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Site prep at the Studebaker Building 84 site of the announcement of Mayor Buttigieg in South Bend, Indiana April 14, 2019.
(Chuck Kennedy / Pete for America)South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg announces that he will be seeking the Democratic nomination for president during a rally in the old Studebaker car factory on April 14, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana. Buttigieg has been drumming up support for his run during several recent campaign swings through Iowa, where he will be retuning to continue his campaign later this week.
(Chuck Kennedy / Pete for America)
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"Beverly Hills 90210" star AnnaLynne McCord and her two sisters, Rachel and Angel, get dolled up for a girls night out at Chateau Marmont.
EXCLUSIVE July 22, 2009
Job: 90723W3 Los Angeles, California
Nothing to be gained advancing any further. The bus has stopped in the cycle advanced stopping zone anyway. An indication that the driver may not as attentive as one would like...
But at least there is something to look at while I'm waiting. Some might but I don't want my last journey on a motorcycle sidecar.
Neff's Shoe Store, 315 2nd Street, Aurora, Indiana. A family owned and operated shoe store open since 1885. Disturbingly there's a "For Sale" in the window.
Paper Color: Tokyo Pink - Matt
Ink Color: Dark Gray
Edition: 17
Size: 36cm x 48cm
Weight: 200g/m2
Drawing for the mural painted in Phoenix. Color is painted with the same colors used in the mural.
To see the mural: www.flickr.com/photos/partybots/6916699118/in/photostream
Artwork by Karl Addison
For More Information: www.partybots.org/ or www.idrawalot.com
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As Karl Addison’s art and vision evolves—from blank slate, to paper, to mural, to installation, to unoccupied public space—our understanding and comprehension of the world around us begins to unfold as well. We may not notice his input, infiltrating our subconscious—our everyday—but it’s there. A beautiful woman’s face composed of negative space watching peacefully over a cemetery in Wedding, a fragile old Jewish woman towering over a decommissioned factory in Berlin, an urban zoo of imagined creatures deposited all over the globe, an abandoned room filled with 4,500 fat babies…Addison’s art and commentary on history and culture are everywhere, becoming part of the collective unconscious.
Through his travels to Italy, Israel, Japan, throughout the US, and his current residence in Berlin, Addison’s overarching theme of people and the spaces they occupy and interact with has taken shape. By focusing on pieces, which work to become part of public space rather than interrupt it, his intent to create regenerative art through murals and other mediums is being actualized. He has achieved this both independently and collaboratively with other contemporary artists and painters, most notably James Boullough. Addison’s recent and current collaborative projects also highlight his more narrowed focus of interconnectedness, “connecting humanity around the world with different cultures from different places,” he wants us to value tiny lines, details, to appreciate a world view and hopefully, start extolling minute details of our own.
It takes an extraordinary person, one with talent, courage, and patience, to express himself the way Addison does. To project his voice and vision for the world to see—to rip it out of a sketch book or a blank page in his mind—and produce it. To take it beyond the two-dimensional and spray paint, wheat paste, bomb, the side of a building with an illimitable piece of art. To exhibit in public space—on walls, on clothing, in art galleries—what a beautiful fucking thing. Art—“a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind” leaving the watching to the watched.
- written by jennifer weitman
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Pótoprens, Haiti.
Flows of people, pigs, goats, like an exodus of unorganized ants of different colonies who have all lost their queen. Everyone here is a juggler. Juggling with all that is left. Balancing enormous heavy burdens on the heads, screaming "dlo, dlo, dlo!!" "Water, water, water!" Barking, singing in Kreole & cacophonic un-understandable sounds at first. Sweat, dust, lots of dust, heat, smells of damped trash, cleaned clothes hanging on barbwire, on trees or roofs to dry.
Cité Soleil.
Chaos into chaos. Naked children running, beautiful, smiling, suspicious & clever. "Blanc! Hey you! Chocolate?" The first words they address you if you're white. Being white here means not being Haitian. You can be Mauritanian - you will still be white. UN soldiers. Minustah. Logbase. Armed Militaries, armed gangs. The armed gangs enhance their "activity" of extortion especially in September - October. They have to find money to send their kids to school. Most of them with wearing their blue "Unicef" bag -part of the "Go-to-school" kit. But they still need the money for shoes and uniforms. Jealousy. Treachery. Haiti, Republic ONG - the NGO Republic. It's hard being thrown a tiny piece of bread and having to share it among so many people. It drives humanity crazy.
The effort of building some artisan labs in such a place. Project started, project financed, funds now finished. Structure, built. Machines, given. Training, given. Structures, robbed, often. Machines, half are already broken. Artists: amazing. Creative, brave. All they want is to earn their living by working, not being part of the gangs. But living and working in a place ruled by them, you can't pretend they're not there. They'll never let you forget they are. Not easy, not at all. Materials, often unavailable, or very expensive. Everything is imported. The challenge: for these labs to produce enough to sustain themselves. Producing, selling, to the rich “Blancs” who can afford it. We're doing it, every day, with a bit of luck, a lot of effort.
But working here, going every day down from Petionville, the "wealthy" neighborhood, to Cité Soleil, one of the poorest slums of the continent, and dealing with all this... It's sometimes just too much. You can't process everything in one Blanc's heart; sometimes it seems too spongy not to drown. It makes you scream from the inside, a long silent scream, before you can breathe in again and start putting the pieces of this scattered puzzle back together.
-Francesca D.
A return to Foregate Street in Worcester. This time I went into the Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum. The museum is free to enter.
