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So delicate yet so resiliant, I know they are just the seeds of a weed but don't they just look fabulous close up.
of materials science. wish the CLS didn't throw so much light at close ranges... wanted the book cover to be blacked out.
(14/366) January 8th, 2008
PHOTO: ROBERT KERIAN
ARTICLE: JOHN PEARLEY HUFFMAN
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Toe in to a new car’s throttle, and you’re asking a computer to send air and fuel into the engine. Computers mediate braking and steering and almost always decide when the transmission should shift gears. Cars are evolving into video games.
So, why not make a video game into a car? Specifically, give a vintage-1986 Sega OutRun arcade game some wheels and a motor and let the gamer drive the concoction through physical space. Think of OutRun as Gran Turismo’s great-grandfather, fulfilling the preteen dream of ripping through various landscapes in an exotic car. Today, its roofless, eight-bit Ferrari Testarossa looks stone-ax primitive; in 1986, it was high-tech rad.
Sega eventually ported OutRun to home gaming systems, but it first appeared as an arcade game. Canadian-born academic Dr. Garnet Hertz, 38, saw one of the old arcade versions in 2006. “That’s crazy, how large the cabinet is,” he recalls thinking. “It’s like a fake car.” Two years later, he bought an OutRun arcade unit via an internet group for $300, then paid $800 to ship its 800 pounds to Irvine, California, where he started tinkering.
CHASSIS: After experimenting with an ancient three-wheeled golf cart, Hertz secured support from UC Irvine’s Center for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds and bought a 2007 E-Z-Go powered by a 4.4-hp electric motor. Using parts from the frames of the golf cart and game cabinet, Hertz and his eight-student team built a custom chassis, moved the cart’s steering to suit the game’s center-drive position, and relocated two of the four 12-volt batteries from the back of the cart to the front. Their budget for the build? A thick $100,000.
WITH ITS HEAVY CABINET, the OutRun cart isn’t fast—top speed is just 13 mph. But it is disconcerting to drive, what with limited peripheral vision and the knowledge that, while those blocky, eight-bit graphics scroll down the screen, you’re actually moving.
THE ELECTRONICS AND THE SOFTWARE required the most exhaustive development. Two high-def digital cameras mounted atop the cart feed images to a flat-screen display (it replaces OutRun’s original monitor) and to an Apple MacBook Pro, which uses its video feed to detect real-world topographical features. The computer then determines where to place the horizon (in the game’s primitive 3-D perspective, players constantly chase the road’s vanishing point in the distance) and how to depict the road. The gamer/driver sees the road ahead of him on-screen, rendered in OutRun graphics with the real world above the game’s horizon. Original game music pumps through speakers located in the headrest.
The Dhammakaya is the body of enlightenment of the Lord Buddha and “vijja” is the true knowledge; together, “vijja Dhammakaya” means the true and supreme knowledge illuminated by the Dhammakaya vision. This knowledge is the core principle of Buddhism that will lead to extinguishing of suffering and attainment of the state of supreme bliss known is Nibbana. for Ceremony, at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathum Thani, read more at www.dhammakaya.net/blog/2013/09/18/96-Years-of-Dhammakaya...
It feel good just to take a picture. I haven't in so long thats why i am making it a goal to at least take my camera around more places. I miss taking photos.
update: It's great being back in school and Nassau Community College really is not bad at all. I manage to always find really close parking spots. At least i'm not in buffalo anymore. My life is pretty consistent I study a lot & hang out with my boyfriend. In school I am taking 17 credits and my biology class is basically two classes because my lab and lecture are both different teachers. :[ On the bright side I love gaining knowledge and studying is okay with me as long as I'm slightly interested in it. I really just love biology.<3
comments are welcomed. critiques/suggestions are even better :]
Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Ariane. She often wondered, "How does one fathom and take a gander at exactly what the inner and outer workings of my womanly interstices?" As she quietly pondered, the answer to her agony slowly but surely presented itself in the form of consumerism (as all American citizens should). As quickly as she felt vexed, she exclaimed gleefully, "TO THE BARNES AND NOBLE CHILDREN'S SECTION I GO!" And go she did!
Agricultural activities have long been recognised as being a shaper of the rural landscape and environment which exist in Ireland today. Historically, farmers have engaged in protection of the land out of necessity to maintain their production capacity through generations. Our knowledge and appreciation of soils is continually growing however. The role of soils and the key functions they provide is increasingly being recognised and there is a new impetus from all soil users for enchanced protection of a key natural resource.
Critical to the successful management of our soil resource is knowledge on the location of our soils, and their associated properties. The Irish Soil Information System project has gathered together existing information and data from previous soil survey work in Ireland and augmented it with a new field campaign, leading to the production of a new national soil map at a scale of 1:250,000, as well as a collection of tools to access and interact with the data.
An extensive range of soil types (or series) have been identified in Ireland, each of them different in properties, with different environmental and agronomic responses. For each, the properties have been recorded in a database that can now be used to satisfy the information required both for soils management and effective policy implementation. Importantly the database can also be used to provide the public with the means to enquire and learn about the precious soil resources of Ireland. The following website provides a series of tools and descriptive information seeking to help all users engage with the soils information resource now available to us. (Provided by the Irish Soil Information System.)
For more information about the Soils of Ireland, visit;
gis.teagasc.ie/soils/index.php
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This woman was one of several disabled activists who participated in the mass civil disobedience in Parliament Square on 6 September 2025, protesting the proscription of Palestine Action. Her determined presence challenges the state's attempt to criminalise solidarity, demonstrating that the commitment to justice transcends physical barriers.
