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For the 20th?! time the Forester/Gehm/Schwartz households trekked over the hill in a very enjoyable annual ritual.
Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
There are some millionaires
With money they can't use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
~ Maya Angelou
Michael wasn't of my generation .... but I am still saddened by his early passing ... how can one not be saddened by such a young life gone ... gone ... he was a brilliant musician, artist, innovator, perfectionist, talented beyond ... he set so many standards in the world of music.
Michael was adored and loved by millions around the world ... but he was so, so very lonely. I don't think he ever found what he was really looking for ... in this world. Hopefully he has now. His music will live on for many years and will be listened to by generations to come.
Michael, may you now find the peace and love you so desperately wanted and needed in your life. You will be so dearly missed.
These are especially for a dear Flickr friend of mine who is going through a very difficult time after losing her Dad suddenly at Christmas. I hope these brighten your day a little Christine and let you know that you are often in my thoughts.xxx
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El Toro fleet, boats used for teaching sailing techniques, lined up on the dock at the Center for Wooden Boats in Lake Union Park, Seattle, Washington State, USA, Seattle_Lake_Union-6
Model: Christine Mangan/ Andrea Roche Agency
Stylist: Raquel Trejo Garrido
Mua: Andrea Whelan
Hair: Aoife Coffey
Let me introduce you my new outfit made with reverie for Alicia. She 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 include a dress, a corseted over-dress, removable puffed sleeves, a jacket, a petticoat and socks.
Here, you can see:
- The petticoat made of cotton muslin edged and adorned by airy french lace and red ribbon.
- The dress made of antique white Dimity cotton fabric. All edges were trimmed with small floral embroidery and the front buttonholes band is enhanced with lace and gold metal tiny beads.
- The apron made of antique lace lined with cotton muslin, also trimmed with tiny flowers on a scalloped spring green ribbon. A row of teal Miyuki beads highlights the top of the waistband.
- Removable puffed sleeves made of cotton batiste.
I also want to introduce you an other of my new dolls customized by me during the past months.
Her name is "My Alice".
I used a FBL Ambrosial Blythe with a Jenna scalp I bought especially to become Alice.
Work done:
· Carving of her nose, lips and philtrum
· New full makeup made with artist Extra Soft Pastels "à l'écu" from Sennelier and sealed with several layers of MSC
· Sleepy eyes
· Gaze corrected
· New lashes
· Eyelids painted with artist Extra Soft Pastels "à l'écu" from Sennelier
· Four new pairs of eye chips hand painted by me using professional Golden iridescent fluid acrylics. Light Aqua (right), Light red (center), Hazelnut (left), Moss green (center)
Thank you very much for your visiting!
Event: Swimwear Passion for Fashion
Location: DANY Studios, New York, NY
Date: June 11, 2011
Part one, of two, behind the scenes shots at Plitzs' Swimwear Passion for Fashion.
Eight designers presented beautiful colorful creative collections at Plitzs Fashion Marketing's first annual Swimwear Passion for Fashion, in the following order:
1. Mirame Swimwear - www.mirameswim.com
2. Chila for Fun - www.Chila4Fun.com
3. GiGi's Bikinis - www.facebook.com/gigis.bikinis
4. Ashakai Swimwear - www.Ashakai.com
5. Eves Crochet Swimwear
6. Sisa Designs Swimwear - www.SisaDesigns.com
7. Sheila Ferrer Swimwear
8. Paradise Bikini - www.ParadiseBikini.com
For more information on Plitzs Fashion marketing visit:
Live life in fashion.
Revenge Fashion Magazine
A Passion for Empowerment™
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For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. (Isaiah 55:12)
for an assignment at VanArts: change the sky for this tree, i changed other things as well :)
i used this image for the sky
Tanzanite is not a gemstone that many people are aware of, which is sad because its rich and velvety royal blue color can put many other precious stones to shame, more so because of its unbelievable price. Tanzanite does resemble sapphire but has almost surpassed the blue gemstone in popularity,...
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Welcome Party for Siam Exchange Students’09-10
A tour around Sivalai Place - see the room type, room amenities & apartment facilities. Let have a dip in the pool after the walk around the apartment. The refreshing way to get to mingle and get to know your uni-mates ^^
For further information please contact us at
168 Soi Isaraphab 33, Isaraphab Road, Thapra, Bangkok-yai, Bangkok 10600 Thailand
Tel: +662 412 4000 ext 201, 206
Fax: +662 418 5184
Email: sivalai.place@hotmail.com
Website: www.sivalaiplace.com
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Photographs in this collection have been produced by Kathleen Markham, Daniela Alaniz-Roux, Allison Barden, and Connor Rowe at request of UC Berkeley Anthropology 136k class, for the purposes of digitally documenting the cultural heritage of Alcatraz Island with intent to gain greater insight into the island’s cultural history through the use of photographic technology.
