According to Pliny, the Roman historian, (died AD 79 as a result of the eruption of Vesuvius), garlic and onions were invoked as deities by the Egyptians, at the taking of oaths.

If you smell garlic on the breath of lawyers or politicians, then you know the reason why, and what their religious tendencies might be.

A recent return to traffic for 37099 "Merl Evans 1947-2016" after its release from a lengthy overhaul saw its split headcode box removed, however a fresh lick of paint has freshened up its tired appearance. The tractor is seen in early morning sunshine at Raynors Crossing, Stenson, returning from a night of activity around Merseyside, with the 3Q89 20.50 (Thurs) Derby RTC-Derby RTC via Liverpool Lime Street and Southport test train, running 15 minutes early. While an image doesn’t really invoke a depiction of sound, the noise of it pulling away from North Staffs Junction was great.

Taken with the assistance of a pole.

Not original by any means but for me this image just invokes the memory of what I think of when I’m missing being out west in Wyoming.

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The early morning sky sat like a layered merengue on the base of the lower fells. The sign was set in focus at f8 and it is superbly well pictured as I was shaking slightly. Modern camera and lens combinations can combat some human flaws. My human flaws are really bothering me, but equipment is performing minor miracles at times. This sign in a 35mm frame handheld from a zoom lens could easily have been either a wasted frame, or scene that I would have pictured differently with a tripod and a remote release. Technology does not cure everything, it can at times be an almost unbelievable boo. IBIS as In-Body Image Stabilization and lenses with OSS that’s Optical SteadyShot Image stabilization is giving me access to lower ISO and to more creative control of Aperture and Shutter Speed. My ill shaking self surprised me in editing this picture that at f.8, 1/250 of a Second with digital simulated 400 ISO the resulting file was sharper on the chosen point of focus than I thought was going to be the RAW file.

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Hardknott Roman Fort English Heritage

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Hardknott Roman Fort

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The Fort at River's Bend

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Roman Lake District Audio Guides

English Heritage Audio Guides

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Hardknott mentioned in this Sonnet.

William Wordsworth

From, The River Duddon, A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. Numbered XVII 17

A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew,

Perched on whose top the Danish Raven croaks;

Aloft, the imperial Bird of Rome invokes

Departed ages, shedding where he flew

Loose fragments of wild wailing, that bestrew

The clouds and thrill the chambers of the rocks;

And into silence hush the timorous flocks,

That, calmly couching while the nightly dew

Moistened each fleece, beneath the twinkling stars

Slept amid that lone Camp on Hardknot’s height,

Whose Guardians bent the knee to Jove and Mars:

Or, near that mystic Round of Druid frame

Tardily sinking by its proper weight

Deep into patient Earth, from whose smooth breast it came!

Last minute entry for Thirty Thursday, invoking the GE 30 clause. Amtrak P30CH pooch No. 707 and litter mates hang out at the Sanford FL diesel shop in September 1987, as seen from the vestibule of the Silver Meteor.

All My Links

So, I am finally back, sort of. After coming down with a condition called Costochondritis (Inflammation of soft tissue around ribs and sternum) from inhaling mold from the inside of an abandoned car, then discovering I have an acute allergy to dust as well, I am on an adventure to reshape my life health wise.

Now, about the photo, after watching a video, one of those top ten vids on YT, about dark things discovered on the internet (check out channel: Lazy Masquerade), it got me thinking about the many days during my younger years, my twenties and early thirties, when I DID view such extreme material frequently and why? I believe it was to do with drowning out my existing trauma, but viewing such extreme and graphic footage as well as invoking emotions in me, also spurred on by addiction, that also operated as a form of Self Injury (the emotional form).

It is quite common for those who have suffered such trauma(s), to seek extremes of things to essentially awaken something inside. It is in a bizarre way, one who is traumatised, essentially relives the trauma through invocation of extreme emotions, brought on this way.

If anyone finds themselves in this dilemma, please consider looking into yourself as to what it is that fuels these negative desires, that is something you need to cure. For me, I discovered this type of viewing simply left me feeling depressed and it weakens the soul, as is with thinking alcohol helps you hod on, it is a false therapy and does more harm than good, so I gave it up. Permanently!

I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you.

PS: Please go to my Instagram page and look for my post alongside Italian Metal band Octo Crura: tinyurl.com/3umv49td

Under Tolai law, a person administering punishment acting as a Duk Duk spirit (dressed in the traditional ceremonial costume on the photo) was not liable because it was said to be done by a spirit invoked and residing in that man's body. This included cases when Duk Duk burnt houses and killed people including their own relatives.

Saint Roch or Rocco (lived c. 1348 – 15/16 August 1376/79 (traditionally c. 1295 – 16 August 1327) was a Catholic saint, a confessor whose death is commemorated on 16 August and 9 September in Italy. He is specially invoked against the plague. He may also be called Rock in English, and has the designation of St Rollox in Glasgow, Scotland, said to be a corruption of St. Roch's Loch. He is a patron saint of dogs, falsely accused people, bachelors, and several other things. He is also the patron saint of Casamassima, Italy

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In the island's northwest lies this sinuous canyon seemingly carved into the earth by a master builder. The exposed rock and lack of plant life are quite startling and invoke a quiet sense of awe. The canyon's rounded edges and sharp corners create a symphony in stone of imposing proportions. You can climb up to the intersection of two narrow vertical canyons and drink from a chah (well) that has been used by shepherds for centuries.

The Angolan Pavilion for the 56th Biennale di Venezia is titled “On Ways of Travelling,” yet the exhibition more accurately invokes some of the barriers to the freedom of movement that are experienced by many in Angola, and elsewhere in Africa – visas, economic hardship, borders and road traffic. Yet “travel,” in this context, is not only meant to signify physical movement; it also refers to the meeting of disparate worldviews, lifestyles and temporalities, as well as to states of dreaming, desire and longing for change. The subject is nowhere more relevant than the present context in La Biennale di Venezia, an essential destination for international art tourism and an early precedent for the phenomenon of the ‘global exhibition’ of contemporary art.

Approaching the Pavilion itself feels like a form of travel through time and space: the exhibition is mounted on the second floor of the Palazzo Pisani, a Baroque Venetian palace on the Grand Canal that now houses the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello. In order to reach the installations, one traverses a richly decorated entrance hall to the sound of music students convening and rehearsing.

There are thousands of species of flies in the world.

Flies are one of the weakest, yet strongest insect ever. All attempts to get rid of those flies failed.

Flies are mentioned in the Holy Qur'an:

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ ضُرِبَ مَثَلٌ فَاسْتَمِعُوا لَهُ ۚ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ لَن يَخْلُقُوا ذُبَابًا وَلَوِ اجْتَمَعُوا لَهُ ۖ وَإِن يَسْلُبْهُمُ الذُّبَابُ شَيْئًا لَّا يَسْتَنقِذُوهُ مِنْهُ ۚ ضَعُفَ الطَّالِبُ وَالْمَطْلُوبُ (73) مَا قَدَرُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ قَدْرِهِ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَقَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ (74) اللَّهُ يَصْطَفِي مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ رُسُلًا وَمِنَ النَّاسِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ (75) يَعْلَمُ مَا بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمَا خَلْفَهُمْ ۗ وَإِلَى اللَّهِ تُرْجَعُ الْأُمُورُ (76) يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ارْكَعُوا وَاسْجُدُوا وَاعْبُدُوا رَبَّكُمْ وَافْعَلُوا الْخَيْرَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ ۩

[The Holy Qur'an 22:73:77]

A translation of the meaning of the above verse follows:

(73) O people, an example is presented, so listen to it. Indeed, those you invoke besides Allah will never create [as much as] a fly, even if they gathered together for that purpose. And if the fly should steal away from them a [tiny] thing, they could not recover it from him. Weak are the pursuer and pursued. (74) They have not appraised Allah with true appraisal. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might.

