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Happy Faces and "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbols greet Climate Change Agents meeting at Volunteer Kiosks
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RECIPE TO SAVE THE WORLD
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Start now and share the 3 finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol with those you love and care about. We only have one life-sustaining planet... what are you doing to keep it liveable?
It's really EASY!
Understand that the Sustainability Symbol represents a PERSONAL INTEREST in living a good and prosperous life - a life of balance in 3 dimensions - Society, the Environment and the Economy - or if you like "People, Planet and Profit" ... and share the Sustainability Symbol and its meaning with at least 3 friends..
... that's it! that's all you have to do!
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RECIPE FOR "PEACE PLUS ONE"
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
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1.) Make the "Peace" sign in the old boring way,
2.) add ONE finger,
voila!
3.) Peace, Plus One... the 3 finger Sustainability Salute! Cool!
(Now get someone to take a photo of you, and add it to your online photo account... tell us about it and we'll share the link!)
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BE A CLIMATE CHANGE AGENT
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BECOME A CLIMATE CHANGE AMBASSADOR
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If you would like to learn more, and become a Climate Change Agent (or even be appointed a Climate Change Ambassador for your country!!) check out
or
Leave the train wreck behind, stop thinking with a negative, disaster mentality...- take control of your life, and spread the good news that WE the People will make the new sustainable world happen.
We'll do it by sharing meaningful ideas,
we'll do it by cooperating with each other,
we'll do it by becoming our own leaders and decision-makers,
and following what we know is right for us and for the world.
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WEALTH , WISDOM, WELLNESS
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Participate with the Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce,
and we'll help you get a better job, live healthier and longer,
be respected and admired by everyone around you,
and PROFIT BY BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION, not the problem.
Other sites where you can find information on Climate Change Agents and the history of the Sustainability Symbol:
www.PeacePlusOne.cn (Chinese)
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
Rolling Climate Change Agents share "Pe
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RECIPE TO SAVE THE WORLD
*************************
Start now and share the 3 finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol with those you love and care about. We only have one life-sustaining planet... what are you doing to keep it liveable?
It's really EASY!
Understand that the Sustainability Symbol represents a PERSONAL INTEREST in living a good and prosperous life - a life of balance in 3 dimensions - Society, the Environment and the Economy - or if you like "People, Planet and Profit" ... and share the Sustainability Symbol and its meaning with at least 3 friends..
... that's it! that's all you have to do!
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RECIPE FOR "PEACE PLUS ONE"
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
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1.) Make the "Peace" sign in the old boring way,
2.) add ONE finger,
voila!
3.) Peace, Plus One... the 3 finger Sustainability Salute! Cool!
(Now get someone to take a photo of you, and add it to your online photo account... tell us about it and we'll share the link!)
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BE A CLIMATE CHANGE AGENT
- - - - ---- - - - - -
BECOME A CLIMATE CHANGE AMBASSADOR
*************************
If you would like to learn more, and become a Climate Change Agent (or even be appointed a Climate Change Ambassador for your country!!) check out
or
Leave the train wreck behind, stop thinking with a negative, disaster mentality...- take control of your life, and spread the good news that WE the People will make the new sustainable world happen.
We'll do it by sharing meaningful ideas,
we'll do it by cooperating with each other,
we'll do it by becoming our own leaders and decision-makers,
and following what we know is right for us and for the world.
*************************
WEALTH , WISDOM, WELLNESS
*************************
Participate with the Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce,
and we'll help you get a better job, live healthier and longer,
be respected and admired by everyone around you,
and PROFIT BY BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION, not the problem.
Other sites where you can find information on Climate Change Agents and the history of the Sustainability Symbol:
www.PeacePlusOne.cn (Chinese)
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
Rolling Climate Change Agents share "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol as a message to the world that the Beijing Olympics are GREEN! Go Green Olympics! GO Be
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RECIPE TO SAVE THE WORLD
*************************
Start now and share the 3 finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol with those you love and care about. We only have one life-sustaining planet... what are you doing to keep it liveable?
It's really EASY!
Understand that the Sustainability Symbol represents a PERSONAL INTEREST in living a good and prosperous life - a life of balance in 3 dimensions - Society, the Environment and the Economy - or if you like "People, Planet and Profit" ... and share the Sustainability Symbol and its meaning with at least 3 friends..
... that's it! that's all you have to do!
*************************
RECIPE FOR "PEACE PLUS ONE"
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
*************************
1.) Make the "Peace" sign in the old boring way,
2.) add ONE finger,
voila!
3.) Peace, Plus One... the 3 finger Sustainability Salute! Cool!
(Now get someone to take a photo of you, and add it to your online photo account... tell us about it and we'll share the link!)
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BE A CLIMATE CHANGE AGENT
- - - - ---- - - - - -
BECOME A CLIMATE CHANGE AMBASSADOR
*************************
If you would like to learn more, and become a Climate Change Agent (or even be appointed a Climate Change Ambassador for your country!!) check out
or
Leave the train wreck behind, stop thinking with a negative, disaster mentality...- take control of your life, and spread the good news that WE the People will make the new sustainable world happen.
We'll do it by sharing meaningful ideas,
we'll do it by cooperating with each other,
we'll do it by becoming our own leaders and decision-makers,
and following what we know is right for us and for the world.
*************************
WEALTH , WISDOM, WELLNESS
*************************
Participate with the Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce,
and we'll help you get a better job, live healthier and longer,
be respected and admired by everyone around you,
and PROFIT BY BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION, not the problem.
Other sites where you can find information on Climate Change Agents and the history of the Sustainability Symbol:
www.PeacePlusOne.cn (Chinese)
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
Rolling Climate Change Agents share "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol as a message to the world that the Beijing Olympics are GREEN! Go Green Olympics! GO Beijing, Go China!
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RECIPE TO SAVE THE WORLD
*************************
Start now and share the 3 finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol with those you love and care about. We only have one life-sustaining planet... what are you doing to keep it liveable?
It's really EASY!
Understand that the Sustainability Symbol represents a PERSONAL INTEREST in living a good and prosperous life - a life of balance in 3 dimensions - Society, the Environment and the Economy - or if you like "People, Planet and Profit" ... and share the Sustainability Symbol and its meaning with at least 3 friends..
... that's it! that's all you have to do!
*************************
RECIPE FOR "PEACE PLUS ONE"
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
*************************
1.) Make the "Peace" sign in the old boring way,
2.) add ONE finger,
voila!
3.) Peace, Plus One... the 3 finger Sustainability Salute! Cool!
(Now get someone to take a photo of you, and add it to your online photo account... tell us about it and we'll share the link!)
*************************
BE A CLIMATE CHANGE AGENT
- - - - ---- - - - - -
BECOME A CLIMATE CHANGE AMBASSADOR
*************************
If you would like to learn more, and become a Climate Change Agent (or even be appointed a Climate Change Ambassador for your country!!) check out
or
Leave the train wreck behind, stop thinking with a negative, disaster mentality...- take control of your life, and spread the good news that WE the People will make the new sustainable world happen.
We'll do it by sharing meaningful ideas,
we'll do it by cooperating with each other,
we'll do it by becoming our own leaders and decision-makers,
and following what we know is right for us and for the world.
*************************
WEALTH , WISDOM, WELLNESS
*************************
Participate with the Institute for Sustainable Development in Commerce,
and we'll help you get a better job, live healthier and longer,
be respected and admired by everyone around you,
and PROFIT BY BEING PART OF THE SOLUTION, not the problem.
Other sites where you can find information on Climate Change Agents and the history of the Sustainability Symbol:
www.PeacePlusOne.cn (Chinese)
www.PeacePlusOne.com (English)
Sorry for those looking for smiles. This day needed a few tears.
I find that it's better for me to let these moments come up, wash over me, and let go of them. But I work in a fairly public office, shared by 9 of us, others walking through, and visitors at times as well. As I am first contact on phone and front desk, when I'm at work, the tears need to wait. So for lunch, I went off to the Emeryville Marina, and parked the car in the shade looking out at the water, and let the tears come up.
I'm not altogether sad, as I have lots that I'm grateful for in my life. But there's a convergence of things in my life right now for which the tears need outing, and I really don't want to choke them back. Last weekend's "prom" was a disappointment, but more than that, the planning was fun, exciting, and preoccupying. So now that it is over, and Rachel has come and gone twice in 2 weeks in preparation for her move, I'm experiencing a bit of a void that allows me to check in with where I am, and how I feel.
