The Wild and Scenic Rogue River flows peacefully at the Rainbow Recreation Site, Oct. 24, 2019, by Greg Shine, BLM.

The Rogue River is located in southwestern Oregon and flows 215 miles from Crater Lake to the Pacific Ocean. The 84 mile, Congressionally-designated "National Wild and Scenic" portion of the Rogue begins 7 miles west of Grants Pass and ends 11 miles east of Gold Beach.

The Rogue was one of the original eight rivers included in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. The Rogue National Wild and Scenic River is surrounded by forested mountains and rugged boulder and rock-lined banks.

Steelhead and salmon fishing, challenging whitewater, and extraordinary wildlife viewing opportunities have made the Rogue a national treasure. Black bear, river otter, black-tail deer, bald eagles, osprey, Chinook salmon, great blue heron, water ouzel, and Canada geese are common wildlife seen along the Rogue River. Popular activities include: whitewater rafting, fishing, jet boat tours, scenic driving, hiking, picnicking, and sunbathing.

The Smullin Visitor Center is located at the Rand National Historic Site, on the river near the town of Galice, approximately 20 miles from I-5 on the Merlin-Galice Road.

Visitor Center Address:

14335 Galice Road

Merlin, Oregon 97532

541-479-3735

BLM_OR_MD_Rogue_River_Mail@blm.gov

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2015-11-14 Hamburg-Germany Demonstration

Refugees Welcome means Equal Rights for all

Right to the City network

Under the impression of yesterday’s killings in Paris, around 9.000 refugees and supporters took to the streets of Hamburg.

We stand together united, in hope not hate!

Let’s be neighbors: Housing in apartments!

No isolation in tents, warehouses and mass-camps!

Migration happens: Freedom of movement is a human right! Right to stay for everyone!

Against defining asylum down; No one is a ›bad‹ migrant; stop deportations!

Make solidarity practical: Support the migrant struggles! For the right to full participation in society!

www.nevermindthepapers.noblogs.org

www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/nick/we-stand-together-4643

Navy and white wrap dress, Merona. Hot pink tank, Express. White slip (lace at neckline), vintage. Hot pink slingbacks, Wild Diva. White beads, Body Central.

And the search goes on to accessorize this dress. I like the cool tones of navy and hot pink, accented with white. The neckline of the slip turned out to be a perfect fit, layered under the pink tank.

How have you liked this dress accessorized so far? Nautical, Nautical Again, Dash of Lime, or Pop of Pink?

See all four looks here

Until the mid-19th century the majority of the area of ​​present-day Schwarzenberg square was occupied by the Glacis located in front of Vienna city walls that was here crossed by the River Wien (Vienna). After the demolition of the city walls during the years 1858 to 1863 relatively large areas now in the range of ramparts and glacis for building development have been available. Similar to Ring Road palaces of the second half of the 19th century, some magnificent buildings were constructed here.

1861 was by Emperor Franz Joseph I decided to erect here the 1813 in the Battle of Leipzig been victorious commander Karl Philipp Schwarzenberg a monument. The equestrian statue was created by the Dresden sculptor Ernst Hähnel (1811-1891) from 1863, the militarily laid out laying of the foundation stone for the monument took place on 18 October 1863 (the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Nations), the ceremonial unveiling of the (in those days aesthetically and historically not uncontroversial) monument on October 20, 1867 (after the anniversary of the battle of nations, October 18, due to political reasons had not been kept).

Since 1865, the 1895 demolished Schwarzenberg bridge led across the river to Rennweg (route to Hungary), towards later Prinz-Eugen street (access from downtown to South Station and Staatsbahnhof (state railway station), later Ostbahnhof - eastern railway station) and the situated in between Palais Schwarzenberg.

Historic Art Nouveau Place lighting type "crosier"

During the construction of the First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline was before the Palais Schwarzenberg (in an area that then did not yet belong to Schwarzenberg square) built the high jet fountain (Hochstrahlbrunnen) and on 23 October 1873 with a ceremony, attended by Emperor Franz Joseph I, opened. The since about 1870 from the Seilerstätte out of town until the small river Wienfluss running Schwarzenberg street was in 1880 in its southern area between the Ring Road and Lothringer street, accordingly to the importance of the ensemble with the equestrian monument, renamed in Schwarzenberg square.

The 1895-1902 vaulted Vienna River, at whose southern shore until 1899 the also vaulted Wientallinie of the Vienna Metropolitan railway was built, at this place run about in the area of the southern roadway of Lothringer street. In 1904, the square south was extented until the Schwarzenberg square. The indication that the Schwarzenberg street previously had been extended to the Palais Schwarzenberg does not harmonize with the historic city maps and address books.

Behind of (= south of) High Jet Fountain was in August 1945, immediately after the end of World War II, by the Red Army the War Memorial (popularly today: Russian monument) unveiled; until 1955 there was also a Soviet tank SU-100 placed. During the occupation time the southern part of the Schwarzenberg square on April 12, 1946, was renamed in Stalin Square and the square kept this name to 18 July 1956. In the House of Industry, then Stalin Square 4, was until 1955 the seat of the Allied Council of the four occupying powers.

In the years 2003 and 2004 the Schwarzenberg place after a concept by Spanish architect Alfredo Arribas has been redesigned and additionally equipped with sunken lighting elements that represent different lighting effects. In the course of restructuring the existing hitherto small green areas have been eliminated, which has also been criticized. Particularly strong reservations there was against the replacement of the largely still remaining slender lighting columns in 1904 by light bodies which were perceived by critics as clumsy and clunky. The previous design of the City of Vienna had the complete restoration of the historic Art Nouveau Chandeliers of type "crosier" provided. 2016, many of the 300 embedded in the ground, controlled by computer effect lamps are defective. The dismantling of outdated technology that was only in the early years serviced is being debated.

Under the Schwarzenbergplatz not only run the Vienna river and the subway line U4, here was once also the Zwingburg, a shelter for homeless and Strotter (people looking for recyclable waste products), who secluded themselves in the Vienna sewage system.

Bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde der Großteil des Areals des heutigen Schwarzenbergplatzes von dem der Wiener Stadtmauer vorgelagerten Glacis eingenommen, das hier vom Wienfluss durchflossen wurde. Nach dem Abriss der Stadtmauer in den Jahren 1858 bis 1863 standen nun verhältnismäßig große Flächen im Bereich von Stadtmauer und Glacis zur Verbauung zur Verfügung. Ähnlich den Ringstraßenpalais der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden auch hier einige Prachtbauten errichtet.

1861 wurde von Kaiser Franz Joseph I. beschlossen, dem 1813 in der Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig siegreich gewesenen Feldherrn Karl Philipp Schwarzenberg hier ein Denkmal errichten zu lassen. Das Reiterstandbild wurde vom Dresdner Bildhauer Ernst Hähnel (1811–1891) ab 1863 geschaffen, die militärisch angelegte Grundsteinlegung zum Monument fand am 18. Oktober 1863 statt (dem 50. Jahrestag der Völkerschlacht), die feierliche Enthüllung des (in jenen Tagen ästhetisch wie historisch nicht unumstrittenen) Denkmals am 20. Oktober 1867 (nachdem der Jahrestag der Völkerschlacht, der 18. Oktober, aus politischer Rücksicht nicht wahrgenommen worden war).

Seit 1865 führte die 1895 abgebrochene Schwarzenbergbrücke über den Fluss zum Rennweg (Route nach Ungarn), zur späteren Prinz-Eugen-Straße (Zufahrt vom Stadtzentrum zu Südbahnhof und Staatsbahnhof, später Ostbahnhof) und zum dazwischen liegenden Palais Schwarzenberg.

Historische Jugendstil-Platzbeleuchtung vom Typ "Bischofsstab"

Anlässlich des Baus der I. Wiener Hochquellenwasserleitung wurde vor dem Palais Schwarzenberg (auf einem Areal, das damals noch nicht zum Schwarzenbergplatz zählte) der Hochstrahlbrunnen errichtet und am 23. Oktober 1873 mit einer Zeremonie, der Kaiser Franz Joseph I. beiwohnte, eröffnet. Die seit etwa 1870 von der Seilerstätte stadtauswärts bis zum Wienfluss verlaufende Schwarzenbergstraße wurde 1880 in ihrem südlichen Abschnitt zwischen Ringstraße und Lothringerstraße, der Bedeutung des Ensembles mit dem Reiterdenkmal entsprechend, in Schwarzenbergplatz umbenannt.

