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Unsweetened Dutch Cocoa butter cake, layered with French vanilla Swiss butter cream, iced with Belgian dark chocolate ganache with an ivory fondant finish....specailly created for Marcelle's 80th Birthday. Handmade two tone sugar roses (look away now James Rosselle, these were made before your class!!), pale blue blossoms and edible ivory gold pearls.
And yes - Ryan DID provide my required Certificate :D
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Thank you Isaac and Ryan for your kind donations and making both this kid (me) as well as other kids very happy this holiday season :)
Over the past year I have been incredibly lucky to cross off many LEGO "must dos" off my bucket list, and one of them was to partake in Creations for Charity - both as a donor (1) (2) and as a purchaser.
Going into the purchase phase I was out to get what I would consider 'iconic' builds of my favorite builders I was very lucky that Ryan put up his crate, it might not have been his most iconic build, but it's iconic to me - as I believe that was the first ever build I saw of his...
And well ... I kinda twisted Isaac's arm to give up one of his prized Firetrucks (And yes you can still borrow this for shows...)
Cheers guys.
For "Boston Strong"...when I need strength and need to gather my thoughts I find peace at our beaches. So this gull will be my representation to all who have worked so hard this past year to be "Boston Strong". And To Jane Fiske, Hawkwatcher08, you always remembered to send well wishes after Superstorm Sandy, and then the fire when we had to start all over again....I hope you remain "Boston Strong" today.
Freedom for Venezuela! Es el movimiento por la paz y la vida! Countries around the world are standing up for their rights, with Venezuela being the latest. Please take a look at this video! Do not be silent about the things that matter!
The very last version of my images of "Flowers for Grandma".
Today we'll follow her to her final resting place, and I just had to pick som last flowers for her vase from mom's garden - as she valued so much. This time for decorating the post-funeral reception venue.
My album of bunches of flowers here (several of them for Grandma).
I have been head over heels for Silvia Otten-Nattkamp's photostream for a long time now ... her unique compositions, her exquisite use of texture and tones, and her sensitive versatility. Hand her a random object or scene and it will come back to you with beauty and meaning. I seriously believe Silvia could make urban art out of a Home Depot parking lot.
Silvia is so generous too, calling attention to others' work by regularly creating collages of her favorites and posting them in a separate stream called "I Love Your Work" ... and I have seen so many amazing photos through her eye for a good image.
I missed an earlier opportunity to credit Silvia for inspiring a shot I was really happy with, Euphorbia Euphoria ... my first post with texture and a different take on composition. I realized later that the reason I felt good about it was because it was the closest I'd come to a Silvia shot!
Here's an address to start the tour: www.flickr.com/photos/silvia31163/4544498721/
;~)
I used to make these "Dream Giftset" photoshoots for fun, but I am refocusing my collection and it was a great way of getting some farewell playtime with the ladies.
The luggage and the matching purse have some wear and tear. GP Eugenia has been swapped into a FR2 body.
Week 45 out of 52 Weeks for Dogs for my Benni
I wanted to get one last fall photo of Benni before the leaves completely fell off the trees. Funny, because I ended up choosing this photo of Benni with the leaves on the ground for this weeks photo.
Here Benni is posing in perfect, pointer fashion under the maple tree in my front yard.
JETT UPDATE:
I spoke to Jett's mom tonight. Everything is going great! Jett is doing well in his crate. He has had a busy weekend with lots of walks and time meeting family and friends. He has been VERY well behaved (like I knew he would be). Diana (his mom) has already had two shopping trips for toys because Jett LOVES his toys! He is already playing with his new "sister" (a Shih Tzu mix). My precious foster boy gets to have a home and family of his own. I still miss him.....but I couldn't be any happier!!!!
Come on, love...let's just stay here for a while. Let's dive into eachothers eyes. We will hide from the world outside. The sea will sing our song. The wind will help our wings.
