#Solano

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Patio and Pavilion, Architects: Pedro Livni, Rafael Solano

Montevideo, Uruguay. 2023

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halloween :)

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Happy Hour! - Classic Cocktail Music (2000)

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Susana Solano, Senza Uccelli (Without birds), 1987.

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Thank you for that Catholic school post... My husband recently converted and I've been getting slammed with constant catholicism and man posts like that feel anxiety relieving.

i am fucking catholic now how is this my life haablfjdhlfdgvcxsdafsseafserwafsgerwqfrwf

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"The land that Flannery has been purchasing is not zoned for residential use, and even in his 2017 pitch, Mr. Moritz acknowledged that rezoning could “clearly be challenging” — a nod to California’s notoriously difficult and litigious development process.

To pull off the project, the company will almost certainly have to use the state’s initiative system to get Solano County residents to vote on it. The hope is that voters will be enticed by promises of thousands of local jobs, increased tax revenue and investments in infrastructure like parks, a performing arts center, shopping, dining and a trade school.

The financial gains could be huge, Mr. Moritz said in the 2017 pitch. He estimated the return could be many times the initial investment just from the rezoning, and far more if and when they started building."

If you could convince California voters to rezone land that isn't zoned for residential use into land zoned for dense, mixed use development then you wouldn't need to build new cities from scratch. Why do a bunch of tech guys barging into a rural area think they will get better treatment than every other developer?

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Solano

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Watch "Port Costa California & The Rail Ferry Solano" on YouTube

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PRIMA PAGINA Tirreno di Oggi giovedì, 09 gennaio 2025

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now that you've heard it all, there is the door

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La diputada Jazmín Solano presenta la iniciativa de la “Ley Silla”

🖊#Legislativo | La diputada Jazmín Solano presenta la iniciativa de la “Ley Silla” SABER MÁS:

Con el objetivo de proteger la salud de las personas trabajadoras ante jornadas laborales extenuantes realizadas siempre a pie y para garantizar el derecho al descanso, la Presidenta del Congreso del Estado Morelos Jazmin Solano López, presentó la iniciativa “Ley Silla” que ayudará a trabajadoras y trabajadores a que tengan derecho a una silla para no estar de pie más de 8 horas seguidas. La…

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Rules are Rules

The US Army transport ship USS Mount Vernon (ID-4508) was originally the huge German passenger liner S.S. Kronprinzesin Cecilie, built in Stettin, Germany, in 1906. As a US Army ship she had an eventful history including a humorous event at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

When World War I broke out in 1914 the S.S. Kronprinzesin Cecilie and 113 Austrian and German merchant vessels sought shelter in US Ports from the English and French fleets who would have hunted them down and sunk them. Those ships sat unused until the US entered the war in 1917 at which time they were all seized in a coordinated action. Aware of the pending seizure, all the ships were sabotaged by their crews on orders from the German High Command to prevent their use against Germany. It did not work, even though the S.S. Kronprinzesin Cecilie’s huge cast cylinders for her steam engines were smashed, US naval personnel pioneered a process to weld repair the castings returning her and others like her to service much quicker than the German’s anticipated. Together with other US flag ships, they carried two million American servicemen to France leading to the defeat of the Germans by Allied Forces.

The Mount Vernon made the first of nine trips across the Atlantic, hauling troops to and from the battlefields in October of 1917. Then one year later Mount Vernon was headed for the US with a load of wounded soldiers. 200 miles off the French port of Brest gun crews sighted a submarine periscope. It was too late to take evasive action as a torpedo slammed into her side and water began rushing in. The captain reversed course and personnel manned lifeboats to abandon ship if necessary as he steamed back towards Brest with damage control parties fighting the flooding. She made it to safety and was quickly repaired and put back in service. Then in 1919 with war over she was sent out to the Pacific.

On 17 October 1919 Mount Vernon was transferred to operation by the Army Transport Service where the ship was assigned to the Army's Pacific fleet based at Fort Mason in San Francisco. She steamed through the Panama Canal and into San Francisco Bay on Monday, November 10, 1919. At 706 ft long and 32,000 tons displacement she was the largest ship ever to transit the canal or sail into San Francisco Bay. Her mission was to sail to Vladivostok, Russia to return US troops and repatriate German prisoners of war and Czechoslovak troops who had been fighting the Russian Bolsheviks. But before she headed to Russia, she went to Mare Island for repairs. The process for ships heading to the shipyard was for the Mare Island Pilot to board the ship out in the Carquinez Straits and guide it to the pier through the narrow channel in the Mare Island Straits. No doubt the pilot was looking forward to the opportunity to guide this massive ship up the waterway. People would talk about it for years, and they did, but probably not for the reasons he supposed.

When the massive ship arrived off the Mare Island Straits her Army Captain did not pause as expected and, instead, he proceeded up the Strait to a position opposite the shipyard. Alarmed by the sudden appearance of the huge ship, Mare Island officials radioed her advising the captain that he was not authorized to proceed up the channel without the Mare Island pilot on board. In response, the Army Captain swung the giant ship around and sailed back down the channel to await the pilot out in the Carquinez Straits. Once the Mare Island pilot was on the bridge of the Mount Vernon, she then proceeded yet again up the straits to the shipyard. Fortunately for the pilot, the trip was as uneventful as the first or he never would have heard the end of it (he probably never did anyway).

Dennis Kelly