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The then-lingering semaphore signals at Romney continued to bring me back to this damned Monon line time after time. I thought these things were going away in 2008...(But I continued to trek down there to shoot these blades until the bitter end...)
CSX finally killed off the Romney blades a few weeks after this shot of a southbound led by a former Conrail SD60M was nabbed in March of 2009. Romney will never again host dozens of foamers each time a train comes through-I guess the crews that are camera-shy are happy now.
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine Bélier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
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This old decrepit feed store with it's two gas pumps was once the center of the once thriving community of Highbank, Texas (not very far from where our farmhouse is located). This is all that remains of Highbank anymore, except for a few old barns and storehouses and tanks that are all falling in on themselves.
I was hoping I'd find the price gas was selling for when these pumps were operable, but alas, everything said $0.00 per gallon. However, I remember when I got my first car back in 1959, gas sold for 26 cents per gallon. I would fill the tank once a week for $3.00, and that would be enough to go back and forth to work, and to all the places I busily went back then. Those days are long gone!!!
There are sights that seem like home, I suppose. Particular representations of half-made memories. Late spring in the sunlight, lay back and dream. Lupines are a successful species on the grassy shoulders of my homeland highways. You can drive just about anywhere and see them in their millions, shimmering in shades of white, pink, and purple. I'm not much for cultivated flowers. What I crave is unbound beauty in weeds and what grows wild. It's hopeless thinking you could restrain it. In the brilliant blur of a too-bright sun, I watch for where the road turns off and takes me places I haven't planned to go. Exit 23 to Deep Brook or Bear River, a drop in speed so I'll remember to slow up and look a little. Like everything this season, it leaves in a rush. I honestly prefer when changes come in the other direction, the undressing of autumn, sifting gently to the floor. But I leave some space in my mind for spring. Life can't be about dying all the time.
June 11, 2025
Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6422 of my daily journal.
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November 8, 2006 11:54 AM
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Last night, 18 people were killed in the Israeli bombing on Beit Hanoun, most of them women and children. The town in north Gaza has been swamped with blood for more than 10 days now, but this was the highest death toll for one night so far. The Israeli government seems to want to ensure that every child to survive the blitz on Beit Hanoun will want to be a suicide bomber when he or she grows up. It also seems to want to ensure that not that many children in Beit Hanoun will ever grow up.
If anybody thinks Israel's new bloody policies contradict Ariel Sharon's vision, shared by Ehud Olmert, of disengagement, then it is time to think again. The promise to the Israeli voters, attached to the withdrawal from Gaza, was always that after withdrawal we could "hit them hard" without jeopardising the settlers or our soldiers. So here we go. Just like southern Lebanon, which for years was the place for Israel to take vengeance for its frustration, Gaza is now seen by Israel as fair game.
The protest in Israel over the butchery in Gaza is still limited to the "far left". Labour party ministers, who stomached the admission of fascist leader Avigdor Lieberman into their cabinet, do not only back the blitz, they run it. The minister of defence, Amir Peretz, Labour's leader, is in charge of this gory operation too, as well as of the recent bloodbath in Lebanon. He is closely supported by another Labour minister, Yuli Tamir, who when travelling to the UK still thought she could rely on her past as a Peace Now activist 30 years ago, and Shelly Yehimovitch, a popular journalist turned politician, who also fancies herself to be a saintly peacemonger. The blood of all those people, all those children, are on their hands, and it will not wash off.
As always in such cases, the Israeli Defence Army claims there was a mistake. Their shelling of the residential compound was "deflected by 500m" and hit the wrong place. If only seven, rather than 18 civilians were killed, they wouldn't have even bothered saying that. There must be some secret guidelines for governments by which they decide when to claim a "mistake" and when to go for the bravado of blaming the victims. After all, those children, by sleeping in their own beds, were used as living protection for "terrorists". Well, not any more. They are dead.
