? What can I do? How can I serve? This book is the answer to those years of asking what I could do.
I'd like you to read several passages from As One Devil to Another, starting with the instructions a young devil receives about his new client ... "She is a postgraduate in the English department of an old and prestigious university which means, happily for us, a hotbed of arrogance, spiritual erosion, and social vanity. She is quite clever, by human standards, which could work very much in our favour as her environment is perfectly suited to inflame her latent intellectual snobbery and many of the other lovely vices we are trying to make endemic.
"We must consider how best to exploit her aspirations. She has set her sights on a career in academia. Do we want to propel her to dizzying heights of academic success, distending her ego and making her a loathsome prig to everyone but her most accomplished colleagues, wallowing in the envy she provokes in her peers and the fear she instills in her students? Or shall we raise her just to the level of mediocrity that will cause her to aspire to, but never reach, those dizzying heights, an onlooker who stokes her hunger by publishing a few books here and there but is mostly ignored by the academic community and who spends her life picking at the scabs of envy that will form on her like a spiritual crust?"
The problem of pain certainly engaged Lewis. Could you read us a bit from the fifth letter? "The question is one of perspective, which you, as a youngster, will find difficult to see, because our purpose differs so much from the Adversary's. We want sheep fattened for slaughter. A life of ease, sensuality, comfort, and mindless dissipation would suit us admirably. He wants immortal beings united to Him, freely, joyously, eternally. (Pardon the distasteful phraseology. A teacher must be candid.) Humans are designed and required to grow and learn, and ultimately, to serve, not because they've been placed under the lash, as we would have it, but because their will freely conforms to His.
"In order to learn they must act, and He has given them a dangerous world because it is only in a world of danger, and thus pain, that moral issues come to the surface. ... Keep this in mind. The Adversary sees the tempered steel they are to be once they emerge from the furnace. The clients who learn to ride in the toughest schools of all, in the end, will be the most free. It is therefore of paramount importance to prevent our clients from adopting the Adversary's perspective."
Every generation has to deal with the problem of pain, but you also bring in some issues that Lewis did not have to consider. How about two paragraphs from Letter 12? "We see an even finer example of our philological handiwork in the representation of homosexuality. ... From the Adversary's point of view the homosexual is no different from the glutton, the adulterer, the liar, or the worshiper of graven images with which we have peopled the stock exchanges. ... The homosexual is in exactly the same position as the unmarried heterosexual. ... The Adversary's command is to enjoy the physical union He has designed only through ... marriage; otherwise, He commands abstinence, which, thanks to us, is virtually impossible for them.
"We have corrupted the homosexual's legitimate plea for tolerance, turning it into a demand at first for acceptance and then for approval. ... The ultimate advantage to us is not societal strife and division in the church, however amusing, but spreading out wider our finest work, one nearest to his majesty's dark heart: spiritual pride. Homosexuality is a mere sin of the flesh. The creation of homosexuals is a legitimate goal for us not so we may damn them, but so we may ensnare those tasty delicacies, the spiritually self-righteous souls who are protected from this particular sin, yet who would denigrate those who have this cross to bear. ... With warm regards from your loving uncle and mentor, Slashreap."
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Like many veterans, Gary Barker was glad for a chance to add his name to a list of local service personnel who fought overseas.
"This is the wall I want my name on. I have friends on the other wall," Barker said, referring to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The black granite wall in Washington, D.C., lists more than 58,000 military personnel who died in the Vietnam War.
"I'm thankful my name isn't there," the former Marine said just before a Friday morning ceremony in downtown Vancouver.
The ceremony marked the dedication of the VFW Memorial Plaza, a tribute to all military personnel who have served in foreign wars.
Those who turned out represented 75 years of American history, from World War II veterans who enlisted before Pearl Harbor to more recent service personnel who have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The plaza project, which includes a granite monument and a flagpole, resulted from a partnership among local veterans and the city of Vancouver. The plaza is on the corner of Columbia Street and Phil Arnold Way, just southeast of City Hall.
