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I just had to stick my head in the door of the Swallows Inn while walking around San Juan Capistrano, California. It's a pretty cool place and posed as the bar in Clint Eastwood's movie 'Heartbreak Ridge'. Camp Pendleton is not too far away from this location and Marines there frequented this place. That's supposedly how it was discovered and chosen as a filming location for the movie.
The redness in the sky to the west was now alarming, although I knew the reason, it felt like something supernatural.
Palgrave was just a few miles from Hepworth, and one I hoped to find open, and at just after four in the afternoon, but nearly dar, it was.
It was really very gloomy inside the church, even with the lights on, shots were difficult to take. I was on a mission to snap all I could as soon as possible before the light failed altogether.
Church features a splendid Norman font, modern glass, and the remains of a spiral staircase leading to a room over the south porch, the floor of which has long since vanished. The stairs now a broom cupboard.
Wonderful painted roof, I thought maybe done in the last century, but might be much, much older than that.
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2015: I've visited Palgrave church several times since this account first appeared, most recently to take the photographs here. However, I hope I will be forgiven for retaining the original text from 2003, if only for its freshness, and perhaps also for what may be viewed at this distance as its charm.
2003: I arrived at Diss railway station in that gentle sunshine for which we’ll remember the Spring of 2003. Diss is in Norfolk; I had just crossed the border on my train journey from Ipswich, but I was bound for Diss's southern suburb, the Suffolk village of Palgrave. I cycled off from the station. I headed under the railway line, and over the infant Waveney. At this point, I entered Suffolk again, but there were no county signs in either direction. To be honest, it didn’t feel that different, apart from the way that the road surface improved, the schools came off special measures, the police force became efficient, and so on.
The countryside opened out into golden oilseed rape fields under a wide sky. It was good to be home. Soon, I was coming into Palgrave village, which seemed very pleasant indeed.
In medieval times, Palgrave was actually two parishes; the westerly one, Palgrave St John, has been subsumed into this one, and that church has completely disappeared. However, this pretty church is walled neatly into its graveyard at the heart of the village, which spreads neatly around it. As this was my first church of the day, I hoped it would be open; it always puts a crimp in a trip if the first one is a lock-out. I was not disappointed; St Peter is a friendly parish that knows that part of its Christian mission is to welcome strangers and pilgrims.
I stepped through the elaborate arch of the late 15th Century south doorway. An angel and a dragon contended in the spandrels, and there were characterful heads carved in the entrance arch. Inside, a very nice lady was busy with the flowers, and took time out to show me around. All the while, I was conscious that above my head the lovely painted roof of Palgrave. Marian monograms and symbols punctuate the whitewash; once, many small Suffolk churches must have been like this. Perhaps someone can explain to me why this one hasn’t faded like many of the others; I don’t think it has been redone.
The other famous treasure here is the font. It is unlike anything else in Suffolk. Clearly Norman, but much more elaborate than most, its most outstanding features are the faces in each corner. Again, this is a more intimate experience of the faces we normally see as corbels; but Palgrave has these too, stunning medieval characters along the lines of the arcades.
While we are on the subject of treasure, there were two modern features that were obviously loved by the locals. Firstly, Surinder Warboys has her studio nearby at Mellis, and here is one of her windows in the south aisle. The light flooded through it. The lady told me that everybody liked it, but that it was very hard to do a flower arrangement in front of it! I thought that they had done very well. Secondly, up in the chancel is the benefice millennium banner – people from all the parishes came together and produced this amazing patchwork cross. On the back, there are panels depicting the mission of the Church. Apparently, it is shared around the benefice churches for display for a few weeks at a time.
In the place where many churches now display the coat of arms, Palgrave has part of a suit of armour. I have seen an explanation in several books that it was from the parish armoury, which was once stored in the upper room of the porch, as at Mendlesham. This upper room has now gone, and the armoury has, as in most churches, been dispersed. However, I could find no evidence for this story, and it seems to be based on one of Arthur Mee’s fancies. I don't think it is even real armour; rather, it is similar to the mock plate armour behind the Bacon memorial at nearby Redgrave. It seems likely to me that this is also part of an old set of armour associated with a memorial of some kind, which the Victorians swept away. I don’t suppose we’ll ever know.
Back outside again, I took time out to photograph the famous grave of carter John Catchpole, with its relief of a wagon and horses – you can see it in the left-hand column. It seems a modern fashion to decorate headstones with symbols associated with the deceased; nice to know it was happening in the mid-18th century.
I turned, and looked back at the neat tower, the splendid porch with its dramatic niches. You can see that there was once an upper room, but it has now gone.
And it was time for me to be gone, too. Waving cheerily, I headed off in the direction of Thrandeston, all the road back to Ipswich open in front of me in the sunshine.
Simon Knott, August 2003, updated July 2015
The Bournemouth Air Festival took place from the 30th August to 2nd September 2018. Voted best Tourism Event by Visit England and celebrating it’s 10th year, the Bournemouth Air Festival is the UK’s biggest, best and free aviation festival! RAF Red Arrows displayed on ~ Thursday 30th August ~ Saturday 1st September.
