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Stay On These Roads
A-ha
The cold has a voice
It talks to me
Stillborn by choice
And it has no need to hold
Old man feels the cold
Oh baby don't
'Cause I've been told
Stay on these roads
We shall meet, I know
Stay on my love
We shall meet, I know
I know
Where joy should reign
These skies restrain
Shadows your love
The voice trails off again
Old man feels the cold
Oh baby don't
'Cause I've been told.
Was great to get over to the North Shore this morning and catch up with some friends that I haven’t seen in a long time.
It was dark and moody with a huge swell in the ocean.
This image is a two image composite. A Six minute exposure for the sky and water, and a 1/250 sec image for the swimmer ( Brave Man)
Hope you like “Stay On These Roads”
Cheers, Mike
Un moderno tren Alvia de Renfe realizando un servicio Euromed a Alicante pasa a toda velocidad por el apartadero ferroviario de Agost.
La foto está tomada desde el inicio del trazado del inconcluso Ferrocarril a Alcoi hoy convertido en vía verde. Este olvidado lugar de la Provincia de Alicante guarda toda una historia...
Ferrocarril Alcoi-Agost; historias de despilfarros en la España del S.XX...
"A falta de colocar las vías con todo acabado..."
Alcoi, una de de las ciudades industriales más importantes de la Provincia de Alicante empezó a pedir un tren que la uniera con la capital de su Provincia y su puerto ya desde finales del S.XIX.
No fue hasta la Dictadura del General Primo de Rivera, al amparo del llamado “Plan Guadalhorce de Ferrocarriles” en el que los Alcoyanos empezaron a tener esperanza.
En el año 1926, se empezaron a construir las infraestructuras del Ferrocarril de vía ancha entre Alcoi y Agost. La nueva línea partiría de la estación del Ferrocarril a Valencia por Xàtiva existente en la ciudad desde 1893.
Con una longitud total ligeramente superior a los 66 Km, el nuevo Ferrocarril empalmaría en Agost con el Ferrocarril Madrid-Alicante de la antigua compañía M.Z.A. Para así poder llegar a la Capital Provincial sin desdoblar la línea.
Debido a la complicada orografía en la que se encuentra Alcoy se tuvieron que construir varios túneles y viaductos para que el tren pudiera llegar a la ciudad. Retrasándose la obra hasta el año 1932 cuando finalmente quedó ejecutada con todas sus infraestructuras, y a falta sólo del tendido de las vías y de la construcción de las estaciones intermedias entre Alcoi a Agost empalme (Ibi, Castalla, Tibi y Agost-Ciudad).
En 1936 con el inicio de la Guerra Civil las obras quedaron paralizadas. Una vez finalizado el triste conflicto las obras continuaron muy lentamente ya que el País se encontraba destrozado y había que reconstruir otros Ferrocarriles más importantes.
En los años 60 un informe del Banco Mundial con vistas a la concesión un importante crédito para el Estado Español consideró negativa la conclusión una serie de proyectos ferroviarios, básicamente los incluidos en el plan Guadalhorce, a los cuales no se les vio rentabilidad económica por la mayor facilidad y economía de los emergentes transportes por carretera. Estas razones determinaron la orden de paralización inmediata de las obras y de esta forma el Proyecto quedó abandonado sobre el terreno.
En 1984 el Ministerio de Obras Publicas desestimó definitivamente la reanudación de cualquier tipo de obra en esta vía y los Alcoyanos ya nunca podrían tener su ansiada conexión por ferrocarril a su Capital.
Para más desgracia, hace unos años, se utilizaron varios tramos del nonato Ferrocarril para la construcción de la nueva autovía A7. Cortando el viejo trazado por varios tramos.
En la actualidad, dos vías verdes invitan a recorrer esta majestuosa infraestructura en la que se puede apreciar impresionantes viaductos como el de las Siete Lunas o largos túneles...
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A modern Renfe Alvia train operating a Euromed service to Alicante speeds past the Agost railway siding.
The photo was taken from the beginning of the unfinished railway line to Alcoi, now a greenway. This forgotten spot in the province of Alicante holds a whole history...
Alcoi-Agost Railway: stories of waste in 20th-century Spain...
"Without laying the tracks completely finished..."
Alcoi, one of the most important industrial cities in the Province of Alicante, began demanding a train linking it with the provincial capital and its port as early as the late 19th century.
It wasn't until the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera, under the so-called "Guadalhorce Railway Plan," that the people of Alcoy began to have hope.
In 1926, construction began on the infrastructure for the Iberian gauge railway between Alcoi and Agost. The new line would depart from the station of the Valencia via Xàtiva railway, which had existed in the city since 1893.