The memorial plaza shares its location with the "Remembrance Wall," a gallery of military themed images created by the Clark County Mural Society.
As part of Friday's dedication, people had a chance to note their own military service, or to honor the service of family members, by signing their names on a mural panel.
Family tributes
For some, it was a family tribute.
George Winslow wrote in his 23 years of service in the Marines and Air Force Reserves, then continued to write. The Portland resident listed three uncles who were in World War II: Capt. Joe Brennfleck, who landed on Okinawa; Sgt. Carl Brennfleck, who fought in North Africa; and Chief Petty Officer George Brennfleck, who was on the aircraft carrier USS Wasp.
Sean Crotty, accompanied by grandmother Delores Lowry, also was part of a multigenerational panel.
As one of the younger participants, Crotty had no problems climbing a ladder to note his service in Iraq on one of the top rows. Then the Vancouver resident added the names of two grandfathers who fought overseas: John Crotty, who served in Korea, and Howard Lowry, a WWII veteran.
Crotty said he was proud to have his family represented — and to be part of a military tradition represented by all the other veterans who attended Friday's event.
"It's an honor to be seen with these gentlemen who fought in wars before me," Crotty said.
The panels signed Friday will be sealed to protect the names from vandalism, said Jerry Rolling, co-founder of the Clark County Mural Society.
Veterans who want to add their names, or family members of those who have served, should contact Rolling at email@example.com.
If they include name, years of birth and death (if needed), military branch and conflict, the mural society can add the tribute.
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The round begins with Yellow and Pika surfing to an island. Yellow notes the huge volcano, questioning if it's active. Just then, a Jr. Trainer comes to Yellow, saying that the island is Cinnabar Island, and claims that the volcano has been inactive for years. When the Trainer mentions the name of the island, Yellow realizes that there will not be many clues here to Red's disappearance, as the island must have been searched many times by Blaine. Yellow asks Pika what she should do, while the Jr. Trainer starts collecting stones in the background. When questioned as to what he is doing, he says he is helping a friend train. He then shows Yellow a bridge where he and his friend, who is revealed to be an old, bald man, do the training. Then, for the training, the boy and his Haunter start throwing stones at outstanding speeds. However, a strange shape appears, and the stones are deflected. Then, the boy calls on his Arcanine, telling it to use Ember after he throws the stones.
Yellow comments that the stones cannot be dodged on the bridge easily, and if one of them hits, the man will die, but just as before, a mysterious force deflects the stones. Yellow speculates that it is a giant spoon of sorts, but cannot tell. The man then comes and pays the Jr. Trainer for his help, and invites Yellow to his lab. The lab is revealed to be in the center of the volcano, and also that it is a back door to the Cinnabar Gym. He then welcomes Yellow to his lab, with Yellow questioning how he knows her name. The man then puts on glasses and a fake mustache, removes his hair, and reveals himself to be Blaine. Yellow questions his disguise, but Blaine claims that he never knows who could be watching him (and also he burnt his real mustache off in a training session). Blaine says he just got a message from Brock, and has a conversation with him via the telecast. Brock claims to have seen Red on Mt. Moon, much to both Blaine and Yellow's surprise. Brock then explains that Red was there at some point, but isn't now. He also has a flashback of what specifically happened, finding a perfect Red mold in ice.
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The Game of Thrones Season 2 teaser trailer has arrived online tonight and its looking like this season could be a game of Whose Throne Is It Anyway? Were not shown a lot in this video, but we do get a glimpse of some of the main characters as someone narrates their claim to the throne.
Tyrion, Joffrey, Sansa, Cersei, Catelyn, Arya, Jon, Jaime, Robb and Daenerys are among those present in the video below. Unfortunately, we dont really see much of whats going on with them, other than that theyre there. Its the voiceover that seems to be the main focus of the teaser...
