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Linc. Steffens
[1914 April]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
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Photo shows Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936), an American journalist, lecturer, and political philosopher speaking in Union Square, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)
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Call Number: LC-B2- 3022-3
This church, consecrated Saint Mary of the Assumption, is affectionately known in San Francisco as Saint Mary Maytag, or Our Lady of the Maytag since the inverted hyperbolic paraboloids resemble a giant washing machine agitator. I like saying "hyperbolic paraboloid"
It's a treat. I like the contrasting shapes if you squint at the picture. Nervi and Belluschi killed this one.
And i just found out may have inadvertently given a peep show to Western San Francisco: Thanks guys!
top: from Dorchester Days by Eugene Richards (1978)
bottom: Google Maps Street View
“Unfortunately for the Nazis, there were competitors for the allegiance of the volatile white youth of South Boston. David Duke’s Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had made an impressive appearance[...] The Nazi publication White Power Report, credited Duke with being the most effective racist agitator in Boston during this period, and [...] continued that the Ku Klux Klan's various rites and mysteries were exciting enough for the racist youth without indulging in the Hitler cult [and] noted that the Klan's rallies were far better attended than Nazi meetings.” — Jim Saleam, American Nazism in the Context of the American Extreme Right, 1960–1978 [not a reliable source, but I don't doubt this passage]
This villa was built in the 18th century on one of the most beautiful places on earth with a killer view! Only this view will add a million dollars to the price of these grounds. It was built by a wealthy baron who built it as his summer house. When the baron left, rumours say that the villa was owned by anarchists, Utopians and agitators. At one time even they left and currently the place is awaiting to be bought. Probably for some several millions…
Visited this location during our Italy Tour 2013
Agitator Switch on control panel for Filtration Bed.
The Palace of Purification located in Toronto's east end provides an average of 400 million litres of safe drinking water of Toronto's drinking water - 33% of the Toronto's total water supply.
If only I could get organized...
It's by Ruth Ewan and there's more information at www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk/artworks/silent-agitator/
Chandigarh: Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal, Punjab State Chief, BJP Investor Cell termed Shri Amarnath Shrine Board movement as a Nationalist Movement to throw away Anti-India forces out of the country. He asserted that it’s not at all a fight of Jammu Hindus against Kashmiri Muslims as branded by media reports rather it’s a fight of Nationalist forces against Separatist forces.
“You can see Hindus, Sikhs and even Muslims out on roads to support the movement,” he added to corroborate his stand. He affirmed that the movement is not restricted to relinquish the land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board but it’s a movement of 4 Lac Kashmiri Pandits who are bearing the brunt of being refugees in their own country for over 19 years and it’s a movement of every Indian who consider Jammu and Kashmir as integral part of India. He asserted that this public outcry is to throw away each and every separatist out of this country so that people of Jammu and Kashmir and rest of India could shun fear forever and live in peace and tranquility.
He asserted that Congress led UPA Government had failed miserably to pacify agitators and sense public mood. The demanded that UPA Government should accede to the demand of people and should restore the control of land back to Shrine Board immediately. He further cautioned Government and stated that the UPA Government is playing with fire as every Indian is watching the situation and if the government will not relinquish the control of the land immediately then every road and every Indian will lead to Jammu and Kashmir. He also cautioned Shivraj Patil, Home Minister of UPA Government to ensure that these separatist and terrorist outfits should not take benefit of aggravated situation to time any attack over the peaceful agitators as it will add fuel to fire and will be a real disaster.
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Leftdance talks with Jahcoozi, a multicultural electronic band.
Members: Sasha, Oren, Robot
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Here the interview:
1)When and how was Jahcoozi born ?
Robot __ in 2002, robot met sasha thrugh a mutual friend, they started hanging out, making tunes together loosely, then met oren and started forming the band slowly.
Sasha __ if you need the whole story !!
we all moved to Berlin seperately ... robot in 1999, sasha in 2000 and oren in 2001. We didnt know eachother, we met up in Berlin for the first time. After meeting up through friends of friends we started making tunes together..... we didnt have any major expectations of what we were going to make or do with the music.... we were just keen on working together. robots beats and sasha's voice....... there wasnt so much stuff like that coming out of berlin and there still isnt. oren was a perfect match coz he had been collecting studio gear for years and had worked in studios in israel to earn money. It was 2002 in Berlin..... pre-high speed internet and thus pre-myspace and email at home It was actually a more pre-paid mobile phone time for me! Things were slower .... you had to burn CDs not just upload music!
