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Last weekend we went with friends to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to attend Balls 25, the Wild West event of high power rockets. Steve Jurvetson and his son chill in the desert on an old couch. Is this the first time someone sitting on a couch in the Black Rock Desert reads the Wall Street Journal?
Background story: A friend took along an old couch to the camp, just for fun. This scene popped into my mind, so I asked Steve who arrived a day later to buy and bring along a WSJ paper. I took this shot in the golden hour when the sun was low.
I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the curves and color balance.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC3119_hdr1bal1pai1i
Abstract view of 10 Fleet Place, off Limeburner Lane, near London's City Thameslink station.
Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and completed in 1993, the building is composed of black steel, glass and black granite cladding. In style it is a modernist twist on gothic architecture, and slightly reminiscent of HR Giger's designs. it currently holds European offices for the Wall Street Journal, CNBC and Dow Jones International. In 2015 the building changed hands for £155m, a 50% mark up on its 2005 purchase.
Taken with a Nikon D40, fitted with a Nikkor AFS DX 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6G II lens, and processed in Picasa, GIMP, and Photoscape.
Actually, the inside cover - "Pursuits" section, and I got paid!
Thanks to Michelle, who "discovered" my shots.
May 19, 2007
Day 139
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Here's the article on the WSJ web site
online.wsj.com/article/SB117953013498608127.html?mod=most...
Okay, that's just a BIT of a markdown. 1 year of the Wall Street Journal AND all online for 99 bucks, down from 576. HALP!
www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-code/the...
Home Secretaries: Mr. Kenneth Baker ▶️Baron Baker of Dorking - House of Lords - London UK.
Mr. Ken Clarke KC - ▶️Lord Clarke of Nottingham
Mr. Jack Straw
Holloway Governor: Mr. Tim Michael O'Sullivan
"When I write about them. ..." Last words spoken in a determined, confident, highly motivated manner.
PCS Union London - Shop Steward Notes above 👆
Governor: Mr. Tim Michael O'Sullivan
Home Secretary: Kenneth Baker ▶️Baron Baker of Dorking - House of Lords - London U.K. 2026
Kenneth Clarke - Lord Clarke of Nottingham - House of Lords - 2026
Mr. Jack Straw
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A new tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary, inspired by the statue 'miraculously' left standing as the only remains of The Catholic Church of St Genevieve in Breezy Point, NY, destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. She stands as a memorial to all those who tragically lost their lives and homes during that storm that assaulted New Jersey and the East Coast of America.
The beautiful statue, standing amongst the ruins of the church was first highlighted by journalist Natalie Keyssar in the Wall Street Journal; and quickly became known as the Virgin Mary, Our Lady or The Madonna of Breezy Point.
This pastel drawing was partly inspired by the beautiful photograph, taken by Bobby Plasencia, showing here on Flickr :
www.flickr.com/photos/op204/8156903668/in/photostream
Created through December 13-14, 2012, expressionist artist Stephen B Whatley shows this new tribute in memory of both all those felled by the storm; and most recently in sympathy for all those lives devastated by the senseless massacre yesterday, December 14th, at the school in Newtown, Connecticut.
May faith go some way to consoling those in the most devastating state of grief.
Peace.
Pastel on paper
23.4 x 16.5in/59 x 42cm
Private collection, North Carolina, USA
Austin Allred, owner of Royal Dairy (Wash.); John W. Boyd, Jr., owner of Boyd Farms (Va.) and President of the National Black Farmers Association; Heather Hampton-Knodle, Vice President of Knodle, Ltd. Farms (Ill.) and President of American Agri-Women; and Kelsey Ducheneaux Scott, owner of DX Beef (S.D.) and Director of Programs for Intertribal Agriculture Council, speak with WSJ reporter Chip Cutter at the WSJ Global Food Forum in Chicago, Ill. on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Taylor Glascock for The Wall Street Journal). GLOBALFOOD
Austin Allred, owner of Royal Dairy (Wash.); John W. Boyd, Jr., owner of Boyd Farms (Va.) and President of the National Black Farmers Association; Heather Hampton-Knodle, Vice President of Knodle, Ltd. Farms (Ill.) and President of American Agri-Women; and Kelsey Ducheneaux Scott, owner of DX Beef (S.D.) and Director of Programs for Intertribal Agriculture Council, speak with WSJ reporter Chip Cutter at the WSJ Global Food Forum in Chicago, Ill. on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Taylor Glascock for The Wall Street Journal). GLOBALFOOD
Congratulations President Barack Obama!
