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“The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today
It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected
No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Mirrorland
German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Nubdeb/Westf., no. 600. Photo: Warner Bros. Clark Gable in Band of Angels (Raoul Walsh, 1957). Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.
With his natural charm and knowing smile, Clark Gable (1901-1959) was 'The King of Hollywood' during the 1930s. He often portrayed down-to-earth, bravado characters with a carefree attitude, and was seen as the epitome of masculinity. Gable won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934), and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and for his best-known role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939).
William Clark Gable was born in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, to Adeline (Hershelman) and William Henry Gable, an oil-well driller. He was of German, Irish, and Swiss-German descent. When he was seven months old, his mother died, and his father sent him to live with his maternal aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania, where he stayed until he was two. His father then returned to take him back to Cadiz. At 16, he quit high school, went to work in an Akron, Ohio, tire factory, and decided to become an actor after seeing the play The Bird of Paradise. He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties. His acting coach Josephine Dillon, 15 years his senior, paid for him to have his teeth repaired and his hair styled. She also trained him to lower his voice and attain better body posture, attributes that that were instrumental in contributing to his later success and eventual iconic status. In 1924, with Dillon's financing, they went to Hollywood, where she became Gable's manager and first wife. He appeared as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926. However, he was not offered any major film roles, so he returned to the stage. While Gable acted on stage, he became a lifelong friend of Lionel Barrymore. He moved to New York City, where Dillon sought work for him on Broadway. He received good reviews in Machinal (1928). He gave an impressive appearance as the seething and desperate character Killer Mears in the Los Angeles stage production of The Last Mile. In 1930, Gable and Dillon divorced and a year later, he married Maria Langham (a.k.a. Maria Franklin Gable), also about 17 years older than him. After several failed screen tests, Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM's Irving Thalberg. He made his talking film debut as an archetypal villain named Brett in the Western The Painted Desert (Howard Higgin, 1931), starring William Boyd. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (Harry Beaumont, 1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (Clarence Brown, 1931) the same year. His unshaven lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in Red Dust (Victor Fleming, 1932) made him MGM's most important star. His acting career then flourished. At one point, he refused an assignment, and the studio punished him by loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) opposite Claudette Colbert. He won an Academy Award for his performance. The next year saw a starring role in Call of the Wild (William A. Wellman, 1935) with Loretta Young, with whom he had an affair (resulting in the birth of a daughter, Judy Lewis). He returned to far more substantial roles at MGM, such as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935) and Rhett Butler in the Oscar-winning epic Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939).
After divorcing Maria Langham, Clark Gable married Carole Lombard in 1939, but tragedy struck in January 1942 when the plane in which Carole and her mother were flying crashed into Table Rock Mountain, Nevada, killing them both. A grief-stricken Gable joined the US Army Air Force and was off the screen for three years, flying combat missions in Europe. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew his contract. He freelanced, but his films didn't do well at the box office. He starred in such films as The Hucksters (Jack Conway, 1947) and Homecoming (Mervyn LeRoy, 1948) with Lana Turner. He married Sylvia Ashley, the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, in 1949. Unfortunately this marriage was short-lived and they divorced in 1952. In July 1955 he married a former sweetheart, Kathleen Williams Spreckles (a.k.a. Kay Williams) and became stepfather to her two children, Joan and Adolph ("Bunker") Spreckels III. In 1959, Gable became a grandfather when Judy Lewis, his daughter with Loretta Young, gave birth to a daughter, Maria. In 1960, Gable's wife Kay discovered that she was expecting their first child. In early November 1960, he had just completed filming The Misfits (John Huston, 1961) with Marilyn Monroe, when he suffered a heart attack, and died later that month. Gable was buried shortly afterwards in the shrine that he had built for Carole Lombard and her mother when they died, at Forest Lawn Cemetery. In March 1961, Kay Gable gave birth to a boy, whom she named John Clark Gable after his father.
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in remembrance of a good friend who passed away eleven years ago. a re-edit of a photo I made one off the last URBEX trips we did together. you will never be forgotten mate
She left her heart in San Francisco? Where else could hearts possibly be? Although the shot was taken in front of Taipei American School in Tien Mou, Taipei, Taiwan...
We are global nomads, so let's take the best of each country and make it part of our personality. Those who do not like foreigners or have xenophobic attacks, should live in another country for a year or two. That would show them we're all human beings with the same needs. We bleed the same blood!