Robert had a little label at the time called Hamton and was making music with different people, but all pretty low key etc. It happened through a chance that we met each other. I met Robert through a common friend. I'd made this stupid, cabaret song as a joke and recorded it on a minidisc mic at my DJ mate's house, the friend played it to Robert, and he thought I have this weird voice We recorded it over some 'illbient' (yup remember that word!!) records mashed together and I sang like some stoned Marlene Dietrich type in a fake French accent ! . He passed me a CD with beats and instrumentals. I'd done some stuff with techno people before, saying a line or whatever, and it was really good to get this whole demo of beats which was so wide-ranging. Not just straight music, very electronic, jazz, drum'n'bass, ragga, dancehall, whatever! And I could see from this 16 beat CD that that was someone I wanted to work with..
Robert and I met up a few weeks later and I asked him to make a dancehall beat for me, which i then went on to record Black Barbie on . The rest is history really..... we slowly started meeting up for often and after 2 or 3 sessions we had the songs Black Barbie and Fish. Both of which were a solid start.... i guess we got lucky.
Oren we also met through a friend of ours..... his former band mate from Israel had met an Italian friend of ours in a dingy squatter house style club. Everybody was pretty open back then and did not have such strong preconceptions about Berlin in the way many people do nowadays....
So after meeting Oren and seeing how much studio equipment he had brought with him Tel Aviv we started going to his place to record with him and make tunes. That is how this 3er combination came to life.....
.I had coal heating, the city was much more understatement than it is now. There were much less tourists... it didnt feel as techno Disneyland as it does now. Everyone was wearing a good old second hand ski jacket and funny cargo pants or even super techno style buffalo boots.... and nobody really gave much of a shit about what was cool or not.
It was much cheaper back then.... we all moved to Berlin during the Deutsch Mark times.... its almost another era now....
There was very little expectation at the beginning..... i mean i was doing it for fun. i had never really thought about labels or releases. Robert was the person who burnt CDs and sent them to labels likeAphex Twin's Rephlex for example.
It was only after Rephlex actually wrote back to us, that i realised that we might even end up taking our music to the point of releasing it!
Like anybody, when you just move to a city, you're open to meet new people to define your life in that city, being music heads at some point our circles crossed at the right time and we all happened to meet each other. As i said .. berlin was a village back then.
2)Which are your main musical influences ?
Robot: everything from jazz to metal
Sasha : pretty wide ranging ... dub, jungle, dancehall, jazz, techno, IDM... even stuff like Leonard Cohen which i guess you'D have to call Folk. i was open to pretty much every thing apart from indie rock....felt alienated by that stuff when i was a teenager... even though i actually bought a ticket to see the Smashing Pumpkins at Brixton academy when i was 12 years old! Black Sabbath, Captain Beefheart and King Crimson are band that i can appreciate now that im grown up..... guess you get cleverer with age.
3)Which art, apart from music, do you really love?
Robot :__i love surrealist painters like leonora carrington, but also stuff like kerry james marshall and basquiat-
Sasha: __
the art world agitators the Guerilla Girls.... anonymous group of crazy feminist activists from New York in the 80s...
contemporary art, graphics, installations... i go to see lots of stuff and tend to forget peoples names a lot (unlike with music). I like Hilary Pecis's pretty psychedelic collages, she is from San Fransisco as far as i know. Wangechi Mutu... also does collages... upcoming Kenyan born artist. Films... Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl... love the weird German and Austrian filmmakers!
BUT who do i really love??!
well my friends... so i gotta big some of them up...coz these people are making it happen in berlin NOW!
3mulgator .... art/fashion run by my next-door neighbour/hairdresser/multi-disciplinary genius a.k.a. Hugo Schneider... he made video of a tune of ours called Namedropper, he is also responsible for the wonderful tantric yoga spider cover of our new album Barefoot Wanderer
C-Neeon ... fashion/graphic designers from Berlin ... amazing graphics and clothing.
Starstyling ....art/fashion label from berlin
4)About the future of musical industry, do you think the compact disc will be extinct?, only digital version will remain?, record labels could redefine their role?
Robot __I think the physical media will vanish and everything will go digital. i think also mp3s will vanish, cuz the quality is not good enough, with computer getting faster and discspace bigger the whole time there is no use not to use quality wave files any more. the music industry will have to learn to adjust to the new tendencies and react with clever ideas instead of trying to preserve an old system.
5)Which was the first record each of you, bought?, which was the last?
Robot: first: faith no more - the real thing. last: a moondog cd as a birthday present for sasha.