(75) Allah chooses from the angels messengers and from the people. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Seeing. (76) He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them. And to Allah will be returned [all] matters.

(77) O you who have believed, bow and prostrate and worship your Lord and do good - that you may succeed.

Here is a recitation of the above verses in Arabic. Hope you like it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsEzKH4Tl9g

Why is it so hard to swat a fly?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsEzKH4Tl9g

This image invokes a sense of tranquility and calm when I look at it now. That's kind of funny, because the overpowering emotion that I had when I took the shot was pure frustration.

I had spent a good part of a day scouting for locations near Mt. Shuksan in Washington state's Cascade Range. Wildflowers were few and far between but I found a handful by this small lake. You could only see Shuksan's reflection from a tiny part of the lakeside, but it was perfect. I marked the spot on my GPS and returned a few hours later for sunset.

Unfortunately, another photographer and a group of her friends were already set up in 'my' spot.

With the light fading, I ranged back and forth along the bank taking photos from spots to their left and right with a growing sense of frustration. I was ticked off at myself for not getting their earlier and prayed that they would move....but they stayed firmly rooted until the last of the sun's red glow faded from the snow atop Shuksan.

In retrospect, being forced to shoot from a non-ideal location may have actually been a good thing. It forced me to concentrate and work with what I had available taking time to really think about my framing, focus and composition.

Jeff

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PS: The location is Highland Lake, which is only a few minutes from the more popular Picture Lake.

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The font is not as Kodak have used, as this personal Dream Project is not anything official of Kodak apart from the promotional case, the cute case as I think of it, being manufactured for Kodak is the beginning and an end of Kodak involvement here. The cute case is a great inspiration that has lead me to my digital dream being projected upon Cibachrome panels in my illusion of emulsion. This has been a Pipe Dream that is longing for the past and for potential that has passed. Ektachrome continues, the other side of the aforementioned promotional cute case is red and yellow advertisement of the discontinued Kodachrome. Cibachrome is still emerging from old sheets and fresh made chemical processes I believe, but I only have memories to hand in what sometimes are slide show like interactions within my make believe visionary castles of imagination.

These Pipe Dreams on past photographic productions now unavailable has me making my memories of them wishing to invoke René Magritte and La Trahison des images, The Treachery of Images, which is often evoked with Ceci n'est pas une pipe translated as This is not a pipe. The painted representation of the pipe from 1929 cannot be stuffed said Magritte and it certainly cannot perform as does the pipe it resembles. With such dreams of images and reality, with lost production processes and notions that the Camera Never Lies I have my dreams some real, others surreal, a few definitely beyond reality and further those resting in imagination and with vision of a remembrance towards a former reality accomplished now here held in pixels that have been embraced in loving edits.

The snappy title belies the convoluted memory to digital process from a 4x5 SINAR set up out of Switzerland following formulas from there that fill my photographic contemplations. Images of images and images to last against the ravages of time are bound in my mind with Kodachrome, Cibachrome and the varying P 3 / P 3X / P 30P / P 30 P 3.5 processes. In reflection and rumination through editing I have lost and found time, thought of reality and enjoyed illusion, fantasy and fiction. This is one picture brightly produced in varying considerations, cogitations and cognations created these digital inklings that presume to be potential for a project.

I would like to add, this as much I do is Production Incarnate Preinduction Illustrate. A progress in work Inspiration for the next creation.

As the above is my usual text slide to conclude the films I release on YouTube and Flickr I will add this below so as not to use the regular ending. I feel completely engaged and absolutely ready for each next link and flow in the chain and the continuation that interlock and mind and body shock me out of, into and all around these moments. The personal interaction here in picture taking and editing has taken me to moments in history and projected me to places far beyond mystery.

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I should list a set of links in this space that could take you to that past factual information of the photographic processes here mentioned and pondered upon, but the journey awaits you whether you are new, or well along the ways of these defunct and still adored pictorial wonders that fuel current projects and enlighten dreams with fantastic rendition and fabulous colour.

Sagrada Família, Barcelona, España.

El Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia, conocido simplemente como la Sagrada Familia, es una basílica católica de Barcelona (España), diseñada por el arquitecto Antoni Gaudí. Iniciada en 1882, todavía está en construcción (noviembre de 2016). Es la obra maestra de Gaudí, y el máximo exponente de la arquitectura modernista catalana.

La Sagrada Familia es un reflejo de la plenitud artística de Gaudí: trabajó en ella durante la mayor parte de su carrera profesional, pero especialmente en los últimos años de su carrera, donde llegó a la culminación de su estilo naturalista, haciendo una síntesis de todas las soluciones y estilos probados hasta aquel entonces. Gaudí logró una perfecta armonía en la interrelación entre los elementos estructurales y los ornamentales, entre plástica y estética, entre función y forma, entre contenido y continente, logrando la integración de todas las artes en un todo estructurado y lógico.

La Sagrada Familia tiene planta de cruz latina, de cinco naves centrales y transepto de tres naves, y ábside con siete capillas. Ostenta tres fachadas dedicadas al Nacimiento, Pasión y Gloria de Jesús y, cuando esté concluida, tendrá 18 torres: cuatro en cada portal haciendo un total de doce por los apóstoles, cuatro sobre el crucero invocando a los evangelistas, una sobre el ábside dedicada a la Virgen y la torre-cimborio central en honor a Jesús, que alcanzará los 172,5 metros de altura. El templo dispondrá de dos sacristías junto al ábside, y de tres grandes capillas: la de la Asunción en el ábside y las del Bautismo y la Penitencia junto a la fachada principal; asimismo, estará rodeado de un claustro pensado para las procesiones y para aislar el templo del exterior. Gaudí aplicó a la Sagrada Familia un alto contenido simbólico, tanto en arquitectura como en escultura, dedicando a cada parte del templo un significado religioso.

The Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, known simply as the Sagrada Familia, is a Roman Catholic basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Begun in 1882, it is still under construction (November 2016). It is Gaudí's masterpiece and the greatest exponent of Catalan modernist architecture.

The Sagrada Familia is a reflection of Gaudí's artistic plenitude: he worked on it for most of his professional career, but especially in his later years, where he reached the culmination of his naturalistic style, synthesizing all the solutions and styles he had tried up to that point. Gaudí achieved perfect harmony in the interrelationship between structural and ornamental elements, between plasticity and aesthetics, between function and form, between content and container, achieving the integration of all the arts into a structured and logical whole. The Sagrada Familia has a Latin cross plan, five central naves, a three-aisled transept, and an apse with seven chapels. It boasts three façades dedicated to the Birth, Passion, and Glory of Jesus. When completed, it will have 18 towers: four at each portal, making a total of twelve for the apostles, four over the transept invoking the evangelists, one over the apse dedicated to the Virgin, and the central dome tower in honor of Jesus, which will reach 172.5 meters in height. The temple will have two sacristies next to the apse and three large chapels: the Assumption Chapel in the apse and the Baptism and Penance Chapels next to the main façade. It will also be surrounded by a cloister designed for processions and to isolate the temple from the exterior. Gaudí applied a highly symbolic content to the Sagrada Familia, both in architecture and sculpture, dedicating each part of the temple to a religious significance.

sorry for invoking Wales in Scotland, but it sounded right

For Macro Mondays Group

Subject: In A Line

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These are Buddhist prayer flags that are strung across my bookshelf. Each flag presents a symbol and one word of the Sanskrit mantra 'Om mani padme hum'.

Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hum, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the embodiment of compassion. Viewing the written form of the mantra is said to have the same effect -- it is often carved into stones and placed where people can see them.

This is a shot of burning the efigy of Kumbhkarna,brother of King Ravana.

On left is the efigy of Ravana ....we were very near to the the place so had to run few yards to save ourselves from crackers inside the efigy.

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Dussehra, also called Vijayadashmi, is one of the fascinating festivals of India and is celebrated with joy and enthusiasm for ten continuous days.

The first nine nights are spent in the worship of goddess Durga and hence these nights are known as "Navaratri". This festival falls in the month of Ashwin (September / October).

The tenth day of the Dassera day is in honour of Durga Devi.

It also commemorates the death of the evil king Ravana along with his son Meghanath and brother Kumbhakaran, at the hands of Rama.

The farmers invoke her blessings because this festival coincides with the period of rest and leisure after their strenuous work in the fields. The farmers with her blessings wait with tremendous hopes for a bountiful harvest.

Legend of Dusshera Festival

According to the Ramayana, Rama was the exiled prince of Ayodhya. While living in the forest, his wife Sita was abducted by Ravana, the demon king of Lanka. Rama, assisted by an army of monkeys, attacked Lanka to rescue her.

A fierce battle ensued between the two armies for many days as it was proving very difficult to beat the mighty Ravana. Rama then prayed for nine days to nine different aspects of Durga and accumulated enough strength to defeat Ravana.Durga divulged the secret to Ram how he could kill Ravana.

Then after vanquishing him, Ram with Sita and Laxman returned victorious to his kingdom of Ayodhya on Dassera day. Therefore, the festival of Durgotsava and Dassera is celebrated more in honour of Prabhu Ramchandra than Durgadevi .

Ramalila, a dance-drama narrating the story of Rama's life according to the Ramayana, is enacted for the nine days preceding Dussehra. Almost every area stages its own version of the play, preparations for which take place many days in advance.

Abraham Rattner

Valley of Dry Bones, 1963

Lithograph

“The macabre vision that God gives Ezekiel in 37:1–14 is to me one of the most compelling in all of scripture. In it God brings Ezekiel to a valley filled with dried-up human bones (the aftermath of a battle) and commands him to prophesy life to the bones. As he does, they start to reassemble into human shapes, then they grow tissue, then flesh. But they have no breath. So Ezekiel invokes the Spirit of God to come fill the corpses, and when the Spirit does, the corpses transform into live beings.

The dry bones in the vision represent the hopelessness of divided, dispersed Israel. She was “dead” as a nation, deprived of her land, her king, and her temple. But God promises to restore Israel physically and spiritually. The reanimation of the dry bones is a sign of that promise”

Sagrada Família, Barcelona, España.

El Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia, conocido simplemente como la Sagrada Familia, es una basílica católica de Barcelona (España), diseñada por el arquitecto Antoni Gaudí. Iniciada en 1882, todavía está en construcción (noviembre de 2016). Es la obra maestra de Gaudí, y el máximo exponente de la arquitectura modernista catalana.

La Sagrada Familia es un reflejo de la plenitud artística de Gaudí: trabajó en ella durante la mayor parte de su carrera profesional, pero especialmente en los últimos años de su carrera, donde llegó a la culminación de su estilo naturalista, haciendo una síntesis de todas las soluciones y estilos probados hasta aquel entonces. Gaudí logró una perfecta armonía en la interrelación entre los elementos estructurales y los ornamentales, entre plástica y estética, entre función y forma, entre contenido y continente, logrando la integración de todas las artes en un todo estructurado y lógico.

La Sagrada Familia tiene planta de cruz latina, de cinco naves centrales y transepto de tres naves, y ábside con siete capillas. Ostenta tres fachadas dedicadas al Nacimiento, Pasión y Gloria de Jesús y, cuando esté concluida, tendrá 18 torres: cuatro en cada portal haciendo un total de doce por los apóstoles, cuatro sobre el crucero invocando a los evangelistas, una sobre el ábside dedicada a la Virgen y la torre-cimborio central en honor a Jesús, que alcanzará los 172,5 metros de altura. El templo dispondrá de dos sacristías junto al ábside, y de tres grandes capillas: la de la Asunción en el ábside y las del Bautismo y la Penitencia junto a la fachada principal; asimismo, estará rodeado de un claustro pensado para las procesiones y para aislar el templo del exterior. Gaudí aplicó a la Sagrada Familia un alto contenido simbólico, tanto en arquitectura como en escultura, dedicando a cada parte del templo un significado religioso.

The Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, known simply as the Sagrada Familia, is a Roman Catholic basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Begun in 1882, it is still under construction (November 2016). It is Gaudí's masterpiece and the greatest exponent of Catalan modernist architecture.

The Sagrada Familia is a reflection of Gaudí's artistic plenitude: he worked on it for most of his professional career, but especially in his later years, where he reached the culmination of his naturalistic style, synthesizing all the solutions and styles he had tried up to that point. Gaudí achieved perfect harmony in the interrelationship between structural and ornamental elements, between plasticity and aesthetics, between function and form, between content and container, achieving the integration of all the arts into a structured and logical whole. The Sagrada Familia has a Latin cross plan, five central naves, a three-aisled transept, and an apse with seven chapels. It boasts three façades dedicated to the Birth, Passion, and Glory of Jesus. When completed, it will have 18 towers: four at each portal, making a total of twelve for the apostles, four over the transept invoking the evangelists, one over the apse dedicated to the Virgin, and the central dome tower in honor of Jesus, which will reach 172.5 meters in height. The temple will have two sacristies next to the apse and three large chapels: the Assumption Chapel in the apse and the Baptism and Penance Chapels next to the main façade. It will also be surrounded by a cloister designed for processions and to isolate the temple from the exterior. Gaudí applied a highly symbolic content to the Sagrada Familia, both in architecture and sculpture, dedicating each part of the temple to a religious significance.

The golden autumn in the forest in impressionistic style.

"The depiction in photography of emotion or character by details intended to achieve a vividness or effectiveness more by invoking subjective and sensory impressions than by recreating an objective reality.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around.

The great tradition of still photography is documentation, the representation of objective reality. The photographer observes a scene, situation, or object and responds to it by endeavouring to show it as it appears. The average person on vacation, the parent who is photographing his or her family, and probably a large majority of serious amateurs and professionals operate mainly within this tradition. However, there is a second tradition, that of altering physical reality for the purpose of expressing the photographer's personal response to specific subject matter or to a concept or idea."

Freeman Patterson.

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Near Pine Flat Reservoir,

Fresno County, Ca.

