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Kyrgyz Republic – Open for Business
An overview of government reforms to raise awareness amongst investors and future plans to improve the investment
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Sorry for the lack of updates in recent weeks this due to a busy work and ice hockey schedule. Advanced warning no photos of Hollie in the last week of the month due to being away.
However I have another day as Hollie next Saturday and I might have some new bits to show you ladies and gentlemen as well.
P.S looking for vintage Skirt Suits 80s and 90s preferably any help would be much appreciated. Ideally one knee length skirt and jacket and one maxi skirt and jacket and not black.
I hadn't planned on posting today but I received another wonderful testimonial from Karen, travelingfool55 ,and wanted to send her a big thank you. I was drawn to her photostream because of her precious pup Paco......so I thought I would dedicate this shot of my precious kitty, (and soon to be first time mother), Pop-Tart, to sweet Karen. Thank you so much, Karen, for the kind words. You all need to go and check out her photostream, if you haven't already, and take a look at sweet little Paco.
This is also my 500th post! WOW! It doesn't seem possible.
for bench Monday
This was nearly my shot for Me Again Monday as being in the park on a bench in yer jimjams is kind of 'out of place'
I hate when people go out and about wearing their pyjamas like it's normal (!) so that was 'out of place' for me...but then I ended up in the fireplace so this is now just my bench shot.
Happy Bench Monday !
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Katie sets about working off her lunch and a few layers of clothes but ...
sorry guys ... it wasn't really that warm :-)
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Professor Akotiomga Michel heads up the service for treating women suffering the consequences of FGM/C at Suka Clinic in Burkina Faso.
“FGM has no benefits, only consequences,” he says. “Women who have been cut find it difficult to have sex or go to the toilet. The operation takes around 15 to 30 minutes depending on how bad the scarring is and it makes a huge difference to the women’s lives.”
The clinic provides reconstructive surgery to dozens of Burkinabé women every week – allowing them to have sex, give birth safely, and avoid a multitude of other health risks. All this costs just 6,000 Central African Francs, or $15, but changes lives beyond measure.
The UK government - via a UNICEF and UNFPA Joint Programme - provides the clinic where Professor Akotiomga works with medical kits to carry out the operation. The kits include needles, gloves, paracetamol, antiseptic, injectable antibodies and cotton bandages.
Take a stand. Pledge to end FGM, child marriage and forced marriage now: www.girlsummitpledge.com/
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sometimes we say the wrong things.
sometimes they get mistaken for something we didn't mean.
i just want to say that i want you to stay right where you are
no matter what happens between us. don't ever leave me
no matter how bad things get. you're what gives me hope,
strength, and the ability to wake up every morning.
please stay by my side, and don't walk too far away from my heart.
oh and thank you so much allison for the really sweet testimonial. :)
[february 16, 2010]
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Swap was to make inchies for different celebrations in the month of July: National Hot Dog Month; Build a Scarecrow Day; Hug a Cow Day; National Blueberry Month; National Junk Food Day; Cousins Day; Independence day and National Ice Cream Month
The kit and its assembly:
Another entry for the “Flying Boat, Seaplane and Amphibian” Group Build at whatifmodelers.com in late 2017, and the result of a spontaneous inspiration from a drawing of a Luft’46/fantasy creation of a Me 262 fuselage with a planning bottom, a parasol(!) wing and a single jet engine exhausting right above the cockpit, and no (visible) stabilizing floats at all. Rather spurious.
Well, nevertheless, the Me 262 jet fighter has a very shark-like profile and shape, and it has already been converted into flying boats or even submarines by modelers, and I decided to create my personal interpretation of the theme. I remembered a lone He 115 float in my stash (maybe 35 years old or even more!), and when I held to a Me 262 fuselage the parts had almost the same length and width. So, creating a flying boat jet fighter seemed like a realistic task.
Things started straightforward with an 1:72 Smer Me 262 fighter, which is actually the vintage Heller two-seater night fighter with a new fuselage and canopy. My kit of choice would have been the Matchbox kit, but the Heller kit is also O.K., due to its simplicity and simple construction.
Creating something amphibian from a Me 262 is not a trivial task, though. With its low wings and underslung engine nacelles there’s a lot to be changed until you get a plausible floatplane. Another challenge is to integrate some form of stabilizer/outrigger floats, what also influences the wings’ position. Placing the engines where they are safe from spray ingestion is also a serious matter – you have to get the high and the intakes as far forward as possible.
Doing some legwork I found some similar builds, and they all did not convince me. And, after all, I wanted to create my own “design”; in order to incorporate some realism I eventually settled on Dornier’s typical WWII designs like the Do 18 and Do 24. These elegant aircraft had a common, elegant trait: low stub wings as stabilizer floats, paired with high wings (in the case of the Do 18 held by a massive central pylon) which carried the engine out of the water’s reach. This appeared like a feasible layout for my conversion, even though it would mean a total re-construction of the kit, or rather assembling it in a way that almost no part was glued into the intended place!
Work started with the cockpit, which had to be moved forward in order to make room for the wings behind the canopy, placed high on a pylon above the fuselage. For this stunt, the cockpit opening and the place in front of it (where the original front fuselage tank would be) were cut out and switched. The cockpit tub was moved forward and trimmed in order to fit into the new place. The nose section was filled with lead, because the stub wings/floats would allow a retractable landing gear to be added, too, making the aircraft a true amphibian!
The He 115 float was cut down in order to fit under the OOB Me 262 fuselage, and a front wheel well was integrated for a tricycle landing gear. Once the fuselage was closed, the planning bottom was added and the flanks sculpted with putty – lots of it.
In the meantime the Me 262 wing received a thorough re-arrangement, too. Not only were the engine nacelles moved to the upper wing surface (cutting the respective wing and intake sections of the nacelles off/out and turning them around 180°), the original connecting ventral wing part with the landing gear wells were turned upside down, too, the landing gear covers closed (with the respective OOB parts) and the inner wing sections modified into a gull wing, raising the engines even further. VERY complex task, and blending/re-shaping everything took a lot of PSR, too.
Under the central wing section I added a pylon left over from a Smer Curtiss SC Seahawk kit, because a massive Do 18-esque construction was out of question for a fast jet aircraft. The gaps were filled with putty, too.
In order to keep the stabilizers free from water spray they were moved upwards on the fin, too. The original attachment points were sanded away and hidden under putty, and the OOB stabilizers placed almost at the top at the fin.
Finding suitable stub wings/floats became a challenge: they have to be relatively thick (yielding buoyancy and also offering room for the retractable landing gear), but also short with not-so-rounded tips. It took a while until I found suitable donor parts in the form of the tips of an 1:32 AH-64 Apache (!) stabilizer! They were simply cut off, and openings for the main landing gear cut into their lower sides.
Once glued to the lower flanks and the stabilizers in place it was time to place the wing. In the meantime the moved cockpit had been blended to the fuselage, and initial tests indicated that the pylon would have to be placed right behind the canopy – actually on top of the end of the clear part. As a consequence the canopy was cut into pieces and its rear section integrated into the fuselage (more PSR).
However, the relatively thin and slender central pylon from the Curtiss SC indicated that some more struts would be necessary in order to ensure stability – very retro, and not really suited for a jet-powered aircraft. And the more I looked at the layout, the more I became convinced that the wings and engines were in a plausible position, but placed too high.
What started next were several sessions in which I shortened the pylon step by step, until I was satisfied with the overall proportions. This went so far that almost everything of the pylon had gone, and the wings almost rested directly on the Me 262’s spine!
However, this new layout offered the benefit of rendering the extra struts obsolete, since I decided to fill the small gap between wing and fuselage into a single, massive fairing. This would also mean more internal space, and consequently the original idea of a jet-powered combat aircraft was modified into a fast multi-purpose amphibian vehicle for special tasks, capable of transporting personnel behind enemy lines with a quick move.