Der 1895 bis 1902 eingewölbte Wienfluss, an dessen südlichem Ufer bis 1899 die ebenfalls eingewölbte Wientallinie der Wiener Stadtbahn gebaut wurde, verlief an dieser Stelle etwa im Zuge der südlichen Fahrbahn der Lothringerstraße. 1904 wurde der Platz südlich bis zum Palais Schwarzenberg erweitert. Die Angabe, die Schwarzenbergstraße habe sich zuvor bereits bis zum Palais Schwarzenberg erstreckt, harmoniert nicht mit historischen Stadtplänen und Adressbüchern.

Hinter dem (= südlich vom) Hochstrahlbrunnen wurde im August 1945, unmittelbar nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, von der Roten Armee das Heldendenkmal (im Volksmund bis heute: Russendenkmal) enthüllt; bis 1955 war dort auch ein sowjetischer Panzer SU-100 aufgestellt. Während der Besatzungszeit wurde der südliche Teil des Schwarzenbergplatzes am 12. April 1946 in Stalinplatz umbenannt und behielt diesen Namen bis 18. Juli 1956. Im Haus der Industrie, damals Stalinplatz 4, befand sich bis 1955 der Sitz des Alliierten Rates der vier Besatzungsmächte.

In den Jahren 2003 und 2004 wurde der Schwarzenbergplatz nach einem Konzept des spanischen Architekten Alfredo Arribas neu gestaltet und zusätzlich mit im Boden eingelassenen Beleuchtungselementen ausgestattet, die verschiedene Lichteffekte darstellen. Im Zuge des Umbaus wurden die bis dahin vorhandenen kleinen Grünflächen entfernt, was auch kritisiert wurde. Besonders starke Vorbehalte gab es gegen die Ersetzung der großteils noch vorhandenen schlanken Lichtmasten aus 1904 durch Beleuchtungskörper, die von Kritikern als plump und klobig empfunden wurden. Die vorherige Konzeption der Gemeinde Wien hatte die vollständige Wiederherstellung der historischen Jugendstil-Beleuchtungskörper vom Typus "Bischofsstab" vorgesehen. 2016 sind viele der 300 im Boden eingelassenen, per Computer angesteuerten Effektleuchten defekt. Der Rückbau der veralteten Technik, die nur in den ersten Jahren gewartet wurde, steht zur Diskussion.

Unter dem Schwarzenbergplatz verlaufen nicht nur der Wienfluss und die U-Bahn-Linie U4, hier befand sich einst auch die Zwingburg, ein Unterschlupf für Obdachlose und Strotter, die sich in der Wiener Kanalisation zurückzogen.

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SERIES:Copies of engravings of Newcastle.

TITLE: View of Hunter River near Newcastle N.S.W. taken from Prospect Hill.

CARTOGRAPHER/ SURVEYOR/ PUBLISHER: Drawn by I. R. Brown.

Engraved by W. Preston. Published by A. West Sydney

DATE: November 30, 1812

FORMAT: Copy of engraving

SUBJECT/ AREA/ FEATURES: From an engraving in the Collection of Newcastle City Art Gallery.

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Caerphilly Castle is undoubtedly one of the mightiest fortresses in Wales - and perhaps one of the grandest medieval buildings in Western Europe. Works on the castle begun in 1268, ordered by ‘Red’ Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Glamorgan. After his death in 1295, the castle was taken over and modernized by his son in law, Hugh Despenser. In 1326, during a rebellion against the despised Despenser and weakened King of England, Edward II, the two hole themselves up in Caerphilly but were captured elsewhere in Wales - and brutally executed. In late 1300s, the Castle became unused and gradually begun to decline and disintegrate. Some repair work was undertaken by Earl of Warwick in 1428-1429. A Civil war battlement was constructed alongside the castle in 1642, although it’s debated if it was ever actually used. The ruinous castle passed into the hands of the Marquesses of Bute in 1776. Vast renovations were undertaken by Fourth Marquess of Bute during 1928-1939.

Source: www.exploring-castles.com/caerphilly_castle.html

Vintage 1950’s 12 ounce box of Niagara Instant Laundry Starch found at an estate sale. The original 25¢ price is ink stamped on the bottom.

The product is still made, only in an aerosol spray can. Made by Best Foods a Division of Corn Products, NY, NY. One side has a fold out metal pouring spout.

There is about 4” of powder remaining in the box.

The regiment of new cadets began the morning of July 18 with a regimental run followed by an awards ceremony to close out the first phase of Cadet Basic Training. Companies of new cadets took group photos with their cadet cadre after formation, as they welcomed their new cadet leadership that afternoon with a change of command ceremony. The cadet cadre of CBT I Regiment, from commander to squad leader, relinquished their duties and responsibility to a new chain of command for the second phase of CBT. Photo by Mike Strasser/West Point Directorate of Public Affairs & Communications

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The first thing I noticed about this guy was his hair---it's awesome. The second thing was his unnatural calm; when I asked to take his picture, he gave me a gentle yes, posed for a few seconds, smiled, and went on his way. I found this admirable, especially since many students on campus seem so harried.

A side note: this is the first time I ventured over to the East Bank of the University of Minnesota, which primarily houses the undergraduate schools and is a lot busier than the West Bank, where I spend most of my time. This guy was an exception, but I find that many East Bankers don't really connect with what I'm trying to accomplish with this project. For the sheer number of people milling about, there just aren't many of what I would consider interesting subjects to be found (that is, unless you find 19 year olds wearing sweatpants and Uggs interesting). Most people are in their own bubble, chatting with their cliques, talking on the phone, or wearing the ubiquitous white ear buds. Its as if you're asking them to do something weird---donning a Santa suit and dancing the Macarena-weird---when you ask to take their picture. For shooting stranger portraits, I've developed the following mentality: on the outside, you ask very nicely and are understanding if the potential subject says no. I mean, it's definitely their right to do so. But depending on the attitude they give you (thinking of the, "Helllll noooo" I got a few days ago from someone), you have to imagine yourself as Richard Avedon; you're doing them a favor by taking their portrait, not the other way around. It's not really true for me, I'm not some great artist, but for the times when you face a rather rude rejection, it's the kind of mindset you really need to have in order to keep asking strangers. Chances are, the next 10 people you ask will be really nice and give you a great image. A thick skin, a friendly smile, some fake attitude, and persistence are essential ingredients of a street portraitist.

This picture is the thirty-fifth in my 100 strangers project, to learn more and see the rest of A Brand New Minneapolis, click here.

Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

LOGIE-BUCHAN, a parish, in the district of Ellon, county of Aberdeen, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Ellon; containing 713 inhabitants.

The word Logie, expressive of a low-lying spot, was given to this place on account of its applicability to the tract in which the church is situated; while the affix is descriptive of the position of the parish in that part of the county called Buchan.

Logie-Buchan Parish Church is located on the southern slope of the River Ythan valley, in gently rolling countryside with small fields, rough grazing and enclosures of trees. There is a narrow trackway and footbridge across the river a short distance to the north. The church stands in a sloping graveyard, bounded by a rubble wall. The large former manse is positioned to the south and the church itself closed recently and a new use had not been found when it was visited (2012).

A church here was granted to Aberdeen Cathedral by David II in 1361, while the current church was built in the late 18th century with later additions and alterations.

Description (exterior)

The church is a small, simple building with little architectural detailing. It is aligned roughly east-west and has harled, rubble walls and a slate roof. There are narrow strips of granite stone around the windows and doors. The church is rectangular on plan, with a small, gabled porch and a lean-to vestry at the west end.

The east elevation has a hipped or piended roof rather than a gable. There are two rectangular windows with simple timber tracery and small panes of leaded glass. There has clearly been alterations carried out at this end of the church, shown by two blocked openings, a doorway and window, in the centre of the east elevation.

The north elevation of the church has four equally-spaced rectangular windows, each with simple tracery and latticed glazing. The opposite south elevation has two larger rectangular windows, towards the centre, again with tracery and latticed glazing.

The west end of the church has a small, gabled porch with a rectangular doorway on the south side, which is the main entrance into the church. There is a rectangular window in the west gable of this porch and a tall chimney rises from the apex, serving a fireplace in the small lean-to vestry extension to the north of the porch. The church has a tall gable at the west end, topped by an ashlar-built bellcote, which has a stone ball finial.

Description (interior)

Some of the fittings remain in the church but are likely to be removed if and when a new use is found for the church, which is no longer in use.

People / Organisations:

Name RoleDates Notes

William RuxtonRecast the interior 1912

Robert MaxwellMade the church bell1728

Events:

Church built on site of older church (1787)

Porch and vestry added to west (1891)

Interior recast (1912)

Logie-Buchan is separated on the east from the German Ocean by the parish of Slains, and is intersected by the river Ythan.

The river abounds with various kinds of trout, also with salmon, eels, lounders, and mussels; and pearls are still occasionally found.

It has a ferry opposite the parish church, where its breadth at low water is about sixty yards; and two boats are kept, one for general passengers, and the other, a larger boat, for the conveyance of the parishioners to church from the northern side.