Living in Taipei? Basel? All over the world? Wherever one hangs one's hat, I personally believe, in one's home.
Even if the T-Shirts say differently...
Mårup Kirke ligger på Lønstrup Klint, en ca. 15 km lang kystskrænt mellem Lønstrup og Løkken. Den blev opført i 1200-tallet.
Da Lønstrup Kirke var blevet opført i 1928, ophørte Mårup Kirke med at blive brugt som sognekirke
Den 24. marts 2008 blev kirken brugt for sidste gang til gudstjeneste i forbindelse med gudtjenesten 2. påskedag
Umiddelbart herefter blev kirken nedrevet til ca. 2 meters højde af sikkerhedsmæssige årsager, idet kirken efterhånden lå ganske få meter fra kanten og der var overhængende fare for nedskridning.
Mårup Kirke blev i 1987 anvendt som location under optagelserne til Gabriel Axels Oscar-belønnede film Babettes gæstebud, baseret på Karen Blixens fortælling af samme navn.
Kirkegården er delvist bevaret og enkelte familiegravsteder opretholdes stadig.
Billedet er et blik ud over en del af kirkegården hvor Rubjerg Knude skimtes i baggrunden med fyret der også ventes at skride i havet inden de næste 10-12 år er gået.
Bemærk hvor kraftigt træerne hælder mod øst !
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Mårup Church (Danish: Mårup Kirke) was a Romanesque church located in Vendsyssel in Denmark's northern Jutland.
The church was built on Lønstrup Klint, a cliff on the North Sea near the town of Lønstrup in the Hjørring municipality. The area is noted for its windswept landscape, constantly shifting sands and eroding coastline.
After hundreds of years of erosion brought the North Sea dangerously close, the church was partially dismantled in 2008 to prevent its falling into the sea. The walls remain at the site, along witch the anchor of a British frigate that sank off the coast in 1808 is placed.
the picture is a view over some of the cemetery where Rubjerg Knot glimpsed in the background with the lighthouse which is also expected to take in the sea within the next 10-12 years have passed.
Please note how strongly the trees are leaning toward the east!
D694WAU was a Bedford YNT / Plaxton Derwent B55F purchased new by Felix of Stanley in April 1987. It was still only four months old when snapped on the hourly service to Ilkeston. Note the conductor taking the fares. It would later join the Tillingbourne of Cranleigh fleet for further service.
Felix operated bus and coach services in Derbyshire between 1921 and 2012. Norman Frost owned the company until his death in 1975. It then passed to his nephew, Geoffrey Middup.
In early 2009, "Felix the Cat Creations Inc.", a large United States company, approached Felix and claimed it owned copyright for images of cats used next to the Felix name. While it provided no evidence, Felix decided they couldn't afford to fight any court case, so as a result all cat images were removed from every aspect of the company.
In de weerspiegeling zoon Menno toeziend hoe ik de foto maak.
In the reflection my son Menno watching how I make the picture.
Lens: Olympus 50 mm F.Zuiko F:1,8
These small Heath butterflies were present in large numbers. But always flying low above the field and resting in the grass. Took me a while before I had one that was willing to pose for me.
Deutsche Beschreibung:
Als Ersatz für die in die Jahre gekommenen Fahrzeuge der Grundausstattung schuf der Obus-Betrieb der Solinger Stadtwerke einen Bus nach eigenem Entwurf, den sogenannten "Trolleybus TS". Gebaut wurden insgesamt 80 dieser Dreiachser; der erste wurde 1968 in Dienst gestellt. Für den Bau der Wagen lieferte die Fahrzeugbau-Abteilung der Essener Kruppwerke Fahrwerks-Komponenten zu, und der Aufbau kam von der Karosseriefabrik der Gebrüder Ludewig in Essen-Altenessen. Interessanterweise erfüllten die Busse der ersten TS-Serie bereits die heutigen Normen des "Low-Entry-"Konzept, das damals allerdings noch gar nicht formuliert war. Das heißt, man könnte sie theoretisch heute im Wechsel mit modernen Niederflur-Fahrzeugen einsetzen, ohne dass Menschen mit Mobilitätseinschränkung dadurch ein Nachteil entstünde. (Die beiden späteren Serien des Trolleybus TS waren dann aus technischen Gründen nicht mehr wirklich niederflurig).