More PSR, though, and after some finishing touches like a scratched landing gear (front leg/wheel from an Italeri Bae Hawk, main struts from a Mistercraft PZL Iskra trainer, wheels from an Academy OV-10 Bronco and with improvised covers), several antennae and mooring lugs made from wire, the aircraft was ready for painting. On the downside, though, almost any surface detail had been lost due to the massive, overall body sculpting – but the application of the light zigzag pattern helped to recreate some “illusionary” details like flaps or panel lines. ;-)
Everyone knows that all the best ideas for anything, ever, have been jotted down on beer mats first. Always seeking to be topical rather than typical, we want to make a valuable contribution to the endless public debate about our giddy drinking culture. Here is some culture about drinking. Know your limits. It is time to celebrate all that is good about having a tipple. Stuff by artists, stuff by the good people of Halifax. Contributors include: Rodney Adams, Amber Alsaigh, Christian Alsaigh, Julia Arnez, Joe Aspinall, Raffaella Avolio, Dorothy Baldwin, Tom Bamforth, Elizabeth Barlow, Louisa Barlow, Richard Bates, Alexandra Baybutt, Kate Beckett, Steve Beever, Jacqui Bellamy, Linda Bevan, Daniel Blamires, Edie Boniface, Georgia Boniface, Kevin Boniface, Molly Boniface, Andrew Bracey, Alice Bradshaw, Phil Bradshaw, Laurie Bradshaw, Ayla Bragard, Kiki Bragard, Katie Brier, Camilla Brueton, Becky Bruton, Ian Calvert, Daniel Carr, Liam Carter, Sheila Carter, Matthew Chambers, Peter Chappe, Ami Clark, Odin Conquest, Jeff Corey, Cynthia Cotterill, Edward Cotterill, Genna Cotterill, John Cotterill, Holly Crawford, Jake Crawshaw, Ashton Davison, Simeon Dear, Andrea Dietz, Dirtcheap, Max Doig, Adam Doyle, Maia Duka, Harry Edwards, Rachael Elwell, Catt Everett, Chris Fallowfield, John Fawcett, JenniLea Finch, Lynn Fisher, Elliot Flynn, Joseph Flynn, Victoria Foster, Liam Gec, Jak Gill, Janet Gledhill, Dominic Harris, Katy Goldstein, Jennifer Grant, Gill Greenhaugh, Jessica Grimshaw, Laurence Guntert, Joe Hakim, Fiona Helen Halliday, Chris Hallowfield, Eden Hanson, Lisa Hanson, Louise Hanson, Stephen Hanson, Steve Hanson, Taome Hanson, Sam Hardacre, Sarah Hardacre, Maya Harding, Jenna Harris, Dalia Hawley, Krishna Hazarika, Rhea Henningham, Holly Beth Herbert, Aimee Lou Hewitt, Georgia Hey, Graham Hey, Madison Hey, Olivia Heywood, Ann Hirst, Charlotte Holdsworth, Leyao Huang, Rebecca Hutch, Stephanie Ingham, Elsie Irvine, John Irvine, Ashley Jackson, Andrew Jenkin, Mike Jessop, Alison Jones, Danielle Jones, Imran Jogee, Hannah Jones, Ben Jowett, Ryan Paul Kaye, Christine Keeler, Marc Kershaw, Joanne Kilner, Clinton Kirkpatrick, Olwen Kitson, Buffy Klama, Chris Laine, John Ledger, Sally Lemsford, Elliot Lilley, Imogen Lilley, Jorge Galan Liquette, Duncan Lister, Alison Little, Sophie Littlewood, Liz Lock, Simon Edgar Lord, Robert Luzar, Ellen Mace, Katherine MacDougall, Jude MacPherson, Sadie Mansell, Joanne Matthews, Nicola Maude, Bill McCall, Phil Middleton, Brian Midwood, Kirsty Midwood, Yvonne Midwood, Milk, Two Sugars (Bob Milner & Tom Senior), Kenton Scott Mills, Amelia-Jane Milner, Anna Milner, Freyja Milner, William Milner, Patrick Milsom, Kevin Mitchell, Mon 53, Paul Morris, Nathan Morrisson, Liz Murphy, Paul Murphy, Mikk Murray, Ewan Neville, Patrick Neville, Ettienne Ordway, Maya Ordway, Pete O'Toole, Carol Pope, Georgia Power, Anna Ricciardi, Oliver Russell, Jenny Parkin, Sarah Parker, Nuala Pavey-Garside, Simone Peacock, Rebbeca Pearson, Nancy Porter, Heather Preston, Stacey Price, Martha Ross-Parry, Marc Renshaw, Eleanor R Richardson, Daniel Rode, Lisa Rodgers, Tammy Ross, Chris Rusby, Jayne Rusby, Finlay Russell, Ailie Rutherford, Eileeen Ryan, Antonietta Sacco, Katie Scholefield, Sarah Scott, Alan Senior, Jack Senior, John Senior, Susan Meyerhoff Sharples, Richard Shields, Anna Shirron, Lucienne Simpson, Ruby Simpson, Mike Slater, Maria Slovakova, Fran Smith, Helen Smith, Natasha Smith, Steve Staindale, Lucy Stefane, Lucy Stefani, Adele Stevenson, Matthew Stutely, Jun Tan, Gary Tann, Siobhan Tarr, Cecila Tat, Gabrielle Tattersford, Billy Taylor-Woodhouse, Alice Thickett, Ian Thomas, Lynda Thomas, Stuart Thomas, Poppy Thompson, Diana Thorpe, Georgina Tonge, Matthew Tonge, Nathan Tudor, Jayde Tunnacliffe, Helen Turner, Naomi Turpin, Caroline Twidle, Lauren Tyler, Jean Wagstaff, Jamilia Walker, Gregory Wallace, Phoebe Wallace, T Walshaw, Tom Ward, Ryan Ware, Irena Wegrzyn, Lyndon White, Harriet Wickens, Madeleine Wickens, Leslie Wilson-Rutterford, Witshop, Elizabeth Wood, William Wood, Kris Woodhead, Peter Wright, Mark Yates (more to be announced)
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Vietnam was our original choice for a touring holiday back in 2015, mainly to see Halong Bay, but we got sidetracked by the gorgeous pictures of Myanmar in the brochures and ended up going there instead. Myanmar, and probably touring holidays in general, was hard work, we are both in our sixties and do not really travel that well after having a lot of pampered holidays in the Maldives, so after the final three hour wait in another airport lounge we said 'never again'. But three months later after sitting back and looking at the best set of holiday photo's we have ever taken, we realised what wonderful people we had met and amazing places we had seen and that you have to put up with airport lounges, train stations and car journeys to get that. So the next thing we knew we were booking another touring holiday to Vietnam with Mango Journeys based in Cambodia! Warren the owner of Mango, actually an Aussie guy, sorted out our itinerary, click to view, we booked a couple of flights and it was done. Vietnam has a lot of Buddhist tradition like Myanmar so we figured that the people would be similar to the lovely people of Myanmar we met last year. Plus the landscape and scenery looked so green and lush so it all boded well.
However when we arrived in Saigon, all the Vietnamese still call it Saigon, in mid December it turned out that it was still the rainy season. So it was quite cloudy, foggy and rainy.....and it stayed like that for most of the holiday actually. We hadn't quite bargained for that, Myanmar was dry and sunny at the same time last year so this was quite a dramatic change. We were also in their winter so no crops were growing, hence all the lovely green and golden paddy fields you see in the brochures were mostly brown and muddy. Vietnam is big and very busy, there were a huge amount of Chinese tourists here, especially at Ankor Wat in Cambodia. A lot of the local people traditionally come home from all over the world at this time of year to see their families, so the place is buzzing. The Vietnamese people are also a lot more 'tourist savvy' here compared with the totally charming Burmese people we met last year, they seem to have that air of indifference you get in developed western countries towards tourists.