With a total length of slightly over 66 km, the new railway would connect in Agost with the Madrid-Alicante railway of the former M.Z.A. railway company (Madrid-Zaragoza and Alicante). This would allow the railway to reach the provincial capital without having to double the line.
Due to the difficult terrain of Alcoi, several tunnels and viaducts had to be built to allow the train to reach the city. The work was delayed until 1932 when it was finally completed with all its infrastructure, and only the laying of the tracks and the construction of the intermediate stations between Alcoi and Agost juction (Ibi, Castalla, Tibi and Agost-city) remained.
In 1936, with the outbreak of the Civil War, construction was halted. Once the sad conflict ended, work continued very slowly as the country was devastated and other major railways needed to be rebuilt.
In the 1960s, a World Bank report, considering the granting of a major loan to the Spanish State, considered the conclusion of a series of railway projects to be unprofitable, primarily those included in the Guadalhorce Plan, which were deemed unprofitable due to the greater ease and cost-effectiveness of emerging road transport. These reasons led to the immediate suspension of the works, and thus the project was abandoned.
In 1984, the Ministry of Public Works definitively rejected the resumption of any type of construction on this line, and the people of Alcoy would never again have their long-awaited rail connection to their capital.
To make matters worse, a few years ago, several sections of the stillborn railway were used for the construction of the new A7 highway, cutting across the old route in several sections.
Currently, two greenways invite you to explore this majestic infrastructure, where you can see impressive viaducts like the Seven Moons or long tunnels...
When new condors are released, biologists will usually put out food (in this case a stillborn calf) to keep the new birds close by so they can be monitored for the first few days. The three new birds that were released three days prior to this were not in this shot, but they were close by. So the other wild birds often get a free meal too, in this case #791, #810, #846, #864 and #933 were the lucky ones. #933 is a noteworthy bird as he is the offspring of AC4 (#20) that was born in the wild in Santa Barbara County last year.
The object in the middle is Kitsch. And yet it is able to function as a bridge between the two others that are divided by millennia and culture (Philip II of Macedonia and a Japanese Jizo statue. Philip is the father of Alexander the Great who was venerated as a god; the Jizo figurine deals with stillborn babies).
goo.gl/gSCkx0, Hamburg Hafen
Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in some old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
Like a monk bending over the book
It was the shape, the shape of our love twisted me
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it all go right on by
If I, if I have been untrue
It's just that I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it all go right on by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope that you know by now it was never to you
Like a little baby stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me
But I swear, I swear by this song
I swear by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee
I saw a beggar he was leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask a little bit more?"
Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in some old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
L. C.
♥ Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. Each day in the UK, 17 babies a day are stillborn or die within the first 28 days of life. That statistic doesn't include all those little ones lost before 24 weeks gestation, as 1 in 4 women experience the loss of a baby during pregnancy.
Anyone who has been affected by the death of a baby is invited to join an international ‘Wave of Light’ tonight. The event encourages people all over the world to light a candle at around 7pm and leave it burning for at least one hour, to remember all the babies who have died during pregnancy, during labour or after birth. Baby Loss Awareness UK ♥
Miss Kitty showed up at the house, one month after our 14 year pet passed away.
Miss kitty started to visit every day.
She came to the door meowing a lot, on Good Friday, 2004.
She raced to the basement, after being let into the house.
She gave birth, late in the evening, to a totally black kitten.
The next morning, she came up the stairs, carrying a baby black kitten.
The mother cat, put the baby down, and ran down the stairs again.
The bought up a duplicate black kitten; This one was sadly, stillborn.
In the Tao Teh Ching, we have the deeply paradoxical thought that going far is to return…
… That is what I believe my father finally attained. Intellectually, he seemed to have pressed forward as far as he could, and in trying all the ways and byways, he had lost all taste for such travels and hit solid intellectual and moral cul-de-sacs. Nothing seems more obvious in this autobiography and his later books than his disenchantment with a pseudo-intellectualism that lacks fire and emotion and that, being stillborn, virtually has no place to go. But even more so in his pursuit of the religious life, he sought long and hard for a Christ whose signature was that of the divine heart rather than the brilliant mind, not because he disparaged the mind—he was, after all, a great intellectual himself—but because he felt a mind acting without a heart is absolutely incapable of penetrating deeply into the sublime regions of life itself.
-Beyond East and West by John C.H. Wu Foreword by John Wu, Jr.
"Each period of a civilisation creates an
art that is specific in it and which we will
never see reborn.
To try and revive the princples of art of
past centures can lead only to the
production of stillborn works."
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
Iryna Kalinina, an injured pregnant woman, is carried from a maternity hospital that was damaged during a Russian air strike in Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 9, 2022. Her baby, named Miron (after the word for "peace"), was stillborn, and half an hour later Iryna died as well.