By displaying a sign in support of Palestine Action, she was knowingly breaking a law that carried a potentially lengthy prison sentence. Her act was part of a silent, collective insistence that conscience cannot be outlawed, especially in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza
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Protest and the Price of Dissent: Palestine Action and the Criminalisation of Conscience
Parliament Square on Saturday, 6 September 2025 was a scene of quiet, almost solemn defiance. The air, usually thick with the noise of London traffic and crowds of tourists, was instead filled with a palpable tension, a shared gravity that emanated from the quiet determination of hundreds of protesters, many of them over 60 years old, some sitting on steps or stools and others lying on the grass.
They held not professionally printed banners, but handwritten cardboard signs, their messages stark against the historic grandeur of their surroundings. This was not a march of chants and slogans, but a silent vigil of civil disobedience, a deliberate and calculated act of defiance against the state.
On that day, my task was to photograph the protest against the proscription of the direct-action group Palestine Action. While not always agreeing entirely with the group’s methods, I could not help but be struck by the profound dedication etched on the faces of the individual protesters.
As they sat in silence, contemplating both the horrific gravity of the situation in Gaza and the enormity of the personal risk they were taking — courting arrest under terror laws for holding a simple placard — their expressions took on a quality not dissimilar to what war photographers once called the “thousand-yard stare.” It was a look of weary but deep and determined resolve, a silent testament to their readiness to face life-changing prosecution in the name of a principle.
This scene poses a profound and unsettling question for modern Britain. How did the United Kingdom, a nation that prides itself on its democratic traditions and the right to protest, arrive at a point where hundreds of its citizens — clergy, doctors, veterans, and the elderly — could be arrested under counter-terrorism legislation for an act of silent, peaceful protest?
The events of that September afternoon were the culmination of a complex and contentious series of developments, but their significance extends far beyond a single organisation or demonstration. The proscription of Palestine Action has become a critical juncture in the nation’s relationship with dissent, a test of the elasticity of free expression, and a stark examination of its obligations under international law in the face of Israel deliberately engineering a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
To understand what is at stake, one must unravel the threads that led to that moment: the identity of the movement, the state’s legal machinery of proscription, the confrontation in Parliament Square, and the political context that compelled so many to risk their liberty.
Direct Action and the State’s Response
Palestine Action, established in 2020, has never hidden its approach. Unlike traditional lobbying groups, it rejected appeals to political elites in favour of disrupting the physical infrastructure of complicity: factories producing parts for Israeli weapons systems, offices of arms manufacturers, and — eventually — military installations themselves.
Its tactics, while non-violent, were disruptive and confrontational. Red paint sprayed across buildings to symbolise blood, occupations that halted production, chains and locks on factory gates. For supporters, these were acts of conscience against a system enabling atrocities in Gaza. For the state, they were criminal disruptions of commerce.
That clash escalated steadily. In Oldham, a persistent campaign against Elbit Systems, a key manufacturer in the Israeli arms supply chain, culminated in the company abandoning its Ferranti site. Later actions targeted suppliers for F-35 fighter jets and other arms manufacturers. These were no random acts of mindless vandalism but part of a deliberate strategy: to impose costs high enough that complicity in Israel’s war effort would become unsustainable.
The decisive rupture came in June 2025, when activists infiltrated RAF Brize Norton, Britain’s largest airbase, and sprayed red paint into the engines of refuelling aircraft linked to operations over Gaza. For the activists, it was a desperate attempt to interrupt a supply chain of surveillance and logistical support to a state commiting genocide. For the government, it crossed a line: military assets had been attacked. Within days, the Home Secretary announced Palestine Action would be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
Proscription and the Expansion of “Terrorism”
Here lies the heart of the controversy. The Terrorism Act 2000 defines terrorism with unusual breadth, encompassing not only threats to life but also “serious damage to property” carried out for political or ideological aims. In this capacious definition, breaking a factory window or disabling a machine can be legally assimilated to mass murder.
By invoking this law, the government placed Palestine Action on the same legal footing as al-Qaeda or ISIS. Supporting it — even symbolically — became a serious offence.
Since July 2025, merely expressing support for the organization can carry a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
This is based on Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The specific offense is "recklessly expressing support for a proscribed organisation". However, according to Section 13 of the Act, a lower-level offence for actions like displaying hand held placards in support of a proscribed group carries a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment or a fine of five thousand pounds or both.
Civil liberties groups and human rights bodies have denounced the proscription move as disproportionate. Their concern was not primarily whether Palestine Action’s tactics might violate existing criminal law. One might reasonably argue that they did unless they might sometimes be justified in the name of preventing a greater crime.
But reframing those actions as “terrorism” represented a dangerous category error. As many pointed out, terrorism has historically referred to violence against civilians. Expanding it to cover property damage risks draining the term of meaning. Worse, it arms the state with a stigma so powerful that it can delegitimise entire political positions without debate.
The implications go further. Proscription does not simply criminalise acts. It criminalises expressions of allegiance, conscience and even speech. To say “I support Palestine Action” is no longer an opinion but technically a serious crime. The state has moved from punishing deeds to punishing expressions of solidarity — a move with chilling consequences for democratic life.
Parliament Square: Civil Disobedience on Trial
It was this transformation that brought nearly 1,500 people into Parliament Square on 6 September. They knew what awaited them. Organisers announced in advance that protesters would hold signs reading: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” In doing so, they openly declared their intent to break the law.
The crowd was strikingly diverse. Retired doctors, clergy, war veterans, even an 83-year-old Anglican priest. Disabled activists came in wheelchairs; descendants of Holocaust survivors stood beside young students. This was not a hardened cadre of militants but a cross-section of society, many of whom had never before faced arrest.
At precisely 1 pm, the protesters all sat or lay down silently, cardboard signs raised. There was no chanting, no aggression — only a quiet insistence that they would not accept the criminalisation of conscience.