A tradition has long prevailed that the largest pearl in the crown of Scotland was obtained in the Ythan; and it appears that, about the middle of the last century, £100 were paid by a London jeweller to gentleman in Aberdeen, for pearls found in the river.

Most of the inhabitants of the district are employed in agricultural pursuits, a small brick-work recently established being the only exception.

The great north road from Aberdeen passes through the parish, and the mail and other public coaches travel to and fro daily. On another road, leading to the shipping-port of Newburgh, the tenantry have a considerable traffic in grain, lime, and coal, the last procured from England, and being the chief fuel.

The river Ythan is navigable for lighters often or twelve tons' burthen at high water. The marketable produce of the parish is sent to Aberdeen. Logie- Buchan is ecclesiastically in the presbytery of Ellon, synod of Aberdeen, and in the patronage of Mr. Buchan.

The church was built in 1787, and contains 400 sittings.

Cemeteries - Presbyterian / Unitarian

Logie Buchan Parish Church, Logie-Buchan, Church of Scotland

The church of Logie-Buchan was dedicated to St Andrew.

St Andrew's Church was built in 1787 and has been much altered. It contains a 1728 bell.

Logie-Buchan (Aberdeen, Buchan). Also known as Logie Talargy, the church was granted by David II in 1361 to the common fund of the canons of Aberdeen cathedral, and this was confirmed to the uses of the canons by Alexander, bishop of Aberdeen in 1362, both parsonage and vicarage fruits being annexed while the cure was to become a vicarage pensionary.

Although possession was obtained by the dean and chapter, this was subsequently lost, and the church had to be re-annexed in 1437, the previous arrangement being adhered to, with both parsonage and vicarage remaining annexed.

St Andrew's Kirk, 1787. Undistinguished externally, porch 1891, inside original ceiling with Adam-like centrepiece and two-light Gothic windows, part of 1912 recasting, William Buxton. Pulpit was originally in the centre of the N wall with a horseshoe gallery bearing the Buchan coat of arms (George Reid, Peterhead, carver). Monuments to Thomas (d. 1819) and Robert (d. 1825) Buchan.

Bell, 1728, Robert Maxwell. Church bought by Captain David Buchan to ensure access and survival.

Kirkyard: plain ashlar gatepiers and rubble walls; some table tombs.

Facade of the historic tack shed at the Riddle Brothers Ranch National Historic District, July 11, 2018, by Greg Shine, BLM.

Want a firsthand glimpse of ranch life in the American West of the early twentieth century? The Riddle Brothers Ranch National Historic District in southeast Oregon—on the west flank of Steens Mountain—provides that historic context of pioneer settlement.

In 1986, Burns District BLM acquired 7,500 acres of land on the west flank of Steens Mountain. The core of this parcel is the Riddle Brothers Ranch, a 1,120-acre property on both sides of the Little Blitzen River. Since that time, the properties have been stabilized or restored, and it has also been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Walter, Frederick and Benjamin Riddle were three bachelor brothers who secured home sites and raised livestock in and around the ranch. Migrating from western Oregon, they settled in the early 1900s and built their ranch by gaining control of the land on both sides of the Little Blitzen River.

Today, visitors during the summer season can tour Frederick Riddle’s historic ranch house and many of its accompanying buildings -- including a bunkhouse, shop, and storage and tack shed – that line the north bank of the Little Blitzen Wild and Scenic River.

Know Before You Go:

Driving access into the Ranch is generally permitted Wednesday-Sunday from mid-June through October. High clearance, four-wheel drive vehicles are recommended. Access by foot, bicycle, or horseback is permitted anytime.

Amenities are few. A vault restroom is available, but drinking water, overnight use areas, cell phone service and other conveniences are not.

Avoid disturbing historical sites or artifacts. Leave these remnants of the past for others to enjoy.

For more information, visit www.blm.gov/visit/riddle-brothers-ranch-national-historic... or contact the BLM Burns District Office at 541-573-4400.

The nonfiction section of the library is divided by subject and is cataloged using the Dewey Decimal System.

000 GENERALITIES

000 Computers, Loch Ness, Bigfoot, UFOs, Aliens

020 Libraries

030 Encyclopedias & World Record Books

060 Museums

070 Newspapers

100 PHILOSOPHY

130 Ghosts, Witches & the Supernatural

150 Optical Illusions, Feelings

170 Emotions, Values, Animal Rights

200 RELIGION

220 Bible Stories

290 Mythology, World Religions

300 SOCIAL SCIENCES

300 Social Issues - immigration, racism, World Cultures

310 Almanacs

320 Government

330 Money, Working

340 Court System, Famous Trials

350 Armed Forces – Army, Navy, Air Force, etc.

360 Drugs, Environmental Issues, Titanic, Police, Firefighters

370 Schools

380 Transportation,

390 Holidays, Folktales, Fairy Tales

400 LANGUAGES

410 Sign Language

420 Dictionaries, Grammar

430 German Language

440 French Language

450 Italian Language

460 Spanish Language

490 Hieroglyphics, Japanese Language

500 SCIENCE AND MATH

500 Science Experiments, Science Sets,

510 Mathematics

520 Stars, planets, astronomy, space

530 Physical Science - force & motion, electricity,

magnetism, light

540 Chemistry, Atoms & Molecules, Rocks and Minerals

550 Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Weather, Hurricanes, Tornadoes

560 Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Animals, Fossils

570 Forests, Rain Forests, Deserts, Mountains, Oceans, Evolution

580 Plants, Flowers & Trees

590 Animals & Insects

592 Worms, Invertebrates

593 Corals, Sea Invertebrates

594 Seashells, Snails, Octopus

595 Insects, Spiders

597 Fish, Frogs, Toads, Reptiles, Amphibians, Snakes

598 Birds

599 Mammals of the Land and Ocean, Whales

600 PEOPLE USING SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

600 Inventions

610 Human body, Health

620 Rockets, Trains, Cars, Trucks

630 Farming, Farm Animals, Cats, Dogs, Pets, Horses

640 Cookbooks, Sewing

650 Secret Codes

660 How Food is made

670 Paper Making

680 Woodworking

690 Building

700 ARTS and RECREATION

710 Art Appreciation, History of Art

720 Houses, Buildings

730 Origami, Paper Crafts

740 Drawing, Crafts,

750 Painting

760 Printing

770 Photography

780 Music

790 Sports, Games, Magic, I Spy, Camping, Fishing, Racing, Hunting

800 LITERATURE

810 Poetry, Plays, Jokes & Riddles

820 Shakespeare

860 Poetry in Spanish

890 Japanese Poetry, Haiku

900 GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

910 Explorers, Atlases

920 Flags, People (Biography)

930 Archeology, Ancient Civilizations

940 Knights, Castles, World War I & II, European Countries

950 Asian & Middle Eastern Countries

960 African Countries

970 North & Central American Countries, Native American Tribes, American History, States

980 South American Countries

990 Pacific Islands, Australia, Hawaii, Arctic, Antarctica

Scotland 2017

Force Of Nature

We long to taste forbidden fruit

I turn away but everywhere I look is you

Searching for the passion I found through you

A force of nature

A hurricane with just a word

A waterfall with all of the hurt

This love is

This love is a force of nature...

Emmelie De Forrest

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Outside of the Town Hall theater on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, a crowd of smiling and optimistic people Friday overflowed into the one-way street. Delivery trucks and yellow taxi cabs creeped by, their engines engaged in a shouting match with Bennet Weiss, a man who bore a fleeting resemblance to the Democratic presidential candidate they were all there to support.

"We don't have billions of dollars! All we have are people wearing Bernie pins," Weiss yelled, a large black umbrella covered in Bernie Sanders campaign pins at his feet, catching drops of sweat from his brow. The Occupy Wall Street protester-turned-Sanders supporter urged the crowd to wear the pins at all times with no exception -- even in the shower -- and gave them away freely to anyone who said they didn't have enough cash to afford to pay the suggested donation.

That's the kind of populist support Sanders' campaign has steadily been attracting since the U.S. senator from Vermont formally announced his candidacy in late April. Friday was no exception, with passion-filled people who think Sanders has proved himself the worthy champion of causes they care about the most, such as income inequality, climate change, Wall Street reform and further healthcare reforms. But, perhaps most importantly, they also think he can win the White House.

"Absolutely" he can win, said Joe Trinolone, 30, a former finance industry worker from Long Island, New York, who is studying mathematics at St. Joseph's University. "I mean, he's winning right now."

Sanders, during a fundraising speech Friday, ticked through the policies he cares about and areas of change he wants to see in Washington should he become president. At each turn, his blend of outrage, optimism and sly sarcasm brought raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,100. He rejected recent Wall Street Journal criticism of the high price tag of his proposals, including making public colleges and universities free, lowering so-called real unemployment by pumping funding into infrastructure repairs for the nation’s roads and bridges and implementing a universal healthcare system.

