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The desert will always have its way.
As it is at ancient Palmyra, so is it here at a tiny oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert, once-useful columns laboriously built still stand-to, a testament to a once-great civilization that has succumbed to progress and the ravages of time.
We are far removed from the caravans that plied the Silk Road, camels struggling under the weight of trade with the Han Dynasty, yet the Comanche Trace is close at hand where the hooves of mounted warriors churned up the dust as they launched great raids into southwest Texas and far down into Old Mexico, instilling terror among the settlers as the first full moon of September---the Comanche Moon---provided the illumination for their nocturnal predations.
We are but a few lost sighs and fading memories of a generation passed from the last ploddings of 2-10-2s and Mk-class Mikados as they rolled tonnage across the storied Sunset Route; of iced PFE reefers filled with Rio Grande Valley produce, and stock extras out of the pens at Marfa, and of flatcars and heavyweight Pullmans loaded with the Arsenal of Democracy as it headed off to war.
As too at Palmyra, they all stopped to slake their thirst and rest a bit, weary souls replenishing for the journey across the desert wastes.
And though the Afghan pine and mountain juniper and the wispy mesquite of Marathon, Texas have taken the place of the date palms of Syria, and the rains of spring have brought the wildflowers to bloom and the buffalo and Johnson grasses to height, the desert is always ready to reclaim everything for its own.
The depot and house track and line poles are long gone, their usefulness negated by progress and internal combustion and satellite communications. Even the siding has been moved west of town so as not to interfere with the comings and goings of the hearty souls who populate this place.
And someday, even the ghosts will disappear, bit by crumbling, rusting bit, returning to the very elements that were poured into a form and reinforced with steel---
Iron and carbon and dust.
The rains of May will wash them into the soils, and the never-ceasing winds will patiently and relentlessly scour them from dawn to dusk and in the light of a thousand full moons, lifting them grain-by-grain to tint the air of the western skies, where, in a final act of glory, the setting sun’s rays will pass through the haze and cast magnificent hues upon those who are fortunate to stand as witness; a last dying act as they drift aimlessly until they are of the land once again.
The hiss of acetylene long ago vanquished the iron beast, nailing the lid shut on a sarcophagus that 567s and 244s had helped usher the steam giants into, there to metamorphosize as nuts and bolts and nails that filled the bins at local hardware stores, and razor blades that hung from display racks at the corner pharmacy.
The aforementioned EMDs and ALCos had no need to stop. They passed by mostly without even throttling down. Today’s GEVOs mumble and seemingly sputter an asthmatic chant as they rumble past, perhaps a hogger or two casting a glance at the almost-Neolithic columns that once supported the lifeblood of an industry---
That which boiled intensely above a crown sheet---
And which comprises 70% of the earth’s surface---
And 70% of the human form itself---
Water.
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Rick Malo©2024
Early on the morning of August 1st, 2024, Union Pacific C44ACM 9625, with empty autoracks on the drawbar, rumbles east through Marathon, Texas past the concrete footings and piers that once supported the great steel water tank that supplied water to countless Southern Pacific steam locomotives as they made their way along the Sunset Route.
on explore #295 Sehen sie nicht aus, wie eine chinesische Seidenmalerei? Als Teil eines Paravents? Oder wie eine wertvolle Porzellanmalerei?
Magnolien haben eine ganz eigene faszinierende Schönheit.
Die Magnolien (Magnolia) sind eine Pflanzengattung in der Familie der Magnoliengewächse (Magnoliaceae), die etwa 230 Arten enthält. Die Gattung wurde nach dem französischen Botaniker Pierre Magnol benannt. Es sind Bäume oder Sträucher, sie stammen aus Ostasien und Amerika. Einige Magnolien-Arten und Sorten sind beliebte Ziergehölze.
Die Universität Bournemouth teilte am 4. April 2007 mit, die Rote Liste der Magnoliengewächse führe 132 von insgesamt 245 Arten als gefährdet. Als Hauptursachen der Bedrohung werden die Zerstörung der natürlichen Lebensräume der Magnolien für die Landwirtschaft sowie deren übermäßige Ausbeutung angesehen.
Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae.
The natural range of Magnolia species is rather scattered and includes eastern North America, Central America and the West Indies and east and southeast Asia. Some species are found in South America. Today many species of Magnolia and an ever increasing number of hybrids can also be found as ornamentals in large parts of North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The genus is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol, from Montpellier. See Origin of the name Magnolia.
Magnolia is an ancient genus. Having evolved before bees appeared, the flowers developed to encourage pollination by beetles. As a result, the carpels of Magnolia flowers are tough, to avoid damage by eating and crawling beetles. Fossilised specimens of M. acuminata have been found dating to 20 million years ago, and of plants identifiably belonging to the Magnoliaceae dating back to 95 million years ago. Another primitive aspect of Magnolias is their lack of distinct sepals or petals. The term tepal has been coined to refer to the intermediate element that Magnolia has instead. Magnolias are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Giant Leopard Moth.
Magnolia grandiflora is the official state flower of both Mississippi and Louisiana.The flower's abundance in Mississippi is reflected in its state nickname, "Magnolia State". The magnolia is also the official state tree of Mississippi.
One of the oldest nicknames for Houston, Texas Is "The Magnolia City" due to the abundance of Magnolias growing along Buffalo Bayou.
In general, Magnolia is a genus which has attracted a lot of horticultural interest. Hybridisation has been immensely successful in combining the best aspects of different species to give plants which flower at an earlier age than the species themselves, as well as having more impressive flowers. One of the most popular garden magnolias is a hybrid, M. x soulangeana (Saucer magnolia; hybrid M. liliiflora x M. denudata).
The bark from M. officinalis has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is known as hou po (厚朴). In Japan, kōboku, M. obovata has been used in a similar manner. The aromatic bark contains magnolol and honokiol, two polyphenolic compounds that have demonstrated anti-anxiety and anti-angiogenic properties. Magnolia bark also has been shown to reduce allergic and asthmatic reactions.
Magnolia has attracted the interest of the dental research community because magnolia bark extract inhibits many of the bacteria responsible for caries and periodontal disease.In addition, the constituent magnolol interferes with the action of glucosyltransferase, an enzyme needed for the formation of bacterial plaque.
A showstopping shrub that transforms any space into a tropical getaway, angel's trumpet boasts huge, pendulous blooms that perfume the air in the evening. With its unique trumpet-shape flowers and quick-growing nature, this exotic beauty offers a multitude of reasons to give it a try in your own garden, although like many ornamental plants, all parts of Brugmansia can be toxic. All 7 species are listed as Extinct in the Wild by the IUCN Red List.
In modern medicine, important alkaloids such as scopolamine, hyoscyamine, and atropine, found in Brugmansia and other related members of Solanaceae, have proven medical value for their spasmolytic, anti-asthmatic, anticholinergic, narcotic and anesthetic properties, although many of these alkaloids, or their equivalents, are now artificially synthesized
Brugmansia 'Fruit Salad' is a lovely mix of colors: blush pink, bright yellows, peach and corals. It is truly an unusual angel.
This will be the cover for a web only release of a collection of Rafter's songs (half of Bunky/producer/masterer/etc) called "10 Songs". Out on Asthmatic Kitty.
(NO GROUP INVITES/AWARDS IN COMMENTS PLEASE.)
Taken yesterday. The idea came from blowing up the green balloon (previous photo in stream). I am asthmatic and I had trouble getting past step 1 LOL. I overreact of course, but no harm in joking around a little. Playing Tegan and Sara <3
There's this open letter to Miley Cyrus where Sufjan criticises her grammar, which is kind of amusing, except for the fact that her occasional poor grammar is the least of her problems. To be blunt, her songs are terrible in my opinion and a few grammar corrections wouldn't exactly help them redeem the entire human race or anything.
Sufjan Stevens, on the other hand, can put together a decent song lyrically and musically and perform his songs almost effortlessly. I highly recommend Seven Swans and Illinois especially.
