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Story Number: NNS160225-13Release Date: 2/25/2016 3:05:00 PM
ANACORTES, Wash. (NNS) -- The Navy's Auxiliary General Purpose Oceanographic Research Vessel (AGOR), R/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28), successfully completed Builder's Trials, Feb. 21, off the coast of Anacortes.
Builder's Trials for Sally Ride tested various shipboard systems and ensured readiness prior to conducting Acceptance Trials with the U.S. Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey.
The propulsion system, mission-over-the-side handling equipment, anchor handling system, and work/rescue boat launch system were among the systems successfully demonstrated.
"R/V Sally Ride performed remarkably well during Builder's Trials these past few weeks," said Mike Kosar, program manager for Support Ships, Boats, and Craft. "Our entire Navy and shipbuilder team have done an outstanding job in preparing the vessel for upcoming acceptance trials."
Based on a single-hull commercial design, R/V Sally Ride is approximately 238 feet long and incorporates the latest technologies, including high-efficiency diesel engines, emissions controls for stack gasses, and new information technology tools both for monitoring shipboard systems and for communicating with the world. Oceanographic Research Vessels provide scientists with the tools and capabilities to support ongoing research, including in the Atlantic, Western Pacific and Indian Ocean regions across a wide variety of missions.
Upon delivery, the ship will be operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography under a charter party agreement with Office of Naval Research. The vessel has accommodations for 24 scientists and will operate with a crew of 20.
This is the second ship of its class built by Dakota Creek Industries. The shipbuilder also constructed R/V Neil Armstrong (AGOR 27), which delivered to the Navy in September 2015.As one of the Defense Department's largest acquisition organizations, PEO Ships is responsible for executing the development and procurement of all destroyers, amphibious ships, special mission and support ships, and boats and craft.
The Neil Armstrong-class of research vessels are modern research vessels based on a commercial design, capable of integrated, interdisciplinary, general purpose oceanographic research in coastal and deep ocean areas. The Neil Armstrong-class will feature a modern suite of oceanographic equipment, state of the art acoustic equipment capable of mapping the deepest parts of the oceans, advanced over-the-side handling gear to deploy and retrieve scientific instruments, emissions controls for stack gasses, and new information technology tools both for monitoring shipboard systems and for communicating with land-based sites worldwide. Enhanced modular onboard laboratories and extensive science payload capacity will provide the ships with the flexibility to meet a wide variety of oceanographic research challenges in the coming decades.
U.S. Navy research vessels being built at Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes will be named after Neil Armstrong & Sally Ride
Mission: Integrated, interdisciplinary, general purpose oceanographic research in coastal and deep ocean areas.Oceanographic sampling and data collection of surface, midwater, sea floor, and sub-bottom parameters.
Quantity: Two (2)
User: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (AGOR 27),
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (AGOR 28)
Ship Names: R/V Neil Armstrong (AGOR 27)
R/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28)
Builder: Dakota Creek Industries, Inc.
Contract: FFP (Firm Fixed Price)
Contract Value: $177.4M
ROM Unit Cost: $74.1 M (lead), $71.0M (follow)
Key Characteristics:
• Hull Material Steel; Aluminum pilothouse
• Length 238 ft
• Beam (Max) 50 ft
• Draft 15 ft
• Displacement 3043 LT (Full Load)
• Sustained Speed 12 kts
• Range 10,545 nm
• Endurance 40 days
• Propulsion 4 x 1044 kW Diesels, 2 x 879 kW Electric
Propulsion Motors, 2 x Controllable Pitch
Propellers, Bow & Stern Thrusters
• Accommodations 20 crew, 24 science berths
To ensure the best use of the land and the best sun exposure, the steep slopes the Douro valley (with slopes that exceed 25% in some areas), were shaped, to implant the vines, in three different shapes: terraces, traditional terraces and vineyards at the top of the slope.
Over centuries of cultivation with traditional manual techniques, the Douro people have discovered unique ways to plant their vineyards, by making the rock on the surface of the arable soil. In turn, the rocky soil guarantees and controls the temperature, thus creating the unique microclimate of the Douro for the development of the vine and roots.
The rock in the region is very porous and absorbs moisture. Over the rainy period, the rocks soak up the rain. The grape vines are then able to reach down under the soil and extract the water from the porous rocks during the hot, dry summer months.
The Glasshouse is an international centre for musical education and concerts on the Gateshead bank of Quayside in northern England. Opened in 2004 as Sage Gateshead and occupied by North Music Trust The venue's original name honours a patron: the accountancy software company The Sage Group.
History
Planning for the centre began in the early 1990s, when the orchestra of Sage Gateshead, Royal Northern Sinfonia, with encouragement from Northern Arts, began working on plans for a new concert hall. They were soon joined by regional folk music development agency Folkworks, which ensured that the needs of the region's traditional music were taken into consideration and represented in Sage Gateshead's programme of concerts, alongside Rock, Pop, Dance, Hip Hop, classical, jazz, acoustic, indie, country and world, Practice spaces for professional musicians, students and amateurs were an important part of the provision.
The planning and construction process cost over £70 million, which was raised primarily through National Lottery grants. The contractor was Laing O'Rourke. The centre has a range of patrons, notably Sage Group which contributed a large sum of money to have the building named after it. Sage plc has helped support the charitable activities of Sage Gateshead since its conception. The venue opened over the weekend 17–19 December 2004.
Sage Gateshead was developed by Foster and Partners following an architectural design competition launched in 1997 and managed by RIBA Competitions. Over 100 architects registered their interest and 12 – a mixture of local, national and international talent – were invited to prepare concept designs. A shortlist of six was then interviewed with Foster and Partners unanimously selected as the winner. The Design has gone on to win a number of awards: the RIBA Inclusive Design Award, Civic Trust Award and The Journal North East Landmark of the Year Award.
As a conference venue, the building hosted the Labour Party's Spring conference in February 2005 and the Liberal Democrat Party conference in March 2012. On 18 August 2009, Sage Gateshead was selected to host the 2010 and 2011 National Union of Students annual conference. The 2010 Annual Conference took place 13–15 April 2010.
In 2022 The Sage Group announced that they were also sponsoring a new development that is being built next to Sage Gateshead which will be called The Sage. Sage Gateshead announced that they will be finding a new name for the venue prior to The Sage opening in 2024. On 13 September 2023 the venue announced its new name, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music.
Building
The centre occupies a curved glass and stainless steel building designed by Foster and Partners, Buro Happold (structural engineering), Mott MacDonald (engineering consultants) and Arup (acoustics), with views of Newcastle and Gateshead Quaysides, the Tyne Bridge and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
The Glasshouse contains three performance spaces; a 1,700-seater, a 450-seater, and a smaller rehearsal and performance hall, the Northern Rock Foundation Hall. The rest of the building was designed around these three spaces to allow for maximum attention to detail in their acoustic properties. Structurally it is three separate buildings, insulated from each other to prevent noise and vibration travelling between them. The gaps between them may be seen as one walks around inside. A special 'spongy' concrete mix was used in the construction, with a higher-than-usual air capacity to improve the acoustic. These three buildings are enclosed (but not touched) by the now-famous glass and steel shell. Sage One was intended as an acoustically perfect space, modelled on the Musikverein in Vienna. Its ceiling panels may be raised and lowered and curtains drawn across the ribbed wooden side walls, changing the sound profile of the room to suit any type of music. Sage Two is a smaller venue, possibly the world's only ten-sided performance space.
The building is open to the public throughout the day.
Concerts
The Glasshouse will host concerts from a wide range of internationally famous artists, and those who have played at the venue include Above and Beyond, Blondie, James Brown, Bonobo, Andy Cutting, De La Soul, Nick Cave, George Clinton, Bill Callahan, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Dillinger, Grace Jones, Gretchen Peters, Elbow, Explosions in the Sky, the Fall, Herbie Hancock, Mogwai, Morrissey, Mumford & Sons, Pet Shop Boys, Sunn O))), Nancy Sinatra, Snarky Puppy, Sting, Yellowman, Shane Filan of Westlife and others. In February 2015, it was one of the hosts of the second annual BBC Radio 6 Music Festival.
It is also home to Royal Northern Sinfonia, of which The Guardian wrote there is "no better chamber orchestra in Britain", and frequently hosts other visiting orchestras from around the world. The current music director for Royal Northern Sinfonia is the pianist and conductor Lars Vogt. In late 2014, Royal Northern Sinfonia collaborated with John Grant, performing at Sage Gateshead, and other venues throughout the UK. Recordings from this tour were made available as a limited edition CD and 12" record via Rough Trade Records in 2015.
Opinion
There has been popular debate surrounding what was Sage Gateshead. The venue is popular in the local area because of its concerts, and also its accessible learning courses for all ages and its constant interaction with local schools and academies through programmes such as Sing Up and the option of school visits.
Awards
2019: UK National Lottery 25th Birthday Award - Best Arts, Culture and Film
2019: Julie's Bicycle Creative Green 2 Star
2019: Gold Standard - Attitude is Everything
2018: Gold Award for Inclusive Tourism (North East Tourism Awards)
2018: Gold Award for Business Tourism (Visit England Awards for Excellence)
2005: Local Authority Building of the Year
2005: British Construction Industry Awards
2005: RIBA Award for Inclusive Design
Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The town shares the Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge and multiple other bridges with Newcastle upon Tyne.
Historically part of County Durham, under the Local Government Act 1888 the town was made a county borough, meaning it was administered independently of the county council.
In the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 120,046 while the wider borough had 200,214.
History
Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as ad caput caprae ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attestations of the name, among them Gatesheued (c. 1190), literally "goat's head" but in the context of a place-name meaning 'headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats'. Although other derivations have been mooted, it is this that is given by the standard authorities.
A Brittonic predecessor, named with the element *gabro-, 'goat' (c.f. Welsh gafr), may underlie the name. Gateshead might have been the Roman-British fort of Gabrosentum.
Early
There has been a settlement on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne, around the old river crossing where the Swing Bridge now stands, since Roman times.
The first recorded mention of Gateshead is in the writings of the Venerable Bede who referred to an Abbot of Gateshead called Utta in 623. In 1068 William the Conqueror defeated the forces of Edgar the Ætheling and Malcolm king of Scotland (Shakespeare's Malcolm) on Gateshead Fell (now Low Fell and Sheriff Hill).
During medieval times Gateshead was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham. At this time the area was largely forest with some agricultural land. The forest was the subject of Gateshead's first charter, granted in the 12th century by Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham. An alternative spelling may be "Gatishevede", as seen in a legal record, dated 1430.
Industrial revolution
Throughout the Industrial Revolution the population of Gateshead expanded rapidly; between 1801 and 1901 the increase was over 100,000. This expansion resulted in the spread southwards of the town.
In 1854, a catastrophic explosion on the quayside destroyed most of Gateshead's medieval heritage, and caused widespread damage on the Newcastle side of the river.
Sir Joseph Swan lived at Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead from 1869 to 1883, where his experiments led to the invention of the electric light bulb. The house was the first in the world to be wired for domestic electric light.
In the 1889 one of the largest employers (Hawks, Crawshay and Company) closed down and unemployment has since been a burden. Up to the Second World War there were repeated newspaper reports of the unemployed sending deputations to the council to provide work. The depression years of the 1920s and 1930s created even more joblessness and the Team Valley Trading Estate was built in the mid-1930s to alleviate the situation.
Regeneration
In the late noughties, Gateshead Council started to regenerate the town, with the long-term aim of making Gateshead a city. The most extensive transformation occurred in the Quayside, with almost all the structures there being constructed or refurbished in this time.
In the early 2010s, regeneration refocused on the town centre. The £150 million Trinity Square development opened in May 2013, it incorporates student accommodation, a cinema, health centre and shops. It was nominated for the Carbuncle Cup in September 2014. The cup was however awarded to another development which involved Tesco, Woolwich Central.
Governance
In 1835, Gateshead was established as a municipal borough and in 1889 it was made a county borough, independent from Durham County Council.
In 1870, the Old Town Hall was built, designed by John Johnstone who also designed the previously built Newcastle Town Hall. The ornamental clock in front of the old town hall was presented to Gateshead in 1892 by the mayor, Walter de Lancey Willson, on the occasion of him being elected for a third time. He was also one of the founders of Walter Willson's, a chain of grocers in the North East and Cumbria. The old town hall also served as a magistrate's court and one of Gateshead's police stations.
Current
In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, the County Borough of Gateshead was merged with the urban districts of Felling, Whickham, Blaydon and Ryton and part of the rural district of Chester-le-Street to create the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
Geography
The town of Gateshead is in the North East of England in the ceremonial county of Tyne and Wear, and within the historic boundaries of County Durham. It is located on the southern bank of the River Tyne at a latitude of 54.57° N and a longitude of 1.35° W. Gateshead experiences a temperate climate which is considerably warmer than some other locations at similar latitudes as a result of the warming influence of the Gulf Stream (via the North Atlantic drift). It is located in the rain shadow of the North Pennines and is therefore in one of the driest regions of the United Kingdom.
One of the most distinguishing features of Gateshead is its topography. The land rises 230 feet from Gateshead Quays to the town centre and continues rising to a height of 525 feet at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Sheriff Hill. This is in contrast to the flat and low lying Team Valley located on the western edges of town. The high elevations allow for impressive views over the Tyne valley into Newcastle and across Tyneside to Sunderland and the North Sea from lookouts in Windmill Hills and Windy Nook respectively.
The Office for National Statistics defines the town as an urban sub-division. The latest (2011) ONS urban sub-division of Gateshead contains the historical County Borough together with areas that the town has absorbed, including Dunston, Felling, Heworth, Pelaw and Bill Quay.
Given the proximity of Gateshead to Newcastle, just south of the River Tyne from the city centre, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as being a part of Newcastle. Gateshead Council and Newcastle City Council teamed up in 2000 to create a unified marketing brand name, NewcastleGateshead, to better promote the whole of the Tyneside conurbation.
Economy
Gateshead is home to the MetroCentre, the largest shopping mall in the UK until 2008; and the Team Valley Trading Estate, once the largest and still one of the larger purpose-built commercial estates in the UK.
Arts
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art has been established in a converted flour mill. The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, previously The Sage, a Norman Foster-designed venue for music and the performing arts opened on 17 December 2004. Gateshead also hosted the Gateshead Garden Festival in 1990, rejuvenating 200 acres (0.81 km2) of derelict land (now mostly replaced with housing). The Angel of the North, a famous sculpture in nearby Lamesley, is visible from the A1 to the south of Gateshead, as well as from the East Coast Main Line. Other public art include works by Richard Deacon, Colin Rose, Sally Matthews, Andy Goldsworthy, Gordon Young and Michael Winstone.
Traditional and former
The earliest recorded coal mining in the Gateshead area is dated to 1344. As trade on the Tyne prospered there were several attempts by the burghers of Newcastle to annex Gateshead. In 1576 a small group of Newcastle merchants acquired the 'Grand Lease' of the manors of Gateshead and Whickham. In the hundred years from 1574 coal shipments from Newcastle increased elevenfold while the population of Gateshead doubled to approximately 5,500. However, the lease and the abundant coal supplies ended in 1680. The pits were shallow as problems of ventilation and flooding defeated attempts to mine coal from the deeper seams.
'William Cotesworth (1668-1726) was a prominent merchant based in Gateshead, where he was a leader in coal and international trade. Cotesworth began as the son of a yeoman and apprentice to a tallow - candler. He ended as an esquire, having been mayor, Justice of the Peace and sheriff of Northumberland. He collected tallow from all over England and sold it across the globe. He imported dyes from the Indies, as well as flax, wine, and grain. He sold tea, sugar, chocolate, and tobacco. He operated the largest coal mines in the area, and was a leading salt producer. As the government's principal agent in the North country, he was in contact with leading ministers.