Sasha : yeah... wicked birthday present... my next door neighbour had burnt me the CD already.. but having it for real is definitely much more special. Thanks Robot!!
First7" vinyl :: little richard - tutti fruiti ... loved that song when i was a kid!
Last :gonja sufi album as mp3
6)From your point of view, today in electronic music scene, which subculture is more avant-garde: drum and bass, electroclash, minimal, new house, goa, others?
Robot :I thnik the mutation going on in dubstep are very insteresting, dubstep clashing with techno, with hiphop, its kind of a meta genre...but barefoot is the new religion.
Sasha : _ barefoot baby! its all about the ethos!
but its very true that in light of the post-dubstep movement, there has been a clear increase in the willingless of people to listen to the more experimental side of electronic music, and that at 3 am in a club. Acts like Mount Kimbie are appealing to house/dubstep heads which is proven by the fact that its come out on Scuba'S label hotflush, hyperdub has also seen some really dubby electronica with King Midas. thank god all that new rave shit is over and people are getting more into heady stuff than straight up bling.
having said all that.... there is always a nische fan base of people who are listening to avante garde stuff without the press telling them to do so. ... real music fans .. you get me? Moondog for example is as cutting edge today as he was in his lifetime. So keep pushing the barefoot! free of Bpm and genre constraints..... earthy,organic and demanding soundscapes creating dance music for the now and the future....
7) You visited argentina in 2008, is there some chance for your coming back? would like to..
Sasha: we would like to hope so! we had a great time in Buenos Aires.... has a similar feeling to Berlin before Berlin got so hyped. It has a feeling of a forgotten era... like there are ghosts walking around. When everything is renovated, like they are doing in Berlin now, you dont tend to get this romantic, slightly gothic vibe anymore.
We didnt get to go to Patagonia last time.....i would love to go there.
we would come back and play immedietely .... so spread the word!!
8)Tell me about the backstage production of new album called Barefoot Wanderer ?
Barefoot Wanderer feels more abstract than our last album (Blitz n Ass), ...yup it feels deep and syrupy...hypnotic and very listenable!! but we still use Jahcoozi typical poly-rhythms and an array of organic and inorganic sounds.. Space age meets roots....futuristic urban i.e. post-dubstep, 2-step, dub, electronica, future-step / future bass, .... plus maybe a little inkling of hip hop/digi-dancehall/bashment and even soul influences there...... i.e. BAREFOOT! Or at least a good example of Barefoot ...
This album shows us being a bit more melodious than we've been in the past. It also feels like the most consistent , coherent album we have done to date..... just a lot less all over the place than the other two. We wanted it to be something you could listen to at home from beginning to end rather than just a collection of tracks that we made in our usual style of genre-jumping.
I feel like our last album was like brand new pair of sneakers and this one feels like we stripped it down, took our sneakers off, and are doing it Barefoot....
Why 'Wanderer '?
Rather than running through, as on our last album, we' ve wandering through sub-genres rather than jumping from genre to genre.
I think it also reflects the openness in electronic music right now...a post-bling era.
A more artistic time and climate that is not so dependent on hyped up pop.
It seems like an almost cyclic return to some of the deeper sounds and ideas of what used to be called IDM, electronica or even trip hop, but of course with much more up-to-date production, fatter basses and a far more futuristic approach.
stylistically Barefoot Wanderer feels a little more like our first album (Pure Breed Mongrel) than like our second album (Blitz n Ass) ... but reflects all the experience we have gathered and an artistic development since then.As well as the above mentioned wandering in terms of creativity / the exploratory act of wandering, we also physically made some of this album in different parts of Europe.. rented holiday homes in rather desolate places like East Germany or Northern Holland (exotic right?!?) and locked ourselves away and made music (partly coz we wanted to get away and work differently, and partly coz we were touring so much that it made sense to use the time and the place). More than anything having no internet connection and virtually no phone reception definitely allowed us to concentrate more than in Berlin where there are distractions all around.....
why 'Barefoot ' ??
That's what we together with our longterm friends and collaborateurs Stereotyp & Alhaca in Vienna have been calling the sound we've been making in Continental Europe (well us in Berlin and the Crunchtime crew in Vienna). cross-genre, cross-bpm, organic shit!
(eg. Stereotyp rmx of Black Barbie from Pure Breed Mongrel album in 2005)
Stereotyp & Al-haca branded the term a couple of years back.
the beauty of barefoot is that it is a sound that isnt constrained by BPMs or one genre, it is a sound which is united by texture, consistency and choice of sounds... it can in some ways also be seen as lan umbrella organisation for bass music.
