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SÜDAFRIKA, Pinguinkolonie Stony Point,
Stony Point Nature Reserve conservation
This unique mainland seabird breeding colony is the home to three endangered seabird species and one rarity, all of whom are visible from the reserve’s elevated viewing boardwalk.
The iconic black and white African penguin is the focus of conservation efforts. Our hardy endemic arrived from declining off-shore island colonies to this rocky mainland location in 1982 and has thrived ever since to currently support the largest penguin colony in the Western Cape with over 2 000 seasoned breeding pairs (data correct as of 2014).
The uniformed black Bank cormorant pairs, with courting white rumps, predominate at the rocky outcrops of Beacon Bay in Stony Point. The clumsy Cape cormorant roosting numbers are increasing at this location due to their symbiotic foraging relationship they share with the deep diving penguin and other neighborly marine predators. Finally, our rarity at this unique location is the Crowned cormorant whose pairing numbers are also increasing. They too brood alongside the Bank cormorant and also predominate the rocky out crops of Beacon Bay. Their tea-pot form, crest of plumage and ruby colored eye amongst the black and turquoise of the larger Bank cormorant
Selma, AL | March 04, 2007
"Here today, I must begin because at the Unity breakfast this morning I was saving for last and the list was so long I left him out after that introduction. So I'm going to start by saying how much I appreciate the friendship and the support and the outstanding work that he does each and every day, not just in Capitol Hill but also back here in the district. Please give a warm round of applause for your Congressman Artur Davis.
It is a great honor to be here. Reverend Jackson, thank you so much. To the family of Brown A.M.E, to the good Bishop Kirkland, thank you for your wonderful message and your leadership.
I want to acknowledge one of the great heroes of American history and American life, somebody who captures the essence of decency and courage, somebody who I have admired all my life and were it not for him, I'm not sure I'd be here today, Congressman John Lewis.
I'm thankful to him. To all the distinguished guests and clergy, I'm not sure I'm going to thank Reverend Lowery because he stole the show. I was mentioning earlier, I know we've got C.T. Vivian in the audience, and when you have to speak in front of somebody who Martin Luther King said was the greatest preacher he ever heard, then you've got some problems.
And I'm a little nervous about following so many great preachers. But I'm hoping that the spirit moves me and to all my colleagues who have given me such a warm welcome, thank you very much for allowing me to speak to you here today.
You know, several weeks ago, after I had announced that I was running for the Presidency of the United States, I stood in front of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois; where Abraham Lincoln delivered his speech declaring, drawing in scripture, that a house divided against itself could not stand.
And I stood and I announced that I was running for the presidency. And there were a lot of commentators, as they are prone to do, who questioned the audacity of a young man like myself, haven't been in Washington too long.
And I acknowledge that there is a certain presumptuousness about this.
But I got a letter from a friend of some of yours named Reverend Otis Moss Jr. in Cleveland, and his son, Otis Moss III is the Pastor at my church and I must send greetings from Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. but I got a letter giving me encouragement and saying how proud he was that I had announced and encouraging me to stay true to my ideals and my values and not to be fearful.
And he said, if there's some folks out there who are questioning whether or not you should run, just tell them to look at the story of Joshua because you're part of the Joshua generation.
So I just want to talk a little about Moses and Aaron and Joshua, because we are in the presence today of a lot of Moseses. We're in the presence today of giants whose shoulders we stand on, people who battled, not just on behalf of African Americans but on behalf of all of America; that battled for America's soul, that shed blood , that endured taunts and formant and in some cases gave -- torment and in some cases gave the full measure of their devotion.
Like Moses, they challenged Pharaoh, the princes, powers who said that some are atop and others are at the bottom, and that's how it's always going to be.
There were people like Anna Cooper and Marie Foster and Jimmy Lee Jackson and Maurice Olette, C.T. Vivian, Reverend Lowery, John Lewis, who said we can imagine something different and we know there is something out there for us, too.
Thank God, He's made us in His image and we reject the notion that we will for the rest of our lives be confined to a station of inferiority, that we can't aspire to the highest of heights, that our talents can't be expressed to their fullest. And so because of what they endured, because of what they marched; they led a people out of bondage.
They took them across the sea that folks thought could not be parted. They wandered through a desert but always knowing that God was with them and that, if they maintained that trust in God, that they would be all right. And it's because they marched that the next generation hasn't been bloodied so much.
It's because they marched that we elected councilmen, congressmen. It is because they marched that we have Artur Davis and Keith Ellison. It is because they marched that I got the kind of education I got, a law degree, a seat in the Illinois senate and ultimately in the United States senate.
It is because they marched that I stand before you here today. I was mentioning at the Unity Breakfast this morning, my -- at the Unity Breakfast this morning that my debt is even greater than that because not only is my career the result of the work of the men and women who we honor here today. My very existence might not have been possible had it not been for some of the folks here today. I mentioned at the Unity Breakfast that a lot of people been asking, well, you know, your father was from Africa, your mother, she's a white woman from Kansas. I'm not sure that you have the same experience.
And I tried to explain, you don't understand. You see, my Grandfather was a cook to the British in Kenya. Grew up in a small village and all his life, that's all he was -- a cook and a house boy. And that's what they called him, even when he was 60 years old. They called him a house boy. They wouldn't call him by his last name.
