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When Kristie decided back in '06 to go to Dental School we said that when she graduated we would take a cruise as a celebration. Well that time was finally here. To celebrate her graduation, and our 6th wedding anniversary last week we took an 8 day / 7 night Caribbean cruise on the Carnival Pride.
The Pride leaves out of Baltimore Harbor and sails to Port Canaveral Florida, Nassau, Bahamas, and Freeport Bahamas. As you'll see we spent our time in those ports in Cocoa Beach, Florida, Nassau / Paradise Island, and Our Lucaya Beach on Grand Bahama Island.
In this photo you can see the sign that shows that the original Mercury 7 astronauts used to own this hotel (which is now a La Quinta). It took us quite a while to find this and we walked miles...but finally located it. It is pretty much right across the street from Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach. The sign is behind the hotel near the pool area.
If you would like to find this sign, I don't want you to have to work as hard as I did to find it. Click this link below to see the exact location of it:
Prior to the opening of Interstate 81, U. S. Route 11 was the main north-south highway through the great valley of Virginia. Stretching some 350-mile from West Virginia to Tennessee, Route 11 was home to some of Virginia’s best roadside attractions, including Natural Bridge, and the caverns of the Shenandoah Valley. Also before the interstate, Route 11 featured many tourist motel and motor courts as they were called back then. These family owned motels provided motorist with basic clean accommodations for the night, while touting such modern amenities as “color TV” and “Air Conditioning.” Most of these family run motels were either rendered obsolete when the Interstates passed them by or were swallowed up by the chain motels. One of these old tourist motels is still in business on Route 11 west of Salem, Virginia. The Blue Jay Motel has been in business for well over 50-years and still welcomes guests who find their way off of Interstate 81 to visit nearby Dixie Caverns. The Blue Jay Motel Sign still stands at the entrance, but is fast falling into disrepair. Until recently the sign still worked at night but during the last year or so it has stopped working. Hopefully, business will improve and the owners can renovate and repair this icon of an earlier time.
Greece lives in a theory street, passing by bankrupt phrases. Perhaps we will not crash after all.
Theory and reality, people of Greece owes, people of Portugal, of Ireland, of Italy owes… And, people of Germany owes, yes, millions of people of Europe, of the US, owes billions to… somewhere… billions of people of Africa, Asia, people of the world owes trillions (?) to a few… to whom ?
We will live, but soon maybe Greece will belong to non Greeks, to banks owners perhaps. It's a new kind of business, to sell and buy countries.
Fake money, monopoly games, ghosts against people… theory and reality
And then peope against ghosts.
We don't know these days against whom we must fight, sometimes we turn against our selves, do we deserve it ?
Revolution, but where is a goddam King, a goddam dictator, things are not simple anymore !
Zum sechsten Mal fand der „Tag der deutschen Zukunft“(TDDZ) statt, einem bundesweiten Neonazi-Event in Form einer Demonstration. Bisher wurde nur in Norddeutschland demonstriert. Im sechsten Jahr war die Stadt Dresden an der Reihe und auch hier konnten die Neonazis relativ ungestört mit weniger als 500 Teilnehmern laufen.
Nach vielen Reden auf der Abschlusskundgebung wurde angekündigt ,wo der TDDZ 2015 stattfinden wird: Neuruppin, Brandenburg.
Ein Brandenburger Bereitschaftsbeamte reagierte auf die Frage was er dazu sage, dass im kommenden Jahr die Neonazis durch sein Bereich marschieren wollen: „Na weit werden die nicht kommen!“
Gegendemonstranten versuchten zwar in das Aufmarschgebiet zu gelangen, doch bis auf etwa 80 Personen kam kaum einer durch, da die Polizei mit 2000 Beamten (Unterstützung kam aus folgenden Bundesländern: Hamburg, Niedersachsen, Brandenburg, Berlin, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen, Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Nordrhein-Westfalen sowie der Bundespolizei) das Gebiet gut unter Kontrolle hatte.
Ebenfalls unter Kontrolle hatte die Polizei, durch Kräfte der BFE Niedersachsen und Sachsen, auch eine Gruppe von etwa 100-150 norddeutschen Antifaschisten, welche in einem spontanen Demonstrationszug in der Nähe der ursprünglichen Route durch die Straßen liefen.