I think with our album we are just referring to a growing scene of producers, fans which include some of our friends and long-terms colleagues. Whether we ourselves are pure Barefoot is also arguable.... we seem to be wandering somewhere within this umbrella organisation.There is also a strong link between Barefoot and dance somehow... obviously the foot, the riddims and bass. There is also loads of room for sub-genre references to Barefoot that the bass-loving kids of today should come up for themselves ....e.g. Sparefoot, Threefoot, Spacefoot!! im only joking... but this shit is supposed to leave room for wacky interpretation and crazy rhythms which will encourage us to evolve into a species bearing the next-level of rhythmic feet ... !
Robot : its dark, its deep and its less hysterically clubby.....we were really tired of all this loud and overplayed ed banger-diplo-sinden-whatever hype we wanted to something different, more deep and subtle, less in your face and obviously catchy/clubby...
Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable
On May 1, 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, The Catholic Worker newspaper made its debut with a first issue of twenty-five hundred copies. Dorothy Day and a few others hawked the paper in Union Square for a penny a copy (still the price) to passersby.
Today 204 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and forsaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.
Explore the life and writings of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.
Discover what Catholic Worker communities worldwide are doing today to fulfill Dorothy and Peter's vision. It is a fascinating story.
The dead body of our 15 year old washing machine that went out in a big way last week when it flooded the the house from top to bottom. Now it awaits a trip to the dump. In the meantime, I used it to play with Photoshop a bit :-)
Immigration and “The Jungle”
Of meat, Mexicans and social mobility
Jun 15th 2006 | LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA
From The Economist.com print edition
Among the very poor, the American Dream is alive and well
A HUNDRED years ago, a sensational novel attacking the meatpacking industry prompted Congress to draft the first federal food-safety laws. The author of “The Jungle”, Upton Sinclair, was disappointed. He had hoped to persuade Americans to embrace socialism. For him, the important point was not that the slaughterhouses of Chicago were unsanitary, but that they were “the spirit of capitalism made flesh”—a system in which “a hundred human lives did not balance a penny of profit.” The book's central character, a Lithuanian named Jurgis Rudkus, had come to America believing that through hard work he could grasp the American Dream. But he found that “the whole country...was nothing but one gigantic lie.”
Rarely has a great novelist been so wrong about so much. No one now worries about the poverty of Lithuanian-Americans. But many still worry about the health of the American Dream. Can immigrants still work their way up from the bottom? Can they become American?
Many fear that, for the latest wave of mostly-unskilled immigrants from Latin America, the answer is no. Some fret that the newcomers are too ill-educated and culturally alien to prosper or assimilate. Others are convinced that immigrant workers are horribly exploited or trapped forever in low-wage jobs. Both worries are largely unfounded.
Consider Alberto Queiroz, who crept across the border 12 years ago. After a stuffy ride in the boot of a car, he found his first job in a Chinese-owned clothes factory in Los Angeles. Workers with papers were paid the minimum wage, he recalls. Having none, he had to make do with $2.50 an hour. Though unlawfully stingy, this was much better than he could have earned back home in Mexico.
After two years he moved to North Carolina, a state that was then just starting to become a magnet for Mexicans. He picked blueberries for $5 a box, earning nearly $100, tax free, for a 12-hour day. But this job lasted only two months, until the harvest ended. So he sought more stable employment, which he eventually found at America's largest hog slaughterhouse.
Smithfield Foods' plant at Tar Heel, North Carolina, turns some 32,000 pigs a day into hams and loins. Thanks to selective breeding and efficient, hygienic processing, American meat has grown steadily leaner, cheaper and safer, says Joe Luter, Smithfield's chairman. A hundred years ago, food ate up half of Americans' take-home pay; now it is only about a tenth, and no one gets trichinosis from Mr Luter's pork chops.
But is a slaughterhouse a nice place to work? Smithfield does not let journalists in, for reasons of “biosecurity”. Human Rights Watch, a watchdog from New York, issued a report in 2004 entitled “Blood, Sweat and Fear”, which accused American meat and poultry firms of “systematic human-rights violations”. Slaughterhouses are harsh and dangerous places to work, said the report, and illegal immigrants, who form a large chunk of the workforce, find it hard to defy abusive employers.
Mr Queiroz takes a more benign view. Yes, the work is hard. The line goes fast and you have to keep cutting till your hands are exhausted. And yes, it is sometimes dangerous. He says he once saw a co-worker lose a leg when he ducked under the disassembly line instead of walking round it. But many occupations are risky. Taxi-drivers are 34 times more likely to die on the job than meatpackers.
