View allAll Photos Tagged Amlie
Crazy really, but I don't really have much to do on gray days. Of course I have a thing for gray, but not on such a very dull day (besides eating ofcourse). I'd prefer to spend a little longer under my extra fur. Well, I guess we all cats do.
Photo: Good morning, is my (late) brunch ready? - by Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone X - December 29, 2019) / #weather #sleeping #lazyday / #Portraits #Amlie in #Hellevoetsluis #VoorneaanZee #VoornePutten, #SouthHolland - #Netherlands
Amélie (friends since june 9, 2016), photo December 14, 2019 after 3 years 6 months 20 days since 2016.
---
Hellevoetsluis: Amélie - Portraits
Amélie "Une dame aimante" - our warm, sweet house cat. She loves to be close to us., a true best friend and she trusts us with all her heart. Grunts, many cuddles, lots of play, the look of her beautiful golden eyes. We really enjoy these very precious moments together, to be kept in our memory forever.
---
Published at - Flickr
Memories of Amélie in our garden, she enjoys to sit in the porch of the greenhouse, surrounded by plants and flowers and birds above her head. It's a repeating activity to capture these moments, in time to support our memory for years to come
Photo: A Cats joy is a garden - by © Richard Poppelaars #About_Pixels #Photography (Apple iPhone X - April 27, 2020) / #cat #pet - #garden #greenhouse / #NaturePhotography at #urban #Amlie in #Hellevoetsluis, #VoorneaanZee #VoornePutten, #SouthHolland - #Netherlands
Amélie (friends since june 9, 2016), photo April 27, 2020 after 3 years 10 months 18 days since 2016.
---
Hellevoetsluis: Amélie - Nature Photography
Amélie "Une dame aimante" - our warm, sweet house cat. She loves to be close to us., a true best friend and she trusts us with all her heart. Grunts, many cuddles, lots of play, the look of her beautiful golden eyes. We really enjoy these very precious moments together, to be kept in our memory forever.
---
View of the St Thomas Skyride as it works its way up to Paradise Point, home of the Bushwhacker. Overlooking Long Bay, Havensight, East Charlotte Amalie, and Historic Charlotte Amalie.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by C. & G. Macleod Ltd. of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Plastichrome Series card was printed by Colourpicture Publishers Inc. of Boston 15, Massachusetts, USA.
On the back of the card the publishers have printed:
'M. V. William Carson,
Passenger and Car Ferry,
North Sydney, Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia to Newfoundland,
Canada.'
The card was posted in North Sydney on Friday the 25th. May 1962 to:
Mr. & Mrs. Merrill Hatfield,
Woodstock,
RR#4,
New Brunswick.
The message on the divided back was as follows:
"Dear Mother & Dad,
We arrived in N. Sydney
this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
It was a lovely trip, and the
weather nice.
Queenie & the car left on
the early boat at 5 o'clock,
& we take the boat at 8.30
this evening.
This is the picture of the
boat we will take.
Thanks again for everything,
we had a nice visit. I will
write just as soon as I get
settled a little. I hope the
crossing won't be too rough,
it is very windy here tonight.
Lots of love,
Gwen."
The M. V. William Carson
The M. V. William Carson was a CN Marine passenger/vehicle icebreaker ferry named in honour of Newfoundland colonial politician William Carson.
Built by Canadian Vickers Ltd. in Montreal, Quebec, William Carson measured 351 feet (107 m) in length and displaced 8,300 tons. Primarily a freight/cargo ferry, she had a capacity for 260 passengers and 60 cars which were loaded through a side ramp.
Designed for service between Port aux Basques and North Sydney, Nova Scotia by Canadian National Railways, she was commissioned in 1955.
One of the largest vessels built in Canada at the time, her large size forced her to use the more spacious harbour at Argentia for her first three years in service while the Port aux Basques harbour was modified to accept her.
William Carson was reassigned to the seasonal Labrador coastal service in 1976, operating between Lewisporte and Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
The Sinking of the William Carson
In 1977, early in only the second season on the Labrador run, William Carson sank in 500 feet (150 m) of water on the night of the 2nd June 1977 after striking a small iceberg while navigating 12 nautical miles (22 km) off Battle Harbour.
