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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarchby Sally Bedell Smith
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From the moment of her ascension to the throne at age twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled admiration and scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the world's most famous/b>/b>/i>
"An excellent, all-embracing new biography."—The New York Times
From the moment of her ascension to the throne at age twenty-five, Queen Elizabeth II has been the object of unparalleled admiration and scrutiny. But through the fog of glamour and gossip, how well do we really know the world's most famous monarch? Drawing on numerous interviews and never-before-revealed documents, acclaimed biographer Sally Bedell Smith pulls back the curtain to show in extraordinary detail the public and private lives of one of the world's most fascinating and enigmatic women. In Elizabeth the Queen, we meet the young girl who suddenly becomes "heiress presumptive" when her uncle abdicates the throne. We see the young Queen struggling to balance the demands of her job with her role as the mother of two young children. And we gain insight into the Queen's daily routines, as well as her personal relationships: with Prince Philip, her husband of sixty-four years and the love of her life, her children and their often-disastrous marriages, her grandchildren and friends.
Scrupulously researched and compulsively readable, Elizabeth the Queen is a close-up view of the lively, brilliant, and steadfast woman we've known only from a distance, and a captivating window into life at the center of the last great monarchy.
With a new afterword by the author.
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"[An] imposing, yet nimbly written, biography [that] dwarfs the field . . . a most satisfying and enjoyable read, one to be savored at length."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Fascinating . . . After sixty years on the throne, the monarch of Britain is better known for her poker face than for sly wit or easy charm. Yet in biographer Sally Bedell Smith's Elizabeth the Queen, Her Majesty sparkles with both."—More
"Smith breaks new ground, [with the cooperation of] more than two hundred people, [including] the Queen's relatives and friends. . . . [A] smart and satisfying book."—Los Angeles Times
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It was a footman who brought the news to ten-year-old Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor on December 10, 1936. Her father had become an accidental king just four days before his forty-first birthday when his older brother, King Edward VIII, abdicated to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American. Edward VIII had been sovereign only nine months after taking the throne following the death of his father, King George V, making him, according to one mordant joke, "the only monarch in history to abandon the ship of state to sign on as third mate on a Baltimore tramp."
"Does that mean that you will have to be the next queen?" asked Elizabeth's younger sister, Margaret Rose (as she was called in her childhood). "Yes, someday," Elizabeth replied. "Poor you," said Margaret Rose.
Although the two princesses had been the focus of fascination by the press and the public, they had led a carefree and insulated life surrounded by governesses, nannies, maids, dogs, and ponies. They spent idyllic months in the English and Scottish countryside playing games like "catching the days"-running around plucking autumn leaves from the air as they were falling. Their spirited Scottish nanny, Marion "Crawfie" Crawford, had managed to give them a taste of ordinary life by occasionally taking them around London by tube and bus, but mostly they remained inside the royal bubble.
Before the arrival of Margaret, Elizabeth spent four years as an only- and somewhat precocious-child, born on the rainy night of April 21, 1926. Winston Churchill, on first meeting the two-year-old princess, extravagantly detected "an air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant." Crawfie noted that she was "neat and methodical . . . like her father," obliging, eager to do her best, and happiest when she was busy. She also showed an early ability to compartmentalize-a trait that would later help her cope with the demands of her position. Recalled Lady Mary Clayton, a cousin eight years her senior: "She liked to imagine herself as a pony or a horse. When she was doing that and someone called her and she didn't answer right away, she would then say, 'I couldn't answer you as a pony.' "
The abdication crisis threw the family into turmoil, not only because it was a scandal but because it was antithetical to all the rules of succession. While Elizabeth's father had been known as "Bertie" (for Albert), he chose to be called George VI to send a message of stability and continuity with his father. (His wife, who was crowned by his side, would be known as Queen Elizabeth.) But Bertie had not been groomed for the role. He was in tears when he talked to his mother about his new responsibilities. "I never wanted this to happen," he told his cousin Lord Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten. "I've never even seen a State Paper. I'm only a Naval Officer, it's the only thing I know about." The new King was reserved by nature, somewhat frail physically, and plagued by anxiety. He suffered from a severe stammer that led to frequent frustration, culminating in explosions of temper known as "gnashes."
Yet he was profoundly dutiful, and he doggedly set about his kingly tasks while ensuring that his little Lilibet-her name within the family-would be ready to succeed him in ways he had not been. On his accession she became "heiress presumptive," rather than "heiress apparent," on the off chance that her parents could produce a son. But Elizabeth and Margaret Rose had been born by cesarean section, and in those days a third operation would have been considered too risky for their mother. According to custom, Lilibet would publicly refer to her mother and father as "the King and Queen," but privately they were still Mummy and Papa.
When Helen Mirren was studying for her role in 2006's The Queen, she watched a twenty-second piece of film repeatedly because she found it so revealing. "It was when the Queen was eleven or twelve," Mirren recalled, "and she got out of one of those huge black cars. There were big men waiting for her, and she extended her hand with a look of gravity and duty. She was doing what she thought she had to do, and she was doing it beautifully."
"I have a feeling that in the end probably that training is the answer to a great many things," the Queen said on the eve of her fortieth year as monarch. "You can do a lot if you are properly trained, and I hope I have been." Her formal education was spotty by today's standards. Women of her class and generation were typically schooled at home, with greater emphasis on the practical than the academic. "It was unheard of for girls to go to university unless they were very intellectual," said Lilibet's cousin Patricia Mountbatten. While Crawfie capably taught history, geography, grammar, literature, poetry, and composition, she was "hopeless at math," said Mary Clayton, who had also been taught by Crawfie. Additional governesses were brought in for instruction in music, dancing, and French.
Elizabeth was not expected to excel, much less to be intellectual. She had no classmates against whom to measure her progress, nor batteries of challenging examinations. Her father's only injunction to Crawfie when she joined the household in 1932 had been to teach his daughters, then six and two, "to write a decent hand." Elizabeth developed flowing and clear handwriting similar to that of her mother and sister, although with a bolder flourish. But Crawfie felt a larger need to fill her charge with knowledge "as fast as I can pour it in." She introduced Lilibet to the Children's Newspaper, a current events chronicle that laid the groundwork for following political news in The Times and on BBC radio, prompting one Palace adviser to observe that at seventeen the princess had "a first-rate knowledge of state and current affairs."