I have it on good authority that the voice we hear in the video above is likely to be Stannis Baratheon, brother to the late Robert, and one of the characters who wants the Iron Throne. Whether or not thats the case, this guy sounds very determined to claim what he believes is rightfully his.
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IBM will provde up to $175 million through December 2014 in the project, forming the "IBM Canada Research and Development Centre" to serve as a foundation for the research initiative. Ontario's provincial is providing $15 million towards the creation of the centre.
The federal government will contribute $20 million to allow a consortium of seven southern Ontario post-secondary institutions and IBM to install two high-performance IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputers and develop a cloud computing and agile computing platform to underpin the initiative's research collaboration. The university consortium will have access to a new Barrie-based IBM data centre once it is fully operational in the fall of 2013. Other Canadian researchers and small to medium-sized enterprises will also be invited to join the consortium.
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>> Nulls are not values, are a kind of mark.
I am curious about the above point. I was under the impression that
one of Codd's original rules was that a relation should be allowed to
have an empty field. As such, any system that failed to have a
systematic approach to Nulls fails to be fully relational. Certainly
when I studied set theory, we discussed the Null set. I've been
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Last month I ended my column on artist burn-out with the advice to drink bleach. I took my own advice, and it really brightened my perspective. Thus my burn-out is over. Writing that column put the nail in its coffin.
So now back to advice. I've chosen to go back and cover something specific this time. Nothing too deep, just simple advice.
And not even my advice. This advice comes from Cincinnati's (and now Atlanta's) own DJ Drizzle.
This column is a sequel to one from last November in which I interviewed my homie Rare Groove, whom I consider to be one of the greatest DJs the city has ever witnessed, specifically in helping to build an artist's stage show into something more than five dudes rapping over vocal tracks, gunshots and tornado sirens.
But that's not all a DJ does. There are DJs that run in the Groove lane and DJs that run in the Drizzle lane. Both types are talented and both cross over into each other's lane at times, but at the end of the day, they have different responsibilities and offer different contributions to the game.
I wanted to follow up the Rare Groove article and present the other side of the DJ's repertoire: The Record Pool/Club DJ/Mixtape DJ/Record & Artist Breaker. As a member of the Hittmenn DJs, I've always seen Drizzle as a good representation of this and wanted to get his insight on a number of things up-and-coming artists should work on when trying to get their name popping in the city, region and beyond. (For more on DJ Drizzle, hit up www.gotdrizzle.com.)
When I asked Drizzle about how the artist/DJ relationship best works, both stage-wise and promotionally, he said that a DJ is looking for an artist who has already begun establishing a work ethic and local buzz.
They want someone who's already performing at showcases and open mics. They want someone who knows how to generate interest in themselves already. By the time they come to someone like Drizzle, they might not be as seasoned, but they won't be scared to perform and network.
One of the best things an artist can do to make the DJ's job easier, according to Drizzle, is to simply listen to the DJ's feedback. They know what works. DJs are on the frontline, in a sense, every night. They control what gets played. They know what's hot and they know what's not. They know when to play which record at which time of the night. They know which neighborhoods, regions and coasts mesh with which records.
DJs need to get their brand out there just as much as MCs do. One should never depend on the other to handle the hustle. When collaborating on a mixtape together, an artist should make sure they're grinding just as hard, if not harder, than the DJ, Drizzle advised. Don't fall back on the DJ's name or rep to carry your mixtape. All it does is sink the mixtape and make them look bad for working with you in the first place.
A DJ can help expand an artist's fan base. A good DJ in this arena already has a huge network of connects, both online and off. According to Drizzle, anything from e-mail blasts and DJ retreats to breaking the artist's record at clubs they're currently spinning in works to increase awareness for the artist they're pushing.
When asked for some basic rules/guidelines/advise for an artist to follow when trying to get a more prominent DJ to host/present their mixtape or spin their record, Drizzle said it helps if your buzz is really strong or you have a good relationship with the DJ. Otherwise, he said, don't ask for that kind of help right away. Ask for feedback. A DJ wants to know that you're humble and want to learn what it takes to make a song that will work in the club.