Here is the open letter to Miley Cyrus: pitchfork.com/news/52636-read-sufjan-stevens-amusing-open...
Listen to the amazing album Illinois here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDvqlZKs1JI
**All photos are copyrighted, grammar kinds or otherwise.**
As the Majesty Songbird, performing at the Town Hall, NYC, Sept 29, 2006.
Blurb here: brooklynheathen.com/200609/sufjan-stevens-the-town-hall/
#Austerity Shock... Greek citizen .. Poor woman - begger wearing medical face mask in the city
- Why aren't you in your house? I asked her
- " I have no home" , she answered " The bailiff evicted my family from home .My two children are unemployed"
Done for working towards a Better Word ♥WTBW♥
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This was Leanne's cat " MR DARCY"... He was a British short hair... Leanne got him because she is a server asthmatic... But sadly Mr Darcy has passed on, he was very sick for a while, and Leanne had to make the tough decision of having him put to sleep.... xxx Michelle xxxx Mr Darcy..
SADLY MR DARCY HAD TO BE PUT TO SLEEP TODAY , MONDAY 20th February 2012...HE HAD CANCER THAT WENT TO HIS STOMACH, AND THERE WAS NOTHING THE VET COULD DO FOR HIM... HE WAS ONLY 2YEARS OLD.... ~ RIP MR DARCY ~
My Mother was released from Hospital "Covid positive" despite us begging that releasing her to elderly & asthmatic carers would be a bad idea. We now are all very ill. Unbelievable!!!!!
this eight-year old asthmatic swam five days a week to help exercise her lungs...although coach thought she swam akin to a turtle....Madd kept going...
2016 update...now she's joined Girls On the Run...
LA: Betonica officinalis
EN: Purple betony
DE: Echte Betonie / Heil-Ziest
HU: Orvosi tisztesfű
The plant lives on the edges of forests, clearings, mountain meadows, marshy meadows - quite widely distributed in Europe and Asia.
An old and very well known medical plant. Arabic and Roman medical manuscripts mention it already. In the Middle Ages it was cultivated in gardens of monasteries and apothecaries. It is used against asthmatic symptoms, against arthritis and rheumatic diseases, headaches and many other symptoms. It was believed to be one of the most valuable healing herb.
The plant is also used to flavor wine and beer.
Near Brannenburg, Germany
story about,
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Ideales Raumklima
Wohnräume & Arbeitsräume
20 °C Optimale Temperatur
40 - 60 % Optimale Luftfeuchtigkeit
HYGRO - • Das Hygrometer zeigt die relative Raumfeuchte an.
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• Das gesündeste Raumklima herrscht bei 50 % relativer Luftfeuchte und 20 °C Raumtemperatur.
• Die relative Raumfeuchte sollte nicht unter 30 % fallen.
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• Wer die hohe Luftfeuchte des Badezimmers ausnutzen möchte, öffnet nach dem Baden nicht das Fenster, sondern die Badezimmertüre. So kann die Feuchtigkeit in die übrigen Räume entweichen.
• Asthmatiker (asthmatic patient) sollten möglichst so lüften, dass sie gegenüberliegende Fenster öffnen um einen Durchzug zu schaffen und die ungesunde, trockene Luft gegen nikotinfreie, feuchtere Luft austauschen.
Stoßlüften bei weit geöffneten Fenstern
• Lüften Sie mehrmals täglich. Auf diese Weise verbessern Sie nicht nur das Raumklima, sondern tauschen gleichzeitig regelmäßig die verbrauchte, sauerstoffärmere Luft gegen frische, sauerstoffreiche Luft aus.
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www.luftfeuchtigkeit-raumklima.de/erhoehen.html
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Harleen Quinzel can’t remember the last time she was on a train. She remembers fields of flowers slipping by out the window, and her mother, smiling at her from the opposite seat. She remembers her bright, powder blue shoes. She remembers nothing else. Harleen squints her eyes, and gazes out at the train yard, gray and industrial. The long rickety tracks speeding off into nowhere. She blinks as the train whistles, and feels her stomach flip, just barely, as the wheels begin to slowly grind.