The building is Grade II* listed,
City Museum and Library with Gates, Worcester
WORCESTER
SO8455SE FRIAR STREET
620-1/12/270 (East side)
05/04/71 City Museum and Library
with gates
(Formerly Listed as:
FRIAR STREET
(East side)
City Museum and Library
(Formerly Victoria
Institute))
GV II*
Museum and library with gates. 1896, by JW Simpson and Milner
Allen at a cost of around ,25,000. Red brick in Flemish bond
with moulded terracotta tiles and plain tile roof; brick left
end stack, banded and with cornice; cast-iron gates and
balustrade. Free Renaissance style. Irregular plan. 2- and 3
storeys with attic, 3 bays plus tower: from left are 2 tall
storeys, 2 bays with 3-lower-storey bay at right with attic in
gable set back, then corner octagonal 5-stage tower. Central
gable contains clock in elaborate cartouche. 'Victoria Regina'
on cartouches; 'THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE' to central frieze;
'Library and Museum' over entrance.
FACADE: the central, entrance bay breaks forward and has
quoins to angles; flight of steps to cambered-arched opening
and chamfered jambs with hollow- and roll-moulding to head,
with three-quarter engaged Ionic columns and dentil pediment
broken by elaborate royal arms in high relief. Double entrance
gates have 'VR' motif and crown, 2 levels of bars and scrolled
crest. Within are 2 sets of double, part-glazed and panelled
doors. Windows are leaded lights in metal frame casements
throughout. To either side of entrance are 2-light mullion
windows with moulded, eared surrounds and scroll pediments. To
left bay on ground floor a wide 'Elizabethan' mullion and
transom window in quoined surround with 3:3:3 lights, the
middle lights have semi-circular light over containing scroll
pediment, and with scrolled central apron. Above entrance at
first floor a large 2:4:2 window and to left bay are two large
4-light windows, all with mullions and transoms and
segmental-arched lights and on continuous egg and dart sill
band; quoined surrounds and composite pilasters between
windows embellished with 'VR' motto. Continuous modillion
frieze, and pediment to gabled entrance bay with crown at apex
surmounted by figure of Victory. Arcaded balustrade with urns
at left.
Right bay: plinth with moulded band surmounted to ground floor
by 5-light mullion window with cornice. To first floor are two
2-segmental-arched-light mullion windows in eared surrounds
and with central segment. Second floor: three 2-light mullion
windows in tooled surround with egg and dart sill band
continuing from first floor of left and centre bays; banded
pilasters between windows rise to moulded cornice. Recessed
and gabled attic storey has 3-light mullion window with tooled
surround and central pediment. Tower: on wine-glass stem has
inscription plaques to lower stage (see below) then three
single-light transom windows in scrolled cartouche surrounds;
to third and fourth stages a single light; fourth stage
surmounted by decorative band with swags and cherub heads.
Upper stage has 2-light mullion windows with semi-circular
lights over in pilastered surrounds and with swags over,
three-quarter-engaged Doric columns between and ovolo cornice.
Broached spire with cupola surmounted by cornice and weather
vane. Right return to Taylor's Lane has similar, but less
elaborate treatment. 5 unequal bays, 2 and 3 storeys. First
bay of 2 storeys has to first floor a large, 5-light mullion
and transom window with 2 levels of transoms. Then a gabled
bay breaks forward and has entrance: double 6-panel doors in
quoined surround, the shaped hood acts as a balcony to 2-light
mullion and transom window with stick balustrade and further
2-light window; 2 segmental arches over on pilasters; gable
has 5-light mullion window. Third bay has five 2-light mullion
and transom windows with pilaster strips to upper band. Fourth
bay similar to second bay. Fifth bay with further entrance and
mainly 3-light mullion windows.
Left return: 5 unequal bays, 3 with gables, 2 storeys and
attics to gables. Ground floor has mullion and transom windows
of 2 and 5 lights. First stage has three oculi to first bay,
2:3:2 light mullion and transom window to third bay and two
3-light windows to fourth bay. Second bay is blind; fifth bay
has 2 small 2-light mullion windows. Gables have 2-light
mullion windows, except at right in ornate, broken pedimented
surrounds and with aprons. Open arcaded balustrade and finials
to gables.
INTERIOR: main feature a 2-storey entrance hall with square
pillars and Doric frieze at first floor with balustrade around
square well; Ionic pillars to first floor and
compartmentalised ceiling with dentil frieze and modillion
cornice. Stone cantilevered dogleg staircase at right has
squat, squared balusters and wide, shaped handrail.
Renaissance motifs continue to stairs. Mosaic floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: datestone to right at base of tower
inscribed, 'The Lady Mary Lygon Mayoress opened this building
October 1 1896 The Rt Hon Earl Beauchamp Mayor.'
During the C18 Foregate Street was known as 'the mall' and
Tymbs' Worcester Guide of 1802 notes, 'the Foregate Street
itself, by being well paved and sufficiently broad to admit a
full circulation of air seems to be generally resorted to as a
fashionable promenade.'
Pevsner: describes this as 'a resourceful and animated,
totally asymmetrical composition in a mixed Tudor and Baroque
style'. Simpson and Allen had, earlier in the decade, won the
competition for the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. This is an
outstanding example of late C19 municipal architecture of this
type, in its eclectic use of style redolent of the municipal
libraries of H.T. Hare, such as Wolverhampton (1902).
The Shire Hall, Statue of Queen Victoria, City Museum and
Library, and Nos 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, Nos 33-46
(consecutive) and No.49, Foregate Street (qqv) form a
significant group. The City Museum and Library also forms a
complimentary group with Worcester College, Sansome Walk (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner: N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 324; Worcestershire Historical
Society Occasional Papers: Whitehead D: Urban Renewal and
Suburban Growth: The Shaping of Georgian Worcester: 1989-: 12;
Tymbs: Worcester Guide: Worcester: 1802-: 60).
foundation stone
The Lady Mary Lygon Mayoress opened this building October 1, 1896.
The Rt. Hon. Earl Beauchamp Mayor
In 1891 work began on the construction of the Queen Hotel, overlooking The Lansdowne, at the junction of Bath Rd and Old Christchurch Rd.
A variety of shops traded at street level on the Old Christchurch Rd side.
It opened in 1894 and traded until the late 1940s and was converted into offices and renamed Jacey House in the early 1950s.