Throughout her girlhood, Elizabeth had time blocked out each day for "silent reading" of books by Stevenson, Austen, Kipling, the Brontës, Tennyson, Scott, Dickens, Trollope, and others in the standard canon. Her preference, then and as an adult, was for historical fiction, particularly about "the corners of the Commonwealth and the people who live there," said Mark Collins, director of the Commonwealth Foundation. Decades later, when she conferred an honor on J. K. Rowling for her Harry Potter series, the Queen told the author that her extensive reading in childhood "stood me in good stead because I read quite quickly now. I have to read a lot."
Once she became first in line to the throne, Elizabeth's curriculum intensified and broadened. Her most significant tutor was Sir Henry Marten, the vice provost of Eton College, the venerable boys' boarding school down the hill from Windsor Castle whose graduates were known as Old Etonians. Marten had coauthored The Groundwork of British History, a standard school textbook, but he was hardly a dry academic. A sixty- six-year-old bachelor with a moon face and gleaming pate, he habitually chewed a corner of his handkerchief and kept a pet raven in a study so heaped with books that Crawfie likened them to stalagmites. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who would serve as Queen Elizabeth II's fourth prime minister, remembered Marten as "a dramatic, racy, enthusiastic teacher" who humanized figures of history.
Beginning in 1939, when Elizabeth was thirteen, she and Crawfie went by carriage to Marten's study twice a week so she could be instructed in history and the intricacies of the British constitution. The princess was exceedingly shy at first, often glancing imploringly at Crawfie for reassurance. Marten could scarcely look Elizabeth in the eye, and he lapsed into calling her "Gentlemen," thinking he was with his Eton boys. But before long she felt "entirely at home with him," recalled Crawfie, and they developed "a rather charming friendship."
Marten imposed a rigorous curriculum built around the daunting three- volume The Law and Custom of the Constitution by Sir William Anson. Also on her reading list were English Social History by G. M. Trevelyan, Imperial Commonwealth by Lord Elton, and The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot, the gold standard for constitutional interpretation that both her father and grandfather had studied. Marten even included a course on American history. "Hide nothing," Sir Alan "Tommy" Lascelles, private secretary to King George VI, had told Marten when asked about instructing the princess on the crown's role in the constitution.
Unlike the written American Constitution, which spells everything out, the British version is an accumulation of laws and unwritten traditions and precedents. It is inherently malleable and dependent on people making judgments, and even revising the rules, as events occur. Anson called it a "somewhat rambling structure . . . like a house which many successive owners have altered." The constitutional monarch's duties and prerogatives are vague. Authority rests more in what the king doesn't do than what he does. The sovereign is compelled by the constitution to sign all laws passed by Parliament; the concept of a veto is unthinkable, but the possibility remains.
Elizabeth studied Anson for six years, painstakingly underlining and annotating the dense text in pencil. According to biographer Robert Lacey, who examined the faded volumes in the Eton library, she took note of Anson's assertion that a more complex constitution offers greater guarantees of liberty. In the description of Anglo-Saxon monarchy as "a consultative and tentative absolutism" she underlined "consultative" and "tentative." Marten schooled her in the process of legislation, and the sweeping nature of Parliament's power. Elizabeth's immersion in the "procedural minutiae" was such that, in Lacey's view, "it was as if she were studying to be Speaker [of the House of Commons], not queen." Prime ministers would later be impressed by the mastery of constitutional fine points in her unexpectedly probing questions.
When Elizabeth turned sixteen, her parents hired Marie-Antoinette de Bellaigue, a sophisticated Belgian vicomtesse educated in Paris, to teach French literature and history. Called "Toni" by the two princesses, she set a high standard and compelled them to speak French with her during meals. Elizabeth developed a fluency that impressed even Parisians, who praised her for speaking with "cool clear precision" on her visit to their city in 1948, at age twenty-two.
De Bellaigue worked in tandem with Marten, who suggested essay topics for Elizabeth to write in French. The governess later recounted that Marten had taught the future Queen "to appraise both sides of a question, thus using [her] judgment." In de Bellaigue's view, Lilibet "had from the beginning a positive good judgment. She had an instinct for the right thing. She was her simple self, 'très naturelle.' And there was always a strong sense of duty mixed with joie de vivre in the pattern of her character."
Elizabeth's mother had an enormous influence on the development of her character and personality. Born Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to the Earl and Countess of Strathmore, she had grown up in an aristocratic Scottish- English family of nine children. In 1929, Time magazine had pronounced her a "fresh, buxom altogether 'jolly' little duchess." She read widely and avidly, with a particular fondness for P. G. Wodehouse. Somewhat improbably, she was also a fan of Damon Runyon's stories about New York gangsters and molls, once writing to a friend in the author's vernacular: "The way that Dame Pearl gets a ripple on, there was a baby for you-Oh boy."
Queen Elizabeth taught her daughter to read at age five and devoted considerable time to reading aloud the children's classics. As soon as Lilibet could write, her mother encouraged her to begin the lifelong habit of recording her impressions in a diary each night. During her father's coronation in 1937, the eleven-year-old princess kept a lively journal, "From Lilibet by Herself." "The arches and beams at the top [of Westminster Abbey] were covered with a sort of haze of wonder as Papa was crowned," she wrote. When her mother was crowned and the white-gloved peeresses put on their coronets simultaneously, "it looked wonderful to see arms and coronets hovering in the air and then the arms disappear as if by magic."
At an early age, Elizabeth's parents began arranging for her to sit for portraits. She would repeat this ritual more than 140 times throughout her life, making her the most painted monarch in history. For the royal family, portraits have long been an essential part of image making, helping to shape the way the public sees its regal icons. When asked if she kept her portraits, the Queen replied, "No, none. They're all painted for other people."
Hungarian Alexius de László, a widely admired society portrait artist, was hired to capture Lilibet in oils for the first time. She was just seven. László found her to be "intelligent and full of character," although he conceded she was "very sleepy and restless." Aristocratic matrons enjoyed the company of the smooth-talking sixty-four-year-old artist, but Elizabeth thought he was "horrid," as she recalled years later with a grimace. "He was one of those people who wanted you to sit permanently looking at you." The resulting ethereal image-a favorite of her mother's-shows the young princess in ruffled silk, with blond curls and wide blue eyes, holding a basket of flowers. Yet her unsmiling expression betrays a whiff of exasperation.