William Hawks originally a blacksmith, started business in Gateshead in 1747, working with the iron brought to the Tyne as ballast by the Tyne colliers. Hawks and Co. eventually became one of the biggest iron businesses in the North, producing anchors, chains and so on to meet a growing demand. There was keen contemporary rivalry between 'Hawks' Blacks' and 'Crowley's Crew'. The famous 'Hawks' men' including Ned White, went on to be celebrated in Geordie song and story.
In 1831 a locomotive works was established by the Newcastle and Darlington Railway, later part of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. In 1854 the works moved to the Greenesfield site and became the manufacturing headquarters of North Eastern Railway. In 1909, locomotive construction was moved to Darlington and the rest of the works were closed in 1932.
Robert Stirling Newall took out a patent on the manufacture of wire ropes in 1840 and in partnership with Messrs. Liddell and Gordon, set up his headquarters at Gateshead. A worldwide industry of wire-drawing resulted. The submarine telegraph cable received its definitive form through Newall's initiative, involving the use of gutta-percha surrounded by strong wires. The first successful Dover–Calais cable on 25 September 1851, was made in Newall's works. In 1853, he invented the brake-drum and cone for laying cable in deep seas. Half of the first Atlantic cable was manufactured in Gateshead. Newall was interested in astronomy, and his giant 25-inch (640 mm) telescope was set up in the garden at Ferndene, his Gateshead residence, in 1871.
Architecture
JB Priestley, writing of Gateshead in his 1934 travelogue English Journey, said that "no true civilisation could have produced such a town", adding that it appeared to have been designed "by an enemy of the human race".
Victorian
William Wailes the celebrated stained-glass maker, lived at South Dene from 1853 to 1860. In 1860, he designed Saltwell Towers as a fairy-tale palace for himself. It is an imposing Victorian mansion in its own park with a romantic skyline of turrets and battlements. It was originally furnished sumptuously by Gerrard Robinson. Some of the panelling installed by Robinson was later moved to the Shipley Art gallery. Wailes sold Saltwell Towers to the corporation in 1876 for use as a public park, provided he could use the house for the rest of his life. For many years the structure was essentially an empty shell but following a restoration programme it was reopened to the public in 2004.
Post millennium
The council sponsored the development of a Gateshead Quays cultural quarter. The development includes the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, erected in 2001, which won the prestigious Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2002.
Former brutalism
The brutalist Trinity Centre Car Park, which was designed by Owen Luder, dominated the town centre for many years until its demolition in 2010. A product of attempts to regenerate the area in the 1960s, the car park gained an iconic status due to its appearance in the 1971 film Get Carter, starring Michael Caine. An unsuccessful campaign to have the structure listed was backed by Sylvester Stallone, who played the main role in the 2000 remake of the film. The car park was scheduled for demolition in 2009, but this was delayed as a result of a disagreement between Tesco, who re-developed the site, and Gateshead Council. The council had not been given firm assurances that Tesco would build the previously envisioned town centre development which was to include a Tesco mega-store as well as shops, restaurants, cafes, bars, offices and student accommodation. The council effectively used the car park as a bargaining tool to ensure that the company adhered to the original proposals and blocked its demolition until they submitted a suitable planning application. Demolition finally took place in July–August 2010.
The Derwent Tower, another well known example of brutalist architecture, was also designed by Owen Luder and stood in the neighbourhood of Dunston. Like the Trinity Car Park it also failed in its bid to become a listed building and was demolished in 2012. Also located in this area are the Grade II listed Dunston Staithes which were built in 1890. Following the award of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of almost £420,000 restoration of the structure is expected to begin in April 2014.
Sport
Gateshead International Stadium regularly holds international athletics meetings over the summer months, and is home of the Gateshead Harriers athletics club. It is also host to rugby league fixtures, and the home ground of Gateshead Football Club. Gateshead Thunder Rugby League Football Club played at Gateshead International Stadium until its purchase by Newcastle Rugby Limited and the subsequent rebranding as Newcastle Thunder. Both clubs have had their problems: Gateshead A.F.C. were controversially voted out of the Football League in 1960 in favour of Peterborough United, whilst Gateshead Thunder lost their place in Super League as a result of a takeover (officially termed a merger) by Hull F.C. Both Gateshead clubs continue to ply their trade at lower levels in their respective sports, thanks mainly to the efforts of their supporters. The Gateshead Senators American Football team also use the International Stadium, as well as this it was used in the 2006 Northern Conference champions in the British American Football League.
Gateshead Leisure Centre is home to the Gateshead Phoenix Basketball Team. The team currently plays in EBL League Division 4. Home games are usually on a Sunday afternoon during the season, which runs from September to March. The team was formed in 2013 and ended their initial season well placed to progress after defeating local rivals Newcastle Eagles II and promotion chasing Kingston Panthers.
In Low Fell there is a cricket club and a rugby club adjacent to each other on Eastwood Gardens. These are Gateshead Fell Cricket Club and Gateshead Rugby Club. Gateshead Rugby Club was formed in 1998 following the merger of Gateshead Fell Rugby Club and North Durham Rugby Club.
Transport
Gateshead is served by the following rail transport stations with some being operated by National Rail and some being Tyne & Wear Metro stations: Dunston, Felling, Gateshead Interchange, Gateshead Stadium, Heworth Interchange, MetroCentre and Pelaw.
Tyne & Wear Metro stations at Gateshead Interchange and Gateshead Stadium provide direct light-rail access to Newcastle Central, Newcastle Airport , Sunderland, Tynemouth and South Shields Interchange.
National Rail services are provided by Northern at Dunston and MetroCentre stations. The East Coast Main Line, which runs from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh Waverley, cuts directly through the town on its way between Newcastle Central and Chester-le-Street stations. There are presently no stations on this line within Gateshead, as Low Fell, Bensham and Gateshead West stations were closed in 1952, 1954 and 1965 respectively.
Road
Several major road links pass through Gateshead, including the A1 which links London to Edinburgh and the A184 which connects the town to Sunderland.
Gateshead Interchange is the busiest bus station in Tyne & Wear and was used by 3.9 million bus passengers in 2008.
Cycle routes
Various bicycle trails traverse the town; most notably is the recreational Keelmans Way (National Cycle Route 14), which is located on the south bank of the Tyne and takes riders along the entire Gateshead foreshore. Other prominent routes include the East Gateshead Cycleway, which connects to Felling, the West Gateshead Cycleway, which links the town centre to Dunston and the MetroCentre, and routes along both the old and new Durham roads, which take cyclists to Birtley, Wrekenton and the Angel of the North.
Religion
Christianity has been present in the town since at least the 7th century, when Bede mentioned a monastery in Gateshead. A church in the town was burned down in 1080 with the Bishop of Durham inside.[citation needed] St Mary's Church was built near to the site of that building, and was the only church in the town until the 1820s. Undoubtedly the oldest building on the Quayside, St Mary's has now re-opened to the public as the town's first heritage centre.
Many of the Anglican churches in the town date from the 19th century, when the population of the town grew dramatically and expanded into new areas. The town presently has a number of notable and large churches of many denominations.
Judaism
The Bensham district is home to a community of hundreds of Jewish families and used to be known as "Little Jerusalem". Within the community is the Gateshead Yeshiva, founded in 1929, and other Jewish educational institutions with international enrolments. These include two seminaries: Beis Medrash L'Morot and Beis Chaya Rochel seminary, colloquially known together as Gateshead "old" and "new" seminaries.
Many yeshivot and kollels also are active. Yeshivat Beer Hatorah, Sunderland Yeshiva, Nesivos Hatorah, Nezer Hatorah and Yeshiva Ketana make up some of the list.
Islam
Islam is practised by a large community of people in Gateshead and there are 2 mosques located in the Bensham area (in Ely Street and Villa Place).
Twinning
Gateshead is twinned with the town of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in France, and the city of Komatsu in Japan.
Notable people
Eliezer Adler – founder of Jewish Community
Marcus Bentley – narrator of Big Brother
Catherine Booth – wife of William Booth, known as the Mother of The Salvation Army
William Booth – founder of the Salvation Army
Mary Bowes – the Unhappy Countess, author and celebrity
Ian Branfoot – footballer and manager (Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton)
Andy Carroll – footballer (Newcastle United, Liverpool and West Ham United)
Frank Clark – footballer and manager (Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest)
David Clelland – Labour politician and MP
Derek Conway – former Conservative politician and MP
Joseph Cowen – Radical politician
Steve Cram – athlete (middle-distance runner)
Emily Davies – educational reformer and feminist, founder of Girton College, Cambridge
Daniel Defoe – writer and government agent
Ruth Dodds – politician, writer and co-founder of the Little Theatre
Jonathan Edwards – athlete (triple jumper) and television presenter
Sammy Johnson – actor (Spender)
George Elliot – industrialist and MP
Paul Gascoigne – footballer (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers and Middlesbrough)
Alex Glasgow – singer/songwriter
Avrohom Gurwicz – rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva
Leib Gurwicz – rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva
Jill Halfpenny – actress (Coronation Street and EastEnders)
Chelsea Halfpenny – actress (Emmerdale)
David Hodgson – footballer and manager (Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Sunderland)
Sharon Hodgson – Labour politician and MP
Norman Hunter – footballer (Leeds United and member of 1966 World Cup-winning England squad)
Don Hutchison – footballer (Liverpool, West Ham United, Everton and Sunderland)
Brian Johnson – AC/DC frontman
Tommy Johnson – footballer (Aston Villa and Celtic)
Riley Jones - actor
Howard Kendall – footballer and manager (Preston North End and Everton)
J. Thomas Looney – Shakespeare scholar
Gary Madine – footballer (Sheffield Wednesday)
Justin McDonald – actor (Distant Shores)
Lawrie McMenemy – football manager (Southampton and Northern Ireland) and pundit
Thomas Mein – professional cyclist (Canyon DHB p/b Soreen)
Robert Stirling Newall – industrialist
Bezalel Rakow – communal rabbi
John William Rayner – flying ace and war hero
James Renforth – oarsman
Mariam Rezaei – musician and artist
Sir Tom Shakespeare - baronet, sociologist and disability rights campaigner
William Shield – Master of the King's Musick
Christina Stead – Australian novelist
John Steel – drummer (The Animals)
Henry Spencer Stephenson – chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II
Steve Stone – footballer (Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Portsmouth)
Chris Swailes – footballer (Ipswich Town)
Sir Joseph Swan – inventor of the incandescent light bulb
Nicholas Trainor – cricketer (Gloucestershire)
Chris Waddle – footballer (Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sheffield Wednesday)
William Wailes – stained glass maker
Taylor Wane – adult entertainer
Robert Spence Watson – public benefactor
Sylvia Waugh – author of The Mennyms series for children
Chris Wilkie – guitarist (Dubstar)
John Wilson - orchestral conductor
Peter Wilson – footballer (Gateshead, captain of Australia)
Thomas Wilson – poet/school founder
Robert Wood – Australian politician
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These little Pikas/Rock Rabbits are only 6-9 inches long and are usually seen far away, running back and forth over the massive scree (talus) mountain slope that they call home. Very occasionally, one happens to come a bit closer, usually for just a quick moment. Love their little front paws and their round ears. This one's fur was being blown all over the place, as it was so windy.
"The American Pika is a generalist herbivore. It eats a large variety of green plants, including different kinds of grasses, sedges, thistles and fireweed. Although pikas can meet their water demands from the vegetation they eat, they do drink water if it is available in their environment. Pikas have two different ways of foraging: they directly consume food (feeding) or they cache food in haypiles to use for a food source in the winter (haying). The pika feeds throughout the year while haying is limited to the summer months. Since they do not hibernate, pikas have greater energy demands than other montane mammals. In addition, they also make 13 trips per hour to collect vegetation when haying, up to a little over 100 trips per day." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_pika
A couple of short YouTube videos in case anyone wants to hear and see these absolutely cute creatures:
On 18 August 2017, I made a very last-minute decision (just after midnight) to return to this location. Last year (2016), I had finally made myself do this long drive (293 km), after longing for years to be able to get there on my own. I was determined to go again this summer, and this was the day.
I left home a few minutes before 8:00 am and took the scenic back road to Highway 40. Unfortunately, we are still getting the smoke from the British Columbia and Alberta wildfires, so distant shots are not the best. However, the landscape on this whole drive is spectacular and I could never tire of it. I would imagine most people drive the whole loop along Highway 40, but my destination was a place where Pikas live, keeping my fingers crossed that at least one of them would show up. I was in luck and saw two of them, and managed to get a few photos, though I have taken better photos on previous visits.
While I was standing near the base of this huge talus slope, I started hearing the sound of rocks falling! The first thing that flashed through my mind was that I was not standing in the best place if a rock slide happened, and then I remembered seeing someone's photo of a bear with her two cubs walking across the rocks just above where I was standing. Looking around, I could see nothing - and then, suddenly, I could just make out the tiny silhouette of a Bighorn Sheep on the very top of the ridge, and then several others came along. In a short time, one of them walked to the end of the ridge and stood there, on guard the whole time it took for the rest of the herd to slowly make its way down the rocky mountain side. They ended up passing me on a closer ridge and finally reached the road. What a journey they made in order to get salt off the road surface! I watched them for maybe an hour, while they hung around just below me, refusing to leave the road when cars came along. Nothing would make them budge! It was just as interesting to watch the reaction of the drivers - most slowed right down or stopped, and most people stayed in their vehicles.
After calling in again at Highwood House to pick up a much-needed coffee, I carried on with the drive home via various backroads, including the Priddis area. My early morning drive had given me just two birds - a Northern Harrier and some other Hawk. The return drive gave me maybe four Hawks, none of which stayed long enough for a photo. A strange, empty feeling, as two days earlier, friends and I had seen dozens of Hawks during a day's drive.
Rhinoceros: since 1973 the population has recovered well and increased to 544 animals around the turn of the century. To ensure the survival of the endangered species in case of epidemics animals are translocated annually from Chitwan to the Bardia National Park and the Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve since 1986. However, the population has repeatedly been jeopardized by poaching: in 2002 alone, poachers killed 37 individuals in order to saw off and sell their valuable horns.[6] Chitwan has the largest population of Indian rhinoceros in Nepal, estimated at 605 individuals out of 645 in total in the country.
Der Park ist bekannt für die Population des Panzernashorns, die bis zur Jahrtausendwende auf 544 Tiere und bis zum Frühjahr 2015 auf 645 Nashörner[6] angewachsen war. Seit 1986 werden alljährlich Tiere von Chitwan in den Bardia-Nationalpark und in das Suklaphanta-Wildreservat übersiedelt. Die Population war aber immer wieder durch Wilderei stark gefährdet: allein im Jahre 2002 haben Wilderer 37 Tiere grausam getötet, um das kostbare Horn absägen und verkaufen zu können.[1] Die letzte Zählung im Jahr 2011 ergab insgesamt 503 Nashörner im Park, im selben Zeitraum starben zwei Tiere durch Wilderer. Bei der Zählung im Frühjahr 2015 wurden 645 Tiere in Nepal gefunden[6], davon 605 im Chitwan-Nationalpark[8], während gleichzeitig in den letzten drei Jahren kein Tier durch Wilderer ums Leben kam.
Camperdown.
