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Kilmainham Gaol (Irish: Príosún Chill Mhaighneann) is a former prison in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland. It is now a museum run by the Office of Public Works, an agency of the Government of Ireland. Many Irish revolutionaries, including the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, were imprisoned and executed in the prison by the orders of the UK Government.When it was first built in 1796, Kilmainham Gaol was called the "New Gaol" to distinguish it from the old prison it was intended to replace – a noisome dungeon, just a few hundred metres from the present site. It was officially called the County of Dublin Gaol, and was originally run by the Grand Jury for County Dublin.
Originally, public hangings took place at the front of the prison. However, from the 1820s onward very few hangings, public or private, took place at Kilmainham. A small hanging cell was built in the prison in 1891. It is located on the first floor, between the west wing and the east wing.
There was no segregation of prisoners; men, women and children were incarcerated up to 5 in each cell, with only a single candle for light and heat. Most of their time was spent in the cold and the dark, and each candle had to last for two weeks. Its cells were roughly 28 square metres in area.
Children were sometimes arrested for petty theft, the youngest said to be a seven-year-old child, while many of the adult prisoners were transported to Australia.
At Kilmainham, the poor conditions in which women prisoners were kept provided the spur for the next stage of development. As early as 1809, in his report, the Inspector had observed that male prisoners were supplied with iron bedsteads while females "lay on straw on the flags in the cells and common halls". Half a century later there was little improvement. The women's section, located in the west wing, remained overcrowded. In an attempt to relieve the overcrowding, 30 female cells were added to the Gaol in 1840. These improvements had not been made long before the Great Famine occurred, and Kilmainham was overwhelmed with the increase of prisoners.
Kilmainham Gaol was decommissioned as a prison by the Irish Free State government in 1924. Seen principally as a site of oppression and suffering, there was at this time no declared interest in its preservation as a monument to the struggle for national independence. The jail's potential function as a location of national memory was also undercut and complicated by the fact that the first four Republican prisoners executed by the Free State government during the Irish Civil War were shot in the prison yard.
The Irish Prison Board contemplated reopening it as a prison during the 1920s but all such plans were finally abandoned in 1929. In 1936 the government considered the demolition of the prison but the price of this undertaking was seen as prohibitive. Republican interest in the site began to develop from the late 1930s, most notably with the proposal by the National Graves Association, a Republican organisation, to preserve the site as both a museum and memorial to the 1916 Easter Rising. This proposal received no objections from the Commissioners of Public Works, who costed it at £600, and negotiations were entered into with the Department of Education about the possibility of relocating artefacts relating to the 1916 Rising housed in the National Museum to a new museum at the Kilmainham Gaol site. The Department of Education rejected this proposal seeing the site as unsuitable for this purpose and suggested instead that paintings of nationalist leaders could be installed in appropriate prison cells. However, with the advent of the Emergency the proposal was shelved for the duration of the war.
An architectural survey commissioned by the Office of Public Works after World War II revealed that the prison was in a ruinous condition. With the Department of Education still intransigent to the site's conversion to a nationalist museum and with no other apparent function for the building, the Commissioners of Public Works proposed only the prison yard and those cell blocks deemed to be of national importance should be preserved and that the rest of the site should be demolished. This proposal was not acted upon.
In 1953 the Department of the Taoiseach, as part of a scheme to generate employment, re-considered the proposal of the National Graves Association to restore the prison and establish a museum at the site. However, no advance was made and the material condition of the prison continued to deteriorate.
From the late 1950s, a grassroots movement for the preservation of Kilmainham Gaol began to develop. Provoked by reports that the Office of Public Works was accepting tenders for the demolition of the building, Lorcan C.G. Leonard, a young engineer from the north side of Dublin, along with a small number of like-minded nationalists, formed the Kilmainham Gaol Restoration Society in 1958. In order to offset any potential division among its members, the society agreed that they should not address any of the events connected with the Civil War period in relation to the restoration project. Instead, a narrative of the unified national struggle was to be articulated. A scheme was then devised that the prison should be restored and a museum built using voluntary labour and donated materials.
With momentum for the project growing, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions informed the society that they would not oppose their plan and the Building Trades Council gave it their support. It is also likely that Dublin Corporation, which had shown an interest in the preservation of the prison, supported the proposal. At this time the Irish government was coming under increasing pressure from the National Graves Association and the Old IRA Literary and Debating Society to take action to preserve the site. Thus, when the society submitted their plan in late 1958 the government looked favourably on a proposal that would achieve this goal without occasioning any significant financial commitment from the state.
In February 1960 the society's detailed plan for the restoration project, which notably also envisioned the site's development as a tourist attraction, received the approval of the notoriously parsimonious Department of Finance. The formal handing over of prison keys to a board of trustees, composed of five members nominated by the society and two by the government, occurred in May 1960. The trustees were charged a nominal rent of one penny rent per annum to extend for a period of five years at which point it was envisaged that the restored prison would be permanently transferred to the trustees' custodial care.
Commencing with a workforce of sixty volunteers in May 1960, the society set about clearing the overgrown vegetation, trees, fallen masonry and bird droppings from the site. By 1962 the symbolically important prison yard where the leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed had been cleared of rubble and weeds and the restoration of the Victorian section of the prison was nearing completion. It opened to the public on 10 April 1966. The final restoration of the site was completed in 1971 when Kilmainham Gaol chapel was re-opened to the public having been reroofed and re-floored and with its altar reconstructed. The Magill family acted as residential caretakers, in particular, Joe Magill who worked on the restoration of the gaol from the start until the Gaol was handed over to the Office of Public works.
It now houses a museum on the history of Irish nationalism and offers guided tours of the building. An art gallery on the top floor exhibits paintings, sculptures and jewellery of prisoners incarcerated in prisons all over contemporary Ireland.
Kilmainham Gaol is one of the biggest unoccupied prisons in Europe. Now empty of prisoners, it is filled with history.
In 2013, Kilmainham courthouse located beside the prison, which had remained in operation as a seat of the Dublin District court until 2008 was handed over to the OPW for refurbishment as part of a broader redevelopment of the Gaol and the surrounding Kilmainham Plaza in advance of the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. The courthouse opened in 2015 as the attached visitor's centre for the Gaol.