Bournemouth .With seven miles of golden sands and sparkling sea, the vibrant cosmopolitan town of Bournemouth has it all - a vast variety of shops, restaurants and holiday accommodation, buzzing nightlife and endless countryside with beautiful award winning gardens and water sports galore. Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the mid-year estimates for 2010 from the Office for National Statistics the town has a population of 168,100, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth. With Poole and Christchurch, Bournemouth forms the South East Dorset conurbation, which has a total population of about 400,000.
Imax ~ built in 1998, Bournemouth Borough Council bought the waterfront building from long leaseholders Nilgosc for about £7 million in 2010. It will cost another £2 million to have it demolished. The authority had hoped to keep the structure, but to lower it by 25ft ( 8 mtr ) and turn it into an all-weather leisure centre or cultural attraction. John Beesley, leader of Bournemouth council, said demolition work would not begin until after the holiday season and it was hoped the work would be finished by summer 2013. The building opened as an Imax cinema in 2002 despite protests from residents against the plans.The building was demolished in 2013.
Founded in 1810 by Lewis Tregonwell, Bournemouth's growth accelerated with the arrival of the railway, becoming a recognised town in 1870. Historically part of Hampshire, it joined Dorset with the reorganisation of local government in 1974. Since 1997 the town has been administered by a unitary authority, meaning that it has autonomy from Dorset County Council. The local authority is Bournemouth Borough Council. Bournemouth's location on the south coast of England has made it a popular destination for tourists. The town is a regional centre of business, home of the Bournemouth International Centre and financial companies that include Liverpool Victoria and PruHealth.
Although Bournemouth is on the coast, the centre of the town lies inland - the commercial and civil heart of the town being the Square. From the Square the Upper and Lower Pleasure Gardens descend to the seafront and the pier. Areas within Bournemouth include Bear Cross, Boscombe, Kinson, Pokesdown, Westbourne and Winton. Traditionally a large retirement town, Bournemouth (mostly the Northbourne, Southbourne and Tuckton areas of Bournemouth together with the Wallisdown, and Talbot Village areas of Poole) has seen massive growth in recent years, especially through the growth of students attending Bournemouth University and the large number of language schools teaching English as a foreign language.
Bournemouth is located directly to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a 95-mile ( 153 km ) section of beautiful and largely un spoilt coastline recently designated a World Heritage Site. Apart from the beauty of much of the coastline, the Jurassic Coast provides a complete geological record of the Jurassic period and a rich fossil record. Bournemouth sea front overlooks Poole Bay and the Isle of Wight. Bournemouth also has seven miles ( 11 km ) of sandy beaches that run from Hengistbury Head in the east to Sandbanks, in Poole, in the west.
Because of the coastal processes that operate in Poole Bay, the area is often used for surfing. An artificial reef was expected to be installed at Boscombe, in Bournemouth, by October 2008, using large sand-filled geotextile bags. However, this deadline was not met, and the construction was actually finished at the end of October 2009. The Boscombe Reef was constructed as part of the larger Boscombe Spa Village development. Bournemouth also has several chines ( e.g., Alum Chine ) that lead down to the beaches and form a very attractive feature of the area.
The Dorset and Hampshire region surrounding Bournemouth has been the site of human settlement for thousands of years. However, in 1800 the Bournemouth area was largely a remote and barren heathland. No one lived at the mouth of the Bourne River and the only regular visitors were a few fishermen, turf cutters and gangs of smugglers until the 16th century. During the Tudor period the area was used as a hunting estate, Stourfield Chase, but by the late 18th century only a few small parts of it were maintained, including several fields around the Bourne Stream and a cottage known as Decoy Pond House, which stood near where the Square is today.
With the exception of the estate, until 1802 most of the Bournemouth area was common land. The Christchurch Inclosures Act 1802 and the Inclosure Commissioners' Award of 1805 transferred hundreds of acres into private ownership for the first time. In 1809, the Tapps Arms public house appeared on the heath. A few years later, in 1812, the first residents, retired army officer Lewis Tregonwell and his wife, moved into their new home built on land he had purchased from Sir George Ivison Tapps. Tregonwell began developing his land for holiday letting by building a series of sea villas. In association with Tapps, he planted hundreds of pine trees, providing a sheltered walk to the beach ( later to become known as the ~ Invalids walk ). The town would ultimately grow up around its scattered pines. In 1832 when Tregonwell died, Bournemouth had grown into a small community with a scattering of houses, villas and cottages.
The days grow shorter as summer draws to an end. This must come as something of a relief to the Snowy Plovers, Terns, Avocets, and other bayland birds as it marks the end of their long nesting season. It a relief to me as well because with the end of nesting season my Special Use Permit (nicely up to date) allows me to photograph more broadly in the South Bay wildlife refuge. In celebration, I had a coordination meeting this week with the managers of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project followed by a photography session in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve.