Photographs in this collection were captured on Friday April 8, 2011, between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM Pacific Time, under sunny and windy conditions. Canon DSLR XTI, CanonT2i, Canon S95, and a Sony Cybershot. Lenses used with the Canon T2i include a Macro 60mm and Telephoto 70-200 lens, as well as its included kit 18-55mm lens. A 17-85mm lens was used with the Canon XTI. A tripod was used for macro, telephoto, HDR, and photogrammetry shots. The photos were post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Description written by Kathleen Markham, following Alonso C. Addison’s proposed virtual heritage metadata format in his chapter "The Vanishing Virtual" in New Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, edited by Kalay, et al., and published by Routledge in 2007.
Alcatraz Island (37.826667°N 122.423333°W), located in the San Francisco Bay, is a cultural heritage site constituting a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) under the management of the National Park Service. The park is currently open to visitors by way of privately operated ferries, yet the recorded history of island begins with the founding of a United States Military fort and Military prison in 1850. Previous to the military garrisoning of the island the site had been used by Native American tribes, but the U.S. Military’s stronghold on the island continued until 1934 when the fort was refurbished to become a maximum security Federal Penitentiary. During Alcatraz’s time as a federal prison the island became home to many infamous criminals and functioned as the stage for multiple riots and escape attempts. Due to the challenges posed by running a maximum security prison on the island, the Federal Bureau of Prisons deemed the penitentiary too expensive to fund and consequently the prison was shut down in 1963. After lying vacant for years the land was unofficially reclaimed by Native American Indians of various tribes on November 20, 1969 with the justification that the Treaty of Fort Laramie established in 1868 entitling Native peoples to any unused surplus federal property. The Indian occupation of the Island continued into 1971 until the feasibility of the occupation waned due in part to the difficulty of continuing a steady flow of supplies to the island. After nineteen months of residing in the island, the occupiers were forcibly removed by government officials on June 11, 1971. The island’s notorious history began to draw in tourism in 1973, and in 1976 Alcatraz Island was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its long and varied history. The park has continued to draw visitors over the last four decades and is recognized as one of richest sites of cultural heritage in the San Francisco Bay Area.
All photos Copyright ©2011 Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley CA Creative Commons creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
For more information contact Center for Digital Archaeology, Berkeley, CA, 94720 or visit www.codifi.info/licensing
For more facts and information about Alcatraz, please visit www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm.
A RECORD number of Druids, pagans and tourists turned out for the winter solstice at Stonehenge on Thursday morning.
The stone circle attracted a crowd of 5,000 people, some dressed in cloaks and robes, to see the sun rise at 8.09am.
Peter Carson, head of Stonehenge at English Heritage, said: “The winter solstice at Stonehenge was an extremely busy but enjoyable and peaceful event for the record 5,000 visitors who came along. The record numbers were rewarded with a wonderful sunrise and this builds on the success of the celebrations of previous years.”
Druid leader King Arthur Pendragon said: “There was a huge number of differing Druid orders who worked together to make it a very happy and enjoyable event.”
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22 people were arrested at the Bank of America building
Protest at Chevron HQ in San Ramon on Dec 7, 2009
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Copenhagen Cafe is a place to gather Dec 7 - 18 during the climate conference for live coverage and workshops.
Ground level Crocker Galleria, 50 Post St More info & schedule at
carboncollaborative.org/?q=copenhagen-cafe
350 weekend of action Dec 11-13 at the mid-point of Coppenhagen. See www.350.org/map for more Bay Area events
Friday December 11
Meet in front of Senator Feinstein's office on the corner of Post & Montgomery at 4 pm
What: First, we'll deliver 350 photos from Oct. 24th and letters from participating groups to Senator Feinstein office (a delivery to Senator Boxer's office will happen earlier in the day). Then we'll have a candlelight vigil and march from Senator Feinstein's office to the Civic Center. At the Civic Center there will be speakers and we will also spell out 350 with our candles for a photo.
The vigil is 5:30 - 7 pm, San Francisco City Hall
Saturday December 12th
The World wants a real deal Santas, elves, & reindeer will also gather to collect signatures on giant holiday cards asking for a real climate deal in Copenhagen.