It's all sounding a bit disappointing and I'm afraid that is how it felt quite a lot of the time. We were in Saigon for 2 days....way too busy for us. Then a boat trip to the Mekong Delta, sounds idyllic but actually just a big busy river, we never really got far enough into the smaller tributaries where it might be more like you imagine the Mekong Delta to look like. A flight to Siem Reap then a couple of days around Ankor Wat. This was undoubtedly the highlight of the holiday. The Angkor Archaeological Park is mind boggingly massive! It took us 45 minutes by car to reach the pink sandstone temple of Banteay Srei in one corner of the park! The distances involved when moving between the various temples are all the same.....huge! Ankor Wat itself covers an enormous area but hugely impressive. It shows the power of this place when you get to the entrance at 5:00am to watch the sunrise and there are already hundreds of people there! And it happens every day of the year apparently. Although hordes of people can bug you sometimes, the collective enjoyment factor seems to override that here, the place is just so awe inspiring.
We really enjoyed Cambodia, we wished we had spent more time there, we only met a few people but they all seemed to have more of that charm of the Burmese people. Cambodia has had an extremely troubled past, the war didn't end until 1998 and everybody appears to have been tainted by it. Our guide lost 15 of his immediate relatives to it, and a lot of people seem to have similar horrific tales to tell. The landmine museum we visited was a poignant reminder of those days and our guide was obviously quite emotional in his rendering of the museum's history and the people involved in it. As a result of the regime's slaughter of all the ruling elite including politicians, teachers, scholars and intellectuals Cambodia was left backward in the rapidly growing economy of south east Asia. They are moving in the right direction now, albeit slowly, and we both felt we should have spent more time there and given them more of the benefit of our tourist dollar.
Of all the other places we visited, Da Nang, Hoi An, Hue, Tam Coc, Mai Chau Valley, Hanoi and Halong Bay, Mai Chau Valley was like an oasis in a sea of traffic, busy people and tourists. When you look down at the valley from the main photo vantage point it has the look of the promised land, a lush green place nestling in the surrounding mountains.
We had a couple of lovely walks around here over two days enjoying the beatiful landscape and meeting a few of the local people. We realised afterwards that we should have stayed away from the cities and done more of this sort of stuff. We stopped and spoke to a lovely 68 year old lady in Mau Chau vilage, there was nothing to her she looked so thin and frail. She told us, interpreted by our guide, that her husband left when she was 36 years old and because of the culture she was never allowed to be with another man after that. Her only daughter was married at around the same time and again the culture dictates that she moved to the husband's village which was in south Vietnam. Her daughter is extremely poor and travel for local people is so expensive that it is extremely unlikely she will ever see her mother again. A small story but one that is probably played out a lot in this country. This amazing lady took us back to the one room brick built house with a small garden no bigger than your average shed that she now lives in. She managed to build it with help from the villagers who all seem to look after each other extremely well, so at least she now has somewhere dry to live. She was so welcoming though and showed us how she cooks, where she sleeps and the small garden she tends, it was without doubt the most touching moment of our holiday and one we will always remember.
If you like busy cities then Hanoi is probably a better option than Saigon, it has an old quarter that is strangely quaint for a big city, is a lot more photogenic and a nicer place to be. We were never taken to new Hanoi so I guess it's probably just like Saigon.
Halong Bay was the main inspiration to visit Vietnam in the first place. I saw photo's of this place back in 2014 when searching for more of the limestone karst scenery we had seen in Thailand's Phang Nga Bay on a previous holiday. The boat trip with an overnight stay was the holiday finale and supposed to be one of the highlights. I mistakenly thought we would be touring around Halong Bay the whole time....a foolish assumption! We sailed for about 30 minutes, during which time we had a briefing and some food, then we dropped anchor and that was it! It turned out to be more of a booze cruise, with kayaking, happy hour, games, karaoke and Tai Chi in the morning! Oh my God, what a waste! This place is massive and to just sail into it for half an hour seemed ridiculous to us. I know a lot of it looks the same but as a photographer you are looking for those subtle differences in composition and quality of light that make great photographs. You can't get that when you are sat in the same spot. I managed to get some reasonable photographs but overall, disappointing.....again!
As I write this back in the UK, I've just finshed post processing our holiday photo's after around four weeks work. Originally, because of the dull weather we had, I thought they were not going to be a patch on the photo's from Myanmar last year, but I have been pleasantly surprised. I am constantly amazed at what you can pull out of seemingly dull photographs with the help of Lightroom, Topaz Labs and Photomatix for HDR. Back in the days of film I used to love the punchy colours you could get on a sunny day with the help of a polarizing filter and Kodachrome 25! Nowadays with the help of modern software it's possible to get so much colour into photographs almost out of nowhere! I love making 'impression' type of pictures where the photo is transformed into a sort of painting....used judiciously they conjure up more of the feeling of a place than a straight photo. Those plus the power of HDR photography and Topaz Labs give our holiday snaps a warmth and colour that maybe isn't true to life but always makes them look amazing! No wonder we got suckered into doing another touring holiday.....the photo's just look so good!
A word about Mango Journeys, they were amazing. All the guides were there to greet us and look after us wherever we went and they all seemed to enjoy their work, which always helps. Everything on the itenerary worked out OK.....in the end! We had one hiccup where we missed our flight from Cambodia back into Vietnam but Warren stepped in at 9:00pm at night and got us on another flight and into a hotel without too much bother and no extra charge. As it was our first visit to Vietnam Mango tried to give us a bit of everything I guess, stuff that most tourists want to see. In hindsight and learning from our Burma trip last year we should have really studied the itinerary and made sure it included what WE wanted to do, especially staying away from big cities! We are quite new to touring so it's a learning process.
Our next holiday? As soon as we got home we knew we 'needed a holiday' it had been so busy with a lot of travelling. We booked a week on Veligandu in the Maldives at Easter! Back to our favourite place in the world! Not only that we decided to put touring on hold for a while and booked two weeks on Filitheyo for Christmas. Back to just sunbathing, snorkelling, scuba diving and chilling! Heaven!
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CTA driver in fatal Michigan Ave. crash cited for failing to stop at light
A CTA bus crashed near Michigan Avenue and Lake Street during the evening rush hour June 2, 2015. One person was killed and eight people were injured, officials said.
Steven Rosenberg, Chicago Tribune
Chicago firefighters try to extricate Aimee Coath, 51, of Flossmoor, from underneath a CTA bus after a collision at Michigan Avenue and Lake Street on June 2, 2015.
By Quinn Ford, Paulina Firozi and Tony Briscoe
Chicago Tribune
The driver of a CTA bus that jumped a curb on Michigan Avenue during evening rush hour, killing a woman and injuring eight other people, has been cited for not stopping at a red light and for "failure to exercise due care," according to police.
No criminal charges have been filed but police said they are continuing to investigate the accident, which happened around 5:50 p.m. Tuesday at Lake Street.
Witness describes scene of CTA bus crash
Hector Vega describes the scene of a multivehicle crash involving a CTA bus at Michigan Avenue and Lake Street in Chicago on June 2, 2015. (Terrence Antonio James, Chicago Tribune)
The accordion-style bus had been headed east on Lake and stopped at a red light at Michigan Avenue, police said. The bus then proceeded through the light, striking two pedestrians and four cars before jumping the curb, police and CTA officials said.
The bus came to rest on the sidewalk on the north side of Lake Street, near a plaza at 205 N. Michigan Ave. A pedestrian, Aimee Coath, 51, of south suburban Flossmoor, was trapped under the bus and had to be freed by paramedics.
"They took her from under the bus and loaded her onto the gurney," said Charles Valiquette, 51. "Then they spread the sheet out on her."
Valiquette, from Dayton, Ohio, said he was on Michigan Avenue just north of Lake when he heard the crash and turned around to see a bus on the sidewalk and a woman pinned underneath. He said he ran over to help.
"I was talking to her. I told her to hang in there ... but it was just nothing," said Valiquette. "I don't think she saw the bus coming or heard it. There were other people in the crosswalk that saw the bus coming and made it."
Coath was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 6:07 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
“I only want to communicate how well loved she was,’’ Coath’s close friend, Elizabeth Oliver, said through tears. “She had so many friends. We will all miss her dearly.’’