L'apartheid genré de l'islam intégriste...
"For all the violence committed on her, for all the humiliations she suffered, for her body that you exploited, for her intelligence that you trampled on, for the ignorance in which you left her, for the freedom you gave her denied, for the mouth you stopped her, for the wings you cut off, for all this: standing Gentlemen, in front of a Woman."
William Shakespeare
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Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Maasboulevard, High rises, Rhine cruise boat (slightly cut from T)
The high rises on display here are a direct consequence of Rotterdam's 'high rise policy'. What's that? In the 80s, it had become evident that the strictly functionalistic urban design of the city centre of post-2nd World War Rotterdam didn't cut it any more. In the first post-war decades, it did enhance functionality, offering a clear break from the congestion and other development problems of the pre-war city centre. And its morphology offered the symbolism of a brave new world. However, due to the post-war social-economic boom and the rise of consumerism, the strict segregation of living, business and administration made the city's heart feel like a place that didn't seem to live and breathe.
It was simply too high on business and too low on living and recreation. One program to rectify this was the R'dam high-rise policy, which involved the insertion of a series of high-density, up-market apartment buildings in and near the city centre.
The building in the middle is 'Terraced Tower' (OZ Architects, 2021), a mid- to high-rent residential tower.
On the right and behind it are the highrises of the Wijnhaveneilend with the 'Red Apple'. On the left is the Clubhouse Boompjes (under construction, Team V architects).
The ´Alena´Rhine cruise boat at the bottom of the frame offered a nice counterpoint to all this unbridled verticalism. ;-) To the right of its bow is the (of course, yellow) finish of the second stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
This is number 746 of Rotterdam Architecture.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Wijnhaven Eiland, Residential high rise, Facade (uncut)
The Wijnhaven Eiland, is being transformed. One of the high rises is shown here. The concrete facade of the neo-modernist building was in the process of being covered with textured tiles.
The backstory:
In the 80s, it became evident that the strictly functionalistic urban design of the post-2nd World War Rotterdam city centre didn't cut it any more. In the first post-war decades, it did enhance functionality, offering a clear break from the congestion and other development problems of the pre-war city centre. And its morphology offered the symbolism of a brave new world. However, due to the post-war social-economic boom and the rise of consumerism, the strict segregation of living, business and administration made the city's heart feel like a place that didn't seem to live and breathe.
It was simply too high on business and too low on living and recreation. One of the programs to rectify this was the R'dam high-rise policy - the insertion of a series of high-density up-market apartment buildings in and near the city centre.
This is number 703 of Rotterdam architecture and 1486 of Minimalisms/explicit Graphisms.
NS #4137 and #4408, hauling a loaded eastbound coal train, have just crested Elkhorn Grade and are crossing Cooper's Trestle in Coopers, WV on the afternoon of April 26, 2021. This coal will be bound for export at the ports of Norfolk, Virginia. Below the trestle is a church which was, according to town history, originally built by John Cooper, a coal mine owner and founder of Coopers, WV, to serve the white congregation in his town during the era of segregation and Jim Crow laws, prior to the Civil Rights Act. Out of the frame "across" the tracks is another church built to serve the African American congregation in the town that is twice the size of the "white church" and is still used today. Next to the church in the frame is the brick company store for the town, unused today.
.Discreet Meet Up
.Our Memories
.Segregation Wins
@ Netherwood - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Netherfeild/220/133/23
A view from the trail leading up to the Historic Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina. The property known today as Connemara not only offers inspiration and enjoyment, but has a long and complicated history. The property was developed and the house built in 1838 by a slave owner who served in the Confederate government, and had leading role in South Carolina's resconstruction policies. The next two owners were prominent businessmen, who also played a role in maintaining racial segregation after reconstruction. Then in 1945, over a century later, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln purchased the property. While living here, Carl Sandburg received a lifetime membership from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) for his work in civil rights. He was also awarded a Pulitizer Prize for his Complete Poems, which includes many works on social justice and labor rights.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam,Cerntre, Wijnhaveneiland, High rises (uncut)
In the 80s it had become evident that the strictly functionalistic urban design of the city centre of post 2nd world war Rotterdam didn't cut it anymore. In the first post-war decades, it did enhance functionality, offering a clear break from the congestion and other development problems of the pre-war city centre. And its morphology offered the symbolism of a brave new world. But...... due to the post-war social-economic boom and the rise of consumerism, the strict segregation of living, business and administration made the city heart feel like a place that didn't seem to live and breath. It was simply too high on business and too low on living and recreation. One of the programs to rectify this was the R'dam high rise policy - the insertion of a series of high-density up-market apartment buildings in and near the city centre. The Red Apple (on the right, KCAP Architecten & Jan des Bouvrie) is one of them.
Of course the 7Artisans fisheye was used here. Its album is here.
This is number 1127 of Minimalism & explicit graphism
acrylic on canvas, 13 x 18 cm
risks of messenger RNA therapy
The missing phase had happened in a lab, where the virus had been trained on human cells
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La contre-révolution de 2020, a été préparée à la chapelle de Davos.depuis des dizaines d'années par les élites et les têtes couronnées. Tous les gouvernements, de quelle obédience qu'ils soient, la vendent sous le faux drapeau d'un communautarisme. pire que les régimes communistes. Partout la féodalité comme valeur européenne s'installe à nouveau sous le nom de Nouvel Ordre Mondial: on veut "reconstruire mieux" sans dire que pour "re"-construire il faut d'abord tout détruire (tabula rasa).
Les principaux acteurs politiques et autres utilisent une propagande marquée par le même jargon comme s'ils ont été lavé le cerveau dans la même école, sous l'emprise d'un système de chantage.