The Milky Way rises over the saltpan of Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California. This is one of the most perfectly quiet and still places I've ever been--the only reminder of human civilization was the faint glow of Las Vegas to the southeast. The only sound we heard was the occasional puff of wind raking across the almost perfectly flat ground.
At 282 feet below sea level, Badwater Basin is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. Death Valley is actually what is known as a graben-- a block of the Earth's crust that forms a depression with fault lines on either side of it; essentially, two plates are pulling in opposite directions and that causes the land to sink. During the Pleistocene, a deep lake filled the graben.
When the lake evaporated for the final time between 2 and 4 thousand years ago, it left behind a deep layer of lakebed material and dissolved salt that then dried and cracked, forming what we now call Death Valley. Occasionally, seasonal rains or snowmelt from the Amargosa and Panamint Mountains will trickle into Badwater--which is where the area gets its name from.
One would come across these shallow ephemeral lakes but not be able to drink from them due to their high salinity, quite literally "bad water." The geometric shapes in the salt crust occur when these ephemeral "lakes" cycle through pooling and evaporating on the valley floor, leaving hexagons of rock salt behind when they dry.
Pluckley is reputedly the most haunted village in Britain, claiming at least 12 ghosts. The churchyard of St Nicholas' Church is allegedly haunted by a Red Lady who sobs as she searches for the unmarked grave of her stillborn baby.
The Chapel of the Holy Spirit at the east end of the south choir aisle in Ripon Cathedral is one of the few places where a sadly stillborn English Space Age Anglican tradition of church furnishings can be found. Here is the rocket-themed hanging pyx, representing Christ, who is sacramentally present within it, suspended from an orbit-and-sun form, which represents God the Father. The design of the pyx is essentially copied from the reaction control thrusters for the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module. Very much of its time, and having long since passed through its groovy phase, is I think now finished its naff phase, and is becoming established as a the sort of quirky period piece that any great cathedral must have many of from many different eras.
Not visible in this shot, but elsewhere in this series, are the waveforms and tongues of flame on the gates and rails represent the Holy Spirit. The whole chapel represents the Holy Trinity.
These were made by Leslie Durbin in 1970, in honour of the Apollo moon landings which had taken place the previous year. Durbin also made the Sword of Stalingrad, which Churchill presented to Stalin in 1943 to congratulate him in victory in the megabattle for the city named for him; and Durbin also designed the first one pound coins in the 1980s, the ones with different floral motifs for each of the four constituent countries of the UK. Of course he did.
Ripon Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, is notable architecturally for its gothic west front in the Early English style, considered one of the best of its type, as well as the Geometric east window. Needless to say, it is a Grade I listed building.
Founded as a monastery by Scottish monks in the 660s, it was refounded as a Benedictine monastery by St Wilfrid in 672. The 7th Century crypt of Wilfrid’s Church still survives. The church became collegiate in the 10th Century, and acted as a mother church within the large Diocese of York for the remainder of the Middle Ages. The present church is the fourth, and was built between the 13th and 16th Centuries. In 1836 the church became the cathedral for the Diocese of Ripon, at that point the first new diocese created in the Church of England since the Reformation. Ripon was then in 2014 incorporated into the new Diocese of Leeds, and the church became one of three co-equal cathedrals of the Bishop of Leeds.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
In Japan, Jizo is one of the most loved of all Japanese divinities. His statues are a common sight, especially by roadsides and in graveyards. Traditionally, he is seen as the guardian of unborn, aborted, miscarried, and stillborn babies and children who died before their parents.
...e non sono la sola ad esserne rimasta impressionata.
Bellissimo trovare all'imbocco, una targa riportante le parole di Goethe quando passò in quel di Spoleto nell'ottobre del 1927 nel suo "viaggio in Italia".
Ciao!!! :)))!!! Due per oggi. Passo da voi dopo.
Buona giornata! :)
*Starlight*
p.p.: sancarmen effect
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...and infact I'm not the only one that was impressed by.
Beautiful to find a sign that reported the words of J.W. Goethe that was here in his "Italian journey" in an october of 1786:
I climbed Spoleto, and was on the aqueduct, which is also a bridge from one mountain to another. Through all their centuries, the ten brick arches which reach across the valley have stood there so quietly, and the water still flows in every corner of Spoleto. I have now seen three works by the ancients; they all have the same great meaning, a second nature serving civic ends. That is how they built, and there they are: the amphitheater, the temple, and the aqueduct. Only now do I feel how justified my hatred of all willful things was, ... They are now all as if stillborn, for whatever does not have a true inner existence has no life, and cannot be great, and cannot become great.