The second artist to capture Elizabeth's image was another Hungarian, sculptor Zsigmond Strobl, who had eighteen sessions with her from 1936 to 1938. She was older, by then the heiress presumptive, and eager to chat with the Hungarian journalist who joined the sittings to help her pass the time in conversation. Being painted or sculpted from life reinforced the virtue of patience. As Queen she would also find her sittings to be an oasis of uncluttered time when she could unwind, connect with a stranger in a private and unthreatening way, speak expansively-sometimes quite personally-and even crack jokes. "It's quite nice," she said during a sitting before her eightieth birthday as she flashed an impish smile. "Usually one just sits, and people can't get at you because one's busy doing nothing."
A favorite topic during the Strobl sculpting sessions was the world of horses, which had become Elizabeth's full-blown passion as well as another opportunity for learning. Her father bred and raced thoroughbreds, continuing a royal tradition, and he introduced her to all aspects of the equine world, starting with her first riding lesson at age three. By 1938 she began learning how to ride sidesaddle, a necessary skill for the yearly Trooping the Colour ceremony celebrating the sovereign's birthday when she would be required to ride in a red military tunic, long navy blue riding skirt, and black tricorn cap at the head of a parade of more than 1,400 soldiers.
Her twice weekly riding lessons helped her develop athleticism and strength and taught her how to keep a cool head in moments of danger. She experienced the uninhibited joy of vaulting fences and cantering across fields and through woodlands-sensations that would temporarily liberate her from the restrictions of her official life. Although she tried foxhunting while in her teens-first with the Garth Foxhounds in Berkshire, then with the Beaufort Hunt in Gloucestershire-she was already captivated by breeding and racing.
Meet the Author
Sally Bedell Smith is the author of bestselling biographies of William S. Paley; Pamela Harriman; Diana, Princess of Wales; John and Jacqueline Kennedy; and Bill and Hillary Clinton. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1996, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a cultural news reporter. She is the mother of three children and lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Stephen G. Smith.
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Announcement of the Alice Elkins Dental Hygiene Scholarship was made at the meeting, with a recipient to be announced this fall. The recipient will receive $1,000 each year for four years from the Pilot Club and a matching amount from the college. The first two years of training will be at St. Johns River Community College and the last two at Florida Community College Jacksonville.
Special guests for the dinner included Carle Elkins and Patrick Ellis, both of whom thanked the club for remembering Mrs. Elkins through this honor.
Joining Pilot in 1937, Mrs. Elkins was a past president of the service organization.
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Opposition leader Imran Khan and firebrand cleric Tahir
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to Islamabad in a bid to bring down Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif, whom they accuse of rigging elections and corruption.
The protests have piled extra pressure on the 15-month-old
civilian government already struggling to overcome high
unemployment, daily power cuts and a Taliban insurgency.
The protests have raised questions over the political
stability of Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 180 million
people with a history of coups.
Police in Punjab, Pakistan's wealthiest and most populous
province, arrested 147 supporters of Khan and Qadri overnight
to prevent them joining the protests in Islamabad, said
Inspector Rana Hussain in the central town of Sargodha.
Khan, a former international cricket star, said on Monday he
would lead protesters into the capital's "Red Zone", an area
home to Western embassies and key government ministries, on
The government has previously said protesters are not allowed
to enter the area. It is flooded with riot police and
paramilitary forces and cordoned off with shipping containers
and barbed wire.
The government has not said whether Khan would be able to
proceed to the Red Zone or not.
Qadri has said he will meet his supporters later on Tuesday
to consider whether to march alongside Khan. Their protests
have so far remained separate because the two have different
supporters and plans for what should happen if Sharif steps
Khan also announced his party, the third largest in the
country, would resign from their 34 seats in the National
Assembly and in all provinces apart from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
which his party controls.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which borders Afghanistan, is the
heartland of the Taliban insurgency. Khan's announcement
means Pakistan will have to hold a raft of by-elections.
Police have estimated the number of people at the protests at
around 55,000, including many women and children. Khan has
called for his supporters to bring their families on the
Pakistan's newspapers have criticised Khan, with many running
editorials accusing him of seeking to provoke a violent
confrontation after failing to muster the numbers needed to
oust Sharif.
So far, the country's powerful military has remained silent
on the protests. Some analysts believe Khan and Qadri mounted
their challenge because Sharif's relationship with the
military had deteriorated in recent months, appearing to
leave the fledgling civilian government isolated.
However, Sharif, a conservative businessman who ran promising
to fix the economy and power crisis, has a large power base.
He won a landslide victory in last year's election, taking a
majority of seats in parliament.
Sharif also has some support from the country's judiciary,
which warned last week that the protesters should not
consider any "unconstitutional" action.
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Each episode is one hour long and is done in a first person story telling style. People that have paranormal experiences are interviewed and they give their account as to what happened. Any actual film or footage that as taken at the time is also included in the story telling.
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In most cases as an episode comes to an end there is some form of closure to the paranormal experience. Some examples are the family moving from a haunted house or tenants performing a ritual to stop a haunting. However, in some cases such as alien encounters, you can see that even after investigating with air traffic control and police helicopters, the foreign object still could not be explained.
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- Episode 13 - Ashes to Ashes
When Amanda and Chris Engler moved with their little daughter into the house once owned by Amanda's grandmother, they thought their life was blessed.
- Episode 12 - Beneath the Rock
In summer 2009, eight U.S marines were sent to guard an ancient outpost in Afghanistan that had seen battled for over centuries of war. The marines soon realized they were sitting on a graveyard and that they faced a ghostly enemy that no military training could ever prepare them for.
- Episode 11 - When Hell Freezes Over
Three brokenhearted women renting an old house together seek a fresh start, but instead get what they believe is a supernatural tormentor who is preaching about hell and brimstone.
- Episode 10 - The Real Conjuring
Terrorized by malicious forces, Carolyn and Roger Perron and their five daughters endured physical attacks, ghostly sightings and a life-threatening curse, culminating in the near death of Carolyn.
- Episode 9 - The Fireplace
- Episode 8 - Sacred Ground
- Episode 7 - Demon House
- Episode 6 - The Dark Pond
- Episode 5 - Poppy's Revenge
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- Episode 1 - The Motel
- Episode 20 - The Rendelsham Files
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- Episode 14 - Through The Eyes Of A Killer
- Episode 13 - A Ghostly Affair
- Episode 12 - The House On The Lake
- Episode 11 - The Lynchville Secret
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- Episode 9 - The Wolf Pack
- Episode 8 - The Bad Man
- Episode 7 - The Manson Curse
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Buried in this Newsweek story is the news that 51% of American voters want Bush impeached 28% say High Priority, 23% say Low Priority, 44% against, 6% undecided or don't know what a president is. And only 78% of Republicans oppose impeachment, proving something or other.
