How ultimately European is this? :) Very nice for me to see.

 

Plaza Santa Anna [?]

A brave attempt to compete ultimately doomed to fail. Wrexham & Shropshire liveried Class 67 No.67013 (top/tailed with 67015) arrives arrives at Shrewsbury with a London Marylebone - Wrexham service 28-4-08. Yet another departure into History.

 

NIkon Coolpix 5200

ISO 64

1/575s @ f=3.5

 

Salop-29-4-08 019

Ultimately a fail. But thanks to Chris Toasty for volunteering to spin

the wool while I hovered above.

Looked great at ground level!

Agate ("Fairburn Agate") from the Black Hills of western South Dakota, USA. (public display, South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)

 

"Agate" is a rockhound/collector term for cavities in rocks (usually sedimentary rocks such as limestone or igneous rocks such as basalt) that have been partially or completely filled with irregularly concentric layers of microcrystalline, fibrous quartz (chalcedony - SiO2). Agate is quartz.

 

Attractive, multicolored and multipatterned agate has long been collected from a large area near the towns of Fairburn and Interior and south of the town of Kadoka and in the White River Badlands. This region has surficial, loose, late Cenozoic-aged gravels derived from weathering and erosion of bedrock in the Black Hills. Some of this gravel is agate. The Fairburn-area agates are remarkably colorful and desirable. The highest-quality examples have sold in the past for between 10,000 and 20,000 American dollars.

 

Studies have shown that Fairburn Agate is ultimately derived from limestones of the Minnelusa Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian), which outcrops in the nearby Black Hills.

 

Female labour force participation in India is not only low but has declined over the last decade or so. Women’s labour force participation has implications for their economic empowerment and, ultimately, efforts to promote inclusive growth and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is, thus, a priority for policymakers and stakeholders to take a comprehensive view to improve labour market outcomes for women.

On March 1, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Feminist Economist Saturday Discussion Group (FESDIG) brings together a rich panel discussion on India’s low female labour force participation. Dignitaries speaking at the event are M. Sathiyavathy, Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment and Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog. The panel will be chaired by Prof Bina Agarwal, University of Manchester and will comprise of Prof Preet Rustagi, Institute for Human Development (IHD), Prof Santosh Mehrotra, Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Dr Ratna Sudarshan, Institute of Social Studies Trust, (ISST).

‘Transformation of Women at Work in Asia – An Unfinished Development Agenda’, an ILO-SAGE book, edited by Sukti Dasgupta and Sher Verick, will also be launched. It will be followed by a book discussion that will be chaired by Dr Sunita Sanghi, Adviser, NITI Aayog.

Based on original comparative research and extensive fieldwork, the book illustrates how the labour force participation of women in a number of countries in South Asia has either remained stagnant or has fallen. In East Asia the participation has declined from 70.8 per cent in 1994 to 63.3 per cent in 2014, and in South Asia it has fallen from 36.4 to 30.6 per cent over the same period. Gender gaps in labour force participation have been highest in South Asia. Findings show that women across the continent have contributed significantly to its spectacular growth story; yet, social norms and economic factors limit their levels of participation.

  

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/deed.en_US.

 

"Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself." ― Paul Schrader

 

manscape 06_01

From the Manscapes Series By Lisa Saad

www.lisasaad.com

Novak Djokovic having his Visa rejected and ultimately being detained in the Park Hotel, in Carlton, where dozens of refugees have been detained for a number of years - has brought international attention to the Australian government's treatment of people seeking asylum.

 

Rally initiated by the Refugee Action Collective and supported by numerous other groups.

 

My website: www.matthrkac.com.au

 

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Airshow Wings of Freedom - Ede NL - 2019

In 2019 it is 75 years since Operation Overlord, the code name of the Western allies, started on 6 June 1944 to liberate Western Europe. It would ultimately be quite a fight and Operation Market Garden would go into the history books as the grandest airborne ever. To support the advance well, temporary airports were built at various locations, that proved to be very effective and made a major contribution to the liberation. This field in Ede, a central city in the Netherlands, was one of them. Through various activities, the awareness of freedom is brought to the attention and shown to the Dutch public through 75 years of remembering, commemorating and celebrating together. On this day there is again a real airport with a runway and a control tower. More than 30,000 visitors attended this day.

 

The aviation event and the WWII airport are incomplete without the activities on the ground. Because we want to match the 'Forty Years' image as well as possible, a historically correct camp is being built. Around 250 re-enactors and historically dressed people depict the daily life of the Second World War. At the camp you can experience what life at an Allied airport looked like. You will encounter pilots, bomber crews and ground personnel from both the Royal Air Force, the US Army Air Force but also the counterpart, the German Luftwaffe. In addition, the various Allied army units are well represented, such as the Airborne troops, both American and British and Canadian. The entertaining staff such as fitters, chefs, office staff and nursing staff are also abundantly present. All of these people live and live throughout the event at the camp and therefore take along a suitable collection of vehicles, weapons and utensils alongside tents.

Static

•DH82a Tiger Moth

•Piper L-4H Cub

•Boeing Stearman AAC 306

•Boeing Stearman Old Crow Flying Circus

•Stampe & Vertongen

•AT-6A Texan

•Stinston

•Gippsland Airvan GA-8 stichting

•Boeing AH-64 Apache

•Eurocopter EC135

•Lockheed Martin F16

•Fairchild 24R Argus

Flight programm

•Nieuport 28C1

•Vultee

•Beechcraft Staggerwing

•De Haviland Chipmunk

•Boeing N2-S3 Stearman

•DH82a Tiger Moth Formation

And ultimately, I dress to please myself ... although it gives me great delight on those occasions (which I admit are frequent) when someone else tells me they really like my outfit for that day.

Agate ("Fairburn Agate") from the Black Hills of western South Dakota, USA. (public display, South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)

 

"Agate" is a rockhound/collector term for cavities in rocks (usually sedimentary rocks such as limestone or igneous rocks such as basalt) that have been partially or completely filled with irregularly concentric layers of microcrystalline, fibrous quartz (chalcedony - SiO2). Agate is quartz.

 

Attractive, multicolored and multipatterned agate has long been collected from a large area near the towns of Fairburn and Interior and south of the town of Kadoka and in the White River Badlands. This region has surficial, loose, late Cenozoic-aged gravels derived from weathering and erosion of bedrock in the Black Hills. Some of this gravel is agate. The Fairburn-area agates are remarkably colorful and desirable. The highest-quality examples have sold in the past for between 10,000 and 20,000 American dollars.

 

Studies have shown that Fairburn Agate is ultimately derived from limestones of the Minnelusa Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian), which outcrops in the nearby Black Hills.

 

Billie Burke was born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke on August 7, 1885, in Washington, DC. One could say that Billie was bred for show business. Her family ultimately settled in London, where she was fortunate to see plays in the city's historic West End, and decided she wanted to be a stage actress. At the age of 18 she made her stage debut and her career was off and running. Her performances were very well received and she became one of the most popular actresses to grace the stage. Broadway beckoned, and since New York City was now recognized as the stage capital of the world, it was there she would try her luck. Billie came to New York when she was 22 and her momentum didn't stop. She appeared in numerous plays and it was only a matter of time before she caught the eye of movie executives, which is exactly what happened. She made her film debut in the lead role in Peggy (1916). The film was a hit, but then again most films were, as the novelty of motion pictures hadn't worn off since The Great Train Robbery (1903) at the turn of the century. Later that year she appeared in Gloria's Romance (1916). In between cinema work she would take her place on the stage because not only was it her first love, but at least she had speaking parts. Billie considered herself more than an actress--she felt she was an artist, too. She believed that the stage was a way to personally reach out to an audience, something that couldn't be done in pictures. In 1921 she appeared as Elizabeth Banks in The Education of Elizabeth (1921), then she retired. She had wed impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. of the famed Ziegfeld Follies and, with investments in the stock market, there was no need to work. What they didn't plan on was "Black October" in 1929. At 54 years of age - and not looking anywhere near that old - she played Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The 1940s saw Billie busier than ever; she made 25 films between 1940 and 1949. She made only six in the 1950s.

Novak Djokovic having his Visa rejected and ultimately being detained in the Park Hotel, in Carlton, where dozens of refugees have been detained for a number of years - has brought international attention to the Australian government's treatment of people seeking asylum.

 

Rally initiated by the Refugee Action Collective and supported by numerous other groups.

 

My website: www.matthrkac.com.au

 

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (April 18, 2016) – Highly trained master riggers recently moved 42 large steel pieces that will ultimately form a Northeast Florida manufacturing facility through the heavy lift and specialty cargo berth at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal, home of one of the nation’s highest weight-bearing capacity docks.

Workers employed by stevedoring company Portus lifted the pieces one at a time from the Thorco Shipping general cargo vessel Genius Star XI before placing them on individual chassis to be trucked to Starke, Fla., where they will be assembled together to create a freestanding manufacturing facility.

The pieces, which arrived at JAXPORT from Shanghai, China, weigh up to 111,000 pounds and are up to 50 feet in length.

A second shipment containing the remainder of the components for the project will arrive through JAXPORT in June.

The heavy lift cargo berth at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal offers up to 1,800 pounds per square foot of load capacity with rail capability up to 78 kips per axle for heavy cargo. The port offers worldwide cargo service, including direct service with Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and other key markets

 

Ultimately, We are all ONE.

Lisbon, Portugal - October 2011

Leica M8 + CV 15 Super Heliar Asp. II

 

Ultimately, while photographing people after demonstrations in Lisbon, I was shocked by the high and scary level of despondency I was seeing around me. My initial intent was (and still is) to show resisting people, but I have to admit that things are even worst than I thought.

Here is # 6 of a series about this despair.

 

See Protest & Demonstration Set

 

Copyright 2011 © Gérald Verdon Photography

 

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Founded in the reign of King George I, the Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport, Hampshire, was one of several hospitals serving the Portsmouth Urban Area, but had previously been the country's foremost – and ultimately last – military hospital.

 

The Royal Hospital Haslar was designed by Theodore Jacobsen and built between 1746 and 1761. The site opened as a Royal Navy hospital in 1753. It has had a very long and distinguished history in the medical care of service personnel both in peacetime and in war since that time, treating many tens of thousands of patients.

 

Haslar was the biggest hospital – and the largest brick building – in England when it was constructed. Dr James Lind (1716–1794), a leading physician at Haslar from 1758 till 1785, played a major part in discovering a cure for scurvy, not least through his pioneering use of a double blind methodology with Vitamin C supplements (limes).

 

The hospital included an asylum for sailors with psychiatric disorders, and an early superintending psychiatrist was the phrenologist, Dr James Scott (1785–1859), a member of the influential Edinburgh Phrenological Society.

The padded cell is still in situ to this day.

 

In 1902 the hospital became known as the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar (abbreviated to RNH Haslar).

 

In the 1940s, RNH Haslar set up the country's first blood bank to treat wounded soldiers from the Second World War.

 

In 1966, the remit of the hospital expanded to serve all three services – the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, after which time, it became known as the Royal Military Hospital Haslar.

 

The Royal Military Hospital Haslar had a number of notable specialist medical facilities, including a decompression chamber and a zymotic isolation ward.

 

In 1996 the hospital again became known as the Royal Hospital Haslar.

 

In 2001, the provision of acute healthcare within Royal Hospital Haslar was transferred from the Defence Secondary Care Agency to the NHS Trust. The Royal Hospital was the last MOD-owned acute hospital in the UK. The decision to end the provision of bespoke hospital care for Service personnel was taken prior to the UK's expeditionary campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, but was nevertheless followed through, largely on the grounds of cost. The change from military control to the NHS, and the complete closure of the hospital have remained the subject of considerable local controversy.

 

The hospital formally closed in 2009 and the site has since started to be redeveloped.