In a fairly remote area next to the road and along a very beautiful stream. Not sure what its original purpose was, but suspect it had something to do with the stream. Someone apparently has determined it would make a nice outhouse.

I could not help but invoke my vulgar self and imagining that it fit the old (archaic?) saying, "Built like a brick shithouse." The term was used for describing many things, including a well endowed female.

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Lookout Algonquin Park (83) by Shelly Locke: My painting “Look Out Trail-Algonquin Park”, is the first in a series of paintings from my own travel photos and one of my favourite places to decompress. Even though this is my rendition of Algonquin Park it will very easily lead one to think of many, nearby hiking trails on the escarpment. This series turns my photos into surreal, fantasy landscapes that have been reduced to colourful and vibrant, harmonizing shapes. This specific painting is a visual illusion of a rocky woodland that will speak volumes to the outdoor enthusiast as well as inspire a longing to walk amongst the trees by others less outdoorsy. Set off by a background blend of light blue and white representing a calm blue sky. The earthy undertones invoke a calm peacefulness. The warm tones of the landscape contrast perfectly with the organic lines and monochromatic cool tones of the shadowy rock face. The relaxed ambiance of nature is conjured within one’s mind.

The same design also appears on 61, 73, 75, 88.

This nine shot panorama was made at Banks Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand.

It has been a very difficult image to process. Firstly the crop, then the processing which included a great deal of evening summer haze a couple of hours or so before sunset.

It's been a fun learning experience though and I am delighted with the result.

Thanks for viewing my image. Feel free to leave a comment if the image invoked and reaction in you and you wanted to be down there in that warm summer evening light.

The Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) is a species of wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae, which breeds in sub-Saharan Africa, SE Iraq and formerly in Egypt, where it was venerated and often mummified as a symbol of the god Thoth. It has also been introduced into France, Italy, Spain and Australia.

Venerated and often mummified by Ancient Egyptians as a symbol of the god Thoth, the Ibis was according to Herodotus and Pliny the Elder also invoked against incursions of serpents. It was also said that the flies that brought pestilence died immediately upon propitiatory sacrifices of this bird. [Wikipedia]

Taken in Schmieding/Upper Austria. Please View it large!

Canon 5D with Sigma 70-200/2,8 @77mm

f/2.8 1/6400s ISO 200

This is the second of a small series I did of Lensbabied roads out in the Gorge during the peak of fall color this year. The first shot is here. I love both shots for different reasons. Both invoke the wanderlust of the road ahead, the road unknown, and the possibilities around the corner.

I recently acquired the Fisheye and Soft Focus optics for my Lensbaby Composer, and I'm eager to try them out. So far, they've both been a blast. The lens is just so much... fun. You can't help but get a little giddy.

I'm off to shoot a wedding in Carmel, California--my first with the D700. I'm excited! See you all next week.

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This is a scene from Ipstones Edge (Blackheath NR to be precise). The image is full of possible interpretaitons I guess.

My own title. 'Invocation'. is not meant to suggest any kind of religious connotations (although there would nothing wrong with interpreting it that way) but of magical tales where nature is able to invoke forces of good and evil. Its a sense that you get just being in that special, remote and ancient site but here it's enhanced by a few post processing effects

A Demon Overlord Tale (Edit In PS

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Adjacent to the Kinzie Street bridge on the Chicago River, are the Harry Weese River Cottages. Built in the late '80s, the River Cottage townhouse development was designed to invoke a nautical vibe with its triangular, sail-like facade.

One of these iconic homes sold for 2.25M in 2015. It was the first time, since 1990, that one of the cottages was up for sale.

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Sepolcro di Dante, Tumba de Dante, Tomb of Dante,

Dantis poetae sepulcrum, Tumba del poeta Dante, Tomb of Dante the poet,

La Tumba de Dante (en italiano: Sepolcro di Dante) es un monumento nacional italiano de estilo neoclásico construido en 1781 sobre la tumba del histórico poeta Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Está situado junto a la Basílica de San Francesco, en el centro de la ciudad de Rávena.

El monumento está rodeado por el área denominada "zona dantesca", en la que los visitantes deben permanecer en silencio y mostrar respeto. Junto al monumento se encuentra un pequeño jardín, históricamente conocido como Quadrarco di Braccioforte, el cual tuvo su origen en el claustro monástico. Esta área también incluye los claustros franciscanos, el complejo de museos y la Casa Dante.

En su lecho de muerte, Dante Alighieri expresó su deseo de ser vestido con el hábito franciscano. Eligió como lugar de sepultura el convento de los Frailes Menores, establecido en Rávena en 1261. Los solemnes funerales se celebraron en la iglesia de este convento, y el poeta fue originalmente enterrado en el cementerio adyacente al mismo. Este lugar es conocido como el Quadrarco di Braccioforte, (en español: "Cuadrarco del Brazo Fuerte"), puesto que el lugar es conocido por ser el emplazamiento en el que dos personas hicieron un acuerdo importante y, para garantizar su cumplimiento, invocaron al "brazo fuerte" de Cristo como símbolo de justicia y autoridad. En ese mismo lugar, había una imagen pintada del brazo de Cristo, lo que dio origen al nombre de este lugar.

Por otro lado, la familia Da Polenta, una influyente dinastía de Rávena, tenía una pequeña celda, dentro de la cual se colocó el sarcófago que contenía los restos de Dante Alighieri después de su muerte, lo que muestra el papel destacado de la familia en la protección y custodia de los restos del Sumo poeta.

En 1441, tras la expulsión de la familia Da Polenta por la República de Venecia, la celda que albergaba los restos de Dante quedó en estado de abandono. En 1483, el podestà veneciano Bernardo Bembo emprendió la restauración y ampliación de la tumba a sus expensas. Encargó el trabajo al escultor Pietro Lombardo, quien contó con la colaboración de sus hijos para la ejecución de la obra. Cabe mencionar que, sobre el sarcófago, Lombardo esculpió un conocido bajorrelieve que representa a Dante pensativo frente a un atril.

En 1778, cuando Luigi Valenti Gonzaga asumió el cargo de legado pontificio en Rávena, el cardenal tomó la decisión de promover la construcción de un nuevo sacello, un pequeño edificio religioso destinado al culto. Para llevar a cabo este proyecto, confió la tarea al reconocido arquitecto de Rávena, Camillo Morigia, conocido por su talento y creatividad en el diseño de espacios arquitectónicos.

Construida entre 1780 y 1781 sobre una estructura anterior del siglo XV, la tumba tiene una planta cuadrada y está diseñada en forma de un pequeño templo neoclásico coronado por una pequeña cúpula, rematada con una piña. Separada de la calle por una estrecha delimitación, su fachada exterior es muy sencilla. Incluye una puerta sobre la que se encuentra el escudo arzobispal del Cardenal Gonzaga, y en cuyo arquitrabe se lee, de manera simple y en latín: Dantis poetae sepulcrum ("Tumba del poeta Dante")

Destacan dos elementos decorativos: una serpiente que se muerde la cola (Uróboros), símbolo de la eternidad de la fama del Poeta, y el escudo del cardenal Gonzaga. Las hojas de la puerta de acceso están hechas de madera.

A la derecha del monumento funerario se encuentra un pequeño jardín que incluye, entre otros elementos, el Quadrarco di Braccioforte. Desde 1921, este jardín está cerrado con una reja de hierro forjado diseñada por el artista veneciano Umberto Bellotto.

