What:

A Lockheed T-33 trainer jet "flies" over the Annapolis Basin.

Where:

Digby

Nova Scotia, Canada

About:

OK, it didn't really fly over the basin:-)

On my way to Digby a couple weeks ago I stopped at the Greenwood Forces base where they have a few old planes on display. This old training jet is at the entrance on a 20 foot pole. There is a symbol on the back the commemorates the 50th year of service of these jets in our air-force. This is our most modern plane! :-)

Anyway, the background is a shot of the entrance to the Annapolis Basin shot from the same spot as the shot below except facing the other way.

I wanted to play around a bit and both shots were rather boring on their own so I thought I'd give this a try.

T-Bird info from Wikipedia:

The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star is an American-built jet trainer aircraft. It was produced by Lockheed and made its first flight in 1948, piloted by Tony LeVier. The T-33 was developed from the Lockheed P-80/F-80 starting as TP-80C/TF-80C in development, then designated T-33A. It was used by the U.S. Navy initially as TO-2 then TV-2, and after 1962, T-33B. Despite its vintage, the venerable T-33 still remains in service worldwide.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_T-33_Shooting_Star

EXIF data:

Canon 7D : EFS 17-85mm : 1/120s @ ƒ/8 : ISO 200

Please, no multiple invites or crazy glittery graphics. Thank You

18-06-14 Taken with a Canon 60D using a Tamron SP AF70-300mm VC USD Zoom lens. 10 images stacked using Autostakkert 2, then cropped and enlarged using Canon DPP software.

I use the ANKER tablet stand made of aluminum, adjustable, stable, good for smart phones and tablets too. First I bought 2, then 2 more, giving one to the spouse for his Kindle reader.

I realized the other day that if I wish to charge several tablets/phones simultaneously, maybe hold the mail too, a metal plate rack (mine hold 4 plates each) would work just fine....only mine are presently full of plates. I'll upload a picture of the type plate rack I describe soon.

Waiting at the gate

If you've ever travelled with Aer Lingus from gate 335 at Dublin Airport, then its a little more exciting than nornmal.

Introdued in winter 2017, a new mini terminal was opened at Dublin known as the south gates.

If your assigned gate 335, this in actually a lounge on the ground floor. A shuttle bus operates from this lounge to the "south gates ", a remote mini terminal every few minutes on a continous loop for specific arriving & departing Aer Lingus flights.

Gates lettered A to E for 9 Aer Lingus stands over the early mornings, which is south of terminal 2, then late evening flights, comolete with a café, toilets, baby changing facilities and a workstation area with plugs and charging points.

In daylight hours, it can provide some nice ramp shots. There are no airbridges to the aircraft outside.

Seen above, in the very early hours, passengers silouette at the south gates.

To All my flickr friends.......I am currently busy and away from flickr most

of time.

I feel addicted to this site. Being busy is helping me control this

addiction....:D

Have nice time..

Technical:

Play, play n play with levels and curves.....:D

I use Mr.Orton effect here.

1) Just duplicate layer.

2)Then goto upper layer and on blend modes of layers and select SCREEN.

3)Now again on upper layer add filter > gaussian blurr of 30-40 amount.

4)You should now play with opacity of layer for desired results.

I hope it helps.

(Explored)

Nov 5, 2008 #260

MEIN SCHIFF 2 LAUNCHED 1997 .77,302 GT. RENAMED IN 2019 TO " MEIN SCHIFF HERZ " .THE ONLY CRUISE SHIP I HAVE SEEN TURN AROUND OPPOSITE WALLASEY TOWN HALL AND REVERSE ALL THE WAY TO THE WATERFRONT !!!!

A NEW " MEIN SCHIFF 2 " WAS LAUNCHED IN 2019 AND COMES IN AT 111,500 GT.

... dann 4, dann steht das Christkind vor der Tür. Es möge so lieb sein, uns Frieden, Gesundheit, Nächstenliebe, Toleranz und Zuversicht zu bringen. Sonst habe ich gar keine Wünsche ... 😋

Der Adventkranz ist in allen christlichen Ländern der Nordhalbkugel verbreitet. Die vier Kerzen darauf, die an den vier Sonntagen vor Weihnachten eine nach der anderen entzündet werden, gehen auf Papst Gregor den Großen zurück, der dieses Amt von 590 bis zu seinem Tode 604 n.Chr. ausübte. Sie weisen auf die kommende Geburt Jesus hin, den "Mehrer des Lichts". Laut Wikipedia gibt es aber auch noch andere symbolische Interpretation für die vier Kerzen.

... then 4, then the Christ Child is at the door. May it be so kind as to bring us peace, health, charity, tolerance and confidence. Otherwise I have no wishes at all ... 😋

The Advent wreath is common in all Christian countries of the northern hemisphere. The four candles on it, which are lit one by one on the four Sundays before Christmas, date back to Pope Gregory the Great, who held this function from 590 until his death in 604 AD. They point to the coming birth of Jesus, the "Multiplier of Light." According to Wikipedia, however, there are also other symbolic interpretations for the four candles.

In total, there are 5 interior areas: the cockpit (1) with a corridor up to the forward turrer (2) then the main body command centre (3), a small corridor in the portside pod (4), and a secret operations room in the starboard pod (5).

The Sun was playing hide & Seek with clouds today, but I managed to grab a few videos in the gaps so I could test out the new Baader Solar Continuum Filter that I bought from First Light Optics a few weeks ago. This filter helps to reduce the effect of atmospheric turbulence and I could definitely see that on screen. It also increases definition and brings out the granularity of the Sun's visible surface. I have wanted one of these for about 9 years so I'm super thrilled to finally have one! I'm looking forward to playing with it some more.

Taken with a William Optics 70mm refractor fitted with a Thousand Oaks glass solar filter. The Camera was an ASI120MC fitted with a Celestron 3x Barlow. Mount was an EQ5 Pro, tracking at solar speed. 290 frame video captured with SharpCap, the best 25% of the frames were stacked using Autostakkert! 2 then quick processing in Fast Stone Image Viewer.

Origin :

1)First I created a Planet using Photoshop [ Filter > distort > Polar coordinates ]....................

2)Then I Created Inside Tunnel using same technique.............

3)finally placed the tunnel inside Planet..

done!!

Location : Virar,MH,India

EDITING INFO_

Software used : Adobe PhotoShop CS6

Filters Used : polar coordinates

Technique : using polar coordinates

TECHNICAL INFO_

Camera Model : Nokia n79

Lens Type : Carl Zeiss Teaser Lens

Mode : Auto

This is a HDR made of three photos. I used auto exposure bracketing on my camera, +2, 0, -2.

Then I used Photomatix Pro to put them together.

Happy Sliders Sunday!

Amsterdam EYE museum and A'DAM Lookout

I walk by this scene very often. It is strikingly beautiful, but with the amount of tourists, cameras, and photographer that pass this scene each day, I tend to look at it and think about how pointless it would be for me to photograph it as well. Much better images than any I could ever produce probably exist already.

Today I had my camera and tripod on me, and the weather was too nice to not at least give it a try. I took several different shots, and this particular one satisfied me. I am not sure if the clouds add or remove from the image. On the one hand, they help separate the EYE museum from the sky, but, on the other hand, I the transition between the clouds and the sky is bothersome. A completely clear sky would look boring to me. I might come back during a cloudy day and take this shot again, to see if it looks better.

I took three exposures and put them together with Nik's HDR Efex Pro 2, then added finishing touches with RawTherappe 5.2.

I can notice the artifacts form the HDR merging around the A'DAM Lookout in some screens. In the screen in which I edited it I could not see it - or perhaps I did not pay close enough attention. This I find somewhat annoying.

Thank you all for visiting!

Chi guarda in questi giorni il cielo di ponente , un’ora dopo il tramonto del Sole ( e fin verso le 22) non può non rimanere colpito dalla presenza di due astri molto luminosi e vicinissimi nella costellazione dell’ Ariete. Si tratta di uno degli spettacoli celesti più belli del 2012, costituito dall’ avvicinamento prospettico dei due pianeti più luminosi, Giove (a sinistra) e Venere (a destra) .

In questo momento Giove ha una magnitudine di -2,1, mentre Venere raggiunge addirittura la magnitudine di -4,2, quindi risulta nettamente il più brillante dei due e, in assoluto, l’oggetto più brillante di tutto il cielo. Basta un buon binocolo (ideale un 15 o 20x), o un piccolo telescopio per notare il disco di Giove con attorno i suoi quattro satelliti maggiori e, soprattutto, per accorgersi che Venere, in realtà, non presenta un disco intero, ma appare in fase come la Luna al primo quarto !

Il grande show dei due pianeti raggiungerà il massimo tra il 12 e il 14 Marzo, quando la loro distanza prospettica (con Venere in salita e Giove in discesa) sarà inferiore a 3°. Poi i due pianeti ricominceranno ad allontanarsi (e ad abbassarsi sempre di più sull’ orizzonte…) fino a distanziarsi di 15° alla fine di marzo.

Who looks in the western sky these days, one hour after the sunset (and until about 22) can not but be struck by the presence of two very bright stars and near the constellation of 'Aries. This is one of the most beautiful celestial events of 2012, made ​​by 'prospective approach of the two brightest planets, Jupiter (left) and Venus (right).

At this time Jupiter has a magnitude of -2.1, while Venus is as high as the magnitude of -4.2, then it is clearly the most brilliant of the two and by far the brightest object in the sky. Just a good pair of binoculars (ideally a 15 or 20x), or a small telescope to see the disk around Jupiter with its four major satellites and, above all, to realize that Venus, in fact, does not have a whole disc, but it appears in during the first quarter as the Moon!

The biggest show of the two planets will peak between 12 and 14 March, when their distance perspective (with Venus and Jupiter rising in the fall) will be less than 3 °. Then the two planets will begin again to leave (and to fall increasingly on 'horizon ...) up to distance of 15 ° at the end of March.

The eastbound CSX Q016 had a somewhat eventful day in Kent. First, it had to be talked by the red signal at CP 120 to go from Track 1 to Track 2. Then I heard is say it was stopped due to an obstruction in the rails. A CSX train master responded to that on the radio, which led me to believe that the Q016 crew was being banner tested. Interestingly, the train master thanked the crew for stopping. All of that is behind them now as the Q016 motors along the Cuyahoga River in Kent beneath the former Erie Railroad passenger station.

Bureaucratic procrastination, manoeuvring and public discontent colour the early history of the Brisbane General Cemetery at Toowong and contributed to the decades of delay in providing a new General Cemetery for Brisbane in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The first cemetery serving the small penal settlement that was Brisbane between 1825 and 1842 was located near Skew Street, the northern approach to the William Jolly Bridge. It was here that soldiers and convicts were interred but was considered unfit for the burial of children. One soldier's four children were buried in a brick crypt in an area at North Quay near Herschel Street.

The concept of a rural cemetery located outside the bounds of town limits emerged as a major transformation in burial practices in the late 18th century in Britain and Europe and was well established by the time towns and settlements were being formed in Queensland. The new burial grounds surveyed at North and South Brisbane in 1844, just beyond the western boundary of the municipality, proved however, not to be sufficiently removed from the settlement. Whilst the proximity of both grounds allowed customary procession on foot, and natural drainage away from the early settlement served to allay sanitary concerns, as early as 1851, the public were petitioning the Government of NSW to relocate the North Brisbane Burial Grounds known as the Milton/Paddington Cemetery. Brisbane's rapid expansion following its opening to free settlement in 1842 was such that the Paddington Cemetery, was now in the heart of a prime inner residential area and was being challenged by the residents who feared for their health.

The first progress to establish a new cemetery were made in 1861 when 200 acres was set aside for cemetery purposes, 2 miles south west of the Milton Cemetery at Toowong. The land however, was chosen by default rather than by design. Augustus Gregory, the Surveyor -General had not favoured the Toowong site but found it to be the only locality to present the requisite requirements. The appropriateness of the site at Toowong for the purpose of a General Cemetery was an issue contested for the next two decades. The isolation and suitability of the Toowong site with its lack of access and public transport fuelled dissent and debate and the public continued to use the cheaper, more accessible familial grounds at Milton.

Although the Cemetery Act was passed in 1866 providing the means to establish general cemeteries under the control of government appointed trustees, it was another decade before the Cemetery was officially opened. In 1868, a further portion of Crown land, 53 acres in area, north of the cemetery reserve was added to fulfil of the Trustee's requirement for the entire cemetery to be surrounded with public roads.

The reserve of 250 acres 1 rood was gazetted and the Cemetery Trust established in October 1870 and its honorary trustees were amongst Brisbane's most prominent political and business figures - James Cowlishaw, John Hardgrave, William Pettigrew, Samuel Walker Griffith, George Edmonstone, Alexander Raff, John Petrie (Chairman), Michael Quinlan and Nathaniel Lade.

Trial sinkings at Toowong in December 1870 found the ground to be unsuitable, but this knowledge did not prompt the government to secure a more appropriate location. Queensland's second governor, Samuel Wensley Blackall had been a supporter of the Toowong site and in his ill health indicated his desire to be buried there. He was buried on the highest knoll on 3 January 1871 and his memorial is the largest and most prominent in the cemetery with commanding views of the city and surrounds.

The Surveyor General, the Trustees and the Colonial Secretary had not favoured the Toowong Site and even after the burial of Governor Blackall on its most prominent peak, the Trustees were still pursuing other more suitable prospects for a cemetery site. Three private properties had been offered for sale for cemetery purposes. Of these, Trustee George Edmondstone's property on Enoggera Creek was identified as being most suitable, however the Colonial Treasurer could not reach an agreement on price and the Toowong site came to be accepted as the Brisbane General Cemetery grounds.

In June 1871, Petrie, Pettigrew and Perry were nominated to chose a suitable 40 acres for clearing for the general cemetery. In 1872, ground lying north of the road and east of the western boundary of the 53 acre portion was cleared and enclosed by 540 rods of good quality pig fencing (a four rail fence) with two entrances not more than 4 rods on each side of the main entrance erected by John Ballard.

A Keeper's Lodge was built by E Lewis and gates and ornamental fencing at the main entrance, designed by the Colonial Architect, FDG Stanley, were erected in 1873-74.

Between Governor Blackall's burial and the official opening of the Cemetery, there were six burials. The next interment was Ann Hill, wife of Walter Hill, superintendent of the Botanical Gardens on 2 November 1871. Thomas and Martha McCulloch were buried in November 1873, Teresa Maria Love on 16 March 1875 and Florence and Ethel Gordon on 4 July 1875.

The Trustees received numerous requests for separate burial sections from churches and other like minded group to ensure that religious and social class distinctions within society were perpetuated in mortality. Between November 1874 and August 1875 portions were allocated by the Trustees upon request. Portion No 1, was allocated to the Church of England, Portion No 2 to the Wesleyans, Portion No 3 to the Hebrews, Portion No 7 to the Roman Catholics, Portion No 16 to paupers and No 17 and parts of No 1 and 7 to public graves, Portion No 15 to criminals. In 1879, the Chinese were allocated part of Portion 2, then relocated in January 1884 to the ground below 7 and then again in April of that year to Portion No 8. The various cultural and religious groups were separated and boundaries clearly formed by winding roads. There is a strong showing of the Christian section of the graves, supporting the demographic dominance of Anglo-Saxons in Brisbane and the relocation of the Chinese several times (now in Portion 19) demonstrates the disregard afforded to this section of the community, which exhumed many of its dead for reinterment in China.

The lack of public transportation for funeral processions was one of the perceived shortfalls of the Toowong site, so the extension of the railway line through the western suburbs to Toowong in 1875 with the promise of a mortuary rail service provided the catalyst for the opening of the cemetery.

The grounds at the Cemetery were laid out by the prominent surveyor, George Phillips and a set of books drawn up by the Government Printer. The Cemetery was officially opened on 5 July 1875.

Controversy was quelled for a time but the respite was short lived and the Cemetery was subjected to a parliamentary inquiry in 1877 where public health issues, the steep and rocky terrain, the distance and inconvenience for mourners and the cost in relation to other alternatives including mortuary trains to Toowong were considered. No further meetings were held by the Trustees until March 1878.

