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Neo-classical 1st generation movie house designed by Samuel N. Crowen (1872-1935) • also designed Granville Theater, Lake Shore Building and Willoughby Tower • marquee little changed from original • doors remodeled in Art Deco motif, late 20s - early 30s • Chicago premier of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation • converted to 4 screens in 70s
Victory Gardens purchased theater, 2004 • $11.8MM renovation by architect Daniel P. Coffey, 2006 reduced seating capacity from over 900 to 299 • Victory Gardens Biograph Theater dedicated to presentation of new plays and playwrights
led by FBI's Melvin Purvis (1903-1960), sharpshooters killed "Public Enemy #1" John Dillinger (1903-1934) attempting to escape ambush after exiting Biograph, July 22, 1934 • Dillinger betrayed by Romanian prostitute/brothel madam, Anna Sage (1889-1947) • persistent urban legend that Dillinger's allegedly large penis preserved in Smithsonian denied by museum • Purvis died of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from pistol given him by fellow agents on retirement • illustration of Dillinger's attempted escape route • Local Man Buys Dillinger "Death Mask" For $3,660
Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago Landmark, 2001 • National Register #84000934, 1984
Meaning- An American nickname of a cup of coffee. That’s pretty much all there is to it.
Have you ever woken up, sipped some coffee, and then wonder why the coffee you just drank is sometimes referred to as "a cup of joe?" Maybe not, but this well-known drink fuels the daily lives of millions of hard working people, so it would be rather interesting to see how the nickname came to be.
Sadly, the origins of this phrase are about as clear as coffee, but even so, here are a few of the popular theories floating around: One of them belongs to Josephus Daniels. On the month of June, 1914, he banned all U.S. Navy ships from serving alcoholic beverages. The sailors weren't too thrilled with the decision, because they had to resort to the next strongest drink on the list, which was coffee!
Since Josephus Daniels was the one responsible for banning alcohol and "forced" everyone to make the switch to coffee, the sailors nicknamed the drink after him, thus it became "a cup of joe," Joe being short for Josephus.
However, a more plausible theory comes from Snopes, where it's explained how the word "joe" can simply mean the average man. For instance, have you ever heard someone say: "I'm just an average joe." That means he's just an every day, ordinary kind of guy. Therefore, a drink involving the word "joe" would show that the drink is for the common man; thus, "a cup of joe!"
Neo-classical 1st generation movie house designed by Samuel N. Crowen (1872-1935) • also designed Granville Theater, Lake Shore Building and Willoughby Tower • marquee little changed from original beyond "Victory Gardens replacing original owner "Essaness" • doors remodeled in Art Deco motif, late 20s - early 30s • Chicago premier of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation • converted to 4 screens in 70s
Victory Gardens purchased theater, 2004 • $11.8MM renovation by architect Daniel P. Coffey, 2006 reduced seating capacity from over 900 to 299 • Victory Gardens Biograph Theater dedicated to presentation of new plays and playwrights
led by FBI's Melvin Purvis (1903-1960), sharpshooters killed "Public Enemy #1" John Dillinger (1903-1934) attempting to escape ambush after exiting Biograph, July 22, 1934 • Dillinger betrayed by Romanian prostitute/brothel madam, Anna Sage (1889-1947) • persistent urban legend that Dillinger's allegedly large penis preserved in Smithsonian denied by museum • Purvis died of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from pistol given him by fellow agents on retirement • illustration of Dillinger's attempted escape route • Local Man Buys Dillinger "Death Mask" For $3,660
Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago Landmark, 2001 • National Register #84000934, 1984
«Introduction to Scientific Computing Written for INF 2320» og et heller spesielt bilde av Bill Gates.
Bush: One of the worst disasters to hit the U.S.
See also: www.snopes.com/photos/katrina/disaster.asp
Or better yet: www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1209
Neo-classical 1st generation movie house designed by Samuel N. Crowen (1872-1935) • also designed Granville Theater, Lake Shore Building and Willoughby Tower • marquee little changed from original • doors remodeled in Art Deco motif, late 20s - early 30s • Chicago premier of D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation • converted to 4 screens in 70s
Victory Gardens purchased theater, 2004 • $11.8MM renovation by architect Daniel P. Coffey, 2006 reduced seating capacity from over 900 to 299 • Victory Gardens Biograph Theater dedicated to presentation of new plays and playwrights
led by FBI's Melvin Purvis (1903-1960), sharpshooters killed "Public Enemy #1" John Dillinger (1903-1934) attempting to escape ambush after exiting Biograph, July 22, 1934 • Dillinger betrayed by Romanian prostitute/brothel madam, Anna Sage (1889-1947) • persistent urban legend that Dillinger's allegedly large penis preserved in Smithsonian denied by museum • Purvis died of accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from pistol given him by fellow agents on retirement • illustration of Dillinger's attempted escape route • Local Man Buys Dillinger "Death Mask" For $3,660
Wikipedia • Cinema Treasures • designated Chicago Landmark, 2001 • National Register #84000934, 1984
The wild water elk swims from island to island. He's heading from Pihjalasaari to Suomenlinna here.