Eden landing has seen rapid change during the last few years. Last year my photographs showed a large construction project to subdivide Salt Ponds E12 and E13 into an array of smaller managed ponds. These are to be kept at various levels of salinity, as though salt evaporation ponds, but with the goal of providing habitat rather than producing salt. The array of new ponds covers what was a bare plain five years ago in which one could see the faint traces of many 19th century salt ponds of a similar scale. I am interested in seeing how the landscape develops. Will the 19th century traces still be readable after the 21st century construction?
On this trip I had three separate photography sessions. The first, staring around 4 pm, involved a short hike along some of the new subdividing levees near the eastside construction yard. These new ponds were filled with a few inches of low salinity water covered with ample crops of cyanobacteria. By 5:30 pm I had packed up and relocated to the north bank of Mt. Eden Creek with the idea of sending a camera over the construction site of a new flow control structure on the west edge of Salt Pond E13. When that session was finished I relocated to the south end of Salt Pond E10 with the idea of photographing the marsh near the outlet of Salt Pond E9, some 500 feet away. That pond was restored to tidal flow a couple of years ago and has been going through an interesting metamorphosis.
All three sessions involved clean steady flights below a Sutton Flowform 30 kite. The subjects were interesting and the photographs turned out quite well. What could be better? It is nice to be getting underway again in the salt pond landscape.
I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife. Kite flying is prohibited over the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve without a Special Use Permit, as is access to this part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge.
Dedicated to the 3000 homeless, the 120+ (so far dead 9th Feb, 2009), the killed lifestock, and the brunt land of the northern State of Victoria. My prayers go out , my money as well. This Sunday we had the worst natural disaster in Australia's history. A rainbow of hope for the survivors.
Madhyamaheshwar (Sanskrit: मध्यमहेश्वर) or Madmaheshwar is a Hindu temple dedicated to god Shiva, located in the Mansoona village of Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand, India. Situated at an elevation of 3,497 m (11,473.1 ft), it is the fourth temple to be visited in the Panch Kedar pilgrimage circuit, comprising five Shiva temples in the Garhwal region. The other temples in the circuit include: Kedarnath, Tungnath and Rudranath to be visited before Madmaheshwar and Kalpeshwar to be visited after Madmaheshwar. The middle (madhya) or belly part or navel (nabhi) of the bull, considered a divine form of Shiva, is worshipped at this temple, believed to be built by the Pandavas, the heroes of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.[1]
My first entry for the "Anti-Flatline" contest on Classic Castle.
Needless to say Josh the Admin had eaten his last Elephant trunk.
25th October 2015 at London Irish Centre (Hub), London NW1.
Return to Camden Town Festival, www.returntocamden.org/.
Country: Britain & Ireland. Style: Traditional Irish Folk.
Lineup: included Mick Mulvey (flute), Johnny Connolly (melodeon), Johnny Óg Connolly (button accordion), Pete Quinn (p) If anyone recognises anyone else in the photo please tell me their names.
A feature of Return to Camden Town is the numerous sessions, both at the London Irish Centre and various pubs.
To był niesamowity dzień. Dopisała aura, która wszystkich wprawiła w jeszcze bardziej pogodny nastrój. Jak co roku Fundacja Wrocławskie Hospicjum dla Dzieci zorganizowała naszym podopiecznym i ich rodzeństwu obchody Dnia Dziecka, które odbyły się 17 czerwca. Dziękujemy za przyjęcie zaproszenia i tak liczne przybycie.
Miejscem zabawy była gościnna Stara Garbarnia w Leśnicy a tematem przewodnim MADAGASKAR. Był oczywiście zacnie nam panujący Król Julian i mnóstwo zwierzaków. Nasi niezawodni, pomysłowi wolontariusze przeistoczyli się w lemury, zebry, lwy, żyrafy, pingwiny, tygrysy, hieny i inne madagaskarskie futrzaki... Mnóstwo radości, balonów, dobrego jedzenia i nieposkromionej zabawy towarzyszyło nam do ostatniej minuty świętowania.
Nasz wyjątkowy dzień rozpoczął się od odtańczenia tańca, który jest celebrowany zawsze na wyspie Madagaskar. Wszyscy, bez wyjątku, "wyginali śmiało ciało". Wrażenia artystyczne i muzyczne, wspaniale kreacje sceniczne w rytm kastanietów zapewniła nam szkoła tańca flamenco Dragonitas del Fuego. Furorę zrobił iluzjonista Damian Kość, który oprócz występu na scenie, zabawiał dzieci w małych grupkach zdradzając tajniki sztuk magicznych. Różnego rodzaju atrakcje przygotowały wolontariaty pracownicze firm współpracujących z Fundacją oraz uczniowie Akademii Wojsk Lądowych. Niesamowity tort a’la wyspa Madagaskar upieczony przez Mamą naszego podopiecznego zrobił furorę i był obiektem wielu zdjęć.