This is your day. Please help our nation invest in what matters in the world: people, our economy and jobs, and the natural environment, and put an end to Washington's "Gumball Machine Politics."
View in large size to see the names on the gumballs! LOL
After Today Where to Follow Our New President's Work: www.whitehouse.gov/
Fredrick ‘Mickey’ Hill said killed by masked policemen
www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/McNeill--JFJ-call-for-invest...
A very sad but common story in Jamaica, about the killing of a young man name Sonnieko Williams by the Jamaican Police. The article was written by someone making a concern appeal for help on Facebook.
The last time we spoke, Sonnieko told me that he wanted to go down to Pulse and see if he could become a model. He asked me if i had a link.
He had been doing menial jobs to send himself to school since he was 9 years old. At 20, we were having our final conversation as we both walked off the hill. He had been heading to Heart Trust NTA to register for school which was to begin for him in January where he was to pursue his talent in the culinary arts.
The first few times i encountered Sonnieko, it was because he would hail me by name long before I knew his. "Wahgwaan (My Name)" he would say to me and i would acknowledge him, but i remember asking few people around me repeatedly' "Who is that youth; he always calls me by name and i dont even know him." Eventually i came to understand that he worked for a prominent family on the hill, doing odd jobs in the yard.
Other than his vibrant smile and his consistent hail, Sonnieko never had much to say. He was a great listener; a young man who was only a few steps from greatness. There is not one member of the community of Skyline Drive who did not love him; including those who did not know him well.
Skyline Drive is divided by a chasm which was created in heavy rains many years ago. As a result, through way traffic has come to a halt on this hill. The only vehicles that drive here belong to persons that live here or visitors of persons that live here.
A half hour before his death, his friends who were on my side of the chasm called him and told him to forward and linkup. He had told them he was stewing a pot; indulging in the one thing which would have freed him in life; his desire to feed people. His friends on his side of the chasm told me that he had then finished making breakfast, from which some of them had eaten.
There is a wanted man who lives in Jacks Hill. I will not disclose his alias. Apparently the police received intelligence that this particular wanted man had ventured out and was headed toward the chasm. Whomever called the police also stated that the wanted man had been dressed in a grey hoodie.
Hoodie's are commonplace dress on Skyline Drive. Not only because of threat of Tomas, but because the weather here on any normal day is a bit chilly. Sonnieko ventured out of his house to go meet up with his friends. He passed a crowd of people by the corner shop who he greeted cheerfully. He had a small comb in the front of his hair as he usually did, and was wearing a grey hoodie.
Having left the shop he continued down the road.
Maybe thirty seconds later persons at the shop saw one police van come hurtling around the corner skidding in the mud as they went. On the other side of the chasm, two police vans parked and officers dressed completely in blue with knee guards on scampered into Rita Marley's front garden, which is the only way to get to the other side.
Unawares, Sonnieko kept walking toward the chasm.
Sitting in my house, on my side of the chasm, I heard four gunshots. I wondered to myself who could possibly be shooting on the hill. As soon as that thought was completed i heard six more shots fired, and then another five, the last five sounding like that of a heavier firearm and the first ten sounding like those of smaller arms.