In the late 1990s it was again converted, this time into flats, with the retail units remaining on the Old Christchurch Rd side.
Today a branch of the 'Ask' Italian restaurant chain occupies the ground floor with the retail unit on the Old Christchurch Rd side having been a Slug and Lettuce pub amongst other things in recent years.
A [ VERY ] POTTED HISTORY OF BOURNEMOUTH...............
1810 - 1835
The founding of the town of Bournemouth is officially commemorated as the being 1810 the year that Captain Lewis Tregonwell and his wife Henrietta purchased a plot of land on the west bank of the Bourne stream upon which to build a large detached house that would serve as their new holiday home. The land was purchased from Sir George Tapps, Lord of the Manor of Christchurch, who became the largest landowner after what had been common land was effectively privatised in the Christchurch Inclosure Act 1802 and the subsequent Awards of 1805.
At that time the area was a remote one that lay mid way between Christchurch and Poole, themselves not the large towns they are today, on what was virtually uninhabited heathland. The house, known as the ''Mansion', was completed in 1812 with the Tregonwells purchasing further land to increase the size of their estate upon which they built a few cottages for staff members and several more to let, mainly to family, friends and associates.
Although the Tregonwells eventually rented out their Mansion, their estate, referred to as 'Bourne Tregonwell' remained all but unknown to the outside world and was somewhere they spent much of their time.
Their original holiday home still exists as part of the Royal Exeter Hotel that stands opposite the Bournemouth International Centre [ B.I.C ] on Exeter Rd.
Lewis Tregonwell died in 1832 a few short years before the next important stage in the development of Bournemouth.
1835 - 1870
In 1835 Sir George Tapps died and his son Sir George Gervis inherited his father's land, much of which lay to the east of the Bourne stream and set about creating a new development that he called his 'Marine Village', a seaside resort aimed at attracting paying guests. Early buildings included the Bath Hotel, later enlarged as the Royal Bath Hotel, the Westover Villas, a row of large detached houses or villas on generous plots that lined what is now Westover Rd, the Belle Vue Boarding House that fronted todays Pier Approach and some public baths that stood where, what was popularly known as the Imax building, was later built..
The new development wasn't a resort as we would understand it now, offering beach holidays, but more of a health resort with much being made of the area's mild micro climate and the health giving properties of the masses of pine trees that would also offer protection from the more extreme vagaries of the British weather.
Over the coming years more and more villas were built, spreading out from the banks of the Bourne stream which in turn attracted those that were needed to build the new properties and those that provided services to the well heeled residents of the fledgling town such as domestic staff, gardeners and food, grocery and household goods suppliers.
By 1856 there was a need to amalgamate the growing development and so Parliament passed the Bournemouth Improvement Act that set the town's first boundary as being within a 1 mile radius of what is today Pier Approach. it also provided for a team of Commissioners, essentially the town's first Council, charged with the power to raise funds via property rates to pay for things like highway improvements, drainage, sewers and street cleaning.
The town continued to grow within the 1 mile boundary and also led to development outside it including artisan / working class areas at Springbourne and Winton.
In 1870 the railway came to town but it was seen by many as a necessary evil and something to be kept as far away from the town centre as possible and so the station was located at the very edge of the 1 mile boundary on the opposite side of Holdenhurst Rd to the present Central Station. This arrival of the railway combined with cheaper rail fares and the creation by Parliament of the first Bank Holidays would lead to the next phase in the development of Bournemouth turning it from a sleepy seaside resort favoured by the wealthy upper classes many of whom were suffering poor health, into the large, bustling holiday destination that we know and love today. Bring it on!
1870 - PRESENT DAY
In 1871 the town's population was just under six thousand but by 1891 it had increased almost ten fold to just under sixty thousand. Most of the new citizens were new comers to the area drawn by the opportunities the fast expanding new town could offer.
In 1876 Springbourne and Boscombe became part of Bournemouth when the town boundaries were extended for the first time with a further six following including Westbourne in 1884, Pokesdown, Southbourne, Winton and Moordown in 1901, Malmesbury Park, Charminster and Strouden Park in 1914, Kinson and Holdenhurst in 1931.
The final area incorporated into the town was Hengistbury Head in 1932 which was purchased from H. Gordon Selfridge founder of the Selfridges department store chain and took the town to it's present size.
Today Bournemouth is home to more than 160,000 people and has grown at a phenomenal rate in the past two hundred years since the Tregonwells purchased that first eight and a half acres of land back in 1810.
The town is still a popular holiday destination and has had to work hard to compete against the rise of the foreign holiday and the unpredictability of the British weather by trying to attract visitors year round. Short weekend breaks, the conference trade, the annual airshow and a thriving night time economy all play their part in attracting day trippers and holiday makers, the life blood of the town's tourism industry.
Sadly Bournemouth is also a victim of it's own success and has almost reached bursting point with space for new homes very much at a premium. Many older, larger properties are being demolished to make way for more, smaller properties, many of them blocks of flats which are squeezed into every available space.
The last of the green belt clings desperately by it's finger tips to the north, rightly or wrongly the town planners and Councillors come under attack for their stewardship of the town and any resemblance to a slow paced seaside resort of old has long gone.
The pressures of modern life, traffic levels, the drinking culture and even the current economic climate all take their toll on the quality of life in the town but it's not all doom and gloom.
Bournemouth is still a great place with much to be proud of such as it's wonderful sandy beaches, cliffs, pleasure gardens, parks, some of it's buildings both old and new, oh, and it's history of course.
RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING.
'Bournemouth 1810 - 1910' by Mate and Riddle [ the full text is available as a pdf file on the internet if you have a hunt around for it.]
'The Story of Bournemouth' by David S Young. Published in 1957 it occasionally turns up on E Bay and Amazon around the £10 mark.
'A History of Bournemouth' by Elizabeth Edwards. ISBN 0 85033 412 8. Turns up on E Bay and Amazon fairly regularly for under a tenner.
'The Book of Bournemouth' by David and Rita Popham ISBN 0 86023 219 0
All titles also available at local libraries.