The police response was equally predictable. Hundreds of officers moved systematically through the crowd, arresting anyone displaying a sign. By the end of the day, nearly 900 people were detained under counter-terrorism law. It was one of the largest mass arrests in modern British history.
Official statements later alleged police were met with violence — officers punched, spat on, objects thrown. Yet independent observers, including Amnesty International, contradicted this. They reported a peaceful assembly disrupted by aggressive policing: batons drawn, protesters shoved, some bloodied.
www.amnesty.org/zh-hans/documents/eur45/0273/2025/en/
Video footage supported at least some of Amnesty's report.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZQGFrqCf5U&t=1283s
The two narratives were irreconcilable, but only one carried the weight and authority of the state.
The entire event unfolded as political theatre. The government proscribed a group, thereby creating a new crime. Protesters, convinced the law was unjust, announced their intent to commit that crime peacefully. The police, forewarned, staged a vast operation. Each side acted out its script. The spectacle allowed the state to present itself as defending order against extremism — while in reality silencing dissent.
The Humanitarian Context: Why Protesters Risked All
To see the Parliament Square protest as a parochial dispute over free speech is to miss its driving force. The demonstrators were not there merely to defend abstract principles. They were responding to what they, and a growing body of international experts, describe as a genocide in Gaza.
By September 2025, Gaza had descended into almost total collapse. Over 63,000 Palestinians had been killed, the majority of them women and children. More than 150,000 had been injured, many maimed for life. Entire neighbourhoods had been flattened. Famine was confirmed in August, with Israel continuing to impose and even tighten deliberate restrictions on food, water, and fuel, a strategy condemned by human rights groups as a major war crime. Hospitals lay in ruins. Ninety percent of the population had been displaced.
It is in this context that the term genocide has been applied. Legal scholars point not only to mass killings but also to the deliberate infliction of life-destroying conditions, accompanied by rhetoric from Israeli officials dehumanising Palestinians as “human animals.” In September 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars declared that Israel’s actions met the legal definition of genocide.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o
Major NGOs, UN experts, and even Israeli human rights groups such as B’Tselem echoed that conclusion.
For the protesters, then, the question was not abstract but immediate: faced with what they saw as a genocide, could they in good conscience remain silent while their own government criminalised resistance to it? Their answer was to risk arrest, their placards making the moral connection explicit: opposing genocide meant supporting those who sought to stop it.
The Price of Dissent
The mass arrests in Parliament Square were not an isolated incident of law enforcement. They were the product of a broader trajectory: escalating tactics by a direct-action movement, a humanitarian catastrophe abroad, and a government determined to suppress dissent at home through the bluntest of instruments.
The official line insists that Palestine Action’s campaign constituted terrorism and thus warranted proscription. On this view, the arrests were simple enforcement of the law. Yet this account obscures the deeper reality: a precedent in which the state redefined non-lethal protest as terrorism, shifting from punishing actions to criminalising expressions of solidarity.
The cost is profound. Once speech and conscience themselves become suspect, dissent is no longer tolerated but pathologised. The chilling effect is already evident: individuals weigh not just whether to join a protest, but whether uttering support might expose them to years in prison. Terror laws, originally justified as a shield against mass violence, are recast as tools of political management.
The protesters understood this. That “thousand-yard stare” captured in their faces was not only the weight of potential arrest, but the knowledge of Gaza’s devastation, the famine and rubble, the deaths mounting daily. It was also the recognition that their own government had chosen to silence them rather than address its complicity.
In a functioning democracy, the question is not why citizens risk arrest for holding a handwritten cardboard sign. It is why a state finds it necessary to treat that act as a terror offence. The answer reveals a narrowing of democratic space, where conscience itself is deemed subversive. And that narrowing, history teaches, carries consequences not just for those arrested, but for the society that allows it.
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The buildings and structures of Belfast comprise many styles of architecture ranging from Edwardian through to state-of-the-art modern buildings like the Waterfront Hall. The city's beautiful Edwardian buildings are notable for their display of large numbers of sculptures. Many of Belfast's Victorian landmarks, including the main Lanyon Building at Queens University in 1849, were designed by Sir Charles Lanyon.
The City Hall, was finished in 1906 and was built to reflect Belfast’s City status, granted by Queen Victoria in 1888. The Dome is 53 metres (173 ft) high. Figures above the door are “Hibernia encouraging and promoting the Commerce and Arts of the City”. Among the city's grandest buildings are two former banks: Ulster Bank (1860), in Waring Street and Northern Bank (1769), in nearby Donegall Street. The Royal Courts of Justice in Chichester Street are home to Northern Ireland's Supreme Court. Some of Belfast's oldest buildings still remain in the Cathedral Quarter area, which is currently undergoing redevelopment as the city's main cultural and tourist area.
The world's largest dry dock is located in the city, and the giant cranes (Samson and Goliath) of the Harland and Wolff shipyard, builders of the Titanic, can be seen from afar.
The four star Europa Hotel, located in the City Centre, was bombed twenty-seven times during the troubles and is among one of the most bombed hotels in Europe. Across the street, the ornately decorated Crown Liquor Saloon in Great Victoria Street is notable as being the only bar owned by the National Trust. The panels used in the restaurant on the first floor were meant for Brittanic, the sister ship of the Titanic. It was made internationally famous as the setting for the classic film, Odd Man Out, starring James Mason.
Belfast also contains the tallest building (as distinct from structure) on the island of Ireland. Windsor House stands at 80 metres (262 ft) and has twenty-three floors. Once completed, the Obel Tower will surpass Windsor House, although a taller building than this has been given planning permission in Dublin. In January 2007 plans were submitted to build the Aurora Tower on Great Victoria Street, which will be 37 storeys high. At 109m (358 ft) high it will house 290 luxury apartments and be 28m (92 ft) higher than the Obel Tower.
