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LegCo Subcommittee to Follow Up Issues Relating to the Unified Screening Mechanism for Non-refoulement Claims visits Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (2018.07.19)

Cartoon (not to scale) showing how the whole-Earth C cycle relates to plate tectonics and the dynamics of the mantle. Orange arrows correspond to outgassing from Earth’s interior. Blue arrows correspond to carbonate precipitation or organic C burial. Curved blue arrows represent terrestrial silicate weathering and seafloor weathering.

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House Bill 980, relating to “Highway Safety” (aka Distracted Driving Bill) – This measure is effective July 1, 2013. While all counties have some form of a distracted driving ordinance in place, this measure establishes a state law that creates consistent requirements across all counties for the use of mobile electronic devices while driving and will simplify enforcement. Crash data from the DOT shows that during 2007, 32 percent (2,871 of the 8,770 collisions) were attributed to inattention to driving.

Senate Bill 4, relating to “Motor Vehicles” (aka Universal Seatbelt Bill) – This measure requires all front seat and back seat occupants to buckle up, effective immediately. Adults and children must use their seat belts and child restraints at all times. Unrestrained back seat passengers were more than three times as likely to have injuries that were fatal or required hospitalization compared to restrained back seat passengers, based on DOH’s analysis of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) records. Additionally, among back seat passengers who were treated for injuries by EMS, average medical charges were nearly tripled among those who did not use seat belts ($11,043), compared to restrained passengers ($3,817).

The bill signings were done in conjunction with the DOT’s launch of the annual “Click It or Ticket” enforcement campaign, held in partnership between the state and counties with federal funding. During the national Click It or Ticket mobilization from May 20 to June 2 and throughout the year, police statewide will be continuing strict enforcement of the state seat belt and child passenger restraint laws.

Whilst braces quote gold coast relates to perhaps a more economical and sometimes a necessary treatment, Invisalign is still the preferred option used to align crooked teeth. The plastic aligners are clear and relatively invisible making them aesthetically appealing. People will hardly notice you are wearing aligners. However, before you book an appointment you need to know a few things about Invisalign.

You may develop a lisp in your speech

The liners may affect your speech in the initial days. Some people experience a lisp, but others rarely do. However, it is a small issue that will gradually disappear as you adjust with the liners.

You will wear them for 22 hours

For a successful Invisalign, you must wear the aligners for 22 hours. I thought I could leave them behind when attending a party. This means you have a total of two hours per day to eat and clean the aligner. Consequently, you must be mindful of time.

You might experience pain

You may feel some pain in the first weeks but is not unbearable. The pressure on the teeth can cause pain. However, you should consult your dentist if the pain is unbearable. You might not experience any pain, but you will feel some uncomfortable tightness when you change trays. Some people say they are relatively pain-free.

Cleaning the aligners

Taking care of the aligners is easy, but you must take good care of them. The dentist may recommend brushing them with the toothpaste of just water. The dentist can also recommend retainer cleaning tablets, diluted bleach, or mild denture cleaner.

Your teeth may need filing

It may reveal a recommendation for filing if your teeth are overcrowded. Other terms such slenderizing, shaving, or interproximal reduction (IPR). Slenderizing is not painful but feels just uncomfortable. Your Invisalign quotes gold coast is inclusive of this as part of the initial examination

Aligners stain easily

Drinks like coffee and tea can stain the aligners especially if you do not follow the regiment bushing routine. After consuming such drinks follow up immediately by bushing the teeth.

You will brush an extra number of times in a day

Food particles and plaque can accumulate as the teeth move and this can lead to foul breath and even cavities. Thus, it is crucial that you brush your teeth after eating anything. This means that you must carry a toothbrush everywhere.

Attachments can detach

Do not worry when your attachments come off. Visit your orthodontist or dentist and have them reattached.

Removing the aligners is an art

Removing the attachments is hard. However, you can purchase a set of aligner removers to help you with the task. Have one at home, in your car, and in your pocket, so you do not encounter any inconvenience.

Follow up visits and after Invisalign

Invisalign quotes gold coast pricing is inclusive of checking on the progress of treatment through to fruition. After successful completion of Invisalign, you will need to wear retainers every night. The retainers help keep your teeth in position. orthodontistexpertgoldcoast.com

This lantern slide relates to a photograph taken by Clement Lindley Wragge (b.1852, d.1922), dated 8 March 1909.

The slide shows a circular image of the moon covering the sun. A dark circle is in the center of the plate with light radiating from behind it. Some red colouring can be seen behind the upper right section of the moon.

Inscription Details: Handwritten in black ink on upper right corner of plate '86' Handwritten in blue ink on lower left corner of plate 'U 75' Handwritten in black ink at bottom of plate '[illegible] 16.2.09'.

Credit: Shared by Auckland War Memorial Museum, Tāmaki Paenga Hira, as part of the Clement Lindley Wragge collection.

Rights: No known copyright restrictions.

Reference: 236033|PH-1984-1-LS78-4-26|75

For more details, please visit: www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/record/1033183

Unfortunately I have been unable to get any information relating to this metal object but as it is made from corten steel I assume that it is not a rubbish skip [dumpster]

Today the sunlight was very strong and I happened to notice that it was causing what appeared to be "RE" to be projected onto the cobblestones ... examine the shadow area of some of my photographs and decide for yourself. Having looked at previous photographs there are also two sets of initials 'TH' and 'VS'.

During my recent visit to Belfast I noticed that Weathering steel is currently being used in many outdoor structures including street furniture.

The first time that I became aware of corten steel was when I saw "Gateway" by Michael Warren in Dun Laoghaire [since removed by popular demand] which I actually liked.

Weathering steel, best-known under the trademark COR-TEN steel and sometimes written without the hyphen as "Corten steel", is a group of steel alloys which were developed to eliminate the need for painting, and form a stable rust-like appearance if exposed to the weather for several years. Corten steel made its first impressive appearance on the world stage in the 1960s when the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen used it to create a four-building complex for the John Deere headquarters in Moline, Illinois.

I’ll relate to y’all, my beautiful readers, a simple tale of an ordinary average Central Texas Trumpet Case Bear. It was 95 degrees F (35 C) out of doors. Little Texas Aggie Trumpet Case Bear was about to go into heat exhaustion (symptom before heat stroke).

Alamo Basement Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring whispered to me, “We need to get frozen Margaritas into the little bear immediately before he goes into a coma and dies. Have you looked at the price of black market bears lately?” I pulled out the large container for the Ninja and fired it up.

After about quatro or cinco Margaritas necesitas, Little Texas Aggie Osa (bear) was starting to feel much, much better. At this point, there was a spilt Margarita. It’s not important who spilt the Margarita, but it did totally soak Little Texas Aggie Bear.

I for one, am not about to allow a trumpet case bear who smells of tequila and is all sticky, near my 1947 Rudy Mück jazz trumpet. I had two options — Take him out to the woods and shoot him or — give him a bath in the kitchen sink.

Bears know how to swim. In fact, they love water. In some states, they will come into your backyard and take the waters in your swimming pool or jacuzzi. There are videos on YouTube.

I sanitized the sink and prepared a nice, warm bubble bath for Little Texas Aggie Bear. He hesitantly lowered himself into the sink. He let out a “bear sigh” of pleasure. When I took out the camera, Little Texas Aggie Bear started to cry. “What’s wrong?” asked Alamo Basement Aggie Ring.

“It’s the bubble bath.” sobbed the little bear. “If anyone in the Trumpet Case Bear Union sees those photos, I’ll loose my certification and be forced to become the worst sort of bear ever — a tuba/Sousaphone case bear.”

I assured the little bear that no one would ever see any of these photos and think that he’s some sort of “Barbie Dream House” bear. This seemed to put him at ease and please him.

After I rinsed him a couple of times, Aggie Ring and I realized we had a very, very wet bear to deal with. “If you don’t get him dry soon. He’ll start to smell like wet dog!” said Aggie Ring.

My first thought was, “Well… the ceiling fan will get him dry! I’ll just hang him up by the neck to it.” Sadly, when I turned on the fan, Aggie Bear went flying across the room and onto the hard floor like a child who wasn’t strapped in properly in a Disney World wild ride.

[More to follow]

In analytical psychology, the shadow (also known as ego-dystonic complex, repressed id, shadow aspect, or shadow archetype) is an unconscious aspect of the personality that does not correspond with the ego ideal, leading the ego to resist and project the shadow, creating conflict with it. The shadow may be personified as archetypes which relate to the collective unconscious, such as the trickster.[1][2][3][4][5]

Overview

Main articles: Defence mechanism and Anxiety

For broader coverage of this topic, see Introjection, Identification (psychology), and Guilt–shame–fear spectrum of cultures.

See also: Dark triad and Otto F. Kernberg

The shadow can be thought of as the blind spot of the psyche.[6] The repression of one's id, while maladaptive, prevents shadow integration, the union of id and ego.[7][8] While they are regarded as differing on their theories of the function of repression of id in civilization, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung coalesced at Platonism, wherein id rejects the nomos.[clarification needed][9] Persona is contrasted against the shadow.[10] Jung regarded the shadow as unconscious – id and biography – suppressed under the superego's ego-ideal, the way the superego wants to be.[11] The shadow is projected onto one's social environment as cognitive distortions.[12] However, the shadow can also be regarded as "roughly equivalent to the whole of the Freudian unconscious",[13] and Jung himself asserted that "the result of the Freudian method of elucidation is a minute elaboration of man's shadow side unexampled in any previous age".[14]: 63 

Contrary to a Freudian definition of shadow, the idea can include everything outside the light of consciousness and may be positive or negative.[citation needed] Because a subject can repress awareness or conceal self-threatening aspects of the self, consensus of the idea of the shadow that it is a negative function in the self, despite the extent of the repression failing to prohibit these aspects.[15] There are positive aspects that can remain hidden in one's shadow – especially in people with low self-esteem, anxieties, and false beliefs – with these aspects being brought to the conscious mind and exercised through analysis and therapy.[16] It may be considered the subject's identification with id, superseded in early childhood, though it can also be influenced by early to late childhood.[17][18]

Jung wrote that if awareness of the projection of the shadow remains repressed, "the projection-making factor (the Shadow archetype) then has a free hand and can realize its object – if it has one – or bring about some other situation characteristic of its power", lending the idea autonomous qualities which can have consequences on the id and the ego.[19] These projections insulate and delude individuals in society by acting as a symbolically deployed barrier between the ego and the ego-less Real.

Collective shadow

Main article: Psychopomp

For broader coverage of this topic, see Systems psychology, Mephistopheles, and Daimon.

See also: Scapegoat, Collective trauma, and Odin

The collective unconscious, a concept that states that all of humanity shares some unconscious ideals, forms a projective identification with uncertainty and feelings of helplessness along with other negative feelings. This projection frequently identifies with the figure of the Devil as the "fourth" aspect of the Pauline-Christian trinity, functioning as its grounding myth.[24] This idea can be seen in other mythologies, for instance, the ancient-Egyptian-devil Set "represents overwhelming affects".[25] The collective shadow is ancestral and is carried by the collective experience of the human race (i.e., in-group and out-group: dehumanization; e.g., hate crime).[26][27]

Appearance

Main article: Daimon

For broader coverage of this topic, see Masking (personality) and Censorship (psychoanalysis).

