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Twenty years ago my father divorced my mother and took off to marry our Filipino amah to create a new life for himself.
After I got back from the Landmark Forum, it was on the day of Chinese New Year that I sent my father a text message. I wrote that for all these years, I had blamed him for divorcing my mom. My interpretations of what happen were he didn't love her anymore and he didn't love us. But I have come to realize that we had nothing to do with him divorcing my mom. I had never thank him for raising us.
I apologized for blaming him and I apologized for causing him pain. I acknowledge that he has done his best to raise all of us. I love him and I wish him happiness with his current wife and his children.
In the same afternoon, I got to see him when he visited my sister's house. I greeted him and I embraced him. Sitting next to him was his current wife. When I embraced her, I acknowledge that she is simply my father's wife.
I am finally at peace with myself and my father. I felt relief that I got to say what I wanted to say to him.
Sunday last week, I visited my father for first time at his home after attending the Landmark Forum. I found the love for my father that I thought was lost a long time ago. What I didn’t expect from the visit was that I had come to love his family as well.
In the living room where my husband and I sat down with my father and his family, I saw that my father was happy with his current family. I am happy for my father for creating and living the life that he wanted. I love my father for being my father, I love his wife for being his wife and I love their 3 children for being their children. I love them for being who they are and who they are not. I didn’t think loving my father’s current family was possible for me, and I am glad that I was wrong. The possibility that I have invented for myself and my life is the possibility of being unconditionally loving to each and everyone of them.
With Lots of Love, Kisses and Hugs.
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Robin Hood’s Bay is a historic fishing village on the North Yorkshire coast, known for its steep cliffs, winding cobbled streets, and smuggling past. In the 18th century, contraband such as tea, silk, and brandy was secretly transported through a network of hidden tunnels beneath the tightly packed cottages. The village’s name is said to be linked to the legendary outlaw Robin Hood, though no definitive historical connection exists. Some tales suggest he encountered pirates along this coastline and returned stolen treasure to the poor.
A short walk along the shore leads to Boggle Hole, a secluded cove surrounded by steep, wooded cliffs. The name comes from local folklore, as ‘boggles’—mischievous goblin-like creatures—were believed to dwell in caves and dark corners, playing tricks on unsuspecting passersby. Fishermen and villagers once feared these supernatural beings, blaming them for misfortunes. Like Robin Hood’s Bay, Boggle Hole was also a haven for smugglers, who took advantage of its hidden location to bring goods ashore in the dead of night.
Today, both places are popular with walkers, fossil hunters, and photographers. The rocky shores reveal ancient fossils, and at low tide, visitors can explore the coastline’s rock pools and caves. The Cleveland Way footpath offers breathtaking views over the dramatic cliffs, while the sea air carries whispers of the legends and secrets that have shaped this rugged stretch of coast.
Coin, AD 55-6
Illustrating the shifting power dynamic between Nero and his mother during his early reign.
[From] prominence to Agrippina and relegates Nero to the reverse...mother and son facing each other...Agrippina behind. It demonstrates her waning influence and Nero's rising independence. Subsequently, Agrippina disappeared from his coinage altogether.
[British Museum]
Nero: the Man Behind the Myth
(May - Oct 2021)
Nero is known as one of Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty, debauchery and madness.
The last male descendant of the emperor Augustus, Nero succeeded to the throne in AD 54 aged just 16 and died a violent death at 30. His turbulent rule saw momentous events including the Great Fire of Rome, Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, the execution of his own mother and first wife, grand projects and extravagant excesses.
Drawing on the latest research, this major exhibition questions the traditional narrative of the ruthless tyrant and eccentric performer, revealing a different Nero, a populist leader at a time of great change in Roman society.
Through some 200 spectacular objects, from the imperial palace in Rome to the streets of Pompeii, follow the young emperor’s rise and fall and make up your own mind about Nero. Was he a young, inexperienced ruler trying his best in a divided society, or the merciless, matricidal megalomaniac history has painted him to be?
Nero was the 5th emperor of Rome and the last of Rome’s first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians, founded by Augustus (the adopted son of Julius Caesar). Nero is known as one of Rome’s most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and debauchery. He ascended to power in AD 54 aged just 16 and died at 30. He ruled at a time of great social and political change, overseeing momentous events such as the Great Fire of Rome and Boudica’s rebellion in Britain. He allegedly killed his mother and two of his wives, only cared about his art and had very little interest in ruling the empire.