The Albert Clock stands at the end of High Street, and was designed by William J. Barre and built in memory of Queen Victoria's Prince Consort, Prince Albert. The clock stands 35 m high, was built on land reclaimed from the river, and leans 1.25 m off the vertical. The Linen Hall Library in Donegall Square North is Belfast’s oldest library, founded in 1788 to acquire 'philosophical apparatus and such productions of nature and art as are calculated to enlarge knowledge'.
St George's Market, built between 1890 and 1896, is Belfast's last surviving Victorian covered market. It was restored at a cost of £4.5 million in 1997, and hosts regular Friday and Saturday markets.
Near the Market is Saint Malachy's Catholic Church. Built between 1841 and 1844, it is built in the Tudor Revival style and is unique in Ireland. It is also one of only two buildings remaining in Belfast which was constructed with hand-made bricks. Hamilton Street is a Georgian terrace in the Markets Area, originally built in the 1830s, which was restored in 1988 by Hearth.
Belfast has several venues for performing arts. The Grand Opera House was completed in 1895 was bombed several times during the Troubles but has been restored to its former glory. The Ulster Hall (1859-1862) was originally designed for grand dances but is now used primarily as a concert and sporting venue. Lloyd George, Parnell and Patrick Pearse all attended political rallies there. It holds 13 paintings of Belfast History. The Mulholland organ costing 3000 guineas was donated and named after a local wealthy industrialist. The Waterfront Hall was opened in 1997 as part of the redevelopment of the Laganside and already has become an icon of modern Belfast.
The Victoria Square in now completed.
Knowledge knows no borders,because it belongs to humanity, and it’s the fire which light up the world.
Butch, a 20-year-old male Orangutan covers himself with a burlap blanket at Miami's Metrozoo, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004. As part of Metrozoo's normal preparations for cold weather, they provide burlap blankets to the great apes as well as heating pads and lamps in their nighthouses.
Jonathan Wilson
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“Gentle Spirit” is not simply the name of the debut solo album by songwriter/musician/producer, Jonathan Wilson, it represents the ethos of the artist himself. Warm, supple melodies etched in layers of stringed instruments and willowy organ motifs accompany his earnest, North Carolinian drawl as he tells tales of humane values lost and found.
Wilson’s music is steeped equally in the woodsy contours of his Blue Ridge experiences and the atmospheric guitar reveries of Neil Young and Quicksilver Messenger Service. In fact, “Gentle Spirit,” an expansive double vinyl set, is remarkably evocative of that golden late ‘60s, early ‘70s period when rural and urban sensibilities colluded in producing some of rock’s most imperishable recordings.
Wilson, a native of Forest City, North Carolina, has been quietly earning a reputation as a musical jack-of-all-trades. He is adept behind the recording console, possesses a luthier’s knowledge of all things strummed, and maintains the innate ability to conceptualize an instrument essential to providing the right color to a track in need of a defining detail. Whether working with promising new recording artists like the band Dawes, contemporary artists, such as Erykah Badu and Elvis Costello, or Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, Jackson Browne, and Robbie Robertson, Wilson, a tall, slim, long-haired presence, provides direction and support as tasty and soulful as anyone in the business today.
It should then come as no surprise that Wilson, so resolutely committed to “old school” musical values, began recording “Gentle Spirit” in Los Angeles’s fabled Laurel Canyon. As a longtime student of “Canyon culture,” his ideas echo many of an earlier generation as the album embraces a unique blend of folk, country, rock and roll and pop elements, which enduringly create a sense of time and place.
While writing and recording “Gentle Spirit”, “I was consciously trying to hit, ‘dreary day in the canyon,’ that was the original concept,” admits Wilson. “That was what it was supposed to be. I feel like I achieved that. But, you have to remember the album took a long time, the tracking was done a while ago, and there’s a distance there that I guess was supposed to happen. And it’s not hot off the tape machine. Things transpired. That, to me, is a good thing because there is a perspective on display. I can be detached; and whether this characteristic does this or that, it doesn’t affect me to the greater good of the album.”
“I loved living and recording in Laurel Canyon,” he reflects. “I wasn’t trying to find a sound of yore or duplicate any guitar sounds ala Buffalo Springfield or Crazy Horse. But what ends up happening is that the vocal harmony on the album does have a certain type of a tonality and that indeed is the sound of the canyon.”
Wilson was crafting the album between tours, album producer jobs and the never-ending jam sessions that constituted canyon life. “I was never in conflict or had a self-imposed time table around this album,” offers Jonathan. “Maybe just in the last bit, and only because of scheduling considerations. Time went by and things were cool and I never felt anything was on a back burner because it was all sort of my process.
“For me, I didn’t find I was best served to go into the studio with a batch of songs I’d just done in the last 30 or 60 days and put them down over 6 days. I was better served by having the material unfold over time,” Wilson reinforces.
“The only theme on the album has to do with some of the words of the title track, about the desensitizing that we are exposed to on a daily basis, of all the explosions and car bombs and people in despair,” he underscores. “And these things that come at you so fast that you don’t have time to really concentrate on them and give them the reverence and respect they deserve. The album talks about taking some time to, you know, give humanity some kind of reverence-laden soundtrack.