See also: The Emperor's New Clothes

Jungians believe that the shadow aspect of the Self may appear in dreams and visions (i.e., mise-en-scène),[28][29] in various forms and typically "appears as a person of the same sex as that of the dreamer."[30]: 175  The shadow's appearance and role depend greatly on the living experience of the individual because much of the shadow develops in the individual's mind rather than simply being inherited from the collective unconscious and is important in the Jungian approach to dream interpretation.[30]: 183  Nevertheless, some Jungians maintain that "the shadow contains, besides the personal shadow, the shadow of society [...] fed by the neglected and repressed collective values."[31]

Jung also made the suggestion that the shadow may be made up of many layers. The top layers contain the meaningful flow and manifestations of direct personal experiences. These are made unconscious in the individual by such things as the change of attention from one thing to another, simple forgetfulness, or a repression. Underneath these specific layers, however, are the archetypes which form the psychic contents of all human experiences. Jung described this deeper layer as "a psychic activity which goes on independently of the conscious mind and is not dependent even on the upper layers of the unconscious – untouched, and perhaps untouchable – by personal experience."[32]

Encountering the shadow

Main article: Nekyia

For broader coverage of this topic, see Active imagination and Amplification (psychology).

See also: Dialectic, Dialogic, Hero's journey, and Katabasis

As the shadow is a part of the unconscious, a method called Shadow work is practiced through active imagination with daydreaming and meditation – the experience is then mediated by dialectical interpretation through narrative and art (pottery, poetry, drawing, dancing, singing, etc.); analysts perform dreamwork on analysands, using amplification to raise the unconscious to conscious awareness.[33][34][35] Jung uses the term Nekyia to describe the descent into darkness, where the ego fades.[36]

The eventual encounter with the shadow plays a central part in the process of individuation. Jung considered that "the course of individuation [...] exhibits a certain formal regularity. Its signposts and milestones are various archetypal symbols" marking its stages; and of these "the first stage leads to the experience of the shadow."[37] If "the breakdown of the persona constitutes the typical Jungian moment both in therapy and in development,"[38] it is this that opens the road to the shadow within, coming about when "beneath the surface a person is suffering from a deadly boredom that makes everything seem meaningless and empty...as if the initial encounter with the Self casts a dark shadow ahead of time."[30]: 170  Jung considered as a perennial danger in life that "the more consciousness gains in clarity, the more monarchic becomes its content...the king constantly needs the renewal that begins with a descent into his own darkness"[39]: 334  – his shadow – which the "dissolution of the persona" sets in motion.[40]

"The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about himself",[41]: 284  whether consciously or unconsciously, and represents "a tight passage, a narrow door, whose painful constriction no one is spared who goes down to the deep well."[41]: 21 

[If and when] an individual makes an attempt to see his shadow, he becomes aware of (and often ashamed of) those qualities and impulses he denies in himself but can plainly see in others – such things as egotism, mental laziness, and sloppiness; unreal fantasies, schemes, and plots; carelessness and cowardice; inordinate love of money and possessions...[30]: 174 

The dissolution of the persona and the launch of the individuation process also brings with it "the danger of falling victim to the shadow ... the black shadow which everybody carries with him, the inferior and therefore hidden aspect of the personality"[42] – resulting in a merger with the shadow.

Merging with the shadow

For broader coverage of this topic, see Positive disintegration, Anagoge, and Introjection.

Jung considered merging with the shadow as typically bad, viewing it as the process of the suppressed id overwriting or controlling the ego. According to Jung, the shadow sometimes overwhelms a person's actions; for example, when the conscious mind is shocked, confused, or paralyzed by indecision. "A man who is possessed by his shadow is always standing in his own light and falling into his own traps...living below his own level."[41]: 123  Hence, in terms of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, "it must be Jekyll, the conscious personality, who integrates the shadow ... and not vice versa. Otherwise the conscious becomes the slave of the autonomous shadow."[43]

Individuation inevitably raises that very possibility as it further separates the ego from the collective unconsciousness. As the process continues, and "the libido leaves the bright upper world... sinks back into its own depths... below, in the shadows of the unconscious."[44] so too what comes to the forefront is "what was hidden under the mask of conventional adaptation: the shadow", with the result that "ego and shadow are no longer divided but are brought together in an – admittedly precarious – unity."[45][full citation needed]

The effect of such "confrontation with the shadow produces at first a dead balance, a standstill that hampers moral decisions and makes convictions ineffective ... nigredo, tenebrositas, chaos, melancholia."[39] Consequently, as Jung knew from personal experience: "In this time of descent – one, three, seven years, more or less – genuine courage and strength are required",[46] with no certainty of emergence. Nevertheless, Jung remained of the opinion that while "no one should deny the danger of the descent [...] every descent is followed by an ascent",[47] and assimilation of – rather than possession by – the shadow becomes a possibility.

Assimilation of the shadow

Main articles: Anima and animus and Acceptance

For broader coverage of this topic, see Reality testing, Metanoia (psychology), Pleroma, and Post-traumatic growth.

Assimilation[48] is the process of acknowledging the shadow and possibly incorporating parts of it into the ego. Jungians believe this may lead to a numinous experience, while anchoring to the numinosum effect without reality testing can lead to ego inflation (qv., archetypal possession).[49]

In analytical psychology, the struggle for the superego is to retain awareness of the shadow, but not to become it or be controlled by it. "Non-identification demands considerable moral effort [which] prevents a descent into that darkness"; and though "the conscious mind is liable to be submerged at any moment in the unconscious...understanding acts like a life-saver. It integrates the unconscious."[50][full citation needed] This reincorporates the shadow into the personality, producing a stronger, wider consciousness than before. "Assimilation of the shadow gives a man body, so to speak,"[14]: 239  thereby providing a launchpad for further individuation. "The integration of the shadow, or the realization of the personal unconscious, marks the first stage in the analytic process... without it a recognition of anima and animus is impossible."[51] Conversely, "to the degree in which the shadow is recognised and integrated, the problem of the anima, i.e., of relationship, is constellated,"[41]: 270n  and becomes the centre of the individuation quest.

Carolyn Kaufman wrote that "in spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness – or perhaps because of this – the shadow is the seat of creativity;"[52] so that for some, it may be that "the dark side of his being, his sinister shadow...represents the true spirit of life as against the arid scholar."[53] Nevertheless, Jungians warn that "acknowledgement of the shadow must be a continuous process throughout one's life;"[54] and even after the focus of individuation has moved on to the animus/anima, "the later stages of shadow integration" will continue to take place – the grim "process of washing one's dirty linen in private,"[55] of accepting one's shadow.

Popular culture

Mr. Hyde from Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde[56]

The young wizard Ged in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1968 novel A Wizard of Earthsea must confront his own shadow, influenced by Le Guin's interest in Jung [57]

The 1971 David Bowie song "Shadow Man"[58]

Persona, a series of Japanese role-playing video games (JRPG) where many Jungian concepts are used directly, including the shadow, the collective shadow, Persona, and Archetypes[59][60]

The video games Alan Wake and Control reference many Jungian concepts such as the Collective unconscious, Synchronicity, and the shadow

Luke Skywalker's confrontation with Darth Vader in the cave of Dagobah in the film The Empire Strikes Back (1980)[citation needed]

Gollum with himself in the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955)[citation needed]

See also

Psychology portal

Alter ego

Anger management

Antagonist

Anticathexis

Apollonian and Dionysian

Bias blind spot

Big Five personality traits

Cognitive bias

Cognitive dissonance

Cognitive distortion

Compartmentalization (psychology)

Death drive

Egosyntonic and egodystonic

Eros (concept)

Eudaimonia

Homunculus argument

Inferiority complex

The Shadow (fairy tale)

Transpersonal psychology

Yin and yang

Further reading

Abrams, Jeremiah. 1995. The Shadow in America. Nataraj.

Abrams, Jeremiah, and Connie Zweig. 1991. Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature. Tarcher. ISBN 0-87477-618-X

Arena, Leonardo Vittorio. 2013. The Shadows of the Masters. ebook.

Bly, Robert. 1988. A Little Book on the Human Shadow, edited by William Booth. San Francisco: Harper and Row. ISBN 0-06-254847-6

Campbell, Joseph, ed. 1971. The Portable Jung, translated by R. F. C. Hull. New York: Penguin Books.

Johnson, Robert A. 1993. Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche. Harper San Francisco, 128 pp. ISBN 0-06-250754-0.

– – 1989. Inner Work: Using Dreams and Creative Imagination for Personal Growth and Integration. Harper San Francisco, 241 pp. ISBN 0-06-250431-2.

Massi, Danielle. 2022. Shadow Work: Face Hidden Fears, Heal Trauma, Awaken Your Dream Life. New York: Sterling Ethos.

Neumann, Erich. 1990. Depth Psychology and a New Ethic (reprint ed.). Shambhala. ISBN 0-87773-571-9.

Zweig, Connie, and Steve Wolf. 1997. “Romancing the Shadow.” Ballantine.

– – “Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality.”

References

Beebe, John (2004). "Understanding consciousness through the theory of psychological types". In Cambray, Joseph; Carter, Linda (eds.). Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis. Advancing Theory in Therapy. Routledge. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-58391-999-6. Opposing Personality [...] Senex/Witch [...] Trickster [...] Demonic Personality [...] EGO-DYSTONIC COMPLEXES Shadow.

Solomon, Hester McFarland (2004). "The ethical attitude in analytic training and practice". In Cambray, Joseph; Carter, Linda (eds.). Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis. Advancing Theory in Therapy. Routledge. p. 251. ISBN 978-1-58391-999-6. The shadow, that portion of the self that the ego designates as bad and projects as unwanted, carries what is treacherous and subversive – what is unethical and immoral – within the self and hides it, relegating its contents to unconscious areas within the psyche where it can be lived out in projection, using and abusing the other as a vehicle for the bad aspects of the self.

Jung, Carl (1971). "Aion: Phenomenology of the Self (The Ego, the Shadow, the Syzygy: Anima/Animus)". In Campbell, Joseph (ed.). The Portable Jung. Penguin Books. pp. 145, 146. ISBN 978-0-14-015070-4. The shadow is the moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality [...] To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. [...] dark characteristics[...]the inferiorities constituting the shadow[...]have an emotional nature, a kind of autonomy, and accordingly an obsessive or, better, a possessive quality. [...] These resistances are usually bound up with projections, which are not recognized as such, and their recognition is a moral achievement beyond the ordinary.

Hillman, James (1977). Re-Visioning Psychology. Harper. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-06-090563-7. Archetypal psychology envisions the fundamental ideas of the psyche to be expressed of persons – Hero, Nymph, Mother, Senex, Child, Trickster, Amazon, Puer and many other specific prototypes bearing the names and stories of the Gods. These are the root metaphors.

Avens, Roberts (1977). "The Image of the Devil in C. G. Jung's Psychology". Journal of Religion and Health. 16 (3): 196–222. doi:10.1007/BF01533320. JSTOR 27505406. PMID 24318090. S2CID 13610615. Retrieved 2022-06-25. The shadow symbolizes our 'other side,' the unrecognizable and disowned, animal-like personality rejected by the ego. [...] [T]he trickster, in Jung's psychology, is the collective shadow figure par excellence.

Brown, Rebecca; Stobart, Karen (2008). Understanding Boundaries and Containment in Clinical Practice. The Society of Analytical Psychology Monograph Series. Karnac Books. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-85575-393-8. Those parts of our psyches that are hidden and that we find difficult to face, Jung called 'the shadow'.

Avens, Roberts (1977). "The Image of the Devil in C. G. Jung's Psychology". Journal of Religion and Health. 16 (3): 196–222. doi:10.1007/BF01533320. JSTOR 27505406. PMID 24318090. S2CID 13610615. Retrieved 2022-06-25. [M]odern civilization provides inadequate opportunities for the shadow archetype to become individuated because in childhood our animal instincts are usually punished by parents. This leads to repression: the shadow returns to the unconscious layer of the personality, where it remains in a primitive, undifferentiated state.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (1975). "The Child and the Shadow". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 32 (2): 139–148. JSTOR 29781619. Retrieved 2022-06-25. The shadow is all that gets suppressed in the process of becoming a decent, civilized adult. [... it's] man's thwarted selfishness, his unadmitted desires, the swearwords he never spoke, the murders he didn't commit. The shadow is the dark side of his soul, the unadmitted, the inadmissible.