Police: Driver ran red light before bus crash killed 1, injured 8
A CTA bus driver was ticketed after police said he ran a red light Tuesday evening before striking two pedestrians and several cars downtown, killing a 51-year-old woman and injuring at least eight other people. (CBS Chicago)
Another pedestrian and six others were taken to hospitals for injuries that were not life-threatening, police said. The bus driver, 48, suffered minor injuries and was also taken to Northwestern.
CTA officials said the driver was evaluated after the crash and showed no signs of impairment from drugs or alcohol but said final results from a drug test were not yet available.
The driver had been hired by the CTA less than a year ago as a bus operator, according to CTA spokesman Brian Steele. He had driven the No. 148 route prior to Tuesday's crash, but Steele could not say for how long.
CTA officials are reviewing footage from the bus at the time of the crash. Steele said early Wednesday it was too soon to know what disciplinary action, if any, would be taken against the bus driver.
"We don't know enough about the circumstances," Steele said. CTA officials could not say if the driver had ever been cited before Tuesday's crash.
Jack Baldwin said he was driving the first car that was struck by the bus. He heard a loud honk from the bus before it rear-ended his Nissan Sentra and his car spun out.
"It took me a while to realize what is going on here," he said. After gathering himself, he said, he got out of his car and saw that other cars had been hit and the bus was over a sidewalk.
"I see the bus up on the hill, and there were a bunch of screams," Baldwin said. "I walked over, and I see that there's a woman pinned under the bus. It's not easy to see something like that. "
Margaret Aprison, 26, was headed home from her job at the nearby Aon Center, 200 E. Randolph St., and was walking near Lake and Stetson Avenue when she “heard all this noise and all this screaming” and saw the bus drive up onto the sidewalk near the plaza.
“I did end up seeing someone fly up in the air as the bus hit them,” then she saw the bus drive over where it appeared the person landed, Aprison said.
Aprison saw a crowd gather around the bus, and noticed that a black car struck by the bus had not stopped moving and the driver was trying to use a cellphone.
“The driver was trying to call 911 and he couldn’t get through,” Aprison said.
A woman and a man in the car were able to get out, but the driver was trapped, she said. Aprison tried to tend to the two passengers as they waited for ambulances. The man was bleeding from the head, and Aprison persuaded him to sit down.
“When the ambulance came, I was waving my hand, trying to get the attention of the ambulance,” Aprison said. “I stayed until I was literally asked to leave.”
The injured man sat against the car as fire crews tried to get the driver out, rocking the car to try to free him, she said. “They were really shaking the car."
In loving memory of
Reverend Frank W ISITT
October 3 1846 – November 11 1916
Patriot, Preacher, Prohibitionist
Friend of Children
Lover of Mankind
His life was a challenge not a truce
Charles Whitmore ISITT
Son of the Reverend F W ISITT
Born December 31st 1874
Died September 22nd 1946
Francis Charles ISITT
Son of C W ISITT
1898 – 1976
Marie LaMothe ISITT
Beloved wife of above
Honourable Leonard Monk ISITT M.L.C.
Methodist Minister
1855 – 1937
There are who triumph in a losing cause
Tis they who stand for freedom and Gods laws
Also Agnes ISITT
Beloved wife of above
1857 – 1938
Rifleman Willard Whitmore ISITT
Aged 22
The younger son of
Leonard Monk and Agnes ISITT
He died of wounds on the Flanders
Front, October 31st 1916, and is buried
In the Communal cemetery, Estaires.
He gladly gave his life for his country.
Francis Caverhill THORNTON
1889 – 1960
Herbert John ISITT
1844 – 1926
Brother of Frank and Leonard
Sons of
Rebecca and James ISITT
Bedford, England
Christine Scott CAVERHILL
1834 – 1918
L Miriam ISITT
1898 – 1992
Beloved wife of F C ISITT
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Rev. Frank W ISITT [Francis Whitmore]
Block 36 Plot 177
[Coroners Warrant]
See photograph in comments section below [1]
Born England and in NZ 45 years at time of death.
Died of hearth failure.
His obituary at time of death:
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
Rev Francis Whitmore (Frank) Isitt (1843[sic] –1916) was a New Zealand Methodist Minister, who was general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance (for prohibition) from 1900 to 1909. He was a brother of the Rev Leonard Isitt.
Rev Frank Isitt entered the ministry from the Sydenham Circuit, London and after a term at Richmond College went to New Zealand in 1871. He was a parish minister for a number of years, but after two breakdowns in health concentrated on temperance work. He stood in the 1902 election as a prohibition candidate for ten seats, and came second in eight. He also stood in the 1905 and 1908 elections.
In February 1874 he married Mary Campbell Purdie (Spinster, 22 years) in Dunedin; in the house of Dr. Wm Purdie of Upper Kaikorai, who was probably her father.
Also
“Here are buried Herbert John Isitt and his brothers who were Methodist ministers and deeply involved with politics and the social problems of their age.
The Rev. Frank Isitt was born in England in 1846, trained at the Wesleyan Training College, Richmond, came to New Zealand in 1870 and served at Balclutha, Port Chalmers and New Plymouth. After he had recovered from a breakdown in his health, he served at Nelson, Invercargill and the East Belt (FitzGerald Avenue), Christchurch. In the 1890s he took up work for the Prohibition organisation, the New Zealand Alliance, first as travelling agent and then as secretary. He edited the Prohibitionist, firstly with Thomas Edward Taylor and then on his own, ‘possessed rare gifts of organisation … [a] magnetic personality … passionate eloquence … and untiring energy’. He was a ‘man of very warm friendships … had a fine character in his private life …. [and] a host of friends throughout New Zealand’.
A ‘comrade’ wrote:
Today will be laid to rest the frail body in which tabernacled for 70 years the strong heroic soul of F. W. Isitt. Pure of heart, gentle of nature, strong and brave of soul, the wrong and oppression of the weak, the suffering of humanity ever kindled in him a passion of pity and a consuming desire to help and save.
Frank, with his brother, L. M. Isitt, T. E. Taylor and the Rev. P. R. Munro
… formed that quartet of great leaders which, for so many stirring and strenuous years led valiantly and wisely the crusade against the liquor trade throughout New Zealand and secured much restrictive and progressive licensing legislation.
The ‘comrade’ concluded:
He lived the truth he taught,
white-souled, clean-handed, pure in heart.
As God live, he must live always.
There is no end for souls like his,
No night for children of the day.
The gravestone states that Frank Isitt was ‘Patriot, Preacher, Prohibitionist: Friend of children, lover of mankind: his life was a challenge, not a truce’.
Leonard Monk Isitt was born in England in 1855 and, in New Zealand, joined the Methodist ministry, being ordained in 1881. He became an enemy of drink when he went to bury a victim of alcoholic poisoning. The coach-driver was scarcely able to control his horse, such was his state of inebriation; and the grave-digger was so drunk that he could only inadequately dig the grave.
With Thomas Edward Taylor, Leonard Isitt led the no-licence campaign which led to the closure of all the public hotels in Sydenham. The decision was fought all the way through the courts and up to the Privy Council where it was reversed. With the consent of the Methodist Conference, Isitt resigned from his ministry and devoted his time to campaigning for a ‘local option measure’ so that different areas could vote on whether they would have licensed premises.
Four times Isitt campaigned in England for the Great Britain Alliance. For 12 years he lectured on Prohibition virtually as a whole time job and ‘ruined a remarkably fine singing voice to the extent that … [he] had to give up singing altogether’.
Taylor died in 1911, Isitt taking his Christchurch North seat. When interest in Prohibition waned, he supported the Bible-in-schools campaign. He retired in 1925, dying in 1937.” [2]
Charles Whitmore ISITT
Block 36 Plot 181
Born Fairlie, NZ [3]
Francis Charles ISITT
Block 36 Plot 177
Born Hawera, NZ and a farmer at the time of his death
Died 22 July 1976 aged 76[4]
Marie LaMothe ISITT
Not recorded on CCC database – possibly cremated and ashes interred
[wife of Charles Whitmore ISITT]
Newspaper notice of her marriage that took place on 8 June 1897:
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
Her probate is available for year 1958:
www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=1952621
Leonard Monk ISITT
Block 36 Plot 179
Born England and in NZ 60 years at time of death
Died 29 July 1937[4]
His probate is available [Occupation: retired stationer]:
www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=20187931
"Methodist minister, temperance leader, politician.