Didn't Bush come back in `04 claiming 51% was a "mandateâ for all kinds of new fun?
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To help in the scaling up of our programme in Mali, three new staff have recently been appointed:
- a Finance Officer, Alex Dembele,
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This brings our support team in Mali up to 9 staff, all locally appointed, distributed amongst our main office in Segou, and our two current regional offices in Dioila and Koutiala; two more rgional offices are in the planning stage.
The results of the current season continue to be fruitful, with 17 new projects completed, 12 in progress, and orders for 42 new buildings in the pipeline - all the work of independent NV masons trained through our Program. This is quite an achievement, given the political turbulence in the country during the last year or so. Several of the completed buildings this year have been the result of direct contacts between the clients and NV masons - for example, the family house near Segou shown in the photos for this report.
We continue in our efforts to raise funding to help the development of a desperately needed sustainable housing program in Mali - a need that has become an even greater priority given the refugee situation in the country following the disturbances in the north. For example, AVN had a stand at the DIHAD (Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development) conference in Dubai in March, attended by Thomas Granier, AVN CEO, to help raise funding from Arab and Muslim philanthropists, in part for our work in Mali.
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Robert Swan, an inspirational speaker who founded 2041 and the first man to walk to both global poles, addresses his audience about the relationship between passion and reaching goals.
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Robert Swan, an inspirational speaker who founded 2041 and the first man to walk to both global poles, addresses his audience about the relationship between passion and reaching goals.
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Malek: Live within meansMay 06,2013
Families do it. Businesses do it. Government needs to do it.
The Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce asks the Vermont Legislature to live within budgets that grow no more than adjusting for inflation.
That was the Cliff Notes version of lengthy discussions about taxes in committee and before the full board.
Legislators are debating whether its better to further tax the rich or tax everyones soda. Board members had little interest in debating which taxes were least onerous. They identified the culprits as too much spending and too little cutting.
When a great new program comes along, a fabulous opportunity arises, a tremendous need emerges, the Chamber suggests cutting a tired old program, trimming a lesser need, and carrying on without new revenues.
It was noted, however, that tax policy has predictable implications: to reduce demand for something, tax it; to increase demand, subsidize it.
Several directors pointed out that these statements are just as true relative to wealthy residents and employers as they are to sugary drinks and cigarettes. Legislators contend that raising taxes on tobacco products and soft drinks will reduce consumption, but they often dont apply the same rules to business and income taxes.
The fact is that employers and high-earners can, and do, consider the cost of doing business and the cost of living in the Green Mountains on a regular basis. With increases in property taxes, fuel taxes, sales taxes, and income taxes all in various stages of consideration, business owners are nervous, and additional pressures loom as health care reform moves forward.
Area businesses have struggled to succeed through years of economic challenge.
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The very useful Gucci pour Homme.
On 23 June 2005 Yann Vasnier posted the following to Luca Turin's blog (Perfume Notes):
"I`m so glad you like l`Homme de Coeur, this is my first creation for Yvon and Divine, and I am really proud...
On a cold winter day like today, I would normally agree with Dr. Creed and go for de Nicolai's New York or Luten's Ambre Sultan like Shadesofbleu and mikeperez23. But the weather here in Western...
Patricia de Nicolai's glorious New York - particularly fine in cold weather.
Here in New England it's only 1:26 A.M., but I just had to report that I've been wearing Poivre (Caron) since noon (because I can only get away with wearing it when it's really cold), and it still...
Even as a big fan of New York, I have to agree that its powdery stage late in the top notes is not all that comfortable for a guy. I'm not all that fond of the citrus opening either. Consequently,...
Today is cold, grey, and potentially depressing here in New England, so - for a lift - I'm wearing the more affordable of my two great loves in perfumery: Patricia de Nicolai's New York.
I completely agree with Turin's heart of approval for de Nicolai's New York. This and SL's Chene are my two great loves. I have nearly emptied my 100-ml bottle of NY, which is quite a feat since I...
I like them both. When my decants run out, I'm going to pony up the cash for a bottle of L'Homme Sage, but I'll do some serious thinking about the price before I do the same for Homme de Coeur. ...
De Nicolai's New York, for the third day in a row.
I have found only two Grail scents so far:
New York (de Nicolai)
Chene (Serge Lutens)
Three others that I like and wear a lot:
Mouchoir de Monsieur (Guerlain)
L'Homme Sage (Parfums...
L'Homme Sage (Parfums Divine). I do believe I like this even better than their (excellent) L'Homme de Coeur.
Nice and chilly in New England today. Perfect for Patricia de Nicolai's New York.
Chene (Serge Lutens)
A couple times each winter, when the weather is really cold, and I know for sure I'm not going to be spending any time in hot rooms, I really enjoy wearing a couple of Caron's venerable classics for...
Gucci pour homme (like Jesus).
How delightful to have Fall-like weather in New England one day early. Simply perfect for Gucci pH.
de Nicolai's [b]Balle de Match[b], a very mellow citrus (grapefruit and lime with a little pine) that lasts pretty well.
de Nicolai's Balle de Match.
Balle de Match (de Nicolai); holds up remarkably well in hot weather for a citrus.
Sure hope our CologneJunkie gets that job.
Ooh! I wish I was down wind of Tigrushka today. I adore Après l'Ondée.
I was less magnificent, but I hope respectable, in YSL pour homme (red cap).
One more time with feeling: PdN's Balle de Match.
I'm with the Exile, RJ and tmp00 on this one: Chene all the way! Definitely woody and the wood is unambiguously oak. With enough other mysterious "earthy" elements to make the whole thing my...
De Nicolai's Balle de Match seems to be holding up pretty well in todays 80-degree (ca. 27 C) heat here in Western New England.
It's getting warm even here in New England. So, I'm back to PdN's Balle de Match.
What fun! BeautyHabit tossed a sample of Idole de Lubin in with my last order, so I'm testdriving it today. So far, it seems a bit more female than I would prefer.