In 2019, Bolivia lost more than 6 million hectares of forest and grassland to forest fires.
When the country requested support with its response to the crisis last summer, the EU Civil Protection Mechanism helped mobilise a specialised French firefighting team to assist Bolivian authorities in fighting the fires.
The EU also supported the Bolivian firefighters by providing items such as tents and water pumps to enable them to do their job. A team of 6 Swedish experts established a remote basecamp facility which could shelter 200 people in tents with electricity and water.
In addition, the EU team built an operation centre and trained the local forces how to use it in the future.
The response helped protect houses, communities and several national parks from the danger.
©2019 European Union (photographer: Ruth Silva)
Fourteen horses made their way to Bristol cathedral from MoD Abbey Wood to mark the contribution made by horses in World War One.
ARC-8 Wheels in Satin Black on a BMW X1
Front: 18x9" ET30 245/40
Rear: 18x10" ET25 265/40
Owner changing tires to 235/40 front and 255/35 rear tires to prevent rubbing in the rear.
There is a standard CWGC pattern headstone in the Cemetery at Methwold.
G/11409 PRIVATE
R. WATTS
ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT
19TH OCTOBER 1919
There is also a plaque attached:-
IN MEMORIAM
OF
ROBERT WATTS
FROM COMRADES AND FRIENDS
QUEEN ALEXANDERS HOSPITAL HOME
(There is a bottom line which I can’t make out)
Private WATTS, R
Service Number:………. G/11409
Died:…………………… 19/10/1919
Unit:…………………….Royal Sussex Regiment
Buried at METHWOLD (ST. GEORGE'S) CHURCH BURIAL GROUND
Location: Norfolk, United Kingdom
Source: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2803528/watts,-/
No match on SDGW.
The Medal Index Card for Private 11409 Robert Watts, Royal Sussex Regiment, is held at the National Archive under reference WO 372/21/47442
Source: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5788014
He qualified for the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. He is also on the Silver War Badge List which shows he enlisted on the 22nd January 1916 and was discharged on the 26th July 1917. The Service Medal Roll shows him only seeing service with the 13th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment.
Some of his Service Records appear to have survived the incendiary attack during the Blitz on the Warehouse where all the Other Ranks Army Service Records were stored.
Robert Watts, a single Farmer aged 21 years and 1 month, was living at Methwold Hythe, Methwold when he attested at Norwich on the 22nd January 1916. He had no previous military experience.
He was recorded as 5 feet 7 and three quarter inches tall.
His next of kin was his mother, Mrs Mary Watts, of Methwold Hythe, Norfolk.
Having initially attested, probably through an extension of the Derby Scheme, he was posted after 1 days service to the Army Reserve He was mobilised on the 1st May 1916 and posted to a training unit, the 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment on the 3rd May. On the 7th December 1916 he arrived at an Infantry Base Depot in France and from there was posted on to the 13th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment on the 25th December 1916.
He qualified for the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. He receibed a Gun Shot Wound to the back on the 27th February 1917. He was repatriated through the medical evacuation chain, landing back in the U.K. on the 5th March 1917.
This wound left him permanently disabled and he was discharged from the Army on the 26th July 1917 as no longer physically fit for service. When the Army wrote to him with his discharge papers he was still a patient at the King George Hospital, Stamford Street, London S.E.1. He was to receive a weekly pension of 27 shillings and 6 pence. By December 1917 he acknowledged receipt of his Silver War Badge, giving his address as Methwold Hythe, Norfolk.
No match on Picture Norfolk, the County Image Archive.
No obvious Soldiers Will or Civil Probate for this man.
On the Methwold War Memorial elsewhere in the cemetery he is recorded as Robert Watts.
There are no obvious entries in the Civil Records for Robert or Mary Watts to link them to this part of East Anglia. He would not have been old enough to vote by the time preparation of the electoral register was suspended for 1916 and 1917. There is no-one with the surname Watts or Watt recorded on the 1915 edition of the Norfolk register of voters in the Methwold Polling District.
Robert stated when he enlisted in January 1916 that he was 21 years and 1 month old. If that is correct and Robert was his first name then his birth could be expected to have been registered in either Q4 1894 or Q1 1895. There are no likely births in Q4 and four births in Q1.
These were :-
Robert Henry, Truro District. Robert Henry, born Probus, Cornwall, was living at Probus, Truro, Cornwall, working as a Labourer, in the household of his parents Charles and Elizabeth on the 1911 Census.
Robert John, Cambridge District. Robert John, born and living Cambridge on the 1911 census. Living with parents Robert John and Lydia.
Robert Malcolm, Foleshill District of Warwickshire. No obvious match 1901 or 1911 census. No obvious match in the death records for England and Wales.
Robert William, Gateshead District. A possible candidate for this soldier was the 16 year old Robert William Watts, born Gateshead, County Durham, then working as an Engineers Fitter. He was living in the household of his parents at 1 Woods Terrace, Gateshead. It is his mother Mary, aged 40 and born Scotland, who is recorded as the head of the household as her husband Septimus Watts is stated to be in South Africa. The couple have been married 20 years and have had 6 children, of which 4 were then still alive. As well as Robert William they were Jane, (18), Eleanor May, (7) and Norman, (2). Going back to the 1901 census his father Septimus, a Milling Machineman was aged 34 and Mary was 30. Septimus was born Newcastle, Northumberland. The death of a Septimus Watts, aged 77, (so born circa 1866) was recorded in Johannesburg in 1943. His children are recorded as Jean, Robert, Eleanor May and Norman. His wife predeceased him, dieing on the 19th June 1937. It would look like Robert was still alive and so can be ruled out.
www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHF-SZ4B
For now the assumption has to be that mother and son were born outside England and Wales, arriving in the Methwold area after the 1911 census was taken and were not qualified to vote.
On the day - wounded………………………
There is only one date for his wounding shown in his surviving service records and that’s the 27th February 1917. However the Battalion War Diary gives no real clue as to the circumstances of his death.