“I play a lot of different instruments on my own recordings. For “Gentle Spirit,” I used a Hofner bass. I played a 1969 Gibson ES 345 a lot, especially when I wanted the guitar tone to cut. It’s the same guitar used by Freddie King. It has a very aggressive kind of bite.“
“I drafted in some friends throughout the recording that allowed me to concentrate on the guitar and vocals. I assembled a band with guys like Otto Hauser for basic tracking that created a certain energy that I couldn’t have produced on my own. I also brought in specific people for certain songs,” Wilson explains. “Gary Louris, the singer from The Jayhawks, singer Andy Cabic and drummer Otto Hauser, of the band Vetiver, and pedal steel player Josh Grange all played on the record. Adam McDougal, a good friend of mine who plays Hammond organ with the Black Crowes, drummer Brian Geltner, legendary bassist Gerald Johnson, keyboardist Barry Goldberg and Gary Mallaber, former drummer with the Steve Miller Band and Van Morrison, were all involved, too.”
“The title track ‘Gentle Spirit’ is the first tune on the album. I was searching for some sort of positive theme somewhere out there in the abyss and for it to enter the ears and maybe the heart of someone listening. And it’s just a positive energy to start out the album, a sonic welcome.
Wilson also included one of his oldest compositions, “Valley of the Silver Moon.” “It’s a tune about the modern music world not understanding what I have to offer as an artist and the struggle this created.”
The influence of North Carolina resonates throughout the album. “Can We Really Party Today?” is a song that talks about the Carolinas and the South. And on “The Ballad of the Pines,” on which I did some harmonies with Chris Robinson, who is a Georgia boy, I was talking about the majestic pines of the South. As this song, and the others too, unfolded, I found comfort in being able to hear the South despite being out here in California, ‘cause when you’re there, you’re so immersed you don’t realize the effect.”
“Gentle Spirit” features all original Wilson compositions with the exception of his “psyched out” rendition of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Way I Feel.” “It spoke to me,” relates Wilson. “He’s talking about a kind of weightlessness, and the need for patience which is what I’m all about and ‘Gentle Spirit’ is all about.”
After leaving Laurel Canyon, Wilson relocated to the Echo Park section of L.A., home to a lively mix of Latin Americans, Bohemians and expressive youth. It is in his new recording studio, Five Star Studio, where Wilson finished tracking and mixing “Gentle Spirit.
“Gentle Spirit” was produced by Wilson. “I recorded everything to analog tape which I’ve always done; it’s not something I’m trying to do as a boutique kind of hip thing. Analog simply captures things better and it takes the edges off. It creates a beauty much like film. I have a console that was built in 1972 and used to belong to Shelter Records. That’s a big part of the sound for the album.”
Given the popular culture’s preoccupation with all things digital, “Gentle Spirit” draws a line in the proverbial sand; the album was conceived for vinyl. “I would say vinyl is the only real tangible format that contains meaningful value and the only one you can sell to me that retains any value. And to me, that’s on both sides of the table, the consumer and the artist. Even as a record collector I’ve always been vinyl driven. With vinyl, this is when the record sounds the best and when it comes alive. To me, this project and the album represent many things tangible and even more things intangible, those that can only be felt.”
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"A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows she's being photographed, and what she does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what she’s wearing or how she looks. She’s implicated in what’s happened, and she has a certain real power over the result." Richard Avedon
I am a big fan of Richard Avedon as a photographer but working with the amazing @tinylittlespitfire2 mostly leaves my job as an observer. Louise knows how to transform a static environment into a dynamic evocative expression.
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BCWF Wrestling - WildMania - Legion Von Creed Vs ZaD
Legion Von Creed (c) def. (Pin) ZaD
Type of match : Anything Goes
For : BCWF european championship (No Title Change)
BWS championship (No Title Change)
( En novembre 2018 il assista et anima son dernier Wrestle World 4 .
Mais avant de nous quittes et faire de nous des 'orphelins' , il avait encore ecrit une derniere carte , un dernier show .
Alors en l'honneur de cet homme qui a realise ses reves et nous les a transmis , qui nous a enseignes son savoir et nous appelaient 'Mes enfants'' , le 6 septembre la BWS organise le show ' WILDMANIA ' en memoire de Mr Salvatore Bellomo.
Et comme il disait avant chaque debut de show
' Allez les enfants , amusez-vous et ne vous faites pas mal ! '
In November 2018 he attended and animated his last Wrestle World 4.
But before we left and make us 'orphans', he had written a last card, a last show.
So in honor of this man who realized his dreams and transmitted them to us, who taught us his knowledge and called us 'My children', on September 6 the BWS organizes the show 'WILDMANIA' in memory of Mr. Salvatore Bellomo.
And as he said before each show start
'Go kids, have fun and do not hurt yourself!' )
Family headstone in Earlham Cemetery.
In
loving memory of
GORDON AMOND
who died Febry. 13th 1893
Aged 65 years
Also
ELIZABETH
his beloved wife
who died Decr. 2nd 1878
aged 49 years.
Peace, perfect peace.
Also of
GODWIN GORDON AMOND
eldest son of the above
of the R.D.C.
who died in the General Military Hospital,
Edmonton
September ?? 1917
Aged??
Private AMOND, GODWIN
Service Number:…………. 26303
Died:………………………30/09/1917
Aged:…………………….. 61
Unit:………………………56th Coy. Royal Defence Corps
Son of the late Gordon and Elizabeth Amond, of Norwich.
Buried at NORWICH CEMETERY, NORFOLK
Cemetery/memorial reference: 23. 284.
Source: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2803029/amond,-godwin/
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Private Godwin Amond “Died” on the 30th September 1917 whilst serving on the Home Front with the Royal Defence Corps. He was formerly 24138 “Norwich” Regiment. No place of birth or residence is shown for him. He enlisted at Norwich.
(“Died” in SDGW terms means anything other than Killed in Action or Died of Wounds (received in action)).
There is no obvious Medal Index Card for this soldier.
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.