The Cemetery had come to be valued for not only its heritage as the resting place of Governor Blackall but as a place for recreation and repose. Had the government decided from its inquiry to abandon the Toowong Cemetery in favour of another proposed site at Woogaroo, the Trustees wanted to retain the management of the Toowong site and for it to be maintained in an ornamental way as a place of resort for the people of Brisbane.

Community health concerns relating to the Cemetery began to dissipate in the second half of the 1880s. Whilst a public meeting of concerned residents discussed the closure of the cemetery in July 1885, within six months the local community was petitioning the Trustees to endorse the opening of a road through the cemetery reserve. Approval for the public thoroughfare through the cemetery was given in July 1886. The approval renewed concern in some quarters for the health risks associated with the increase in public activity at the Cemetery and the planting of trees amongst the graves especially of those dying of virulent diseases was advocated.

The cemetery was however, well established with trees by this time. From 1876, one year after its official opening, many plants and young trees had been supplied to the Cemetery from the Botanical Gardens and Acclimatisation Society. Initially, Walter Hill, the Botanical Gardens superintendent donated 38 shade and ornamental trees to the Cemetery and Mr Bernays of the Acclimatisation Society offered 50 trees in exchange for a subscription from the Trustees.

From 1878, the Cemetery gardens were attended by dresser, William Melville, a position he held for 38 years. Flowers, shrubs and plants were cultivated on the site on Portion 10 and sold to meet the needs of the site's visitors from a flower shed that straddled the creek. Mature camellias at the Cemetery, located in Portion 4 and 13 may be the first planted in Queensland from cuttings from Camden Park, the home of John McCarthur, who may have been the first to import them into Australia. A dam on Portion 16 was used for irrigation until 1905 when water taps were installed.

In 1886, the Defence Force leased the largely unused area of the cemetery, now occupied by Anzac Park, as a Rifle Range and the whole paddock and the Cemetery Overseer's cottage designed by Trustee, James Cowlishaw and built by E Bishop in 1877 came under the control of the Brigade Officer in charge of the Range. In exchange, the Government built another cottage in 1887 for the overseer at a cost of £250. A pavilion, also designed by Cowlishaw was built in 1885 at the northern end of Portion 10.

In 1891, extensive public usage of the cemetery land spurred the newly formed Toowong Shire Council to seek an arrangement with the Trustees to utilise some of the land for the purpose of public recreation. Whilst initially reluctant, the Trustees came to support the idea. In 1915, the Toowong Park Act was passed providing the Trustees with the means to transfer 132 acres 2 roods 18 perches to the Toowong Town Council for Park and Recreation purposes known in part as the Old Rifle Range for the sum of £1,000. This revenue was used to finance the construction of new gates and fencing and the purchase in 1916, of Portion 872, the sole adjoining private property, to satisfy the Trustees preference for completely surrounding the cemetery with public roads.

Agitation for public transport within close proximity of the cemetery was finally achieved with the extension of the tramway to the cemetery in 1901. A shelter shed was erected by the Brisbane Tramways Co in 1916.

The Paddington Cemeteries Act of 1911, authorised the Government to resume the several cemeteries at Milton and, upon the request of any relative of any person buried therein within 12 months, to disinter the remains of the deceased. The remains were removed together with any memorials to any cemetery agreed upon with associated costs borne by the Government. Of the 4,643 identifiable graves at Milton, there were 178 applications made. 139 remains and 105 memorials were relocated from Milton to Toowong throughout the site, with the greatest concentration to be found in Portion 6.

Tenders for a sanitary block were called by Trustee and architect, Edward Myer Myers in November 1923. The successful tenderer was Marberete Co and the construction was completed prior to Anzac Day 1924 when the Shrine of Remembrance and Cross of Sacrifice were unveiled. A report of the ceremony in the Sydney Mail incorrectly refers to the building as a mortuary chapel and flags of the Union Jack were hung over the entries to the men's and ladies' toilets to disguise the signage.

On 1 August 1930, Toowong Cemetery and all others with the Brisbane City Council municipality were placed under the management and control of the Council. The following year, the area of the Toowong Cemetery bounded by Mt Coot-tha Road and Miskin and Dean Streets was used by the Australian Military Forces for training and later was transferred to the Brisbane City Council and was developed as a Bus Depot. A substation was erected in the south-east corner of this site in 1935.

Flowers were cultivated and sold at the Cemetery from Portion 10 until the 1930s. In 1934 the area set apart for soldier's graves within Portion 10 was extended and incorporated the flower gardens and the octagonal pavilion was probably demolished at this time. Other shelter sheds were erected and six, including two with toilets, are dotted over the site. In 1936 the last available block, Portion 30, was laid out for burial purposes. To allow for more burials, the plot sizes were reduced from 9'x5'to 8'x4'.

By April 1975, all burial plots in the Cemetery had been sold and the Cemetery was closed with the exception of burials in family graves. That same year, hundreds of worn, forgotten headstones in three major city cemeteries were removed by Brisbane City Council workmen employed under the Regional Employment Development Scheme. Old, neglected monuments were removed from Toowong, Lutwyche and South Brisbane cemeteries and trees and shrubs planted. The long term aim of the scheme was to return the cemeteries to open space with a parkland atmosphere. It is thought approximately 1,000 memorials were removed from Toowong.

In the early 1980s, footpath clearances were substantially reduced along the Frederick Street and Mt Coot-tha Road boundaries and the tram shelter and tram lines were removed as part of the Route 20 overpass and roundabout development. As a result of this work, direct access through the main gates of the Cemetery from all directions but the west has been disconnected.

The Sexton's office, built around the turn of the century on Portion 10 above the floor of the flower shed, fell into disuse once the new Sexton's office was built in 1989. Restoration work to repair and reconstruct the former Sexton's office and its conversion to a museum was initiated by the Brisbane City Council Heritage Advisory Committee and the work carried out by the Heritage Unit in 1991. Another initiative by the Brisbane City Council Heritage Unit, also undertaken in 1991, was the establishment of the Toowong Cemetery Heritage Trail together with the Adopt-a-Pioneer program for plots in need of maintenance and to raise public awareness of the invaluable resource that the cemetery provides.

In 1992, steel boom gates were erected at the Birdwood Terrace and Frederick Street entrances of the Cemetery to deter vandalism, theft and drag racing. The same year, a group of volunteers formed The Friends of Toowong Cemetery and their activities include tending to neglected gravesites and organising tours of the Cemetery for interested parties. They have also produced several booklets including the Toowong Cemetery Resource Manual and Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People.

The Cemetery was reopened in 1998 with approximately 450 plots available for sale.

Source: Queensland Heritage Register.

Where Do Mermaids Come From?

Where do mermaids come from? Mermaid legends are told all over the world. We hear of mermaids in Ireland, Scotland, England, Israel, India, Greece, Syria, China, and in Africa. How is it that so many different cultures across the world have their own mermaid legends? How is it that cultures far away from one another have similar tales of mermaids? Most people believe mermaids are mythical creatures fit for a kid’s imagination and nothing more. But legends come from somewhere. Truth lies behind every legend, including the legends of mermaids and where they come from. A new age concept tells us mermaid origins come from lost civilizations like Lemuria and Atlantis. Learn more below.

Edgar Cayce on Atlantis I

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2. Atlantis as a continent is a legendary tale. Whether or not that which has been received through psychic sources has for its basis those few lines given by Plato, or the references made in Holy writ that the earth was divided, depends upon the trend of individual minds. Recently, however, the subject has taken on greater import, since some scientists have declared that such a continent was not only a reasonable and plausible matter, but from evidences being gradually gathered was a very probable condition.

3. As we recognize, there has been considerable given respecting such a lost continent by those channels such as the writer of Two Planets, or Atlantis - or Poseida and Lemuria - that has been published through some of the Theosophical literature. As to whether this information is true or not, depends upon the credence individuals give to this class of information.

4. Then, it has seemed well to many of this group, that those channels through which information may be obtained interest themselves in such an undertaking, as to gain through those channels such information that might be applicable in the lives or experiences of individuals interested in such.

5. From time to time, in and through the information obtained for some individuals in their life readings, has come that they, as an entity or individual, occupied some particular place, or performed some activity in some portion of that continent; or emigrated from the continent to some other portion of the earth's surface at the time, and began some particular development. These must have been a busy folk, for with their advent into other climes (as the information runs) they began to make many changes from the activities in that particular sphere in which they entered.

6. Then, if we are to accept such as being a fact or fiction, may truly depend upon what value to the human family knowledge concerning such a peoples would be in the affairs of individuals today. What contribution would information be to the minds of individuals, as to knowing or understanding the better or closer relations to the Creative Forces? Or, to put it another manner, what would information of that nature mean to my SOUL today?

7. Be it true that there IS the fact of reincarnation, and that souls that once occupied such an environ are entering the earth's sphere and inhabiting individuals in the present, is it any wonder that - if they made such alterations in the affairs of the earth in their day, as to bring destruction upon themselves - if they are entering now, they might make many changes in the affairs of peoples and individuals in the present? Are they, then, BEING born into the world? If so, what WERE their environs - and will those environs mean in a material world today?

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1. EC: Yes, we have the subject and those conditions. As has been said, much data has been received from time to time through psychic forces as respecting conditions in or through the period, or ages, of this continent's existence. That the continent existed is being proven as a fact.

2. Then, what took place during the period, or periods, when it was being broken up? What became of the inhabitants? What was the character of their civilization? Are there any evidences of those, or any portion of, the inhabitants' escape? The POSITION of the continent, and the like, MUST be of interest to peoples in the present day, if either by inference that individuals are being born into the earth plane to develop in the present, or are people being guided in their spiritual interpretation of individuals' lives or developments BY the spirits of those who inhabited such a continent. In either case, if these be true, they ARE WIELDING - and are to wield - an influence upon the happenings of the present day world.

3. The position as the continent Atlantis occupied, is that as between the Gulf of Mexico on the one hand - and the Mediterranean upon the other. Evidences of this lost civilization are to be found in the Pyrenees and Morocco on the one hand, British Honduras, Yucatan and America upon the other. There are some protruding portions within this that must have at one time or another been a portion of this great continent. The British West Indies or the Bahamas, and a portion of same that may be seen in the present - if the geological survey would be made in some of these - especially, or notably, in Bimini and in the Gulf Stream through this vicinity, these may be even yet determined.

4. What, then, are the character of the peoples? To give any proper conception, may we follow the line of a group, or an individual line, through this continent's existence - and gain from same something of their character, their physiognomy, and their spiritual and physical development.

5. In the period, then - some hundred, some ninety-eight thousand years before the entry of Ram into India [See 364-3, Par. R2] - there lived in this land of Atlantis one Amilius [?], who had first NOTED that of the separations of the beings as inhabited that portion of the earth's sphere or plane of those peoples into male and female as separate entities, or individuals. As to their forms in the physical sense, these were much RATHER of the nature of THOUGHT FORMS, or able to push out OF THEMSELVES in that direction in which its development took shape in thought - much in the way and manner as the amoeba would in the waters of a stagnant bay, or lake, in the present. As these took form, by the gratifying of their own desire for that as builded or added to the material conditions, they became hardened or set - much in the form of the existent human body of the day, with that of color as partook of its surroundings much in the manner as the chameleon in the present. Hence coming into that form as the red, or the mixture peoples - or colors; known then later by the associations as the RED race. These, then, able to use IN their gradual development all the forces as were manifest in their individual surroundings, passing through those periods of developments as has been followed more closely in that of the yellow, the black, or the white races, in other portions of the world; yet with their immediate surroundings, with the facilities for the developments, these became much speedier in this particular portion of the globe than in others - and while the destruction of this continent and the peoples are far beyond any of that as has been kept as an absolute record, that record in the rocks still remains - as has that influence OF those peoples in that life of those peoples to whom those that did escape during the periods of destruction make or influence the lives of those peoples TO whom they came. As they MAY in the present, either through the direct influence of being regenerated, or re-incarnated into the earth, or through that of the MENTAL application on through the influences as may be had upon thought OF individuals or groups by speaking from that environ.

6. In the MANNER of living, in the manner of the moral, of the social, of the religious life of these peoples: There, classes existed much in the same order as existed among others; yet the like of the warlike INFLUENCE did NOT exist in the peoples - AS a people - as it did in the OTHER portions of the universe.

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2. EC: Yes, we have the subject here, The Lost Continent of Atlantis.

3. As the peoples were a peaceful peoples, their developments took on rather that form - with the developing into the physical material bodies - of the fast development, or to the using of the elements about them to their own use; recognizing themselves to be a part OF that about them. Hence, as to the supplying of that as necessary to sustain physical life as known today, in apparel, or supplying of the bodily needs, these were supplied through the natural elements; and the DEVELOPMENTS came rather in the forms - as would be termed in the PRESENT day - of preparing for those things that would pertain to what would be termed the aerial age, or the electrical age, and supplying then the modes and manners of transposition of those materials about same that did not pertain to themselves bodily; for of themselves was transposed, rather by that ability lying within each to be transposed in thought as in body.

4. In these things, then, did Amilius [?] see the beginning of, and the abilities of, those of his own age, era, or period, not only able to build that as able to transpose or build up the elements about them but to transpose them bodily from one portion of the universe to the other, THROUGH the uses of not only those RECENTLY re-discovered gases, and those of the electrical and aeriatic formations - in the breaking up of the atomic forces to produce impelling force to those means and modes of transposition, or of travel, or of lifting large weights, or of changing the faces or forces of nature itself, but with these transpositions, with these changes that came in as personalities, we find these as the Sons of the Creative Force as manifest in their experience looking upon those changed forms, or the daughters of men, and there crept in those pollutions, of polluting themselves with those mixtures that brought contempt, hatred, bloodshed, and those that build for desires of self WITHOUT respects of OTHERS' freedom, others' wishes - and there began, then, in the latter portion of this period of development, that that brought about those of dissenting and divisions among the peoples in the lands. With the attempts of those still in power, through those lineages of the pure, that had kept themselves intact as of the abilities of forces as were manifest IN their activities, these BUILDED rather those things that ATTEMPTED to draw BACK those peoples; through first the various changes or seasons that came about, and in the latter portion of the experience of Amilius [?] was the first establishing of the altars upon which the sacrifices of the field and the forest, and those that were of that that SATISFIED the desires of the physical body, were builded.

5. Then, with the coming in or the raising up of Esai [?], with the change that had come about, began in that period when there were the invasions of this continent by those of the animal kingdoms, that brought about that meeting of the nations of the globe to PREPARE a way and manner of disposing of, else they be disposed of themselves by these forces. With this coming in, there came then the first of the destructive forces as could be set and then be meted out in its force or power. Hence that as is termed, or its first beginning of, EXPLOSIVES that might be carried about, came with this reign, or this period, when MAN - or MEN, then - began to cope with those of the beast form that OVERRAN the earth in many places. Then, with these destructive forces, we find the first turning of the altar fires into that of sacrifice of those that were taken in the various ways, and human sacrifice began. With this also came the first egress of peoples to that of the Pyrenees first, OF which later we find that peoples who enter into the black or the mixed peoples, in what later became the Egyptian dynasty. We also find that entering into Og, or those peoples that later became the beginning of the Inca, or Ohum [Aymara'?], that builded the walls across the mountains in this period, through those same usages of that as had been taken on by those peoples; and with the same, those that made for that in the other land, became first those of the mound dwellers, or peoples in that land. With the continued disregard of those that were keeping the pure race and the pure peoples, of those that were to bring all these laws as applicable to the Sons of God, man brought in the destructive forces as used for the peoples that were to be the rule, that combined with those natural resources of the gases, of the electrical forces, made in nature and natural form the first of the eruptions that awoke from the depth of the slow cooling earth, and that portion now near what would be termed the Sargasso Sea first went into the depths. With this there again came that egress of peoples that aided, or attempted to assume control, yet carrying with them ALL those forms of Amilius [?] that he gained through that as for signs, for seasons, for days, for years. Hence we find in those various portions of the world even in the present day, some form of that as WAS presented by those peoples in THAT great DEVELOPMENT in this, the Eden of the world.