One big thing is Rachel leaving. Although she went to college nearly 7 years ago, and has mostly (except a couple of summers) been out of my nest since, she has been within an hour+ roadtrip. Now that she's in Portland for a couple of months and then traveling for an indeterminate amount of time, she's beyond my easy reach. After that she may actually come closer and live here in the East Bay with friends. Wouldn't Mama love that? But she might just as well decide to go far away. It's all up in the air. Add to that the recent palpable improvement in our relationship, now that I have the old Rache back in my life again, she's gone. The long and the short of it is, with Sam already in Portland, and Rachel now there as well and her return an unknown, I'm experiencing another phase of "empty nest" syndrome. It surprises even me that I'm still processing letting go as a mother. There are two people I can say I really love in my life, and suddenly they are both too far away for me to easily get to, and finances continue to be an obstacle which keeps me from feeling I could spontaneously visit, or help either of them out if they were in need. So today some sadness is coming up about all of that.
As well, there is a building frustration of feeling alone and lonely, and only glimpsing romantic love in my life, even though for nearly 6 months now I've been actively looking for "prospects". It's become a burning desire to feel someone close to me once again, and while it's pretty easy to find sex, I've been stubbornly unwilling to let myself go there without at least the possibility of a relationship included. That, it turns out, is nowhere to be found. It's a mystery to me exactly what the barrier is, the reason that this eludes me, when it feels like everyone else around me, no matter how problemed or unsuitable for relationship they appear to be to me, seems to be able to find their loved one with ease. Why are the only men around who interest me unavailable? Why are the only ones interested in me unsuitable? I've come to the conclusion that I must not be ready, or it would have happened for me by now. Considering what to do next, is again, back to 0, my new theme song.
Throw in some fluctuating hormones, and boy, aren't we having a grand old time?
So here I sit, like Holly Hunter in "Broadcast News", unplugging the phone and having a cry, letting it all out, just so that I can deal with the day, unfettered by the looming sadness, and getting on with the *business* of living. When I consider that even though I love my job, that work is the primary focus of my life, I hear Ruth Gordon's voice in "Harold and Maude", picnicking and watching a wrecking ball do its thing, asking with a doubting emphasis, "But is it enough?"
I think we all know my answer.
At this time EMD built "one size fits all" frames for their SD38/40/45 series resulting in a bit of an overhang on some models. Famed Trains magazine editor David P. Morgan described them as being like kids wearing too big tennis shoes.
Cicero IL / Clyde Yard
BN engine facilities
BN 7031 SD40-2
Summer shows itself in full color regalia in this wide angle HDR photograph made just after sunset overlooking the lush green marsh of Cedar Run Dock Road.
Is it possible to fall in love with a virtual mate? In Second Life, couples prove that theory on a regular basis. They do fall in love. Sometimes, it lasts and sometimes it doesn't.
Those that last are a remarkable group of couples. They are remarkable both in SL and RL where the divorce rate matches the break-ups in SL!
My partner, Xavier and I enjoy SL very much. We dance, we explore, we network, we chill, we love and we have a blast doing silly things.
So many places offer romantic areas such as ballrooms, chill zones and explorations. Here are some of our favorites...
Avilion Ballroom is a special favorite of mine. It's where I first danced with my first crush... and now I dance here with my partner. Recently, renovated, the Avilion offers a beautiful place to romance each other.
Phatland is another. More jazz music than Avilion, Phat's is a sophisticated club for couples. Beautifully built, we seem to frequent this place a lot.
Another great ballroom venue is Frank's Place. A lot of avies hang out here, so do prepare for a bit of lag. I suggest that you arrive early so that you can grab a spot on the dance floor.
A smaller club that we frequent regularly is the MMAC Jazz Link. Every week, DJ VJ Shojo spins an eclectic set of jazz and indie tunes. Very chill and very romantic little jazz club. Dash Renoir is the perfect host there.
Then there's the beautiful Ballroom">Palace, where grand is an understatement. We usually arrive to a nearly empty place dancing alone in our own world. Very romantic.
But, the most grand of all is a recent discovery. Tempura Island and Ballroom is the epitome of a lover's paradise. Grand and magnificent, the ballroom is done in gold gilt, with a beautiful ceiling and wall textures. The stairs leading to the ballroom and castle are simple but ever so opulent. This is an LM that I have sent to all my friends! LOL!
And we still frequent the clubs that offer a place for us. A place where we can be a couple without the drama that other places bring...
We hit Dorian Gray for DJ Barbs set and Xavier set off his JMD particle hud for a romantic interlude on the dance floor. So fun!
A big thanks to DJ Dint Talon for an awesome night over at IPR365 Milky Way Entertainment complex's K-Lounge. OMG, we had a blast! DJ Dint was spinning an incredible set of jungle, tribal, trance... you name it, he was spinning it! We stayed until the end!
We also went to Bogart's Cafe which is kinda a ballroom and kinda a lounge setting. You can dress in ballroom or cocktail dress there. We often go in between clubbing for a quick ballroom dance to lovely jazz music.
We usually stop off at Spanish DJ Sonar Halsey's Future Club. It is always psy heaven there! And BassLine Island for some hardcore tunes to get the blood pumping. Both are fun clubs for couples to hang at and dance.
And when we explore, we always seem to find the cutest places such as Midnight City for NBC's romantic dinner club, Rainbow Room Dining and the Italian pizza place that reminds me of North Beach in San Francisco!
The other night, Xavi took me to NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's build featuring an interactive floor of of the entire world's atmosphere! Wow! This from the US Department of Commerce!
And, when we chill at home we can be silly and set off our particles and dance or pull all our emotes and gestures for hours of silliness.
Couples in Second Life are just like couples in real life. They play, they love, they emote real emotions towards each other... and as best friends, they share the best of Second Life together.
Vintage postcard, no. 216. Photo: Republic Pictures.
Rod Cameron (1910-1983) was a Canadian-born film and television actor whose career extended from the 1930s to the 1970s. He appeared in Horror, War, Action and Science Fiction films, but is best remembered for his many Westerns.
Rod Cameron was born Nathan Roderick Cox in Calgary, Canada, in 1910. He grew up in New Jersey. He played on his high school basketball team and on a semi-professional football team. Despite those activities and others such as swimming and playing ice hockey, he couldn't join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police because he failed the physical examination. He decided to seek fame and fortune as an actor in New York and initially grabbed some work as a labourer on the Holland Tunnel project in Manhattan. When no progress was made acting-wise, Cameron moved to Hollywood. He made his "debut" in an unbilled bit in one of Bette Davis' scenes in The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding, 1939). Upon release, however, he discovered his bit in the scene had been deleted. He worked as a stuntman and bit player for Paramount Pictures as well as a stand-in for such stars as Fred MacMurray. His early films include Heritage of the Desert (Lesley Selander, 1939) with Donald Woods, Rangers of Fortune (Sam Wood, 1940) with Fred MacMurray, North West Mounted Police (Cecil B. DeMille, 1940) starring Gary Cooper, and Henry Aldrich for President (Hugh Bennett, 1941) with Jimmy Lydon. He also played bit roles at Universal Pictures, including in If I Had My Way (David Butler, 1940), starring Bing Crosby and Gloria Jean. He appeared in a Horror film, The Monster and the Girl (Stuart Heisler, 1941) and played Jesse James in The Remarkable Andrew (Stuart Heisler, 1941) for Paramount. In 1943, Cameron gained star status in action serials for Republic Pictures. As crime-busting secret agent Rex Bennett, Cameron battled enemy terrorists in 15 weekly episodes of G-Men vs the Black Dragon (Spencer Gordon Bennet, William Witney, William J O'Sullivan, 1943). He was already working on another serial when the audience reaction to Black Dragon made him a hit. Cameron was sufficiently popular for the studio to turn the new production into another Rex Bennett adventure, Secret Service in Darkest Africa (Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1943). This time, clench-jawed Bennet faces the Nazis rather than the Japanese. As with the earlier instalment, Bennet is supported by characters from some of the allied nations in World War II. When cowboy star Johnny Mack Brown left Universal Pictures for Monogram Pictures, Cameron replaced him as Universal's Western series star with Fuzzy Knight as his comic sidekick. Tall and rugged, Cameron looked good in the saddle and was very popular.