A lot of folks run up on a DJ while they're spinning in the prime-time hours of the night, asking them to spin their record because it's the "hottest shit" out or whatever. They might get played … if they pay. Which seems like an easy way out. But, as this column always stresses, there are no easy ways out. No skipping steps. Period. If a DJ accepts your money to play your song at the hottest point of the night, you can all watch the dance floor clear out from the DJ booth. Then you can watch the DJ lose that night for losing people, thus losing drink sales, thus losing the club owner's money. And the club owner, trust, does not give a flying fuck about you and your boys' new song.
So, again, don't skip steps; it all comes back around. Get the feedback, earn stripes and build the buzz from the ground up based on the quality of the record and the quality of the hustle.
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Gun in a School Guy Says "I Never Though About It"toddler-times
There are idiots and then there's this guy! An upstate New York man who brought a loaded weapon into a school building, prompting a lockdown, says he never even thought about it.
Really? You didn't think a gun on school premises was sort of a bad idea? Scratch that, reverse it. You didn't think a LOADED gun on school premises was sort of a bad idea?
Donald Daggett showed up at the Tri-Valley Central School to complain about school kids driving too fast near his house. He was already talking to the principal in his office when he announced he had a loaded gun with him. Why? According to the Times Herald Record, Daggett told state police he thought the principal would call the kids into the office for a dressing down – and he didn't want them to be uncomfortable with him because he had a gun.
But the principal and the students in grades K through twelve who walked past you wouldn't be uncomfortable?
This sounds like one out of the Darwin Awards, albeit with a happier ending than most of their stories. And although Daggett is now facing charges, school officials agree there was no real intent to hurt kids in this incident.
Do you think twice before taking things onto school grounds – be it a gun, a cigarette, what have you?
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GPOC hikes postage rates as costs mount
The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC), struggling to sustain its operations amidst rising costs, has announced new rates for the postage of items.
According to the Corporation, new rates are effective from Monday last and will affect postage for both local and international services.
"This is necessary in order to bring the Corporation's revenue in line with our costs. Geographical factors have been taken into consideration in our determination for these increases," GPOC said yesterday.
The changes taking place in the exchange of international mail and how postal operations will compensate each other were among some of the factors being taken into account to increase the rates.
"Under this new regime, it is no longer practical for rates, which have been constant since 2003, to remain unchanged."
The domestic rate for the first 20 grams will be $80; for Caribbean $130 while packages for Central, North and South America will be $150. For the first 20 grams, the new rate for Great Britain will be $160 while Asia, Africa, Europe/Australia will be $200.
In recent years, the Corporation has been battling to find new ways to increase its revenues.
This is because of direct competition from emails and other private couriers.
While GPOC has remained the main distributor of utility bills, it had faced some fallout in recent years. A large section of its Robb Street headquarters, which was being rented to the Guyana Revenue Authority, was left empty after that agency left.
Kaieteur News reserves the rights to moderate any comment deemed inappropriate and is not responsible for the views expressed.
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Amber Rose Offers Peek at Wedding Dress (PHOTO)
What a tease! Amber Rose sent out this photo revealing only the edge of what is either a wedding dress or one heck of a nightgown. Looks like the model and singer wants the total princess experience — full skirt, delicate lace, and plenty of tulle—for her wedding to fiancé Wiz Khalifa.
"Can u guess what dress I'm getting fitted for today? ;-)," she added to the photo, spinning Twitter into a tizzy. "Aaahh hiii congrats soo cute @muvarosebud !! Love is so beautiful haha," one follower replied. "Wiz is very lucky he has you," added another.
Amber began dating Wiz in 2011; he popped the question the following year. Ever since, rumors have circled that the power couple tied the knot in secret, but judging by this photo we don't think wedding bells have rung quite yet.