Les idées «aryennes» sont en cours de réinstitutionnalisation: la ségrégation pseudo-médicale avec un passeport sanitaire en est un exemple et cette dictature durable est ancrée dans la loi pandémie. Le Moyen Age nous revient au galop avec un corps médical qui ne comprend plus le principe de la vaccination et quelques-uns qui le comprennent encore finissent en psychiatrie ou en prison ou sont simplement suspendus en tant que médecins. Il est effrayant de voir comment la guérison est interdite et remplacée par la thérapie à l'ARN messager ou simplement par la sédation dans les centres de soins résidentiels. Comme chez les nazis, la politique est devenue une machine à assassiner. dans un monde où les droits et libertés civils et individuels sont abolis.
Jan Theuninck, 2021
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Jan Theuninck has been painting the evolution of Western totalitarianism for 20 years - he saw the evolution within the political spectrum where the socialist parties were lost (Fagospatose, 2001) in the Third Way (The third way is no way, 2004) movement of Clinton , Blair and Schröder with which they gave a face to communitarianism of the New World Order. He has often compared the latter to a new kind of National Socialism. His attention has always been fixed thanks to the more than 50 years of misery with blackmail games of the services and torture practices with chemical and energy weapons (Beyond the limit, 2001, Rinascimento, 2009, The culture of learned helplessness, 2011, Neostasi, 2012, Derailed system , 2012, The banality of Evil, 2013, Zersetzung, 2014, ils nous tiennent, 2015, Submission, 2015, Threat, 2016, Utopia, 2016, Conformity, 2017, Brainwashing, 2018, Warnung, 2019, Dein Kampf, 2019, Censorship, 2020, Post-truth society, 2020 and in 2021: Political Pandemic, New World Order, The Great Reset, Angel Vaccine, Aryan Corona Passport, Cytokine Storm, Back from never been away, Sustainable Dictatorship.
(In 2014 he already painted Virus Attack without believing that this would become a climax of the Davos counter-revolution years later)
Zadaniem medycyny jest skutecznie leczyć (Zbigniew Hałat)
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
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www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.be/wiki/index.php/Yperite-Jan...
www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel... (année 2016)
www.eutrio.be/expo-west-meets-east
The Greensboro Sit-in was a major civil rights protest that started in 1960, ... lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave ...
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store—now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum—in Greensboro, North Carolina,[1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Hair Ice
Hair ice is a rare type of ice formation where the presence of a particular fungus in rotting wood produces thin strands of ice which resemble hair or candy floss.
One of the first records of the phenomenon was made by Alfred Wegener (the discoverer of continental drift) in 1918. He observed a strange ice forming only on wet dead wood and proposed a theory that a specific fungi must be the catalyst for the smooth, silky hairs of ice.
How does hair ice form?
The conditions required for the formation of hair ice are extremely specific, hence the relative scarcity of sightings. To form, moist rotting wood from a broadleaf tree is required with the presence of moist air and a temperature slightly below 0 °C. It is generally confined to latitudes between 45°N and 55°N.
In 2015 the scientists Hofmann, Mätzler and Preuß determined the exact cause of the hair ice phenomenon, linking its formation to the presence of a specific fungus called Exidiopsis effusa.
They discovered that the presence of the fungus led to a process called 'ice segregation'. When water present in the wood freezes it creates a barrier that traps liquid between the ice and the pores of the wood. This creates a suction force which pushes water out of the pores to the edge of the ice surface where it freezes and extends outwards. As this repeats it pushes a thin 'hair' of ice out of the wood which is around 0.01 mm in diameter.
It is believed that an inhibitor present in the fungus allows the strands of ice to stabilise allowing the formation of the beautiful phenomena and allows the hair ice to keep its shape often for several hours.
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Please don't forget to take part in #PROUDTOPICKUP. I have been picking up after my dog for nearly 20 years now and during that time no one has ever said Thank You, makes you think. We really have to think beyond archaic dogs on lead bylaws and exclusion zones which belong in the dustbin of history alongside Apartheid and Segregation. Welcome to the 21st Century, To show you can achieve more with education than enforcement I am asking everyone of my contacts on Flickr to post a picture of themselves with their dogs and holding a bag of dog muck and post it on their social media and nominate six friends to do the same and use the hashtag #PROUDTOPICKUP . If you aren't blessed with a dog at this moment in time please take a shot of yourself placing litter in a bin. It's to take the embarrassment and stigma out of picking up and stop it being a furtive chore. Have fun with it.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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This photo is not posed or staged. I was working as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and we were fixing a house of an old couple across the street from this shop to help prevent the old couple from getting evicted. It was a very hot day and I went in the barbershop and asked the barber if I could sit down there for a bit and cool down. He welcomed me and offered cold water. The barber stood like that holding his chair as he looked out the door waiting for customers. I took this photo as I sat there drinking water. I was drawn to the expressions on his face as he was lost in some thoughts. This old barbershop is in one of the forgotten neighborhoods of Charlotte, North Carolina with long lasting economic impact of redlining due to racial segregation policies of the recent past. You can see part of my leg and the other empty chair in the mirror that is hanging in the bottom right corner of the frame.
Prince Hall Masons are a historically significant branch of Freemasonry founded by African Americans in the late 18th century. Beulah Lodge #37, Prince Hall Masons, and the Rose of Beulah Chapter #251, Order of the Eastern Star (O.E.S.) are longstanding institutions in Eastman, Georgia, serving as important social and cultural anchors for the local Black community, especially during eras of segregation and limited civil rights. Their buildings, often centrally located, symbolize resilience and collective achievement.
Prince Hall Masons, Beulah Lodge #37 & Rose of Beulah, Chapter #251 O.E.S.
Eastman, Dodge County, Georgia USA
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L’abbatiale de Saint Pierre de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, comprend les deux orientations majeures du discours religieux de cette époque. En effet cette église insiste sur l'Hagiographie en étant dédiée, aux Saint Pierre et Saint Paul ainsi qu’à Sainte Félicité de Carthage- et sur l’idée d’un jugement dernier, de la pesée des âmes.
