Among the many artwork tributes to Coney Island famous hot dogs on the restaurant’s west wall, is a large framed black and white photograph of the interior taken in the early 1930s. If you study the picture and then glance at the real-life present, you will see almost no difference. The employees’ uniforms and the ceiling fixtures have changed, but, overall, the similarities are striking, from the same stools and tables to the large faced clock on the east wall. And even though the staff now wears a slightly more casual look than the shirt and tie outfit of the 1930s, the eager-to-please attitude is as evident on the faces of today’s crew as seen on those in that 80+ year-old photograph. At the time the picture was taken the restaurant was already an established fixture in Fort Wayne having first appeared on the downtown landscape in 1914. Considering the changes all around it, Coney Island’s continued presence makes it a landmark institution that steadfastly honors its tradition.

 

Operated by the same family since 1916, Coney Island is one of many Fort Wayne eateries established by Macedonians and maintained by their descendents. Today Kathy Choka & Jim Todoran take on the role of caretakers; corporate titles in this egalitarian environment seem ridiculously out of place. Kathy’s late father Russ (88) was the moving force of the Coney Island for over 50 years and worked every day right up to the last week of his life. It was Kathy’s grandfather, Vasil Eschoff who purchased an interest in the restaurant in 1916, from one of the three Greek immigrants who opened Coney Island in 1914. Mr. Eshcoff, an immigrant himself, came to the United States without his family; after 14 years he brought them to his new country—a common pattern among Macedonians at the time –venturing off alone, finding a job, and eventually bringing the family to the new country after having established a home. Jake Geroff and Mr. Gileff purchased the other two shares in 1924. Mr. Gileff sold his share to Mr. Litchin in the late 1920′s. Mr. Geroff was bought out in the early 1940s.

 

In 1958 Russ Choka, Vasil Eshcoff’s son-in-law, began working on his behalf at Coney Island, taking the helm in 1961. By then the restaurant had already weathered decades of local and national ups and downs, retaining stability through it all. Though Choka was not inclined to be effusively responsive to interviewers, he was known by customers and friends to be “among the nicest guys you’d ever meet.” His presence was an important part of the celebrated atmosphere of the place. Other elements that contribute to the now 100 year tradition for this uncontrived environment are the servers who take orders without writing them down, kid-favorite stools that spin, no-nonsense signs on the wall proclaiming “no loafing,” a roll top desk and steel filing cabinets near the counter, hand chopping 75 pounds of onions daily, and open stored cartons of Cokes “in the little bottle”. The kitchen behind the dining area is impossibly small, but the folks at Coney make it work. The effect of these unusual components renders the restaurant a one-of-a-kind place—inspiring many to photograph the sign outside.

 

100 years gives a restaurant considerable opportunity to accumulate anecdotes about customers, both famous and fervent. Coney Island has more than its share of both. Notables including numerous Governors, Senators and Congressmen, actor Drake Hogaston, director David Anspaugh, the late president of Macedonia, Boris Traykovski and many many others have placed orders inside the small place. The CEO of the Ohio Art Company, the late Mr. Kilgallon, marketer of the enduring toy Etch A Sketch would send his jet to Fort Wayne just to pick up Coney’s dogs; his family still make stops when in town. Mickey Mantle stopped by once and left a $18 tip for three glasses of water! One patron, still a regular today, made his first stop at Coney Island when his parents stopped there on the way home from the hospital after his birth.

 

The crew at Coney Island is a major part of the attraction. Servers appear immediately to take orders. In a gentlemanly practice that defies current gender neutrality, female customers are served soft drinks with straws. Most of the crew already know what regular customers want before they order. Mention a name to the staff—even someone who isn’t a regular, and most will know how that person likes his dogs. There’s a short-hand ordering lingo used by most customers that speeds along the already lightening fast process of getting food at Coney Island. “Three and a bottle” is three dogs with everything and a coke. “Three without” is three dogs with chili sauce and no onions.

 

Employees, like customers, find the stream of changing faces that make their way to Coney Island to be an intriguing slice of life. The Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday night manager Rajib Jainagerker enjoys meeting the eclectic cast of diners. A product process engineer for BAE Systems Controls by day, Jainagerker started working at the restaurant in 1971 to help pay for college. Forty-three years later he now views the part time job as a form of stress relief. The variety of patrons fascinates him. “All kinds of people come here,” he says. Whether the restaurant is extremely busy or calm, he treats customers with unfailing courtesy. Events like the blizzard of 1978 demonstrate the constancy of the restaurant and employees like Jainagerker. That’s when a radio announcement proclaimed that only Coney Island was open downtown, and the restaurant was packed with hungry snow removal workers that Jainagerker and one other server kept fed.

 

The Choka family is well represented among the staff with many family members currently employed. “It’s a right of passage to work here,” Kathy says. The long-term plan had been for Russ’s son Mike to take over leadership responsibilities from his father. He and Russ had worked together at Coney so very closely for years and his succession seemed like an ordained decision. But Mike was afflicted with pancreatic cancer in 1992 and died in June of the next year. “It was the most devastating event that ever happened to this place,” Kathy says. Mike is memorialized by a dedication plaque and picture on the east wall of the restaurant given to the Choka family by Mike’s best friend and Komet Hockey team owner/General Manager Dave Franke. Two of Mike’s sons Andy and Matt worked at the restaurant during their school years and through college.

 

Kathy, who speaks of Coney Island in reverent tones, considered the idea of stepping in to replace Mike. A former trust officer with Fort Wayne National Bank, the idea of working there herself had never previously occurred to her. Initially her father was resistant to the notion of his daughter’s involvement in Coney Island. “He didn’t want me to get my hands dirty,” Kathy says. “He only said yes because he thought I’d hate it.” But her reaction was quite the opposite. She calls it the best job she’s ever had. Today she and new partner Jim Todoran look after the operational details and kibitzes with the customers. She contends that “Coney Island has a life of its own, and no one runs it.” Her philosophical bent provides a perfect counterpoint to the laid-back Coney Island environment.

 

Coney Island offers refuge and sustenance for all and is clearly proud of its lack of class-consciousness. But the restaurant has demonstrated a fondness for one group throughout its history—the working class, especially factory employees. Coney Island opens at 8 a.m. This time was deliberately set long ago to accommodate shift workers on their way home. When Fort Wayne was in its industrial heyday, workers responded enthusiastically by making early mornings an often-crowded event at the restaurant. Some companies would buy as many as three hundred hot dogs as a weekly treat for their employees.

 

Notable as the atmosphere, tradition and service are, most people love Coney’s for the hot dogs. Close to 1500 to two thousand are sold each day, except when Santa makes his annual appearance on the nearby PNC Bank’s north façade. The numbers of dog consumption rise enormously that time of year as families engage in the tradition of viewing the holiday display followed by a Christmas at Coney experience. The hot dogs seem to hit the spot for local tastes, and, of course, they’re proud to claim that at Coney Island “our buns are steamed.” The famous chili sauce is still made according to the original recipe devised by the first owners in 1913. Hamburgers are also available on the menu and are quickly becoming a “hit”!

 

Fort Wayne’s downtown has changed considerably in the long history of Coney Island. The neighborhood has had its share of shoeshine stands, rough bars, candy stores and, at one time, at least ten or twelve other hot dog stands. The current, much-studied downtown environment is office oriented and relatively quiet. Plans to develop & construct new facilities and consider traffic patterns may bring new interest and investment to the central business district. In contrast, people can expect Coney Island to retain the essential qualities that have made it so popular. The increasing number of families that come to the restaurant together these days is setting the stage for more generations to enjoy the nostalgic feel and tasty hot dogs.

 

I passed this young man on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto and just had to catch up with him and invite him to join my project. His dramatic look really caught my attention and his response to my introduction was very friendly and open. Meet Billy, who told me he was on his way to work but had a bit of time. I thought his dark clothing with splashes of red would fit nicely with a dark background and the nearest one I could think of was a block away. I rarely take people out of their way more than a few steps but Billy seemed comfortable with it and said “No problem. I’ve got time.”

 

We talked on the way to the building overhang I had in mind and have used before to contribute a touch of drama to portraits. I found out that Billy is from the Kitchener area (an hour west of Toronto) and is a Social Work student here in Toronto. What a nice coincidence. We were able to “talk shop” since that was my former profession and I explained that I spent more than 30 years helping train university students in the clinical portion of their Social Work program. Billy has a part-time job in a shop selling alternative-style clothing (no wonder I didn’t recognize the name of the store) and was on his way to work. I pointed out that his look seemed well-suited to an alternative clothing store and he agreed. He said he used to shop there and had not even applied for a job but was asked “When can you start?” Meant to be.

 

Billy explained he was working in a factory for five years after high school but the company moved, at which point he decided to further his education. His intended field of specialization? Mental health and substance abuse. “I’ve had a lot of friends who suffered from these two problems and I would like to help others deal with these problems.”

 

While I was taking the photos, a passer-by stopped to ask what we were doing and I explained it was project photos. He said he does photography and was interested. He didn’t observe for more than 10 seconds before he started in. “You’ve got him positioned all wrong.” He gave his considered opinion. Then it was “You’re framing it all wrong. You should do it this way.” I was patient but kept doing my thing and humored him a bit. Then it was “You’ve got the light wrong.” I’d just about had it but completed my photos by concentrating on the task at hand. These are the perils of street photography.

 

Before we parted, Billy told me a bit more about himself. He’s an animal rights activist (and has a tattoo to prove it) and a vegan. When I asked if he had a personal philosophy to share he seemed stumped but as we talked a bit more he casually mentioned “I’ve always heard that when you visit a place you should leave it better than when you arrived. We don’t know what will happen to us after we’re gone, but I want to leave this planet a little bit better place than when I arrived.” Bingo. I had a really meaningful quote that told me something important about Billy.

 

Thank you Billy for taking the time to meet and for participating in 100 Strangers. You are #667 in Round 7 of my project. I think you will make an excellent Social Worker.

 

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

 

Day 59.

 

Another self reflection.

 

I actually give myself a small reflection everyday, asking myself what I am doing, keeping myself grounded: How is this freelance job going to help me? Where will this part-time job going to land me?

 

The answer is always "yes, I am moving forward." But half the time I actually feel like I am running in circle. Doing all these things but I still standing at the starting point.

 

Then there is this quote that I love:

 

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

 

A little faith is all I need.

I was expecting today to be absolutely dreadful, but it's actual been wonderful and one of the best days I've had in a long time

 

one of the reasons being is that I've been offered a proper part time job at a photography studio!! I've been going there a lot to assist and I went there for my work experience in July. it's an amazing place and the man that runs it is an amazing person who I am truly honored to have in my life

 

I feel so happy and full of optimism

I had just left Perth train station on my way to meet a friend in the city when I noticed Diana walking towards me, she looked so stylish and beautiful I just had to stop her. Diana was also on her way to meet a friend but had 5 minutes to spare. As we were in a busy street I looked for the nearest background and noticed this window adjacent to a large fashion store, I had in my mind to make this a black and white portrait and thought this back ground could work well and also would be a little different to my usual style for stranger portraits as I am trying to move away from what I feel confident and comfortable with. Diana is an artist and has a few part time jobs one of which is holding art workshops for children. When I showed Diana the photos on the back of the camera she laughed and commented on her unruly hair, and I told her I thought her hair was beautiful and it was one of the first things I noticed about her. Thank you Diana for stopping to help me with my project, I hope you like the photo and I would be happy to send you a copy.

This picture is number 124 in my second round of the 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

Olympus OM-D EM-1 Leica 25mm 1.4

ISO 200, F2.5 1/320

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On the 180th birthday anniversary for the City of Chicago founded on March

4, 1837, I remember why Chicago was the choice I made for a destination.

When my parents decided to live in the United States of America, I was

living in the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba and attending elementary

school in Spanish. One day, my Mother told me that both my parents decided

to leave Santiago de Cuba and settle in another city of the United States

of America. She asked me in which city we should live? There were many

choices of cities based on the family relatives who were already in the

USA. Since Catholic Charities sponsored the Freedom Flights, "Vuelos de

Libertad", the Catholic Church offered help in Connecticut and Chicago to

relocate Cuban families there. My Mother and Father thought that

Connecticut was very, very cold and farther north in the East Coast. While

Chicago was in the Midwest, a city by Lake Michigan, one of the Great

Lakes--Erie, Huron, and Superior. My parents had Cuban friends in

Connecticut and Chicago, as well as in other American cities. However, the

City of Chicago was unanimously our choice for a destination in the United

States of America. My Grandmother had Cuban friends in Chicago and

business connections to the mail-order stores like Montgomery Ward, Sears,

etc. My parents had Cuban-Chinese friends in Rogers Park, on Howard

Street, near Evanston, Illinois. Even now, the far north communities of

Edgewater by Lake Michigan, Rogers Park, Andersonville, and Evanston still

appeal to my family in general. Military friends from the Great Lakes and

visitors from the USA encouraged my Mother and Father to leave Santiago de

Cuba.

 

Chicago Catholic Charities welcomed my family with open arms, kindness,

generosity, and goodwill when we arrived in July 1971. My Father, Mr.

Roberto Hung Juris Doctor and my Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos, myself,

and my youngest brother, Roberto Santiago Hung were referred for relocation

to the Montfield Hotel at the corner of Sheffield and Belmont Avenue in the

Lake View neighborhood, near the Illinois Masonic Medical Center on

Wellington Street. Later, my Father was referred to a Baptist Church

Pastor, Fabio Abreu of Dominican descent and his Canadian-American wife for

relocation to the first floor of a Chicago home owned by Mrs. Marie Palmer,

a Protestant Lutheran American widow, his neighbor across the alley who

needed a responsible and reliable tenant with a family to help her maintain

here Chicago real estate property at 2930 North Albany between Wellington

and George, near Kedzie Avenue where Avondale Elementary School was

located, across from the Grace Lutheran Church.

 

The Baptist Pastor Fabio Abreu from the Dominican Republic and his Lutheran

American-German neighbor Mrs. Marie Palmer were heaven sent during our

relocation from the Montfield Hotel in Lakeview to the Avondale community

near Logan Square, not far from our Cuban-

Chinese friends, Fernando Wong and Yolanda Fen with two children, a

retarded daughter with spinal bifida, Zuling, and a male Fernandito Wong

Fen who wanted to be an architect engineer later in life. Afterwards,

Fernando and Yoli Wong had a daughter named Meiling who lived in the Rogers

Park community, near Evanston and Skokie in Illinois.

 

While I was attending Avondale Grammar School, on Kedzie Avenue, aka

Loganddale Elementary School, I used to participate in an abridged 6th

grade program, instead of the corresponding 8th grade program which I would

later trafer. Since my Mother had my Cuban grammar school transcripts, she

told the Principal in Santiago de Cuba that I had alread passed 6th, 7th,

and 8th grade programs in Santiago de Cubqa in Spanish.

 

The obvious problem for all of us was how to speak English, write in

English, and attend school of course, obviously, my family and I had to

make a transition from spoken Spanish to American English, fluently. There

were Free English courses and classes at the Casa Central in Logan Square,

Chicago, Illinois 60618, USA. My parents and I, used to practice speaking

English in Santiago de Cuba, later on, we, as a family began to speak

English at home in Chicago with the television programs of Sesame Street

and the Electric Company featuring Rita Moreno, among other television

personalities and talent,as well as other TV programs like Perry Mason,

classic western movies with John Wayne, and the musical songs of Doris Day,

Glen Miller's American Jazz band, Lawrence Welk, which we used to watch

before.

 

Soon, we made friends with the neighbors like Ludivinia "Ludi" Villareal,

whose family was Hispanic from Méjico and invited us to her birthday party

for "tostadas", tacos, etc. There were also Cuban-Americans like Armando

and his youngest brother who went to Avondale Elementary School also with

myself and my youngest brother Robert S. Hung. My 6th grade teacher was

Miss Honeywood and my English As A Second Language Teacher was Miss Pantos

who later married and changed her name. Later, I was double transferred to

8th grade with Mr. Herbert Hebel where I graduated with High Honors from

Avondale Elementary School.

 

In Chicago, my Father, Roberto Hung was able to find employment at the

warehouse in Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Company. Later he

worked for Marshall Field's and the Theatrical Dance Supply Company.

Fernando and Yoli Wong Fen recomeded my Father to work for Felt-Products,

on McCormick Boulevard in Skokie, also known today as Federal Mogul, a

corporation in the automotive industry manufacturing "oil gaskets" with a

patented adhesive created and designed by Albert Mecklenburger, a

German-American from Berlin, Germany.

 

My Mother also had to get a job with Goldblatt's on Milwaukee Avenue, right

in the midst of the Polish American neighborhood. Then, she found another

part-time job at Tic-Toc with Mrs. Sherman. Later, my Father recommended

her to work for Felt-Products with him in Skokie, also.

 

I started working at the Offices of Edelstein & Edelstein on Irivng Park

Road who needed to make collection calls on the telephone and paid a

minimum wage of $4 per hour. Afterrwards, I found a job at McDonald's at

the corner of Irving Park Road and Elston Avenue, not far from the Irving

Park Shopping Center, the Y.M.C.A. and Madonna High School.

 

In order to *"Make Ends Meet"*, both my Father and Mother went to work, and

during my 3rd year as a junior at Madonna High School, age 16-years-old,

Sister Rosemarie from Counselling referred me to get a job and follow the

American Dream working hard to make a living. Mrs. Palmer used to say

before she left for work as an Administrator and Office Manager at the

Civic Opera, *"I owe, I owe, so off to work I go."*

 

*Chicago* is also known as the Windy City because of the cross-winds across

Lake Michigan cause whirlwinds and all-changing weather due to the Lake

Effect and the Great Lakes. It is still a beautiful city by the Lake

Michigan, *"the city with the broad shoulders"* as a client and friend from

Helsinki, Finland, calls the City of Chicago. Mrs. Marie Palmer used to

tell me, *"if you don't like the weather in Chicago, wait a minute, it will

change."*

 

I have grown up in Chicago for the last 46 years on the Northwest side of

the Windy City and attended and graduated from Northeastern Illinois

University after graduating from Madonna High School on May 27, 1977 with

High Honors, as a member of the National Honor Society and the French Honor

Society. Later, I pursued Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois

at Chicago with the *Abraham Lincoln Fellowship for Rhetorical Criticism,

Speech Writing, Communications, and Theatre* granted by the UIC Department

of Communications and Theatre managed by Dr. Anthony Graham-White. I have

written my Master's Thesis as an ethnography about *"The Chinese in Cuba:

Assimilation and Acculturation*" presented by Dr. Thomas Kochman, Ph.D.

 

The City of Chicago celebrates today 180 years since its founding fathers

established the settlement by the Chicago River and used the name

familiarly with the *"wild onions"* growing by the river banks. *"Happy

180th Birthday Anniversary, Chicago!"*

 

I have rented and lived in a studio apartment on the Northwest side of

Chicago near my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, on Sacramento and

Belle Plaine, near Irving Park Road, in a building owned by Mrs. A.C.

Nylen, a German-American realtor in Chicago and the Midwest.

 

My Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos began to work at Felt-Products Inc. and

attended Loyola University Lewis Towers Campus pursuing a Master's in

Spanish Literature with Dr. Martinez, Dr. Carol Holdsworth, and Dr. Luján.

 

Chicago has always represented the spirit of its community people to

prevail and overcome adversity in the challenges that life brings over

time, place, and physical presence. The people of Chicago have a fighting

spirit to survive and fight for justice, equity, and fairness. Chicago is

today a cosmopolitan metropolis and a credit to its sprawling communities

by Lake Michigan in the state of Illinois, USA. Happy 180th Anniversary,

Chicago!

 

The Chicago River

 

Gardenia C. Hung, M.A., B.A.

Consulting Social Media Arts Communications

 

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„I didn't like going to college. So I broke off and my part-time job in the restaurant became a full-time job."

 

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After finishing my 100 Strangers Project, I continue to photograph strangers based on the principles of the Project. Find out more about the project at the group page 100 Strangers.

In the mid - late 1950's the newly recognized "teen" culture was enjoying it's place as a new, powerful consumer demographic. Teens were staying in school, getting part time jobs and spending their own money on music, technology and fashion.....they were spending LOTS of money.

 

I suppose the next 'consumer frontier' was children. Sure they didn't have any of their own money but one thing kids could do was cry, beg and throw fits in order to get cool new toys, breakfast cereal and.....transistor radios.

 

Sony published this little book in 1963 to introduce the Howdy Doody/Mickey Mouse Club crowd to pocket radios. Within its pages were the adventures of Randy the Transistor Radio along with his friends Benny Battery, Charlie Cabinet, Tony Tuner Knob, Tom Transistor, Larry Loudspeaker and others.

All these characters "taught" the youngsters how to operate and care for their very own pocket radios. Some of the pages even carried ads of the newest radios so Jr. could show mom and dad.

 

At the very back of the book was a fold out, cardboard, radio-shaped piggy bank. Save your pennies for a new Sony radio. Clever.........

I haven't been very active on Flickr lately, due to several reasons. I have been acquiring new assigments for freelance jobs (writing) and will soon start another part-time job on the side. Although I still have a lot of spare time, I'm also still tired and I lack inspiration for taking new pictures. I guess my mind is focussed on other things at the moment.

 

Happy Furry Friday!

 

Large on black

Today was my last chance to visit the Ryerson University Orientation Week festivities as the returning students welcome the new students who are getting used to life on campus through the multitude of student volunteers who are offering their services and running fun events throughout the week.

 

I saw this young woman with a group of a dozen students and I was drawn to her smiling face and unique hat right off. I asked her to join my Human Family photo project and she was happy to, even though her group was about to set off on a fundraising walk through nearby neighborhoods looking for donations to the Cystic Fibrosis charity. The Shinerama programs is described as follows: “Shinerama is Canada’s largest post-secondary fundraiser in support of Cystic Fibrosis Canada. Over 35,000 student volunteers from 60 Canadian universities and colleges across the country come together every year to make a difference in the lives of those battling cystic fibrosis (CF). Student volunteers all over Canada are shining shoes, flipping burgers, washing cars and doing whatever it takes to raise crucial funding to fight cystic fibrosis. This national event puts the “fun” in fundraising! Since 1964, Shinerama has raised nearly $25 million dollars for life-saving CF research and care.” I gladly made a donation and the group agreed to wait the three or four minutes I said it would take to photograph her for my project. Meet the cheerful and outgoing Cassandra.

 

Cassandra is 23 and is a year 6 student in the university’s Radio and Television Arts program. Why is it taking her six years to do the program? “Well, it’s a long story but it has to do with having switched majors and taking some of the wrong courses. It’s been a long road and although I love the program, I’m SO eager to graduate!” Cassandra has two part-time jobs which help put her through university. One is a retail job (common among students) and the other is as an editor for a video called “Wild Ride Tuk-tuk” which appears to be a rolling international party passing through Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. You can see the video here: vimeo.com/105189030.

 

I asked Cassandra if she had any life advice to share through my project and she said “Keep smiling because it will help you live longer.” I think Cassandra has a long life ahead of her.