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The Tomb of Dante (Italian: Sepolcro di Dante) is an Italian neoclassical national monument built over the tomb of the poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in 1781. It is sited next to the Basilica of San Francesco in central Ravenna.

The monument is surrounded by a "zona dantesca", in which visitors have to remain silent and respectful. The small garden to the monument's right originated as the monastic cloister but now only has a colonnade on one side. The garden is traditionally named after the Quadrarco di Braccioforte, where two people invoked the "strong arm" of Christ to guarantee their contract and therefore had the image of that arm painted on the arch.

Dante spent his final years in exile in Ravenna and died there in 1321. The day after his death his funeral was held in the cloister of the basilica, then a Franciscan monastery, the Church of San Pier Maggiore, later called Basilica di San Francesco. He was then buried outside the cloister by the roadside in an ancient Roman sarcophagus, in which he still rests.

The sarcophagus was moved to the west side of the cloister by Bernardo Bembo, Venetian podestà of Ravenna, at the end of the 15th century.

A few years later Dante's hometown of Florence began making requests to have his remains returned. This had the support of two Medici popes, Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII. The first request was supported by Michelangelo and in 1519 Leo granted Florence permission to move the sarcophagus there, but the Franciscans had enough time to make a hole in the wall and secretly move Dante's bones there. A Tuscan delegation duly arrived but found the sarcophagus empty. It was moved into the cloister and kept under guard.

Meanwhile the bones were put in a new box in 1677 by Antonio Sarti, prior of the monastery. The sarcophagus was restored under armed guard in 1692. The bones were put back in their original sarcophagus in 1781, the same year as the monument was completed, having been commissioned from the local architect Camillo Morigia by Luigi Valenti Gonzaga, the cardinal legate in Romagna. Square in plan and with a small cupola and dome, it covers the sarcophagus. Its interior is covered in marble and stucco. Morigia planned to have images of Virgil, Brunetto Latini, Cangrande della Scala and Guido Novello da Polenta in the pendentives of the dome's interior vault, but this plan was abandoned.

Behind the sarcophagus is a 1483 bas-relief by Pietro Lombardo, which also stood in this position for most of the 15th century, showing Dante reading at a lectern. From the ceiling hangs an 18th century votive lamp, continually kept burning with olive oil from the Tuscan hills donated by Florence every 14 September, the anniversary of Dante's death. The monument's facade to the street is very simple, with a gate surmounted by Cardinal Gonzaga's archiepiscopal coat of arms and the simple inscription "DANTIS POETAE SEPULCRUM" ("tomb of Dante the poet"). The friars hid the bones in the 1677 box again in 1810 during the French occupation to prevent them being confiscated. They hid the box under an old doorway between the Basilica of San Francesco and the Braccioforte Chapel before leaving the city. Florence had not given up hope of having the remains removed from Ravenna, however, and in 1829 the city erected a cenotaph in Santa Croce Basilica, showing the poet seated in thought and a personification of Poetry weeping over the sarcophagus.

The box's location was forgotten until 27 May 1865, when it was found by a worker carrying out restoration work for the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth. A young student and later a respected notary, Matteucci Anastasio, noticed the words "OSSA DANTIS" (Dante's bones) on the box and saved it from being thrown into a common grave. (The full inscription stated: "Dantis ossa a me Frate Antonio Santi hic posita 1677, die 18 Octobris", written by Friar Santi.)

The almost complete skeleton of bones were rearticulated and put on display to the public in a crystal coffin for a few months before being reburied under the monument in a walnut chest protected by a lead cover. It remains in place and has never been returned to Florence.

In 1921 a bronze garland was added to the foot of the sarcophagus in memory of the dead of World War I, as well as a marble plaque to its right describing the various restorations of the tomb and an iron gate to the neighbouring garden, designed by the Venetian artist Umberto Bellotto. The bones were hidden yet again during World War II to prevent them being destroyed by bombing. They were buried in the garden from March 1944 to 19 December 1945 until they were returned to the monument, now marked with a plaque. The monument was restored in 2006–2007, including a complete repainting of its facades.

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Unfortunately, this kind of belated justice led in most cases to the restitution of immovables either to people who had severed all ties with Romania decades ago and don't care about the fate of those buildings, or to the real estate mafia, the most anti-communist group in Romania.

Anti-communism is the political source of the cheapest estates they can grab from the public. The anti-communist real estate mafia is a huge scavanger making a fortune by invoking anti-communism to steal from the public.

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HIS SHADOW

Ei Gysgod

Yesterday, while under leaves

Awaiting my Helen, in love's

Thrall, beneath birches, eluding rain,

I stood, a Fool, courting ruin.

At once, I saw a looming form

Most ugly, with stooping frame:

I shied from it, and shrugged,

Invoking saints. Stark and ragged,

It goaded me. I made prolonged

Prayers for deliverance from plague.

The poet:

"Speak to me, you silent wraith --

Say who you are, O thing of wrath!"

His shadow:

"Question not, you quailing fool!

I am your shadow, gaunt and frail.

By Mair, I bid you, not a sound,

But silence, till you understand!

A naked entity I am, your weird,

And wait upon you with my word:

You think yourself a jewel? My curse

Upon you, animated corpse!"

The poet:

"You lie, you goblin, evil sprite

Sent to taunt me for your sport,

Bleating goat with buckled back,

Mocking mimic of man! Black

Phantom! Dissimulating imp!

Grim parody! Simpering ape!

Burly troll on shaking stilts,

Withered thing on witch's shanks,

Boggart-shepherd, besmeared in muck,

Glabrous as a tonsured monk!

Jockey's joke on obby oss,

Heron-legged, obtuse, obese

Crane spanning half a field

Leaving crops and lands defiled!

Prating pilgrim, fatuous of face,

Blackened friar, stalking farce,

Corpse within a hempen shroud,

Why speak a word, deceiving shade?"

His shadow:

"I have been -- watch what you say --

In step with you for many a day."

The poet:

"Liar with your milk-churn neck

With what libel would you knock

Me down? With sin untainted

I mock you for a devil's turd!

I have no treason in my heart,

I never backstab. I haven't hurt

A chicken with a sling or stone,

Or pestered children. Not one stain

Besmirches me. I never moan

When spurned by wives of other men."

His shadow:

"If all I've seen were said

I swear you'd not be saved:

In no time you'd be lurching

In a wagon, to your lynching."

The poet:

"Stop! Unstring your snare!

Say nothing! Do not sneer!

If I had you in my grip

I'd stitch you lip to lip!"

- Dafydd ap Gwilym, paraphrased by Giles Watson. A parody of a traditional mediaeval genre: the dialogue between Body and Soul. "Helen" is not the name of the beloved, but a reference to Helen of Troy, whose beauty also brought ruin.

Braga, Portugal

Pópulo Church (Portuguese: Igreja do Pópulo) is a neoclassical church located in Braga.

The church started to be built by the end of the 16th century, under the order of Archbishop D. Frei Agostinho de Jesus, to invoke the Virgin Mary that is glorified in Santa Maria del Popolo church in Rome.

Its front suffered some changes in the 18th century to neoclassical style designed by Carlos Amarante, a Portuguese architect. Its interior is decorated with tiles showing a great pictorial value as well as its baroque altar.