There's a legal principle in the criminal law that says one can be held responsible for the natural consequences of one's actions. This is why if you hold a gun to someone's head and pull the trigger you cannot argue in court that you did not actually intend to kill them. The very same goes for bombing a civilian town, let alone one as densely populated as Beit Hanoun. The growing gaps between newspeak about "surgical precision" and "targeted elimination" and the nature of the means used to carry it out always ends up with arenas of carnage like the one we see in Beit Hanoun today.
The world, as the US and UK like to refer to themselves - and as Israel also likes to call them - will do little, this time, as in previous cases. The children of Beit Hanoun will not be saved by George Bush and Tony Blair. After all, the photos are all too similar to what we saw not long ago from Baghdad, where minor "accidents" like last night's surgical operation in Gaza prevailed. The so called "war on terror", like all major international conflicts before it, inspires local conflict, and US and UK practices send a clear message to Israel's leaders that it is all actually all right.
In his moving poem about the Jewish children who died in the Holocaust, the Israeli unofficial poet laureate Nathan Altherman wrote that murderers would ask for children's blood, and so would those who kept quiet. This should be true for all children. Do not keep quiet.
Collage by Night Heron. Includes scanned photo by Abid Katib - Getty Images.
Israeli Shell Kills 18 in Gaza"
How Israel put Gaza civilians in firing line: Military chiefs were warned that change of safety margin for gunners risked killing the innocent
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine Bélier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
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#Fukushima #Nuclear
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine Bélier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=677795018948019&set=a...
#Fukushima #Nuclear
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine Bélier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=677795018948019&set=a...
#Fukushima #Nuclear
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine Bélier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=677795018948019&set=a...
#Fukushima #Nuclear
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine Bélier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=677795018948019&set=a...
#Fukushima #Nuclear
dannyman.toldme.com/2013/04/03/remember-gwen-araujo/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Araujo
Back when I lived in Mountain View I was deeply saddened to read of the death of Gwen Araujo in 2002. She was a transgendered teen in the South Bay who was brutally murdered by classmates. Why? She had given a few blowjobs to the boys. The boys realized in horror that they had committed a "homosexual" act. They felt betrayed by Gwen, beat her to death, and buried her in the woods.
The tragedy bothered me because Gwen was apparently accepted by these friends enough to become somewhat intimate, but the homophobia that had been instilled in these kids was so strong that they went from lust to the worst sort of violence.
For me, "Gwen Araujo" is as a reminder that homophobia is a deadly poison that can turn even a lover into a brutal murderer. Gays aren't murdering people: it is homophobia that is the dangerous sickness. The younger generations have proven increasingly tolerant, but Gwen's friends were still held under its deadly influence . . .
I dream of a world in which people can be who they are as they are without fear of violence.
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine Bélier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=677795018948019&set=a...
#Fukushima #Nuclear
More about the festival on my Phuket Blog : www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2013/02/old-town-festival-2013.html.
This Asturian king's palace Santa Maria del Naranco is build during the 9th century in an elegant style remembering Roman and Visigotic examples.
At a formative stage in my career, I was seconded to Transit Holdings' new Docklands Minibus operation. Here, we see Ford Transit 257 (E197 BDV) decorated for a new service launch whilst colleagues erect a bus stop flag.
You can't do justice for the sacrifice so many people made during the 1st World War. People who really didn't have an option but to fight in a pointless war that could have been avoided. But it's important you make an effort to remember them. And this effort is simple, considerate and honours every British and colonial soldier who died.
Remembering D-Day - 15 (of 28) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Yi 42.5mm 1:1.8 Prime (M43 Mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
I don't take enough pics of my little ghost *.*
She's supposed to be a little creepy and sad..oh well..
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Wig: FMD
Eyes: releaserain's
Face-up & clothes: by me
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
Park Street in Alameda is all decked out in hearts and glitter. This old-timey handmade card at Ole's was my favorite, if a little bittersweet.
11 NOV 2006
Fredericton NB
A 100 man guard From the Infantry School, along with Sailers, Firemen and Police paid honour to Canadas fallen soldiers at the 2006 rememberance Day ceremony in Fredericton.
Record crowds attended what was one of the warmest Rememberance Days in recent Memory.
photos by JPM Lamontagne