During World War II, Rod Cameron played in Commandos Strike at Dawn (John Farrow, 1942) starring Paul Muni, and played a US Marine in Wake Island (John Farrow, 1942) and Gung Ho! ( Ray Enright, 1943), starring Randolph Scott. Universalalso gave him roles in Salome, Where She Danced (Charles Lamont, 1945), Frontier Gal (Charles Lamont, 1945) and River Lady (George Sherman, 1948), all co-starring fellow Canadian Yvonne DeCarlo. Universal reorganised as Universal-International and downsized its activities in 1947, leaving Cameron and other contract players unemployed. He was hired by Monogram Pictures for a long string of outdoor action pictures. In 1948, he starred in Panhandle (Lesley Selander, 1948), co-written by Blake Edwards, for Allied Artists, and with Bonita Granville in the comedy film Strike It Rich (Lesley Selander, 1949). He then appeared in many Westerns and other films for Republic Pictures including Santa Fe Passage (William Witney, 1955) with John Payne, and later The Gun Hawk (Edward Ludwig, 1963), Requiem for a Gunfighter (Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1965) and The Bounty Killer (Spencer Gordon Bennet, 1965) starring Dan Duryea. Cameron traveled to Europe in 1964 to play the lead in Spaghetti Westerns such as Le pistole non discutono/Bullets Don't Argue (Mario Caiano, 1964) with Horst Frank, and Il piombo e la carne/Bullet in the Flesh (Marino Girolami, 1965). In Germany, he made Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand/Winnetou and Old Firehand (Alfred Vohrer, 1966), starring Pierre Brice. He later appeared in such films as The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971), Evel Knievel (Marvin J. Chomsky, 1971) with George Hamilton, and the horror film Psychic Killer (Ray Danton, 1975).
Rod Cameron starred in three syndicated television series: City Detective (1953–1955), State Trooper (1956–1959), and the Coronado 9 (1960–1961). In City Detective, Cameron appeared as the tough New York City police Lieutenant Bart Grant. In State Trooper, a 1950s-style Western-themed crime drama, Cameron starred as Lieutenant Rod Blake of the Nevada State Police. In Coronado 9, set in the San Diego area, Cameron appeared as Dan Adams, a private detective. State Trooper, in particular, was known for its surprise endings and guest stars despite not being affiliated with a network. Hal Erickson, in his book, 'Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987', cited Cameron's business sense in confining his work in TV series to syndication: "A canny businessman, Cameron knew that his City Detective residuals wouldn't have been as fat had a major television network been claiming a percentage of the action, and as a result the actor vowed to remain in syndication for the rest of his TV career. By 1960, Cameron was drawing over $200,000 per annum in residuals [from his three syndicated programs]..." Cameron himself guest-starred in many TV Westerns, including six appearances on Laramie (1959), with John Smith and Robert Fuller, Bonanza (1959), and The Virginian (1962). Cameron also guest-starred in such dramatic series as Crossroads and Perry Mason, with Raymond Burr. Cameron continued to work in motion pictures and television into the 1970s. He appeared in the very first Alias Smith and Jones (1971) episode that co-starred Roger Davis alongside series star Ben Murphy. Davis replaced Pete Duel after the actor committed suicide by gun on New Year's Eve 1971. He appeared in season 2 of James Garner's detective series, The Rockford Files. Cameron's private life was colourful. In 1954, he divorced his second wife, Angela Alves-Lico (1950-1954) and later married her mother, Dorothy Eveleigh (1960-1983), who was a few years older than him. Hence, his former director, William Witney, publicly acclaimed Cameron the bravest man that he had ever seen. In his later years, Cameron lived on Lake Lanier in northern Georgia. An extended battle with cancer finally claimed the 73-year-old actor in 1983 at a Gainesville, Georgia, hospital. He was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Donation Information:
If you would like to help those affected by Wednesday's storms, the American Red Cross is accepting donations in a couple of ways.
Make out your check to "American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need", and mail it to:
American Red Cross - Neighbors in Need
300 Chase Park South
Hoover Alabama 35244
If you prefer to make a donation on-line, please click here to visit alredcross.org
-To apply for federal disaster assistance online, go to www.disasterassistance.gov
-To apply over the phone, call 1-800-621-3362 between the hours of 7am and 10 pm.
-The United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing. Call 211 for more details.
Volunteer Information:
-United Way's Hands on Birmingham - www.handsonbirmingham.org
-Volunteers in Tuscaloosa are asked to register at St. Matthias Episcopal Church on Skyland Boulevard
-Volunteers in Calhoun County must register at the Ohatchee Police Department
-Volunteers in Concord must register at the YMCA on 4th Avenue South
-Webster's Chapel leaders are looking for volunteers with vehicles who can distribute supplies to tornado victims. Volunteers should go to the Webster's Chapel Fire Station
Drop off Locations:
-Harvest Church in Northport is accepting donations for tornado survivors
-Christian Service Mission at 3600 3rd Ave South is accepting personal care items, baby supplies, and other items of basic need
-First Baptist Church Trussville is a drop off point for donations Monday through Friday 8am to 6pm
-Church of the Highlands on Grants Mill Road is accepting items of basic need
-Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Alexandria is collecting donations of bathing supplies
-Clear Branch United Methodist Church in Argo is a drop off location from 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday
-Mark Ferrier Ministries has a drop off point at 97.7 Fox FM radio in Jasper
-Alabaster First United Methodist Church accepting donations for storm survivors at Restore Building behind the church
-Holy Faith Temple is accepting donations for tornado survivors in Childersburg
-Central Baptist Church of Jasper is collecting supplies for victims in Cordova.
-McAlpine Recreation Center at 1115 Avenue F in Ensley is now a drop off point
-108 Haynes Street in Talladega is collecting donations for survivors in East Alabama
-East Birmingham Church of God on First Avenue North is collecting supplies
-All Books-A-Million stores are collecing monetary donations for the Salvation Army
-East Birmingham Church of God in Christ on 1st Avenue is collecting supplies
-Aldrich Assembly of God is collecting relief supplies at Lucky's Market in Montevallo and Sammy's Fresh Market in Wilsonville.
-Vance town community center is collecting donations for survivors in Vance
-Helena Cumberland Presbyterian Church is accepting donations all week from 9am until 6pm.
-Donations in Calhoun County may be dropped off at Eagle Point Baptist Church in Jacksonville and Word Alive Church in Coldwater.
-Jasper Jaycees are accepting donated items at the fairgrounds on Airport Road. Cash donations can be made at Bank of Walker County. Call 205-221-3928 for more info.
-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site
-Cullman county donation locations: Eagle Point Church, Isaiah 58-Word Alive Church, Piedmont Benevolence and Salvation Army
-UAB is holding blood drives at the North Pavillion from 10am to 5pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday. 7am to 2pm Tuesday and Friday
Places to pick up items or get help:
-People with disabilities who have lost medication or equipment can call 205-251-2223 ext 102
-United Way has set up a hotline to help victims find low cost temporary housing - call 211
-There will be a physician on site and medicine available at Scott School through Saturday from 7am to 7pm
-Tornado survivors in Hale and Greene counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union
-Toiletries and clothing are available for pick up at Plum Grove Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. If you need transportation, call 205-292-5836
-Food and water stations for victims are set up at the Leland Shopping Center, Forest Lake Baptist relief center and Skyland Elementary.
-Aldridge Community Missionary Baptist Church in Parrish has food, formula, clothes and water for any storm survivors who need help.
-Victims in St. Clair County can get food, water and other supplies at the Shoal Creek Community Center.
-Tarps available in St. Clair County at Odenville Fire Department, Pell City Fire Station One, Reiverside Fire Department
-The Salvation Army has set up mobile canteen operations in Forest Lake, Holt High School and on 15th Street in Alberta City.
-Tornado victims in Hale and Greene Counties can get help at Springfield United Methodist Church in Eutaw and at Johnson Hill United Methodist Church in Union.
-The Masonic Lodge in Pleasant Grove is serving meals and distributing supplies to tornado victims.
-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado survivors in that community
-Food, water and other supplies are available at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in Hueytown.
-The Red Cross has opened feeding stations at Oak Grove Baptist Church, Knighten's Volunteer Fire Department, Webster's Chapel Volunteer Fire Department, First Baptist Church of Williams, Mt. Olive Volunteer Fire Department in Ohatchee and the Ellis Community Fire Department.