Elk can pop up all over the place - if you drive on the roads you'll see a triangular sign warning drivers they may pop up on the highway. No equivalent sign for the waterways however.
This also may be interesting: www.snopes.com/photos/hunting/deerfish.asp
CONGRATS CLASS OF 2010!!
This was my last frame!! My memory card was full, but i got this shot!!! yayayayay!!
I went to watch three of my friends graduate tonight! Congrats Natasha, Laura and Mikeala! I promise that later (as in tomorrow or the next day) I will upload more photos. Feel free to share the link with your friends, as I may have gotten some nice ones of them too. I tried to take one or two shots of everyone.
You know how i loved the speech from the valedictorian of Baldwin High school? There was another good one tonight. The governor even gave one about living life and making choices that you will be proud of..."...ask yourself 'would i be proud if it was on the front page of the maui news in the morning'." Laura said, "Do what you love!" And the main person from the school shared about how proud the parents are of all the kids. And that having kids is like having a separate heart and watching it go around and live its own life and leave you sometimes...or something like that. Anyway, they were all good. XD
I sent 6 photos to the Maui News newspaper tonight! So I may or may not see it in tomorrow or the next days paper. But, it will be the second time this month sending something in, (the first time being May Day at the Marriott Hotel and spa, its funny because this event is at the same hotel! XD
Even if they don't print my photos, i'm getting myself out there and gaining experience yes?
It is 10:28 and lately i've been going to bed WAY to late. So even though this may not be my 'best shot' i really like it, and do not have time to edit the rest of the other shots.
ps Through out your expired pancake mix! It could be deadly!
ETA 5/31/10
Printed in Maui News 5/31/10 Read it here!
I hesitate to say that my ride with the newlywed couple from Arkansas was uneventful, but I'd venture that is close to the truth. We saw one of the waterfalls---I mean, we stopped the car and got out and walked up to get a closer look---but I couldn't swear that we did that---it's just one of those memories. This is a photograph of Multnomah Falls, and I would swear that this is the falls that we walked up to see, but I couldn't swear that this is the falls.
I do remember that from the happy newlywed couple I heard the story about the fellow who went swimming in the quarry and dove in to a nest of water moccasins.They swore that this dreadful event had taken place in Arkansas, and I had no reason to doubt them. Snopes.com claims that this story is an urban myth, but it must be a rural Arkansas myth too. Anyway, it's a fun story, and I kind of hope it's true, though it's a fate I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Snakes were the order of the day, as once, driving along, the husband said he needed to stop to relieve himself. We were in the middle of nowhere, so he just stopped by the side of the road and went down the embankment, towards the mighty Columbia River. I don't by the way, remember being very impressed with the mighty Columbia River. Anyway, when he got back, he told us he had seen a rattlesnake. That was the sum total of our excitement.
And my last memory of the couple is of when we stopped at a Denny's, in Portland, I think. I had never been to a Denny's, so I had no preconceptions, and my memory of it is not bad at all. I had a French dip sandwich, which I had never had before, and I remember thinking that it was some exotic novelty, some newfangled western thing that made me think that the West was a better place than the place I came from, the East. (You have to remember the value of novelty---in the sixties, people from Ohio we went out to Colorado would load up their cars with Coors and bring it back east---Coors being unavailable in Ohio. In fact, I think they would sell it at a profit. Nowadays, me, you couldn't give me a case of Coors)
So that's it---the Happy Newlyweds took me all the way to Seattle, and somewhere I got out, and somehow I ended up at the home of the Selby's, who provided me with a place to stay out at their house, a split-level tract house out in the suburb of Bellevue.
The Selby's treated me with gracious hospitality, me, whom they'd never met before.
I think, though I might be making this up, that they were a rather family-oriented Christian ensemble, but of course I don't remember that either. Growing-up as I did in the fifties, Ozzie and Harriet were my models of domestic perfection, and the Selby's certainly fit that mold. Mrs. Selby especially fit the model presented by Harriet Nelson, calm and unflappable---a model that was not available in my own home when I was growing up. There is no substitute for calm unflappability (in short supply round about my dwelling, btw), and for that I was grateful.