Most of what we know about Nero comes from the surviving works of three historians – Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. All written decades after Nero’s death, their accounts have long shaped our understanding of this emperor’s rule. However, far from being impartial narrators presenting objective accounts of past events, these authors and their sources wrote with a very clear agenda in mind. Nero’s demise brought forward a period of chaos and civil war – one that ended only when a new dynasty seized power, the Flavians. Authors writing under the Flavians all had an interest in legitimising the new ruling family by portraying the last of the Julio-Claudians in the worst possible light, turning history into propaganda. These accounts became the ‘historical’ sources used by later historians, therefore perpetuating a fabricated image of Nero, which has survived all the way to the present.
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December AD 37.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger. Both Gnaeus and Agrippina were the grandchildren of Augustus, making Nero Augustus’ great, great grandson with a strong claim to power.
Nero was only two years old when his mother was exiled and three when his father died. His inheritance was taken from him and he was sent to live with his aunt. However, Nero’s fate changed again when Claudius became emperor, restoring the boy’s property and recalling his mother Agrippina from exile.
In AD 49 the emperor Claudius married Agrippina, and adopted Nero the following year. It is at this point that Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. In Roman times it was normal to change your name when adopted, abandoning your family name in favour of your adoptive father’s. Nero was a common name among members of the Claudian family, especially in Claudius’ branch.
Nero and Agrippina offered Claudius a politically useful link back to Augustus, strengthening his position.
Claudius appeared to favour Nero over his natural son, Britannicus, marking Nero as the designated heir.
When Claudius died in AD 54, Nero became emperor just two months before turning 17.
As he was supported by both the army and the senate, his rise to power was smooth. His mother Agrippina exerted a significant influence, especially at the beginning of his rule.
The Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all claim that Nero, fed up with Agrippina’s interference, decided to kill her.
Given the lack of eyewitnesses, there is no way of knowing if or how this happened. However, this did not stop historians from fabricating dramatic stories of Agrippina’s murder, asserting that Nero tried (and failed) to kill her with a boat engineered to sink, before sending his men to do the job.
Agrippina allegedly told them to stab her in the womb that bore Nero, her last words clearly borrowed from stage plays.
It is entirely possible, as claimed by Nero himself, that Agrippina chose (or was more likely forced) to take her own life after her plot against her son was discovered.
Early in his rule, Nero had to contend with a rebellion in the newly conquered province of Britain.
In AD 60–61, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe led a revolt against the Romans, attacking and laying waste to important Roman settlements. The possible causes of the rebellion were numerous – the greed of the Romans exploiting the newly conquered territories, the recalling of loans made to local leaders, ongoing conflict in Wales and, above all, violence against the family of Prasutagus, Boudica’s husband and king of the Iceni.
Boudica and the rebels destroyed Colchester, London and St Albans before being heavily defeated by Roman troops. After the uprising, the governor of Britain Suetonius Paulinus introduced harsher laws against the Britons, until Nero replaced him with the more conciliatory governor Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
The marriage between Nero and Octavia, aged 15 and 13/14 at the time, was arranged by their parents in order to further legitimise Nero’s claim to the throne. Octavia was the daughter of the emperor Claudius from a previous marriage, so when Claudius married Agrippina and adopted her son Nero, Nero and Octavia became brother and sister. In order to arrange their marriage, Octavia had to be adopted into another family.
Their marriage was not a happy one. According to ancient writers, Nero had various affairs until his lover Poppaea Sabina convinced him to divorce his wife. Octavia was first exiled then executed in AD 62 on adultery charges. According to ancient writers, her banishment and death caused great unrest among the public, who sympathised with the dutiful Octavia.
No further motives were offered for Octavia’s death other than Nero’s passion for Poppaea, and we will probably never know what transpired at court. The fact that Octavia couldn’t produce an heir while Poppaea was pregnant with Nero’s daughter likely played an important role in deciding Octavia’s fate.
On 19 July AD 64, a fire started close to the Circus Maximus. The flames soon encompassed the entire city of Rome and the fire raged for nine days. Only four of the 14 districts of the capital were spared, while three were completely destroyed.
Rome had already been razed by flames – and would be again in its long history – but this event was so severe it came to be known as the Great Fire of Rome.
Later historians blamed Nero for the event, claiming that he set the capital ablaze in order to clear land for the construction of a vast new palace. According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, Nero took in the view of the burning city from the imperial residence while playing the lyre and singing about the fall of Troy. This story, however, is fictional.
Tacitus, the only historian who was actually alive at the time of the Great Fire of Rome (although only 8 years old), wrote that Nero was not even in Rome when the fire started, but returned to the capital and led the relief efforts.
Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all describe Nero as being blinded by passion for his wife Poppaea, yet they accuse him of killing her, allegedly by kicking her in an outburst of rage while she was pregnant.
Interestingly, pregnant women being kicked to death by enraged husbands is a recurring theme in ancient literature, used to explore the (self) destructive tendencies of autocrats. The Greek writer Herodotus tells the story of how the Persian king Cambyses kicked his pregnant wife in the stomach, causing her death. A similar episode is told of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Nero is just one of many allegedly ‘mad’ tyrants for which this literary convention was used.
Poppaea probably died from complications connected with her pregnancy and not at Nero’s hands. She was given a lavish funeral and was deified.
Centred on greater Iran, the Parthian empire was a major political and cultural power and a long-standing enemy of Rome. The two powers had long been contending for control over the buffer state of Armenia and open conflict sparked again during Nero’s rule. The Parthian War started in AD 58 and, after initial victories and following set-backs, ended in AD 63 when a diplomatic solution was reached between Nero and the Parthian king Vologases I.
According to this settlement Tiridates, brother of the Parthian king, would rule over Armenia, but only after having travelled all the way to Rome to be crowned by Nero.
The journey lasted 9 months, Tiridates’ retinue included 3,000 Parthian horsemen and many Roman soldiers. The coronation ceremony took place in the summer of AD 66 and the day was celebrated with much pomp: all the people of Rome saw the new king of Armenia kneeling in front of Nero. This was the Golden Day of Nero’s rule
In AD 68, Vindex, the governor of Gaul (France), rebelled against Nero and declared his support for Galba, the governor of Spain. Vindex was defeated in battle by troops loyal to Nero, yet Galba started gaining more military support.
It was at this point that Nero lost the support of Rome’s people due to a grain shortage, caused by a rebellious commander who cut the crucial food supply from Egypt to the capital. Abandoned by the people and declared an enemy of the state by the senate, Nero tried to flee Rome and eventually committed suicide.
Following his death, Nero’s memory was condemned (a practice called damnatio memoriae) and the images of the emperor were destroyed, removed or reworked. However, Nero was still given an expensive funeral and for a long time people decorated his tomb with flowers, some even believing he was still alive.
After Nero’s death, civil war ensued. At the end of the so-called ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ (AD 69), Vespasian became emperor and started a new dynasty: the Flavians.
[Francesca Bologna, curator, for British Museum]
Taken in the British Museum
I took a few of these with three cameras. Can you blame me? This is what it's all about right here. Can't wait to stich them together on photoshop if I have time someday.
The protest on the Liberty Square has started on February, 09 and is still on.
The monument that Fidesz government intends to build in the middle of the square is considered to be a rude and undisguised revision of history and an offense to memory of those who died in Holocaust. The Jewish community of Budapest is boycotting the commemoration of 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust which has place this year.
The statue depicts Hungary as Archangel Gabriel, completely powerless, being attacked by the German eagle. It will be very big - 7 meters tall, and the spread of the eagle’s wings will be 4.5 meters wide. This is an unacceptable interpretation of the facts and falsification of entire history.
Hungary was an ally of Germany, and it was a legitimate Hungarian government that handled the deportation of about 600,000 Hungarian citizens of Jewish and Roma origin. Not without reason, critics of the whole idea of the monument suspect that the Orbán government wants to shake off any responsibility for the Holocaust and to shift the blame entirely to Germany.
The government has stopped the construction of the monument before elections in May and promised to start a dialogue with citizens, but right after elections they have restarted the construction without consulting with Budapest community.
In the first weeks of the protest the police tried to remove people forcefully.
The best known demonstrators who were taken away by police are Imre Mécs - a hero of the revolution of 1956 (he is a former member of parliament who was sentenced to death as a result of his participation in the 1956 revolution) and his wife Fruzsina Magyar, a well-known dramaturgist.
Many other famous Hungarians took part in the protest. On June 21th, the famous Hungarian musician and director Adam Fischer conducted the performance of the hymn of Europe - Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". He noted that initially Beethoven wrote it as the "Ode to Freedom", but the because of censorship of those times he had to call it "Ode to Joy". "Let's sing about joy, but think about freedom," - Adam Fischer said.
www.168ora.hu/itthon/oromodaval-tortenelemhamisitas-ellen...
Bartus László writes in the Amerikai Népszava (January 24, 2014):
"Orban, you have opened the gate to hell. You do not know which powers do you release in the country, with your Nazi eagle and Archangel Gabriel".
nepszava.com/2014/01/magyarorszag/orban-a-sajat-politikai...