L'historienne Evelyne PROUST ajoute que nous ne sommes pas face au thème du jugement dernier mais devant un prélude au jugement dernier qui souligne l'apparition en majesté du Christ à la fin des temps d'après une vision de Matthieu. Du point de vue iconographique, il faut associer au tympan proprement dit le registre horizontal situé au-dessus du linteau. Trois mondes nous sont présentés : le ciel, la terre et l'enfer. Contrairement à d'autres tympans qui semblent traiter d'un sujet proche, on ne trouve pas sur le Tympan de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne une véritable représentation de la pesée des âmes.
Le tympan se situe sur le portail Sud, souligné d’une triple voussure, domine un trumeau sculpté et de piédroits richement ornés de hauts reliefs. Le tympan, en arc de cercle s’inscrit dans une voûte en plein cintre. Les nombreuses figures sont comprises dans trois registres. Le registre principal, est axé sur un christ pantocrator entouré d’anges, de saints .... C'est l'emplacement du ciel, de la vision céleste qui regroupe à la fois le Christ, les apôtres, les nuages et les anges. L’échelle du personnage varie en fonction de son importance, le Christ domine par sa taille les anges et les saints, qui eux même sont plus grands que les mortels et les ressuscités (du deuxième registre) . La multitude des personnages n’empêche pas la lisibilité de la scène car l’image est composée en registres.
Les deux registres inférieurs, en frises, sont ornés de chimères, d’humains malmenés, et de motifs ornementaux stylisés. Le deuxième registre est donc une représentation du monde terrestre comprenant les mortels qui vont être jugés à la fin des temps et les ressuscités ont été jugés. Enfin le dernier registre nous présente les scènes de l'enfer.
Le linteau, sous-registre, se garnit d'animaux fantastiques et de chimères allégories des bêtes de l'apocalypse (par sept têtes). La domination du Christ est appuyée par la ségrégation des registres hiérarchisés, et par le plus grand espace occupé par la vision céleste.
The abbey church of Saint Pierre in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, includes the two major orientations of the religious discourse of this time. Indeed this church insists on the Hagiography by being dedicated, to Saint Peter and Saint Paul as well as to Saint Felicity of Carthage - and on the idea of a last judgment, of the weighing of souls.
The historian Evelyne PROUST adds that we are not facing the theme of the Last Judgment but a prelude to the Last Judgment which underlines the appearance in majesty of Christ at the end of time from a vision of Matthew. From an iconographic point of view, it is necessary to associate with the tympanum proper the horizontal register located above the lintel. Three worlds are presented to us: heaven, earth and hell. Unlike other tympanums which seem to deal with a close subject, one does not find on the Tympanum of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne a true representation of the weighing of souls.
The tympanum is located on the south portal, underlined by a triple arch, dominates a sculpted pier and piers richly decorated with high reliefs. The tympanum, in an arc of a circle, is part of a semicircular vault. The many figures are included in three registers. The main register is based on a Christ pantocrator surrounded by angels, saints .... It is the location of the sky, of the celestial vision which brings together both Christ, the apostles, the clouds and the angels . The scale of the character varies according to his importance, Christ dominates by his size the angels and the saints, who themselves are greater than the mortals and the risen ones (of the second register). The multitude of characters does not prevent the legibility of the scene because the image is composed in registers.
The two lower registers, in friezes, are decorated with chimeras, manhandled humans, and stylized ornamental motifs. The second register is therefore a representation of the terrestrial world comprising the mortals who will be judged at the end of time and the resurrected have been judged. Finally the last register presents the scenes of hell.
The lintel, sub-register, is furnished with fantastic animals and chimeras, allegories of the beasts of the apocalypse (by seven heads). The domination of Christ is supported by the segregation of hierarchical registers, and by the greater space occupied by the celestial vision.
Kayamandi is a suburb of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape region of South Africa located off route R304.
The name means "nice home" in the Xhosa language, from khaya meaning "home" and mnandi meaning "nice". It was founded in the early 1950s as part of the increased segregation during the apartheid regime.
It was originally built to house exclusively black migrant male labourers employed on the farms in the Stellenbosch area.
Black Oystercatcher ( Haematopus unipolar ) Interbreeds at times with Pied Oystercatchers so birds are variable
However they usually group into separate species at roost and are commonly seen in pairs at other times.
I have upward of 500 park near my home of mixed types and the segregation is humorous and highly vocal even through the night...
Comical, characters that bring life to an estuary.....
Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball. His character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, not only in baseball, but in American life.
Robinson had an exceptional baseball career. Over ten seasons, he played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Championship. He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 – the first black player so honored. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. In 1997, Major League Baseball retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams.
At the November 2006 groundbreaking of Citi Field, it was announced that the main entrance, modeled on the one in Brooklyn's old Ebbets Field, would be called the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. The rotunda was dedicated at the opening of Citi Field on April 16, 2009. It honors Robinson with large quotations spanning the inner curve of the facade and features a large freestanding statue of his number 42.
O Dia Em Que As Crianças Eram Apenas Crianças ... / The Day Children Were Just Children...
O Dia Em Que As Crianças Eram Apenas Crianças ...
Quando o líder do CHEGA, André Ventura, principal partido de oposição em Portugal, resolve instrumentalizar crianças em um ato político de segregação na Assembleia da República, questionamos os limites éticos da política portuguesa e dos parlamentares que apoiam essas ações.
A referencia de uma lista de nomes de varias crianças, filhos de emigrantes que estão supostamente a tomar o lugar das crianças Portuguesas nas escolas foi a gota de água que indignou muitos na sociedade Portuguesa.
Nessa sequencia a Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados (CNPD) abriu assim um processo de averiguações sobre a divulgação de nomes de menores, alunos numa escola em Lisboa, por parte do líder do Chega, André Ventura, no Parlamento.
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The Day Children Were Just Children...
When the leader of CHEGA, André Ventura, the main opposition party in Portugal, decides to use children in a political act of segregation in the National Assembly, we question the ethical limits of Portuguese politics and the parliamentarians who support these actions.
The reference to a list of names of several children, children of immigrants who are supposedly taking the places of Portuguese children in schools, was the final straw that outraged many in Portuguese society.
In the aftermath, the National Data Protection Commission (CNPD) opened an investigation into the disclosure of the names of minors, students at a school in Lisbon, by the leader of Chega, André Ventura, in Parliament.