25th February 1917 – Battalion War Diary
St Lawrence Camp.
The Battalion relieved the 9th Yorkshire Regt. in the Right section OBSERVATORY RIDGE sector taking over the following dispositions. B C & D Coys in the front line from right to left with A Coy in support in HALIFAX TRENCH and Battn. Headquarters at RUDKIN HO. I.24.c.1/4.1 ½
The relief was a long time and was not reported complete till 1 a.m.
The general condition of the line was not good and supply arrangements necessitated large carrying parties.
26th February 1917 – Battalion War Diary
Owing to poor visibility the artilleries of both sides were inactive and except for desultory firing on a few points the day passed quietly. During the night our patrols were active but encountered no resistance.
27th February 1917 – Battalion War Diary
Day again passed quietly. During the morning the enemy fired about 20 5.9’s on RUDKIN HO. slightly damaging the trench but causing no casualties.
On the day………………………………
As he is regarded officially as among the war dead, Robert must have succumbed to his spinal injuries.
The death of a 24 year old Robert Watts, (no middle initial) was recorded in the Wandsworth District of London in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1919.
The plaque on his headstone references the “Queen Alexanders Hospital Home” – this is almost certainly either the Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital although that lies just across the river from the borough of Wandsworth.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Alexandra%27s_Military_Hospital
Or there is an Queen Alexandra Hospital Home which was originally opened at Roehampton in 1919.
See: www.military-history.org/articles/charities-queen-alexand...
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Early 1970s. Ian, as a young jazz bass player, would travel from his home in Winnipeg to see his favorite jazz musicians in NYC. He took this photo of Charlie Haden (one of his very favorite bass players).
Charlie was playing with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell at an outdoor concert in Central Park.
Charlie was playing with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell at an outdoor concert in Central Park.
China and India
english
Renuka or Yellamma (Marathi: श्री रेणुका/ येल्लुआई , Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಎಲ್ಲಮ್ಮ ರೇಣುಕಾ, Telugu: శ్రీ రేణుక/ యెల్లమ్మ) is worshiped as the Goddess (devi) of the fallen, in the Hindu pantheon. Yellamma is a patron goddess of rural folk of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Her devotees have revered her as the "Mother of the Universe" or Jagadamba. Legends say that Yellamma is the incarnation of Kali, who on one hand symbolizes the death of ego, and on the other hand is the mother who is compassionate about her children.
Yellamma is worshipped mostly in South India, including Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharastra, where the deity is known by many names: Mahankali, Jogamma, Somalamma, Gundamma, Pochamma, Mysamma, Jagadambika, Holiyamma, Renukamata, Yellu aai, and Renuka Devi.
In ancient ages, the Yellamma temples were cared for by women known as "devadasis" (which means the servants of gods), who dwelt in the temples and were educated as courtesans or artists. To this day, girls are being dedicated as devadasis to Yellamma, even though the practice is now illegal—the women lead a life as sex workers.
Origin story
The legends of Renuka are contained in the Mahabharata, the Harivamsa and in the Bhagavata Purana.
Early life
Renuka raja (father of Renuka) performed an yajna — a ritual performed to maintain peace and good health. He was blessed with a daughter, who originated from the fire of this yajna. Renuka was a bright and active child and became the most beloved child of her parents.
When she was eight, Agastya, who was the guru of the Renuka Raja, advised him to have his daughter married to Jamadagni when she reached maturity. Jamadagni was the son of Ruchik Muni and Satyavathi and had obtained the blessings of the gods by performing severe penance. Renuka and Jamdagni Muni lived in the Ramshrung mountains, near the present day Savadatti area of Belgaum district. Renuka helped the Jamdagni Muni in all of his tasks of performing various rituals and puja. Gradually she became close and dear to Jamdagni.
Renuka would wake up early in the morning to bathe in the Malaprabha River with complete concentration and devotion. Her devotion was so powerful that she was able to create a pot to hold water made only of sand, one fresh pot every day. She would fill this pot, on the bank of the river and would use a snake which was nearby, turning it into a rope-like convolution and placing it on her head, so that it supported the pot. Thus, she brought the water to Jamdagni for his rituals of oblation. ("Renuka" is derived from the Sanskrit for "fine grain of sand".) The Renuka temple is situated at near Zamania, Ghazipur
Later life
Renuka gave birth to five sons: Vasu, Viswa Vasu, Brihudyanu, Brutwakanwa and Rambhadra. Rambhadra was the youngest and most beloved, gaining the favour of Lord Shiva and Parvati and hence called Parashurama (the sixth incarnation of Vishnu).
One day when Renuka went to the river, she saw Gandharva spirits playing. These were young couples carelessly frolicking in the water with abandon. For a moment, she lost her concentration and devotion and fantasized about playing in the river with her husband. She wished she and her husband had such fun sometimes too, living so close to such a beautiful place. After some time, Renuka came to her senses and cursed herself for her indiscretion. She hurriedly bathed, as she had lost precious time, and tried to create the pot, but was unable to as she had lost her concentration. She even tried to catch the snake but it disappeared. Disappointed by this, she returned to the ashram in shame. Seeing Renuka returning empty-handed, Jamadagni became furious and angrily ordered her to go away.
After being cursed by her husband, Renuka went east and sat in the forest to meditate. In her penance, she met with the saints Eknath[citation needed] and Joginath; she prayed to them and asked to gain the mercy of her husband. They first consoled her, then instructed her to follow their advice exactly as told. They told her to purify herself, first bathing in a nearby lake, and then to worship a Shivalinga, which they had given to her. Next, she should go to the nearby town and beg for rice from the houses (this ritual, called "Joga Bedodu", is still carried out by women during a particular month in Karnataka). After collecting the rice, she was to give half to the saints and cook the remaining half, adding jaggery, partaking of the cooked rice with full devotion. They said that if she performed this ritual for three days, she would be able to visit her husband on the fourth day.