The first two panels are motivational (?!) posters that were placed along the marathon route and the third is a snap of the marathon itself.
I drove the route Friday night - boy was I tired when I crossed the finish line - for 267/32 miles the wind was blowing in my face and my arms were tired from the 11 right hand and 10 left hand turns (even with power steering - it really takes it out of you!)
The first poster seems to be some sort of a threat. One of Robyn's competitors is trying to send a message. The horse head in the bed didn't seem to work... hmmm. yes. A poster! A threatening poster! That's it!
Little known fact(ish): Ron Jeremy lives in Logan. I know cause I saw him at the 38 Special concert in 2007. I've also said I've seen him around the valley at other times - even though I really haven't. But, I've said it enough that I now think it is due for "fact" status... Maybe Snopes.com can shed some light on this. I know everyone is on the edge of their seats...
Nope. Nothing on Snopes.
Lets just let this poster stand on it's own.
Ron Jeremy ran in the Top Of Utah Marathon and it makes someone sick.
What other explanation is there?
used here
rachel loves all sorts of sharks, so when we learned of this poster, i ordered her one and she put it up in sequoia's bedroom. so, like his mother, he's fond of sharks, and added "shark" and "boat" to his vocabulary.
the photo is by thomas peschak, who has a blog with a link to purchase the poster: www.thomaspeschak.com/
three of his books via amazon: South Africa's Great White Shark, Wild Seas, Secret Shores of Africa, and Currents of Contrast: Life in Southern Africa's Two Oceans.
snopes.com publishes a page for people who doubt the authenticity of the image:
www.snopes.com/photos/animals/sharkkayak.asp
copyright © 2008 sean dreilinger
view shark boat shark - _MG_0814 on a black background.
I hate the tabloid press and their scaremongering. If we were to believe them, we'd never leave the house, and even that would be bad for us!
For FGR and Urban Legends
Did you know that children have suffocated while playing the game Chubby Bunny?!
I dont know which I like more. I like the darkness and bruises under my eyes on this one and the almost sweetness in the other.which do you like best?
you can't really tell but my mouth IS full of tiny little marshmellows. my cheeks really started to hurt and i couldnt even eat the second batch of mellows in my mouth which makes me sad. i love marshmellows. Now im off to shower because.. i feel icky.
this is the best "story" i could come up with.
for: flickr group roulette and urban legends
Did you know that children have suffocated while playing the game Chubby Bunny?!
I dont know which I like more. I like the innocence of this one and the darkness of the other. which
do you like best?
you can't really tell but my mouth IS full of tiny little marshmellows. my cheeks really started to hurt and i couldnt even eat the second batch of mellows in my mouth which makes me sad. i love marshmellows. Now im off to shower because.. i feel icky.
this is the best "story" i could come up with.
for: flickr group roulette and urban legends
Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man
...eh, wot!? Slow down, you're baking to fast!
No, I'm eating the prophets!
[be sure to enjoy the geocoded entertainment when you click the map.]
Did Steve Martin work at Disneyland's Main Street Magic Shop?
No, but he says he did in the Opera House film "Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years" while battling Donald Duck.
Steve actually worked in Merlin's, the magic shop in Sleeping Beauty Castle where once was Villains, and now the Heraldry shop. The two competing dealers of illusion were of separate and different concessionaires. Now both shops are owned by Disney and the Main Street Magic concession is operated by Houdini Magic staff. The stock room of Merlin's Magic Shop, where Steve worked, was under Alice in Wonderland, where you could hear "Who ARE You" repeated ad nauseate by the Caterpillar, offering yet another way to get small. Nearby you could get small in Monsanto's "Adventure through Inner Space" and, of course, "it's a small world."
I'll have two 'shroom cakes and a minimizeMe soda please.
[and we'll all be playing with our toxin balance, because both are
LOADED with Hydroxylic Acid, the GET SMALL molecule!]
Well, you can't prove Steve lied (although he may not have known it, filmed in front of a green screen and inserted into a studio set as he was.) The film you weren't supposed to tape is no more. The Opera house was closed, and the show became a new "Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln" again.
www.flickr.com/photos/disneywizard/3385882675/in/pool-mai...
but that's not the big news.
Abraham has been spruced up, and he'll be rolling in on a rail soon, to stand once again in his old familiar stomping grounds.
I'll be seeing you at the grand re-opening! Happy Lincoln's Birthday, y'all! --(o=8> Wiz.
dsc00198
Kenya. Mogotio.
Actually our GPS indicated the real equator was further down the road, right in the curve.
So how is it possible to make the water draining trick work?