Like Noorat, Camperdown is overshadowed by a volcanic cone, Mt Leura, which ensures fertile volcanic soils suitable for dairying are found in the surrounding countryside. Camperdown has become the major regional town. It was once surrounded by some of the great pastoral properties of Victoria, most of which had grand mansions erected on them befitting the great wealth and status of the early pastoralists including:
Purrumbete (the Manifold brothers, 11,000 acres) on the main highway to Geelong; Talindert (also a Manifold property, 6,000 acres) nearer to Mt Leura; West Cloven Hills ( Nicholas Cole 22,000 acres); Meningoort ( Peter McArthur, 13,000 acres); Keilambete ( John Thomson, 26,000 acres- remember the Thomson Memorial Presbyterian church in Terang?); Gala ( John & Thomas Brown, 31,500 acres); Larra ( James Kinross - the buildings are National Heritage listed); Titanga ( James Wilson and partners, 14,000 acres;) and Mount Elephant (Chirnside family of Werribee Park –more than 12,000 acres). Of all of these families it was the Manifolds of Purrumbete and Talindert who provided significant social and civic leadership to Camperdown. Thus the Main Street is Manifold Street and when Princess Alexandra visited Camperdown in 1959 she stayed at Talindert. But by then Talindert, like all the large pastoral estates, had been broken up for closer settlement around the turn of the 20th century. It was a grand house with a small acreage of around 1,700 acres. Purrumbete historic mansion recently sold in February 2013 with just 420 acres. Manifolds have served on the town and district councils, including as President of the Shire etc. It was the Manifold family who paid for the unusual clock tower in the Main Street as a memorial for their son Thomas Manifold who was killed in a hunting accident in 1896. £1,000 was given to the shire council for its erection in 1897. The tower is 103 feet high (31.4 metres) and the clock chimes regularly. The Manifolds also gave financial support to the hospital, the road to the top of Mt Leura and the extensions to the high school. Rather than large sheep properties Camperdown is now surrounded by small dairy farms or beef cattle properties.
The first Camperdown settlement was actually at Timboon where the old Timboon Inn, erected around 1855 still stands. A couple of shepherds lived here and a primitive bush store opened. But the ground was too swampy and so the site was moved closer to Mt Leura. Timboon was on the leasehold of the Manifold brothers of Purrumbete but in 1852 the government resumed land from the Manifolds and surveyed a town and some small acreage blocks near Mt Leura. Camperdown was named in 1854 by Governor LaTrobe when on a hunting trip with Niel Black of Glenormiston. Houses began to appear in 1857 and by 1859 it was a small town with a hotel, stores, wool agent etc. The storekeeper at Timboon moved into Camperdown in 1860 as the town began to grow. In 1858 the first Courthouse was opened with a Police Station following in 1859 and a Post office and telegraph service in 1862. As early as 1871 a local newspaper was established for the town and an early school was built in 1858. The bluestone school was erected in 1886. It was schoolchildren who planted the English Elms in the Main Street in 1876. The railway from Geelong reached the town in 1883 with much fanfare. The old Courthouse in polychromatic brickwork built in 1887 is now the museum, Information Centre and shop for souvenirs etc.
The Camperdown Botanic Gardens deserved special mention. Not only were they designed by our friend William Guilfoyle but they provide a wonderful lookout over the two local volcanic lakes, Bullen Merri and Gnotuk. The two lakes although very close to each other are at different altitudes. Both are maars, or water filled volcanic cones with a surrounding volcanic scoria rim. Bullen Merri is actually two maars that have coalesced. Bullen Merri is about 60 metres deep and Gnotuk about 20 metres deep. Both lakes are the same height above sea level but with a 40-metre difference in their surface heights. Lake Bullen Merri inspired well-known colonial artist Eugene von Guerard to paint it in 1858. Look for copies on the internet. Guilfoyle’s Botanic Gardens are special because they used to contain a statue of the Scottish poet and folk hero Robbie Burns but this has now been placed indoors for safekeeping. The base remains! The gardens have some unusual plants (a typical Guilfoyle trademark) including Himalayan Oak, African Holly tree (Cassine crocea also known as Elaeodendron croceum or Saffron Wood from South Africa), and an extremely rare Quercus leucotrichophora(Blackjack Oak from India) just east of the Robbie Burns statue base. The Gardens also have many fine European Linden trees.
Mount Leura is yet another volcanic cone affording vistas over the hedge-divided countryside. Mount Leura was an active volcano about 20,000 years ago. The reserve here was donated by the Manifold brothers. Nearby Mount Sugarloaf is a perfectly symmetric scoria cone and very much photographed because of that. The circular sheep tracks add to its interest! Both Sugarloaf and Leura are about 311 metres tall the same height as Mt Noorat. There is a deep crater separating Sugarloaf and Leura. It is estimated that Mt Leura formed in about 20 years of constant lava eruptions from a central vent which immediately cooled into scoria pocked with air holes from where gases escaped. The highest maar or volcanic cone in Western Victoria is Mount Elephant near Derrinallum at 393 metres.
Our Constitution should have helped us create a truly egalitarian society but the power elite has failed miserably in ensuring equality and justice for all. Despite impressive economic growth in the last two decades, inequalities and injustices are pervasive. According to World Bank estimates (2015), there has been a decline in India’s poverty rate but this is cold comfort — 172 million citizens still live below the poverty line and constitute 24.5 per cent of the world’s poor. Whereas, India’s richest one per cent now hold 58 per cent of the nation’s wealth.
India is today self-sufficient in agriculture, is the biggest exporter of rice in the world, the biggest producer of milk and second-largest producer of fruits and vegetables. The farming community made this happen. Yet unending waves of farmer suicides are overt manifestations of an on-going human tragedy. They are victims of an iniquitous system where even bumper harvests do not ensure reasonable profits; where there is no insurance against the vagaries of nature or volatility of the market; where the government’s focus is on containing food inflation in cities with hardly a thought to whether the producer is adequately remunerated; where the governing class obsesses about smart cities and bullet trains while rural India, where 68 per cent of our people live, remains without basic infrastructure.
Although elaborate laws specifically aimed at protecting Dalits are in place, there is no let-up in the atrocities against this group. According to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, there were 54,355 registered cases, including rape, murder and arson committed against Dalits in 2015 compared to 39,408 cases in 2013.
Since the late 1980s, the mutual suspicion and distrust between communities have intensified, and the country is witnessing a majoritarian assault on the Muslim and his way of life. Lynching for beef eating and suspicion of cow slaughter has become virtually quotidian. Politicians have been fishing in troubled waters by instigating the worst elements in both communities. With even educational institutions and cultural bodies purveying the gospel of hate, what we see today is an overpowering communalisation of the public space. The social gulf between the two communities that seems to be widening poses a greater threat to the nation’s well-being than terrorism or Pakistan.
Extreme gender inequality and intolerance to dissent are further manifestations of a deeply polarised society.
We all need a change of heart.
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The BMW New Class (German: Neue Klasse) was a line of compact sedans and coupes produced by German automaker BMW between 1962 and 1977. The New Class ensured BMW's solvency after the company's financial crises of the 1950s and established the identity of BMW automobiles as sports sedans.
In 1969, BMW introduced the 2000tii ('touring international, injected'), BMW's first fuel-injected model, featuring Kugelfischer mechanical fuel injection. The 2000tii produced 130 hp (97 kW) at 5,800 revolutions per minute and 131 lb•ft (178 N•m) at 4,500 revolutions per minute. 1,952 2000tii cars were built of this final New Class sedan model.
A 2002 tii Touring model was available throughout the run of the tii engine and the Touring body, both of which ended production in 1974.
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Before you leave, you must ensure that you have some nice locations in mind. Nowadays you can quickly find addresses of known locations on the internet. Finding unknown locations takes a little more time. Search news articles, newspapers and the internet for abandoned buildings or 'fly' through your surroundings with Google Earth. You bet that you suddenly find a villa whose roof is broken or a factory where no car is left in the parking lot? During an online search for a specific location you often come across many other places. So searching yourself has its advantages. Also always keep your eyes open while you are on the move.
20230217, MSC, Munich Security Conference, Bayerischer Hof: Main Stage I: Panel Discussion.Against Lawlessness: Ensuring Accountability.Conference Hall: Kaja Kallas Prime Minister, Republic of Estonia
Look in all directions--left, center, right, rear to ensure it is safe to proceed.
The LM Arena AI-Generation web application created this video clip based on a text description or still image that I had entered.
Some unknown web app created the original still image based on my text description. I had this made nearly a year ago, and I do not recall which web app created the still.
Cottbus, State Theatre: In the two proscenium boxes, mirrors on the back wall ensure that the half-dome of the ceiling appears as a full dome.
Eine florierende Textilindustrie hatte die ökonomische und politische Stellung des Cottbuser Bürgertums zur Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundertgestärkt und weckte nun stärker kulturelle Bedürfnisse. Die Stadtverordneten beschlossen am 1. November 1905 den Neubau eines Stadttheaters und schrieben dazu einen Architekturwettbewerb aus. Den Zuschlag erhielt Bernhard Sehring, der bereits 1896 mit seinem Theaterbau „Theater des Westens“ in Berlin großes Aufsehen erregt und lebhafte Diskussionen ausgelöst hatte.
Der Theaterbau in Cottbus – ein Bauwerk des sezessionistischen Jugendstils – ist Sehrings reifste architektonische Leistung. Geschickt verwob er hier Architektur, Kunsthandwerk, Malerei und Plastik.
Nach nur 16 Monaten Bauzeit wurde das Theater am 1. Oktober 1908 eröffnet. Cottbuser Bürger verhinderten 1945 die Sprengung des Gebäudes, das während des Krieges auch als Munitionslager gedient hatte. Eine aufwändige sechsjährige Rekonstruktion in den 1980er-Jahren beseitigte im Laufe der Zeit entstandene Schäden. Technische Neuerungen wurden architektonisch einfühlsam eingebaut. Im Oktober 1986 wurde das Haus feierlich wiedereröffnet. 1992 ging das Cottbuser Stadttheater in den Besitz des Landes über und wurde damit das einzige Staatstheater im Land Brandenburg.
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A flourishing textile industry had strengthened the economic and political position of the Cottbus bourgeoisie at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and now aroused stronger cultural needs. On 1 November 1905, the city councillors decided to build a new municipal theatre and held an architectural competition. The contract was awarded to Bernhard Sehring, who had already caused a sensation and triggered lively discussions in 1896 with his theatre building "Theater des Westens" in Berlin.
The theatre in Cottbus - a building of the secessionist Art Nouveau style - is Sehring's most mature architectural achievement. Here he skilfully interwove architecture, arts and crafts, painting and sculpture.
After only 16 months of construction, the theatre was opened on 1 October 1908. In 1945, citizens of Cottbus prevented the demolition of the building, which had also served as an ammunition depot during the war. An elaborate six-year reconstruction in the 1980s repaired damage that had occurred over time. Technical innovations were incorporated in an architecturally sensitive manner. The building was ceremoniously reopened in October 1986. In 1992, the Cottbus municipal theatre became the property of the state and thus the only state theatre in the state of Brandenburg.
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Wellsville NY. January 2019.
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The British Rail Class 108 two car, diesel multiple units (DMU's) were built by BR Derby from 1958 to 1961. In all, 333 vehicles were produced in various formats.
The units stayed in regular service until 1990, when they began to be withdrawn from traffic, to be replaced on regional services by new "Sprinter" units, or by "Turbo" units on services around London.
The final Class 108 units lasted in traffic until October 1993, although many saw further use in departmental service, as sandite or route-learner units. Good condition on withdrawal and a lack of asbestos has ensured that many of this class are now used on preserved railway lines.
This unit appears to be heading for Heaton depot in Newcastle, hauled by a Class 37 locomotive in the grey and yellow Departmental livery.
I am very set in my ways getting ready for the day. TV on, headphones plugged into itunes for some angry ‘psyche up’ music. Face the window to do makeup to get best natural light and ensure face does not appear orange when you leave the house. Leave top off until last minute to let deodorant dry. Ensure that bedroom floor is entirely covered with clothing before leaving. Choose CD for the car – dependent on time of the month and which man has wound me up that week. (When you hear girls driving round with Slipknot and System of a down blaring best not pull out in front of them. But the days you hear them playing Girls Aloud, ask them out; they are on heat!).
As if my regime wasn’t planned as carefully as a Russian gymnast’s hair grip placement the Olympics comes along…..
The Olympics has totally taken over my existence. Watching endless sport has started to influence my every movement. Morning preparations for the day are peppered with sporting ticks.
I reach towards the end of the shower to pick up the conditioner. As I lean forward my back leg lifts up and I start to visualise myself about to throw the shot-put. I dry myself off after the shower and as I place my feet down one at a time after a jolly good rub I make sure that they fit exactly into the corner of the bath mat like a gymnast doing the floor exercise.
Before I walk along the hallway I stand for a moment and chalk up my hands and bend my toes over. Then I stretch one arm up to the judges to indicate I am ready to begin and I proceed with my cereal bowl towards the sofa.
My dismount of the toilet is nothing short of spectacular. This morning I actually ‘nailed’ it with not a wobble, a step back or a knee buckle.
As I stagger up and down the stairs umpteen times to change knickers, tights, ties, false beards; upon each descent I leap from the fifth stair up as if ‘kicked on’ by Mary King to plough on through the water jump. A whinny and a snort and I’m galloping for home.
I arrive at work and begin my covert entry into the premises, looking around me as I slip inside the back door, imagining that I have just used C4 and not a key and that I am wearing my balaclava and kung fu-toed shoes (this has nothing to do with the Olympics and is simply my Hollywood imagination encroaching.)
As I walk along the high street to Starbucks (no longer in kung fu shoes) I perform high knee lifts and stretch my legs up and over pushchairs that I pass in the Starbucks foyer as if they are hurdles. Walking back to work with my drink I swagger and spit, hands on hips as if I have just completed the marathon. After crouching down and placing my head on the ground I am patted by those along the high street who finish after me. Every time I hear a car horn I am convinced I am at the finish of a rowing final where a toot represents each boat crossing the finish line of bubbles.
At the end of the day I run out to my car in my swimsuit and drive off into the distance soaking wet. As I get home I leap out of the car, kick off my driving shoes, shove on my stilettos and totter into the house ready to present someone with flowers.
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He prefers making a bed, and sleeping on whatever dirty, stinky laundry is available. In this case, it was stinky gym clothes. The more body odor, the better, Tiger Kat says. And, as is typical, those rare, precious moments can't wait to stage for the fancy camera gear. He's not particular about the techy gear as much as ensuring I get him some air time with all those bugs and flowers. He was well into his deep sleep when he snores, and sometimes dreams he's cornering a mouse in the garden.
Phyre = (fire)
{to ensure that the truths about LGBT African Americans are known, understood and celebrated.}
Wore it to school today, yes i did. Got not one strange look. Not even when they saw the back in big, bold letters: "Question Homophobia. Change is possible."
Background texture: brocade covered wall, courtesy of Bobby Prokenpek.
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The Exchange Hotel is located on the corner of Edward and Charlotte Streets. Peter Hartley first purchased the land in 1850 and the hotel was constructed in 1863, during Hartley’s period of ownership. Like many other hotels in Brisbane, the Exchange Hotel was built on a street corner. This ensured these hotels became familiar landmarks by which a particular intersection might easily be identified. The Exchange Hotel was also built during Brisbane’s first significant building boom, which took place in the early 1860s. According to Gordon Greenwood, “The optimism of the early sixties produced a building boom which led to a rapid increase in the number of residences, shops and public buildings”.