Mr Queiroz does not think Smithfield was a bad employer. Wages of more than $10 an hour enabled him to buy a house back in Mexico. Cutting up pigs was easier than picking blueberries, he says, because he did not have to toil under the sun all day. And when he had had enough, he quit and set up a taco stand with his brother. That was five years ago. Now he owns a Mexican restaurant. America, he says, is “the land of opportunity”.
The meatpacking industry has changed dramatically since Sinclair's day, when pigs and cattle were transported live to city stockyards so that the meat would still be edible when city-dwellers bought it. Now, thanks to better roads and refrigerated trucks, there is no need to build slaughterhouses near where customers live. No pigs have been slaughtered in Chicago for years. Firms like Smithfield now favour rural sites, where rents and wages are lower. And the immigrant workforce is largely Hispanic, since Jurgis Rudkus's great-grandchildren prefer to work in offices.
Those market signals
News about jobs spreads quickly through the Hispanic grapevine. The shift of meatpackers to the countryside is one of many market signals attracting immigrants to different parts of America. New migrants head not only for California, New York, Texas and Florida, but also for Georgia, Arizona, Arkansas and Oregon. Perhaps the most rapid change has taken place in North Carolina, where a technology and construction boom has sucked in hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, swelling the Hispanic population by more than 1,000% since 1990.
In some areas, the newcomers strain local services. Cindy Evans, director of a county clinic for children in Raleigh, says the percentage of her patients who are Hispanic has leapt from perhaps 2% a decade and a half ago to about 65%. The clinic is full of bilingual signs. Next to one, someone has scrawled: “Speak English!”.
Many native-born North Carolinians are uneasy about the pace at which their state has Latinised. Few of the newcomers arrived legally. Some join gangs. As in the rest of America, antipathy towards illegal immigrants, though widespread, is mostly mild and seldom violent. It should not be dismissed, however, since it is politically influential. In Washington, Congress is still struggling to reconcile rival immigration reforms—a House bill that cracks down on illegals and a Senate bill that offers them a path to citizenship. Throughout the country, populists echo and stoke their constituents' anxieties.
Fear of immigration is akin to fear of globalisation. Unemployment may be low, but many Americans fear losing their jobs to someone cheaper in Bangalore, or someone who took the bus up from Tijuana. Meanwhile, the benefits of immigration, like those of globalisation, are often taken for granted. “Americans just assume they can have a pizza delivered for $9,” says Federico van Gelderen, a Raleigh-based executive for Univision, a Spanish-language television station.
Accurately measuring the economic consequences of immigration is hard. Looking only at North Carolina, John Kasarda and James Johnson recently found that Latinos paid $756m in taxes annually and cost the state government $817m. That works out as a net burden of $102 per head. Anti-immigrant agitators will seize on this figure, worries Mr Kasarda, a professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. But it is dwarfed by the positive impact of Latino spending in North Carolina, which he estimates at $9.19 billion in 2004. That translates into nearly 90,000 new jobs, he says.
The worry that America is importing a new Hispanic underclass, as some claim, is also probably unfounded. Granted, foreign-born Hispanics are less educated and earn less than the average American. But that is hardly surprising, given that so many were until recently Mexican peasants. What matters is whether they are socially mobile, and it seems that they are. Although, by some measures of income and education, the Hispanic average is not improving much, that average is dragged down by a steady influx of poor Mexicans. A better way of gauging progress is to look at inter-generational differences.
First-generation male Mexican immigrants earn only half as much as white men. But the second generation have overtaken black men and earn three-quarters as much as whites. They enjoy more benefits than the first generation, too: they are twice as likely to have employer-provided pensions and one-and-a-half times more likely to have health insurance. And the adult daughters of Mexican immigrants, having learned English, are much more likely to have jobs than their mothers were.
Some economists, notably George Borjas of Harvard, grumble that “about half of the differences in relative economic status across ethnic groups observed in one generation persist into the next.” Maybe so. But in absolute terms, Mexicans have grown much richer by coming to the United States. If they had not, they would go home. And their children are doing even better. Whereas only 40% of first-generation Mexican immigrants between the ages of 16 and 20 are in school or college, nearly two-thirds of the second generation are. Between the ages of 21 and 25 the leap is even more striking, from 7.3% to 24.4%.
For many first-generation immigrants, getting their children into an American university is the final proof that they have made it. Marco Roldan, for example, has been in America for 22 years but still has a Guatemalan accent and odd syntax. He started his career selling tortillas door to door. After many 75-hour weeks, he now owns a supermarket in Raleigh, where a mostly-immigrant clientele pays cash for Latin pop music, live tilapia and a wide variety of chillies. Mr Roldan is proud of his hard-earned wealth, but not as proud as he is of his daughter's MBA from Stanford.