Knowing the anger of Jamadagni, they warned her that she may not be fully pardoned by him, and that she would have to experience the most difficult time of her life for a few minutes. "After that," they said, “you will be eternally revered and will be blessed with your husband. You will be worshiped by all the people henceforth." After blessing her this way, they disappeared. Renuka followed their instructions with devotion and worshipped the Shivalinga with full care and reverence. On the fourth day, she went to see her husband.
Punishment and resurrection
Jamadagni was still furiously angry with Renuka and ordered his sons to punish their mother. One by one, four of them refused flatly. Jamadagni, who possessed the power to burn anyone to ashes with his one look, was so angry that he went berserk and turned four of his sons into four piles of ashes. Parashurama, who was not there when this happened, found his mother weeping by the piles of ashes when he arrived and his father was still raging mad. Jamadagni told him what happened and ordered him to behead his mother for her infidelity. Parushurama had to think quickly. Knowing his father's powers and the extent of his anger, Parashurama immediately obeyed his father, using his axe.
His father then offered a boon to Parushurama, who asked for his mother and brothers to be brought back to life. To everybody's astonishment, Renuka's spirit multiplied and moved to different regions. Renuka was back as a whole too. This miracle inspired her sons and others to become her followers, and worship her.
Renuka vs. Yellamma
In many traditions, Renuka and Yellamma are taken to be two names for the same goddess. However there is also an oral tradition that distinguishes between the two. According to these tales, Renuka fled to a low-caste community when her son Parushurama was coming to kill her. He found and beheaded her, along with a low-caste woman who had tried to protect her. When he later brought them back to life, he mistakenly attached the woman's head to Renuka's body, and vice versa. Jamadagni accepted the former as his wife Renuka, while the latter remained to be worshipped by the lower castes as Yellamma, the mother of all. Matangi, Renuka, and Yellamma are all names of the Goddess of the lower castes.
Temples and related places
Every year, there is a gathering of as many as 200,000 of her devotees at the Yellamma Gudi temple (Yallamma Temple in Google Earth) in Saundatti. Another temple Renukambe [Yellamma] is atop a hill in Chandragutti, Soraba Taluk in Shimoga. This temple is an example of ancient architecture and dates back to the Kadamba period. Another temple is in Mahur, Maharashtra, the supposed birth place of the goddess, which finds mention in Devi Gita, the final chapter of Devi Bhagawatam as, "Matripura in the Sahyadri mountain; here the Devi Renuka dwells...".[4] Another temple becoming famous is Nalgonda,AndhraPradesh where Tuesday is main auspicious day.
Renuka Lake in the Renuka Sanctuary in Himachal Pradesh is named after the goddess. According to one legend, King Sahasrarjuna (Kartavirya Arjuna) wanted the Kamdhenu cow from Jamadagni and Renuka. So for this he killed Jamadagni, and Renuka became sati along with Jamadagni at Mahurgadh, Maharashtra. In Tamil Nadu, Renugambal Amman Temple is situated in Padavedu, Thiruvannamalai District and it is one of the most important Sakthi Sthalas.
In Sri Lanka
In ancient Sri Lanka, "Renuka" was the name of a minor goddess of wanton death and destruction, although at certain times was also a symbol of creativity and vibrancy.
USC President C. L. Max Nikias, Mrs. Niki C. Nikias, USC Board of Trustees Chairman John Mork, and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Ainsley Carry toured the USC campus greeting students and families on Move In Day 8-21-13.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
The Postcard
A Comic Series novelty card published by Bamforth & Co. Ltd. of Holmfirth, Yorkshire. The artwork was by Fitzpatrick.
The card was posted in Scarborough on Sunday the 12th. August 1973 to:
Miss H. Fisher,
84, Huddersfield Road,
Skelmanthorpe,
Nr. Huddersfield,
Yorkshire.
The message on the other side of the card was as follows:
"We haven't had much sun
so far, so unlike you I won't
get as brown as a berry!
We went to see Lulu last
week at the Futurist - she is
really exciting.
Hope you are enjoying your
holiday, the time's flying isn't
it?
We have spent a lot of time
in Peasholm Park and the
amusements.
We got chased by a rabbit
last week.
That sounds funny doesn't it?
Actually it was a fella dressed
up.
Love from Celia".
The Futurist Theatre
The Futurist Theatre was a theatre and cinema located on Foreshore Road in Scarborough. It closed its doors on the 6th. January 2014 after the operators' lease expired.
The Futurist was built as a cinema in 1921. It remained in this role until 1958 when the stage was extended to allow live performances at the venue which included The Black and White Minstrel Show, the Beatles, Morecambe & Wise, Shirley Bassey, Ken Dodd and the Bachelors. (And of course, Lulu!)
The Futurist had the twelfth largest seating capacity (2,155) for a theatre in the country, and the fifth largest capacity outside London.
The Futurist has the misfortune of being located in an area earmarked for redevelopment, therefore its future looks far from promising.
Richard Reid - The Shoe Bomber
So what else happened on the day that Celia posted the card?
Well, the 12th. August 1973 marked the birth of Richard Colvin Reid, also known as the 'Shoe Bomber'.
He is a British terrorist who attempted to detonate a shoe bomb while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in 2001.
Born to a father who was a career criminal, Reid converted to Islam as a young man in prison after years as a petty criminal. Later he became radicalised and went to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he trained and became a member of al-Qaeda.
On the 22nd. December 2001, he boarded American Airlines Flight 63 between Paris and Miami, wearing shoes packed with explosives, which he unsuccessfully tried to detonate. Passengers subdued him on the plane, which landed at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, the closest US airport.
He was arrested, charged, and indicted. In 2002, Reid pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to eight criminal counts of terrorism, based on his attempt to destroy a commercial aircraft in flight. He was sentenced to three life terms plus 110 years in prison without parole, and was transferred to ADX Florence, a super maximum security prison in Colorado, United States.