Demos, Raphael (1955). "Jung's Thought and Influence". The Review of Metaphysics. 9 (1): 71–89. JSTOR 20123485. Retrieved 2022-06-25. As for the 'shadow' side of human nature (on which there is no difference of opinion between Freud and Jung) we may remind ourselves of Plato's phrase that 'in all of us, even those that are the most respectable, there is a lawless, wildbeast nature which appears in sleep' [...] (Republic 571-2)

Demos, Raphael (1955). "Jung's Thought and Influence". The Review of Metaphysics. 9 (1): 71–89. JSTOR 20123485. Retrieved 2022-06-25. [T]he polarity of opposites[...]persona-shadow[.])

Humphrey, Caroline (2015). "Shadows Along the Spiritual Pathway". Journal of Religion and Health. 54 (6): 2376–2388. doi:10.1007/s10943-015-0037-2. JSTOR 24735970. PMID 25794547. S2CID 11733262. Retrieved 2022-06-25. Jung construed [...] the personal shadow, [as] a biological and biographical shadow unique to each person, consisting of whatever innate instincts and transpersonal potentials we have suppressed in the course of adapting to society, along with archaic and traumatic memories [of the unconscious]. [...] The personal shadow is rooted in the shadow of our social group, which has moulded our ego-ideal and world view[.]

Spivack, Charlotte K. (1965). "The Journey to Hell: Satan, the Shadow, and the Self". The Centennial Review. 9 (4): 420–437. JSTOR 23737939. Retrieved 2022-06-25. The major activity of the shadow is what Jung calls projection. [...] cast[ing] forth its ruling [negative] emotions [...] into other people ('people don't like me') or [...] considers [everything] a hostile, malevolent environment ('the world is against me').

Anthony Stevens, On Jung (London 1990) p. 43

Jung, C. G. 1993. The Practice of Psychotherapy. London.

Jung, C.G. 1938. "Psychology and Religion". In Psychology and Religion: West and East, Collected Works of C.G. Jung 11. p. 131

Young-Eisendrath, P. and T. Dawson. 1997. The Cambridge Companion to Jung. Cambridge University Press. p. 319.

Jung, C.G. 1952. "Answer to Job." In Psychology and Religion: West and East, Collected Works of C.G. Jung 11. p. 12.

Fordham, Michael (January 1965). "The Importance of Analysing Childhood for Assimilation of the Shadow". Journal of Analytical Psychology. 10 (1): 33–47. doi:10.1111/j.1465-5922.1965.00033.x. ISSN 0021-8774. PMID 14253371.

Jung, C.G. 1951. "Phenomenology of the Self." In The Portable Jung. p. 147.

Avens, Roberts (1977). "The Image of the Devil in C. G. Jung's Psychology". Journal of Religion and Health. 16 (3): 196–222. doi:10.1007/BF01533320. JSTOR 27505406. PMID 24318090. S2CID 13610615. Retrieved 2022-06-25. [A]s superstition holds, a man without shadow is the devil himself. [...] The devil[...]can be regarded as God's dissatisfaction with himself, a projection of his own doubt [...] The devil here is a psychopomp[.]

Humphrey, Caroline (2015). "Shadows Along the Spiritual Pathway". Journal of Religion and Health. 54 (6): 2376–2388. doi:10.1007/s10943-015-0037-2. JSTOR 24735970. PMID 25794547. S2CID 11733262. Retrieved 2022-06-25. So it is originally a darkness of obscurity and mystery, rather than a darkness of degeneracy, disease or 'evil'. [...] a byproduct of our tendency to repress impulses which are anathema to our ego-ideals[.]

Clark, Margaret (2005). Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice: Towards Individuation. Routledge. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-367-10552-5. Jung often uses language we usually associate with God to think about the collective unconscious.

Schwartz-Salant, Nathan (2018) [1989]. The Borderline Personality: Vision and Healing. Chiron Publications. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-63051-515-7. Jungian theory commonly fills the place of the 'fourth' with the archetypal feminine but also includes evil as a fourth element.

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Schwartz-Salant, Nathan (2018) [1989]. The Borderline Personality: Vision and Healing. Chiron Publications. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-63051-515-7. In Egyptian myth the devil Set, who is the enemy of the forces of order, represents overwhelming affects, including terrifying abandonment depression and dismemberment.

Humphrey, Caroline (2015). "Shadows Along the Spiritual Pathway". Journal of Religion and Health. 54 (6): 2376–2388. doi:10.1007/s10943-015-0037-2. JSTOR 24735970. PMID 25794547. S2CID 11733262. Retrieved 2022-06-25. Jung construed [...] the collective shadow, an ancestral shadow which [has been] accrued in the course of history in respect of each collectivity [...] both particularistic social groups and the human species as a whole.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (1975). "The Child and the Shadow". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 32 (2): 139–148. JSTOR 29781619. Retrieved 2022-06-25. The shadow is projected outward, onto others. There's nothing wrong with me – it's them.

Le Guin, Ursula K. (1975). "The Child and the Shadow". The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. 32 (2): 139–148. JSTOR 29781619. Retrieved 2022-06-25. The shadow stands on the threshold between the conscious and unconscious mind, and we meet it in our dreams, as sister, brother, friend, beast, monster, enemy, guide.

Derrida, Jacques; Domingo, Willis; Hulbert, James; Ron, Moshe; L., M.-R. (1999). "The Purveyor of Truth". Yale French Studies (96): 124–197. doi:10.2307/3040722. JSTOR 3040722. Retrieved 2022-08-22. The dreamer is the only one to see himself naked. And in contemplating his nakedness, he is alone. This, Freud says, is 'a suggestive point.' [...] the other [dream] people should be staring and laughing or becoming angry, but they are not.

von Franz, Marie-Louise. [1964] 1978. "The Process of Individuation." In Man and his Symbols, edited by C. G. Jung. London: Picador. ISBN 0-330-25321-2.

Fordham, Michael. 1978. Jungian Psychotherapy. Avon. p. 5.

Jung, C.G. The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. p. 148.

Humphrey, Caroline (2015). "Shadows Along the Spiritual Pathway". Journal of Religion and Health. 54 (6): 2376–2388. doi:10.1007/s10943-015-0037-2. JSTOR 24735970. PMID 25794547. S2CID 11733262. Retrieved 2022-06-25. Learning to [day]dream [...] is advisable for the serious practitioner of shadow work, and Jung developed the technique of active imagination to this end. If we carve out a regular space – time for silence and solitude, we may discern the murmurings of another voice within us or the spontaneous formation of an image in our mind [...] afterwards we need to record our experiences to render the memorable by writing a message, drawing an image, performing a dance sequence or vocalising a melody (cf. Hannah 1991; Rowan 2005, pp. 125-147)

Falzeder, Ernst (2012). "Freud and Jung, Freudians and Jungians". Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. 6 (3): 24–43. doi:10.1525/jung.2012.6.3.24. JSTOR 10.1525/jung.2012.6.3.24. S2CID 144239928. Retrieved 2022-06-28. Apart from using dreams, Jung's method of soliciting emanations and manifestations of the unconscious was that of 'active imagination,' a method that produces a kind of waking vision or phantasy, which he then subjected to what he called 'amplification,' consisting essentially in finding 'parallels' to those images in 'collective' imaginations, such as myths, religious systems and practices, visions, alchemy, yoga[.]

Clark, Margaret (2005). Understanding the Self-Ego Relationship in Clinical Practice: Towards Individuation. The Society of Analytical Psychology Monograph Series. Routledge. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-367-10552-5. Active imagination is a technique that promotes dialogue between the ego and the self. The ego is deliberately set aside temporarily, and images from the unconscious arise and develop; the ego watches the story unfold as in a theatre, noting plot, characters, setting, dialogue. [...] If the patient is on their own [doing solo-work], it is obviously important that their ego is able to cope with whatever images and affects the self produces [...] the practitioner of active imagination can be overwhelmed by the emerging unconscious material[.] [...] Art therapy and drama therapy are based on the theory of active imagination; images can also be formulated in pottery, or poetry.

Marlan, Stanton. The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness. pp. 23–25. Jung refers to the descent into darkness as nekyia. In Psychology and Alchemy, Jung uses this Greek word to designate a ' 'journey to Hades,' a descent into the land of the dead.' [...] The nekyia ultimately leads to the fading of the ego's light and a death[.]

Jacobi, J. 1946. The Psychology of C. G. Jung. London. p. 102.

Homans, Peter. 1979. Jung in Context. London. p. 102.

C. G. Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis (London 1963)

Jung, C. G. 1953. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. London. p. 277.

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Jung, C. G. 1954. "Psychology of the Transference." In Practice of Psychotherapy, Collected Works 16. London. p. 219.

Stevens, Jung p. 50

Jung, C. G. 1944. Psychology of the Unconscious. London. pp. 181–82.

Jung "Psychology"[full citation needed] pp. 238–39

Bly, Robert, and Marion Woodman. 1999. The Maiden King. Dorset.

Jung, C. G. Symbols of Transformation (London 1956) pp. 357, 375

"Definition of ASSIMILATE". www.merriam-webster.com. 2023-10-16. Retrieved 2023-10-23.

Schwartz-Salant, Nathan (2018) [1989]. The Borderline Personality: Vision and Healing. Chiron Publications. pp. 93, 121. ISBN 978-1-63051-515-7. Only with a conscious integration of the shadow can the positive numinosum actualize. [...] The experience of our [human limiations via] embodied size is essential for the numinosum to gain actuality; without this knowledge of our limitations, and hence, an awareness of our humanity, contact with the numinosum leads to an inflated state. [...] ego [...] inflation[.]

Jung, "Psychology"[full citation needed] pp. 260, 266, and 269

Jung, C. G. Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self. (London 1959) p. 22

Kaufman, Carolyn. "Three-Dimensional Villains: Finding Your Character's Shadow." Archetype Writing: The Writer's Guide to Psychology.

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Bailey, Edgar C. (1980-01-10). "Shadows in Earthsea: Le Guin's Use of a Jungian Archetype". Extrapolation. 21 (3).

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The neighborhood of El Juvenil, of the Celia Sanchez Manduley community in Manzanillo, is a settlement located on the first coastline of the Gulf of Guacanayabo.

The site is vulnerable to the impacts of sea level rise and flooding from heavy rains. The main activity of the villagers is fishing.

At the entrance of one of the roads that crosses the deteriorated dunes to reach the sea, lives one of the fishermen and his wife, Omar Hidalgo and Lidia Fonseca, married for over 50 years.

Omar can no longer fish due to health difficulties. His boat, like him, hasn't been spared from tidal and weather wear.

Now, he and Lidia are dedicated to growing vegetables on the small bit of land that he owns. Their dilapidated house is located right at the sea front.

This type of unstable construction is common in El Juvenil.

The settlement is planned for relocation due to the precariousness presented by the population.

The villagers, for the most part, are opposed to moving and are calling for other solutions. It's not easy to leave a life behind to start from scratch; they would feel like a fish out of water.

Among them are Omar and Lidia, who moved to El Juvenil from the nearby village more than 15 years ago so that their son, who was in a wheelchair, could be closer to the sea.

Now the memory of what their child enjoyed the most is what feeds their soul and they don't want to let it go.