Close to the church, and belonging to the same architectural block there is an ancient monastery, which is now part of the Town Hall Services.

NEW PROJECT: Since last summer, when I have been to Greece, I wanted to show you some photos, linked to a synopsis of Homers ODYSSEY ( IN 9 parts)

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Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. (Odyssey) Homer

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Synopses of Book I in The Odyssey.

The poet or narrator “invokes the Muse” asking her to start her story wherever she chooses, of our hero, Odysseus, who has travelled far and wide after the Trojan war. You see, Poseidon, who has kept Odysseus away from his land, Ithaca, is gone. The gods agree it’s time to let him come home. Athena descends to Ithaca, disguised as King Mentes, to talk with Telemachus, Odysseus’ son. The house is full of rowdy young men that are eating him out of house and home under the pretext of courting his mother, Penelope, who has not made up her mind about remarrying. Mentes or Athena predicts Odysseus’ return, prompts Telemachus to give up boyhood, act like a man, present his case to the assembly, and take strong steps to ascertain his father’s whereabouts. When Penelope comes down from her room to tell the bard Phemius to quit singing sad stories of Troy, Telemachus takes the chance to assert himself: he tells her to leave such matters to him, he is the master of the house.

Synopses of Book II

Telemachus hosts the first assembly since his father's abscence twenty years earlier. He's tired of the wasteful and annoying suitors that are eating up his estate and demands they leave. Antinous & Eurymachus (leading suitors) blame poor Penelope herself for their presence, they say if she'd pick one of them for her husband no one would waste her property. The assembly takes the side of the suitors but Telemachus asks for a ship, no action is taken and the assembly is no more. Telemachus prays to Athena (the favorite goddess of the house of Ithaca) and she comes to him in the form of Mentor, one of Odysseus' old friends. He(she) finds a ship, and a few volunteer crew members.

The Real Story of Thanksgiving...

“Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace. That’s right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened?

The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford’s community try next? They harnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the under girding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products.’”

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International Mother Language Day is an observance held annually on 21 February worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It was first announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999. Its observance was also formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution establishing 2008 as the International Year of Languages.[1]

International Mother Language Day originated as the international recognition of Language Movement Day, which has been commemorated in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) since 1952, when a number of University of Dhaka students were killed by the Pakistani police and army in Dhaka during Bengali Language Movement protests.

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On 21 March 1948, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Governor general of Pakistan, declared that Urdu would be the only official language for both West and East Pakistan. The people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), whose main language is Bangla, started to protest against this. On 21 February 1952, (8th Falgun 1359 in the Bangla calendar), students in the present day capital city of Dhaka called for a provincial strike. The government invoked a limited curfew to prevent this and the protests were tamed down so as to not break the curfew. The Pakistani police fired on the students despite these peaceful protests and a number of students were killed.[2]

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The amazing keithhull grey sky curse continues today for the third day.....So I had to invoke some hope for a bit of light at the end of the tunnel out of my archives....

1099 - 1st Crusaders capture, plunder Jerusalem

1205 - Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus

1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.

1240 - A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.

1307 - Duke Henrik van Karinthi chosen king of Bohemia

1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.

1410 - Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland

1500 - Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion

1500 - "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre

1501 - Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon

1524 - Emperor Karel I bans German national synode

1538 - Peace talks between Karel & King Francois I

1662 - King Charles II charters Royal Society in London

1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.

1755 - French ambassador recalled from London

1779 - US troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY

1783 - 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France

1787 - Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes

1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.

1795 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem

1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

1806 - Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest

1808 - French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders at Rochefort & is later exiled on St Helena

1815 - 1st flat horse race held on Nottingham Hill at Cheltenham, England (day and month TBC)

1823 - A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

1830 - 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri

1840 - England, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance

1850 - John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's

1856 - Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony

1862 - CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R

1863 - Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army

1864 - Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 & injuring 109 of 955 aboard

1867 - SF Merchant's Exchange opens

1869 - Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy

1870 - Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to US

1870 - Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created

1870 - Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada

1876 - Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford

1888 - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years

1893 - Commodore Perry arrives in Japan

1900 - President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin

1901 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0

1902 - Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex v Surrey

1904 - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles

1906 - Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam

1909 - Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs

1911 - 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines

1912 - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect

1914 - Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe

1916 - 22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)

1916 - Boeing Co (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash

1918 - 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I

1920 - Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season

1922 - 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo

1922 - 26th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill

1923 - 27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in NY

1923 - Italian parliament accepts new constitution

1926 - VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms

1927 - 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews

1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

1929 - 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca

1932 - President Hoover cuts own salary 15%

1933 - Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world

1934 - Continental Airlines commences operations.

1936 - Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget

1937 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens

1937 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China

1938 - Arthur Fagg completes 244 & 202 in the same cricket game for Kent

1939 - Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight

1940 - 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il

1940 - Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam

1941 - Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)

1942 - 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz

1942 - Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"

1944 - Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb

1945 - 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton Ohio

1946 - British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown

1948 - Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain

1948 - Pres Truman nominated for another term (Phila)

1949 - "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances

1949 - Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US

1949 - WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting

1952 - 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins

1952 - Gerald D Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding

1954 - 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)

1954 - 1st coml jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)

1954 - KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting

1954 - WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

1955 - WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting

1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.

1956 - Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational

1956 - Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)

1957 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die

1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

1958 - Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months

1958 - US marines deployed in Lebanon

1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.

1960 - Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle

1961 - "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 68 performances

1961 - 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale

1961 - Spain accept equal rights for men & women

1962 - Algeria becomes member of Arab League

1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open

1962 - Neth & Indonesia accord over New-Guinea

1963 - KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting

1963 - Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding

1964 - Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans

1965 - "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars

1965 - Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece

1967 - "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 608 performances

1967 - LA Wolves beat Wash Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Ass champs

1967 - Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open

1967 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 - "One Life to Live" premieres on TV

1968 - Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR

1968 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island

1968 - NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)

1968 - Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres

1969 - Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader

1969 - Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season

1970 - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship

1971 - Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China

1972 - 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane

1972 - Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship

1973 - Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0

1973 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic

1973 - Paul Getty III kidnapped

1973 - Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide

1973 - Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs

1974 - Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees

1975 - 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee

1975 - All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pitts Pirates) & John Matlock (NY Mets)

1975 - Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)

1975 - Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later

1976 - 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children & their bus driver in Calif

1978 - 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St Andrews

1979 - 34th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz

1979 - Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India

1980 - Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record

1982 - Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle

1982 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas

1982 - Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0

1983 - 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France

1983 - Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"

1984 - 39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy

1984 - John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"

1985 - Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe

1986 - 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston

1986 - All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)

1987 - Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence

1987 - John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings

1987 - State of siege ends in Taiwan

1990 - 45th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King

1991 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island

1991 - US troops leave northern Iraq

1991 - Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks & Phila Spirit

1992 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed

1994 - Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary

1994 - Israel & Jordan agree to talks in Wash DC on July 25th

1994 - NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit

1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64)

1995 - Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton)

1995 - Jews take Jerusalem

1995 - Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540

1996 - After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd

1996 - MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV

1996 - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers

1996 - Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake

1996 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

1999 - The inaugural game at the Seattle Mariners' Safeco Field was held in Seattle, Washington.

2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.

2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

2009 - A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a small tsunami.

