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the indonesian embassy
thx 2 u, Hal.Gue jg surprise ngeliatnya.mending di jual n uangnya mungkin bisa nutupin sedikit utang negara yg katanya banyak banget, (tp ko ga keliatan yah, mengingat megahnya embassy)

Good Job
Good Job on the Marathon and all the hard work that went into it, the blog is nice!

Hello!!!
What an adventure you have been having!! Training for a marathon?! I need to talk to you because I have just started to train for one as well and could use some advice. I'm needing your phone number to give you a ring sometime. When I moved to Nebraska I had to get a different calling plan and was unable to transfer all of my numbers. Can't wait to hear from you and catch up on everything. Take care Meyer

wow
pengen megang el mano, lari2 di antara jari2nya kalee. He3x.

Ciudad del Este
Hello hope you are ok, I'm a Paraguayan from Ciudad del Este, and i can tell you there is a lot of things to do In my city, a lot of familys, peoples, clubs, rivers, shops, stores, is difficutl to understand a city if you don,t speak the language, and if you don't spend a good time theres, hope you a ok and your family, I'm proud about my city, as you are from yours

nudity -
Nudity was only acceptable for deities (non-christian i.e. Venus, Mercury, etc. - fits in with the compunction of ancient Greeks to represent a studied and idealized human form - gods and goddesses were immortal and more perfect forms of humans but obviously needed to be visually represented as such). Nudity was also iconographically understood as "sin" during the Renaissance and in a few instances prior -. You will notice that the damned depictions of Last Judgments are always nude... During the Counter-Reformation the Catholic Church set forth a number of decrees about propriety and the depiction of saints - apparently it had gotten out of hand and in images such as Michelangelo's Last Judgment, the angels were seen to be represented as "buffoons" flying and contorting about, other images laid bare the Virgin Mary depicting her like a "harlot" (see original texts..) etc. so the Church in the Council of Trent had to re-address how religious images should be depicted and also address the intent of these types of images - they should move the viewer to humility and piety, not lust and/or laughter... so during the 16th century, the Church directed that fig leaves be painted over the nudity. Modern day restorers have recently undergone the debate over whether to restore the Last Judgment to its ORIGINAL state (without fig leaves) or to just clean it as the fig leaves also have become historical and are reflections of latter day historical events of cultural attitudes in the 16/17th century during the Counter-Reformation.... I too was surprised about Brown's claim - but he often does stretch ideas and plays very loosely with time periods. It is interesting to note that the genitals in the original statue of David was also covered by a gold chain belt and fig leaf as it stood in the Palazzo della Signoria in its early days - public nudity was an issue there as well...my art professor told us that - I think I did verify it somewhere but, these things can be difficult to locate when searching on your own...

Hi
Hi again! Jon sent me the email, and I loved your blog about the day and your experience at the run. I am so proud of you for planning on the marathon......you will have a tough training in the summer heat and humidity, but I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT. I am so glad that you and Jon are friends. Being up here in the mountains of PA, I think of him often, and knowing that he has a quality, genuinely nice guy such as you as a buddy, makes me smile. Someday when you are a dad, you will know that your child is always just that.....no matter how old. So, go Halef......please let me know how things are going in your training efforts and send me a picture as you finish the marathon. Hugs, Susan Bradley (Jon's Mom)

Plot
I told you to watch out for those Gremlins in MouseLand. I hear there is a conspiracy between the Pluto and Mickey to capture all the royalties on pics in MouseLand so they released Gremlins to take over cameras and blackout pics. I am not even going to tell you the other conspiracy that Minnie has going on with the 7 Dwarfs but I hope you did not use any of the bathrooms in MouseLand…. Sorry to hear about your loss.

From Blog: Blackout

the great castration
Did the Great Castration actually happen? because the only proof i have is this site and the famous book by Dan Brown, and he made a lot of mistakes thank you for your time

I did it too
I swam across the Mississippi River with my hands cuffed behind my back and my legs shackled, from Moline, Illinois to Bettendorf, Iowa on my fiftieth birthday, September 2nd 1994. The low down burg of Moline, Illinois gave me a tcket for my efforts.

Only in the U.S.A.
My husband and I attended the same re-enactment event in Conyers last November and really enjoyed it. You described it very accurately. So many of the participants we met had ancestors who fought in the Civil War, and were very willing to stop and talk to us about their ancestor's story. We had also attended a civil war re-enactment in northern Florida (Feb.) two years ago, where they had explosives pre-set in the ground. They shot cannons, and it would "appear" that the cannonball landed and exploded on the ground. VERY loud and realistic! I couldn't believe how thick the air was with all of the smoke from the cannons. It had been a very cold and drizzly day, which added to the entire effect. I liked the location up on the hillside of this Georgia re-enactment, as you could see everything occurring or developing right in front of you. As Canadians who travel quite a bit, we would definitely like to encourage other visitors to the U.S. to try and find a Civil War re-enactment to attend during their trip. It really helps to bring this very important part of American history alive. Apparently, some Americans think that war re-enactments are politically incorrect, but we saw them as honouring their ancestors and simply trying to bring an important time in American history alive to everyone. I certainly didn't see it as glorifying war in any way. To be honest, we are both REALLY glad that we visited the "South", as we had such a wonderful time. We definitely want to return for a longer stay.

iri!!
Hal,gue ikut hepi loe bisa ngalamin begitu banyak petualangan.Iri!!! Btw,foto-foto loe ga banyak ya.Ntar disangkain cuma ngarang dari Lonely Planet =)

Nice Photos
Question - where did you stay? Would you recommend it?