-Hardin's Chapel Church in Ragland is an official EMA site
-Free first aid station is open in Pleasant Grove from 9am to 6pm at 615 Pleasant Grove Road Monday through Friday
-Free medical clinic at Scott School in Pratt City 7am to 7pm
Shelters:
-Bethel Baptist Church in Pratt City is providing food and shelter to tornado victims in that community.
-The American Red Cross has set up shelters at the Belk Center in Tuscaloosa, First Baptist Church in Hanceville, the Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham, the Civic Center in Cullman and First United Methodist Church in Springville.
-American Red Cross shelter in St. Clair County is at Greensport Baptist Church in Ashville
Insurance office locations:
-Allstate Insurance has mobile claims centers set up at the Lowe's in Bessemer, the Winn-Dixie at River Square Plaza in Hueytown and the K-Mart on Skyland Boulevard in Tuscaloosa.
-State Farm has centers set up at Lowe's in Cullman, Tuscaloosa, Bessemer and Fultondale.
-ALFA has centers at the Save-a-Lot in Cullman and the ALFA Service Center in Gadsden.
-Farmers Insurance has centers at Home Depot in Tuscaloosa, the Forest Square Shopping Center in Forestdale, and the Farmers district offices in Vestavia Hills and Pell City.
Misc:
-A battery charging station is set up at the Walmart in Tuscaloosa. Flash lights are also being given away while supplies last.
-If you have loved ones who are still missing in the Birmingham area, call 205-787-1487 or 205-787-1488.
-Greater Birmingham Humane Society lost and found pet hotline open 8am to 5pm daily: 205-397-8534. Hotline is for Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties
-Official FEMA mobile disaster recovery center in Sumter county: Geiger Town Hall 201 Broadway
-Victims in Pratt City are in need of trash bags and baskets to help collect their personal belongings
-Calhoun County needs rope, tools, gloves, masks, tarps, first aid supplies and baby supplies
-Some local contractors in Tuscaloosa are offering free debris removal. Call 205-248-5800.
-Samaritan's Purse in Tuscaloosa is providing free debris removal and free tarps. Call 205-345-7554.
-The McWane Center in Birmingham is offering free admission to anyone who brings supplies for tornado victims.
-A dusk to dawn curfew is in effect for all of Cullman County.
-An 8pm to 6am curfew is in effect in the city of Tuscaloosa.
a couch is supposed to be used by sitting on it!..
..bought the shoes on sale!..only 150 pesos!
it's like 2 and a half dollars..
The abbey of Alet begins in 970 with its first abbot, Benoît. Very little, if anything, remains from the Carolingian church built for those beginnings. The one we can still see today, however in ruin, was built from 1096 (a duly recorded papal visit kicked off the construction) and the community then adopted the Benedictine rule.
The abbey was, in spite of some internal disputes and of various attempts made by local nobility at controlling its affairs and its abbots, successful and powerful, when a very strange fate befell it. Towards the end of the 13th century, Pope John XXII, assessing that the archbishopric of Narbonne was much too large to be effectively managed, divided it into three new bishoprics. Alet was included in that of Limoux, and the local church of Saint Martin in that town was promoted as the new cathedral. However, the nuns of the abbey of Prouilhe, to whom Saint Martin was the abbey church, challenged the Pope’s ruling in court, putting forward, among other arguments, that that church had been given to their abbey by Saint Dominic himself. The Pope lost the law suit and consequently decided to move the bishopric from Limoux to Alet. Thus, in 1318, the abbey church of Alet also became a cathedral, and the monks did not oppose this ruling as their fellow sisters had done in Limoux.
The church lived on that double life until 1600. During the Wars of Religion, in 1577, it had been severely damaged by the Protestants and the roof, in particular, had been largely destroyed. A substitute cathedral was set up in the vestiges of the abbey outbuildings, and shortly before the French Revolution, the last of the 35 bishops of Alet sold what remained of the walls a few weeks before his bishopric was joined to that of Carcassonne, effectively ceasing to exist. The monks, who had already made the wrong choice of allegiance during the Albigensian Crusade in the early 1200s and had been since then suspiciously regarded by the Church, scattered.
The abbey church and cathedral of Alet, or what was left of it, was listed as a Historic Landmark in 1860, but restoration works did not begin until 1903. In the meantime, construction of a new road had amputated four of the five Gothic radiating apsidioles. Only one remains today.
The eastern part of the church, seen from the town’s cemetery. The building you see on the right is the only radiating chapel left from the Gothic enlargement project, what was left of the rest of the Gothic choir and apse having been sacrificed to make way for the road that runs right beyond.
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Where you get a massage needs to be relaxing. Your masseuse will ask you to disrobe down to the level of your comfort, and so the last thing you really want to do is struggle with numerous layers or tight clothing as you get all set for your massage! Lots of people put on workout clothing when they get a massage. www.profesyonelmasajsalonu.com
This is another picture I put in the Top 20 Children's Portrait group, and it got bumped right out of the first row. I think that this picture is a very strong portrait and deserves to be a top pic, even if it is only for those eyes.
These Great Ladies: Peeresses and Pariahs (2017) is a collection of pen portraits of various fascinating, scandalous, tragic even sordid women from British, 20th Century history - Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. Mariga Guinness, Sylvia Ashley, Joan Wyndham, Venetia Montagu, Irene Curzon , Viscountess Massereene and last but not least - Enid Lindeman, the Australian heiress to Lindeman Wines.
Lyndey Spence writes sympathetically with a light tone, recognising that they were human beings who were both products of their times and their circumstances, Recommended for anyone who is interested in British, 20th Century history, the British aristocracy, or who simply enjoys reading about the lives of fascinating women.
Lyndsy contacted me in 2015 re:Enid Lindeman, when I posted excepts of my family history which referred to Enid.
My great-aunt married Enid’s brother in 1924.
These Great Ladies - Peeresses and Pariahs written and published by Lyndsy Spence 254p (2017)
Twenty three people have today, 1st November 2011, been arrested following an investigation into the August disorder.
Operation Valant was launched by Greater Manchester Police to identify and arrest those involved in the widespread disorder across Manchester city centre and Salford on 9 August 2011.
Today, following a series of dawn raids across Salford, north and central Manchester and Bury, police have arrested 13 people wanted on suspicion of arson, violent disorder and looting. A further three people were arrested as part of the operation on suspicion of unconnected offences.
Officers have also recovered suspected stolen clothing and other items and uncovered a large cannabis farm.
In the near three months since the disorder, Greater Manchester Police has launched a huge operation to target suspected offenders, arresting more than 350 people and putting more than 200 of those before the courts.
Many of these have arrests have been carried out thanks to tremendous support from the public, who have come forward and put names to CCTV images the Force has published on its Flickr site and in the local and national media.
Assistant Chief Constable Ian Hopkins, who leads Operation Valant, said: "What today's action shows is that almost three months since the disorder, we are still relentlessly pursuing those suspected of being involved in the shameful actions we saw that day.
"We know from talking to our communities that what happened on 9 August continues to provoke feelings of anger and outrage. Many shopkeepers are rebuilding their livelihoods and people are still trying to come to terms with the violent and ugly scenes the police and the public were faced with.
"That is why Greater Manchester Police is continuing to arrest anyone suspected of being involved in the disorder. As today shows, whether it is a matter of days or months, we will be coming through the doors of anyone involved whether it is a looter, an arsonist, those who attacked police officers or even those who used social networking sites to stir up trouble.
"The support we have received from the public has been fantastic and their information has enabled us to make more than 350 arrests. We need that to continue. Greater Manchester Police will continue to put out images of suspects and I would urge people to call us if they recognise someone. As today has shown, with the public's help we will track these people down."
Anyone with information should phone the dedicated appeal line number on 0800 092 0410 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
Visit our website to find out more about Greater Manchester Police.
We stumbled upon All Saints en route to a different church, and as all those seen thus far on this day had been small and plain, not much was expected. But I saw the tower from along the main street, and looked impressive. and once parked we found it unlocked and welcoming.
Star of the show is the northern chapel, given over to the Culpepper family, with a fabulous tomb in the centre. On the walls, dozens of blank shields show what had been planned to be the family mausoleum for centuries, but things changed, the family moved away and the chapel has just three shields decorated.