Love is touching souls. Surely you touched mine.
I'll be gone for a few days. I'll be staying at Évora and I won't have any contact with anything close to a computer. :/ I promise to return next week... and with photos.
my Pa has passed away this recent Sunday. Felt after a few hours that I needed to repost this to the top to honour his memory separately
my dad had early onset dementia/alzheimers and had been in a home for over a year now, it is very sad. He could barely communicate, I did get to visit him relatively recently and then got a proper goodbye which I'm glad of but to have those conversations we used to share long since gone is what I'll miss most.
these from when I was welcomed on a walk with Bonnie and my Pa in 2011
more in comments :-)
Day Fifteen of the December Diary 2011 Project.
Dr Martens industrial boots Supplied by Royal mail.
Dr. Martens is a traditional British footwear brand, which also makes a range of accessories – shoe care products, clothing, luggage, etc. In addition to Dr. Martens, they are known as Doctor Martens, Doc Martens, Docs or DMs. The footwear is distinct because of its unique air-cushioned sole (dubbed Bouncing Soles), upper shape, welted construction and yellow stitching. They are one of the most popular and well-known footwear brands in the world, and are iconic to the fashion industry.
Great song by Nacy Sinatra
These boots are made for walking www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLenuBXt2RE
Lindsay Hardy - Requiem for a Redhead
Signet Books 1154, 1954
Cover Artist: George Erickson
"She was the clue in a deadly race for fortune."
Ok, I'm having a laugh this week, all of the titles of my Photographs, are in fact Song titles.
This one was sung by Roxette
THANK YOU for all your lovely comments, invitations & awards.
Canon PowerShot A470
For more of my splashes: www.flickr.com/photos/sergiocrivelin/sets/72157614960628113/
My grandpa was kind enough to sit with Timmy for a small photoshoot. This is a snapshot taken after the shoot. My grandfather is incredibly important to me and unfortunately he is not well. Please keep him in your prayers. He's an amazing man.
Elas foram enviadas hoje, a loja me mandou essa foto para provar que estão vindo... já que elas vêem dessa vez sem rastreio e sem seguro!=X Isso porque a For My Doll agora envia por airmail, mas nessas condições... mesmo assim, sendo arriscado, resolvi pedir... pelo menos até hoje (tirando as vezes que fui enrolada por vendedores e, aliás, estou sendo por um do 3bay, também comprei uma wig dele e até agora nada... ¬¬) nunca deixei de receber um pacote... tomara que essa não seja a exceção. Bom, #OREMOS. Essa era a única opção para quem não quer se lascar com as taxas absurdas da Receita Federal (coisa que já me aconteceu milhares de vezes e estou tentando evitar...=.=). Ainda quero mais uma, em tons de castanho, mas fica para uma próxima!=)
As perucas loiras são para minhas gêmeas, as Alicinhas (ou Dolores e Daenerys), e a outra, que ai só aparece a parte rosa, mas é também preta, para a minha Hello Kitty, a Penélope!=)~ E as maria-chiquinhas eles mandaram errado, eu pedi em tons pastéis... D': Mas deixa quieto!>.>'
Ando tão sem tempo pra entrar aqui!=.= E chega final de semana também não paro quieta, hahaha, mas vou ver se nesse consigo tirar fotos da minha doll nova, a Alex!<3
NYC 2007 © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto
CBGB - legendary punk club, Closed and for rent. Covered in graffiti lamenting the end of a punk heritage site. Bowery NYC, to the left, BRC the alleged "homeless shelter" which cancelled their lease. See article below. 3.8.07
shadowpress.org/landlord_greed_kills_cbgbs.51.html
LANDLORD GREED KILLS CBGBs!! LEGENDARY PUNK CLUB FORCED TO CLOSE By Chris Flash
[SHADOW News -- December 15, 2006]: As a result of its landlord's refusal to negotiate a new lease, legendary rock club CBGBs was forced to close its doors indefinitely on October 15, 2006.