Details on Wiz and Amber's pending nuptials are few and far between, but we're sure one man's got an invite: Wiz and Amber's son Sebastian "The Bash" Thomaz, born February 21. That is if the little man can be persuaded to leave the house (he hates car seats).
Before meeting her tattooed Romeo, Amber famously dated another rapper: Kanye West. As Hollywood would have it, Kanye's expecting his own little bundle of joy in July. Girlfriend and mama-in-waiting Kim Kardashian has yet to send out any photos of white dresses — at least not any that look overtly bridal.
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I'm moving into a new office tomorrow to start a cycling related company (woot!) and it's in downtown Long Beach. I'm about 100ft from the LA River Path right near Catalina Landing. It looks very nice at the Ocean, but I imagine things get sketchy very quickly as I get up through Compton and Downey. Any opinions on the safety this path, specifically during weekdays 10am-4pm?
If that path is a bit sketchy, where else should I look to ride? Getting to Palos Verdes seems like it'd be pretty painful, and riding along the beach seems like it'd be too congested with joggers and tourists.
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Source of the Amazon River identified
"The Amazon" - "The Queen of Rivers and its mysterious source" (pdf)
Press Release of Geographic Society of Lima (1999)
AmazonSource Recognition from Vice President of Peru (pdf)
"Discovering True Source of the Amazon" (Warsaw Voice) [part 1]
[part 2]
"The Associated Press - Major discoveries and expeditions in recent years"
Expedition Profile from RGS-IBG Expeditions Database
The Explorers Journal (JPG, 59kB)
In 1996 a research expedition led by Jacek Palkiewicz solved one of the last geographical mysteries of our times by locating the source of the Amazon, which turns out to be the longest river in the world. It is hard to believe that long after man landed on the moon the world still didn't know the exact location marking the source of the largest and richest river in the world, discovered nearly 500 years ago. The much respected Encyclopaedia Britannica, commenting on the source of the Amazon, limited its entry to the succinct statement: "...The river begins its course high in the Andes at a distance of 100 miles from the Pacific Ocean." This topic has intrigued me for a long time. In 1994 I started the preparations for an expedition in search of the source, itself the object of unending academic quarrels. In my quest I was supported by the Geographic Society in Lima, whose role in the popularization and growth of the sciences is immeasurable. Soon the society was joined by other research centers, including the Pontifical Catholic University in Lima and the Department of Military Hydrography. From these institutions specialists were delegated: Prof. Zaniel Nowoa Goicochea and Admiral Guillermo Faura Gaig, a well-respected authority in the field of hydrology. The Russian Academy of Science, in turn, recommended glacierologist Sergiej Ushnurtsew.
Establishing the section of the river from which the river flows has caused immense difficulty for the common researcher because the necessary criteria are so rarely found in one place. There are no unambiguous rules, but in classifying rivers hydrologists typically take into consideration the size of the flow or quantity of water that passes a given point in one second. Moreover, they measure its length, the size of the river basin, the steepness of the channel and other less important elements. Since the times of Humboldt, the source stream of the Amazon was believed to be the Marañón. In 1934 Peruvian Gerardo Dianderas put forward the argument that the Ukajali was the true source. That thesis later gained approval among geographers and, more importantly, was accepted by the Geographic Society in Lima, which emphasized that the river "actually carries less water, but is supported by traditions immortalized in the history and culture of the region." In later years in the Cordillera Chila, in the province of Cailloma in southern Peru, there were many explorers who formulated various controversial hypotheses concerning the source without a foundation in hydrological research of any kind. French explorer Michel Perrin claimed in 1953 that the source could be found on the Huagra Mountain, while English journalist Nicholas Asheshov and parachutist John Ridgway believed that the mountain in question was Minaspata and yet others pointed to the Vilafro Lake or the Huarajo stream. In 1969 Prof. Carlos Peñaherrera del Águila, claimed that the location under discussion was located in Nevado Mismi. Two years later cartographers from National Geographic Magazine identified on maps that the farthest point from the mouth of the Amazon, and therefore the place where the river was born, was Nevado Mismi, the