Well, because it is a trick.
The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real, and it does influence certain large things such as the movement of air masses. It is also commonly claimed to affect the way water spirals down drains in different parts of the world: Water in a pan, sink, or toilet rotates counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This is due to the Coriolis Effect, which is caused by the rotation of the Earth.
However, the Coriolis effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet. The Coriolis effect produces a measurable influence over huge distances and long periods of time, neither of which applies to the typical terrestrial bathroom.
Toilets and sinks drain in the directions they do because of the way water is directed into them or pulled from them. If water enters in a swirling motion (as it does when a toilet is flushed, for example), the water will exit in that same swirling pattern. As well, most basins have irregular surfaces and are not perfectly level, factors that influence the direction in which water spirals down their drains. The configuration of taps and drains is responsible for the direction of spin given to water draining from sinks and bathtubs to a degree that overwhelms the slight influence of the Coriolis force.
The belief that the Coriolis force influences the direction in which water drains from plumbing fixtures is widespread and has been repeated as fact in a number of venues, including popular television shows (such as world traveler Michael Palin’s Pole to Pole series) and even in textbooks. It’s also been promulgated by any number of hucksters who set up rigged demonstrations along the equator for the amusement of gullible tourists
www.snopes.com/fact-check/coriolis-effect/
If you see the demonstration you'll notice they poor the water on different sides of the plug hole when they do their performance.
First they pour the water from a bucket, making sure the water is flowing in to the left of the drain hole. This sets up a natural clockwise spin to the water overall; it hits the back of the basin and will flow to the right from there.
Then they move their show to the other side of the equator and pour the water to the right of the drain hole. That naturally sets up a counterclockwise rotation to the water!
www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/03/27/flushing_out...
Above links come with a video demonstration.
I did NOT take this picture- it was e-mailed to me- I am not saying it is real or that I condone killing snakes, its just an interesting picture-
with the following text:
"Here is a FWD I got from the guys in Memphis...
YIKES.
THEY GROW 'EM BIG IN TEXAS!!!
This snake was recently found at the old Turkey Creek gas plant
located just south of the Alibates Turnoff on Highway 136 south
of Fritch Texas.
[THAT'S JUST NORTH OF AMARILLO]
A reminder that these creatures are actually out there and no matter
what you believe, sometimes they should get not only prescriptive
rights to be there but the full right of way!
9 feet, 1 inch - 97 lbs.
DEEP-FRIED RATTLESNAKE
1 medium-sized rattlesnake (3-4 lbs.), cut into steaks
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup cracker crumbs
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (not garlic salt)
1 teaspoon salt
dash pepper
Mix dry ingredients. Whisk milk into beaten egg and use to dip snake steaks.
Then coat them with dry ingredients. Fry, uncovered, in 400 degree oil until brown."
BTW, I would not have killed this animal
Here are some links on what you can contact to find more information on these legless creatures
it made Snoops!
edited by John M.Bennett.
Columbus (USA), Luna Bisonte Prods, may 1986.
5-3/8 x 8-1/2, 9 sheets white bond folded to 36 pp & stapled twice into white byronic brocade card wrappers, all printed black offset.
wraparound cover by Vittore Baroni; title lettering by John M.Bennjett.
68 contributors ID'd:
Al Ackerman, John Adams, Ivan Argüelles, Wallace Baker, Vittore Baroni, C.Mehrl Bennett, John Bennett, John M.Bennett, William E.Bennett, Jake Berry, Bliss Blood, Ernest Noyes Brookings, John Buckner, Thomas Campion, Paula Clair, Robin Crozier, jwcurry, Hal J.Daniel III, William Virgil Davis, Michael Dec, Gene Edwards, Roy Elliott, Greg Evason, John Fallon, John Fay, Charles Henri Ford, Joachim Frank, Leo Germino, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Jim Grabill, Larry Green, David Greenberger, Andrew J.Grossman, S.Gustav Hägglund, W.F.Heineman, Bob Heman, Crag Hill, John Hodorowski, G.Huth, Charles L.Johnson, Snow White Jung, Barbara Katz, M.Kettner, Mark Laba, Andy Legrice, Viljo Lehto, John Wingo Long, Jack Madurian, Alexander Martin, Daphne Matthews, Patrick McKinnon, Mike Murphy, B.Z.Niditch, Bill Niemi, Bern Porter, Jerry Ratch, Eddie Rutter, H.Michael Sanders, Andrew Savage, Reepak Shakya, Bill Shields, Snopes, Stacey Sollfrey, Abe Surgecoff, Nico Vassilakis, George Vrooman, Paul Weinman, Irving Weiss.
curry contributes:
i) "fill in" (poem, p.3)
ii) "snake of the stomach", with Mark Laba (poem, p.33)
Who put the shoes there and why? The list of explanations goes on. Suggestions include:
* It's the work of gangs marking the boundaries of their territory.