All 129 passengers and 29 crew aboard at the time survived. The same cannot be said for her cargo.
The evacuation was carried out efficiently, and passengers and crew waited in lifeboats in the icefield while watching their ship sink.
Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers and Canadian Forces helicopters were dispatched to rescue the survivors.
The New Coventry Cathedral
So what else happened on the day that Gwen posted the card to her parents?
Well, on the 25th. May 1962, the new Coventry Cathedral, also known as St. Michael's Cathedral, was consecrated in Coventry, West Midlands, for the Church of England, more than 20 years after the 14th. November 1940 destruction of the 500-year-old Cathedral by German Luftwaffe bombers during World War II.
The new cathedral, symbolic of forgiveness and rebirth, stands next to the ruins of the old one.
The Launch of a Rocket
Also on that day, a group of students at Haigazian University in Beirut launched the first rocket in what would become the Lebanese space program.
They sent the HCRS-7 Cedar rocket to an altitude of 11,500 metres (37,700 ft) under the supervision and protection of the Lebanese Army, which arranged for the clearing of airspace around the launch area.
Simone Tanner Chaumet
The day also marked the death at the age of 45 of Simone Tanner Chaumet. Simone was a French humanitarian honored for her role in saving hundreds of Jewish children in France during World War II. She later became a peace activist in Algeria.
Simone was murdered in the Algiers suburb of Bouzaréah.
David Ogle
David Ogle also died on the 25th. May 1962. Ogle was an English automobile designer who had founded his own sports car company.
He was killed at the age of 40 while driving his Ogle Mini GT sports car to a race circuit where he was going to demonstrate the vehicle.
He was on the A1 at Digswell, Hertfordshire and traveling at 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) when he collided with a van and the car burst into flames.
The Birth of a Serial Killer
The 25th. May 1962 also marked the birth in Philadelphia of the American serial killer and rapist Anthony Joyner.
Joyner was convicted of at least six homicides (and suspected of 12 others) of elderly women at a nursing home where he was employed.
Joyner was considered portly and physically weak as a teenager, but otherwise had no problems with communication, and was not ostracized by his peers.
Because of his physique, Joyner had little success with women, and was not popular in the neighborhood, with some friends and acquaintances suspecting him of being homosexual, which he vehemently denied.
Having failed to receive higher education, Joyner resorted to doing low-skilled labor, and made a living from odd jobs. In October 1981, he was hired as an assistant nutritionist in the kitchen of Philadelphia's Kearsley Home, Christ Church Hospital.
While working there, Joyner was regarded well by both staff and patients, who all said that he had a friendly, talkative, and energetic demeanor, and showed great affection for the elderly patients.
The Murders
Joyner chose as victims elderly female residents of the nursing home, aged between 83 and 92.
On the 12th. January 1983, 92-year-old Margaret Eckard was found dead, and despite finding traces of blood around her nose, mouth, and genitals, the hospital staff concluded that she had died of natural causes.
A month later, on the 12th. February 1983, 85-year-old Kathryn Maxwell's body was found in similar circumstances, followed by 86-year-old Elizabeth Monroe only a few days later.
While examining the latter's body, medical personnel again found traces of blood and damage to her genitalia, but due to her advanced age and negligence on the part of the staff, no autopsy was performed, and the cause of death was ruled as a heart attack.
On the 1st. June 1983, the body of 89-year-old Lily Amlie was discovered by nursing home workers. It also showed the same signs as the previous deaths, but because Amlie had heart issues, her death was not considered suspicious.
On the 19th. July 1983, two women, 90-year-old Eugenia Borda and 83-year-old Mildred Alston were found dead. While examining Borda's body, the doctors found traces of blood and injuries on her thighs and genitals.
Finding these injuries highly suspicious, he refused to declare the cause of death as natural, and insisted that he performed an autopsy on both bodies, which revealed that both women had been raped, with Borda being strangled and Alston suffocated to death. He reported his findings to the police, who immediately started an investigation into the matter.
The Аrrest of Anthony Joyner
Because the facility had its own security staff, the police had already decided that an authorized person could not have entered the nursing home unnoticed, and that the killer was therefore among the personnel.