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Look how she relates to my Isabella-girl, a true dog lover, she was a regular at our dog park easily recognizable by feeding kibble to at least 3 dogs, sometimes more, by throwing a ball for them to catch and rewarding them when they were returning the ball. So she combined food and exercise and liberally also shared with other dogs. Her dogs were always happy and excited, active dogs. She had trouble saying no to my girl's begging, but they did have an understanding, they really liked each other, I think it shows in this image form 3.3.09. Not many at the dog park may know that Ruth Anne was an enthusiastic Marimba player who practiced and performed with her own group. I learned only today, this morning, that Ruth Ellen passed on this July 26, 2013. The word is due to cancer. She was only 60 years old, kind and always ready with a smile. I am deeply saddened at this news, but I like to believe that true to her beautiful spirit she would have passed on peacefully. There will be a memorial at the dog park for her on August 17th 9 am.

3D red/cyan anaglyph created from stereograph courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, at: npg.si.edu/portraits

NPG Title: Ulysses S. Grant

Date: June 1864

Photographer: NPG attributes to Mathew Brady

Notes: A stereoscopic portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant, with his ever-present cigar, and his favorite war-horse Cincinnati, taken at Cold Harbor in June 1864. This appears to be a direct contact print off the original negative, and is much clearer than other cropped versions found on the web.

Link to stereograph at NPG: npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.87.38

For some background information on both Grant and Cincinnati, below are transcribed four articles; the 1st is by an unidentified "Officer of His Staff" who writes of Grant's overall character, the 2nd relates how Grant acquired Cincinnati and how the horse died; the 3rd tells of Grant's reaction upon a soldier beating a horse; and the 4th gets into some specifics of Cincinnati's size and speed and mentions Lincoln riding Cincinnati at City Point.

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(1) The National Magazine, Volume 18

September, 1903

Personal Recollections of General Grant's Life in the Field

By an Officer of His Staff

I think that I know as much about the real character of the great soldier as any man living today, for I saw him under many different circumstances, and at the closest personal range - in the privacy of his own camp life, when "off duty," as well as in the storm of battle, or in conference with his most trusted lieutenants. I have again and again gone into the general's quarters at the dead of night to deliver a message and found him smoking and thinking about his own vast plans of military operations.

In camp life General Grant was very unassuming and democratic. He was easily approachable and always pleasant and gentlemanly. The most natural and friendly manners prevailed about the headquarters and everybody was allowed the fullest liberty consistent with duty. But all members of the general's army household had something to do. There were no sinecures about the camp.

In the presence of strangers Grant was a trifle diffident, lacking a certain self assurance which gives the quality of ease and dash to the bearing of some great soldiers. He was never undignified in deportment, but his thorough modesty and unselfishness made him appear less consciously at ease before the public than some other officers who perhaps never commanded a division of men in battle.

As a soldier Grant did not like display. He dressed very plainly, and his staff followed their chieftain's example in this respect. It was well known at headquarters that some brigade commanders had more baggage than General Grant.

While not apparently concerned about the observance of the forms of military courtesy toward himself, no officer was more certain to recognize the salutation of the humblest soldier. He was a very keen observer and always saw what was intended for his eyes in the way of army usages.

......It was a saying about headquarters that the general had never been known to exhibit any angry feeling except on one occasion, when a soldier was discovered robbing a lady's wardrobe. He was one of the most imperturbable men I ever saw. Passion seemed to have no place in his life. He could pass through trials touching the deepest emotions in human nature, see the "dice of war" thrown for the greatest stakes of the battle-field, and yet betray to his most intimate associates no sign of excitement. Yet with his great strength of will, the man was sensitive and gentle, incapable of a cruel thought. Those who thought that General Grant was unmindful of the welfare of his men or regardless of the value of human life, knew nothing of the real nature of the man.

In his habits I never saw one sign of dissipation, and if Grant ever tasted liquor of any kind during the war, it was not in my presence, and I had the best position possible for observing his habits.

It was a rare thing to find General Grant asleep, even late at night. I suppose no man ever needed less sleep than he seemed to require, when directing the operations of the war. I went into his quarters at all hours, and can hardly remember seeing him asleep one time, from Vicksburg to Appomattox.

He smoked almost incessantly. After it became known that he liked good cigars, every mail and express brought the finest brands to headquarters. Boxes of choice cigars were sent by hundreds of admirers, from all parts of the country. The general often passed around a box of cigars and had everybody take a handful before he stopped. We usually took one at first, but the general would say: "Take more, take more," until the box was empty.

…..There were many generals under Grant whom he regarded as soldiers of great ability. I have heard him speak in very high praise of several who are hardly ever mentioned now. He never sought to deprive any man of his merited honor, and was apparently without military jealousy. A more magnanimous man never lived.

General Grant's courage was supreme. No man could face danger with greater composure. He did not seem to know the meaning of peril when duty called him to risk his life. At one time I saw the general escape death by a very slight margin. We were breaking camp at Spottsylvania Court House, and under the fire of a Confederate battery. All of the headquarters equippage had been removed except a camp stool, and on this the general was sitting, while the shells of the enemy's guns shrieked over our heads. A shell passed just over the general, not missing him, apparently, more than a few inches, and struck the ground about thirty feet away. Without showing the slightest nervousness, he called to me to "Get the shell," saying: "Let's see what kind of ammunition that battery is using." I went and picked up the shell, which was a sixpound spherical case, and the general examined it as coolly as if there was not an enemy's gun within a hundred miles of him.

I did not go out to see the surrender of General Lee. I remember well the event of General Grant's return after the surrender. I think there were not more than three persons present when the general came in and took a seat at a table to write. He looked up with some expression of animation, and remarked: "More of Grant's luck!" This was an allusion to the newspaper critics who had been in the habit of calling his success luck. This little comment on the surrender of Lee was the only word of exultation I ever heard from the victorious soldier. It was a very slight expression of triumph to follow such a stupendous achievement-but wholly characteristic.”

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(2) Religious Telescope, Volume 67

William R. Rhinehart, 1901

General Grant's "Cincinnati.”

In an article on "Famous War-Horses," General James Grant Wilson tells how carefully General Grant looked after the welfare of his famous steed Cincinnati. The horse was a gift from a namesake of his own, a man in no way connected with him.

After his victory at Chattanooga General Grant was ordered to Cincinnati to meet the Secretary of War. While there he received from a confirmed invalid of his own name an urgent request that he would call at his house. The sick man met him with the words: "General Grant, I have not long to live, and I wish to present you with my most valued possession, a horse that has no superior in the United States. There is a single condition attached to the gift— that you will always treat him kindly and never part with him."

Grant accepted the horse, and called him Cincinnati. He was a superb, spirited animal of great endurance, and the general rode him almost constantly in the Wilderness campaign. On one occasion, when mounted on Cincinnati and accompanied by a staff officer, he said:

"Babcock, I wish you would dismount and see what is the matter with the bay's leg."

"I think, general, that looking after Cincinnati had better wait," replied the officer. "It is simply murder for us to sit here."

"Very well," said Grant. "If you do not want to see to it, I will." Dismounting, he quickly untwisted a piece of wire that had begun to eat into his charger's flesh, and as he moved forward he remarked to the colonel:

"When you have a horse that you value, never take any risks with him. Had that wire been left there a little longer, Cincinnati would have been ruined for life."

All this time they were under a hot and deadly fire, but fortunately escaped.

Grant rarely permitted anybody but himself to mount Cincinnati. Two exceptions were recalled by the writer. The late Admiral Ammen, who saved Grant from drowning when a lad, rode the horse when he visited City Point...The admiral's comment upon the steed was, "I have never seen his equal." "Nor have I," replied Grant.

After Lee's surrender Cincinnati was retired, and enjoyed many, years of rest and comfort at Ammendale, Maryland. The end came through an accident. The horse stepped into a blind ditch, and in extricating himself broke a fore leg. The intense pain caused him to limp round all night in a circle. It was deemed best to shoot him, and he was buried where he fell."

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(3) General Grant and His Favorite Horses,

by George F. Paul, published January, 1927

Among the famous leaders of the Civil War times, few were better horsemen than General Ulysses S. Grant. Sheridan, on his black charger "Rienzi," was more spectacular, but as a real lover of horses and as a genuine friend to them, Sheridan did not surpass his commander-in-chief.

In Grant's campaign in the Wilderness he rode a spirited pony that was called "Jeff Davis." It was given that name because it had been captured in Mississippi on the plantation of Joe Davis, a brother of the Confederate president. General Grant took a fancy to the pony because it had a remarkably easy pace. This enabled the General to make his long daily rides with much more comfort than when mounted on inferior horses. Soon "Little Jeff,” as he was affectionately called, won a place for himself in the Virginia campaign......

General Grant had a peculiar way of mounting his horse. He used his hands but little to aid him. He placed his left foot in the stirrup, grasped the horse's mane near the withers with his left hand, and rose without making a spring by merely straightening the left leg until his body was high enough so that he could throw his right leg over the saddle. There was no jerky movement. In an instant he was in the saddle.

Mistreatment of horses aroused the General's ire as quickly as anything. In the Wilderness campaign General Grant came in sight of a teamster whose wagon was stalled in a swampy place. He was beating his horses brutally in the face with the butt end of his whip and swearing viciously. Putting both spurs to Egypt's flanks, General Grant dashed toward the teamster and, raising his clenched fist, called out to him, "What does this conduct mean, you scoundrel? Stop beating those horses!"

The teamster replied coolly as he struck another blow, "Well, who's a-drivin' this team anyhow, you or me?"

By this time Grant was thoroughly angered. "I'll show you," he cried, as he shook his fist in the man's face. "Here, officer, take this man in charge and have him tied up to a tree as a punishment for his brutality."

At West Point Grant excelled all others in his class in cavalry drill. He took great delight in mounting and breaking in the most unmanageable of the new horses that were brought in from time to time and put in the squad. He succeeded in this not by punishing the animal that he had taken in hand, but by patience and tact. He had great skill in making the horse understand what he wanted it to do. When Grant's turn came, the soldiers in attendance would, at a signal from him, raise the bar a foot or two higher than usual, and he would generally manage to clear it.

One of the best known of General Grant's horses was "Cincinnati," a large bay well fitted for campaign duties. He was a half brother of "Asteroid" and "Kentucky," the famous racers, and was of excellent blood.

This horse carried Grant on his perilous night ride near the close of the war when, with a small escort, he set out to find Sheridan. It was about midnight when Grant and his officers encountered Sheridan's pickets. The cavalry were sleeping on their arms, and as the little party picked a way through their ranks, and the troopers woke up and recognized the General in the moonlight, they made many comments. One would say, "Why, there's the old man Boys this means business”; and another, "Great Scott! the old chief's out here himself. The rebs are going to get busted tomorrow, certain"; and a third, "Uncle Sam's joined the cavalry sure enough. You can bet there’ll be lively times in the morning."

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(4) The Century Magazine

May, 1913

War-Horses of Famous Generals

by James Grant Wilson

".....As far as I am aware, no great commander ever possessed so valuable charger as "Cincinnati," General Grant's favorite during the fourth year of the Civil War, and after his great victory at Chattanooga, during which he rode "Egypt," another of his six war-horses. A few weeks later, when in Cincinnati, Grant received the gift of the noble steed, which he named after that city. He was a son of "Lexington," with a single exception the fastest four-mile thoroughbred that ever ran on an American race-course, having made the distance in 7:1934 minutes. The general was offered $10,000 for the horse, as his record almost equaled that of his sire and his half-brother "Kentucky." He was a spirited and superb dark bay of great endurance, Grant riding him almost daily during the Wilderness campaign of the summer of 1864, and until the war closed in the following spring. "Cincinnati" was seventeen hands, and, in the estimation of the illustrious soldier, the grandest horse that he had ever seen, perhaps the most valuable ever ridden by an army commander from the time of Alexander down to our own day.