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There was considerable damage caused to this church in an earthquake of 1382. The medieval accounts survive so we know that 48s 2d was spent on the rebuilding. Little can have changed to the structure since that time, except for the construction of a north chapel in 1638. This chapel has a charming pattern of flint flushwork triangles in a horizontal course below the battlements. It contains one of the most interesting seventeenth-century monuments in Kent - to commemorate Lady Elizabeth Culpepper (d. 1638), carved and signed by the Court Sculptor Edward Marshall. The detail is amazing and the cord that connects her ring and wrist is always pointed out to visitors. The rest of the church was restored early in the career of George Gilbert Scott Jr in 1876 (see also Frinsted) and retains its patina of age unimaginable in a restoration by Scott Sr. The pulpit is early seventeenth century and dates from a few years after the much crocketed font cover. There are three signed monuments by Rysbrack and a tall crownpost roof of good construction in the nave.
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HOLLINGBORNE.
THE next parish north-westward from Harrietsham is Hollingborne, called in Domesday, Hoilingeborde, and in later records, Holingburnan and Holingeburne. It probably took its name from the spring which rises in the vale underneath the hill, in this parish.
THE PARISH of Hollingborne is situated much the same as that of Harrietsham last described, close to the great ridge of chalk hills, at the foot of which is the village called Hollingborne-street, in which at the south end of it stands the church and vicarage, and near them a well-looking brick mansion, of the time of queen Elizabeth, which by its appearance must have had owners of good condition in former times, but what is remarkable the rector of Hollingborne claims some rooms in this house in right of his rectory at this time. The road through Newnhambottom from Ospringe and Canterbury passes through Hollingborne-street, and thence through Eyhorne, commonly called Iron-street, in this parish, where there are two good houses, one belonging to Robert Salmon, esq. who resides in it, and the other built not many years since by Mr. John Weeks, who died possessed of it in 1785. Hence the road leads on, and joins the Ashford high road through Bersted to Maidstone. The southern part of this parish consists mostly of a deep sand, the whole of it below the hill is well watered by some small streams, which running southward join the Lenham rivulet in its way to Maidstone. Nearer the street the soil becomes a chalk, which continues to the summit of the hill, at the edge of which stands Mr. Duppa's house, whence the remaining part of this parish northward, situated on high ground, and exposed to the cold bleak winds, is but a wild and dreary country, with thick hedgerows, and frequent coppices of wood, mostly of hazel and oak, and small unthriving trees of the latter dispersed among them; the soil a deep tillage land, wet and very poor, being a red cludgy earth, covered with quantities of flint stones. On Eyhorne green, or as it is commonly called Broad-street, in this parish, in October yearly, two constables are chosen, one for the upper, the other for the lower half hundred of Eyhorne, each of which district consists of the twelve adjoining parishes, the borsholders in which, and the several boroughs in them, except such as are chosen at the different court leets, are chosen here likewise.
This parish, with the manor of Elnothington in it, together with the rest of the hundred of Eyhorne, was antiently bound to contribute to the repair of the sixth pier of Rochester bridge.
ÆTHELSTAN ETHELING, son of Ethelred II. gave by his will in 1015, to Christ-church, in Canterbury, his lands at Hollingborne, with their appurtenances, excepting one plough-land, which he had given to Siserth. In the MSS. in Bennet college library, Cambridge, of the evidences of Christ-church, Canterbury, intitled Thorn, printed in Decim. Script. f. 2221, this gift is said to have been made in 980; a very improbable circumstance, the king, his elder brother, at that time being but fourteen years of age.
These lands he had bought of his father, and gave them, with his consent, to Christ-church, L. S. A. that is, free from all secular service, excepting the trinoda necessitas, in like manner as Adisham had been given to it.
The manor of Hollingborne remained part of the possessions of the church of Canterbury at the time of the conquest, when the revenues of it were enjoyed as one common estate by the archbishop and his convent; but archbishop Lanfranc, after the example of foreign churches, separating them, in the partition Hollingborne fell to the share of the monks, and was allotted for their subsistence, (or ad Cibum, as it was usually termed) and it is accordingly thus entered in the book of Domesday, under the general title of Terra Monachorum Archiepi, i. e. the land of the monks of the archbishop.
The archbishop himself holds Hoilingeborde. It was taxed at six sulings. The arable land is twenty-four carucates. In demesne there are two, and sixty-one villeins, with sixteen borderers, having twenty-three carucates. There is a church, twelve servants, and two mills, and eight acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of forty hogs. In the whole, in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth twenty pounds, and now it is worth thirty pounds. To this manor there adjoins half a suling, which never paid scot, this the bishop of Baieux rents of the archbishop.
At this time, the whole of the above premises seems to have been valued at thirty pounds.
King Henry II. granted to the monks of Christchurch a charter for their lands at Hollingborne upon the Hills. In the 10th year of king Edward II. the prior obtained a charter of free-warren for his manor of Hollingborne, among others; about which time it was, with its appurtenances, valued at 46l. 9s. 8d. King Henry VI. by his letters patent, in his 25th and 26th year, granted to the prior a market, to be held at this place weekly on a Wednesday, and a fair yearly on the feast of St. Anne. (fn. 1)
William Selling, who was elected prior in the next reign of king Edward IV. anno 1472, during the time of his holding that dignity, greatly improved the prior's apartments here. After which, it seems to have undergone no material alteration till the dissolution of the priory, which was surrendered into the hands of king Henry VIII. in the 31st year of his reign.
The manor of Hollingborne did not remain long in the hands of the crown; for the king settled it, by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, on his newerected dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it now remains.
There is a court-leet and court baron regularly held by the dean and chapter for this manor, which extends likewise into the adjoining parishes of Hucking, Bredhurst, and Harrietsham, the quit-rents of it called Beadle-rents, being about forty-two pounds per annum.
¶BUT THE DEMESNE LANDS of this manor have been from time to time leased out by the dean and chapter at a reserved rent of 10l. 9s. The year after the grant of it to them, they demised them by lease to I. Reynolde, as they did anno 19 Elizabeth to William Puresoy, in whose family they remained till the beginning of king James I.'s reign. After which the Fludds held them in lease, and continued so to do, till their interest in them was passed away to W. Alabaster, D. D. After which these premises were held in succession by Bargrave, Boys, Farewell, and Gookin, till the year 1684, when Sir Thomas Culpeper, had a lease of them, in whose family they continued till John Spencer Colepeper, of the Charterhouse, passed away his interest in them to the Hon. Robert Fairfax, who held them in 1758, and then alienated his lease to Francis Child, esq. banker in London, whose brother Robert Child, esq. of London, banker, dying in 1782, the trustees of his will, Robert Dent and John Keysel, esqrs. are now in the possession of his interest in the lease of these demesnes, under the dean and chapter, besides which the dean and chapter have several other lands and woods here leased out by them to different persons.
HOLLINGBORNE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deaury of Sutton; and is exempt from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon.
The church, which is dedicated to All Saints, is a handsome building, consisting of three large isles, with a chancel at the end of the middle one, and a square tower at the west end. The chancel is much enriched with the monuments of the family of Culpeper, of Greenway-court, and for two of the lords Culpeper, one of them by Rysbrack; on the north side is one for Sir Martin Barnham and his two wives, in 1610, their three figures kneeling at a desk, and underneath their children. At the east end of the north isle there is a small neat chapel, raised up several steps to give room for a vault underneath, in which lie the remains of all this branch of the Culpeper family. The sides of the chapel are filled with black escutcheons, and square tablets of black marble alternately, only two of these among the numbers of them are filled up, and those with younger branches of the family settled elsewhere, a proof of the disappointment of the vain endeavours of the builder to transmit the memory of his descendants to posterity. On the middle of the pavement is a beautiful raised monument of white marble, and the figure of a lady, lying at full length, in the habit of the times, of exceeding good sculpture, in memory of Elizabeth, lady of Sir Thomas Culpeper, daughter of John Cheney, esq. of Sussex, obt. 1638. In the isle a monument for Nich. Chaloner, esq. obt. 1706. Against the north wall of the north isle for two of the family of Duppa, and at the lower end of the church, for the Plummers, Collins's and Dykes. In the middle isle a stone, on which have been the figures of a man and woman in brass, but two shields of arms remain, being quarterly, first and fourth, A chevron, engrailed on a chief, three sleurs de lis; second and third, Three fishes, wavy, sessways, in pale.
There is belonging to this church, a most superb altar-cloth, and a pulpit-cloth and cushion, of purple velvet, ornamented with different figures of fruits of pomegranets and grapes, wrought in gold, the needlework of the daughters of Sir John Colepeper, afterwards created lord Colepeper, who employed themselves for almost the space of twelve years in the working of them, during their father's absence abroad with king Charles II.