The first advertisement for this hotel drew attention to the superior accommodation for gentlemen and families, good stables and proximity to the A.S.N. Wharves located at the Town Reach of the river. These characteristics reflected the purpose of hotels in Brisbane during the nineteenth century. According to Morrison, writing in the 1880s:
Few cities afford such a variety of hostelry accommodation as the City of Brisbane. The shifting character of the population, and the enormous opportunities for speculation have created a large demand for temporary homes.
Hotels thus played an intrinsic role in the development of Brisbane, particularly given the significance of land speculation in the city’s history. This is reinforced by the construction of this hotel during a property boom, when the need for temporary accommodation was acute.
The Exchange Hotel was situated in the locality known as ‘Frogs Hollow’, an area bounded by Alice, George, Elizabeth and Edward Streets. For much of the nineteenth century, this section of the city was known as Frogs Hollow because it was a low-lying, marshy area prone to flooding.
In this period the area was largely filled with residential properties, boarding houses, various small businesses and the odd warehouse or factory. All of these were adjacent to the city’s increasingly busy wharves, a ferry terminal and the Botanic Gardens. It was a place that teemed with life both day and night and would have also ensured a strong trade for local hotels, along with accommodation.
The Exchange Hotel was remodelled in 1887 during another period of an economic and building boom in Brisbane, which occurred throughout most of the 1880s. During this period a large number of Brisbane hotels were built or extended and redeveloped, primarily to accommodate the dramatic increase of Brisbane’s population, which almost trebled during the decade. Architect John Ibler invited tenders for alterations and additions to the Hotel in early June 1887. Ibler was born in Bavaria, Germany, and practiced as an architect in Victoria before moving to Brisbane in 1886. It is unclear what ‘alterations and additions’ were carried out but it is likely that the Hotel was extended along the Edward and Charlotte Street frontages, amongst other changes. The current shape of the building was therefore fixed in this period.
The location of the Exchange in Frogs Hollow also illustrates the other primary purpose of hotels in Brisbane’s history, that is, as places for social gatherings. In particular, according to Ronald Lawson, by the 1890s Brisbane’s hotels functioned as working men’s clubs: “the vast majority of hotel patrons were workingmen: there was a strong lower-class taint associated with drinking in hotels”. This was the case in a hotel’s ‘public bar’ as opposed to the ‘private bar’, which was only available to guests staying at the hotel. From the 1880s onward, Frogs Hollow was increasingly filled with warehouses and light industry and the proximity of the Hotel to such businesses would have ensured a strong trade from working men.
The significance of hotels providing accommodation continued past the nineteenth century. An advertisement for the Exchange Hotel in the Brisbane newspaper the Sun, in 1912, draws attention to the fact that the hotel is a:
First-class Home for Visitors of Moderate Means. Centrally situated in the very heart of the City. Convenient to all the Theatres – midway between Principal Wharves and Central Railway Station, and within two Minutes of Botanical Gardens.
Thus the purpose of the nineteenth century hotel as temporary accommodation remained more or less the same into the early twentieth century. This advertisement further reinforces the element of travel that brought guests to the hotel; in this case the wharves and rail. It also suggests that the Hotel benefited from being close to such Brisbane attractions as the theatres and the Botanic Gardens and therefore drew business from the early tourist trade.
The working class aspect of hotel patronage also extended well beyond the nineteenth century. In particular, Australian Labor Party (ALP) staff and politicians frequented the Exchange Hotel from the early 1950s through to the early 1970s. The ALP’s state headquarters was located in Invicta House, on the corner of Elizabeth and Edward Streets, from 1958 to 1972, and its leaders and senior members regularly patronised the Exchange Hotel. The importance of the Exchange Hotel to the ALP, during this period is best summed up by the following 1972 quote from the Brisbane newspaper The Sunday Sun: “Some of the most important political decisions in Labor Party history have been discussed and made over its bars”.
The Hotel underwent a number of renovations in the 1950s and 1960s, and this is possibly when the verandahs were removed. However, the pressure of commercial development on CBD corner sites, the change in drinking habits caused by the state government’s drink driving campaigns and the spread of off-licence beer, wine and spirits shops throughout Brisbane’s suburbs have all contributed to the demise of hotels in the CBD. Of the thirty-two hotel sites identified within the Central Business District in 1951, only seven remain, including the Exchange Hotel. Nonetheless, a new generation of patrons have ensured the popularity of the ‘pub’. This is reflected in extensive renovations to the Hotel, which were carried out in 2002, converting the Exchange into a modern entertainment venue.
J. M. Freeland has argued that “The pub is one of the most socially significant, historically valued, architecturally interesting and colourful features of Australian Society…[it] has never been a mere transplant and adaptation of an English progenitor”. The Exchange Hotel provides evidence of these attributes. It is also one of the oldest remaining hotels in the CBD. The Exchange represents an important visual reminder of the prominence of the hotel in the history of Brisbane and, in particular, the CBD.
Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.
It is a pleasure to add this respected West Cumbrian haulier to my Trucks in Britain collection. To quote the company's website:
"Tyson H. Burridge Ltd has been operating as a general haulage company for nearly 50 years. As a family-owned and managed business, we take pride in our friendly and efficient service. Regular long-distance transport services are operated between Cumbria and the major areas of the UK mainland, offering our clients a quality service for full or part load consignments. We operate a large fleet of modern vehicles with an average age of three years, all of which are maintained in-house to ensure minimum downtime and maximum reliability". The current fleet includes DAF CF85s but this 3300 from an earlier era is a fictional work. Thanks again to Martin Vonk for the excellent base image (02-Mar-16).
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Estimated : CHF 2.600.000 - 2.800.000
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September 2019
"The LaFerrari is very possibly the world's fastest, most exciting hypercar. Which is some statement to make when there are machines such as the McLaren P1 and Porsche 918 Spyder to contend with. The bottom line, however, is that LaFerrari has more power (a whopping 950bhp) and less weight to carry around than its prestigious rivals so figuratively, if nothing else, it quite clearly has the upper hand. Either way, this is the ultimate Ferrari..." – Autocar.
In today's increasingly environmentally conscious times, even supercar manufacturers have felt the need to polish up their 'Green' credentials. Seeking better fuel economy and reduced emissions, they have brought 'hybrid' technology to this previously exclusively fossil-fuels-only sector of the market. This has resulted in a 'win win' situation: these latest hypercars being more environmentally friendly while at the same time considerably more powerful than before.
Ferrari's first offering in this expanding category was the LaFerrari, a limited-edition coupé that entered production in 2013. Ferrari's last model with a mid-mounted 12-cylinder engine, LaFerrari was the distillation of no fewer than nine design studies created during the process of its development. The car was unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Auto Show. Unusually, its styling had no input from Ferrari's long-term collaborator, Carrozzeria Pinifarina.
Clearly, a car evocatively titled 'LaFerrari' would have to have a V12 engine, a type of power unit used in the very first Ferrari of 1947 and for a glorious succession of the Italian factory's most famous models. The LaFerrari V12 displaced 6.3-litres and produced 789bhp, supplemented by an electric motor producing 161bhp for a combined output of 950 horsepower, the highest power output of any Ferrari road car. With the car is in motion, the electric motor's lithium-ion battery pack is charged by a KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) as used in the current generation of Formula 1 cars. Power reaches the rear wheels (there's no four-wheel drive) via a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. And if you didn't use those 950 horses all the time, there was also a useful decrease in fuel consumption, not that that would have interested the typical LaFerrari owner.
Designed by Ferrari's F1 technical director, Rory Byrne, the LaFerrari has a carbon fibre monocoque chassis with suspension at the front by double wishbones and at the rear by a multi-link system - pretty much the norm for the current generation of supercars. Any car with a 200mph-plus maximum needs plenty of stopping power, and the LaFerrari was equipped with Brembo's finest carbon-ceramic brakes. Ferrari claimed a top speed exceeding 349km/h (217mph), similar to the Enzo's top speed; however, the LaFerrari could accelerating from 0-100km/h (0-62mph) in under 2.4 seconds and reach 300km/h (186mph) in 15 seconds, comfortably out-performing its predecessor. The factory also claimed that LaFerrari had lapped its Fiorano test track in 1:19.7, faster than any other road-legal Ferrari.
Electronic systems abound in even the humblest of modern hatchbacks, and as one would expect, the LaFerrari boasts just about every bit of automotive electrickery imaginable: electronic stability control; high performance ABS/EBD (anti-lock braking system/electronic brake distribution), EF1-Trac F1 traction control integrated with the hybrid propulsion system; E-Diff 3 electronic differential; and magnetorheological suspension dampers - all controlled by 21 computers. There was also active aerodynamics, the front and rear wings being adjustable on the move to provide either high or low downforce while also controlling cooling of the engine, gearbox, batteries, and brakes. More electronics were deployed in the cockpit in the form of a 12.3" (310mm) TFT digital dashboard display with a choice of three optional layouts capable of relaying data from the telemetry system. The steering wheel featured integrated controls, while the gearchange paddles were fixed directly to steering column.
One of the fortunate few to have driven a LaFerrari, Autocar's Steve Sutcliffe was mightily impressed when let loose in one at Fiorano. "The ride instantly feels spookily smooth and calm, the steering surprisingly light but bursting with a delicious, old school kind of feel. The brake pedal also feels light underfoot but is again rippling with feel. And the throttle response, the first time I go anywhere near the loud pedal is just outrageous; the car explodes down the back straight even on half throttle in fourth gear.
"And that's what you get when you integrate electric power with a thumping great V12. At low revs the electricity provides the torque, and provides it instantly, and from there on up – at about 3000rpm – the V12 takes over. Yet the transformation is so smooth you are never actually aware that it takes place. Instead, it feels like the car is powered by a 10-litre V12 that somehow has massive low rev response at the same time.
"And yet, in their way, the gearchange, the brakes, the steering, the turn in, the handling balance and the ride... they are all every bit as incredible as the engine – sorry the power source – and the acceleration it can produce."
Putting a 950 horsepower car weighing only some 1,255kg dry in the hands of mere mortals, as opposed to professional racing drivers, might be considered somewhat reckless, but in designing LaFerrari, its makers ensured that whatever the car did it did predictably. "You always know where you are with this car," declared Autocar. "And considering just how insanely fast it is, that is arguably its greatest achievement; being manageable."
Despite a price of £1 million each, all 499 examples planned had sold before the first had been delivered. However, merely having pockets of limitless depth was not alone sufficient for you to acquire a LaFerrari, which was only available to loyal customers vetted by Ferrari.
Representing a possibly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own one of these fabulous Ferrari hypercars, the LaFerrari offered here was delivered new to Germany and is currently registered on a temporary Swiss plate. The car has covered only 894km from new and is presented in generally excellent condition, reflecting its sparing use. Finished in yellow with black interior, this spectacular LaFerrari comes complete with charger, tool kit, and Equatorial Guinea registration document and technical inspection.
Transdev York started its cityzap service fast from York to Leeds on the 27th to compliment Yorkshire coastliner. An introductory fare of £1 ensured a cheap day over the Easter break for some. It will be interesting to see how this deflects from the well established coastliner service and competes with the train which is twice as quick but much more expensive for some. The city to city market may well be different to the long catchment coastliner has which makes that operation so successful. Personally I would have driven a higher quality throughout the established brand rather than grow another. 3612 now onto its third registration since new, departs Leeds on York Street where investment still has to modernise the older buildings. Sydney Green on the right is a relic of Leeds commercial past, a Wholesale Tailors' long since closed.
Camperdown.
Like Noorat, Camperdown is overshadowed by a volcanic cone, Mt Leura, which ensures fertile volcanic soils suitable for dairying are found in the surrounding countryside. Camperdown has become the major regional town. It was once surrounded by some of the great pastoral properties of Victoria, most of which had grand mansions erected on them befitting the great wealth and status of the early pastoralists including:
Purrumbete (the Manifold brothers, 11,000 acres) on the main highway to Geelong; Talindert (also a Manifold property, 6,000 acres) nearer to Mt Leura; West Cloven Hills ( Nicholas Cole 22,000 acres); Meningoort ( Peter McArthur, 13,000 acres); Keilambete ( John Thomson, 26,000 acres- remember the Thomson Memorial Presbyterian church in Terang?); Gala ( John & Thomas Brown, 31,500 acres); Larra ( James Kinross - the buildings are National Heritage listed); Titanga ( James Wilson and partners, 14,000 acres;) and Mount Elephant (Chirnside family of Werribee Park –more than 12,000 acres). Of all of these families it was the Manifolds of Purrumbete and Talindert who provided significant social and civic leadership to Camperdown. Thus the Main Street is Manifold Street and when Princess Alexandra visited Camperdown in 1959 she stayed at Talindert. But by then Talindert, like all the large pastoral estates, had been broken up for closer settlement around the turn of the 20th century. It was a grand house with a small acreage of around 1,700 acres. Purrumbete historic mansion recently sold in February 2013 with just 420 acres. Manifolds have served on the town and district councils, including as President of the Shire etc. It was the Manifold family who paid for the unusual clock tower in the Main Street as a memorial for their son Thomas Manifold who was killed in a hunting accident in 1896. £1,000 was given to the shire council for its erection in 1897. The tower is 103 feet high (31.4 metres) and the clock chimes regularly. The Manifolds also gave financial support to the hospital, the road to the top of Mt Leura and the extensions to the high school. Rather than large sheep properties Camperdown is now surrounded by small dairy farms or beef cattle properties.
The first Camperdown settlement was actually at Timboon where the old Timboon Inn, erected around 1855 still stands. A couple of shepherds lived here and a primitive bush store opened. But the ground was too swampy and so the site was moved closer to Mt Leura. Timboon was on the leasehold of the Manifold brothers of Purrumbete but in 1852 the government resumed land from the Manifolds and surveyed a town and some small acreage blocks near Mt Leura. Camperdown was named in 1854 by Governor LaTrobe when on a hunting trip with Niel Black of Glenormiston. Houses began to appear in 1857 and by 1859 it was a small town with a hotel, stores, wool agent etc. The storekeeper at Timboon moved into Camperdown in 1860 as the town began to grow. In 1858 the first Courthouse was opened with a Police Station following in 1859 and a Post office and telegraph service in 1862. As early as 1871 a local newspaper was established for the town and an early school was built in 1858. The bluestone school was erected in 1886. It was schoolchildren who planted the English Elms in the Main Street in 1876. The railway from Geelong reached the town in 1883 with much fanfare. The old Courthouse in polychromatic brickwork built in 1887 is now the museum, Information Centre and shop for souvenirs etc.
The Camperdown Botanic Gardens deserved special mention. Not only were they designed by our friend William Guilfoyle but they provide a wonderful lookout over the two local volcanic lakes, Bullen Merri and Gnotuk. The two lakes although very close to each other are at different altitudes. Both are maars, or water filled volcanic cones with a surrounding volcanic scoria rim. Bullen Merri is actually two maars that have coalesced. Bullen Merri is about 60 metres deep and Gnotuk about 20 metres deep. Both lakes are the same height above sea level but with a 40-metre difference in their surface heights. Lake Bullen Merri inspired well-known colonial artist Eugene von Guerard to paint it in 1858. Look for copies on the internet. Guilfoyle’s Botanic Gardens are special because they used to contain a statue of the Scottish poet and folk hero Robbie Burns but this has now been placed indoors for safekeeping. The base remains! The gardens have some unusual plants (a typical Guilfoyle trademark) including Himalayan Oak, African Holly tree (Cassine crocea also known as Elaeodendron croceum or Saffron Wood from South Africa), and an extremely rare Quercus leucotrichophora(Blackjack Oak from India) just east of the Robbie Burns statue base. The Gardens also have many fine European Linden trees.