Buongiorno to all! Two photos for today.
Have a nice day :)!
*Starlight*
Running as deadhead Amtrak Train 950, the stillborn Wisconsin Talgo returns to Chicago from testing at the Transportation Technology Center Inc. test track near Pueblo, CO. The train is rumored to be headed to Washington State soon to replace the set destroyed in the tragic Amtrak Cascades 501 derailment at DuPont, WA on 12-18-17.
Locomotives: AMTK 137, AMTK 158, IDTX 4617
2-13-18
Sibley, MO
You enter
Like a stranger
You steal me
Like a thief
I cling in solemn silence
Like a fated autumn leaf
My body
Like a glacier
Your body
Like a storm
Our fingers reaching out for love
That hasn’t yet been born
The sins of this transfusion
Like a needle
Like a knife
Will pierce the perfect veil
Upon this newly Christened life
And so we move with chaos
And so we flirt with chance
Adrift inside a snow-globe
Of a slow hypnotic trance
Your body
Like a glacier
My body
Like a thorn
Our fingers reaching out to love
That comes to us
Stillborn.
***
I wrote this poem last night and wanted to illustrate it with a photo immediately. Sleep can wait. Thank you Vera and paullyngrace for the testimonials.
In memory of my twin sister, who died at one hour old.
Today 17 babies will die, the tragic victims of stillbirth or neonatal death. This is a statistic that is seeing no signs of decreasing, and behind each number is a family rocked to the foundations by the death of their baby.
This shocking figure, the loss of 6,500 babies every year, is something the public is not generally aware of. Most people think stillbirths don’t happen in the 21st century. Yet stillbirth in the UK is 10 times more common than cot death.
SANDS, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, feels that this number of deaths is totally unacceptable. They have launched the Why17? campaign to raise awareness of this devastating loss and to ask the question:
“Why are 17 babies a day dying and what can be done to halt this national tragedy?”
Through the Why17? campaign SANDS hopes to raise awareness of the issues surrounding baby loss and to initiate a public debate about stillbirth and neonatal death.
What can you do to help?
1) Follow this link, fill in your details to email your MP to make them aware of the parliamentary launch of Why17? on March 4th 2009: www.why17.org/Get-Involved/Contact-your-MP.html
2) Add your name to the list of supporters (petition) : www.why17.org/Pledge-Your-Support.html
3) Make a contribution: donate online; buy a window sticker / wristband / balloon; or plan a sponsored event. More ideas here: www.why17.org/Get-Involved.html
The St Johns Bridge is not the only bridge I enjoy taking photos of. This is a pinhole shot of the Astoria bridge taken on my Zero Image camera with Ilford Pan F film, a couple of days before his fated plunge into the ocean (which being a wooden box of a camera, he survived just fine, for the rest of the story see here). This picture almost was stillborn though. I began this roll in Astoria and then finished him up at the beach at Fort Stevens and put it into my pocket when I got socked by a large wave which soaked me up to my waist. I was so intent upon finding my pinhole that I completely forgot I was running around with a roll of exposed film in my soaking wet pants. It was not until about 30 minutes later that I remembered and by then the paper wrapping was pretty damp, so I was not sure if the film inside had gotten wet and damaged. Thankfully I processed the roll a couple of days later and the film was all just fine. One of these days I plan to stop having such adventures with my cameras and film. ;-)
he is everywhere at once
inside the fox eye
trapped in the headlight
under the lake
stillborn and breathless
under the sky
scattered with diamonds
inside the forest
battered by trees
tangled in branches
sticky with tongues
under a fallen log
eaten by ants
under the boulders
shouting drowned songs
riding the water’s edge
faded in mist
twisted in shadows
wind ripped through bone
travelling mapless
into the night
Gulls play an important role during the birthing/breeding season at Northern Elephant Seal rookeries. They consume afterbirth products and, here, an adult Herring Gull scavenges a stillborn pup from the prior night.
A capture of the engines of EK002 A380. Absolutely fascinating that these beast keep us in the air as we travel to exotic places in comfort.
The A380 is available with two types of turbofan engines, the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 (variants A380-841, −842 and −843F) or the Engine Alliance GP7000 (A380-861 and −863F). The Trent 900 is a derivative of the Trent 800, and the GP7000 has roots from the GE90 and PW4000. The Trent 900 core is a scaled version of the Trent 500, but incorporates the swept fan technology of the stillborn Trent 8104.
