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Woodcut entitled John Tabor's Ride, an illustration in John Ross Browne's 'Etchings of a whaling cruise: with notes of a sojourn on the island of Zanzibar; and a brief history of the whale fishery, in its past and present condition' (1846).
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Sculpture installation entitled 1004 Portraits by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa is at the Millennium Park in Chicago. The pictured sculptures are three of the "girls", they are 18 feet tall.
Mural entitled "Infinitieth" by Corey aka @coreymadethis for Paint Memphis, seen at 2 Neely Street in Memphis, Tennessee.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Roxy Music are an English art rock group formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, who became the group's lead vocalist and chief songwriter. The other members are Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Former members include Brian Eno (synthesizer and "treatments"), and Eddie Jobson (synthesizer and violin). Although the band took a break from group activities in 1983, they reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and have toured together intermittently since that time.
Roxy Music attained popular and critical success in the UK, Europe and Australia during the 1970s and early 1980s, beginning with their debut album, Roxy Music (1972).[1] The band was highly influential, as leading proponents of the more experimental, musically sophisticated element of glam, as well as a significant influence on early English punk music. They also provided a model for many New Wave acts and the experimental electronic groups of the early 1980s. The group is distinguished by their visual and musical sophistication and their preoccupation with style and glamour.[2] Ferry and co-founding member Eno have also had influential solo careers, the latter becoming one of the most significant record producers and collaborators of the late 20th century.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked Roxy Music #98 on its "The Immortals – 100 The Greatest Artists of All Time" list.[3]
A new studio album, which would have been their ninth, began recording in 2005. It would have been Roxy's first record with Brian Eno since 1973, who wrote two songs for it as well as played keyboards.[4] However, Bryan Ferry eventually confirmed that material from these sessions would be released as a Ferry solo album, with Eno playing on "a couple of tracks,"[5] and that he doesn't think they'll record as Roxy Music again.[6] Subsequently, this was confirmed by the announcement of a solo Bryan Ferry album, entitled Olympia.
Description: This is a stereoview entitled 'Paul Brown at Peter Eadingtons Mill, near Alnwick.' A young man is shown posing on stepping stones.
Date: c. 1890's.
This is a stereoview from a larger collection held at Northumberland Archives. The collection, referenced NRO 09703 consists of stereoviews of Northumberland, mostly capturing the landscape of the Alnwick area.
Stereoviews became popular in the mid 1800’s. They create the illusion of depth. When viewed through a stereoscope the viewer can see what appears to be a 3D image. This is achieved through two separate photographs of the same subject being produced, both slightly different from each other. Once placed side by side and viewed by the left and right eye the brain then interprets these as being one image, creating the illusion of depth.
Our Catalogue Reference: NRO 09703/14
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The 2015 UMASH Annual Forum entitled "Growing Agricultural Education: Embracing Health and Safety" was held at the Davies Center on the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire campus on May 28, 2015. The forum was co-sponsored by the the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH), the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, the Southern Minnesota Center of Agriculture and South Central College and MN West Community and Technical College, the National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield WI, and the Migrant Clinician's Network.
The forum included presentations highlighting existing efforts to address agricultural health and safety in educational programs, a panel discussion and a series of small group discussions focused on agricultural health and safety education and outreach. Fifty-five attendees from diverse backgrounds including healthcare, occupational health and safety, education, research, government, media, communications, immigrant services and human resources participated in the forum. The interactive format provided attendees many opportunities to network and take part in discussions with different attendees throughout the day.
Read the event summary, download the presentation slides and resources at umash.umn.edu/annualforum/
Installation of Glen Cinema Memorial entitled Rattle Little Mother at Dunn Square Paisley.
Location Of Names On Rattle Little Mother, Glen Cinema Memorial
Front “ To The Children Of The Glen Cinema “
Left Panel as you face front of memorial which faces in the direction of the Piazza “ Elizabeth Leonard - Samuel McBlane - Sarah McCafferty - Robert McConnell - Nellie McCran - Minnie McCran - Edward McEnhill - Margaret McEnhill - James McEnhill - Denis McGarrity - Robert McGirr - Jeanie McGrattan - Mary McWattie - Margaret Morrow - Robert Niven - Georgina Peacock - Tom Perkins - John Pinkerton - William Pinkerton - Alexander Telfer - William Rae - Thomas Renfrew - George Scott - William Spears - Jane Stevenson - Robert Wingate.
Back of Memorial which faces Paisley Town Hall “ James Gielty - John Gielty - Norman Gillies - John Goodwin - Henry Green - Mary Green - Archibald Grogan - Annie Hamilton - George Hammond “ 31 December 1929 “ Elizabeth Hart - Peter Houston - Thomas Howard - Julia Irvine - William Irvine - Thomas Jackson - James Johnston - George Kennedy - Helen Kilkie - Thomas Kilkie.
Right panel as you face front of memorial which faces towards Forbes Place “ Robert Adams - Robert Alexander - John Bell - William Black - Hugh Blue - John Bowes - David Boyd - Caroline Brain - Lily Buchanan - John Cairns - Daniel Corbett - Elizabeth Corrigan - Agnes Coyle - Robert Craig - Francis Curran - Elizabeth Dempster - Leah Dixon - Mary Dolan - George Elliott - Henry Elliott - Bessie Finlay - Enso Fiori - Janet Fitch - William Fitch - James Gatherer - Margaret Gibson.
N.B All lettering in gold except from “ 31 December 1929 “ on rear of memorial which is in black, both sides contain 26 names whilst there is 19 names on the back.
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
The exhibition of National Széchényi Library entitled The Buda workshop of the CORVINA LIBRARY will be open from November 6, 2018 until February 9, 2019.
The Corvina Library
The Corvina Library was King Matthias Hunyadi’s royal library founded on the Italian model. The size of the library is not known exactly; it may have contained approximately 2,000 volumes. At that time this was a significant collection, and only the Vatican Library was bigger than the library of King Matthias. The approximately 220 surviving corvinas are currently kept in libraries in Hungary and across Europe and North America. It was due to the high-level reception of Renaissance and Humanism that this unique decorative royal library could be created in late medieval Hungary. On the pages of the codices, the most important readings of humanists, boosting the spiritual and ethical revival of antiquity, as well as an array of visual forms to accompany them arrived in Hungary.
The Buda workshop
The exhibition aims at exploring a so far hidden, less emphasized aspect of King Matthias Hunyadi’s library. Rarely is it discussed that, in addition to ordering splendid Italian codices, similarly precious and decorative manuscripts were made in the royal court as well. The aim of the exhibition is to explore and present this systematic and grandiose endeavor, serving the formation of a royal library in the court of Buda.
Achievements
The high level of the operation of the workshop is indicated by the fact that it was found out about unique codices, which have so far been considered to be unanimously Italian-made pieces, that they actually have the origin of Buda. One such example is the corvina including the history of Hungary by Pietro Ranzano, so far thought to have been made in Naples by researchers. We can present in a much more sophisticated manner how and to what extent creators of the Royal Library had relied on the collections of a former generation of scholar high priests including Iohannes Vitéz, György Handó and Ianus Pannonius. Periodization also became more precise; now we can clearly see that the library was systematically and uniformly developed only in the last years of King Matthias’ reign. It was at that time that the library turned into how we know it today, and the codices had been provided with a uniform binding. A more sophisticated knowledge has been acquired about the structure and inner operation of the workshop, the interaction of illuminators and styles, and its development. It has been manifested that style imitation was a key element in the working method of the workshop.
Decorative codices of high priests
The Buda workshop had not only fulfilled commissions for the Royal Library; following the king’s example were high-ranking priests who also placed their orders with the workshop. Our exhibition will present several of the codices made for them. Three decorative codices once owned by Domonkos Kálmáncsehi, Grand Provost of Székesfehérvár will also be displayed: in addition to one of the most beautiful codices of the Hungarian past, the breviary kept in Budapest, visitors will be presented the high priest’s prayer book kept in Paris, as well as the breviary and missal kept in New York. These latter two codices have not been on display at any exhibition held in Hungary as far as researchers’ memory can recall.