Richard Reid - Background
Reid was born in Bromley to Lesley Hughes, who was of native English descent, and Colvin Robin Reid, a man of mixed race whose father was a Jamaican immigrant. When Reid was born, his father, a career criminal, was in prison for stealing a car.
Reid attended Thomas Tallis School in Kidbrooke, leaving at 16 and becoming a graffiti writer who was in and out of detention. He accumulated more than 10 convictions for crimes against persons and property. He served sentences at Feltham Young Offenders Institution and at Maidstone Prison.
The next time Reid was imprisoned, in 1992 for three years, for various street robberies, he converted to Islam.
The Islamic Radicalisation of Richard Reid
Upon his release from prison in 1995, he joined the Brixton Mosque. He later began attending the Finsbury Park Mosque in North London, headed at that time by the anti-American cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who was described as 'The heart of the extremist Islamic culture' in Great Britain.
By 1998 Reid was voicing extremist views. At the Finsbury Park Mosque he fell under the sway of 'terrorist talent spotters and handlers' allied with al-Qaeda, including Djamal Beghal, one of the leaders of the foiled plan for a 2001 suicide bombing of the American Embassy in Paris.
Reid spent 1999 and 2000 in Pakistan, and trained at a terrorist camp in Afghanistan.
The Attempted Bombing
Reid and Saajid Badat, another British man preparing to be a terrorist, returned to Pakistan in November 2001, and travelled overland to Afghanistan.
They were both given 'shoe bombs', casual footwear adapted to be covertly smuggled onto aircraft before being used to destroy them. Later forensic analysis of both bombs showed that they contained the same plastic explosive, and that the detonator cords had come from the same batch: the cut mark on Badat's cord exactly matched that on Reid's.
On the 21st. December 2001, Reid attempted to board a flight from Paris to Miami, Florida. His boarding was delayed because his dishevelled physical appearance had aroused the suspicions of the airline passenger screeners.
In addition, Reid did not answer all of their questions, and had not checked in any luggage for the transatlantic flight.
Additional screening by the French National Police resulted in Reid being re-issued a ticket for a flight on the following day. He returned to the Paris airport on the 22nd. December 2001, and boarded American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami, wearing his special shoes packed with plastic explosives in their hollowed-out bottoms.
During the flight, a passenger on Flight 63 complained of the smell of smoke in the cabin shortly after a meal service.
One flight attendant, Hermis Moutardier, thinking she smelled a burnt match, walked along the aisles of the plane, trying to assess the source. A passenger pointed to Reid, who was sitting alone near a window and attempting to light a match. Moutardier warned him that smoking was not allowed on the airplane. Reid promised to stop.
The Actions of Other Passengers on the Flight
A few minutes later, Moutardier found Reid leaned over in his seat. After she asked him what he was doing, Reid grabbed at her, revealing one shoe in his lap, a fuse leading into the shoe, and a lit match. Several passengers worked together to subdue the 6 foot 4 inch (193 cm) tall Reid weighting more than 200 pounds (over 90 kg).
They restrained him using plastic handcuffs, seatbelt extensions, leather waist belts and headphone cords. A doctor on board administered a tranquilliser which was found in the emergency medical kit of the airliner. The flight was immediately diverted to Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, the closest US airport.
The explosive apparently did not detonate due to the delay in the take-off of Reid's flight. The rainy weather, perhaps along with Reid's foot perspiration, caused the fuse to be too damp to ignite.
Legal Proceedings and Sentencing
Reid was arrested at Logan International Airport after the incident. Two days later, he was charged before a federal court in Boston with 'Interfering with the performance of duties of flight crew members by assault or intimidation', a crime which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Additional charges were added when he was formally indicted by a grand jury.
The judge ordered Reid to be held in jail without bail, pending trial due to the gravity of the crimes and the perceived high risk that he would try to flee. Officials at the time indicated that Reid's shoes contained 10 ounces (283 g) of explosive material characteristic of C-4, enough to blow a hole in the fuselage and cause the plane to crash.
During a preliminary hearing on the 28th. December, an FBI agent testified that forensic analysis had identified the chemicals as PETN, the primary explosive, and TATP (triacetone triperoxide), a chemical needed to detonate the bomb with a fuse and match.
The Charges
Reid was charged with nine criminal counts related to terrorism, namely:
- Attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction,
- Attempted homicide,
- Placing or transporting an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft or public mass transportation vehicle,
- 2 counts of interference with flight crew members and attendants on an aircraft
- Attempted destruction of an aircraft or public mass transportation vehicle
- Using a destructive device during and in relation to a crime of violence, and
- Attempted destruction of an aircraft
- Attempted wrecking of a mass transportation vehicle.
The ninth charge, attempted wrecking of a mass transportation vehicle, was dismissed on the 11th. June 2002, because the Congressional definition of 'vehicle' did not include aircraft.
The Guilty Plea
Reid pleaded guilty to the remaining eight counts on the 4th. October 2002. On the 31st. January 2003, he was sentenced by Judge William Young to the maximum of three consecutive life sentences and 110 years with no possibility of parole. Reid was also fined the maximum of $250,000 on each count, a total of $2 million.
A Comment From the Judge
During the sentencing hearing, Reid said he was an enemy of the United States, and in league with al-Qaeda. When Reid said he was a Soldier of God under the command of Osama bin Laden, Judge Young responded:
"You are not an enemy combatant,
you are a terrorist. You are not a
soldier in any army, you are a terrorist.
To call you a soldier gives you far too
much stature. (Points to U.S. flag).
You see that flag, Mr Reid? That is the
flag of the United States of America.
That flag will be here long after you
are forgotten".
Changes in Airline Security Procedures
As a result of these events, airlines started to require passengers to pass through airport security in socks or bare feet while their shoes are scanned for bombs.
Scanners cannot find PETN in shoes or strapped to a person. A chemical test is needed. However, X-rays are an effective way to see if the shoe has been altered to hold a bomb.