The GP7200 has a GE90-derived core and PW4090-derived fan and low-pressure turbo-machinery. Noise reduction was an important requirement in the A380 design, and particularly affects engine design. Both engine types allow the aircraft to achieve well under the QC/2 departure and QC/0.5 arrival noise limits under the Quota Count system set by Heathrow Airport, which is a key destination for the A380. The A380 has received an award for its reduced noise. However, field measurements suggest the approach quota allocation for the A380 may be overly generous compared to the older Boeing 747, but still quieter. Rolls-Royce is supporting CAA in understanding the relatively high A380/Trent 900 monitored noise levels.
The A380 was initially planned without thrust reversers, incorporating sufficient braking capacity to do without them.However Airbus elected to equip the two inboard engines with thrust reversers in a late stage of development, helping the brakes when the runway is slippery. The two outboard engines do not have reversers, reducing the amount of debris stirred up during landing. The A380 has electrically actuated thrust reversers, giving them better reliability than their pneumatic or hydraulic equivalents, in addition to saving weigh
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★the song you want to listen to
Yui - CHE.R.RY
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ヤナの世界 - Stillborn @ Eve Bayou
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The Parish Church of St Nicholas is 900 years old and Grade 1 listed. The church plays an important part in community life and services are held every Sunday..the church as it has two ghosts The Red Lady & The White Lady. The poor Red Lady haunts the churchyard for the unmarked grave of her stillborn son and the White Lady haunts the church. The White Lady was the wife of a Lord Dering 500 years ago, she was a great beauty and her husband had her body preserved in a series of lead coffins placed inside an oaken chest, she haunts close to the vault were she was placed…..
One of the more heartbreaking gravestones I have seen.
It reads:
"In Memory of
Mary the Wife of
Simeon Harvey
Who Departed this
Life Decemb.r 20th
1785. In 39th year of
Her age on her left
Arm lieth the Infant
Which was still..."
Barn swallow on the wire of Setcases street, Vilallonga de Ter, Ripollès, Girona, Catalonia.
Bird on the Wire és una cançó composta pel cantautor canadenc Leonard Cohen. Va ser enregistrada el 26 de setembre de 1968 a Nashville i inclosa en l'àlbum Songs from a Room de 1969, tot i que la primera que va interpretar i enregistrar la peça fou Judy Collins el 1968 al seu àlbum Who Knows Where the Time Goes.
VIQUIPÈDIA
Song written and composed by Leonard Cohen in 1968
Lletra de la cançó / Lyrics
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old-fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
If I, if I have been unkind
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you
For like a baby, stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "you must not ask for so much"
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me, "hey, why not ask for more?"
Oh, like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
L'idée d'un funiculaire de PAU remonte à 1874 sous la forme d'un ascenseur, cette idée est vite repoussée. En 1900, l'ingénieur Hérard propose une « rampe mobile ». Une convention est signée avec Médebelle pour une durée de 75 ans le 25 janvier 1901, mais ce projet est mort-né.
En 1904, Jean Bonnamy, entrepreneur de travaux publics bordelais, propose un funiculaire dont le potentiel minimum était estimé à 500 000 voyageurs par an. Mais les « écologistes » de l'époque arrivent à repousser le projet.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funiculaire_de_Pau
The idea of a PAU funicular goes back to 1874 in the form of an elevator, this idea is quickly rejected. In 1900, the engineer Hérard proposes a "mobile ramp". An agreement was signed with Medebelle for a period of 75 years on January 25, 1901, but this project is stillborn.
In 1904, Jean Bonnamy, public works contractor from Bordeaux, proposes a funicular whose minimum potential was estimated at 500,000 travelers per year. But the "ecologists" of the time manage to push back the project.
La idea de un funicular PAU se remonta a 1874 en forma de ascensor, esta idea es rechazada rápidamente. En 1900, el ingeniero Hérard propone una "rampa móvil". El 25 de enero de 1901 se firmó un acuerdo con Medebelle por un período de 75 años, pero este proyecto nace.
En 1904, Jean Bonnamy, contratista de obras públicas de Burdeos, propone un funicular cuyo potencial mínimo se estimó en 500,000 viajeros por año. Pero los "ecologistas" de la época logran retrasar el proyecto.
Every day in the UK, 17 babies are stillborn or die shortly after birth, why?
Today 17 babies will die, the tragic victims of stillbirth or neonatal death. This is a statistic that is seeing no signs of decreasing, and behind each number is a family rocked to the foundations by the death of their baby.
This shocking figure, the loss of 6,500 babies every year, is something the public is not generally aware of. Most people think stillbirths don’t happen in the 21st century. Yet stillbirth in the UK is 10 times more common than cot death.
Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, feels that this number of deaths is totally unacceptable. They have launched the Why17? campaign to raise awareness of this devastating loss and to ask the question:
“Why are 17 babies a day dying and what can be done to halt this national tragedy?”