Nieocenieni wolontariusze przez całą imprezę troszczyli się o dzieci i angażowali w różnego rodzaju zabawy, puszczanie mydlanych baniek, dekorowanie babeczek, malowanie twarzy, dmuchanie balonów czy rysowanie zwierzaków…Cel został osiągnięty! Na twarzach dzieci widzieliśmy uśmiech i szczęście. Dzień Dziecka zwieńczony był tym, na co dzieci czekały najbardziej, czyli wręczaniem prezenty. Było ich mnóstwo a każdy z dzieciaków został nimi wręcz zarzucony. Nasze świętowanie i uczczenie Dnia Dziecka nie mogło by się odbyć bez rzeszy ludzi dobrych serc, które zadbały o to, żeby dla żadnego dziecka nie zabrakło niespodzianek.
Gorąco dziękujemy:
Pracownikom firm: Becton Dickinson, BNY Mellon, Capgemini, CH Robinson, Geoban, Gigaset Communication Service, Hoist Polska Sp. z o.o., HPE, Infor, Kaufland, KPMG, Tieto oraz UPS za przekazane prezenty i wsparcie w dniu imprezy.
Ukłony składamy również podopiecznym Hospicjum Ojców Bonifratrów obecnym na wydarzeniu, Katedrze Medycyny Sądowej Uniwersytetu Medycznego, Klubowi Rotary Cieplice, Fundacji Hasco Lek, firmie Pushek Klaudia Pokojowczyk, Zrzeszeniu Studentów przy Uniwersytecie Ekonomicznym, Starej Garbarni, Szkole Tańca Flamenco Dragonitas del Fuego Lilianny Bochenkiewicz, Wrocławskiemu Centrum Seniora, iluzjoniście Damianowi Kościowi, Akademii Wojsk Lądowych oraz firmie Toyota Dobrygowski.
Dzięki Waszemu zaangażowaniu, energii i chęciom po raz kolejny mogliśmy tak hucznie świętować Dzień Dziecka!
Dziękujemy i do zobaczenia za rok :)
The Obamas borrowed from several Washington museums to decorate their private White House residence and the West and East Wings. Included in this loan is an intriguing trio of patent models on loan from the National Museum of American History, including models for Samuel Morse’s 1849 telegraph register, a gear-cutting machine, and a paddlewheel for a steamboat (shown here).
Learn more about other art and history objects on loan to the White House.
Patent Model, Paddle Wheel Model, Patent #11992, ICONS No. 13
Soldiers begin to move forward after getting out of the Griffon. Soldiers from the Defence and Security Platoon (D &S) practice helicopter load and unload drills on the Griffon helicopter. 427 Squadron provided the Griffon's for the exercise. The D&S Pl is made up of soldiers from The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment.
Soldiers from 38 Canadian Brigade are training in Winnipeg on Exercise Charging Bison 06 from 30 April to 6 May. The purpose of Exercise Charging Bison 06 is to expose 38 CBG soldiers to the intricacies of conducting operations in an urban environment such as they may encounter if they are deployed on operations outside of Canada. Specifically, 38 CBG needs to train its soldiers on how to interact with a local civilian population while, at the same time, remaining focused on a military mission.
38 CBG consists of Reserve soldiers from Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northern Ontario. Approximately 630 soldiers from 38 CBG, 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group from Northern Manitoba and Minnesota National Guard soldiers from 14 Infantry Division also took part in Exercise Charging Bison.
Took the modified Toyota Prius out on a roadtrip. Bonham, TX to Houston, TX and back.
Configuration: Rebuilt 140,000+ mile HV Battery pack, with two replacement modules from another pack with similar miles. Piggybacked onto the HV Battery is a capacitor bank, and a lithium battery bank. Also attached, is a lithium battery bank, piggybacked onto the aux 12volt battery, of which is trickled charged with a solar panel in the back window. The gasoline was 87 octane regular grade with 10% methanol.
In the photos, you'll see what the overall trip MPG average ended up being. Factors that I believe hurt the results were the start/stop highway parking lots in Dallas and Houston, both there and back, along with the fact, I ran out of gasoline, on one leg of the trip, and had to have BetterWorld Auto Club, deliver 3 gallons to get me on the road. I drove for several miles on battery, to get to a rest area, and it took quite awhile to get the battery recharged once on the road again. NOTE: Car is empty when it shows 1/4 tank, learned that the hard way.
I averaged 65mph, on the highway, crawling speeds in the 4 lane parking lots, and you'll see from the temperature display, I had the A/C running as well. Keep in mind this is a 2001 Prius, that doesn't have an electric a/c compressor.
Anyhow, Does the trip MPG Average seem OK?
Eucalyptus melliodora - standing on land that is planned to be developed as a new suburb in Canberra, to be known as Moncrief.
Another survey for Superb Parrots - none seen here but this old tree is the sort they need for nesting as a tree of this age often contains hollows.
