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Entry Title: Oaxaca, San Cristobal and Merida
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OK friends been a bit slack so am going to give you a snapshot of our travels since Mexico City. We left Mexico City on Friday 13th February 2009 after getting our visa from The Brazilian Embassy the previous afternoon. We took a minivan shuttle to Oaxaca which took about 8 hours . It traversed some very barren land after leaving the huge city and we crossed some very winding and very high mountain passes that left some passengers a little concerned as the cornering took some getting used to. A multicultural group on the minivan shuttle included 2 Brits, 3 Danish and us. Oaxaca is located in the valley in the state of Oaxaca and is surrounded by mountains. We stayed at a good hostel called Roscoe's and it was a short 5 block walk to the centre of town called the Zocalo. We wandered into town to find a big plaza of beautiful old colonial buildings, a massive cathedral and lovely big shady trees and lots of people enjoying the warm evening. There were loads of hawkers selling crafts and masses of helium balloon sellers being the day before St Valentines day . It is a popular tourist town so loads of cafes and hotels surrounding the square. We had a meal of the local dishes including the Oaxacan specialties of mole( a bean sauce made with bitter chocolate), stringy cheese and crunchy chapulinas( fried up grasshoppers- it was OK to eat if you ignore the odd leg sticking up)and tortillas to roll it up in with the salads and avocados- yum. We are getting better at ordering things in Spanish but we still get mystery meals since we don't exactly know what we are getting to eat . We spent 3 nights in Oaxaca and 4 days. On the Saturday we went to a wonderful Dominican Church and beside it a massive museum inside the former Dominican monastry. A truly excellent museum and one where we hired the English audio guide so I was enthralled for 3 hours learning about the history of Oaxaca pre and post Spanish conquest and also it showed the Dominican monastic life . Of course the church ruled with the government for centuries form 16th century till they were separated in the 19th century. In the museum were many artifacts collected from Mont Alban which was a Zapotec ( indigenous group) temple site dating from 200BC till 950 AD and then taken over by the Mixtecs from 950 till 1520 when the Spanish arrived.A lot of the richest items gold, silver, turquoise, jade jewels were found in 1932 in one of the tombs and are stored at the San Domingo museum. One included the skull encrusted with turquoise-amazing. The monastery had a lot of murals and paintings well preserved.The church besideit is famous for being almost completelt covered inside by 3D style relief figures of saints with gold finishing and extremely ornate paintwork photos do it no justice a jawdropping sight. On Sunday 15th we took a trip up to Monte Alban outside Oaxaca about half an hour away and from it you see a 360degree view of the city and surrounding valleys. The hill was flattenned completely by the Zapotecs from 200BC and many elaborate temples were built on top of the mount. Similar to Teotahuacan in Mexico but on the hill. It also has an observatory which is said to track the stars and calendar for which the Zapotecs were famous for. This building was on a 45 degree angle whereas the others al faced north south strictly.While nowhere near as smoggy as Mexico City , Oaxaca had smog and this was seen from Monte Alban. We booked a day trip to nearby villages for the next day Monday 16th February as we were to catch an overnight bus to San Cristobal that night. The day trip was a relaxed day which I was grateful as I had ...
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Photos from this trip:
1. San Domingo
2. $Kull
3. Painted town
4. st Mezcal in Oaxcas oldest Cantina
5. Zocalo Cathedral Oaxaca
6. Party in the Zocalo, Day 1 in Oaxaca Feb 13th
7. Party in the Zocalo, Night Oaxaca
8. Me Somewhere?
9. Making Wool Thread
10. Kas atop Monte ALban
11. Ball Court Monte Alban
12. It's a Long Way Down
13. Worlds Biggest Tree in Tule
14. Strange Fruit Tule
15. You want how much $$$ for it?
16. Mitla with my Baby
17. River boat through the canyons
18. Does this Jacket suit me
19. We scared a Gator
20. In San Cristobal
21. San Cristobal Cathedral
22. Meeting point in San Cristobal Zocalo
23. Local Transport
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George W. Romney
George Wilcken Romney was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He was the father of former Governor of Massachusetts and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the husband of former Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Lenore Romney.
Romney was born to American parents living in the Mormon colonies in Mexico; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to flee back to the United States when he was a child. The family lived in several states and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled during the Great Depression. Romney worked in a number of jobs, served as a Mormon missionary in the United Kingdom, and attended several colleges in the U.S. but did not graduate from any. In 1939 he moved to Detroit and joined the American Automobile Manufacturers Association, where he served as the chief spokesman for the automobile industry during World War II and headed a cooperative arrangement in which companies could share production improvements. He joined Nash-Kelvinator in 1948, and became the chief executive of its successor, American Motors Corporation, in 1954. There he turned around the struggling firm by focusing all efforts on the compact Rambler car. Romney mocked the products of the Big Three automakers as gas-guzzling dinosaurs and became one of the first high-profile, media-savvy business executives. Devoutly religious, he presided over the Detroit Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Calling All Cars: The Bad Man / Flat-Nosed Pliers / Skeleton in the Desert
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California.
The LAPD has been copiously fictionalized in numerous movies, novels and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racial animosity, police brutality and police corruption.
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.