Sound familiar?
He had to carry a passbook around because Africans in their own land, in their own country, at that time, because it was a British colony, could not move about freely. They could only go where they were told to go. They could only work where they were told to work.
Yet something happened back here in Selma, Alabama. Something happened in Birmingham that sent out what Bobby Kennedy called, 'Ripples of hope all around the world.' Something happened when a bunch of women decided they were going to walk instead of ride the bus after a long day of doing somebody else's laundry, looking after somebody else's children. When men who had PhD's decided that's enough and we're going to stand up for our dignity.
That sent a shout across oceans so that my grandfather began to imagine something different for his son. His son, who grew up herding goats in a small village in Africa could suddenly set his sights a little higher and believe that maybe a black man in this world had a chance.
What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, “You know, we're battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world? If right here in our own country, John, we're not observing the ideals set fort in our Constitution, we might be accused of being hypocrites. So the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an air lift. We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.
This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama.
I'm here because somebody marched. I'm here because you all sacrificed for me. I stand on the shoulders of giants. I thank the Moses generation; but we've got to remember, now, that Joshua still had a job to do. As great as Moses was, despite all that he did, leading a people out of bondage, he didn't cross over the river to see the Promised Land. God told him your job is done. You'll see it. You'll be at the mountain top and you can see what I've promised. What I've promised to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. You will see that I've fulfilled that promise but you won't go there.
We're going to leave it to the Joshua generation to make sure it happens. There are still battles that need to be fought; some rivers that need to be crossed. Like Moses, the task was passed on to those who might not have been as deserving, might not have been as courageous, find themselves in front of the risks that their parents and grandparents and great grandparents had taken. That doesn't mean that they don't still have a burden to shoulder, that they don't have some responsibilities. The previous generation, the Moses generation, pointed the way. They took us 90% of the way there. We still got that 10% in order to cross over to the other side. So the question, I guess, that I have today is what's called of us in this Joshua generation? What do we do in order to fulfill that legacy; to fulfill the obligations and the debt that we owe to those who allowed us to be here today?
Now, I don't think we could ever fully repay that debt. I think that we're always going to be looking back; but, there are at least a few suggestions that I would have in terms of how we might fulfill that enormous legacy. The first is to recognize our history. John Lewis talked about why we're here today. But I worry sometimes -- we've got black history month, we come down and march every year, once a year, we occasionally celebrate the various events of the civil rights movement, we celebrate Dr. Kings birthday but it strikes me that understanding our history and knowing what it means is an everyday activity.
Now, I don't think we could ever fully repay that debt. I think that we're always going to be looking back, but there are at least a few suggestions that I would have in terms of how we might fulfill that enormous legacy. The first is to recognize our history. John Lewis talked about why we're here today. But I worry sometimes -- we've got black history month, we come down and march every year, once a year. We occasionally celebrate the various events of the Civil Rights Movement, we celebrate Dr. King's birthday, but it strikes me that understanding our history and knowing what it means, is an everyday activity.
Moses told the Joshua generation; don't forget where you came from. I worry sometimes, that the Joshua generation in its success forgets where it came from. Thinks it doesn't have to make as many sacrifices. Thinks that the very height of ambition is to make as much money as you can, to drive the biggest car and have the biggest house and wear a Rolex watch and get your own private jet, get some of that Oprah money. And I think that's a good thing. There's nothing wrong with making money, but if you know your history, then you know that there is a certain poverty of ambition involved in simply striving just for money. Materialism alone will not fulfill the possibilities of your existence. You have to fill that with something else. You have to fill it with the golden rule. You've got to fill it with thinking about others. And if we know our history, then we will understand that that is the highest mark of service.
Second thing that the Joshua generation needs to understand is that the principles of equality that were set fort and were battled for have to be fought each and every day. It is not a one-time thing. I was remarking at the unity breakfast on the fact that the single most significant concern that this justice department under this administration has had with respect to discrimination has to do with affirmative action. That they have basically spent all their time worrying about colleges and universities around the country that are given a little break to young African Americans and Hispanics to make sure that they can go to college, too.
I had a school in southern Illinois that set up a program for PhD's in math and science for African Americans. And the reason they had set it up is because we only had less than 1% of the PhD's in science and math go to African Americans. At a time when we are competing in a global economy, when we're not competing just against folks in North Carolina or Florida or California, we're competing against folks in China and India and we need math and science majors, this university thought this might be a nice thing to do. And the justice department wrote them a letter saying we are going to threaten to sue you for reverse discrimination unless you cease this program.
And it reminds us that we still got a lot of work to do, and that the basic enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, the injustice that still exists within our criminal justice system, the disparity in terms of how people are treated in this country continues. It has gotten better. And we should never deny that it's gotten better. But we shouldn't forget that better is not good enough. That until we have absolute equality in this country in terms of people being treated on the basis of their color or their gender, that that is something that we've got to continue to work on and the Joshua generation has a significant task in making that happen.
