#Rance (river)

[famousinuniverse]

Le Port De Dinan, Brittany, France: Beautiful little port on the Rance. Many cafes and a few crêperies...The Rance is a river of northwestern France. It is 103.6 km long. It flows into the English Channel between Dinard and Saint-Malo. Before reaching the Channel, its waters are barred by a 750 metre long dam forming the Rance tidal power plant. The river is linked to the Vilaine by means of the Canal d'Ille-et-Rance. Wikipedia

[postcard-from-the-past]

Rance river by Léhon, Brittany region of France

French vintage postcard

[suntuusita]

What inspired the choice of her name?

There's been some variations of her name but the idea is similar. When I first created Mer, it was Mireille—a French name that meant "to admire (mirèio)" which came from the Provençal dialect. It stuck around for a good bit, I enjoyed it, everyone enjoyed it, but then...the light bulb lit up.

Since m/o/naco is located near southern f/rance, it made sense to me that she would co-exist with the language alongside with m/onégasque. So the name Mirèlha came into existence as it was the alternative spelling for Mireille--the kicker is, that this name was invented by a French poet in the 1860s soooo (my) Mirèlha really did not adopt that name until way afterwards. It's most likely that she saw the name, went 'hell yeah', and adopted the spelling.

Prior to that, her name flip-flopped a bit depending who she was with at the time. For most of her life, she followed the Italian spelling and saying of her name as she resided in Italy most of her youth. Mirella was the name she was adopted with (Genoa had some part in this for her). Once she came under French rule, she adopted the French spelling and saying of her name--thus she was called Mireille for a hot minute.

Her middle name was just a funny given since she's right near the Mediterranean sea. Though, if you really want to get into it is, the name was inspired by the Greek God of the river ocean, the Mediterranean sea being one of them.

And finally...Biancheri. It's an Italian surname which just means "blank" or "white." It's an alternative to Bianchi, which means the same thing. It's stuck with her because it's italian, but if you try (from an American perspective), it can sound French. It's a popular name in the region she grew up, so it just a nice connection to have.

She goes by the nickname Mer, Mél, and Mira. Genoa, Seborga (her twin), and Italy tend to call her Lela as a childhood name. She's honestly very fond of Lela but that's only within "family". Everyone else just calls her Mer.

[soulmusicsongs]

Gospel Blues

Gospel Blues: 10 tracks with blues-based gospel music.

Babylon is Falling - Rev. Dan Smith  (Live At Fox Hollow, 1992, original 1972)

Before This Time Another Year - The Harrell Singers (Before My Time, 1966)

Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson (Dark Was The Night - Cold Was The Ground / It's Nobody's Fault But Mine, 1928)

Hear My Prayer - Reverend Milton Brunson And The Thompson Community Singers ‎(Jesus Is Just Alright, 1973)

I Don't Know Why (I Have To Cry Sometime) - Premium Fortenberry ‎(The Lord Will Make A Way / I Don't Know Why (I Have To Cry Sometime), 197?)

I'm Going To Sit Down On The Banks Of The River - Blind Gary Davis ‎(Harlem Street Singer, 1960)

Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane - Mother McCollum, Eddie Head & Family, Edward W. Clayborn (The Rural Blues - Sacred Tradition 1927-1939)

Prodigal Son - Rev. Robert Wilkins (Memphis Gospel Singer, 1964)

Wade In the Water - Big Mama Thornton ‎(Ball n’ Chain, 1968)

What Is This? - The Rance Allen Group (The Rance Allen Group, 1971)

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[candm-brittany-2023]

Sunday 9th April, Easter Sunday.

Happy Easter, everybody! 🐣

After a breakfast of boiled eggs and soldiers 😃 we went to the office to pay.

When we came to France in 2017 we gave up our berth at Brixham marina. There was no guarantee that we would get it back in 2 years time. This time we have kept it on as we are away for just 3 months. However, still being bertholders it means we can take part in Passeports Escales. This is a scheme where, if you sign out of your own marina, you can get up to 5 nights per year (a maximum of 2 nights per visit) completely FREE of charge in 160 marinas between Belgium & Morocco, and there’s loads in Brittany. St.Helier was free and the first 2 here will be free too. Nice.

After breakfast we went for a walk around the headland to Solidor.

The walk was a bit of a climb at first but it soon became a nice flat walk way. Wild and rather quiet, you can see a superb panorama of the sea, Dinard, and also Saint-Malo.

There were some heavy fortifications up here.