Leonard Monk Isitt was born in a Methodist home in Bedford, England; his father died when he was two and his mother when he was 12. He was educated at Clevedon Methodist College, Northampton, and, afterwards, at the age of 15, joined a drapery firm. He came out to New Zealand to get experience and also to join his brother Francis Whitmore who was a Methodist minister at Balclutha. Isitt worked in the warehouse of Ross and Glendining at Dunedin, but the urge to enter the Methodist ministry became stronger, and he was sent to a Home Mission Station at Lawrence. Here occurred an incident which influenced his subsequent career. Called upon to conduct the burial service of a man who had died of alcoholic poisoning, whose body was hurried by a drunken driver to a grave left half-dug by a drunken gravedigger, Isitt scathingly denounced the publicans present at the funeral and set his whole energies to fight the drink evil.
Isitt became a minister in 1876 and was ordained in 1881. He was stationed successively at Auckland, Masterton, Wellington, Christchurch and, finally, in 1889 at Sydenham, where the drink evil was seen in its most sordid aspect. It was largely a working-class district, with grimy little cottages jammed into the smallest possible sections, many of them blackened with smoke from the railway yards. He met T. E. Taylor, a kindred spirit, and together they determined to fight for legislative prohibition. The campaign followed two chief lines of attack. One was propaganda spread by means of a paper, The Prohibitionist, which, although started for local consumption, was soon circulated throughout New Zealand under the name of the Vanguard. His brother Francis edited the paper. This propaganda was aided by one of the most powerful speaking campaigns ever carried out in New Zealand. Isitt had a natural eloquence which, fed by his burning enthusiasm for his cause, made him an orator of a type probably unequalled in New Zealand. He ruined a good singing voice by his efforts. Dr C. F. Aked described him in these words: “When did we hear such speaking as his? Clear pure Saxon, not a word misplaced, not a sentence which could be improved; every phrase a point; every point sent home; massive sentences falling like the strokes of a sledgehammer”. The Methodist Conference released him from his usual work to concentrate on his campaign.
Isitt's second line of attack was to gain control of the Licensing Committee and refuse licences to all Sydenham hotels. The first attempt in 1890 failed, but the next election resulted in all five members elected being Prohibitionists. The publicans, however, took a test case to Court and Judge Denniston ruled that the Licensing Committee had acted beyond its powers, which should be used in a judicial and impartial manner, not as an instrument of a campaign. The Court of Appeal unanimously upheld him.
Isitt made four speaking tours in England at the invitation of the United Kingdom Alliance. When T. E. Taylor died in 1911, he succeeded him as member of Parliament for Sydenham, and held the seat until 1925 when he was appointed to the Legislative Council. He worked hard to get the Local Option Bill through Parliament and was successful. Bible in Schools was another cause he worked for and he was prominent in the Boy Scout movement. He was a governor of Canterbury College and was vice-president of the Methodist Centenary Conference in 1922. He founded the firm of L. M. Isitt and Co., booksellers (Christ-church), and was its managing director.
In 1881 he married Agnes, daughter of John Scott Caverhill. One son, Sir Leonard Isitt, was head of the New Zealand Air Staff and another was killed in the 1914–18 war."[5]
Agnes Martha ISITT
Block 36 Plot 181
Born Lyttelton, NZ
Died 27 September 1938 [6]
Her probate is available:
www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=20188681
Rifleman Willard Whitmore ISITT
Military number 12400
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14147, 15 November 1916, Page 4
“Private advice has been received that Private Willard Isitt, younger son of the Rev. L. M. Isitt, M.P. has died from wounds in France, aged 23 years of age. He was engaged in his father’s bookselling business when he enlisted with the 12th Reinforcements. He was a young man of fine grit and determination, and the story told of his enlistment shows the stuff he was made of. He had offered his services several times and been rejected because the sight of one eye was defective. Ultimately he found a way out of the difficulty when in a boxing bout with a friend. He invited and received a solid blow on the defective eye. The result, of course, was to close it up, and before the effect had time to disappear Isitt, presented himself for medical examination, and got through. The Rev. Mr Isitt’s only other son was wounded in the battle of the Somme.”[9]
Willard’s Cenotaph database record:
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/7539.detail?Or...
Willard’s Commonwealth War Graves Commission record:
www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=268264
His military records are available but with restrictions:
www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=18052286
Interesting connection to Willard name:
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
Frances Caverhill THORNTON
Nee ISITT. Married Cuthbert THORNTON [registration 1912/3006] [8]
Daughter of Agnes Martha & Leonard Monk ISITT [8]
Herbert John ISITT
Block 36 Plot 177
Born Bedford, England, he was a labourer and had been in NZ 50 years at time of death
Died 14 September 1926 aged 82[7]
Christine Scott CAVERHILL
Block 36 Plot 84
Born Scotland, Spinster and in NZ 41 years at time of death
Died 4 August 1918[10]
L. Miriam ISITT
Nee Lily Miriam LYNN [Marriage registry to Francis Charles ISITT 1929/1800] [8]
References:
[1]
www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/MurTemp-fig-MurTemp016b.html
[2]
christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Cemeteries/Linwood...
[3]
librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/interment.asp?...
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librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/interment.asp?...
[5]
www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/isitt-leonard-monk/1
[6]
librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/interment.asp?...
[7]
librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/interment.asp?...
[8]
www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/
[9]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[10]
librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/interment.asp?...
These are the Primal Deities that make up the Monsgnarl Pantheon, a group of evil deities that has maintained a firm domination of the Omega Octant planet Proolycoles, and its humanoids, the Huplegrars, for all of recorded history, back to before the Relative Calendar was invented. These deities are particularly malicious, ruthless and corruptive, as well as ancient, and there are five main ones, one representing each class of Primal Deity. These five were all present at the Pantheon's formation, and are the only deities who have consistently been part of it ever since. Other Primal Deities have joined the Monsgnarl Pantheon at various points in time, but all of them end up either leaving or being vanquished after some time. Currently, the Pantheon consists of only the main five, and has been this way for over a century. All attempts to retake planet Proolycoles from them, even those involving angels, have failed. The planet and its inhabitants, which are now severely and irreversibly corrupted, are now considered beyond help, and the "Monsgnarls" (as the deities are sometimes called) remain an active and significant threat to the rest of the Prime Galaxy, though they do not currently control any other planets in the same way they do Proolycoles.
• Dif'Elarah: The Elemental–Class deity among the group. Dif'Elarah is an electricity and lightning–based extra–corporeal being that identifies itself as female, though "she" exhibits few to no stereotypically feminine traits and is not associated with sexuality (which most "female" Primal Deities are), actually being the least perverted of the Monsgnarls. Her form stands nearly twenty feet tall, and is partially extra–corporeal and partially sub–corporeal. The sub–corporeal portions of her body are those that appear to be made of blue electric energy, and which are semi–amorphous; the ends of her "arms" can take the forms of either "hands" with multiple "fingers" or singular daggers of energy. Sparking bolts of lightning constantly spout and fume from the top and sides of her head, and her whole body rests upon a floating vortex of red–hot electricity. Physical contact with any part of her body is hazardous to one's health and is not advised. Dif'Elarah has the ability to dissipate into thin air and reappear within seconds at any point of her choosing within several miles. She can also transfer her essence into clouds, of which there are lots floating around the skies of Proolycoles at all times, which she then takes control over and induces the phenomenon of lightning in. She frequently commandeers clouds either to strike people down (something that only divine beings have the right to do), or to clear out patches of land for use as agricultural fields or sites for buildings, in a practice reminiscent of the ancient agricultural technique of "slash–and–burn". Dif'Elarah is considered the "guardian" of the planet Proolycoles from intruders who wish to overthrow the Monsgnarls, and whom she strikes down from the clouds (although she has also been known to do this to Huplegrars who are either "nonbelievers" or are otherwise considered liabilities, and possibly to random Huplegrars simply for fun), and also the goddess of agriculture, even though she is still a destructive force rather than a creative one even when she helps clear out fields. The durability value of Dif'Elarah's body is 15,000.