Mount Leura is yet another volcanic cone affording vistas over the hedge-divided countryside. Mount Leura was an active volcano about 20,000 years ago. The reserve here was donated by the Manifold brothers. Nearby Mount Sugarloaf is a perfectly symmetric scoria cone and very much photographed because of that. The circular sheep tracks add to its interest! Both Sugarloaf and Leura are about 311 metres tall the same height as Mt Noorat. There is a deep crater separating Sugarloaf and Leura. It is estimated that Mt Leura formed in about 20 years of constant lava eruptions from a central vent which immediately cooled into scoria pocked with air holes from where gases escaped. The highest maar or volcanic cone in Western Victoria is Mount Elephant near Derrinallum at 393 metres.
After a long morning of sunbathing, catching "mice," and wrestling with his brother, Mr. Pickles takes a well-deserved nap, ensuring he will have enough energy for the evening's activities which include: chasing feathers, working at the computer, and receiving unending massages.
The prince decides the only way he can ensure the throne for himself is to slay his father and gain the support of his army. This will come at a handsome price, but with the reward being the kingdom of Thiras, it's worth it.
A tribute to the warriors
Latest edition of my transparent materials.
Yellow brick is my reference to ensure lighting is the same as my real set up on my desk.
Synchronicity was in a great way for this picture between couple sun ☀️ and moonlight 🌙 , throned son, cristal light’s heals all the soul under nymphs...( thanks to Nymphaea by Claude Monet ) Cristal healing and echoes of consciousness.
Liberation of darkness is possible way with your pineal glands and you can compare them with a crystal light and follow the guidance through your dream.Other significant work for linking the throne to nymphaea could be a Jungian interpretation for Alchemist (following old Egyptian science)
It’s amazing how crystal light is a healing process for testing your body to sitting on a throne.However, it has only recently become clear that apomorphine can be utilized, with excellent results, to treat erectile dysfunction. It is a centrally acting, selective D1/D2 dopamine agonist, and activation of dopaminergic receptors in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus initiates a cascade of events, ultimately resulting in smooth muscle relaxation and vasodilatation within the corpora cavernosa, leading to penile erection. Crystal river and albedo was whiteness day for a throne of consciousness enlightenment
This discovery provides a likely explanation for the appearance of Nymphaea in the Luxor frescoes and in erotic cartoons ... The fact that temple drawings only depict use by the higher castes, such as priests and royalty, suggests that the masses did not benefit from this discovery. The Nymphaea story serves as a further illustration of how the effects of substances of plant origin were known even though the discoverers lacked the technology to explain them. The water lily was also used for other medicinal purposes, according to Lise Manniche in An Ancient Egyptian Herbal, including liver disease, poultices for the head, constipation and as an enema (1989, p. 134). She also notes that it was used in a magical spell to cause a "hated woman"'s hair to fall out. In Greco-Roman times, it was thought of as a cooling herb, and was thus used to bring down a fever.
Original article: www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_wate...
© Caroline Seawright
The source is one: male and female are united. In alchemical images we see a throne from which streams of water flow into one flashback to primordial life’s hermaphrodite.
The Syrian love goddess who the Egyptians married off to Min, was depicted as a naked woman who stood on the back of a lion, carrying snakes and water lily buds. The buds are likely linked with her role as a goddess of sexuality and fertility. Votive offerings to Hathor included bowls with water lily motifs, again alluding to fertility, the renewal of life and rebirth. (A water bowl was also the hieroglyph for a woman, which A.H. Gardiner in Egyptian Grammar believes to represent the vagina, linking the fertility sign of the water lily in the bowl to female fertility in this case.) The Egyptian idea of sexuality was identified with creation. Being a flower of creation, the flower became linked to human fertility and sexuality. The images of women holding the flower may be hinting at her ability to bear children or that she was sexually desirable, and images of men holding the flower may hint at their potency. It could also be a way to ensure that the person painted would be fertile - and sexy - in the afterlife.
Contemporary reference to the role of water lilies and mandrakes (Nymphaea and Mandragora, respectively) in ancient Egyptian healing ... suggest the possible importance of these plants as adjuncts to shamanistic healing in dynastic Egypt. Although the usual interpretation of the water lily and the mandrake has been that of a part of ritual mourning ... it is argued that the dynastic Egyptians had developed a form of shamanistic trance induced by these two plants and used it in medicine as well as healing rituals. Analysis of the ritual and sacred iconography of dynastic Egypt, as seen on stelae, in magical papyri, and on vessels, indicates that these people possessed a profound knowledge of plant lore and altered states of consciousness. The abundant data indicate that the shamanistic priest, who was highly placed in the stratified society, guided the souls of the living and dead, provided for the transmutation of souls into other bodies and the personification of plants as possessed by human spirits, as well as performing other shamanistic activities. test was carried out to see if there were any narcotic effects of the blue water lily. There were no known psychotropic substance found in the flower itself. In The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies Rosalie David ('Keeper of Egyptology, Manchester Museum') says that "we see many scenes of individuals holding a cup and dropping a water lily flower into the cup which contained wine". The assertion by Dr Andrew Sherratt, based on these depictions, is that he believes that when the flower was infused with wine, that the chemical content might change and become the ancient Egyptian party drug or a shamanistic aid. The lilies were flown from Cairo to England, and nineteen of them opened after the sun came out. The flowers were soaked in the wine, and after a few days, two volunteers - who claimed to know nothing about ancient Egypt - drank the lily-wine:Unfortunately the test was not up to scientific standards - there was no control group (where another set of volunteers would drink wine not infused with the lily, but told that it had been) - so it is rather difficult to know how much of the effects on the two were just from the alcohol and if any were from the lily infusion itself.The blue water lily was possibly also a symbol of sexuality - Dr Liz Williamson says that the flower "has a sort of Viagra effect". Women were wooed with the blue water lily. In certain erotic scenes from the Turin Papyrus, women are shown wearing very little apart from the white lily as a headdress.The blue water lily was possibly also a symbol of sexuality - Dr Liz Williamson says that the flower "has a sort of Viagra effect". Women were wooed with the blue water lily. In certain erotic scenes from the Turin Papyrus, women are shown wearing very little apart from the white lily as a headdress.
The blue water lily was possibly also a symbol of sexuality - Dr Liz Williamson says that the flower "has a sort of Viagra effect". Women were wooed with the blue water lily. In certain erotic scenes from the Turin Papyrus, women are shown wearing very little apart from the white lily as a headdress.
More recently, it has been discovered that this plant could have been used by the ancient Egyptians to help with erectile dysfunction. This would help explain why the plant was so intimately connected with sex and sexuality:
Nymphaea caerulea (blue lotus) and N. ampla, which has a white flower but a similar alkaloid content, grow along lakes and rivers, thrive in wet soil, and bloom in the spring. They belong to the water-lily family ... The isolation of the psychoactive apomorphine from Nymphaea species has offered chemical support to speculation that Nymphaea species may have been employed as hallucinogens in both the Old and the New World. The use of N. caerulea and of N. lotos in rites and rituals is depicted in the frescoes within the tombs, and in very early papyrus scrolls. The most important of these was the scroll of Ani (Book of the Dead). Nymphaea is mentioned and represented in several chapters of the book, always tied to magical-religious rites.
The water lily was also used for other medicinal purposes, according to Lise Manniche in An Ancient Egyptian Herbal, including liver disease, poultices for the head, constipation and as an enema (1989, p. 134). She also notes that it was used in a magical spell to cause a "hated woman"'s hair to fall out. In Greco-Roman times, it was thought of as a cooling herb, and was thus used to bring down a fever.The flower wasn't just used at parties, but it was used at funerals. As with many symbols of fertility, the blue water lily was also symbolic of rebirth after death. Tutankhamen's innermost gold coffin had blue water lily petals scattered over it along with a few other floral tributes. The Egyptians looked forward to their souls coming to life "like a water lily reopening", thinking that the deceased died as the water lily closed awaiting opening with the morning sun. The Book of the Dead has a spell to allow the deceased to transform into one of these flowers:
The goddess Qedeshet, standing on a lion, holding water lilies and a snake, the Syrian love goddess who the Egyptians married off to Min, was depicted as a naked woman who stood on the back of a lion, carrying snakes and water lily buds. The buds are likely linked with her role as a goddess of sexuality and fertility. Votive offerings to Hathor included bowls with water lily motifs, again alluding to fertility, the renewal of life and rebirth. (A water bowl was also the hieroglyph for a woman, which A.H. Gardiner in Egyptian Grammar believes to represent the vagina, linking the fertility sign of the water lily in the bowl to female fertility in this case.) The Egyptian idea of sexuality was identified with creation. Being a flower of creation, the flower became linked to human fertility and sexuality. The images of women holding the flower may be hinting at her ability to bear children or that she was sexually desirable, and images of men holding the flower may hint at their potency. It could also be a way to ensure that the person painted would be fertile - and sexy - in the afterlife.As we mentioned above, Aphrodite/Venus as the morning star is a central image for the albedo phase of the Great Work. Aphrodite was born from the foam that arose when the genitals of Uranus (cut of by Chronos, out of hate and jealousy) fell into the sea. The cutting of the genitals represents repressed and tormented love. The sea, symbol of the soul, however will bring forth the love goddess. Liberation will happen when we become conscious again of the contents of the soul. As Aphrodite is born from the sea, she is the guide through the fearful world of the unconscious (the sea, or the underworld). The alchemist descends into these depths to find the ‘prima materia’, also called the ‘green lion’. The color green refers to the primal life forces. Venus also has the green color. An important characteristic of Aphrodite is that she helps us in our human shortcomings. She gives ideals and dreams to fulfill. But she also gives frightening images in order to make man aware of his lower nature. "By her beauty Venus attracts the imperfect metals and gives rise to desire, and pushes them to perfection and ripeness." (Basilius Valentinus, 1679) Liberation can only happen by becoming conscious of the lower nature and how we transmute it.
In Jungian psychology Venus/Aphrodite is the archetype of the anima (in alchemy also the ‘soror’ or ‘wife’ of the alchemist). The anima is the collective image of the woman in a man. It is an image especially tainted by his first contact with his mother. The anima represents all the female tendencies in the psyche of a man, such as feelings, emotions, moods, intuition, receptivity for the irrational, personal love and a feeling for nature. She is the bearer for the spiritual. Depending on the development of the man she can also be the seductress who lures him away to love, hopelessness, demise, and even destruction.
Other alchemical images for albedo are baptism and the white dove, both derived from Christianity. Baptism symbolizes the purification of both body and soul by ‘living water’. ‘Living water’ was regarded as the creative force of the divine. It allowed the soul to be received into the community of the holy spirit. Thus baptism allows the purified soul to bring forth the resurrection of Christ in oneself. This is the ‘hieros gamos’, the ‘sacred marriage’ between the soul and Christ. Christ here represent our own inner divine essence.
There are many other symbols in alchemy for the second phase, or albedo: the white swan, the rose, the white queen, and so on. As lead is the metal of nigredo, silver is the metal of albedo, transmuted from lead. As silver is the metal of the moon, the moon was also a symbol for albedo. Alchemists also talk about the white stone or white tincture. They all means basically the same thing, although one has to understand them in the context in which they were written.
The union of Hermes and Aphrodite. The moon is above the retort, indicating this is the stage of Albedo. The sun above is the next stage of Rubedo. At the same time sun and moon are again the opposites to be united. Aphrodite has two torches. One pointing down, representing the lower passions to be transmuted. The upside down torch is the purified energies. Aphrodite is standing on a tetrahedron, the perfect three dimensional body, as all corners are equally distant from each other, resulting in a lack of tension.
Albedo, symbolized by Aurora, by the dawn, the morning star (Venus-Aphrodite), and by the sun rising up from the Philosopher's Sea.
Albedo is also represented by Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn. Her brother is Helios, the Sun. With a play of words aurora was connected with aurea hora, ‘the hour of gold’. It is a supreme state of conscious. Pernety (1758): "When the Artist (=Alchemist) sees the perfect whiteness, the Philosophers say that one has to destroy the books, because they have become superfluous."
Albedo is also symbolized by the morning star Venus/Aphrodite. Venus has a special place in the Great Work. In ancient times Lucifer was identified with the planet Venus. Originally Lucifer has a very positive meaning. In the Bible we find 2Petrus 1:19 "…till the day arrives and the morning star rises in your hearts". In Revelation 12:16 Christ says: "I am the shining morning star". Here Christ identifies himself with the Lucifer! We find the same in mystic literature. In ancient times Lucifer was a positive light being. It was just one man who changed all that: when a certain Hieronymous read a phrase from Jesaja 14:12 (Jesaja talking to a sinful king of Babylon): " How did you fall from heaven, you morning star, you son of the dawn; how did you fall to earth, conqueror of people". Hieronymous used this phrase to identify Lucifer with the dragon thrown out of heaven by Michael. By the interpretation of this one man, Lucifer was tuned from a shining light being into the darkest devilish being in the world.
We find Lucifer in alchemy associated with impure metals polluted by rough sulfur. It means that the light being Lucifer in ourselves is polluted by what the alchemists call ‘superfluities’, ‘dross’, caused by man himself.
Mercury and Lucifer are one and the same. One talks about Mercury when he is pure, it is the white sulphur, the fire in heaven. As ‘spiritus’ he gives life. As ‘spiritus sapiens’ he teaches the alchemist the Great Work. Lucifer is the impure Mercury. Lucifer is the morning star fallen from (the golden) heaven. He descended into the earth and is now present in all humans. Lucifer is Mercury mixed with impure elements. He dissolved ‘in sulfur and salt’, ‘is wrapped with strings’, ‘darkened with black mud’. Keep in mind we are always talking about our consciousness. Lucifer represents our everyday consciousness, all the (psychological and other) complexes have clouded our pure consciousness, Mercury.
The light of Mercury that appears to us as Lucifer, because of the distortion caused by the impurities, gives the impression of what the alchemists called ‘red sulfur’. The red sulfur of Lucifer, as traditional devil, is actually an illusion. It does not exist by itself because it is only an image, a distorted image of Mercury. We ourselves caused the impurities, the blackness that veils our true light being.
Red sulfur is the same as what is called Maya in eastern philosophies. Maya is the world of illusions, or the veil that prevents us from seeing and experiencing true reality, where the eternal light is. By the impurities of Maya, man has become ignorant. He has forgotten his origin and thinks he is in a world which in actuality is an illusion.Albedo - Whiteness
Je ne craignais pas de mourir
mais de mourir sans etre illumine.
(I was not afraid to die,
but to die without having been enlightened)
Comte de Saint-Germain, La Tres Sainte Trinisophie
The herald of the light
is the morning star.
This way man and woman approach
the dawn of knowledge,
because in it is the germ of life,
being a blessing of the eternal.
Haji Ibrahim of Kerbala
Lucifer, Lucifer stretch your tail,
and lead me away, full speed through the narrow passage,
the valley of the death,
to the brilliant light, the palace of the gods.
Isanatha Muni
Being deep in nigredo, a white light appears. We have arrived at the second stage of the Great Work: albedo, or whiteness. The alchemist has discovered within himself the source from which his life comes forth. The fountain of life from which the water of life flows forth giving eternal youth.
The source is one: male and female are united. In alchemical images we see a fountain from which two streams of water flow into one basin. Albedo is the discovery of the hermaphroditic nature of man. In the spiritual sense each man is a hermaphrodite. We can also see this in the first embryonic phase of the fetus. There is no sex until a certain number of weeks after conception. When man descended into the physical world his body entered a world of duality. On the bodily level this is expressed by the sexes. But his spirit is still androgen, it contains duality in unity. Its unity is not bound to space, time or matter. Duality is an expression of unity in our physical world. It is temporal and will eventually cease to exist. When male and female are united again, one will experience his true self. Conscious and unconscious are totally united.