The general very rarely permitted any person but himself to mount him. Only two exceptions are recalled by the writer, once when Admiral Daniel Ammen, who saved Grant when a small boy from being drowned, visited him at his headquarters at City Point on the James River, and when, a little later, President Lincoln came to the same place from Washington to spend a week with the general. On the admiral's return from a two-hours' ride, accompanied by a young aide-decamp, Grant asked how he liked "Cincinnati."

Ammen answered, "I have never backed his equal."

"Nor have I," said the general.

In his "Personal Memoirs" Grant writes:

Lincoln spent the last days of his life with me. He came to City Point in the last month of the war, and was with me all the time. He lived on a despatch-boat in the river, but was always around headquarters. He was a fine horseman, and rode my horse "Cincinnati" every day. He visited the different camps, and I did all that I could to interest him. The President was exceedingly anxious about the war closing, and was apprehensive that we could not stand another campaign.

Soon after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and his army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, in April, 1865, "Cincinnati" was retired from active service, thereafter enjoying almost a decade of peace and comfort on Admiral Ammen's Maryland estate near Washington until the end came in September, 1874, and he then received honorable burial."

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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / American Battlefield Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/

Track and Field archives

The National Athletics Archive is held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, and comprises an extensive volume of archival materials. These papers primarily relate to the history and development of athletics in the United Kingdom throughout the 1800s and 1900s. In addition to organisational collections, such as the papers of the Amateur Athletics Association, the National Athletics Archive includes various discrete collections of individual athletes. These include papers relating to Sydney Wooderson MBE, 1914-2006. Wooderson was an English athlete who was dubbed ‘The Mighty Atom’. His athletics career peaked in the 1930s and 1940s and he set the world mile record of 04:06:40 at London’s Motspur Park on 28 August 1937. This record stood for nearly five years.

The collection also includes ephemeral and grey literature relating to various athletics clubs, meetings and events. Papers relating to major athletics championships include material generated during the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Cardiff. These Games introduced the ‘Queen’s Baton Relay’ which has been conducted as a prelude to every British Empire and Commonwealth Games since.

Programmes and manuscript results compiled by the athlete and coach, Dennis Cullum, 1913-1985.

Reference: ATH/DC/2/1

Draft summary of the meeting with President Jimmy Carter on 15 December 1977. This paper relates the events of the meeting, what was discussed in it, the points brought up by each Arab-American representative present during it, the responses given by President Carter and his advisers, and a list of all those in attendance. Topics mentioned or discussed included: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad, Jordanian King Hussein I, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), PLO leader Yasser Arafat, Sadat-Begin Initiative, United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories, and legitimate Palestinian rights. Participants included:

President Jimmy Carter

Zbigniew Brzezinski – National Security Affairs Advisor to the President

Warren Christopher – Acting Secretary of State

David Aaron – Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Nicholas Veliotes – Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East

Gary Sick – National Security Council Staff (Deputy to William Quandt)

Robert Anders – Department of State Public Affairs Staff

Michael Suleiman – AAUG, President 1977

Fouad Moughrabi – AAUG, President-elect 1978

Elaine Hagopian – AAUG, Past-President 1976

Joseph Baroody – NAAA, President

Raff Ellis - NAAA

Jawad George – NAAA, Treasurer

John Richardson – NAAA, Public Relations

Michael Saah - American Ramallah Federation, President

Elias Saadi – American Lebanese League, President

Paul Corey – American Lebanese League

Anthony Abraham – World Lebanese Cultural Union, former-President

Sam Saad – National Federation of Syrian-Lebanese-American Clubs

George Simon - National Federation of Syrian-Lebanese-American Clubs

Helen Haje

William Mansour

Richard Shadyac – Washington attorney, Former NAAA President

For more information regarding the Michael W. Suleiman Collection, please visit the Arab American National Museum's Library and Resource Center - Research Collections at www.arabamericanmuseum.org/Research-Collections.id.96.htm.

House Bill 980, relating to “Highway Safety” (aka Distracted Driving Bill) – This measure is effective July 1, 2013. While all counties have some form of a distracted driving ordinance in place, this measure establishes a state law that creates consistent requirements across all counties for the use of mobile electronic devices while driving and will simplify enforcement. Crash data from the DOT shows that during 2007, 32 percent (2,871 of the 8,770 collisions) were attributed to inattention to driving.

Senate Bill 4, relating to “Motor Vehicles” (aka Universal Seatbelt Bill) – This measure requires all front seat and back seat occupants to buckle up, effective immediately. Adults and children must use their seat belts and child restraints at all times. Unrestrained back seat passengers were more than three times as likely to have injuries that were fatal or required hospitalization compared to restrained back seat passengers, based on DOH’s analysis of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) records. Additionally, among back seat passengers who were treated for injuries by EMS, average medical charges were nearly tripled among those who did not use seat belts ($11,043), compared to restrained passengers ($3,817).

The bill signings were done in conjunction with the DOT’s launch of the annual “Click It or Ticket” enforcement campaign, held in partnership between the state and counties with federal funding. During the national Click It or Ticket mobilization from May 20 to June 2 and throughout the year, police statewide will be continuing strict enforcement of the state seat belt and child passenger restraint laws.

Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. It consists of many of the buildings that, from 1699 to 1780, formed colonial Virginia's capital. The capital straddled the boundary of two of the original shires of Virginia, James City Shire (now James City County), and Charles River Shire (now York County). For most of the 18th century, Williamsburg was the center of government, education and culture in the Colony of Virginia.

Colonial Williamsburg is meant to be an interpretation of a Colonial American city, with exhibits including dozens of authentic or accurately-recreated colonial houses and relating to American Revolutionary War history. Prominent buildings in Colonial Williamsburg include the Raleigh Tavern, the Capitol, The Governor's Palace, and Bruton Parish Church. However, rather than simply an effort to preserve antiquity, the combination of extensive restoration and thoughtful recreation of the entire colonial town facilitates envisioning the atmosphere and understanding the ideals of 18th century American revolutionary leaders. It was here that Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, James Madison, George Wythe, Peyton Randolph, and dozens more helped mold democracy in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States.

The Historic Area is located just east of the College of William and Mary, founded at Middle Plantation in 1693, just prior to the establishment of the town as capital of Virginia and its renaming. The university's historic Wren Building stands at the west end of Duke of Gloucester Street.

Colonial Williamsburg is a major source of tourism to Williamsburg, as well as a touchstone for many world leaders and heads of state, including U.S. Presidents. The United States hosted the first World Economic Conference at Colonial Williamsburg in 1983. It is the centerpiece of the surrounding Historic Triangle of Virginia area, which has become a popular tourist destination for visitors domestic and foreign. The other two points of the Historic Triangle are Jamestown and Yorktown.

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Early in the 20th century, the restoration and recreation of Colonial Williamsburg, one of the largest historic restorations ever undertaken, was championed by the Reverend Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin and the patriarch of the Rockefeller family, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., along with the active participation of his wife, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who wanted to celebrate the patriots and the early history of the United States.

Many of the missing Colonial structures were reconstructed on their original sites during the 1930s. Other structures were restored to the best estimates of how they would have looked during the eighteenth century, with all traces of later buildings and improvements removed. Dependency structures and animals help complete the ambiance. Most buildings are open for tourists to look through, with the exception of several buildings that serve as residences for Colonial Williamsburg employees.

Notable structures include the large Capitol and the Governor's Palace, each carefully recreated and landscaped as closely as possible to original 18th century specifications, as well as Bruton Parish Church and the Raleigh Tavern.

The major goal of the Restoration was not to merely preserve or recreate the physical environment of the colonial period, but to facilitate education about the origins of the idea of America, which was conceived during many decades before the American Revolution.

In this environment, Colonial Williamsburg strives to tell the story of how diverse peoples, having different and sometimes conflicting ambitions, evolved into a society that valued liberty and equality.

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A close reader of this page already knows how I feel about Owensboro, the small Kentucky city where I spent the bulk of my pre-Chicago life. Here's a story that fits my opinion of the place all too well. It relates to this steel skeleton next to the new convention center on the Ohio River waterfront that will in theory someday house the International Bluegrass Museum.

In a huge and unjustified stretch, Owensboro fancies itself as the birthplace of Bluegrass Music. They came up with this in the late 1980s, because Bluegrass music started getting really popular, and somebody remembered that Bill Monroe, the so-called Father of Bluegrass Music, was born about 30 miles south of town in the Ohio County community of Rosine. (If you want to look like a native, you pronounce that ROE-zeen, sort of like it rhymes with protein.) Monroe left Rosine in 1929 to work with several childhood friends on an oil refinery in Indiana. In their free time, the five friends formed a "hillbilly music" group that over time would evolve into the Blue Grass Boys, and they eventually became famous musicians in Nashville.

At no point in this journey did the Blue Grass Boys spend any time in Owensboro. But this little detail isn't the type of thing to deter the Chamber of Commerce types, especially since Rosine isn't big enough to kick up a snit about it. In 1991, as the capping event of the collection of downtown revitalization initiatives one generation before the current mess, the International Bluegrass Museum established itself in a small space in the RiverPark Center, a fancy arts center the city built sometime around 1989 or '90. The city started promoting itself as a Bluegrass music destination at about the same time, and for a while they had a lot of success with this. They started a Bluegrass Festival in the mid-'90s that ran for several years and annually attracted tens of thousands of musicians. Owensboro seemed almost to have found their niche.

Then the saga of the Executive Inn (which I detailed here) knocked the bottom out of everything. The massive hotel had hosted the musicians who came to town for the festival--one of the more beautiful moments of my life involved walking into the lobby of the hotel in the middle of the night in 1996 and hearing the music of dozens of simultaneous jam sessions scattered throughout the hotel's seven-story open atrium. But when the hotel folded for the first time in the late '90s, the Bluegrass Festival went away, and Owensboro's moment in the sun seemed to evaporate.

Flash forward a decade, and the city was ready to resurrect what they'd lost. I've mentioned the big downtown revitalization project that involved bombing out the entire riverfront probably a dozen times now, usually while focusing on that fountain I hate so much. Part of that project involved the city buying a state office building that stood where that steel skeleton is now and using that structure as a new home for the International Bluegrass Museum. It was an ugly office building, but I don't think the original plan involved tearing it down. I think they originally meant to do a remodel, but the start of the process revealed that the ground beneath the building had been severely contaminated by chemicals from a now-defunct dry cleaning business across the street. This delayed the project by several years and eventually forced the city to tear the old state building down. But no matter, said the Owensboro Powers-That-Be! They'd just build a fancy new building, something special for the Bluegrass Museum to call its very own.

And so, we have that steel skeleton. But the curse of the Bluegrass Museum seems to have struck again. A couple of months ago, the company the city had hired to build the museum filed for bankruptcy, and the quarter-built project--originally meant to open in the summer of 2018--was put on indefinite hold. So this is how it sits now, an empty shell in the middle of the pretty downtown the Powers-That-Be are so proud of showing off, without a thing going on. I haven't heard what the plan is to resolve this. The city will probably have to reopen the bidding process, which will take time. This is still years away from being done.

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LegCo Subcommittee on Matters Relating to Railways visits the MTR Admiralty Station (2015.05.19)

Art 'Student magazine' for AS media studies

I’ll relate to y’all, my beautiful readers, a simple tale of an ordinary average Central Texas Trumpet Case Bear. It was 95 degrees F (35 C) out of doors. Little Texas Aggie Trumpet Case Bear was about to go into heat exhaustion (symptom before heat stroke).