Second day for de Nicolai's Balle de Match. I never would have guessed that I would like a scent with grapefruit in it, but this stuff is remarkable.
Late addition, but for the stats: Gucci pH.
Happy B-Day CO. Getting too warm for PdN's New York, so I'm wearing her Balle de Match instead.
I celebrated this unexpectedly cool day in New England by wearing Patricia de Nicolai's New York.
Although it's not particularly sexy, Guerlain's Après L'ondée is elegant enough to drive strong men mad.
Yang. Really rather nice. Many thanks to Healer for tucking a sample of this little gem into the package he sent.
Another hide with L'Instant pH.
Guerlain's immortal Mouchoir de Monsieur.
I'm with Gus, PdN New York.
Like JaimeB, Santal Noble (1988).
Congratulations to his lordship the Vicomte.
I'm trying to get a little more variety in my life, but some days I just have to go back to my one great love: Patricia de Nicolai's New York.
Celebrating my last two lectures of the spring semester by wearing Chêne (Serge Lutens).
L'Eau de Navigateur (MPG). I cannot imagine why this lovely juice was discontinued.
PdN New York.
Patricia de Nicolai's magnificent "New York". A perfect pick-me-up on a soggy, cold spring day in New England.
New York (de Nicolai).
Gus and I are thinking alike: de Nicolai's New York.
Dante had an excellent idea; Gucci pH for me too. If I can't have a fire - on this chilly, damp, New England Day, I can at least have wood with a bit of smoke.
Santal Noble (MPG). Aired out thorougly to get rid of the rather unattractive head notes.
Like the Vicomte, New York (de Nicolai).
I am joining the rejoicing over the first day in the 70s by wearing Guerlain's Mouchoir de Monsieur.
L'Homme de Coeur (Divine).
Jicky EdT - up the sleeves (promptly buttoned) so it lasts all day.
Late addition (purely for The_Love's stats): PdN New York.
Arrggh! I don't have any greens that I like. So, Gucci pH.
I voted for Jicky just because I like it the best of all those listed. To my nose, it also registers as an oriental (all that vanilla), even though Jan Moran (in Fabulous Fragrances II) classifies it...
MPG's Santal Noble (like the left side of Caboose?).
Gucci pH - Two spritzes are plenty.
De Nicolai's New York.
L'Homme Sage (Parfums Divine).
New York (de Nicolai).
Although the Lutens frags are all supposedly unisex, I have difficulty imagining a woman feeling very comfortable wearing something as oakey as Chene, which strikes is me as the one unamibiguously...
Thanks to The_love for this latest installment of his fascinating stats. Although I've sampled all but a few of the scents on the list, I am astonished at how few I actually like. Of course, some of...
MPG's Santal Noble. The last couple of times I wore this stuff I did not get it aired out properly and I went around feeling like an idiot for having blown my money on a whole bottle. Ye Gods, I hate...
L'Homme Sage (Parfums Divine).
Simply had to have some more of Patricia de Nicolai's New York.
I'm still much too cowardly to wear the musks I like (e.g., Musc Ravageur or MKK) in public. So I'm happy to wear them at home.
Gucci pH. If I only use two shots, I still adore it at the end of the day. If three, then I get surfeited.
I don't plan to see a soul today, so I only need to please me. Hence, PdN's New York.
Late addition for statistics: PdN New York.
Late addition for statistics: L'Eau du Navigateur (discontinued L'Artisan).
Late addition for the statistics: Gucci pH.
Ambre Sultan. (Lutens)
Like keeg, a Parfums Divine fragrance: L'Homme de Coeur.
L'Instant pH. (Added late with the hope of supporting The_love's statistical efforts.)
It did not get too warm here in Massachusetts today for a little Santal Noble. Barely into the low 50s (maybe 11 C).
de Nicolai's New York.
Foetidus and Apis have such good taste! Another hide here with Gucci pH.
L'Eau de Navagateur (L'Artisan). I was a coward and saved this decant (Thank you, Buffalo_Gal) to try until I knew I was not going out - like on a day when we are scheduled to be buried in snow. I...
PdN New York.
Royal Bain de Champagne/Caron. Ye Gods! I had hoped that in the middle of winter this stuff would not be quite so fruity. Alas,...
Years agon, on the strength of a "heart" of approval in Luca Turin's "Le Guide", I bought my wife (at the time) a little bottle of the original Boucheron pour Femme EDP. Little did I know that she is...
Felt like a Lutens/Sheldrake concoction today, but I did not want to scare the graduate students in my soil microbiology class with anything like MKK (I'm not as brave as Gus or apekrul.), so I'm...
The immortal Jicky (EDT).
Like Thomas and Apis, Dior Homme. Many thanks to Healer for the decant.
I concur with Octothorpe's choice: PdN New York.
L'Instant (Guerlain). May not be stunning, but it's certainly useful.
Many thanks to The Love. I really enjoy seeing what my fellow Basenoters are wearing in this way. You just don't get the same integration over time from reading all the SOTD threads.
Patricia de Nicolai's New York.
1 February (Wednesday): L'Homme Sage (Divine). Wonderful stuff, indeed!
Like EnvYuS, Gucci pour Homme.
All us benighted, Farenheit-using Americans might be interested (and appalled) to note that the Centigrade temperature that Moon_Fish is enduring (-40) corresponds...
New York has been my hands-down favorite fragrance for the past three years. I'm also quite fond of Baladin, although I should have bought the smaller size. (The herbal stuff goes "off" in just a...
Chene (Lutens). So excellent an oak.
"L'Instant". I'm glad I tried this again. It's better than I remembered.
No experimenting today. I wanted something I knew I'd enjoy all day and all evening. So, New York (Patricia de Nicolai).
Like Gus, Santal Noble (MPG).
New York (de Nicolai)
Ambre Sultan (S Lutens)
I wholeheartedly concur with Ric's recommendation of Boucheron pour femme.
As a general rule, I don't much like the fruity stuff or bone dry white florals. At this time of year especially, I...
Sweet (but not too), long-lasting (!!), with a good amount of citrus (at least initially)? This surely sounds like a tumbnail description of the some of the most obvious things to love about Patricia...
I've placed three orders with PerfumeBay with good results. I also appreciate their extensive list of trial sizes.
I suspect this doesn't address the intent of the original question, but many of the scents I like best (PdN New York, MPG Santal Noble, SL Ambre Sultan) last so well (particularly if they've been up...