Washing windows, watching screens
Immigrants' children are typically American citizens, having been born on American soil. More than 90% speak English fluently; by the third generation, 72% speak nothing else. Many help their less-fluent parents with form-filling, as other children help their elders navigate the internet. The parents, in turn, try to infuse their offspring with their work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit. (Latinos open new firms at a rate three times the national norm.)
Miguel Lopez, who arrived from Mexico when he was 17, says his children will have a double advantage over him. Not only are they native-born Americans, but they are “native-born” to the information age. Mr Lopez is not doing badly himself: he owns a small window-cleaning firm. He woos customers by giving them instant estimates, which he can do because he looks at satellite photos of their houses online. His firm grossed $150,000 last year. With only a high-school education, he says, there is no other country where he could live so well. But his children will go to college, he says, and do something better than washing windows.
I could not believe it when I found this old washing machine in an antique market. It has all of its parts and works like a charm.....on good old fashioned elbow grease. It is one of the first mechanized washing machines.....complete with hand cranked agitator. I LOVE it!!!!
An older DM operated by Concreto S.A. Only a few DMs saw the change to Cemento Panama, while the oldest ones (unit # up to 90 or so) were retired with the arrival of the Granites
A tank used for batch washing of precipitates which cannot be leached satisfactorily in a tank; equipped with a slowly rotating rake at the bottom, which moves settled solids to the center, and an air lift that lifts slurry to the launders. Also known as a Dorr Agitator.
"All Mamas Heard His Cry For Help" message was written in sidewalk chalk in Bronson Park during the peaceful protests in July. The nationwide protest marches and gatherings were the result of the murder of a Minneapolis African-American resident by a Minneapolis policeman in May. While violence erupted in many cities, Kalamazoo was largely untouched, except for one evening where outside agitators broke store windows along the South Burdick Mall.
1998 Kenworth W900S / McNeilus mixer
This one is a former Rinker Materials truck in Arizona, operated with Cemex AZ for a while after the Rinker acquisition and got here around May of 2008.
Originally had the 2 lift axles and the pusher at the back, this last one got removed between September and December of 2008, and the Rinker logos were lost at some point after it got here.
1128 West Michigan Avenue - Jimmy John's and the Kzoo Cat Cafe were pre-emptively boarded up after the city received warnings that violent agitators were headed to Kalamazoo to take advantage of the unrest caused by the Black Lives Matter gatherings.
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The Honor of Hazrat Abbas (a.s.)
The sacred religion of Islam has defined the terms of honor and support in separate connotations. But in this context, intense defense of modesty, wealth, government, religion and law is termed as honor. Especially if a certain thing was earmarked for one particular group, family or individual and others want to partake in it, seize it or destroy it. And at this critical moment, the possessor of the thing rises in its defense.
The Almighty has threatened three types of people in this verse, hypocrites, sick at heart and slaves of desires.
'If the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is a disease and the agitators in the city do not desist, We shall most certainly set you over them, then they shall not be your neighbors in it but for a little while; Cursed: wherever they are found they shall be seized and murdered, a (horrible) murdering.'
(Surah Ahzaab: Verses 60-62)
Similarly, Allah mentions the honor of Hazrat Yusuf (a.s.) in the following manner:
'He said: My Lord! The prison house is dearer to me than that to which they invite me.'
(Surah Yusuf: Verses 33)
In both verses, the implication of honor is made with the same concept as defined earlier. Besides, traditions have explained that honor is among the divine traits.
Surely Allah is Honorable, He loves all those who are honorable. And it is due to His Honor that He prohibited all the evils, in its apparent and hidden form.
(Mizanul Hikmah, pg. 357, tradition 15,263)
In another tradition it is said:
"There is none more honorable than Allah."
(Mizanul Hikmah, 357, hadith no 15265)
The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) said:
"My ancestor Ibrahim was honorable, while I am more honorable than him"
Imam Baqir (a.s.) narrated an incident during the time of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) when some prisoners were brought to him. Since the captives were dangerous and treacherous, the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) ordered all, except one of them, to be executed. When the freed man inquired from the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) about the reason for his pardon and subsequent freedom, the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) said that Jibraeel (a.s.) informed me that you have five characteristics, which are liked by Allah and His Prophet. They are extreme honor for the family, generosity, cordial disposition, truthfulness of tongue and bravery. When the man heard this, he embraced Islam and gained prominence among the companions of the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.). Later he got martyred in the battle of Yaak.