Kungsleden ("The King's Trail") is a hiking trail in northern Sweden, approximately 440-kilometre (270 mi) long, between Abisko in the north and Hemavan in the south. It passes through one of Europe's largest remaining wilderness areas. In the winter Kungsleden is a ski trail with approximately the same route.
Kungsleden was created by Svenska Turistföreningen (STF) at the end of the 19th century, in order to allow more people to experience the beauty of Lapland. It runs for about 440 kilometres (270 mi) between Abisko in the north and Hemavan in the south. The trail is well marked and many sections are well equipped and maintained by STF, with plank walkways covering swampy or rocky ground, but other sections further from the trailheads are eroded and rocky, increasing the difficulty of hiking some parts of the trail. There are bridges across non-fordable streams and during the summer season lakes and rivers could be crossed either with rowing boats provided by STF or by taking a local charter boat.
The trail is separated in four portions which each represent approximately one week of hiking. The most practiced part is by far the northernmost, between Abisko and Kebnekaise. The season, when the huts are open and rowing boats available, usually runs between mid-June and the end of September, but the weather can be very treacherous, including late or early snow. The winter season runs from mid February to the end of April.
(Wikipedia)
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I somehow got used to going to the north on a yearly basis, if not even more often. This time, our hiking destination was Sweden - northernmost part of the world-famous Kungsleden trail and locations close to the Abisko national park. And of course, early September means peak of autumn season in the deep north - arguably the best part of the year there.
The 9-days itinerary was as follows: Nikkaluokta -> Visttasvággi valley -> Unna Reaiddávággi pass -> Sälkastugorna -> Alisvággi valley -> Unna Allakas -> Abiskojaurestugorna -> Abisko. Except one night in the Unna Räitastugan hut, we used our tents and enjoyed autumn landscape of the deep north quite heavily. That sense of freedom... cannot be described by words.
This shot is taken in the Visttasvággi valley where we enjoyed hiking in a pleasant and really warm autumn weather.
Negli ultimi mesi mi sono fatta prendere da un gioco appassionante, che mi ha riportata indietro di vent'anni, mi ha fatto imparare molte cose e incontrare un bel po' di gente: l'album di famiglia ideato dal Manifesto.
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20 ottobre 2007, un milione di persone tornano in piazza a Roma per chiedere al governo di rispettare gli impegni presi nel programma con cui l'Unione ha vinto le elezioni.
Siamo scesi in piazza per un futuro senza precarietà, ed eravamo tanti, e non eravamo più abituati, tanti di noi, a camminare così tanto per una manifestazione, a ritrovarci tutti lì, come qualche anno fa succedeva così spesso, ed è stata una giornata speciale, e sono stata felice, e speravo che fosse servita a qualcosa.
Alla luce degli ultimi eventi però, non rimane molto da sperare :(
L'appello della manifestazione si trova sul sito www.20ottobre.org.
Canon EOS 300 - Canon EF 28-70mm f3.5-4.5 - Agfa RSX II (ISO 100) cross-processed
Scan from print (Epson Perfection 3490 Photo), no Photoshop at all.
Mark Glessner sells records (those thin, grooved, vinyl discs, remember?).
Owner of Stan's Record Bar, Lancaster, he was born in Meyersdale, PA, and attended grade school through 7th grade in Shanksville. His family then moved to Lititz where he attended Warwick schools. Two years of training for restaurant management (Paul Smith College, New York) followed, then two years working as a restaurant manager in Lancaster. Mark then took a job at the record store Harmony Hut in Park City mall. Harmony Hut was later bought by Sam Goody's.
In 1979, Stan Selfon was planning to retire and sell his record store business in downtown Lancaster. Mark worked with Stan to see what it was like. The record business was good and Mark bought Stan's in 1980. In 1983, the Compact Disc was introduced. It wasn't until 1989 that Mark saw sufficient interest in CDs to begin stocking them. By the spring of 1990, "the store became a museum". He says it was like someone flipped a switch and suddenly no one wanted records - a "sad event". But about October of 2012, the switch seemed to flip the other way. "Now I can't give a CD away", and vinyl is selling again. Mark doesn't do internet sales, preferring interaction with customers in the store.
To Mark (and others), the sound of a record is far superior to that of a CD. Many kids from the Ipod era coming into the store hear a record and for them it's like hearing music for the first time. "If you give a record a 10 out of 10 (for sound quality), a CD is 4.5 , and downloads are 3". Not all records are '10' quality though. "If you take a 16 bit recording and put it on vinyl, it sounds like a CD". He's noticed changes other than sound quality over the years. Styles are always changing - Hair bands are replaced by Grunge that's then replaced by Punk. He wonders why they can't coexist. And while recently listening to a Britney Spears CD, he found only 2 'musicians' listed on the cover: Britney for vocals, someone else for 'programs'. "Those auto-tuned notes combined with the CD sound - how much more sterile can it get"? Shopping habits changed too. In the '70s and '80s, people would take time to browse albums in the store. When CD's became popular he says people usually came in looking for only 1 item and then leaving.
In addition to selling records, Mark collects them, deciding to do that while still a teen. The first 3 albums bought for his collection were Steppenwolf ("Born to be Wild"), Cream ("Wheels of Fire"), and Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense and Peppermint"). He still has them. Asked how many albums were in his collection, he says that the latest count (1993) was 15,000. He's a 'completist' - has all 17 AC/DC albums, and 127 recordings of his favorite artist, Glenn Hughes. That's all but one, which was sold only at concerts. His earliest musical influence was probably AM radio. Growing up on a dairy farm, he remembers a choice of maybe 1 pop and 2 country music stations. A later huge event for him was hearing the album Led Zeppelin 1 - it was "a mind blower".
Asked if he plays an instrument, Mark claims to be a 'wannabe'. He played trumpet and baritone in school, and has a guitar which he says he plays for 5 minutes every 5 years. But he is recorded! A box of records recently brought to the store included a recording of the Warwick High School band. Listed on the album cover is baritone player Mark Glessner!