CBGBs (the letters of which stands for "Country, Blue Grass, Blues"), is world famous as the birthplace of punk music in the U.S. and has served as a launching pad for such groups as the Ramones, Blondie, Television, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, the Dead Boys, Reagan Youth, Murphy's Law and countless others, both well known and not as well known.
In 1973, Hilly Kristal took over a former Hell's Angels hangout on the ground floor of the Palace Hotel, an infamous flophouse at 313-315 Bowery. Over the following twenty years, with its policy of booking any bands wanting to play there, CBGBs became one of the most famous venues in the city for live alternative music.
Kristal considered buying the building in the early 1990s, when the Bowery was swimming in crack, but he couldn't afford the then roughly $4 million price tag. "I never had that kind of money," said Kristal, who still lives in a tiny rent-stabilized apartment around the corner.( He said that he had only started to turn a profit in recent years through CBGB Fashions, which sells t-shirts and other club merchandise.)
Around that time, the landlord, Palace Renaissance, Inc., turned over management of CBGBs' building, along with neighboring 317 Bowery, to a group called the Bowery Residents Committee (BRC), a non-profit organization that runs a homeless shelter and drop-in center upstairs from the club, with a 45-year net lease on both properties.
Kristal speculates that the owners entered into the long-term lease with the BRC because it was the only way to rid themselves of troublesome SRO tenants. "I don't think anyone else but another homeless group could have dealt with it," he said.
Kristal was given a 12 year sublease and said that he remained "friendly" with the BRC until 2000, when they informed him that CBGBs' rent was more than $300,000 in arrears. Kristal blamed both his own and the BRC's lax accounting: Muzzy Rosenblatt, who took over as the BRC's executive director in 2000, conceded that the BRC dropped the ball. "We're not a commercial landlord," he said of the BRC, which has evolved into a $30 million-a-year homeless-services provider, managing 23 programs in the city. After a seven-month court battle, CBGBs was ordered to pay roughly $223,000 in monthly installments.
On February 17, 2005, the BRC sent CBGBs a "notice of default," demanding that Kristal pay $76,000 for back rent or face summary eviction. Kristal said that he could pay, but decided to hold off, as per the advice of his attorney. The back rent issue, Kristal felt, was the only bargaining position he had on renewing his lease, which was to terminate on August 31, 2005. "My position is, give me ten more years at a rate we can pay, and I'll get you the money now." said the 73-year-old Kristal from his cramped "office," a pair of old metal desks jammed in the club's entryway and plastered with the stickers of just about every band that has ever passed through. Kristal said that he couldn't afford to stay if the BRC doubled his rent from $19,000 to as much as $40,000 a month, which is what the BRC quoted him the year before. "The real thing is they don't want me back," Kristal said, adding that there had been a series of disagreements between him and the BRC over renovations and building code violations in recent years.
On August 1, 2005, a combination press conference and concert was held at CBGBs to launch the"Save CBGBs" campaign. The gathering was organized and chaired by veteran musician and actor Steve Van Zandt, formerly of the E-Street Band and more recently part of the cast of the Sopranos tv show. Van Zandt called CBGBs "very simply the last rock and roll club left," and said that "CBGBs has historical significance because the genre of punk was created here."
Tommy Ramone told the crowd of over 200 CBs supporters: "When the Ramones first played here in the early 1970s, there was nothing here on the Bowery but CBGBs. Soon the scene developed and the Bowery started growing. Now, after 30 years, it has grown unnaturally. It's kind of ironic that the seeds of that growth were because the club allowed young talented musicians to create original music that nobody else allowed to be played. This is one of the last vestiges of what New York was, is and could be in the future." The press conference was followed by a concert that included performances by Debbie Harry, Jesse Malin, the Star Spangles, the Swingin' Neckbreakers, and Ted Leo + the Pharmacists.