 

When I asked how Orientation Week has been going Cassandra said it’s been good, but tiring. “A lot of the incoming students think they are too cool to take part in the events but they don’t know what they are missing.” We made the photos against the huge boulders on campus (what would I do without those boulders?) and I returned Cassandra to her friends who cheered her completion of the photo shoot and launched on their fundraising walk. “Where are you all heading?” I asked. “Up Church Street. We just need a neighborhood where people are in a good mood and are generous!” I wished them success because their cause is a good one.

 

Thank you Cassandra for taking the time to meet and for participating in the Human Family project.

 

This is my 14th submission to the Human Family group.

 

You can see more project street portraits and stories at www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily.

 

Follow-up note: I visited the campus on my way home a few hours later and ran into Cassandra again. I asked how the fundraising had gone and she said “It was worth the blisters I got on my foot. It really was a success; one person even donated a $20 bill! People said they liked my hat.” I liked it too but I think it was Cassandra’s smiling face and outgoing personality that had more impact than the hat.

 

The part-time job fair was held on August 31, 2022, on the Library Quad on the campus of Eastern Illinois University. (Jessica Nantes)

Wellington.

Morphett selected the area around Wellington and up both banks of the Murray River for the Secondary Towns Association as a Special Survey for £4,000 in 1839. Morphett bought up land in the district for himself as well. The Secondary Towns Association had also paid for the Special Survey at Currency Creek which they foresaw would become the New Orleans of the South. They had the same idea about Wellington (although Morphett wanted to call the town Victoria.) They surveyed the land, selling off 400 forty acre farmlets and they subdivided one thousand town blocks for the town of Wellington. Their high expectations were not met, few town blocks were built upon and Wellington East on the other side of the Murray never developed at all. Wellington was at the end of the Murray and at the entranced to Lake Alexandrina but traffic was slow and when the river trade did begin in 1854 Wellington was just one stop among many. It never became a major river port. Its two ongoing and consistent functions were to provide ferry services across the Murray River and to house the police, Aboriginal Sub-Protection Officer (John Mason for many years) and visiting court officials.

 

Apart from John Morphett, one of the first buyers of freehold land in Wellington and near Wellington was Allan McFarlane who later built Wellington Lodge. Other early land purchasers were the Cooke brothers and Robert Barr Smith. All saw the potential of Wellington but only McFarlane stayed the distance and reaped the rewards. Although being located at a major crossing point of the Murray and being the gateway town for the land route down to the South East and on to Port Phillip colony, Wellington suffered set backs. In 1879 a new road and rail bridge was opened at Edwards Crossing, now Murray Bridge removing much of the traffic across the Murray at Wellington. The town survived this. But the arrival of the railway at nearby Tailem Bend (1886) took even more traffic away from Wellington. Although there was government talk of a bridge across the Murray at Wellington in 1864 nothing happened at that stage. The feasibility studies were done on several crossing points with Wellington coming in the most expensive as the bedrock soil report was not favourable. Wellington would have been the most expensive option for bridging the Murray. Edwards Crossing, the cheapest, was selected instead in the 1870s.

 

But before the bridge was built Willington in the 1840s had great potential. Morphett operated the first ferry across the Murray in 1839 before the town was established in 1840. The town had a police presence before the township was established too with a Sub-Protector of Aboriginals based there. The government stationed police there from 1841 to bring law and order to the region. The first police station was built in 1845 but it was probably not much more than a shanty. It was replaced by a new station in 1849. But the soft soils at Wellington meant that this structure was soon in need of replacement and it was condemned in 1862. The current police station, and court house (and originally ferry house too) were erected in 1864. The stables were added in 1865. Although in a good state of repair it has not been a court house and police station for many years. It was owned by the National Trust but it has recently been sold to private occupiers. In the 1840s two hotels were licensed in Wellington but only one survived, the 1846 built Wellington Hotel. Despite modernisation it is still there and still operates.

 

Perhaps the most famous ferryman at Wellington was the former Police Commissioner Alexander Tolmer. The one time Commissioner of Police, and instigator of the Gold Escort services from the Victorian goldfields in the early 1850s. But by 1857 he was unemployed as his position was made redundant. In that year Tolmer moved to Wellington to become a sheep farmer and the ferry man. He wrote his biography which he called A Chequered Career to explain his demise. He had pioneered a route across the Ninety Mile desert to Victoria to escort gold back to Adelaide to be assayed in the SA office. The first escort in 1852 took nine days to reach Bendigo. The Governor Sir Henry Fox gave a dinner party for Tolmer on his return and a gift of £100. Commissioner Tolmer led two more escorts but in total some 18 escorts were conducted. Some time later when he was away on police business, a review of the police department led to him being demoted to Inspector. Then this inspector position was abolished in 1856. Our gold hero was then unemployed! In 1857 he moved to Wellington and took up a block of land. Tolmer wrote about himself:”I knew no more about sheep farming than the man in the moon.” He gave up farming and was almost destitute but he then he gained a part time job as returning officer for the District of Murray. His main income was rent from his house at Norwood. In 1859/60 he bought a boat from Mr Potts a boat builder (and wine maker) of Langhorne’s Creek and he began a second ferry service across the Murray. He nearly drowned working his ferry and Alan McFarlane, the great pastoralist of Wellington Lodge rescued him and the boat. Then in 1862 Tolmer was appointed Crown Lands Ranger at a salary of £200 per annum. In 1866 he and his family were transferred to Kingston South East and he departed from Wellington. In 1871 he returned to the Valuations Department of the government in Adelaide. He then lived at Mitcham until he died there in 1891.

 

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was visiting the Granite State on Wednesday.

  

Bush took questions at a town hall event in Hudson on Wednesday evening after making an unannounced stop at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop in Dover earlier in the day.

 

Bush spoke, surrounded by veterans, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Hudson -- a popular stop on the primary trail.

 

Bush spoke about New Hampshire's twin energy controversies -- the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline in the state's southern tier, as well as the Northern Pass project.

 

"I mean, you guys are struggling to build pipelines and transmission lines, best I can tell," said Bush.

 

One attendee followed up, asking Bush what he knew about the pipeline.

 

"It promises to cut through a number of people's homes and [environmentally protected] land," the questioner said.

 

"There's a trade-off in this, which is how public policy works. The trade-off is how do you balance the economic interests of working-class families with environmental considerations? And those are best sorted out at the state level, not in Washington, DC," said Bush.

 

After the town hall, Bush told News 9 that he won't be taking sides.

 

"I think this should be locally driven," said Bush.

 

Bush also provided additional context to comments he made to the Union Leader editorial board earlier in the day.

 

Controversy began brewing on social media after Bush said that "people need to work longer hours."

 

Bush clarified that he was referring to new overtime rules, which he believes will force people into part-time jobs.

 

"I think people want to work harder, to be able to have more money in their own pockets -- not to be dependent upon government. You can take it out of context all you want, but high, sustained growth means people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours, and that by our success they have money -- disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than getting in line," said Bush.

 

Bush also dismissed Donald Trump's criticism of his immigration position, when Trump essentially said that Bush is biased by the fact that his wife is Mexican.

 

"You can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe we need to control the border," said Bush.

 

Bush also had coffee and breakfast with a small crowd at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop earlier in the day, where he said he'll use his leadership skills from his experience in office to change the roles within our government.

 

Bush said that one of the first things he would do in office is reduce federal overreach.

 

"Under this administration, there's been broad overreach in the regulatory powers. We need to bring powers back to states and local communities and that's something the president can do almost immediately,” said Bush.

 

Bush also said he would create a better energy plan for America and re-establish America's leadership internationally.

 

www.wmur.com/politics/jeb-bush-makes-unannounced-stop-at-...

 

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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush.

 

Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.

 

In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican governor. During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating environmental improvements, such as conservation in the Everglades, supporting caps for medical malpractice litigation, moving Medicaid recipients to private systems, and instituting reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting school choice.

 

Frequently cited by the media as a possible candidate for president in the 2016 election, Bush announced in mid-December 2014 that he would explore the possibility of running for President. Bush subsequently launched his presidential campaign on June 15, 2015 in Miami, Florida.

Allison Stone

  

Age (Vex Years) 21

 

Age (Earth Years) 31.5

 

5'7"

 

Identification code 212505-2554766

 

True Neutral

 

Male

 

Bisexual (Preference: Male)

 

Born 02-0154-3-129

 

Enjoys spending alone time with Ryu, going out to mildly public areas with one or two close friends, the casual relationship he had with Niue, stargazing and sky-watching, going for walks. Dislikes the drug addiction he's been carrying around with him, spending time alone, spending time with Niue without a third-party present, alcohol, seeing the way Terry tends to treat Ryu.

    

Allison was born into a lower-class family. His father was working two jobs and his mother skipped town with a wealthier man shortly after he was born, leaving his father a single parent of two, living off the government. His sister Sylvia was four years older than he was and was often left at home alone to take care of her younger brother while their father was at work. Allison grew very attached to his sister, who he began to idolize at a very young age. Sylvia was very protective over him, and she made sure nothing bad ever happened to him.

 

During his younger years, his family of three were close, or as close as they could be, anyway. Any time he had off, their father would dedicate to the kids, going on walks through the city or staying in at home playing games, spending quality family time together. Their father was initially drafted into the military but obtained a hip injury during his training which prevented him from serving over in Verisket. Otherwise, the mother would have been located and the kids would have been sent to live with her.

 

As a young child, Allison got hurt a lot. He was constantly going in for medical attention to joint dislocations and fractured or broken bones. The frequency of pediatrician and hospital visits caused his doctors to grow suspicious of his living situation, however those suspicions were quickly proven unwarranted. At the age of four, Allison was diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta, otherwise known as "brittle bone disease," which was given away by the slight blue tint in his sclerae. After learning about Allison's condition, Sylvia grew more protective of him than she was before. The two of them went everywhere together and Sylvia kept a close eye on Allison, making sure he didn't hurt himself.

 

Living with osteogenesis imperfecta meant Allison had a tough time being a normal kid. When he first started school, it had to be made very clear to other students by instructors about his medical condition and what it meant. He didn't feel like a normal kid, so he tended to exclude himself from more hands-on activities with other students. The other kids in his classes often treated him different from they did with the other boys, and he was given the nickname "porcelain" as a method of mocking him. The daily teasing and mockery was manageable until word got out that he was living in a very low-income household with only one parent and his older sister had to take care of him.

 

Not long after Allison had started his second year of primary school at age six, his father was laid off from the higher-paying of his two jobs. The family was living off of one low-paying part time job and government welfare cheques. To cope with the loss in income, Allison's father began drinking during late hours of the night, however, his habit slowly began to escalate. Allison and Sylvia began to see their father under the influence more frequently during the evenings, and slowly it became more of an occurrence during the day. His father began to lose control of himself when he drank, and his anger built up over the years began to take him over the edge more often. He didn't want to see his sister get hurt, and he felt as though he owed her for helping him out, so he took the brunt of the rage bottled up in his father's alcoholic mind.

 

Around this time, Allison had met Ryu, who he tightly clung onto for the first little while. It wasn't until he became friends with Terry a couple of months after, did he begin to let go of Ryu a little bit. They were the two kids he knew who saw him for more than his physical ailment, which was what initially drew him toward them. The two gave him an excuse to stay out of the house more, so he wasn't around to meet the man his once wonderful father had become over time. He never brought his friends home, and he always found ways to avoid the subject. He kept his home life a secret and claimed the number of bruises that covered his body were caused by his brittle bone disease.

 

Allison did his best to keep his relationship with Sylvia as much as he could, however, the two just slowly drifted apart as they spent their time with their own friends in order to stay away from home. The three of them just went around town causing trouble, typical boy stuff. Allison didn't bring up Sylvia to Terry or Ryu, as he knew they would want to meet her if he did, so instead he acted as an only child.

 

It wasn't until he was ten years old, did he meet Niue who was just a couple years younger. At first, Allison was a little worried about letting another kid into their friend group of three, but with Terry as the head, he trusted him to know what was best. Even then, it took him a little while to warm up to the new addition. He didn't really speak to Niue much at first, and he didn't tell him about his condition in fear of being made fun of. In the beginning, Allison could identify with Niue in a way, he was just as socially awkward toward the group upon meeting them as Allison was after meeting him. However, that ended once Niue grew more comfortable with the lot of them, and he grew to be quite the rough-houser. All in fun and games, Niue became quite rowdy with the other boys and Allison was blind to get hurt at some point. Sure enough, he did eventually, and he had to be taken to the hospital in order to get a cast put on his leg. It was then, Niue had learned about Allison's bone disease.

 

Over the next couple of years, the group grew closer together. However, his three friends began to ask about his home life and his family, even more so than before. He kept quiet about his living situation for years as it was something he didn't necessarily enjoy talking about. He constantly diverted their attention away to the subject in order to avoid doing so, which wasn't always the most effective method. Sylvia ran away when Allison was ten, not giving word to anyone of where she went. In the process, she had to cut contact with everyone she knew, including her brother. Being left alone with his unstable alcoholic father, Allison began to stay out later than ever before in order to avoid him. However, things soon began to change once his father found himself a job when Allison was eleven years old. He quickly cut himself off from the alcoholic beverages in order to get ready for the position and he did what he could to mend his relationship with his son. No matter what, the trauma from his father's actions during his period of alcohol dependency and the anxiety of coming home stuck with him permanently.

 

Allison was the first of the group to notice something wasn't quite right with Niue. He didn't speak up about it to Terry or Ryu, as he initially thought he was just sick. That line of thinking quickly vanished when the same odd behaviour continued and Niue seemed to only get worse. Eventually, both curiosity and concern got the better of him and he asked Niue about it, but never did he get a solid answer from him about the subject. By then, the other two boys also began to worry, which only got worse as Niue appeared to be getting sicker and sicker.

 

After beginning work, seeing his father became sort of a rare occasion, and they only spoke once ever few weeks at the most. Allison had just though his dad was happy to be back at work which resulted in his lack of presence, something Allison didn't necessarily mind all that much, now that he had friends to spend time with. In actuality, his father had fallen into a massive amount of debt borrowing money from Monstrum to fund his drinking habit and still keep his house. He was given one year to pay him back all of the money he owed once he had found a job.

 

Allison had just turned twelve years old when that one year passed and wasn't aware of the situation his father had gotten himself into. One afternoon after classes had ended, Monstrum showed up at the school waiting for him, claiming he was there to pick him up for his father. Allison had met Monstrum a couple of times in the past, knew he was a friend of his dads, and completely believed him when he said his father was working late as he did very often. He went home with him, and upon stepping inside the house, he was punched out cold.

 

For close to three years, Monstrum kept Allison in the basement of his home. He kept him on a constant high, feeding him different substances through IVs and forcing him into a long-lasting drug addiction. During his stay, however, Allison was never physically hurt and instead was manipulated emotionally to remain there with Monstrum in charge. He was taken care of relatively decently, though kept out of social contact with anyone other than Monstrum himself in order to keep all control over Allison. It wasn't until almost a year after he was first taken away, was Allison actually told about his father's debt with Monstrum and how it correlated to him being held there with him. This shifted the blame of Allison's life being taken from

 

Him over on his father for not taking better care of their financial situation, and he soon began to once again resent his dad.

 

Allison was fifteen when he first saw anything outside that basement again. With the idea of Monstrum being a caregiver and friend planted in his mind, he went back to the house often. Whether it be for drugs or a sense of belonging, he went back to Monstrum multiple times per week. He didn't communicate with really anyone else until he reconnected with Niue, who was in even worse shape than before. He learned that the group basically diminished shortly after he left and that Terry and Ryu just kind of vanished from existence as far as he was aware of. At that point, Niue was Allison's only other friend.

 

He never went back to school in order to avoid questions about his disappearance, so he spent a lot of time alone during the day. That is, until he reunited with Ryu a few months after he got back with Niue. He had always seen Ryu as his best friend, but at this point, he had different feelings toward him. Upon expressing to him how he truly felt, Allison was rejected instantly. Still, Allison did what he could to remain as close as possible with Ryu, however, he felt as though he was being pushed away by him. Because of this, he began to push back, sometimes to the point where it may have seemed slightly creepy to others. Allison was desperately afraid of being alone again like he was for so long before.

 

As Allison began to use with Niue more and more, be started to realize just how much of a problem they both had. Multiple times, he had suggested they both go and kill the addictions. The two went to rehabilitation treatment together, but it didn't last long for either of them with Niue leaving after a month and Allison leaving two months later. He was the first of the two to relapse, having gone back to his addiction after just two weeks of sobriety. Niue was short to follow, going back to crystal almost immediately after Allison.

 

For years, he continued in his attempt to re-bond with Ryu, even going as far as hiding his rebounded drug addiction in order to do so. In turn, he began to see both Terry and Switch a whole lot more than before. As a child, he never was too bother by Ryu's alternate, and realized that majority of what he did was for shock value, but as they got older he found his actions to be far more sinister. Switch often tore into Allison in any way he could, claiming he was expressing everything Ryu refused to. As he tried not to take anything seriously, he couldn't help but believe what he was hearing after a while.

 

Despite wanting to grow closer with Terry again as well, he couldn't help but feel like an unwanted and inescapable pest to him, and so he remained distant with him. He had noticed that Terry had changed a lot over the past few years, and it seemed as though he was the only one who noticed it. The way Terry acted, treated others, and even spoke just made him feel uncomfortable, and once he found out how Terry had been treating Ryu while he was gone, he really began to detest him. Allison didn't see Terry as fit for Ryu, and he did everything he could to have him realize that. Instead, Ryu began to push him away further while Switch continued to pick him apart for everything he did to an even more intense degree.

 

As he got older, he and Niue grew closer into an inseparable pair, which he both enjoyed and despised simultaneously. While he knew and fully understood that Niue was probably the most dangerous person for him to be spending time with given his years of destructive behaviour and habits, he knew without him he would be completely alone. With that, he began sleeping with him at 17 which only deepened the attachment they had with each other. The somewhat strong relationship he had with Monstrum quickly diminished when Allison found out about how he treated Niue on the daily. When he confronted Monstrum about it, he was quickly put into his place, having a leg and a foot broken in the process.

 

He and Niue soon began visiting much more often, and shortly before turning 18, they began mixing the exchange of drugs in with intercourse. Allison was aware of Niue's polygamous nature and multiple relationships, and while this bothered him, he felt he didn't deserve better. Even more so, he didn't want to lose the only close friend he had at this point in his life, and so he settled with what he had. It wasn’t until this point where Allison began to meet other people who Niue was involved with, Skitzel being the first of the bunch around a year or so later.

 

In the beginning, their relationship was rocky with Skitzel being more of the jealous type. Allison so badly wanted Skitzel to like and accept him, and he did all he could to get to know him more. Niue and Skitzel were very early in their relationship when Allison was first introduced to him, and he didn’t find about Allison and Niue engaging in regular intercourse until hearing about it directly from Niue. After discovering this, Skitzel just pushed Allison away as he wanted nothing to do with anyone else and was sexually involved with Niue, which only left him using with him more. Over the course of many months however, Skitzel slowly began to open up with Allison, eventually to the point where they had some sort of a relationship forming between them. Even then, Allison still didn’t really feel entirely wanted by Skitzel, who displayed intense dislike toward he and Niue spending large amounts of time together.

 

From then on, Niue still reigned as the one Allison kept closest with, no matter how much it truly hurt him to consider him as such with the state that he was in. His relationship with Monstrum remained extremely tense, but he still went over for drugs whenever he couldn’t find any elsewhere. He still tried to keep in contact with Ryu as much as possible, who was the only one Allison felt he could truly be himself and let out everything that had been built up inside for so long. Allison still had feelings for Ryu and made subtle attempts to get with him. He wasn’t fully aware of Ryu and Terry and where their relationship stood at this point. Terry and Allison didn’t have the greatest relationship either as there was constantly conflict between them.

Tanya had the most beautiful smile. She was on the State Street bridge by Wacker. Her smile reflected her joy and optimism for life. On the weekends, she works at a handicapped facility and helps take care of them. She makes enough to rent a room, but she needs more money to survive, so that's why she comes out here. She's been out here for about four years. She said, "I'm doing a lot better than what I was" (before she had a part-time job). The most powerful thing she said was, "don't judge a book by it's cover--you've got to read it! Not all homeless people are drug addicts". She feels like people don't really know homeless people. She says if people are down or depressed, just "trust in God". "Any day you wake up is a good day!" Then I left, basking in the glow of her radiant smile.

 

The Whippany Railroad Museum had a Railroad Festival during the Period of July 27 thru 31, 1994 in the Morristown & Erie Railroad Yard. The Whippany Railroad Museum is located beside the M & E Railroad Yard at the intersection of Whippany Road and State Road 10 in Whippany, which is a community in Hanover Township. The Mailing Address of the Museum is 1 Railroad Plaza, Whippany, New Jersey 07981.

 

Lackawana Railway Express Car Number 2038, which appears in several Photographs in my Photostream, had a long and Interesting History (as explained by these two Documents) handed out at the 1994 Railroad Festival held In the Morristown & Erie Railroad Yard and on the adjacent "Whippany Railroad Museum" Grounds. These two Documents were written by the Tri-State Railway Historical Society in support of a United States Postal Service Locomotive Stamp Dedication (aka: First Day Issue of a New Stamp) on July 30-31, 1994.

 

My Photographs, of former (Erie) Lackawanna Railway Express Agency Railcar Number 2038 and other Railcars and Locomotives on Display proceeds these two Documents in my flickr™ Photostream. These Photographs can be be seen by successively CLICKING on the Arrow on the Right Side of these Documents.

 

Railway Express Cars were used by the Postal Service to move mail between Major Cities & States. Mail for various locations was often sorted inside the Express Car while it was moving between Main Postal Regions. In fact, my older brother worked at a part time job sorting mail in one of these Express Cars to supplement his income as a Fireman in Hudson County, NJ.

 

Additional information about the Whippany Railroad Museum can be found at:

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippany_Railway_Museum

Anne has a part-time job at the local convenience store. It stoks a variety of goods and instant meals, and also has a couple of dodgy hamburger vending machines...

 

Epoch's Nyanko Mart gashapon is so adorable! The pieces are a little large and no where near as detailed as Re-Ment or even Sylvanian Families pieces, but they're so cute just the same. Especially the little cat coins.

Doing a Christmas afternoon photo session on the campus of Arcadia High School.

 

Arcadia is located just east of Pasadena, and 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles; thanks to Arcadia being home to Santa Anita Racetrack, Arcadia's public schools are better funded than in the rest of California, and Arcadia has developed a legendary status among wealthy Asian immigrants (especially those from Taiwan) as a result. Having once lived in Arcadia myself, it's always nice to come back for a new look.

 

This Porsche, race-ready with racing cage and other upgrades, is indicative of Arcadia's affluence. The Asian immigrants, in particular, not only have money, but do love to show off in pricey cars. While Arcadia High School students in the pre-Asian days often worked part-time jobs in order to buy a clunker out of their own pocket, the Asian immigrant students changed the rules in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, getting a Honda Civic or an Acura Integra (or even a BMW 3-series) as Sweet Sixteen birthday presents from their parents. After all, time spent on part-time jobs is time lost for academic preparation for SATs and a possible Harvard admission (and the parents are probably rich enough to shell out hundreds more per month for top-notch tutors).