place mentioned by Peñaherrera . There the source of the Carhuasanta stream can be found. A photographer from the same publication, Loren McIntire, reached this spot and without taking any measurements of the streams in the vicinity of the source "sealed" the hypothesis of the magazine with her stamp of approval. Soon she propagated the localization, although it never gained acceptance from the appropriate Peruvian institutions. Over two years of intensive research, my companions spent a great deal of time on in-depth analysis and interpretation of the water phenomenon shown on radar images and taken from the air at various periods of time. Very costly satellite photos with greater resolution commissioned for this purpose provided more opportunities for interpreting changes in the humidity of the terrain. This allowed them to collect basic material for field research. Why would anyone want to organize a costly expedition to the farthest reaches of the world in search of "white spots" if it can be done from space? Today's satellites are actually able to control every square meter of the Earth's space. However, pictures of astounding resolution, frequently richer in information than topographical maps, can serve only as valuable comparative or supplemental material. They can inspire scientists to continue research efforts, but in themselves rarely form the basis for discovery. Today, much like hundreds of years ago, the irreplaceable actor in the exploration of the Earth is man, his talent for research, passion and patience, entrepreneurial spirit and endurance. In the summer of 1966 we arrived at the research site. On July 16 the expedition "Amazon Source '96" reached its base camp not far from Cailloma, at an elevation of 4,800 meters above sea level and 200 kilometers from Cuzco. It was very cold, the thermometer indicating just a few degrees above zero. Adding insult to injury a strong, gusty wind froze the marrow in our bones. Silence and loneliness dominate in this vast valley, covered sparsely in vegetation and surrounded by the unearthly peaks of the Andean Cordillera, whose majesty pales only when compared to that of the Himalayas. The landscape is unsettling and at the same time startlingly beautiful. This corner at the end of the world, windswept and tormented by heavy rain and hailstorms, is also bathed by a sun that is able to transform human skin into parchment. It is akin to a lost world that has not changed since the beginning of creation. The primary focus of our detailed research is measuring the streams in the upper section of the Lloqueta River, an extension of the Apurimac. A spider web of delicate water streamlets represents an unusually complicated hydrological situation. We have to measure their length and the average discharge of water, the volume of water passing by a fixed point along the river in a given amount of time. Only in this way, by eliminating one stream after another and moving methodically upstream, will we be able to locate the stream that gives the Amazon its start. The first task is a reconnaissance of the Carhuasanta ravine. Soon we discover that its "competitor" the Apacheta contains two times its flow. The latter river is also more important than the Sillanque and Ccaccansa. Admiral Faura underlines that it has less of a descent, the valley larger and at a lower elevation, as well as the fact that where it encounters other streams it maintains its previous direction. Without abandoning caution we reach the conclusion that the Apacheta is the section from which the Amazon springs. Now we have to reach its source. We climb slowly up the mountain path, which during the times of the Incas was one of the communication networks cutting across the Andes. With great effort we breathe the thin air that contains nearly half of the oxygen that is present at sea level. The great valley, which begins at the foot of the mountain chain, is gradually narrowing. This deserted land is harsh, inhospitable and barren of any traces of vegetation. Only the rocky stream bed, flooded when the water level reaches its peak, is covered in a delicate carpet of green. The Apacheta becomes increasingly flat and narrow. Its width does not exceed one meter. Close to the pass on Nevado Quehuisha a green oasis can be seen that contrasts sharply with the gray barrenness surrounding it. We are at the source. In a marsh hidden by clumps of grass and tiny bushes an underground water source bubbles to the surface. GPS indicates our geographical coordinates: 15°31'05" S by 71°45'55" W, and an elevation of 5,170 meters above sea level. Strangely, of the glacier and eternal snows that are visible in aerial photos taken 20 years ago, there is no longer any sign. The mother of all rivers is born inconspicuously. A delicate stream trickles its way among the rubble and gravel. A few dozen meters lower it resurfaces