  

Humayun's Tomb

 

The Tomb Complex

 

There are various views regarding internment of the body of Humayun. It is generally agreed that his body was initially buried in the Purana Qila, later moved to a temporary burial tomb in Sirhind, due to the invasion of Hemu in 1556. His body was again brought back to Delhi and buried in the Sher Mandal when Akbar defeated Hemu, and ultimately to the present location when the mausoleum was built by his begum and widow, Haji Begum in 1569. The mausoleum was built at an estimated cost of rupees fifteen lakhs. The Humayun’s tomb marks the beginning of the major building activities of the Mughals.

  

The building style is a combination of Persian architecture and indigenous building styles. The right combination of the red sandstone building medium with the white marble, the latter used as large inlays, exhibits the maturity of this style. This kind of combination of red sandstone and white marble in the tombs could be invariably seen in the architecture of Delhi Sultanates of 14th century A.D. The earliest example, of course, is the Alai Darwaza which has exquisite white marble decorations over red sandstone background. The Mughals readopted this style of decorative architecture and in a sense revived this technique of construction. The other buildings which used this style of decoration include that of mosque of Jamali Kamali (ca. 1528-29), the Qala-i-Kuhna mosque (ca. 1534) and the tomb of Ataga Khan (ca. 1556-67).

  

The Humayun tomb is located at the centre of a huge garden complex. The garden complex is divided mainly into four compartments further being sub-divided into many square parts (a typical example of Mughal char-bagh), with causeways and water channels, and water pavilions at regular intervals. The tomb complex is enclosed by a high rubble wall; entered through two entrance gateways, one on the west and other on the south, the latter being closed now. The south gate rises to a height of nearly 15.5 metres and consists of a central octagonal hall flanked rectangular rooms. The first floor of the gateway has square and oblong rooms. On the outside, the gate is flanked by screen-walls with arched recesses. Immediately to the west of the south gateway is an enclosure measuring 146 metres by 32 metres, built against the exterior face of the enclosure wall. The building is a low-roofed one with 25 arched entrances and was meant to house the attendants of the royal tomb. Another building is also located nearby, which along with the above enclosure is a later addition. At present, the western gate is used by the visitors to enter the tomb complex. The west gate is smaller in comparison to the south gate and rises to a height of 7 metres and is also double-storeyed.

  

The northern, southern and western walls of the boundary wall are built of rubble stone and its interior face consists of recessed arches. On the eastern side, the height of the enclosure wall is subdued and was originally meant as an access to the Yamuna river which was flowing nearby.

  

The tomb proper is constructed over a huge and elevated platform 6.5 m in height, the face of which is relieved by a series of arched openings on all four sides, except four entrance stairs, one each at the centre of four sides. There are 17 arched openings on each of the four sides, and the corners are champered. The combination of the arched openings and the champered corners gives an aesthetic look to the whole monument.

  

The building medium in the Humayun’s Tomb is of three kinds of stones, viz., red sandstone, while marble and quartzite. The enclosure walls and the two gateways are constructed of local quartzite with red sandstone dressing and marble inlay. The stairs of platform of the main tomb is also dressed with quartzite. The quartzite is locally available in the ridges of Delhi, while the red sandstone came from the mines of Tantpur near Agra and white marble from the famous Makrana mines of Rajasthan.

  

The ascending stairs at the centre of each of the four sides of the elevated platform leads to an open terrace, at the centre of which is located is the main tomb. The main tomb is located below the monument and is approached through a horizontal passage to the east of southern stair. The arched openings of the platform contain many miscellaneous tombs.

  

The main tomb is octagonal on plan and rises into two storeys, at the four diagonal corners of the octagon are four chambers, which also houses many tombs of the family members of Humayun. The octagonal tomb is surmounted by a double dome supported by squinches. The employment of double dome in a mausoleum is first seen here and this gives the builder the advantage of building an imposing structure of enormous height, tactfully concealing the presence of double domes on the outside. While the exterior height gives an imposing look, the low ceiling of the lower dome gives a proportionate height of the interior features. The pattern of constructing double domes was already prevalent in West Asia during this period which was first introduced in the Humayun’s tomb.

  

The dome of this mausoleum is also a complete one, in the sense that it makes a full circle when completed on the other side too. The outline of the dome represents a complete semi-circle and thus a distinct variation from the earlier varieties of the dome architecture. The main mausoleum, as mentioned above, rises in two storeys and could be viewed in three stages. The lower one consists of eight arched openings of the octagon, above which is a balconied arch openings, over which is the intrados of the inner dome, decorated with red sandstone grilles. The interior face of the main tomb is also relived with different kinds of stone and the white marble as the bordering inlay decorative patterns. The red sandstone jail decorations could be seen at the mid arched openings placed at its lower level.

  

The extrados of the mausoleum is veneered with white marble stones in contrast to the largely red sandstone building. The dome is bulbous in shape; the skyline is relieved with small pavilions on the four corners along side the main dome.

  

The Humayun’s Tomb is also famously associated with the tragic capture of the last of the Mughal Emperors, Bahadur Shah Zafar, along with the three princes Mirza Mughal, Mirza Khizar Sultan and Mirza Abu Bakr by Lieutenant Hodson in 1857. The Mughal Emperor along with the princes was captured by Hodson on 22 September, 1857.

 

Every good Western movie has a good, old-fashioned showdown. First, there is an issue or a conflict, then, the next thing you know, everyone is out in the street and it ends with dramatic results. While this is a good formula for cinema, the last thing we look forward to in global economics is a showdown. Economic showdowns can negatively impact growth, stock prices and inflation.

Today, a number of economic issues and conflicts could lead to a showdown. Some of these showdowns have a short-term impact, while others have a longer-term impact – and they’ll ultimately lead to an economic slowdown in the U.S.

Trade tensions

As we start 2019, trade tensions dominate the headlines. Will the trade showdown lead to a trade war? A history lesson may give us clues as to what a trade war looks like and the impact it would have on the economy.

Tariffs, which protect specific industries, have been part of U.S. history since our nation was founded. The most punitive tariffs were put in place in 1930 when President Herbert Hoover passed the Smoot-Hawley Act. This act placed an approximate 60 percent tariff on a broad basket of products and caused dozens of countries to retaliate. U.S. exports and imports to and from Europe declined by 66 percent between 1929 and 1932. Tariffs added to the already strained economy and prolonged the depression.

Today, U.S. tariffs are among the lowest in the world. Consider the following points of comparison:

•According to the World Bank, the average U.S. import tariff across all products is 1.6 percent.

•China’s average tariff is 3.5 percent.

•Mexico’s average tariff is 4.4 percent.

•The U.S. has only a 2.5 percent duty on imported automobiles from Europe and China.

•Europe has a 10 percent duty on automobiles imported from the U.S.

•China recently cut the tariff on U.S. cars from 25 percent to 15 percent.

With these numbers in mind, it can be difficult to see free trade or even fair trade – let the showdown begin. This showdown may lead to a slowdown in global growth. In addition, if not resolved, tariffs will increase prices, leading to margin pressure on corporate America and inflation for the consumer.

Tight labor market

Another showdown looming is the challenge that a tight labor market brings. According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses, two of the top concerns small business owners have are finding workers and the quality of workers. With unemployment at 3.9 percent, the labor market is tight and if businesses can’t find workers, economic activity may slow while wages will continue to increase.

Over the past nine years, business has been good. The economy has expanded at an average growth rate of 2.2 percent. The economy can continue expanding if there is labor force growth and productivity gains – but neither of these are increasing significantly. Labor force growth in the past year is a paltry 1.3 percent and productivity gains are up a mere 1.3 percent. If businesses can’t find workers and there are limited productivity gains, economic growth will slow.

Average hourly earnings are up 3.2 percent year-over-year. This is good for workers, as they have more discretionary income. However, it can be challenging for companies as the rising wages also increase their costs. If wages go up in stagnant to slowing economic activity, it becomes difficult for companies to cover costs, let alone grow. Wage inflation can be a significant driver of overall inflation, something the Federal Reserve (Fed) is watching closely.

The Fed

The Fed may get a bad rap. It is blamed for ending economic expansions by increasing interest rates too fast or too much. In late 2018, data showed the economy was slowing, but the Fed communicated a steady-as-she-goes policy. As a result, the Dow Jones Industrial Average sold off sharply on Oct. 10, down 831 points and again on Dec. 19, tumbling 348 points – all due to the threat of higher interest rates.

However, in January 2019, the Fed said it will be patient and data-dependent. This sent the stock market up 747 points and the risk of a showdown dissipated. It is quite clear that the uncertainty around the Fed’s monetary policy continues to be a risk.

In previous economic cycles, the Fed raised rates well over the neutral interest rate, which is the rate at which real gross domestic product (GDP) is growing at its trend rate and inflation is stable. Many think raising rates over the neutral interest rate is what ended previous economic expansions. In 2019, we expect GDP to grow very close to trend GDP. And in the last half of 2018, inflation—using Consumer Price Index as a barometer—decreased. The Fed suggests that the neutral rate is around 2.8 percent. Therefore, we forecast a one-and-done Fed hike in 2019. If this happens, the current economic expansion will continue through 2019.

Pennsylvania Avenue

We will experience several politically based showdowns this year. Hopefully the first one is over by the time you read this. The government has been shut down for almost four weeks. Government shutdowns are not new, as Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Obama all had periods of government shutdowns. Perhaps it has become a political pawn.

Economic activity slows down when the government is shut down. We estimate that GDP is reduced by 0.10 percent each week the government is closed. As I write this, we are in week four, with no end in sight. First quarter GDP growth could be cut in half or reduced to zero if the shutdown lingers, which may cause us to reduce our annual GDP forecast.

Another potential showdown in Washington, D.C. is the expanding fiscal deficit and our national debt. Typically, the budget deficit is going down late in an economic cycle, which makes sense. Business is good, unemployment is down and tax revenue is up, so the deficit shrinks. But not this time around. Business is good, unemployment is down, yet the budget deficit is getting larger—and that means our national debt continues to grow.

This showdown will likely be political rhetoric this year, but becomes a very serious economic showdown in years to come. Academic research looks specifically at the relationship between net debt, which is total debt minus intra-government owned debt, and GDP. Studies argue that if a country has more than 90 percent net debt to GDP ratio, it cannot experience economic growth greater than 2 percent. This appears to be true for Japan and Italy, which each have well over 100 percent net debt to GDP ratio. Both countries have grown their economies approximately 1.3 percent annually over the past three years. Today, the U.S. has 78 percent net debt to GDP ratio. It’s getting larger and may be a future showdown to keep an eye on.

Showdown to Slowdown

Economic Forecast

The global theme has changed, moving from synchronized global growth to synchronized global slowdown. The fundamentals in the U.S. are slowing, but only back to trend growth. We expect GDP growth to be between 2.0 and 2.4 percent in 2019, a slowdown from 2018. This is not a negative theme – if directionally correct, the U.S. economy will set the record for the longest expansion in history in July 2019. In addition, 2.0-2.4 percent growth will allow companies to be profitable and individuals to increase consumption.

Equity Expectations

An expanding economy should provide a positive backdrop for revenue and earnings growth. We forecast 7 percent earnings growth in 2019. The dramatic market sell-off in the fourth quarter created an oversold posture. Because of this opportunity, we anticipate 10-12 percent total returns in equites and the S&P 500 ending the year at 2800. Keep in mind, the market climbs a wall of worry. Today, there are plenty of things to worry about.

Fixed Income Outlook

We expect the Fed to hike rates only once in 2019, moving short rates to 2.75 percent by year end. Due to the lack of inflation expectations, we anticipate the yield curve will remain relatively flat and the 10-year Treasury yield should finish the year around 3.10 percent.

Riding into the Sunset

As these showdowns escalate, confidence weakens and may have a temporary impact on economic activity. However, history tells us that many of these showdowns are not new. Often, they are resolved and the impact on the economy is manageable. No doubt there will be volatility due to these showdowns, but overall, current data suggests another year of moderate GDP growth.

 

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"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. -Robert Kennedy

Brother of John F. Kennedy, a US President, he was assassinated while running for president 50 years ago this June.

Photo at his grave site in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Novak Djokovic having his Visa rejected and ultimately being detained in the Park Hotel, in Carlton, where dozens of refugees have been detained for a number of years - has brought international attention to the Australian government's treatment of people seeking asylum.