Europe, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Centre, Pompenburg, Luchtsingel, Roundabout, Trampoline (uncut)
The ol’ Luchtsingel is still there. It was closed for two years to prevent the wood rot of the outer shell from damaging the wooden support structure. But it still seriously needs some more maintenance.
The Luchtsingel and the adjacent Schieblock projects (created in 2015 by ZUS architects) are interesting strategies that counteract the detrimental effects that the combination of modernist urban planning—with its rigorous segregation of work, living, and commercial functions—and chronic high levels of office building vacancy have on the liveability and vitality of the city centre.
Shown here is the Roundabout of the Luchtsingel. It offers a circuit of elevated walkways that pass through the Schieblock, cross major roads and a railroad to offer the pedestrians new ways to discover the city, help them to avoid the anonymous and sometimes unsafe existing urban ground level and realise a connection between emerging cultural hotspots in the Rotterdam Central and Noord areas. Design: Architectenbureau ZUS.. Funding: the municipality of Rotterdam and crowdsourcing / crowdfunding. For 25 € people could buy planks on which the name of the buyer is printed.
In the BG is the bridge that leads to the platform of the former Hofplein railway station. It crosses the 4 tracks of the Rotterdam-Dordecht NS railway mainline.
Shot during an extended lunch with Leun at Roosje with the 7Artisans 7,5mm f/2,8 fisheye.
The soundtrack: Yes - Roundabout.
This is number 10 of the Luchtsingel album and 348 of Urban Frontiers.
Whopping big rubbish bin signs proclaiming their segregation. Found between the old Barr Smith Library and the Ingkarni Wardli building. The Recycling sign is leaning forward because it is attached tot he swinging lid of its bin.
Harvey and Dorothy Lewis Thompson opened the Imperial Hotel to accommodate African-American travelers to the Thomasville area during the infamous Jim Crow Era. The hotel was listed in the "Negro Motorist Green Book" travel guides. Restoration of this important historical landmark seems to be underway. [Photos of the decaying, signless motel can be seen here at Brian Brown's Vanishing Georgia: vanishinggeorgia.com/2021/11/21/imperial-hotel-1949-thoma....]
Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia USA
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© 2024 Mike McCall
MLK day
... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream that one day right there in Alabama little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
AP
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mural seen on the wall of Buck's Back Yard at 2750 Lemon Street in Fort Myers, Florida. Please tag if you know the artist.
Buck's Back Yard is the area surrounding McCollum Hall. In the 1930s and 1940s, McCollum Hall was a thriving center for music, dance, and community gatherings. It was one of the few places in the region where Black and white patrons could dance together, and it was listed in the Green Book—a crucial guide for African American travelers seeking safe accommodations during segregation.
During this era, legendary musicians such as Louis Armstrong, B.B. King, Ella Fitzgerald, and Duke Ellington made their way through Fort Myers and found refuge at McCollum Hall. Buck McCollum, struck a deal with these traveling artists: they could park their vehicles on his property in exchange for a performance at his event center.
Recently, Shari Shifrin and the Mural Society worked with the city and the Community Redevelopment Agency to create murals depicting the hall’s legacy. Using vintage photographs, they painted scenes from its heyday onto its walls, reintroducing the community to its rich past. (WFTX - Fort Myers, Florida)
Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee.
Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies :-)
― Suzy Kassem
HPPT!!
j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, Raleigh, north carolina
Montford Point Marine Memorial - The Montford Point Marine Memorial is dedicated to all Montford Point Marines and their legacy. A dedication ceremony was held on July 29, 2016 to officially open the Memorial to the public. From 1942 to 1949, the first Black Marines, reluctantly admitted to the Marine Corps in a time of segregation, had to “fight for the right to fight” while serving in the segregated base now named Camp Johnson in honor of one of their own. While no of official record exists of all the Marines who served during this time, the wall of more than 20,000 stars reflects each member of a group who became distinguished in their war fighting.
Information above copied from jacksonvillenc.gov/648/Lejeune-Memorial-Gardens
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my written permission.
© Toni_V. All rights reserved.
acrylic on canvas, 13 x 18 cm
The "New Normal" is a pseudo-medical social segregation system based on a pathologized totalitarian ideology that underlies it.
This is straight out of the Nazi playbook
consentfactory.org/2021/07/19/the-propaganda-war-and-how-...
Le « Nouveau Normal » est un système pseudo-médical de ségrégation sociale basé sur une idéologie totalitaire pathologisée qui le sous-tend.
Ceci est tout droit sorti du scénario nazi
Het 'nieuwe normaal' is een pseudo-medisch sociaal apartheidssysteem gebaseerd op een gepathologiseerde totalitaire ideologie die eraan ten grondslag ligt.
Dit komt rechtstreeks uit het nazi-draaiboek
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The Holocaust didn’t begin with mass deaths. It begin with propaganda, scapegoating and segregation.
Vera Sharav: "Under the nazi-regime Jews were declared 'spreaders of disease' and sent to the gas chambers. I just want to bring a sense of reality.."
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The “new normal” will still be presented to us as a concession that will require us to accept the deprivation of freedoms that we had taken for granted, and accordingly we will compromise without understanding the absurdity of our compliance and the obscenity of the demands of those who command us, giving us orders so absurd that they truly require a total abdication of reason and dignity. At each step there is a new turn of the screw and a further step towards the abyss: if we do not stop ourselves in this race towards collective suicide we will never go back. (Mgr Vigano)
www.aldomariavalli.it/2021/05/19/monsignor-vigano-lies-em...
La « nouvelle normalité » nous sera encore présentée comme une concession qui nous obligera à accepter la privation de libertés que nous tenions pour acquises, et en conséquence, nous ferons des compromis sans comprendre l’absurdité de notre conformité et l’obscénité des exigences de ceux qui nous commandent, nous donnant des ordres si absurdes qu’ils exigent véritablement une abdication totale de la raison et de la dignité. À chaque pas, il y a un nouveau tour de vis et un pas de plus vers l’abîme : si nous ne nous arrêtons pas dans cette course au suicide collectif, nous ne reviendrons jamais en arrière.(Mgr Vigano)
www.medias-presse.info/le-great-reset-le-dernier-grand-me...