Angereist waren Antifaschisten aus verschiedenen Gebieten Deutschlands, doch es waren deutlich weniger als sonst im Febraur.
Der wohlmöglich bald in Haft gehenden Neonazi, Dieter Riefling, konnte so den Tag als Erfolg feiern. Die Neonazis liefen ohne Probleme durch die „Freie Stadt Dresden“. Zwar waren es weniger als die erwarteten tausend, doch die Zahl der Neonazis beim TDDZ bleibt konstant im mittleren dreistelligen Bereich. Die Gegenprotestierenden feiern dies als Erfolg, doch es ist objektiv betrachtet eine Niederlage.
Die Antifaschisten konnten nichts ausrichten und bleiben, wie andern Orts, bei der Taktik „Bloß nicht in die Innenstadt“, da diese prestigträchtig sei. Stattdessen stört es die Organisatoren nicht spürbar, dass die Neonazis durch bewohntes Randgebiet gelaufen sind und zum Teil sogar Zuspruch aus den Häusern bekam. Lieber lobt man die „Kampagnenarbeit“ (die Mobilisierung fing erst wenige Wochen vorher ernsthaft an, obwohl der Termin und die Stadt seit einem Jahr bekannt war) und das die Innenstadt Nazifrei blieb. Die oft kritisierte Stadt hätte dies mit Menschen- und Lichterketten sicher nicht besser hinbekommen, doch brauch dieses nicht mehr, da offensichtlich die radikale Linke vor der Polizeitaktik kapituliert und sich auf städtische PR-Arbeit konzentriert.
Gleichzeitig versuchen sie ihren Misserfolg damit zu kaschieren, dass bei den Neonazis die Zahlen der Demonstranten „weiter rückläufig“ seien. Sowohl letztes Jahr in Wolfsburg, wie auch das Jahr davor in Hamburg waren es „nur“ etwa 500 Neonazis. Bei einer gleichbleibenden Tendenz an Teilnehmerzahlen zwischen 400-500 Personen seit drei Jahren, muss man von Konstanz sprechen und nicht beschönigend von „rückläufig“.
Wie üblich also keine Selbstkritik, kein Eingestehen der Niederlage, sondern ein hochjubeln und freuen – bloß den Anschein bewahren dass Dresden Nazifrei bleibt…
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Eastbound billboard on the Santan Freeway Loop 202 for Kid to Kid.
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The Santan Freeway Loop 202 is in the southeast valley of Phoenix. Onsite Insite offers billboards along the Santan Freeway between I-10 and the Price Freeway Loop 101 in Chandler, AZ.
Illustrations of traditional Carnival characters of Recife (Passista de Frevo, Caboclo de Lança, Galo da Madrugada and Cortejo de Maracatu).
Client: RGA/City of Recife
Year: 2011
Just in case anyone was confused if we were still in the South.... (the only thing missing here is a Rebel flag and a banjo player!)
An ID goes after the Satans Disciples, and an LK tags up some King Love next to it (IDs and LKs are bitter enemies though).I dont know if these Deuces are "Cullerton" IDs or if they are sourced from the northside "Hamlin Park" IDs. Joliet pic courtesy of Jacknash711. (Gang Graffiti)
"Wendy's" Restaurant Sign. Wallingford CT. Pics by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube. #Wendys
Lilly May HUMAN was born 7 Feb 1876 in Missouri, daughter of Jonathan & Arabelle (Rathbun) Milligan. She was married twice; first to Dempsey B. Powell whom she married on 29 Oct 1902, and secondly to Arthur Randolph Human whom she married on 11 Jun 1913 in Humboldt, Arizona. She died on 27 Dec 1954 of a pulmonary embolus in Cottonwood, Arizona. She is buried next to Arthur Human at Middle Verde Cemetery near Camp Verde, Arizona.
LILLY MAY MILLIGAN POWELL HUMAN
Lilly May, daughter of Jonathon and Arabelle Milligan was born on February 7, 1876 in Missouri. She received her education in Walsenburg, Colorado. Her parents had a farm on the Big Muddy Creek near Gardner, Colorado but they and other families could not get legal water rights since the farmers down stream had obtained the first water rights. A water commissioner came and locked their gates making the farms worthless. Jonathon had been seeing brochures and ads giving wonderful accounts of a land in the desert of Arizona that was to be developed for farming and settlers were wanted. The area was called Paradise Valley.