Through the Why17? campaign Sands hopes to raise awareness of the issues surrounding baby loss and to initiate a public debate about stillbirth and neonatal death.
What can you do to help?
1) Follow this link, fill in your details to email your MP to make them aware of the parliamentary launch of Why17? on March 4th 2009: www.why17.org/Get-Involved/Contact-your-MP.html
2) Add your name to the list of supporters (petition) : www.why17.org/Pledge-Your-Support.html
3) Make a contribution: donate online; buy a window sticker / wristband / balloon; or plan a sponsored event. More ideas here: www.why17.org/Get-Involved.html
The uplands and mountains of the South Wales are A tough place to make A living.Prey such as rabbit are very thin on the ground compared to other places.
The wind that blows North off the Brecon Beacons are relentless and the frail or weak seldom make old bones up here.
This still born lamb is A great find for this buzzard and along with the ravens crows and foxes there will be little left to go to waste. Its great to see the farmers locally seem very proud off their birds of prey locally and hopefully they have A good future ahead of them.
This was taken from the car not A hide and is total luck on my part this lamb was not placed here this is where it died . Nature in tooth and claw.After A few shots the buzzard was left in peace with its meal and as can be seen was in no way disturbed or frightened for the sake of A picture.
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Thanks to everyone that takes the time and makes the effort to comment and fave my pics its very much appreciated
Regards Clive
Most pioneer families experienced the death of a child. The Yount family experienced it more than most.
Originally from Missouri, Charles Smith Yount moved west to Washington in the late 1800s or early 1900s. He probably moved with his brother Raymond (and their respective wives - Junia and Lydia).
Charles was 17 years older than Raymond and likely lived a fairly full life in Missouri before moving to Washington. Charles married Junia in April of 1895 in Cole County, Missouri.
It's very likely they had a child or two who died while still in Missouri. It is certain they had one upon arriving in Washington. The infant lived only a few weeks in 1899. It doesn't appear that they were able to name them. A year later, they had another who was probably stillborn.
Both of those siblings share a stone in a cemetery that I photographed last year. The stone seems to read, like this one pictured, that they were "sons of G.S. & J. Yount."
Raymond, the brother, was around 17 when he and Charles moved to Washington. While Charles was married to Junia, Raymond was a bachelor. Soon, however, he met Lydia. The young couple was married in December of 1905 and before long, Lydia was pregnant.
Junia was pregnant once again too, though Lydia was a little farther along. In July, Lydia gave birth to a healthy boy they named Harry. Two months later, Junia gave birth to the infant who is buried here, in the photo I'm sharing today.
Lydia would have another in 1908, as did Junia. Both babies were healthy. In fact, this would be the only child out of six of Charles and Junia who would live beyond infancy.
Two years later, Lydia was pregnant again, but contracted Tuberculosis before giving birth, and died shortly after. Velma, the infant, also caught the disease and lived only a few days longer than her mother. Lydia was only 21.
Concerning this photo, I searched for far too long for someone named G.S. Yount, but found nothing. But this infant wasn't the only Yount buried here, however - Velma and Lydia are also here, though neither have a stone .
I was, however, able to find that Lydia's husband was brothers with a Charles Smith Yount who was married to Junia. Could that "G" on the stone actually be a "C"?
Yes, obviously! Finding Charles Smith Yount led me to the other stone for their two other infants buried in a different cemetery - the stone I had photographed last year.
While there were a multitude of pioneers who arrived in Washington, I'm finding that it was a very small world.
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'Unite'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/16 2sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Washington
April 2023
Today, and every day 17 babies will die, the tragic victims of stillbirth or neonatal death. That equates to the devestation of 17 families, 34 parents with broken hearts, 68 gandparents who'll never know their grandchildren, but over a year more staggeringly that's the loss of 6,500 babies every year, maybe someone in your life, your work or your street.
Most people think stillbirths don’t happen in the 21st century. Yet stillbirth in the UK is 10 times more common than cot death.
At Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, we feel this number of deaths is totally unacceptable. We have launched the Why17? campaign to raise awareness of this devastating loss and to ask the question:
“Why are 17 babies a day dying and what can be done to halt this national tragedy?”