* Bullies take them off defenceless kids, then sling them up out of reach as the ultimate taunt.
* Gang members create an informal memorial at the spot where a friend lost his life.
Sneakers
* Crack dealers festoon wires to advertise their presence in the neighborhood.
* The shoes increase wire visibility for low-flying aircraft.
* Overly puffed-up boys who have just lost their virginity or otherwise passed a sexual milestone look to signal the event to others.
* Graduating seniors mark this transition in their lives by leaving something of themselves behind; namely, their shoes.
* Kids do it just because it's fun. And besides, what else are you going to do with a worn-out pair of sneakers other than tie the laces together and toss them high?
Snopes:
This is truly the crowning jewel of Marmarth, even if it is falling apart. Inside all the lovely red seats still remain, stacked in piles and there are beautiful wooden staircases. None if it will last much longer. By the way this place is actually two buildings, the Barber Auditorium and First National Bank of Marmarth. Here is a link to a photo of it before it was boarded up:
www.flickr.com/photos/mississippi_snopes/1108379819/
And for any of you interested in "paranormal activity" some people looked for ghosts here last year--check out the article:
bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/article_f5f35...
After wanting to see Marmarth ND for over 10 years I finally was able to see it this summer! I thought it would feel alot more empty, but the tiny town of 100 some people was bustling! Marmarth has quite a few amazing abandoned buildings, and a great history! Read all about it...
"The city of Marmarth was established in fall of 1907 along the Milwaukee Road transcontinental rail line known as the Pacific Extension. The name comes from a combination of letters in the first and middle names of Margaret Martha Finch, granddaughter of Albert J. Earling, president of the railroad at the time.[4]
The city was originally laid out on the east side of the Little Missouri River, near where a post office known as Neva and a hotel had already been established.[6] However, due to problems with securing additional land on the east side of the river for a reasonable price, the city was moved to the opposite side in 1908.[7]
Marmarth grew quickly to serve the hundreds of homesteaders who flooded into the area. Because the first two decades of the 20th century were unusually wet, the new settlers reaped harvests of wheat on a scale "that promised to turn even owners of modest farms into wealthy men."[8] By 1920, Marmarth had 1,318 inhabitants.[9] An auditorium, a theater, a large train station, a newspaper, and paved sidewalks were all established during this time.[7]
By the 1920s, a combination of the end of the agricultural boom occasioned by World War I and a return to more normal (i.e., drier) climatic conditions drove many of the settlers from their farms.[citation needed] At the 1930 census, the city's population had declined nearly 50% from a decade earlier. This population decline has continued every census thereafter, with the number of residents in 2010 nearly 10% of the number recorded in 1920.[9]
Dakota, a fossilized Edmontosaurus, a type of duckbill dinosaur, was discovered near Marmarth in 1999 by Tyler Lyson.[10] The fossil is unique in that soft tissue, skin, and muscle were fossilized as well as bone." -wikipedia
www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp.
I was talking on the cell phone while snapping this photo. I think this is at the "Little America" travel plaza in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming, along Interstate 80.
I used to have this photo on my stream but for some unknown reason I took it down. Well, I think it is important enough to re-post since this is an undoctered photo of a MLK rally held in 2007. I actually had over 3000 hits! Well, what do you think? It appears these are the only two people who made the error. See Snopes if you don't believe me.
today is 4/20. if you don't know, this day is "celebrated" by marijuana advocates and enthusiasts:
i myself honored the day today by visiting some dispensaries in san francisco.
sure, as a younger person of the 70's & 80's i smoked weed and drank for fun, along with some engagements with other substances for partying and/or enlightenment-searching (i say this with both self-respect and self-humor!)
from my late 20's to mid 30's i refrained from everything. until i was injured at 38. now, as a decades-long bearer of chronic pain/disability/debility - (and a lifelong carrier of the genes of chronic depressions) - i've reintroduced the use of mj for medicinal purposes.
listen, i'm a "cheap date". i don't need (or want) much to be greatly affected by substances. i'm already on various other doctor-prescribed medications, and usually take about 1/4th the dose the docs want me to (shhhhh!) even that is an every-single-fucking-day balancing act. sometimes i get migraines from simple ibuprofen. mostly i am overcome by fatigue and organ breakdown from the meds.