On August 10, 2005, Judge Joan Kenney denied the BRC ‘s request to evict CBGBs on the premise that it owed $91,000 in back rent, ruling that the BRC failed to properly bill CBGBs. In her ruling, Judge Kenney declared: "CBGB has proven itself worthy of being recognized as a landmark […] a rare achievement for any commercial tenant in the ever diverse and competitive real estate market of New York City." She went on to say, "It would be unconscionable for this court to allow the petitioner to proceed with its intent to evict CBGB […] because it failed to notice that monies were outstanding for approximately four years."
The Bowery Residents Committee's board of directors is composed of representatives from the city's largest real estate, financial and banking concerns, including Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Cushman Wakefield (real estate developers), American Express, Merill Lynch, Columbia University, and Goldman Sachs. These are among the most influential corporations in the city that have a vested interest in changing the demographics of targeted neighborhoods as they gentrify them, driving up real estate prices and forcing lower-income people out.
The BRC is exempt from income tax under Section 501 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code and is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes. However, according to its most recent IRS form 990 filing, the BRC has taken in $459,000 in rental income; in addition to the millions per year it has received in government grants. CBGBs supporters have questioned the BRC's ability to rent out a commercial space that it does not own on a "for profit" basis, in apparent violation of their not-for-profit status and corporate charter, and wonder if the BRC gets away with this through the connections of members on its board of directors.
As the August 31 lease termination date approached, Kristal made efforts to negotiate a new lease with the BRC that would address and resolve the concerns that the BRC expressed, but the BRC never responded to him. All other attempts by Kristal, including offering finding a third-party guarantor and raising money every year with benefit concerts, were unsuccessful
When August 31, 2005 came and went, Hilly Kristal refused to close his doors, and continued to do business as usual. Unfortunately, a few months later, Kristal announced an agreement with the BRC, under which CBGBs would pay the BRC $35,000 per month for one year and then vacate the premises at the end of October 2006.
On October 15, CBs held its last shows, ending with Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye. The CBGB Gallery next door to CBs closed on October 31. In December, CBGBs opened a boutique at 19-23 St. Mark's place (the former site of the Electric Circus in the 1960s), selling CBGBs clothing and paraphernalia. It is not clear what Kristal intends to do beyond this. In December 2005, he said that he was looking at potential locations for CBGBs in Manhattan and was considering Las Vegas as a site to open a sister club. "We're looking here and there, and we may have both places or we may only have one place," Kristal told CMJ.
In this current hyper-inflated real estate market, overbuilt luxury housing (rentals and condos) are taking the place of structures that are being demolished with no consideration of their cultural and historical significance, as gentrification along the length of the Bowery runs rampant. Among the historic buildings near CBGBs that have been torn down over the past six months are the original Minsky's Winter Garden Theater at 9 Second Avenue and McGuirk's Suicide Hall, a Civil War era building featured in Herbert Asbury's Gangs of New York, that was located at 295 Bowery, both only one block from CBGBs.
The killing of CBGBs by a greedy corporate-funded and tax-subsidized landlord is yet another example of artists and the counter-culture generating interest in a formerly undesirable section of the city and then getting pushed out by landlords and real estate developers looking to exploit that interest by attracting upper-income residents to the now "hip" neighborhood. Paradoxically, the wealthy residents so saturate the neighborhood that they destroy the very scene they are trying but can never be a part of!!
It remains to be seen what sort of business will pay $40,000 or more per month being sought by the BRC for CBGBs' space. With several new commercial storefronts next door and across the street from CBs already sitting vacant, CBGBs' space is sure to stay unoccupied for a long time.
If the public makes it known to any potential renters of CBGBs' space that an aggressive boycott campaign (and perhaps more) will be mounted against them, perhaps they will reconsider renting there.
GIVE THE BRC BASTARDS A PIECE OF YOUR MIND!!