6. In the latter portion of same we find as CITIES were builded more and more rare became those abilities to call upon rather the forces in nature to supply the needs for those of bodily adornment, or those of the needs to supply the replenishing of the wasting away of the physical being; or hunger arose, and with the determinations to set again in motion, we find there - then Ani [?] [See the name ANI mentioned on pp. 6, 57, 187 and 324 of the book, MYTHS & LEGENDS OF ANCIENT EGYPT, by Lewis Spence.] [GD's note: I put a question mark because I didn't know whether this was the correct spelling or not.], in those latter periods, ten thousand seven hundred (10,700) years before the Prince of Peace came - again was the bringing into forces that to TEMPT, as it were, nature - in its storehouse - of replenishing the things - that of the WASTING away in the mountains, then into the valleys, then into the sea itself, and the fast disintegration of the lands, as well as of the peoples - save those that had escaped into those distant lands.

7. How, then, may this be applicable to our present day understanding? As we see the effects as builded in that about the sacred fires, as through those of Hermes, those of Arart, those of the Aztec, those of Ohum [Aymara'?], each in their respective sphere CARRYING some portion of these blessings - when they are kept in accord and PURE with those through which the channels of the blessings, of the Creative Forces, may manifest. So, we find, when we apply the lessons in the day - would ye be true, keep that EVERY WHIT thou KNOWEST to do within thine own heart! Knowing, as ye USE that as is KNOWN, there is given the more and more light to know from whence ye came and whither ye go!

8. Ready for questions.

9. (Q) Please give a description of the earth's surface as it existed at the time of Atlantis' highest civilization, using the names of continents, oceans and sections of same as we know them today?

(A) As to the highest point of civilization, this would first have to be determined according to the standard as to which it would be judged - as to whether the highest point was when Amilius [?] ruled with those understandings, as the one that understood the variations, or whether they became man made, would depend upon whether we are viewing from a spiritual standpoint or upon that as a purely material or commercial standpoint; for the variations, as we find, extend over a period of some two hundred thousand years (200,000) - that is, as light years - as known in the present - and that there were MANY changes in the surface of what is now called the earth. In the first, or greater portion, we find that NOW known as the southern portions of South America and the Arctic or North Arctic regions, while those in what is NOW as Siberia - or that as of Hudson Bay - was rather in that region of the tropics, or that position now occupied by near what would be as the same LINE would run, of the southern Pacific, or central Pacific regions - and about the same way. Then we find, with this change that came first in that portion, when the first of those peoples used that as prepared FOR the changes in the earth, we stood near the same position as the earth occupies in the present - as to Capricorn, or the equator, or the poles. Then, with that portion, THEN the South Pacific, or Lemuria [?], began its disappearance - even before Atlantis, for the changes were brought about in the latter portion of that period, or what would be termed ten thousand seven hundred (10,700) light years, or earth years, or present setting of those, as set by Amilius [?] - or Adam.

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2. EC: Yes, we have the information as given respecting the continent Atlantis. In the considerations that may be had concerning such information, many are the questions that must naturally arise in the minds of individuals who would consider same in any way or manner. However, will a very close check be kept upon those who evince an interest, these will be found to be those who occupy in the present some influence innate or manifested from their experience or sojourn under or in that environ. As has been given, this would be well to do; for to the analytical or to the research character of mind, there will be little that may escape the attention of such a mind - when spiritual or psychic, or occult, or those kindred subjects are approached - as to how quick there is the desire, that expression of "I know it, but don't know how to tell it, will be in that individual's or entity's feeling, and expression - when one may be obtained at all. They will immediately become the dreamer! Try this!

3. Ready for questions.

4. (Q) Explain the information given regarding Amilius [?], who first noted the separation of the peoples into male and female, as it relates to the story in the Bible of Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden giving the name of the symbols Adam, Eve, the apple, and the serpent.

(A) This would require a whole period of a lecture period for this alone; for, as is seen, that as is given is the presentation of a teacher of a peoples that separated for that definite purpose of keeping alive in the minds, the hearts, the SOUL minds of entities, that there may be seen their closer relationship to the divine influences of Creative Forces, that brought into being all that appertains to man's indwelling as man in the form of flesh in this material world. These are presented in symbols of that thought as held by those peoples from whom the physical recorder took those records as compiled, with that gained by himself in and through the entering into that state where the entity's soul mind drew upon the records that are made by the passing of time itself in a material world. As given, these are records not only of the nature as has been termed or called akashic records (that is, of a mental or soul record), but that in a more material nature as set down in stone, that was attempted to be done - HAS been attempted to be done throughout ALL time! WHY does man NOW set in stone those that are representatives of that desired to be kept in mind by those making records for future generations? There are many more materials more lasting, as is known to many.

In the records, then, as this: There are, as seen, the records made by the man in the mount, that this Amilius [?] - Adam, as given - first discerned that from himself, not of the beasts about him, could be drawn - WAS drawn - that which made for the propagation OF beings IN the flesh, that made for that companionship as seen by creation in the material worlds about same. The story, the tale (if chosen to be called such), is one and the same. The apple, as 'the apple of the eye', the desire of that companionship innate in that created, as innate in the Creator, that brought companionship into the creation itself. Get that one!

In this there comes, then, that which is set before that created - or having TAKEN ON that form, able of projecting itself in WHATEVER direction it chose to take, as given; able to make itself OF that environ, in color, in harmony, in WHATEVER source that makes for the spirit of that man would attempt to project in music, in art, in ANY form that may even be conceivable to the mind itself in what may be termed its most lucid moments, in its most esoteric moments, in its highest animation moments; for were He not the SON of the living God made manifest, that He might be the companion in a made world, in material manifested things, with the injunction to subdue all, BRING all in the material things under subjection - all UNDER subjection - by that ability to project itself IN its way? KNOWING itself, as given, to be a portion OF the whole, in, through, of, by the whole? In this desire, then, keep - as the injunction was - thine self separate: OF that seen, but NOT that seen. The apple, then, that desire for that which made for the associations that bring carnal-minded influences of that brought as sex influence, known in a material world, and the partaking of same is that which brought the influence in the lives of that in the symbol of the serpent, that made for that which creates the desire that may be only satisfied in gratification of carnal forces, as partake of the world and its influences about same - rather than of the spiritual emanations from which it has its source. Will control - inability of will control, if we may put it in common parlance.

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1. GC: You will have before you the material and information given through this channel on the lost continent of Atlantis, a copy of which I hold in my hand. You will answer the questions which I will ask regarding this:

2. EC: Yes, we have the information as written here, as given. In following out that as just given, with these changes coming in the experience of Amilius [?] and I [Ai? Ay?], Adam and Eve, the knowledge of their position, or that as is known in the material world today as desires and physical bodily charms, the understanding of sex, sex relationships, came into the experience. With these came the natural fear of that as had been forbidden, that they know themselves to be a part of but not OF that as partook of EARTHLY, or the desires in the manner as were ABOUT them, in that as had been their heritage.

3. Were this turned to that period when this desire, then, becomes consecrated in that accomplished again in the virgin body of the mother of the SON of man, we see this is then crystallized into that, that even that of the flesh may be - with the proper concept, proper desire in all its purity - consecrated to the LIVING forces as manifest by the ability in that body so brought into being, as to make a way of escape for the ERRING man. Hence we have found throughout the ages, so oft the times when conception of truth became rampant with free-love, with the desecration of those things that brought to these in the beginning that of the KNOWLEDGE of their existence, as to that that may be termed - and betimes became - the MORAL, or morality OF a people. Yet this same feeling, this same exaltation that comes from association of kindred bodies - that have their lives consecrated in a purposefulness, that makes for the ability of retaining those of the essence of creation in every virile body - can be made to become the fires that light truth, love, hope, patience, peace, harmony; for they are EVER the key to those influences that fire the imaginations of those that are gifted in ANY form of depicting the high emotions of human experience, whether it be in the one or the other fields, and hence is judged by those that may not be able, or through desire submit themselves - as did Amilius [?] and I [?] to those ELEMENTS, through the forces in the life as about them.

7. (Q) How large was Atlantis during the time of Amilius?

(A) Comparison, that of Europe including Asia in Europe - not Asia, but Asia in Europe - see? This composed, as seen, in or after the first of the destructions, that which would be termed now - with the present position - the southernmost portion of same - islands as created by those of the first (as man would call) volcanic or eruptive forces brought into play in the destruction of same.

8. (Q) Was Atlantis one large continent, or a group of large islands?

(A) Would it not be well to read just that given? Why confuse in the questionings? As has been given, what would be considered one large continent, until the first eruptions brought those changes - from what would now, with the present position of the earth in its rotation, or movements about its sun, through space, about Arcturus, about the Pleiades, that of a whole or one continent. Then with the breaking up, producing more of the nature of large islands, with the intervening canals or ravines, gulfs, bays or streams, as came from the various ELEMENTAL forces that were set in motion by this CHARGING - as it were - OF the forces that were collected as the basis for those elements that would produce destructive forces, as might be placed in various quarters or gathering places of those beasts, or the periods when the larger animals roved the earth - WITH that period of man's indwelling. Let it be remembered, or not confused, that the EARTH was peopled by ANIMALS before peopled by man! First that of a mass, which there arose the mist, and then the rising of same with light breaking OVER that as it SETTLED itself, as a companion of those in the universe, as it began its NATURAL (or now natural) rotations, with the varied effects UPON the various portions of same, as it slowly - and is slowly - receding or gathering closer to the sun, from which it receives its impetus for the awakening of the elements that give life itself, by radiation of like elements from that which it receives from the sun. Hence that of one type, that has been through the ages, of mind - that gives the SUN as the father OF light in the earth. Elements have their attraction and detraction, or those of ANIMOSITY and those of gathering together. This we see throughout all of the kingdoms, as may be termed, whether we speak of the heavenly hosts or of those of the stars, or of the planets, or of the various forces within any or all of same, they have their attraction or detraction. The attraction increases that as gives an impulse, that that becomes the aid, the stimuli, or an impulse to create. Hence, as may be seen - or may be brought to man's own - that of attraction one for another gives that STIMULI, that IMPULSE, to be the criterion of, or the gratification of, those influences in the experience of individuals or entities. To smother same oft becomes deteriorations for each other, as may come about in any form, way or manner. Accidents happen in creation, as well as in individuals' lives! Peculiar statement here, but - true!

9. (Q) What were the principal islands called at the time of the final destruction?

(A) Poseidia and Aryan [?], and Og [?].

10. (Q) Describe one of the ships of the air that was used during the highest period of mechanical development in Atlantis.

(A) Much of the nature, in the EARLIER portion, as would be were the hide of MANY of the pachyderm, or elephants, many into the CONTAINERS for the gases that were used as both lifting and for the impelling of the crafts about the various portions of the continent, and even abroad. These, as may be seen, took on those abilities not only to pass through that called air, or that heavier, but through that of water - when they received the impetus from the NECESSITIES of the peoples in that particular period, for the safety of self. The shape and form, then, in the earlier portion, depended upon which or what skins were used for the containers. The metals that were used as the braces, these were the COMBINATIONS then of what is NOW a lost art - the TEMPERED brass, the temperament of that as becomes between aluminum (as now called) and that of uranium, with those of the fluxes that are from those of the COMBINED elements of the iron, that is carbonized with those of other fluxes - see? These made for lightness of structure, non-conductor OR conductors of the electrical forces - that were used for the IMPELLING of same, rather than the gases - which were used as the lifting. See? For that as in the NATURE'S forces may be turned into even the forces OF that that makes life, as given, from the sun rays to those elements that make for, or find CORRESPONDING reaction in their APPLICATION of same, or reflection of same, TO the rays itself - or a different or changed form of storage of FORCE, as called electrical in the present.

11. We are through for the present.

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3. (Q) How is the legend of Lilith connected with the period of Amilius?

(A) In the beginning, as was outlined, there was presented that that became as the Sons of God, in that male and female were as one, with those abilities for those changes as were able or capable of being brought about. In the changes that came from those THINGS, as were of the projections of the abilities of those entities to project, this as a being came as the companion; and when there was that turning to the within, through the sources of creation, as to make for the helpmeet of that as created by the first cause, or of the Creative Forces that brought into being that as was made, THEN - from out of self - was brought that as was to be the helpmeet, NOT just companion of the body. Hence the legend of the associations of the body during that period before there was brought into being the last of the creations, which was not of that that was NOT made, but the first of that that WAS made, and a helpmeet to the body, that there might be no change in the relationship of the SONS of God WITH those relationships of the sons and daughters of men.

In this then, also comes that as is held by many who have reached especially to that understanding of how NECESSARY, then, becomes the PROPER mating of those souls that may be the ANSWERS one to another of that that may bring, through that association, that companionship, into being that that may be the more helpful, more sustaining, more the well- ROUNDED life or experience of those that are a PORTION one of another. Do not misinterpret, but knowing that all are OF one - yet there are those divisions that make for a CLOSER union, when there are the proper relationships brought about. As an illustration, in this:

In the material world we find there is in the mineral kingdom those elements that are of the nature as to form a closer union one with another, and make as for compounds as make for elements that act more in unison with, or against, other forms of activity in the experience in the earth's environ, or the earth's force, as makes for those active forces in the ELEMENTS that are ABOUT the earth. Such as we may find in those that make for the active forces in that of uranium, and that of ultramarine, and these make then for an element that becomes the more active force as with the abilities for the rates of emanation as may be thrown off from same. So, as illustrated in the union, then, of - in the PHYSICAL compounds - that as may vibrate, or make for emanations in the activities of their mental and spiritual, and material, or physical forces, as may make for a GREATER activity in this earth environ. Then, there may be seen that as is in an elemental, or compound, that makes for that as is seen in the material experience as to become an antipathy for other elements that are as equally necessary in the experience of man's environ as in the combination of gases as may produce whenever combined that called water, and its antipathy for the elements in combustion is easily seen or known in man's experience.

So in those unions of that in the elemental forces of creative energies that take on the form of man, either in that of man or woman, with its NATURAL or ELEMENTAL, see? ELEMENTAL forces of its vibration, with the union of two that vibrate or respond to those vibrations in self, create for that ideal that becomes as that, in that created, in the form - as is known as radium, with its fast emittal vibrations, that brings for active forces, principles, that makes for such atomic forces within the active principles of all nature in its active force as to be one of the elemental bases from which life in its essence, as an active principle in a material world, has its sources, give off that which is EVER good - unless abused, see? So in that may there be basis for THOSE forces, as HAS been, as IS sought, thought, or ATTAINED BY those who have, through the abilities of the vibrations, to make for a continued force in self as to meet, know, see, feel, understand, those sources from which such begets that of its kind, or as those that become as an antipathy for another, or as makes for those that makes for the variations in the tempering of the various elements, compounds, or the like; so, as is seen, THESE - then - the BASIS for those things as has been given here, there, in their various ways and manners, as to the companion of, and COMPANIONS of, that that first able - through its projection of itself and its abilities in the creation - to bring about that that was either of its OWN making, or creation, or that given in the beginning to BE the force THROUGH which there might BE that that would bring ever blessings, good, right, and love, in even the physical or material world. See?

4. (Q) How long did it take for the division into male and female?

(A) That depends upon which, or what branch or LINE is considered. When there was brought into being that as of the projection of that created BY that created, this took a period of evolutionary - or, as would be in the present year, fourscore and six year. That as brought into being as was of the creating OF that that became a portion of, OF that that was already created by the CREATOR, THAT brought into being as WERE those of the forces of nature itself. God said, "Let there be light" and there WAS light! God said, "Let there be life" and there WAS life!

5. (Q) Were the thought forms that were able to push themselves out of themselves inhabited by souls, or were they of the animal kingdom?

(A) That as created by that CREATED, of the animal kingdom. That created as by the Creator, with the soul.

6. (Q) What was meant by the Sons of the Highest in Atlantis and the second coming of souls to the earth, as mentioned in a life reading given thru this channel? [See 2802-1 on 5/18/25.]