 

For the record, even though I lived in Arcadia through all of that, I was NOT one of those affluent Asian immigrant teen brats in a nice car.

Tonight I went through some pics from my archives, and found a bunch of shots that I'd taken over two years ago while I was visiting Tigger at Sugar Mill Gardens.

 

For those who don't know the story of my cat, Tigger, he had been owned by an elderly lady who passed away. I was told that her ashes had been scattered in the gardens. (She had lived just down the street.) Tigger's name back then was Jack. I found this out when I met a girl in the gardens who claimed to have been the best friend of the lady's grand daughter, and she filled me in on some interesting facts. "Jack" was passed down to the girl, who was very young at that time. For some reason, he kept getting out and running down to Sugar Mill Gardens to hang out. It seems a little like a Greyfriar's Bobby kind of thing, (you know, where the dog's owner died and he laid on his owner's grave every day until HE died, too!) The family would come and get Jack, but he apparently liked hunting squirrels in the gardens, and being a very social cat, liked all the attention from visitors, and quickly became the unofficial greeter of the place!

 

Eventually, the family had to move to St. Augustine, and for whatever reason, they decided to leave Jack to his gardens, and asked the garden staff if they'd look after him. At some point, Jack was renamed Tigger, and several of the volunteers fed him, and one would do things like periodically worm him, or pull ticks off him.

 

After I came on Flickr, I met Tiger Lair, another member, who has a group called Tigger, the Gatekeeper's Garden Clubhouse. That's where I found out about Tig. I had heard so much about him that I planned to visit him, but like most people, never had the time. Well, Tiger Lair (Susan) would check on him every month or so, and bring him snacks and catnip. On January 1, 2008, she had gone out of town with her hubby, and the temps were going to plummet into the 20's, which is unusual for Florida. I wondered if Tigger had ever been exposed to such weather, or if he had someplace warm to go in. So, I made my first visit to the Gardens to bring him a blanket, just in case.

 

When I got to the gardens, it was late afternoon, and it was already about 40 degrees. I found Tigger on top of the old ruins, shivering. The plants had been covered, but there was no bed or house, and nothing warm for the cat to cuddle up with. So, I tossed the blanket up onto the ruins next to him, while he looked at me like I was nuts! I walked away to take some photos, and when I returned, there was Tigger, cuddled up on the blanket! I brought treats and lured him over with them so I could pet him. Well, the rest is history. After that, I went back again and again, each time bringing more stuff...a "house" made out of a storage container with a hole cut in the side that I put blankets in for him to get out of the rain or wind. I ended up going there most every day and bringing him food and giving him fresh water. In the process, I discovered just how hard life had been for Tigger, who was about 8-10 years old.

 

I would put fresh water in his bowl and give him fresh food, then walk around the gardens taking photos while he escorted me! When I went back over by his bowls, I'd often find his food half gone and his water bowl filthy with mud! It took me a while to discover the culprit who was making a mess of things and stealing his food. It was raccoons! Tigger could gallop like a race horse, and I have no doubt that it was due to running from angry mother raccoons, protecting their young, and eating his food! Tigger had hind leg problems, and I began to notice he would shake sometimes, and have difficulty making it over the fence, or climbing up on anything. His legs are longer than any cat I've ever seen, but not particularly strong. I believe he couldn't climb to get away from danger; he just had to run for it!

 

Over time, I grew to love him like one of my own cats, and right before a tropical storm hit the following summer, I took Tigger home to keep him safe. He adapted so well that I ended up keeping him! A couple of months later, my mother took ill and passed away. I lost my job of 16 years, and had no money for food for myself, let alone 3 cats! Susan began to bring me food and supplies, not just for Tigger, but for ALL my cats! She has treated them as if they were her own for over a year and a half! Even now, I only have been able to find a part time job which pays much less than what I used to earn, and she has continued to help me so my three boys can stay healthy. I don't know what I'd do without her!

 

It's been a long time since I went to the gardens. We had my mother's memorial service there, and that was the last time I went. I have taken literally thousands of photos of the 12 acre site, which was once part of the Dunlawton Plantation. Many of the photos I've never had time to process. So, like everything else, they will be done eventually, as I make room for new things!

 

This is one of the unusual and lovely tropical blooms the master gardeners of Sugar Mill Gardens tend. Once the heat of summer is over, I will probably visit again, and take a walk around the place. This time, Tigger won't be with me, but that's okay. I don't have to worry about him anymore!

 

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I've worked for the postal service for a little over 8 yrs now. Prior to that I worked 15 yrs at our local adult video store. Managed it for about the last 4-5 yrs that I was there.

 

About a year after high school I was in the store with a friend of mine. He was visiting with the manager who was a friend of his... I was looking at the porn.

 

Karen(manager) asked Todd(friend) if he knew anyone who was interested in a part time job. He points to me. I fill out an application... next thing you know I'm a clerk at the porn shop...pretty much all of my family were shocked when finding this out. "Sweet little Dale is working where?!!!?"

Totally against my image... not so much my reality.

 

One of my earliest experiences as a clerk involved a gentleman who decided to return a blow up doll because. As he put it. "It had a hole in it."...a more experienced employee might have just said: "Sorry, there is no return on toys."... Not Me!!... I open it up. Then proceed to pull it out. Which he obviously had tried to wash. Before you know it I have this full size doll laying on the counter in front of me. All wet and gross. I'm thinking to myself... "What the hell?"

 

As it just so happens. A couple of my friends are in the store at the same time. I think the look on my face pretty much summed it up... both of them had to leave the room in hysterics. Peaking at me from the "arcade".

I finally tell the guy there was nothing I could do... actually, I was thinking to myself. "next time let the doll be on top".

 

It was always kinda funny when I would be in public and happen upon certain "regulars". Their first response would be to smile and say "Hi, how are you?"... then in the middle of this. They would realize where they know me from and get this look of horror on their face... god forbid the wife finds out where he goes. I always played it cool. I figure it wasn't my place to make them anymore uncomfortable.

 

Another time I was having dinner with my mom and Bruce. Bruce leans over to me and says:"that guy leaving went out of his way so that you would not see him"... I looked back to see who it was . It was a regular who would always rent a room to watch lesbian and transvestite videos... this day he was wearing a "collar".

 

This is the one thing that I always found fascinating. A large percentage of the men who were interested in the all-girl videos tend to be attracted to the transvestite ones as well... This was a pattern I saw continuously over the years.

170|385

 

Call me the worst Flickrer ever for the spacey uploading.

 

I refuse to quit adding to my 365, i blame being tired and busyness.

 

For old Flickr friends who want to know what i've been up too−I've been up to a lot! Im the art director for my schools art & literary magazine and i also do a lot for the school paper: photojournalism and graphics. I have a new part-time job. I play Rugby now. And lastly i have been working on my portfolio and have been completing college applications. Yeah, a lot of stuff. There really should be more hours in the day cause i love everything i do and cant quit a thing. It's a shame when i cant find time for personal art and photography. Need to keep my grip on it all.

  

Name: Kenneth Kells

Born: October 29th

Age: 17 and a half

Height: 5’ foot 7

Hair color: Black/baby blue/ white/ blonde/ Lavender/soft pink.

Eye color: Silver

Skin color: pale.

Personality: Kenneth is a quiet young man. Hesitant, he does his best to stay out of people’s way. He never had any real friends because people sought him out to be a freak calling him a bad omen. He believed that he is nothing but bad luck. Unlike most people it doesn’t bother him, in fact he enjoys being alone. When he isn’t in school sketching out his dreams, or folding shirts at his part time job at the mall, Kells like to spend his off times investigating haunted places.

Kenneth is obsessed with the paranormal. He spends his funds buying ghost detectors and trinkets.

  

Story: Centuries ago a demon known as Cervantes wreaked havoc on a city killing thousands of people. A team of noble exorcist came forth to battle the demon. Many had fallen but one man. The two went toe to toe and the battle went on for days and nights. Finally the exorcist makes a deal with the demon claiming that if he leaved his people alone he would offer up his bloodline in exchange. The demon agreed but before the deal was sealed; the exorcist casts a spell that binds the two together sending both of them to hell. Angered by the betrayal Cervantes vowed to possess the body of one of his offspring and annihilate every human from the face of the planet. Foreseeing this prophecy his young daughter took over as the lead exorcist. For every Kells that was born, Cervantes attempted at doing as he promised but failed every single time. Eventually Cervantes gave up on his promise and many years passed on. Soon Kenneth Kells was born. His mother was over joyed. With so many failed miss carriages, she was finally blessed with a child of her own. Her sister was happy yet felt uneasy. At the age of 2 Kenneth encountered his first ghost. Upon seeing this, his aunt predictions were now a reality. She attempts to warn her sister and her husband of Cervantes return but they ignore her silly myth. At age 4 Cervantes takes possession over Kenneth’s house. Cervantes brutally kills Kenneth’s parent’s leaving Kenneth afraid and defenseless. Predicting all of this would happen Kenneth’s aunt manages to save Kenneth and prevents Cervantes from taking possession over him.Over the years of protecting him Kenneth’s aunt has a difficult time keeping Kenneth away from danger. But Kenneth was obsessed with danger he liked the paranormal. He was obsessed with demons and spirits. Against his aunt’s wishes he would go out to haunted places and investigate mysterious murders. One day Kenneth came back from a forbidden to trip to find that his aunt had died in her sleep. Depressed and alone Kenneth confided in his family photo albums. One photo stuck out to him that didn’t make sense. Whenhe turns the photo around he sees a message from his aunt written but then scratched out in blood. Curious he puts in his video tape from his 7th birthday party and in that video he notices his aunt trying to tell him something but she is thrown back by a mysterious force. After investigating further he realizes that his aunt was attempting to tell him something. As time goes on, Kenneth keeps hearing voices whispering to him about a book. When Kenneth finally discovers the book he finds out that this book is somehow connected to the dead. He finds a spell that can bring back spirits. He uses this to bring back the ghost of his aunt only to have done exactly what she was trying to warn him not to do. Cervantes grabs a hold to his aunt and releases several demons causing the world to be consumed with darkness. Taking the form of a stuff animal, Kenneth’s Aunt tells him that he has released the brethren of Cervantes who are forming a portal to resurrect him permanently. Kenneth must use the demonic book to the defeat the demons and put the world back to original state before Cervantes is fully resurrected even if it kills him.

   

If you are interested in the history of Chinese Restaurants in Ireland please visit comeheretome.com/2012/07/25/dublins-first-chinese-restaur...

 

When I was 21 I had two part time jobs in Dun Laoghaire ... I worked for the local tourist office three days a week and two days a week on the pier for the Department Of Agriculture. I would visit the Lotus Chinese Restaurant at least once per week. It only opened in 1971 [the same year that I got my first part time job] and I am not sure that my parents approved of me wasting my money eating out.

 

I worked for Ericsson from 2001 to 2011 and once ever week I had lunch at this restaurant as did many other staff members.

 

I've had this block from the Add-A-Border Block Swap groupfor over a year, but I hadn't worked on it because I started a part time job in August 2013. I completed it about a month ago, but didn't post it right away, and then got distracted by other things in my life. So here it is, finally. Honas52 made the six inch block, Ladybug4785 did round 2, celestejohnson2008 did round 3, and I did round 4.

these were the sequel of Wed. 23 Aug. 2006 of my LX1

 

...

 

economy size

 

The compact plastic digital camera has a 4:3 format.

6 tatamis room has a 12 by 9 feet space. ( 4:3 )

 

Panasonoc DMC-LX1 has a 16:9 format.

One tatami has a 6 by 3 feet space naturally. ( 18:9 )

if the Panasonic has the 18:9 format

it was more familiar to the Japanese people.

  

so,

I love to shoot by W5 and LX1 naturally.

Those were the idea of the Japanese plainly.

 

and I rather love to shoot the economy size.

That was just familiar to the black and white TV set format.

   

after the Tokyo Olympic Games

the black and white TV set came to my house finally.

it was December of 1964.

   

...

 

shooting data :

w5_aibii_060823wed_0240

 

SONY Cyber-shot DSC-W5

lens : 38-114 mm ( 3:4 ) : 38 mm

manual exposure : f 5.6 1/30

manual focussing : 1 m setting

ISO : 100

date : Wed. 23 Aug. 06:22:06 PM 2006

place : on my Dai-koku Oo-hashi ( big bridge )

  

note :

This road ran from the north-west to the south-east.

It was simply shooting to the west from the top of my Dai-koku Oo-hasi alone.

The south-east end was my Dai-koku Umi-zuli Kou-en ( fishing park ).

I would love to show its series to you some day.

 

When would it come the day ?

It couldn't be knowing it.

  

umi --- sea

zuli ( tsu-li ) --- fishing

kou-en --- public park

kou ( ouyake ) --- public

en ( sono ) --- garden, paradise

  

...

 

o-sen-be

 

by the way

do you know tatami ?

It was not a tatami mat.

We never say tatami as a tatami mat, never.

Do you know o-sen-be ?

It was not a rice cracker.

We never say o-sen-be as a rice cracker, never.

  

when we want to say the things more familiar and politely

" o " was added on its head.

 

...

 

gai-jin

 

16:9 Hi-vision format is a little narrow size of tatami format 18:9.

4:3 digital camera format is a little narrow saiz of Leica format 3:2.

We love to use a little smaller size naturally.

 

and we love to say the things in shorter words.

 

a person who came from the other side of the sea is the foreigner.

we say it gai-jin ( gai-koku-jin : foreigner ).

 

gai ( soto ) --- out side, the other side

koku ( kuni ) --- country

jin ( hito ) --- person

 

we have each name of those people in Japanese.

America-jin, France-jin, Italia-jin, Canada-jin, etc-jin.

but when we saw a foreigner we call them totally gai-jin.

 

No ! I'm not a gai-jin ! I am an American !

 

but we say all foreigners gai-jin naturally.

simply,

we couldn't know the difference between an American and a Canadian.

even between a Noth Korean and a Chinese, a Taiwanese, etc Asian people.

if a Japanese who has an exotic face say " I am a Bhutanese "

we simply believe it.

 

...

 

" Nippon ? "

 

When I was working at the Yat-tya-ba ( vegetables trading and dealing wholesaler central center ) ( Sorry, I don't know it real English name. )

I was frequently asked from the Japanese young guys like this.

" Nippon ? "

He wanted to say for asking as " Are you a Japanese ? "

I have a very exotically shabby face.

of course,

I was naturally a Japanese-made Japanese.

but very often times

The Japanese young guys asked to me " Nippon ? ".

 

...

 

he is gai-jin

 

When we saw a yellow skin colored foreign person

we thought their nationalities from their hight and looking.

 

and its results were the " he is not a Japanese ".

we say " he is gai-jin ".

 

I am a North Korean.

I am a Chinese.

I am a Bhutanese.

 

but,

it has no meaning for the most of all Japanese.

 

I am coming from Ao-moli.

I am coming from Iwa-te.

I am coming from Aki-ta.

I am coming from Yama-gata.

 

those were also the same thing.

the most of all Japanese couldn't recognize the difference between those four prefectures.

we recognize them as Tou-hoku ( north-east ) chi-hou ( district ) ".

 

...

 

shorter word

 

? what had I been saying about ?

oh, yes,

we love to say the things as in too much shorter word.

 

paso-kon --- personal computer

deji-kame --- digital camera

laji-kase --- radio cassette recorder

gai-jin ( gai-koku-jin ) --- a person who came from the other side of the sea

 

...

 

Brazilians and Chinese

 

and yes,

when I was walking along this road to come here

I met some many young guys and girls.

They were released from their part time job.

of course,

they were the some country's young gai-jins.

 

might be

they were the Brazilians and Chinese.

The Brazilians are rather easy to get job in Japan.

if the Brazilians had some " mi-moto hiki-uke nin ( guarantor ) "

they could get job easier than the other foreigners.

and I heard the Chinese languages in a passing wind.

They might come to Japan as a student.

and they were working from 9 AM to 5 PM every day.

They might get 680 yen or 750 yen or more yen per hour.

A Chinese farmer's yearly income is 70,000 yen.

 

They could get big money from Japanese companies in Dai-koku chou ( town ) every day.

They don't have a need and interest to go to school in Japan.

They simply love to come to get money to Japan plainly.

 

The money, nothing but money.

It was the most important thing to live along.

 

...

 

" zai nichi chou-sen-jin "

 

The population of japan is 130,000,000.

The population of Tokyo is 13,000,000.

It was not including the illegal entry gai-jins and Koreans who had been abducted and their families.

They were called " zai nichi chou-sen-jin ", the long-term stay persons.

 

zai ( son-zai ) --- exsisting

zai ( tai-zai ) --- staying

nich ( nippon ) --- Japan

chou-sen-jin --- Korean

  

They had been abducted from Korea in that war.

and they had been built our highways, buildings, etc with low wedges.

and they made families in Japan.

and they owned Pachin-ko ya in japan.

 

The most of all public gambles, Kei-rin, Kei-ba, Kyou-tei are losing their incomes every year.

 

kei-rin --- bicycle race

kei-ba --- horse racing

kyou-tei --- motorboat race

  

It has been saying that the part of Pachin-ko ya's sales have been being remitted to the North Korea naturally.

 

and,

there are many Japanese who love to go Pachin-ko ya from the early morning till the night everyday.

and they are paying a big money to the Pachin-ko ya as our sin every day and night plainly.

 

If somebody lost their big money at Pachin-ko ya they went to the consumer loan company immediately.

If somebody couldn't borrow money from the consumer loan company

they had to go to the usury.

and they soon went back to Pachin-ko ya as soon as they could be possible.

  

in anyway

some of those loan companies have been also being managed under the Korean people who had been abducted from the Korean Peninsula in that war naturally.

and those loan companies are being managed by their families now.

They are putting up a huge sign on the roofs and walls of the buildings in front of the station.

If you come to Japan you recognize it soon.

   

and,

after that war

the Korean people who had been abducted from the Korean Peninsula could get the many burnt-out-land around the station and somewhere that they wanted.

 

so that,

if you come to Japan and get out from the station

you could see the Pachin-ko ya just in front of you.

   

aibii_blue

Wed. 22 Nov. 10:11 PM 2006

  

........

 

Tyuu-Syou Ki-gyou ( small and medium sized enterprises )

 

The " Gai-koku-jin Gi-nou Jis-syuu Ken-syuu Sei-do " was enacted in 1993.

 

in 2005

83,000 foreigners used it and came to Japan.

 

and these 5 years till last September 2006

13,095 ( ? I heard it from NHK-1 radio ) people were runaway from its companies.

  

They came Japan as Jis-syuu seis ( trainee ).

Some of them became illegal part time workers or scoundrels.

 

Gai-koku-jin illegal part time workers have been working illegally under the Japanese Chuu-Shou Ki-gyou ( small and medium sized enterprises ) naturally.

 

chuu ( chuu kibo ) middle size, class, scale

shou ( shou kibo ) small size, class, scale

ki-gyou --- enterprise, company, factory

  

Some of the Chuu-Shou Ki-gyous have no holiday.

 

The owners of the Chuu-Shou Ki-gyou couldn't pay enough money to their Japanese employees.

The Japanese employees couldn't live along with their salaries in Japan.

The Japanese employees quit their Chuu-Shou Ki-gyou naturally.

 

The illegal gai-koku-jin could accept the low wedges.

The owner of the Chuu-Shou Ki-gyou employed the illegal part time gai-koku-jin workers illegally.

 

The illegal gai-koku-jin part time workers might get 70,000 yen in two weeks.

Those were the yearly income of the Chinese farmers.

  

...

 

" Lei-sai Ki-gyou " ( micro enterprise, small business )

 

Tyuu-Syou Ki-gyou has a younger brother,

" Lei-sai Ki-gyou " ( micro enterprise, small business ).

 

" Lei-sai Ki-gyou " are managed by one or two or three persons.

Father and mother and son are the those.

  

When I was working as a K-truck driver

Oo-ta Ward Kamata, Oo-moli had many many " Lei-sai Ki-gyous ".

 

One of the " Lei-sai Tek-kou jo " had

father and two sisters and one Japanese and one some gai-jin employees.

 

One of another " Lei-sai Tek-kou jo " had

father and one Japanese and two some gai-jin employees.

 

and those some gai-jin employees ware given enough wages probably.

I felt familial feeling between them.

They were working together like real family.

but some gai-jins had to move to another " Lei-sai Tek-kou jo " within 6 month.

If someone told the existing of them to some office or somewhere

they had to be forced into an awkward position all together.

 

tek-kou jo --- ironworks

ban-kin jyo --- steal metal processing industries

 

of course,

I had been delivering those processed goods to " ken-setsu gen-ba " by K-truck those days.

 

The K-truck has a 11 feet length.

Its capacity tonnage is 0.35 ton.

If its processed goods were too longer or too heavier

I did the " un-ten dai-kou " by its company's pick-up truck.

 

ken-setsu gen-ba --- a construction site

un-ten dai-kou --- be diputized for its company's driver

 

The ken-setsu gen-ba was not only a building.

It were on the road site, mountain site, sea site, river site, amusement park site, etc site, naturally.

  

...

 

" Chuu-ka Shi-sou " ( Chinese idea )

 

I didn't talked to them too much

but they could talk familial Japanese languages.

and they could catch my eye-contact naturally.

 

of course,

they were not Chinese.

probably they might be Iranians or Pakistanis.

The Iranians and Pakistanis are working very hard.

The Japanese love the person who is working very hard.

 

but the Chinese

they have a " Chuu-ka Shi-sou " ( Chinese idea ).

it was

the Chinese are the most superior race in all over the world.

 

when I was working at Yat-tya-ba

too much more more Chinese and a little Iranians were also working in Yat-tya-ba.

 

but the Chinese

they don't like working under someone.

They had no experiences working under the someone.

We paid 1,000 yen 1,200 yen per hours to them.

It was the same wages of the Japanese part time workers.

but they don't like working harder like Japanese.

 

at first the Chinese said " Hai !, Hai ! " ( yes !, yes ! ).

and they knew it soon.

" Oh ! Japanese love to work harder than we had been being hearing. "

" Oh ! They aren't looking at us ! "

While a Japanese did the 3 or 5 jobs the Chinese only did one job or less.

 

They had been being accustomed to it for a long time.

Too much more more working and too much less less working were the same wages in China.

and soon they obeyed their rule of China and applied it in Yat-tya-ba.

It was before 1990.

 

but in 1990

many many Japanese workers lost their jobs and companies.

many many Japanese came to work in Yat-tya-ba.

We don't need Chinese any more simply.

We love the person who loves to work hard.

The Chinese lost their job in Yat-tya-ba soon.

It was 1991-1992.

 

...

 

the rule of capitalism and liberalism

 

The Chinese couldn't understand the rule of capitalism and liberalism.

 

and,

the Chinese didn't know the Yat-tya-ba people.