Cast an "Other" vote for de Nicolai's Baladin.
Guerlain's Eau du Coq breaks my heart every summer when I dig out my bottle during the first blast of heat, hoping that it will last longer than I remember. It never, ever does, and I've tried...


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Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
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Extended cognition and fixed properties: steps to a third-wave version of extended cognition
- Michael David KirchhoffAffiliated withDepartment of Philosophy, Macquarie University Email author
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This paper explores several paths a distinctive third wave of extended cognition might take. In so doing, I address a couple of shortcomings of first- and second-wave extended cognition associated with a tendency to conceive of the properties of internal and external processes as fixed and non-interchangeable. First, in the domain of cognitive transformation, I argue that a problematic tendency of the complementarity model is that it presupposes that socio-cultural resources augment but do not significantly transform the brain's representational capacities during diachronic development. In this paper I show that there is available a much more dynamical explanation—one taking the processes of the brain's enculturation into patterned practices as transforming the brain's representational capacities. Second, in the domain of cognitive assembly, I argue that another problematic tendency is an individualistic notion of cognitive agency, since it overlooks the active contribution of socio-cultural practices in the assembly process of extended cognitive systems. In contrast to an individualistic notion of cognitive agency, I explore the idea that it is possible to decentralize cognitive agency to include socio-cultural practices.
KeywordsExtended cognition Fixed-properties Dynamical properties Cognitive transformation Cognitive assembly
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- Extended cognition and fixed properties: steps to a third-wave version of extended cognition
- Journal
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Volume 11, Issue 2 , pp 287-308
- Cover Date
- 2012-06
- 10.1007/s11097-011-9237-8
- Print ISSN
- 1568-7759
- Online ISSN
- 1572-8676
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Extended cognition
- Fixed-properties
- Dynamical properties
- Cognitive transformation
- Cognitive assembly
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- 1. Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia


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The wavelet transform provides a sparse representation for smooth images, enabling efficient approximation and compression using techniques such as zerotrees. Unfortunately, this sparsity does not extend to piecewise smooth images, where edge discontinuities separating smooth regions persist along smooth contours. This lack of sparsity hampers the efficiency of wavelet-based approximation and compression. On the class of images containing smooth C2 regions separated by edges along smooth C2 contours, for example, the asymptotic rate-distortion (R-D) performance of zerotree-based wavelet coding is limited to D(R) ≲1/R, well below the optimal rate of 1/R2. In this paper, we develop a geometric modeling framework for wavelets that addresses this shortcoming. The framework can be interpreted either as 1) an extension to the "zerotree model" for wavelet coefficients that explicitly accounts for edge structure at fine scales, or as 2) a new atomic representation that synthesizes images using a sparse combination of wavelets and wedgeprints-anisotropic atoms that are adapted to edge singularities. Our approach enables a new type of quadtree pruning for piecewise smooth images, using zerotrees in uniformly smooth regions and wedgeprints in regions containing geometry. Using this framework, we develop a prototype image coder that has near-optimal asymptotic R-D performance D(R)≲(logR)2/R2 for piecewise smooth C2/C2 images. In addition, we extend the algorithm to compress natural images, exploring the practical problems that arise and attaining promising results in terms of mean-square error and visual quality.


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California Native Plant Demonstration Garden
The California Native Plant Demonstration Garden is located just south of the Upas and Alabama Streets intersection and west of the Balboa Park Tennis Club courts (2201 Morley Field Drive, San Diego 92104). The expanded garden has over five acres and boasts a steep slope with a southwest exposure, excellent for plants from the chaparral and coastal sage scrub alliances, native to San Diego County. At the north end of the loop trail is a small collection from the southern Oak Woodland plant alliance and across the parking lot, in a ravine, are plants from the riparian plant alliance. There are some 150 different native species for people to enjoy and determine if they would like to use these beautiful, drought-tolerant, native plants in their own gardens.
Public restrooms are a short 200 yeards to the east and there is ample parking and a public drinking fountain.
Trails through the 150 acre Florida Canyon nature preserve start here.
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Santorini & Akrotiri, Greece 2015
Jun 7, 2015
Photos: 87
Thera, Greece 2015
May 13, 2015
Photos: 63
Strasbourg, France, December 2014
Mar 14, 2015
Photos: 80
North Park Graffiti
Mar 12, 2015
Photos: 56
Cologne Weihnachten 2014
Our Christmas vacation in 2014 included stops at selected "Weihnachtmarkt" and Cologne was a great favorite with Raquel, Bryce and me.
Feb 12, 2015
Photos: 38
Brussels, Belgium, December 2014
Jan 2, 2015
Paris, December 2014
Dec 30, 2014
Photos: 29
London, December, 2014
Photos: 128
Beaverton Thanksgiving 2014
Dec 3, 2014
Photos: 76
Italy - Sorrento - May 2014
Jun 30, 2014
Photos: 60
Italy - Rome - May 2014
Photos: 55
San Diego April 2014
Photos: 28
Beaverton - Dec 2013 Jan 2014
Apr 25, 2014
Photos: 39
Mexico - 2013
Dec 13, 2013
Eastern Dordogne - France - Sept 2013
Oct 22, 2013
Photos: 53
Dordogne - France - Sept 2013
Oct 21, 2013
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Dordogne - Prehistory - France - Sept 2013
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Amboise - France - Sept 2013
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Rouen - France - Sept 2013
Oct 20, 2013
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Deauville - France - Sept 2013
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Honfleur - France - Sept 2013
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Caen - France - Sept 2013
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Bayeux - France - sept2013
Dinan - France - Sept 2013
Oct 17, 2013
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Saint Malo - France - Aug 2013
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Paris - France - Aug-Sept 2013
Oct 13, 2013
London United Kingdom - Aug-Sept 2013
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Windsor - United Kingdom - September 2013
Oct 12, 2013
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Hampton Court - United Kingdom - August 2013
Canterbury - United Kingdom - august 2013
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Bath - United Kingdom - August 2013
Sep 4, 2013
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Victoria, Canada - June 2013
Jun 27, 2013
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Beaverton - June 2013
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Beaverton - April 2013
Apr 27, 2013
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Getty Villa - 2013
Mar 2, 2013
Aitana - January 2013
Feb 27, 2013
Beaverton - Christmas 2012
Jan 8, 2013
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Switzerland - Bern 2012
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Switzerland- Avenches 2012
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Switzerland - Luzern 2012
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Switzerland - Lugano 2012
Switzerland - Samedan
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Sargans (Switzerland) and Liechtenstein - 2012
England - Bath 2012
England - London 2012
Photos: 54
England - Oxford 2012
Photos: 71
Switzerland - Gimmelwald and Jungfrau Region - 2012
Oct 14, 2012
Photos: 93
Switzerland - Lausanne 2012
Oct 11, 2012
Switzerland - Chateau Chillon 2012
Switzerland - Gruyeres 2012
Photos: 34
Switzerland - Geneve 2012
Oct 10, 2012
Photos: 51
France - Lyon 2012
Oct 9, 2012
Photos: 57
France - Annecy 2012
Photos: 40
France - Chamonix and Mont Blanc 2012
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You will find the California Native Plant Demonstration Garden in Florida Canyon, the "heart" of Balboa Park. It is just south of the Upas and Alabama Streets intersection and west of the Balboa Tennis Center courts (2201 Morley Field Drive, San Diego 92104). The expanded garden has over five acres and boasts a steep slope with a southwest exposure, excellent for plants from the Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub alliances, native to San Diego County. At the north end of the loop trail is a small collection from the Southern Oak Woodland plant alliance and across the parking lot, in a ravine, are plants from the Riparian plant alliance. Over 200 different native species show off their beauty for people to enjoy these beautiful, drought-tolerant, native plants. Public restrooms are a short 200 yeards to the east and there is ample parking and a public drinking fountain. Trails through the 150 acre Florida Canyon "nature preserve" of Balboa Park, start here.