“I just want to raise awareness of stillbirth. I had no idea that this could happen to me
1) Follow this link, fill in your details to email your MP to make them aware of the parliamentary launch of Why17? on March 4th 2009: www.why17.org/Get-Involved/Contact-your-MP.html
2) Add your name to the list of supporters (petition) : www.why17.org/Pledge-Your-Support.html
3) Make a contribution: donate online; buy a window sticker / wristband / balloon; or plan a sponsored event. More ideas here: www.why17.org/Get-Involved.html
The time has come to say goodbye to Bao Bao. I remember it like it was yesterday...on August 23, 2013, I was on the bus ride home from "school"...scrolling through facebook, I came across a post from the National Zoo, saying that Mei Xiang was in labor. I rushed to my computer as soon as I got home, and not long afterwards, Bao Bao was born. Those little squeals she made filled my heart with love and happiness. Since I didn't get to watch her big brother Tai Shan grow up via the cams, I knew I had to tune in as much as I could with Bao Bao, and I'm so glad I did. I thoroughly enjoyed watching her pass milestones, and grow bigger as the days went on. Of course, we were all hanging in suspense for a while with the government shutdown that fall, but once the cams returned, all was well in the world again.
My first in-person visit with Bao Bao was magical, and each visit from there on out was very special and unforgettable. No matter what she did, she made me smile. I was very lucky to be there for her 3rd and last birthday party in DC. Many people gathered to see Mei Xiang enjoy Bei Bei (Bao's little brother)'s cake, but I knew I had to stick around Bao's enclosure and be there as soon as she saw her cake for the first time. It was very special to be there for that moment. Afterwards, I attended a big party consisting of panda lovers who came near and far for this special event. Being there, I was reminded that although I had been a panda lover for 9 years prior, Bao Bao was the reason I went to that party. If it weren't for her, I would not have made many friends and memories that weekend.
Bao Bao was almost like a miracle panda. Her mother, Mei Xiang, gave birth to a cub in September 2012, her first birth in 7 years. Unfortunately, her cub, a female, died within a week of being born. The following year, Mei ended up pregnant again, and I was cautiously optimistic about a cub surviving. Thankfully, Bao Bao survived. Her stillborn twin was not so lucky, but one cub surviving is better than none. From then on, my life was changed.
I could not help but fall deeply in love with Bao Bao, both through the times I watched her grow up on the cam, and when I visited her in person. She is unique...the first surviving daughter of Mei Xiang, and the first surviving female panda cub born at the National Zoo. Her playfulness never failed to make me laugh. I managed to be there during her last big snowfall in DC, and those memories were some of the best I made with her. She made me smile, she made me laugh, but leaving her was so hard, but she made it a little easier by being asleep. Being a panda lover has its ups and downs, but I would never trade it for the world.
So farewell Bao Bao, may you have a wonderful life in China. I look forward to seeing and hearing how you'll do in a new environment, and I look forward to seeing pictures of the beautiful babies you will make in the future. I love you so much, sweet girl ♥︎
Made Explore #321 on February 21, 2017.
Hase-dera Temple.
- Un incensiere in bronzo.
- Un bassorilievo con figure di Benzaiten (la dea della saggezza e della longevità).
- Centinaia di piccole statue di Jizō, collocate dai genitori in lutto per aborti spontanei e bambibini nati morti.
Hase-dera Temple.
- A bronze censer.
- A bas-relief with figures of Benzaiten (the goddess of wisdom and longevity).
- Hundreds of small Jizō statues, placed by mourning parents for miscarriages and stillborn babies.
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Streamlined 4-6-4 CO 490 sits in the former passenger car shop of the B&O Mount Clare Shops. Now the Bawden Railroad Workers Hall of the B&O Railroad Museum.
Designed to pull the stillborn 'Chessie' passenger train, it was reassigned and used to pull secondary passenger trains and mail trains until 1953.
Very sad to come across this scene. These Elephants (Loxodonta africana) have gathered to mourn a stillborn that they have surrounded. Some have their trunks held high, others are smelling the stillborn and trying to get it up. It took three days for them to finally leave the carcass alone. Image taken in Tarangire National Park of Tanzania.
Pipes were and still are made in Saint Claude, France. And many never got finished because fabrication errors but many more because of naturals defects that were'nt detected in the beginning of fabrication process.
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"Bird On The Wire"
Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.
Like a baby, stillborn,
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
I had to cross a field with horses until I reached the end of it, and I was then about 100 feet away, all the while being scrutinized by a moose. The horses came to see me and gave me horse kisses, and that's when I crossed the back fence and slowly made my way toward it. I started shooting when I got to within 50 feet of this female moose that has been hanging around the farm for the past 6 weeks or so. Slowly, I made my way closer. When I got within 30 feet, it slowly took 5 or 6 steps to put even more branches between us. After about 10 minutes of watching each other, it slowly disappeared into the woods. The end.
We didn't know this female moose was pregnant when she was photographed. She gave birth on May 31, 2019. Unfortunately, her calf was stillborn. It still had the protective cartilages under its hooves, which it normally looses as soon as it stands up. Better luck in 2020.