again and then winds along, like a snake, lazily down the slope. Farther on it becomes a wild mountain river and then transforms into a great water artery that flows through a wide channel across the largest alluvial plain on Earth, reaching the Atlantic Ocean six weeks later. In our report we take into account that the Apacheta is no shorter than its "main competitor," the Carhuasanta and can be found at the same elevation above sea level at the border of the main watershed. Moreover, the relative discharge, the volume expressed in liters per second per square kilometer of the basin, testifies to hydrological activity. In this respect the Apacheta has no equal. It is significant that our flow measurements were taken during the dry season at a time when the water level is at its lowest. The Quechua Indian accompanying us confirmed that the Apacheta carries water year round and, as the older generations say, it always flows from the same place. On November 19, 1999 at a press conference held by the Geographic Society in Lima, its president Dr. Eduardo Bedoya Lazarte stated: "The expedition 'Amazon Source '96' proved conclusively that the Amazon gets its beginning in the Quehuisha mountains. Our objective is now to propagate this discovery among all geographic-cartographic institutes worldwide." No other competitive thesis put forward by other explorers has ever been accepted by this competent institution. In terms of length, the Amazon turns out to be longer than the Nile. The lengths of great rivers given to date in the literature were based on maps of varying accuracy. The Nile, examined on a map at a scale of 1:250,000, has a length of 6,468 km, while 6,671 kilometers at 1:100,000. The Amazon has been analyzed on a rather imprecise map (1:1,000,000), because no others were available, where its course is strongly generalized and where the smaller loops are invisible. On this map the river measures 6,516 km. In contrast to the linear course of the Nile, the South American river wends its way over countless bends in a meandering pattern. If the length of both rivers were evaluated at a scale of 1:100.000, there would be no doubt of the Amazon's greater length.
The river current is constantly modeling new bends. As a result of bend migration and the overflow of meanders during the flood season, the Amazon changes the course of its channel. Short-cuts are always accompanied by an extension created by the formation of new loops. Brazilian scientists claim that the preeminence of the Amazon is unquestionable even in the rainy season when the river floods and frequently flows "cross-country," shortening its own course. Calculating its length is also encumbered by difficulties in defining the river's course and its funnel-like exit into a delta equal in size to 1/3 of Italy, where its end is hard to identify. Prof. Azis Ab'Saber, a Brazilian geological authority, believes that "In light of hydrological and geomorphological complexity, both mouths of the Amazon, both northern and southern (differing by 302 km), should be treated equally. Since hydrology assumes that the source is the point farthest from the mouth, it is understandable that the length of the river should be measured from the longest branch near the mouth." In 1984 famous oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau announced that the Amazon stretched over a distance of 7,025 km. The definitive lecture in determining the length of the Amazon was given in 2005 by scientists from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, the Brazilian Institute of Space Research in Sao Jose dos Campos. Paulo Roberto Martini, while conducting teledetection research on its dimensions using the Landsat satellite, estimated that the river's length amounts to 7,040 km, while that of the Nile at 6,857.
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Services Pending
Joseph Alfred Graham Jr., 80, of Amarillo died Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St.
Bob Jackson, 69, of Amarillo died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in Loja, Ecuador.
Anite Pitts, 69, of Amarillo died Sunday, Aug. 2, 2012. Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St.
Sheila Starr, 55, of Childress died Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. Angel Funeral Home, 2209 S. Arthur St.
Services Scheduled
Linioel Aleskin, 89, of Lewisville, Colo., formerly of Borger, died Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Llano Cemetery. Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors, Borger.
Services Today
Ignacio Arevalo Sr., 69, of Amarillo. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Angel Funeral Home, 2209 S. Arthur St.
Diann Ringo Birdsell, 71, of Pampa. Vigil will be at 6 p.m. in Carmichael-Whatley Colonial Chapel. Liturgy of the Word will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors, Pampa.