Yat-tya-ba is a den of the hot-tempered Japanese persons.

  

yes, of course,

I am a hot-tempered person undoubtedly.

and is the most worst thing for my disease plainly.

so that

I have to eat too much more more medicines naturally.

  

...

 

Today is the national holiday

" Kin-lou Kan-sya no hi " ( Labor Thanksgiving Day ).

 

yesterday was the October climate.

today is the December climate.

Yokohama yesterday was 19 degrees Celsius.

Yokohama today is 12 degrees of Celsius.

and we would get 7-13 degrees of Celsius with cold winds and rain tomorrow in Yokohama.

 

It is getting cold wind in Yokohama now.

   

aibii_blue

Thur. 23 Nov. 08:08 PM 2006

  

edited

aibii_blue

Fri. 24 Nov. 03:08 AM 2006

Fri. 24 Nov. 07:37 PM 2006

  

........

 

prohibition to the signboard

 

today's Yomiuli said ( Yomiuri Shinbun : Daily Newspaper )

 

Kyoto City announced the prohibition to the signboard on the top roof of the building.

and also the prohibitions for the hight of the building around " 14 Skei-Isan ( Historical Heritages ) "" and " over 30 percent of Shigai-ka Chousei Kuiki ( designated urbanization areas ) "

and the prohibition for the color of the roof and walls.

and these would be decided within a " Kon-nen-do chuu ( until March 31 2007 ) " and those would be carried out with in " Lai-nedo chuu ( until March 31 2008 ) ".

 

It was also adapted for the flashing-type neon signs on the roofs and walls.

 

until this revisions were curried out

we could built a new one upon the roofs and walls,

and those could be existing until 2014.

 

This epoch-making regulations were the first enactment in Japan.

  

nen-do begins April first till the next March 31 every year in Japan.

We enter the school in April and graduate from school in March.

We got cherr blossoms from March to April in Tokyo district.

We got the too much more more constructions on the roads in every March.

 

The most of all Japanese loves the cherry blossoms.

and the Yaku-sho ( public office ) loves to do the constructions in ever March.

 

Yaku-sho is not the Yaku-za.

but their constructions in every March is very violently.

They dig the same place three times or more time in every March.

Yaku-sho gas dig and fill it up.

Yaku-sho water dig and fill it up again.

and the yaku-sho's additional dig has been done again there.

  

...

 

3 ways to get job

 

today's Yomiuli also said

 

in 2005

4612 " Boulyoku-dan Kankei-sya ( the members of Yakuza and its groups and its around parties ) " were imprisoned.

Those were the 14 percent of the prisoners who were imprisoned in 2005.

 

70 percent of 4612 prisoners were the persons who were imprisoned again.

 

The most of all boulyoku-dans and the members of its groups and its around parties were the sons, groundchildren, great-grandchildren of the Koreans who were abducted from the Korean Peninsula in that war.

  

There were 3 ways to get job for the Korean people who were abducted from the Korean Peninsula in that war and for their families.

 

1 : did a " Ki-ka ( naturalization ) and get the Japanese nationality and Japanese name and get a job in Japanese party as a Japanese

 

2 : live as a " Zai-nichi Chousen-jin ", long-term stay person and get job in Korean party in Japan

 

3 : be a Boulyoku-dan and get illegal money in Japan

 

boulyoku --- violence

bou ( abale-lu ) act violently

lyoku ( chikala ) power

dan --- group, party, team

  

signboards on the top roof and wall were here

www.flickr.com/photos/aibii_gone/148844361

   

aibii_blue

Sat. 25 Nov. 08:05 PM 2006

  

Yokohama today was fine and warm sunshine day with no wind.

It was 5.2-13.1 degrees Celsius.

Tomorrow would be 9-15 rain so.

   

...

 

talents

 

additionally,

there was one another the most popular way to get money for the Korean people who were abducted from the Korean Peninsula in that war and for their families.

 

those were the talents for the arts, athletics, etc.

 

the singer, photographer, painter, actor, novelist,TV personality,

professional wrestler, baseball player, soccer player, boxer, Kei-rin racer, Kyou-tei racer, Kei-ba jockey, etc.

  

Every day, in the TV monitor, we are looking many many Korean people that their fathers or mothers or grandfathers or grandmothers or great-grandfathers or great-grandmothers were abducted from the Korean Peninsula in that war.

 

but they didn't give us the real Korea names naturally.

They gave us their name as beautiful flower girl or tall middle finger or tiny little stamina battery or something.

We knew that their names were the stage names or pen names.

 

but we didn't know that they were the descendants of the Koreans who were abducted from the Korean Peninsula in that war.

 

and the most of them couldn't marry the Japanese people.

They had to marry the Koreans that their fathers or mothers or grandfathers or grandmothers or great-grandfathers or great-grandmothers were abducted from the Korean Peninsula in that war.

 

They were born in Japan and growing up in Japan and have been paying the taxes to Japan.

but they aren't the Japanese.

They are the Zai-nichi Chousen-jin, the long-term stay persons.

We call them simply a Zai-nichi.

 

There were many long-term stay persons who came from many other countries in Japan.

They were all zai-nich, the long-term stay persons in Japan.

but when we said zai-nich it meant Zai-nichi Chousen-jins naturally.

 

and that has a little bad feeling for Japanese and Zai-nichi Chousen-jin.

 

so that,

most of Japanese must go to the Pachin-ko yas, consumer loan companies, usury for our sin.

and more,

we must watch the TV and go to the theater and buy some goods of theirs.

 

I love to watch the American movies.

and I don't like any kind of gambles plainly.

so,

I had been doing nothing about the duty of our sin to the Zai-nich Chou-sen-jins naturally.

  

I just simply have been eating my medicines only for my pain.

I am a very selfish person so indeed.

   

aibii_blue

Sun. 26 Nov. 04:06 AM 2006

San Sebastian Church

Ich liebe sie! Da der letzte Winter einige Opfer gefordert hat, musste ich ein paar Pflanzen ersetzen. Manchmal zahlt es sich aus, den richtigen Nebenjob zu haben.

Euch allen herzlichen Dank für eure Geduld, denn ich hatte in letzter Zeit viel zu viel um die Ohren und habe es verpasst einige wunderbare Bilder zu kommentieren. Aber ich denke, ihr kennt das auch :-)

 

I love them! Since the last winter has claimed some victims, I had to replace a few plants. Sometimes it pays off to have the right part-time job. Thank you all for your patience.

I had to do way too much lately and I've missed some wonderful pictures to comment on. But I think you know that too :-)

Born in Gravenhurst, Ontario on March 3, 1890, Bethune was one of three children of a Presbyterian minister. He graduated from Owen Sound Collegiate, and enrolled in medicine at the University of Toronto in 1909. His studies were interrupted in 1911, when he became a labourer-teacher with Frontier College, holding literacy classes for immigrant mine labourers in northern Ontario.

 

Like many of his generation, Bethune volunteered when World War One broke out, only to witness the horror of imperialist slaughter on the battlefields of Europe. As a stretcher‑bearer in France, he was wounded by shrapnel, and returned home to complete his medical degree. In 1917 he joined the Royal Navy as a Surgeon-Lieutenant at the Chatham Hospital in England. After the war, he became a specialist at The Hospital for Sick Children in London, and then furthered his qualifications at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh.

 

He married heiress Frances Penny in 1923, and the couple eventually moved to Detroit, where he began private practice and a part‑time job as a medical instructor. Contracting tuberculosis due to overwork and close contact with the sick, Bethune sought treatment at the Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake, New York. There he researched a controversial new treatment, which involved artificially collapsing the tubercular lung, allowing it to rest and heal. The operation was a success, and he made a full recovery. But the experience helped to confirm his radical views on disease and medicine under capitalism.

 

In 1929 Bethune joined the thoracic surgical pioneer, Dr. Edward William Archibald, at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. From 1929 to 1936 he perfected his skills, developed or modified more than a dozen new surgical tools, and published 14 articles describing his innovations in thoracic technique.

 

At the same time, he became deeply involved with social and economic issues, providing free medical care for the poor, and art classes for children. He formed the Montreal Group for the Security of People’s Health, and in 1935 he visited the Soviet Union to observe the socialist system of free public health care. During that same year, he joined the Communist Party of Canada.

 

When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, he accepted an invitation to head the Canadian Medical Unit in Madrid, linked with the Mackenzie‑Papineau Battalion of Canadian anti-fascist fighters. Faced with sudden battlefield deaths caused by loss of blood, Bethune conceived the idea of on-site transfusions, and developed the world’s first mobile blood-transfusion unit. He returned to Canada in June 1937, embarking on a cross-country tour to raise money and volunteers for the struggle for democracy in Spain.

 

As the global fascist threat deepened, Bethune travelled in 1938 to China, to join the Communists led by Mao Zedong fighting the Japanese invaders. He immediately begin to organize medical services for the military front and the region. He performed emergency operations on war casualties, and established training for doctors, nurses and orderlies, treating wounded Japanese prisoners as well as Chinese.

 

In the summer of 1939 Bethune was appointed Medical Advisor to the Jin‑Zha‑Ji (Shanxi‑Chahar‑Hebei) Border Region Military District, liberated by the Communist Party of China’s Eighth Route Army. A few months later, Bethune cut his finger while operating on a soldier. Probably due to his weakened state, he contracted blood poisoning, and died of his wounds on November 12, 1939.

 

Bethune received international recognition when Chairman Mao Zedong of the People’s Republic of China published his essay “In Memory of Norman Bethune”, which documented the final months of the doctor’s life. The essay became required reading in China’s schools. Statues dedicated to Bethune’s honour have been erected throughout China, and he is buried in the Revolutionary Martyrs’ Cemetery, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. (quoted from People's Voice Newspaper)

 

Look at all that front lawn I had to mow down there at Katahdin Lodge and Camps, in the summer of 1969.

 

Anytime Finley Clarke's Nephew, that'd be me, David Robert Crews, was living and working at Finley's Katahdin Lodge and Camps, David was the Lodge's sole grass cutter and weed whacker.

 

I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

And my Uncle Finley and his wife, my Aunt Martha, both completely agreed with me.

 

In November of 1968, I moved, from where I grew up in Dundalk, Maryland, a Baltimore County suburb of Baltimore City, to Katahdin Lodge of Patten, Maine, to begin living and working at the Lodge. In effect exchanging the crowded, industrialized sights, sounds and smells of suburban sprawl for the quiet, sometimes gentle/sometimes harsh, natural beauty and fresh air of the heavily forested, sparsely populated Katahdin Valley.

 

The very first time I had entered that wide, rolling, deep green, mountain and valley landscape, was during summer vacation of 1966. I was a 16 year old passenger in my father's car. Dad, my mother, younger sister, cousin Nelson and I were on our way, up from Maryland, to spend a week at the hunting lodge my Uncle Finley, my mother's younger brother and my father's best friend, had bought the year before. We were driving about 6 miles south of the Lodge, when I was blessed with my first full, sweeping look from the northern Appalachian Mountains to our left, then back across Rural Route 11 and out across the wide, rolling Katahdin Valley to our right.

 

I felt the very soul of me expand -- powerfully -- outwards in all directions around our moving car -- with such secure, natural warmth that I can not fully express. Something previously unknown to me, from deep inside of my living spirit, reached out and embraced the countryside. It instantly mingled all in amongst the multitudes of tall, healthy green trees. Then slid back inside of me.

 

For the first time in my life, it felt like I had finally arrived at home.

 

I had found my most comfortable place on earth. I was destined to love that sweet, rough section of God's Country more than anyplace else I have ever been.

 

Which is why, at the end of Thanksgiving Day Week of November 1968, after my father and I had spent that week at the Lodge, I accepted my Uncle Fin and Aunt Marty's request that I stay there at Katahdin Lodge to live with and work for them, instead of going back home to Baltimore to join the US Merchant Marines, as I had told everyone in my family that I was planning on doing.

 

I graduated from Dundalk High School on June 5, 1968, and had planned on joining the Merchant Marines before my official Army draft notice came. That way, I could not be drafted into the US Army, trained as an infantryman and sent to die in Vietnam. At that time in our nation's history, most young Americans thought that all military draftees were sent to Vietnam as infantrymen. And that few ever returned home fully alive.

 

In November of '68, I figured that I had about another year before my draft notice arrived in the mail. So I stayed at Katahdin Lodge, and my father drove back home to the Baltimore suburbs alone.

 

And I experienced my first wintertime in northern Maine.

 

Eventually, after a great winter spent at Katahdin Lodge, with my Uncle Fin and Aunt Marty, a few paying lodge guests, along with plenty enough of the finest kind of Mainers, especially the country girls, and after doing a whole lotta' snowmobile riding, but mostly doing a whole lotta' hard, often dangerous physical labor, I became a Registered Maine Guide--who specialized in guiding bear hunters.

 

I was the right man for the job.

 

Especially when it came time for keeping the Lodge's roofs, walkways, parking areas and large horseshoe shaped driveway shoveled or plowed free from the record snowfall of the winter of 1968-69 and for keeping the Lodge's substantial, rocky lawns mowed and looking good.

 

All through my teenage years, while still living in Dundalk, I had shoveled neighborhood sidewalks and driveways, and had mowed and trimmed neighborhood lawns for money.

 

My way of viewing doing that work was similar to how some other young men view being on an organized football team.

 

Participating whole heartedly in football practice and playing football games is a very physically, mentally and emotionally demanding challenge. And in order to be, and feel, successful, and to win any games, football players must love 'tackling' those multiple layers of challenges. They must also learn to understand and respect their opponents.

 

You already know that mowing lawns or shoveling snow can also be a very physically, mentally and emotionally demanding challenge. Many teens, especially today's computer dependent teens, do not want to mow any lawns or shovel anything at all around their house, or anybody else's. Other teens love working out in gyms and being on sports teams. The average kid thinks of lawn mowing and snow shoveling as being a serious, frustrating hassle. But I approached it from a different angle.

 

I thought of it all as, "How can I understand the varying challenges of each individual mowing or shoveling job, in order to do each job the easiest and most efficient way, while setting and maintaining a steady pace at working that neither drains my energy and strength too quickly, nor takes me too long? And I want to evenly exercise and strengthen my body as much as possible. But, I must respect my own abilities and limitations, and weigh them against the various degrees of difficulty that each job possesses."

 

When lawn mowing, I started each lawn by first looking the yard all over, and figuring out how to make the most of the terrain along with the layout of typical yard objects like a swimming pool and a birdbath. It was the challenge of creating a geometric mowing pattern that allowed me to git-'er-done right. A pattern to be used every time I mowed that lawn. I always wanted to make as many passes as possible with the mower facing in the same direction, with the cut grass blowing out from under the mower only one time--to avoid building up too much cut grass under the mower. That meant pulling the mower backwards almost as many times as pushing it forwards. Which also exercised my body more evenly. I have never seen any other old or young mowing pro doing this. I guarantee you that most power lawn mowers cut the same going in either direction. You can use that technique on the fussiest of folk's lawns, and it will look just fine.

 

But it also means having the common sense to realize that bagging cut grass and putting it out for the trash man to collect is asinine. Because you are taking natural fertilizer away and wasting it. I ask you, so what if a little bit of cut grass gets dragged into your house? It won't kill you or cause cancer in your offspring, but the chemical fertilizers you may use on your lawns can kill by causing cancerous type medical conditions.

 

For shoveling snow, first I see if the walk or driveway is lower at one end. I always start at the lower end, no matter how slight the angle of the grade is, because it allows for you to not have to reach as far as in reaching downhill with the shovel, and each shovelful will be lifted up a slightly shorter distance. Each snowfall is either dry and light, or wet and heavy, to varying degrees, so I find out how heavy each shovelful of snow feels. I scoop up the same basic amount of snow in each shovelful and set a pace and rhythm that is akin to the rhythm of old time field hand laborers' work songs.

 

Everything I did to mow or shovel like I have told you counts towards a better outcome, like shaving fractions of ounces off of football players', heavy, protective gear by using lighter, space age materials when making the helmets and padding. The lighter the gear, the faster and further the players can run. And by coming up with separate strategies, 'running different patterns', for each mowing or shoveling situation, it was even more like playing a football game against each and every shaggy lawn or snow covered sidewalk and driveway job that I 'tackled'.

 

Ya' see what I mean by comparing playing football to mowing and shoveling? It is similar. Unfortunately, mowing and shoveling don't earn ya' any cheers from a crowd of spectators, no scholarships are awarded, and there's no ego boosting or busting attention from the media. But mowing or shovelling still isn't the terrible and unpleasant chore that most kids think it is. It is all about how you view the challenges and overcome them.

 

After a good snow in Dundalk, when you walked down the street I grew up on, Dunmanway, you could usually tell which sidewalks I had shoveled. My shoveling jobs were almost always wider and straighter than any other sidewalks on the block. When I finished up mowing and trimming a lawn, it looked neat and tidy. I couldn't stand the sight of any blades of grass sticking up above the rest. It all had to be cut and trimmed to a reasonably even level.

 

It simply makes good sense to me to do the job right. And that personal maxim made me a good employee of my Uncle Finley's, because Fin fully personified that work ethic--every working day of his life.

 

While I was growing up, my parents had provided me with plenty enough clothing, other necessities of life, toys, model car kits, and then, as I passed age 14, Rock and Roll record albums became my preferred Christmas and birthday presents. My father worked in steel mills most of his life, and my mother usually had a good part time job. My entire extended family lived quite well enough, just about right in the middle of the American middle class.

 

But I wanted to purchase certain items that my parents could not afford. So I started my own little lawn care and snow shoveling business.

 

The Baltimore area does not receive a lot of snowfall each winter, but it was enough for me to earn maybe a hundred to a hundred and twenty bucks a winter. That snow shoveling business of mine allowed me to afford plenty of model car building kits (AMT Three In One Kits), record albums and some clothes.

 

Then all through the spring, summer and into the fall, the money from my lawn care work flowed into my bank account mighty darned good and steadily. Sometimes it garnered me better average hourly wages than those of the Bethlehem Steel Mill and Chevrolet Plant employees whose lawns I mowed.

 

Using a power mower is one of my all time favorite forms of exercise and outdoors activities. I kid you not.

 

After my body had matured enough to be nearly through the personal trials and tribulations of passing through puberty, and my brain had begun to achieve some solid degree of common sense and job site safety sensibilities, and I had grown strong enough to mow my family's large 100 x 60 foot yard, with a gas powered lawn mower, my father never had to tell me when to mow the yard. I did it because I was naturally compelled to pitch in and help take care of our home, it's good exercise and it paid well.

 

From the time that I was 12 or 13, until I moved away from my childhood home, our lawn there on Dunmanway never went for more than a week and a half without me cutting and trimming it to near perfection. It felt so good. And dad paid fair wages too.

 

After our lawn was done, I went on and mowed and trimmed other neighborhood family's yards for more money.

 

I can't stand self-propelled mowers. They don't actually make the work any easier. And my well honed, sculptor-style technique of mowing requires unapposing, fully dexterous control of the mowing machine at all times.

 

My all-time favorite lawn mower was a gas powered Lawn Boy, with a 15-inch blade. That little buddy and I could git'er done. We worked well together, through most of my teen years.

 

Now, when using a 15 incher, the smallest sized power mower blade I have ever known of, you have to make more passes on a lawn. But anything with a blade over 18 inches wide is too big and bulky for my personal, particular mowing technique. I'd rather zip right along with a lighter 15 or 18 inch mower, but do more zigs and zags, then to push a heavier, lunky darn 20 to 24 incher along for fewer, but slower and much sweatier zigs and zags. It seems that everybody else in America believes that the wider the mower blade, the quicker and easier they can mow a lawn, but that just ain't so. I know, because I'm an old pro.

 

Never had a power lawn trimmer either, and I've rarely ever used one. I do most of the trimming with the mower. That's why I prefer smaller bladed, lighter mowers that are not self propelled. They're easier to maneuver up against fences, above ground swimming pools and buildings. For me, them old timey scissor lookin' hand clippers were the right tool for doing any small amounts of trimming that I couldn't get done with a mower.

 

But I was younger and much more supple at the time.

 

Today, ten minutes work with a pair of those hand clippers, and I'd end up hobbling towards my medicine cabinet, with a screamin' sacroiliac steadily reminding me that those manual tool lawn care days of mine ended when my lower back was operated on.

 

Yeah, I know, I'm older, overweight and I get in the way sometimes, of those Spanish dudes who do the lawn care work for this rental townhouse and apartment complex I live in.

 

But I'm still gonna' tell you that my personal motto, concerning lawn mowing, has always been that the job isn't done until the sidewalks and driveways are swept clean.

 

I hate everything about them thar' new fangled, ear splitting, lung burning, back breaking, heavy darned gas powered leaf blowing machines. It is much easier and more peaceful to use a simple ol' broom to sweep the grass clippings off sidewalks and driveways--if you'll accept my opinion of it.

 

In my younger days, I mowed a lot of grass in Maryland and in Maine. I actually enjoyed it. But there was one humongous difference between mowing lawns in Maryland and mowing lawns in Maine:

 

THAT FRIGGIN FOUR FOOT THICK CLOUD OF MAINE BLACKFLIES, MOSQUITOES AND NO-SEE-UMS STEADILY SWARMING ALL AROUND MY BUG BATTERED HEAD!!!!

 

All I can say here is, "Praise the Lord and pass the Old Woodsman Bug Dope".

  

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Jeff was on another angry streak. It was the worst one since the month following Dad’s departure. It had been 7 years without him now and even though it hurt us all, Jeff was the only one still making a fuss about it. He was 17 for god sake, throwing tantrums like a constipated kid. It was really a sight. He yelled and screamed and cried and licked the snot off of his upper lip. I always wanted to film him freaking out, but our family 8mm took off with Dad and my part-time job mowing lawns only paid enough for mower maintenance and gas. How sweet it would have been though to project all 6’2 of Jeff onto the auditorium walls for all the kids he bullied to enjoy. With or without embarrassment, Jeff would eventually learn his lesson, but for now he was just one angry son of a bitch.

 

It was a particularly bad day for Jeff. The night before, he wrecked his car going head to head with some greasers in a Century after they revved on him. The confrontation began while out cruising Van Nuys and ended when Jeff lost it on the take off and whipped it into the curb. He broke the front axle and bent the frame; front corner panel was toast too. The next morning he had to catch the bus to school. He missed the 7:50 pick-up and was late to first period P.E. As punishment Coach Gunny made him come back during lunch and run laps. He quit after two and a half and walked up the bleachers towards the shade. He reached the top and rounded the announcer’s booth only to see Mandy Romero, the girl he’d been crushing on since September, making out with some guy who he swore was queer. To top off the day, he got chewed out by Mr. Copley, the new vice dean of students who had just moved here from the outback’s of Australia, or so we joked, for smoking in the locker-room.