Instead, he pointed to European nations that already have those programs. He implored the crowd to think about what many of them were already talking about: that taking on the big-money interests in the United States that impede those sorts of policy changes is a shared moral obligation.

“Welcome to the revolution,” Sanders said, describing what he believes must happen to American politics. “We can accomplish all of this and more.” And the crowd ate it up.

When asked why they support Sanders, many described his candidacy as a movement. They love his policies, and have a hard time thinking of much they don’t like about him. They especially like that he has been a consistent voice during his time in Washington. That’s a big perceived difference between Sanders and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Those "feeling the Bern" were split on whether they would consider voting for her if she becomes the nominee. Many were newcomers to political action but felt compelled to join the fray when they heard Sanders and his message.

“I’ve never been excited about a politician my entire life,” said Meira Marom, 34, a Brooklyn third-grade teacher with a master's degree in creative writing. When Marom started seeing social media posts about Sanders and reading about him, she decided to stop focusing her personal time on writing for herself. She now writes and publishes something about Sanders every day -- Dr. Seuss themes every Sunday, poems and parodies. “I decided this is the most worthy cause to put my rhymes to use.”

Sanders has seen an unexpected rise in the polls since he joined the race for the Democratic nomination shortly after the current national front-runner Clinton announced her candidacy. While Sanders was trailing Clinton by 21.4 percent in national averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, a look at early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire paints a different picture of vulnerability for Clinton and strength for Sanders.

The two candidates are tied in Iowa, which constitutes a dramatic drop for Clinton and an impressive surge for Sanders, who has been distancing himself from Clinton in New Hampshire at the top of the Democratic pack since Aug. 25, when he jumped past her in the state for the first time. He currently leads there by 10.5 points.

The candidates are noticeably different in many ways, from policy prescription to fundraising strategy.

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party. While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

Among them are his strong anti-war and anti-government surveillance positions as well as his distaste for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department. For some Sanders supporters, though, the perception that Sanders has been a consistent proponent of these liberal policies, and cares about them more than winning, is key.

“It’s the message that supporting Bernie Sanders is not just voting on a horse in the race” that attracts Brian Dillon, a 28-year-old self-employed Web designer and developer for e-commerce, said Friday. Dillon has voted just one time in his life, but he has been organizing meetings to drum up support for Sanders.

Sanders's fundraising portfolio also is the reverse of Clinton's. While the former secretary of state is expected to spend somewhere north of $1 billion should she win the primary and head into the general election for 2016, the same has not been said of Sanders. Currently, Clinton has raised, through her campaign committee and super PACs associated with the campaign, $47.5 million, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Sanders, on the other hand, has raised just shy of $16.5 million, according to CRP data.

Their most startling difference in fundraising, however, can be seen in the size of the donations they're receiving. The Clinton campaign received 82 percent of its donations from large contributors, and her top industry donors, not including retired people, so far have been lawyers, business services and the financial industry.

In contrast, Sanders relies much more on small donations, which are defined as donations totaling $200 or less. So far, 69 percent of his contributions have come from small donors, and the biggest industries that have given to his campaign have been from the education, legal and healthcare sectors.

Who are those small donors? The types of people who showed up Friday. Some said they donate $25 to $30 a month to Sanders. Some said they have donated several hundred dollars since he jumped into the presidential race. Nearly all of them mentioned they don't earn a ton of money personally. One in particular, Machumu Sakulira, said he donated $500 before attending Friday’s event.

There is “no way” he would support a Clinton ticket, said Sakulira, a 31-year-old senior political science student at the University at Buffalo. He got on a bus Thursday night at 11 p.m. and arrived in New York at 7 a.m. for the Sanders speech. He said he was going back Friday night. “Bernie represents my interest. My vote is a moral choice, I don’t give it to somebody who doesn’t deserve it.”

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Captain Charles Fitzgerald, born Kilkee 1791 (the son of a country gentleman of the old Irish school. (Fathers name Robert) was Governor of Gambia 1844 to 1847 also Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855. He is buried at Killfearagh graveyard on the Carrighaholt Rd. Outside of Kilkee. (Protestant side)

Captain Charles Fitzgerald spent his retirement years in Kilkee and was noted in the press for attendance at meetings in support of establishing the West Clare Railway.

In 1857 Captain FitzGerald was appointed C.B., and retired to his home, Geraldine House. Geraldine place. Kilkee, where he died aged 96 on 29 December 1887.

Twice married: first on the 5/5/1837 to Lucy (died 18 NOV 1843), youngest daughter of Dr Austin, and second in 1848 to Eleanora Caroline, (ELVES ELONORA CAROLINE ARABELLA) known as Ellen, eldest daughter of Charles Carey Elwes, of Billing Hall and sister of Valentine Dudley Henry Cary-Elwes Esq. The Elwes were a prominent Northamptonshire family. (The actor Cary Elwes is a descendent of Valentine Cary-Elwes)

ELEANOR CAROLINE ARABELLA FITZGERALD DIED EARLY 1890 AGED 62.

Captain Charles Fitzgerald had two children, neither married.

I recently found a book signed by Eleanora FitzGerald (nee Elwes) from Geraldine House Kilkee. The name of the book was The Modern housewife by Alexis Soyer dated 1849.

Captain Charles’s father was Robert Fitzgerald who died in Kilkee in 1806 aged 63. Robert is buried in Kiltinnaun Bansha near Kilkee (I think his wife was Lucy who died in 1836 at Kilkee house Kilrush)

Roberts father was Edmund Fitzgerald of Abbeyfeale, county Limerick who married Margaret Keane(Her father was Charles Keane of Kildimo: son of "Robert of Ross/near Kilkee)

Captain Charles Fitzgerald’s ancestors can be traced back to Ballymaloe Imokilly Cloyne County cork in the 15 Cent. He was a distant relative of the Duke of Leinster.

Capt Charles had two brothers Robert Fitzgerald Esq. of Kilkee and George Fitzgerald of Kilkee. Robert Fitzgerald's grandson Henry Boyd Fitzgerald was last recorded living in Brighton Square Dublin in 1919. I found very little evidence recorded of Roberts other grandsons James Charles and William of Castleblaney.

Capt Charles fitzgerald's Sister Alicia married a Frank Leyden of liverpool in 1841.

This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (MUP), 1966

Charles FitzGerald (1791-1887), governor, was the son of Robert FitzGerald of Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland, and a cadet of the ducal house of Leinster. He entered the navy in March 1809, passed his examination in 1815, and was first commissioned in March 1826. He served for a time as a lieutenant in the coastguard, and in 1833-36 commanded first the Cruiser and then theBelvidera on the North American and West Indian Stations. In 1838 he was sent in command of the Buzzard to the west coast of Africa to help suppress the slave trade, and served there with distinction. He was invalided home in 1840, promoted commander, and placed on half pay.

In 1844 FitzGerald was appointed lieutenant-governor of the British settlements on the Gambia. It was a comparatively quiet post, and the only significant event during his administration was an imbroglio in the higher public service, during which the governor suspended his chief justice,(Sir) Richard Graves MacDonnell, who later succeeded him as governor, and still later served as governor of South Australia. FitzGerald returned to England in 1847 and in July was appointed governor of Western Australia in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke. However, FitzGerald insisted on taking the leave accruing to him from his Gambia appointment, and thus did not arrive in Western Australia until 12 August 1848. He was then 57, and twice married: first in 1837 to Lucy, youngest daughter of Dr Austin, and second in 1848 to Eleanora Caroline, daughter of Charles Elwes, of Great Billing, Northamptonshire.

On arrival in the colony FitzGerald found the local Treasury almost empty and a general despondency hanging over the pastoralists and farmers, nearly all of whom were thoroughly dissatisfied with the high price of crown land, the lack of labour and the interim administration of Colonel Frederick Irwin and his colonial secretary, George Moore. There were fewer than 5000 people in the whole colony. Neither workmen nor capitalists had been attracted to it for many years, and the colonists had already petitioned for convicts to be sent from Britain. FitzGerald was instructed to inquire whether the colonists would accept a small number of well-behaved convicts from Pentonville; after confirming that they would be welcome, he informed Earl Grey in London, who quickly instigated an Order in Council in May 1849 to convert Western Australia into a penal colony. The British government promised to send out as many free immigrants as convicts.