 

Rally initiated by the Refugee Action Collective and supported by numerous other groups.

 

My website: www.matthrkac.com.au

 

Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/matt.hrkac/

And Facebook: www.facebook.com/MattHrkac

 

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Agate ("Fairburn Agate") from the Black Hills of western South Dakota, USA. (public display, South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)

 

"Agate" is a rockhound/collector term for cavities in rocks (usually sedimentary rocks such as limestone or igneous rocks such as basalt) that have been partially or completely filled with irregularly concentric layers of microcrystalline, fibrous quartz (chalcedony - SiO2). Agate is quartz.

 

Attractive, multicolored and multipatterned agate has long been collected from a large area near the towns of Fairburn and Interior and south of the town of Kadoka and in the White River Badlands. This region has surficial, loose, late Cenozoic-aged gravels derived from weathering and erosion of bedrock in the Black Hills. Some of this gravel is agate. The Fairburn-area agates are remarkably colorful and desirable. The highest-quality examples have sold in the past for between 10,000 and 20,000 American dollars.

 

Studies have shown that Fairburn Agate is ultimately derived from limestones of the Minnelusa Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian), which outcrops in the nearby Black Hills.

 

Airshow Wings of Freedom - Ede NL - 2019

In 2019 it is 75 years since Operation Overlord, the code name of the Western allies, started on 6 June 1944 to liberate Western Europe. It would ultimately be quite a fight and Operation Market Garden would go into the history books as the grandest airborne ever. To support the advance well, temporary airports were built at various locations, that proved to be very effective and made a major contribution to the liberation. This field in Ede, a central city in the Netherlands, was one of them. Through various activities, the awareness of freedom is brought to the attention and shown to the Dutch public through 75 years of remembering, commemorating and celebrating together. On this day there is again a real airport with a runway and a control tower. More than 30,000 visitors attended this day.

 

The aviation event and the WWII airport are incomplete without the activities on the ground. Because we want to match the 'Forty Years' image as well as possible, a historically correct camp is being built. Around 250 re-enactors and historically dressed people depict the daily life of the Second World War. At the camp you can experience what life at an Allied airport looked like. You will encounter pilots, bomber crews and ground personnel from both the Royal Air Force, the US Army Air Force but also the counterpart, the German Luftwaffe. In addition, the various Allied army units are well represented, such as the Airborne troops, both American and British and Canadian. The entertaining staff such as fitters, chefs, office staff and nursing staff are also abundantly present. All of these people live and live throughout the event at the camp and therefore take along a suitable collection of vehicles, weapons and utensils alongside tents.

 

Flight programm

•Nieuport 28C1

•Vultee

•Beechcraft Staggerwing

•De Haviland Chipmunk

•Boeing N2-S3 Stearman

•DH82a Tiger Moth Formation

•Piper PA-18-135 Super Cub

•AT-6 North American

•Wing Walkers Boeing Stearman

•Ceremonial opening en "Missing Man Formation"

•Spitfire Mk XI

•Buchon 109

•Spitfire Mk 1

•Hurricane

•Mustang P51

•Spitfire Mk XVI

•Hurricane Mk IV

•Dakota C47 "Drag Em Oot"

•Spitfire HF9

•Spitfire T9

•AT-6 North American

•Mustang P51

•SPITFIRE Mk IX

•Westland Lysander V9312

•DHC1 Chipmunk

 

Shawn David Green (b: November 10, 1972) is a former MLB player. Green was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays as their 1st round pick (16th overall) in the 1991 amateur draft. He ultimately struck a deal with the Blue Jays.

 

In 1992, Green played for the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League, and was selected to the league's all-star team.

 

Green spent most of 1993 (Knoxville) and 1994 (Syracuse) in the minors, where he compiled impressive numbers. In 1994, he hit .344—winning the International League batting title—while ranking third in runs, hits, and on-base percentage and hitting 13 home runs with 61 RBIs for Toronto's AAA affiliate, the Syracuse Chiefs.

 

Toronto Blue Jays (1993–99) Green made his Major League debut on September 28, 1993 as the second-youngest player in the Major Leagues. Though he did not play in the 1993 World Series, he was awarded a World Series ring. He would appear in just 17 games in 1993 and 1994.

 

In 1998, Green was granted an everyday spot in the line-up and he delivered by becoming the first Blue Jay to both hit 30 or more home runs and steal 30 or more bases in the same season. He also became the tenth Major Leaguer to hit 35 or more home runs and steal 35 or more bases in a season, joining among others Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, and Alex Rodriguez.

 

He finished the 1999 season batting .309 (a career best), with 42 home runs (5th in the league), 134 runs (2nd in the league, and a career best), 123 RBIs, and a .588 slugging percentage (5th best in the league).

 

On November 8, 1999, Green was traded with Jorge Nuñez to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Pedro Borbón, Jr. and Raúl Mondesí.

 

On May 23, 2002 the turning point of his season, he had one of the best single game performances ever. He hit a Major League record-tying 4 home runs and a record-tying five extra-base hits (he hit a double in addition to the home runs) against the Milwaukee Brewers, and had 19 total bases, breaking Joe Adcock's 1954 Major League record by one, while matching the major league record of 6 runs scored in one game. No other major league player had 6 hits, 5 runs, and as many as 4 extra-base hits in a game again until Ian Kinsler of the Texas Rangers in 2009. He hit a 5th home run during the following game to tie the Major League 2-game home run record (5), and then hit 2 more the game after to break the Major League 3-game record (7). Green also broke the NL record with 9 home runs in that calendar week.

 

He chose to retire before the start of the 2008 season, as he wanted to be with his family. Green was arguably the best Jewish baseball player since Sandy Koufax, and only Hank Greenberg, with 331 home runs and 1,276 RBIs, has more major league home runs and RBIs than Green.

Ultimately, we are all alone.

University of Saint Mary took on the 15th-ranked Baker University Wildcats in the Spires’ home opener on Saturday, Sept. 14th 2013, ultimately falling a few feet short of victory with a final score of 41-40.

Novak Djokovic having his Visa rejected and ultimately being detained in the Park Hotel, in Carlton, where dozens of refugees have been detained for a number of years - has brought international attention to the Australian government's treatment of people seeking asylum.

 

Rally initiated by the Refugee Action Collective and supported by numerous other groups.

 

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The bent mailbox post bent back and lasted another 2 weeks. But ultimately, it just fell back over, having lost its structural integrity. Mailbox post ruined by VDOT. Too bad the lateral blunt force trauma to the mailbox didn't happen a few inches higher -- it would have simply knocked the mailbox off. I use twisty-tie to hold my mailbox on, so that it breaks away gracefully rather than ruining the post.

 

It's really ironic that the twisty tie survived, while the metal post did not.

 

VDOT, Virginia Department Of Transportation, mailbox, snow, twisty tie.

 

front yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

 

February 18, 2010.

  

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BACKSTORY: VDOT bulldozers cameat 3AM on Sunday, February 14th, and tried to recklessly move snow out of the street when no one was awake to notice the damage done. But we were having a party, and noticed strange lights outside. (What looked flying cars -- turns out bulldozer headlights are 15 ft off the ground.) I saw the bulldozer hit my chain link fence gate, I saw the bulldozer hit my fence. Later we found out they did indeed damage our fence and mailbox. They fixed the mailbox around March 25th (so for a month they hoped I would simply buy a new mailbox), but still haven't fixed the fence as of this photo's upload.

The U.S. Mission is sponsoring an exhibition of works by American Artist Ross Rossin. Today the artist and his team could be seen at the Palais des Nations mounting the 15 larger than life canvasses that are included in the show. The exhibit entitled 'Ultimately Humanâ centers around portraits of American human rights defenders such as Jimmy Carter, Maya Angelou, Ted Turner and others. If you would like to register for the official opening reception on Thursday, October 27 at 6:00 pm, please visit the following page:

 

www.unog.ch/unog/website/calendar.nsf/(httpEvents)/3541DCE296993913C125803B005AB068?OpenDocument

 

U.S. Mission Photo/Eric Bridiers;

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (April 18, 2016) – Highly trained master riggers recently moved 42 large steel pieces that will ultimately form a Northeast Florida manufacturing facility through the heavy lift and specialty cargo berth at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal, home of one of the nation’s highest weight-bearing capacity docks.

Workers employed by stevedoring company Portus lifted the pieces one at a time from the Thorco Shipping general cargo vessel Genius Star XI before placing them on individual chassis to be trucked to Starke, Fla., where they will be assembled together to create a freestanding manufacturing facility.

The pieces, which arrived at JAXPORT from Shanghai, China, weigh up to 111,000 pounds and are up to 50 feet in length.

A second shipment containing the remainder of the components for the project will arrive through JAXPORT in June.

The heavy lift cargo berth at JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal offers up to 1,800 pounds per square foot of load capacity with rail capability up to 78 kips per axle for heavy cargo. The port offers worldwide cargo service, including direct service with Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and other key markets

 

NWA 10646

Achondrites, Angrites

Northwest Africa

Find: 2016

TKW: 14 g / OBJ: 60 mg

 

A 202.5 g friable stone lacking fusion crust but with adhering desert soil was found in Morocco and ultimately sold to D. Pitt. Analysis and classification was conducted at the University of New Mexico (Agee et al.), and NWA 10463 was determined to be a previously unsampled angrite lithology. A number of smaller paired stones and tiny fragments were recovered during further searches, including a 14 g stone classified as NWA 10646.

 

Northwest Africa 10463 is a coarse-grained polycrystalline aggregate composed of Al–Ti-rich clinopyroxene (~28 vol%), both high-Fe and high-Ca olivine (~26 vol%), and plagioclase (~37 vol%), along with minor phases including oxides (3 vol% spinel and Fe–Ti-oxides), troilite (3 vol%), and silico-phosphate (<1 vol%), the latter resolved by Mikouchi et al. (2011) to be silico-apatite in other angrites (Agee et al., 2015; Santos et al., 2016). This angrite exhibits textural features, including chemically zoned olivines (Fa41.6 cores to Fa59.1 rims), thin exsolution lamellae in olivine, and chemically zoned spinels (Al-rich cores to Cr-rich rims; Santos et al., 2017), which are indicative of relatively fast cooling at depth. In many ways these features are similar to the angrites NWA 4590 and LEW 86010 which have been termed sub-volcanic/metamorphic (McKay et al., 1998).

 

The chemistry of NWA 10463 indicates that post-crystallization metamorphic processing (i.e., re-equilibration) occurred which is manifest in the fractionation and redistribution of divalent and trivalent 53Cr from olivine into other phases (Papike et al., 2016). This metamorphism has affected the Mn–Cr chronometer, reducing its usefulness in dating the crystallization of angrites. Santos et al. (2016) found that olivine in NWA 10463 contains Ca that spans a larger range than in other angrites, and they suggest that the meteorite could have experienced a unique petrogenetic history (see diagram below).

 

In-depth studies of the diverse angrite samples collected thus far are bringing to light a scenario in which a large planetary body accreted and crystallized over an extended period of time, perhaps as long as 7 m.y., beginning only a couple of m.y. after the formation of the earliest nebular condensates. The refractory bulk composition of this body, along with features such as a high abundance of trapped solar noble gases, attests to an origin in close proximity to the Sun. The oldest angritic material is recognized in the form of early crustal vesicular rocks such as Sahara 99555, D'Orbigny, and NWA 1296. Younger angritic material, in the form of impact-mixed extrusive and intrusive magmatic rocks together with regolith material, is represented by A-881371, LEW 87051, and NWA 1670. The youngest angritic rocks known, represented by the meteorites Angra dos Reis, LEW 86010, NWA 2999, NWA 4590, and NWA 4801, are composed of annealed regolith and late intrusive plutonic lithologies.