 

I saw him walking up to the house. Mom was outside gardening and I was washing my grandma's car, a butter cream yellow 1950 Merc. "Jeffrey, Mr. Copley called today", Mom said with a cigarette dangling from the side of her mouth. "Yeah, and? You can't make me quit, you'd be a hypocrite." "Quit? Why would I make you quit? You need to be in school. Mr. Copley informed me you’re in danger of flunking the 11th grade. He recommended you stay for some of the after school study sessions in the library. It sounded like he was really concerned." Jeff scoffed. "Are you kidding me? Why would I willingly go to detention? Fuck Mom, are you that stupid?" Mom cussed more than any of us, but always acted surprised when we let it slip in front of her. "Jeffrey!" She shook her head. " Mom! God, Mr. Copley doesn't give two shits about me. He chewed me out once today and now he's calling my house, trying to bother me here too? Why can’t he just leave me alone?" Jeff was in many ways the man of the house since dad left and always called it "his house", in the way a homeowner would. "Jeffrey, I think you should give it a chance." "Oh so you’re on his side, huh Mom? You're gunna just believe that kangaroo fucker over your own son? Is that it Ma? Is that it?" All the while I had been laying low behind the Merc, enjoying the show from a safe distance. Jeff was so predicable. His hands for instance; they were balled into fists. Whenever he got tense he'd clinch his fists and start hitting anything with in arms reach. Usually it was the wall or the desk in our bedroom, but the more spectacular times included the front porch windows, all three of them, the particleboard door in the pantry, he left a big ol’ hole in that, and the finale the neighbors dog. Yup, he punched the neighbors dog straight in the mouth after it pissed on his catchers glove. I egged him on most of the time, but paid the price for it too. More often than not he'd catch me and lump me up pretty good. The Charlie-horses and monkey bumps wouldn’t loosen up for days. I couldn’t help myself though. I thought his little tantrums were hilarious, I still do.

 

Mom and Jeff were still going at it and creating quite a scene. I saw him move closer to mom, towering over her by nearly a foot. "Jeffery, calm down. The neighbors are staring." She smiled and waved to Fran, the nosey fat lady who lived across the driveway from our small bungalow. "God I hate you. You're the worst fucking mother in this entire city. No wonder dad left you." I had heard enough and started to cross the grass towards them. The running hose had made it soppy and muddy and I hated that feeling. "Yeah well he left you too Jeff. Must not have impressed him that much either." "Ah go fuck yourself." He knew he had gone too far, but when Jeff freaked out, he couldn't control his words or actions. You could see in his eyes that he was conscious of his irrationality, but being aware didn't stop him. Mom stared at him. "What Mom, WHAT? ... SAY SOMETH.." She slapped him. She slapped him good and hard and slapped him like he had never been slapped before. Fran ran inside to call the cops. Jeff clinched his jaw. He panted like an running asthmatic and held his eyes open so wide that even from a distance I could see the veins that held them inside their sockets. It had never happened before, but I knew it was going to happen now. Jeff cocked back and hit mom, square on the chin with a left hook. She fell, spinning on her way down, sending her pearl necklace and golden heart hairpin flying through the air, staining the lace around the neck of her blouse as she hit the soggy grass and curled up in agony. I ran, and Jeff was waiting for me with his fists up. I avoided him, ducked under two of his wide swings and headed straight for mom. The rage had taken Jeff at this point. I saw the coward in him come out through his glare, but his hubris was in control now and no matter how cowardly he felt in his core, a flow of prideful magma had hardened around it, suffocating any chance of decency arising. I tried to reason with this rock, "Jeff its over. Just get away from her, Just fucking get away." He lurked closer, still under the influence. "Jeff the cops are coming. I fucking hear their sirens man. If you're here when they show up you can bet you'll be spending the night in Van Nuys." He grinned and said, "Ain't nothing new to me." He was within arms reach now and I knew he'd hit either me or Mom, so I stood up and prepared to take the blow. I put my fists up and so did Jeff. He came straight for me and I jumped to the right. He came at me again and I jumped to the left. He came at me a third time and before I could jump Mom hit him across the head with a shovel. I locked eye’s with him as he collapsed, and in his descent I saw remorse. Mom saw it too and even though her cheek was red and her lips were fat and bloody, she forgave him and blamed the real monster, Dad. The cops ended up stopping by, but Jeff's antics were nothing new. When they saw him out cold on the front lawn they winked at us and kept on driving. Mom went inside and started dinner and I turned off the hose and put away the shovel. I finished up with Grammies Merc and helped Jeff off the grass before calling it a night.

 

Convergence and divergence---Smith's （Fangruida)youthful diligence, study and study, two or three things (Kathy)Translation : Heidi

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Fangruida biography(Smith biography)The sorcerer, the sacred spirit, the sacred master, the sage master, the scientific leader.

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Fangruida, ruida-Fang, Smith, F.D Smith, etc.

 

Alias

Mu Nan, Yi, Yi, Fang Da, Lu Huayu, Xu Guokai, Tang Hai, etc.

  

place of birth

Shanghai

 

date of birth

1949.5.13

 

Fangruida (ruida-Fang, Smith, born on May 13, 1949 in Shanghai, used the names of Munan, Yi, Yi, Fang Da, Lu Huayu, Xu Guokai, Tang Haijiang, etc., pen name Smith, F. DSmith), physicists, philosophers, astronomers, writers, economists, cosmologists, formerly studying at universities at home and abroad, pre-doctoral, vistor, advanced seminars, Australian universities, Cornell University,

University of Geneva, University of Technology, National People's Congress, Hunan University, Agricultural College, etc., vistingscholar, worked and researched at Chinese and foreign universities, research institutes, research laboratories, laboratories, Chinese and foreign commercial enterprises, technology companies, etc., or in related countries. Short-term research, lectures, scientific investigations, etc., and other academic, technical exchanges. Has served in various positions. Senior researcher, professor, now consults technical consultants, visiting professors, etc. in Switzerland, Belgium, etc. The research results include the discovery: the circular divects theorem (in 1985, the results of research in Rome, Paris, Belgium, etc., super-rotational domain, super-rotation theorem): the initial state of spin spinvector in the lathepoential "field" theorem sub-tribe , the differential and integral of the ground state spin, the same short-term scientific research or lectures in the world (1965-1988, Europe, France, the Netherlands, the fill theorem (1976-1986, in Argentina, Japan, Germany, China research results) Jupiter Center Distance Theory (1986-1993-2000, UK, USA, France): a simple model of space and time shearing (1965-1986, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, andsantiago, etc.): Seismic wave acupoints (1982- 1997, Australia, former Soviet Union, China): Large-scale activities (1986-1996, in the United States, South Africa, Switzerland, Chile, New Zealand): Genes of TE superconducting nerve cells (1973-1990, In Copenhagen, Stockholm, Bern, etc.), the mechanism of the spine of cancer, the superconductivity of the neural reflex gene, the earthquake sanrosoy instrument, etc. The natural orbit of the language and the hybrid trajectory Europe and the United States 1992-1999, research neurophysiology, brain research. - The main inventions: medical treator aid, earthquake sanrosoy instruments, etc., research papers and inventions, works, works. He used to be the nominee for many international awards or Candidates. World Celebrity Biography IBC/ABI World celebrity biography, world famous scientists, celebrity dictionary, Chinese and foreign celebrity biographies, etc. The world's major websites.

Most of the biographies of Mr. Smith (F. D Smith) are recorded in April 1950 or May 13th, 1950. According to the latest research materials and memories of visiting relevant people, it should actually be born in Shanghai on May 13, 1949. The original name is not called Fang Ruida, probably it is HAoYe, Tang Jiang and so on, Fang Da, Fang Ruida is the name that will be used later, especially after the adulthood, the alias pen name will gradually increase. Including the English pen name "Smith", etc., commonly referred to as "Fangruida-Smith", the English name pen name has been used briefly around the world, mainly engaged in writing, publishing papers or works, articles and so on. Later, it was also signed by Fang Ruida. Fang Ruida's family should be relatively rich and affluent. It is said to be a famous family, a family or a scholarly family. Some people may also be out of the middle class. Otherwise, he cannot have such genius and achievements. Of course, his life experience is very complicated, and he has contact with him in the middle and upper levels. According to his university friends who are familiar with him, he was born in the famous family of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. He is a celebrity or a high-ranking official, or an overseas Chinese merchant. This is unquestionable.

Fang Ruida is a private school, about 5-6 years old, full of talent, wisdom, and has shown amazing talent and memory from an early age. Painting, poetry, mathematical mathematics, toy models, especially beautiful nature, blue sky and white clouds, stars and moon sun, caused his great curiosity and interest. Later, I studied in a private school and then went to a public school. This is probably the beginning of his childish heart. Who knows that this may be a childish play, and the result turned him to an extremely broad world road, the road to the sky. I remember that once he stayed in the fields and wild vegetables (60 years of famine), after he studied, he was lying on the grass and looking at the sky, the clouds, and the countless stars. . . . . It was late, and he looked at the sky and gradually felt the beauty of the sky, but there was a hint of fear. . . . . Who would have expected, decades later, he dreamed of lingering, the sun, the moon, Mars, Venus, the interstellar world, began to study astronomical geography, celestial mechanics, astrophysics, satellite spacecraft. Maybe it's an accidental coincidence.

Many people call him: supernatural powers, geniuses. But he resolutely denied that he was only a farmer and a craftsman who worked hard. In fact, he is very clear, diligent in learning, good at learning, forgetting to die, and all night long. Regardless of the primary and secondary schools, regardless of the university, he is working hard to study a variety of courses, while studying and studying books of various subjects, reading a wide range of books in various libraries, in the university city of the world, He left an unforgettable imprint. Originally he was the first to study science and engineering, and then gradually expanded the jump, and turned to other, including philosophy and social sciences, etc., a trigger can not be cleaned up. He not only studies undergraduate majors, but also interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies. He has several grades of learning in his youth, which is hard to imagine. His research on the astronomical geography began in the world as early as adolescence, not after adulthood abroad. In foreign countries, research resources and conditions are quite good, which will undoubtedly allow him to fly high wings. Open the bow left and right, multi-pronged, convergence and divergence. From the library to the laboratory, from the study to the society, rigorous, realistic, and explore the infinite mysteries of the world, the willingness to win. The natural science needs a rigorous and solid system. The so-called mathematical and physico-chemical world of agro-industrial and industrial, cultural, historical, and philosophical, political, and military, as well as religious studies, theology, etc., encyclopedic complex, systematic order. He can go hand in hand, multiple thinking, multiple logics, which is incredible in the average person, and even impossible. Some people say that his IQ is high, his memory is extraordinary, his brain cells are particularly developed, mathematical logic, formal logic, and image logic are complementary and complementary. It is really broken. This is only half right, and more importantly, his diligence and diligence, sleepless nights, little rest, continuous study and work, never waste time. His reading volume, learning and studying more than many people, and, learning a long way, proficient in the whole, can be described as ingenious, water and water. Over time, you can ride it lightly and enjoy it. Mathematical and physico-chemical, heaven and earth, literature and history, and so on. Then I continued to learn and constantly recharge. He studied and studied in various schools in his youth, and also in universities at home and abroad. He visited the world, broadly converged, and finally integrated and diverged. For example, physics and chemistry is the cornerstone of natural science. Advanced mathematics, functional analysis, higher algebra, differential geometry, number theory, partial differential equations, real-time functions, etc., general physics, astrophysics, quantum mechanics, astrophysics, particle physics, high-energy physics, etc., all need to be studied repeatedly. Repeated trials can gradually enter the good times. Fang Ruida has worked and studied at home and abroad. He has served in various positions, professors, chief engineers, principals, deans, directors, chief designers, laboratory directors, chief experts, chief commanders, general managers, senior presidents, directors, Advisor, Secretary General, Military Instructor, Executive Chairman, Chairman, President, Director, Vice Chairman of the Board, Expedition Captain, Technical Consultant, Visiting Fellow, Visiting Professor, and sometimes more than a dozen positions, he later dismissed these positions. Concentrating on research and teaching writings, he believes that too many part-time jobs are not conducive to professional research and innovation. This is his development from the general field to a higher and deeper field, in order to truly become a mentor to everyone and the world leader and humanity. In fact, he is known throughout the world, writing and waiting for himself, breaking through the traditional fence and moving towards the radiance of freedom and rationality. Fang Ruidaism, Fang Ruida Philosophy, Fang Ruida Economics, Fang Ruida Science Discovery Invention, Fang Ruida Science Law Theorem, Fang Ruida Rocket, Fang Ruida Works, Fang Ruida Religious Studies, Fang Ruida Universe Physics, Fang Ruida Quotes, etc., in Human History and World History All of them have established historical monuments that are difficult to surpass. Learn from the people, learn from the masters, learn from the famous teachers, learn from the society, learn from practice, and create learning from the wisdom and civilization of all mankind around the world. This is the secret of his success. He is the world's truly encyclopedia, the world's leader, the mentor of all mankind, hard to compare, difficult to replace and replace. Even so, he said: Anyone in front of the natural universe is nothing more than a negligible particle, including mortal folks, including celebrity giants and great people. There are no superhumans and saints in the world, only those who have worked hard forever forever. His influence and existence are not tens of thousands of years and thousands of years, but millions of years, tens of millions of years, not only in the earth, but also in the vast space of the moon, Mars, Jupiter, and so on. Endlessly. He has a wide network of friends and friends in the world, probably thousands of people, all kinds of languages, various nationalities, various cultures, various ethnic groups, Europe, America, Russia, India, India, Germany, Latin America, Latin America, Australia , Africa, Bethlehem, etc., Christian Islam Buddhism, etc., he has contacted and studied the true meaning of it. He belongs to all mankind and the whole world. This is the reason why he truly became the world leader and the mentor of mankind. A truly universal figure, a citizen of the world.

  

Fang Ruida, also known as Fang Ruida, Fang Ruida, Smith, Smith-Fangruida, Fangruida, ruida-Fang, male, Han nationality, was born in Shanghai on May 13, 191949. He used the name Munan, HAOYE, Weirui, Fangda, deer. Huayu, Xu Guokai, Tang Haijiang, etc., physicist, philosopher, astronomer, writer, economist, cosmologist, studied at a university at home and abroad, doctoral preparatory, vistor, advanced seminar, Australian University, Kangnai University, Moscow University, University of Geneva, University of Technology, National People's Congress, Hunan University, Agricultural College, etc., vistingscholar, worked at Chinese and foreign universities, research institutes, research laboratories, laboratories, Chinese and foreign commercial enterprises, technology companies, etc. Research, has served in various positions. Senior researcher, professor, now Switzerland, Belgium, and other consulting technical consultants, technical experts, commercial directors, visiting professors, design experts, etc.

Natural Science Proceedings. The nature of nature and its principles

World Economic System Research, Swirling Universe and Super-Swiss Particles

Large cell fusion

Verification and Deduction of Mathematical Physics Equations and Cosmological Physics and Numerical Analysis of Computer Simulation Checking

Mathematical logic and two-way thinking of higher mathematics and inverse deduction

The depths of the physical world universe and the limits and limits of human wisdom, unlimited

Summary of empirical logic of mathematical logic and physics

The great revolution of philosophy and natural philosophy: the multidimensional hybridity of the natural universe, the three dimensions of the philosophical system and multiple variability

Multi-layered logical structure of human brain thinking

Link and care of science and philosophy

Structural model social model of planetary society

The world of 5000 billion billion years of criticism

A new interpretation of literary theory

Bonfire on the Amazon River

Bird flying mangrove

Mars landing / escape death

Fields of blooming flowers

The Theory of Cosmic Interests and the Generalization of Natural Structure

5,4,3,2,1 theoretical world game

a few steps away from the moon

Mars Venus

Terracotta Warriors

Cloud of the sky, water of the sea

Bonfire on the Amazon River

Cosmic

Speeches and greetings at the New Year's party

Religious studies

High polymerization composite natural structuralism philosophy

Free reason and the future of human society

Economic Principles and Wealth Theory

Legend of Qinhuai River

Moonlight night

In the rose garden

 

rainbow. cloud. fog. summer. Rain, and other works or works.

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Technical field:

Dual-engine nuclear-powered compound high-speed heavy-duty rocket

Space tunnel and lunar mars tunnel

Top 10 technology in aerospace technology

High sensitivity seismograph

Tumor treatment instrument, etc.

Seismic high-sensitivity seismometer

Tumor comprehensive medical device

Space Artifact----SSSBBb Launch

Ocean Artifact----KK Underwater Launcher

Land weapon----beam launcher

Micro nuclear power storage device

Lunar aircraft

Space flight medical emergency system

Long-distance flight radiation shielding technology

The cutting-edge technology of the lunar spherical air tunnel - the air corridor -

Lunar micro nuclear power plant design

Lunar water resources conversion cycle working machine

Space radiation protection safety cover

Structural Optimization and Purification of Space Computer Information Programming WAVV Programming Language

Lunar Holographic Self-Control Telescope Data Collection System

Lunar XV Emergency Treatment Medical Cabin---Multidimensional Life Support Platform

 

The best technical solution route selection for engineering design technology research and development

Structural design and safety redundancy design of extra large bridge tunnels and super high-rise buildings

The overall design of the new high-speed heavy-duty rocket

Collective heat absorption and conversion of solar power

Technical points for structural layout and design of lunar underground tunnels and space tunnels

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Most of the biographies of Mr. Smith (F. D Smith) are recorded in April 1950 or May 13th, 1950. According to the latest research materials and memories of visiting relevant people, it should actually be born in Shanghai on May 13, 1949. The original name is not called Fang Ruida, probably it is HAOYe, Tang Jiang and so on, Fang Da, Fang Ruida is the name that will be used later, especially after the adulthood, the alias pen name will gradually increase. Including the English pen name "Smith", etc., commonly referred to as "Fangruida-Smith", the English name pen name has been used briefly around the world, mainly engaged in writing, publishing papers or works, articles and so on. Later, it was also signed by Fang Ruida.

Fang Ruida is a private school, about 5-6 years old, full of talent, wisdom, and has shown amazing talent and memory from an early age. Painting, poetry, mathematical mathematics, toy models, especially beautiful nature, blue sky and white clouds, stars and moon sun, caused his great curiosity and interest. This is probably the beginning of his childish heart. Who knows that this may be a childish play, and the result turned him to an extremely broad world road, the road to the sky. I remember that once he stayed in the fields and wild vegetables (60 years of famine), after he studied, he was lying on the grass and looking at the sky, the clouds, and the countless stars. . . . . It was late, and he looked at the sky and gradually felt the beauty of the sky, but there was a hint of fear. . . . . Who would have expected, decades later, he dreamed of lingering, the sun, the moon, Mars, Venus, the interstellar world, began to study astronomical geography, celestial mechanics, astrophysics, satellite spacecraft. Maybe it's an accidental coincidence.

Many people call him: supernatural powers, geniuses. But he resolutely denied that he was only a farmer and a craftsman who worked hard. In fact, he is very clear, diligent in learning, good at learning, forgetting to die, and all night long. Regardless of the primary and secondary schools, regardless of the university, he is working hard to study a variety of courses, while studying and studying books of various subjects, reading a wide range of books in various libraries, in the university city of the world, He left an unforgettable imprint. He not only studies undergraduate majors, but also interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies. He has several grades of learning in his youth, which is hard to imagine. His research on the astronomical geography began in the world as early as adolescence, not after adulthood abroad. In foreign countries, research resources and conditions are quite good, which will undoubtedly allow him to fly high wings. Open the bow left and right, multi-pronged, convergence and divergence. From the library to the laboratory, from the study to the society, rigorous, realistic, and explore the infinite mysteries of the world, the willingness to win.

 

Fang Ruida has a famous saying: "The value of life is not what the world and human beings can give you, but first of all what you can offer to humans and the world." This is his most realistic psychological portrayal.

Some people may ask him what he will say after his life. He smiled heartily and calmly replied: "In the sea, on the plateau, in the mountains, perhaps on the stars, the moon, Mars, I am very satisfied." Perhaps this is his will or wish. Because he is very advocating nature and the universe. Yes, his footprints are all over the world. His research is spread all over the world. His voice spreads all over the world, and his friends and companions are all over the world. After tens of thousands of years, people will remember it.

  

Fang Ruida, male, Han nationality, was born in Shanghai in May 1949. (Other biographies are considered to be 195o in April, actually repeating the unfounded assertion that it should be May 13, 1949, other inaccuracies, this Will win. Fang Ruida (born 1949, Shanghai, May 13th, physicist, astronomer, cosmologist, geologist, biologist, aerospace scientist, physician, philosopher, thinker, religious scientist, Anthropologist, sociologist, composer, painter, writer, economist, inventor, educator. Fang Ruida, also known as Fang Rui, Fang Rui, Fang Ruida, Rui Dafang, male, Han nationality, was born in Shanghai 1949 - Originally known as Mu Nan, Ye Hao, Gorgeous, Fang Da, Yu Lu, Xu Kai Tang Seascape, etc., physicist, philosopher, astronomer, writer, economist, cosmologist, studying at a foreign university, doctoral preparatory class, vistor , advanced seminars, Australian universities, Cornell University, Moscow State University, University of Geneva, Polytechnic University, Renmin University, Hunan University, Agricultural College, University of Technology, etc., once had Chinese and foreign universities He has worked in various fields including borrowing, reading, preparatory, correspondence, research institutes, laboratories, laboratories, foreign commercial enterprises, technology companies, etc. Senior researcher, professor, now Switzerland, Belgium, etc. Consulting and technical consultants, technical experts, business directors, professors, design experts. Includes discovery studies: Central Park Transfer Theorem (1985, in Rome, Paris, Belgium, super-spin vector field, super-spin theorem): in orbit Field "Theorem Age Tribal Rotation Vector Initial Steering State, Ground State Spin Differential and Integral Calculus, (1965-1988, Europe, France, Netherlands, Filling Field Theorem (1976-1986 in Argentina, Japan, Germany, China); From the Jupiter Theory Center (1986-1993-2000, UK, USA, France): Space and time simple shear model (1965-1986, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada and the Mediterranean, etc.): Hole seismic wavefield (1982-1997) , Australia, China): Large-scale cross-border activities (1986-1996, in the United States, South Africa, Switzerland, Chile, New Zealand): Due to the rotation mechanism of derived TE superconducting neurons (from 1973 to 1990, in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Bern, etc.), the cancer superconducting effect of the neural reflex arc gene, the seismic sanrosoy instrument and other natural and mixed orbital tr injection language ( Europe 1992-1999 abroad, research neurophysiology, brain research. - The main inventions: medical treatments assisted earthquake sanrosoy instruments, research papers and inventions. Scientific discoveries and technological inventions and other works, and other works. Biography of Chinese and foreign celebrities, Cambridge biography , world scientists, the world famous encyclopedia, IBC / AbI and other celebrity dictionaries and the world's major website collection. The world's major websites, international websites have relevant information. Fang Ruida has used pen names such as "smith" for a short time, but later generations often " FD Smith" or Smith-Fangruida" is a mixed name. Why does he like this English pen name? He is studying life and research work in Europe and the United States, etc., and then he upholds freedom and rationality, opposes high above, self-righteousness, insists on freedom and equality, and loves rationality. Other people's myths themselves beautify themselves. Smith, English is a craftsman, the meaning of the blacksmith, is very popular in English-speaking countries, Fang Ruida is very much appreciated. He is ruthlessly criticized for any extremes and extremes.The sorcerer, the sacred spirit, the sacred master, the sage master, the scientific leader.Human mentor, mentor and friend.God and Zeus, freedom and reason, the god of the sun, the universe is vast, profound and profound.