The first two ships carrying convicts arrived at Fremantle in 1850, and thereafter the colony received about three shiploads of felons a year, though their arrival was very irregular and no advance notice of either dates or numbers was given to the colonial authorities. The result was an alternation of surfeits and deficits in the supply of labour. By the end of 1855, the year in which FitzGerald retired, 3668 convicts had arrived in Western Australia, nearly half of them already holding tickets-of-leave entitling them to seek private employment and to be paid wages; if employers were not prepared to take them, they were employed by the government on public works at below-market wages. During these five years FitzGerald was not responsible for the day-to-day administration of the convict system, which was in the competent hands of Captain E. Y. W. Henderson, R.E., and his subordinate officers. However, inasmuch as FitzGerald was responsible for general policy, he had some control over the methods used to employ and to discipline the men, and he acquired the reputation of being at once autocratic, kind-hearted and humane. With more interest in the quick and efficient dispersal of convicts throughout the colony's rural districts than in the construction of a plethora of cheap public works, he adopted a country depot system to help private employers to engage the men. The remaining convicts were employed in building the Fremantle gaol and on other ancillary works. Although the labour supply for public works was never high, FitzGerald was able to claim credit for several notable improvements, especially the new roads from Perth to Fremantle, Guildford and Albany; he also used Aboriginal prisoners on the Perth-Albany project. Other notable improvements around Perth included the draining of several swamps and the erection of the first buildings specifically for use as a hospital and government schools.

During FitzGerald's administration the population of Western Australia nearly trebled, reaching 12,000, of whom about 3000 were convicts under sentence. Although the British government honoured its promise to send out assisted free immigrants, the colonists were not especially pleased with the quality of the English paupers and single Irish girls who were dispatched to counter an alarming decrease in the proportion of women in the colony. Furthermore, most free migrants to the Australian colonies had by-passed Albany and other western ports on their way to the Victorian and New South Wales goldfields. However, there had been little serious crime among the convicts, while the free immigrants had been readily absorbed into the community and the Irish girls showed no reluctance to marry the ex-convicts.

At the same time the economy of the colony benefited greatly from the increased imperial expenditure and the rising population. The fertile lands north of the Moore River in the vicinity of Champion Bay were settled by pastoralists taking advantage of the increased local market for meat and agricultural produce. After his arrival FitzGerald had strongly supported exploration of this district; on a tour of inspection in 1848 he was speared in the leg by Aboriginals and was fortunate to escape with his life. Wool production also improved in the early 1850s, pearl fishing began at Shark Bay, and a little lead was mined at Geraldine on the Murchison north of Geraldton, both place-names commemorating the governor. On the whole, therefore, the colony had recovered from its twenty years of economic depression, and the changing temper of the settlers, as well as the improvements in trade and commerce, confirmed the permanency of the colony.

FitzGerald's autocratic quarter-deck manner did not endear him to the leading settlers, who had been soured by long years of stagnation and were bent on gaining the greatest possible representation and power in the Legislative Council, as well as the quickest possible benefit from convict labour. They had always found Downing Street control of their public finances and land policy extremely galling, and orders from London were not at all palatable when coming from a salty ship's captain, who had been turned into a sort of schoolmaster, and who was more acquainted with giving orders than with receiving advice, especially from a highly critical and frequently intemperate local press.

FitzGerald appeased the opposition a little by appointing non-officials to the Council but by the very nature of the colony he had to remain an autocratic dispenser of his employer's policies. He was also a little unfortunate in his subordinates. With the important post of colonial secretary filled by three different men during his administration, FitzGerald had to intrude into too many petty affairs of government. Nor was he well served in the matter of government finance, which was also unfortunate because he had little business acumen. Any judgment on his abilities as an administrator and on his rather modest and unostentatious achievements must also be tempered by the fact that he governed the most insignificant Australian colony at the time of its greatest depression, and when its acceptance of convict labour was totally at variance with the policies of the other colonies. The critics of Western Australia were legion.

While FitzGerald performed with credit and social aplomb the many minor duties of his office, his young and attractive wife conducted a vigorous social programme revolving around Government House. She excelled at the opening of charity bazaars. She superintended an Anglican Sunday school, and she helped to organize a school for immigrant children. Her stay in Western Australia was probably the highlight of her life. Early in 1854 her husband was informed that his term of office was drawing to a close; in November his successor was appointed, and the FitzGeralds left Western Australia in July 1855.

Captain FitzGerald was probably thankful to be relieved of responsibility for governing a colony which daily became more penal, because he had always maintained that although the immediate economic effects of convict transportation were beneficial, its continuance would keep out the men and capital who alone could make it prosper. Such, indeed, was the tenor of his evidence to a select committee of the House of Lords, which in June 1856 examined him on his administration. In 1857 Captain FitzGerald was appointed C.B., and retired to his home, Geraldine House, Kilkee, where he died on 29 December 1887.

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The Pink Heals 2011 National Fire Truck Tour sponsored by Guardians of The Ribbon brought four Pink Fire Trucks to North Charleston at the Felix C. Davis Community Center in Park Circle.

Guardians of The Ribbon, dressed in pink fire suits, drive pink fire trucks across the country every year to raise awareness and funds for women and local non-profits in their fight against cancer. Its 2011 tour includes multiple stops in 20 states throughout the country.

For the North Charleston stop, the North Charleston Fire Department hosted a fundraiser benefiting Lowcountry Women with Wings.

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The face of Metro-North's first numbered West-of-Hudson locomotive is lit up nicely by some nice storm light minutes after a passing thunderstorm ripped through.

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The Museum of the Dreamers

The Phantastenmuseum is a museum in the Palais Palffy in the 1st district of Vienna Inner City. It shows the evolution of fantastic, surreal and visionary art of the postwar period to the present.

History

Following discussions between the Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs (* 13. Februar 1930 in Wien; † 9. November 2015) and the publisher, organizer and author Gerhard Habarta the idea of a museum of fantastic art in Vienna came to the realization. The "Austrian Cultural Center since 1958" in the Palais Palffy was enthusiastic about the idea, the plans for the new museum were concretised in the year of 2010. In autumn 2010 was started with the adaptation of the premises, which was completed in January 2011. The opening of the museum took place under the patronage of Federal President Heinz Fischer on 15 January 2011.

Premises

For the museum parts of the historical Palais Palffy due to war damage in the 1950s renovated were used.

The foyer was designed by Lehmden student Kurt Welther about The Marriage of Figaro. Here, also a lobby with the ticket office, the information and the museum shop has been set up. In this one gifts like replicas of famous works of art, sculptures, jewelery, catalogs and posters as well as original editions are sold. On the 1st floor is located opposite the Figaro Concert Hall the gallery. It is a 150 m² large space for solo exhibitions. The museum occupies the entire top floor and consists of designed spaces. In addition to works from its own collection and permanent loans, documents and portraits of artist personalities are shown.

The museum

The museum is divided into the following areas:

Impulses: Here are the inspirations identified which brought the young artists first information after the war, with works by Edgar Jené and Gustav K. Beck and Arnulf Neuwirth.

Academy: Here, the young creatives found an artistic home, including works by Albert Paris Gütersloh, Ernst Fuchs, Fritz Janschka, Anton Lehmden and Kurt Steinwendner before he turned into the filmmaker and object artist Curt Stenvert.

Contemporaries: These include older artists of fantastic, who had survived the dictatorship, like Greta Freist, Kurt Goebel, Charles Lipka or the CIA agent Charles von Ripper. And the young ones, as Rudolf Schoenwald or Arnulf Rainer as well as painters who moved in later Art Club. These include the "partisan" Maria Biljan-Bilger, Peppino Wieternik before he turned to the abstract, and Carl Unger who designed a large glass front of the Palais Palffy.

Art Club: It gathered the artistic elite of the post-war period and became with the Strohkoffer (straw suitcase) a social center.

Dog Group: It became the first counter-movement, in which the rebels as Ernst Fuchs, Arnulf Rainer and Maria Lassnig, Wolfgang Kudrnofsky and maverick visionary Anton Krejcar with graphics that today have become valuable manifested themselves.

The Pintorarium of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Ernst Fuchs and Arnulf Rainer fought actionistically with wall newspaper and nude demonstration against the established Academy, bad architecture and for the freedom of the spirit.

Hundertwasser realized the theories of Pintorarium in his buildings. A photo documentation of Kurt Pultar.

Vienna School of Fantastic Realism: The core of the museum with pictures of Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hutter, Fritz Janschka, who lives in the United States and Anton Lehmden. Of Rudolf Hausner is - in addition to an oil painting - the documentation of long-term work on his Ark of Odysseus to see. In addition to an early work by Ernst Fuchs, a specially created for the museum great painting version of a 55 years ago arosen drawing is shown.

In the department of simultaneous 16 images of that Viennese Fantasts can be seen who presented themselves in the 1960s for the first time, among other things, in the gallery that installed Ernst Fuchs.

In the Department Next Generation are those almost still "young ones" which - despite temporary exclusion by the avant-garde - are committed to the new tendencies of the fantastic. They studied partly with Hausner, Lehmden, Hutter and Fuchs and also learned as wizards.