(A) In this period or age, as was seen - There is fault of words here to PROJECT that as actually OCCURS in the FORMATIONS of that as comes about! There was, with the WILL of that as came into being through the correct channels, of that as created by the Creator, that of the CONTINUING of the souls in its projection and projection - see? while in that as was OF the offspring, of that as pushed itself INTO form to SATISFY, GRATIFY, that of the desire of that known as carnal forces of the SENSES, of those created, there continued to be the war one with another, and there were then - FROM the other SOURCES (worlds) the continuing entering of those that WOULD make for the keeping of the balance, as of the first purpose of the Creative Forces, as it magnifies itself in that given sphere of activity, of that that had been GIVEN the ABILITY to CREATE with its OWN activity - see? and hence the second, or the CONTINUED entering of souls into that known as the earth's plane during this period, for that activity as was brought about. Let's REMEMBER that as was given, in the second, third from Adam, or fourth, or from Amilius, there was "In that day did they CALL UPON the NAME of the Lord" - is right! and ever, when the elements that make for littleness, uncleanness, are crucified in the body, the SPIRIT of the Lord, of God, is present! When these are overbalanced, so that the body (physical), the mental man, the imagination of its heart, is evil, or his purpose is evil, then is that war continuing - as from the beginning. Just the continued warring of those things within self as from the beginning; for with these changes as brought SIN into the world, with same came the FRUITS of same, or the seed as of sin, which we see in the material world as those things that corrupt good ground, those that corrupt the elements that are of the compounds of those of the first causes, or elementals, and pests are seen - and the like, see? So does it follow throughout all creative forces, that the fruits of that as is active brings that seed that makes for the corrupting of, or the clearing of, in the activative forces of, that BEING acted upon.

7. (Q) What was meant by "As in the first Adam sin entered, so in the last Adam all shall be made alive?"

(A) Adam's entry into the world in the beginning, then, must become the savior OF the world, as it was committed to his care, "Be thou fruitful, multiply, and SUBDUE the earth!" Hence Amilius, Adam, the first Adam, the last Adam, becomes - then - that that is GIVEN the POWER OVER the earth, and - as in each soul the first to be conquered is self - then ALL THINGS, conditions and elements, are subject unto that self!

That a universal law, as may be seen in that as may be demonstrated either in gases that destroy one another by becoming elements of the same, or that in the mineral or the animal kingdom as may be found that destroy, or BECOME one WITH the other. Hence, as Adam given - the SON of God - so he MUST become that that would be able to take the world, the earth, back to that source from which it came, and ALL POWER is given in his keeping in the earth, that he has overcome; self, death, hell and the grave even, become subservient unto Him THROUGH the conquering of self in that made flesh; for, as in the beginning was the word, the Word WAS with God, the Word WAS God, the same was IN the beginning. The Word came and dwelt among men, the offspring of self in a material world, and the Word OVERCAME the world - and hence the world BECOMES, then, as the servant of that that overcame the world!

8. (Q) Please give the important re-incarnations of Adam in the world's history.

(A) In the beginning as Amilius, as Adam, as Melchizedek, as Zend [?], as Ur [?] [Enoch? GD's note: Perhaps Ur was prehistory person [364-9, Par. 3-A] who established Ur of the Chaldees? I don't think he was mentioned anywhere else in the readings as an incarnation of Jesus.], as Asaph [?] [Songs of Asaph? See Ps. 81:5 indicating that Joseph and Asaph were one and the same?], as Jesus [Jeshua] - Joseph - Jesus. [See 364-9, Par. 3-A.]

Then, as that coming into the world in the second coming - for He will come again and receive His own, who have prepared themselves through that belief in Him and acting in that manner; for the SPIRIT is abroad, and the time draws near, and there will be the reckoning of those even as in the first so in the last, and the last shall be first; for there is that Spirit abroad - He standeth near. He that hath eyes to see, let him see. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear that music of the coming of the Lord of this vineyard, and art THOU ready to give account of that THOU hast done with thine opportunity in the earth as the Sons of God, as the heirs and joint heirs of glory WITH the Son? Then make thine paths straight, for there must come an answering for that THOU hast done with thine Lord! He will not tarry, for having overcome He shall appear even AS the Lord AND Master. Not as one born, but as one that returneth to His own, for He will walk and talk with men of every clime, and those that are faithful and just in their reckoning shall be caught up with Him to rule and to do JUDGEMENT for a thousand years!

9. (Q) Describe some of the mental abilities that were developed by the Atlanteans at the time of their greatest spiritual development.

(A) Impossible to describe achievements physical in their spiritual development. The use of MATERIAL conditions and spiritual attributes in a material world would, and do, become that as are the miracles of the Son in the material world; for even as with Him in - and as He walked, whether in Galilee, in Egypt, in India, in France, in England, or America - there WERE those periods when the activities of the physical were as was what would be termed the everyday life of the SONS of God in the Atlantean or Eden experience; for as those brought the various changes from the highest of the SPIRITUAL development to the highest of the mental, then of the MATERIAL or physical developments, then the fall - see?

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Edgar Cayce on Atlantis II

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1. GC: You will have before you the information given through this channel on the lost continent of Atlantis. You will please continue with this information, and answer the questions which I will ask regarding same.

2. EC: Yes. In understanding, then, in the present terminology, occult science, or psychic science - as seen, this was the natural or nature's activity in that experience, and not termed a science - any more than would be the desire for food by a new born babe. Rather the natural consequence. This explanation may of necessity take on some forms that may possibly be confusing at times, but illustrations may be made through the various types of occult science, or psychic manifestations, that may clarify for the student something of the various types of psychic manifestations in the present, as well as that that was natural in this period.

3. There is, as has been oft given, quite a difference - and much differentiation should be made - in mysticism and psychic, or occult science as termed today.

4. From that which has been given, it is seen that individuals in the beginning were more of thought forms than individual entities with personalities as seen in the present, and their projections into the realms of fields of thought that pertain to a developing or evolving world of matter, with the varied presentations about same, of the expressions or attributes in the various things about the entity or individual, or body, through which such science - as termed now, or such phenomena as would be termed - became manifest. Hence we find occult or psychic science, as would be called at the present, was rather the natural state of man in the beginning. Very much as (in illustration) when a baby, or babe, is born into the world and its appetite is first satisfied, and it lies sleeping. Of what is its dreams? That it expects to be, or that it has been? Of what are thoughts? That which is to be, or that which has been, or that which is? Now remember we are speaking - these were thought forms, and we are finding again the illustrations of same!

5. When the mental body (Now revert back to what you are calling science) - when the mental body, or mind, has had training, or has gone through a course of operations in certain directions, such individuals are called so-and-so minded; as one of an inventive turn, and trained; one of a statistician turn, and trained; one of a theologian turn, and trained; one of philosophical turn, and trained. Of what does the mind build? We have turned, then, to that that has become very material, for the mind constantly trained makes for itself MENTAL pictures, or makes for that as is reasoned with from its own present dimensional viewpoints - but the babe, from whence its reasoning? from whence its dream? From that that has been taken in, or that that has been its experience from whence it came? Oft has it been said, and rightly, with a babe's smile 'Dreaming of angels', and close in touch with them - but what has PRODUCED that dream? The contact with that upon which IT has fed! Don't forget our premise now from which we are reasoning! and we will find that we will have the premise from which those individuals, or the entities, reasoned within the beginning in this land. (We are speaking of Atlanteans, when they became as thought forces.) From whence did THEY reason? From the Creative Forces from which they had received their impetus, but acted upon by the thought FORMS as were in MATERIAL forms about them, and given that power (will) to be one WITH that from what it sprang or was given its impetus, or force, yet with the ability to USE that in the way that seemed, or seemeth, good or well, or pleasing, unto itself. Hence we find in this particular moulding or mouldive stage, that in which there was the greater development of, and use of, that as is termed or called psychic and occult forces, or science - in the present terminology, or age.

6. Illustrating, then, that as to how this was used by those entities, those beings, in the formative stage of their experience or sojourn among that as had been created in all of its splendor to supply every want or desire that might be called forth by that being, with all of its attributes physical, mental AND SPIRITUAL at hand; for, as has been given, even unto the four hundred thousandth generation from the first creation was it prepared for man's indwelling. As we today (turn to today), we find there the developments of those resources. How long have they remained? Since the beginning! How long has man been able to use them for his undoing, or his pleasure, or for his regeneration? Since the knowledge of some source has awakened within its psychic force, or source, of the apparatus, or the form that it takes, either in a physical or mental (for remember, Mind is the Builder - and it moves along those channels through which, and by which, it may bring into existence in whatever dimension or sphere from which it is reasoning, or reasoning toward - see) - and as these may be illustrated in the present:

7. When there is a manifestation of a psychic force, or an occult action, or phenomena, or activity in, upon, of or for, an individual, there is then the rolling back, as it were, or a portion of the physical consciousness - or that mental trained individual consciousness - has been rolled aside, or rolled back, and there is then a visioning - To what? That as from the beginning, a projection OF that form that assumed its position or condition in the earth as from the beginning, and with those so endowed with that as may be called an insight into psychic sources there may be visioned about a body its astral (if chosen to be termed), rather its THOUGHT body, as is projected FROM same in such a state; especially so when there is the induction, or the inducing of, an unconsciousness of the normal brain, or normal mental body. Submerged - into what? Into the unconscious, or subconscious. Sub, in THIS instance, meaning BELOW - not above normal; below - SUBJECTED to the higher consciousness, or to the higher thought, that has been builded - just as sure as has a physical body been builded, from what?

That as has been given from its first nucleus as passed through in its experience. Then there may be visioned by such a body, as may be called with the second sight, or with a vision, that accompanying thought body of such an one, manifesting in much the way and manner as individuals in the Atlantean period of psychic and occult development brought about in their experience. Through such projections there came about that first necessity of the division of the body, to conform to those necessities of that as seen in its own mental vision as builded (MENTAL now - Don't confuse these terms, or else you will become VERY confused in what is being given!).

8. The mental vision by its action upon what body is being builded? On the mental body of the individual in a material world, out of Spirit, out of the ability to have all the attributes of the spiritual or unseen forces - but MATERIALIZED forces, as is necessary from the mental body in a material world MENTALLY trained to, or in, certain directions, or given directions, or following the natural bent of its threefold or threeply body, as is seen in every individual or every entity. As these projected themselves, then we find these DEVELOPMENTS were in this portion of the development in the Atlantean period. How were these used? In much as were from the beginning. Remember there was ever the instruction to those peoples that were to hold to that that would bring for the spiritual forces, rather than the abuses of the abilities - as those with familiar spirits, as those that spoke to or partook of the divinations of those that had passed from the earth's plane, or those that partook of the animal magnetism - that came from the universal consciousness of animal matter as passed into its experience, in its interchange through those periods of integration and disintegration - and the spirit forces possessing those that would lay themselves open to such conditions, for these are as real as physical bodies if the attunements of the entity are such that it may vision them! and they are about you always, sure! These, then, are entities - sure; whether animal or those endowed with the soul - until they pass through those changes - as there ever has been, see? Also there are those that ever make for those channels in the psychic and occult (we are speaking of, through which man - as it reached that stage, or that position that it became farther and farther from its natural sources, through the same CHARACTER of channel may it communicate with that from which it is a portion of, or the Creative Forces), and hence the terminology arose as 'Good Spirits' and 'Bad Spirits'; for there are those that partake of the earth, or of the carnal forces, rather than of those forces that are of the spiritual or CREATIVE. Those that are destruction are of the Earth. Those that are constructive, then, are the good - or the divine and the devilish, bringing for those developments in their various phases. Hence the greater development of that called occult, or psychic forces, during the Atlantean period - and the use of same, and the abuse of same - was during its first thousand years, as we would call light years; not the light of the star, but the sun goes down and the sun goes down - years. That brought about those cycles, or those changes. Hence we have that which has been given through many of the sources of information, or the channels for individuals - and in those, these, the entity - as a voice upon waters, or as the wind that moved among the reeds and harkened, or again as when the morning stars sang together and the sons of God beheld the coming of man into his own, through the various realms as were brought by the magnifying of, or the deteriorating of, the use of those forces and powers as manifested themselves in a MATERIAL area, or those that partook of carnal to the gratification of that that brought about its continual HARDENING and less ability to harken back through that from WHICH it came, and partaking more and more OF that upon which it became an eater of; or, as is seen even in the material forces in the present: We find those that partake of certain elements, unless these become very well balanced WITH all SOURCES - Of what? That of which there were the first causes, or nature, or natural, or God's sources or forces are. Hence ELEMENTS - not rudiments; elements - as are termed in the terminology of the student of the anatomical, physiological, psychological forces within a body - GERMS! Sure they are germs! for each are as atoms of power - From what? That source from which it has drawn its essence upon what it feeds. Is one feeding, then, its soul? or is one feeding its body? or is one feeding that interbetween (its mental body) to its own undoing, or to those foolishnesses of the simple things of life? Being able, then, to partake OF the physical but not a part of same - but more and more feeding upon those sources from which it emanates itself, or of the SPIRITUAL life, so that the physical body, the mental body, are attuned TO its soul forces, or its soul source, its Creator, its Maker, in such a way and manner, as it develops.

9. What, then, IS psychic force? What IS occult science? A developing of the abilities within each individual that has not lost its sonship, or its relation to its Creator, to live upon - or demonstrate more and more through phenomena of whatever nature from which it takes its source, for that individual activity of that entity itself through the stages of development through which it has passed, and giving of its life source that there may be brought INTO being that which gives more knowledge of the source FROM which the entity ESSENCE (Isn't a good word, but signifies that intended to be expressed; not elements, not rudiments, but ESSENCE of the entity itself, ITS spirit and soul - its spirit being its portion of the Creator, its soul that of its entity itself, making itself individual, separate entity, that may be one WITH the Creative Force from which it comes - or which it is! of which it is made up, in its atomic forces, or in its very essence itself!) emanates; and the more this may be manifest, the greater becomes the occult force.

10. To what uses, then, did these people in this particular period give their efforts, and in what directions were they active? As many almost as there were individuals! for, as we find from the records as are made, to some there was given the power to become the sons of God; others were workers in brass, in iron, in silver, in gold; others were made in music, and the instruments of music. These, then, we find in the world today (Today, now - we are reasoning from today). Those that are especially gifted in art - in its various forms; and a real artist (as the world looks at it) isn't very much fit for anything else! yet it is - What? An expression of its concept OF that from WHICH it, that entity, sprang - through the various stages of its evolution (if you choose to call it such) in a material world, or that which it fed its soul or its mental being for its development through its varied experiences IN a material world. These, then, are but manifestations (occult forces) in individuals who are called geniuses, or gifted in certain directions.

11. These, then, are the manners in which the ENTITIES, those BEINGS, those SOULS, in the beginning partook of, or developed. Some brought about monstrosities, as those of its (that entity's) association by its projection with its association with beasts of various characters. Hence those of the Styx, satyr, and the like; those of the sea, or mermaid; those of the unicorn, and those of the various forms - these projections of what? The abilities in the PHYCHIC forces (psychic meaning, then, of the mental AND the soul - doesn't necessarily mean the body, until it's enabled to be brought INTO being in whatever form it may make its manifestation - which may never be in a material world, or take form in a three-dimensional plane as the earth is; it may remain in a fourth-dimensional - which is an idea! Best definition that ever may be given of fourth-dimension is an idea! Where will it project? Anywhere! Where does it arise from? Who knows! Where will it end? Who can tell! It is all inclusive! It has both length, breadth, height and depth - is without beginning and is without ending! Dependent upon that which it may feed for its sustenance, or it may pass into that much as a thought or an idea. Now this isn't ideal that's said! It's idea! see?)