 

It was proposed by A. Irving and S. Kuehner (2007) that one or more severe collisional impacts onto the angrite parent body resulted in the stripping of a significant fraction of its crust and upper mantle, accompanied by dissemination of large sections of this material into a stable orbit during the past 4+ b.y. This storage location might lie within the main asteroid belt, or alternatively, the material could remain associated with the original collisionally-stripped parent body postulated by some to be the planet Mercury (see schematic diagram below). The disparity that exists in FeO content between the angrite group of meteorites (up to 25 wt%) and the surface of Mercury (~5 wt%) may reflect the existence of a redox gradient in which the lower mantle region, now the present surface of Mercury, has a more magnesian composition.

While this angrite could be a piece of "Maia", mother of Hermes (Mercury), an alternate hypothesis speculates that it might represent a piece of "Theia", mother of Selene (the Moon goddess). In a new study of the Fe/Mn ratio in olivine grains for a number of angrites, Papike et al. (2017) determined that these meteorites plot along a trend line between the Earth and Moon, which indicates the possible location of the angrite parent body (see diagram below).

  

In connection with their in-depth study of NWA 5363/5400, Burkhardt et al. (2017) published comparative data for nucleosynthetic anomalies among parent bodies for O, Cr, Ca, Ti, Ni, Mo, Ru and Nd. It is interesting to note that with the exception of ε48Ca (no angrite data for ε100Ru), NWA 5363/5400 and angrites have values for each of these isotopic anomalies which are nearly the same or overlap within uncertainties. Results of their studies indicate that while both angrites and NWA 5363/5400 have Δ17O values indistinguishable from Earth, and that other anomaly values for angrites overlap with Earth within uncertainties (ε92Ni, ε92Mo, ε145Nd), the ε54Cr and ε50Ti values of angrites are distinct from Earth. Based on their studies, Burkhardt et al. (2017) concluded that the parent body of NWA 5363/5400, and perhaps by extention that of angrites, originated in a unique nebula isotopic reservoir most similar to enstatite and ordinary chondrites.

 

Portions of the angrite asteroid must be in a stable orbit (planetary or asteroid belt) from which spallation has continued to occur over the past ~55 m.y. as indicated by the wide variation in angrite CRE ages. Notably, Rivkin et al. (2007) have determined that the largest known co-orbiting “Trojan” asteroid of Mars, the 1.3 km-diameter 5261 Eureka located at a trailing Lagrangian point, is a potentially good spectral analog to the angrites (as measured by Burbine et al., 2006) (see diagrams below). They suggest that 5261 Eureka could represent a captured fragment of the disrupted angrite parent body now in a stable orbit around Mars.

Surrogacy is a procedure, supported by a legal agreement. In surrogacy, a woman called as surrogate agrees to become pregnant for the couple who cannot carry a pregnancy themselves. The intended parents will ultimately become the legal parents of the child or children.

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Agate ("Fairburn Agate") from the Black Hills of western South Dakota, USA. (public display, South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)

 

"Agate" is a rockhound/collector term for cavities in rocks (usually sedimentary rocks such as limestone or igneous rocks such as basalt) that have been partially or completely filled with irregularly concentric layers of microcrystalline, fibrous quartz (chalcedony - SiO2). Agate is quartz.

 

Attractive, multicolored and multipatterned agate has long been collected from a large area near the towns of Fairburn and Interior and south of the town of Kadoka and in the White River Badlands. This region has surficial, loose, late Cenozoic-aged gravels derived from weathering and erosion of bedrock in the Black Hills. Some of this gravel is agate. The Fairburn-area agates are remarkably colorful and desirable. The highest-quality examples have sold in the past for between 10,000 and 20,000 American dollars.

 

Studies have shown that Fairburn Agate is ultimately derived from limestones of the Minnelusa Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian), which outcrops in the nearby Black Hills.

 

The bent mailbox post bent back and lasted another 2 weeks. But ultimately, it just fell back over, having lost its structural integrity. Mailbox post ruined by VDOT. Too bad the lateral blunt force trauma to the mailbox didn't happen a few inches higher -- it would have simply knocked the mailbox off. I use twisty-tie to hold my mailbox on, so that it breaks away gracefully rather than ruining the post.

 

It's really ironic that the twisty tie survived, while the metal post did not.

 

VDOT, Virginia Department Of Transportation, mailbox, snow, twisty tie.

 

front yard, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.

 

February 18, 2010.

  

... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com

... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com

   

BACKSTORY: VDOT bulldozers cameat 3AM on Sunday, February 14th, and tried to recklessly move snow out of the street when no one was awake to notice the damage done. But we were having a party, and noticed strange lights outside. (What looked flying cars -- turns out bulldozer headlights are 15 ft off the ground.) I saw the bulldozer hit my chain link fence gate, I saw the bulldozer hit my fence. Later we found out they did indeed damage our fence and mailbox. They fixed the mailbox around March 25th (so for a month they hoped I would simply buy a new mailbox), but still haven't fixed the fence as of this photo's upload.

In the early 1960s, the Antwerp city council decided to build a new municipal theater. For the construction, entire buildingblocks were demolished that had been badly damaged by a V1 in the Second World War, resulting in 71 deaths. By 1965 it was hoped to have a new, modernist and transparent building ready for use. Ultimately, the works would only start in 1968 and then last for 12 years under 3 different architects. At that time, it was one of the best-equipped theaters in Western Europe.

The building, which was taken in use in 1980, soon aroused a lot of resistance from both the Antwerp resident, who spoke of “the blockhouse”, and from the artists, who thought it was much too large for far too little audience. Due to the slow progress of the construction work, indeed a building had risen on the Theaterplein that referred to the Eastern European architecture (concrete rectangular buildings with large parade squares) that had also entered Western countries and especially socialist-inspired cities during the post-war reconstruction period.

In the early 1990s, the Antwerp city council decided to have the large auditorium of the Stadsschouwburg converted from 800 to 2,060 seats. In 2008 the square in front of the theater was redesigned to a concept by Studio Associato Secchi-Viganò. Characteristic is a large glass awning of 70 x 70 m. and 20 m. height, under which the weekly market can take place.

Vieuw to the Theaterplein.

 

Begin van de jaren ’60 besliste het Antwerpse stadsbestuur om een nieuwe stadsschouwburg te bouwen. Voor de bouw brak men hele bouwblokken die door een V1 in de Tweede Wereldoorlog erg waren toegetakeld en waarbij 71 doden waren gevallen. Men hoopte tegen 1965 een nieuw, modernistisch en transparant gebouw gebruiksklaar te hebben. Uiteindelijk zouden de werken pas in 1968 worden gestart en vervolgens 12 jaar aanslepen onder 3 verschillende architecten. Het was toenertijd één van de best uitgeruste theaterzalen in West-Europa.

Het gebouw dat in 1980 in gebruik werd genomen, maar wekte al snel heel veel weerstand van zowel de Antwerpenaar, die het had over “den bunker”, als van de artiesten, die het veel te groot vonden voor veel te weinig publiek. Door de trage voortgang van de bouwwerkzaamheden was op het Theaterplein inderdaad een gebouw verrezen dat refereerde aan de Oost-Europese architectuur (betonnen rechthoekige gebouwen met grote paradepleinen) die in de naoorlogse heropbouwperiode ook in Westerse landen en in vooral socialistisch geïnspireerde steden haar intrede had gedaan.

In het begin van de jaren 90 besloot het Antwerpse stadsbestuur om de grote zaal van de Stadsschouwburg te laten ombouwen van 800 naar 2.060 zitplaatsen.

In 2008 werd het plein voor de schouwburg heraangelegd naar een ontwerp van Studio Associato Secchi-Viganò. Kenmerkend is een grote glazen luifel van 70 x 70 m. en 20 m. hoogte, waaronder de wekelijkse markt kan plaats vinden.

Zicht op het Theaterplein.

 

Au début des années 1960, la mairie d'Anvers décide de construire un nouveau théâtre municipal. Pour la construction, des blocs de construction entiers ont été demolis qui avaient été gravement endommagés par un V1 pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en prennant la vie de 71 personnes. En 1965, on espérait d’avoir un nouveau bâtiment moderniste et transparent prêt à être utilisé. Au final, les travaux ne commenceraient qu'en 1968 et dureraient ensuite 12 ans sous la direction de 3 architectes différents. À l'époque, c'était l'un des théâtres les mieux équipés d'Europe occidentale.

Le bâtiment qui a été inauguré en 1980, générait beaucoup de résistance de la part du citoyen anversois, qui parlait du «bunker», et des artistes, qui le trouvaient trop grand pour un public trop restreint. En raison de la lenteur des travaux de construction, un bâtiment s'était en effet élevé sur la Theaterplein qui faisait référence à l'architecture d'Europe de l'Est (bâtiments rectangulaires en béton avec de grandes places de parade) qui avait également pénétré dans les pays occidentaux et en particulier dans les villes d'inspiration socialiste pendant la période de reconstruction d'après-guerre. .

Au début des années 90, la mairie d'Anvers a décidé de convertir la salle principale du Stadsschouwburg de 800 à 2060 places.

En 2008, la place devant le théâtre a été refait selon un design du Studio Associato Secchi-Viganò. Caractéristique est un grand auvent en verre de 70 x 70 m et 20 m de hauteur, sous lequel le marché hebdomadaire peut avoir lieu.

Vue sur le Theaterplein.

 

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world."

— Etty Hillesum"

5/20/10

I try not to preach because it ultimately makes me a hypocrite. But, I pass this sight every two weeks on the way to work. Most of us consume and throw away too much. No matter how hard we try, most of our “carbon footprints” would make Sasquatch feel inadequate. But, some examples are just plain silly.

Every two weeks, our townhouse complex puts its plastic and glass out for recycle. And, every two weeks, this single home puts out no less thank 5 or 6 full garbage bags containing empty Poland Springs water bottles. Yes, it is very good that these bottles are being recycled. But, recycling still requires tons of energy and resources. And, the recycled bottles don’t actually become new bottles. The plastic is used to produce other types of products. Ultimately, recycling is really only third in the list of recommended ways to treat consumer waste far behind REDUCE and REUSE. Recycling is one step above “throw it in a landfill (or ocean).”

I’m trying to figure out why one would chose to grab a single-serving, disposable plastic bottle every time thirst presented itself. Even if tap water isn’t an acceptable option (even with a home filter), Poland Springs is available in large, reusable water-dispenser-sized containers. One can simply use a glass at home. And, if you need to travel, a reusable water bottle is a simple solution.

Maybe I’m missing something here. And, if I am, I’m all ears.

 

Interesting Reading: www.ecologycenter.org/ptf/misconceptions.html

 

www.jenfucheng.com

Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Toby Jackson

 

Saturday 2 - Sunday 17 November, Thursday - Sunday, 12:00pm - 5:00pm

GENERATORprojects

25/26 Mid Wynd Industrial Estate

Dundee, DD1 4JG

 

GENERATORprojects will present two exhibitions, Genetic Automata and Sensor

 

Genetic Automata by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy forms the first part of an ambitious new body of works by the artists, exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, video games, and DNA Ancestry testing. Initially commissioned by Arts Catalyst, this exhibition will be shown during NEoN Festival as part of a national tour.

 

Referencing the history of the theory of evolution, and the relationship between Darwin and his taxidermy teacher John Edmonstone, a freed slave, Genetic Automata raises important questions of invisible histories, eugenics, and segregation, through the lens of historical and contemporary contexts. The video installation combines animation, spoken word and text interspersed with microscopic topographies of varied shades of skin, digital renditions of skin from video games, and film footage of taxidermied bird life from Darwin’s bird skin collection at the Natural History Museum.

 

Sensor by emerging artist Toby Jackson is an extension of work that he has been developing over the past few years, highlighting the relationships between humans and computers; lived experience, and its digital manipulation. Sensor will use live capture 3D mapping to create an interactive projection which maps and distorts the audience’s movements, dictating the ways in which we interact with the work. The projected images will reference digital avatars via the visual simplifications of those who interact with it, questioning ideas of identity, privacy and anonymity in a world of digital surveillance.This relationship between the artwork and the audience will highlight the precarious power dynamic that exists between humans and computers, encouraging us to disrupt this dynamic, and reclaim control of our own narratives.