Third thing -- we've got to recognize that we fought for civil rights, but we've still got a lot of economic rights that have to be dealt with. We've got 46 million people uninsured in this country despite spending more money on health care than any nation on earth. It makes no sense. As a consequence, we've got what's known as a health care disparity in this nation because many of the uninsured are African American or Latino. Life expectancy is lower. Almost every disease is higher within minority communities. The health care gap.
Blacks are less likely in their schools to have adequate funding. We have less-qualified teachers in those schools. We have fewer textbooks in those schools. We got in some schools rats outnumbering computers. That's called the achievement gap. You've got a health care gap and you've got an achievement gap. You've got Katrina still undone. I went down to New Orleans three weeks ago. It still looks bombed out. Still not rebuilt. When 9/11 happened, the federal government had a special program of grants to help rebuild. They waived any requirement that Manhattan would have to pay 10% of the cost of rebuilding. When Hurricane Andrew happened in Florida, 10% requirement, they waived it because they understood that some disasters are so devastating that we can't expect a community to rebuild. New Orleans -- the largest national catastrophe in our history, the federal government says where's your 10%?
There is an empathy gap. There is a gap in terms of sympathizing for the folks in New Orleans. It's not a gap that the American people felt because we saw how they responded. But somehow our government didn't respond with that same sense of compassion, with that same sense of kindness. And here is the worst part, the tragedy in New Orleans happened well before the hurricane struck because many of those communities, there were so many young men in prison, so many kids dropping out, so little hope.
A hope gap. A hope gap that still pervades too many communities all across the country and right here in Alabama. So the question is, then, what are we, the Joshua generation, doing to close those gaps? Are we doing every single thing that we can do in Congress in order to make sure that early education is adequately funded and making sure that we are raising the minimum wage so people can have dignity and respect?
Are we ensuring that, if somebody loses a job, that they're getting retrained? And that, if they've lost their health care and pension, somebody is there to help them get back on their feet? Are we making sure we're giving a second chance to those who have strayed and gone to prison but want to start a new life? Government alone can't solve all those problems, but government can help. It's the responsibility of the Joshua generation to make sure that we have a government that is as responsive as the need that exists all across America. That brings me to one other point, about the Joshua generation, and that is this -- that it's not enough just to ask what the government can do for us-- it's important for us to ask what we can do for ourselves.
One of the signature aspects of the civil rights movement was the degree of discipline and fortitude that was instilled in all the people who participated. Imagine young people, 16, 17, 20, 21, backs straight, eyes clear, suit and tie, sitting down at a lunch counter knowing somebody is going to spill milk on you but you have the discipline to understand that you are not going to retaliate because in showing the world how disciplined we were as a people, we were able to win over the conscience of the nation. I can't say for certain that we have instilled that same sense of moral clarity and purpose in this generation. Bishop, sometimes I feel like we've lost it a little bit.
I'm fighting to make sure that our schools are adequately funded all across the country. With the inequities of relying on property taxes and people who are born in wealthy districts getting better schools than folks born in poor districts and that's now how it's supposed to be. That's not the American way. but I'll tell you what -- even as I fight on behalf of more education funding, more equity, I have to also say that , if parents don't turn off the television set when the child comes home from school and make sure they sit down and do their homework and go talk to the teachers and find out how they're doing, and if we don't start instilling a sense in our young children that there is nothing to be ashamed about in educational achievement, I don't know who taught them that reading and writing and conjugating your verbs was something white.
We've got to get over that mentality. That is part of what the Moses generation teaches us, not saying to ourselves we can't do something, but telling ourselves that we can achieve. We can do that. We got power in our hands. Folks are complaining about the quality of our government, I understand there's something to be complaining about. I'm in Washington. I see what's going on. I see those powers and principalities have snuck back in there, that they're writing the energy bills and the drug laws.
We understand that, but I'll tell you what. I also know that, if cousin Pookie would vote, get off the couch and register some folks and go to the polls, we might have a different kind of politics. That's what the Moses generation teaches us. Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Go do some politics. Change this country! That's what we need. We have too many children in poverty in this country and everybody should be ashamed, but don't tell me it doesn't have a little to do with the fact that we got too many daddies not acting like daddies. Don't think that fatherhood ends at conception. I know something about that because my father wasn't around when I was young and I struggled.
Those of you who read my book know. I went through some difficult times. I know what it means when you don't have a strong male figure in the house, which is why the hardest thing about me being in politics sometimes is not being home as much as I'd like and I'm just blessed that I've got such a wonderful wife at home to hold things together. Don't tell me that we can't do better by our children, that we can't take more responsibility for making sure we're instilling in them the values and the ideals that the Moses generation taught us about sacrifice and dignity and honesty and hard work and discipline and self-sacrifice. That comes from us. We've got to transmit that to the next generation and I guess the point that I'm making is that the civil rights movement wasn't just a fight against the oppressor; it was also a fight against the oppressor in each of us.
Sometimes it's easy to just point at somebody else and say it's their fault, but oppression has a way of creeping into it. Reverend, it has a way of stunting yourself. You start telling yourself, Bishop, I can't do something. I can't read. I can't go to college. I can't start a business. I can't run for Congress. I can't run for the presidency. People start telling you-- you can't do something, after a while, you start believing it and part of what the civil rights movement was about was recognizing that we have to transform ourselves in order to transform the world. Mahatma Gandhi, great hero of Dr. King and the person who helped create the nonviolent movement around the world; he once said that you can't change the world if you haven't changed.