The Graphic Cabinet presents some etchings and lithographs to stamps. Here the global network is shown in about 30 works by international visionaries. Representatives from Japan, the US, Australia and European centers are the ambassadors of associations of fantastic artists, the Ambassadors of the Fantastic Universe.

Phantastenmuseum

Das Phantastenmuseum ist ein Museum im Palais Pálffy im 1. Wiener Gemeindebezirk Innere Stadt. Es zeigt die Entwicklung der phantastischen, surrealen und visionären Kunst von der Nachkriegszeit bis zur Gegenwart.

Geschichte

Nach Gesprächen zwischen dem österreichischen Künstler Ernst Fuchs und dem Verleger, Organisator und Autor Gerhard Habarta entstand die Idee zur Verwirklichung eines Museums für phantastische Kunst in Wien. Das „Österreichische Kulturzentrum seit 1958“ im Palais Pálffy zeigte sich von der Idee begeistert, die Pläne für das neue Museum wurden im Jahr 2010 konkretisiert. Im Herbst 2010 wurde mit der Adaptierung der Räumlichkeiten begonnen, die im Jänner 2011 abgeschlossen wurde. Die Eröffnung des Museums fand am 15. Jänner 2011 unter dem Ehrenschutz von Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer statt.

Räumlichkeiten

Für das Museum wurden Teile des historischen, aufgrund Kriegsschäden in den 1950er Jahren renovierten Palais Pálffy genutzt.

Das Foyer wurde vom Lehmden-Schüler Kurt Welther zum Thema Figaros Hochzeit gestaltet. Hier wurde auch ein Empfangsbereich mit der Ticketkasse, der Information und dem Museums-Shop eingerichtet. In diesem werden Geschenke wie Nachbildungen berühmter Kunstwerke, Skulpturen, Schmuck, Kataloge und Kunstdrucke sowie auch Original-Editionen verkauft. Im 1. Stock befindet sich gegenüber dem Figaro-Konzertsaal die Galerie. Es handelt sich um einen 150 m² großen Raum für Einzelausstellungen. Das Museum nimmt das gesamte Obergeschoss ein und besteht aus gestalteten Räumen. Neben den Werken aus eigenem Bestand und Dauerleihgaben werden Dokumente und Porträts der Künstlerpersönlichkeiten gezeigt.

Das Museum

Das Museum ist in folgende Bereiche gegliedert:

Impulse: Hier werden die Impulse aufgezeigt, die den jungen Künstlern erste Informationen nach dem Krieg brachten, mit Werken von Edgar Jené und Gustav K. Beck und Arnulf Neuwirth.

Akademie: Hier fanden die jungen Kreativen eine künstlerische Heimat, mit Werken von Albert Paris Gütersloh, Ernst Fuchs, Fritz Janschka, Anton Lehmden und Kurt Steinwendner, bevor er zum Filmemacher und Objektkünstler Curt Stenvert wurde.

Zeitgenossen: Dazu zählen ältere Künstler des Phantastischen, die die Diktatur überlebt hatten, wie Greta Freist, Kurt Goebel, Charles Lipka oder der CIA-Agent Charles von Ripper. Und die Jungen, wie Rudolf Schönwald oder Arnulf Rainer sowie Maler die sich im späteren Art Club bewegten. Dazu gehören die „Partisanin“ Maria Biljan-Bilger, Peppino Wieternik, bevor er sich zum Abstrakten wandte, und Carl Unger der für das Palais Pálffy eine große Glasfront gestaltete.

Art Club: Er versammelte die künstlerische Elite der Nachkriegszeit und wurde mit dem Strohkoffer ein geselliges Zentrum.

Hundsgruppe: Sie wurde zur ersten Gegenbewegung, in der sich die Aufrührer wie Ernst Fuchs, Arnulf Rainer und Maria Lassnig, Wolfgang Kudrnofsky und der Außenseiter-Phantast Anton Krejcar mit heute wertvoll gewordenen Grafiken manifestierten.

Das Pintorarium von Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Ernst Fuchs und Arnulf Rainer kämpfte aktionistisch mit Wandzeitung und Nacktdemonstration gegen die etablierte Akademie, schlechte Architektur und für die Freiheit des Geistes.

Hundertwasser verwirklichte die Theorien des Pintorariums in seinen Bauten. Eine Fotodokumentation von Kurt Pultar.

Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus: Der Kern des Museums mit Bildern von Arik Brauer, Wolfgang Hutter, dem in den USA lebenden Fritz Janschka und von Anton Lehmden. Von Rudolf Hausner ist - neben einem Ölbild - die Dokumentation der langjährigen Arbeit an seiner Arche des Odysseus zu sehen. Neben einem Frühwerk von Ernst Fuchs ist auch eine eigens für das Museum geschaffene große Gemälde-Fassung einer vor 55 Jahren entstandenen Zeichnung ausgestellt.

In der Abteilung der Gleichzeitigen sind 16 Bilder jener Wiener Fantasten zu sehen, die sich in den 1960er-Jahren zum ersten Mal präsentierten, u.a. in der Galerie, die Ernst Fuchs installierte.

In der Abteilung Next Generation sind jene fast „noch Jungen“, die sich – trotz zeitweiliger Ausgrenzung durch die Avantgarde – neuen Tendenzen des Phantastischen verpflichtet fühlen. Sie haben zum Teil bei Hausner, Lehmden, Hutter und Fuchs studiert und auch als Assistenten gelernt.

Das Graphische Kabinett stellt einige Radierungen und Lithographien bis hin zu Briefmarken aus. Hier wird in etwa 30 Werken internationaler Phantasten die weltweite Vernetzung gezeigt. Vertreter aus Japan, den USA, Australien und europäischen Zentren sind die Botschafter von Vereinigungen phantastischer Künstler, den Ambassadors of the Fantastic Universe.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 17: Kim "Peyz" Su-hwan of Gen.G Esports is seen backstage at the League of Legends - Mid-Season Invitational Bracket Stage on May 17 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)

The Port of Tórshavn is the largest and busiest of the many harbours dotted throughout the Faroe Islands. Tórshavn enjoys success as a base for North Atlantic fishing fleets, a focus for the nation’s container and ro-ro ferry traffic and a growing summer call for cruise ships.

A day of action by students opposed to the recently announced increases to tuition fee

A number of students attempted to protect a police van from further damage after it had been attacked

A 1940s panorama view of soldiers and the American ship USS General W. P. Richardson (AP-118) being loaded at Port Autonome du Havre at the end of World War II - Port of Le Havre, Grand Port Maritime du Havre in the Normandy city of Le Havre, France ca: 1945

"The USS General W. P. Richardson sailed to Le Havre, France in April with 2,500 men and carried over 1,000 liberated American prisoners of war from France, and 2,900 troops and casualties from Southampton, home to New York on 28 April 1945.

Through the summer and fall of 1945 the transport made four round-trip voyages from Boston to France, two to Le Havre and two to Marseilles to help ensure an even flow of men and supplies."

One of the stars of Disney Pixar's original animated feature - 'Cars' and reappearing in 'Cars 2' is Flo, a motorama girl from the 1950's.

To quote Disney/Pixar: "Flo is a sassy, no-nonsense lady with the biggest heart in Radiator Springs. She runs the local diner, Flo's V8 cafe, the only gas station for miles around, where she still serves the "finest fuel in 50 states."

Flo is Ramone's main squeeze. As a Touring Motorama girl in the 1950s, Flo was passing through Radiator Springs and when she first met Ramone, she was hooked."

Flo has been built as part of Flickr LUGNuts 44th Build Challenge - 'Cars Too!' - celebrating the Disney / Pixar 'Cars 2' characters, and other face related vehicles.

Despite the exotic sand-green lego colour, Flo is a buildable model.

This Hubble image features a massive cluster of brightly glowing galaxies, first identified as Abell 3192. Like all galaxy clusters, this one is suffused with hot gas that emits powerful X-rays, and it is enveloped in a halo of invisible dark matter. All this unseen material – not to mention the many galaxies visible in this image – comprises such a huge amount of mass that the galaxy cluster noticeably curves spacetime around it, making it into a gravitational lens. Smaller galaxies behind the cluster appear distorted into long, warped arcs around the cluster’s edges.

The galaxy cluster is in the constellation Eridanus, but the question of its distance from Earth is a more complicated one. Abell 3192 was originally documented in the 1989 update of the Abell catalog of galaxy clusters that was first published in 1958. At that time, Abell 3192 was thought to comprise a single cluster of galaxies, concentrated at a single distance. However, further research revealed something surprising: the cluster’s mass seemed to be densest at two distinct points rather than one.