BOWERY RESIDENTS COMMITTEE: 324 Lafayette Street, 8th Floor, NY, NY 10012; Phone Number: (212) 533-5700; Fax: (212) 533-1893; Email: info@bowrescom.org Website: www.brc.org
MUZZY ROSENBLATT – Executive Director
GENEVIEVE CHOW – JP Morgan Chase
ALEX COHEN – Cushman & Wakefield
RICHARD W. EADDY – E T Partners
ILENE FISZEL-BIELER – Citigroup
ALICIA GLEN – Goldman Sachs
LAWRENCE GRAHAM (Treasurer) – Brookfield Financial Properties
SIMON MILLER – Greenberg Traurig, LLP
ANTONIO X. MOLESTINA – Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
PHILIP R. PITRUZZELLO – Time Warner Inc.
CHARLES RAYMOND (Secretary) – Citigroup
JEFFREY B. ROSEN, Esq. – Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin, & Kahn
JUDITH RUSSELL, Ph.D. – Columbia University
JULIE SALAMON (Chair) – Writer
MARC SOLOMON – Merrill Lynch
VIJU VERGHIS – Credit Suisse
MARCY E. WILKOV – (Vice Chair) American Express Company
RITA ZIMMER – Housing + Solutions
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Waiting for our luggage at Gatwick. A delayed flight apparently due to staff shortages at Gatwick. EasyJet got everyone on board in time, but then we sat for 2 hours on the plane waiting......
First drafts for a bridge connecting the two cities of Remscheid and Solingen go back as far as 1889. Preparatory work began in 1893, the bridge was finished in 1897.
The six support columns have a maximum height of 69 meters. In the middle of the structure, the main arc has a span of 170 meters. The overall length of the structure is 465 meters.
A total of 5,000 tons of steel were used in its construction. 950,000 rivets hold the structure together. During construction, a number of advanced building techniques were used.
Anton von Rieppel (1852 – 31 January 1926), an architect and engineer, was in charge of the project. A memorial plaque at the foot of the bridge reminds one of his efforts.
Originally, the bridge was planned to be single-track. However, high future traffic growth projections led to the redesign as a dual-track bridge. Before its opening, the rail distance between the cities of Remscheid and Solingen was 42 kilometers. With a direct connection via the bridge, this distance shrank to 8 kilometers.
The bridge was a masterpiece of Victorian-era engineering. For its time, it was a highly sophisticated structure. It astonished the local population, many of whom had had little exposure to such state-of-the-art engineering work.
Very quickly, urban legends began to spread.
Some of these unfounded “tall tales”, (which are sometimes repeated to this day), are:
-Allegedly, the last rivet fastened in the bridge was made of pure gold.
-Allegedly, due to computational errors made by von Rieppel, the architect, half of the bridge had to be demolished since the two simultaneously built halves did not fit together.
- Allegedly, von Rieppel threw himself off the bridge and died in the fall.
Of course, there is no truth in any of these stories. The bridge was constructed as planned; von Rieppel’s complex calculations, (all carried out without the aid of computers or arithmetic aids), were correct – he died about 30 years later after an unrelated illness.
What might be true are rumours about Emperor Wilhelm II's boycott of the inauguration ceremony. According to legend, the Emperor was annoyed that such a state-of-art structure was named after his grandfather, Wilhelm I, not after himself. He therefore decided not to attend the celebrations in person.
What is true is that the bridge has attracted an unknown, but large number of suicides during its more than 100-year existence.
The Prussian Parliament approved the 5 million Marks required to build the bridge in 1890.
The first breaking of the earth was on 26 February 1894. A total of 1,400 kilograms (3,100 lb) of dynamite and 1,600 kilograms (3,500 lb) of black powder were needed during construction.
The bridge's official inauguration celebration took place on 15 July 1897. Emperor Wilhelm II did not attend the ceremony in person. Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia attended the festivities instead. Emperor Wilhelm II visited the bridge two years later, on 12 August 1899.