I called a friend of mine who lives across the chasm, and he told me that he had been further up the road, but that he had seen some police vehicles pass him. He said when they passed him they slowed beside him and he heard one of them say, " No anno him dat"
I put on my shoes and went next door to the music studio where I spoke with the producer who said he had heard nothing. Continuing outside i reached up onto the road to see a police van speeding down the road. The other was sitting at the edge of the chasm, still throttling, with no-one in it. A policeman shouted: "We kill one a dem, and we not makin the rest of them get weh!" A group of police then walked out of Rita's garden into their vehicles and drove away.
I walked through the garden.
The last time i saw Sonnieko, I was walking through the garden. My head was down as i was carefully observing the (treacherous when wet) terrain. Hearing footsteps i lifted my head to see Sonnieko walking toward me. He broke into a smile. With an outstretched hand he said' "Wah Gwaan (My Name)!" I replied, "Big up youself mi yout" He said, "Dont say a word" and continued along as i went on my way.
When i got to the other side of the garden, I walked around the first bend in the road and saw a group of people up ahead. They were gathering around a particular area. As i got closer, i saw a small pink comb with blood and brain marrow spattered across and around it. There were two feet of blue slippers as well with blood dribbled across them.
I got there just in time to see his mother come running out of her house and down the road from the other direction headed toward the crowd. She screamed at the crowd asking them: "Who see dem!" Who see!" "Nobody dont see mama", was the reply. She crumbled into a heaving heap, with a cry that cut the sky open.
The rain began to fall. The people wished Tomas had come. If Tomas had come, someone said; this would never happen.
The friend i called who had seen the police pass up the road was there, dressed also in a hoodie. His hoodie though was black.
After shooting the innocent 20 yr old whom they had mistaken for someone who did not even slightly fit his description, they scooped up his remains and drove hastily out of the community, pointing their guns in the direction of persons who stuck their heads out of their homes hoping to figure out what had just happened.
I gave my tv away one month before World Cup. I do not own a radio. Some persons wonder why and have asked me. Hopefully the following paragraph will tell why.
Four new police vehicles arrived on the scene of the crime, cordoned off the area and began to take pictures. They told the community members that they received a report that the team who had been there earlier were doing a patrol through the hill, came upon a group of men and came under heavy gunfire. Does this sound too familiar? When i found myself speaking to these new officers, their response to me was to ask me if it does not seem illogical that the highly trained police would just drive up and shoot an innocent man; i told them that was exactly the point of what took place. They told me not to swear his innocence. They told me that I am not with this young man every minute of the day and therefore can not state that he did not have a gun on him. I told them that in as much as they were asking me to be objective in my assesment, they should be objective enough in theirs to also accept the possibility that my friend, Sonnieko was killed in cold blood..
CVM arrived on the scene but not on the side of the chasm where the people were. The police had cordoned off the road and would not allow the media to cross the crime scene. I wonder what the news report on CVM will say tonight.
Even more so, i wonder if justice will come to this humble family of the hills who have done nothing but respect each other and their community, and occasionally wear grey hoodie's when going to look for a friend.
It could very well have been me, coming home from a trip to the corner shop. I too own a hoodie. But that day, maybe my life would have been saved as my hoodie is brown. But maybe if I had seen Sonnieko at the shop, as is typical I would have told him to wait on me, and together we would have been walking back around. And I am sure the story would have been that two cronies were killed. I almost wish I was among the dead, so persons could clearly see that someone they knew well had been killed as well. Someone who more persons of in positions of power could vouch for in a personal way. Some have been heard to be saying that my story is one side of the story. I know Sonnieko. Maybe if they killed me too, some of you would take another look at this case.
After a trip to Maddens Funeral Home, Sonnieko's mother found that he had recieved three shots. Two to his back, and one to his head. The shot that hit him in the head from the back pushed his forehead out of his body just above his eye.
The family needs a lawyer to represent their case. They CAN NOT afford one. If anyone in such capacity has read this letter and is moved to acting, whether through funding the process or giving legal aid pro-bono. Please. Contact me.