Aug 25, 2012
California - Morro Bay and Yosemite National Park
Jun 15, 2012
Photos: 82
May June 2012 Vacation - Paris - San Diego -Oregon
Jun 14, 2012
Photos: 32
Huntington Gardens and Library
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Seattle - April 2012
With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States. The Seattle area had been inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent white settlers.[10] Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to its current site and renamed "Seattle" in 1853, after Chief Sealth of the local Duwamish tribe. Seattle is on Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and has Lake Washington to the east. The city's chief harbor, Elliott Bay, is an inlet of Puget Sound. To the west, beyond Puget Sound, are the Kitsap Peninsula and Olympic Mountains on the Olympic Peninsula; to the east, beyond Lake Washington and the eastside suburbs, are Lake Sammamish and the Cascade Range
Apr 26, 2012
Portland - April 2012
Donovan's third birthday.
Apr 25, 2012
Photos: 36
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park is a 723-acre (293 ha) wildlife park located near the town of Eatonville, Washington, United States. Its primary feature is a tram tour which takes visitors through a 435-acre (176 ha) free-range area.
Northwest Trek Wildlife Park is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). The park and its companion zoo, Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, are both owned and operated by Metro Parks Tacoma. In 1971, founders David and Connie Hellyer donated their vacation property near Eatonville to Metro Parks Tacoma to be set aside as a wildlife preserve. The park opened in 1975. Several bond issues have been passed over the years to help pay for improvements at the park.Facilities added over the years include the snowy owl exhibit, great horned owl exhibit, Cat Country exhibit), barn owl exhibit, the Cheney Discovery Center for children, wolf exhibit, grizzly and black bear exhibit, picnic pavilion), and the coyote/red fox exhibit.
Photos: 25
Seattle Woodland Park Zoo
Uruguay - Lunarejo and North - 2012
Apr 11, 2012
Photos: 72
Argentina - Buenos Aires - 2012
Photos: 52
Uruguay - Montevideo and South - 2012
Mar 30, 2012
Photos: 185
Christmas 2011
Jan 8, 2012
United Kingdom - York 2011
Nov 12, 2011
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United Kingdom - Edinburgh 2011
Luxembourg 2011
Nov 11, 2011
Photos: 30
Germany - Koln 2011
Netherlands - Amsterdam 2011
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Netherlands - Haarlem and Enkhuizen 2011
Netherlands - Delft 2011
Belgium - Brussels 2011
Belgium - Bruges 2011
Spain - Granada 2011
Nov 6, 2011
Germany - Nurenburg 2011
Spain - Madrid 2011
Nov 5, 2011
Spain - Toledo 2011
London 2011
Oct 30, 2011
Spain - Barcelona 2011
Spain - San Sebastian and France Basque country
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Spain - Cordoba 2011
Sep 19, 2011
Carlsbad - Anderson's Flower Fields
Edwin Frazee grew up in the 1920's on the family farm, a section of the Agua Hedionda Ranch (Now eastern Carlsbad). His uncle Earl urged Edwin's father to stop growing Lima Beans and switch to Freesias bulbs. Earl had been the ranch foreman for Luther Gage and had learned of the great demand for these bulbs that grew well in the soil and climate of Carlsbad.
Edwin's father Frank, bought 15 acres of a odd suburban tack in 1928 and moved the family to the site. apparently, a speculator had decided that this land near a railroad track would be the next great suburban community in southern California. He put in streets and sidewalks and piped in water. But the Stock market crashed in 1929 and ended the grandiose plan. But farms could pick up the l;and cheaply and started "gentlemen farming" (because they could plant crops right up to sidewalks and not get their shoes dirty). Edwin raised Ranunculus, anemones, freesias, and gladiolus from 1928 to 1938.
May 12, 2011
Photos: 105
San Diego - Zoological Garden
The San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park, is one of the largest and most progressive zoos in the world, with over 4,000 animals of more than 800 species. It is also one of the few zoos in the world that houses the giant panda. It is privately operated by the nonprofit Zoological Society of San Diego on 107 acres (0.43 km2) of parkland leased from the City of San Diego, and ownership of all animals, equipment and other assets rests with the City of San Diego.
The San Diego Zoo is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and the American Association of Museums (AAM), and a member of the Zoological Association of America (ZAA).
The San Diego Zoo grew out of exotic animal exhibitions abandoned after the 1915 Panama-California Exposition. Dr. Harry M. Wegeforth founded the Zoological Society of San Diego, at a meeting on October 2, 1916. A permanent tract of land in Balboa Park was set aside in August 1921, and the zoo began to move in the following year.
Apr 27, 2011
San Diego - Balboa Park, April 2011
Balboa Park was originally proposed as a 47,000 acre city park by the Mexican government in 1835. It is made up now of more than 1,400 acres and offers fifteen museums, various gardens, arts and international culture associations, as well as the San Diego Zoo, making it a place that offers something historical, horticultural, educational and recreational for everyone.