Almost all the corvinas kept in Hungary together
Visitors of the exhibition will have the unparalleled opportunity to look at almost all the corvinas, nearly fifty codices, kept in Hungary together.
Sensational pieces
The uniquely beautiful breviary of György Szatmári, Bishop of Pécs and one of the major patrons of late medieval Hungary, will arrive from Paris, just like the Cassianus corvina, eponymous top piece of the most beautiful style circle of the Buda workshop. During King Matthias’ reign, the presence of Greek codices in a royal library was considered to be rare even in Italy. Buda was a pioneer in this regard, too. Three unique items will arrive from the Greek codices of the Corvina Library: from Leipzig, the corvina, which was the only one to preserve the work of Purple-born Constantine VII (905‒959), Emperor of the Byzantine Empire on court ceremonial; and the so-called Mynas codex from Paris, which had been bound together – probably from Greek fragments found in the Royal Library – in Buda at the very beginning of the 16th century. Presented will be, as a real sensation, the most recently identified corvina, which had also been written in Greek, featuring works by Theologian St. Gregory. As a philological specialty, the Plutarch translation by Ianus Pannonius, known to have been well versed in Greek, will arrive from Leipzig. Milan-based Francesco da Castello was the most prominent illuminator of the Buda workshop. Visitors generally have the opportunity to look at his works made in Hungary only, but this will be the first time when the master’s productions made in Hungary and Italy will meet; two Graduals, painted at least partly by him, will arrive from Turin. Also displayed will be the so-called “Vatican Missal”, a special relic of style mixing and style imitation, characteristic of the Buda workshop.
Bibliotheca Corvina Virtualis: renewed corvina website
On the occasion of the exhibition, the renewed corvina website, Bibliotheca Corvina Virtualis will also be presented. The website will display all the corvina codices kept in Hungary in digital format.
Mural entitled "Parallel Dawn" by Chris Soria aka @chrissoria and Danielle McDonald aka @dmarie8 seen at the corner of 5th Avenue North and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street in St Petersburg, Florida.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Die Werke von Willem de Rooij kreisen um Fragen nach Repräsentation und Bedeutung. Seit den frühen 1990er-Jahren arbeitet der niederländische Künstler in unterschiedlichen Medien wie Installation, Fotografie und Film. Für seine Ausstellung „Entitled“ im MMK 2 des MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main hat er Werke und Werkgruppen aus frühen Schaffensphasen bis zur Gegenwart erstmals zu einer neuen, den gesamten Museumsraum umfassenden Installation vereint.
„Willem de Rooij ist mit wichtigen Werken aus seiner Kooperation mit Jeroen de Rijke in der Sammlung des MMK vertreten. Wir freuen uns, mit dieser Ausstellung das Œuvre von de Rooij noch intensiver und umfassender beleuchten zu können“, sagt Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer, Direktorin des MMK.
De Rooij studierte an der Gerrit Rietveld Akademie und an der Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Seit 2006 lehrt er als Professor für Bildende Künste an der Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Von 1995 bis 2006 arbeitete er zusammen mit Jeroen de Rijke (1970–2006).
Bei dieser Ausstellung stehen sowohl die einzelnen Arbeiten des Künstlers im Mittelpunkt als auch ihre Anordnung in einer umfassenden Installation, die speziell für die Räume des
MMK 2 entwickelt wurde. „In der Anordnung der Werke zu einer Gesamtinstallation sieht Willem de Rooij einen wichtigen Teil seiner Arbeit als Künstler. Der Raum – ob privat, öffentlich, institutionell oder sozial – ist dabei zentral. Der Raum zwischen den einzelnen Werken und die Aussichten auf den städtischen Umraum schaffen eine Beziehung zwischen dem Werk und dem Betrachter, zwischen dem Museum und der Stadt.“, sagt Klaus Görner, Kurator der Ausstellung.
Durch die bewusste Einbindung von Zwischenräumen und Fensteröffnungen stellt die Installation im MMK 2 Verbindungen zwischen dem Innenraum und der äußeren Umgebung her. Die Präsentation ist dabei nicht als Parcours oder Abfolge aufgebaut, sondern als ein Gefüge verschiedener Zonen, die sich gegenseitig durchdringen und über Blickachsen miteinander verknüpft sind. Dadurch deckt die Installation Referenzen innerhalb de Rooijs Œuvre auf.
Pressemitteilung MMK
The photographic portfolio entitled “GLOBALIZING CONTAMINATIONS” was among the finalists at the PORTFOLIO SIFEST 2018 international award (Italy). This photography project is the result of a one-month period lived in Africa from Kenya to Tanzania. In the 1950s and 1960s, the European colonial powers gradually ceased to administer their African territories. The process of “apparent decolonization” led to the gradual departure of all the expatriate personnel of the colonizing nations: administrators, soldiers and all those who had settled in the “colony”. This process favored the creation of independent states and paved the way for new foreign influences over those of the colonial powers. Therefore, after some years living in Africa, I came to ask myself: “How has the influence, after decolonization, of European countries evolved in the face of the emancipation of African countries and the competition of new powers?”
From my set entitled “Black Creek Pioneer Village”
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In my collection entitled "Places"
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In my photostream
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Reproduced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black Creek Pioneer Village is an historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River.
The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how rural Ontario might have looked in the early-to-mid 1800s.
The "pioneer" village consists of over forty historic 19th century buildings, decorated in the style of the 1860s with period furnishings. Besides the Historical Interpreters and Craftspeople housed in the restored buildings, the site also features historical reenactments and visiting artisans. Buildings include period houses, the original Stong Family farm buildings, a water-powered grist mill, a general store, a blacksmith's shop along with over 10 other trades buildings, a hotel, a church, and a one-room schoolhouse. A core of buildings built by the Stong family are on their original sites, while others have been moved in from across Southern Ontario.
The majority of the buildings were moved from their original sites (notably the large Halfway House and Mennonite Meeting House), and some re-built on their current locations.
The village is a regular destination for field trips by schoolchildren from the Greater Toronto Area.
It is operated by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
I started making a list in my diary entitled âThings I Have Been Silent About.â Under it I wrote: âFalling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.â I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about private betrayals, implicating myself and those close to me in ways I had never imagined.
--From [Things I Have Been Silent About](http://www.amazon.com/Things-Ive-Been-Silent-About/dp/1400063612)
[Azar Nafisi](http://azarnafisi.com/), author of the beloved international bestseller [Reading Lolita in Tehran](http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp/081297106X), now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a countryâs political revolution. A girlâs pain over family secrets; a young womanâs discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheavalâthese and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and âreminds us of why we read in the first placeâ (Newsday).
I met with and photographed [Azar Nafisi](http://azarnafisi.com/) for The Times in London she is a fantastic upbeat person....... very personable..... totally fascinating........... Im sure her new book......... [Things I Have Been Silent About](http://www.amazon.com/Things-Ive-Been-Silent-About/dp/1400063612) is well worth reading........ although I myself do not yet have a copy.
I was thinking of [Azar Nafisi](http://azarnafisi.com/) today as I was listening to reports about the jailing of another Iranian American woman........ [Roxana Saberi](http://freeroxana.net/) who has been arrested while reporting from Iran........ I have listened to her reporting many times both on the BBC and NPR ......... I felt sick when I heard she had been jailed for on trumped up charges of spying and sentenced to 8 years...... I feel the new Obama administration's attempts to engage Iran are not wrong and anyway could hardly be less successful than President Bush's attempts at manipulation through isolation............. but I did feel slightly sick that the totally unjustified incarceration of this brave individual reporter by this awful theocracy......... just might just be brushed under the carpet to allow dialogue with the oppressive ayatollahs.
Lets try and engage with Iran but lets not forget [Roxana Saberi](http://freeroxana.net/).
Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
Description: 'Photograph (Cinematograph Film) entitled 'With Captain Scott [Royal Navy] to the South Pole (British Antarctic Expedition)'. Pony pulling sledge, man walking by SY 'Terra Nova' in background' by Herbert Ponting (1870-1935).