The communion plate is very handsome, and an swerable to the above-mentioned furniture, being mostly the gift of the family of Colepeper, and some of it of Baldwin Duppa, esq.
John Eweyn, by his will proved in 1527, gave a table of alabaster, to stand upon the altar of St. John the Baptist in this church; and money to the repair of St. John's chapel in it. John Aleff, parson of Hollingborne, as appears by his will in 1537, was buried in the way beside the porch-door, on the right hand, and that there was set in the wall, nigh his grave, a stone with a plate of sculpture, mentioning where and when he was buried. He had before been vicar of Little Chart, and of St. Laurence Wolton, as he was then of St. John's Sherburne, in Hampshire.
The church of Hollingborne, to which the chapels of Hucking and Bredhurst were antiently annexed, is a sinecure rectory, with a vicarage endowed. The rector of Hollingborne is at this time patron of the perpetual curacy of the chapel of Bredhurst. The archbishop is patron both of the rectory and of the vicarage of Hollingborne, the vicar of which is collated to this vicarage, with the chapel of Hucking annexed.
The vicarage was endowed before the year 1407, in which year Arthur Sentleger, the rector, granted to William Maunby, vicar of this church, a messuage, with its appurtenances in this parish, for the habitation of himself and his successors for ever. (fn. 5) In archbishop Chichele's register, at Lambeth, there is an unauthenticated writing of a composition, made about the year 1441, for it is without date, between William Lyeff, then rector here, and John Fsylde, vicar, upon the assignation of a proper portion for the endowment of this vicarage in future times.
The rectory of Hollingborne is valued in the king's books at 28l. 15s. 5d. and the tenths at 2l. 17s. 6 1/7d. The vicarage is valued in them at 7l. 6s. 8d. and the yearly tenths at 14s. 8d. The vicarage in 1640 was valued at eighty-six pounds, and the communicants were then 271. It is now of the yearly certified value of 70l. 16s. 8d.
The vicarage was augmented twenty pounds per annum, by lease between Ralph Staunton, rector, and Sir Thomas Culpeper, of this parish.
¶The name of Culpeper, or Colepeper, is so variously spelt in different deeds and records, that it is impossible to keep with any rule to either spelling; on all the monuments, and in the parish register, (excepting in two instances in the last) it is spelt Culpeper.
Cross Country is a really fun race to watch if you understand the course and know a bit about running. There is a lot of strategy - more than you might think - and action if you know where to look.
At first, I preferred the diversity of events at Spring Track, and while I still like the offerings in track season, I find XC increasingly compelling. Last year I saw a girl complete a race with blood streaming down her leg from a bad fall. I saw people miss turns, top runners drop out and neck and neck battles.
Running does not suck!
Those who guard their lips preserve their lives,
but those who speak rashly will come to ruin.
Proverbs 13:3
Near Bruchmühlbach, Germany during a really nice fall in 2012. Taken with a Mamiya 645 on Kodak TMax.
A mix up between here and Allhallows meant that shots from here were edited and posted as coming from Allhallows. Those have now been deleted, and will be reposted as being from Snodalnd.
I feel better disposed towards Snodland after this visit, as I received a warm welcome on Heritage day, and despite some major renovations going on, the wardens were clearly very proud of their church, and very happy the work to the tower and plasterwork was being carried out. And extolling me to return later in the year when the work is completed.
I intend to.
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In an awkward position, cut off from its village by the railway and bypass and somewhat compromised by the adjoining paper mill. The present church has been extended from its thirteenth century origins, most noticeably by the addition of a tall tower in the fifteenth century. There is a rood loft staircase in the south wall and on a pillar nearby can still be seen an unusual fourteenth-century Crucifixion painted on the stonework within an incised outline. The church was over-restored by Blomfield in 1870 and suffered damage in the Second World War when the medieval glass was destroyed. Fragments that survived have been assembled where possible. New windows were installed, including the thirty-six symbols of the saints in the east window by Hugh Easton (1953), and the Becket Pilgrim window by Moira Forsyth (1966). A large memorial in the south aisle commemorates Thomas Waghorn (d. 1850), who pioneered the overland route to India.
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NORTHWARD from Ditton, on the western side of the Medway, a small part of Aylesford at New Hyth intervening, is Snodland, called in Domesday, ESNOILAND, and in the Textus Roffensis, SNODDINGLAND and SNODILAND.
SNODLAND lies on the western bank of the river, which is its eastern boundary opposite to Burham. The high road from Stroud to Larkfield goes through the village, which is situated about half a mile, and the church about midway from the river. It lies low, and being near the salt marshes, is not either very pleasant or very wholesome. In the southern part of the parish the stream which flows from Birling turns a pa per mill here, and thence flows into the Medway, not far from which is Snodland and New-Hyth common. In the northern part of the parish next to Lower Halling, is the hamlet of Holborough, usually called Hoborow, no doubt for Old Borough, a name implying the antiquity of this place. Many are inclined to believe, that the usual passage across the river in the time of the Romans, was from hence to Scarborough on the opposite shore. However that may be, Holborow was certainly known to them, for in queen Elizabeth's reign, an urn filled with ashes was discovered in digging for chalk on the hill above this place, a sure token of the Romans having frequented it. (fn. 1) In this hamlet Mr. John May resides in a handsome new-built house, near it there rises a small brook, which flows from hence into the Medway, at about half a mile distance. From this low and flat country, on the bank of the river, the ground rises westward up to the range of high chalk hills, where the land becomes poor and much covered with flints. Upon these hills among the woods is an estate, corruptly called Punish, for it takes its name from the family of Pouenesse, or Pevenashe, written by contraction Poneshe, who were possessed of it as high as king Henry the IIId's. reign, in queen Elizabeth's reign it was called Poynyshe, and was then in possession of the name of Brown, who held it of the bishop of Rochester as of his manor of Halling. (fn. 2) About a mile eastward from the above is a farm called Lads, which in king Edward I's. reign, and some generations afterwards, was in the possession of a family of that name, written in deeds of those times, Lad, and Le Lad.
This parish ought antiently to have contributed to the repair of the ninth pier of Rochester bridge.
Sir John Marsham, bart. and Sir Charles Bickerstaff, had a design of supplying the towns of Stroud, Rochester, and Chatham, with fresh water, by bringing it from the spring rising at the foot of Holborough hill, and others thereabouts, by a cut or channel through Halling and Cuxton thither, four miles of which was through Sir John Marsham's own lands, but after they had proceeded two miles, finding some obstructions, which could not be removed, but by an act, one was procured for the purpose in the 1st year of James II. but nothing further was afterwards done in it, for what reason does not appear.
In the year 838, king Egbert, with the consent of his son king Æthelwulf, gave to Beormod, bishop of Rochester, four plough lands at Snoddinglond and Holanbeorge, with the privilege of leaving them to whomever he pleased; and he granted that the lands should be free from all service, to which he added one mill on the stream, named Holanbeorges bourne, and on the hill belonging to the king fifty loads of wood, and likewife four denberies in the Weald. And in the year 841, Ethelwulf, king of the West Saxons, with the advice of his bishops and great men, gave to the bishop two ploughlands at Holanbeorges, in perpetual inheritance, with the like privilege, and that they should be free from all regal service.
Whilst Ælfstane was bishop of Rochester, who came to the see in 945, and died in 984, one Birtrick, a rich man, who lived at Meopham, with the consent of Elfswithe, his wife, made his testament, and gave, after their deaths, his lands at Snodland to St. Andrew's church at Rochester. (fn. 3)
The bishop of Rochester continued in the possession of this place at the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, about the 15th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno 1080, in which record it is thus entered, under the general title of that bishop's lands:
The same bishop (of Rochester) holds Esnoiland. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was taxed at six sulings, and now at three. The arable land is six carucates. In demesne there are two carucates and ten villeins, with six borderers, having six carucates. There is a church and five servants, and three mills of forty shillings, and thirty acres of meadow, wood for the pannage of four hogs. In the time of king Edward and afterwards, it was worth six pounds, and now nine pounds.
When bishop Gundulph, soon after this, following archbishop Lanfranc's example, separated his revenue from that of his priory, this manor, together with Holborough, continued part of the bishop's possessions, and was confirmed to the church of Rochester by archbishops Anselm and Boniface.