12. In the use of these, then, in this material plane - of these forces - brought about those that made for all MANNERS of the various forms that are used in the material world today. MANY of them to a much higher development. As those that sought forms of minerals - and being able to be that the mineral was, hence much more capable - in the psychic or occult force, or power - to classify, or make same in its own classifications. Who classified them? They were from the beginning! They are themselves! They were those necessities as were IN the beginning from an ALL WISE Creator! for remember these came, as did that as was to be the keeper of same! The husbandman of the vineyard! Each entity, each individual - today, has its own vineyard to keep, to dress - For who? Its Maker, from whence it came! What is to be the report in thine own life with those abilities, those forces, as may be manifest in self - through its calling upon, through what? How does prayer reach the throne of mercy or grace, or that from which it emanates? From itself! Through that of CRUCIFYING, NULLIFYING, the carnal mind and opening the mental in such a manner that the Spirit of truth may flow in its psychic sense, or occult force, into the very being, that you may be one with that from which you came! Be thou faithful unto that committed into thy keeping! Life ITSELF is precious! For why? It is of the Maker itself! That IS the beginning! The psychic forces, the attunements, the developments, going TO that! As did many in that experience. And Enoch walked with God, and he was not for God took him. As was many of those in those first years, in this land, this experience.

13. These in the present, then, do not justly call it science; rather being close to nature. Listen at the birds. Watch the blush of the rose. Listen at the life rising in the tree. These serve their Maker - Through what? That psychic force, that IS Life itself, in their respective sphere - that were put for the service of man. Learn thine lesson, O Man, from that about thee!

364-11

1. GC: You will have before you the information given through this channel on the lost continent of Atlantis. You will continue with this information, and will answer the questions which I will ask regarding this:

2. EC: Yes. As to why, then, each individual must be, and is, the keeper of his own vineyard? For there is, as from the beginning, in each entity that - of the Father, or the First Cause - that enables one to make manifest even in the material world through the attributes OF the First Cause, that makes for the manifestation OF that power, or force, in a material world. As to what one does WITH same is an action of the will that entity himself, or herself.

3. As to occult or psychic science, as called, then - it is, as we have found through some manifestations, that these forces are first recognized in or by the individual. Hence, as has been seen, in the beginning these were the natural expressions of an entity. As there developed more of the individual association with material conditions, and they partook of same in such a manner as to become wholly or in part a portion OF same, farther - or more hidden, more unseen - has become occult or psychic manifestations. First there were the occasional harking back. Later by dream. Again we find individuals raised in certain sections for specific purposes. As the cycle has gone about, time and again has there arisen in the earth those that MANIFESTED these forces in a more magnificent, more beneficent, way and manner. And, as has been given, again the time draws near when there shall be seen and known among men, in many places, the manifestations of such forces in the material world; for "As ye have seen him go, so will He return again." Be thou faithful unto those words He has given while yet with you. Hence it behooves every individual to take cognizance of that force that may manifest in their material lives, even in this material age; for those that become ashamed for His sake - for THAT sake - of that that may manifest (which is as the Spirit's manner of activity) through those many channels that are open to those who will look up, lift up - and these, we find, are often in the lowliest of places and circumstances. Why? Since these are forces of the Most High, since these supplied - as of old - those secular things in abundance, and were supplied the needs not only of the physical being but of the mental and spiritual also, contributing to those forces as made for the gratification also of that builded in a material world, does it become any wonder that he that shall be abased and remains true shall wear the Crown of Life? Does it become unreasonable, then, that ye are being chastised for that which has been builded within the material forces of the body itself, that must be tried so as by fire? for the chaff must be burned out! Even as with the use of those sources of information, the abilities to become a portion of those elements that were the creative forces OF the compounds or elements within the universal forces, at that period brought about those forces that made for destruction of the land itself, in the attempt to draw that as was in man then back TO the knowledge; and these brought about those destructive forces (that are known today) in gases, with that called the death ray [See 364-11, Par. R2], that brought from the bowels of the earth itself - when turned into the sources of supply - those destructions to portions of the land. Man has ever (even as then) when in distress, either mental, spiritual OR physical, sought to know his association, his connection, with the divine forces that brought the worlds into being. As these are sought, so does the promise hold true - or that given man from the beginning, "Will ye be my children, I will be thy God!" "Ye turn your face from me, my face is turned from thee", and those things ye have builded in thine own endeavor to make manifest thine own powers bring those certain destructions in the lives of individuals in the present, even as in those first experiences with the use of those powers that are so tabu by the worldly-wise, that are looked upon as old men's tales and women's fables; yet in the strength of such forces do WORLDS come into being!

4. THIS is what psychic force, and so called occult science, DID mean, HAS meant, DOES mean in the world today.

5. Ready for questions.

6. (Q) Describe in more detail the causes and effects of the destruction of the part of Atlantis now the Sargasso sea.

(A) As there were those individuals that attempted to bring again to the mind of man more of those forces that are manifest by the closer association of the mental and spiritual, or the soul forces that were more and more as individual and personal forms in the world, the use of the these elements - as for the building up, or the passage of individuals through space - brought the uses of the gases then (in the existent forces), and the individuals being able to become the elements, and elementals themselves, added to that used in the form of what is at present known as the raising of the powers from the sun itself, to the ray that makes for disintegration of the atom, in the gaseous forces formed, and brought about the destruction in that portion of the land now presented, or represented, or called, Sargasso sea.

7. (Q) What was the date of the first destruction, estimating in our present day system of counting time in years B.C.?

(A) Seven thousand five hundred (7,500) years before the final destruction, which came as has been given.

8. (Q) Please give a few details regarding the physiognomy, habits, customs and costumes of the people of Atlantis during the period just before this first destruction.

(A) These, as we find, will require their being separated in the gradual development of the body and its physiognomy as it came into being in the various portions of that land, as well as to those that would separate themselves from those peoples where there were the indwelling of peoples, or man - as man, in the various areas of the land, or what we call world.

In the matter of form, as we find, first there were those as projections from that about the animal kingdom; for the THOUGHT bodies gradually took form, and the various COMBINATIONS (as may be called) of the various forces that called or classified themselves as gods, or rulers over - whether herds, or fowls, or fishes, etc. - in PART that kingdom and part of that as gradually evolved into a physiognomy much in the form of the present day may (were one chosen of those that were, or are, the nearest representative of the race of peoples that existed in this first period as the first destructions came about). These took on MANY sizes as to stature, from that as may be called the midget to the giants - for there were giants in the earth in those days, men as tall as (what would be termed today) ten to twelve feet in stature, and in proportion - well proportioned throughout. The ones that became the most USEFUL were those as would be classified (or called in the present) as the IDEAL stature, that was of both male and female (as those separations had been begun); and the most ideal (as would be called) was Adam, who was in that period when he (Adam) appeared as five in one - See?

In this the physiognomy was that of a full head, with an extra EYE - as it were - in those portions that became what is known as the EYE. In the beginning these appeared in WHATEVER portion was desired by the body for its use!

As for the dress, those in the beginning were (and the Lord made for them coats) of the skins of the animals.

A reproduction of Harold Edgerton's famous milk drop.

To view this this stereo photo in 3D:

1. Cross your eyes slowly until you see three images;

2. Then focus on the middle image and you will begin to see it in the third dimension. Stereo viewing requires practice; if you cannot see it within a few minutes, come back to this image at a later time and do try again. -Also try viewing the pictures at different distances from your monitor, or with difference size images.

I took this picture on Velvia slide film in 1993 using a Medium Format Macro 3D camera that was built by the English stereo expert, David Burder.

Description in english below. But I’m warning you, I’m bad at grammar in french (wich i was born in), so imagine in english !

More link in my page.

Bon j’ai laissé tomber IDM, ou l’inverse…

Et je me suis enfin mit à Studio. Sauf que je me suis dit que le mieux ce serait de me faire un exercice. J’ai donc pris des plans que j’avais achetés sans compter les utiliser un jour. Je suis client BrickVault, et j’avais prit leur offre sur les 4 Ties (Le Normal, l’Interceptor, le X1 de Vador et le Bomber). Tous sont de Jerac. En fait seul les 3 premiers m’intéressaient, le Tie Bomber osef un peu. Je le trouve nul dans ce rôle : c’est un Tie (donc pas de bouclier, d’hyperdrive ou de système vitaux) qui sert de bombardier. Donc il est lent (tu perds l’intérêt du Tie) et peu blindé (ce qui est quand même embêtant pour un bombardier).

Pour la puissance de feu, l’Empire a ses vaisseaux capitaux. Les Bombardiers sont peut-être plus précis, mais ils sont fragiles ceux-là. Et puis pour bombarder les cibles sur des planètes avec atmosphère, déjà le Tie classique à l’aérodynamisme d’un parpaing, bin le Tie Bomber, c’est l’aérodynamisme de deux parpaings. Ensuite ils ont fait encore mieux mais j’y reviendrai.

Alors il n’est pas complètement inutile, il peut réaménager son côté armement pour le transport. Et franchement ça peut faire une estafette pas cher utile hors cadre militaire. Ils s’en servent de celui-là pour débarquer des troupes et une variante sert de navette à Needa pour rencontrer son destin.

J’ai aussi vu une variante du Tie Stricker en mode Tie Bomber, mais je pense que c’était un fan-art. Ce n’est pas bête, ça le rend plus pratique pour bombarder dans l’atmosphère.

Quoiqu’il en soit c’était un bon exercice pour apprendre à me servir de Studio, du coup je ne me suis pas arrêté là. J’aime en effet les Ties, surtout les moches ou pas pratique. Et dans le genre…

Avez-vous déjà joué à Star Wars Galactic Battleground 1 et 2, c’est un jeu de gestion stratégie à la « Age of Empire ». Je me suis pas mal éclaté dessus, d’autant qu’il y avait un bon mode histoire, un mode création de carte génial, et… bref. Les unités évoluaient, en ce qui concerne le Tie Bomber, il passait d’un chasseur à 1 puis 2 puis 4 compartiments armés…

Le Tie Heavy Bomber d’abords avec 2 compartiments armés. L’évolution suivante possède 3 noms : Tie « Advanced » Bomber, le Tie « Punisher » ou encore le Tie « Enterdictor ». Je préfère « Interdictor », parce que « Punisher » … C’est lui qui va se faire punir !

Ces deux variantes ne perdent pas tellement en vitesse ou mobilité car chaque compartiment à ses propres moteurs, mais ils ont d’autres problèmes.

-Sans appuie de chasseurs, ils sont morts. (Pas de boucliers)

-Ils sont plus gros. Ils font donc des cibles plus faciles, l’un des avantages des Ties classique c’est qu’ils font de petites cibles face à l’ennemi.

-Plus de bombes signifie plus de risque pour l’escorte en cas de destruction du bombardier. L’escorte pourraient finir en cendre par ricochés.

-Aérodynamisme… Pour l’Interdictor, c’est plus des parpaings, c’est un mur qui essaie de voler face au vent !

-Les ailes : Leur tailles ne changent pas. Donc déjà ils ne peuvent pas se poser à cause de la sortie des bombes qui dépasse. Ensuite je ne suis pas spécialiste mais elles servent à quoi ces ailes ? Selon les sources on parle de collecteur d’énergie ou pour disperser l’énergie. Quoiqu’il en soit dans le cas de l’Interdictor, avec 3 compartiments de plus que le Bombardier classique… Soit il sera limité en énergie, soir prompt aux surchauffes.

Je les ferai peut-être un jour en lego, mais j’ai d’autres idées de Tie lego à faire avant sans parler d’autre projets dont un qui prendra des années à ce concrétiser.

In English

So I dropped IDM, or the other way around...

And I finally got into Studio. Except I figured the best thing to do was to get some exercise. So I took some instructions I'd bought and didn't plan to use them. I'm a BrickVault customer, and I took their offer on the 4 Ties (The Normal, the Interceptor, the Vader X1 and the Bomber). All are from Jerac. In fact only the first 3 interested me, the Tie Bomber, no so much. I find it bad in this role: it's a Tie (so no shield, hyperdrive or life support system) which is used as a bomber. So it's slow (you lose the interest of the Tie) and not very armored (which is still annoying for a bomber).

For firepower, the Empire has its capital ships. Bombers may be more precise, but those are fragile. And then to bombard targets on planets with atmosphere, already the classic Tie Bomber has the aerodynamics of one cinder blocks, the Tie Bomber has the aerodynamics of two cinder blocks. Then they did even better, but I'll come back to that.

It's not completely useless, it can rearrange its armament side for transport. And frankly it can make a cheap courier ship useful outside the military. They use this one to land troops and a variant is used as a shuttle to Needa to meet his fate.

I also saw a variant of the Tie Stricker in Tie Bomber mode, but I think it was fan art. It's not stupid, it makes it more convenient for bombing in the atmosphere.

Anyway it was a good exercise to learn how to use the Studio, so I didn't stop there. I do like Ties, especially the uglies ones or not practical.

Have you ever played Star Wars Galactic Battleground 1 and 2 ? It's a strategy management game, "Age of Empire" but in Star Wars. I had a lot of fun on it, especially since there was a good story mode, an awesome map creation mode... The units were evolving, as far as the Tie Bomber was concerned, it went from a fighter to 1 then 2 then 4 armed compartments...

The Tie Heavy Bomber first with 2 armed compartments. The following evolution has 3 names: Tie "Advanced" Bomber, the Tie "Punisher" or the Tie "Enterdictor". I prefer "Interdictor", because "Punisher" ... He's the one who will be punished!

These two variants don't lose so much speed or mobility because each compartment has its own engines, but they have other problems.

-Without fighter support, they're dead. (No shields)

-They're bigger. So they make easier targets, one of the advantages of the classic Ties is that they make small targets in front of the enemy.

-More bombs means more risks to the escort in case the bomber is destroyed. The escort could end up in ash.

-Aerodynamics... For the Interdictor, it's not like cinder blocks, it's like a wall trying to fly into the wind!

-The wings: Their sizes doesn't change. So they can't land because the bombs "distributor" are sticking out. Then I'm not a specialist, but what are these wings for? Depending on the source, they are used as energy collectors or to disperse energy. Anyway, in the case of the Interdictor, with 3 compartments more than the classic bomber... Either it will be limited in energy, or will be prone to overheating.

I may do them one day in lego, but I have other ideas of Tie lego to do before, not to mention other projects, including one that will take years to materialize.

Samuel Wensley Blackall:

Samuel Wensley Blackall (1809 - 1871), governor, was born on 1 May 1809 in Dublin, son of Major Robert Blackall of the East India Co. army, and his wife Catherine, née Lewis. A member of a prosperous Irish family, he was educated by a private tutor and at 15 went to Trinity College, Dublin, but did not graduate. He joined the 85th Regiment in June 1827 but in 1833 he sold his commission as lieutenant and entered the Royal Longford Militia, where he became a major. In 1833 he married Georgiana Rowles in London; the couple had a son and a daughter, the former surviving him. After his first wife’s death, Samuel married Catherine Bond at Dublin in 1858. Blackall took an active part in Irish public life, becoming high sheriff of County Longford in 1833: in 1847-51 he represented Longford in the House of Commons, and in 1861 became high sheriff of Tyrone. Meanwhile he had been lieutenant-governor of Dominica in 1851-57. Through seeking to rule with a high hand he had to combat a petition for his recall. He was also in trouble with the Colonial Office for extending his leave because of family difficulties. In 1862 he re-entered the colonial service as governor of Sierra Leone, in 1865 became governor in chief at the West African Settlements and in 1868 was appointed governor of Queensland.

Blackall took an active part in Irish public life, becoming high sheriff of County Longford in 1833: in 1847-51 he represented Longford in the House of Commons, and in 1861 became high sheriff of Tyrone. Meanwhile he had been lieutenant-governor of Dominica in 1851-57. Through seeking to rule with a high hand he had to combat a petition for his recall. He was also in trouble with the Colonial Office for extending his leave because of family difficulties. In 1862 he re-entered the colonial service as governor of Sierra Leone, in 1865 became governor in chief at the West African Settlements and in 1868 was appointed governor of Queensland.