Alamo Basement Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring whispered to me, “We need to get frozen Margaritas into the little bear immediately before he goes into a coma and dies. Have you looked at the price of black market bears lately?” I pulled out the large container for the Ninja and fired it up.

After about quatro or cinco Margaritas necesitas, Little Texas Aggie Osa (bear) was starting to feel much, much better. At this point, there was a spilt Margarita. It’s not important who spilt the Margarita, but it did totally soak Little Texas Aggie Bear.

I for one, am not about to allow a trumpet case bear who smells of tequila and is all sticky, near my 1947 Rudy Mück jazz trumpet. I had two options — Take him out to the woods and shoot him or — give him a bath in the kitchen sink.

Bears know how to swim. In fact, they love water. In some states, they will come into your backyard and take the waters in your swimming pool or jacuzzi. There are videos on YouTube.

I sanitized the sink and prepared a nice, warm bubble bath for Little Texas Aggie Bear. He hesitantly lowered himself into the sink. He let out a “bear sigh” of pleasure. When I took out the camera, Little Texas Aggie Bear started to cry. “What’s wrong?” asked Alamo Basement Aggie Ring.

“It’s the bubble bath.” sobbed the little bear. “If anyone in the Trumpet Case Bear Union sees those photos, I’ll loose my certification and be forced to become the worst sort of bear ever — a tuba/Sousaphone case bear.”

I assured the little bear that no one would ever see any of these photos and think that he’s some sort of “Barbie Dream House” bear. This seemed to put him at ease and please him.

After I rinsed him a couple of times, Aggie Ring and I realized we had a very, very wet bear to deal with. “If you don’t get him dry soon. He’ll start to smell like wet dog!” said Aggie Ring.

My first thought was, “Well… the ceiling fan will get him dry! I’ll just hang him up by the neck to it.” Sadly, when I turned on the fan, Aggie Bear went flying across the room and onto the hard floor like a child who wasn’t strapped in properly in a Disney World wild ride.

[More to follow]

I’ll relate to y’all, my beautiful readers, a simple tale of an ordinary average Central Texas Trumpet Case Bear. It was 95 degrees F (35 C) out of doors. Little Texas Aggie Trumpet Case Bear was about to go into heat exhaustion (symptom before heat stroke).

Alamo Basement Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring whispered to me, “We need to get frozen Margaritas into the little bear immediately before he goes into a coma and dies. Have you looked at the price of black market bears lately?” I pulled out the large container for the Ninja and fired it up.

After about quatro or cinco Margaritas necesitas, Little Texas Aggie Osa (bear) was starting to feel much, much better. At this point, there was a spilt Margarita. It’s not important who spilt the Margarita, but it did totally soak Little Texas Aggie Bear.

I for one, am not about to allow a trumpet case bear who smells of tequila and is all sticky, near my 1947 Rudy Mück jazz trumpet. I had two options — Take him out to the woods and shoot him or — give him a bath in the kitchen sink.

Bears know how to swim. In fact, they love water. In some states, they will come into your backyard and take the waters in your swimming pool or jacuzzi. There are videos on YouTube.

I sanitized the sink and prepared a nice, warm bubble bath for Little Texas Aggie Bear. He hesitantly lowered himself into the sink. He let out a “bear sigh” of pleasure. When I took out the camera, Little Texas Aggie Bear started to cry. “What’s wrong?” asked Alamo Basement Aggie Ring.

“It’s the bubble bath.” sobbed the little bear. “If anyone in the Trumpet Case Bear Union sees those photos, I’ll loose my certification and be forced to become the worst sort of bear ever — a tuba/Sousaphone case bear.”

I assured the little bear that no one would ever see any of these photos and think that he’s some sort of “Barbie Dream House” bear. This seemed to put him at ease and please him.

After I rinsed him a couple of times, Aggie Ring and I realized we had a very, very wet bear to deal with. “If you don’t get him dry soon. He’ll start to smell like wet dog!” said Aggie Ring.

My first thought was, “Well… the ceiling fan will get him dry! I’ll just hang him up by the neck to it.” Sadly, when I turned on the fan, Aggie Bear went flying across the room and onto the hard floor like a child who wasn’t strapped in properly in a Disney World wild ride.

[More to follow]

Dundalk overwhelm Bangor in All Ireland Final

by Roger Corbett

Bangor’s amazing run in the All Ireland Junior Cup came to an abrupt end when they were comprehensively beaten by Dundalk, eventually losing by 55-5.

Where do you start when trying to relate and absorb the events of Saturday’s final at Chambers Park? Firstly, congratulations to worthy winners Dundalk who nullified the Bangor attack, then went on to produce some stunning plays which racked up no less than 8 tries, each by a different player. For Bangor’s part, they were unable to respond to the intensity of Dundalk’s game, and lacked the cutting edge which their opponents used to great effect.

The day started full of promise, as the strong support from North Down made their way to Chambers Park in Portadown, knowing Bangor would be fielding their best team. Once again, the pundits had Bangor as the underdogs – just as they had done so in the previous three rounds! In confounding the experts earlier, Bangor produced some awesome performances against top quality opposition to get to the final. Dundalk had produced some convincing wins in the early rounds of the competition, but had struggled to get past CIYMS in the semi-final, just managing to squeeze ahead at the second time of asking. However, with a number of key players returning to the side in time for this game, they were now back at full strength and would be a formidable force to contend with.

Having won the toss, captain Jamie Clegg elected to play into the stiff wind in the first half. For the first 5 minutes, Bangor doggedly retained possession and tried to play their way into Dundalk’s half through a series of determined forward moves. However, little ground was made and, when possession was finally lost, the Dundalk back line produced a burst that simply cut through the Bangor defence resulting in an easy touch down under Bangor’s posts for a 7-0 lead.

Bangor stuck to their plan and slowly, but patiently, got their attack moving forward, eventually winning a penalty to the left of Dundalk’s posts, but Mark Widdowson’s kick into the wind drifted just wide of the mark.

The contrast in play between the two teams was becoming clear, with Bangor trying to keep the ball close while Dundalk were throwing it wide. The latter strategy was proving to be the more effective as, with 20 minutes gone, a quick back line move with players looping around resulted in an overlap on the right wing which gave a clear run in to again, score under the posts. A further 9 minutes later, they did it again and, although the Bangor defence had sensed the danger and moved across to cover it, their tackling let them down allowing Dundalk to get over in the right hand corner, taking their lead to 19-0.

By now, Bangor were trying to hang on until half time when they could regroup and come out with the wind at their backs. Dundalk, on the other hand were anxious to press home their advantage and give them a more comfortable lead. To Bangor’s credit, although camped on their own line for lengthy spells, they dug in and managed to hold on until the referee’s half time whistle.

As the teams reappeared from the dressing rooms, it was obvious Bangor were ringing the changes, particularly in the backs. With the wind advantage having lessened considerably, Bangor got the second half underway. It was now Dundalk’s turn to adopt the slow, steady approach, just as Bangor had done earlier. However, their more confident off-loading and support play was, once again, taking play deep into Bangor’s territory. Frustration at not being able to gain possession and take play out of their danger area eventually resulted in a yellow card for Clegg after a succession of penalties. Dundalk kicked the penalty to touch, won their lineout and drove for the line. Although initially held up by the Bangor defence, Dundalk’s repeated drives were eventually rewarded with another converted score, extending their lead to 26-0.

From the touchline, the Bangor faithful had felt that if their players had managed to score first in the second half, they may have been able to mount a fight-back and close the gap to their opponents. As it was, this Dundalk score simply bolstered their confidence and pushed Bangor deeper into trouble. With Bangor still a man down, Dundalk added to the score with a penalty and then another score in the corner. Everything was now working for the Leinster men, as even the difficult touchline conversion into the biting wind successfully split the posts, bringing the score to 36-0.

As the game entered the final quarter, and with Dundalk all but holding the cup, Bangor were now on the ropes. By contrast, the Dundalk players were in almost total control, and were not going to slow down now. In a 10 minute spell, they ran in a further 3 tries, making the scoreline 55-0. By now, any sense of dejection the Bangor supporters may have been feeling was now moved to feelings of sympathy for their players. However, pride was at stake and once again Bangor rallied as the game entered its final minutes. At last, the forwards got within striking distance of the Dundalk line and, although their repeated attacks were repelled, they finally managed to do what their opponents had done so effectively, and quickly passed the ball wide to Davy Charles. Even though they were 55 points ahead, the Dundalk defence made Charles work hard to drive through the tackles and score Bangor’s consolation try, bringing the final score to 55-5.

From Bangor’s point of view, the final score doesn’t tell the whole story of this competition. While the final may have resulted in a sad anti-climax for Bangor, the remarkable journey to get there will be remembered for some time. On the day, Dundalk were by far the better side, and Bangor would have to concede that their game was not up to the usual standard. However, there is no doubt the experience of competing at this level is something to relish and the goal now will be to secure a top four place in the league and try again next year.

Everybody at the club has nothing but the highest respect and praise for what has been achieved this year by not just the 1sts, but all the senior teams, and one poor result isn’t going to change that – the welcome at Upritchard Park for the returning players is testament to that. With that in mind, the players now need to put this disappointment behind them and provide the best possible response against a struggling Portadown side at home in the league next Saturday.

Bangor side: J Leary, A Jackson, P Whyte, F Black, G Irvine, R Latimer, J Clegg, C Stewart, R Armstrong, K Rosson, D Charles, M Aspley, M Weir, M Widdowson, C Morgan

Subs: S Irvine, O McIlmurray, D Kelly, M Rodgers, C Harper, D Fusco, M Thompson

Bangor scores: D Charles (1T)

Dundalk Storm To Title Dundalk 55 v Bangor 5 from KnockOn.ie

Dundalk Scorers: Christopher Scully, Owen McNally, Jonathan Williams, John Smyth, Ultan Murphy, Tiernan Gonnelly, James McConnon and Stephen Murphy 1 try each. Ultan Murphy 6 cons, 1 pen.

Bangor Scorers: David Charles 1 try.

In front of a big crowd at Chambers Park on Saturday afternoon Dundalk delivered a stunning and ruthless display to see off the challenge of Bangor and capture the All Ireland Junior Cup title for the very first time.

Three first half tries had them firmly in control at 19-0 ahead having played with the elements at the Portadown venue during the first half and while the wind dropped somewhat after half time the Dundalk intensity most certainly didn’t as they cut loose scoring five more tries.

Dundalk returned to a heroes welcome at their Mill Road clubhouse on Saturday night after a display of pure brilliance throughout the afternoon.

Precision, pace and skill from the Louth men from start to finish left Bangor playing second fiddle for long periods.

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LegCo Subcommittee on Matters Relating to Railways visits the MTR Admiralty Station (2015.05.19)

Documents from the early 1990s relating to blood plasma transfusion by Henan provincial government and military blood plasma collection stations that led to the spread of HIV to many people who sold blood. The blood collection stations were closed in the mid 1990s though some continued this very profitable business underground.

HIV Blood Transfusion Disaster Documents For more information see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_Economy The Wound by He Aifang on the history of blood disaster museums.cnd.org/CND-Global/CND-Global.01-01-25.html

Links to US Embassy website mentioned at the end of the report above are archived on the Internet Archive web.archive.org/web/20010809150226fw_/http://www.usembass...

See also article Dr. Gao Yaojie Human Rights China at www.hrichina.org/content/4754

it's simple. i honored this tattoo to the expendables as a thank you. everytime i listen to their music, i feel like i relate to everything in their songs.

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Here's an old item relating to an important piece of Gainsborough's history.

This is an original 1736 copy of the Parliamentary Bill to allow the demolition and rebuilding of the Parish Church, and it's rebuilding.