 

Each of these exhibitions discusses the insidious ways in which narratives can be altered and sculpted in order to disseminate ideas which negatively influence collective thinking. encourages us to reconsider our interactions with technology in order to combat this deceptive influence. Genetic Automata urges an awareness of the ways in which historical omissions can contribute to contemporary issues, particularly in relation to racial discrimination and segregation. Ultimately, these exhibitions combine to encourage a heightened awareness of the responsibility that each of us hold to question the information that we are forced to consume.

 

About the Artists

Larry Achiampong & David Blandy’s work has been shown both within the UK and abroad including Tate Modern, London; The Baltic, Gateshead; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefied; Fact, Liverpool; BFI London Film Festival, London; Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany & Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas, USA. They have been on residencies at Praksis, Oslo in Norway & Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire. Recent awards include an Elephant Trust award and support from Arts Council England. They have been shortlisted for the Film London Jarman award 2018. Larry Achiampong is represented by Copperfield Gallery, London & David Blandy is represented by Seventeen Gallery, London.

 

Toby Jackson is a Scotland-based digital artist, who uses innovative technology to create installations which are both interactive and generative. Jackson’s work explores themes of identity, self-expression, surveillance, and censorship, and the ways in which each of these affects – or is effected by – abstract representation of the self in our digital age. Following the critical success of his most recent work Blind Eye, this exhibition marks Jackson’s first solo show since graduating from DJCAD earlier this summer.

 

Opening/Preview night: Friday 1st November, 6pm – 9pm

 

Photography Kathryn Rattray

Denbigh Castle and town walls were built to control the lordship of Denbigh after the Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England in 1282. The lands were granted to Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, who began to build a new walled town, colonised by immigrants from England, protected by a substantial castle and surrounded by deer parks for hunting. The work had not been completed by 1294, when the Welsh temporarily seized the castle during the Madog ap Llywelyn revolt. The defences continued to be improved, although the castle was not completely finished by the time of Henry's death in 1311.

 

The castle passed between various owners in the first half of the 14th century, before coming under the control of the Mortimer family. Meanwhile, the walled town had proved impractical to live in, and a newer, much larger, settlement developed outside the defences. In 1400, the walled town was raided during the Glyndŵr Rising, although the castle itself remained secure throughout the rebellion. During the Wars of the Roses, Denbigh was attacked by Lancastrian forces; the walled town was attacked and burnt. In the aftermath, the old town was largely abandoned by its inhabitants, the walled area becoming an extension of the castle's defences.

 

During the First English Civil War, Denbigh was held by the Royalists until it was captured by Parliamentarian forces in October 1646. The castle was seized by pro-Royalist soldiers in 1659, after which General George Monk ordered it to be slighted, with various parts of the walls and towers being demolished. The site deteriorated further over the years and the old walled town remained almost deserted. In the middle of the 19th century, the town created a committee to manage the ruins and carried out restoration work. The Office of Works assumed responsibility for the fortifications in 1914, with the site ultimately passing into the control of the Welsh Cadw heritage agency.

 

Denbigh Castle is dominated by a triangle of three octagonal towers that forms its main entrance, considered by the historian John Goodall to be "the most architecturally sophisticated gatehouse of the thirteenth century". Eight mural towers protect the rest of its curtain wall, further protected by barbicans and a mantlet of defensive terraces and walls. The castle connects to the town walls, which remain largely intact and stretch for around 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) around the old town. The town walls were once protected by four towers and two gatehouses, although only one of the gatehouses still survives. The castle and town's gatehouse were constructed of decorative stonework, intended to symbolise royal authority and civic pride.

 

Denbigh Castle was constructed within what was originally the Welsh patrimony of Perfeddwlad. The patrimony controlled the pastoral farming lands on the Denbigh Moors and formed a royal residence, llys, for the Welsh princes. Perfeddwlad was strategically located along the Welsh border but its ownership was disputed and the territory was fought over by the Normans and Welsh many times during the 11th and 12th centuries.

 

In 1277, the Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffudd was granted Perfeddwlad by the English king, Edward I, who at the time was allied with Dafydd in his struggle against his brother Prince Llywelyn. Dafydd rebuilt the existing residence, creating a substantial castle. It is uncertain what form it took or exactly where on the current castle site it was located, but it included a bakehouse, buttery, chapel and a hall, and it became Dafydd's main stronghold. The Welsh called the settlement Dinbych, an abbreviation of Dinas Fechan, meaning "little fortress".

 

In 1282, Dafydd and Llywelyn rebelled against the King. Edward invaded North Wales with a huge army; after a month long siege, Dinbych fell to his forces in October 1282. The King created a new lordship to govern the district around Dinbych, which he renamed Denbigh and granted these lands to Henry de Lacy, the Earl of Lincoln.[3] With the help of James of St George, the King's master mason, Edward and Henry made plans for the construction of a new castle to govern the area, symbolically placed on top of the former llys.

 

Edward continued into Snowdonia, leaving Henry to continue the work at Denbigh, using local labourers and possibly men brought from Henry's estates in England. The western and southern sides of the castle and the new town walls were built first, in order to protect the construction teams and by 1285, Henry gave the new town its first charter. Work on the rest of the defences continued for several years. The castle and town formed part of a wider landscape controlled by de Lacey, including a nearby manor, a dovecote, barn and fishponds, which were all important symbols of lordship during the period. He similarly established three parks around the castle, stocked with deer from England.

 

The town walls enclosed an area approximately 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) in size and held 63 burgesses in 1285, each of which promised to provide an armed man to help protect the settlement. The townsfolk were English, many from Henry's estates in northern England and were reinforced by further English colonists who acquired large areas of rural land around the region. From the earliest days of the new settlement; the inhabitants began to spread out beyond the walls onto the flatter ground further down the hill, spurred on by the limited space and poor water supply in the inner town. This was unusual compared to the experience of other walled towns established in Wales at the time and within fifty years the external villa mercatoria had come to cover around 57 acres (23 ha).

 

The building work on Denbigh Castle had not been completed by September 1294, when a Welsh revolt broke out, led by Madog ap Llywelyn. The castle was taken by Welsh forces, despite efforts by Henry to relieve it and the fortification was not recaptured until December. The castle's defences continued to be improved, although it was not completely finished, possibly because the project was disrupted by the death of Henry's eldest son in an accident at the castle.

 

Henry de Lacy's daughter, Alice, inherited Denbigh Castle on his death in 1311. Alice was the wife of Thomas, the Earl of Lancaster, and the castle continued to be developed until Thomas was executed for treason in 1322. The following years were politically unstable and the castle was passed between several, short-lived, owners - Hugh Despenser, the Earl of Winchester and then Roger Mortimer, the Earl of March - before being held for a period by William Montagu. Work on the castle and the town walls continued throughout this period.

 

The Mortimer family reacquired the lordship in 1355 and carried out repairs over the next fifty years to the castle's stonework and timber. In 1400, Owain Glyndŵr led a revolt against the Crown and raided the town of Denbigh. Since Edmund Mortimer was only eight years old, King Henry IV placed Henry Percy in charge of Denbigh, until Percy defected to the rebels in 1403. Despite being isolated, Denbigh remained in royal hands through to the end of the rebellion in 1407. Edmund continued to hold the castle until he died, childless, in 1425, when ownership passed to Richard, the Duke of York.

 

During the Wars of the Roses, Denbigh was fought over by the rival Lancastrian and Yorkist factions. Jasper Tudor, the Earl of Pembroke and a Lancastrian supporter, was declared the constable of the castle by Henry VI in 1457 but the fortification remained in the hands of the Yorkists. After the Lancastrian victory at the Battle of Ludford Bridge, Jasper was able to force the garrison to surrender and finally took possession of the castle in 1460. The war then turned in favour of the Yorkists and despite the castle's new garrison holding out for several months under Roger Puleston, it was recaptured by Sir Richard Herbert in late 1461. The new Yorkist regime made William Herbert, Jasper's rival to the title of Earl of Pembroke, the constable and steward of Denbigh in 1467.

 

Jasper returned to Denbigh in 1468 and although he could not take the castle, he burnt the interior of the walled town. The attack spurred an exodus from the walled town to the newer suburbs. By the end of 16th century the inner area had been largely abandoned, coming to form part of the external defences of the castle and the Burgess Gate on the town walls became the town gaol. In 1586, the antiquarian William Camden could observe that the "old town is now deserted".

 

Much of the castle had fallen into decline by 1530 but six years later the castle became the centre for administrating the new county of Denbighshire, with the great gatehouse and nearby towers being used as a courthouse, prison and associated buildings by the county authorities. The remainder of the castle had fallen into ruin by 1561. Robert Dudley, later made the Earl of Leicester, was granted a lease of the castle in 1563, partially because the Crown was trying to reduce the costs of maintaining the dilapidated property.

 

During Dudley's tenure, Denbigh Castle was used as a place of imprisonment for those considered traitors by the officials of the Crown, including many dissidents towards the Elizabethan religious settlement. The most famous such prisoner was the Welsh poet and underground Catholic schoolmaster Richard Gwyn, who was imprisoned at Denbigh Castle from September 1581 to the Spring of 1582.

 

After Gwyn's execution on 15 October 1584, his head and one of his quarters were spiked upon Denbigh Castle. The other three quarters were similarly displayed at Wrexham, Ruthin Castle, and Holt Castle.

 

On 25 October 1970 Pope Paul VI presided over the canonization ceremony in Rome for St. Richard Gwyn, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

 

The Catholic Church in England commemorates Gwyn with a feast day together with all the 284 canonized and beatified martyrs of the English Reformation on 4 May. The Catholic Church in Wales commemorates him on the feast day of the Six Welsh Martyrs: priests Philip Evans and John Lloyd, John Jones, David Lewis, John Roberts, the layman Richard Gwyn, and their companions, every year on 25 October.

 

During his rule, Dudley also built a large Anglican parish church in the walled town, possibly intending it to become a cathedral and carried out some minor repairs to the castle but little other work was completed before his death in 1588.

 

When the First English Civil War broke out in August 1642, North Wales was solidly Royalist, and Denbigh Castle was held by a garrison of 500 under Colonel William Salesbury, who made repairs to the defences. By late 1645, the war had turned against the Royalists, and Charles I spent three days at the castle after his defeat at Rowton Heath in September.

 

The following month, a Royalist army under the command of Sir William Vaughan gathered at Denbigh Green, close to the ruins of Denbigh Friary, intending to march to Chester to relieve the forces under siege there. Before this, Vaughan was attacked and defeated by a force commanded by Sir Thomas Mytton, and some of the Royalist soldiers retreated into the castle in the aftermath. Mytton took the outer parts of Denbigh but could not break into the walled town or the castle.

 

Mytton returned the next year with additional equipment and placed the castle and the walled town under a close siege in April 1646, erecting earthwork bastions for his guns along the eastern site of Denbigh. The Goblin Tower along the town walls, which contained the garrison's main well, was bombarded with artillery and Mytton placed more guns on nearby Galch Hill to attack the south-western side of the walls. With only one artillery piece of his own and no Royalist reinforcements likely, Salesbury's position appeared hopeless but he held on, arguing that he had given assurances to the King that he would not surrender the castle. Finally, Charles I sent Salebsury a message, personally ordering him to give up Denbigh; after negotiations, Salesbury agreed to surrender on good terms on 26 October.

 

After Salesbury departed, Parliament installed a small garrison in the castle, under the command of Colonel George Twistleton, the new governor. It was used as a prison for political prisoners, including David Pennant, the High Sheriff of Flintshire and there was an abortive Royalist attempt in 1648 to break into the castle to rescue the inmates.

 

In 1659, Sir George Booth led an uprising of Royalist and Presbyterian leaders against the Commonwealth government. A group of Royalist soldiers seized Denbigh Castle in August and took the garrison prisoner. After Booth's defeat at the Battle of Winnington Bridge a few weeks later, the rebels surrendered and the government retook the castle. General George Monck then ordered it to be slighted, put beyond military use. The republican politician John Carter demolished parts of the curtain walls and two towers over the course of six weeks. The site fell further into ruin over the remainder of the century, with its stone being reused to build houses in the town. When granted briefly in 1696 to William Bentinck, the Earl of Portland, complaints were made in Parliament and it reverted to the Crown.