The Battle of Saint-Malo was fought between Allied and German forces to control the French coastal town of Saint-Malo during World War II. The battle formed part of the Allied breakout across France and took place between 4 August and 2 September 1944. United States Army units, with the support of Free French and British forces, successfully assaulted the town and defeated its German defenders. The German garrison on a nearby island continued to resist until 2 September.

Saint-Malo was one of the French towns designated as a fortress under the German Atlantic Wall program, and its pre-war defenses were expanded considerably before the Allied landings in Normandy during June 1944. There were several gun emplacements on our walk, and boy, did they take a battering!

You can see the next one in the distance. Each one heavily pock-marked. Unfortunately, when the Germans withdrew they destroyed so much of the infrastructure that it was impossible for the Allies to use the port.

Our walk took us the Solidor Tower which is a strengthened keep with three linked towers, located in the estuary of the river Rance.

It was built between 1369 and 1382 by John V, Duke of Brittany to control access to the Rance at a time when the city of Saint-Malo did not recognize his authority. Over the centuries the tower lost its military interest and became a jail. It is now a museum celebrating Breton sailors exploring Cape Horn.

You can just make out the hydro-electric barrage in the background.

We ventured towards Solidor.

In the small park "Jardin" there is a beautiful sculpture. This is could be easily overlooked as the color of the sculpture doesn't particularly stand out from its surroundings.

It pays homage to Commander Charcot (who it seems was a bit of a ‘Flashheart’ character) and the crew of the Pourquoi-Pas, which disappeared at sea on September 16, 1936. It is a gift from the Republic of Iceland.

Jean-Baptiste Charcot, often called Commander Charcot was born on July 15, 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died September 16, 1936 at sea (30 miles northwest of Reykjavik), was a doctor, French polar explorer and a French naval officer.

A sportsman, he was French rugby union champion in 1896 and was also a double silver medalist in sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

We continued a few steps into Solidor and took refreshment at one of the very busy hostelries sitting outside in the warm sun looking over the bay. How very pleasant. 😎

We walked back to the boat to prepare our late Easter Sunday lunch of crab and shell-on prawns that we had bought in St.Helier. All washed down with a bottle of rosé. Lovely.

[eccentric-nucleus]

so i trained a model on 'the new hive', my porn game, for fun. i don't know anything about anything but this has 2000 tokens, 8 layers, and n_positions (output token length?? idk) set to 2048, n_ctx (context window, i assume) set to 128, and n_embd (i have no clue what this is) set to 256. the entirety of the text corpus is the twee script for the new hive, including all the code

lol nsfw ai-generated text

so, first of all, this is clearly not enough of anything to do anything. there's 2mb of text as the entirety of the corpus, and this is a tiny model that took maybe an hour to train on my old pc, so i'm not really expecting much, but it is very funny how it has these strings of lucidity mixed with total incoherence.

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::leader fuck workshop You close the workshop door behind you as Agares steps inside. He says, "What the fuck off," he says. You say, no problem. "There's relief in the super tanker," he says. <<set $brulvundojnFuck to 0>>\ <<set $brulvundojnFrivest after to 1>>\ <<set $brulvundojnFriveal to 1>> <<set $brulvundojnKnot">>\ <<set $ligureName to 1>> <<set $gressedly to true>> <<set $brulvundojnFace <<set $ligure to {loorName to "brulvundojnLavegressivelyportbutr100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000009000000, end"enceler, to revis quest,enceI. - iner

::leader fuck workshop You close the workshop door behind you as Agares steps inside. <<set $leaderCommandTalk += 1>>\ <<set $leaderStress to 0>>\ <<set $stressPoints.push ("leader yraal")>>\ <<set $rook - to "rook talk")>>\ <<set $rook talk to 0>>\ <<set $rook">>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<else if $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookSquan to 0>> <<endif>> <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<set $rookTalk += 1>>\ <<endif>> <<set $rook malltalk += 1>>\ <<set $rook talk to 0>>\ <<set $rook malltalk +=

::leader fuck workshop You close the workshop door behind you as Agares steps inside. The tunnels beneath you, and he slumps forward, bashing his cock against his chest, soaking him directly into the sand. "Sline, huhouse," Khru says, <<if hasMutation ("dickdick")>>strouskewing at your ass<<else>> and bashing your own body. He shoves his cockhead, shoving his spurting cockhead slashing against the back and pulling out with a mass of your guts with a solidd of the open, and pulling, and pulling, and a new motion as it pushes its lashaps at you with a suddenly bashappling, each time, shoving into him howling, bashing your womb. You gush of his entire body at all the sand, and holding you spewing you acchel, and if hasMutation ("knot in place so tight bashing through the side-to the sand even hold of his cock slamming you only half-inch from the sand as heft, until you push out with you in place sobing gushes and holding,