Albedo happens when the Sun rises at midnight. It is a symbolic expression for the rising of the light at the depth of darkness. It is the birth of Christ in the middle of the winter. In the depth of a psychological crises, a positive change happens.
The Five Freedoms ensure that we meet the mental and physical needs of animals in our care:
Freedom from hunger and thirst by ready access to fresh water and diet to maintain health and vigor. This must be specific to the animal. For example, puppies, adult dogs, pregnant cats, and senior cats all need different types of food provided on different schedules.
Freedom from discomfort by providing an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area. This means you should provide soft bedding and an area with appropriate temperature, noise levels, and access to natural light. If an animal is outside, it must have shelter from the elements as well as appropriate food and water bowls that will not freeze or tip over.
Freedom from pain, injury, or disease by prevention or rapid diagnosis and treatment. This includes vaccinating animals, monitoring animals, physical health, treating any injuries and providing appropriate medications.
Freedom to express normal behavior by providing sufficient space, proper facilities, and company of the animal's own kind. Animals need to be able to interact with — or avoid — others of their own kind as desired. They must be able to stretch every part of their body (from nose to tail), and run, jump, and play. This can be particularly challenging when animals are housed in individual kennels.
Freedom from fear and distress by ensuring conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering. The mental health of an animal is just as important as its physical health — as psychological stress can quickly transition into physical illness. These conditions can be achieved by preventing overcrowding and providing sufficient enrichment and safe hiding spaces.
- animalhumansociety.org
The results speak for themselves in the Merlin class as Winder Boats have dominated the scene for years., however the design and systems are being continually developed to ensure boats are built stiffer, stronger and faster than ever before.
Active involvement in the class means that our cutting-edge techniques are used in design developments and considerable thought and effort goes into refining all the controls, particularly the hoop and rake systems. Our quality construction has ensured a healthy second-hand market which has created probably some of the best fleet racing in the country.
The information below is for our ‘Complete’ boat which comes with Allen fittings, Super Spars spars and HD sails. We also offer Harken fit-outs, Selden and a range of other sailmakers.
East Lothian Yacht Club is set to host the Aspire Merlin Rocket National Championships from the 14th to 19th August 2021. This is the classes' 75th National Championships which has been made possible with thanks to our wonderful sponsors Aspire Financial Advisers, HD Sails, NB Distillery, SSE Renewables, Fernhurst Books and Triggernaut Sportsglasses. Here are the Runners and Riders for the event.
Stu Bithell and Tom Pygall are pairing up for the first time since 2017 where they delivered a comfortable victory. Fresh from his Olympic GOLD in the 49er class, Stu should be on cloud nine and looking forward to sailing with friends in a somewhat less stressful environment. Individually these sailors have all the skills and ability but a lack of time in the boat and practice may catch them by surprise (although Stu has probably got more time on the water this year than anyone!).
Ben Saxton and George Yeoman paired up for a guest appearance at Whitstable 2015 where they managed to pip Stu and Tom to take top prize, that said Stu had to miss a day due to other sailing commitments. They return sailing 3777 which George purchased shortly after Whitstable. Having successfully campaigned 3777 he and his wife Sophie have impressed with steady progress up the fleet. Spending time at the back of a Merlin really helps improve and round your crewing skills so we expect a lot from George.
Christian Birrell and Sam Brearey: Like Sunny and Cher or Victoria and David, this pair are celebrities known by first names alone, who is the wife and who is the husband is still up for debate. Boat speed and consistency are a key strength, but it is rumoured that they have had a significant lack of time in the boat since the last champs win in 2019. Having attended training led by Christian we all still have plenty to learn and we're lucky to have yet more topflight sailors raising the bar for the class.
These three teams are by far the bookies favourites for the Championships, but could there be an upset at the front? None of the teams are as race polished as they would like to be, having not sailed regularly together, if at all in some circumstances. I don't think this will be enough to unsettle them for the series, but it may be enough to allow a surprise race winner from outside of the group, and stranger things have happened!
Andy 'Taxi' Davis and Pippa Kilsby, now sailing Pip's boat (3735) and running a new Ceilidh mast; this pairing is in their third season of sailing together and are a formidable team. Their greatest strengths are boat speed across all ranges and relentless ability to claw back through the pack.
Tim Fells and Franny Gifford for the past few years have been the best of the rest, the rest being us mere mortals. Tim, now a full time retired Salcombe resident, will be sailing fit from competing in his Aero throughout the 2021 season. It is fair to say they're not top of the leaderboard for outright boat speed or fitness, that goes to our Olympic chums, but they don't have any weaknesses and are sure to put together a strong series.
Ian Dobson and Charlotte Fildes have been tuning their bespoke Rockatross design and are on a definite upward curve, winning recent Silver Tillers and gaining race wins at Salcombe. This pair are very capable, which combined with Ian's vast Championship experience will go towards putting together a consistent week.
To ensure the perpetuity of his cycle of paintings The Seven Acts of mercy, Bourdon reproduced his seven canvases in a set of prints, an example of which can be seen in the display case below his preparatory drawing. The dramatic scene depicts Obadiah in a dark cave shielding tired and thirsty prophets from the murderous Queen Jezabel. Bourdon’s confident draughtsmanship is highlighted in the drawing as much as his ease with the washes as by his sinister, sooty-eyed figures.
NASA’s Johnson Space Center reopens the fully restored Apollo Mission Control Center with a grand opening and ribbon cutting event with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on June 28. The room now is reconfigured to its Apollo-era condition. Many of the items in the restored room are original pieces from 1969 that were found or donated, and the missing items were replicated to ensure walking into the viewing room would feel like taking a step back in time. The restoration team used old photographs, footage, documents and interviews and discussions with Apollo veterans to set everything in its proper place, including coffee mugs, cigarette packs and ashtrays. Beginning July 1, the Apollo Mission Control Center will become part of daily tours at Johnson hosted by Space Center Houston.
About us
- Inka Birds Photo Safari is a group of photographers and nature guides focused on the specialty of birds.
- We have members in Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay who know perfectly the species of these countries and the spots and environments where to find them to ensure success to the "birdwatchers" and photographers goals.
- We also carry out workshops with personalized technical advice in the field for those who start in this activity, such as recommendation of the equipment to be used, configuration and parameters according to the species, reference conditions, ideal schedules, etc.
- We advise on lodging and transfers.
- Our main goal is the satisfaction of our customers by providing them with all the facilities for their entire satisfaction, without leaving anything to chance regarding the organization of the safaris.
- We also enjoy the company of those who - like us - develop the same passion and respect for birds and nature in general.
- We speak Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian.
- Soon our new page on the Internet.
Contact: Walter Baliero - walterbaliero@hotmail.com
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After numerous meetings about the problems and successes of Wayne Enterprises I finally managed to get down to applied sciences to see Fox. There he informed me that he had ensured that all of the necessary equipment was sent back to the Manor. Good job I tipped him off that a search of all departments would be carried out today in response to my comments to Uncle Marcus. By all accounts Uncle Marcus only asked for a search of applied sciences. I guess only applied sciences deals with this type of exo-suit so the thief most likely resides in that department. I’ll need to check the staff list for applied sciences when I get back to the cave to see who would have the need to sell the prototype equipment. Whilst at applied sciences I inform Fox about how effective his suit is with how much trouble it gave me. He seems somewhat pleased by this. I then inform him of the problems that have persisted through the use of the bat-suit. If there’s one way to tempt Fox to commit to a difficult task, it’s to mention flaws with his work. His desire for perfection will not allow him to repeat the same mistake, perfect for creating my new suit. If I am to be able to deal with more opponents such as the one in the exo-suit I’ll need a less cumbersome suit. Rather than take a punch head on I’d prefer to avoid it all together, and hopefully the new suit will allow that.
As I leave Wayne Tower I notice spit on Uncle Marcus’ car. I guess Alfred has been waiting a bit if he’s had time to show his dislike of Uncle Marcus. I enter the car and we head back to the Manor. I enquire with Alfred as to how long he’s been waiting for me. He gives his infamous ‘long enough to do what I needed line’ basically confessing he spat on the car. He’s had a haircut whilst I was in my meetings. Good. He has a habit of letting these things pass him by whilst he’s helping me whilst I’m out on the streets. This crusade I’ve undertaken has consumed my life, the last thing I want is for it to consume Alfred’s also. No one deserves that.
Back at the Manor I notice the large shipping crates. The crates are ambiguous. No Wayne Enterprises markings on them and they’re sealed tightly shut. Good. If it were ever to be revealed that Bruce Wayne and Batman are one in the same, the last thing I would want is for Wayne Enterprises to be ruined as a result. My Father built that company, and the last thing I want is to ruin it. There would be no greater disgrace to his memory. Perhaps that’s why I choose to allow Uncle Marcus to run the company, because I secretly know that I am not the person to ensure this company survives. I can stay on the streets and attempt to clean them up in the name of my Father but at the end of the day my Father’s legacy will be Wayne Enterprises, not the Batman.
Alfred has the crates brought down to the cave and I open them all. In every crate there is a different item. It reminds me of those early Christmas’. The joys of opening up presents not knowing whether it would be the latest remote control car model, or a plastic toy gun. Looking at it now, the gifts haven’t really changed beyond simply being repurposed for my quest to save Gotham. In the largest crate there is the new prototype engine Fox had been developing for one of Wayne Enterprise’s military contracts. The perfect heart for what I plan to build. The engine is electric and is designed to generate electricity whilst it moves and store a reserve in the event that the generators fail as well as to ensure that the car will start. I fire the engine up and it’s silent. Perfect.
The second crate contains dozens of the new cowl designs. They appear identical to the ones I have worn previously in terms of structure, but in terms of composition they are far from that. According to Fox it is made from a specially designed polymer that contains traces of lead to help strengthen the cowl thus ensuring that it will not shatter as easily as my previous cowls have. According to Fox I could simply fight crime by head butting every criminal I encounter on the streets and the cowl would still be in tact. A tempting prospect, but one that I shall probably never need to test. My moves are focused more around using my arms and legs are both my sword and also my shield.
The remaining crates contain a variety of new gadgets Fox has created. It’s amazing what his mind can create if it’s allowed to run free. In one of the boxes there is a gun. I’m not one to use guns but Fox knows this, so when I pull the trigger a deafening screech emits from the gun and most of the bats in the cave fly off in fear. A sonic cannon. Interesting. Not sure what I can use it for, but I’m certain that a need will come. Another houses what appear to be a new version of my gauntlets? Fox wouldn’t of given me these without having some form of twist to them. What could he have done?
I place the gauntlets on top of my suit and as I’m putting on them a note falls out of the left gauntlet from Lucius. ‘I’d use these on a practice dummy to see how they work. Just point and press the inside button’. What have you gotten up to in your spare time Lucius? Sure enough I head over to the training area and I line a practice dummy up before pressing the button. Immediately a taser launches out of the gauntlet and shocks the practice dummy. This will certainly be useful.
With all these new toys I was very keen to hit the streets and try them out. So I swiftly suited up and as the clock struck 10 pm the Dark Knight headed into Gotham…
St Michael’s Parish Church Linlithgow
The image is formed from two (hand-held) photos with different exposures, to try and ensure that all the details are as clear as possible – we used Paintshop Pro as a photo-editor. The Canon camera firmware was temporarily upgraded via the memory card using CHDK to provide the exposure bracketing needed (plus a host of other features such as a live histogram while shooting) - see chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK.
This stunning stained glass window was designed and made by Crear McCartney to mark the 750th anniversary of the consecration of St Michael’s in 1242. The stonework, the work of a master mason from northern France, combines Pentecost (the tracery) and New Jerusalem (the lancets) and the design is controlled by the mystical number 12. The window showers light upon the walls and centre of the nave.
The guide book and leaflets in the church explain the rich and complex symbolism of the design, which I give below.
12 signifies perfection, the universe, the Word of God Incarnate, time, the Apostles – a multiple of 2 (two natures of Christ) and 6 (balance and equilibrium).
The Tracery - Pentecost
The Tracery combines a triangle with three circles – giving 6 large red flames, three large yellow flames and three smaller flames – the twelve flames touch symbols of the Apostles (their commission to preach the Word of God).
The apostles symbols are (from 1o’clock to 12 o’clock):
1 Simon (fish); 2 Jude (halbeard); 3 James the Greater (scallop shell); 4 Matthias (lance); 5 Matthew (money bag); 6 Andrew (saltire); 7 John (chalice and serpent); 8 Philip (crozier); 9 Thomas (builder’s tools); 10 Bartholomew (flaying knife); 11 James the Less (club); 12 Peter (key).
The outer elements are butterfly wings (the Risen Christ) and peacock feathers (the Risen Christ and All-seeing eye of the Church – 18 in the lancets and 6 in the tracery, making 24 the Elders of the Apocalypse).
The Lancets – The New Jerusalem
The imagery of the lancets is from the Revelation of St John the Divine (Ch 1, 4, 21, 22), and introduces 7, the mystic number of Heaven. The 6 lancets together contain a shallow ellipse (the city) – the projection of the circle of the Pentecost – with walls of crystal and gates the colour of the precious stones listed in Ch21, vv19-20. Silver threads suspend the city, descending from Heaven.
Lancets 2 and 5 contain the flags of the 4 beasts – symbols of the 4 evangelists (man, ox, lion eagle, Ch4). The 3rd lancet shows the Tree of Life with 12 fruits (7 gifts of the Holy Spirit and 5 Wounds of Christ), 7 golden leaves (for the Healing of the Nations) and 7 stars (for the Angels of the 7 Churches) (Ch1).
The 4th lancet shows the River of the Water of Life, flowing from the Throne of God and the Lamb. The Resurrection banner is surrounded by the 7 candlesticks of the 7 Churches (Ch1).
For a lovely view of the window in situ, taken about noon, see this photo by Al houdi Donelly
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The website for St Michael's has changed, it is now at:
This is such a beautiful window that one day I would like to commission a wooden jigsaw of it - probably a 250pc Wentworth, cut with their church/religious set of whimsies.
Brief History of Maryborough.
This fertile area of Queensland was the fifth area to be settled when it was still part of NSW. The first settlement in QLD was at Redcliffe (and later Moreton Bay) as a convict colony in 1824. This was followed by white settlement at Ipswich in 1842 and further inland in the mountains at Warwick in 1847. The NSW government sent explorers to the Mary River area in 1842 which was when the river was named. Then in 1847 inland from the Mary River a town was surveyed but not gazetted until 1849. It was Gayndah which now claims to be the oldest town in QLD. The establishment of Gayndah is remarkable given transport difficulties. Near the coast Maryborough was the site of a wharf for pastoralists in 1847 and later a small town was created in 1850 making Maryborough the fifth settlement in what is now QLD. The first land sales at Maryborough were in 1852 although a general store had opened before this time on leased land in 1848. The new town of Maryborough was sited on the Mary River which rises near the Glasshouse Mountains inland from the Sunshine Coast. It generally flows northwards to enter the sea a few miles downstream from the town of Maryborough. The Mary River was named after Lady Mary Lennox the wife of the Governor of NSW Charles Fitzroy. The little town struggled to establish itself but once QLD got independence from NSW in 1859 Maryborough began to grow more quickly as free white settlers spread around the new colony. The delays in growth were partly caused by local Aboriginal resistance to the white pastoralists. Between 1847 and 1853 twenty eight white settlers were killed by Aboriginal people. A white massacre of around 100 Aboriginal people in the early 1850s brought some calm to the area and broke the resistance of the Gubbi Gubbi people. The Gubbi Gubbi people were called the Gin Gins by white settlers hence the name for that town north of Maryborough. Like so many Australian towns Maryborough’s growth was fuelled by mining discoveries. Maryborough was declared an official QLD port in 1859 and the first ship load of immigrants disembarked directly at Maryborough in 1860. Most were female and instead of obtaining work as servants immediately accepted offers of marriage from the men of the district. Maryborough became a municipality in 1861. It soon had a Customs House, a Courthouse and School of Arts but it really grew with the discovery of gold inland at Gympie. Maryborough served as the pot for goods going to and from Gympie from 1867 onwards. The QLD Land Acts of 1867 also opened up the pastoral leasehold lands to farmers for the first time. The main crops grown were maize and sugar. At about the same time as the Gympie gold rush Maryborough got its first sugar mill, a timber mill and John Walker of Ballarat opened a foundry and engineering works to produce mining equipment just as he had done previously in Ballarat. The port expanded and the town grew. A new Post Office (1869), hotels and general stores opened to cater for the miners and the townspeople. By 1871 Maryborough had 3,500 residents with its own newspaper’s, churches and schools. The wider district population was 9,000 people. By 1876 the population had swelled to 5,700 people. The first railway opened in Maryborough in 1881 when a line connected the port with Gympie gold fields.