Disliking the cold weather in Colorado, Jonathon and Arabelle decided to move to that part of Arizona Territory. They sold their cattle, kept a few horses and the wagon and gave away the farm. But Jonathon broke his leg so the trip was postponed until June of 1896. May, her parents and brothers began their trek to the new territory traveling by covered wagon, horseback and, when the going really got rough, on foot. May kept a diary of their sojourn from Colorado through New Mexico to Arizona which was published in the Prescott Courier in the summer of 1973.
After entering the new territory they came to Stoneman Lake and since their eldest son, Eugene, was having stomach pains, they stayed there ten days. Some people by the lake had a cow and a big garden and generously shared their larder with the Milligans. Some hunters also provided game to the family which was most welcome as they were almost out of food. Some other travelers stopped at Stoneman Lake on their way from the Salt River Valley. They related that there was no water yet in Paradise Valley and the whole area was as hot as Hades. So Johathon changed his plans and traveling south the family finally settled on the Agua Fria River Valley near present day Dewey, Arizona, that August of 1896.
May did not have a lot of formal education but she was tall, slender, nice looking and had a presence. The Dewey School Board was desperate for a teacher for their school so they hired May. She taught one year in the one room schoolhouse with eight grades. She also taught in Jerome and Yaeger Canyon where some families ran a sawmill. The Yaegar schoolhouse later became a Forest Service Ranger Station.
In 1902 May married Dempsey Powell and the couple had two children; Velma Powell Files born on October 6, 1903 and Virgil John Powell born on December 4, 1904. Her second marriage in May of 1913 was to Arthur Randolph Human, also a blacksmith. She would not marry Arthur until he made a home for her and her two young children. Arthur homesteaded in the Humboldt area, dug a well, acquired cattle and built a frame house for his new family. May and Arthur had a daughter Mary Belle Human Smith born on July 31, 1917 in the smelter hospital at Humboldt, Arizona.
In addition to being a wife and homemaker, May belonged to the Woman’s Club and the Baptist Church. She knew Sharlot Hall when Sharlot lived at the Hall family Orchard Ranch and was a delighted visitor to the Governor’s Mansion when Sharlot started the museum in Prescott.
May died on December 26, 1954 at Cottonwood and is buried in Middle Verde Cemetery in the Human family plot.
Donor: Mary Bell Human Smith, daughter
July 2003
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
yoko ono "
Billboard Location:
Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW, San Antonio, Texas
" IMAGINE PEACE
IMAGíNATE LA PAZ
Billboard Locations:
1 / Highway 78 ES 0.2mi. S/O Loop 1604 F/NE
2 / Thousand oaks NS 1.2mi. W/O Wetmore F/NW
3 / Bandera ES 150ft. N/O Ligustrum F/SE
4 / Austin highway ES 520ft. N/O Vandiver F/NE
5 / Rigsby NS 75ft. W/O Irwin F/W
6 / US 90 SS 0.6mi. W/O Callaghan F/W
7 / Grissom SS 0.2mi. W/O Timber Path F/E
8 / Military SW NS 300ft. W/O new Laredo Highway F/W
9 / Babcock WS 250ft. S/O Springtime F/S "
YOKO ONO: IMAGINE PEACE Featuring John & Yoko's Year of Peace
September 26th - October 28th, 2007
UTSA Art Gallery / Department of Art and Art History
The University of Texas at San Antonio
The diner is a New Jersey art form, and I spent many late nights during my startup years whiling the night away with friends at the Hackettstown Diner.
But the Hackettstown Diner burned to the ground in 1996. (Arson, perpetrated by the owners, it seems.) Today, all that remains of it is this sign... and a Hackettstown Diner ashtray I found on eBay a few years ago.