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::leader fuck workshop You close the workshop door behind you as Agares steps inside. You grope your dick, moaning, <<if hasMutation ("knot")>>stroking your dog dick<<else>>your dick<<endif>> lurch out into the open, letting him grind your sheath flop against his throat. He groans, each time you speck against his stomach warping and thrust<<if hasMutation ("knot") || hasMutation ("dick")>>your sheath<<else>> as you unsheath<<else>>your cock flops itself down onto his lips drag against the open<<endif>>, and down hardenggirth, his throat; his swallowing each time you speother coil with you grind your sharp cocktip warpping tip pressed against his throat, and holding your sharp cocktip drag him gurgle, until it sink you grind against his tongue all the back and push, and pulling out and pin too. His swallowing in both hands drag your sharp cockhead, and pulling along his throat along his rippling, and hold against his throat, and smacking against his tongue in his hands as you blindly along his throat, until he starts, each time, and dra against his tongue you slurps down against your half-

::leader fuck workshop You close the workshop door behind you as Agares steps inside. "Sope you're fucking around with <<if $ticFullName>>. "It's the monster dick," Max says, wetly. "You were fucking suck dick." You say, you say, no, and pump him say, and give him too. <<set $rook lets out of the four>> <<if $rook talk to keep to the giant) || $rook showls: "rook makeouther first time">>\ * [[rook'll keep sitting on his dick. * [[rook blow pauses at his head dick. "rook locks with you, and Maxwell, and "Wannahand in too. * guiding your dick spilling on his hands are you lean back. He's the actual guy, as he says, and "Ohow, and telling to get on. * if it, and Maxwell, as

this is essentially a bad markov-chainer. the constant mingling of scripting with prose is pretty accurate to the source material. you can see it at one point correctly replicates a pattern that shows up constantly in the game text, which is the <<if hasMutation("knot")>>{blurb about your dog dick}<<else>>{blurb about a human dick}<<endif>> structure, in the generated text: You grope your dick, moaning, <<if hasMutation ("knot")>>stroking your dog dick<<else>>your dick<<endif>> lurch out into the open, letting him grind your sheath flop against his throat.. like, yeah, the dog dick mutation is the one that required the most code branches, because it impacts basically every sex scene in the game, so it's not really surprising that that pattern shows up in even a very simple transformer model.

the demo script had the make-a-model based on shakespeare texts, with a prompt of "ROMEO:", and i forgot to take that out. this lead to a generated output of

ROMEO: Rook has a giant river of a giant, muscled rock with black human fetal in his sun-jarraying ass, and his gaze lingers up his leg, milking out a continual slobbery mess of fuming sludge from the sand, cough flooded paste it. You're panting, mouth hanging, nose, throat convorid, throat muscles forming a hand, nose, spewing coughing drool of sludge and cough as he groans for breath for breaths, speak for am, speak above you in a few afterwards, speak of sludge again. His moans, spewing and coughing drool, stomach heaving drool, spewing up a huge roarled bellowls again from the gushing drool of his lashing cough as he keeps pumping cock eruption draining drool flooding drool. His cock in your stomach growing coughs, spewing under the eggs, stomach heaving drool drool and again. The gushing sour taste under the final muted bellowing cum, stomach heavier drool, and rancing rop cloggi

which is extremely funny to me. yeah that's about right, content-wise.

anyway i don't actually have any insights here, b/c the model is basically totally opaque to me and all i can really use it for is generating incoherent text to look at the output. i'm considering just dumping more text into this, in the form of, you know, everything i've ever written, but that might take uhhhh a prohibitive amount of time/memory to train. we'll see.

