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Mine's the small one in the middle. My son is 18 years old and participates in martial arts, played football this year in school, and is on the powerlifting team. His hands are calloused and mine are not.
"These hands aren't the hands of a gentleman
These hands are calloused and old
These hands raised a family these hands built a home..."
... the hammer and ‘proper’ chisel, went to the hands he was sculpting, the finer details…
I looked at his hands, no callouses I noticed, a few nicks... being a musician, he told me he has to take care of them!
magdaindigo.blogspot.com/2009/01/importance-of-hands-in-p...
AND FOR THE WHOLE STORY and more about him:
magdaindigo.blogspot.com/2007/08/willem-vermandere-is-fam...
THANX, M, (*_*)
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 744b. Photo: Paramount.
Charles Bickford (1891-1967) was an American character actor of gruff voice and appearance. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and Johnny Belinda (1948). Other notable roles include Anna Christie (1930), Whirlpool (1948), A Star is Born (1954), and The Big Country (1958).
Charles Ambrose Bickford was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the first minute of 1891. His parents were Loretus and Mary Ellen Bickford. The fifth of seven children, he was an intelligent but very independent and unruly child. He had a particularly strong relationship with his maternal grandfather, a sea captain who was a powerful influence during his formative years. At the age of nine, he was tried and acquitted of the attempted murder in the shooting of a trolley motorman who had callously driven over and killed his beloved dog. He attended Foster School and Everett High School. Always more interested in experiencing life than reading about it, Bickford was considered 'the wild rogue' of this family, causing his parents frequent consternation. In his late teens, he drifted aimlessly around the United States for a time. Bickford had intended to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to earn an engineering degree, but while wandering around the country, he became friends with the manager of a burlesque show, who convinced Bickford to take a role in the show. He debuted in Oakland, California, in 1911. Before breaking into acting, he worked as a lumberjack and investment promoter and, for a short time, ran a pest extermination business. He also was a stoker and fireman in the United States Navy. His first entry into acting was on the stage, eventually including Broadway. This venue provided him with an occasional living and served as the principal training ground for developing his acting and vocal talents. Bickford enjoyed himself so much that he abandoned his plans to attend M.I.T. He made his legitimate stage debut with the John Craig Stock Company at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston in 1912. During World War I, Bickford served as an engineer lieutenant in the United States Army. He eventually joined a road company and traveled throughout the United States for more than a decade, appearing in various productions. In 1925, while working in a Broadway play called Outside Looking In, he and co-star James Cagney (in his first Broadway role) received rave reviews. The play was a smash hit, and Bicjkford was offered a role in the film Beau Geste (Herbert Brenon, 1926). Anxious not to give up his newfound Broadway stardom, he turned it down, a decision he later regretted. Following his appearance in the critically praised but unsuccessful Maxwell Anderson-Harold Hickerson drama about the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Gods of the Lightning (Bickford was the Sacco character), Bickford was contacted by filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille. He was offered a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to star in DeMille's first talking picture, Dynamite (Cecil B. DeMille, 1929), co-starring Conrad Nagel and Kay Johnson. Bickford played a coal miner Hagon Derk, who is sentenced to hang for murder. According to The New York Times reviewer Mordaunt Hall, Bickford gave "a splendid performance". Soon he began working with MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer on a number of projects.
Charles Bickford soon became a star after playing Greta Garbo's lover in Anna Christie (Clarence Brown, 1930) but he never developed into a leading man. Always of independent mind, exceptionally strong-willed and quick with his fists, Bickford would frequently argue and nearly come to blows with Mayer and any number of other MGM authority figures during the course of this contract with the studio. During the production of DeMille's Dynamite, he punched out his director following a string of heated arguments primarily, but not exclusively, related to the interpretation of his character's role. Throughout his early career on both the stage and later films Bickford rejected numerous scripts and made no secret of his disdain for much of the material he was offered. Not surprisingly, his association with MGM was short-lived, with Bickford asking for and quickly receiving a release from his contract. However, he soon found himself blacklisted at other studios, forcing him to take the highly unusual step (for that era) of becoming an independent actor for several years. His career took another turn in 1935. While rehearsing a scene for Universal's East of Java (George Melford, 1935), he was mauled by a 400-pound lion on his neck and shoulders, very close to his jugular vein. it required nearly a year for him to recover from the injuries. While he recovered, he lost his contract with Fox as well as his leading-man status owing to extensive neck scarring suffered in the attack coupled with his advancing age. It was not long, however, before he made a very successful transition to character roles, which he felt offered much greater diversity and allowed him to showcase his talent to better effect. Much preferring the character roles that now became his forte, Bickford appeared in many notable films, including The Farmer's Daughter (H.C. Potter, 1947) with Loretta Young, Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco, 1948) starring Jane Wyman, A Star is Born (George Cukor, 1954) starring Judy Garland and James Mason, and Not As a Stranger (Stanley Kramer, 1955), starring Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum, and Frank Sinatra.