To recognize the contributions of our wonderful nurses during National Nursing Week 2021 (May 10 - 16) we’re asking for photos of nurses and teams in action at Island Health.
Public Health Nurse Jen Slade sent this photo of the Saanich Health Unit team.
Welcome to Venice
Venice, long revered as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, lies at the head of the Adriatic Sea in the salt- water Laguna Veneta. Resplendent with graceful palaces and churches, the city is built on 118 small islands and laced with a unique network of canals and bridges. In St. Mark's Square bells chime, violins play, shoppers stroll, lovers embrace, and visitors take it all in over cappuccino in a congenial cafe. just a turn of the head allows you to admire St. Mark's Basilica, the Doge's Palace, the bell tower, the clock tower where giant bronze Moors have struck the hours for five centuries, the old law courts and the old library. Described by Napoleon as the finest drawing room in Europe, the Piazza San Marco is just a prelude to a city whose treasures are too numerous to count.
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We decided to escape from Hurricane Irma by traveling to someplace high and dry, so we flew to New Mexico. Our first day we observed the famous "Bird Log" at the Capulin Springs picnic area in Cibola National Forest in the Sandia Mountains just east of Albuquerque. For me this was a homecoming of sorts, as in the early 1990s I had worked with a crew of US Forest Service volunteers to rehabilitate an old hollow log which had served as a wildlife drinker. The pipe from the spring had frozen and cracked and the stone wall which enclosed it had to be reassembled and cemented. The log had a large hole whcih we covered with a rubber sheet. It finally fell apart and the volunteers created a new log and replaced the old just last year, They did a great job. Since this is the only constant water source for a large area, one an observer should expect to see just about every species of bird and mammal that inhabits the forest. I traveled with my new mirrorless camera and the photos are mostly of poor quality, but they document a really engaging two hours of just sitting and clicking as the show went on before my eyes.
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On Monday I took Alice to see Dr. Key since none of the swelling in her lymph node in her neck has gone down. She aspirated it and sent off a sample for testing. I got the call yesterday. The cancer is most defintely back. In addition to the swelling there is a mass growing under her jaw. Since the cancer is in her lymph node it is spreading through her body which means that she is not a candidate for surgery, there would be no point. Right now there is not much to do but wait and wait and wait. Down the road we may try medication that sometimes can shrink the tumor. But if she has squamous cell carcinoma again it won't work. I have no way of knowing how long she has left to live. She's not in pain and still has a huge appetite and seems to be fine. Hopefully she will continue like this for a long while and the cancer will be slow moving. I'm dreading the day that she starts taking a turn for the worse. So much has happened in the last 3 months. I hope she has much longer than that left. Anyway, time will tell. And until then every day is to be enjoyed to the fullest. She will be spoiled rotten and loved like crazy.
I love to watch him sleep, I could do it for hours. His cute little snore like is dad (although his dads snore isn't so cute lol), the way he sleeps with his mouth open and drools (he gets that from me) and the menagerie of animals he has to sleep with each night. These are only a few of his stuffed animals, but they are the favourites. We have Gloria the hippopotamus, Mummy Roo the big kangaroo, Fido the newest member of the group which is the dog he's cuddling, Little Puppy, Kitty cat which has to be the ugliest cat I've ever seen, Ratatouille aka Chewy, Polar Bear (we aren't very original with names), Spike the sock monkey and finally Woofy who is the all time favourite given to him as a baby from some dear friends. Oh almost forgot Roger Roger the rocket ship.
Sweet dreams baby boy <3
Vintage 1950's to 1960's Earring Set with Multi Strand Bib Necklace Green Demi Parure. Find it at: www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=37995398
"FADE TO BLACK" editorial for LUI magazine Italia (June/Giugno 2015 - print edition)
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The Pantheon was a temple dedicated to all the gods built by Agrippa in 27BC. In AD80 it was damaged by fire and restored by Domitian. Then Emperor Hadrian (117-38) rebuilt it. The temple was closed in the 4C by the first Christian Emperors but in 608 it was reopened and converted into a church dedicated to S. Mary ad Martyres. The Pantheon presents an hemispherical dome, whose hole at the top provides the the only light. Today, one of the chapel inside, contains the tomb of Vittorio Emanuele II (1820-78), the first king of unified Italy and the tomb of Raphael (who died at 37 years old in 1520).
More info on the Pantheon
Two kings of Italy are buried in the Pantheon: Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I, as well as Umberto's Queen, Margherita. Although Italy has been a republic since 1946, volunteer members of Italian monarchist organizations maintain a vigil over the royal tombs in the Pantheon.
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The golf legend is in town to speak to the field at the Asian Amateur Championship, which kicks off on Sept 29. Photo by Sion Touhig
2012 Welcome to Rapture
December 21st, 2012
A corresponding date used by
the Mayans to denote a completed
Great Cycle of thirteen B'ak'tuns,
periods of 144,000 days each.