Date: c.1911
Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/562/100
This image shows a single frame from the very short (3-4 frame) sections of nitrate film stock accessioned at The National Archives from Herbert Ponting's footage of the Antarctic. For preservation reasons copies were made of of the original nitrate negatives and these were used to produce modern black and white Kodak prints of the clips which we have scanned for the web. The quality of the resultant images is variable.
Feel free to share it within the spirit of the Commons.
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Painting number 8 of 14 commissioned by Norwich Cathedral and entitled 'The Passion of Edith Cavell: The Way of the Cross', painted by Brian Whelan.
This painting is called 'VIII. Arrest' and it hangs with the other 13 painting inside the cathedral.
'On Aug. 5th. 1915 ... officers of the Secret Police ... presented themselves ... at the Institute Berkendael, rue da la Culture, No. 149 and there proceeded to a search.... Miss Cavell and her assistant, Miss Wilkins, were arrested ... and bought to police station B. After examination by Lieut. Bergan, Miss Wilkins was released. Miss Cavell was detained'. (Official German account of Edith's arrest).
Edith Cavell was born at Swardeston, near Norwich on 4th. December 1865. The eldest child of the vicar of St. Mary's church, she was schooled at home by her father along with her two younger sisters and brother until she was 16. The opportunities for young women of her background were very few, but Edith was determined through Christian service to make a difference. She wrote "Someday, somehow I am going to do something useful. I don't know what it will be, I only know it will be something for people".
Edith trained to be a nurse at the Royal London Hospital in London's East End from 1896 to 98. Her great opportunity came when in 1907 she was invited by Belgium's leading surgeon, Antoine Depage, to become the founding director of the first professional nurse's training school in Belgium.
Each summer Edith came back to Norfolk for a holiday. In August 1914 she was with her widowed mother in her College Road, Norwich, home when news came of the threat of the German invasion of neutral Belgium. Edith immediately travelled back to Brussels to be with her nurses, and they cared for casualties regardless of national origin.
Although the German occupiers of Brussels threatened death to anyone assisting allied soldiers, in early 1915 Edith became part of a underground network that enabled those caught behind enemy lines to escape from Belgium. She later admitted that she had helped around 200 allied soldiers even while she was nursing German soldiers in the clinic.
Eventually Edith and the underground group were all arrested and imprisoned. She found her ten week in solitary confinement in St. Gilles prison in Brussels 'a great mercy', a time of healing, peace and calm after the constant anxiety and stress of her work. Edith was tried along with 34 others and found guilty of treason. On the afternoon of 11th. October 1915, she learned that she and a resistance colleague would be executed by firing squad the next morning.
Edith faced her death with calm courage. "I have no fear or shrinking. I have seen death so often it is not strange or fearful to me". As a Christian and as a nurse, she had committed herself to the service of others, conscious that this might cost her everything, even the sacrifice of her own life. As Christ had done from the cross, she prayed for the forgiveness of those who would kill her, "I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anybody". Edith's words were a rejection of the patriotic hatred that drove the war, and they are words that speak to us just as powerfully and directly today.
Edith's body was returned to England in May 1919. After a state funeral at Westminster Abbey, she was brought back to Norfolk and it the presence of thousands was buried in Life's Green, the former monastic cemetery outside Norwich Cathedral. Public donations were used in accordance with her express wishes to open rest homes for nurses, work that continues today under the Cavell Nurses Trust.
Entitled Pensive, this 1875 portrait by Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is part of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts permanent collection and just one of many works of art donated to the museum by Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon. The VMFA is one of the treasures that make the Richmond area a great place to live. Works in the museum's permanent collection can be photographed, without flash. The light was rather low in this part of the museum, so I shot this at 1/8-sec, f/4.5, ISO 1600, using a polarizer to reduce glare (hand-held). Best when viewed in light box.
Four brothers Billy, 17, Charlie 15, Rafferty 13, and Laurie 12 make up The Entitled Sons. The band name is a cheeky reference to how they felt some TV viewers would describe their upbringing after seeing them on their mum, Sarah Beeny's, latest TV show.
Debuting their first song "Break" on the TV show in the local pub near Bruton, it was only a few days later that they found themselves in the iTunes top 10, ahead of the likes of Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Dua Lipa and Years & Years.
Another bog pine stump, this time entitled ‘Community roots’, the symbolic light of the candleholder representing the result of being well rooted in the community.
This is one sideways view.
It is a piece of Co Mayo bog pine. The longest root is 55 cm long to the trunk, longest width 80 cm from root tip to tip, height 25 cm and trunk diameter 7 – 9 cm.
This small tree, perhaps it was the height of a human, evidently had a struggle to grow. It came from a mountainy bog where some of the covering even today is very thin, with a complete layer of stone and rock immediately underneath. It was impossible for me to count the number of tree rings in the centre quarter or third of the diameter they were so small and indistinct, but the rest showed 30 rings (= 30 years), so it may well have grown over 40 years but presumably very bad nutrition caused it to only grew to this size. As with all bog pine it has to be over 3,500 years old (when pine died out naturally in Ireland due to climate change).
I have kept this as natural a shape as possible. The trunk was slightly higher when found but a bit had to be cut because some of the centre was rotten. It can be seen drying and in its natural state at www.flickr.com/photos/boggerwood/8853787394/ - in the centre and referred to in the text. I had a bit of a search for a suitable nightlight candle holder to fit inside the trunk, which was hollowed out; the candle holder is a ‘double sided’ one from Ikea (one way up it holds a night light, the other way a smaller diameter candle, unfortunately as of 2016 not stocked any more). The finished product was lightly oiled and subsequently finished with matt acrylic varnish.
....I seem to have been majoring in tree trunks recently from the large www.flickr.com/photos/boggerwood/9389474669/ to the tiny www.flickr.com/photos/boggerwood/9506275109/
Museum de Fundatie Zwolle NL presents an exhibition entitled Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear, to run from 22 September 2018 to 6 January 2019. The sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) are manifestations of the sense of fear and disillusionment that pervaded Europe during the Cold War period. Their work bids a final farewell to pre-war romanticism and aestheticism, and lands with both feet in the raw reality of the post-war world. While Giacometti reduced the human form to its bare essentials, Chadwick created powerful archetypal images of both people and animals. The exhibition includes more than 150 works. Never before has the work of Giacometti and Chadwick been so explicitly brought together.
Their paths first crossed in 1956, when Chadwick became the youngest person ever to win the Grand Prix for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale. With only six years’ experience as a sculptor, the British artist snatched the prize from Giacometti, the hot favourite, who was thirteen years older and already a major name in Paris. Giacometti would go on to win the prize in 1962, but which of the two men was awarded it in 1956 is less significant than the fact that these two particular sculptors were the front-runners at that time. Each of them was expressing, in his own individual way, the sense of deep-seated angst that overshadowed day-to-day life in Europe in the fifties and sixties: the fear of a global nuclear disaster that would wipe out human civilisation.
Alberto Giacometti is among the most significant figures in the whole field of modern European sculpture. A member of a notable family of Swiss artists, he moved to Paris in 1922 and would remain there for the rest of his life, working as a sculptor, painter and graphic artist. After training with Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, he discovered modernism and so-called ‘primitive’ ethnographic art of Africa and Oceania. In response to these influences, his work became more abstract. In the early thirties, his Surrealist sculptures expressing subconscious emotions created a furore. From 1935, however, personal psychological tensions triggered a crisis in his life and work that led to a return to the human figure. Initially, his portraits and figures became both increasingly tiny and more and more attenuated. This thinness was to remain the most distinctive feature of Giacometti’s art. After the Second World War, he began to create the elongated, emaciated figures that would bring him worldwide fame. In all their attenuation, they reduce humanity to its very essence and appear both vulnerable and enigmatic.