God (YHWH, God, God) is a god of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and creation of the universe. Often regarded as the supreme belief of religious believers, in Christianity, God is the eternal being, creating and governing the world. Theism says that the Chinese call it God. (Generally) God is the support and creator of the universe. Deism says that God is the creator of the universe. Pantheism believes that God is the universe itself. Christianity believes that God is detached. Both the god in English and the Gutt in German are derived from the Gothic gut in the Indo-European language before the prevalence of Christianity. The original meaning refers to the “Prayer” or “The Sacrifice”, and the root is “casting” refers to casting. The image of the god. Greece is Zeus as the Lord of the Gods, and Rome is the Lord of the Gods; the ancient Indian gods are very complex and often change their status. The original Indian god is Teyous, it is associated with Greek Zeus and Rome.裘bit is the same language, but the most powerful in the Vedic gods is the Po Lou (the judicial god), the big god in the air is Indra (Raytheon), the great god in the realm is Ajani (Vulcan), Hell God is King of Jerusalem (but it is in heaven),

  

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Casey May 13, 2012 Bern, Switzerland

Some of the biography materials are quoted from Wikipedia, Baidu Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia, World Digital Library, Archives and other documents.

Translation : Heidi

  

Convergence et divergence --- diligence juvénile de Smith, étude et étude, deux ou trois choses (Kathy)

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Biographie de Fangruida (biographie de Smith)Le sorcier, l'esprit sacré, le maître sacré, le maître sage, le chef scientifique.

Fang Ruida

  

Fangruida, ruida-Fang, Smith, F.D Smith, etc.

 

收斂和發散---方瑞達（Smith）青少年時代勤勉讀書學習二三事（凱西）

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方瑞達傳記（史密斯傳記）至爱尊师 天穹圣灵 万世先宗 九星智理 --------哲学大师，科学领袖。

方瑞達

  

方瑞達，瑞達芳，史密斯，史密斯等。

 

別名

木南，昊燁，葳蕤，方達，鹿化宇，徐國開，唐海等

  

出生地

上海

 

出生日期

1949年5月13日

 

方瑞達（fangruida，瑞達方，史密斯，1949年5月13日，出生於上海，曾用名木南，昊燁，葳蕤，方達，鹿化宇，徐國開，唐海江等，筆名史密斯，F。 DSmith）等，物理學家，哲學家，天文學家，作家，經濟學家，宇宙學家，曾經在國內外大學學習，博士預科，访问学者，高級研修班，澳大利亞大學，康奈爾大學，

日內瓦大學，工業大學，人大，湖南大學，農業學院等，vistingscholar，曾經在中外大學，科研院所，研究室，實驗室，中外商業企業公司，技術公司等處的工作和研究，或在相關國家短期從事研究，講學，科學考察，等兼及其他，學術，技術交流等任過各種職務高級研究員，教授，現在瑞士，比利時，等諮詢技術顧問，客座教授等研究成果包括發現。：園環divects定理（在1985年，在羅馬，巴黎，比利時等研究的成果，超旋矢域，超旋定理）：在lathepoential“場”定理次部落的自旋spinvector初始狀態的轉向，基態自旋的微分和積分，下同在世界各國短期科研或講學等（1965年至1988年，歐洲，法國，荷蘭，填域定理（1976- 1986年，在阿根廷，日本，德國，中國研究成果）;木星中心距離理論（1986-1993-2000，英國，美國，法國）：空間和時間剪簡單的模型（1965年至1986年，挪威，瑞典，俄羅斯，加拿大，andsantiago，等）：地震波穴場（1982-1997，澳大利亞，前蘇聯，中國）：大跨域的活動（1986年至1996年年，在美國，南非，瑞士，智利，新西蘭）：TE超導電性的神經細胞的基因（1973年至1990年年，在哥本哈根，斯德哥爾摩，伯爾尼，等），癌瘤的旋化衍化機理，神經反射弧基因的超導作用，地震sanrosoy儀器，等等。語言的自然軌道和雜化軌跡（在國外歐美1992年至1999年，研究神經生理學，腦研究.-的主要發明：醫藥treator援助的，地震sanrosoy儀器等，研究論文和發明，著作，作品他曾經是多項國際獎重要獎項的被提名人或候選人。世界名人傳記IBC / ABI世界名人傳紀，世界著名科學家，名人大辭典，中外名人傳記等收編。世界主要網站等。

方瑞達（Smith，F.D Smith）的生平傳記傳記中，大部分記載為1950年4月或1950年5月13日。根據最新研究資料和走訪相關知情人士的回憶，實際上應當為1949年5月13日在上海出生。原名也不叫方瑞達，大概是昊燁，唐江之類，方大，方瑞達是以後才使用的名字，特別是成年以後，別名筆名別號就逐漸多了起來。包括英文筆名“史密斯”等，習慣上統稱“Fangruida史密斯”，英文名字筆名曾在世界各地短暫使用過，主要是從事寫作，發表論文或作品，文章等使用過。以後也以方瑞達署名。方瑞達家境應當是比較殷實富裕的，據說是名門望族，世家或書香門第，也有人考證可能出於中上流社會，否則，他不可能有這樣的天才和成就。當然，他的人生經歷十分複雜，中上層以及底層他都有所接觸。根據熟識他的大學朋友揭秘，他出生於江浙上海一帶的名門世家，屬於社會名流或是高官富商，或是海外僑商，絕非凡人之輩。這是不容置疑的。

方瑞達幾歲就入私塾讀書，大概在5-6歲，天資充盈，智慧過人，從小就展示了驚人的天賦和記憶力。繪畫，詩歌，數理數學，玩具模型，特別是美麗的大自然，藍天白雲，星星月亮太陽，引起了他極大的好奇和興趣。以後又在私立學校學習，而後又到公立學校學習。這大概就是他童心萌動的開始吧。誰知這可能是幼稚的玩耍而已，結果竟然使他走向了一天極其廣闊的世界大道，穹蒼之道。記得，有一次他呆在田野地撿野菜（60年大飢荒時年），他讀書之後，靜靜躺在草地上遠望著天空的太陽，雲朵，還有數不清的星星.....天色晚了，他望著天空逐漸感到天際的美麗廣大，但又有一絲恐懼.....誰料到，幾十年之後，他夢迴縈繞，太陽，月亮，火星，金星，星際世界，開始研究天文地理，天體力學，天體物理，衛星飛船。也許是一種偶然巧合吧。

不少人稱他為：。神通，天才但他堅決否認，稱自己只不過是一個不輟勞作的耕夫和工匠而已事實上，他十分清晰，勤學好問，善於學習，廢寢忘死，通宵達旦。不論中小學，不論大學，他都是下苦功夫攻讀各類課程，同時學習研讀各科類專業的書籍，在各種各樣的圖書館飽覽群書，在世界各地的圖書館大學城，他都留下難忘的印跡。本來他是首先學習理工科的，而後逐步擴展跳躍，轉向其他，包括哲學社會科學等等，一觸發而不可收拾。他不僅學本科專業，而且跨學科跨專業研讀，青少年時代就數次跳級學習，一般人難以想像。他對天文地理宇宙的研究，世界上早在青少年時代就開始了，而並不是在國外成年之後。在國外，研究資源和條件相當好，這就無疑讓他展開翅膀高高飛翔。左右開弓，多管齊下，收斂和發散齊備。從圖書館到實驗室，書齋到社會，嚴謹，求實，探尋世界的無窮奧秘，志在必得。自然科學需要嚴謹紮實系統，所謂數理化天地生農醫工商，文史哲經教政法軍體，還有宗教學，神學等，百科複雜，系統有序。他都可以齊頭並進，多項思維，多項邏輯，這在一般人簡直不可思議，甚至根本不可能企及。有人說，他的智商高，記憶力非凡，大腦細胞特別發達，數理邏輯，形式邏輯，形象邏輯集合而互補，真是一語破的。這只說對了一半，更重要的是他的勤勉勤奮，廢寢忘食，極少休息，連續學習和工作，從不浪費時間。他的讀書量，學習研讀超過了許多人，而且，學有所長，精通貫通，舉一反三，可謂爐火純青，水到渠成。久而久之，可以駕輕就熟，任意馳騁。數理化，天地生，文史哲，等等，均是如此。再就是不斷學習，不斷充電，他青少年時代曾在各種學校學習讀，在國內外大學也是如此，博覽世界，廣泛收斂，最終集成發散。比如，數理化，是自然科學的基石。高等數學，泛函分析，高等代數，微分幾何，數論，偏微分方程，實變函數，等等，普通物理，天體物理，量子力學，天體化學，粒子物理，高能物理等等，都需要反复學習反复試驗才能逐步進入佳境。方瑞達曾經在國內外工作學習，曾經擔任過各種職務，教授，總工，校長，院長，總監，總設計師，實驗室主任，首席專家，總指揮，總經理，高級總裁，廠長，顧問，秘書長，軍事教官，執行主席，主席，會長，理事，董事會副主席，探險隊長，技術顧問，客座研究員，客座教授，有時身兼十幾個職務，後來他都辭退了這些職務，集中精力從事科研教學著述等，他認為，兼職掛職太多，不利於專業研究和創新。這就是他從一般的領域向更高更深的領域發展擴展，才能真正成為大家和世界領袖和人類的導師。實際上，他享譽全世界，著述等身，突破了傳統的籬笆，邁向自由理性的光輝頂峰。方瑞達主義，方瑞達哲學，方瑞達經濟學，方瑞達科學發現發明，方瑞達科學定律定理，方瑞達火箭，方瑞達作品，方瑞達宗教學研究，方瑞達宇宙物理學，方瑞達語錄名言，等等，在人類歷史上和世界歷史上都建立起難以超越的歷史豐碑。向前人學習，向大師學習，向名師學習，向社會學習，向實踐學習，向全人類全世界的智慧和文明創造學習，永不滿足。這就是他成功的秘訣。他是世界名符其實的百科全書，世界的領袖，全人類的導師，任何人都難以比擬，難以替代和取代的即使這樣，他也說：任何人在自然宇宙面前都不過是一顆微不足道的微粒而已，包括凡人俗子，也包括名人巨人偉人之類。世界上沒有超人，聖人，只有永遠辛勤勞作永遠進擊的耕夫和工匠。他的影響和存在，不是幾百年幾千年幾萬年，而是幾百萬年幾千萬年，不僅在地球，而且會在月球，火星，木星衛星等廣闊的宇宙空間熠熠生輝，永久不息。他在世界各地有廣泛的人脈和知音朋友網友，大概有成千上萬，各種語言，各種國籍，各種文化，各種族群，歐美俄日印巴德法西，阿拉伯，拉美，澳洲，非洲，伯利恆等，基督教伊斯蘭教佛教等，他都接觸和研究其中的真諦。他是屬於全人類全世界的，這才是他真正成為世界領袖，人類的導師的原因，一個名符其實的世界性人物，世界公民。

  

方瑞達，又稱方銳達，方睿達，史密斯，史密斯-Fangruida，Fangruida，瑞達方，男，漢族，19 1949年5月13日出生於上海，曾用名木南，昊燁，葳蕤，方達，鹿化宇，徐國開，唐海江等，物理學家，哲學家，天文學家，作家，經濟學家，宇宙學家，曾經在國內外大學學習，博士預科，位訪客，高級研修班，澳大利亞大學，康奈爾大學，莫斯科大學，日內瓦大學，工業大學，人大，湖南大學，農業學院等，vistingscholar，曾經在中外大學，科研院所，研究室，實驗室，中外商業企業公司，技術公司等處的工作和研究，任過各種職務。高級研究員，教授，現在瑞士，比利時，等諮詢技術顧問，技術專家，商業總監，客座教授，設計專家等。

自然科學論文集。自然的本質及其原理

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方瑞達（Smith，F。D Smith）的生平傳記傳略中，大部分記載為1950年4月或1950年5月13日。根據最新研究資料和走訪相關知情人士的回憶，實際上應當為1949年5月13日在上海出生。原名也不叫方瑞達，大概是昊燁，唐江之類，方大，方瑞達是以後才使用的名字，特別是成年以後，別名筆名別號就逐漸多了起來。包括英文筆名“Smith”等，習慣上統稱"Fangruida-Smith",英文名字筆名曾在世界各地短暫使用過，主要是從事寫作，發表論文或作品，文章等使用過。以後也以方瑞達署名。

方瑞達幾歲就入私塾讀書，大概在5-6歲，天資充盈，智慧過人，從小就展示了驚人的天賦和記憶力。繪畫，詩歌，數理數學，玩具模型，特別是美麗的大自然，藍天白雲，星星月亮太陽，引起了他極大的好奇和興趣。這大概就是他童心萌動的開始吧。誰知這可能是幼稚的玩耍而已，結果竟然使他走向了一天極其廣闊的世界大道，穹蒼之道。記得，有一次他呆在田野地撿野菜（60年大饑荒時年），他讀書之後，靜靜躺在草地上遠望著天空的太陽，雲朵，還有數不清的星星。 。 。 。 。天色晚了，他望著天空逐漸感到天際的美麗廣大，但又有一絲恐懼。 。 。 。 。誰料到，幾十年之後，他夢迴縈繞，太陽，月亮，火星，金星，星際世界，開始研究天文地理，天體力學，天體物理，衛星飛船。也許是一種偶然的巧合吧。

不少人稱他為：神通，天才。但他堅決否認，稱自己只不過是一個不輟勞作的耕夫和工匠而已。事實上，他十分清晰，勤學好問，善於學習，廢寢忘死，通宵達旦。不論中小學，不論大學，他都是下苦功夫攻讀各類課程，同時學習研讀各科類專業的書籍，在各種各樣的圖書館飽覽群書，在世界各地的圖書館大學城，他都留下難忘的印跡。他不僅學本科專業，而且跨學科跨專業研讀，青少年時代就數次跳級學習，一般人難以想像。他對天文地理宇宙的研究，世界上早在青少年時代就開始了，而並不是在國外成年之後。在國外，研究資源和條件相當好，這就無疑讓他展開翅膀高高飛翔。左右開弓，多管齊下，收斂和發散齊備。從圖書館到實驗室，從書齋到社會，嚴謹，求實，探尋世界的無窮奧秘，志在必得。

 

方瑞達有名言：“人生的價值並不在於世界和人類能夠給與你什麼，而首先是你能夠為人類和這個世界提供什麼。”這就是他最真實的心理寫照。

也許有人會問到他在人生之年之後，會有什麼遺言遺囑之類。他爽朗地一笑，坦然回答：“在大海，在高原，在山巒，或許在星際天邊，月球，火星，我都十分滿足。”也許，這就是他的遺囑或遺願。因為他十分崇尚自然和宇宙。是的，他的足跡遍及世界，他的研究遍及世界，他的聲音傳遍世界，他的朋友和同伴遍及世界。多少萬年之後，人們都會銘記在心。

  

方瑞達，男，漢族，1949年出生於5月13日，上海（其他傳記被認為是195o 4月，實際上重複了毫無根據的斷言，應該是1949年5月13日，其他不准確，這將取勝。方瑞達（1949年，出生於上海5月13日，物理學家，天文學家，宇宙學家，地質學家，生物學家，航空航天科學家，醫師，哲學家，思想家，宗教學家，人類學家，社會學家，作曲家，畫家，作家，經濟學家，發明家，教育家）。方瑞達，又稱方睿，方睿，方瑞達，瑞達芳，男，漢族，出生於上海1949 -，原名木南，也好，華麗，方達，豫鹿，徐開唐海景等，物理學家，哲學家，天文學家，作家，經濟學家，宇宙學家，在國外大學學習，博士預科班，vistor ，高級研討會，澳大利亞大學，康奈爾大學，莫斯科國立大學，日內瓦大學，理工大學，人民大學，湖南大學，農學院，工大等院校，曾經有中外大學包括借讀，寄讀，預科，函授等，科研院所，實驗室，實驗室，外國商業企業，科技公司等的工作和研究，他擔任過各種角色。高級研究員，教授，現在瑞士，比利時等諮詢和技術顧問，技術專家，業務總監，教授，設計專家。包括發現研究：中央公園轉移定理（1985年，在羅馬，巴黎，比利時，超自旋矢量場，超自旋定理）：在軌道“場”定理時代部落旋轉矢量初始轉向狀態，基態自旋微分和積分微積分，（1965-1988，歐洲，法國，荷蘭，填充場定理（1976 - 1986年在阿根廷，日本，德國，中國研究）;從木星理論中心（1986-1993-2000，英國，美國，法國）：空間和時間簡單剪切模型（1965-1986，挪威，瑞典，俄羅斯，加拿大和地中海等）：空穴地震波場（1982-1997 ，澳大利亞，中國）：大型跨境活動（1986- 1996年，在美國，南非，瑞士，智利，新西蘭）：基因衍生的TE超導神經元的旋轉機制（從1973年到1990年，在哥本哈根，斯德哥爾摩，伯爾尼等），神經反射弧基因的癌症超導效應，地震sanrosoy儀器等自然和混合軌道tr注射語言（歐洲1992-1999國外，研究神經生理學，腦研究.-主要發明：醫學治療輔助地震sanrosoy儀器等，研究論文和發明。科學發現和技術發明和其他著作，以及其他作品。中外名人傳記，劍橋傳記，世界科學家，世界著名百科全書，IBC / AbI等名人詞典和世界主要網站集。世界主要網站，國際網站都有相關信息。方瑞達曾經短暫使用過“smith”等筆名，但後人常以“ FD Smith”或Smith-Fangruida”混稱，他為何喜愛這個英文筆名，原因就是他在歐美等國學習生活研究工作等，再就是他秉持自由理性，反對高高在上，自以為是，堅持自由平等博愛理性，反對別人神話自己美化自己。 Smith，英語就是工匠，鍛工之意，在英語國家很流行，方瑞達對此十分讚賞。任何極端和偏激，他都給與無情的批判。至爱尊师 天穹圣灵 万世先宗 九星智理 --------哲学大师，科学领袖,人類的導師，良師益友。上帝和宙斯，自由和理性，太陽之神，宇宙浩淼無垠，博大精深。

上帝（YHWH，God，神）是猶太教、基督教、伊斯蘭教、創造宇宙的神。往往被視為宗教信徒至高無上的信仰，在基督教中，上帝是永恆的存在，創造和治理世界。有神論稱，中國人稱之為老天爺。 （泛指）上帝是宇宙的支撐和創造者。自然神論說，上帝是宇宙的創造者。泛神論則認為，上帝是宇宙的本身。基督教相信上帝是既超然。英文中的god和德文裡的Gutt都源自基督教盛行前的印歐語系中的古哥特語guth,原意是指“受祈求者”或“所祭祀者”，詞根是“鑄造”指鑄造而成的神像。希臘以宙斯為眾神之主，羅馬以裘比特為眾神之主；印度古代的神，很複雜，而且時常變更他們的地位，印度原始神是特尤斯，它與希臘的宙斯及羅馬的裘比特是同一語， 但在吠陀神界最有力的卻是婆樓那（司法神），空界的大神是因陀羅（雷神），地界的大神是阿耆尼（火神），地獄神為耶摩王（但它是在天上）.

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凱西 2012年5月13日 瑞士伯爾尼

部分傳略資料引自維基百科，百度百科，大百科全書，世界數字圖書館，檔案館等資料文獻。

 

（翻譯 海蒂）2012

 

On the 180th birthday anniversary for the City of Chicago founded on March

4, 1837, I remember why Chicago was the choice I made for a destination.

When my parents decided to live in the United States of America, I was

living in the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba and attending elementary

school in Spanish. One day, my Mother told me that both my parents decided

to leave Santiago de Cuba and settle in another city of the United States

of America. She asked me in which city we should live? There were many

choices of cities based on the family relatives who were already in the

USA. Since Catholic Charities sponsored the Freedom Flights, "Vuelos de

Libertad", the Catholic Church offered help in Connecticut and Chicago to

relocate Cuban families there. My Mother and Father thought that

Connecticut was very, very cold and farther north in the East Coast. While

Chicago was in the Midwest, a city by Lake Michigan, one of the Great

Lakes--Erie, Huron, and Superior. My parents had Cuban friends in

Connecticut and Chicago, as well as in other American cities. However, the

City of Chicago was unanimously our choice for a destination in the United

States of America. My Grandmother had Cuban friends in Chicago and

business connections to the mail-order stores like Montgomery Ward, Sears,

etc. My parents had Cuban-Chinese friends in Rogers Park, on Howard

Street, near Evanston, Illinois. Even now, the far north communities of

Edgewater by Lake Michigan, Rogers Park, Andersonville, and Evanston still

appeal to my family in general. Military friends from the Great Lakes and

visitors from the USA encouraged my Mother and Father to leave Santiago de

Cuba.

 

Chicago Catholic Charities welcomed my family with open arms, kindness,

generosity, and goodwill when we arrived in July 1971. My Father, Mr.

Roberto Hung Juris Doctor and my Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos, myself,

and my youngest brother, Roberto Santiago Hung were referred for relocation

to the Montfield Hotel at the corner of Sheffield and Belmont Avenue in the

Lake View neighborhood, near the Illinois Masonic Medical Center on

Wellington Street. Later, my Father was referred to a Baptist Church

Pastor, Fabio Abreu of Dominican descent and his Canadian-American wife for

relocation to the first floor of a Chicago home owned by Mrs. Marie Palmer,

a Protestant Lutheran American widow, his neighbor across the alley who

needed a responsible and reliable tenant with a family to help her maintain

here Chicago real estate property at 2930 North Albany between Wellington

and George, near Kedzie Avenue where Avondale Elementary School was

located, across from the Grace Lutheran Church.

 

The Baptist Pastor Fabio Abreu from the Dominican Republic and his Lutheran

American-German neighbor Mrs. Marie Palmer were heaven sent during our

relocation from the Montfield Hotel in Lakeview to the Avondale community

near Logan Square, not far from our Cuban-

Chinese friends, Fernando Wong and Yolanda Fen with two children, a

retarded daughter with spinal bifida, Zuling, and a male Fernandito Wong

Fen who wanted to be an architect engineer later in life. Afterwards,

Fernando and Yoli Wong had a daughter named Meiling who lived in the Rogers

Park community, near Evanston and Skokie in Illinois.

 

While I was attending Avondale Grammar School, on Kedzie Avenue, aka

Loganddale Elementary School, I used to participate in an abridged 6th

grade program, instead of the corresponding 8th grade program which I would

later trafer. Since my Mother had my Cuban grammar school transcripts, she

told the Principal in Santiago de Cuba that I had alread passed 6th, 7th,

and 8th grade programs in Santiago de Cubqa in Spanish.