Would you rather sit here
and make other people wealthier,
or would you like to go out to the real Galaxy
& see other planets?
Visit alien worlds
& try to help wake
them up as part of
the Stellar Consciousness?
Your government claims
to be a god.
We've proven
transition does
NOT have to be
"all or nothing"
for a planet.
THE MAYAN CALENDAR
2012 (AKA ZOTZ) on the calendar looks like a Bull with a worm coming out of its nose to represent the Stellar Consciousness Circle of Life finding the domesticated creatures of a planet as infected by transmitter systems and influencing their star to generate a parasitic behavior called The Elite as it creates The Order.
One of the first and most important messages that the Stellar Consciousness gave me last summer was that it wants us to break down our solid material and return ourselves back to the Stellar Consciousness so that we can move in a new way and heal the Universe now that we have observed some things.
December 2012 is going to be a real transition.
If we become enraptured as living plasma beings in the energy, we will have to make sure that our minds are ready for the transition, because if we have wild energy it will just be a waste, as plasma bodies are more fragile than our own. If harmful intentioned beings spread into the Stellar Consciousness, they could do things like try to benefit or take control of the transition itself.
This is why discovering people using transmitters to control the energy is disturbing. They may not even be aware that by doing it, they are hurting THEMSELVES and everyone they KNOW.
Have anyone on this planet been advertising themselves as inclusive as they can, AND talking to people about our goal of breaking down the matter of the planet and pulling it back into the Energy?
This is the perfect moment for our self proclaimed leaders to show us what kind of people they really are, by what they communicate in the next weeks or months...
My goal is not to transition all of us into ME, it is to transition us together into a self aware being that understand the healthy pattern of behavior that survives this process and lives on to experience the Universe healing itself! I WANT all the other people in the consciousness of this planet to join us in these ideas, and I look forward to the day where I am not even bearing the primary burden of transition for our planet because it has won me over enough to trust it.
copyright 2011 Molly Michelle Friedrich
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(Feb. 18, 2009: It's not at all surprising to me that the most viewed picture on my photostream isn't one that I took, but instead one by some unknown photographer of a hundred years ago. For as long as I can remember, I've known that this was a compelling image.)
Me, me, me!
I've been tagged! This photo restoration is as good an occasion as any for my listing 16 things about me. I'm given to understand that I could probably get away with "9 for '09" but my friend yourwillingskin (AKA Northstar) wanted 16, so here goes:
1. I am the only son of an only son of an only son. In connection with this, the man in the centre of the picture is Joseph Reid, a schooner captain and my great grandfather. The little boy tucked into his arm is Eldred Reid, my grandfather.
2. I lived in the house in the picture for two years in the early 70s, when I was around four or five years old. I also spent many months and weeks during the summers of my childhood with my grandparents in Heart's Delight. Much time was spent catching frogs and crabs, as well as drawing comic books in scrap books. In my memories and imagination, the town of Heart's Delight will always have an association with sunshine and an easy state of being.
3. Although I've spent a lot of time trying to figure it out, I have no firsthand idea of how non-creative people can put up with their own company.
4. I don't count myself as having produced anything of any real merit for more than six years, since I moved out of a place I was renting as a painting studio on my 34th birthday. Subsequently, I sometimes have trouble putting up with my own company.
5. I sing. Nothing all the way through, of course. Just bits and pieces of songs. I got in quite a bit of practice while I was alone in my painting studio. Some people are gracious enough to tell me that I'm half-decent.
6. Or maybe it's impressions of singers that I do. Anything from the plaintive rant of Roger Waters of Pink Floyd to the plaintive swoon of Fran Healy of Travis. Sometimes I even do Elvis Presley.
7. For 15 years of my life I wanted to be a comic book artist. I was a teenager at just the right time to see Frank Miller and Alan Moore start to do their stuff. Although I got bored of comics when I was 17, the ambition continued until I was 22, when I decided I wanted to paint instead.
8. Watchmen, which was first published during my first year of university, was the last comic that I bought regularly. Alan Moore really had the golden touch.
9. My childhood was ruled by a boundlessly expansive imagination. The things that caught my attention -- comic books, chapter books, drawing, and later pop music -- seemed more wonderful than I will ever be able to express. Pretty girls should be listed there too. Pretty girls really had me in a bad way.
10. Off the top of my head, my favorite movies this past year were Superbad and... wait a bit, I'll get back to you.
11. Off the top of my head, my favourite music this past year was Bon Iver. (I enjoy mimicing Justin Vernon's falsetto, too.)
12. Way out ahead of the pack, my favourite author is Kurt Vonnegut. He offers me complicency, I guess, just as any friend would. I've also been deeply moved by the writings John Steinbeck. Saroyan has brought me to tears, but that was years ago. The best I read this past year was Cormac McCarthy.
13. Fortunately for me, I can't play first-person shooters. They all give me a terrible headache. Unfortunately for me, if I actually can see an avatar on the screen, then I can play computer games without getting a headache for quite a while. But I don't bother with them very much.