In the early fifties, up-and-coming artist Lynn Chadwick managed to dislodge Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth from their dominant position in the field of British sculpture. Born in London, Chadwick had started his career as a technical draughtsman and exhibition stand designer. He took an equally constructional approach to his sculpture: rather than model his human and animal figures in clay or wax, he constructed them by welding steel rods together to create an armature and then filling in the gaps with a kind of cement. The angularity of the work being produced by him and other young British artists was described in 1952 as ‘the geometry of fear’, a reference to the constant dread of nuclear annihilation. Chadwick’s apocalyptic Dancers and stoical Watchers gave powerful expression to this sense of angst. From the early seventies, he broadened his repertoire to include subjects that seem to restore the sovereignty of the human spirit. Sculptures like Cloaked Figure and Sitting Couple no longer look threatening, but emanate a sense of composure and invulnerability.
Giacometti’s pre-war work influenced Chadwick’s development and the two men were keenly aware of each other’s presence. In addition to the vast differences, there are also many similarities between their oeuvres. Giacometti-Chadwick, Facing Fear is the product of close cooperation with the Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence and the Chadwick Estate and Blain|Southern gallery in London.
This photograph was published online in an aricle in GARDENINGetc entitled:
'' Want to keep foxes away from your garden? You need this expert tip - The one thing you need to know about deterring foxes from your backyard '', by Anna K. Cottrell.
Gardeningetc is a UK based magazine under the Future Publishing Limited group based in Bath.
It had previously been selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on June 20th 2021
CREATIVE RF gty.im/1324337152 MOMENT ROYALTY FREE COLLECTION It became my 5,092nd frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection
I'm standing in my kitchen on a cold, wet summer afternoon making a Tassimo Costa L'or double shot Latte whilst taking a quick break from watching Sweden versus Slovakia (I've seen more action in a chess match!), on TV in the Euros football tournament when a rain soaked fox enters my garden!
My camera is upstairs still with the Lee SW150 filter holder and circular polarizer attached, and round here, foxes normally do not surface much in daylight nor spend long before scampering away, so I rush up and grab it, hastily tampering with the settings, forgetting to set the vibration control to the on position....
I'm skulking in the corner of the kitchen, shooting through closed, rain splattered windows and the fox can sense my presence and every movement. Far from ideal, but such a joy to have a few brief moments in the presence of such a magnificent animal.
And they say any shot is better than NO shot, don't they......
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty one metres at 15:36pm on a cold morning on Friday 18th June 2021, off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
Here we see a young Red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the largest of the true foxes (a genus of the sub-family Caninae which form a proper clade or monophyletic or natural group). Red foxes are the largest of the worldwide foxes, and also the most commonly widespread across the Northern hemisphere, Europe and North Africa.
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This remarkable sculpture, entitled 'Iron-Bowl' (the famous Alabama Vs. Auburn annual matchup) stands on the campus of the United States Sports Academy in nearby Daphne, Alabama...it is one of several sports sculptures on campus by Alabama artist Bruce Larsen who transforms discarded scrap into powerful, compelling works of art...he has received world-wide recognition for his work and is also a prominent special effects artist for major motion pictures...
Paying homage to 'the boys of Autumn' from 5 to 50 who bring extra excitement to Autumn on football fields from backyard flag football to frenzied college stadiums to the pros on our HD flat screens, America loves its chance to cheer for brilliant plays and stunning upsets and that timeless thrill of victory...all under a deep blue Fall sky! The traditional rivalries, the legendary coaches and Hall of Fame players, the cheerleaders and mascots all carry over to each new generation and have sparked a million game day fire-up-the-grill get togethers and tailgate parties...and sold about a trillion team logo T-shirts and such...and winning seasons are still talked about wistfully 40 years later...this is something of substance and magic; this is football season!
Every fan loves bragging rights and as a diehard Alabama Crimson Tide fan, I'm proud of their 6-0 season so far...ROLL TIDE!!! : )
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing. See Nebraska Extension Service publication G97-1319 for suggestions as to control.
At times Rhus has held over 250 species. Recent molecular phylogeny research suggests breaking Rhus sensu lata into Actinocheita, Baronia, Cotinus, Malosma, Searsia, Toxicodendron, and Rhus sensu stricta. If this is done, about 35 species would remain in Rhus. However, the data is not yet clear enough to settle the proper placement of all species into these genera.
Model entitled "Alice 1" by DeathByCannon Stock on DeviantART.
Background and textures are from my stock.
Installation of Glen Cinema Memorial entitled Rattle Little Mother at Dunn Square Paisley.
Location Of Names On Rattle Little Mother, Glen Cinema Memorial
Front “ To The Children Of The Glen Cinema “
Left Panel as you face front of memorial which faces in the direction of the Piazza “ Elizabeth Leonard - Samuel McBlane - Sarah McCafferty - Robert McConnell - Nellie McCran - Minnie McCran - Edward McEnhill - Margaret McEnhill - James McEnhill - Denis McGarrity - Robert McGirr - Jeanie McGrattan - Mary McWattie - Margaret Morrow - Robert Niven - Georgina Peacock - Tom Perkins - John Pinkerton - William Pinkerton - Alexander Telfer - William Rae - Thomas Renfrew - George Scott - William Spears - Jane Stevenson - Robert Wingate.
Back of Memorial which faces Paisley Town Hall “ James Gielty - John Gielty - Norman Gillies - John Goodwin - Henry Green - Mary Green - Archibald Grogan - Annie Hamilton - George Hammond “ 31 December 1929 “ Elizabeth Hart - Peter Houston - Thomas Howard - Julia Irvine - William Irvine - Thomas Jackson - James Johnston - George Kennedy - Helen Kilkie - Thomas Kilkie.
Right panel as you face front of memorial which faces towards Forbes Place “ Robert Adams - Robert Alexander - John Bell - William Black - Hugh Blue - John Bowes - David Boyd - Caroline Brain - Lily Buchanan - John Cairns - Daniel Corbett - Elizabeth Corrigan - Agnes Coyle - Robert Craig - Francis Curran - Elizabeth Dempster - Leah Dixon - Mary Dolan - George Elliott - Henry Elliott - Bessie Finlay - Enso Fiori - Janet Fitch - William Fitch - James Gatherer - Margaret Gibson.
N.B All lettering in gold except from “ 31 December 1929 “ on rear of memorial which is in black, both sides contain 26 names whilst there is 19 names on the back.
Installation of Glen Cinema Memorial entitled Rattle Little Mother at Dunn Square Paisley.
Location Of Names On Rattle Little Mother, Glen Cinema Memorial
Front “ To The Children Of The Glen Cinema “
Left Panel as you face front of memorial which faces in the direction of the Piazza “ Elizabeth Leonard - Samuel McBlane - Sarah McCafferty - Robert McConnell - Nellie McCran - Minnie McCran - Edward McEnhill - Margaret McEnhill - James McEnhill - Denis McGarrity - Robert McGirr - Jeanie McGrattan - Mary McWattie - Margaret Morrow - Robert Niven - Georgina Peacock - Tom Perkins - John Pinkerton - William Pinkerton - Alexander Telfer - William Rae - Thomas Renfrew - George Scott - William Spears - Jane Stevenson - Robert Wingate.
Back of Memorial which faces Paisley Town Hall “ James Gielty - John Gielty - Norman Gillies - John Goodwin - Henry Green - Mary Green - Archibald Grogan - Annie Hamilton - George Hammond “ 31 December 1929 “ Elizabeth Hart - Peter Houston - Thomas Howard - Julia Irvine - William Irvine - Thomas Jackson - James Johnston - George Kennedy - Helen Kilkie - Thomas Kilkie.
Right panel as you face front of memorial which faces towards Forbes Place “ Robert Adams - Robert Alexander - John Bell - William Black - Hugh Blue - John Bowes - David Boyd - Caroline Brain - Lily Buchanan - John Cairns - Daniel Corbett - Elizabeth Corrigan - Agnes Coyle - Robert Craig - Francis Curran - Elizabeth Dempster - Leah Dixon - Mary Dolan - George Elliott - Henry Elliott - Bessie Finlay - Enso Fiori - Janet Fitch - William Fitch - James Gatherer - Margaret Gibson.