• Mias'Cento: The Mage–Class deity among the group. Mias'Cento is "male", and has a very humanoid form almost resembling that of the Aspimean, and a headpiece that represents the "head" of this facsimile of a mortal body. He has four independently–floating arms, although the lower pair could alternatively and easily be seen as representing legs. Instead of his entire headpiece being organic and vulnerable, the only truly living part of Mias'Cento's body is the exposed "brain" within his head. He speaks in a mischievous–sounding and moderately high–pitched voice, which emits through the grinning "teeth" on his upper–upper body, despite him having another, separate set of "teeth" immediately above these. Of course, neither are actually used for eating, which a Primal Deity is "above" the need to do. The purple glow surrounding the floating parts that make up his body is particularly bright and strong.
Mias'Cento's voice is indicative of his type of personality, but does not convey the extreme nature of this personality: he is a malicious trickster and prankster who often goes around casting harmful spells upon unsuspecting Huplegrars, most of which alter the bodies of their victims in some way, usually permanently. The effects of such spells range from non–beneficial mutations and severe scarring to (sometimes deadly) sickness and even transformation into inanimate objects (in which case the victim's consciousness remains alive within the object they have been turned into, only being released when the object is destroyed to a sufficient extent). Despite the horrific nature of some of these spells, to be changed by Mias'Cento is considered an "honor" by the Huplegrars. He even has a spell that can turn Huplegrars into other humanoid races, though the effects of this particular spell are temporary, and even then it is one of the hardest spells for the deity to cast, as it is so drastic and complex. Note that the greater the preexisting influence of Primal Deities on an individual, the more vulnerable they are to Mias'Cento's magic; since the Huplegrars are so utterly dominated by the Monsgnarls, he can do practically whatever he wants to them, but it is much harder for him to affect non–Huplegrars, and those who are closest to God are virtually immune.
To compensate for his openly antagonistic nature towards his own subjects, Mias'Cento is very open to granting "wishes" in exchange for favors and offerings that are less substantial than what most other wish–granting deities would demand for the same services.
Mias'Cento has been quoted several times as saying that he knows a dark secret relating to humanoids in general, and he laughs out loud whenever he mentions this. However, he has never revealed to anyone else, including his fellow deities, exactly what this alleged secret is.
Mias'Cento's (or rather, his brain's) durability value is 15,000 (making it one tough freaking brain!). This durability value is the same as Dif'Elarah's, and the two are fairly evenly–matched in other areas as well.
• Set'Ibutal: The Guardian–Class deity among the group. Set'Ibutal is extremely masculine and is one of the most distinctly humanoid Primal Deities ever, having a full, grounded body with both arms and legs. His form stands more than twenty feet tall, and is hunchbacked. Unlike most Guardian–Class deities, Set'Ibutal does more than just going around looking for challengers who seek to claim his artifact, the Gnarly Sword of Bursting, a large two–handed blade that, in addition to being supernaturally sharp and durable, sometimes creates small, controlled explosions upon impact with a foe's body. He is the leader of Proolycoles' warrior caste, which is equivalent to a military, and personally puts all Huplegrar warriors, who are assigned to that caste at birth based on being the most physically fit and promising among the population's infants by Junt'Vubis, through a rigorous, harsh and sometimes deadly training regime starting at the tender age of just four years. Set'Ibutal teaches them to be pitiless, vicious and brutally pragmatic in battle, and makes them push their bodies beyond their natural limits in order to build them up to great strength. Were he an angel and had more compassion, he would probably be the universe's greatest personal trainer. However, as it is he is evil and cruel like the other Monsgnarls, and frequently ends up getting his subjects killed, which he feels no remorse for, believing that they deserved to die for being weak and failing to live up to their destiny as warriors, and teaching his other subjects to think in the same way. At the age of fourteen, every young Huplegrar warrior who has survived all of Set'Ibutal's torturous training over ten whole years must face one more, final test from him to earn freedom and the respect and honor of being a full–fledged warrior: facing the deity in combat. During these fights, which are fought unarmed by both participants, Set'Ibutal deliberately uses only a fraction of his true power, and ends the fight when his opponent and subject has either fared well enough against him and landed enough blows to prove their worthiness, or is dead. Less than half of all Huplegrars who are assigned to the warrior caste survive all of Set'Ibutal's training; the majority of those who don't die during the final test of fighting him.
Set'Ibutal also personally leads all fully–qualified warriors who have survived his training during times of actual war, which are rare on Proolycoles, but which he actually, personally fights in when they do happen.
When he is not busy training warrior youth or fighting off planetary intruders, Set'Ibutal seeks those who believe themselves powerful and worthy enough to challenge him in full–out combat to the death, in which the deity does not hold back, over the Gnarly Sword of Bursting. He has "died" seven times, being defeated in one–on–one combat by freakishly powerful Huplegrar warriors who then claimed his artifact six of those times, and being slain by angels, who were later overpowered and killed by the other Monsgnarls and their forces, the other time. Like other Guardian–Class deities, Set'Ibutal is reborn when the individual who has defeated him and inherited his weapon dies and their soul becomes part of his consciousness. When he was killed by angels, said angels actually destroyed the Gnarly Sword of Bursting, hoping that doing so would vanquish the deity completely. However, he and his sword resurrected three years, two cycles and sixteen days later. This was subsequently discovered to be the "respawn time" for all Guardian–Class deities whose artifacts and bodies are both destroyed.
Set'Ibutal's durability value is 20,000.
• Junt'Vubis: The Serpentine–Class deity among the group, the leader of the Monsgnarl Pantheon, and also, appropriately, the most powerful Monsgnarl. Junt'Vubis is very large and heavy, and has a corporeal, organic form rather than one made of enchanted, possessed stone. He was always a Serpentine–Class deity, and never an Idol. He resides at all times in his throne room at the top of a 200–foot–tall golden–plated ziggurat that was built for him over a millennium ago at the center of the Huplegrars' capital city of Yeppus, which was also constructed under the Serpentine's supervision. Physically, Junt'Vubis is noted for the peculiar position in which he sits upon his belly, and for his very long, blue–haired neck. He has four arms, the lower pair of which has hands on both ends, and six symbolic dead insect wings on his back. His main power is telekinesis; in this very picture he is shown levitating several stones with the power of one arm, but that does not even begin to adequately illustrate the extent of his powers. If he wanted, Junt'Vubis could lift the entire golden structure atop which he sits into the air, tearing it out of the ground in which it is deeply and securely rooted. He can also telekinetically move living things and their body parts, both external and internal, and can indeed cause the internal organs of any normal humanoid within several miles of him to explode on a whim. Junt'Vubis can speak both externally and telepathically, and he has complete knowledge of every single word in both the English and Proolignarlish languages.
He is effectively the emperor of planet Proolycoles. All newborn Huplegrars are brought to him to be judged and placed into one of six castes: slave, peasant, citizen, aristocrat, prince or warrior. The first five of these castes are linear ranks, in order from lowest to highest, while the "warrior" caste is special. Any child that Junt'Vubis deems unfit for even the "slave" caste is devoured by him on the spot, being swallowed whole and dissolved instantaneously by his stomach acids, which are exponentially stronger than those of any mortal being. It has been suggested by multiple sources that he sometimes eats babies not because he actually considers them unfit to live, but because he likes to do so and/or because they are particularly satiating to his supernatural hunger. Aside from infants, Junt'Vubis also eats many other "foods", including both actual foods and inedible objects. Five meals are delivered to him daily by his personal slaves.
Junt'Vubis possesses a durability value of about 40,000. It would be accurate to call him the single most infamous Primal Deity in the Nava–Verse.