Godwin, then aged 49 years and 4 months was already serving with the 1st Norfolk R Ga Volunteers when the Territorial Force was created in 1908 and he transferred across to the 2nd East Anglian Brigade. He completed a new attestation form, signing up for one year, although due to damage to the form the date, other than being in 1908, is impossible to make out the full date.
He gave his birthplace as King Street in the Parish of St Peter, Norwich. (To the best of my knowledge at least four parishes claimed a part of King Street at that time). His address was 1 Wattons(?) Court, King Street. He was a single man.
Of his physical description the only part I can make out that wasn’t fire damaged was that he was 5 feet 8 inches (tall).
There is an entry in the prior service section. I can’t make out the unit but the dates look to be 20.3.76 to 28.2.83 and then 7.2.0? to 31.3.08.
He attended his units Annual Training at Shoeburyness on the 24.7.08.
There are some earlier attestation forms in the service records but due to fire damage they are difficult to make out and date. There is one when he was 42 years old and another that could be from 1906 or 1908 which shows him serving in the 2nd Position(?) Battery, 1st N.A. Volunteer Corps at Great Yarmouth.
No obvious Soldiers Will or Civil Probate for this man.
1856/57 – birth………………………
The birth of a Godwin Amond was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Norwich District in the Norwich District in the January to March quarter, (Q1), of 1857.
At this point enforcement of registration with the civil authorities was very hit and miss – non-registrations and late registrations were supposed to be prosecuted and fined but seldom were – it would take a major over-haul in 1872 to bring the UK anywhere near 100% compliance. Many births took place at home without any qualified medical attendance so it was also impossible to verify dates of birth. It cannot therefore be assumed that that Godwin was actually born in the period when he was registered.
I could not find an online baptism for him.
1861 Census of England and Wales
The 4 year old “Gordon” Amond, born Norwich, was recorded living at Bussey’s Yard, Ber Street, Norwich. This was the household of his parents Gordon, (aged 32, a Cordwainer, born Norwich), and Elizabeth, (aged 30, a Shoe binder, Norwich). As well as their son “Gordon” the couple also have a 1 year old daughter, Mary A, born Norwich. Also living with them is Elizabeths’ mother, the 70 year old widow Louisa Yallop, a Washerwoman born Rushall, Norfolk.
1871 Census of England and Wales
The 14 year old “Gordon” Amond, a Book, (or Boot) seller, born Norwich, was recorded living with his grandmother at a dwelling in Murrells Yard, King Street, Norwich. She was the 79 year old widow Mary Amond, born Bergh Apton, Norfolk. Mary has two unmarried children of her own living with her, the 56 year old Mary, a “Lumpertease”(?), born Norwich and the 41 year old Edward, a Shoemaker, born Norwich.
His parents Gordon, (42, Shoe maker) and Elizabeth, (39) were now living at 1 Watson Court, Kings Street, Norwich, along with three of their children,
Emeline………….aged 11……….born Norwich
Edward…………..aged 9………...born Norwich
Henry……………aged 2…………born Norwich
2nd December 1878 – death of mother Elizabeth……
Information from headstone.
1881 Census of England and Wales
The 24 year old Godwin Amond*, a Solicitors Clerk from Norwich, was recorded living at Murrells Yard, King Street. This was the household of his uncle, Edward Amond, who was single, aged 50 and a Waiter, born Norwich. Other members of the household were Edwards’ mother, the 88 year old widow Mary Amond, born Saxlingham, Norfolk and Edwards’ unmarried sisters Eliza, (38, Shoe Finisher, born Norwich) and Mary Ann, (aged 65, born Norwich).
(*the Genealogy source I use for basic census look-ups has transcribed all of them with the surname “Almond”.)
His 59 year old widower father Gordon Amond was still living at Watson’s Yard, King Street, Norwich. He was working as a Shoemaker. Living with him are his unmarried children Elizabeth, (22, Shop Woman), Edward, (19, Shoe Maker), Henry, (12) and Alice, (7) – all born Norwich.
1887 Norfolk Electoral Register………
A Godwin Amond appears on this edition of the electoral register as a Citizen of Norwich and entitled to vote in Parliamentary Elections. He qualifies on the grounds of being a householder of a Public-House at 23 Bishopgate Street, Norwich. This appears to be the only time he turned up on the electoral register.
Source: www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2C9H-MQ9
1891 Census of England and Wales
The census taker for this one has recorded Gordon, a 34 year old unmarried Solicitors’ Clerk, as living at Watsons Court, King Street, Norwich, but he has shown the family surname as “Ammond. Head of the household was his widower father Gordon, a 63 year old shoemaker.Also in the household are Godwins’ sisters Mary Ann, (31, Machinist) and Alice, (29, Tailoress).
13th February 1893 – death of father Gordon…
Information from headstone.
1901 Census of England and Wales
The 45 year old Godwin Amond, an unmarried Solicitors Clerk born Norwich, was recorded as the head of the household at No.1 Watson Court, King Street, Norwich. Living with him are his unmarried sisters Mary Ann, (aged 41, a Tailoress, born Norwich) and Alice, (aged 27, a Boot Machinist, born Norwich).
1911 Census of England and Wales
The three of them were still living at 1 Watsons Court. King Street, Norwich, but sister Mary Ann, (52, Tailoress), was now recorded as the head of the household. Sister Alice, (37) works as a Boot & Shoe Sewing Machinist, while Godwin, (55) is working as a Hotel Waiter.
His unit………………………………………
The Royal Defence Corps of 1916-1918
Formation
The Royal Defence Corps was introduced by a Royal Warrant of 17 March 1916 and promulgated by Army Order 115 of 19 March 1916.
The Warrant deemed the RDC to be Corps for the purposes of the Army Act and that the rates of pay should be those for the infantry of the line as laid down in the pay warrant of 1 December 1914.