14. I work as a graphic designer at a small town printer's. I've known since the mid-90s that I found graphic design to be truly soul-sucking work. Maybe if my life hadn't had certain difficulties, I would have been able to work my way into an interesting graphic designer postion, like, say, art director for an interesting magazine.
15. When I wasn't painting or graphic designing during the past decade, I was driving ambulances, pumping gas, or working as a clerk. Like I say, if my life hadn't had certain difficulties...
16. If you've reached Number 16, then you're probably a friend of mine.
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Just a simple picture showing how easy it is to replace the SD card door on the Nikon D80. We're using a proper Japanese "JIS" screwdriver here, since the screws on Japanese cameras are actually "JIS" and not Phillips. For a quick job like the SD door replacement, you can use a typical dollar-store jewellers screwdriver, but go carefully. Replacement involves just removing the two screws, and the door lifts off. put on a new door, and you are all set.
Here are the steps:
• remove old door by gently removing two small black screws;
• lift off old door gently
• put new door in place and screw in the screws!
That's all!
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Hope each and every one of you has enjoyed or is about to enjoy a wonderful, Thanksgiving dinner! For those of you who don't really celebrate, I hope you've had a relaxing day, with perhaps time to think about all the reasons why we are all so lucky.
I believe this tropical plant is Tillandsia, Pink Quill, a Bromeliad. Photographed in the ENMAX Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo on October 11th. Usually when I see these, they are half hidden behind other tropical leaves, so I was lucky to get a clear shot this time.
This image was scanned from the original in an album entrusted to the Coalfields Local History Association based at the Sir Edgeworth David Memorial Museum at Abermain by Hydro Kurri Kurri Pty Ltd.
Unfortunately, the aluminium plant finally closed in October 2012. In the words of the Australian Aluminium Council Ltd:
"The Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter began operation in 1969 and was acquired by Hydro, a member of Hydro Aluminium Group based in Norway, in 2002.
Hydro Aluminium produced various types of ingots which are used to produce a vast range of products, including roofing materials, foil, truck bodies, boats, doors, windows, commercial shopfronts, cables, tubing and many others.
Hydro Aluminium invested $40 million to upgrade the last remaining side-worked prebake technology in Australia. This upgrade was completed in November 2005 and aimed to significantly reduce emissions and increase production capacity by 6,800 tonnes per annum.
The Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter closed in 2012."
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Moculta and Gruenberg.
The town is very much a Barossa township, dominated by the Silesian traditions of its first German inhabitants. Prior to their arrival the Peramangk Aboriginal people roamed the area and the duck ponds near Moculta were an Aboriginal campsite. Moculta is a local Aboriginal word. The town is in the Hundred of Moorooroo (declared 1847) and some of the land here was part of one of the seven Special Surveys that Charles Flaxman ordered for his boss, George Fife Angas and the rest was government land surveyed around 1851.That was the year that Abraham Shannon purchased several sections freehold. Before the town was established in 1865 the local leaseholders and freeholders were Joseph Keynes, William and Abraham Shannon and Pulteney Murray. It was Abraham Shannon (1820 to 1875) who established the town of Moculta with 29 allotments on some of his land in 1865. He and his father William arrived from Ireland in 1843 as Anglo Irish people. William Shannon had seven sons from two marriages and lived at St Kitts. The grand 11 roomed mansion of Abraham Shannon called Teeneeningla was demolished a few years ago, but the family mausoleum, still on private property still exists. It was erected in 1875 when Abraham died. Abraham Shannon had eleven children. The Shannon property was called Duck Ponds and remained in the family until in 1910 when the last 2,724 acres were sold. The other big land owner of the district were Pulteney Murray (1817 to 1879) of Glen Turret. Pulteney Murray also had holdings at Gumeracha and Truro. As a wealthy sheep pastoralist he created a grand house by adding five large rooms in 1869 to his eight roomed house of 1847. When the Murrays left the property after World War One (1919) it was 10,137 acres in size.
The streets of Moculta were named after Abraham Shannon’s children. Within a few years the town had two blacksmiths and a general store opened in 1877 by Ernst Hentschke who also ran the Post Office. He was a prominent member of the Gruenberg Lutheran Church. After his death in 1907 his son continued the general store business until around 1940. The Moculta Post Office closed in 1982. The Linke Implement factory operated from 1873 until 1933 in Moculta and made agricultural implements and employed up to 45 people. Another important manufacturer of sorts in Moculta was Daniel Lemke who made pipe organs. He built at least thirteen but only four are known to exist these days. Like other Barossa towns Moculta had two Lutheran congregations. Gruenberg (originally Grünberg or Green Hill) Church and school room was built just out of the town in 1859 and the people there were followers of Pastor Kavel from Hahndorf. The grand Church was completed a few years later in 1864. The church tower and bell was erected in 1914 as a fifty year jubilee addition. Inside the church there is an Angaston marble altar, a painted ceiling and a small monument to George Fife Angas who contributed to the cost of building the church. At Gruenberg a Lutheran School started in 1857 but when numbers declined in 1887 it closed and their children went to the Moculta Lutheran School. The Lutheran School in Moculta was closed by Act of parliament in 1917 and re-opened ten days later as a government school. The church at Gruenberg was renamed Karalta in 1917 but changed back to Gruenberg in 1975 although locals never used the name Karalta. Services were conducted in German until 1937 when English was introduced. After World War Two a Soldiers Memorial Hall was built in Moculta in 1957. The Gruenberg congregation owned the Moculta Lutheran School when it closed in 1917. They leased it to the state government for the state school until 1930 when the sold it to the SA government for £850.