• Ness'Qilob: The Idol–Class deity among the group. Ness'Qilob is considered the weakest of the main five, and is certainly the dumbest. It is also the only completely genderless Monsgnarl, and the only one with Tikis: Frustration, Hunger and Violation. Its body is decorated mainly in greenish and purplish colors, and it has four tentacles coming out of its sides which serve as "arms", can extend and stretch to several times their natural length, and have millions of microscopic feelers on them. Its offensive abilities include laser beams of strength on par with the most advanced current humanoid–made energy weapons.
Ness'Qilob's "house" is a silver–plated altar in the center of a forest just to the West of Yeppus. A pathway has been cleared out through this forest leading up to said altar, where the Idol loiters around most of the day, often wandering off into other parts of the forest to eat the animals and chew on the trees. Huplegrars occasionally give or leave it offerings, which are absorbed into the deity's essence via route of consumption through its large, gapingly open mouth. Sometimes, random objects, usually food, come back up out of the mouth for people to take after multiple offerings are placed into the mouth at once. However, these objects are always of lesser value than the things that Ness'Qilob was just given.
Ness'Qilob is, as mentioned above, not very smart. It lacks the devious cunning and comprehensive, obscure knowledge that most Primal Deities possess, instead being a simple creature with simple, carnal desires that is content to act as a mere servant to Junt'Vubis, who uses it as a pet and enforcer. Its altar was deliberately built so that it would be just within the range of Junt'Vubis' telepathy, allowing him to summon Ness'Qilob at his leisure. The leader of the Monsgnarls frequently calls to it and orders it to bring him seemingly random things that he wants but which are located far away and would be difficult for his Huplegrar servants to fetch (not that they wouldn't be willing to try). Ness'Qilob is particularly ideal for fetching unusual things because of its photographic knowledge and memory of Proolycoles' entire layout, including where various things can generally be found, despite otherwise being lacking in the mental area. In exchange for doing him these periodic favors, Junt'Vubis gives Ness'Qilob free access to all female Huplegrars among the slave caste, and allows it to molest them with its tentacles, which they usually enjoy due to their own innate perversion which is a result of the Monsgnarls' general corruption. Surprisingly, Ness'Qilob only takes advantage of this privilege occasionally, rather than all the time.
Ness'Qilob has a durability value of 18,000.
This is dedicated to Janet [Dark Spinner] for being such a good flickr friend. Thank you for always having such kind words and kindness!
A new project for Alicia who want something around my Little Red Riding Hood... So I plan to make a new variation of this theme, with a lot of assorted machine embroideries by combining some designs.
This set will include a dress, a corseted over-dress, removable puffed sleeves, a jacket, a petticoat and socks.
See you soon!
Honoring Augusta Baseball Coach Jerry Hunter for caring about our inner city youth: W. K. Kellogg Foundation New Tools New Visions 2 (NTNV2) sponsored a youth baseball camp at Paine College with Jerry Hunter as coach
New Tools New Visions 2 (NTNV2) in Augusta, Georgia: Finding healthy outlets and activities for inner city youth and others facing social inequalities by addressing issues of environmental health, violence, health equity, and social justice.
NTNV2 is a Paine College/Community Partnership funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation
NTNV was the primary sponsor of a baseball camp for inner city youth in the summer of 2010 organized by amazing and outstanding Augusta Coach Jerry Hunter.
The Jerry Hunter Baseball camp for middle school and elementary school kids included "inner city youth from Augusta area housing projects," said Rev. Terence A. Dicks, an Augusta activist and the NTNV2 Community Liaison and Steering Committee chair and New Tools for Healthy People 2020.
"We need more projects like the Coach Jerry Hunter's baseball camp for our children - to give them something to do" during the long, hot summers in Augusta, said Rev. Dicks, who is hoping to help start more projects for Augusta area youth because they are targets for greedy drug dealers and have too much time on their hands if not involved in extracurricular activities.
Coach Hunter "is a very enterprising young educator and a Paine College Alumni," Dicks said.
Coach Hunter was the boy's baseball coach (2007-2010) at Lucy C. Laney High School in Augusta and then became the celebrated head coach of the high school boy's basketball team - leading the team to its first class AA state championship in 2012.
"It's a Mother's Day gift to Miss Laney, from us," said the modest Wildcats coach Jerry Hunter in an interview with an Augusta newspaper following the March 11, 2012 state championship victory.
Coach Hunter was honoring the school's famous and beloved namesake:
Post Civil War African American Educator, Reformer, and Social Activist Lucy Craft Laney - who established a school for African American children in Augusta and was a huge inspiration to many of her students including (Mary McLeod Bethune) a future advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR).
Coach Hunter stepped down as the school's basketball coach in 2013 to spend more time focusing on his family.
A 1997 Paine College graduate who lettered in basketball, Coach Hunter was a member of the 1994 basketball team that won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular season title and advanced to the NCAA Division II Tournament.
In 2011, Coach Hunter's son LaTron (3rd base) became the first Wildcats baseball player to ever get a full athletic scholarship signing with Southern Union State Community College in Alabama.
Hoping his son's scholarship will encourage more youth to play baseball, Coach Hunter said LaTron showed Augusta athletes it's possible to earn a scholarship in sports other than basketball and football.
Hunter's three seasons as head basketball coach for Laney (77-15 record/84 percent success) included three Final Four appearances and the 2012 state championship.
Coach Jerry Hunter: Paine College Class of '97 is among those honored in June 2012 by Augusta Sports Council
www.paineathletics.com/news/2012/6/4/GEN_0604122721.aspx
paineathletics.com/mobile/index.aspx?story=261
Coach Jerry Hunter
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www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/laney-wildcats-%28augusta,g...
augustaeagles.blogspot.com/2012/03/post-game-show-guests-...
Laney Coach Jerry Hunter has stepped down as basketball coach March 18, 2013
www.wrdw.com/sports/headlines/Laneys-Hunter-steps-down-as...
www.wrdw.com/sports/headlines/Long_road_led_to_Laneys_fir...
chronicle.augusta.com/sports/high-school/2013-03-18/laney...
Laney routs Manchester for its first state title
Laney 67, Manchester 53
Sunday, March 11, 2012
www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/State_Champion_Laney_Wildcats...
chronicle.augusta.com/sports/high-school/2012-03-11/laney...
Team and Coach Jerry Hunter honored by city of Augusta after 2012 state championship victory
chronicle.augusta.com/sports/2012-03-20/state-champion-la...
2012 stories in Augusta newspaper about student helped by coach Hunter
Problem child : Laney High star athlete overcomes odds to graduate - and gives praise to coach Jerry Hunter:
chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-05-19/laney-hig...
Fostering success: Laney star made home on basketball court
chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2012-04-29/laney-sta...
Jerry Hunter's students/players go on to acclaim:
www.tigernet.com/story/basketball/Rod-Hall-signs-letter-i...
www.orangeandwhite.com/news/2013/mar/20/brad-brownells-bu...
Educator, Reformer, Social Activist Lucy Craft Laney (April 13, 1854-October 24, 1933), an early African American educator who established a school for African American children in Augusta, Georgia:
www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_laney.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Craft_Laney
New Tools New Visions 2 (NTNV2) in Augusta, Georgia:
NTNV2 is a Paine College/Community Partnership
Funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation
NTNV2 is a community collaborative organization built on Community Based Participatory Research principles
NTNV includes the Project Harambee Kick-Off at Paine College in Augusta, GA on Jan. 26, 2013 that Promotes Help Seeking - and is a Substance Abuse Prevention and Suicide Prevention Initiative titled "Friends Don't Let Friends Fall Apart."
NTNV organizes Augusta churches in public, celebratory activities.
Pastors, Ministers and other Religious leaders can publicly commit their churches to the Annual Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS.
Encourage HIV/AIDS education, promoting HIV testing and organizing against stigma.
The group's intention to serve as a vehicle for increasing the level of public awareness in the Augusta Black church community.