The RDC was defined in further detail in Army Council Instruction (ACI) 841 of 19 April 1916. It had been created “To carry out duties connected with the local defence of the United Kingdom, including those hitherto performed by the Supernumerary Territorial Force Companies, as well as those allotted to the Observer Companies now in process of formation“.
The Supernumerary Territorial Force Companies had previously been known as Protection Companies of the National Reserve.
Transfer of officers and men who were already serving
In the case of the “other ranks” serving in the Supernumerary Territorial Force Companies on Territorial attestations, it would (because of the terms of their engagement) be necessary to obtain their consent to transfer to the RDC. Any men who were unwilling to transfer would, for the present time, be attached to the RDC.
Men serving in the existing Observer Companies were generally of the regular army. They would be transferred to the RDC from their existing regiments.
The RDC would consist of two types of unit:
1.Protection Companies. They would take over the duties of the Supernumerary Territorial Force Companies and would come into existence on 29 April 1916. While it was expected that the number of such units would vary across the army’s geographical command areas, company numbers were issued in blocks of 50.
Protection Companies 51-100 would be for Eastern Command.
2.Observer Companies. They would be numbered consecutively in their own sequence, starting from 1.
In April 1918 some 27,000 men were serving in the RDC. Of these, 14,000 were employed at prisoner of war camps.
www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-roya...
On the day…………………
The Army Register of Soldiers Effects records that Private 26303 Godwin Amond, 56th Company. Royal Defence Corps, died at the Military Hospital, Edmonton on the 30th September 1917, although cause is not shown. The balance of his pay went in April 1918 to his sisters Mary and Alice. After the war was over and a gratuity was paid to those who served, this was sent in December 1919 to his sister Mary.
The death of a Godwin Amond, aged 62, was recorded in the Edmonton District of Middlesex in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1917.
The edition of the Eastern Daily Press dated Wednesday 3rd October 19178 included the following simple announcement in the Births, Marriages and Deaths column.
AMOND-September 30, at the General Military Hospital, Edmonton, Godwin (Gordon), of the Royal Defence Corps, Watson’s Court, King Street, Norwich, aged 61.
It’s probably a complete co-incidence but the Germans had launched a number of air-raids on London, starting with the night of the 30th September. Contemporary newspapers like the Eastern Daily Press were reporting bombs (and casualties) in Essex, North East London, South East London and Kent. However if he was caught in an air raid then you’d expect him to have been treated in a hospital closer to those areas.
The description of these sculptures are :
Knowledge, like water, is vital to life. The stream of water connects the two figures. The water is symbolic of the passing of knowledge from generation to generation.
OSCAR: An Architecture for Generally Intelligent Agents by John Pollock from University of Arizona
Sparse Knowledge
OSCAR is a fully implemented architecture for cognitive systems, based on the author's work in philosophy concerning epistemology and the theory of practical reasoning.
Technical Session II: Architecture of AGI Systems at the The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08)
This room is The Zone, at the FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis. It was a very good venue for this conference.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research focuses on the original and ultimate goal of AI -- to create intelligence as a whole, by exploring all available paths, including theoretical and experimental computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and innovative interdisciplinary methodologies. AGI is also called Strong AI in the AI community.
Another good reference is Artificial General Intelligence : A Gentle Introduction by Pei Wang
I030208 086
Bildungsauftrag Bücherhalle: durch die Art der Leihrückgabe werden auch Verweigerer wie altmodische Buchleser zur Auseinandersetzung mit moderner Technik gezwungen.
This is definitely Warrington Bank Quay Station, and I think it is about 1987, but my lack of knowledge about the various classes of first generation British Railways electric locomotives leaves me floundering a bit. So it is a slight stab in the dark when I say that this unidentified named loco is a Class 86 - but I really am not sure. You might be able to help....
I have recently bought some collections of railway negatives and slides, (with copyright assigned to me), mainly dating from the 1970s, 80s and 90s, of which this is just one. Many are unlabeled, so I have to do a little detective work to determine date and location as best I can. I will post some of the more interesting ones occasionally.
Unknown 35mm Camera & Lens
Film: Unidentified Kodak Colour Negative Film
For more of my photographs, see here
Un héros dans le combat contra la peste, un héroe en la lucha contra la Peste Negra, un eroe in la lotta contro la morte nera.
Already in December of the year 1678 occurred in the then suburban "Leopoldstadt" the first cases of plague, but they were covered up and trivialized by the authorities. The disease spread rapidly in other suburbs, which were outside the imperial capital. Thus, the poorer classes belonged to its first victims. Although the number of deaths from month to month rose, all warnings and criticisms of pleague doctor, Paul de Sorbait, on the inadequate situation of the medical service and the hygiene remained unheard.
The dedicated physician had already published in January 1679 a "plague-order", which provided extensive measures to protect the population during an outbreak of plague. In this plague-order Paul de Sorbait described the former knowledge about the disease and described it: "the most part of those so caught by it, with bumps, glands, swelling marks or with splenic fever, brown and black spots and kale, pest lumps in addition to great interior heat and within a few days or hours fatally ends".
In July of the same year the "spark of pestilence" (Pestilenzfunken) jumped over the city walls: A terrible and great death began within the city of Vienna. A chronicler reported, "at last she (= plague) but took the audacity, penetrated into the city itself and caused a shocking defeat among the rich and aristocratic nobility in the palaces and stately buildings. There you saw whole carts full of noble and ignoble, rich and poor, young and old of both sexes, carried out by all alleys to the door."