If you want to change the world, the change has to happen with you first and that is something that the greatest and most honorable of generations has taught us, but the final thing that I think the Moses generation teaches us is to remind ourselves that we do what we do because God is with us. You know, when Moses was first called to lead people out of the Promised Land, he said I don't think I can do it, Lord. I don't speak like Reverend Lowery. I don't feel brave and courageous and the Lord said I will be with you. Throw down that rod. Pick it back up. I'll show you what to do. The same thing happened with the Joshua generation.
Joshua said, you know, I'm scared. I'm not sure that I am up to the challenge, the Lord said to him, every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you. Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. Be strong and have courage. It's a prayer for a journey. A prayer that kept a woman in her seat when the bus driver told her to get up, a prayer that led nine children through the doors of the little rock school, a prayer that carried our brothers and sisters over a bridge right here in Selma, Alabama. Be strong and have courage.
When you see row and row of state trooper facing you, the horses and the tear gas, how else can you walk? Towards them, unarmed, unafraid. When they come start beating your friends and neighbors, how else can you simply kneel down, bow your head and ask the Lord for salvation? When you see heads gashed open and eyes burning and children lying hurt on the side of the road, when you are John Lewis and you've been beaten within an inch of your life on Sunday, how do you wake up Monday and keep on marching?
Be strong and have courage, for I am with you wherever you go. We've come a long way in this journey, but we still have a long way to travel. We traveled because God was with us. It's not how far we've come. That bridge outside was crossed by blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, teenagers and children, the beloved community of God's children, they wanted to take those steps together, but it was left to the Joshua's to finish the journey Moses had begun and today we're called to be the Joshua's of our time, to be the generation that finds our way across this river.
There will be days when the water seems wide and the journey too far, but in those moments, we must remember that throughout our history, there has been a running thread of ideals that have guided our travels and pushed us forward, even when they're just beyond our reach, liberty in the face of tyranny, opportunity where there was none and hope over the most crushing despair. Those ideals and values beckon us still and when we have our doubts and our fears, just like Joshua did, when the road looks too long and it seems like we may lose our way, remember what these people did on that bridge.
Keep in your heart the prayer of that journey, the prayer that God gave to Joshua. Be strong and have courage in the face of injustice. Be strong and have courage in the face of prejudice and hatred, in the face of joblessness and helplessness and hopelessness. Be strong and have courage, brothers and sisters, those who are gathered here today, in the face of our doubts and fears, in the face of skepticism, in the face of cynicism, in the face of a mighty river.
Be strong and have courage and let us cross over that Promised Land together. Thank you so much everybody.
God bless you."
Black Nab at Saltwick Bay, North Yorkshire on a cloud covered morning
2 minute exposure with a 10 stop ND filter
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
EF24-105mm f/4L IS II USM
ƒ/11.0
105.0 mm
120 sec
ISO 1250
Through a cloud of smoke, they disappear. Each had thanked me for the drink. I looked at my friend as she shook her head and then giggled.
"That's a helluva way to put yourself through vet school," she said.
Photo taken by Wilhelm Hell, scan kindly provided by Michael Bernhard for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
August 1986
D-AHLD (1)
Boeing 737-2K5/Adv
24926 / 1966
Hapag-Lloyd
D-AHLD is taxiing to Riem’s runway 25 for take-off.
Note: The registration D-AHLD was assigned to Fokker F28-1000 c/n 11032 in 1971 (not taken up) and later used by Boeing 737-5K5 c/n 24926/1966 flying with TUIfly between January 2004 and January 2008.
Information from airliners.net - thanks to Suresh A. Atapattu:
First flight 07/05/1981. Delivered on 29/05/1981 to Hapag-Lloyd (registered as D-AHLD); 26/03/1982 to Air Berlin USA (registered as N2941W); 01/04/1986 to Hapag Lloyd (registered as D-AHLD); 05/04/1990 to Aviogenex (registered as YU-AOF), leased to Bouraq Indonesia 1995-08/1996; 13/11/1996 TACA (registered as N231TA); 30/07/2004 to Bahamasair C6-BFM.
Wfu 15/09/2012, b/u 9/2012 OPF (source: rzjets.net)
Registration details for this airframe:
rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=22871
This airframe as N2941W with Air Berlin at PMI ca. 1983:
www.flickr.com/photos/firstgen737/16073670262
This airframe as N2941W with Air Berlin USA at ATH in September 1984:
www.flickr.com/photos/190105067@N03/50531932071
This airframe as YU-AOF with Aviogenex at FRA in April 1991:
www.flickr.com/photos/167887025@N05/54355952643
YU-AOF with Bouraq Indonesia at ZRH in February 1996:
www.flickr.com/photos/aero_icarus/50330926233
This airframe as N231TA with TACA at MIA in July 1997:
www.flickr.com/photos/planes/4172307520
N231TA with TACA at MIA in 1998 (later colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/adriankissane/53611231015
N231TA with ASERCA at MIA ca. 2001/2002:
www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/50933126311
This airframe as C6-BFM with Bahamasair at MIA in February 2008:
www.flickr.com/photos/137541733@N06/51714274532
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
It was before the pastor could utter "Dearly Beloved" and while the organ was still playing the wedding march.