 

Denbigh Castle remained ruined, although a new grammar school was built in the walled town in 1726 and a bowling green was established around 1769. Castle House, a large private dwelling, was also constructed there in either the second quarter or the middle of the century, using stone taken from the castle ruins and Leicester's church. In the middle of the 19th century, the historian John Williams observed that the walled town remained otherwise deserted, with only three irregular rows of cottages, holding a total of 163 inhabitants; these dwellings attracted complaint from the writer Samuel Lewis, who argued that they "materially diminished the interest excited by the ruins". The western tower of the Burgess Gate was then being used as a private house, as had the eastern tower until a few years before.

 

In the middle of the 19th century, the town created a "Castle Committee" to maintain the ruins; the Crown leased the committee control of the castle and in 1879 lent them £300 to fund repairs to the ruins. The Crown reclaimed control of the Burgess Gate from its occupants and carried out conservation work, before then leasing the gatehouse to the committee in 1908. In 1914, the central government's Office of Works took over responsibility for the site and during the late 1950s, its successor organisation, the Ministry of Works, first bought and then demolished various later buildings along the walls to clear the area for research and visitors.

 

In the 21st century, Denbigh Castle and the town walls are maintained by the Welsh heritage agency Cadw. The castle is open to visitors, receiving 10,154 in 2015 and parts of the extant walls are also open to visitors. £600,000 was invested by Cadw in the castle and walls during the mid-2010s, financing the construction of a new visitors' centre. The site is protected under UK law as a scheduled ancient monument and the castle as a grade I listed building.

 

Denbigh Castle is located on a naturally defensible, rocky outcrop above the Clywd valley, with the walled town just beneath it to the north. The castle comprises a large gatehouse, with a curtain wall and mural towers encircling an inner area approximately 350 by 260 feet (107 by 79 m) across. The historian John Goodall considers the fortification to be "one of the outstanding architectural creations of the Welsh conquest".

 

The Great Gatehouse is formed by a triangle of octagonal towers around a central octagonal hall, protected by a barbican. The gatehouse was built using decorative bands of masonry in different colours, intended to symbolise Edward I's royal authority and displayed a statue, probably of Edward II, over the main entrance. The complex was defended with a 30-foot (9.1 m) wide ditch, a drawbridge, murder holes and a portcullis. The three towers making up the gatehouse have individual names: the Porter's Lodge and Prison towers face outwards and the Badnes Tower, possibly named after an early constable of the castle, lies to the rear. Goodall considers the building to be "the most architecturally sophisticated gatehouse of the thirteenth century" and notes that the architectural ideas were later "reworked to brilliant effect" at Knaresborough.

 

To the east of the gatehouse is the site of the Queen's Chapel, since destroyed and the castle well, which is over 50 feet (15 m) deep. The hexagonal, three-storey Great Kitchen Tower and the White Chamber Tower, which was slighted after the English Civil War, flank the foundations of the Great Hall. Further south is the Pitcher House Tower, probably used for storing water during the summer months and the Green Chambers, so called because of the colour of their Gwespyr stonework. The chambers have basements specially designed for the storage of meat and wine and the upper storeys originally contained exceptionally fine accommodation.

 

At the southern end of the castle, the Postern Tower, originally three storeys high, links the castle to one end of the town walls. The adjacent Upper Gate and the Postern Gate formed a rear entrance to the castle, protected by another barbican, drawbridges and a steep passageway.

 

A mantlet of defensive terraces and cross-walls stretches around the south and eastern sides of the castle and originally prevented the undermining of the mural towers and thinnest stretches of the curtain wall. This side of the castle was protected by the Treasure House Tower, which held the Treasure House; the Tower-next-Treasure House; the Bishop's Tower, containing a sally port and the octagonal Red Tower, named after the red sandstone used in its construction, which linked to the other end of the town wall circuit. Stables, a blacksmith's workshop and storehouses once ran along the inside of the south-western corner of the castle.

 

The town walls stretch for around 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) from the north edge of the castle to its southeastern tip and mostly remain intact. The walls were built in the 13th century and originally protected by four mural towers, positioned in a disorderly pattern; the two gatehouses and the defences along the eastern salient were added in the 14th century.

 

Only the foundations of the Exchequer Gate on the western side of the walls remain but the gatehouse would originally have been protected by two circular towers, with a rectangular glacis base to prevent undermining. The walls between the Exchequer and Burgess Gate at the north-west corner of the circuit are intact. The Burgess Gate has two circular towers protecting a vaulted passage way, again with a distinctive glacis base. The gatehouse is built from white limestone and yellow sandstone, with the stonework forming a chequered design; this was a common decorative approach at the time and would have symbolised local civic pride. Although the top courses have been lost, the gatehouse might originally have stood up to 60 feet (18 m) tall. The section of the walls to the east of the Burgess Gate has been lost.

 

The walled circuit recommences in the north-east corner of the town, where the walls survive up to 15 feet (4.6 m) high, further protected by the two-storey tall North-Eastern Tower. On the eastern side of the walls, the original defences had been set back from the edge of a rocky salient, protected by the Countess Tower, an angular, two-storey building with two towers. The defences were adapted to follow the outer edge of the salient, with the Goblin Tower built on the outermost point, overlooking the edge of the cliffs. The Goblin Tower is a hexagonal, two-storey tower, protecting a deep well that formed the only reliable source of water for the defences during the summer.

 

The walled circuit continues south, meeting the Bastion Tower in the south-east corner.[88] The Bastion Tower was originally three storeys tall and was decorated with chequered sandstone and limestone in a similar fashion to the Burgess Gate.

 

Denbigh is a market town and a community in Denbighshire, Wales. Formerly the county town of the historic county of Denbighshire until 1888, Denbigh's Welsh name (Dinbych) translates to "Little Fortress"; a reference to its historic castle. Denbigh lies near the Clwydian Hills.

 

Denbigh Castle, together with its town walls, was built in 1282 (742 years ago) by order of King Edward I. The Burgess Gate, whose twin towers adorn the symbol on Denbigh's civic seal, was once the main entrance into the town. The first borough charter was granted to Denbigh in 1290, when the town was still contained within the old town walls. It was the centre of the Marcher Lordship of Denbigh. The town was involved in the revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294–1295; the castle was captured in the autumn and, on 11 November 1294, a relieving force was defeated by the Welsh rebels. The town was recaptured by Edward I in December. Denbigh was also burnt in 1400 during the revolt of Owain Glyndŵr.

 

During the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), the town was largely destroyed, subsequently moving from the hilltop to the area of the present town market.

 

Leicester's Church is an unfinished church. In 1579, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who was also Baron of Denbigh, planned for there to be a cathedral. His intention was to move the status of city from neighbouring St Asaph. The project ran out of money and, when Robert Dudley died, it was left as ruins; it is now in the care of Cadw.

 

In 1643, during the English Civil War, Denbigh became a refuge for a Royalist garrison. Surrendering in 1646, the castle and town walls eventually fell into ruin.

 

The town grew around the textile industry in the 1600s, hosting specialist glovers, weavers, smiths, shoemakers, saddlers, furriers and tanners. Denbigh has been an important location for the agricultural industry throughout its history.

 

Denbigh railway station once served the town on the former London and North Western Railway, later part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

 

It was a junction for the Vale of Clwyd Railway line, which lead north to St Asaph and Rhyl, and the Mold and Denbigh Junction Railway. The former was closed in 1955, leaving Denbigh on a lengthy branch running from Chester to Ruthin, via Mold, which subsequently closed in 1962. A southern continuation beyond Ruthin, linking up with the Great Western Railway at Corwen, had closed in 1952.

 

The station site has been redeveloped since into a small retail park; however, remains of a platform can still be seen beside the road leading to the Home Bargains store, Aldi Supermarket and two charity shops.

 

At one time, the majority of the population sought employment at the North Wales Hospital, which, dating back to the 1840s, cared for people with psychiatric illnesses. The hospital closed in 1995 and has since fallen into disrepair. In October 2008, a special series of episodes of Most Haunted, titled Village of the Damned, was broadcast from the North Wales Hospital over 7 days. As of October 2018, the derelict building has passed into the ownership of Denbighshire County Council.

 

Denbigh had a town cinema on Love Lane. It opened as the Scala in 1928, before being re-branded as the Wedgwood Cinema in the late 1970s. It closed in October 1980, then reopened by Lewis Colwell in 1982 and renamed the Futura Cinema. The cinema closed again in the 1990s, but the building remained open as a video rental store. In 1995, Peter Moore reopened the cinema for a short period before being arrested and convicted of the murder of four men. The video rental store closed and the building is now in ruin awaiting redevelopment. Denbigh has no permanent cinema, though Denbigh Film Club regularly operates in Theatr Twm o'r Nant.

 

The population at the 2001 Census was 8,783,[10] increasing to 8,986 in the 2011 census., reducing in the 2021 census to 8,669.

 

Attractions in the town include Denbigh Library, Denbigh Castle and the castle walls, Cae Dai 1950s museum, Theatr Twm o'r Nant, medieval parish church St Marcella's, and a small shopping complex. Denbigh Boxing Club is located on Middle Lane. Denbigh Community Hospital was established in 1807. Denbigh Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building.

 

Denbigh Cricket Club is one of the oldest cricket clubs in Wales having been established in 1844. The club plays at the Ystrad Road ground and plays in the North Wales Cricket League. The 1st XI play in the Premier Division having won the Division 1 championship in 2010 with the 2nd XI in Division 3.

 

For over 50 years, a barrel rolling competition has been held on Boxing Day in the town square.

 

There are a number of places to stay in Denbigh, including Tyn Yr Eithin, a caravan, camping, and glamping site based on the edge of the town which has been hosting tourists since 1986.

 

There are three secondary schools located in Denbigh. Denbigh High School is the larger of the two, consisting of nearly 600 pupils and approximately 60 staff. The current headmaster is Glen Williams.

 

St Brigid's is a Catholic voluntary aided school on Mold Road on the outskirts of the town which caters for pupils between the ages of 3 – 19. There is a strict admissions policy and until 2009 the school only accepted girls. The schools current headteacher is Leah Crimes.

 

Myddleton College is the former Howell's Preparatory School and is an independent co-educational day and boarding school.

 

All 3 of these High Schools in Denbigh, along with Ysgol Brynhyfryd (Ruthin), Ysgol Glan Clwyd (St Asaph), Denbigh College, and Llysfasi College (Deeside) have joined to offer a combined 6th form under the title 'The Dyffryn Clwyd Consortium'.

 

Crest Mawr Wood (alt. - Crêst) is a Site of Special Scientific Interest to the north west, adjoining Denbigh Golf Club and the Tarmac Quarry, an historic and ancient deciduous woodland. This woodland is endangered due to environmental pressure and competing land use in the area.

 

Denbigh hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1882, 1939, 2001 and 2013.

 

Notable people

Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920), novelist

Elizabeth Casson (1881–1954) doctor and occupational therapy pioneer.

Shefali Chowdhury (born 1988), actor, notably in the Harry Potter films

CDawgVA (born 1996), YouTuber and podcaster, presenter of Trash Taste

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), also known as Baron of Denbigh

Thomas Gee (1815–1898), a Welsh Nonconformist preacher, journalist and publisher.

David Griffith (1800–1894), known as "Clwydfardd" a Welsh poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Dr Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), visited friends and relation in Denbigh many times and has an urn memorial in his honour in the woods nearby.

Professor Edward Taylor Jones FRSE (1872–1961), physicist

Eirian Llwyd (1951–2014), printmaker and wife of former Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones

Humphrey Llwyd (1527–1568), a Welsh cartographer, author, antiquary and MP.

Sir Hugh Myddleton (1560–1631), royal jeweller, goldsmith and entrepreneur.