 

The obvious problem for all of us was how to speak English, write in

English, and attend school of course, obviously, my family and I had to

make a transition from spoken Spanish to American English, fluently. There

were Free English courses and classes at the Casa Central in Logan Square,

Chicago, Illinois 60618, USA. My parents and I, used to practice speaking

English in Santiago de Cuba, later on, we, as a family began to speak

English at home in Chicago with the television programs of Sesame Street

and the Electric Company featuring Rita Moreno, among other television

personalities and talent,as well as other TV programs like Perry Mason,

classic western movies with John Wayne, and the musical songs of Doris Day,

Glen Miller's American Jazz band, Lawrence Welk, which we used to watch

before.

 

Soon, we made friends with the neighbors like Ludivinia "Ludi" Villareal,

whose family was Hispanic from Méjico and invited us to her birthday party

for "tostadas", tacos, etc. There were also Cuban-Americans like Armando

and his youngest brother who went to Avondale Elementary School also with

myself and my youngest brother Robert S. Hung. My 6th grade teacher was

Miss Honeywood and my English As A Second Language Teacher was Miss Pantos

who later married and changed her name. Later, I was double transferred to

8th grade with Mr. Herbert Hebel where I graduated with High Honors from

Avondale Elementary School.

 

In Chicago, my Father, Roberto Hung was able to find employment at the

warehouse in Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Company. Later he

worked for Marshall Field's and the Theatrical Dance Supply Company.

Fernando and Yoli Wong Fen recomeded my Father to work for Felt-Products,

on McCormick Boulevard in Skokie, also known today as Federal Mogul, a

corporation in the automotive industry manufacturing "oil gaskets" with a

patented adhesive created and designed by Albert Mecklenburger, a

German-American from Berlin, Germany.

 

My Mother also had to get a job with Goldblatt's on Milwaukee Avenue, right

in the midst of the Polish American neighborhood. Then, she found another

part-time job at Tic-Toc with Mrs. Sherman. Later, my Father recommended

her to work for Felt-Products with him in Skokie, also.

 

I started working at the Offices of Edelstein & Edelstein on Irivng Park

Road who needed to make collection calls on the telephone and paid a

minimum wage of $4 per hour. Afterrwards, I found a job at McDonald's at

the corner of Irving Park Road and Elston Avenue, not far from the Irving

Park Shopping Center, the Y.M.C.A. and Madonna High School.

 

In order to *"Make Ends Meet"*, both my Father and Mother went to work, and

during my 3rd year as a junior at Madonna High School, age 16-years-old,

Sister Rosemarie from Counselling referred me to get a job and follow the

American Dream working hard to make a living. Mrs. Palmer used to say

before she left for work as an Administrator and Office Manager at the

Civic Opera, *"I owe, I owe, so off to work I go."*

 

*Chicago* is also known as the Windy City because of the cross-winds across

Lake Michigan cause whirlwinds and all-changing weather due to the Lake

Effect and the Great Lakes. It is still a beautiful city by the Lake

Michigan, *"the city with the broad shoulders"* as a client and friend from

Helsinki, Finland, calls the City of Chicago. Mrs. Marie Palmer used to

tell me, *"if you don't like the weather in Chicago, wait a minute, it will

change."*

 

I have grown up in Chicago for the last 46 years on the Northwest side of

the Windy City and attended and graduated from Northeastern Illinois

University after graduating from Madonna High School on May 27, 1977 with

High Honors, as a member of the National Honor Society and the French Honor

Society. Later, I pursued Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois

at Chicago with the *Abraham Lincoln Fellowship for Rhetorical Criticism,

Speech Writing, Communications, and Theatre* granted by the UIC Department

of Communications and Theatre managed by Dr. Anthony Graham-White. I have

written my Master's Thesis as an ethnography about *"The Chinese in Cuba:

Assimilation and Acculturation*" presented by Dr. Thomas Kochman, Ph.D.

 

The City of Chicago celebrates today 180 years since its founding fathers

established the settlement by the Chicago River and used the name

familiarly with the *"wild onions"* growing by the river banks. *"Happy

180th Birthday Anniversary, Chicago!"*

 

I have rented and lived in a studio apartment on the Northwest side of

Chicago near my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, on Sacramento and

Belle Plaine, near Irving Park Road, in a building owned by Mrs. A.C.

Nylen, a German-American realtor in Chicago and the Midwest.

 

My Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos began to work at Felt-Products Inc. and

attended Loyola University Lewis Towers Campus pursuing a Master's in

Spanish Literature with Dr. Martinez, Dr. Carol Holdsworth, and Dr. Luján.

 

Chicago has always represented the spirit of its community people to

prevail and overcome adversity in the challenges that life brings over

time, place, and physical presence. The people of Chicago have a fighting

spirit to survive and fight for justice, equity, and fairness. Chicago is

today a cosmopolitan metropolis and a credit to its sprawling communities

by Lake Michigan in the state of Illinois, USA. Happy 180th Anniversary,

Chicago!

 

The Chicago River

 

Gardenia C. Hung, M.A., B.A.

Consulting Social Media Arts Communications

 

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Mom told me to stay home because Uncle Bill was coming over with some big news. Uncle Bill never came over, he briefly dropped by, but never actually came in, not since Mom and Aunt Marianne stopped talking, but it wasn't a farce, Uncle Bill was on his way. Nervous as I was, the prospect of being handed down a few bucks elicited a much more poignant and noticeable feeling of joy. Uncle Bill was a rich man. He had his own booth at Musso & Franks, he was friends with all of Hollywood’s top dogs and most memorably, something I have always been envious of, he drove the nicest, most extravagant cars I had seen in real life or on the big screen.

 

I was 17 and had been driving since 12, but I never had a car of my own. I was going to school across town now. Got kicked out of Milliken for fighting and when mom found out I'd been hitching over to Fairfax she nearly fainted. "Oh what kind of mother am I, subjecting my little boy to the rash of the road? What will the other mothers think of me?" It was always about her. I heard her on the phone with Aunt Marianne later in the day. After a few frustrated and spiteful words she demanded to speak with Bill. When bill got on the phone her tone changed. As a man, I knew he knew she wanted something, and I hoped for our sake he was gracious enough to give it. As always, times were tough, but we got by the best we could without dad. Mom had a few different callers and Jeff and I both held part time jobs. Uncle Bill provided us with breaks from time to time. Certain mornings we'd wake up and hanging in the mail slot would be an unmarked envelope that smelled like cigars. Mom would cry whenever she saw it and I would wiggle my toes around in my rotten old shoes, anxious for a new pair. Mom spoke softly into the phone, "He's a good boy Bill. He works hard and is kindhearted. If there's anything you could do for him, I know he'd be eternally grateful." Mom and Aunt Marianne were twins, and a stranger would have thought that Bill just had the hots for mom, but it wasn't the case. He more so had the desire to keep the family together, and with feuding sisters and no cousins to bridge the gap, he kept us in touch with his kind deeds.

 

Time was passing excruciatingly slow. Bill worked over at Warner Brothers and didn't really have a set schedule. If he said he'd be by after work it could be ten in the morning or midnight. I felt trapped inside the house. No matter what, good bad or indifferent, if someone tells me to do something, I immediately want to do the opposite. It takes major internal coercion for me to be a team player, no matter how advantageous the game.

 

Mom didn't drink. She swears she never has. Not even a sip. But every holiday people would send her bottles of wine. She kept them in a cabinet above the stove. I never touched the stuff. Tom and Jeff said that only queers drank it. But no one was around and now, I wasn't concerned with what they thought. More pressing was this block of time that was holding me in place like a vice. Red or white? I couldn't decide. White seemed too frilly. Not serious enough. Probably wouldn't even get me buzzed. I opted for red. I had to use a toolbox to get it open, spent the better part of an hour chiseling out the cork and when I finally poured it, cork-bits floating in it like wounded battle ships in a sea of blood, my hard work was rewarded by an unexpected sour and rotten taste. It must have gone bad I thought. It had been sitting up there for years. Surely no drink could intentionally taste this way. My heart raced as I remembered stories of men going blind from alcohol that had fermented to the point of poison. I rubbed them and things became a bit blurry. I blinked profusely and tried to focus on small objects across the room. A crack in the wall. The gold lettering on mom's dictionary, the country of Italy on the globe near the fireplace. After extensive evaluation of my sight, I concluded the wine was fine to drink. As awful as it was, as bad as it burned in my chest while going down, I took swigs of it, as big as I'd swig from a cold glass of water, and sat on the couch, slouching further into it with each tip of the bottle.

 

I went through the first bottle pretty quick, the second went down much smoother. It was just grape juice. Nothing more. No wonder sissies fancied it. I finished off the second in another hour. I was floating now. My head sat atop my shoulders and would have flown away if it weren’t for my neck. My fucking neck. I laughed at it and strangled it and scratched at it sides, but then I apologized because I was just messing around. The globe looked pretty fun to spin. I wonder why we don't get dizzy when the world spins. Maybe there's little people on the globe that I can't see. I'm gunna spin them like the tilt-a-whirl spins me and hopefully they'll vomit too so I’m not alone. I’m so alone. No one is here. HELLO. Stupid echo. Don't scare me again, I'll kick your ass. Mom! Oh right, she's not here. Bill! Uncle Bill! Where are you, you fatty? You tub of lard. You rich man with your rich belly tucked behind shiny belt buckles and pearly buttons. Whatever. I don't need you. - I sat down and closed my eyes.

 

The couch had turned magnetic, and me the magnet it refused to let go of. Everything spun. All I needed to do was stand up straight and regain my balance, but the ride never slowed enough. The force threw me against the cushion and wouldn’t let me up. I was pinned here, desperate for a life raft, but it never came by, so I closed my eyes and sank into the spin.

 

"Boy? Wake up boy. I've got a surprise for you outside." Above me stood a man who blocked the sun. He looked like Uncle Bill except smeared. It was as if God had faltered on his brush stroke while painting him. "What happened to your face Bill?" I reached out to touch it. "Boy! Straighten up. Now let's go before I change my mind." I took his hand and he peeled me from the magnetic couch. I rested on his shoulder and dragged my feet, nearly my knees, on the ground beside him. "Get it together boy. Have you gone mad?" he asked. "No Uncle Bill. Sorry. I just haven't been feeling good. Guess I caught a cold." He held me by the shoulders and stepped back to take a look at me. "What's that smell? Cough syrup?" he asked with a sly grin on his face. "Oh well, no harm in a few sips of the finer things in life. But, my boy, it may not taste so sweet, if after all your waiting, it only makes you wait some more." Before we stepped outside he drew a single cigar case from his pocket. He uncorked it and lifted the thick brown roll of tobacco out, running it under my nose and prompting me to take it in. "Learn to appreciate these things Boy. They're glorious and temporary and because of this, they need to be held in the highest regard." He held my arm by the wrist and instructed me to open my hand. "It's ok Uncle Bill, I don't smoke." "I'm not trying to give you a smoke, boy. Now open your damn hand. I swear I don't know why I'm going through with this now." I opened my hand. "Now close your eyes." He put something in them. They were sharp and cold. I rolled them around in my hand and could gage that they were keys. "Now keep your eyes closed." He pushed me from the back out into the street and towards the neighbor’s house. "Go ahead boy. Open them." In front of me was something I wouldn't appreciate for two days after (1 to sober up, 1 to stay in bed), but even now, my insides drowning in purple sissy liquid that was sure to make me blind, I could tell something fantastically oversized and dark blue, was being given to me.

  

Day 128

If you'd like to read more you can view the completed project at www.132daysofdarkness.com

Kenzie - #10 of 100 strangers

She has a really interesting story. She is a senior of criminal justice with a part time job at the mortuary for the police. She said she pretty sure she would get a full time job at the mortuary after she graduate.

 

I asked her how did she deal with the bad smell of the bodies. She said you just have to get use to it.

 

Regarding the question of what will you advise your self if you can go back in time. She said more focus on school and less "party"; she thought she could have graduated earlier and learn more.

 

Thanks for saving me Kenzie, I was waiting two hours outside, and could not find any people and I went inside and found her, and she was so kind to be my stranger.

 

I mad at myself and should have known better on the lighting, shutter was too slow and lucky the flash did freeze her.

 

Strobist: Godox AD360II Beauty Dish camera left

Priscilla White was born in the Scotland Road area of Liverpool in May 1943 . Determined to become an entertainer, she got a part-time job as a cloakroom attendant at Liverpool's Cavern Club, best known for its association with The Beatles. Her impromptu performances impressed The Beatles and others. She was encouraged to start singing by Liverpool promoter, Sam Leach, who gave her her first gig at The Cassanova Club, where she appeared as "Swinging Cilla". She became a guest singer with the Merseybeat bands Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes and, later, with The Big Three. She was also, meantime, a waitress at The Zodiac coffee lounge, where she was to meet her future husband Bobby Willis. She was featured in an article in the first edition of the local music newspaper Mersey Beat; the paper's publisher, Bill Harry, mistakenly referred to her as Cilla Black, rather than White, and she decided she liked the name, and took it as a stage name.

 

She signed her first contract with long-time friend and neighbour, Terry McCann, but this contract was never honoured, because it was signed when she was under-age, and her father subsequently signed her with Brian Epstein. Epstein introduced Black to George Martin who signed her to Parlophone Records and produced her début single, "Love of the Loved" (written by Lennon and McCartney), which was released only three weeks after she contracted with Epstein. Despite an appearance on ABC-TV's popular Thank Your Lucky Stars, the single peaked at a modest No.35 in the UK, a relative failure compared to début releases of Epstein's most successful artists (The Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas).

 

Her second single, released at the beginning of 1964, was a cover of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David composition "Anyone Who Had a Heart", which had been written for Dionne Warwick. The single beat Warwick's recording into the UK charts and rose to No.1 in Britain in February 1964 (spending 3 weeks there), selling 800,000 copies in the UK in the process. Her second UK No.1 success, "You're My World", was an English language rendition of the Italian popular song, "Il Mio Mondo". She also enjoyed chart success with the song in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa and Canada. Both songs sold over one million copies worldwide, and were awarded gold discs.

 

Black's two No.1 successes were followed by the release of another Lennon–McCartney composition, "It's for You", as her fourth UK single. Paul McCartney played piano at the recording session and the song proved to be another major international success for Black, peaking at No.7 on the UK charts. Numerous other successful singles followed including " You've lost that loving feeling " and " Alfie " .

 

The album shown was released in 1969 .

On the 180th birthday anniversary for the City of Chicago founded on March

4, 1837, I remember why Chicago was the choice I made for a destination.

When my parents decided to live in the United States of America, I was

living in the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba and attending elementary

school in Spanish. One day, my Mother told me that both my parents decided

to leave Santiago de Cuba and settle in another city of the United States

of America. She asked me in which city we should live? There were many

choices of cities based on the family relatives who were already in the

USA. Since Catholic Charities sponsored the Freedom Flights, "Vuelos de

Libertad", the Catholic Church offered help in Connecticut and Chicago to

relocate Cuban families there. My Mother and Father thought that

Connecticut was very, very cold and farther north in the East Coast. While

Chicago was in the Midwest, a city by Lake Michigan, one of the Great

Lakes--Erie, Huron, and Superior. My parents had Cuban friends in

Connecticut and Chicago, as well as in other American cities. However, the

City of Chicago was unanimously our choice for a destination in the United

States of America. My Grandmother had Cuban friends in Chicago and

business connections to the mail-order stores like Montgomery Ward, Sears,

etc. My parents had Cuban-Chinese friends in Rogers Park, on Howard

Street, near Evanston, Illinois. Even now, the far north communities of

Edgewater by Lake Michigan, Rogers Park, Andersonville, and Evanston still

appeal to my family in general. Military friends from the Great Lakes and

visitors from the USA encouraged my Mother and Father to leave Santiago de

Cuba.

 

Chicago Catholic Charities welcomed my family with open arms, kindness,

generosity, and goodwill when we arrived in July 1971. My Father, Mr.

Roberto Hung Juris Doctor and my Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos, myself,

and my youngest brother, Roberto Santiago Hung were referred for relocation

to the Montfield Hotel at the corner of Sheffield and Belmont Avenue in the

Lake View neighborhood, near the Illinois Masonic Medical Center on

Wellington Street. Later, my Father was referred to a Baptist Church

Pastor, Fabio Abreu of Dominican descent and his Canadian-American wife for

relocation to the first floor of a Chicago home owned by Mrs. Marie Palmer,

a Protestant Lutheran American widow, his neighbor across the alley who

needed a responsible and reliable tenant with a family to help her maintain

here Chicago real estate property at 2930 North Albany between Wellington

and George, near Kedzie Avenue where Avondale Elementary School was

located, across from the Grace Lutheran Church.

 

The Baptist Pastor Fabio Abreu from the Dominican Republic and his Lutheran

American-German neighbor Mrs. Marie Palmer were heaven sent during our

relocation from the Montfield Hotel in Lakeview to the Avondale community

near Logan Square, not far from our Cuban-

Chinese friends, Fernando Wong and Yolanda Fen with two children, a

retarded daughter with spinal bifida, Zuling, and a male Fernandito Wong

Fen who wanted to be an architect engineer later in life. Afterwards,

Fernando and Yoli Wong had a daughter named Meiling who lived in the Rogers

Park community, near Evanston and Skokie in Illinois.

 

While I was attending Avondale Grammar School, on Kedzie Avenue, aka

Loganddale Elementary School, I used to participate in an abridged 6th

grade program, instead of the corresponding 8th grade program which I would

later trafer. Since my Mother had my Cuban grammar school transcripts, she

told the Principal in Santiago de Cuba that I had alread passed 6th, 7th,

and 8th grade programs in Santiago de Cubqa in Spanish.

 

The obvious problem for all of us was how to speak English, write in

English, and attend school of course, obviously, my family and I had to

make a transition from spoken Spanish to American English, fluently. There

were Free English courses and classes at the Casa Central in Logan Square,

Chicago, Illinois 60618, USA. My parents and I, used to practice speaking

English in Santiago de Cuba, later on, we, as a family began to speak

English at home in Chicago with the television programs of Sesame Street

and the Electric Company featuring Rita Moreno, among other television

personalities and talent,as well as other TV programs like Perry Mason,

classic western movies with John Wayne, and the musical songs of Doris Day,

Glen Miller's American Jazz band, Lawrence Welk, which we used to watch

before.

 

Soon, we made friends with the neighbors like Ludivinia "Ludi" Villareal,

whose family was Hispanic from Méjico and invited us to her birthday party

for "tostadas", tacos, etc. There were also Cuban-Americans like Armando

and his youngest brother who went to Avondale Elementary School also with

myself and my youngest brother Robert S. Hung. My 6th grade teacher was

Miss Honeywood and my English As A Second Language Teacher was Miss Pantos

who later married and changed her name. Later, I was double transferred to

8th grade with Mr. Herbert Hebel where I graduated with High Honors from

Avondale Elementary School.

 

In Chicago, my Father, Roberto Hung was able to find employment at the

warehouse in Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Company. Later he

worked for Marshall Field's and the Theatrical Dance Supply Company.

Fernando and Yoli Wong Fen recomeded my Father to work for Felt-Products,

on McCormick Boulevard in Skokie, also known today as Federal Mogul, a

corporation in the automotive industry manufacturing "oil gaskets" with a

patented adhesive created and designed by Albert Mecklenburger, a

German-American from Berlin, Germany.

 

My Mother also had to get a job with Goldblatt's on Milwaukee Avenue, right

in the midst of the Polish American neighborhood. Then, she found another

part-time job at Tic-Toc with Mrs. Sherman. Later, my Father recommended

her to work for Felt-Products with him in Skokie, also.

 

I started working at the Offices of Edelstein & Edelstein on Irivng Park

Road who needed to make collection calls on the telephone and paid a

minimum wage of $4 per hour. Afterrwards, I found a job at McDonald's at

the corner of Irving Park Road and Elston Avenue, not far from the Irving

Park Shopping Center, the Y.M.C.A. and Madonna High School.

 

In order to *"Make Ends Meet"*, both my Father and Mother went to work, and

during my 3rd year as a junior at Madonna High School, age 16-years-old,

Sister Rosemarie from Counselling referred me to get a job and follow the

American Dream working hard to make a living. Mrs. Palmer used to say

before she left for work as an Administrator and Office Manager at the

Civic Opera, *"I owe, I owe, so off to work I go."*

 

*Chicago* is also known as the Windy City because of the cross-winds across

Lake Michigan cause whirlwinds and all-changing weather due to the Lake

Effect and the Great Lakes. It is still a beautiful city by the Lake

Michigan, *"the city with the broad shoulders"* as a client and friend from

Helsinki, Finland, calls the City of Chicago. Mrs. Marie Palmer used to

tell me, *"if you don't like the weather in Chicago, wait a minute, it will

change."*

 

I have grown up in Chicago for the last 46 years on the Northwest side of

the Windy City and attended and graduated from Northeastern Illinois

University after graduating from Madonna High School on May 27, 1977 with

High Honors, as a member of the National Honor Society and the French Honor

Society. Later, I pursued Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois

at Chicago with the *Abraham Lincoln Fellowship for Rhetorical Criticism,

Speech Writing, Communications, and Theatre* granted by the UIC Department

of Communications and Theatre managed by Dr. Anthony Graham-White. I have

written my Master's Thesis as an ethnography about *"The Chinese in Cuba:

Assimilation and Acculturation*" presented by Dr. Thomas Kochman, Ph.D.

 

The City of Chicago celebrates today 180 years since its founding fathers

established the settlement by the Chicago River and used the name

familiarly with the *"wild onions"* growing by the river banks. *"Happy

180th Birthday Anniversary, Chicago!"*

 

I have rented and lived in a studio apartment on the Northwest side of

Chicago near my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, on Sacramento and

Belle Plaine, near Irving Park Road, in a building owned by Mrs. A.C.

Nylen, a German-American realtor in Chicago and the Midwest.

 

My Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos began to work at Felt-Products Inc. and

attended Loyola University Lewis Towers Campus pursuing a Master's in

Spanish Literature with Dr. Martinez, Dr. Carol Holdsworth, and Dr. Luján.

 

Chicago has always represented the spirit of its community people to

prevail and overcome adversity in the challenges that life brings over

time, place, and physical presence. The people of Chicago have a fighting

spirit to survive and fight for justice, equity, and fairness. Chicago is

today a cosmopolitan metropolis and a credit to its sprawling communities

by Lake Michigan in the state of Illinois, USA. Happy 180th Anniversary,

Chicago!

 

The Chicago River

 

Gardenia C. Hung, M.A., B.A.

Consulting Social Media Arts Communications

 

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August 1961 ...

 

From the internet -

Simpson'S Garden Town Nursery was started in 1928 by Hal Simpson in Pasadena, California under the original name of "Simpson'S House of Service". With only an eighth grade education and a co-signed note for $500.00 Hal started his small business later to become known as "The largest, most diversified garden center in five western states". During the difficult beginnings his friends told him he was "too far out, be broke in sixty days and back looking for a job". Hal did have a couple of part time jobs, as a Sunday School bus driver and at nights at a gas station. He and his wife Helen also ran a side business, "Sierra Hatcheries", to make ends meet. One of the first entries in the company checkbook shows a check drawn for $55 to purchase a used model "T" delivery truck. The nursery grew and prospered until the outbreak of World War II, which caused profound changes in the nursery and Simpson family.