"The New Normal", a book by Amitai Etzioni, 2014
Amitai Etzioni (born Werner Falk, January 4, 1929) is a German-born Israeli and American sociologist, best known for his work on communitarianism.
Jan Theuninck is an adept of anti-communitarianism,
tracing the terminology to find an entire system which had infiltrated our governments and was rewriting state policies and objectives. Civil and individual rights and freedoms are abolished and the life becomes micromanaged.
cfr The third way is no way - 2004 (logo ACL)
That man can be a slave even without being put in chains is of crucial importance in our situation today - Erich Fromm
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Jan Theuninck has been painting the evolution of Western totalitarianism for 20 years - he saw the evolution within the political spectrum where the socialist parties were lost (Fagospatose, 2001) in the Third Way (The third way is no way, 2004) movement of Clinton , Blair and Schröder with which they gave a face to communitarianism of the New World Order. He has often compared the latter to a new kind of National Socialism. His attention has always been fixed thanks to the more than 50 years of misery with blackmail games of the services and torture practices with chemical and energy weapons (Beyond the limit, 2001, Rinascimento, 2009, The culture of learned helplessness, 2011, Neostasi, 2012, Derailed system , 2012, The banality of Evil, 2013, Zersetzung, 2014, ils nous tiennent, 2015, Submission, 2015, Threat, 2016, Utopia, 2016, Conformity, 2017, Brainwashing, 2018, Warnung, 2019, Dein Kampf, 2019, Censorship, 2020, Post-truth society, 2020 and in 2021: Political Pandemic, New World Order, The Great Reset, Angel Vaccine, Aryan Corona Passport, Cytokine Storm, Back from never been away, Sustainable Dictatorship.
(In 2014 he already painted Virus Attack without believing that this would become a climax of the Davos counter-revolution years later)
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_sc...
www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.be/wiki/index.php/Yperite-Jan...
www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel... (année 2016)
www.eutrio.be/expo-west-meets-east
No segregation
Film Canon EOS30
EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM
philippelourgant.wixsite.com/monsite
R1-02549-012Anb
🇫🇷 La peste bubonique ayant éclaté, bientôt imputée à « ces hordes Kafir incontrôlées » de nombreux Blancs exigeaient la ségrégation... Entre 6 000 et 7 000 personnes ont été déplacées de force vers UneUitvlugt ( ou Ndabenia) située à côté d'une station d'épuration. Ce fut un township africain de couleur noire ,des « Hottentots, Malais et métis ».La commune comprenait 5 grands dortoirs pour 500 hommes chacun et 615 huttes adossées en tôle ondulée, sans plancher, souvent inondées lors des pluies hivernales. Les installations de lavage et de cuisine étaient publiques et inadéquates,
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🇬🇧 With the outbreak of the bubonic plague, soon blamed on "these uncontrolled Kafir hordes", many whites demanded segregation... Between 6,000 and 7,000 people were forcibly moved to UneUitvlugt (or Ndabenia) located next to a sewage treatment plant. The township consisted of 5 large dormitories for 500 men each and 615 floorless corrugated iron huts, often flooded during the winter rains. Washing and cooking facilities were public and inadequate,
🇩🇪 Nachdem die Beulenpest ausgebrochen war, die bald auf "diese unkontrollierten Kafir-Horden" zurückgeführt wurde, forderten viele Weiße die Rassentrennung... Zwischen 6.000 und 7.000 Menschen wurden zwangsweise nach UneUitvlugt ( oder Ndabenia) umgesiedelt, das neben einer Kläranlage lag. Die Gemeinde bestand aus fünf großen Schlafsälen für jeweils 500 Männer und 615 Wellblechhütten ohne Boden, die bei Winterregen oft überschwemmt wurden. Die Wasch- und Kocheinrichtungen waren öffentlich und unzureichend,
🇪🇸 Con el estallido de la peste bubónica, pronto achacada a "estas hordas incontroladas de kafires", muchos blancos exigieron la segregación... Entre 6.000 y 7.000 personas fueron trasladadas a la fuerza a UneUitvlugt (o Ndabenia), situado junto a una planta de tratamiento de aguas residuales. El municipio constaba de 5 grandes dormitorios para 500 hombres cada uno y 615 cabañas de chapa ondulada sin suelo, a menudo inundadas durante las lluvias invernales. Las instalaciones para lavarse y cocinar eran públicas e inadecuadas,
🇮🇹 Con lo scoppio della peste bubbonica, presto imputata a "queste orde di kafir incontrollati", molti bianchi chiesero la segregazione... Tra le 6.000 e le 7.000 persone furono trasferite con la forza a UneUitvlugt (o Ndabenia), situata accanto a un impianto di trattamento delle acque reflue. La borgata consisteva in 5 grandi dormitori per 500 uomini ciascuno e in 615 capanne di ferro ondulato senza pavimento, spesso allagate durante le piogge invernali. Le strutture per lavarsi e cucinare erano pubbliche e inadeguate,
"Now, more than ever, how illusions of segregation threaten our existence. We all know the truth. More things connect us than separate us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges while fools build barriers"
People moving out, people moving in
Why? Because of the color of their skin
Run, run, run but you sure can't hide
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
Vote for me and I'll set you free
Rap on, brother, rap on
Well, the only person talking about love thy brother is the preacher
And it seems nobody's interested in learning but the teacher
Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration
Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to my nation
Ball of confusion
Oh yeah, that's what the world is today
Woo, hey, hey
-The Temptations
Built in 1923 as the Woodmen of the Union Building, this hotel, bathhouse, and performance venue quickly became the center of African American culture in Hot Springs. It housed virtually every great Negro League player and entertainer who visited the city. Famed entertainer, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson stayed here. He was a close friend of Babe Ruth and part owner of the New York Black Yankees. He was famous for leading parades through town, dancing the entire route.