Hi everyone! ^_^
Little Mikuru will be for adoption next Wednesday, April 18th at 18:00 spanish timezone (GMT+1).
As always, more info and pics in my web! ^_^
My lovely girlfriend is out of town for the Thanksgiving holidays in order to spend time with her aging mother. Since I lost my own mother before I turned six years old, I fully support her desire to be with her mother, especially after losing her father a few years ago. Instead of cooking my traditional turkey and dressing, I microwaved some spaghetti that I cooked the week before. I used turkey Italian sausage instead of hamburger, and it also contains onion, Poblano pepper, squash, and mushrooms. With a few glasses of wine and salad, it makes a good meal. This is my first photo revealing my black & white minidress from Coquetry, the same little company that made that multi-color psychedelic minidress everybody seemed to like.
I did not participate in "Black Friday," and it is a major bone of contention with me.
Thanksgiving has been stolen by Corporate America and no longer exists for a good many people. It wasn't enough to exploit the holiday by urging people to stock up on food, drink, and maybe decorations. And of course, the transportation and hospitality industries encouraged people to travel, eat out, and stay in hotels when traveling. Fine. The next day (Friday) was a holiday for schools, many offices and factories, but it was the official start of the Christmas retail season, and it was a big day for them. In my childhood and well into adulthood, it was a very busy shopping day but not a crunch day to be avoided.
But that didn't satisfy CORPORATE GREED. Some big chain stores opened very early Friday morning and allowed, even encouraged idiots to camp out overnight in order to be ready to exploit "bargains" when the store opened. That required having retail workers arrive very early or show up late Thursday night for stocking. This year a good many chain stores announced that they will be open all day Thanksgiving. That way, part-time workers (with no benefits) can sell cheap shit made in other countries under slave labor conditions to those who can (for now) buy those goods on credit that they cannot afford. It won't last. America's middle class experiment is fast coming to an end.
It didn't have to happen this way, and I fully support government action to come down hard on CORPORATE GREED and restore LIVABLE WAGES, FULL BENEFITS, REASONABLE WORKING CONDITIONS, and FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT for all able-bodied adults. We used to have those things for the most part, and so did Europe. "Free trade" has not been free. When temporarily rich countries exploit the cheap labor, lax environmental laws, and lack of human rights in Third World countries to buy cheap goods, those rich countries ultimately become poor because good manufacturing jobs are exported leaving poor-paying service jobs. The globalization process won't stop until we are all little more than slave labor. Then who will buy the cheap goods?
We need to stop the Trans Pacific Partnership and Trans Atlantic "Free" Trade Agreement from being passed (in secret), drop out of the North American "Free" Trade Agreement, and declare the World Trade Organization to be a terrorist organization. Whenever possible, buy locally and avoid retail chains and restaurant franchises. If you are a property owner, install solar photovoltaic cells so you can wean yourself off the electric grid and try to grow as much of your veggies and fruits as possible. I wish I had these options. Europe probably has a better chance of keeping its independence and prosperity than North America or Australia, but they must assert themselves as Europeans before it is too late.
As for the "holiday" retail madness: I will not participate. I will shop where I normally shop and buy what I normally buy and nothing more. The list of chain stores I boycott grows.
Four of Beamish Museum's current fleet of seven serviceable buses, tucked away in the back of the bus depot and ready for a well earned rest. If it looks a little bit foggy in there it's because I have just reversed the blue bus into place and she tends to be a little less than environmentally friendly, especially when cold.
On the left is a 1928 Northern General SOS QL ("Queen"-class, Low) bus. The Friends of Beamish Museum spent well over twenty years restoring this magnificent "Queen"-type bus, No.338 (UP 551) of the Northern General fleet. The 37-seat bus is of a BMMO design by Brush and was the first of 65 supplied to Northern General Transport. It remained in service until 1950.