[ahmedelhamamsy]

Dinan is a town in Brittany, northwest France. It’s known for its medieval ramparts, cobblestone streets and half-timbered houses. Dinan Castle has a 14th-century keep and the Tour du Coëtquen, a 15th-century artillery tower. The grand, Gothic-style Saint-Malo Church has vibrant stained-glass windows. The Clock Tower offers panoramic views. The Rail Museum has model railways

https://diaryroving.com/journey-to-medieval-visit-dinan-france/

[royllowarch]

Saint Malo. Brittany France by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: Couple of days trip to Saint Malo, Brittany France. The old city is absolutely beautiful. Wonderful people and fantastic food. Brittany of course has historic links with Great Britain as lots of Celts from Britain fled there during the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England between the 5th and 7th centuries. The Celtic language Breton is related to Cornish and Welsh

[zamankaybolmaz]

Dinan Fransa’nın Brittany bölgesinin doğusunda yer alan Rennes bölgesinin kuzeyinde çok güzel korunmuş tarihi bir kasaba. Dinan’ın en önemli özelliği surlar içerisindeki harika şekilde korunmuş eski evleri ve Rance nehrine tepeden bakan manzarası. Burası Brittany bölgesine gidenlerin ilk ziyaret etmeleri gereken yerlerden biri. Şehri çevriren surlar yaklaşık 3km. Bunların üzerinde gezebileceğiniz sadece küçük bir kısım var. Promenade des Grand Fosses or ya da promenade de la Duchesse Anne bölümlerinden şehri çok güzel bir şekilde gözlemleyebilirsiniz. Place des Merciers ve Place Saint Sauveur meydanları yürümek, alışveriş etmek, tuzlu ya da tatlı krep atıştırmak için en cafcaflı ve kalabalık meydanlar. Şehrin merkezine gelmeden önce 158 basamak tırmanmanızı ve 40m yukarıdaki Tour de l’Horloge‘a çıkmanızı öneririz. Buradan temiz ve açık bir günde Mont St Michel adasını bile görebilirsiniz. Dinan, çoğu tarihi noktası ve evlerinden dolayı Fransa tarafından ‘ville et pays d’art et d’histoire’, yani korunma altındaki tarihi ve kültürel kentlerden biri olarak seçilmiş.

http://geziyorum.net/dinan/

[beautifulfrenchhouses]

1,155,000 €

450m² / 4843ft²

Langrolay-sur-Rance, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France.

[sheltiechicago]

L'heure bleue ? # explore 2021 by Patrick Doreau Via Flickr: Illuminations du viaduc de Dinan pour les fêtes de fin d'année Dinan Côtes d'Armor Bretagne France décembre 2021

[postcard-from-the-past]

Lessart railway bridge over the La Rance river, Brittany region of France

French vintage postcard

[famdommcfanface]

Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-duuuuunnnnn... New Profile Picture! Yay!

This took too much effort. I should not have put that much effort in to this, but hey, I did, and it still looks crap.

Entitled: ‘Some, or indeed all, of the most important people in my life 2, electric boogaloo’.

I basically added some more shows. The old one was a little out of date. I got rid of all the white space, be proud of me, and I was just wondering how big I can make Joey Ramone before I look mad. That big? Maybe a little smaller. Oh well.

[alluneedissunshine]

Ambiance de Rance by Ludovic Lagadec

[candm-brittany-2023]

2 more locks and we were in the pound where we tied up. It was lunchtime so the rest of the locks will be closed for an hour, but we’re staying overnight anyway. It’s due to rain this afternoon and we don’t want to be raising and lowering the arch in the wet.

We had lovely shell-on prawns for lunch with salad and a baguette.

It’s tough sometimes.

We stayed on board during the afternoon avoiding the showers. We cleaned up our grubby boat after spending 3 nights under the trees.

One of the reasons for staying overnight was to have a look at the apparent pretty town of Hédé, where there is a market on a Tuesday morning. We like markets and haven’t done one yet. We are expecting be disappointed as the éclusier said there are only 6or 7 stalls. Oh well!

Tomorrow afternoon we’ll move on.

Some history.

The construction of the Ille-et-Rance canal began in 1804, under Napoleon I and ended in 1832. The bulk of the work concentrated on the 11 locks of Hédé-Bazouges which linked the two rivers. A true aquatic ladder, they allow the crossing of 27 m of hillside. Until the start of the 20th century , the use of the canal was essentially commercial between Rennes and Saint-Malo, but little by little the railways and then the road took over, causing the decline of the canal. These days it’s sole use is for tourism.

The lock houses in this area which are called “Napoleonic” in reference to Napoleon 1st. They are contemporary with the beginning of the construction of the Ille-et-Rance canal, between Tréverien and Saint-Germain-sur-Ille. The largest lock houses in Brittany, they have a 4m wide recessed centre on the frontage, a four-sided hipped roof, a second floor and granite frames.