N.B All lettering in gold except from “ 31 December 1929 “ on rear of memorial which is in black, both sides contain 26 names whilst there is 19 names on the back.
Through this photographic portfolio entitled “LIQUID SUBURBS” we want to focus on the theme of suburbs understood as both physical spaces and metaphorical dimensions. In the peripheries, in modern times, we have associated in negative terms what Bauman defines as “forced individualism”, as the liberation from any possible social bond and consequent solitary management of “risk”, uncertainty and the fears that derive from it. In a “liquid” society, life, particularly in the suburbs, seems to settle down and flatten itself in an eternal arid present of future prospects, similar to quicksand, amidst increasingly heavy and immobilizing doubts and perplexities, anchored to certainties linked to a past that is not it exists more and instead persists with nostalgia in the memories of flexible men, weakening them transformative capacity of reality. To adapt to continuous change and the structural risks of the second modernity, man has preferred to abandon the thought of introspection by adopting a mentality of “survival” that feeds on a “fast” thought typical of machines. A thought that does not allow for any deep reflection of one's own experiences, which does not provide the possibility of authentically taking care of one's self and which is shown through the construction, reflected by the architecture of the suburbs (as highlighted in the portfolio), of a “patchwork” Composed of many small and fragile fragments, often devoid of ties and connections, which are unable to give meaning and significance to the existential path of the individual as well as of the family nucleus and consequently of the non-community itself.
From my set entitled “Flowering Crabappel”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabapple
Malus, the apples, is a genus of about 30–35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae. Other studies go as far as 55 species [1] including the domesticated Orchard Apple, or Table apple as it was formerly called (M. sylvestris domestica, derived from M. sylvestris sieversii, syn. M. pumila). The other species and subspecies are generally known as "wild apples", "crab apples", "crabapples" or "crabs", this name being derived from their small and tart fruit. Cultivars such as 'Whitney' have been independently domesticated for better fruit quality
The genus is native to the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, in Europe, Asia and North America.
Apple trees are small, typically 4–12 m tall at maturity, with a dense, twiggy crown. The leaves are 3–10 cm long, alternate, simple, with a serrated margin. The flowers are borne in corymbs, and have five petals, which may be white, pink or red, and are perfect, with usually red stamens that produce copious pollen, and an inferior ovary; flowering occurs in the spring after 50–80 growing degree days (varying greatly according to subspecies and cultivar). Apples require cross-pollination between individuals by insects (typically bees, which freely visit the flowers for both nectar and pollen); all are self-sterile, and (with the exception of a few specially developed cultivars) self-pollination is impossible, making pollinating insects essential. The honeybee and mason bee are the most effective[citation needed] insect pollinators of apples. Malus species, including domestic apples, hybridize freely. Malus species are used as food plants by the larvae of a large number of Lepidoptera species; see list of Lepidoptera that feed on Malus.
The fruit is a globose pome, varying in size from 1–4 cm diameter in most of the wild species, to 6 cm in M. sylvestris sieversii, 8 cm in M. sylvestris domestica, and even larger in certain cultivated orchard apples; among the largest-fruited cultivars (all of which originate in North America) are 'Wolf River' and 'Stark Jumbo' . The centre of the fruit contains five carpels arranged star-like, each containing one to two (rarely three) seeds.
One species, Malus trilobata from southwest Asia, has three- to seven-lobed leaves (superficially resembling a maple leaf) and with several structural differences in the fruit; it is often treated in a genus of its own, as Eriolobus trilobatus.
For Malus sylvestris domestica, see Apple. The fruit of the other species is not an important crop in most areas, being extremely sour and (in some species) woody, and is rarely eaten raw for this reason. However, crabapples are an excellent source of pectin, and their juice can be made into a ruby-coloured jelly with a full, spicy flavour[2]. A small percentage of crab apples in cider makes a more interesting flavour.
Crabapples are widely grown as ornamental trees, grown for their beautiful flowers or fruit, with numerous cultivars selected for these qualities and for resistance to disease.
Some crab apples are used as rootstocks for domestic apples to add beneficial characteristics.[3] For example, varieties of Baccata, also called Siberian crab, rootstock is used to give additional cold hardiness to the combined plant for orchards in cold northern areas[4]
They are also used as pollinizers in apple orchards. Varieties of crab apple are selected to bloom contemporaneously with the apple variety in an orchard planting, and the crabs are planted every sixth or seventh tree, or limbs of a crab tree are grafted onto some of the apple trees. In emergencies, a bucket or drum bouquet of crab apple flowering branches are placed near the beehives as orchard pollenizers. See also Fruit tree pollination.
hybrid Crab apple grown for its flowering.
Because of the plentiful blossoms and small sized fruit, crab apples are popular for use in bonsai culture. Because the trees are small due to the requirements of the hobby, but still show the abundant fruit bearing of full sized crab apples, it is important to thin out fruit so that trees do not exhaust themselves.
Apple wood "makes a wonderfully luxurious firewood with a lovely scent, and smoke from an apple wood fire gives a most excellent flavour to smoked foods," [5] including Applewood cheese.
From my set entitled “Heuchera”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeucheraThe genus Heuchera includes at least 50 species of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Saxifragaceae, all native to North America. Common names include alumroot and coral bells. They have palmately lobed leaves on long petioles, and a thick, woody rootstock. The genus was named after Johann Heinrich von Heucher (1677–1746), an 18th century German physician.
Alumroot species grow in varied habitats, so some species look quite different from one another, and have varying preferences regarding temperature, soil, and other natural factors. H. maxima is found on the Channel Islands of California, where it grows on rocky, windy, saline-washed ocean shores. H. sanguinea, called coral bells because of its terra cotta-colored flowers, can be found in the warm, dry canyons of Arizona. Gardeners and horticulturists have developed a multitude of hybrids between various Heuchera species. There is an extensive array of blossom sizes, shapes, and colors, foliage types, and geographic tolerances.
Though tangy and slightly astringent, the leaves may be used to liven up bland greens.
Natives of the Northwest U.S. have used tonic derived of Alumroot roots to aid digestive difficulties, but extractions from the root can also be used to stop minor bleeding, reduce inflammation, and otherwise shrink moist tissues after swelling.
From my set entitled “Lamium”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadnettle
Lamium (deadnettle) is a genus of about 40-50 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, of which family it is the type genus. They are all herbaceous plants native to Europe, Asia, and north Africa, but several have become very successful weeds of crop fields and are now widely naturalised across the temperate world.
The genus includes both annual and perennial species; they spread by both seeds and stems rooting as they grow along the ground.
The common name refers to their superficial resemblance to the unrelated stinging nettles, but unlike those, they do not have stinging hairs and so are harmless or apparently "dead".
Lamiums are frost hardy and grow well in most soils. Flower colour determines planting season and light requirement: white- and purple-coloured flowered species are planted in spring and prefer full sun. The yellow-flowered ones are planted in fall (autumn) and prefer shade. They often have invasive habits and need plenty of room. Propagate from seed or by division in early spring
From my set entitled “Iris”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(plant)
Iris is a genus of between 200-300 species of flowering plants with showy flowers which takes its name from the Greek word for a rainbow, referring to the wide variety of flower colors found among the many species. As well as being the scientific name, Iris is also very widely used as a common name and refers to all Iris species as well as some closely related genera.
The genus is widely distributed throughout the north temperate zone. Their habitats are considerably varied, ranging from cold regions into the grassy slopes, meadowlands, stream banks of Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa, Asia and across North America.
They are perennial herbs, growing from creeping rhizomes (rhizomatous irises), or, in drier climates, from bulbs (bulbous irises). They have long, erect, flowering stems, which may be simple or branched, solid or hollow, and flattened or have a circular cross-section. The rhizomatous species usually have 3-10 basal, sword-shaped leaves growing in dense clumps. The bulbous species have cylindrical basal leaves.