Once Gram-Alma lifted that hand from his shoulder the kid bolted free, past all relations and in-laws.
I admired his stride and cut-away speed.
4 mins late running and my most hated train i.e 12656 Chennai Central (MAS) - Ahmedabad (ADI) Navjeevan Superfast Express enters Vadodara with a beautiful RPM WAP-4 #22871.
Date : 11/03/17
Location : Vadodara Railway Station
“I paint with my finger ’cause that’s why I got it, and that brush don’t wear out," [Sudduth] said in an interview quoted in the catalog of one of his exhibitions. “When I die, the brush dies.”
Because an illustration of a dice game just was not enough…
*Please remember: dice games, and players, should be treated with care at all times. As with trying to photograph a retreating army, if you choose to take photos, you should proceed with caution!
"Your teacher used to learn in school
How a cow flies over the moon
You teacher used to learn in school
How a dish run away with a spoon, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youth of today
You teacher used teach about Christopher Columbus
And you said he was a very great man
You used to teach about Marco Polo
And you said he was a very great man, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youth, not at all
When every Christmas comes around
You buy the youth a fancy toy
When every Christmas comes around
You buy the youth a fancy toy, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youth, not at all
you teacher used teach about Pirate Hawkins
you teacher used teach about Pirate Morgan
And you said he was a very great man
you teacher used teach about Christopher Columbus
And you said he was a very great man
you teacher used teach about Marco Polo, so
You can't blame the youth
You can't fool the youth
You can't blame the youth of today."
- words by Peter Tosh
DGS 99793 Hamburg-Hohe Schaar - Stendell PCK
Meinen ersten Smartron von RheinCargo konnte ich am 21. April 2024 bei Dersenow fotografieren. Bisher sind mir die Lokomotiven mit der "Unterwegs mit Ökostrom"-Beklebung immer aus dem Weg gegangen. Die RHC 192 034 hatten einen Kesselzug mit Waggons der Bauart Zacns am Haken und war auf dem Weg vom Hafenbahnhof Hamburg-Hohe Schaar nach Passow in der Uckermark. Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte sich die sonntägliche Tour an die "Berliner Schiene" schon mehr als gelohnt. Zwei neue E-Loks für die Sammlung standen schon auf dem Zettel und es sollten bis die Wolkendecke endgültig geschlossen war bzw. eine Stellwerksstörung den Zugverkehr für 2std zum Erliegen brachte noch zwei weitere Drehstromloks hinzukommen. Drei Bilder dazu habe ich bereits in meinem Fotostream online gestellt. Sie sind auch in meinem Album "Berliner Schiene 2024" zu finden.
The Grade I Listed Wells Cathedral (Officially named Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew) viewed from the gardens of the Bishops Palace, in Wells, Somerset.
The earliest remains of a building on the site are of a late Roman mausoleum, identified during excavations in 1980. An abbey church was built in Wells in 705 by Aldhelm, first bishop of the newly established Diocese of Sherborne during the reign of King Ine of Wessex. It was dedicated to Saint Andrew and stood at the present site of the cathedral's cloisters, where some excavated remains can be seen. The baptismal font in the cathedral's south transept is from this church and is the oldest part of the present building. In 766 Cynewulf, King of Wessex, signed a charter endowing the church with eleven hides of land. In 909 the seat of the diocese was moved from Sherborne to Wells.
The first Bishop of Wells was Athelm (909), who crowned King Æthelstan. Athelm and his nephew Dunstan both became Archbishops of Canterbury. During this period a choir of boys was established to sing the liturgy. Wells Cathedral School, which was established to educate these choir boys, dates its foundation to this point. Following the Norman Conquest, Bishop John de Villula moved the seat of the bishop from Wells to Bath in 1090. The church at Wells, no longer a cathedral, had a college of secular clergy.
The cathedral is thought to have been conceived and commenced in about 1175 by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin, who died in 1191. Although it is clear from its size that, from the outset, the church was planned to be the cathedral of the diocese, the seat of the bishop moved between Wells and the abbeys of Glastonbury and Bath, before settling at Wells. In 1197 Bishop Reginald's successor, Bishop Savaric FitzGeldewin, with the approval of Pope Celestine III, officially moved his seat to Glastonbury Abbey. The title of Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury was used until the Glastonbury claim was abandoned in 1219.
Bishop Savaric's successor, Jocelin of Wells, again moved the bishop's seat to Bath Abbey, with the title Bishop of Bath. Jocelin was a brother of Bishop Hugh II of Lincoln and was present at the signing of the Magna Carta. Bishop Jocelin continued the building campaign begun by Bishop Reginald and was responsible for the Bishop's Palace, the choristers' school, a grammar school, a hospital for travellers and a chapel. In 1245 the ongoing dispute over the title of the bishop was resolved by a ruling of Pope Innocent IV who established the title as the "Bishop of Bath and Wells", as it has remained until this day, with Wells as the principal seat of the bishop.