Let it not be said that this is a moving story. Let it be said that this was a spark, and that cumulatively we began a fire that forever changed the course of our nation’s history. Without that, this story would not have been moving, nor would it have moved anything or anyone into action.
I WRITE THESE NOTES FULLY COGNIZANT THAT MY ACTIONS COULD MAKE ME A TARGET. I HOWEVER AM WILLING TO STAND FOR CHANGE.
The bigger issue is that, by law, when the police shoot someone, they are supposed to carry them to hospital immediately. There was no crime scene cordoned off immediately with police left on scene. Due to this, considering the fact that when the investigating officers arrived on scene they told the community that they were informed that the unit had been fired upon, i surmise a gun will be produced. I also surmise that the gun will have Sonnieko's fingerprints on it, probably placed there on the journey from the hill to KPH, by putting his dead hands on to the gun.
Sonnieko died for a reason. He died because he has the right friends, in the right positions of power, and with the ability to make things happen. The bigger issue is that the system is designed to accomodate the possiblity of corruption in the JCF. This system is the (My Name)e system which has caused the unlawful deaths for numerous youths across the island, none of whom had the voice to speak for them after their passing.
Sonnieko's death was not just an isolated unlawful act. It is the product of a flawed system of justice, or might i say a perfected system of injustice, which allows officers of the (law) to cover their tracks when they make poor judgement and without accosting their victims, murder them from many metres away.
Sonnieko's death is a spark. We are the fire. We must be the change that will affect the history of our island going forward. I knew Sonnieko was destined for greatness. There could be no greater outcome than this, for Sonnieko's passing. Let us unite to achieve this end.
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This coyote was walking down the road, with its head down, sniffing and suddenly realized a human was ten-yards in front of him. Without panic, he moved into the meadow to my left here.
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*** This photograph has been used on the Wall Street Journal Online! (see link) How cool is that?!!!! ;o) ***
blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/09/18/tuesday-morning-health-ro...
Taken in the corn field where the Battle of Bosworth took place on 22 August 1485, during the English Wars of the Roses.
Austin Allred, owner of Royal Dairy (Wash.); John W. Boyd, Jr., owner of Boyd Farms (Va.) and President of the National Black Farmers Association; Heather Hampton-Knodle, Vice President of Knodle, Ltd. Farms (Ill.) and President of American Agri-Women; and Kelsey Ducheneaux Scott, owner of DX Beef (S.D.) and Director of Programs for Intertribal Agriculture Council, speak with WSJ reporter Chip Cutter at the WSJ Global Food Forum in Chicago, Ill. on June 28, 2022. (Photo by Taylor Glascock for The Wall Street Journal). GLOBALFOOD
“A cup of coffee-real coffee-home browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.”
Henry Ward Beecher, In Eyes and Ears
"If you're not rich 'blame yourself' - Herman Cain
The arrogant Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain insisted in an interview on the Wall Street Journal show "Big Interview" that the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations spreading across the country were being "orchestrated" to help President Obama. He is either smoking something that is altering his brain waves or naturally loosing his mind. This guy also talked about his 999 tax plan for the future. This guy is an outstanding deception artist who is also loosing his mind, because it is not difficult to see how easily this 999 tax plan can easily transform into the 666 "mark of the beast" tax plan. if these guys were not so heavily embedded in Wall Street this would be considered a big joke. Unfortunately you have to take him seriously because his Republican friends are.
Here is a video of the interview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPiSzCDChX4
Who is Herman Cain?