Thomas Myddelton (1550–1631) a Welsh merchant, Lord Mayor of London & MP

Twm o'r Nant (1739–1810), playwright, real name Thomas Edwards

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), spent summers with her aunt and uncle at Gwaenynog Hall between 1895 and 1913 and used their large garden as inspiration for The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Susan Reynolds (1929–2021) a medieval historian

Kate Roberts (1891–1985), Welsh language writer.

Several members of the Salusbury Family, who represented Denbigh over the years.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904), a journalist and explorer

Mark Webster (born 1983) Welsh darts international, winner of the BDO World Darts Championship 2008

Bryn Williams (born 1977), TV chef who won the Great British Menu BBC TV programme.

 

Denbighshire is a county in the north-east of Wales. It borders the Irish Sea to the north, Flintshire to the east, Wrexham to the southeast, Powys to the south, and Gwynedd and Conwy to the west. Rhyl is the largest town, and Ruthin is the administrative centre. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name.

 

Denbighshire has an area of 326 square miles (840 km2) and a population of 95,800, making it sparsely populated. The most populous area is the coast, where Rhyl (25,149) and Prestatyn (19,085) form a single built-up area with a population of 46,267. The next-largest towns are Denbigh (8,986), Ruthin (5,461), and Rhuddlan (3,709). St Asaph (3,355) is a city. All of these settlements are in the northern half of the county; the south is even less densely populated, and the only towns are Corwen (2,325) and Llangollen (3,658).

 

The geography of Denbighshire is defined by the broad valley of the River Clwyd, which is surrounded by rolling hills on all sides except the north, where it reaches the coast. The Vale of Clwyd, the lower valley, is given over to crops, while cattle and sheep graze the uplands. The Clwydian Range in the east is part of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

 

This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewydd-Llanelwy) Palaeolithic site has Neanderthal remains of some 225,000 years ago. The county is also home to several medieval castles, including Castell Dinas Brân, Denbigh, and Rhuddlan, as well as St Asaph Cathedral. Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod takes place in the town each July.

 

The main area was formed on 1 April 1996 under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, from various parts of the county of Clwyd. It includes the district of Rhuddlan (formed in 1974 entirely from Flintshire), the communities of Trefnant and Cefn Meiriadog from the district of Colwyn (entirely Denbighshire) and most of the Glyndŵr district. The last includes the former Edeyrnion Rural District, part of the administrative county of Merionethshire before 1974, covering the parishes of Betws Gwerfil Goch, Corwen, Gwyddelwern, Llangar, Llandrillo yn Edeirnion and Llansanffraid.

 

Other principal areas including part of historical Denbighshire are Conwy, which picked up the remainder of 1974–1996 Colwyn, the Denbighshire parts of 1974–1996 Aberconwy, and Wrexham, which corresponds to the pre-1974 borough of Wrexham along with most of Wrexham Rural District and several parishes of Glyndŵr. Post-1996 Powys includes the historically Denbighshire parishes of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Llansilin and Llangedwyn, which formed part of Glyndŵr district.

 

Researchers have found signs that Denbighshire was inhabited at least 225,000 years ago. Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site is one of the most significant in Britain. Hominid remains of probable Neanderthals have been found, along with stone tools from the later Middle Pleistocene.

 

In 2021 February, archaeologists from Aeon Archaeology announced a discovery of over 300 Stone Age tools and artifacts in Rhuddlan. They revealed scrapers, microliths, flakes of chert (a hard, fine-grained, sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz), flints and other rudimentary tools. An expert, Richard Cooke, believes the lithic remains belonged to ancient peoples, who while passing through the area, made camp by the river more than 9,000 years ago.

 

The eastern edge of Denbighshire follows the ridge of the Clwydian Range, with a steep escarpment to the west and a high point at Moel Famau (1,820 ft (555 m)), which with the upper Dee Valley forms an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley – one of just five in the Wales. The Denbigh Moors (Mynydd Hiraethog) are in the west of the county and the Berwyn Range adjacent to the southern edge. The River Clwyd has a broad fertile Vale running from south–north in the centre of the county. There is a narrow coastal plain in the north which much residential and holiday-trade development. The highest point in the historic county was Cadair Berwyn at 832 m or 2,730 ft), but the boundary changes since 1974 make Cadair Berwyn North Top the highest point. Denbighshire borders the present-day principal areas of Gwynedd, Conwy County Borough, Flintshire, Wrexham County Borough, and Powys.

 

Rhyl and Prestatyn form a single built-up area in the north of the county, with a population of 46,267. They are immediately adjacent to the Kinmel Bay and Abergele built-up area in neighbouring Conwy, and at the eastern end of series of coastal resorts which that also includes Colwyn Bay and Llandudno further west.

 

According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, Denbighshire's population was approximately 95,800. According to previous censuses, the population of Denbighshire was 93,734 in 2011 and 93,065 in 2001. The largest towns on the coast are Rhyl (2001 population c. 25,000) and Prestatyn (2001 population c. 18,000). According to the 2011 Census returns, 24.6 per cent stated they could speak Welsh.

 

Since the 20th-century demise of the coal and steel industries in the Wrexham area, there is no heavy industry in the county. Although most towns have small industrial parks or estates for light industry, the economy is based on agriculture and tourism. Much of the working population is employed in the service sector. The uplands support sheep and beef cattle rearing, while in the Vale of Clwyd dairy farming and wheat and barley crops predominate. Many towns have livestock markets and farming supports farm machinery merchants, vets, feed merchants, contractors and other ancillaries. With their incomes on the decline, farmers have found opportunities in tourism, rural crafts, specialist food shops, farmers' markets and value-added food products.

 

The upland areas with their sheep farms and small, stone-walled fields are attractive to visitors. Redundant farm buildings are often converted into self-catering accommodation, while many farmhouses supply bed and breakfast. The travel trade began with the arrival of the coast railway in the mid-19th century, opening up the area to Merseyside. This led to a boom in seaside guest houses. More recently, caravan sites and holiday villages have thrived and ownership of holiday homes increased. Initiatives to boost the economy of North Wales continue, including redevelopment of the Rhyl seafront and funfair.

 

The North Wales Coast Line running from Crewe to Holyhead is served by Transport for Wales and Avanti West Coast services. Trains leaving Crewe to pass through Chester, cross the River Dee into Wales, and continue through Flint, Shotton, Holywell Junction (closed in 1966), Prestatyn, Rhyl, and stations to Bangor and Holyhead, which has a ferry service to Ireland.

 

There are no motorways in Denbighshire. The A55 dual carriageway runs from Chester through St Asaph to the North Wales coast at Abergele, then parallel to the railway through Conwy and Bangor to Holyhead. The A548 run from Chester to Abergele through Deeside and along the coast, before leaving the coast and terminating at Llanrwst. The main road from London, the A5, passes north-westwards through Llangollen, Corwen and Betws-y-Coed to join the A55 and terminate at Bangor. The A543 crosses the Denbigh Moors from south-east to north-west, and the A525 links Ruthin with St Asaph.

 

There are local bus services between the main towns. Several services by Arriva Buses Wales run along the main coast road between Chester and Holyhead, linking the coastal resorts. Another route links Rhyl to Denbigh.

 

Denbighshire is represented in the House of Commons by three MPs. The Welsh Labour Party lost to the Welsh Conservatives in the 2019 general election for the first time.

 

The following MPs were elected from Denbighshire in 2019:

Simon Baynes (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd South, first elected in 2019.

David Jones (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd West, first elected in 2005.

James Davies (Welsh Conservatives) in Vale of Clwyd, first elected in 2019.

 

Denbighshire is also represented in the Senedd by three members elected in 2021:

Ken Skates (Welsh Labour) in Clwyd South, first elected in 2011

Darren Millar (Welsh Conservatives) in Clwyd West, first elected in 2007

Gareth Davies (Welsh Conservatives) in Vale of Clwyd, first elected in 2021.

In 2019, research by UnHerd in association with the pollster FocalData showed that most people across the county support the British monarchy.

Humayun's Tomb

The Tomb Complex

There are various views regarding internment of the body of Humayun. It is generally agreed that his body was initially buried in the Purana Qila, later moved to a temporary burial tomb in Sirhind, due to the invasion of Hemu in 1556. His body was again brought back to Delhi and buried in the Sher Mandal when Akbar defeated Hemu, and ultimately to the present location when the mausoleum was built by his begum and widow, Haji Begum in 1569. The mausoleum was built at an estimated cost of rupees fifteen lakhs. The Humayun’s tomb marks the beginning of the major building activities of the Mughals.

 

The building style is a combination of Persian architecture and indigenous building styles. The right combination of the red sandstone building medium with the white marble, the latter used as large inlays, exhibits the maturity of this style. This kind of combination of red sandstone and white marble in the tombs could be invariably seen in the architecture of Delhi Sultanates of 14th century A.D. The earliest example, of course, is the Alai Darwaza which has exquisite white marble decorations over red sandstone background. The Mughals readopted this style of decorative architecture and in a sense revived this technique of construction. The other buildings which used this style of decoration include that of mosque of Jamali Kamali (ca. 1528-29), the Qala-i-Kuhna mosque (ca. 1534) and the tomb of Ataga Khan (ca. 1556-67).

 

The Humayun tomb is located at the centre of a huge garden complex. The garden complex is divided mainly into four compartments further being sub-divided into many square parts (a typical example of Mughal char-bagh), with causeways and water channels, and water pavilions at regular intervals. The tomb complex is enclosed by a high rubble wall; entered through two entrance gateways, one on the west and other on the south, the latter being closed now. The south gate rises to a height of nearly 15.5 metres and consists of a central octagonal hall flanked rectangular rooms. The first floor of the gateway has square and oblong rooms. On the outside, the gate is flanked by screen-walls with arched recesses. Immediately to the west of the south gateway is an enclosure measuring 146 metres by 32 metres, built against the exterior face of the enclosure wall. The building is a low-roofed one with 25 arched entrances and was meant to house the attendants of the royal tomb. Another building is also located nearby, which along with the above enclosure is a later addition. At present, the western gate is used by the visitors to enter the tomb complex. The west gate is smaller in comparison to the south gate and rises to a height of 7 metres and is also double-storeyed.

 

The northern, southern and western walls of the boundary wall are built of rubble stone and its interior face consists of recessed arches. On the eastern side, the height of the enclosure wall is subdued and was originally meant as an access to the Yamuna river which was flowing nearby.

 

The tomb proper is constructed over a huge and elevated platform 6.5 m in height, the face of which is relieved by a series of arched openings on all four sides, except four entrance stairs, one each at the centre of four sides. There are 17 arched openings on each of the four sides, and the corners are champered. The combination of the arched openings and the champered corners gives an aesthetic look to the whole monument.

 

The building medium in the Humayun’s Tomb is of three kinds of stones, viz., red sandstone, while marble and quartzite. The enclosure walls and the two gateways are constructed of local quartzite with red sandstone dressing and marble inlay. The stairs of platform of the main tomb is also dressed with quartzite. The quartzite is locally available in the ridges of Delhi, while the red sandstone came from the mines of Tantpur near Agra and white marble from the famous Makrana mines of Rajasthan.

 

The ascending stairs at the centre of each of the four sides of the elevated platform leads to an open terrace, at the centre of which is located is the main tomb. The main tomb is located below the monument and is approached through a horizontal passage to the east of southern stair. The arched openings of the platform contain many miscellaneous tombs.

 

The main tomb is octagonal on plan and rises into two storeys, at the four diagonal corners of the octagon are four chambers, which also houses many tombs of the family members of Humayun. The octagonal tomb is surmounted by a double dome supported by squinches. The employment of double dome in a mausoleum is first seen here and this gives the builder the advantage of building an imposing structure of enormous height, tactfully concealing the presence of double domes on the outside. While the exterior height gives an imposing look, the low ceiling of the lower dome gives a proportionate height of the interior features. The pattern of constructing double domes was already prevalent in West Asia during this period which was first introduced in the Humayun’s tomb.