Viktor Orbán government’s efforts to falsify history are proceeding full steam ahead.
One of the writings in front of the monument says: "This statue is your curse, Viktor."
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the event organisers for the facilities that they provided to the media. BTW the coffee was first class.
My Canon camera did not work well today so I had to discard a number of photographs.
My mother always claimed that a poor workman always blames his tools … I really do hope that she was not correct in this instance.
Anyway it would appear that the Dublin 2012 Web Summit was a huge success and everyone is looking forward to next year's event. The event received much positive media coverage however there was a somewhat critical article by Karlin Lillington in the Irish Times in which she argues that the "Web Summit really must stand up and be an example of best practice for data privacy".
just started looking through my last set of meet photos and realized i had my ISO completely f'd up, rendering many of the pictures way too grainy and unusable.
i blame my chronic sleep deprivation because this is like the third time i have done this lately... actually, i do blame sleep deprivation because the reason i often leave my ISO so high and then forget about it is due to taking picture sets at around 2am at night before passing out.
the beautiful Eligos belongs to sephyelysian.
At this point, Harry was doing really well until the last turn trunk string broke. He spent the last lap and a half fighting harder to to keep his modesty, than win the heat.
I don't blame him.
Well this image was taken on my extremely low definition TV. Will blame it on that.
And for some reason in this shot the pillars have all these figures. Its not a texture overlay. The previous shot was plain stone, and for some reason this ones covered in figures.
Looks quite ethereal and otherworldly.
Maybe i should say Gravity is to blame, This is kind of blown up quite a bit ( Enlarged photographically- not with TNT )
This must have been quite a lively area at one time, OK maybe not .
. But it's a fixer upper .....OK maybe not...
This was spotted from the Westbound Empire Builder train just outside Havre Montana... OK bye....
"A warm light for all mankind to share..."
This is a view of the Eureka Tower from behind one of the ornate lamps at the Immigration Museum on Flinders Street. The Museum was established in the old Customs House, in 1998, which itself was built between 1856 and 1876.
Given the money tied up in the old Customs House and the modern Eureka building I'm probably being ironic with the title! (I blame Loki Laufeyson; that bloke's a bad 'fluence, and no mistake!)
Okay, so there are catkins to be seen but look again … leaf buds!
I Had A Little Nut Tree and nothing did it bear, but a silver nutmeg and a golden pear! I should be so lucky! 😁
Never been sure what nuts these bushes supply - by the time the nuts look about ripe, they disappear - I blame the squirrels!
poets.org/poem/shropshire-lad-v Sigh for Summer eh? :-))
Linda Vista Community Hospital, originally called the Santa Fe Railroad Hospital and Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital, is a former hospital at 610-30 South St. Louis Street in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. The hospital was built for railroad employees and was one of four employee hospitals run by the railroad Santa Fe Employees Hospital Association. The property was purchased for $5,500 and the hospital was constructed at a cost of $147,000. The hospital opened to great fanfare in 1904 and even had its own Jersey cows, chickens, and a garden to provide patients with the freshest milk, butter, eggs, poultry and vegetables. This original Moorish-style hospital building designed by Charles Whittlesey, known as the Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital, was razed and rebuilt in 1924 in the current Mission Revival Style structure. In 1937 it was renamed the Linda Vista Community Hospital.
The Santa Fe Railroad sold the 150-bed hospital to a managed healthcare company in 1980. By the late 1970s, the railroad hospital association facilities were experiencing declining use, as more railroad workers began to use conventional medical-insurance policies. The area surrounding the hospital also became a less-affluent area and hospital funding was affected. According to a California Health Law News report, when Linda Vista tried to reduce operational expenses in response, the hospital was blamed for an increase in facility death rates. During that time, the hospital was regularly treating a fair number of gunshot wounds and stabbings from the local neighborhoods, which affected its mortality statistics. An increase in uninsured and under-insured patients forced the hospital to close its emergency services department in 1989. The quality of care at Linda Vista Community Hospital continued to decline as doctors moved to other hospitals. In 1991, the hospital ceased operations. In the decades since, it has become the center of several paranormal investigations; the most notable investigation was initiated by Ghost Adventures, where the crew stayed a full night in the hospital. Since that time, it has been used primarily as a filming location. In January 2006, the hospital was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2011 the 4.2-acre Linda Vista Hospital complex was purchased by AMCAL Multi-Housing Inc. The structures on the historic registry, the main hospital and former nurses dormitory, will be renovated into the "Linda Vista Senior Apartments", and provide a total of 97 apartments for fixed-income seniors plus a medical facility. Phase I, scheduled to begin in spring 2013, will be the conversion of the dormitory building into four studio and 18 one-bedroom apartments.