Jasmine gave birth a week or so ago to 4 pups . Sadly one was stillborn. No idea where they were hiding b/c this is the first day I saw them. They are very cute!
Montgomery Zoo
Montgomery AL
Space and time
Waking hours before I
Open my eyes
In the morning, I feel my
Heart crack open
One last chorus, I'll be singin' into
Empty glasses
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The F/A-27A 'Skua' is a 4th generation multirole fighter designed by McDonnell Douglas in the early 1990s as a larger, more powerful alternative to the F/A-18C/D Hornet. The genesis of the program lay in the collapse of the ATA program and the stillborn A-12 Avenger II and the unacceptably high maintenance costs of the F-14 Tomcat. In 1992, the United States Navy put forth an RFP for a new fighter that would be equally adept at striking ground targets but yet was fast enough to do air-interception and fighter duties. The resultant design, the 'Skua' was studied by the Navy, but ultimately rejected in 1996 in favor of their participation in the Joint Strike Fighter program (which, in turn, was succeeded by the F-29 'Phoenix' which would finally enter service). The aircraft, which was nearly fully developed, languished until 2001, when several Pacific nations, concerned by the creation of the Chinese-led 'Songun Zone' and its extra-territorial claims, began seeking a new aircraft to replace legacy fighters. Among these nations was Japan, which was interested in an offer by the U.S. to base a squadron or two off of the U.S.S Kitty Hawk, based in Yokasuka. With rapidity of service entry and low(ish) costs being a goal, Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan and the Philippines (miraculously) all agreed to fund remaining development of the aircraft and bring it in service as the 'Pacific Rim Fighter Aircraft.'
The operational F/A-27A is more akin to a navalized Eagle than a lightweight fighter descendant, like the Hornet. With its General Electric F110 engines, the Skua is known to be able to dash at over Mach 2 or carry over 20,000+lb of ordinance across 9 hardpoints (with two additional wing hardpoints activated on some land-based versions). In cost-reduction measures, a planned integral IRST and laser targeting pod was deleted, meaning this initial version must rely on externally mounted sensors for these duties. However, it has the benefit of using the powerful APG-63(V)2 radar with an efficient datalink, allowing a flight of Skuas to effectively track dozens of targets and engage up to 6 each at a time using AIM-120 AMRAAMs (or equivalent missiles).
Japanese usage of this type has proven to be highly controversial. Ordered shortly after the Mitsubishi F-2 began entering service and before the first Senkaku Crisis, the decision to fund and operate the type was immediately assailed by pacifist members of the National Diet, and even members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, over the cost, complexities of operating yet another fighter type, and most critically, them being carrier fighters to be based on foreign aircraft carriers (seen by many as a circumvention or direct violation of Japan's Constitution). Speculation abounded that corruption and bribery on the part of Boeing (having merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997) was the only way that these fighters entered service. Subsequent investigation was inconclusive, but critics point out that the committee tasked with investigation was comprised of LDP hawks, and was completed after the type was used as an effective deterrent following the Senkaku Crisis in 2008. Even after nearly two decades of active service, the type has still attracted the ire of pacifists and the ruling war hawks alike, who contend that its fielding diverted valuable funding for domestic products, and effectively halted the development of the F-3 Yamakaze and other modernization efforts.
Regardless of the circumstances of its service entry in Japan, it has excelled in its intended role, and, though few in number (totaling two active squadrons and a reserve training squadron, with 40 aircraft ordered), its introduction marks the first fighters for Japan's naval service since the Second World War, and its capability superseded the ASDF's F-15Js.
I wonder how many trains and how many locomotives and cars the L.G.Osborne & Son store just north of Dungannon, VA, on the former Clinchfield Railroad, has witnessed. This is milepost 56.1 (from Elkhorn City), and the four degree left hand curve (headed south) atop the fill crosses Dry Creek (which is anything but "dry" when heavy rains hit the region!). I've photographed trains here since the late '60s, and I don't recall the store being open. If you look instead, though, the shelves are still stocked with many items. Grade work (but no track) for a railroad was first done through these parts in the 1880s, by the stillborn Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago--the "Triple C." In 1894 the Ohio River & Charleston took up the cause again, but it gave way to George L. Carter's South & Western, which finally built this fill (and track this time) about 1908-09. This company morphed into the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio, which completed the line between Spartanburg, SC and a connection with the Chesapeake & Ohio at Elkhorn City, KY in 1915. In 1925, the CC&O was leased for 999 years to the Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville & Nashville, which operated the line by the name we all remember: The Clinchfield. In September 1999 the old store witnesses yet another southbound freight operated by successor CSX Transportation. And if you had a scanner tuned to the right frequency, you would have heard: "CSX 644 South....clear signal, Osborne's Curve..."