The inflorescences are fan-shaped and contain one or more symmetrical, six-lobed flowers. These grow on a pedicel or lack a footstalk. The three sepals, which are spreading or droop downwards, are referred to as falls. They expand from their narrow base into a broader limb (= expanded portion), often adorned with veining, lines or dots. The three, sometimes reduced, petals stand upright, partly behind the sepal bases. They are called standards. Some smaller iris species have all six lobes pointing straight outwards. The sepals and the petals differ from each other. They are united at their base into a floral tube that lies above the ovary. The styles divide towards the apex into petaloid branches (see pollination, below).
The iris flower is of special interest as an example of the relation between flowering plants and pollinating insects. The shape of the flower and the position of the pollen-receiving and stigmatic surfaces on the outer petals form a landing-stage for a flying insect, which in probing the perianth for nectar, will first come in contact of perianth, three with the stigmatic stamens in one whorl surface which is borne and an ovary formed of three carpels. The shelf-like transverse projection on the inner whorl under side of the stamens, which is beneath the over-arching style arm below the stigma, so that the insect comes in contact with its pollen-covered surface only after passing the stigma, while in backing out of the flower it will come in contact only with the non-receptive lower face of the stigma. Thus, an insect bearing pollen from one flower, will in entering a second, deposit the pollen on the stigma, while in backing out of a flower, the pollen which it bears will not be rubbed off on the stigma of the same flower!
From my set entitled “Black Creek Pioneer Village”
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In my collection entitled "Places"
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In my photostream
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Reproduced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black Creek Pioneer Village is an historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River.
The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how rural Ontario might have looked in the early-to-mid 1800s.
The "pioneer" village consists of over forty historic 19th century buildings, decorated in the style of the 1860s with period furnishings. Besides the Historical Interpreters and Craftspeople housed in the restored buildings, the site also features historical reenactments and visiting artisans. Buildings include period houses, the original Stong Family farm buildings, a water-powered grist mill, a general store, a blacksmith's shop along with over 10 other trades buildings, a hotel, a church, and a one-room schoolhouse. A core of buildings built by the Stong family are on their original sites, while others have been moved in from across Southern Ontario.
The majority of the buildings were moved from their original sites (notably the large Halfway House and Mennonite Meeting House), and some re-built on their current locations.
The village is a regular destination for field trips by schoolchildren from the Greater Toronto Area.
It is operated by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
Memymom's fourth chapter, entitled The Fourth Hatch (2022-2032), is a ten-year creative journey exploring the passage of time and was inspired by a crooked garden shed located in their Brussels home and studio. This shed, representing life's imperfections and idiosyncrasies, is not only a symbol of personal memories and family history but also of changing times when the world is crooked and out of balance. In order to amplify this idea, memymom decided to recreate the shed as an art installation, named "The Fourth Hatch," which was placed in the surreal and ephemeral location of the Salton Sea in Bombay Beach, as a portal to connect both places. This sculpture was created in collaboration with the artist Sean Guerrero for the Bombay Biennale 2023.
This statue of Presdent Lincoln entitled "In Sacred Union" is in front of the new Washington County Courthouse in Springfield, KY. The 10 foot tall bronze statue by Paula Slater was dedicated in 2009. The statue faces the old courthouse which is now the Lincoln Legacy Museum."
The text of the base of the statue simply reads, "Abraham Lincoln, son of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln." That description doesn't sound like much, until you learn the significance of the Old Courthouse to Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln was never certain his parents were married when he was born. In those days, that was a scandal which would have disqualified him from being President in the opinion of many voters. He hired investigators to find proof of their marriage, which did not happen before his assassination. Later in 1878, the marriage certificate was found in this courthouse.
The two circles of bricks at the base represent the wedding rings of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln.
Entitled "Good Times at Smith's Ranch," the 19th historical mural honors homesteaders Bill & Thelma Smith and their pioneering accomplishment in the community of Twentynine Palms. Bill Smith, who arrived in 1923 in his Model-T Ford, developed the haven known as Smith's Ranch. Bill and his brother, Harry, drilled a well and provided water to early homesteaders, and Bill's shower, swimming pool, and shade trees were a welcome place to cool off on hot summer days. Bill married Thelma Mead in 1930, and the ambitious pioneer couple built an ice house, a dairy, an ice cream parlor, an outdoor theater, a recreational hall, and a trailer park on their property. They had six children and were acclaimed as the first homesteaders to have children born in Twentynine Palms. The mural was funded by the Smith family children and was painted by Twentynine Palms artist Tim O'Connor on the south-facing wall of the DiAntonio building, 6298 Adobe Road, which houses Wholesale Appliance and Country Corners Florist. Dedicated: October 19, 2002.
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Dedication Date: March 23, 2002Location: Luckie Park Handball Courts
Artist: Tim O'Connor, Twentynine Palms, CA
Mural #19 - Good Times at Smith's Ranch
A longtime resident and former student of Twentynine Palms High School who married a native daughter, the former Pam Beller, Tim O'Connor is a versatile artist and businessman. He owns and operates O'Connor Graphics & Screenprinting with wife Pam, and they make their home with daughter Katie and son Keenan here in Twentynine Palms. O'Connor is also known for his political and editorial cartoons, some of which appear locally in The Sun Runner Magazine and The Desert Trail newspaper, along with his Fergie & Floyd cartoon strip, and for his fine graphic illustrations and pen and ink art works. O'Connor's first official mural undertaking was Twentynine Palms Mural #6, a tribute to Flying Constable Jack Cones, in January 1996. O'Connor was later commissioned to paint several subsequent murals, including four indoor murals aboard the Marine Corps Base, one for the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, CA, and the Johnnie Hastie Mural (#9) in Twentynine Palms in February 1998.
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Installation of Glen Cinema Memorial entitled Rattle Little Mother at Dunn Square Paisley.
Location Of Names On Rattle Little Mother, Glen Cinema Memorial
Front “ To The Children Of The Glen Cinema “
Left Panel as you face front of memorial which faces in the direction of the Piazza “ Elizabeth Leonard - Samuel McBlane - Sarah McCafferty - Robert McConnell - Nellie McCran - Minnie McCran - Edward McEnhill - Margaret McEnhill - James McEnhill - Denis McGarrity - Robert McGirr - Jeanie McGrattan - Mary McWattie - Margaret Morrow - Robert Niven - Georgina Peacock - Tom Perkins - John Pinkerton - William Pinkerton - Alexander Telfer - William Rae - Thomas Renfrew - George Scott - William Spears - Jane Stevenson - Robert Wingate.
Back of Memorial which faces Paisley Town Hall “ James Gielty - John Gielty - Norman Gillies - John Goodwin - Henry Green - Mary Green - Archibald Grogan - Annie Hamilton - George Hammond “ 31 December 1929 “ Elizabeth Hart - Peter Houston - Thomas Howard - Julia Irvine - William Irvine - Thomas Jackson - James Johnston - George Kennedy - Helen Kilkie - Thomas Kilkie.
Right panel as you face front of memorial which faces towards Forbes Place “ Robert Adams - Robert Alexander - John Bell - William Black - Hugh Blue - John Bowes - David Boyd - Caroline Brain - Lily Buchanan - John Cairns - Daniel Corbett - Elizabeth Corrigan - Agnes Coyle - Robert Craig - Francis Curran - Elizabeth Dempster - Leah Dixon - Mary Dolan - George Elliott - Henry Elliott - Bessie Finlay - Enso Fiori - Janet Fitch - William Fitch - James Gatherer - Margaret Gibson.
N.B All lettering in gold except from “ 31 December 1929 “ on rear of memorial which is in black, both sides contain 26 names whilst there is 19 names on the back.