The building programme, begun by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin in the 12th century, continued under Jocelin of Wells, who was a canon from 1200, then bishop from 1206. It was designed in the new style with pointed arches, later known as Gothic, and which was introduced at about the same time at Canterbury Cathedral. Work was halted between 1209 and 1213 when King John was excommunicated and Bishop Jocelin was in exile, but the main parts of the church were complete by the time of the dedication by Bishop Jocelin in 1239.
By the time the cathedral, including the chapter house, was finished in 1306, it was already too small for the developing liturgy, and unable to accommodate increasingly grand processions of clergy. Bishop John Droxford initiated another phase of building under master mason Thomas of Whitney, during which the central tower was heightened and an eight-sided Lady chapel, completed by 1326, was added at the east end. Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury followed, continuing the eastward extension of the choir and retrochoir beyond. He oversaw the building of Vicars' Close and the Vicars' Hall, to give the men who were employed to sing in the choir a secure place to live and dine, away from the town and its temptations. He had an uneasy relationship with the citizens of Wells, partly because of his imposition of taxes, and he surrounded his palace with crenellated walls, a moat and a drawbridge.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, the current ambassador to the US, was once a high school student in this country.
During that time, he was under the guardianship of Ambassador [ Baroudi ?] , Saudi Arabia's first ambassador to the United Nations.
Doris-Jean remembers that it was a very late night, sometime during the 1960's, when she sat in the General Assembly listening to attending diplomats argue (till the wee hours of the morning) over the admission of Taiwan into the United Nations. The conversation got pretty heated. There were few arguments that stood out. But only two men, she remembers as being most "eloquent and professional" throughout the balance of the discussion.
These two men represented (The People's Republic of) China and (The Kingdom of) Saudi Arabia. She recalls that China's first mission to the United Nations was led by Ambassador [ Wang Hui ?].
Taiwan, to this day, still has no seat in the United Nations.
Behold, the power of sound and timely debate.
Since Bluebird separated from Highland last month, the new local team have moved quick to realise assets by disposing of the masses of redundant stock stirring around depot. Gone from this corner are a pair of scrap Solos and Profile, a process that is continuing around Aberdeenshire. There are still some Highland vehicles parked up at Bluebird depots though.
DublinBus (Phibsboro) AV431
Many DublinBus services were also affected by the diversion.
Inbound 25s/39s/66s/67s/83s omitted Bachelor’s Walk, and instead crossed Grattan Bridge, and operated via Parliament Street, Dame Street and Westmoreland Street before turning using Fleet Street and omitting normal stops on D’Olier Street to return to route.
AV431 is noted here operating Service 39 Ongar - Blanchardstown - City Centre - Burlington Road. Even at the time of this relatively early Sunday morning photo, AV431 was stuck in Fleet Street for at least five minutes due to congestion with many other buses, coaches and taxis also diverting using this route! The DublinBus website advised that the 39 would be operating only to/from Aston Quay, but this anyway appeared to be operating the full route to Burlington Road just south of the city centre.
DublinCoach 04-D-22871 is noted alongside also using the same diversion.
The 39 was one of a number of services that had it's route changed at the commencement of the Luas works.
Vehicle Details:
Volvo B7TL
Alexander-Dennis ALX400
H76F
05-D-10431
Vehicle History:
New to DublinBus in 2005
Vehicle Location
Fleet Street, Dublin City
Dublin City - 31.07.2016
Copyright Mark Long 2016
AJJ WAP-4 22871 cruising towards Jnanabharati halt station with 16558 KSR Bengaluru - Mysuru junction Rajyarani Express...
Related video link : youtu.be/DOS9ST_lINs
Stagecoach West Scotland MAN 18.240 / ADL Enviro300 22871, SF09 AEZ, is seen in Glasgow City Centre.
Aquesta imatge ha jugat a Pels camins dels Països Catalans.
El Santuario de Santa María de Arboló (siglo VIII, románico IX /segunda mitad del siglo XII – principios del siglo XIII) – el Santuari de Santa Maria d´Arboló, el Santuari de la Mare de Déu d'Arboló, el Santuari de Nostra Senyora d´Arboló (Santa Maria d´Erbolò o Santa Maria de Boló – cat.), también conocido como la Ermita de Santa María de Arboló o la Capilla de Santa María de Arboló (l´Ermita de Santa Maria d´Arboló o la Capella de Santa Maria d´Arboló) se levanta en un espolón rocoso sobre la ribera izquierda del río Noguera Pallaresa, en el Estrecho de Arboló o Congosto de Arboló (l´Estret d'Arboló o el Congost d'Arboló), enfrente del Puente de Arboló (el Pont d´Arboló) y cerca del Túnel d'Arboló. El Santuario de Santa Maria de Arboló se encuentra en el territorio que pertenece al pueblo de Arcalís, actualmente ubicado en el término municipal de Soriguera, situado en la Comarca de Pallars Sobirà que forma parte de la provincia de Lleida (Lérida), Cataluña, España.