Photograph clicked for The Department of Photography at Waves, the annual cultural festival of BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus
Once again, a cloudy day in Sweden and a Volvo. Notice how the pile, the Volvo and the four kids are lined up.
awesomeness.
ASHBURN, Va. -- It would be wrong to blame Monday’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Washington Redskins quarterback Kirk Cousins. It would not be wrong to think he could have done more to help them win.
This wasn’t about stats: Cousins’ numbers were solid as he posted a 101.4 passer rating. But that also shows how unreliable that statistic can be, because it suggests a terrific game. That wasn’t the case as it does not factor in some missed chances.
But also keep in mind that Cousins led two scoring drives at the end of the half and the game for 10 of their 16 points. He completed nine-of-12 passes on third downs, converting five into firsts (they had five third downs where they needed at least 10 yards). Cousins didn't lift the play of others and played a rather pedestrian game, but the main issue offensively remains the running game.
Here’s a little look at his game overall:
Throw I liked: The completion to Pierre Garcon on third-and-14. For starters, the line gave him time to throw against a three-man rush. Cousins looked middle, right, middle, left and back to the middle where he saw Garcon break over the middle for a first-down catch. The throw was a little behind Garcon, but give Cousins credit for hanging in the pocket and finding him. Also liked the 23-yard gain to Garcon when Cousins hit him in stride; well-designed play cleared out the middle. There were a couple bad throws in the game, sometimes with poor footwork. But other times he kept plays alive, sliding outside or scrambling with his eyes still downfield.
Throw I almost liked: This one looked a little dangerous initially, but I credit Dallas cornerback Mo Claiborne for a good play. But Cousins nearly connected with Reed down the left seam. It was a very tight window and Reed got his hands on the ball. But Claiborne, aligned to the outside with Matt Jones in his area, cheated a little to the inside paying more attention to Reed. With Reed a favorite target, perhaps in that situation it might have been better to have a different receiving option alongside Reed, just to keep Claiborne from paying more attention to the tight end. He’s the one who knocked the ball loose.
Missed chance: This one had to bug Cousins and the coaches. On a third-and-7 in the fourth quarter, Jackson had a half-step on cornerback Brandon Carr with no safety over the top. Not sure why, but Cousins seemed to look there, but did not make the throw, instead dumping to the right for Chris Thompson and a two-yard gain, setting up a missed field goal. For those wanting more downfield throws, the Redskins did go deep on two other occasions, both incomplete, to Garcon and Jackson. Both were in one-on-one situations to the outside, and both were missed by less than a yard.
Second chance: Cousins, of course, did go back to Jackson with a perfect ball for the 28-yard touchdown. It wasn’t the same play; this time Jackson ran a go route from the No. 2 receiver position (the middle of three wideouts on the right side).Jackson released to the outside and, with the safety aligned on the left hash (where the ball had been placed), there was no help.
Missed chance, part 11: On a first-and-10 in the second quarter, Jamison Crowder was in the slot to the left. His man blitzed, leaving him solo with the safety. Crowder gains leverage and a shot was there, but Cousins threw to Jackson on that side for seven yards. They still got a field goal, but Crowder had a step.
Against tendencies: The Redskins gained 20 yards on a bootleg pass to Crowder, thanks in part to breaking tendency. They had Tom Compton at tight end and Ryan Grant at receiver. In the past two games, that has meant run on 12 of their 15 plays (and 18 out of 27 for the season), according to ESPN Stats & Information. That’s one reason both safeties were within eight yards before the snap (dropping to a single-high look afterward). Two linebackers ran with Reed as he crossed to his left, leaving a gap for Crowder, against man coverage, on the bootleg. Earlier in the half, the Redskins threw with both Grant and Compton in the game on a bootleg to the left, hitting Reed for 16 yards.
Not sure about: A third-and-17 in the first half on which Cousins looked at Reed the whole way and then threw incomplete on an out route. If Reed had caught the ball, he would have been tackled well short of a first down. On the other side, Garcon ran a deep-in and was open at the 32-yard line for a first down. Now, I don’t know if Garcon should have been part of the progression or not (not every receiver is on every play; there were three targets to the left). If not, against this coverage they might want to add him or at least peek his way.
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