Next to it is a replica of a 1913 Daimler CC motorbus J 2503, in the livery of the owners of the original (in 1913), Northern General Transport. This replica was built about thirty-five years ago on a Dodge chassis, from drawings of the original twenty similar buses purchased by Northern General Transport when they first started operating in 1913 between Low Fell tram terminus and Chester-le-Street in County Durham. Sadly the originals were requisitioned by the Government to serve in the Great War and did not return.
Next is a replica London B-Type bus, built on a 1966 Bedford TK chassis (shortened) and originally on a Duple/VAM coach registered DET 720D. It is seen here carrying a version of Newcastle (upon-Tyne) Corporation's 1920's livery.
Finally. on the far right is a 1964 Roe-bodied, Gardner-engined Daimler CCG5 registered 304 VHN, in Darlington Corporation livery. The bus was new to Darlington Corporation as Fleet No.4 and was one of a batch of twelve similar vehicles purchased that year. This one was withdrawn in 1981 and is widely reported as being the last dual crewed bus in Darlington. (In fact dual crews returned briefly to Darlington using ex-Nottingham Fleetlines).
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Been exploring flowers lately, very pleased with my rose. There is a full break down in the current issue of Blocks magazine along with the other flower ideas. Hope you like them.
I think these look even better with sand green stems but I didn't have enough of them for so many roses. I have a single rose picture in that colour in my stream though.
The photograph was done by talented photographer and friend Lauren's Parsons www.laurensparsons.co.uk
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That's right, I was desperate for a picture. It's raining sheets outside right now so didn't really feel like getting my stuff wet. Started messing around with photoshop on another picture but couldn't get it right so, what to do. Of course, the booze cabinet must be a good place to start. I'm no scotch connoisseur but I do know that this 12 year old Glenlivet is nothing special. I received this bottle 8 years ago as a gift from one of my suppliers. Needless to say, it's barely been touched. A few years back, I decided that I'd learn about Scotch so I bought a single malt Balvenie. It was pretty good but it's still scotch. Once, I actually tried a bunnahabhain (www.bunnahabhain.com/) which I fell in love with, but unfortunately, nobody in Canada sells it anymore. The LCBO stopped carrying it. If anybody can help me find some, it would be greatly appreciated. Anyways, I want to head over to Scotland next year for a few things...1. photograph the countryside, 2. learn about scotch.
Back to this picture, well, it's a picture of scotch. I actually indulged in it after my shoot. Now, I'm tired, yawning and feel like I've been sucking on a burnt wooden barrel soaked in mossy water....wait, that's scotch. Have a good night.
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This isn't a great photo of it, but that knitted cowl I'm wearing? Amazing. And knitted by this talented lady. I'll be toasty warm this weekend, thanks Sarah xo
In other news, this film is a challenge. These are the warmest tones I've managed so far, and I got them from warming the shot as it developed. Under my shirt for about 15mins.
Also, hi.
I ask your indulgence. SierraRomeo88, my new number one fan, has requested, no BEGGED for some more photos of me in this, his favorite dress. You have to do these things for your fans, sometimes, though it becomes difficult when you have as many fans as I do.
I was so excited to see these today at the Chicago History Museum. I was there for a fundraiser. I did not have time to read any of the info about them as I was working, but I may be able to research the Zaretsky sign later. I’ll see ya tomorrow… I’m exhausted.😴
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Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035- 1040
My fellow Americans:
Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.
This evening I come to you with a message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few final thoughts with you, my countrymen.
Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for all.
Our people expect their President and the Congress to find essential agreement on issues of great moment, the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of the Nation.
My own relations with the Congress, which began on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member of the Senate appointed me to West Point, have since ranged to the intimate during the war and immediate post-war period, and, finally, to the mutually interdependent during these past eight years.
In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward. So, my official relationship with the Congress ends in a feeling, on my part, of gratitude that we have been able to do so much together.