Finding great success playing an array of character roles in films and later in television, Charles Bickford quickly became highly sought after. His burly frame and craggy, intense features, coupled with a gruff, powerful voice lent themselves to a wide variety of roles. Most often he played lovable father figures, stern businessmen, heavies, ship captains or authority figures of some sort. During the 1940s, he was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943) featuring Jennifer Jones, The Farmer's Daughter (H.C. Potter, 1947), and Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco, 1948). In the 1950s, he served as host of the television series The Man Behind the Badge (1955). Bickford continued to act in generally prestigious projects right up to his death. He guest-starred on TV series like The Islanders (1960), The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1960), and The Eleventh Hour (1963). In his final years, Bickford played rancher John Grainger, owner of the Shiloh Ranch, on the Western series The Virginian (1962-1968) with Doug McClure. Two of the actor's most memorable late-career big-screen roles were a wealthy and ruthless rancher in the Western The Big Country (William Wyler, 1958) starring Gregory Peck and Jean Simmons, and the forlorn father of an alcoholic (played by Lee Remick) in the drama Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards, 1962). In 1965, Bickford published his autobiography, Bulls Balls Bicycles & Actors. In 1967, Charles Bickford died in Los Angeles of pneumonia and a blood infection at the age of 76. Jennifer Jones, who was a close friend of Bickford, attempted suicide on the day of his death, but it is not clear if Bickford's death had anything to do with the attempt. Since 1916, he had been married to Beatrice Loring. They had a son, Rex, and a daughter, Doris.
Sources: Jim Beaver (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
On the left, J.C., on the right, June. Left: hard and calloused. Right: soft, corinthian leather. Right: Sleeping. Left: NOT.
A Common Nocturnal Hornet (Provespa barthelemyi, Vespidae) boldly dismembers and consumes a (very much alive) Hawk Moth (Marumba sperchius, Sphingidae)
I have highlighted the way these wasps congregate in large numbers at the MV lamp at night in the past. Many of them take advantage of the smorgasbord of delights on offer and dismember moths at will (I have to watch for approaching bandits when trying to photograph a moth subject I like), but they usually end up forming tight clumps around the sheet where they fastidiously groom, preen and massage each other (see comments for image).
At all other times they are extremely aggressive, callous and easily agitated and the arrival of the first one when I switch on the light usually elicits an audible groan from me.
I have also been unfortunate to have been stung on a couple of occasions while dismantling my setup - something they resent and aggressively seek retribution for. True to the envenomation information online for the Provespa genus, the sting causes intense pain but contrary to available information, also local necrosis. On each occasion, the sting site develops a neat hole of maybe 4mm in diameter, from which the skin and underlying tissues have necrosed away. These heal with scars over some weeks.
Pu'er, Yunnan, China
The placard telling the story and history of the X24 Midget Submarine.
Thrown in one of Marshalls old arches as so much garbage!
Proof of Gainsborough authorities intended erasure of our history? You tell me!
The legacy that Marshalls provided for the town has all but been destroyed, never has such a famous company so callously been denied it's place in history!
Congressman Sandy Levin (MI-09) calls on Speaker Boehner and the House Republican leadership to end their callous indifference to the nearly 3 million individuals who have lost UI since the program expired on December 28 and to #RenewUI this critical lifeline.
This booklet higlights conditions and treatment for foot conditions including: Arches, Blisters, Bunions, Callouses, corns, Heel spurs and so on.
This booklet is an easy to read, informative precise of the most common afflictions of the foot, aimed specially at all of those who experience sore, tired, aching feet. That would most likely include everyone, since we are all likely to experience some foot discomfort at one time or another in our lives.
Sandi Rogers has provided in this booklet a brief description of the more common foot conditions we are likey to experience. Best of all she has provided explanations in layman’s terms, using language easy to understand and enjoyable to read; a natural gift of this most dedicated and experienced holistic health care practitioner and lecturer.There is practical and simple advice to assist with management, together with appropriate warnings and care with self treatment where necessary.
we made this. We are computer/business analysts and we, yes us folk with un-calloused fingers, built a cute little chicken coop.
Frog finds karma for his callousness to the poor drowned mouse.
"The Winston Readers, Third Reader" by Sydney Firman and Ethel Maltby. Illustrated by Frederic Richardson. These kids were lucky! The John C. Winston Co., 1918 and 1920.
2,000 Verizon workers on strike, supporters and elected leaders marched to a Verizon Wireless office on Wall Street. Verizon workers remain on strike and are standing strong on the picket lines, executives refused to back off of callous proposals that would hurt working families and destroy middle class jobs, including shipping jobs overseas and outsourcing work.
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January 17, 2016 – Striped Dolphins Slaughter – Taiji, Japan
Today a pod of 35-45 striped dolphins were driven into the cove and slaughtered in cold blood.
At 08:30am, Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians noticed a clear formation of six boats on the horizon.
By 09:30am, nine of the ten banger boats were driving, the pod was spotted and within the hour, Cove Guardians scaled Glenda’s and identified the pod as striped by 11am.
The massacre was brutal and left absolute carnage. Many dolphins were tangled in nets and bleeding heavily while the skiffs purposely ran over lone dolphins. The water was thick with blood as the entire family, including a handful of juveniles, were tortured, manhandled and dragged before their ultimate demise.
12:15pm, the massacre had ended, three skiffs left full of bodies, and the cove was ghostly quiet.
A lot of Japanese people don’t know just how merciless the dolphin slaughters are.
These brutal hunts only exist so a small group of middlemen can line their pockets selling wild dolphins to marine parks.
In order to end the cruelty, we need to expose their greed.
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd
Second in a series of images taken with an eye for the interplay of light and shadow. I welcome your comments!
Vice President Joe Biden will join Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and House and Senate Democrats to call on Republicans to end their callous obstruction and join with Democrats to take meaningful action to confront the urgent, unfinished issues facing the American people.