LA LEYENDA DE SANTA MARÍA DE ARBOLÓ:
El Santuario de Arboló es el centro geográfico, espiritual, mítico y el templo más milagroso de todo el Pallars, formado por las comarcas de Pallars Sobirà y de Pallars Jussà. En este templo durante muchos siglos se venera la imagen de Santa María de Arboló, muy famosa no sólo por numerosos y muy variados milagros obrados, sino por su don muy singular de ayudar a evitar la soledad, enviando una pareja adecuada a la persona interesada, y a tener hijos, si se cumplen los rituales correctos.
Además, es uno de los santiarios más antiguos y más famosos por su tradición médica en Cataluña, pues se cree que Santa María de Arboló cura todos los males en qeneral.
El primer domingo de mayo en este santuario se celebra un concurrido «aplec» (romería) en honor de Nuestra Señora de Arbólo, proclamada la santa protectora y patrona de todo el Pallars.
La historia de la milagrosa imagen de Santa María de Arboló está relacionada con dos hallazgos: un descubrimiento legendario y un descubrimiento trágico.
El primer hallazgo:
- Cuenta la leyenda que la imagen de Santa María de Arboló fue encontrada hace muchos siglos, antes de la invasión mora y se veneraba en una modesta capilla. Pero, como pasó tanto tiempo, ya nadie recuerda las circunstancias exactas de aquel suceso.
Aunque existe la creencia de que con el lugar del primer hallazgo de la Virgen de Arboló está relacionado el nombre del Santuario de Arboló (Boló o Erboló) que «...se interpreta como derivado de hierba; o de agua (las partículas ar, er, or, ur, en lengua ibérica significan agua); o de arboleda pequeña, o diminutivo de arbusto (arbolito)...»
Luego uno de los primeros Condes del Pallars mandó levantar el santuario justo en el mismo lugar donde había sido hallada la imagen prodigiosa para agradecer a Santa María de Arboló que le había ayudado a vencer el numeroso ejército sarraceno durante una batalla en el Congosto de Arboló.
- De acuerdo con otra narración legendaria, la imagen de la Virgen de Arboló fue traída en el siglo VIII por un pariente de Carlomagno y entregada a los eremitas que levantaron en la peña, situada enfrente del Castro Erbolone, su pequeño oratorio. Antes de la invasión musulmana la sagrada imagen fue escondida para evitar su profanación y encontrada en la época de Reconquista por uno de los Condes del Pallars. Entonces a pocos pasos del lugar de hallazgo «se erigió un templo conmemorativo que motivó la apertura de un camino junto al río, de utilidad para los que se dedican á la navegación en almadías por él...»
A principios del siglo XX el Santuario de Arboló y los poderes de la Virgen de Arboló se describían así: «...á pesar de los contratiempos, sacudidas y vicisitudes de que ha sido teatro el país, ya por las varias invasiones de los árabes, como por los atropellos cometidos por los franceses y no menos por las demás guerras del Pallars, allí se levanta majestuoso este santuario, siendo de los primeros templos de que hay recuerdo en Cataluña dedicado á la Virgen...
A Santa María de Arboló acuden los pallareses en todas sus necesidades, en busca de la benéfica lluvia que riegue y fertilice sus campos, cuando la enfermedad y la muerte se cierne sobre sus casas y familias como fantasma aterrador, en busca de consuelo y protección, desconfiando de los remedios humanos...
¿Por qué esto? ¡Ah! porque La Virgen de Arboló les inspira confianza, y ella quiere, sabe y puede ayudarles, porque es su Madre. Mirad sino como la Ermita de Arboló está llena de ex-votos y presentes de los desgraciados; allí se encuentran las muletas del lisiado, las esposas del prisionero, el manto y vestido nupcial de la dama, las trenzas de la doncella, el pecho de la parturienta, la espada del militar y el canuto y cinta del soldado religioso...» «»
Durante todos los siglos pasados la gente acudía a Santa María de Arboló solicitando diferentes favores, además, tanto chicos como chicas llegaban a buscar pareja, al mismo tiempo que las mujeres casadas le pedían tener criaturas.
El ritual consistía en lo siguiente: primero, la persona interesada tenía que exponer su solicitud a Santa María de Arboló.
Luego las jóvenes que necesitaban pareja debían realizar el siguiente procedimiento:
- poner su pierna entre los balaustres de la barandilla situada delante de la capilla («...Les noies havien de treure la cama entremig dels barrons de la balconada de davant de la capella»)
- o poner su pie por encima de la balustrada de la ermita («...tragués el seu peu per damunt de la balustrada de l'ermita...»)...¿?
(Aunque lo más seguro es preguntar el consejo a los vecinos de los pueblos cercanos que acuden al aplec anual:-)
Los jóvenes tenían que hacer colar una piedra rocosa dentro de una horadada abierta en la peña determinada, situada a unos pasos del Santuario de Arboló, cerca del camino que lleva a Gerri de la Sal.
Dicen que si estos rituales se cumplían debidamente en el día del aplec, el año siguiente la joven o el joven volvería a la romería con su marido o con su mujer respectivamente.
Las mujeres casadas que deseaban tener hijos tenían que subir descalzas desde la orilla del río cercano hasta el templo y después de llegar al santuario, poner el pie en uno de los zuecos que había en la capilla...