Maryborough South Sea Islander Hospital. The Kanaka indentured labour system was introduced to QLD in 1863. The Polynesian Hawaiians called themselves kanakas. This was the term used in the 19th century to cover the South Sea Islander indentured labourers. Most who came to the Maryborough region (and Bundaberg too) were from the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). Some Islanders were also taken as indentured labourers to Chile, to Canada, to California and to Fiji. The arrival of the first indentured islanders coincided with the beginnings of
the sugar industry in the Maryborough region. Sugar is a very intense labour crop and in the USA, the Caribbean and
South America African slaves were used for such work until the mid-19th century. The Americans had their tragic Civil War to end slavery there. British colonies were not allowed to have slaves by the 1830s century including all of the Australia colonies. African slaves were gradually freed in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the mid-19th century. South America had its slaves all freed by the 1870s. Although descendants of the South Sea Islanders like to refer to themselves as the Sugar Slaves this term would be highly offensive to all descendants of African slaves of the Americas and Caribbean. Indentured labour was a common labour system in the 19th century and continued into the 20th century. In Australia the Commonwealth government ran a similar indentured labour scheme for young British men who wanted to be farm labourers. They served a three year term, with no pay until they had completed their indenture, and they needed government permission to buy work boots or any other item. In SA this scheme was known as the Barwell Boys (Barwell was the SA premier at the time) scheme but it operated in WA and other states too. This indentured labour system ended in 1925.
So when the indentured South Sea Islander trade was established in Queensland in 1863 the first labourers were covered by the 1861 Masters and Servants Acts. (All colonies – and later states- had such acts which controlled labour relations right through to the 1980 and 1990s when anti-discrimination and equal opportunity acts watered them down.) Queensland acted quickly after 1863 and introduced the Polynesian Labourers Act in 1868. Amongst the many clauses of the act was the establishment of inspectors of conditions on plantations where South Sea Islanders were indentured. They weighed food rations, inspected housing and clothing. The act was also designed to protect the Islanders’ basic rights and to stop the “kidnapping” of Islanders. All ships captains had to ensure that there was no coercion and that the Islander’s recruitment was consistent with the QLD Polynesian Labourers Act. Although white settlers and Islanders died of fevers and tropical diseases frequently in the Maryborough area it had one of four Islander Hospitals erected by the QLD government in the early 1880s to help alleviate disease and death among the Islander populations in QLD. The first inspector for the health conditions of the Islanders began work in Maryborough in 1875.Their complaints about the conditions under which Islanders lived led to the opening of the 50 bed Maryborough Pacific Islander Hospital and doctor’s residence. Islanders had a higher death rate from disease than whites and extra health care was needed. Thus the Maryborough Hospital opened in 1883 to improve health conditions but it closed just five years later. Like other Islander hospitals it was funded from the wages due to dead Islanders. These wages were diverted to state government coffers. Attached to the hospital was an Islander cemetery which was formally established in 1891 but was used for interments whilst the hospital existed. A total of 363 Islander patients died at the hospital and were presumably all buried in the cemetery. The Maryborough Pacific Islander Hospital buildings were removed in 1892 and some equipment moved to the Maryborough Hospital which established a separate Kanaka ward. The site of the Pacific Island Hospital and cemetery was left vacant until sold off as vacant land in 1911. A controversy arose a couple of years when the Maryborough Council was considering allowing building on the former site. Action were than taken to have the site declared a heritage area. The outcome for this has not yet been decided. If building approval were to happen one can only hope that a suitable memorial and monument is placed there to remind everyone of Maryborough’s role in the South Sea Islander traffic. The site is near Tinana 5 kms west of Maryborough.
The first South Sea Islander labourers arrived at the port of Maryborough in 1867 on the schooner Mary Smith. All were male and found employed straight away with the Maryborough Sugar Company. They were paid £6 per year (paid at the end for the three year contract) compared with a white labourers who would have received up to £30 a year. The Islanders also were fed and housed which the white labourers were not. The Maryborough Sugar Company also paid for the voyage to and from the South Sea Islands. When the Mary borough Pacific Islander Hospital closed in 1888 it was partially because the number for South Sea Islanders was declining in the district. Numbers continued to fall in the 1890s as sugar profits declined. Then all South Sea Islanders were covered by the “White Australia Acts” of the new Federal Government in 1901. At that time the Islander population in Queensland was at its peak with around 9,000 Islanders. Commonwealth legislation banned recruitment from 1904 and started deportation in 1906. By 1908 7,000 Islanders had been deported and about 2,000 were allowed to stay on in Australia because of marriage or health or other issues. Over the life time of the South Sea Islander trade around 60,000 Islanders had been brought into Queensland and of those about a quarter were employed in the Maryborough district.
The Port of Maryborough.
The town actually began with a wharf as once prospective settlers learned that the River Mary was navigable white pastoralist and cotton and maize farmers moved into the district upstream from around 1848. Then in 1859 as the colony of Queensland was created from New South Wales a new international port was created at Maryborough. The town had moved from West Maryborough to the present site. Consequently the first Customs House was erected in 1861. In 1860 the first vessels arrived at the port of Maryborough direct from Europe with a load of immigrants. In 1869 nearly 7,000 immigrants had landed in Maryborough and by 1878 nearly 16,000 had landed here. In fact between 1860 and 1900 around 22,000 immigrants arrived directly in Maryborough from England and Europe. Maryborough also had a coastal steamer service to Brisbane and Rockhampton. From 1867 it also handled all the goods going into and the gold coming out of the goldfields at Gympie. In the last quarter of the 19th century the port of Maryborough handled saw timber, sugar, wool, meat, gold, maize, etc. Before the end of the 19th century when river ports like Maryborough were about to be forgotten because they could not handle larger steamers its imports and exports were roughly in balance in terms of value. The most valuable exports were: gold, silver, copper, fruit, hides and skins, sugar and wool. Of these the most valuable were sugar £50,000, raw and refined, followed by silver/lead £33,000, gold/silver £9,000 and skin/hides £8,000.
Among the early immigrants were shiploads of German settlers from 1860. As the numbers grew the first Lutheran pastor arrived in 1864 followed by a second in 1867. These and later pastors came from Germany or Denmark, mainly the Schleswig district, which was occupied by Germany from 1864 after it defeated the Danes. Between 1860 and 1891 around 180,000 immigrants arrived in Queensland with an assisted government passage and some rights to lease land. Around 16,000 were non British mainly Germans, Danes, Norwegians and Swedes. Other Australian colonies only gave assisted passages to British immigrants except for Tasmania and Queensland. Most of the non-British immigrants were German but the QLD government’s agent I Germany also recruited Scandinavians, Swiss etc. Queensland became the colony with the greatest number of Danes and it had almost as many Norwegians and Swedes as NSW. Some of these non-British immigrant’s landed in Maryborough with the first ship load arriving in March 1871 on the Reichstag from Hamburg. The Scandinavians especially settled at Tiaro and Tinana near Maryborough, around Bundaberg, Pialba at Hervey Bay and in other places like Kingaroy where Sir Jo Bjelke-Petersen lived. The town of Eidsvold, near Gayndah is a Norwegian name and it was established by the Archer brothers from Larvik in Norway. As most of the Scandinavians were Lutheran (but some were Catholic), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish names are often linked to the Lutheran churches of the Maryborough district. Some Scandinavian names (mainly Danish) of Maryborough early settlers include the Jocumsen, Claussen,Madsen, Kehlet, Weinberg, Okeden, Boge, Möller, etc. Many Danish and other Scandinavian names can also be found in the Polson cemetery at Pialba Hervey Bay such as Christensen, Hansen, Mortensen, Nielsen, Petersen, Thomsen etc.
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Soñar con tulipanes significa: nuevos comienzos, nuevos proyectos, la posibilidad de crear cosas nuevas. Que estás disfrutando de la vida.
El tulipán representa la fe, la caridad, la esperanza, la perfección, el amor idílico y la fertilidad.
También significa que un amor discreto y apasionado asegurará un matrimonio fiel y perdurable. Y que recibirás muchos besos.
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Tulips dream means new beginnings, new projects, the ability to create new things. You are enjoying life. The tulip represents faith, charity, hope, perfection, idyllic love and fertility.
It also means that a discreet and passionate love will ensure a true and lasting marriage. And that you will receive lots of kisses.
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In one particular garden at the cemetery, rows of stone statues of children represent unborn children, including miscarried, aborted, and stillborn children. Parents can choose a statue in the garden and decorate it with small clothing and toys. Usually the statues are accompanied by a small gift for Jizō, the guardian of unborn children, to ensure that they are brought to the afterlife. Occasionally stones are piled by the statue; this is meant to ease the journey to the afterlife.
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En un jardín en particular en el cementerio, filas de estatuas de piedra de niños representan a los niños por nacer, incluidos los niños abortados, abortados y nacidos muertos. Los padres pueden elegir una estatua en el jardín y decorarla con ropa y juguetes pequeños. Por lo general, las estatuas van acompañadas de un pequeño obsequio para Jizō, el guardián de los niños por nacer, para asegurarse de que sean llevados al más allá. Ocasionalmente, la estatua amontona piedras; esto está destinado a facilitar el viaje a la otra vida.
Mizuko kuyo (水子供養 Mizuko kuyō, "servicio memorial para un feto abortado") es una ceremonia japonesa para las mujeres que han sufrido un aborto espontáneo, aborto inducido o mortinato. Esta práctica es más evidente desde la creación de santuarios en la década de 1970 para tal ritual, con el fin de la tranquilidad de la gestante, descanso del alma del feto y evitar la venganza del espíritu del bebé. Originalmente el mizuko kuyo fue usado para ofrendar a Jizo (Ksitigarbha), un Bodhisattva supuesto protector de los niños. Durante el Período Edo, cuando una embarazada era empujada a cometer aborto o infanticidio por su pobreza, la práctica era adaptada para satisfacer la situación. Hoy día, la práctica del mizuko kuyo continúa en Japón, aunque no es claro su autenticidad histórica en las prácticas del budismo en Japón. La ceremonia varía entre templos, escuelas e individuos. Es común que en los templos budistas se ofrezcan estatuillas de Jizo vestidas a lo largo de los pasillos para este propósito. Algunos de estos servicios han sido criticados por aprovecharse y abusar de las creencias que los japoneses tienen acerca de la posible venganza de los espíritus de los bebés abortados.
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Mizuko kuyō (水子供養) meaning "water child memorial service", is a Japanese ceremony for those who have had a miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. This practice has become particularly visible since the 1970s with the creation of shrines devoted solely to this ritual. Reasons for the performance of these rites can include parental grief, desire to comfort the soul of the fetus, guilt for an abortion, or even fear of retribution from a vengeful ghost.
Mizuko (水子), literally "water child", is a Japanese term for an aborted, stillborn or miscarried baby, and archaically for a dead baby or infant. Kuyō (供養) refers to a memorial service. Previously read suiji, the Sino-Japanese on'yomi reading of the same characters, the term was originally a kaimyō or dharma name given after death.The mizuko kuyō, typically performed by Buddhist priests, was used to make offerings to Jizō, a bodhisattva who is believed to protect children. In the Edo period, when famine sometimes led the poverty-stricken to infanticide and abortion, the practice was adapted to cover these situations as well.
Today, the practice of mizuko kuyō continues in Japan, although it is unclear whether it is a historically authentic Buddhist practice. Specific elements of the ceremony vary from temple to temple, school to school, and individual to individual. It is common for temples to offer Jizō statues for a fee, which are then dressed in red bibs and caps, and displayed in the temple yard. Though the practice has been performed since the 1970s, there are still doubts surrounding the ritual. Some view the memorial service as the temples' way of benefiting from the misfortune of women who have miscarried or had to abort a pregnancy. American religious scholars have criticized the temples for allegedly abusing the Japanese belief that the spirits of the dead retaliate for their mistreatment, but other scholars believe the temples are only answering the needs of the people.
The ceremony is attended by both parents or by one, not necessarily the mother. The service can vary from a single event to one that repeats monthly or annually. Though the service varies, common aspects resemble the ceremony for the recent dead, the senzo kuyō (先祖供養). The priest faces the altar and evokes the names of various Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Mantras, often the Heart Sutra and the 25th chapter of the Lotus Sutra, known as the "Avalokiteśvara Sutra", are performed, as are calls of praise to Jizō. Gifts are offered to the Buddha on behalf of the mourned, typically food, drink, incense or flowers. A kaimyō is given to the deceased, and a statue of Jizō is often placed on temple grounds upon completion of the ceremony.
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Los seis Jizō es una antigua leyenda japonesa perteneciente al budismo, cuyo protagonista es el bodhisattva Jizō (地蔵) o Ksitigarbha (地蔵菩薩), tal como se le conoce en Japón. Jizō es el encargado de proteger las almas de los bebés que no han nacido y de los niños que han muerto siendo muy pequeños, a los que se les llama mizuko (水子) o niños del agua. Jizō es el protector de las mujeres embarazadas y de los niños, así como también de los bomberos y viajeros.
De acuerdo con la leyenda, una pareja de ancianos vivía en un hogar humilde y pasaban por muchas necesidades. Se ganaban la vida vendiendo sombreros de paja que fabricaban con sus propias manos. Sin embargo, eran tan pobres que al llegar el día de Fin de Año no tenían dinero para comprar algo especial para cenar y celebrar dicha fecha. El anciano entonces le prometió a su esposa que iría al pueblo, vendería los sombreros y le compraría algo para cenar. El anciano había llevado consigo cinco sombreros de paja, pero al no conseguir venderlos se propuso a regresar a su hogar. Una gran nevada le sorprendió durante el camino de vuelta y divisó a lo lejos seis estatuas de Jizō, de las cuales sintió pena al estar cubiertas de nieve. El anciano quitó la nieve de las estatuas y les ofreció los sombreros que venía cargando con él. A ver que faltaba un sombrero para una de las estatuas, el anciano se quitó su propio sombrero y se lo colocó al sexto Jizō. Más tarde esa noche, la pareja oyó ruidos fuera de su casa y al salir se encontraron con arroz, mochi, pescado y monedas de oro en su puerta. Posteriormente vieron a las estatuas de Jizō con los sombreros en sus cabezas, quienes agradecieron a la pareja por su bondad.