In 1948, the National Baptist Convention bought one of the African American bathhouses, the Woodmen of the Union Building. The building featured first class hotel accommodations, a 2000 seat theater, a conference auditorium, gymnasium, print shop, beauty parlor, and newsstand. Because they were denied service at other medical facilities in the city, the building also served as the primary health care facility for the African American community, housing a hospital, doctor and dental offices, and a nurses’ training school. The hospital provided treatment to members free of charge, as well as to black indigent patients referred from other healthcare facilities in the city. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended the legal sanction for segregation of public places 127
On February 1, 1960, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond, all students at NC A&T, staged a sit-in at the Woolworth's on Elm Street wanting to protest segregation laws. Blair said, “We didn’t want to set the world on fire, we just wanted to eat.”
Two days later twenty more students joined with more joining each passing day, and the protest soon spread throughout the south.
On July 25, 1960, Woolworth's began serving African Americans with the first people served being the African American lunch counter staff themselves. Within a week, over 300 were served.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
Our Daily Challenge - I Was Here
(In Explore 7/25/2022)
Canon FD 35mm f/2 concave, taken at f/5.6
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Maritiem Distrct, Wijnhaven Eiland, Residential high rise, Facade (uncut)
Shown here is the residential high-rise 100Hoog (2013, Klunder Architecten, corner Wijnstraat and Posthoornstraat). Its height is 105.5 meters (33 floors). It consists of 152 owner-occupied apartments in the mid and high price brackets. The Wijnhaven redevelopment hasn’t offered affordable housing. No surprise in these neo-conservative times. Notable is that all apartments will have outdoor spaces (balconies or terraces). There will be 165 parking spaces for residents on the first and second floors. It is located on the transformed Wijnhaven Eiland.
The backstory:
In the 1980s, it became evident that the strictly functionalistic urban design of the post-World War II Rotterdam city centre no longer met the needs. In the first post-war decades, it did enhance functionality, offering a clear break from the congestion and other development problems of the pre-war city centre. And its morphology offered the symbolism of a brave new world. However, due to the 60s and 70s social-economic boom and the rise of consumerism, the strict segregation of living, business and administration made the city's heart feel like a place that didn't seem to live and breathe.
It was simply too high on business and too low on living and recreation. One of the programs to rectify this was the R'dam high-rise policy - the insertion of a series of high-density up-market apartment buildings in and near the city centre.
This is number 704 of Rotterdam architecture and 100 of Façades.
Don’t Tread On Me, God Damn, Let’s Go!— The Harlem Hellfighters is Butler’s largest quilt to date, measuring approximately 11 x 13 feet, and features nine life-sized figures. Through her striking portrait, Butler seeks to bring dignity to soldiers who faced segregation, racism, and injustice once they returned home.
This Canada Day is a very special one for me. It is my first such celebration living abroad, and it reminds me of how my ancestors arrived in Canada to begin with: some from France, some from Ukraine. From the town of Périgueux in the south of France in the second half of the 17th century, and from the small village of Ulychne near Lviv, Ukraine in 1903, among many other locations across the family tree. Canadian culture is established from is a rich cultural mosaic across the globe, including those indigenous to North America.
Today is a day to celebrate the birth of Canada as a nation, but I also believe it’s a day to celebrate the growth, change, and responsibility that Canada has showcased in recent years. I will not deny that the past can be painful; stories of slavery, residential schools, segregation, gender inequality, and countless examples of unequal rights for people because of their beliefs and orientations. We’ve come a long way, and the path forward continues in front of us. I am proud of the progress seen during the lifetime of my ancestors, and during mine.
As Canadian heritage is often associated with global origins, I remember moments in the past about how Canada has been a nation that makes the world a better place. One such example happened at the end of World War 2: Operation Manna. The Netherlands was occupied by the Nazis and they would not allow the transport of food into the region, forcing the entire population into starvation. Canadian Farley Mowat (later to become a famous writer) was among the allies who negotiated with the German commander-in-chief, Johannes Blaskowitz, to allow Avro Lancaster bombers to fly low over Nazi-occupied territory to drop bags of food. The promise was that they would be dropping only food, with the counter-promise that they would not be fired on. Countless lives were saved in this operation, which was later joined by the United States in Operation Chowhound.
Canada has long since been a keeper of peace around the world, typically finding ways to avoid conflict and ensure prosperity. Some of these projects were a mixed bag (like the road construction projects in Afghanistan), while others were remarkably successful, including UN efforts to bring peace to Central America post-Cold War. Now, the peacekeeping efforts are focused on Eastern Europe, where I also now call home; The border to Ukraine is a 350km drive from where we live. This is a much different approach to peace, however.
In 2014, Canada was helping Ukraine with non-violent aid: night-vision equipment, bullet-proof vests, and other protective gear. That changed this year, and here is a breakdown of what has been sent, when: ploughshares.ca/2022/06/canadian-military-aid-to-ukraine-.... On that list we can see meals, funding for satellite surveillance, gas masks, but most importantly: weapons and ammunition. This includes M982 “Excalibur” munition for the M777 howitzers that were sent, and I single this out as a specific thing I’m proud of.
You can read more about it here ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur ). This is a GPS-guided precision artillery round that can be used “in situations where targets might be prohibitively close to civilians to attack with conventional unguided artillery fire”. Using this ammunition will save innocent lives. If the war must be fought, and it must, then strike the enemy with surgical precision. I sincerely hope Canada will send more alongside the replacement barrels for the artillery units.
The world dances a delicate ballet around this current existential conflict in Ukraine, careful not to trigger an even more catastrophic event. Prior to February 24th, Canadian Special Forces were training Ukrainian soldiers in their homeland. We’ve equipped them with the best tools to fight that we can provide. I know that the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada is proud of this, while simultaneously wishing for more to be done.
Some people might say “fighting a war is the opposite of peace”. If Ukraine stops fighting, it ceases to exist. The path to peace here is not an easy one. This Canada Day, I’ll be reflecting on all the ways that Canada has helped the world, including Ukraine. This includes during war, but also during peace. Canada's international assistance spending increased by 27% to CAD$8.4 billion in 2021. More is being done to make the world a better place.