The mother of Balboa Park was Kate Sessions, who pressed the city to hire the Olmstead Brothers to prepare the Master Plan. Renowed for magnificent Spanish Colonial Revival buildings (originally constructed for the 1915–1916 Panama-California Exposition; the first time that this richly decorated, highly ornamental architectural style had ever been used in the United States) it boasts brilliant displays of seasonal flowers, shady groves of trees, and meandering paths through rolling lawns. There are also 150 acres preserved for native flora and fauna.
Apr 24, 2011
Photos: 116
Canyoneers - Chariot Creek
Apr 17, 2011
Hoang Si Trung's (Tony's) OAT Photos
Photos taken by our Overseas Adventure Travelers guide Hoang Si Trung (Tony).
Apr 5, 2011
Photos: 201
Donovan 2011
Donvan enjoyed a week off from Oregon's winter of 2011 and go to see Baalboa Park, San diego Zoo, and Coronado beach. Also photos around his second birthday in beaverton, Oregon
Apr 2, 2011
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Cambodia - Angkor Bayon
The Bayon is a well-known and richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia. Built in the late 12th century or early 13th century as the official state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII, the Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman's capital, Angkor Thom. Following Jayavarman's death, it was modified and augmented by later Hindu and Theravada Buddhist kings in accordance with their own religious preferences.
The Bayon's most distinctive feature is the multitude of serene and massive stone faces on the many towers which jut out from the upper terrace and cluster around its central peak set forth in a "baroque" style as contrasted with the classical style of Angkor Wat. The temple is known also for two impressive sets of bas-reliefs, which present an unusual combination of mythological, historical, and mundane scenes. The main conservatory work is being done by the Japanese Government team for the Safeguarding of Angkor (the JSA) .
Mar 28, 2011
Cambodia - Angkor Tom
Cambodia - Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat is a temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia, built for the king Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious centre since its foundation – first Hindu, dedicated to the god Vishnu, then Buddhist. It is the world's largest religious building. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors. Angkor Wat combines two basic plans of Khmer temple architecture: the temple mountain and the later galleried temple, based on early South Indian Hindu architecture, with key features such as the Jagati
Mar 22, 2011
Cambodia - Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei is a 10th century Cambodian temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Located in the area of Angkor in Cambodia, at 13.5989 N, 103.9628 E, it lies near the hill of Phnom Dei, 25 km (15 miles) north-east of the main group of temples that once belonged to the medieval capitals of Yasodharapura and Angkor Thom.
Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today. The buildings themselves are miniature in scale, unusually so when measured by the standards of Angkorian construction. These factors have made the temple extremely popular with tourists, and have led to its being widely praised as a "precious gem", or the "jewel of Khmer art."
Mar 21, 2011
Photos: 49
Cambodia - Siem Reap
Siem Reap, in northwest Cambodia, is a popular tourist destination, and gateway to Angkor Wat. It has numberous hotels and restaurants. Most smaller establishments are concentrated around the Old Market area, while more expensive hotels are located between Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport and the town along National Road 6. There are a variety of mid-range hotels and restaurants along Sivatha, and mid budget to mid-range hotels in the Phsar Leu area.
The name Siem Reap means the 'Defeat of Siam' —today's Thailand —and refers to a century-old bloodbath, commemorated in stone in the celebrated bas relief carvings of the monuments. The name has also been translated as 'The Brilliance of Siam', as, for nearly 500 years, before the massacre, it was one of the main border crossings from Ancient Cambodia into Siam
Mar 19, 2011
Cambodia - Tonlé Sap
The Tonlé Sap (Khmer for "Large Fresh Water River", but more commonly translated as "Great Lake") is a combined lake and river system of major importance to Cambodia. The Tonlé Sap is the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia and is an ecological hot spot that was designated as a UNESCO biosphere in 1997.
The Tonél Sap is unusual for two reasons: its flow changes direction twice a year, and the portion that forms the lake expands and shrinks dramatically with the seasons. From November to May, Cambodia's dry season, the Tonlé Sap drains into the Mekong River at Phnom Penh. However, when the year's heavy rains begin in June, the Tonlé Sap backs up to form an enormous lake.
For most of the year the lake is fairly small, around one meter deep and with an area of 2,700 square km. During the monsoon season, however, the Tonlé Sap river, which connects the lake with the Mekong river, reverses its flow.
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2008 National CARE Conference
Over 400 volunteers from around the country took to Capitol Hill on June 19, 2008 to urge our elected officials that global poverty matters to us. Amoung the 3 issues we took to the Hill were violence against women, climate crisis and food crisis. Clayton and I were blessed to be there. For more, see www.care.org or speak with me.
Jun 18, 2008
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Football Hall of Fame, etc
Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. It was like a playground for Clayton! 4/27/08
Apr 27, 2008
Photos: 167
Cover Your Lover and Life-Zone on WRNB, 107.9
Jimmy and I went to DJ Lady B's show to talk about sex, AIDS, and a bunch of other stuff relating to the topic...good times! Props to the awesome intern, Areala for taking the pics.
Mar 20, 2008
Photos: 18
Philly Hip-Hop Underground 2001-2003/4
Feb 15, 2008
Photos: 28
30 is the new 20...says Jay-Z
Jan 14, 2008
Photos: 14
Duke vs. Michigan.Magic Johnson
Clayton and I went to New York to meet Magic Johnson and check out Duke vs. Michigan in the 2008 Coaches vs. Cancer Classic at Madison Square Gardens...great day.
Nov 20, 2007
Photos: 26
GeoClan vs. New Era Football Classic 2008
For the 4th year in a row, friends and collaborators of GeoClan and New Era met on a chilly Sunday to play some good ole' fashion football. Unlike the previous 4 years where GeoClan has beat New Era, this year it ended in a tie...Must be the year for that!
Reef The Lost Cauze at Philly Campus Kick Off
Sep 26, 2007
Photos: 15
Sara Bareilles
Lunchtime concert with Sara Bareilles. She did 3 songs at Borders, Philly - September 24, 2007
Sep 24, 2007
Photos: 5
Europe 2007
germany, holland, england
Sep 11, 2007
Photos: 184
BBoy BBQ 2007
Annual event for breakers, graf artists and just all around hip-hop lovers.
Jun 9, 2007
Photos: 52