Herman Cain (born December 13, 1945) is an American businessman, syndicated columnist, and radio host from Georgia. He is the former chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza and a former deputy chairman (1992–94) and chairman (1995–96) of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Before his business career he worked as a mathematician in ballistics as a civilian employee of the United States Navy. He lives in the Atlanta suburbs, where he also serves as a minister at Antioch Baptist Church North. Please note carefully that he is a former board member of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, a deceptive financial organization passing itself off as a government institution. The federal Reserver or the Feds is the Bankers Bank and the foundation on which the Wall Street steals our money. Herman is a representative of the very people who cause the massive global crisis we face today. Now do you get the picture my friends. Can you see why he despise the Occupy Wall Street protesters?
If you do not know the significant of the number 666.. check this!
The Number of the Beast (Greek: Άριθμὸν τοῦ θηρίου, Arithmon tou Thēriou) is a concept from the Book of Revelation of the New Testament of the Christian Bible, relating to the figure of "The Beast".
Dr. R. Kim (right), Chief Medical Officer, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India, performs a peripheral retinal examination on M. Kaliappan's, 75, left eye using an indirect ophthalmoscope (not pictured) and a 20 diopter viewing lens in the eye examination room, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. Mr. Kaliappan who had undergone retinal detachment surgery in his left eye 10 years back had come for a routine follow-up. Apart from his regular clinical work, Dr. Kim is involved in driving innovation in the organisation. "People ask me, 'How can you let a machine screen a patient?' I tell them, 'Why not when they can trust a driverless vehicle while traveling?'"
Penny Pennington, Managing Partner, Edward Jones, speaking with Tricia Kasner, Managing Director, Marketing and Conferences forBarron’s, at the WSJ Future of Finance event in NYC on April, 17, 2019. (photo by Gabe Palacio)
After standing still in the water for quite some time I turned to look around and realized I was completely surrounded by a circle of fish - mostly bluegill, crappie, bass, some unknown, and many small fries. Even without pink nail polish they are attracted to humans and very curious, swimming up to my hands much like the tropical fish in the Caribbean. Pancake would not venture near these spawning beds and stayed on the shore under her favorite tree. Unfortunately snorkeling is not permitted in this lake for whatever reasons. Snakes, perhaps.
The dust conditions here are horrendous - residents with respiratory ailments, especially the young and elderly, struggle to breathe. Many are plagued with eye ailments and cataracts due to the constant exposure and corneal abrasions due to dust and grit long term. Our government, however is happy with the progress they've made in spite of the human and environmental repercussions.
Hopefully in the near future the dozens of construction and earth-moving sites upstream (as well as the government inspectors) will be more diligent with their soil erosion and sediment control measures to protect the humans, wildlife, animals, lakes and waterways here in Kentucky and adhere to laws in place to protect habitats such as this one. And hopefully local residents and visitors will one day be more diligent about taking their trash, cans, bottles, litter and fishing line strewn across the park home with them to either dispose or recycle .
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Why pay for Garra-Rufa (Doctor Fish) pedicures when you can get them for free?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_fish
"Doctor fish facilities at spa resorts exist in many countries worldwide. In 2006, doctor fish spa resorts opened in Kangal, Turkey, Hakone, Japan, and Umag, Croatia, where the fish are used to clean the bathers at the spa.[citation needed] In 2008, two widely known doctor fish pedicure services were opened in the United States in Alexandria, Virginia, and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wisconsin ordered the closure of the doctor fish service shortly after its opening. In 2010 the first spa opened in the United Kingdom in Sheffield.[3][2][6][7] In 2011 the UK Health Protection Agency issued a report assigning a "very low" risk of transferring infection from the procedure.[8]
The practice is banned in several of the states in the United States and Canadian provinces as cosmetology regulators believe the practice is unsanitary, with the Wall Street Journal saying that "cosmetology regulations generally mandate that tools need to be discarded or sanitized after each use. But epidermis-eating fish are too expensive to throw away".[7] The procedure is legal in Quebec, with a few clinics in Montreal.[9] The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals denounces the practice, citing callous methods of international transportation and suggesting that the fish are deliberately starved between treatments to force them to take this abnormal food.[10]"