This installation entitled “Unlimited Talk and Text” challenges us to face the reality of the times we live in. A 10ft (3m) paper mâchéd tree sculpted with pages from found phone books is reincarnated again to its natural posture reminding us of the past we once lived in while at the same time reminding us of the future that is ahead of us. The phonebook is no longer a necessity as technology advances us into a paperless society putting this species of ‘staple household items’ on the endangered list while the process of making these books also leads to putting species of trees, forests, habitats etc. on the endangered list as well.
small business / local search panel entitled: Little is the New Big! Local & HyperLocal Search Marketing, including presentations from:
Mary Bowling - Optimizing for Local Search Success
Matt McGee - Hyperlocal Blogging
moderated by David Mihm
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view mary bowling speaking to a full house - small business / local search panel - sempdx searchfest 2009 - _MG_9192 on a black background.
entitled "your boy, my husband"
Show how awesome and hot you think your husband is with this design. And yes, this one comes in men's sizes as well.
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These are the pieces from my first solo show, entitled “The Ghost of the You Haunted Me..." held at Rotofugi Gallery in Chicago, IL on Sept 7, 2012.
This body of work is the culmination of many of the elements found in my custom toy work within my Forest of Sorrows narrative and I have strived to create a cohesive storyline that ties together many of the concepts and themes seen over the past couple of years.
In this story, when people pass onto the next life, those with unfinished business are taken to the Silva Dolorosa (The Forest of Sorrows) to begin a life anew, where the choices and decisions they make will determine how their lives turn out.
At the end of days as one’s life ebbs away, the Flederkanichen creatures arrive to shepherd these souls, manifested as a seed, and carry them to the Silva Dolorosa. Upon arriving, they drop the soul seeds down into the depths of the forest where the Saplings catch them, plant them in their heads waiting for them to bloom again, at which point they will plant them on the forest floor in the perfect place, so that the souls can begin their new lives.
On one particular day, with one particular soul seed dropped by the Flederkanichen, a big gust of wind blew the seed out of the hand of the Sapling assigned to it and it hit the ground, breaking the cardinal rule of the forest. It was at this moment that Locket, the geist girl was reborn in this limbo, confused and bewildered as to where she was. Frightened, she runs deep into the forest to discover who she was in her previous life, and what she was to become in the next.
Concurrently, at the moment at which Locket was born, the last guardian of the forest, the Hollow Knight, was awakened from deep slumber, tasked with ensuring the sanctity of the Silva and all of its denizens. He sets off on a quest to find Locket, only to encounter yet another new visitor to the forest - the ferocious and monstrous Blackwülf, who seems to be racing the Hollow Knight in a quest to reach Locket first.
This is the story of death, understanding, rebirth and redemption. I hope that the pieces I have created for this show will help to give an insight into this story that I have been telling.
Photos taken by Kirby Kerr.
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This piece is entitled 04 May 2008 as it has this date actually stamped on it! Please see my profile.
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From my set entitled “Black Creek Pioneer Village”
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In my collection entitled "Places"
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In my photostream
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Black Creek Pioneer Village is an historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River.
The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how rural Ontario might have looked in the early-to-mid 1800s.
The "pioneer" village consists of over forty historic 19th century buildings, decorated in the style of the 1860s with period furnishings. Besides the Historical Interpreters and Craftspeople housed in the restored buildings, the site also features historical reenactments and visiting artisans. Buildings include period houses, the original Stong Family farm buildings, a water-powered grist mill, a general store, a blacksmith's shop along with over 10 other trades buildings, a hotel, a church, and a one-room schoolhouse. A core of buildings built by the Stong family are on their original sites, while others have been moved in from across Southern Ontario.
The majority of the buildings were moved from their original sites (notably the large Halfway House and Mennonite Meeting House), and some re-built on their current locations.
The village is a regular destination for field trips by schoolchildren from the Greater Toronto Area.
It is operated by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
Description: 'Photograph (Cinematograph Film) entitled 'With Captain Scott [Royal Navy] to the South Pole (British Antarctic Expedition)'. 'Men digging ice' by Herbert Ponting (1870-1935).
Date: c.1911
Our Catalogue Reference: COPY 1/562/94
This image shows a single frame from the very short (3-4 frame) sections of nitrate film stock accessioned at The National Archives from Herbert Ponting's footage of the Antarctic. For preservation reasons copies were made of of the original nitrate negatives and these were used to produce modern black and white Kodak prints of the clips which we have scanned for the web. The quality of the resultant images is variable.
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Entitled "Good Times at Smith's Ranch," the 19th historical mural honors homesteaders Bill & Thelma Smith and their pioneering accomplishment in the community of Twentynine Palms. Bill Smith, who arrived in 1923 in his Model-T Ford, developed the haven known as Smith's Ranch. Bill and his brother, Harry, drilled a well and provided water to early homesteaders, and Bill's shower, swimming pool, and shade trees were a welcome place to cool off on hot summer days. Bill married Thelma Mead in 1930, and the ambitious pioneer couple built an ice house, a dairy, an ice cream parlor, an outdoor theater, a recreational hall, and a trailer park on their property. They had six children and were acclaimed as the first homesteaders to have children born in Twentynine Palms. The mural was funded by the Smith family children and was painted by Twentynine Palms artist Tim O'Connor on the south-facing wall of the DiAntonio building, 6298 Adobe Road, which houses Wholesale Appliance and Country Corners Florist. Dedicated: October 19, 2002.
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Dedication Date: March 23, 2002Location: Luckie Park Handball Courts
Artist: Tim O'Connor, Twentynine Palms, CA
Mural #19 - Good Times at Smith's Ranch
A longtime resident and former student of Twentynine Palms High School who married a native daughter, the former Pam Beller, Tim O'Connor is a versatile artist and businessman. He owns and operates O'Connor Graphics & Screenprinting with wife Pam, and they make their home with daughter Katie and son Keenan here in Twentynine Palms. O'Connor is also known for his political and editorial cartoons, some of which appear locally in The Sun Runner Magazine and The Desert Trail newspaper, along with his Fergie & Floyd cartoon strip, and for his fine graphic illustrations and pen and ink art works. O'Connor's first official mural undertaking was Twentynine Palms Mural #6, a tribute to Flying Constable Jack Cones, in January 1996. O'Connor was later commissioned to paint several subsequent murals, including four indoor murals aboard the Marine Corps Base, one for the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, CA, and the Johnnie Hastie Mural (#9) in Twentynine Palms in February 1998.
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From my set entitled “Boats and Ships”
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In my collection entitled “Transportation”
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In my photostream
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North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen, usually shortened to NRW, official short form NW) is the westernmost and - in terms of population and economic output - the largest Federal State of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia has over 18 million inhabitants, contributes about 22% of Germany's gross domestic product and comprises a land area of 34,083 km (13,158 square miles). North Rhine-Westphalia is situated in the Western part of Germany and shares borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. It has borders with the German states of Lower Saxony to the North and Northeast, Rhineland-Palatinate to the Southwest and Hesse to the Southeast.
The capital city is Düsseldorf, and the largest city is Cologne (Köln). Other major cities are Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Aachen, Bielefeld, Bonn, Bochum, Bottrop, Bergisch Gladbach, Mönchengladbach, Mülheim, Münster, Gelsenkirchen, Krefeld, Hagen, Hamm, Herne, Iserlohn, Leverkusen, Neuss, Paderborn, Recklinghausen, Remscheid, Siegen, Solingen, Witten and Wuppertal.
The state is centred on the sprawling Rhine-Ruhr urbanised region, which contains the cities of Düsseldorf, Bonn and Cologne as well as the Ruhr Area industrial complex. The Ruhr area consists of, among others, the cities of Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Oberhausen.
The state's area covers a maximum distance of 291 km from north to south, and 266 km from east to west.
The total length of the state's borders is 1,645 km. The following countries and states have a border with North Rhine-Westphalia:
Belgium (99 km)
The Netherlands (387 km)
Lower Saxony (583 km)
Hessen (269 km)
Rhineland Palatinate (307 km)
For many people North Rhine-Westphalia is synonymous with industrial areas and agglomerating cities. But the largest part of the state is used for agriculture (almost 52%), forests cover 25%. The southern parts of the Teutoburg Forest are located in the northeast. In the southwest, Nordrhein-Westafalen shares in a small part of the Eifel, located on the borders with Belgium and Rheinland-Pfalz. The southeast is occupied by the sparsely populated regions of Sauerland and Siegerland. The northwestern areas of the state are part of the Northern European Lowlands.