Noon - 5 pm, Union Square steps corner of Stockton & Geary sfoxfamactioncorps.org
Wednesday, December 16th
Rebecca & David Solnit discuss their book The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle and Rebecca’s A Paradise Built in Hell
7 pm Modern Times, 888 Valencia St mtbs.com
For all those drivers out there dont we all like a nice clean office to work at. Everything where its needed, good visibility only complaint with this one is the steering lock isnt to sharpe. Other than that its brilliant.
For you today my annoyance of the week. I only noticed it two days ago, but my jaw seems to be slightly crooked. I suppose it will be gone when my other two wisdom teeth are also taken out.
What I hadn't thought of was that my teeth would stand further apart. I'm already missing two lower front teeth, but the gap had gotten smaller as I got older, I guess that was because of my wisdom teeth pushing them together. I think it is giving me a slight lisp now. (and yes, my cheek is still green)
day 173
Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, East Sussex, a different prospective, hope you approve Paddy!
Derek Jarman's Cottage: Derek Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, artist, and writer.
Jarman's work broke new ground in creating and expanding the fledgling form of 'the pop video' in England, and as a forthright and prominent gay rights activist. Several volumes of his diaries have been published.
Jarman also directed the 1989 tour by the UK duo Pet Shop Boys. By pop concert standards this was a highly theatrical event with costume and specially shot films accompanying the individual songs. Jarman was the stage director of Sylvano Bussotti's opera L'Ispirazione, first staged in Florence in 1998.
He is also remembered for his famous shingle cottage-garden, created in the latter years of his life, in the shadow of the Dungeness power station. The house was built in tarred timber. Raised wooden text on the side of the cottage is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's poem, The Sun Rising. The cottage's beach garden was made using local materials and has been the subject of several books. At this time, Jarman also began painting again (see the book: Evil Queen: The Last Paintings, 1994).
Jarman was the author of several books including his autobiography Dancing Ledge, a collection of poetry A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, two volumes of diaries Modern Nature and Smiling In Slow Motion and two treatises on his work in film and art The Last of England (also published as Kicking the Pricks) and Chroma. Other notable published works include film scripts (Up in the Air, Blue, War Requiem, Caravaggio, Queer Edward II and Wittgenstein: The Terry Eagleton Script/The Derek Jarman Film), a study of his garden at Dungeness Derek Jarman's Garden, and At Your Own Risk, a defiant celebration of gay sexuality.
It doesn't get much more fresh than this! These yellow tail were caught that morning. They gave you the fish right off the grill. It was up to us to remove the scales and bones.
First established in 1828, the gardens have been enjoyed as a public park by the people of Belfast since 1895. There is an extensive rose garden and long herbaceous borders and the tree enthusiast can seek out the rare oaks planted in the 1880s, including the hornbeam-leafed oak. Situated near Queens University Belfast, the Botanic Gardens is an important part of Belfast’s Victorian heritage and a popular meeting place for residents, students and tourists.
Charles McKimm came to the Royal Botanic Gardens in 1874, and was eventually appointed as Head Gardener. His enthusiasm caused many improvements to be made and the gardens were transformed. Belfast Corporation purchased the Gardens and renamed it as the Belfast Botanical Gardens Park. In 1903 McKimm was appointed to a newly created post of General Superintendent of Parks for Belfast.
Palm House history
Designed by Charles Lanyon, the Palm House is one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear cast iron glasshouse. Its construction was initiated by the Belfast Botanical and Horticultural Society in the 1830s. The two wings were completed in 1840, and were built by Richard Turner of Dublin, who later built the Great Palm House at Kew Gardens. The cool wing houses all year round displays of colour and scent using plants such as geranium, fuchsia, begonia and built displays. Construction of the Palm House began in 1839, and the Tropical Ravine, or Fernery, completed in 1889, is a fine example of horticultural Victoriana.
Tropical Ravine
The Tropical Ravine has had a £3.8m transformation and the listed building which dates back to 1887 has been restored with many of its original Victorian features reinstated and preserved. Split over two levels with an open reception area on the ground floor, the building has been modernised to make it more energy efficient with new triple-glazed windows installed to retain heat and create the right environment for the tropical plants it is home to. Visitors will now be able to learn about the conservation work and plant collection thanks to new interactive and digital exhibits. Accessibility has also been improved with the introduction of sensory facilities for sight and hearing-impaired visitors.