and particularly with my teenage experiences using pot to numb myself to severe trauma/ptsd, i was skeptical to try grass for medical purposes. but after everything i've been through these past 17 years, i've found myself open, willing, to give just about anything a try.
here are the current facts: i weekly on/off again, mostly ingest marijuana in very small amounts to relieve some pain, increase some metabolism, and alleviate some depression.
beyond that, i also have very clear, strong opinions about:
~ criminalization/legalization
~ the use of anything as an addictive experience
~ what i see as a travesty of justice concerning the demonization of marijuana in light of
the glorification of alcohol (esp. in light of the overwhelming evidence of the misuse & abuse of alcohol as a source of illness', disease, accidents, & death - faaaaaar beyond that which the use of marijuana could be blamed for) .............
and so on, but which i won't go any further with here and now.
today i wore a lime green t-shirt with the sparkly words prettily scrolled across the front:
"magically delicious!" i consider reefer to be a powerfully magical natural herbal medication, in moderation, respect, and with conscious use (and yes, for fun too, just as alcohol or food etc!) and i like the delicious smell and taste (unlike tobacco for instance - *blech!*).
the time has come. let's evolve, get this party started so to speak. let's move on, forward.
One thing you can not see is the silver foil angel wings that are on the back of the shirt.
Cool shirt!
Found the Girl with AEOFEL shirt and the picture that was taken with here (about the same time I snoped this picture) is found here.
Salamanca is a city in northwestern Spain, the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the community of Castile and León. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988
Built between 1513 and 1733, the Gothic cathedral underwent restoration work in 1992. It is a generally a tradition of cathedral builders and restorers to add details or new carvings to the facade as a sort of signature. In this case after conferring with the cathedral, quarry man Jeronimo Garcia was given the go-ahead to add some more modern images to the facade including an astronaut floating among some vines. Among the other recently added images are a dragon eating ice cream, a lynx, a bull, and a crayfish.
Despite there being clear documentation of the astronaut being a recent addition, the astronaut has already fueled ideas of ancient space travel, and alien interventions in easily influenced minds.
I received this in my Inbox. First thing I did was check its validity on snopes.com and it checked out so I'm passing it on...
----- Original Message -----
From: Sue Pattinson
To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:03 PM
Subject: Help find Madelaine McCann
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:53 PM
Subject: FW: Help find Madelaine McCann
Please read this message and pass it on!
As you are aware my niece is still missing and I am asking everyone I
know to send this as a chain letter i.e. you send it to everyone you
know and ask them to do the same, as the story is only being covered
in Britain, Eire and Portugal. We don't believe that she is in
Portugal anymore and need to get her picture and the story across
Europe as quickly as possible. Suggestions are? welcome.
Phil McCann
End of letter. I did more research and found the official website Bring Madeleine Home where I found the official poster as seen above.
I'm posting this on all my blogs as well.
U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Todd Petzel, Command Chief, 18th Air Force, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., salutes U.S. Air Force Col. John Klein, Commander, 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis Air Force Base Calif, Aug. 11, 2016. Petzel is visiting Travis AFB to provide remarks as the guest speaker for the Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Induction Ceremony. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Louis Briscese)
For years Mom made me a red velvet cake each year for my birthday. She made it using the original recipe supposedly from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel that included a butter cream icing instead of the now-traditional cream cheese icing.
This is my attempt to duplicate her work using her recipe.
According to Mom, a lady had enjoyed a piece of the cake while visiting in New York City and she wrote to the hotel upon her arrival back home to ask for the recipe. They sent her a copy along with an enormous bill. She paid the bill and for spite she distributed the recipe far and wide. According to Snopes it never happened.
MOM'S RED VELVET CAKE
1/2 c Shortening
1 1/2 c Sugar
2 oz Red food coloring
2 tb (heaping) Cocoa
1 c Buttermilk
2 1/2 c Cake flour
1 t Vanilla
1 t Salt
1 t Baking soda
1 t Vinegar
2 Eggs
Cream shortening, sugar and eggs. Make a paste of food coloring and cocoa. Add to creamed mixture. Add buttermilk alternating with flour and salt. Add vanilla. Add soda to vinegar (foams!!!), Blend in. Pour into 3 or 4 greased and floured 8-inch cake pans. Bake at 350° F for 24-30 minutes. Split layers, fill and frost with the following frosting.
FROSTING: (Everybody uses cream cheese frostings but this is the original recipe.)
6 tb Flour
2 1/4 c Milk
2 1/4 c Sugar
1 1/2 t Vanilla
1 1/2 c Butter, Must be Butter (3 Sticks)
Whisk milk and flour to avoid lumps. Cook flour and milk until very thick, stirring constantly.