II.
We now stand ten years past the midpoint of a century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involved our own country. Despite these holocausts America is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. Understandably proud of this pre-eminence, we yet realize that America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.
III.
Throughout America's adventure in free government, our basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among people and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people. Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.
Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. We face a hostile ideology -- global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method. Unhappily the danger is poses promises to be of indefinite duration. To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle -- with liberty the stake. Only thus shall we remain, despite every provocation, on our charted course toward permanent peace and human betterment.
Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a dramatic expansion in basic and applied research -- these and many other possibilities, each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to travel.
But each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs -- balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage -- balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between actions of the moment and the national welfare of the future. Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.
The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of stress and threat. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise. I mention two only.
IV.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present
and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
V.
Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
VI.
Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength. That table, though scarred by many past frustrations, cannot be abandoned for the certain agony of the battlefield.
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war -- as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years -- I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.
Happily, I can say that war has been avoided. Steady progress toward our ultimate goal has been made. But, so much remains to be done. As a private citizen, I shall never cease to do what little I can to help the world advance along that road.
VII.
So -- in this my last good night to you as your President -- I thank you for the many opportunities you have given me for public service in war and peace. I trust that in that service you find some things worthy; as for the rest of it, I know you will find ways to improve performance in the future.
You and I -- my fellow citizens -- need to be strong in our faith that all nations, under God, will reach the goal of peace with justice. May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nation's great goals.
To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration:
We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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“We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.” -- Benjamin Franklin
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom.” -- Thomas Jefferson
My friend Karen .... left us last week. I didn't hear until yesterday. I hadn't spoken to her in a long time. For that I am truly sad that I hadn't told her lately that she was very special person who made a difference in our lives when we needed it the most.
She was only 57 years old .... far too young to leave and will be missed greatly by many many many friends.
My deepest sympathy to her husband and children, my thoughts and prayers are with you in finding the strength to cope with all that is before you.
You will be sincerely missed my friend. xo
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Buy 3 get 50% off the 4th
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The Dixie Creek Campground, East Canyon State Park, 5535 South Highway 66, Morgan, Utah (40.925166, -111.587611)
Just before the sun poked its head up over the mountain.
The other campsites closer to the Salt Lake were booked a year ahead, so we settled in at Dixie Creek. It was a wee bit farther out from the lake, but I can't say driving the through the country in Utah was a hardship.
(i.e. Utah is amazing)
Milan cathedral - for Artwords Gothic challenge. I just adore the darkness of the windows against the lighter stonework. For a full description, see:
Hi ;) I'm back from my trip to Rügen/Germany.This is one of thousands of photos I took in this week... Here you can see the water of the baltic sea :)
for better size: press "L"
copyright by J-R Photography
here are some information about the island Rügen:
Rügen
Rügen (German pronunciation: [ˈʁyːɡən], also lat. Rugia for easier pronunciation) is Germany's largest island by area.[2] It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The "gateway" to the island of Rügen is the Hanseatic town of Stralsund. The island, which is linked to the mainland by road and railway over the Rügen Causeway and Rügen Bridge over the two-kilometre-wide Strelasund, has a maximum length of 51.4 km (from north to south), a maximum width of 42.8 km in the south and an area of 926 km². The coast is characterized by numerous bays (both lagoons known as bodden and open bays known as Wieken), as well as projecting peninsulas and headlands. In June 2011, UNESCO awarded the status of a World Heritage Site to the Jasmund National Park, famous for its vast stands of beeches.[3]
The island of Rügen is part of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen with its county seat in Stralsund. The towns on Rügen are: Bergen auf Rügen, Sassnitz, Putbus and Garz/Rügen. In addition, there are the Baltic seaside resorts of Binz, Sellin, Göhren, Baabe and Thiessow.
Rügen is very popular as a tourist destination because of its resort architecture, the diverse landscape and its long, sandy beaches
from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rügen