 

The dome of this mausoleum is also a complete one, in the sense that it makes a full circle when completed on the other side too. The outline of the dome represents a complete semi-circle and thus a distinct variation from the earlier varieties of the dome architecture. The main mausoleum, as mentioned above, rises in two storeys and could be viewed in three stages. The lower one consists of eight arched openings of the octagon, above which is a balconied arch openings, over which is the intrados of the inner dome, decorated with red sandstone grilles. The interior face of the main tomb is also relived with different kinds of stone and the white marble as the bordering inlay decorative patterns. The red sandstone jail decorations could be seen at the mid arched openings placed at its lower level.

 

The extrados of the mausoleum is veneered with white marble stones in contrast to the largely red sandstone building. The dome is bulbous in shape; the skyline is relieved with small pavilions on the four corners along side the main dome.

 

The Humayun’s Tomb is also famously associated with the tragic capture of the last of the Mughal Emperors, Bahadur Shah Zafar, along with the three princes Mirza Mughal, Mirza Khizar Sultan and Mirza Abu Bakr by Lieutenant Hodson in 1857. The Mughal Emperor along with the princes was captured by Hodson on 22 September, 1857.

Agate ("Fairburn Agate") from the Black Hills of western South Dakota, USA. (public display, South Dakota School of Mines Museum of Geology, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)

 

"Agate" is a rockhound/collector term for cavities in rocks (usually sedimentary rocks such as limestone or igneous rocks such as basalt) that have been partially or completely filled with irregularly concentric layers of microcrystalline, fibrous quartz (chalcedony - SiO2). Agate is quartz.

 

Attractive, multicolored and multipatterned agate has long been collected from a large area near the towns of Fairburn and Interior and south of the town of Kadoka and in the White River Badlands. This region has surficial, loose, late Cenozoic-aged gravels derived from weathering and erosion of bedrock in the Black Hills. Some of this gravel is agate. The Fairburn-area agates are remarkably colorful and desirable. The highest-quality examples have sold in the past for between 10,000 and 20,000 American dollars.

 

Studies have shown that Fairburn Agate is ultimately derived from limestones of the Minnelusa Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian), which outcrops in the nearby Black Hills.

 

trying out (tho ultimately rejecting) an idea for writtenimages

 

i initially thought that one of the incarnations of 'doodlebot' would be a natural for this application, as it's accustomed to generating tons and tons and tons of images in 'batch' mode, like an obsessive moleskiner.

 

(a typical 'performance' of doodlebot goes like this: at a coffee shop, with laptop, laser printer, ream of cheapest paper i can find, print to pdf and dump out of printer in constant succession, for the duration of one large latte, or until i get bored, whichever comes first. other patrons are welcomed to take their favorites home and use as kindling in their fireplaces so that i don't have to recycle them)

 

..but, a couple problems.. one, it can take a long time to render and save as hi-rez raster; two, without human 'patrons' to 'curate' its output, the results are largely unpredictable, some of which i wouldn't approve of appearing in print. (and three, i'm not sure how wide an audience obsessive doodling has in the first place! :D)

 

..still, always fun revisiting this sketch, as every time i do i can't help teaching it some new tricks for its arsenal of doodle-mania. :)

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Ultimately, The way I understand low carb diets to work so well at losing fat is this: When carbs are not used through exercise or normal body functions, they convert to fat. Also carbs like simple sugars spike insulin levels which just converts everything to fat. So what decreasing your carb intake significantly does is one, make sure that your not taking in excess fat. And more importantly 2, forces your body to use fat and possibly protein as primary energy sources. So by having to use fat, it increases oxidation of fats in your body, and therefore, burns straight up fat. But be aware that your body does need some level of carbs to keep working. Also much of the weight you lose while on a low carb diet can be easily gained back after you start eating carbs again. So the best plan is to decrease your carb intake when possible, make a diet you can LIVE with, not just something to lose a few pounds only to gain them backI've heard that it helps you to lose weight faster, but the problem is then keeping the weight off. At least 45% of the calories you take in every day should come from carbs, making a low-carb diet really unhealthy, and once you begin to eat carbs again it becomes really hard to keep the weight off because it alters your metabolism. Although this may not sound all that bad, a high-protein, low-carb diet also comes with a lot of health risks. When you cut out carbs and take in a lot of protein, you put your body at risk for things like osteoporosis, high cholesterol, and ketosis. Ketosis is a dangerous metabolic state that mimics diabetes in a sense, and can cause organs to fail and result in gout, kidney stones and even kidney failure. You need to consume at least 100 grams of carbs a day to prevent Ketosis.it can help, but the only reason it works is because you are cutting calories by doing this, if you cut any other food group out and didnt replace it, you would also loose weight.There are theories that carbs can make you gain weight but its only if you consume too much of them. Many carbs are made from refined foods such as white bread, crisps, white pasta, cakes, scones etc which will all raise your blood sugar very quickly, then have it plummet very quickly, this will make you feel hungry as it drops. So you eat more- and its this eating more that will make you put on weight.You CAN eat carbs and loose weight, but it would be more helpful for you to eat non refined stuff such as brown rice, multigrain bread (not brown bread, brown bread is just white bread which has been dyed), whole grain pasta and staying away from sugary stuff. This will mean your blood sugar isnt rising as quickly, your body has more work to do, and you are less likely to have a massive sugar drop 20 mins later.Protein can also help- eat it with the carbs, it will help your body regested it has eaten, if you do this, then when the carbs have been used up, the body then detects its had protein and it wont give off hunger signals.Good quality fats (non saturates) can also help, they will help your body realise its been fed but at hours later rahter then straight away as the carbs tend to do.The reason you have lost weight is because as you had eatend carbs in the past, you body had stored them, this is called carb storage and once its gone, your body has no special savings of energy, it will then start to butn muscle in addition to fat, but more muscle then fat. It is not healthy. Carb storage also contains water which will also show as weight loss, but actually isnt.As you have cut the carbs like you have done, your body will be in starvation mode. It will now be working to save any food it does get as storage- yup, straight to fat. Once you start eating carbs agaon, it will be hard to stop, as when your body is in starvation mode, it will trigger an appetite thats really huge, you only notice it once you eat. The longer you leave it, the stronger it will feel. But the food will still just be stored, not used for energy, so you will continue to feel hungry and want to eat and eat and eatYou need to eat carbs, especially if your excercising or your muscles will be burnt off insted. Add some in- make it the low GI types and eat in addition to protein and a glass of water, get your body back into using them or you could risk messing up any weight loss at the sight of an ice cream.

47760 heads towards Winkhill and ultimately the Tay Bridge which can be seen in the background with a light engine move from Edinburgh to Inverness before later in the evening working the ECS to Georgemas Junction.

ultimately, these were reupholstered in a white linen...but the good news? we built frames from the originals! we can now custom build these chairs for you!!!

 

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This little memorial to Bubba (and, ultimately, to all those who passed before him--Sally, Gerbil, Gabby, Tiger, Rocky, Giovanna, Olivia, Remi, et al) is still a work in progress. My mother gave me the angel, and my talented sister painted the portrait. The rose trellis (personally chewed by Bubba himself) and the metal flowers, which are temporary, I found in a shed here. Originally I had intended to plant a rose bush there, then started thinking about a blueberry bush, then started . . . well, I started thinking about a lot of stuff, none of which I'll go into right now. Probably I won't plant anything until this fall, by which time I'll have another layer of dirt, at least, piled here. Anyway, you should look at this in large and check out that portrait--my sister did a great job with it!

The original 21 demands from the Gdansk shipyard strike of 1980, which resulted in the Gdansk Agreement, the formation of Solidarnosc and ultimately the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Hung on the gates of the Lenin shipyards during the strike, they can now be seen at the headquarters of the European Trade Union Confederation in Brussels. These boards are officially part of the Memory of the World collection.

 

Translation of the demands:

 

1. Acceptance of free trade unions independent of the Communist Party and of enterprises, in accordance with convention No. 87 of the International Labor Organization concerning the right to form free trade unions.

 

2. A guarantee of the right to strike and of the security of strikers.

 

3. Compliance with the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech, the press and publication, including freedom for independent publishers, and the availability of the mass media to representatives of all faiths.

 

4. A return of former rights to: 1) People dismissed from work after the 1970 and 1976 strikes. 2) Students expelled because of their views. The release of all political prisoners, among them Edward Zadrozynski, Jan Kozlowski, and Marek Kozlowski. A halt in repression of the individual because of personal conviction.

 

5. Availability to the mass media of information about the formation of the Inter-factory Strike Committee and publication of its demands.

 

6. Bringing the country out of its crisis situation by the following means: a) making public complete information about the social-economic situation. b) enabling all social classes to take part in discussion of the reform programme.

 

7. Compensation of all workers taking part in the strike for the period of the strike.

 

8. An increase in the pay of each worker by 2,000 złoty a month.

 

9. Guaranteed automatic increases in pay on the basis of increases in prices and the decline in real income.

 

10. A full supply of food products for the domestic market, with exports limited to surpluses.

 

11. The abolition of ‘commercial’ prices and of other sales for hard currency in special shops.

 

12. The selection of management personnel on the basis of qualifications, not party membership. Privileges of the secret police, regular police and party apparatus to be eliminated.

 

13. The introduction of food coupons for meat and meat products.

 

14. Reduction in the age for retirement for women to 50 and for men to 55.

 

15. Conformity of old-age pensions and annuities with what has actually been paid in.

 

16. Improvements in the working conditions of the health service.

 

17. Assurances of a reasonable number of places in day-care centers and kindergartens for the children of working mothers.

 

18. Paid maternity leave for three years.

 

19. A decrease in the waiting period for apartments.

 

20. An increase in the commuter’s allowance to 100 złoty.

 

21. A day of rest on Saturday. Workers in the brigade system or round-the-clock jobs are to be compensated for the loss of free Saturdays with increased leave or other paid time off.

Over the past week, the United States has continued to lead our friends and allies in the strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIL. As I’ve said before, our intelligence community has not yet detected specific plots from these terrorists against America. Right now, they pose a threat to the people of Iraq, Syria, and the broader Middle East. But its leaders have threatened America and our allies. And if left unchecked, they could pose a growing threat to the United States.

   

So, last month, I gave the order for our military to begin taking targeted action against ISIL. Since then, American pilots have flown more than 170 airstrikes against these terrorists in Iraq. And France has now joined us in these airstrikes.

   

Going forward, we won’t hesitate to take action against these terrorists in Iraq or in Syria. But this is not America’s fight alone. I won’t commit our troops to fighting another ground war in Iraq, or in Syria. It’s more effective to use our capabilities to help partners on the ground secure their own country’s futures. We will use our air power. We will train and equip our partners. We will advise and we will assist. And we’ll lead a broad coalition of nations who have a stake in this fight. This isn’t America vs. ISIL. This is the people of that region vs. ISIL. It’s the world vs ISIL.

   

We’ve been working to secure bipartisan support for this strategy here at home, because I believe that we are strongest as a nation when the President and Congress work together. We’ve been consulting closely with Congress. And last week, Secretary of State Kerry, Secretary of Defense Hagel, and military leaders worked to gain their support for our strategy.

   

A majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans in both the House and the Senate have now approved a first, key part of our strategy by wide margins. They’ve given our troops the authority they need to train Syrian opposition fighters so that they can fight ISIL in Syria. Those votes sent a powerful signal to the world: Americans are united in confronting this danger. And I hope Congress continues to make sure our troops get what they need to get the job done.

   

Meanwhile, because we’re leading the right way, more nations are joining our coalition. Over 40 countries have offered to help the broad campaign against ISIL so far – from training and equipment, to humanitarian relief, to flying combat missions. And this week, at the United Nations, I’ll continue to rally the world against this threat.

   

This is an effort that America has the unique ability to lead. When the world is threatened; when the world needs help; it calls on America. And we call on our troops. Whether it’s to degrade and ultimately destroy a group of terrorists, or to contain and combat a threat like the Ebola epidemic in Africa; we ask a lot of our troops. But while our politics may be divided at times, the American people stand united around supporting our troops and their families. This is a moment of American leadership. Thanks to them, it is a moment we will meet. Thank you.

   

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September 20, 2014