White is maybe the most rigorous and psychological color, it seems to purify the surfaces, it’s a color that makes the vacuum merge. The empty spaces have slight contrasts of shape as a value.

I like to deal with this non-pigmentation because its process is a ramification of many harmonic elements that allude to a perfect informality. These pictures may seem incongruous because they are elegant and messy at the same time. They are contemporary, I took familiar objects like: “Burger King” glasses, crumbled pills, glasses of plastic or packs, which I photographed in high key. This kind of illumination, in which high and white tones are predominant, spreads positivity and freshness, which is another element of contrast towards the mess of the scenery, that often has a dirty tablecloth, like someone suddenly left the meal. The position of elements is never random, but it is necessary to highlight the constituent structure: pieces of silverware, pills, bottles, remains of food or dry branches are often put close to each other on levels, like there was a narrative correlation more or less narrow between each other. There is no human presence, but it is re-invoked through the representation of objects, where plasticity alternates with flatness, creating at the same time tension and melancholy.

We visited a Masai settlement and these guys were slowly getting together to perform the tribal greeting.

This photo is not very good as the contrast was too high I've tried it in hdr to attempt to get some detail...its a little better! Kept it because of the memory it invokes! To say they were reluctant would be an understatement mainly I think it was because we were only two and female! Oh well! a few more to follow asap!

52% of the British people who voted elected to leave the EU on the promise of independence, greater prosperity, control of our borders. Who will deliver these?

All we know at the moment is that:

Our PM David Cameron has said he will stand down by October and pass on to his successor the role of invoking the EU's Article 50 procedure to negotiate the terms of the UK withdrawal.

Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which has never been used before, sets a two-year time limit for reaching a deal. Generally seen as a tight deadline, it can be extended only if all 28 member states agree.

The process requires the UK to unpick some 80,000 pages of laws binding the UK to the EU. Some will be kept, because some areas of EU policy are shared with non-EU countries, like Norway and Switzerland.

Under this "divorce settlement", as some have called it, the UK and EU must agree how to divide assets, resolve EU budget issues and set out the future rights of EU nationals in the UK and vice versa.

The settlement requires approval by a majority of EU members, plus the European Parliament and UK Parliament.

And this all started to preserve the unity of the Conservative Party in the face of an advance by UKIP. The prime minister wanted to stop his party "banging on about Europe".

Alicante Avec Inca Resh Taser

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Pour voir le mur : edsick.tumblr.com/

With apologies to you know whom … I simply could not resist showing this little levitation gem enhanced by some cool rim light. Does not look too shabby in large either. What happened is that the resident squirrel received a visit from his south-american cousin, the flying squirrel. Family being what it is, and not to offend the south-american machismo, he pretended to be genuinely impressed by his cousin’s antics. But as soon as his cousin had left, he came over and in a conspiratorial voice whispered to me “Come watch this and bring your camera”. I had nothing better to do at the time, actually, I rarely have anything better to do at any time, and moved the Adirondack chair into position and observed his masterful command of levitation in some pretty cool lighting conditions. Truth be told, we were at this for about an hour and these lighting conditions occurred for only about 5 minutes.

I have a huge problem here. During my research for catchy tunes I came across this Elvis song that has absolutely nothing to do with this image. You may have noticed that does happen from time to time. What to do? I could just ignore this dilemma and post the song but the squirrel sprang to my aid and invoked an old light incantation whose origin is shrouded in mystery to this day. He turned to the sun and whispered "Kiss me Quick" …

Kiss me Quick– Elvis Presley

"An Educational Family Adventure Game"

It was $4.50 at the thrift store, looks complete, and pretty unique for a board game.

From Timbuk II games, Palenque is an educational archaeological adventure board game for 2 to 4 players, themed around the ancient Mayan city of Palenque.

The core objective of the game is for each player, acting as a rival archaeologist, to be the first to complete a specific expedition and return to the main structure.

Specifically, you want to be the first archaeologist to recover certain treasures from the ancient Maya temples and then return to the "Great Palace" to claim a final prize.

The game has a fun theme. It is set in the tropical rainforest ruins of Palenque, and tries to invoke danger, mystery, and intrigue as players search through the ancient temples.

Winning the game requires a keen memory and a "poker" face, suggesting elements of hidden information and deduction are involved.

The game includes a large board (approx. 29" x 29") with cool Maya-type artwork, stone-like character playing pieces, Expedition Records, an "Old World Map," Temple Playing Cards, and "Kan" Treasure Cards.

Archaeologists move across the ancient stone plaza and enter sacred temples. There are areas to beware of, like the sacrificial "cenote" and the sacred "ball court," implying hazards or restrictions on movement.

Each player is tasked with recovering specific, pre-determined "Kan" Treasure Cards from the temples. This often involves drawing, exchanging, or moving cards based on movement and spaces landed on.

Again, the emphasis on a "keen memory" and a "poker face" strongly suggests that the recovered or necessary treasure cards may be hidden from other players, requiring players to track what others are collecting or bluff about their own progress.

Once the required treasures are recovered, the final stage is a race to the "Great Palace" to win the game.

this is early evening.

its almost 8 p.m. and the sun is still not set in the sky.

we lost today, to downingtown west, they're a good team, i'm not pulling my hair out over it.

there are far more reason to be doing that.

i read something the other day that made me think a whole lot. i thought it was pretty funny because it definitely wasn't written to invoke deep-thinking but somehow it ended up that way:

He stood there checking it for nearly 20 minutes. Dudes were pulling up and paddling straight out. But this guy was timing sets, studying the crowd, and sprinkling sand into the wind. He removed his board from his fin sock, sat on the curb and began scraping off the wax. When he was finished, he wiped the board with a moist towel and began the careful task of waxing back up. Base coat first. Nose to tail. Tail to nose. Slow, careful circles. Meticulous, evenly spaced beads. He checked his fins. Checked his tail pad, his leash, his rails. Then he set the board carefully in the shade and covered it with a towel. Time for sunscreen. Vertra for the face. White slather everywhere else. Behind the kneecaps. Between the fingers. He even had a flat neoprene strap to rub the hard-to-reach spot on his back. After stowing the sunscreen, he held a t-shirt under a faucet, rang it out and put it on wet. Out comes the First Aid kit. He holds a tiny reef cut under the faucet. Dries it. Applies Chinese medicine. Band-Aid. And then tapes over the whole situation. He runs a quick strength and flexibility test on the First Aid. Satisfied.

Now the stretching. Deep knee bends. Toe touches. Torso twists. Arm rotations. Everything slow, counted, and are-you-f--cking-kidding-me careful. He's staring at the surf. Sniffing the wind. Getting his mojo together. And now he's ready. He waxes the top of his feet. Secures and double checks his leash. Then jogs down the steps to the waters edge.

His car door is wide open. Keys dangling from the ignition.

-Nathan Myers

take from it what you like (:

goodnight and God bless.

Mowgli sketches-compare 3

Start: Friday, April 10, 2009, 7:08:53pm

Done: Friday, April 10, 2009, 7:27:01pm

Panel 1- Mowgli running toward the animated camera. This is another shot of Mowgli running like in the 10th panel of my 1st Sketches. I traced this version cuz I thought it looked dynamic & I was also *running* out of ideas for screenshots. heheh ;p

Panel 2- Mowgli sitting down to take a breather against a rock to his back. Another serenic moment that I wanted to add to this volume. Drawing the toes hidden beneath the grass was a little tricky at first, but other than that, it was No Problemo. 8-)

Panel 3- Another “KHHHAAAAANNN!!!” shot, but with a slightly different angle than the previous one, including the overall Action Movie style posing.