(Wasaelush-Shiah, vol. 14, pg 109, chap 77, tradition 10, Akhlaq in Quran)
Honor has become a rarity in the contemporary world. Arabs and non-Arabs alike have become alien to honor. However, there was an era when the Arab honorwas at the lips of everybody. The following incident should serve as an example of the Arab's famed honor.
Behram Gaur lived under the tutelage of Noman Ibne Maqdar. Behram was learning etiquette and social propriety from Noman. One day he went on hunting and began chasing a deer. The deer got tired of constant running and entered a tent to seek refuge. Behram reached the tent and wanted to pounce on the deer. The owner of the tent, whose name was Qabiza, intervened. He told Behram that since the deer had taken refuge in his tent, he cannot allow Behram to lay his hands on the deer. If at all he intended to do any such thing, he will have to kill Qabiza first, only then he can proceed further. If Behram wanted anything else, he could take Qabiza's horse, he suggested. Behram was stunned at Qabiza's defiance for a mere deer.
(Zindagani-e-Qamar-e-Bani Hashim, pg. 94, compiled by Emaduddeen Husain Isfahani)
The readers would have understood the extent of the Arab's honor from this incident. If an ordinary Arab could be so honorable, then imagine the extent of Hazrat Abbas' (a.s.) honor, the like of which cannot be found in history. Abbas was an Arab stalwart from a noble family; his legacy of honor was inherited from both sides of his family. Although history provides only a few glimpses of his honor, he was unsurpassed even in that.
The author of Zindagani-e-Qamar-e-Bani Hashim, Emaddudeen Husain Isfahani writes that Abbas' honor was so exalted that he never tolerated any inappropriate behavior or speech. It was due to this reason that Imam Husain (a.s.) had entrusted the task of the women folk's embarkation atop camel's back or alighting from it to Hazrat Abbas (a.s.). No mortal dare be around when Hazrat Abbas (a.s.) executed his responsibility. Also Hazrat Abbas' (a.s.) presence ensured that there remained quite a distance between the women folks' transports and the rest of the caravan.
(Zindagani-e-Qamar-e-Bani Hashim, pg. 96)
The author of Maqatil writes that the caravan of Imam Husain (a.s.) had reached Karbala on the second of Muharram. Hazrat Abbas (a.s.) had erected the tents on the banks of Euphrates river. But the enemy did not allow Ahle Bait (a.s.) to camp on Euphrates and asked them to shift farther from the river. When Hazrat Abbas (a.s.) heard this, he was enraged and dared the enemy to come forward with the proposal.
Even as the heated exchange was on, Hazrat Zainab (s.a.) summoned Hazrat Abbas (a.s.). Before leaving, Hazrat Abbas (a.s.) drew a line in front of the tents and announced aloud,
'Whoever dares to step beyond this line will find his head separated from his body.'
During the conversation, Hazrat Zainab (s.a.) requested Hazrat Abbas (a.s.) to shift the tents farther. Much as Abbas (a.s.) did not want to budge from the spot, he did not say a single word. Quietly he returned to his earlier position and with his own hands removed the pegs of the tents and began shifting the camp away.
Hazrat Abbas' (a.s.) honor did not allow him to protest against the command of Imam and let his own intention dominate his intellect. His reverence of Imam was much more than his own uncompromising principles. Abbas' (a.s.) honor came out much more dazzling in obedience to Imam than his unrelenting attitude against the enemies.
In yet another example of Abbas' (a.s.) honor, historians quote the following incident. Since the morning of Ashoora until noon, Abbas (a.s.) had actively assisted Imam Husain (a.s.) in carrying the wounded/martyred supporters of Imam from the battlefield to the camp. Despite this, Abbas (a.s.) never moved a step without the consent of Imam Husain (a.s.). At the same time, Abbas (a.s.) exhorted his brothers towards the glory of martyrdom and ensured that they all met death in front of his eyes.
When all the companions and relatives of Imam (a.s.) had departed, Abbas (a.s.), the proverbial last man standing, folded his hands and with extreme politeness sought Imam's (a.s.) consent to leave for battlefield. Reluctance was writ large on the countenance of Imam (a.s.). He asked Abbas (a.s.) to make provision for thirsty children first and then leave for battle.
Abbas (a.s.) did as commanded and left to fetch water. Cutting through the hostile ranks and files of the enemy army, Abbas (a.s.) managed to reach the Euphrates. He filled the water bag with the river water. He cupped a little water in his own palm and said,
'How can I taste you while my master and his children are thirsty?'