On a taxation of the bishop's manors next year, it appeared that Holeberge was a member of the manor of Halling, and had in it one hundred and ninety-seven acres of arable land, valued at four-pence per acre at the most, as there was no marle there. That there were here fourteen acres of meadow, six acres of pasture, which were salt, and three lately made fresh, each acre at eight-pence, and the mill at twenty shillings per annum.
Hamo, bishop of Rochester, in the year 1323, new built the mill at Holbergh, with timber from Perstede, at the expence of ten pounds. (fn. 4) At which time the bishop seems to have had a park here.
The estate of Snodland with Holborow, still continue part of the possessions of the right reverend the lord bishop of Rochester. William Dalyson, esq. of West Peckham, is the present lessee of the bishop's estate in this parish.
THE FAMILY of Palmer, who bore for their arms, Argent, a chevron between three palmers scrips, sable, tasselled and buckled, or resided for some time in this parish, at a seat they possessed in it, called The courtlodge. Several of them lie buried in the church of Snodland, particularly Thomas Palmer, who married the daughter of Fitzsimond, and died anno 1407. Weaver recites his epitaph thus, now obliterated:
Palmers al our faders were
I, a Palmer, livyd here
And travylled till worne wythe age
I endyd this worlds pylgramage
On the blyst Assention day
In the cherful month of May
A thowsand wyth fowre hundryd seven
And took my jorney hense to Heuen
From him descended the Palmers, of Tottington, in Aylesford, and of Howlets, in Bekesborne, now extinct.
The Palmers were succeeded here by the Leeds's, one of whom, William Leeds, lay interred in this church, whose arms, A fess between three eagles, were engraved in brass on his tomb, but they are now torn away; to whom, in the reign of king Charles I. succeeded the Whitfields, of Canterbury. It afterwards passed into the name of Crow, and from thence to the Mays, and it is now the estate of Mr. John May, of Holborough.
VELES, alias SNODLAND, is a manor in this parish, which in the reign of king Edward I. was held as half a knight's fee, of the bishop of Rochester, by John de Pevenashe, John Harange, and Walter Lad, as coparceners, and in the 20th year of king Edward III. Richard Pevenashe, John de Melford, John Lade, and Richard le Veel, paid aid for it.
This manor seems afterwards to have been wholly vested in the family of Veel, called in deeds likewise Le Vitele, and in Latin Vitulus. After they were extinct here, it passed into the name of Blunt, and from that to Turvye, of whose heirs it was held in the latter end of the reign of king Henry VIII. by Richard Harvey. (fn. 5) It passed, after some intermediate owners, by sale to Crow, and from thence in like manner to Mr. John May, whose two sons, Mr. John and William May, of this parish, afterwards possessed it. The latter died in 1777, on which the entire fee of it became vested in his brother Mr. John May, of Holborough, the present possessor of it.
HOLLOWAY COURT is a seat in this parish, which gave name to a family that resided at it. Henry de Holeweye paid aid for it in the beginning of the reign of king Henry III. (fn. 6) His descendant, William de Holeweye possessed it in the 30th year of king Edward I. from which name it passed into that of Tilghman, who were owners of it in the reign of king Edward III. Many of whom lie buried in this church, bearing for their arms, Per fess sable and argent, a lion rampant regardant, doubled queved counterchanged, crowned, as they were painted in very old glass in the windows of this house. Their pedigree is in Vistn. co. of Kent, anno 1619.
Richard Tilghman possessed it in the reign of king Henry IV. and in his descendants it continued down to Edward Tilghman, esq. who was of Snodland, and was twice married; by his first wife he had a son, Francis, and by his second, two sons, the eldest of whom, Whetenhall Tilghman, had part of his father's lands in this parish, which continued in his descendants till about the year 1680, when they were alienated to Sir John Marsham, bart. whose descendant, the right honorable Charles, lord Romney, is the present possessor of them.
¶Francis Tilghman, only son of Edward, by his first wife, was of Snodland, and possessed Holoway-court, where he resided in the reign of king James I. but died without surviving issue. He passed away this estate by sale to Clotworthy, descended from those of that name in Devonshire, and he by will gave it to his sister's son, Mr. Thomas Williams, who alienated it to Richard Manley, esq. who resided here, and dying in 1684, was buried in this church, leaving by Martha, daughter of John Baynard, of Shorne, widow of Bonham Faunce, of St. Margaret's, Rochester one son, Charles, and a daughter, Frances, married to Dr. Robert Conny, hereafter-mentioned. He sold Holloway court to Mr. John Conny, of Rochester, surgeon, son of Robert Conny, gent. of Godmanchester, in Huntingdonshire, and bore for his arms, Sable, a fess argent, cotized or, between three conies of the second. On whose decease his eldest son, Robert Conny, of Rochester, M. D. succeeded to it, and he sold it to Thomas Pearce, esq. a commissioner of the navy, whose three sons and coheirs, Thomas, Best, and Vincent Pearce, conveyed it by sale to Mr. John May, and his eldest son, Mr John May, of Holborough, in this parish, now possesses it.
The church is dedicated to All Saints. It is a small mean building with a low pointed steeple.
The church of Snodland has ever been appendant to the manor. It has never been appropriated, but con tinues a rectory in the patronage of the right reverend the lord bishop of Rochester.
¶Much dispute having arisen between the rector of this parish, and the rector of Woldham, on the opposite side of the river Medway, concerning the tithe of fish caught within the bounds of the parish of Woldham by the parishioners of Snodland, the same was settled, with the consent of both parties, by the bishop of Rochester, 1402, as may be seen more at large in the account of the rectory of Woldham. (fn. 7)
This rectory is valued in the king's books at twenty pounds, and the yearly tenths at two pounds.
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PRIME MINISTERS OF INDIA:Bharat Bhagya Vidhata-1947-2009
It is said that some are wise while others are “otherwise” and it takes a lot of pain and efforts to be wordly -wise, especially in journalism.
At a time when the Fourth estate is fast becoming “fourth-rated Estate “and when watch-dogs have started becoming tail-wagers, holding forth those lofty ideals of journalism has become all the more difficult.
At a time when “soldiers of pen” have started assuming the role of “pen- pushers” with a price tag on most of their columns and comments, and at a time when more than 67000 publications and 56 TV news channels have started becoming signposts of ‘views’ than of ‘hardcore news’ with alarming regularity, pursuing journalism in its purest form has become mere on a premium than otherwise.
At a time when most of the members of our country have started taking pride in turning “trivia into titanic” and injecting the venom of crime, sex and sleaze as daily doses for this generation both in print as well as on tube, it is all the more difficult to report on serious and sensitive matters confronting this country.
At a time when some self-professed champions of freedom of Press have no qualm or gumption in terming rural reporting as “sexy”, it would be anyone’s guess if a journalist’s reports on wails and woes of the rural masses would indeed find a place of prominence in any mainstream daily newspaper or national news channels.
It is in this context that the creation of ‘Shivnath and Neena Jha’ in the form of a book titled “Prime Ministers of India” comes as an oasis in desert.
It is in this context that the untiring and unflinching effort of a scribe towards doing something different through “Andolan - EK Pushtak se” needs to be seen and hugely appreciated.
Imagine the extraordinary brilliance of an 11 year old boy who chose Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s Madhushala as the spark to ignite and illuminate his future path.
Imagine the state of mind of a student of class VI from T.K. Ghosh Academy Patna who understood the message of ‘Madhushala’ in a Vedic way that one could always reach his goal by adopting the right means and working his way up hard through sheer determination, dedication, passion and discipline.
Imagine the spark in the eyes of a boy from an ordinary background who stole Rs.5 from his father’s currency box, bought newspapers from them at a bus stand and eared Rs.9.60 after 4 hours of toil.
Imagine the “dream to become a journalist” by a young boy who started his career neither from Dallas nor Doon but as a stranger for Telegraph by MJ Akbar and from there he never looked back. This is one of the most glittering examples of how sheer determination can make an ordinary man a Marshall. !
Known for his uncanny knack for looking for “news” in those areas and arenas where others treated them as trivia, Shivnath has been of the most well known journalists in the country with the distinction of having worked under Editors like Vir Sanghvi, H.K. Dua, C.R. Irani, Prabhu Chawla and Sekhar Gupta. Some of his investigative reports in both Telegraph and Indian Express could easily be hailed as the” finest in the history of contemporary journalism”.