On arrival in Brisbane on 14 August Blackall was met by a tremendous popular welcome, but at once was plunged into a constitutional crisis, which had been temporarily held in check by the administrator, Sir Maurice O'Connell. After a deadlock in the Legislative Assembly the Liberals had been defeated in an election but were petitioning the governor to dissolve the assembly on the ground that it did not properly represent the colony. Perhaps because of his experience in Dominica or because his health had suffered in West Africa, Blackall pursued a strictly constitutional course and refused to intervene directly. The crisis did not end until the rule of his successor, the marquis of Normanby. Despite the bitterness of the constitutional battle Blackall made no personal enemies, though he had to face a few personal attacks. Kindly and soft-spoken, he had developed the gift of making friends and became very popular. Willing to assist any genuine public cause, he made frequent appearances on public platforms. He worked hard to improve agriculture and to link the Queensland grammar schools with the University of Sydney.

By 1870 Blackall's health was failing rapidly and he knew the end was near. In 1870 when the government decided to set aside a new cemetery reserve at Toowong he inspected the area and selected the highest spot for his grave. At the same time he requested that his funeral be such as could be attended by even the humblest. Three months later, on 2 January 1871, he died and his wishes were gratified. A fine memorial was erected over his grave, the first in the cemetery. His memory is also preserved by the town of Blackall, the Blackall Range, and the first Queensland government steamer, Governor Blackall, bought by Charles Lilley when premier of Queensland in 1870.

Toowong Cemetery:

Bureaucratic procrastination, manoeuvring and public discontent colour the early history of the Brisbane General Cemetery at Toowong and contributed to the decades of delay in providing a new General Cemetery for Brisbane in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The first cemetery serving the small penal settlement that was Brisbane between 1825 and 1842 was located near Skew Street, the northern approach to the William Jolly Bridge. It was here that soldiers and convicts were interred but was considered unfit for the burial of children. One soldier's four children were buried in a brick crypt in an area at North Quay near Herschel Street.

The concept of a rural cemetery located outside the bounds of town limits emerged as a major transformation in burial practices in the late 18th century in Britain and Europe and was well established by the time towns and settlements were being formed in Queensland. The new burial grounds surveyed at North and South Brisbane in 1844, just beyond the western boundary of the municipality, proved however, not to be sufficiently removed from the settlement. Whilst the proximity of both grounds allowed customary procession on foot, and natural drainage away from the early settlement served to allay sanitary concerns, as early as 1851, the public were petitioning the Government of NSW to relocate the North Brisbane Burial Grounds known as the Milton/Paddington Cemetery. Brisbane's rapid expansion following its opening to free settlement in 1842 was such that the Paddington Cemetery, was now in the heart of a prime inner residential area and was being challenged by the residents who feared for their health.

The first progress to establish a new cemetery were made in 1861 when 200 acres was set aside for cemetery purposes, 2 miles south west of the Milton Cemetery at Toowong. The land however, was chosen by default rather than by design. Augustus Gregory, the Surveyor -General had not favoured the Toowong site but found it to be the only locality to present the requisite requirements. The appropriateness of the site at Toowong for the purpose of a General Cemetery was an issue contested for the next two decades. The isolation and suitability of the Toowong site with its lack of access and public transport fuelled dissent and debate and the public continued to use the cheaper, more accessible familial grounds at Milton.

Although the Cemetery Act was passed in 1866 providing the means to establish general cemeteries under the control of government appointed trustees, it was another decade before the Cemetery was officially opened. In 1868, a further portion of Crown land, 53 acres in area, north of the cemetery reserve was added to fulfil of the Trustee's requirement for the entire cemetery to be surrounded with public roads.

The reserve of 250 acres 1 rood was gazetted and the Cemetery Trust established in October 1870 and its honorary trustees were amongst Brisbane's most prominent political and business figures - James Cowlishaw, John Hardgrave, William Pettigrew, Samuel Walker Griffith, George Edmonstone, Alexander Raff, John Petrie (Chairman), Michael Quinlan and Nathaniel Lade.

Trial sinkings at Toowong in December 1870 found the ground to be unsuitable, but this knowledge did not prompt the government to secure a more appropriate location. Queensland's second governor, Samuel Wensley Blackall had been a supporter of the Toowong site and in his ill health indicated his desire to be buried there. He was buried on the highest knoll on 3 January 1871 and his memorial is the largest and most prominent in the cemetery with commanding views of the city and surrounds.

The Surveyor General, the Trustees and the Colonial Secretary had not favoured the Toowong Site and even after the burial of Governor Blackall on its most prominent peak, the Trustees were still pursuing other more suitable prospects for a cemetery site. Three private properties had been offered for sale for cemetery purposes. Of these, Trustee George Edmondstone's property on Enoggera Creek was identified as being most suitable, however the Colonial Treasurer could not reach an agreement on price and the Toowong site came to be accepted as the Brisbane General Cemetery grounds.

In June 1871, Petrie, Pettigrew and Perry were nominated to chose a suitable 40 acres for clearing for the general cemetery. In 1872, ground lying north of the road and east of the western boundary of the 53 acre portion was cleared and enclosed by 540 rods of good quality pig fencing (a four rail fence) with two entrances not more than 4 rods on each side of the main entrance erected by John Ballard.

A Keeper's Lodge was built by E Lewis and gates and ornamental fencing at the main entrance, designed by the Colonial Architect, FDG Stanley, were erected in 1873-74.

Between Governor Blackall's burial and the official opening of the Cemetery, there were six burials. The next interment was Ann Hill, wife of Walter Hill, superintendent of the Botanical Gardens on 2 November 1871. Thomas and Martha McCulloch were buried in November 1873, Teresa Maria Love on 16 March 1875 and Florence and Ethel Gordon on 4 July 1875.

The Trustees received numerous requests for separate burial sections from churches and other like minded group to ensure that religious and social class distinctions within society were perpetuated in mortality. Between November 1874 and August 1875 portions were allocated by the Trustees upon request. Portion No 1, was allocated to the Church of England, Portion No 2 to the Wesleyans, Portion No 3 to the Hebrews, Portion No 7 to the Roman Catholics, Portion No 16 to paupers and No 17 and parts of No 1 and 7 to public graves, Portion No 15 to criminals. In 1879, the Chinese were allocated part of Portion 2, then relocated in January 1884 to the ground below 7 and then again in April of that year to Portion No 8. The various cultural and religious groups were separated and boundaries clearly formed by winding roads. There is a strong showing of the Christian section of the graves, supporting the demographic dominance of Anglo-Saxons in Brisbane and the relocation of the Chinese several times (now in Portion 19) demonstrates the disregard afforded to this section of the community, which exhumed many of its dead for reinterment in China.

The lack of public transportation for funeral processions was one of the perceived shortfalls of the Toowong site, so the extension of the railway line through the western suburbs to Toowong in 1875 with the promise of a mortuary rail service provided the catalyst for the opening of the cemetery.

The grounds at the Cemetery were laid out by the prominent surveyor, George Phillips and a set of books drawn up by the Government Printer. The Cemetery was officially opened on 5 July 1875.

Controversy was quelled for a time but the respite was short lived and the Cemetery was subjected to a parliamentary inquiry in 1877 where public health issues, the steep and rocky terrain, the distance and inconvenience for mourners and the cost in relation to other alternatives including mortuary trains to Toowong were considered. No further meetings were held by the Trustees until March 1878.

The Cemetery had come to be valued for not only its heritage as the resting place of Governor Blackall but as a place for recreation and repose. Had the government decided from its inquiry to abandon the Toowong Cemetery in favour of another proposed site at Woogaroo, the Trustees wanted to retain the management of the Toowong site and for it to be maintained in an ornamental way as a place of resort for the people of Brisbane.

Community health concerns relating to the Cemetery began to dissipate in the second half of the 1880s. Whilst a public meeting of concerned residents discussed the closure of the cemetery in July 1885, within six months the local community was petitioning the Trustees to endorse the opening of a road through the cemetery reserve. Approval for the public thoroughfare through the cemetery was given in July 1886. The approval renewed concern in some quarters for the health risks associated with the increase in public activity at the Cemetery and the planting of trees amongst the graves especially of those dying of virulent diseases was advocated.

The cemetery was however, well established with trees by this time. From 1876, one year after its official opening, many plants and young trees had been supplied to the Cemetery from the Botanical Gardens and Acclimatisation Society. Initially, Walter Hill, the Botanical Gardens superintendent donated 38 shade and ornamental trees to the Cemetery and Mr Bernays of the Acclimatisation Society offered 50 trees in exchange for a subscription from the Trustees.

From 1878, the Cemetery gardens were attended by dresser, William Melville, a position he held for 38 years. Flowers, shrubs and plants were cultivated on the site on Portion 10 and sold to meet the needs of the site's visitors from a flower shed that straddled the creek. Mature camellias at the Cemetery, located in Portion 4 and 13 may be the first planted in Queensland from cuttings from Camden Park, the home of John McCarthur, who may have been the first to import them into Australia. A dam on Portion 16 was used for irrigation until 1905 when water taps were installed.

In 1886, the Defence Force leased the largely unused area of the cemetery, now occupied by Anzac Park, as a Rifle Range and the whole paddock and the Cemetery Overseer's cottage designed by Trustee, James Cowlishaw and built by E Bishop in 1877 came under the control of the Brigade Officer in charge of the Range. In exchange, the Government built another cottage in 1887 for the overseer at a cost of £250. A pavilion, also designed by Cowlishaw was built in 1885 at the northern end of Portion 10.

In 1891, extensive public usage of the cemetery land spurred the newly formed Toowong Shire Council to seek an arrangement with the Trustees to utilise some of the land for the purpose of public recreation. Whilst initially reluctant, the Trustees came to support the idea. In 1915, the Toowong Park Act was passed providing the Trustees with the means to transfer 132 acres 2 roods 18 perches to the Toowong Town Council for Park and Recreation purposes known in part as the Old Rifle Range for the sum of £1,000. This revenue was used to finance the construction of new gates and fencing and the purchase in 1916, of Portion 872, the sole adjoining private property, to satisfy the Trustees preference for completely surrounding the cemetery with public roads.

Agitation for public transport within close proximity of the cemetery was finally achieved with the extension of the tramway to the cemetery in 1901. A shelter shed was erected by the Brisbane Tramways Co in 1916.

The Paddington Cemeteries Act of 1911, authorised the Government to resume the several cemeteries at Milton and, upon the request of any relative of any person buried therein within 12 months, to disinter the remains of the deceased. The remains were removed together with any memorials to any cemetery agreed upon with associated costs borne by the Government. Of the 4,643 identifiable graves at Milton, there were 178 applications made. 139 remains and 105 memorials were relocated from Milton to Toowong throughout the site, with the greatest concentration to be found in Portion 6.

Tenders for a sanitary block were called by Trustee and architect, Edward Myer Myers in November 1923. The successful tenderer was Marberete Co and the construction was completed prior to Anzac Day 1924 when the Shrine of Remembrance and Cross of Sacrifice were unveiled. A report of the ceremony in the Sydney Mail incorrectly refers to the building as a mortuary chapel and flags of the Union Jack were hung over the entries to the men's and ladies' toilets to disguise the signage.

On 1 August 1930, Toowong Cemetery and all others with the Brisbane City Council municipality were placed under the management and control of the Council. The following year, the area of the Toowong Cemetery bounded by Mt Coot-tha Road and Miskin and Dean Streets was used by the Australian Military Forces for training and later was transferred to the Brisbane City Council and was developed as a Bus Depot. A substation was erected in the south-east corner of this site in 1935.

Flowers were cultivated and sold at the Cemetery from Portion 10 until the 1930s. In 1934 the area set apart for soldier's graves within Portion 10 was extended and incorporated the flower gardens and the octagonal pavilion was probably demolished at this time. Other shelter sheds were erected and six, including two with toilets, are dotted over the site. In 1936 the last available block, Portion 30, was laid out for burial purposes. To allow for more burials, the plot sizes were reduced from 9'x5'to 8'x4'.

By April 1975, all burial plots in the Cemetery had been sold and the Cemetery was closed with the exception of burials in family graves. That same year, hundreds of worn, forgotten headstones in three major city cemeteries were removed by Brisbane City Council workmen employed under the Regional Employment Development Scheme. Old, neglected monuments were removed from Toowong, Lutwyche and South Brisbane cemeteries and trees and shrubs planted. The long term aim of the scheme was to return the cemeteries to open space with a parkland atmosphere. It is thought approximately 1,000 memorials were removed from Toowong.

In the early 1980s, footpath clearances were substantially reduced along the Frederick Street and Mt Coot-tha Road boundaries and the tram shelter and tram lines were removed as part of the Route 20 overpass and roundabout development. As a result of this work, direct access through the main gates of the Cemetery from all directions but the west has been disconnected.

The Sexton's office, built around the turn of the century on Portion 10 above the floor of the flower shed, fell into disuse once the new Sexton's office was built in 1989. Restoration work to repair and reconstruct the former Sexton's office and its conversion to a museum was initiated by the Brisbane City Council Heritage Advisory Committee and the work carried out by the Heritage Unit in 1991. Another initiative by the Brisbane City Council Heritage Unit, also undertaken in 1991, was the establishment of the Toowong Cemetery Heritage Trail together with the Adopt-a-Pioneer program for plots in need of maintenance and to raise public awareness of the invaluable resource that the cemetery provides.

In 1992, steel boom gates were erected at the Birdwood Terrace and Frederick Street entrances of the Cemetery to deter vandalism, theft and drag racing. The same year, a group of volunteers formed The Friends of Toowong Cemetery and their activities include tending to neglected gravesites and organising tours of the Cemetery for interested parties. They have also produced several booklets including the Toowong Cemetery Resource Manual and Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People.

The Cemetery was reopened in 1998 with approximately 450 plots available for sale.

Source: Australian Dictionary Of Biography & Queensland Heritage Register.

Classic power at a classic spot made for a great shot. The GLC's one of a kind SD45 carbodied 329 is quite the looker as it wears the newest paint scheme along with a NYC inspired logo on the nose. In a fitting tribute, the unit is named the Louis P. Ferris Jr. after the owner of the GLC who passed away in April 2022. He bought and transformed the former Tuscola & Saginaw Bay Rwy. lines, originally laid by the NYC, into the thriving railroad we know today as the GLC.

The 329 was delivered from EMD to the ATSF in 12-66 as their SD45 1867. It became the ATSF 5567 after a system-wide renumbering, and then to the 5348 after a rebuild. It was sold off to CEFX as a SD40-2, then received some more modifications before coming to the GLC. Thankfully it was repaired after a collision with a farm trailer at a crossing shortly after being released from the paint shop in 2024.

1. A dear family friend gave me a belated graduation card with a gift certificate for my University bookstore that will cover the books that I need for schooling. I was blown away by the incredible generosity - books are far from cheap!

2. Then I finally received my moo cards - which I ordered nearly 2 months ago - and they are so pretty and I love how they turned out.

3. But I also got a letter in the mail from the University I'll be attending next September. I opened it to read that I won a $3000 entrance scholarship that was based on my grades that I didn't even apply for! :D All in all my first year at University is almost completely covered and I'm still in shock over it.

4. Also I was thinking of buying a new lens to take with me to Europe (in 5 days!) when I receive a flickr mail from Narly who offered to send me his 50 mm! Gee...I have the BEST friends ever!

5. Oh also. Got the braces off today :)

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Bon j’ai laissé tomber IDM, ou l’inverse…

Et je me suis enfin mit à Studio. Sauf que je me suis dit que le mieux ce serait de me faire un exercice. J’ai donc pris des plans que j’avais achetés sans compter les utiliser un jour. Je suis client BrickVault, et j’avais prit leur offre sur les 4 Ties (Le Normal, l’Interceptor, le X1 de Vador et le Bomber). Tous sont de Jerac. En fait seul les 3 premiers m’intéressaient, le Tie Bomber osef un peu. Je le trouve nul dans ce rôle : c’est un Tie (donc pas de bouclier, d’hyperdrive ou de système vitaux) qui sert de bombardier. Donc il est lent (tu perds l’intérêt du Tie) et peu blindé (ce qui est quand même embêtant pour un bombardier).

Pour la puissance de feu, l’Empire a ses vaisseaux capitaux. Les Bombardiers sont peut-être plus précis, mais ils sont fragiles ceux-là. Et puis pour bombarder les cibles sur des planètes avec atmosphère, déjà le Tie classique à l’aérodynamisme d’un parpaing, bin le Tie Bomber, c’est l’aérodynamisme de deux parpaings. Ensuite ils ont fait encore mieux mais j’y reviendrai.