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Kasa Jizō (笠地蔵) is a Japanese folk tale about an old couple whose generosity is rewarded by the bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha, whose name is Jizō in Japanese. The story is commonly handed down by parents to their children in order to instill moral values, as it is grounded in Buddhist thought. An alternative title, Kasako Jizō can be found in Iwate and Fukushima Prefectures. Its origins belong in the Tōhoku and Niigata regions, with the oldest dispensations coming from Hokuriku, as well as areas of Western Japan such as Hiroshima and Kumamoto Prefectures. Its precise origin, however, remains unknown.
One day in the snowy country there lived an incredibly impoverished elderly couple. On New Year's Day, the couple realized that they were unable to afford mochi (a staple form of rice eaten during the New Year). The old man decided to go into town to sell his home-made kasa, but his endeavors proved unsuccessful. Due to the horrible weather conditions, the old man gave up the task and made his trek back home. In the blizzard, the old man came across a line of Jizō statues, to whom he decided to give his kasa as an offering, as well to keep their heads clear of snow. However, he only had enough kasa on hand to give to all but one statue. He gave the remaining statue his tenugui and went on his way. Upon returning home, he relayed the scenario to his wife, who praised him for his virtuous deed, without criticizing his inability to purchase any New Year mochi. That evening, while the couple was asleep, there came a heavy thumping sound from outside the house. They opened the door to find a great pile of treasures, consisting of such goods as rice, vegetables, gold coins, and mochi. The old couple watched on as the Jizō statues marched off into the snowy distance. Having repaid the old man for his selflessness, the couple was able to celebrate the New Year.
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Ensuring safe, clean drinking water is a challenge for city planners in Atlanta, where the population and thus development, is expanding exceptionally fast. A leading cause of water pollution in cities is stormwater runoff, where oil, pesticides, and other chemicals get washed into a city’s streams, rivers, and lakes. Working with city planners and the non-governmental group The Nature Conservancy, NASA’s program to incorporate satellite data into decision making, DEVELOP, identified areas where roadways, parking lots, and other impervious surfaces, were leading to high levels of polluted stormwater runoff. By prioritizing these areas, they were also able to identify communities where major sources of runoff could be minimized by additional green infrastructure.
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Guilfoyle was Curator of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens and designed a number of private and public botanic gardens in the Western Districts of Victoria. He was known for his lawns, unusual trees, drought resistant plants and picturesque features in the gardens such as ponds, fountains, wells, gazebos, sun dials etc.
Camperdown.
Like Noorat, Camperdown is overshadowed by a volcanic cone, Mt Leura, which ensures fertile volcanic soils suitable for dairying are found in the surrounding countryside. Camperdown has become the major regional town. It was once surrounded by some of the great pastoral properties of Victoria, most of which had grand mansions erected on them befitting the great wealth and status of the early pastoralists including:
Purrumbete (the Manifold brothers, 11,000 acres) on the main highway to Geelong; Talindert (also a Manifold property, 6,000 acres) nearer to Mt Leura; West Cloven Hills ( Nicholas Cole 22,000 acres); Meningoort ( Peter McArthur, 13,000 acres); Keilambete ( John Thomson, 26,000 acres- remember the Thomson Memorial Presbyterian church in Terang?); Gala ( John & Thomas Brown, 31,500 acres); Larra ( James Kinross - the buildings are National Heritage listed); Titanga ( James Wilson and partners, 14,000 acres;) and Mount Elephant (Chirnside family of Werribee Park –more than 12,000 acres). Of all of these families it was the Manifolds of Purrumbete and Talindert who provided significant social and civic leadership to Camperdown. Thus the Main Street is Manifold Street and when Princess Alexandra visited Camperdown in 1959 she stayed at Talindert. But by then Talindert, like all the large pastoral estates, had been broken up for closer settlement around the turn of the 20th century. It was a grand house with a small acreage of around 1,700 acres. Purrumbete historic mansion recently sold in February 2013 with just 420 acres. Manifolds have served on the town and district councils, including as President of the Shire etc. It was the Manifold family who paid for the unusual clock tower in the Main Street as a memorial for their son Thomas Manifold who was killed in a hunting accident in 1896. £1,000 was given to the shire council for its erection in 1897. The tower is 103 feet high (31.4 metres) and the clock chimes regularly. The Manifolds also gave financial support to the hospital, the road to the top of Mt Leura and the extensions to the high school. Rather than large sheep properties Camperdown is now surrounded by small dairy farms or beef cattle properties.
The first Camperdown settlement was actually at Timboon where the old Timboon Inn, erected around 1855 still stands. A couple of shepherds lived here and a primitive bush store opened. But the ground was too swampy and so the site was moved closer to Mt Leura. Timboon was on the leasehold of the Manifold brothers of Purrumbete but in 1852 the government resumed land from the Manifolds and surveyed a town and some small acreage blocks near Mt Leura. Camperdown was named in 1854 by Governor LaTrobe when on a hunting trip with Niel Black of Glenormiston. Houses began to appear in 1857 and by 1859 it was a small town with a hotel, stores, wool agent etc. The storekeeper at Timboon moved into Camperdown in 1860 as the town began to grow. In 1858 the first Courthouse was opened with a Police Station following in 1859 and a Post office and telegraph service in 1862. As early as 1871 a local newspaper was established for the town and an early school was built in 1858. The bluestone school was erected in 1886. It was schoolchildren who planted the English Elms in the Main Street in 1876. The railway from Geelong reached the town in 1883 with much fanfare. The old Courthouse in polychromatic brickwork built in 1887 is now the museum, Information Centre and shop for souvenirs etc.
The Camperdown Botanic Gardens deserved special mention. Not only were they designed by our friend William Guilfoyle but they provide a wonderful lookout over the two local volcanic lakes, Bullen Merri and Gnotuk. The two lakes although very close to each other are at different altitudes. Both are maars, or water filled volcanic cones with a surrounding volcanic scoria rim. Bullen Merri is actually two maars that have coalesced. Bullen Merri is about 60 metres deep and Gnotuk about 20 metres deep. Both lakes are the same height above sea level but with a 40-metre difference in their surface heights. Lake Bullen Merri inspired well-known colonial artist Eugene von Guerard to paint it in 1858. Look for copies on the internet. Guilfoyle’s Botanic Gardens are special because they used to contain a statue of the Scottish poet and folk hero Robbie Burns but this has now been placed indoors for safekeeping. The base remains! The gardens have some unusual plants (a typical Guilfoyle trademark) including Himalayan Oak, African Holly tree (Cassine crocea also known as Elaeodendron croceum or Saffron Wood from South Africa), and an extremely rare Quercus leucotrichophora(Blackjack Oak from India) just east of the Robbie Burns statue base. The Gardens also have many fine European Linden trees.
Mount Leura is yet another volcanic cone affording vistas over the hedge-divided countryside. Mount Leura was an active volcano about 20,000 years ago. The reserve here was donated by the Manifold brothers. Nearby Mount Sugarloaf is a perfectly symmetric scoria cone and very much photographed because of that. The circular sheep tracks add to its interest! Both Sugarloaf and Leura are about 311 metres tall the same height as Mt Noorat. There is a deep crater separating Sugarloaf and Leura. It is estimated that Mt Leura formed in about 20 years of constant lava eruptions from a central vent which immediately cooled into scoria pocked with air holes from where gases escaped. The highest maar or volcanic cone in Western Victoria is Mount Elephant near Derrinallum at 393 metres.
Ian Hopkins has been selected as the new Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police by the Mayor Tony Lloyd, in his capacity as Police and Crime Commissioner.
Tony announced Sir Peter Fahy’s successor following a challenging interview process which involved representatives from a range of sectors including politics, faith, business, voluntary and community.
Currently Deputy Chief Constable, Ian has been with GMP since 2008 following roles with Staffordshire, Northamptonshire and Cheshire Police.
Tony said: “I’d like to congratulate Ian and look forward to the Police and Crime Panel hearing next week where I hope members will endorse my choice.”
“Ian is a highly regarded figure in British policing and has extensive experience of the challenges of policing Greater Manchester. As Deputy Chief Constable he has been at the forefront of helping the service cope with the cuts imposed by government, while driving a programme of change to make the service more reflective of the community it serves. This strategic expertise is complemented by first-rate operational experience of leading the police response to major incidents such as the 2011 riots.
“Continuing budget pressures combined with the changing landscape of policing means we have increasingly tough times ahead. I’m confident that Ian is the person to lead GMP and work with me to build safer, stronger communities and ensure the people of Greater Manchester have an effective police service.
“This was a difficult decision as both were impressive candidates. I’d like to thank Simon Byrne and wish him the very best for the future. His extensive experience and ability as an effective senior officer really shone through during the interview process – he is an asset to the policing family.”
Ian Hopkins said: “I am honoured to be taking over the role of Chief Constable and look forward to continuing to work with all my colleagues and wider partners during what is going to be a really difficult time for GMP.
“At the core of what I want to do as Chief Constable is to ensure that we continue to deliver a really good service to the people of greater Manchester. I’d like to thank Peter Fahy for his support and very much want to build on his excellent work.”
His appointment will now be considered by the Police and Crime Panel on Friday 26 September following the meeting of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority in Stockport.
Mr. Hopkins joined GMP in April 2008 on promotion to Assistant Chief Constable. He started his career in Staffordshire Police in 1989 and in 1991 he transferred to Northamptonshire Police. In June 2003, he transferred to Cheshire Police where he was Divisional Commander for Chester and Ellesmere Port. In 2005, he took control of the Cheshire Eastern Area Basic Command Unit.
As Assistant Chief Constable in GMP, Ian has had responsibility for specialist operations, call handling, response policing and territorial divisions including Salford, Wigan and Trafford.
Ian has much experience of managing large events such as party political conferences, a number of high profile football games as well as significant protests, firearms incidents and critical incidents. Ian was also selected to undertake a three-month secondment as syndicate director for the 2011 Strategic Command Course at Bramshill.
Ian has an MBA (distinction), Postgraduate Diploma in Operations
Management and is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He is a director of Marketing Manchester and the NPCC lead for the policing of party political conferences and digital engagement.
Ian was appointed Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police in December 2011. He currently has responsibility for GMP’s performance, change programme and corporate communications.
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Hörde did not originally belong to Dortmund, but was an independent city. The name of the town of Hörde, founded by Count von der Mark, goes back to Huryde or Huride. This meant something like 'hurdle'. At the time of its founding, the Emscher swamps ensured that these hurdles really existed.
Hörde was first mentioned in a document from Emperor Otto IV in 1198. Hörder Castle was built by the Lords of Hörde in the 12th century. In 1340, Konrad von der Mark, with the approval of the ruling Count Adolf von der Mark, granted town rights to the village of Hörde. The Count von der Mark wanted to surround his arch-enemy, the city of Dortmund, with a ring of his own cities.
In the Middle Ages, wine was grown on the steep southern slopes north of the Emscher, on the “Remberg” (vine mountain). Today, street names such as Weingartenstrasse, Am Rebstock and Winzerweg are reminiscent of wine-growing history.
From 1388 to 1390 the Great Dortmund Feud occurred. During the course of the feud, Dortmund troops tried to take the city and castle by trickery; However, the attempt was discovered prematurely and thwarted. In 1390, a negotiated peace brokered by the city of Soest, which like Hörde and Dortmund was a member of the Hanseatic League, ended the dispute after Dortmund made a monetary payment to each of its main opponents.
Hörde was severely damaged by several major fire disasters, including three fires in the 16th century. At the beginning of the 17th century, Hörder Castle was occupied by the Spanish during the Thirty Years' War. Only twenty families survived the Thirty Years' War; two thirds of Hörde was destroyed.
From March 31, 1911 to March 31, 1928, Hörde was an independent city and at the same time the district town of the district of the same name, which existed until July 31, 1929. Hörde was incorporated into the city of Dortmund on April 1, 1928. Within two years in 1928/29, a new Greater Dortmund with more than 540,000 inhabitants was created.
During the National Socialist dictatorship, the Hörder Gestapo cellar was located in the police station on Benninghofer Strasse . A single, accurate bomb drop on the building from a small aircraft is attributed to an escaped torture victim and pilot. The murders in Rombergpark and Bittermark in 1945 were organized from the police station. The Bittermark Memorial and a memorial plaque at the police station commemorate these crimes.
There was a Jewish community in Hörde until the time of National Socialism. A monument on Friedrich-Ebert-Platz in Hörder Rathausstrasse commemorates this. The name Hörde is also engraved on the monument in the Valley of Communities in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. There is still a Jewish cemetery in Hörde today.
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Dortmund is the largest city in the Ruhr area. It has a population of 593,000 inhabitants, making it the eighth largest city in Germany. Dortmund was founded around 882. Throughout the 13th to 14th centuries, it was the "chief city" of the Rhine, Westphalia, and the Netherlands Circle of the Hanseatic League. During the Thirty Years' War, the city was destroyed and decreased in significance until the onset of industrialization. The city then became one of Germany's most important coal, steel and beer centres. The town expanded into a city, with the population rising from 57,742 in 1875 to 379,950 in 1905. Sprawling residential areas like the North, East, Union and Kreuz district sprang up in less than 10 years. Dortmund consequently was one of the most heavily bombed cities in Germany during World War II. The devastating bombing raids of 12 March 1945 destroyed 98% of buildings in the inner city center. These bombing raids, with more than 1,110 aircraft, hold the record to a single target in World War II. Post-war, most of the ancient buildings were not restored, and large parts of the city area were completely rebuilt in the style of the 1950s. A few historic buildings as the main churches Reinoldikirche and Marienkirche were restored or rebuilt, and extensive parks and gardens were laid out. The simple but successful postwar rebuilding has resulted in a very mixed and unique cityscape.
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After visiting the Ruhr area three years ago, I did a revisit, since there was still so much to see. In less than six days I visited six cities, two museums, and I did some extensive car spotting by bicycle. I have hundreds of car spots to share and took photos of the historic or interesting buildings.
The Ruhr area ('Ruhrgebiet') is named after the river that borders it to the south and is the largest urban area in Germany with over five million people. It is mostly known as a densely-populated industrial area. By 1850 there were almost 300 coal mines in operation in the Ruhr area. The coal was exported or processed in coking ovens into coke, used in blast furnaces, producing iron and steel. Because of the industrial significance, it had been a target from the start of the war, yet "the organized defences and the large amount of industrial pollutants produced a semi-permanent smog or industrial haze that hampered accurate bombing". During World War II, the industry and cities in the Ruhr area were heavily bombed. The combination of the lack of historic city centres, which were burned to ashes, (air) pollution, and urban decay has given the area and the cities a bad reputation.
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Protests took place in Rochdale on Saturday 22 July 2017.
The Force worked to ensure the events took place safely and ensuring the right to protest while minimising any disruption to the local community.
Chief Superintendent Neil Evans, Borough Commander, said: “This has been a challenging day with hundreds of people attending Rochdale town centre for the protest.
“I understand that these events are very emotive and that tensions may run high when there are polarised views and counter-protests.
“However, we have worked jointly with Rochdale Council and the community to ensure the most effective way to facilitate and manage this protest in a balanced and safe manner.
“This has very much been a community focused operation aimed at reducing the impact of the protest on the normal lives of people in Rochdale.
“I would like also like to thank members of the community who have acted as mediators and helped the smooth running of today’s event.
“In order to ensure we could deliver a safe operation we deployed large numbers of police which meant another busy weekend for officers, who have worked long hours in challenging circumstances to look after our communities.
“It was pleasing to see that this protest did not stop the people of Rochdale from going about their normal activities.”
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