It was subsequently shown that the original Abell cluster is actually comprised of two independent galaxy clusters – a foreground group around 2.3 billion light-years from Earth, and another group at the greater distance of about 5.4 billion light-years from our planet. The more distant galaxy cluster, included in the Massive Cluster Survey as MCS J0358.8-2955, is central in this image. The two galaxy groups are thought to have masses equivalent to around 30 trillion and 120 trillion times the mass of the Sun, respectively. Both of the two largest galaxies at the center of this image are part of MCS J0358.8-2955; the smaller galaxies you see here, however, are a mixture of the two groups within Abell 3192.

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Most people go to Roswell to check out the UFO Museum (we did too) but on the way we stopped at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art - wow! This museum is fantastic. There are no world famous works here, but a bunch of great art created by local artists or participants in the Artist in Residence Program. The museum is free, the staff was great, and we had it to ourselves on a Sunday afternoon. This is definitely a must see if you are anywhere near Roswell.

We visited the Anderson in March 2014. My only regret is not photographing the titles and artists so if you know any of them, please let me know.

Top of The Pops 2015. Russia. [final cut]

Лучшие альбомы 2015. Россия.

01. Pinkshinyultrablast – Everything Else Matters [shoegaze, dream pop]

02. Your Friends Polymers – Chudesa EP [dream pop, shoegaze]

03. Daughters Hand – Кольцо Чистоты [garage, noise pop]

04. Kedr Livanskiy – Sgoraet EP [lo–fi]

05. Homeboy In Luv –まだ大好き [lo–fi, indie]

06. Supervitesse – Cheer EP [lo-fi, psychedelic]

07. Theodor Bastard – Vetvi [world, ethnic]

08. Noir For Rachel – Went Missing [shoegaze, drone]

09. Sonic Death – Vecherinka Dlja Lohov EP [post-punk]

10. Bright Falls – Self-Titled EP [psychedelic, rock]

11. Mercurium – Demo [darkwave]

12. Letoymiraet – Cherry Bubblegum EP [indie pop]

13. Gnoomes – Ngan! EP [psychedelic, rock]

14. Honeyfrequency – Culture And Recreation [darkwave, coldwave, lo-fi]

15. Sivyj Yar – Burial Shrouds [post-metal]

16. Bong Rips – Высшая школа кожаных курток [garage]

17. Звёзды – S/T [synth, post-punk]

18. ИЛ – Тени древних культов [doom, sludge]

19. Howye – No Suffocating EP [lo–fi, indie]

20. Below the Sun – Envoy [heavy psych, funeral doom]

21. Moa Pillar – Humanity [electronic]

22. Antethic – New Terrain EP [drone, post-rock]

23. Talking Bush – Ordinary Unusual EP [morrissey]

24. Mindquake – Origin EP [lo-fi, synth]

25. Л.Фёдоров, В.Мартынов, В.Волков, Т.Гринденко, Opus Posth – Элегия [avantgarde]

26. Kirov – Waves and Vibrations [progressive]

27. Кобыла И Трупоглазые Жабы Искали Цезию, Нашли Поздно Утром Свистящего Хна – Великое князьство Литовское, Руское, Жомойтское [avantgarde, synth]

28. Kittypants – Монашка Riot EP [riot grrrl]

29. Gena – Slow Day [doom, sludge]

30. Tikhie Kamni – Zemli [ambient, field]

31. Вхоре – Сжечь EP [post-punk, lo-fi]

32. Angelic Milk – IDK How EP [lo-fi]

33. Verona Boys – Magic Mod [indie pop]

34. Paper Wounds – Paper Wounds EP [shoegaze]

35. Панк Фракция Красных Бригад – Ракеты Красных Землянок [post-punk]

36. Смола – Бизнес по-петербургски [heavy psych]

37. FPRF – 87p chill [electronic]

38. Ruidos – Demo [reverb]

39. Grave Disgrace – The Mystery of the Dead Revive [stoner, doom]

40. Женя Куковеров – Тунеядец [lo-fi, garage]

41. Калинов Мост – Циклон [rock]

42. Wind Along The Coast – Inside Your Mind EP [indie rock]

43. Messer Chups – The Incredible Crocotiger [surf]

44. Motorama – Poverty [post-punk]

45. Kira Lao – Вода EP [indie rock]

46. The Freaks – How to Keep Nothing [indie rock]

47. Jiva – Euphoria EP [heavy psych]

48. Verticals – Grace Of Existence [post-rock]

49. Trna – Pattern of Infinity [atmospheric, black]

50. Буерак – Корни EP [punk]

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Materic – Меж Каменных Плит (2014) [noise, alternative] - вышел в декабре прошлого года и выпал из топов.

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Polska Radio One – Early Broadcasts [heavy psych, space] - компиляция ранних записей.

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Telephone Is Dead – David Dreams [noise, reverd] - сайд-проект Noir For Rachel.

Стили указаны условно, места субъективны, некоторые замечательные артисты неизбежно потерялись /amen.

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Statue of the mother of the 'heretic' pharaoh Amenophis IV, better known by the name Akhenaten.

Akhenaten's reign is marked by a radical break with Egypt's ancient religion, the pharaoh abandoned the multitude of traditional gods in favour of a single deity, the Aten, the life giving sun-disc.

The seat of power was moved to Akhetaten (now El Amarna), a new city was built on a desert site, chosen for its proximity to a geographical feature that appeared to enfold the rising sun, and established to cement Egypt's revolution away from the priests and cult centre of Thebes. The city was named 'Akhetaten' and served as the cult centre of the pharaoh's new religion with himself as the chief intermediary of the new god. Akhenaten is often celebrated as one of history's earliest monotheistic rulers.

Akhenaten's religious revolution did not last beyond him and the old order was restored under his son and successor Tutankhamun. Most of his monuments were thoroughly destroyed to eradicate his memory under later pharaohs, believing Akhenaten had offended the gods by denying them.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo contains the World's greatest collection of Ancient Egyptian antiquities, covering all periods of Egypt's rich history from the Pre-Dynastic, Old, Middle & New Kingdoms all the way to the Greco-Roman era.

The star exhibit has for the best part of a century been the treasure's of Tutankhamun's tomb (discovered in 1922) which occupy two whole galleries on the upper floor. However this arrangement will soon change as the entire Tutankhamun collection (along with several other important pieces) will be transferred to the new Grand Egyptian Museum currently being prepared in Giza. A few pieces (that I recalled from our previous visit in 1995) had already been moved, and by now doubtless others will have followed, with plans for a partial opening of the new museum with its purpose-designed Tutankhamun galleries scheduled for late 2018.

Woodbury,New Jersey

Happy Fourth of July, Everyone! I saved this image taken on a photo stroll in June, for the moment I got it I thought right away that this would be a photo as American as can be. Passing the young couple, I stopped to ask if they'd mind a photo because the light was so right and they said yes. Then as I got my camera up to focus, they suddenly kissed. Woohoo!

The bridge over Tempe Town Lake is featured in many previous photos of my stream, and the young man's belt buckle too, ha ha! Couldn't believe that just at that moment the flag furled out so classic, so this was a photo moment meant to be. A set for the images is in "Tempe Time".

And continuing on with the Viennese theme here are some with my old faithful tea-pot...!

Simplified map shows the railroads of the Tampa Bay area in 1915. The red line down the left side traces the route of the Orange Belt Railway to St. Petersburg from Pasco County via Tarpon Springs, which became part of the ACL in 1903.

In Tampa at the right, the ACL rail route is shown in red, making connections with Tampa Union Station, Port Tampa, and wharves along the harbor. The green line traces the SAL tracks that connect to Tampa Union Station and to wharves along the harbor. The purple line traces the path of the Tampa Northern railroad from wharves along the harbor north to Brooksville.

The blue lines trace the Tampa & Gulf Coast railroad routes to Clearwater and St. Petersburg, with a branch northward to Tarpon Springs. Another branch extends the Tampa & Gulf Coast railroad to Port Richey. The Tampa & Gulf Coast railroad used the line of the Tampa Northern railroad to reach Tampa, and trains of the Tampa & Gulf Coast and the Tampa Northern connected to Tampa Union Station along the SAL line. The SAL owned shares in both of these smaller railroad companies, and eventually absorbed them into the SAL system.

The Tampa & Gulf Coast railroad also built the Indian Beach spur to the Gulf Beaches, and the ACL had a spur track to Belleair's Belleview Hotel, just south of Clearwater. Adapted from Heritage Village map

Out of the darkness comes light. Was wanting to make it look like there was light from within my "hair"

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak leads a discussion on Fintech at Treasury Connect

Sergeant Robert A. Kelley, of the 118th Engineer Sapper Companyr receives the Purple Heart for wounds sustained in combat in Iraq. Specialist Juan Moreno, of Detachment 1, 624th Engineer Company and Specialist David Israel Luviano, 807th Medical Support Commandl take the oath of citizenship June 14.

Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia, as well as the departmental capital of La Paz Department, and the second largest city (in population) only after Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

(Wikipedia)

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Streets of La Paz close to its old centre form a lively marketplace...

The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops), Cairo, Egypt. Built as a tomb over a 10 to 20-year period concluding around 2560 BC, is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex. Initially at 146.5 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for more than 3,800 years.

A Grande Pirâmide de Gizé (também conhecida como a Pirâmide de Khufu ou a Pirâmide de Quéops), Cairo, Egito. Construída como um túmulo durante um período de 10 a 20 anos que foi finalizada cerca de 2560 a.C., é a mais antiga e maior das três pirâmides no complexo da pirâmide de Gizé. Inicialmente com 146,5 metros, a Grande Pirâmide foi a estrutura artificial mais alta do mundo por mais de 3.800 anos.

Rusting remains of the wreck of the 19th century Royal Naval floating dry dock (HM Floating Dock Bermuda) in Stovel Bay at Spanish Point, Pembroke Parish, Bermuda.

* "The floating dock ... was one of the industrial wonders of its day." (Harris, 2012, below)

This is one of the most historical and interesting wrecks, possibly anywhere in the world, though local people regard it as a dangerous eyesore and, understandably, want it removed. It was not a ship at all, but a nearly unique iron-built floating dry dock which was wrecked in the entrance to the bay in 1906. One might have thought these remains of a remarkable vessel had been rescued and preserved here in some way, as an important piece of naval, maritime and industrial history. But the task of doing that properly is apparently insuperable, and these remains are genuinely abandoned, with only a small plaque on the shore nearby, to explain the origin of the wreck.

HM Floating Dock Bermuda "was ... built in 1866 in North Woolwich, England ... [and] first arrived on Bermuda’s shores in 1869. It was in the process of being towed away from its post at Dockyard [= Royal Naval Dockyard Bermuda, on Ireland Island North, Sandys Parish.] after having been replaced and partially dismantled. It was caught in a gale and drifted over to Spanish Point [i.e right here], where it got lodged on the rocks and became unmovable. It has been there ever since as a rusted relic. It was first built in 1863 as a patented invention of Messrs Campbell Johnstone and Co. It weighed 8,200 tonnes and could lift any vessel afloat at the time except for the Great Eastern, which was a large iron sailing steam ship. It was the largest floating dock ever constructed and only lost that distinction to its successor in 1901, Admiralty Floating Dock #1, also made for the Bermuda Dockyard. In her prime, the ‘Bermuda’ was used to accommodate large warships. The 'Bermuda' was more than 47,000 sq ft [c 4366 sq m] and 381ft [c 116 m] long and 123ft [c 37 m] at its maximum width, and a depth of 74ft [c 23 m]. It could easily accommodate ships up to 370ft [c 113 m] long and 25ft [c 8 m] wide. (In 1950, the Bermuda Government tried to clear the bay of the remnants of the dock using dynamite, to no avail)."

----- www.bermuda-online.org/seepemb.htm

For more information and an interesting picture of the dock in its active time, giving a good idea of its sheer size, go to:

----- www.bermuda-attractions.com/bermuda2_000154.htm

For a brief, informal but authoritative account by Bermuda historian and archaeologist, Edward Harris (currently Executive Director of the Maritime Museum and National Museum at Dockyard), with superb 19th Century archive illustrations go to:

www.bermudarentals.com/wp-content/uploads/HMAFDBda.pdf

(HMS Warrior, amongst the first ironclad warships, and mentioned in these accounts as one of the four ships that towed HM FD Bermuda from England to Bermuda, is still extant, being moored as a museum ship in Portsmouth, England.)

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This small Book of Hours is especially interesting for its profusion of humorous drolleries. Humans, animals, and hybrids are featured in the margins of each page of the book. The artists rendered in small scenes a variety of actions, like cooking, playing game, climbing, fishing, making music or moving the bodies in a dance. These drolleries amuse the faithful during his prayers, while showing scenes that work as metaphors of the soul fighting the vices. The original female owner seems to have been established in the diocese of Cambrai, judging from the use of the Office of the Dead. Several provenance episodes are evidenced by the book in the signatures on the leaves at the beginning and end of the manuscript. A priest in the sixteenth century wrote a message in code on fol. 1v asking to return to him the book if lost. Members of the ducal house of Savoy owned this book of prayer in the seventeenth century, as evidenced by the gilt armorial shield of Charles Emmanuel II (1634-75), duke of Savoy, stamped on the covers.

To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.

And so we turn to some wide angle shots of the church. The Minster seems almost large enough to be a cathedral.

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Beverley Minster, in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, is a parish church in the Church of England. It is one of the largest parish churches in the UK, larger than one third of all English cathedrals and regarded as a gothic masterpiece by many.

Originally a collegiate church, it was not selected as a bishop's seat during the Dissolution of the Monasteries; nevertheless it survived as a parish church and the chapter house was the only major part of the building to be lost. It is part of the Greater Churches Group and a Grade I listed building.[1] Every year it hosts events in association with local schools. Including the Beverley Minster Primary School Nativity Performance and the Beverley Grammar School Speech Night.

The minster owes its origin and much of its subsequent importance to Saint John of Beverley, who founded a monastery locally around 700 AD and whose bones still lie beneath a plaque in the nave. The institution grew after his death and underwent several rebuildings. After a serious fire in 1188, the subsequent reconstruction was overambitious; the newly heightened central tower collapsed c. 1213 bringing down much of the surrounding church. Work on the present structure began around 1220.

It took 200 years to complete building work but, despite the time scale involved, the whole building has coherent form and detail and is regarded[who?] as one of the finest examples of Perpendicular design, the twin towers of the west front being a superlative example. These formed the inspiration for the design of the present Westminster Abbey.

Saint Thomas Becket of Canterbury, (c. 1118–29 December 1170) was named Provost of Beverley in 1154.

Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland (1449–1489), was buried in the church after being murdered by the citizens of York in 1489 during the Yorkshire Rebellion over high taxes imposed by King Henry VII.

As with many English churches during the wars of religion in the 16th century, Beverley Minster was not immune to dissension. Church authorities cracked down hard on those they felt were part of the "Popish" conspiracy contrary to Royal decrees. "Among those holding traditional beliefs were three of the clergy at the minster, who were charged with Popish practices in 1567; John Levet was a former member of the college and Richard Levet was presumably his brother. Both Levetts were suspended from the priesthood for keeping prohibited equipment and books and when restored were ordered not to minister in Beverley or its neighbourhood."[2]

In the 18th century the present central tower replaced an original lantern tower that was in danger of collapse. This central tower now houses the largest surviving treadwheel crane in England, which is used when raising building materials to a workshop located in the roof. A distinctive feature of both the north and south transepts is the presence of rose windows, and a White Rose of York, with ten equal parts. Daily tours to the crane and rose windows are available to the general public, subject to other church commitments.

Features of the interior include columns of Purbeck Marble, stiff-leaf carving and the tomb of Lady Eleanor Percy, dating from around 1340 and covered with a richly-decorated canopy, regarded[who?] as one of the best surviving examples of Gothic art. A total of 68 16th century misericords are located in the quire of the minster and nearby is a sanctuary or frith stool dating back to Anglo-Saxon times.

The misericords were probably carved by the Ripon school of carvers and bear a strong family resemblance to those at Manchester Cathedral and Ripon Cathedral.

The church contains one of the few remaining Frith Stools (also known as Frid Stools, meaning "peace chairs") in England. Anyone wanting to claim sanctuary from the law would sit in the chair. The chair dates from Saxon times before 1066.[3][4][5][6]

The organ is mounted above a richly carved wooden screen dating from the late 19th century. There is a staircase in the north aisle which would have been used in collegiate times to gain access from and to the chapter house.

Improvements to the choir were made during the 16th and 18th centuries and medieval glass, which was shattered by a storm in 1608, was meticulously collected and installed in the East Window in 1725. The Thornton family, great craftsmen of the early 18th century, were responsible for the font cover and the west door. Another notable feature is the series of carvings of musicians which adorn the nave.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Minster

Beverley Minster is the Parish Church of St. John and St. Martin

John, bishop of York, founded a monastery on the site where Beverley Minster stands.

John died in 721 and his body was buried in a chapel of the Saxon church.

He was canonised in 1037.

The present church was built around his tomb.

Building work began in 1220 and was completed in 1425.

Throughout the Middle Ages miracles which took place at his tomb attracted pilgrims from far and wide.

Today the church is still a place of pilgrimage for visitors. It also continues to be a place of prayer and worship at the heart of the community.

beverleyminster.org.uk/about-us/