Ritigala is an ancient Buddhist monastery and mountain in Sri Lanka. The ruins and rock inscriptions of the monastery date back to 1st century BCE. It is located 43 km away from the ancient monastic city of Anuradhapura. Ritigala mountain range consists of four peaks of which the main and the highest peak at the south of the range is named Ritigala Kanda. Ritigala mountain range, a 3776-acre (1582 ha) Strict Nature Reserve, in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka, is managed by the Department of Wildlife of Sri Lanka together with the Forest Department of Sri Lanka.
Ritigala Mountain
At 766 m (2513 feet) above sea level, and 600 m above the surrounding plains, Ritigala is the highest mountain in northern Sri Lanka. The modern name Ritigala is derived from the ancient name Ari??ha Pabbata (Dreadful Mountain), mentioned in the Mahavamsa. Its elevation is higher than the other main tourist attractions of the north central plains, namely Sigiriya, Dambulla and Mihintale. The significance of this topographical feature lies in the abrupt sheerness of the massif, its wooded slopes and wet microclimate at the summit. During the North East monsoon (December to February), Ritigala experiences the highest rainfall (125 cm) of entire dry zone. The wet micro climate at Ritigala is a singular occurrence in the north central plains, the ancient Sri Lanka’s “Wewe Bandi Rata” meaning “the land of rainwater reservoirs” in Sinhalese.
The climate at the summit is in sharp contrast to the climate at the foot; it is cooler in comparison to hot and dry climate of the region. Its rainfall records the highest in the whole of dry zone surrounding it by a good margin during the northeast monsoon of dry zone of the tropical island of Sri Lanka. The mist and cloud cover which encapsulate the summit during the south-west monsoon of Wet Zone of the island, results in high vapor condensation, in turn, turning the earth moist when the plains all around are in drought.
Legends
Legends abound on Ritigala. One of mysterious aspect is the belief of powerful medicinal herbs found near the crest. A herb called “Sansevi” is believed to have the power of conferring long life and curing all human pain. According to legend, all vegetation on Ritigala is protected by Yakkas, the guardian spirits of the mountain. The venerable Prof. Walpola Sri Rahula Maha Thera (1907–1997), a Professor of History and Religions at Northwestern University, a Buddhist monk scholar, in his “History of Buddhism in Ceylon, says "the term “Yaksa” denotes superhuman beings worthy of respect. It is possible that it was applied, by an extension of meaning, also to some pre-Buddhistic tribe of human beings, aboriginal to Ceylon".
The legend has it that Prince Pandukhabaya (3rd century BC) was assisted by Yakkas during his battles against his eight uncles at the foot of Ritigala. Another legend refers to a duel of two giants, most possibly Yakkas, named Soma and Jayasena. Soma being killed in the duel, Jayasena became a legend.
The Legend of Lord Hanuman and Ritigala
According to popular belief, non-human Lord Hanuman of supernatural powers, traveled over Ritigala, and, by accident, dropped a chunk off a mountain of the Himalaya range he was carrying from India to Lanka for its medicinal herbs. Lord Rama's brother, Prince Lakshmana was mortally wounded in battle and only a rare herb in the Himalaya could save his life. The pocket of vegetation of healing herbs and plants at the strange mini-plateau at the summit of Ritigala, which is distinct from the dry-zone flora of the lower slopes and surrounding plains at Ritigala, could thus be accounted for.
Lord Hanuman has visited Lanka on a previous occasion. That was when he was sent by Lord Rama in search of his consort Sita. It was King Ravana, a devotee of God Siva, who seized Sita from Parnasali in India, the holy hut of Lord Rama and brought her to Asok Vana, a beautiful park at Seetha Eliya (close to Nuwara Eliya or Little England, as the British called it three millennia later) on the Pusparaga (Dadumonara) in an air chariot, without touching her. (The peacock logo of Air Lanka, the predecessor of SriLankan Airlines and successor of Air Ceylon, is a stylized version of Rawana’s air chariot.) Having found the location where Sita was held, Hanuman made use of Ritigala Kanda as a launching pad to take a leap across to South India. Incidentally, Ritigala is the highest prominence between the central plains of Sri Lanka and the coast of southern India.