The most important rivers that run at least partially through North Rhine-Westphalia include: Rhine, Ruhr, Ems, Lippe and Weser. The Pader, which runs only through the city of Paderborn, is considered the shortest river in Germany.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia was established by the British military administration on 25 October 1946. Originally it consisted of Westphalia and the northern parts of the Rhine Province, both formerly belonging to Prussia. In 1947 the former state of Lippe was merged with North Rhine-Westphalia, hence leading to the present borders of the state.
Open to the public from 7 June to 23 November, 10 am to 6 pm (Arsenale venue 10 am to 8 pm on Fridays and Saturdays until 27 September)
Fundamentals
The 14th International Architecture Exhibition,entitled Fundamentals,directed by Rem Koolhaas and organized by la Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, will be open to the public from June 7 through November 23, 2014, in the Giardini and the Arsenale. The preview is on June 5 and 6 and the award ceremony and inauguration will take place on June 7.
65 National Participations will be exhibiting in the historic pavilions in the Giardini, the Arsenale, and the city of Venice. Among these, 10 countries will be participating in the Exhibition for the first time: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, New Zealand, and Turkey.
From my set entitled “False Lamium”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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Lamiastrum galeobdolon, commonly known as Yellow Archangel, is a widespread wildflower in Europe, and has been introduced elsewhere as a garden plant. It displays the zygomorphic flower morphology, opposite leaves, and square stem typical of the mint family, Lamiaceae. The flowers are soft yellow and borne in axial clusters, with a prominent 'hood' (the dorsal lobe of the corolla) similar to that of Lamium. It works well as a ground cover because it spreads easily. Caution must be taken when planting due to its invasiveness. The leaves often have variegation, showing as silver patches arranged as a wide semicircle.
From my set entitled “Lamium”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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Lamium (deadnettle) is a genus of about 40-50 species of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, of which family it is the type genus. They are all herbaceous plants native to Europe, Asia, and north Africa, but several have become very successful weeds of crop fields and are now widely naturalised across the temperate world.
The genus includes both annual and perennial species; they spread by both seeds and stems rooting as they grow along the ground.
The common name refers to their superficial resemblance to the unrelated stinging nettles, but unlike those, they do not have stinging hairs and so are harmless or apparently "dead".
Lamiums are frost hardy and grow well in most soils. Flower colour determines planting season and light requirement: white- and purple-coloured flowered species are planted in spring and prefer full sun. The yellow-flowered ones are planted in fall (autumn) and prefer shade. They often have invasive habits and need plenty of room. Propagate from seed or by division in early spring
Representatives of the Churches of the Porvoo Communion gathered in Porto, Portugal, between 10 and 12 October 2019 for a consultation entitled ‘The Voice of the Church in the Public Square’. The consultation took place at the Seminário de Vilar in Porto where delegates were made welcome by the Rt Revd Jorge Pina Cabral and the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church. The relationship of communion between our churches was grounded and made visible in our gathering together for prayer, celebration of the Eucharist, debates and fellowship. Bishop Sifredo Teixeira from the Methodist Church and Bishop Armando Esteves Domingues from the Roman Catholic Church participated in the conference on one afternoon and brought greetings from their churches.
The consultation took place shortly after the death of the Rt Revd Dr Tore Furberg, sometime Bishop of Visby in the Church of Sweden and Lutheran Co–Chair of the conversations that led to the Porvoo Agreement. We gave thanks for his ministry and the legacy he leaves.
Throughout the consultation we heard and reflected on issues relating to the Church in the Public Square. The Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, began with a paper entitled ‘Secularism: confused friend or active foe?’ He argued that secularism grew out of the European enlightenment and gave honourable voice to the political will and decision of the people. Secularism has, however, moved into a new situation and needs today to rethink its role in a post–secular age as much as religion does. He argued that a new dialogue is needed, without the language of the victory of one view over the other.
One way of being present in the public square was described by Adrian Harris, Head of Digital Communications in the Church of England, who talked about digital presence. He explained the importance of a strategy of engaging with the worldwide web and social media in a culture where people spend increasing amounts of time online, with a view to enabling people to make contact with church life at a local level. The Church’s new strategy shows how the Church can move from being pre–secular to post–secular.
Lutheran contributions from the Revd Professor Cristina Grenholm from the Church of Sweden and Dr Sven Thore Kloster from the Church of Norway posed questions about the nature of the Church’s involvement in the public square, drawing on the Lutheran doctrine of the two regimes and on practical examples of churches addressing difficult political issues either through seeking consensus or recognising diversity.
A special panel discussion dealt with European relationships with a focus on Brexit. The panel consisted of the Revd Helene Steed from the Church of Ireland, the Revd Dr Ainsley Griffiths from Church in Wales, Ms Miriam Weibye from Scottish Episcopal Church and Dr Rachel Jepson from the Church of England. The panel explained the very different views about Brexit prevalent in the UK: church communities are divided and the issue is complex. Those present agreed that relationships between churches can transcend divisions and borders.
The consultation was fortunate to hear from Mr Antonio Marujo, an experienced Portuguese journalist who gave his perspective on the public square in Portuguese society. The religious landscape of Portugal is diverse, but with a dominant Catholic Church. There were expectations among the public that the churches should make a contribution to public discourse and that the churches had to speak. Mr Marujo gave examples of where the churches had contributed in the public debate but also when the churches had declined to speak.
Ms Lena Kumlin and the Revd Dr Tomi Karttunen gave a presentation on the Church of Finland’s profound work on climate change, built on a foundation of Christian theology and ethics. The goal of the Church’s energy and climate strategy was a carbon neutral church by 2030. The Church takes into account the consequences for the environment and climate when developing its business. The Church’s environmental diploma provides an opportunity for parishes to plan their activities in an environmentally friendly way. Environmental and sustainability issues are playing an important part in Finland’s outworking of its presidency of the European Union.
The Porvoo Communion Church Leaders’ Consultation concluded with a visit to a Lusitanian parish for evening prayer followed by dinner and cultural evening. The Porvoo Contact Group expresses its gratitude to the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church, to the Rt Revd Jorge Pina Cabral, the Revd Sérgio Alves, Ms Catarina Sá Couto Mr Richard Domingues and Mr José Sequeira for making members so welcome to Seminário de Vilar and the city of Porto. The Group looks towards its 2020 meeting: a theological conference hosted by the Church of Sweden.
Participants
Church in Wales
The Revd Dr Ainsley Griffiths
Church of England
The Revd Dr William Adam (Anglican Co–Secretary)
Dr Rachel Jepson
The Revd Dr Anderson Jeremiah
Mr Adrian Harris
Church of Iceland
The Revd Dr Sigurður Árni Þorðarson
Svana Helen Björnsdóttir
Church of Ireland
The Revd Helene Steed
The Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson (Anglican Co–Chair)
Church of Norway
Dr Sven Thore Kloster
Ms Berit Hagen Agøy
Mr Christoffer Solbakken
Church of Sweden
The Revd Prof Christina Grenholm
The Revd Per Kristiansson
The Revd Dr Erik Berggren (Lutheran Co–Secretary)
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Revd Tauno Teder
Ms Kadri Eliisabet Põder
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
The Revd Dr Thorsten Rørbæk
The Revd Christina Rygaard Christiansen
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
The Rt Revd Dr Matti Repo (Lutheran Co–Chair)
Ms Lena Kumlin
M.Th. Suvi–Tuulia Vaara
The Revd Dr Tomi Karttunen
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad
The Very Revd Andris Abakuks
Ms Rūta Abakuks
Ms Inguna Mieze
Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church – Portugal
The Rt Revd Jorge Pina Cabral
The Revd Sérgio Alves
Ms Catarina Sá Couto
Mr José Sequeira
Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain
The Revd Spencer Reece
The Revd José António Esteban
The Revd Daniel Caravaca
Scottish Episcopal Church
Ms Miriam Weibey
The Rt Revd Ian Paton