The people in town were full horror and panic: The bodies lay for days on the road, because there was a lack of infirmary servants and gravediggers. Quick released prisoners then took over those services. Instead of single burials large pits were created outside of the city to accommodate the dead in mass graves. Those who could afford it, fled from the city. Emperor Leopold I and his family left Vienna on 17 August. He first went on a pilgrimage to Mariazell (Styria) and then fled to Prague. As there the plague also broke out, he retreated to Linz, where he remained until the final extinction of the plague in 1680.
The exact number of people who died in 1679 from the plague in Vienna probably never will be determined. The gigantic death rates of contemporary reports, oscillating between 70000 and 120000 dead, from the still preserved coroner's reports can not be proved. According to those records, the disease about 8,000 inhabitants would kill. But it is questionable whether in the prevailing confusion all cases of death were reported to the coroners and how many died on the run.
Plague in Vienna
Detail of the woodcut "Dance of Death"
Hans Holbein the Younger
(public domain)
The great dying - The plague or the "Black Death" in Europe
The plague is one of the severe acute bacterial infectious diseases that today already in case of suspicion are reportable. Only a little more than 100 years ago, at the occasion of the plague epidemics in Hong Kong and India set in the modern pest investigation: The Swiss tropical doctor Alexander Yersin discovered in 1894 the plague pathogen: The bacillus received after this researcher the name "Yersina pestis". Already at that time, the science recognized the role of certain rodents in the pathogenesis of plague epidemics and the participation of the rat flea or human flea as possibilities of transmission of plague to humans.
Since ancient times, the plague was one of the heaviest and most frequent epidemics. However, one designated for a long time also other epidemics such as smallpox or dysentery as pest because they equally were associated with high mortality. The term "pest" but meant in a figurative sense misfortune and ruin. The word therefore in the past has been avoided as far as possible, and the historians tried to express it with other words as "tiresome disease", "burning fever" or "contagion" (= contamination, infection).
In the years 1348 to 1352, Europe was overrun by the worst plague in history. The disease, which evolved to become a pneumonic plague, destroyed a third of the population at that time. According to the estimations, thus around 25 million people were fallen victim to the "Black Death". The pneumonic plague was not transmitted by flea bites - like the bubonic pest - but by highly infectious droplets containing bacilli with coughing and sneezing from person to person. In Vienna this plague epidemic reached its peak in 1349.
In the next 400 years followed at irregular intervals ever new plagues and spread fear, terror and death. Effective drugs were missing, and since the disease by the Catholic Church was interpreted as God's punishment, the population put itself under the protection of many plague saints, the Holy Trinity or the Virgin Mary. Eloquent testimonies of those efforts are still churches and chapels, pest altars, pest crosses and plague columns. The adoration of the Holy Trinity in the time of need of the 17th century especially by newly founded religious brotherhoods was disseminated - thus, also in Vienna in 1679 a Trinity Column was erected - the Plague Column at the Graben. As a monument to the last plague in Vienna in 1713 today reminds the Charles Church, which is, however, devoted to the plague saint Charles Borromeo.
As medical measures against a Pest disease recommended doctors sweating cures, bloodletting, chewing of juniper berries or Angelica roots, but also the administration of theriac, a popular drug of the Middle Ages. Frequently, garlic, laurel, rue, and a mixture of sulfur powder are listed in the prescriptions. The recipes, however, differ as to whether they are used for poor or rich Pest patients. One of the few effective medical attendances was the opening of the bumps (buboes) to drain the pus, which also the sufferers felt as a blessing. As a miracle drug was considered the applying of an impaled toad on the bumps, previously put in vinegar or wine bath. Such prepared toads were also attributed great healing power during the plague in 1679 in Vienna.
Quotes:
From Vienna "plague-order" of pest doctor Paul de Sorbait, 1679
"after the experience brings with it that cleanliness is a strange useful and necessary means, both to prevent the intrusion of infection, as well as the same to avert. Herentwegen (= hence) uncleanliness causes such evil and keeps it. So is our earnest command, that firstly no blood, viscera, heads and leggs of the killed cattle, nor herb leaves, crabs, snails, egg shells or other filth (= waste, manure) on those streets and squares (must be) poured out: ditto (Ingleichen) no dead dog, cats or poultry are thrown into the streets, but all of them carried out of the city".
From "Merck's Wienn" of preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara, 1680
"As a whole, there is not a lane or a road wich the raging death had not crossed. Throughout the month, in Vienna and around Vienna one saw nothing else but wearing the dead, conducting the dead, dragging the dead and burying the dead".
"From what the plague was caused but I know all of that/ that this poisonous arrow (= plague) mehristen Theil (= for the most part) from the hand of God is abgetruckt (= shot)/how its diverse testimony proves the divine Scripture (= Bible). From which apparently manifest and obvious/that the pestilence was a ruthe (= rod)/so the sublime hand of God wreaths I trust but leastwise the tree to show /from which God the rod braids. This tree is the sin".
* Song of dear Augustine
Oh du (you) lieber (dear) Augustin
S'money is gone, d'joy is gone,
Oh du lieber Augustin,
Everything is gone!
Oh, and even the rich Vienna
poor now as Augustine
Sighs with me in the same sense
Everything is gone!
Every day otherwise was a feast,
Now what? Plague, the plague!
Now only a huge nest of corpses,
That's the rest!
Oh du lieber Augustin,
Lie only down into the grave you,
Oh my dear Vienna
Everything is gone!
Text source: Rathauskorrespondenz
Plague in Vienna
Plague doctor - through these clothes the doctors during the plague epidemic of 1656 in Rome hoped to protect themselves from the pest contamination. They wore a wax jacket, a type of protective eyewear and gloves. In the beak there were "wolriechende Specerey (odoriferous specialties)".
(public domain)
www.wien-konkret.at/sehenswuerdigkeiten/pestsaeule/pest-i...