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2nd September 2007
Burston, Norfolk, England, UK
Burston Strike School Rally
Every year, since 1984, there is a rally and picnic on Church Green in front of the Strike School to commemorate the first rally in 1914, the opening of the School in 1917 and the work of the Higdons. The Rally is held on the first Sunday in September and is an opportunity to hear speeches by trade union leader, politicians, and activists in the Labour movement.
Union branches bring their banners and there is a march around "The Candlestick" to commemorate the children's original march in 1914. The green is covered with stalls selling all manner of goods and promoting the holders' ideas and services. There is also a refreshment tent where beer, sandwiches and burgers are served and you can listen to live bands or meet with friends. It is a really fun day.
Past speakers include: Tony Benn, Jack Boddy, Ron Todd, Joan Maynard, Jimmy Knapp, Bill Morris, Barry Leathwood, Rodney Bickerstaffe, Jack Jones, Tony Banks, Bruce Kent, Dennis Skinner, John Prescott, Arthur Scargill, Doug McAvoy, John Monks, Ken Livingstone, Ian Gibson, Glennys Kinnock, Tam Dalyell, John Edmunds, and many many more.
Burston Strike School Rally - 'the longest strike in history'
On 1 April 1914 the pupils of Burston School marched in support of their two dismissed teachers, Tom and Kitty Higdon. The Higdons were closely associated with the Agricultural Workers' Union which brought them into conflict with the squirarchy and the Church of England which was responsible for the education of children in the countryside.
Association with the farm workers' union and Tom's election to the Parish Council as a Labour member had prompted the dismissals. The school children, 66 out of 72, had gone on strike. This was to be the first day of the longest strike in history.
The Strike School, the alternative to the CoE County School from where the Higdons had seen sacked, was firstly located in the blacksmith's workshop and latterly in purpose built premises erected on Burston Village Green by Labour Movement subscription.
The Strike School continued to function until the beginning of the Second World War. Tom Higdon died on 17 August 1939 and the school closed a few months later. Kitty, then in her seventies, was unable to carry on alone and the remaining pupils transferred to the County School. Kitty died on 24 April 1946.
In 1949 the Strike School was registered as an educational charity. There are 4 self-perpetuating trustees who, with the support of the T&G, manage the school and try to develop it as a museum, visitor centre, educational archive and village amenity.
Since 1984, an annual rally has been held in Burston to commemorate the first rally held in 1914 and celebrate the struggles that took place in Burston in the first half of the last century - a celebration of a challenge to the old rural order that has yet to be completed, but continues to be inspired by the struggle that began in Burston.
"But there really can be no peace or victory for us which does not bring with it freedom for the countryside, liberty and life for the labourer and prosperity and plenty to his home and family. The labourer must henceforth take his place industrially, socially and politically with the best and foremost of the land. He must do this himself - by the force and power of his union. And he can!" Tom Higdon in The Labourer January 1917.
Democratic National Convention 2008 in Denver. I have no idea how to sum up how amazing these two random days in Denver were. I flew in via LA (thx Julian!), figured I'd crash with Danny for a day or two to check out the Obama-themed street-arty party in Danny's gallery space ("Manifest Hope" gallery) and then maybe try to scam my way into Obama's keynote? The gallery was unbelievable, which turned into a block party Wed night with Cold War Kids + Clap Your Hands + Silversun Pickups + Z-Trip which turned into an acoustic show with the aforementioned plus Johnny Deathcab / Postal Service and the girl from Small Wonder (??) all emceed by Sarah Silverman... which eventually turned into a No Data style dance party (hence the 1000 upskirt shots). I was up till 5am, slept two hours, biked over to the DNC (hobo bike!) to volunteer and ended up working the security line for 11 hours (!!) to earn my way in to see Obama's speech. Just an amazing amazing weekend.
Funny thing…in high school I had a classmate named Reggie Wallace…in Physics class, we had a teacher who would scream WALLACE whenever we were screwing around…never WOOD…always WALLACE…yesterday, I needed a photo road trip to clear out some of the cobwebs so I got on Hwy 12 and said to myself, “Self, let’s see how far Hwy 12 goes…so me and ‘self’ were motoring along E/B 12 east of Lodi and came upon the town of Wallace…I immediately started laughing out loud…I wanted to stop and take a picture of the city limit sign…then, I found this gem…
Rossetti’s
Wallace, Ca.