Alors il n’est pas complètement inutile, il peut réaménager son côté armement pour le transport. Et franchement ça peut faire une estafette pas cher utile hors cadre militaire. Ils s’en servent de celui-là pour débarquer des troupes et une variante sert de navette à Needa pour rencontrer son destin.

J’ai aussi vu une variante du Tie Stricker en mode Tie Bomber, mais je pense que c’était un fan-art. Ce n’est pas bête, ça le rend plus pratique pour bombarder dans l’atmosphère.

Quoiqu’il en soit c’était un bon exercice pour apprendre à me servir de Studio, du coup je ne me suis pas arrêté là. J’aime en effet les Ties, surtout les moches ou pas pratique. Et dans le genre…

Avez-vous déjà joué à Star Wars Galactic Battleground 1 et 2, c’est un jeu de gestion stratégie à la « Age of Empire ». Je me suis pas mal éclaté dessus, d’autant qu’il y avait un bon mode histoire, un mode création de carte génial, et… bref. Les unités évoluaient, en ce qui concerne le Tie Bomber, il passait d’un chasseur à 1 puis 2 puis 4 compartiments armés…

Le Tie Heavy Bomber d’abords avec 2 compartiments armés. L’évolution suivante possède 3 noms : Tie « Advanced » Bomber, le Tie « Punisher » ou encore le Tie « Enterdictor ». Je préfère « Interdictor », parce que « Punisher » … C’est lui qui va se faire punir !

Ces deux variantes ne perdent pas tellement en vitesse ou mobilité car chaque compartiment à ses propres moteurs, mais ils ont d’autres problèmes.

-Sans appuie de chasseurs, ils sont morts. (Pas de boucliers)

-Ils sont plus gros. Ils font donc des cibles plus faciles, l’un des avantages des Ties classique c’est qu’ils font de petites cibles face à l’ennemi.

-Plus de bombes signifie plus de risque pour l’escorte en cas de destruction du bombardier. L’escorte pourraient finir en cendre par ricochés.

-Aérodynamisme… Pour l’Interdictor, c’est plus des parpaings, c’est un mur qui essaie de voler face au vent !

-Les ailes : Leur tailles ne changent pas. Donc déjà ils ne peuvent pas se poser à cause de la sortie des bombes qui dépasse. Ensuite je ne suis pas spécialiste mais elles servent à quoi ces ailes ? Selon les sources on parle de collecteur d’énergie ou pour disperser l’énergie. Quoiqu’il en soit dans le cas de l’Interdictor, avec 3 compartiments de plus que le Bombardier classique… Soit il sera limité en énergie, soir prompt aux surchauffes.

Je les ferai peut-être un jour en lego, mais j’ai d’autres idées de Tie lego à faire avant sans parler d’autre projets dont un qui prendra des années à ce concrétiser.

In English

So I dropped IDM, or the other way around...

And I finally got into Studio. Except I figured the best thing to do was to get some exercise. So I took some instructions I'd bought and didn't plan to use them. I'm a BrickVault customer, and I took their offer on the 4 Ties (The Normal, the Interceptor, the Vader X1 and the Bomber). All are from Jerac. In fact only the first 3 interested me, the Tie Bomber, no so much. I find it bad in this role: it's a Tie (so no shield, hyperdrive or life support system) which is used as a bomber. So it's slow (you lose the interest of the Tie) and not very armored (which is still annoying for a bomber).

For firepower, the Empire has its capital ships. Bombers may be more precise, but those are fragile. And then to bombard targets on planets with atmosphere, already the classic Tie Bomber has the aerodynamics of one cinder blocks, the Tie Bomber has the aerodynamics of two cinder blocks. Then they did even better, but I'll come back to that.

It's not completely useless, it can rearrange its armament side for transport. And frankly it can make a cheap courier ship useful outside the military. They use this one to land troops and a variant is used as a shuttle to Needa to meet his fate.

I also saw a variant of the Tie Stricker in Tie Bomber mode, but I think it was fan art. It's not stupid, it makes it more convenient for bombing in the atmosphere.

Anyway it was a good exercise to learn how to use the Studio, so I didn't stop there. I do like Ties, especially the uglies ones or not practical.

Have you ever played Star Wars Galactic Battleground 1 and 2 ? It's a strategy management game, "Age of Empire" but in Star Wars. I had a lot of fun on it, especially since there was a good story mode, an awesome map creation mode... The units were evolving, as far as the Tie Bomber was concerned, it went from a fighter to 1 then 2 then 4 armed compartments...

The Tie Heavy Bomber first with 2 armed compartments. The following evolution has 3 names: Tie "Advanced" Bomber, the Tie "Punisher" or the Tie "Enterdictor". I prefer "Interdictor", because "Punisher" ... He's the one who will be punished!

These two variants don't lose so much speed or mobility because each compartment has its own engines, but they have other problems.

-Without fighter support, they're dead. (No shields)

-They're bigger. So they make easier targets, one of the advantages of the classic Ties is that they make small targets in front of the enemy.

-More bombs means more risks to the escort in case the bomber is destroyed. The escort could end up in ash.

-Aerodynamics... For the Interdictor, it's not like cinder blocks, it's like a wall trying to fly into the wind!

-The wings: Their sizes doesn't change. So they can't land because the bombs "distributor" are sticking out. Then I'm not a specialist, but what are these wings for? Depending on the source, they are used as energy collectors or to disperse energy. Anyway, in the case of the Interdictor, with 3 compartments more than the classic bomber... Either it will be limited in energy, or will be prone to overheating.

I may do them one day in lego, but I have other ideas of Tie lego to do before, not to mention other projects, including one that will take years to materialize.

Indiana Northeastern Railroad ( INER ) Northbound Freight Train passes through Camden, IN. on their way to Hillsdale, MI. from Steubenville, IN. with SD40-3 3084 leading SD40M-2 3125 & a GP7, the 3084 is a former CP Rail SD40-2, then it became CEFX SD40-2 3084, the SD40M-2 3125 is a former SP SD45, then later became CEFX SD40M-2 3125 & the GP7 2216 is a former Santa Fe GP7.

Sunset boat trip around the Apostle islands on day three of my Madeline Island School of The Arts workshop on Madeline Island Wisconsin.

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I shot this on my way to Rasika for dinner. Before it rained.

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We discovered this old, abandoned farm near here recently. Two men were standing in the driveway and we asked if we could take some pictures. With their OK, we started working our way back through the property. Back behind the empty house, and the falling down barn, we found this old 40's or 50's era Chevrolet dump truck.

The truck's back tires were sunk deep into the earth while the front end was blocked up to keep it from sinking away. I was looking into the sun when I took five exposures at varying exposures that later were blended into a HDR shot in NIK HDR Efex Pro 2. Then, I ran it through NIK Color Efex Pro 4 and got it the way I wanted it to look.

About HDR shots: I like them. I like the realistic ones and the ones that are over the top. I did push this one a bit towards over the top---but I like the way it pops. HDR is a great tool for getting the exposure correct under wide dynamic range situations---like this one.

I made this image with my Pentax K5 and Pentax 18-135 lens.

Camera settings: ISO 900, aperture f/9, focal length18mm

blue dump truck

a relic from the past

out behind the barn

Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer

I don’t want to be a hipster douchebag or anything, but I was pretty early to the Stranger Things hype. I remember the summer weekend it came out, somebody on Twitter suggested Season 1 to me so I binged it all in one day and I was hooked. I didn’t write a review though because I didn’t really see much hype around it and I regret writing on to this day. Flash forward to today where Stranger Things has now swept the nation and I couldn’t have been more excited to Season 2! I binged all of Season 2 on Saturday, but I didn’t really have time until today to give you guys my thoughts on it. Also, I’m not going to go too much into details on the season in case any of you guys haven’t gotten around to finishing it yet, there’s no spoilers here! So how does Stranger Things Season 2 compare the the greatness that’s the first season? Let’s check it out!

Good: Ok first off, just gotta brag that I’m going to the same school that the creators, the Duffer brothers, graduated from, so yeah, Chapman fucking rules! Anyways, my favorite thing about Season 2 is that we’re given the characters the characters that we’ve grown to love in Season 1, but we get new pairings of these characters and new interactions that we didn't get from the previous season. If you’ve seen Season 2, then of course you know that I’m really talking about the legendary pairing of Steve and Dustin. These two have become my absolute favorite characters of the series just by those characters interacting with one another! Another standout that is my also one of my favorite characters of the series that really got to shine this season was Chief Hopper. I absolutely love David Harbor’s performance in this show and has become one of my favorite actors because of his role as Hopper. I can’t wait to see what he does as Hellboy! The rest of the cast is just as great as they were in Season 1, but we also get some new characters. Now I was unsure at first with some characters like Max and Billy at the beginning, but as the season goes on, they really grew on me and they’re just as great as the rest of the cast. Though my favorite new character has to be Sean Astin as Bob. I loved Bob so much, he’s such a swell dude and I’m so glad they defied the stereotype of the douchebag boyfriend of the main character’s mom. Anyways, that’s all I have to say about the cast, so let’s get to the story. Now the perfect simile I have for the first two seasons of Strangers Things is that Stranger Things Season 1 is like Alien, whereas Season 2 is like Aliens. Now although I like Alien more than Aliens, I believe Stranger Things Season 2 has a way more creative and interesting plot than Season 1. I understand why Season 1’s plot was a very homage-y plot, but I really like how since the Duffer brothers have an established fanbase for season 2, they can get a bit more creative in terms of the lore of this universe. There are still the references to classic 80s movies in the plot, but I feel like this Season’s plot is a bit more free. Anyways, I could go on and on about how good Stranger Things Season 2 is, but that would unfortunately give away some spoilers, so that’s all I say for the good.

Bad: There is only one single thing that bothered me with this entire season and I believe it’s the same problem for most people who have watched all of Season 2, and that’s episode 7. I’m not going to say what happens in episode 7 to avoid spoilers, but that episode has an entirely different storyline to what’s going on in the rest of the season and I just didn’t give two shits about it. Also, this plotline was introduced at the absolute worst time given with what happens in episode 6. I honestly believe that if you were watching Season 2 of Stranger Things, you could just skip episode 7 entirely!

Overall, Stranger Things Season 2 was an incredible second season! With the exception to episode 7, this season holds right up with Season 1! This show has really become one of my favorite TV shows ever, so for that reason, I’m giving Stranger Things Season 2 a 9/10! I can’t wait to see where Season 3 is going because there’s certainly some hints to where it could go! So have you watched all of Season 2 of Stranger Things? Let me know what your thoughts on the season are in the comments below and look forward to my review for Thor: Ragnarok tomorrow!

IT DID NOT RAIN LAST NIGHT. WHEN I STEPPED OUT OF THE HOUSE, IT WAS ALREADY 6:00. i MADE A SHOT OF THE MOON, IT WAS A FULL MOON. THEN I WALKED DOWN THE ROAD AND WENT TO THE BLOCK WHERE I TOOK PHOTOS OF THE WHITE HIBISCUS. IT WAS S.A LITTLE HIBISCUS. THE FLOWERS WERE ALL WILTED. BUT I SAW THIS RED HIBISCUS AND IMMEDIATELY ADJUSTED MY EXPOSURE COMPENSATION DOWN BY 2 THEN MADE A SHOT. THEN I WALKED AROUND THE VILLAGE AND MADE SOME MORE SHOT.S.

Wild Strawberry is Perfect.

The fruit ripens in late spring or early summer. Much smaller than commercial strawberries, it takes long to collect, but tastes much better. Stuff yourself with wild strawberries, collect them to use on cer>eal, in pancakes, oatmeal, fruit salad, sauces, or other desserts. They are so good, they are the symbol of perfect excellence.

A HAIKU GUIDE TO WILD STRAWBERRIES

1. Always pick the day

before the berry;

try the first day of summer.

2. Then fall to your knees

and follow your nose

in a field the sun favors.

3. Yes, bring a bucket

but to eat your fill,

you must be lucky or small.

4. And to bring them home,

even to loved ones,

makes you a strawberry saint.

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The "Midland Pullman" HST set operated by Locomotive Services has just departed from Ely, working 1Z56 05.34 Chelmsford - Durham. The power cars are 43046 Geoff Drury 1930-1999 and 43049, although the numbers displayed are prefixed with the London Midland Region "M". [Pole, 6/6 sections (~8m)]

With a booked station stop at Ely (to pick up passengers) of seventeen and a half minutes, I expected it to be an easy move from Barway to somewhere west of Ely. However, this was not the shot I originally planned, as I intended to do another going-away shot at either North Fen or Welney Road at Manea (a bit more risky, as there was further to drive on slow fen roads). But with the train having passed Barway some three or four minutes early, I was on the outskirts of Ely sooner than I'd expected, with the train waiting at Ely Dock Jn., so I changed my plans; as I arrived in the car park I had about twenty minutes to get into position and set up - more than enough time!

1Z56 was actually four minutes late setting off from Ely, and was about to stop at the signal immediately to my right; it passed Ely North Jn. six minutes late. The reason for the delay was a late-running East Midlands Railway service from Norwich to Liverpool, which then delayed a Great Northern service from King's Cross to King's Lynn because it had to use the same platform. At one stage there were four trains at Ely!

First to arrive was 1Z56, at platform 2. Then, nine minutes later than scheduled (at 07.49) 170515 arrived at platform 1 to reverse with 1R62 from Norwich to Liverpool. Four minutes later, and pretty much bang on time, 170103 followed 1R62 in from the north to arrive at platform 3, working Cross Country's 1L26 from Leicester to Stansted Airport; it departed after less than a minute, just as Freightliner's 4E24 from Felixstowe to Leeds rolled in off the Soham line and stopped on the Goods Line on the east side - it was eighteen minutes early, but was booked to recess here for a short time, and departed only two minutes early.

170515 on 1R62 set off seven minutes late (nine minutes was in the schedule for the reversal), but was soon replaced at platform 1 by a pair of 387s on a Great Northern service from King's Cross to King's Lynn; this had been running on time but had been held at Ely Dock Jn. waiting for a free platform and subsequently arrived five minutes late and departed four minutes down.

After 1R62 had gone past, I raised the pole expecting 1Z56 to be next (but not having looked closely at the signalling map). I was therefore puzzled to here the clatter of wheels crossing the first river bridge north of the station but not the sound of a Paxman diesel engine, and then the whirr of electric motors... The 387s were photographed, and then I kept the pole extended for the HST - which did come next, after just a moment (but then was stopped at the signal).

Thankfully the slight delay did not allow any of the high cloud to move in front of the sun (and, in fact, I think the thin cloud that had been there cleared). Nor did it allow a train going the other way to block the shot, as happened when I'd been here about six weeks previously for the Northern Belle (when a container train appeared at exactly the wrong time).

I attempted to photograph the return working in the evening, which was booked to call at Ely just after 8pm. I planned to do a going-away shot from the bypass bridge (on a single line the back of the train doesn't look quite so obviously the back), but the clouds suddenly built up about five minutes before the train was due, and I didn't get it in sun.

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Arriva serving The Maidstone & District Motor Services Ltd.:

Volvo Olympian OLY-50 YV3YNA /

Northern Counties Countybus Palatine I

H47/30F - 4/1997

D. Hardcastle & O. Newsam

Ex-A. Weber, Sandhurst, Kent (11/2013)

Ex-Arriva Kent & Surrey Ltd. (TW-2/2013), Maidstone, Kent

New to The Maidstone & District Motor Services Ltd., Maidstone, Kent (ME-5928)

After spending collectively 11 years at Tunbridge Wells garage, 5926/7 were sent up to Blackburn to be repainted into 'Green Bus' livery, for a new lease of life as school service buses in Guildford. These 2 then stayed there until mid-2015, before being withdrawn and sold on. 5926 went to Go-Coach, and was stripped down before being disposed of, and 5927, much to my surprise at the time, continued further north to Sunfun of Earith, near Cambridge, for use on local school contracts mainly running out of Swavesey. 5927 still exists to this day, albeit re-registered to HIG 4462,

Guildford Cathedral, Surrey

Alton Bus Rally & Running Day 2018

Sunday 15th July 2018

This would be the back elevation ... it faced the courtyard and beyond, the Dutch House aka Kew Palace #2.