In my 28 years of journalistic career through both print and electronic media, I have rarely seen a scribe with such fierce sense of courage and conviction.
There were a few occasions when he threw away his job and tossed up his resignation at the face of the Editor when he realized that he would not be able to compromise on his convictions and commitments. And that made him all the more hard and steady in his resolve and this book is yet another land mark of that path of struggle with a nerve of steel and the determination of a spider.
But then Shivnath has always been quite different from the lot, full of grit and guts and he always dares to plough through those furrows where others are dithering.
His passion for breaking new grounds and exploring those areas where others feel exhausted has taken him into a journey of an extraordinary kind along with his illustrious wife, Neena Jha.
The first chapter of such journey was the monograph on Shahnai legend Ustad Bismillah Khan which not only established him as a ‘crusader for a cause’ but also won him wholesome praise and appreciation from various quarters. Interestingly, he dedicated this book to newspaper hawkers and three of his journalist friends – Sanjeev Sinha, Ranjan Jha and Anju Sharma who died in a plane crash with senior Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia.
The second milestone in his journey was the discovery in June 2007 of Mr. Vinayak Rao Tope, the third generation descendant of Tatya Tope, a frontline leader and a martyr of 1857 Indian Mutiny. Shivnath and Neena, not only identified and rescued him but also ensured a job for two daughters of Vinayak Rao Tope in Container Corporation of India through the help of then Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav.
This book is perhaps his " magnum opus," aimed at rehabilitating and re-locating Sultan Begum, the great grand daughter of hero of 1857 Mutiny – Bahadur Shah Zafar who is languishing in Howrah locality of Kolkata and earning her livelihood by selling tea
Aishwarya is Bombay
Bombay is Aishwarya
Charming. Mysterious. Warm.
Exotic to those who look at her with a new perspective each day.
A relief for searching eyes.
A quest for wandering souls.
Walking along streets and those tiny-shady lanes
Is Aishwarya
She is a trip.
She is a pilgrimage.
She is a vulture.
She is an addiction.
She is your comfort food.
She is your best friend.
She is your nagging girlfriend.
She is your indifferent boyfriend.
She is soft.
She is rough.
She knows all.
She holds all your secrets.
She lets you in on some of hers.
She is tough.
She likes it hard.
She makes you work.
She wants you happy.
She wants it too.
She has her dreams.
She knows you do too.
She rules your heart.
She is Bombay
Bombay is Aishwarya
This Honour Roll was donated by Kimba Racing Club, Kimba District Council and Anzac Day Commemoration Fund: and includes a tribute to those who served in Vietnam.
Located in the main street near the Kimba Soldiers' Memorial Institute.
*By 1918, due to the increase in Kimba’s population, the need for a public hall became a priority.
A timber framed, corrugated iron building with pitched roof was purchased for £100 from Cowell. This building was dismantled and transported to Kimba by settlers using horse-teams.
The hall was used as the School, Town Hall, and Picture Theatre with films shown every month. It was used for Dances and Balls, Church, as a Polling Booth and for travelling salesmen to display and sell their wares.
*A foundation stone was laid in 1929, in memory of those who served in the Great War 1914–1918 and the new Institute was officially opened in the same year.
*In 1958 a new front was added with a Library and Council Office. [Ref: Story Board]
*A plaque to the memory of those from the Kimba District who made the supreme sacrifice in World War One 1914–1918 and World War Two 1939–1945 was unveiled on the day the additions were officially opened by Sir Lyell McEwin on 23 February 1958.
*Kimba Memorial Institute
The first step in the most progressive move that has taken place in Kimba, occurred on Saturday, when the foundation stone of the new Soldiers Memorial Institute was laid by Miss Mary Haskett, daughter of Mr and Mrs I S Haskett, and the first white child born in the district.
One of the largest crowds seen in Kimba assembled to witness this important ceremony.
Mr F R Ferry, President of the Kimba Institute, and the Building Committee, presided, and seated on the platform with him were Mesdames O M Eatts, G J Chenoweth, Reiss (wife of contractor), and Messrs J Tippett, Andrew Ramsey, O E Carlaw, F J Newman, Reiss (contractor) and F I Kestel (architect).
Mr Ferry gave a very interesting resume of details leading up to the occasion, and then presented Miss Haskett with a silver trowel, suitably inscribed, and asked her to perform the ceremony of laying the stone.
Miss Haskett, in a neat little speech declared the stone well and truly laid.
Mr Andrew Ramsey, in moving a vote of thanks to Miss Haskett, said that we all admitted and admired the bravery of such pioneer families as the Hasketts.
The chairman then appealed for donations for the hall to be placed on the stone, and Mrs O M Eatts, on behalf of the Kimba Ladies' Social Club, led the way with their cheque for £1,116 10/0, followed by others of smaller denomination.
After the ceremony, a football match was held on the recreation ground between the Kelly and Kimba teams, resulting in a win for Kelly, who have not been defeated for the season.
A cycle race for boys was run during the intervals of the football match, and resulted in a win for J Brewster. Mr Chenoweth also conducted a putting and mashie competition for golf enthusiasts, the whole proceeds going towards the institute funds. [Ref: Eyre’s Peninsula Tribune 11-7-1929]
*Kimba Institute - Official Opening
Kimba will be en fete on Saturday December 7th, when the long-looked for event of the opening of the large new hall will take place.
For many years the public have suffered the inconvenience of a cramped wood and iron structure which could not nearly cope with the crowd at public functions. As a form of Soldiers’ Memorial it was decided to build an institute large enough to satisfy the requirements of a rapidly growing district, and despite the lean years that the district has recently experienced, a very handsome structure is the result. In conjunction with the opening of the hall on December 7th, the local branch of the RSA will hold their annual sports on the show grounds, the total proceeds of the day will go towards the hall funds. The hall will be opened by Lieutenant-Colonel W F J McCann DSO, MC, at 10am.
Special arrangements are being made to provide a sparkling entertainment for the evening which will be followed by a dance. [Ref: Eyre’s Peninsula Tribune 28-11-1929]
Well, we may be a bit behind on this one (he may be around two now…), but it was too cute to leave off the blog! We’ve been photographing this family and their cuties for awhile, and dreamy eyes is featured here in his one year session looking cute as ever! Thank you to this f...
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Names of those who died due to gun violence this last year, in Michigan. Those under 25 years of age have their names listed.
This is to help remember the one year anniversary since the elementary school shooting where twenty (20) children died and six adults when a heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
"Vault Lights, also known as Sidewalk Lights (or Pavement Lights in the UK), are those old glass prisms set into sidewalks to let light into vaults and basements below. Prisms were used instead of flat glass to disperse the light, diffusing it over a large area; plain flat glass would simply form a bright spot on the floor below, not providing much useful general lighting."
"In the U.K. "pavement lights" were originally set in iron frames, often marked with the name of the foundry (rather than the glassmaker). Later replacements (still being made today) are set in concrete and steel in the U.S. style."
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Henry Bessemer moved into Baxter House sometime before 23 September 1841 and established the St Pancras Ironworks behind the house. It was here that he developed his "Bessemer Process" for the manufacture of steel. When his process was not taken up by other producers he erected a steelworks in Sheffield which provided quality steel at £20 per ton cheaper than the competitors. This prompted his competitors to licence his process, making Bessemer a millionaire. The St Pancras Ironworks was cleared about 1870 to make way for the Midland Railway coal drops.
Source: Greater London Industrial Archeology Society
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Bessemer Converter, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield
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Sir Henry Bessemer on Wikipedia
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Sir Henry Bessemer on NNDB
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The Bessemer Process on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process
Other St Pancras Ironwork items of street furniture can be seen on Flickr at:
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Those blankets were hand made with millions of sequins as were the blankets of the elephants and the Cast costumes.
Talent had their own wardrobe and quarters under separate contracts.
Multiple wardrobe sets to do the the three parades and the acts took a year to make per show, times two shows.
Stephanie Cantrell
Stephanie was kind enough to participate in a group photo session with some of the gang from Exposure.Detroit, Julie, Ajit, Aaron, Jerry, Mel, Jamie, who allowed us access to her studio, and myself.
Stephanie was a pleasure to work with. Very patient and pleasant the whole time which did a lot for me, this being my first model shoot. Her personality made it easy for us to relax and focus on the shooting. If you're looking for a model to shoot with I'd recommend her in a heartbeat. Thanks, Steph!
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