COOL!!
Cream sugar, butter and vanilla until very fluffy. Add cooked mixture slowly ( 1 Tbsp at a time). Beat at high speed until very fluffy. Looks and tastes like whipped cream.
We've now moved on to Machpelah Cemetery (where, coincidentally, Joseph Banzer of Banzer's Cypress Hills Park was for years the superintendent). The "daunting, abandoned building that was once the cemetery office", seen in this video, was demolished in August 2013.
Harry Houdini, the legendary illusionist and escape artist, was buried here in 1926 following his death at the age of 52 from a ruptured appendix that may or (more likely) may not have been caused by a young man punching him in his stomach to test his abdominal strength. While Jewish custom dictates that the dead be interred in plain wooden coffins, Houdini was reportedly laid to rest in a metal-and-glass casket he had specially ordered for use in one of his stunts. Buried with him, as a pillow for his head, was a collection of letters that his late, dearly beloved mother had sent him over the years.
In case you're wondering, the colorful circular mosaic above depicts the logo of the Society of American Magicians, which Houdini presided over from 1917 to until his death. Every year, magicians from the Society hold a "broken wand ceremony" here to commemorate his death. The ceremony used to be held on Halloween, the anniversary of Houdini's death (on the Gregorian calendar), but around 1994 Machpelah's manager decided to start closing the cemetery on Halloween in an attempt to ward off vandals. The magicians now hold the ceremony on the anniversary of Houdini's death on the lunisolar Hebrew calendar — the 23rd of Cheshvan (which was November 16th this year) — except when that date happens to coincide with Halloween.
The bust of Houdini on the pedestal above is the latest of several to grace the monument; the others were all stolen or destroyed. From 1993 on, for almost two decades, the pedestal stood empty except during the annual broken wand ceremony, when the attending magicians would show up with a portable bust. The bust above has been in place since 2011, when a trio of "Houdini commandos" from the Houdini Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania swooped in and installed it in an (initially) unsanctioned operation.
One other grave-related note: one of the smaller gravestones in front of the monument bears the names of both Houdini and his widow Bess. However, Bess is actually buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, a Catholic cemetery, in Westchester County. It's not entirely clear why the plans were changed and she didn't end up here in Machpelah, but I found one article that said her sister, "upset because Bess had given up her Catholicism to marry the Jewish showman", was the one who decided to bury her in Gate of Heaven instead.
This stretch of highway was a source of controversy when it was "adopted" by the Ku Klux Klan as part of the state's highway litter cleanup program. After the KKK sign was torn down two times, MODOT never put it back up. Missouri Legislature later renamed it after the civil rights figure.
At the corner of Polk and Broadway, next to Shanghai Kelly's bar, one of the first and few title-case corner street signs in SF after the arrival of federal sign-retroreflectivity standards that happened to require this kind of lettering. It matters to some people, for different reasons...
The plastic water bottle on formica sufaced table picks up reflections from the overhead institutional lights...Pretty golden touch, as if Midas himself made an appearance!! Too bad those plastic water bottles are so wasteful - the water in them is an expensive thirst quencher with no comparable value and the bottle itself is made for single use and its recyclability rates are poor. Few can imagine the creative reuse of plastic like Miwa Koizumi (very cool floating jellyfish!) and thus, the problem.
While monitoring geocaching activities of our 9th grade geography students, I noticed one student who was picking up campus litter along the way. After applauding him, I pointed out the trash can and not only did he deposit the trash, but his actions continued throughout the 'field trip'. Such a natural reaction for him is not even on the radar of others! Undoubtedly, he will continue to make his positive mark on the world...and I can only hope that it will translate into leadership and change, as well. Kudos to him! Lorenzo Walker campus, Naples, FL
Day Two of Julie O’Connor’s Magical, Mystical, Masonic Photo Tour of Washington, DC, takes us to the Washington Monument. The monument makes a number of appearances in The Lost Symbol, but we first glimpse it through Robert Langdon’s eyes from the seat of a Falcon 2000EX corporate jet, as he flies into Washington:
Outside the window, the sun had set, but Langdon could still make out the slender silhouette of the world’s largest obelisk, rising on the horizon like the spire of an ancient gnomon. The 555-foot marble-faced obelisk marked this nation’s heart. All around the spire, the meticulous geometry of streets and monuments radiated outwards.
Chapter 1, The Lost Symbol.
Some Lost Symbol/Washington Monument trivia (spoiler alert! Read on only if you have finished The Lost Symbol):
* Intriguingly, the Washington Monument’s height—555 feet—is mentioned specifically four different times in The Lost Symbol, including the first reference.