Love these old images ... another image no longer in copyright ... some TLC.

A series from the 1763 book by architect William Chambers which describe the conditions at Kew Gardens that year.

A landscaping plan, named 'A General View of Kew Gardens', contains a legend which identifies 21 buildings on site, almost all designed by William Chambers.

Plan link:

www.flickr.com/photos/jaykay144/50943890673/in/album-7215...

Building 1 is The Palace. The above engraving is the North Elevation which faced the Old Dutch House, now known as Kew Palace (#2), then the River Thames.

Tobias Muller, Sculptor is the creator of this rendering. The design architect for The (Kew) Palace was William Kent.

The Palace was also known as the White House, and as Kew Palace #1. It was built between 1731 - 1735 for Princess Augusta. The architect was William Kent. It was torn down in 1802.

Learn more about William Kent:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kent

This image is 258 years old, as of the May2021 uploading to my photostream. It is one of more than 30 copperplate illustrations from the 1763 book by Architect William Chambers.

Title: Plans, Elevations, Sections and Perspective Views

Plate: 4

Date: 1763

Author: William Chambers, Architect

SOURCE: Internet Archive

Learn more: British History Online

www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol4

This is the lovely Adam. Follow this guy on twitter if you like. (I know he'd really appreciate it) @The_AdamJDore

It's so lovely to spend so much time with him lately. For some reason there are little things that make me happy lately and he just takes my mind off all of my worries and concerns.

It's so close to the end of my exams now.. Only three left then end of school!

Tomorrow I have a humanities unit 2

Then on the 11th and 13th of June I have a maths (I'm so bad at this! I need a C but struggling to maintain a D.)

So when these days come wish me luck! I'll need all I can get!

Thankyou for the views people. I really do appreciate it all.

Prints for sale for £5 or less. Make your choice between the 25 images mounted and simple prints.

Nikon D750, 1/5 @ f/6.3, ISO 800, 24-120mm @ 120mm

Processed with Nik Silver Efex Pro 2 for Session 1.

Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, PA. Sometimes ESP is opened to photographers after it closes for the day.

This shot is part of a bracketed series for HDR.

The original was processed in LR before I used a Film Noir preset in Silver Efex Pro 2, then I used a gradient in LR to darken the floor. I like the dramatic lighting in the ceiling.

This image of Elk in the woods was taken on day two of the "rising" before the "shine" at 3am to catch the light with my Palm beach Photographic Centre's workshop with the Buffalo Bill Center in Cody Wyoming. This image was shot after a the sun had been up for a few hours, we had been up a few hours longer, on the way to Yellowstone from Cody, the really, really long way.

Image wast taken with a D610 with a 28-300mm Nano coated VR lens recorded to a 128GB Lexar flash card used post processing with Capture NX 2 then Photoshop CC and Nik Colorefex 4.0, Induro C414 carbon fiber tripod and BH3 ball head

Final file is stored and scaled using Perfect Resize (AKA Genuine Fractals.)

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This was intended to be a ghost photograhiong a ghost. It was taken as one exposure.

The sequence was, shutter open, torch on left ghost, stand still for 2 seconds, then walk backwards out of frame. Then ghost 1 got a torch and green gel, and lit ghost 2. Then both ghosts left, and lit the scene with a torch, then the shutter was closed after around 80 seconds.

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Taken with a Coronado PST, 2x Barlow and Canon 1100D.

Full disc:

ISO-800 1/320sec exp.

Best 67/100 frames stacked using Autostakert! 2, wavelets adjusted in Registax 6, then processed in Lightroom.

Prominences:

ISO-800 1/25 sec exp.

Best 39/126 frames stacked in Autostakert! 2 then processed in Lightroom.

I still find that I get better results processing full disc images in black and white and prominences in colour.

Also having issues with the prism in the PST!

The livery is selected by citizens on first round voting from 5 to 2 , then joins the second round vote by Staff from 2 to 1 .

so i wanted to take an hdr, one that was more then three images. it kinda sucked cause it was raining lightly, thats why there is the rain marks on the lens. this is my first hdr with the 40d. im happy so far with the results. i dont know if i really like the rain on the lens, but i cant get rid of it

View On Black

26 images stacked @ f11, 800 iso

processed in photomatix pro 3.2 then messed with it in light room.

Overlooking Lake Ontario, Port Hope, Ont., Canada. From super Hwy. 401 take Port Hope exit south to Hwy. #2, then east. Phone TU 5-5423 for reservations. Lodge and Tower built in 1866. Deluxe sound- proof, heated motels. DINING ROOM with a reputation for excellent food. Swimming Pool. Situated in one of the seven Ozone Belts in the world. An Ideal spot for rest and relaxation. Owner-Management.

[Published by] Canadian Post Card Co. Ltd., Toronto 3

Printed in Canada

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I took 3 shot with different exposures, -2 / 0 / +2, then i used Photomatix to make the HDR.

In Photoshop i used curve to boost contrast and hue/saturation to boost the colors.

Better in black ;)

This was held in the siding awaiting the TOFC train just coming into view in the distance.

Leading is 9239 an SD45T-2, then 8334 an SD40T-2, the third is unidentified.

Aside from the light being a bit head on here, I suspect it was also clouding over, as I took no further shots that day, or else there was a work window until sundown.

This image was taken on day two of the "rising" before the "shine" at 3am to catch the light with my Palm beach Photographic Centre's workshop with the Buffalo Bill Center in Cody Wyoming. This image was shot just after sunrise on the way to Yellowstone from Cody, the really, really long way.

Image wast taken with a D610 with a 24-120mm Nano coated VR lens recorded to a 128GB Lexar flash card used post processing with Capture NX 2 then Photoshop CC and Nik Colorefex 4.0, Induro C414 carbon fiber tripod and BH3 ball head

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St Pancras International Station, London, England

Another from St Pancras International railway station. I have tried to capture from a viewpoint often not seen and I was also experimenting with my fisheye. I really like how this has come out and the lines do line up quite well, only thing I am disappointed with is the back wall at the top of the image doesn't quite line up perfectly with the centre of The Meeting Point statue however I think its the statue thats not quite dead centre, I can't remember but a revisit will reconfirm it. This was original edited in Silver Efex Pro 2 then I did a selective colour on the red bricks which are part of stations of a certain age.

Thank you for all your comments yesterday with regard to my publication in Digital SLR Photography Magazine, you lot are really kind :-).

Photo Details

Sony A700

Samyang 8mm F3.5 MC Fisheye

RAW

HDR

f/11

8mm

ISO200

1/10s exposure

Software Used

Lightroom 4.1

Silver Efex Pro 2

Information

St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and since 2007 as St Pancras International is a central London railway terminus celebrated for its Victorian architecture. The Grade I listed building stands on Euston Road in St Pancras, London Borough of Camden, between the British Library, King's Cross station and the Regent's Canal. It was opened in 1868 by the Midland Railway as the southern terminus of that company's main line, which connected London with the East Midlands and Yorkshire. When it opened, the arched Barlow train shed was the largest single-span roof in the world.

After escaping planned demolition in the 1960s, the complex was renovated and expanded during the 2000s at a cost of £800 million with a ceremony attended by the Queen and extensive publicity introducing it as a public space. A security-sealed terminal area was constructed for Eurostar services to Continental Europe—via High Speed 1 and the Channel Tunnel—along with platforms for domestic connections to the north and south-east of England. The restored station has 15 platforms, a shopping centre and a bus station, and is served by London Underground services from King's Cross St Pancras tube station. St Pancras is owned by London and Continental Railways, along with the adjacent urban regeneration area known as King's Cross Central, and is one of eighteen British stations managed by Network Rail. The redeveloped terminus has been described by the travel writer Simon Calder as "the world's most wonderful railway station".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_railway_station

A nice surprise with the arrival with the 2H96 1550 Cambridge to Ely Greater Anglia service service running into Platform 2 then returns with the 5H49 1616 Ely to Cambridge Greater Anglia service ECS

Fort Carroll

Fort Carroll is a 3.4-acre (1.4 ha) artificial island and abandoned hexagonal sea fort in the middle of the Patapsco River, just south of Baltimore, Maryland. It is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832), a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Design and construction

In 1847, the State of Maryland gave permission to the United States War Department to construct a fort in the shallow water of Soller's Point Flats to protect the city of Baltimore. Fort Carroll was important for the defense of Baltimore—before the fort's construction, Fort McHenry just outside the city was the only military defensive structure between Baltimore and the Chesapeake Bay. The fort was part of the "Permanent System" or Third System construction program, which aimed to defend America's most important ports.[2]

Then Brevet-Colonel Robert E. Lee designed the hexagonal structure and supervised the construction, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commenced in 1848. The fort received its name on 8 October 1850. In 1852, Lee left Baltimore to become Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

In 1853 a lighthouse, now abandoned, was built on the ramparts to aid navigation into Baltimore Harbor. In 1898 a new lighthouse was built, the one still seen today. It was automated in 1920 and discontinued operations before 1945.

The original design foresaw the fort being armed with some 225 cannon on three levels. However, in April 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War, Fort Carroll's walls were still less than half the planned height of thirty feet. Only five gun platforms were ready and only two were armed with guns. Still, the Army emplaced about thirty cannon and manned the fort throughout the war. In April 1864 torrential rains flooded the fort’s magazines, which led the Army to move all the powder and ammunition to Fort McHenry.

After World War I broke out, in 1917 the Army removed the guns from Battery Heart and in 1918 those from Battery Towson to use elsewhere. By 1920, all guns had been removed from the fort.

In March 1921 the Army officially abandoned Fort Carroll and moved whatever military equipment was left to nearby Fort Howard. The War Department declared the island excess property in 1923, but took no immediate steps to sell the land. A variety of proposals for the use of the island were advanced, including a prison, as well as a 1923 plan advanced by Baltimore mayor William Broening to place an electric "Welcome to Baltimore" sign on the island, accompanied by a statue of Lord Baltimore.[3]

World War I and abandonment

In World War II the Army used the fort as a firing range. It also served as a checkpoint for vessels.

In May 1958, Baltimore attorney Benjamin Eisenberg purchased the island for $10,000, intending to put a casino there, but development plans never materialized.[3] The fort is now deserted and the habitat for various animals. It is also a site for occasional urban explorations. In 2013, Preservation Maryland placed Fort Carroll on its list of threatened historic properties.[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.[1]

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Carroll

The New Nova Delphini 2013 on August 16th, 03:13ut. Discovered by a Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki of Yamagata, Japan two days ago at a magnitude 6.2 then and now much brighter from my observation the day before, estimated now between 4.5-6 magnitudes (outburst?). It is located in the constellation Delphinus. (Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, F6.3, CGE mount, ST402me NAB Ccd, Astronomik LRGB filter set.)

By the way, the shelf/closet section is finally finished! All of this stuff was supposed to be *moved* by Daniel M. Lopez's contractors, but they threw them away and destroyed them instead, leaving us to do months of staining work. It represents an extreme lack of honor to fuck someone's house up, and then not restore it back to the pre-fucked-up condition. Then he sued us to force a final payment without deduction for the things they fucked up. The experience of dealing with these assholes was FAR, FAR, FAR more effort than going to college. It took almost as long too. (I reiterate: It was a THREE MONTH contract.)

BACKSTORY: Anyone who reads our contract (link below) can see that it specified to move the closet and built-in shelves. But Virginia Design Builders's workers -- the workers hired by Daniel M. Lopez -- were unable to properly move the closet without destroying it. And they "accidentally" threw away our shelves. They also broke the trim at the edge of the closet.

And then guess what? The asshole refused to stain the broken trim (and everythign else they broke/threw away too) to match the pre-existing color, leaving US with the job of restoring what they broke to the condition it was in before broken. Months of wood-staining hell thanks to the inability of Daniel M. Lopez's company to follow simple contractual instructions, as well as a total lack of honor in fully restoring damaged sections to their pre-damaged condition. We called the broken trim "Mt. Trim", because it was the hardest spot to physical reach in the entire house -- and we had to go up there 10+ times to stain it.

STAINING IS A PAIN: Just for reference, proper wood staining is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR pain in the ass. The wood filling, the sanding, the pre-conditioning, staining, the wiping, the dropcloths, the multiple coats of everything, the (4) polyurethane coats [which often required holding a lamp in one hand, to reflect light on it to ensure evenness], and the final sanding. And don't get me started on the timing: Stain 20 minutes after pre-conditioning, but only for 2 hours; stain in 20 minute cycles consisting of 4 sub-cycles: stain area #1, stain area #2, wipe area #1, wipe area #2. Then break, get new gloves, and start over. A 20 minute cycle might equal 2 shelves, or 2 boards from ceiling to floor. Our spreadsheet had over 200 cells. At the end of the day, the only way to get stain off your skin was to apply paint thinner directly to your skin in violation of the instructions, common sense, and one's best interests...

wood staining.

chair, dropcloth, latex glove, newspaper, wood stain.

Duron. Minwax.

upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

June 23, 2007.

... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com

... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com

LEGAL: To see an official VA DPOR sanction of $500 (+$150) against Dan Lopez and Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... These people were suing him for $400K last time I checked.To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me.icture, pool table, sandpaper, scissors.

upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

June 4, 2007.

... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com

... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com

Carolyn just grabbed the liquor for our celebratory shot, when we realized we needed to use the timer to take a picture together (see previous picture).

You can see the fan used for ventilation in the window, and the light (on the newly-stained shelves) that we had to hold with one hand, and move around inside the closet, in order to tell if the clear polyurethane was covering everything properly. You can see the office chair Carolyn bought from her work for $10, and the "purple thing" (as we called it) footstool put on top fo the chair -- That's how you had to reach high places, and it wasn't safe. Carolyn fell into a metal paint bucket and had a really nasty bruise. You can see cardboard boxes from our hardwood flooring, which we used as extra dropclothes (and still managed to ruin a couple areas, including a permament footprint made out of stain near the back right coener of the room). You can also see all the various supplies on our glass table (kinda ruinedit a bit, so it became the candle-burning table after that. Now we're trying to get the wax off of it...)

BACKSTORY: Anyone who reads our contract (link below) can see that it specified to move the closet and built-in shelves. But Virginia Design Builders's workers -- the workers hired by Daniel M. Lopez -- were unable to properly move the closet without destroying it. And they "accidentally" threw away our shelves. They also broke the trim at the edge of the closet.

And then guess what? The asshole refused to stain ANY of it, despite the fact that the only reason the color now didn't match was due to their inability to properly execute a contract. (It was a 3 month contract and was not finished for over 3 years.) This left us having to stain WAY more wood than we otherwise would have. It was quite literally a difference of several months' work, as we both had jobs (at the time), and spare time at home has been in deficit for awhile.

STAINING IS A PAIN: Just for reference, proper wood staining is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR pain in the ass. The wood filling, the sanding, the pre-conditioning, staining, the wiping, the dropcloths, the multiple coats of everything, the (4) polyurethane coats [which often required holding a lamp in one hand, to reflect light on it to ensure evenness], and the final sanding. And don't get me started on the timing: Stain 20 minutes after pre-conditioning, but only for 2 hours; stain in 20 minute cycles consisting of 4 sub-cycles: stain area #1, stain area #2, wipe area #1, wipe area #2. Then break, get new gloves, and start over. A 20 minute cycle might equal 2 shelves, or 2 boards from ceiling to floor. Our spreadsheet had over 200 cells. At the end of the day, the only way to get stain off your skin was to apply paint thinner directly to your skin in violation of the instructions, common sense, and one's best interests...

celebrating, doing shots, standing, wood staining.

Cutty Sark, chair, closet, clutter, mineral spirit, newspaper, paper dropcloth, plastic dropcloth, shelf, stool, wood stain.

Minwax.

upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

July 26, 2007.

... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com

... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com

To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: clint.sheer.us/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me.