Die Fahrzeuge wurden nach ihrer Einsatzzeit in Solingen ins argentinische Mendoza verkauft. Von dort hat das Obus-Museum in den letzten Jahren je ein Exemplar der ersten und eins der dritten Serie zurückgeholt und aufgearbeitet. Der oben gezeigte Wagen Nr. 68 soll nach Möglichkeit wieder eine Zulassung für den Fahrbetrieb erhalten. Wagen 10 wird wohl, optisch komplett aufgearbeitet, ein reines Ausstellungsstück bleiben.
English description:
To replace their outdated basic vehicles, the Solinger Stadtwerke trolleybus company created a bus of its own design, the so-called “Trolleybus TS”. A total of 80 of these three-axle vehicles were built; the first entered service in 1968. The truck construction department of Essener Kruppwerke supplied chassis components for these cars, and the body came from the Ludewig brothers' body factory in Essen-Altenessen. Interestingly, the buses of the first TS series already met today's standards of the "low-entry" concept, which had not yet been formulated at the time. This means that they could theoretically be used today in alternation with modern low-floor vehicles without putting people with limited mobility at a disadvantage. (The two later series of the TS trolleybus were no longer really low-floor for technical reasons).
After their time in Solingen, the vehicles were sold to Mendoza, Argentina. In recent years, the Trolleybus Museum has retrieved and refurbished one copy of the first and one of the third series. Car number 68 shown above should, if possible, be approved for driving again. Car 10 will probably remain a pure exhibition piece, having been completely optically refurbished.
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The Karrayyu are a pastoralist tribe from Ethiopia living in the Awash Valley, around the volcano of Mount Fentale and the Metehara Plain. They belong to the larger ethnic group of the Oromos, who represent the majority (32 per cent) of the ethiopian population. It is said the Karrayyu arrived in the area 200 hundreds years ago, during the so called « great expansion », of the Oromo, during which Oromo settled in different parts of Ethiopia,. This led to cultural diversification. In spite of local differences between those subgroups, they share the same Cushistic language (Afaan Oromo) religion (Waaqeffata) and governance system (Gada). The Karrayyu are one of the last Oromo ethnic subgroups to follow these rules and to preserve the original Oromo lifestyle and culture, and its pastoralist way of life.
There are only 10 000 to 55 000 Karrayyus (because of their nomadic lifestyle it is difficult to have precise figures) whereas they used to be 200 000 at the beginning of the 20th century. Karrayyu are on the verge of instinction. Such a drop was due to the persecutions the Oromos, including the Karrayyu people had to face during Menelik’s II reign (1889-1913). This emperor, from the Amhara ethnic group led the unification of Ethiopia, and imposed the Amhara rule to the Oromos. Later, during the 20th century, the Karrayyu were deprived of most of their lands because of the establishment of national parks and modern farms. In the last four decades, Karrayyu’s were dispossed from 70 per cent of their land, including their shrines, by the government to make sugar and cotton plantations.
Conflict with neighbouring tribes
Struggle for grazing lands and water resources is a constant and daily challenge for the Karrayyus. This results in conflicts with neighbouring tribes such as the Afar or the Argoba, but also with some other Oromos ethnic subgroups such as the Arsi Oromo. Clashes between herders from these tribes are pretty common, and sometimes people even get shot. Incidents occur about the possession or when some herders raid the cattle from another tribe. Last years these conflicts have intensified as the number of available grazing lands has cut down. Indeed, overgrazing (involved by the recent of growth of the area’s population) leads to soil erosion. The degradation of the rangelands intensifies the pratice of cattle raiding which is already deeply rooted in the culture of the tribes in this area. Some grazing lands have even been abandoned by the Karrayyus in fear of violent conflicts.
Religion
The traditional Karrayyu religion is Waaqeffata, which is a monotheistic religion based on belief in a supreme being called « Waaqa ». This religion is closely related to the natural world as the Oromo pray to Waaqa at sites believed to be particularly blessed. However Kaarrayyu are muslim. Their religion consists in a syncretism of and Waaqa. Islam is the religion of 40 per cent of the Oromo people, including the Karrayyus.
Female genital cutting
Unfortunately the Karrayyu are also famous for the female genital cutting the women have to face and suffer from. According to the 2005 Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey, more than 74 per cent of women between the age of 15 and 49 have undergone some form of genital mutilation and cutting.. Parents believe this practice guarantees their young daughter’s virginity, which is a prerequisite for an honourable marriage.
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The Hague Central Station
August 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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