While interviewing staff members, investigators determined that on July 19, the day Borda and Alston were murdered, Joyner had been seen in the facility's cellar early in the morning.
Further investigation into his activities determined that he went inside the patients' rooms through the basement, and after raping and killing them, he would leave the area by the same route and return to work.
On the 1st. August 1983, Joyner was apprehended by law enforcement, and in a subsequent interrogation, he unexpectedly confessed to killing both women and was subsequently charged with both murders.
According to investigators, Joyner expressed remorse and claimed that he wanted to make a full confession because he had trouble sleeping, while his attorney claimed that he was mentally ill and that the police had tricked his client into signing a pre-written confession.
Because a total of 18 suspicious deaths had occurred at the nursing home since Joyner was hired in October 1981, police began investigating him for possible involvement in other killings.
During the investigation, police obtained a warrant to exhume the bodies of Eckard, Maxwell, Amlie, and Monroe. Autopsies were conducted on all four, with the rulings being that Maxwell and Monroe had been raped and strangled, and that Amlie had been drowned in her bathtub.
As Eckard's body was too decomposed, the coroners were unable to determine her cause of death.
After learning of the autopsy results, Joyner confessed to the four murders, as well as a sexual assault committed on a 69-year-old woman on a Philadelphia street in July 1982, which the victim survived.
The rape victim was found soon after, and positively identified Joyner as her rapist, verifying his account. According to Joyner himself, it was this incident that provoked him to commit further crimes against older women, as they were unable to offer serious resistance.
When pressed for a motive, Joyner gave contradictory information: he insisted that due to certain reasons and circumstances he had no sex life, leaving him sexually frustrated. And as he was unable to be intimate with girls his own age, he was left in a state of anger that led to him raping and strangling the patients at the nursing home - he claimed to kill them only because they knew him well and could get him imprisoned.
Joyner's ex-girlfriend, who briefly had an intimate relationship with him, told police that he began to suffer from an inferiority complex after breaking up with her, growing increasingly worried about being labelled as gay, which prompted him to demonstrate his masculine behavior in every way possible.
According to her testimony, Joyner wanted attention, as she claimed that a few days before his arrest, he had contacted her, claiming that he would soon become famous and be written about in the media.
The Trial of Anthony Joyner
Joyner's trial began in April 1984 and lasted three weeks. During the proceedings, he confirmed his initial testimony and described details of the murders to jurors, but later retracted his confession, claiming that the investigators had pressured him into confessing.
Ultimately, Joyner was found guilty by jury verdict on five counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder, as well as six counts of rape and one count of burglary.
As they were unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether he deserved to be sentenced to death, the court imposed a life sentence on him on the 6th. May 1984. While his sentence was read out, Joyner remained calm and emotionless.
As of March 2022, Joyner is still alive and serving his prison sentence at the State Correctional Institution – Phoenix in Skippack Township.
Bak fra venstre: Henning Aamodt, Harald Nickelsen, Ragnar Austad, Geir Nordby, Cecilie Frølich
Rad 2: Solgunn Strand, Lisa Wærp, Berna Breirem, Malin Johansson, Therese Engebretsen, Mette Fismen
Rad 3: Andrea Vincent, Beate Berglund, Lene Thorvaldsen, Christine Køster, Rakel Thjømøe, Kine Elisabeth Dahl, Kristine Amlie
Foran: Nina Håkonsen, Mone Gjesteby, Beate Myrvold, Marte Lindstad Næss, Susanne Grøtter, Marte Østlien, Karin Bredland, Karen Haraldstad
"If Amlie chooses to live in a dream-world and remain an introverted young woman, she has every right to mess up her life!" The prettiest lace mat from @thegirlwithbigglasses #Autumn
173 Likes on Instagram
7 Comments on Instagram:
nadiaetc: Romantic.... @violet_woods
gillianrancano: Good composition
jade_schweizer: Perfection
laurenjrw: Such a lovely scene! Hope you're feeling better too!
violet_woods: @gillianrancano @thegirlwithbigglasses i adore you lady!!!
violet_woods: @jade_schweizer you@laurenjrw thank you! today was better, hopefully tomorrow is good too!