At this time the original Church in Gainsborough, (in part dating from 1209), dedicated to All Saints was said to be much decayed, and in a runinous condition......incapable of being repaired.

History tells us that the original building was pulled down in 1735 (apart from the tower, still standing), so that they did "jump the gun" a little, as this act was printed the following year. The building was replaced by a neo-classical Georgian building at a cost of £5,250. This money came part from private subscription, but part by a levy raised on all coal landed at Gainsborough. That is interesting, because the Bill mentions that the total cost of demolition & rebuilding is not to exceed £2,500 - like most Government building projects down the years, this one seems to have slipped over budget!

If anyone is interested I can scan & post the remainder of the document.

Kinetic: Relating to, caused by, or producing motion.

These are called “Kinetic” photographs because there is motion, energy, and movement involved, specifically my and the camera’s movements.

Most of these are shot outdoors where I have the room to literally spin and throw my little camera several feet up into the air, with some throws going as high as 15 feet or more!

None of these are Photoshopped, layered, or a composite photo...what you see occurs in one shot, one take.

Aren’t I afraid that I will drop and break my camera? For regular followers of my photostream and this series you will know that I have already done so. This little camera has been dropped many times, and broken once when dropped on concrete outside. It still functions...not so well for regular photographs, but superbly for more kinetic work.

Albeit supremely risky this is one of my favorite ways to produce abstract photographs.

If you'd like to see more please check out my set, "Vertigo:"

www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157630591282642/

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To read more about Kinetic Photography click the Wikipedia link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_photography

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My photographs and videos and any derivative works are my private property and are copyright © by me, John Russell (aka “Zoom Lens”) and ALL my rights, including my exclusive rights, are reserved. ANY use without my permission in writing is forbidden by law.

House Bill 980, relating to “Highway Safety” (aka Distracted Driving Bill) – This measure is effective July 1, 2013. While all counties have some form of a distracted driving ordinance in place, this measure establishes a state law that creates consistent requirements across all counties for the use of mobile electronic devices while driving and will simplify enforcement. Crash data from the DOT shows that during 2007, 32 percent (2,871 of the 8,770 collisions) were attributed to inattention to driving.

Senate Bill 4, relating to “Motor Vehicles” (aka Universal Seatbelt Bill) – This measure requires all front seat and back seat occupants to buckle up, effective immediately. Adults and children must use their seat belts and child restraints at all times. Unrestrained back seat passengers were more than three times as likely to have injuries that were fatal or required hospitalization compared to restrained back seat passengers, based on DOH’s analysis of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) records. Additionally, among back seat passengers who were treated for injuries by EMS, average medical charges were nearly tripled among those who did not use seat belts ($11,043), compared to restrained passengers ($3,817).

The bill signings were done in conjunction with the DOT’s launch of the annual “Click It or Ticket” enforcement campaign, held in partnership between the state and counties with federal funding. During the national Click It or Ticket mobilization from May 20 to June 2 and throughout the year, police statewide will be continuing strict enforcement of the state seat belt and child passenger restraint laws.

Relates to UNDP-supported LDCF-funded project ‘Enhancing National Food Security in the Context of Global Climate Change’ www.adaptation-undp.org/projects/kiribati-denhancing-nati...

立法會鐵路事宜小組委員會視察港鐵金鐘站

立法会铁路事宜小组委员会视察港铁金钟站

LegCo Subcommittee on Matters Relating to Railways visits the MTR Admiralty Station (2015.05.19)

This relates to my stereo shot of Casey in the creek. She came out of the water to greet me - and although I'm not afraid of dogs, I don't know this one...and had to brace for an impact. So I couldn't frame the shot properly. But I got her eyes and ears, and that's what I like about this image.

Various papers relating to Mr.Thomas Wheeler my late Grandfather.Sadly he died when I was just eleven years of age.I do however recall it was he that took me on my very first fishing trip using the first fishing rod and reel that he bought me.The images here are from WWII papers when he was an active serviceman and I only recently found these in an old album of my late father`s.These are the first twenty images in nigh on eighty images of both his army papers and my Great Grandparents (to come later) images.Some images are somewhat the same but have different focus points and apertures,mainly to suit prospective customers on Alamy.com stock images.I sincerely hope you enjoy the images and hope you see,as I did,what I think is one of many of the Identity Card issued during WWII.As you can see my Grandfather first signed up in September 1940 and seved right up until the end of the war 1945.He was then signed up for the reserves.Do Not Use Without Express Permisison From Peter Wheeler.

Protocol relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances other than Oil, 1973, as amended (INTERVENTION PROT 1973) (in force)

House Bill 980, relating to “Highway Safety” (aka Distracted Driving Bill) – This measure is effective July 1, 2013. While all counties have some form of a distracted driving ordinance in place, this measure establishes a state law that creates consistent requirements across all counties for the use of mobile electronic devices while driving and will simplify enforcement. Crash data from the DOT shows that during 2007, 32 percent (2,871 of the 8,770 collisions) were attributed to inattention to driving.

Senate Bill 4, relating to “Motor Vehicles” (aka Universal Seatbelt Bill) – This measure requires all front seat and back seat occupants to buckle up, effective immediately. Adults and children must use their seat belts and child restraints at all times. Unrestrained back seat passengers were more than three times as likely to have injuries that were fatal or required hospitalization compared to restrained back seat passengers, based on DOH’s analysis of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) records. Additionally, among back seat passengers who were treated for injuries by EMS, average medical charges were nearly tripled among those who did not use seat belts ($11,043), compared to restrained passengers ($3,817).

The bill signings were done in conjunction with the DOT’s launch of the annual “Click It or Ticket” enforcement campaign, held in partnership between the state and counties with federal funding. During the national Click It or Ticket mobilization from May 20 to June 2 and throughout the year, police statewide will be continuing strict enforcement of the state seat belt and child passenger restraint laws.

Blog relating to this story .... peterjemmett.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-year-that-was-part-...

The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution - African slavery as it exists amongst us - the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization.

. . . Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.

from Cornerstone Speech, Alexander H. Stephens

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He also served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia (both before the Civil War and after Reconstruction) and as the 50th Governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883.

立法會鐵路事宜小組委員會視察港鐵金鐘站

立法会铁路事宜小组委员会视察港铁金钟站

LegCo Subcommittee on Matters Relating to Railways visits the MTR Admiralty Station (2015.05.19)

Dundalk overwhelm Bangor in All Ireland Final

by Roger Corbett

Bangor’s amazing run in the All Ireland Junior Cup came to an abrupt end when they were comprehensively beaten by Dundalk, eventually losing by 55-5.

Where do you start when trying to relate and absorb the events of Saturday’s final at Chambers Park? Firstly, congratulations to worthy winners Dundalk who nullified the Bangor attack, then went on to produce some stunning plays which racked up no less than 8 tries, each by a different player. For Bangor’s part, they were unable to respond to the intensity of Dundalk’s game, and lacked the cutting edge which their opponents used to great effect.

The day started full of promise, as the strong support from North Down made their way to Chambers Park in Portadown, knowing Bangor would be fielding their best team. Once again, the pundits had Bangor as the underdogs – just as they had done so in the previous three rounds! In confounding the experts earlier, Bangor produced some awesome performances against top quality opposition to get to the final. Dundalk had produced some convincing wins in the early rounds of the competition, but had struggled to get past CIYMS in the semi-final, just managing to squeeze ahead at the second time of asking. However, with a number of key players returning to the side in time for this game, they were now back at full strength and would be a formidable force to contend with.

Having won the toss, captain Jamie Clegg elected to play into the stiff wind in the first half. For the first 5 minutes, Bangor doggedly retained possession and tried to play their way into Dundalk’s half through a series of determined forward moves. However, little ground was made and, when possession was finally lost, the Dundalk back line produced a burst that simply cut through the Bangor defence resulting in an easy touch down under Bangor’s posts for a 7-0 lead.

Bangor stuck to their plan and slowly, but patiently, got their attack moving forward, eventually winning a penalty to the left of Dundalk’s posts, but Mark Widdowson’s kick into the wind drifted just wide of the mark.

The contrast in play between the two teams was becoming clear, with Bangor trying to keep the ball close while Dundalk were throwing it wide. The latter strategy was proving to be the more effective as, with 20 minutes gone, a quick back line move with players looping around resulted in an overlap on the right wing which gave a clear run in to again, score under the posts. A further 9 minutes later, they did it again and, although the Bangor defence had sensed the danger and moved across to cover it, their tackling let them down allowing Dundalk to get over in the right hand corner, taking their lead to 19-0.

By now, Bangor were trying to hang on until half time when they could regroup and come out with the wind at their backs. Dundalk, on the other hand were anxious to press home their advantage and give them a more comfortable lead. To Bangor’s credit, although camped on their own line for lengthy spells, they dug in and managed to hold on until the referee’s half time whistle.

As the teams reappeared from the dressing rooms, it was obvious Bangor were ringing the changes, particularly in the backs. With the wind advantage having lessened considerably, Bangor got the second half underway. It was now Dundalk’s turn to adopt the slow, steady approach, just as Bangor had done earlier. However, their more confident off-loading and support play was, once again, taking play deep into Bangor’s territory. Frustration at not being able to gain possession and take play out of their danger area eventually resulted in a yellow card for Clegg after a succession of penalties. Dundalk kicked the penalty to touch, won their lineout and drove for the line. Although initially held up by the Bangor defence, Dundalk’s repeated drives were eventually rewarded with another converted score, extending their lead to 26-0.

From the touchline, the Bangor faithful had felt that if their players had managed to score first in the second half, they may have been able to mount a fight-back and close the gap to their opponents. As it was, this Dundalk score simply bolstered their confidence and pushed Bangor deeper into trouble. With Bangor still a man down, Dundalk added to the score with a penalty and then another score in the corner. Everything was now working for the Leinster men, as even the difficult touchline conversion into the biting wind successfully split the posts, bringing the score to 36-0.

As the game entered the final quarter, and with Dundalk all but holding the cup, Bangor were now on the ropes. By contrast, the Dundalk players were in almost total control, and were not going to slow down now. In a 10 minute spell, they ran in a further 3 tries, making the scoreline 55-0. By now, any sense of dejection the Bangor supporters may have been feeling was now moved to feelings of sympathy for their players. However, pride was at stake and once again Bangor rallied as the game entered its final minutes. At last, the forwards got within striking distance of the Dundalk line and, although their repeated attacks were repelled, they finally managed to do what their opponents had done so effectively, and quickly passed the ball wide to Davy Charles. Even though they were 55 points ahead, the Dundalk defence made Charles work hard to drive through the tackles and score Bangor’s consolation try, bringing the final score to 55-5.

From Bangor’s point of view, the final score doesn’t tell the whole story of this competition. While the final may have resulted in a sad anti-climax for Bangor, the remarkable journey to get there will be remembered for some time. On the day, Dundalk were by far the better side, and Bangor would have to concede that their game was not up to the usual standard. However, there is no doubt the experience of competing at this level is something to relish and the goal now will be to secure a top four place in the league and try again next year.

Everybody at the club has nothing but the highest respect and praise for what has been achieved this year by not just the 1sts, but all the senior teams, and one poor result isn’t going to change that – the welcome at Upritchard Park for the returning players is testament to that. With that in mind, the players now need to put this disappointment behind them and provide the best possible response against a struggling Portadown side at home in the league next Saturday.