 

With most Americans leaving their civilian jobs to work in the war effort, Hal was left with only a few employees. This brought the need to change the name of the business from "Simpson'S House of Service" to the present "Simpson'S Garden Town Nursery". The other, more personal change would be the beginning of a life-long friendship. Hal did business with the Yamane nursery family. Even though they were American citizens of Japanese decent, they like many others were forced to live in an internment camp in Arizona. On a handshake, Hal ran their nursery while they were gone. At the end of the war Hal returned the business to the family. Because of the deep respect between the two families, the friendship is still alive even today.

 

After the war Simpson'S Garden Town grew dramatically; with over 70 trucks, 47 telephone lines, an F.T.D. florist shop, full landscape department, lawn mower, pet shop, and several other outlets. The small business that was once at the end of the road, now called Colorado Boulevard, home of the yearly "Rose Parade". Tragedy struck in November of 1959 when a four alarm fire broke out, destroying the nursery buildings and supplies. Though most of the records and charge receipts were gone, customers came forward to pay their accounts and suppliers helped out by restocking. In 1968, the State of California , in the name of progress took most of the nursery property to build the 210 freeway. With the money from the freeway sale, Hal bought the 185 acre "Barrett House Ranch" in Jamul. Hal had considered retiring, but his heart told him to continue growing plants. He regenerated Simpson'S Garden Town Nursery on a portion of the ranch in Jamul. This time in a style suitable to the area, there were no phone, no salesmen, no deliveries...just good plants stock at a reasonable price.

 

Today the nursery has expanded to include Gift Shops, Pottery, all varieties of seasonal color, Herbs, Grasses, along with many new introductions for the interested gardener. And for the vintage car enthusiast there are large barns with over 50 antique vehicles to view, for free. The nursery is owned and operated by Hal Simpson's Granddaughter Cathy and her husband Lee. Their sons are learning the business when not attending school. So come on out, take a short ride to the country. We hope to see you here.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was visiting the Granite State on Wednesday.

  

Bush took questions at a town hall event in Hudson on Wednesday evening after making an unannounced stop at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop in Dover earlier in the day.

 

Bush spoke, surrounded by veterans, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Hudson -- a popular stop on the primary trail.

 

Bush spoke about New Hampshire's twin energy controversies -- the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline in the state's southern tier, as well as the Northern Pass project.

 

"I mean, you guys are struggling to build pipelines and transmission lines, best I can tell," said Bush.

 

One attendee followed up, asking Bush what he knew about the pipeline.

 

"It promises to cut through a number of people's homes and [environmentally protected] land," the questioner said.

 

"There's a trade-off in this, which is how public policy works. The trade-off is how do you balance the economic interests of working-class families with environmental considerations? And those are best sorted out at the state level, not in Washington, DC," said Bush.

 

After the town hall, Bush told News 9 that he won't be taking sides.

 

"I think this should be locally driven," said Bush.

 

Bush also provided additional context to comments he made to the Union Leader editorial board earlier in the day.

 

Controversy began brewing on social media after Bush said that "people need to work longer hours."

 

Bush clarified that he was referring to new overtime rules, which he believes will force people into part-time jobs.

 

"I think people want to work harder, to be able to have more money in their own pockets -- not to be dependent upon government. You can take it out of context all you want, but high, sustained growth means people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours, and that by our success they have money -- disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than getting in line," said Bush.

 

Bush also dismissed Donald Trump's criticism of his immigration position, when Trump essentially said that Bush is biased by the fact that his wife is Mexican.

 

"You can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe we need to control the border," said Bush.

 

Bush also had coffee and breakfast with a small crowd at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop earlier in the day, where he said he'll use his leadership skills from his experience in office to change the roles within our government.

 

Bush said that one of the first things he would do in office is reduce federal overreach.

 

"Under this administration, there's been broad overreach in the regulatory powers. We need to bring powers back to states and local communities and that's something the president can do almost immediately,” said Bush.

 

Bush also said he would create a better energy plan for America and re-establish America's leadership internationally.

 

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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush.

 

Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.

 

In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican governor. During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating environmental improvements, such as conservation in the Everglades, supporting caps for medical malpractice litigation, moving Medicaid recipients to private systems, and instituting reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting school choice.

 

Frequently cited by the media as a possible candidate for president in the 2016 election, Bush announced in mid-December 2014 that he would explore the possibility of running for President. Bush subsequently launched his presidential campaign on June 15, 2015 in Miami, Florida.

Just a few years past the date of this photo. I was living in a garage close by in El Segundo, going to school on the GI Bill and a part time job and hard pressed financially. I had a few friends that were stewardesses and told me that they could get me a much-needed good paying job driving shuttles in the airport. As much as I needed it, I was petrified of driving in the airport traffic. I was yet to learn what real traffic was all about

Things at my Part Time Job. Guess what these are?

On the 180th birthday anniversary for the City of Chicago founded on March

4, 1837, I remember why Chicago was the choice I made for a destination.

When my parents decided to live in the United States of America, I was

living in the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba and attending elementary

school in Spanish. One day, my Mother told me that both my parents decided

to leave Santiago de Cuba and settle in another city of the United States

of America. She asked me in which city we should live? There were many

choices of cities based on the family relatives who were already in the

USA. Since Catholic Charities sponsored the Freedom Flights, "Vuelos de

Libertad", the Catholic Church offered help in Connecticut and Chicago to

relocate Cuban families there. My Mother and Father thought that

Connecticut was very, very cold and farther north in the East Coast. While

Chicago was in the Midwest, a city by Lake Michigan, one of the Great

Lakes--Erie, Huron, and Superior. My parents had Cuban friends in

Connecticut and Chicago, as well as in other American cities. However, the

City of Chicago was unanimously our choice for a destination in the United

States of America. My Grandmother had Cuban friends in Chicago and

business connections to the mail-order stores like Montgomery Ward, Sears,

etc. My parents had Cuban-Chinese friends in Rogers Park, on Howard

Street, near Evanston, Illinois. Even now, the far north communities of

Edgewater by Lake Michigan, Rogers Park, Andersonville, and Evanston still

appeal to my family in general. Military friends from the Great Lakes and

visitors from the USA encouraged my Mother and Father to leave Santiago de

Cuba.

 

Chicago Catholic Charities welcomed my family with open arms, kindness,

generosity, and goodwill when we arrived in July 1971. My Father, Mr.

Roberto Hung Juris Doctor and my Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos, myself,

and my youngest brother, Roberto Santiago Hung were referred for relocation

to the Montfield Hotel at the corner of Sheffield and Belmont Avenue in the

Lake View neighborhood, near the Illinois Masonic Medical Center on

Wellington Street. Later, my Father was referred to a Baptist Church

Pastor, Fabio Abreu of Dominican descent and his Canadian-American wife for

relocation to the first floor of a Chicago home owned by Mrs. Marie Palmer,

a Protestant Lutheran American widow, his neighbor across the alley who

needed a responsible and reliable tenant with a family to help her maintain

here Chicago real estate property at 2930 North Albany between Wellington

and George, near Kedzie Avenue where Avondale Elementary School was

located, across from the Grace Lutheran Church.

 

The Baptist Pastor Fabio Abreu from the Dominican Republic and his Lutheran

American-German neighbor Mrs. Marie Palmer were heaven sent during our

relocation from the Montfield Hotel in Lakeview to the Avondale community

near Logan Square, not far from our Cuban-

Chinese friends, Fernando Wong and Yolanda Fen with two children, a

retarded daughter with spinal bifida, Zuling, and a male Fernandito Wong

Fen who wanted to be an architect engineer later in life. Afterwards,

Fernando and Yoli Wong had a daughter named Meiling who lived in the Rogers

Park community, near Evanston and Skokie in Illinois.

 

While I was attending Avondale Grammar School, on Kedzie Avenue, aka

Loganddale Elementary School, I used to participate in an abridged 6th

grade program, instead of the corresponding 8th grade program which I would

later trafer. Since my Mother had my Cuban grammar school transcripts, she

told the Principal in Santiago de Cuba that I had alread passed 6th, 7th,

and 8th grade programs in Santiago de Cubqa in Spanish.

 

The obvious problem for all of us was how to speak English, write in

English, and attend school of course, obviously, my family and I had to

make a transition from spoken Spanish to American English, fluently. There

were Free English courses and classes at the Casa Central in Logan Square,

Chicago, Illinois 60618, USA. My parents and I, used to practice speaking

English in Santiago de Cuba, later on, we, as a family began to speak

English at home in Chicago with the television programs of Sesame Street

and the Electric Company featuring Rita Moreno, among other television

personalities and talent,as well as other TV programs like Perry Mason,

classic western movies with John Wayne, and the musical songs of Doris Day,

Glen Miller's American Jazz band, Lawrence Welk, which we used to watch

before.

 

Soon, we made friends with the neighbors like Ludivinia "Ludi" Villareal,

whose family was Hispanic from Méjico and invited us to her birthday party

for "tostadas", tacos, etc. There were also Cuban-Americans like Armando

and his youngest brother who went to Avondale Elementary School also with

myself and my youngest brother Robert S. Hung. My 6th grade teacher was

Miss Honeywood and my English As A Second Language Teacher was Miss Pantos

who later married and changed her name. Later, I was double transferred to

8th grade with Mr. Herbert Hebel where I graduated with High Honors from

Avondale Elementary School.

 

In Chicago, my Father, Roberto Hung was able to find employment at the

warehouse in Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Company. Later he

worked for Marshall Field's and the Theatrical Dance Supply Company.

Fernando and Yoli Wong Fen recomeded my Father to work for Felt-Products,

on McCormick Boulevard in Skokie, also known today as Federal Mogul, a

corporation in the automotive industry manufacturing "oil gaskets" with a

patented adhesive created and designed by Albert Mecklenburger, a

German-American from Berlin, Germany.

 

My Mother also had to get a job with Goldblatt's on Milwaukee Avenue, right

in the midst of the Polish American neighborhood. Then, she found another

part-time job at Tic-Toc with Mrs. Sherman. Later, my Father recommended

her to work for Felt-Products with him in Skokie, also.

 

I started working at the Offices of Edelstein & Edelstein on Irivng Park

Road who needed to make collection calls on the telephone and paid a

minimum wage of $4 per hour. Afterrwards, I found a job at McDonald's at

the corner of Irving Park Road and Elston Avenue, not far from the Irving

Park Shopping Center, the Y.M.C.A. and Madonna High School.

 

In order to *"Make Ends Meet"*, both my Father and Mother went to work, and

during my 3rd year as a junior at Madonna High School, age 16-years-old,

Sister Rosemarie from Counselling referred me to get a job and follow the

American Dream working hard to make a living. Mrs. Palmer used to say

before she left for work as an Administrator and Office Manager at the

Civic Opera, *"I owe, I owe, so off to work I go."*

 

*Chicago* is also known as the Windy City because of the cross-winds across

Lake Michigan cause whirlwinds and all-changing weather due to the Lake

Effect and the Great Lakes. It is still a beautiful city by the Lake

Michigan, *"the city with the broad shoulders"* as a client and friend from

Helsinki, Finland, calls the City of Chicago. Mrs. Marie Palmer used to

tell me, *"if you don't like the weather in Chicago, wait a minute, it will

change."*

 

I have grown up in Chicago for the last 46 years on the Northwest side of

the Windy City and attended and graduated from Northeastern Illinois

University after graduating from Madonna High School on May 27, 1977 with

High Honors, as a member of the National Honor Society and the French Honor

Society. Later, I pursued Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois

at Chicago with the *Abraham Lincoln Fellowship for Rhetorical Criticism,

Speech Writing, Communications, and Theatre* granted by the UIC Department

of Communications and Theatre managed by Dr. Anthony Graham-White. I have

written my Master's Thesis as an ethnography about *"The Chinese in Cuba:

Assimilation and Acculturation*" presented by Dr. Thomas Kochman, Ph.D.

 

The City of Chicago celebrates today 180 years since its founding fathers

established the settlement by the Chicago River and used the name

familiarly with the *"wild onions"* growing by the river banks. *"Happy

180th Birthday Anniversary, Chicago!"*

 

I have rented and lived in a studio apartment on the Northwest side of

Chicago near my Father, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor, on Sacramento and

Belle Plaine, near Irving Park Road, in a building owned by Mrs. A.C.

Nylen, a German-American realtor in Chicago and the Midwest.

 

My Mother, Mrs. Gardenia Fong Ramos began to work at Felt-Products Inc. and

attended Loyola University Lewis Towers Campus pursuing a Master's in

Spanish Literature with Dr. Martinez, Dr. Carol Holdsworth, and Dr. Luján.

 

Chicago has always represented the spirit of its community people to

prevail and overcome adversity in the challenges that life brings over

time, place, and physical presence. The people of Chicago have a fighting

spirit to survive and fight for justice, equity, and fairness. Chicago is

today a cosmopolitan metropolis and a credit to its sprawling communities

by Lake Michigan in the state of Illinois, USA. Happy 180th Anniversary,

Chicago!

 

The Chicago River

 

Gardenia C. Hung, M.A., B.A.

Consulting Social Media Arts Communications

 

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was visiting the Granite State on Wednesday.

  

Bush took questions at a town hall event in Hudson on Wednesday evening after making an unannounced stop at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop in Dover earlier in the day.

 

Bush spoke, surrounded by veterans, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Hudson -- a popular stop on the primary trail.

 

Bush spoke about New Hampshire's twin energy controversies -- the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline in the state's southern tier, as well as the Northern Pass project.

 

"I mean, you guys are struggling to build pipelines and transmission lines, best I can tell," said Bush.

 

One attendee followed up, asking Bush what he knew about the pipeline.

 

"It promises to cut through a number of people's homes and [environmentally protected] land," the questioner said.

 

"There's a trade-off in this, which is how public policy works. The trade-off is how do you balance the economic interests of working-class families with environmental considerations? And those are best sorted out at the state level, not in Washington, DC," said Bush.

 

After the town hall, Bush told News 9 that he won't be taking sides.

 

"I think this should be locally driven," said Bush.

 

Bush also provided additional context to comments he made to the Union Leader editorial board earlier in the day.

 

Controversy began brewing on social media after Bush said that "people need to work longer hours."

 

Bush clarified that he was referring to new overtime rules, which he believes will force people into part-time jobs.

 

"I think people want to work harder, to be able to have more money in their own pockets -- not to be dependent upon government. You can take it out of context all you want, but high, sustained growth means people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours, and that by our success they have money -- disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than getting in line," said Bush.

 

Bush also dismissed Donald Trump's criticism of his immigration position, when Trump essentially said that Bush is biased by the fact that his wife is Mexican.

 

"You can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe we need to control the border," said Bush.

 

Bush also had coffee and breakfast with a small crowd at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop earlier in the day, where he said he'll use his leadership skills from his experience in office to change the roles within our government.

 

Bush said that one of the first things he would do in office is reduce federal overreach.

 

"Under this administration, there's been broad overreach in the regulatory powers. We need to bring powers back to states and local communities and that's something the president can do almost immediately,” said Bush.

 

Bush also said he would create a better energy plan for America and re-establish America's leadership internationally.

 

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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush.

 

Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.

 

In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican governor. During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating environmental improvements, such as conservation in the Everglades, supporting caps for medical malpractice litigation, moving Medicaid recipients to private systems, and instituting reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting school choice.

 

Frequently cited by the media as a possible candidate for president in the 2016 election, Bush announced in mid-December 2014 that he would explore the possibility of running for President. Bush subsequently launched his presidential campaign on June 15, 2015 in Miami, Florida.

Belgian collectors card by Kwatta, no. C. 321. Photo: MGM. Publicity still for Duchess of Idaho (Robert Z. Leonard, 1950).

 

American actor John Lund (1911-1992) was a handsome blond, blue-eyed leading man who came to Hollywood after a major Broadway success. He started out promisingly in engaging romantic leads in the late 40s, but settled quickly into playing stuffed shirts and the third wheel in love triangles.

 

John Lund was born in 1911 in Rochester, New York. One of six children born to an immigrant Norwegian glassblower, Lund had a rather unsettled childhood. He dropped out of school at the age of 14. For a while, he tried his hand at several part-time jobs but never stayed long. He then devised various entrepreneurial ways to generate an income, including a quit-smoking program and a mail order manual on mind-reading. Unsurprisingly, none of these ventures caught on. On the off-chance, Lund then got a small part in a local Rochester production in the Clifford Odets play 'Waiting for Lefty'. He went on from there to work in summer stock, eventually made his way to New York and finagled another small theatrical role while working at the 1939 World's Fair. He served as stage manager of 'Railroad on Parade' at the fair and played several roles in the production. For the next two years, Lund alternated jobs in advertising with acting and writing for radio.

 

In October 1941, John Lund landed a plum role on Broadway in 'As You Like It' ny William Shakespeare. The following year, he penned both book and lyrics for the successful musical revue 'New Faces of 1943', and also appeared in it. Lund had the title role in the serial 'Chaplain Jim' on the radio in the early 1940s. A much acclaimed leading role in the Bretaigne Windust production of 'The Hasty Heart' followed in January 1945, which led to a six-year contract with Paramount. For the blue-eyed, saturnine, Nordic-looking Lund, the beginning of his career as a Hollywood leading man would also be his apex. He was at his best playing the dual role of an ill-fated World War I flying ace romancing Olivia de Havilland, and as her grown-up illegitimate son in To Each His Own (Mitchell Leisen, 1946). Paramount used Lund as Betty Hutton's leading man in The Perils of Pauline (George Marshall, 1947). It was another hit. Lund was also effectively cast as the romantic interest for both Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur in A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, 1948). The film was highly acclaimed but failed to make him a major star. He showed unexpected comedic flair in the madcap farce Miss Tatlock's Millions (Richard Haydn, 1948) as a Hollywood stunt man posing as an eccentric relative to help beleaguered heiress Wanda Hendrix against predatory gold-diggers. He was the star of Bride of Vengeance (Mitchell Leisen, 1949) alongside Paulette Goddard and MacDonald Carey but the film was a big flop.

 

John Lund gave reliable support to Barbara Stanwyck in the underrated melodrama No Man of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen, 1950) and co-starred with Gene Tierney as one of newlyweds facing class barriers in The Mating Season (Mitchell Leisen, 1951). Paramount wanted to loan him to Universal for Weekend with Father (Douglas Sirk, 1951), but he refused and was put on suspension. By the end of 1951, Lund's star was in decline. He was briefly signed at Universal, where he replacedjeff Chandler as Ann Sheridan's leading man in the Film Noir Steel Town (George Sherman, 1952). Furthermore, he was relegated to appearing primarily in routine Westerns. His final major appearance was as George Kittredge, the stuffy fiancée who doesn't get the girl - this being Grace Kelly in her acting swansong High Society (Charles Walters, 1956). Lund persisted for several more years on CBS radio as the titular insurance investigator of 'Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar', a role he made his own between November 1952 and September 1954. He also was vice-president of the Screen Actor's Guild from 1950-1959. In the late 1950s, he appeared in largely forgettable films and his last performances included support performances in The Wackiest Ship in the Army (Richard Murphy, 1960) at Columbia and If a Man Answers (Henry Levin, 1962) at Universal. He retired from acting altogether by 1963. He had succeeded in setting up a moderately successful business and spent his remaining years at his house in Coldwater Canyon (Hollywood Hills). There John Lund died in 1992 in Los Angeles, California. He had been married to Marie Lund from 1942 till her death in 1982.

 

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was visiting the Granite State on Wednesday.

  

Bush took questions at a town hall event in Hudson on Wednesday evening after making an unannounced stop at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop in Dover earlier in the day.

 

Bush spoke, surrounded by veterans, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Hudson -- a popular stop on the primary trail.

 

Bush spoke about New Hampshire's twin energy controversies -- the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline in the state's southern tier, as well as the Northern Pass project.

 

"I mean, you guys are struggling to build pipelines and transmission lines, best I can tell," said Bush.

 

One attendee followed up, asking Bush what he knew about the pipeline.

 

"It promises to cut through a number of people's homes and [environmentally protected] land," the questioner said.

 

"There's a trade-off in this, which is how public policy works. The trade-off is how do you balance the economic interests of working-class families with environmental considerations? And those are best sorted out at the state level, not in Washington, DC," said Bush.

 

After the town hall, Bush told News 9 that he won't be taking sides.

 

"I think this should be locally driven," said Bush.

 

Bush also provided additional context to comments he made to the Union Leader editorial board earlier in the day.

 

Controversy began brewing on social media after Bush said that "people need to work longer hours."

 

Bush clarified that he was referring to new overtime rules, which he believes will force people into part-time jobs.

 

"I think people want to work harder, to be able to have more money in their own pockets -- not to be dependent upon government. You can take it out of context all you want, but high, sustained growth means people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours, and that by our success they have money -- disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than getting in line," said Bush.

 

Bush also dismissed Donald Trump's criticism of his immigration position, when Trump essentially said that Bush is biased by the fact that his wife is Mexican.

 

"You can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe we need to control the border," said Bush.

 

Bush also had coffee and breakfast with a small crowd at Harvey's Bakery and Coffee Shop earlier in the day, where he said he'll use his leadership skills from his experience in office to change the roles within our government.

 

Bush said that one of the first things he would do in office is reduce federal overreach.

 

"Under this administration, there's been broad overreach in the regulatory powers. We need to bring powers back to states and local communities and that's something the president can do almost immediately,” said Bush.

 

Bush also said he would create a better energy plan for America and re-establish America's leadership internationally.

 

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John Ellis "Jeb" Bush (born February 11, 1953) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush.

 

Bush grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and attended the University of Texas, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. Following his father's successful run for Vice President in 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development. In 1986, Bush was named Florida's Secretary of Commerce, a position he held until his resignation in 1988 to help his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.

 

In 1994, Bush made his first run for office, narrowly losing the election for governor by less than two percentage points to the incumbent Lawton Chiles. Bush ran again in 1998 and defeated Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay with 55 percent of the vote. He ran for reelection in 2002 and won with 56 percent to become Florida's first two-term Republican governor. During his eight years as governor, Bush was credited with initiating environmental improvements, such as conservation in the Everglades, supporting caps for medical malpractice litigation, moving Medicaid recipients to private systems, and instituting reforms to the state education system, including the issuance of vouchers and promoting school choice.

 

Frequently cited by the media as a possible candidate for president in the 2016 election, Bush announced in mid-December 2014 that he would explore the possibility of running for President. Bush subsequently launched his presidential campaign on June 15, 2015 in Miami, Florida.

Today has been a pretty productive today. Got up, done the usual house stuff, wash the dishes, clean and dry clothes. Had a look for some part-time jobs and worked on some more ideas for the website.

My friend Macky is currently working on my website and it should hopefully be ready to put online in the next couple of weeks.

Been playing about with different ideas for business cards also, and looking at the possibility of upgrading my camera.

Everything is exciting at the minute, and hopefully there is more to come.

 

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