Leonard E. Frye of New Braunfels. Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. in Zoeller Funeral Home chapel. Zoeller Funeral Home, New Braunfels.
Betty Jo Graves, 86, of Perryton. Celebration of life services will be at 1:30 p.m. in Community Worship Center in Perryton. Private burial services will be in Ochiltree County Cemetery. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home, Perryton.
Marshall Lynn Henderson, 65, of Hereford. Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. in Wesley United Methodist Church in Hereford.
George F. Jackson, 93, of Amarillo. Services will be at 1 p.m. in Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel. Burial will be at 4 p.m. in Wheeler Cemetery. Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2800 Paramount Blvd.
Viola "Dude" King, 89, of Quanah. Services will be at 11 a.m. in Smith Funeral Home. Burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Potts Cemetery in Buffalo, Okla. Smith Funeral Home, Quanah.
Evelyn McCrary, 86, of Tulia. Services will be at 2 p.m. in Central Church of Christ. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Kornerstone Funeral Directors, Tulia.
Betty Ramona Nelson, 79, of Claude. Services will be at 10 a.m. in First Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Claude Cemetery. Boxwell Brothers at Claude.
Woodie Woods, 88, of Amarillo. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. in Memory Gardens Cemetery. LaGrone-Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors, Coulter Road Chapel, 8310 S. Coulter St.


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About Ganon5568
I love Papa Roach started listening to them lightly from 2000 when infest came out but sicne like 2004 i been fucking listening the shit outta Papa Roach. Alot of my friends Got into Papa Roach because i played them some songs.
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Spotlight on Ashley Hart
BY Nicola Conville Freelance Journalist
Yoga, meditation and a healthy diet keep this model in balance.
Rising model Ashley Hart reveals how she stays looking the way she does and why diets don't work for her.
It's hard to have a regular fitness routine because I travel so much with my job, but my ideal week includes at least three or four yoga sessions. I also like to hit the gym and run. In summer I love being active outdoors.
If I'm really busy I try to squeeze in some yoga in my hotel room. I've been doing yoga for five years and Bikram for about three. I was teaching Bikram yoga, but now that I've moved to New York and am travelling a lot I don't have time to teach.
Good-quality vitamins are a must when I'm travelling. I take a women's multivitamin, fish and flax oil supplements, an immune-boosting supplement and a hair, skin and nail multivitamin.
I love my morning smoothie – it's a ritual for me. I put in lots of protein powders, berries, banana and almond or rice milk.
I am a health freak. I'm vegetarian and I love Japanese food. When I'm home I cook a proper meal, but it's not always possible, so I try to take healthy snacks with me when I'm working. Today I took two bananas off my mum's bench, and I'm glad I did because I didn't get to eat anything else all day. I take mixed nuts with me everywhere too. I try not to get too hungry because then I overeat, so I try to snack throughout the day.
I love dark chocolate; I feel like I need to have something sweet after every meal. I love tea with milk and honey after a meal too. I like wine as well; my attitude is everything is okay in moderation.
These days I try to eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full. I've tried so many diets and restricting myself never works. My weight has fluctuated over the years but now I think it's important to surrender to being the right size for you. Meditation and yoga has really helped with that. I'm more healthy and curvy now and I'm loving it.
My beauty regimen is pretty simple. I always¬¬ take my make-up off after work and put on lots of moisturiser. I drink lots of water too – that's so important.
I apply oil to my hair ends after washing it. I highlight it and styling damages it, so I use a conditioning treatment every few days. I massage oil on my body after showering and I love getting manicures and pedicures with my sister [model Jessica Hart].
I love a tomboy look and I like to wear jeans with Converse – I own about 15 pairs! I love feminine maxi dresses but I'll always have a masculine edge. If you dress with confidence you can pull anything off.
Ashley Hart is an ambassador for Swisse Vitamins.