NTNV 2 assessment by Dr. Kimberly M. Coleman, MPH - consultant and paid contractor for the Kellogg Foundation
11-8-10 in Denver, CO
138th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association
"Lessons learned as a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) technical assistance coordinator - partnered with four rural, African American Communities" in Albany, Augusta, Fort Valley, Savannah.
www.slideshare.net/kmcoleman1/new-tools-new-visions-2
kcolem16@nccu.edu
drkmcoleman@gmail.com
NTNV2 Purposes:
Connect four rural GA communities surrounding Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with faculty resources to develop a community-based participatory research (CBPR) infrastructure to address issues of environmental health, violence, health equity, and social justice.
NTNV2 Project Goals:
Help community residents to resolve identified problems, and create change in public policy, and quality of life using several public health-based strategies to engage community residents and partners with researchers and/or HBCUs to develop solutions for each targeted community's health issue among local residents
Community Grantees:
Four Southern Georgia community organizations were selected after submitting proposals to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Harambee House, Inc. and Citizens for Environmental Justice
United Methodist News Service story March 2008 by Linda Green
www.umc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&a...
Kellogg Foundation
www.facebook.com/pages/WK-Kellogg-Foundation/111812468884033
www.twitter.com/WK_Kellogg_Fdn
Participants define strategies to eliminate obstacles from and creating good policies for African Americans to develop healthy families.
Using the Healthy People 2020 objectives include dynamic interaction between building healthier family structures and eradicating obstacles to healthier Black families.
While myriad areas of health disparities will be addressed, special attention will be paid to four focus areas:
Violence as a public health issue
HIV/AIDS
Mental Health Disparities
Under-utilization of Preventative Care
Presenters take a proactive stance in addressing critical matters corresponding to the creation of stronger Black Families and improved health conditions.
Presenters include outside experts and the Augusta community, Paine College faculty/students plus reps of the Medical College of Georgia health system.
NTNV2 Augusta is a partner of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Minority Health's National Partnership for Action (NPA) to End Health Disparities, and a member of the national Healthy People 2020 Consortium.
More info:
Dr. Adeleri Onisegun
NTNV2 Project Director
Paine College Dept. of Psychology
706-821-8281
aonisegun@paine.edu
Rev. Terence A. Dicks
NTNV2 Community Liaison
Chair, Steering Committee
706-799-5598
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...for Almir and Joselita.
"As Time Goes By"
music and words by Herman Hupfeld
[This day and age we're living in
Gives cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension.
Yet we get a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory.
So we must get down to earth at times
Relax relieve the tension
And no matter what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot be removed.]
You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.
And when two lovers woo
They still say, "I love you."
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by.
Moonlight and love songs
Never out of date.
Hearts full of passion
Jealousy and hate.
Woman needs man
And man must have his mate
That no one can deny.
It's still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.
Oh yes, the world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by.
© 1931 Warner Bros. Music Corporation, ASCAP
Redid a custom face up for dear Kirakira after her dolly had a little accident involving an artistic child and a sharpie ^^
Thank you for being patient with me Shannon >_<
Gargoyle is a mouth for ejected words of sweeping Lucifer this took other angels that had the seed of desire planted within them, for it is selfish desires that fuel the ego. He was expelled from the higher regions because he no longer had the Christic virtues but had the ego crystallized instead. Since we assert that selfish desires and interests strengthen the egos hold on us, it is also true that altruistic, compassionate service vivify the Christic force within us that stirs us to self-sacrifice for humanity (The hanged man). Can 'Lucifer' be the Hanged Man #12 card ? Here are a few depictions of the card for reference first: The Hanged Man...also known as Perspective....now also known as "Lucifer"....here's why I think this is an awesome pictorial for the meaning. What is the central meaning for the Hanged Man?
Letting go...as in accepting God's Will (give me a chance to explain...just a little more)
Giving up control
Accepting what is
Putting others first
NOW WAIT A MINUTE, ERIC !! You said this would all make sense....Lucifer isn't this way!
...TRUE.....and that's my point. He is the card's "shadow side" (or Reversed). The shadow side of every card is the not-so-well known or publicized meanings that are just as much true as the upright meanings...just from a different 'perspective' (like how i tied that all in...LOL)
Lucifer...Satan....the Devil....whoever you may call him....he IS the Hanged Man's other half to complete the whole story.
Let's look at the original card again...upside down or Shadow side: This way what does the card suggest? The man is now grounded again, able to walk on his OWN TWO FEET, under his OWN power. What about his head? It's still a-glow with enlightenment ! But wait....I thought the man got his enlightenment while hanging upside and submitting? He did....but he also CAN on his own...
...just like Lucifer did !
Remember the first card above said "New Vision"? The figure was 'standing tall' with wings spread, leaving the corpse on the ground that was a slave to the 'old ways'. Keeping these images in mind lets see the meanings of the Hanged Man again...as it's 'True' other "Shadow"
Reversing...turning the world around...overturning old priorities
Seeing things from a new angle or perspective
Up-Ending the old order...doing an about-face
Living in the moment...for the NOW !
Defiance
Self-assertion
Sound more like the Lucifer you know? Let's look again: What we are witnessing is the moment Lucifer made his choice to rebel...and just BE HIMSELF ! On the left...heaven...his appointment there, where he was told what to do and had limited choice. On the right, FREEDOM as not a PLACE, but an IDEA....where he stretches his hand out in acceptance (notice the other is more closed with a "shackle of light" restricting it's movement).
Notice, also, the color of his wings: white on left from that of God's control, dark on right to show expansive freedom like that of space. In-between there is a struggle for control, for power, and for self-enlightenment. Both God and now Lucifer know this....the time for a new perspective has come...and Lucifer chose FREE WILL.
Whether I believe in Lucifer or not is unimportant...only the symbolism here to help see the relationship of the meanings of both Light and Shadow...neither one more important than the other....both necessary to the True meaning of the Hanged Man card.
Which side are you? Do you submit to what others tell you is right...or do you find you listen to what your heart tells you? You may have more in common with this card than you previously thought ! Cheers !
Eric "MoonLightTrucker"
“Esoterically, the Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. Wisdom, not death, is reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization.” – Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
In the Tarot with the twelfth (12th) card called ‘The Hanged Man”or in French, “Le Pendu.” The Hanged Man (XII) is the twelfth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
This card portrays a young man hanging upside down by his left leg from a horizontal beam, the latter supported by two tree trunks from each of which six branches have been removed. The right leg of the youth is crossed in back of the left and his arms are folded behind his back in such a way as to form a cross surmounting a downward pointing triangle. According to Elphias Levi, the Hanged Man thus forms an inverted symbol of sulphur. Elphias Levi had stated in his book, Transcendental Magic; ” It is also implied fantastically that the Roman alphabet is related to Tarot cards, but whereas the Hebrew Mem answers to the card of Death the Roman M is referred to the Hanged Man, Resh to the Judgement card but R to the Blazing Star.” Levi likens the hanged man to the legend of Prometheus, the titan who gave fire to mankind and in turn suffered the wrath of Zeus by becoming the eternal sufferer, not just by being bound to a rock, but to also have his liver fed upon by an eagle each day. the Egyptian Tarot the hanged man is hung upside down between two palm trees, which is said to signify the Sun God who dies perennially for his world. In some Tarot decks, the figure in the 12th card carries under each arm a money bag from which coins are escaping. Some people have said that this latter card is that of Judas Iscariot who is said to have gone forth and hanged himself, the money bags representing the payment he received for his crime. The Hanged Man is a form of Pittura infamante;
(Italian for “defaming portrait”; plural pitture infamanti) is a genre of defamatory painting and relief, common in Renaissance Italy. It came to be regarded as a form of art rather than effigy; the power of the genre derived from a feudal-based code of honor, where shame was one of the most significant social punishments. Common themes of pittura infamante—which were meant to be humiliating—include depicting the subject as wearing a mitre or hanging upside down, being in the presence of unclean animals such as pigs or donkeys or those deemed evil like snakes; pittura infamante would also contain captions listing the offenses of the subject.Pittura infamante could originate as more favorable depictions, only to be transformed after the subject had fallen out of favor.