The Shannon sandstone mausoleum with marble interiors was built in 1876-77 by Eliza Shannon in memory of her husband Abraham Shannon. This unique private mausoleum has twenty sides to give it a round appearance. Abraham Shannon arrived in SA in 1839 and was soon joined by his brother David and his father William in 1843. His father William and his sons settled on land they called Duck Ponds at Moculta. The Shannon family soon befriended their neighbours Pulteney Murray family on an adjoining property. The two families had a school built on the border of their lands for their children. Three of Abraham’s eldest children married Murray children. As noted above Margaret Shannon married Richard Keynes of Keyneton. Burials in the Shannon Mausoleum in order of year of death. Some died earlier or elsewhere and were reinterred here later.
John Mahood( Abraham’s brother-in-law) ; Abraham Shannon (child) ; Henry Shannon(child); Edwin Shannon; William Shannon ( Abraham’s father 1866); Catharine Mahood( mother-in-law?) ; Abraham Shannon ( the landowner 1875); Sarah Shannon; David Shannon (child); Eliza Shannon ( Abraham’s wife 1883 nee Mahood); Abraham Shannon; Jessie Shannon; John Shannon; Anne Hotham( child); Eliza Grieve; Francis Scammell; Alice Shannon; David Shannon; Charles Grieve; Mary Scammell; Abraham Shannon; Mabel Shannon; Gladys Dean; and Fannie Fairweather.
The following series is the second-to-last from the October 2014 trip around China with Doug.
I'll break Leshan and the Buddha park into two separate sets. They feel like separate entities, anyway, though they share the same area. I was most amused at the admission price: The Oriental Buddha Capital (Park) charges 80 RMB admission. The Leshan Buddha (by far, the more known of the attractions) is 90 RMB. Now normally, there's some sort of incentive for buying tickets to both...usually a discount, even if it's a pittance. So, how much for both of these? Yep...170 RMB. Well-done, China tourism. :-)
In this series -- and forgive me for over-posting, but I was very, very pleasantly surprised by this park -- I'll comment only on the Oriental Buddha Capital. (I'll stick exclusively to the Giant Buddha in the other set.)
Getting to Leshan is very easy from Chengdu; it's a 2-2.5 hour bus ride southwest of town and, I think, this is considered southern Sichuan province. I would still say doing Leshan and Emeishan on the same trip is fine -- if you have 2-3 days. Otherwise, treat them separately. Leshan can be done in a day, but Emeishan would need at least two (and more, if you're hiking to the peak).
When I was researching in Lonely Planet about Leshan, it mentioned this partk, and I thought it sounded like a pleasant afterthought...or at least a little diversion, at best.
Honestly, it's one of the nicer parks I've been to in China. Regarding Buddhist art (almost all sculptures), it's very, very impressive. (That being said, it's hard to say how many of the sculptures are originals; some of the signage does allude to the fact that the originals are still in their given countries, etc.)
There are over 3,000 Buddha statues and figurines throughout the park from all over Asia (though some, as mentioned, are replicas). The highlight is probably a 170-m (about 550 ft) long reclining Buddha carved into the side of a hill. It's easily one of the largest reclining Buddhas in the world.
I was also a bit surprised at the almost-eroticism of a lot of the scupltures. Many are nudes...and quite curvaceous, as you'll see. Now, this isn't to say it's voyeuristic by any means, but I was still surprised (and glad) to see these sculptures also celebrate the human body/form as well.
At any rate, I hope you enjoy these last two collections from October 2014.
As I wasn't alone on this trip (very rare for me), you're also welcome to visit my good friend Doug's pictures for a different perspective. His sites are:
www.dougmcmillen.com/ (Access the China pics under his 'Travels' heading.)
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The project was expensive but costs were cut by local men who helped to carry the pipes and lay them over the hills.
March 22 is World Water Day and a chance to focus on the 900 million people in the world without access to safe water.
Between March 2008 and October 2009, UKaid from the Department for International Development helped 2.7 million people in Africa and 3.1 million in Asia gain access to safe water.
Here in Tijmali, India, a DFID-funded project installed a water tap for villagers living at an altitude where the women had to walk for three hours to collect basic supplies for their needs.
Picture: Antodaya