He threw the water back. History can never reproduce a more shining example of honor. His honor does not end here, but transcends even beyond this selfless act of sacrifice. As he headed towards the camp, enemies regrouped and launched a desperate onslaught. Abbas (a.s.) lost his right hand first and subsequently the emboldened enemies even severed his left hand. But Abbas' (a.s.) fortitude and valour was such that he proclaimed - "Even if I am cut to pieces, I will not desist from my support and assistance to my Imam."
The words uttered actually epitomize his innate sentiments for the defense of his Imam. These are worth pondering over. Indeed this is honor. Certainly the honor of
Hazrat Abbas (a.s.) shall remain unparalleled forever.
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They used to call it an air bell coupling. GE washer transmissions fail when you let the air out of it. The water Forces the air up from the bottom. The air leaks out past the O-ring and is replace by water. This one is pretty obvious because of the rusty spline but even the ones that aren't rusty all have what I call the "bath tub ring". View it large.
“I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.”
“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.”
“No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”
“Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”
“I will tell the truth wherever I please.”
“I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!”
“The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.”
“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”
“Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.”
“A lady is the last thing on earth I want to be. Capitalists sidetrack the women into clubs and make ladies of them.”
“I preferred sewing to bossing little children.”
Get it straight, I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.
“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”
Hotpoint 1400 washtub with the agitator removed showing the 3kw heater element and thermostst, along with the agi drive block which is a cube at the top of the stem. The drain hole has a metal cover over it which acts as a screen for larger particles.
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The cathedral was designed by local architects John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney, collaborating with internationally known architects Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi — at the time, the Dean of the School of Architecture at MIT. Its saddle roof is composed of segments of hyperbolic paraboloids in a manner reminiscent of St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo, which was built earlier in the decade. Due to its resemblance to a large washing machine agitator, the cathedral has been nicknamed "Our Lady of Maytag" or "McGucken's Maytag".
- Wikipedia
The flickr BINGO challenge this week was black and white photography. I've been searching all week for something suitable to shoot in B&W; when emptying out the washing machine yesterday, I found three dollar bills stuck to the bottom of the drum. I claimed them as mine (since I was washing MY jeans...) Still looking for the $20 that went missing a couple of weeks ago.....
The Hotpoint Supermatic washtub holds 6lbs of washing and is made of cast metal coated with vitreous enamel, the heater is 2.2Kw and can be used to boil when required. the agitator drive block is a small tripod in the base to which the "SpiraClean" agitator screws to, the sump has a red plastic screen to trap larger items such as buttons etc.
The street sign at Davitt Place, Swinford, looking down towards the 'Home of Sport' Public Bench. The street is named after Michael Davitt, the son of a peasant farmer who was born nearby. Davitt joined the Fenian's, a secret militant nationalist organisation at a young age, but later became a constitutional Irish nationalist, agrarian agitator, social campaigner, labour leader, Home Rule politician and member of Parliament.
Davitt hated Landlordism and founded the Irish National Land League which undertook a campaign of ostracism against landlords, most famously Captain Boycott. The concerted action taken against him meant that Boycott was unable to hire anyone to harvest the crops in his charge. Eventually 50 Orangemen from Cavan and Monaghan volunteered to do the work. They were escorted to and from Claremorris by one thousand policemen and soldiers, despite the fact that the local Land League leaders had said that there would be no violence from them, and in fact no violence materialized. This protection ended up costing far more than the harvest was worth. After the harvest, the "boycott" was successfully continued. Within weeks Boycott's name was everywhere. It was used by The Times in November 1880 as a term for organized isolation and is still used today. Mahatma Ghandhi claimed his campaigns of civil disobedience were strongly influenced by the tactics of Irish Landland League and Michael Davitt.
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How do you keep appliances working for 45 years? Read, read, read. And when the appliance repair guy does come over, watch what he does like a hawk, so you don't have to ever call him again.
All these manuals list Sears headquarters as 925 S. Homan, Chicago, IL. Now you KNOW that's been awhile. They've moved twice since then and acquired KMart, creating the retail equivalent of Studebaker-Packard. (That last part was mean, but it's the truth.)
1997 Kenworth W900S / McNeilus mixer
Former RMC Pacific Materials (California) truck, still in their colours, they just removed the RMC logos.
This truck operated for Cemex in California after the RMC acquisition until late 2006 when it was sold and went down to Panama. It came here with the pusher axle on the back and it was removed at some point between September and December of 2008.