Bangor side: J Leary, A Jackson, P Whyte, F Black, G Irvine, R Latimer, J Clegg, C Stewart, R Armstrong, K Rosson, D Charles, M Aspley, M Weir, M Widdowson, C Morgan

Subs: S Irvine, O McIlmurray, D Kelly, M Rodgers, C Harper, D Fusco, M Thompson

Bangor scores: D Charles (1T)

Dundalk Storm To Title Dundalk 55 v Bangor 5 from KnockOn.ie

Dundalk Scorers: Christopher Scully, Owen McNally, Jonathan Williams, John Smyth, Ultan Murphy, Tiernan Gonnelly, James McConnon and Stephen Murphy 1 try each. Ultan Murphy 6 cons, 1 pen.

Bangor Scorers: David Charles 1 try.

In front of a big crowd at Chambers Park on Saturday afternoon Dundalk delivered a stunning and ruthless display to see off the challenge of Bangor and capture the All Ireland Junior Cup title for the very first time.

Three first half tries had them firmly in control at 19-0 ahead having played with the elements at the Portadown venue during the first half and while the wind dropped somewhat after half time the Dundalk intensity most certainly didn’t as they cut loose scoring five more tries.

Dundalk returned to a heroes welcome at their Mill Road clubhouse on Saturday night after a display of pure brilliance throughout the afternoon.

Precision, pace and skill from the Louth men from start to finish left Bangor playing second fiddle for long periods.

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LegCo Subcommittee to Follow Up Issues Relating to the Unified Screening Mechanism for Non-refoulement Claims visits Castle Peak Bay Immigration Centre (2018.07.19)

"Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms." ~Joe Fox

Another for the 'Dateable Relatable' series,..

Writers and Readers and You've Got Mail fans oh my! The smell of new pencils is magic. I am especially a fan of the green metal à la pink eraser Dixon pencils.

One story relates how, while Nicholas was visiting a remote part of his diocese, several citizens from Myra arrived with the news that, in his absence, the ruler of the city, Eustathius, had condemned three innocent men to death. Nicholas set out immediately for home. Reaching the outskirts of the city, he asked those he met on the road if they knew what had happened to the prisoners. Informed that their execution was to be carried out that morning, he hurried to the executioner's field, where he found a large crowd of people and the three men kneeling with their arms bound behind them, awaiting the blow of the sword. Nicholas passed through the crowd, took the sword from the executioner's hands and threw it to the ground, ordering that the condemned men be freed from their bonds. Later the ruler sought the saint’s forgiveness. Only after a period of public repentance did Nicholas absolve him.

Ilya Repin's painting of the same scene: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/995851770/

For this project we had to take pictures that relate to a social issue and put them on a poster format. For the social issue, I chose infrastructure. I chose this issue because it’s something i heard a lot about during the 2016 election and i learned more about it. America’s overall grade for infrastructure is a D+. Roads, dams, parks, energy, drinking water, etc are all things that received less than a C+ rating for 2017.

My first picture is of a stairway railing in a house. I really liked the shadows on the wall from the outside light. Houses and buildings are a big part of our infrastructure so i decided to include this photograph.

My second picture is of a brick building in a park by my neighborhood. I liked how the trees in the background were in light and the building was darker. In 2005 and 2009 the overall grade for parks and recreation stayed consistent at a C-. In 2013 the grade rose to a C but in 2017, it fell all the way down to a D+, dropping to its lowest grade. There is an estimated $4.85 billion of unmet needs for America’s parks system.

My third photo is of a stone pathway in a concrete driveway. I liked the leading line of the stone to the end of the picture. In California there are 394,608 miles of Public Roads, with 50% in poor condition. America’s overall grade for roads has stayed at a consistent D since 2005.

The next photograph is a fence near my sister’s school. The overall grade for schools in America rose to a D+ from a D this year, but california’s schools have an estimated capital expenditure gap of $3.2 billion.

The next picture is a tire mark on my driveway with the light coming in from the background. I wanted to incorporate driving into the infrastructure issue because all the driving in America causes most of the damage to our public roads. In a place like Seattle, drivers spend an estimated 66 hours a year in traffic. In Los Angeles the average driver spends 81 a year. This is the most of any major city in America. On Wednesdays at 8 am, the most congested period of time, drivers go an average of 17 mph and spend 58 minutes longer in their cars than they would if there were no or little traffic.

The biggest photograph is of the top part of my house. I thought this picture should be the biggest one because it was the prettiest in my opinion. I think the lighting and the color of the sky combined made for great color and contrast in the photo.

The next picture is of light coming down onto wood. This is my least favorite picture because it doesn’t have anything that stands out but i did however like that it was showcases beautiful wood that we wouldn’t be able to have it we didn’t take care of our planet and the infrastructure that’s on it.

The next photo is a large crack in a dirt road. This was probably caused by many people walking over it. There are $26.2 billion in wastewater infrastructure needs over the next 20 years and America received a C+ in solid waste and a D+ in hazardous waste in 2017.

The next picture is of sun coming through a glass door. I really liked how this picture made me think of energy while looking at it. America’s overall grade in energy is a C+ this year rising from a D+ where it was at for a while.

The last photo is of a waterfall. I wanted to include a picture of water because drinking water is a huge part of our suffering infrastructure. Drinking water has had an overall grade of a D since 2009. There are $44.5 billion in drinking water infrastructure needs over the next 20 years.

In conclusion, i really liked this project because i got to learn more about an issue that is so important. It did take a lot of time to put together, but i appreciate the neatness and presentability. This deteriorating infrastructure impedes California’s ability to compete in an increasingly global marketplace so we need to do something about it.

Dundalk overwhelm Bangor in All Ireland Final

by Roger Corbett

Bangor’s amazing run in the All Ireland Junior Cup came to an abrupt end when they were comprehensively beaten by Dundalk, eventually losing by 55-5.

Where do you start when trying to relate and absorb the events of Saturday’s final at Chambers Park? Firstly, congratulations to worthy winners Dundalk who nullified the Bangor attack, then went on to produce some stunning plays which racked up no less than 8 tries, each by a different player. For Bangor’s part, they were unable to respond to the intensity of Dundalk’s game, and lacked the cutting edge which their opponents used to great effect.

The day started full of promise, as the strong support from North Down made their way to Chambers Park in Portadown, knowing Bangor would be fielding their best team. Once again, the pundits had Bangor as the underdogs – just as they had done so in the previous three rounds! In confounding the experts earlier, Bangor produced some awesome performances against top quality opposition to get to the final. Dundalk had produced some convincing wins in the early rounds of the competition, but had struggled to get past CIYMS in the semi-final, just managing to squeeze ahead at the second time of asking. However, with a number of key players returning to the side in time for this game, they were now back at full strength and would be a formidable force to contend with.

Having won the toss, captain Jamie Clegg elected to play into the stiff wind in the first half. For the first 5 minutes, Bangor doggedly retained possession and tried to play their way into Dundalk’s half through a series of determined forward moves. However, little ground was made and, when possession was finally lost, the Dundalk back line produced a burst that simply cut through the Bangor defence resulting in an easy touch down under Bangor’s posts for a 7-0 lead.

Bangor stuck to their plan and slowly, but patiently, got their attack moving forward, eventually winning a penalty to the left of Dundalk’s posts, but Mark Widdowson’s kick into the wind drifted just wide of the mark.

The contrast in play between the two teams was becoming clear, with Bangor trying to keep the ball close while Dundalk were throwing it wide. The latter strategy was proving to be the more effective as, with 20 minutes gone, a quick back line move with players looping around resulted in an overlap on the right wing which gave a clear run in to again, score under the posts. A further 9 minutes later, they did it again and, although the Bangor defence had sensed the danger and moved across to cover it, their tackling let them down allowing Dundalk to get over in the right hand corner, taking their lead to 19-0.

By now, Bangor were trying to hang on until half time when they could regroup and come out with the wind at their backs. Dundalk, on the other hand were anxious to press home their advantage and give them a more comfortable lead. To Bangor’s credit, although camped on their own line for lengthy spells, they dug in and managed to hold on until the referee’s half time whistle.

As the teams reappeared from the dressing rooms, it was obvious Bangor were ringing the changes, particularly in the backs. With the wind advantage having lessened considerably, Bangor got the second half underway. It was now Dundalk’s turn to adopt the slow, steady approach, just as Bangor had done earlier. However, their more confident off-loading and support play was, once again, taking play deep into Bangor’s territory. Frustration at not being able to gain possession and take play out of their danger area eventually resulted in a yellow card for Clegg after a succession of penalties. Dundalk kicked the penalty to touch, won their lineout and drove for the line. Although initially held up by the Bangor defence, Dundalk’s repeated drives were eventually rewarded with another converted score, extending their lead to 26-0.

From the touchline, the Bangor faithful had felt that if their players had managed to score first in the second half, they may have been able to mount a fight-back and close the gap to their opponents. As it was, this Dundalk score simply bolstered their confidence and pushed Bangor deeper into trouble. With Bangor still a man down, Dundalk added to the score with a penalty and then another score in the corner. Everything was now working for the Leinster men, as even the difficult touchline conversion into the biting wind successfully split the posts, bringing the score to 36-0.

As the game entered the final quarter, and with Dundalk all but holding the cup, Bangor were now on the ropes. By contrast, the Dundalk players were in almost total control, and were not going to slow down now. In a 10 minute spell, they ran in a further 3 tries, making the scoreline 55-0. By now, any sense of dejection the Bangor supporters may have been feeling was now moved to feelings of sympathy for their players. However, pride was at stake and once again Bangor rallied as the game entered its final minutes. At last, the forwards got within striking distance of the Dundalk line and, although their repeated attacks were repelled, they finally managed to do what their opponents had done so effectively, and quickly passed the ball wide to Davy Charles. Even though they were 55 points ahead, the Dundalk defence made Charles work hard to drive through the tackles and score Bangor’s consolation try, bringing the final score to 55-5.

From Bangor’s point of view, the final score doesn’t tell the whole story of this competition. While the final may have resulted in a sad anti-climax for Bangor, the remarkable journey to get there will be remembered for some time. On the day, Dundalk were by far the better side, and Bangor would have to concede that their game was not up to the usual standard. However, there is no doubt the experience of competing at this level is something to relish and the goal now will be to secure a top four place in the league and try again next year.

Everybody at the club has nothing but the highest respect and praise for what has been achieved this year by not just the 1sts, but all the senior teams, and one poor result isn’t going to change that – the welcome at Upritchard Park for the returning players is testament to that. With that in mind, the players now need to put this disappointment behind them and provide the best possible response against a struggling Portadown side at home in the league next Saturday.

Bangor side: J Leary, A Jackson, P Whyte, F Black, G Irvine, R Latimer, J Clegg, C Stewart, R Armstrong, K Rosson, D Charles, M Aspley, M Weir, M Widdowson, C Morgan

Subs: S Irvine, O McIlmurray, D Kelly, M Rodgers, C Harper, D Fusco, M Thompson

Bangor scores: D Charles (1T)

Dundalk Storm To Title Dundalk 55 v Bangor 5 from KnockOn.ie

Dundalk Scorers: Christopher Scully, Owen McNally, Jonathan Williams, John Smyth, Ultan Murphy, Tiernan Gonnelly, James McConnon and Stephen Murphy 1 try each. Ultan Murphy 6 cons, 1 pen.

Bangor Scorers: David Charles 1 try.

In front of a big crowd at Chambers Park on Saturday afternoon Dundalk delivered a stunning and ruthless display to see off the challenge of Bangor and capture the All Ireland Junior Cup title for the very first time.

Three first half tries had them firmly in control at 19-0 ahead having played with the elements at the Portadown venue during the first half and while the wind dropped somewhat after half time the Dundalk intensity most certainly didn’t as they cut loose scoring five more tries.

Dundalk returned to a heroes welcome at their Mill Road clubhouse on Saturday night after a display of pure brilliance throughout the afternoon.

Precision, pace and skill from the Louth men from start to finish left Bangor playing second fiddle for long periods.

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