Is it a perpetual shining example of how the world should work? No. You won’t find that anywhere, except maybe Northern Europe and New Zealand. Canada needs to get it’s act together about climate change, as an example ( climateactiontracker.org/countries/canada/ ). Political influence from the United States has also created a greater ideological rift in the nation, and I’ve never voted for a politician that I could truly trust. However, Canada is a great example of a country that can evolve and change to meet the needs of its people and the world.
While I have chosen to live abroad, I am Canadian. Happy Canada Day to all those Canadians around the globe. Let’s all try to make the world a better place.
A portrait of Laddie. Please don't forget to take part in #PROUDTOPICKUP. I have been picking up after my dog for nearly 20 years now and during that time no one has ever said Thank You, makes you think. We really have to think beyond archaic dogs on lead bylaws and exclusion zones which belong in the dustbin of history alongside Apartheid and Segregation. Welcome to the 21st Century, To show you can achieve more with education than enforcement I am asking everyone of my contacts on Flickr to post a picture of themselves with their dogs and holding a bag of dog muck and post it on their social media and nominate six friends to do the same and use the hashtag #PROUDTOPICKUP . If you aren't blessed with a dog at this moment in time please take a shot of yourself placing litter in a bin. It's to take the embarrassment and stigma out of picking up and stop it being a furtive chore. Have fun with it.
Explore Highest position: 95 on Sunday, August 13, 2017
It was an inmate rebellion without a plan, without leadership and without goals. There were few heroes, plenty of villains and many victims.
When State Police marched into the Penitentiary of New Mexico on Feb. 3, 1980, they didn't retake the prison from rioting inmates so much as they occupied the charred shell after the riot had burned itself out.
Thirty-three inmates were found dead inside -- some of them horribly butchered by their fellow prisoners.
The emergency room at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe was overwhelmed with more than 100 inmates -- some beaten, others suffering from drug overdoses.
Eight of the 12 guards who had been taken hostage were treated for injuries. Surprisingly, none of the guards was killed.
It was a black mark on New Mexico history as the nation was captivated by the horror stories that dribbled out of
Santa Fe. The riot began in the early morning hours of Saturday, Feb. 2, when guards entered dormitory E-2 on the south side of the Prison. The door to the dormitory wasn't locked, in violation of prison security procedures. Neither was a hallway gate that led to the prison control room. Four guards were taken hostage during the first few minutes of the riot.
In all, there were 15 guards on duty inside the prison that night, supervising more than 1,100 inmates.
Inmates rushed down the main corridor and broke the shatterproof glass at the control center. The guard on duty fled, leaving behind keys that could open most of the prison gates and doors.
The inside of the prison became a nightmare of violence. One Associated Press reporter later described it in a story distributed worldwide as a "merry-go-round gone crazy."
Fires were set. Inmates ripped out plumbing fixtures, flooding parts of the prison. Other inmates got into the infirmary and began taking drugs. Others began hunting their enemies, and found them.
The National guard at the Penitentiary
Sometime around 8 a.m. that Saturday morning, inmates began using tools from the prison to gain access to cellblock 4, which housed the "snitches" and inmates in protective segregation. The "snitches" met a horrible end.
One was hung from the upper tier of the cellblock, another decapitated. Most of the 33 inmates killed were from the segregation unit.
Early Saturday morning, fitful negotiations began with some inmate leaders. Ambulances shuttled the dead and injured to St. Vincent. Smoke poured out of the prison gymnasium.
It became clear later that neither the inmates nor the state had a single spokesman during the negotiations. Eventually, inmates made 11 basic demands. Some concerned basic prison conditions like overcrowding, inmate discipline, educational services and improving food. They also wanted outside witnesses -- federal officials and the news media.
Hostage guards were released. Some of the guards had been protected by inmates; others were brutally beaten. "One was tied to a chair. Another lay naked on a stretcher, blood pouring from a head wound," a Journal reporter wrote. Negotiations broke off about 1 a.m. Sunday and state officials insisted no concessions had been made. But the riot, fueled by drugs and hate, was running out of gas.
Later Sunday morning, inmates began to trickle out of the prison, seeking refuge at the fence where National Guardsmen stood with their M-16s. Black inmates led the exodus from the smoldering cellblocks, staying in groups large enough to defend themselves from other inmates.
It was over.
From the Attorney General's Report
Shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 1980, inmates at the Penitentiary of New Mexico near Santa Fe overpowered four correctional officers ... in a medium security dormitory. The inmates rushed through the open dormitory door and, within minutes, captured four more officers.
Using keys taken from the officers, inmates freed fellow prisoners ... then moved through an open grill gate to the administrative area ... smashed their way into the main control center (and gained) access to every part of the main penitentiary building where 1,157 male inmates were under the custody and care of 25 correctional employees.
In the 36 hours that followed, 12 officers were held hostage, some of them beaten, stabbed and sodomized. Thirty-three inmates died at the hands of fellow prisoners, some of the victims were tortured and their bodies mutilated. At least 90 other inmates were seriously injured in the riot, suffering from drug overdoses or beatings, stabbings and rapes inflicted by other convicts. Most of the inmates had escaped to the outside of the walls by the time the riot was over.
Prison officials communicated with inmates throughout the weekend in an effort to negotiate the release of the hostage officers and the surrender of the inmates. By 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 1980, the violence had spent itself; police and National Guardsmen retook the penitentiary without resistance.
(copied form the ghost huntes of NM website
The "Zeche Nachtigall" is a former coal mine in Witten-Bommern.
The mine was also known under the name coalmine Nachtigal in the Hetberge, colliery nightingale in the Hedtberge, trade union in the Hedtberge and coal bank in the Hettberger wood.
The mine is in Witten-Bommern at the entrance of the Muttental and is a part of the mining footpath Muttental.
The was one of the biggest civil engineering colliery of the region. On the mine were diminished in the civil engineering fat coal rich in piece which had a good quality. Today is the colliery a museum.
Small colliery were stone coal pits whose staff, equipment and production far lie under their one big mines. Most of all it concerned pure tunnel companies (without segregation shafts).