El segundo hallazgo:
En agosto de 1936 el Santuario de Arboló fue saqueado y profanado, excepto la imagen, que al principio fue escondida y salvada; pero en el segundo intento de destrucción, fue descubierta y quemada en el puente del vecino pueblo de Baro - «fou trobada i reduïda a cendres al pont de Baro...»
Después de la guerra civil la ermita fue restaurada. En vez de la imagen original el 5 de mayo de 1940 fue repuesta una copia fidedigna, obra del escultor barcelonés Francisco de Paula Gomara (Francisco de Paula Gómara ¿?).
La Ermita de Arboló y las fotos de 2 imagenes de Santa María de Arboló: la quemada y la actual
Lo cierto es que:
1) «El templo de Arboló fué sin disputa de los primeros que se levantaron en Cataluña en honor de María...tiene una existencia conocida desde el año 781 al haber sido mencionado en un documento de donación realizado por el pariente de Carlomagno que se llamaba Spanella y firmado por el conde Fredolo (Fredolus)...»
2) En el año 969 en otro documento de donación fue mencionado «Castro Erbolone» y situado a su lado «oratorio Sanctae Mariae».
En 1105, «en la restitución hecha á Gerri por San Odón figura, el oratorio de Ntra. Sra. de Erboló, én el castillo de Erboló (desaparecido con el tiempo).
Desde aquella remota fecha Santa María de Arboló es Madre cariñosa de los pallareses, y ha continuado derramando sus bendiciones y gracias sobre la comarca».
3) El año2012: «...El pasado jueves 8 de marzo se declaró un incendio forestal, que afectó a los municipios de Baix Pallars y de Soriguera, con un total de 400 ha aproximadamente, de las cuales 25 son del Parque Natural del Alto Pirineo, en la zona de Arboló...
El incendio ha quemado todo el entorno del Santuario románico de la Virgen de Arboló, patrona del Pallars, donde se realiza una romería popular con cientos de personas el primer domingo de mayo. El santuario no resultó afectado pero si su camino de acceso a pie, el cual forma parte de uno de los itinerarios más frecuentados del Parque Natural. El camino ha resultado afectado con caída de piedras y troncos quemados, se han quemado la mayor parte de las barandillas de madera de seguridad del camino y varios bancos, algunas señales se han estropeado, y una parte importante de los árboles del bosque de del entorno han sido calcinados por el fuego...»
«...Para llevar solidaridad y consuelo a los afectados por los incendios del Pallars Sobirà y otros lugares de la diócesis, así como en agradecimiento a las autoridades locales, fuerzas de seguridad y bomberos, el arzobispo de Urgell, Joan-Enric Vives, se hizo presente en la tarde de este sábado (10.03.2012) en varios lugares del Pallars...En su visita comprobó cómo la ermita de la Patrona tan venerada, la Virgen de Arboló, había sido rodeada por las llamas pero no había sufrido ningún daño, sin una explicación demasiado plausible. Y pidió a los fieles del Pallars que la invoquen para pedir su protección, el fin de los incendios y la venida de la tan necesaria lluvia...»
Las páginas y las obras consultadas y citadas:
Goigs a la Mare de Déu d´Arboló, patrona del Pallars
Pep Coll: Els Pirineus magia i fantasies (artículo)
Pep Coll: Guia dels Indrets mítics i llegendaris del Pallars Sobirá - El Santuari d´Erboló (leyenda y rituales), p.38. (deParís edicions, segona edició: març 2011)
Wikipedia: Mare de Déu d´Arboló
Ermita de la Mare de Déu d'Arboló y la descripción del ritual en catalán
Devociones marianas: explicación del topónimo Arboló y la breve historia del santuario
Sobre el incendio de 2012 en el Pallars Sobirà
Visita del arzobispo de Urgell al Pallars Sobirà el 10.03.2012, después del incendio
The entire contingent of School E300's from Kilmarnock have been sent to work at the Golf. 22863 & 71 were the sole two vehicles in use on the dedicated Golflink service on the first day of he 145th Open Championship.
The former Musicians' Mutual Relief Society (now the Boston Musicians' Association, Local 9-535) building in the fog at night. Here's a brief historical summary of the building (converted to condos in the mid-1990s) from the American Institute of Architects and the Boston Society of Architects:
"This neoclassical brick hall is a simplified version of Horticultural Hall [about 6 blocks away]. Above the large arched windows with keystones, the names of composers are carved in stone beneath the cornice. Separating each pair of composers is a decorative stone lyre at the top of a pilaster. [Constructed in 1886], the building was converted and newly ornamented for use by the Musicians’ Mutual Relief Society in 1913."
Wikimedia has a couple of photos of the building (see here and also this one showing some of the composers names engraved above the windows on both sides of the building. (The immediate area is explored in this historian/genealogist's post, fwiw). Saint Botolph Street at Garrison Street near the South End/Back Bay border.
22871 has recently gained this all over advert promoting awareness to organ donation. It is seen here leaving Kilmarnock on the 4.
No2 "Cider Queen", ex BR Hunslet class 05 D2578, No1 "Woodpecker", John Fowler 0-4-0DM, 22871 built 1939, stabled at the Bulmer Railway Centre. September 1973. Photo reproduced with the kind permission of David Ford.