Panel 4- Mowgli relaxing on a trunk of a tree. I forgot to add the blue tree outlines so that he doesn’t look like he’s floating on air, but you get the sense of the shot.

Panel 5- My favorite shot in the whole sketches here. I like his dynamic type of stance here & although he’s only a 10 year old Boy, he has that sense of Authority in Adults. So that’s why this is here.

Panel 6- Awwwwww, widdle Mowgli napping in a fetal position that I’m sure all you ‘kawaii’ type fangirls will enjoy. :roll: But yeah, I like the innocent type of pose here as well as the relaxation style too.

Panel 7- Mowgli sitting up in a tree & daydreaming. Again, I like the way he looks calm like your average Feral/Savage Wild Boy as they often sit up high in trees. I also like the expression that he shows in his face.

Panel 8- Another shot of Mowgli in a tree. Same thing as the 7th panel, but with a sense of curiosity in the character as to suggest what his attention is geared toward to.

Panel 9- yet Another shot of Mowgli in a tree, but looking a bit peeved. While the previous two were about relaxation & curiosity, this one has a bit of rage in him, as so to define him in a Savage/Ferocious manner.

Panel 10- Another ‘Awwwww’ shot but done at a different angle to show his back rather than the side.

Panel 11- Mowgli with his back to the view holding his temporary weapon, The Boomerang. I liked the way that he’s ready & waiting for something. Presumably to obliterate his next meal.

Panel 12- Another shot of Mowgli with the Boomerang but with his face toward us. This is almost like the previous panel, but in reverse to get that mirror type shot, or something.

Panel 13- Mowgli throws the Boomerang in an Action style pose that looks cool, as if he’s ready to take on his enemies n’ stuff.

Panel 14- Mowgli crawling out of his Home Cave so he can act like his Wolf Brothers. I like the way he’s crouched down low with his head up in a dramatic type pose cuz it adds a lot to his Feral personality. I also like the way I slightly altered his face as to have him question his own humanity because of the current upbringing that his whole ‘Family’ are Wolves & he’s the only Human in the Jungle. Which is why I, like many others, are greatly imposed over having him covered in a diaper/loincloth because his neutrality matches his Natural sense of surroundment & evokes the overall Human emotion that he expresses.

Panel 15- A somewhat young Mowgli crouched down at a water hole to take a swig. As before, I like the Feral type of pose he has here, as well as an additional sense of curiosity he has on his new surroundings.

Panel 16- Mowgli in his Home Cave supposedly nursing one of his wolf brethren to health. I like his pose & his look of Good Samaritan that he emotes. He also looks a bit creepy like he’s ready to pounce or attack someone Freddy Krueger style.

Panel 17- Same shot as panel 15, but at a different angle because I like style & variety. :D

Panel 18- The continuing shot from panel 14 as he emerges from the cave to act out his Inner Wolf. I like the way he sits up & the pose & stuff. I forgot to add a little hair extension, but other than that, it’s okay.

Panel 19- Mowgli shouting or becoming frustrated over something. His stature kinda invokes the early days of the Renaissance Era where everything about the Human Body was majestic in that aspect.

Panel 20- Mowgli sliding down Kaa’s body like a ride at DisneyLand. ;p I once thought of marking an outline of Kaa like I did with some of the blue/red outlines you see here, but I thought it wasn’t needed.

Not only I like the pose, but also the expression in Mowgli’s face & the sense of bewilderment in his eyes.

It displeases me that Kaa was made into a villain in the campy Disney version. :X

Panel 21- What follows from panel 16. I added the rest of his feet & accidentally made his mouth bigger.

Also added more to his feet on this one.

Panel 22- Mowgli in a scene with his Wolf Mother. I like the sense of affection that Mowgli expresses as Children are often like that. I improved the structure of his feet, especially the right foot by having a more shape like foot to it rather than just something added to his leg.

Panel 23- Mowgli sitting down on hands & knees from the 19th panel. I just like the way he’s sitting in a Innocent/Childlike manner which is nice once in a while.

Panel 24- Another shot of Mowgli on a tree. I like his stature, but I didn’t like drawing his hand covered by the tree trunk. I surprisingly did great on the feet, but I might have made the hand a bit bigger, I think.

Panel 25- Yet another shot of Mowgli on a tree, but with him crawling on the trunk. With the boomerang strapped behind him, I almost had a tough time drawing the arch of his back, the spine line & the backside, but it only took me a few tries so it wasn’t that difficult to pull off. I also forgot to add the blue lines across the tree but I like the overall stature of it anyway, so I didn‘t bother with it.

Panel 26, 27, 28 & 29- At this point, I’d almost had enough of plain old standing shots, so in the next volume you’ll see a lot more provocative postures & body language that the character expresses.

Panel 30- Mowgli getting ready to throw the Batman Weapon to deliver Obliteration on his enemies. I couldn’t pass on a cool panel like this as Mowgli looks really Kick Ass on this shot. 8-)

Panel 31- Another good shot of Mowgli with the Batman Weapon. I like this one a bit more better than the last panel cuz of his overall stance and I even decided to alter the expression on his face as if he’s saying “Don’t You F*ck with Me!!” to his would be victim. :threaten:

I kinda like that. 8-)

Panel 32- Mowgli lying down on the grass on a Warm Night. :relax: I like the feeling of relaxation on him like he’s just taking a rest from a busy day of Battling a few woodland critters. 8-)

Panel 33- The same thing on the last panel, but him sitting up & chatting with his Wolf Brothers. I had some time & room to spare, so I got this one because I like the way he sits up and commands attention to the scene. I drew the right ear too small, so it looks a bit funny not being symmetrical to the other ear.

Ah well, whaddya gonna do? :hmm:

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Re-posted ~ The most famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster was taken 81 years ago today.

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Dedicated to our inner-child and to all the dreamers like us. ♥

The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The most frequent speculation is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname "Nessie" since the 1950s.

The earliest legend about the Loch Ness monster recorded is the story of the Irish monk Saint Columba’s encounter with the beast. During is pilgrimage in Scotland to spread Christianity across the land, on his way to visit with the Pictish king in Inverness, he encountered some Picts burying what remained of one of their own people, badly savaged by a creature in the Loch. Columba ordered one of his followers to swim over to the other side of the water and retrieve the dead man’s boat. During this the servant was attacked by a creature. Columba (invoking the name of God) commanded the beast to return to whence it came and it vanished beneath the waters of the Loch leaving the swimming man unharmed.

It was not until 1933 that the monster became world famous as the world newspapers reported the story. So keep your eyes on the loch as you travel around, you never know you may be lucky and spot the monster too.

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The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun

Light has been broken and the spell has begun

Step into another realm, it's a dark night

You never know what you’ll see or you might find

Open up your mind and pay close attention

Invite the ghosts, engage your senses

Light your candles and watch the room glow

Moon glow outside your window

In the shadows the music will find you

With a rhyme designed to bind you

While I invoke intense attractions

Positive and negative reactions

Transmutation, divination

It’s all about the imagination

Interpretation, intoxication

Lay back in the cut and feel the vibration