* The “lost” cornerstone of the Washington Monument referred to so often in The Lost Symbol is actually huge and, appropriately, used underground in the construction of the monument. It is true that its exact location is no longer known, but it is undoubtedly underground at the base of the Monument. Sealed in its time capsule is not just the Bible that is the centerpiece of The Lost Symbol, but numerous other documents and artifacts collected in 1848 (when the cornerstone was laid) to reflect American life and society at the time. A small sampling of what’s in there (via Snopes) besides the Holy Word of the Bible includes: Constitution of the United States and Declaration of Independence; a portrait of Washington; a map of the city of Washington; all the coins of the United States, from the eagle to the half-dime inclusive; the Constitution and General Laws of the Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men of the District of Columbia; Appleton’s Railroad and Steamboat Companion; Copies of the Union Magazine, National Magazine, Godey’s Lady’s Book, Graham’s Magazine, and Columbian Magazine, for July, 1848; Harper’s Illustrated Catalogue; and the Annual Report of the Comptroller of the State of New York, January 5, 1848.
I haven't vomited in 40 years.
TMI? Definitely, so a word before I continue.
I'm not a very private person, but I do maintain some minimal separation between the world of Flickr and the world of Google. Flickr is my blog, but I don't want every random person (or, more important, every random client) stumbling on everything I post on Flickr. So I maintain a tissue-thin disguise that anyone who really wanted to figure out who "Mississippi Snopes" is could pierce in about three minutes of work. Thus, to the casual observer, I think there's at least a flimsy veil between Mississippi Snopes and me.
But there are a couple of exceptions -- the world of Facebook, where I sometime link Flickr to my corporeal friends and relatives (who I'm pretty confident never ever actually look at Fllickr) and those who have actually both shaken my hand and actually pay attention to Flickr (a very small group that I think is limited to tinkerbrad and tombarnes20008 and Toni aka "Mississippi Snopes" when she logs on as me).
So, while I'd never post anything genuinely embarrassing on Flickr, I do feel some liberty to post things that I would not raise in polite conversation with even close friends sitting across the table from me.
So ... umm, where was I? Oh, yes.... I haven't vomited in 40 years. The last time I vomited was in our first year of marriage, when this virulent stomach flu swept through Starkville, Mississippi and I had to hold Toni's head at the toilet while she had the (first wet then) dry heaves for at least a score of times -- I did get it, but for only one quick porcelain visit. For the four decades since then, no vomit despite dozens of episodes of stomach flu and at least a couple of episodes of severely misguided alcohol intake.
Maybe I'm just lucky. But I'm increasingly becoming incapacitated by IBS (aka the other end) and I wonder if my inability to be a normal vomiter has something to do with that (remember the golden oldies that were just bubbling under the top 40 back in the sixties?). Maybe the golden mean applies to the exit solutions of digestive problems as well.
Edited Landsat 8 image of snow in the Sahara Desert in Algeria new the city of Aïn Séfra.
Image source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91556
Original caption: For the second time in three years, snow has accumulated in the desert near the northern Algerian town of Aïn Séfra. Sometimes called the “gateway to the desert,” the town of 35,000 people sits between the Sahara and the Atlas Mountains.
According to news and social media accounts, anywhere from 10 to 30 centimeters (4 to 12 inches) of snow accumulated on January 8, 2018, on some higher desert elevations (1000 meters or more above sea level). Social media photos showed citizens sliding down snow-covered sand dunes. Warming temperatures melted much of it within a day.
On January 8, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured the data for these natural-color images of the snow in the Sahara Desert. At the top of the page, the Landsat 8 image was draped over a global digital elevation model, built from data acquired by NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. The second and third images provide nadir (straight-down) closeups of the region, where snow covered dry mountaintops and the crests of tall sand dunes.
Snow in the Sahara and other parts of North Africa is infrequent, but not unprecedented. Measurable snow fell near Aïn Séfra in December 2016. Substantial snow also blanketed the Atlas Mountains in Morocco in February 2012 and January 2005. In fact, there are at least two ski resorts in the Atlas range, though the snow there is usually machine-made.
References
Dernieres Infos D'Algerie (2018, January 9) La Neige Recouvre les Dunes de Sables á Aïn Séfra. Accessed January 12, 2018.
Snopes (2018, January 9) Snowfall in the Sahara Desert? Accessed January 12, 2018.
The Washington Post (2018, January 9) It Snowed in the Sahara Desert. Really. Accessed January 12, 2018.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Mike Carlowicz.
Instrument(s):
Space Shuttle - SRTM
Landsat 8 - OLI