In the seat across from her, Digger Harkness lights up a cigarette and passes the lighter to Floyd Lawton in the seat next to him, who does the same. Floyd reaches a cigarette out to Harley, who politely shakes her head. The cigarette smoke, trainyard gray, acts like a signal, and summons the stewardess, who has the two douse their lights, and produce their tickets.
Harleen Quinzel would be the first to admit this wasn’t what she planned for her Friday evening.
Digger: So many bloody rules nowadays. Back in th’day you could just blow smoke wherever y’please. Asthmatics are ruinin’ this already wretched country eh?
Floyd: For once, I have to agree.
Digger: So uh, I’m sorry ‘bout your Auntie, Jesterbells. S’always hard losin’ family like that.
Harley: Thanks, Booms. Y’know it’s weird. I didn’t even know her all that well. I was kinda amazed when her sis sent me the invite. Kinda taken aback really. I mean, d’ye think they know who I am now? You’d think if they knew they’d have disowned me or somethin’.
Digger: Y’know, I was always surprised me own brood didn’t turn their backs on me when they learned of all the knockin-over and throat-slittin I was doin’. It’s a real testament, family.
Harley: Either that or they just plain don’t realize. It’s not like my villain name’s much of a stretch though, it’s just my normal name with the Jewish stripped outta it.
Digger: Maybe they don’t watch much TV?
Harley smirks a little: Maybe.
Floyd takes a deep breath: You two got lucky. Ma never forgave me for tryin’ to kill pop, and neither of em forgave me for Ed.
There are more words on Floyd Lawton’s lips, but he falls silent before they can escape. There is a few moments of silence between them. On the overhead speaker, a cheerful conductor lays down the law. Two seats behind them, a child cries, it’s mother bidding it be silent gently. And old man sleeps in the seats across the walkway from them, and outside, and endless wall of trees rockets past.
Floyd: So Harl, I gotta ask. . . why us?
Harley: Whatcha mean, Cowboy?
Floyd: I get that you’d want backup to go to somethin’ like this, but why us? I can’t say we’ve ever been particularly fond of each other.
Harley is silent for a moment, then a small smile creeps across her face.
Harley: Heh, it sounds kinda crazy, but you two are like, my only friends in the world right now. I certainly wasn’t gonna bring Waller or Sonar, or, god forbid, the Answer guy, and it was too short of notice to call Pammy. That leaves me with you two lugs. But I mean, think about it, the three of us have been through so much crap together, what’s one more thing?
Digger: I c’n get behind that. Whatcha say Floyd ole boy? Ready to admit you’n I could be friends?
If Floyd Lawton had access to a cigarette, he would have blown the smoke in Digger’s direction.
Floyd: Don’t push it, Aussie.
There’s a faint smile on his face.
Harley: C’mon, Floyd, Y’know you don’t hate us as much as ya pretend to. Someday you may even like us.
Floyd is still smiling as much as Floyd can smile. “Someday,” he says.
Another few minutes goes by, but it’s impossible to tell. To the uninitiated, time stands still on a train. Digger Harkness at one point, wanders away to the dining car and returns with a bottle of wine and three glasses. He uncorks it, and hands it to Floyd, saying he’s more qualified to pour than Digger is. Floyd relents, and pours. He doesn’t spill a single drop. The first glass goes to Harley, the second the Digger, and the third, he downs himself. One easy gulp, then pours a fourth. It’s never strong enough for him.
Harley: Ooh, OOH! We should do a toast!
Floyd: What to?
Digger: To cigarettes, eh Floyd?
Harley: No, no, we need somethin’ real meaningful. Somethin’ worth a toast.
Digger: You say Amanda Waller, and I pour this glass on the floor.
Harley: I got it! To friends forged in fire!
Floyd: . . . Really?
Digger: naw, I like it! To friends forged in foire!
He and Harley clink their glasses together, then extend their arms towards Floyd, who sighs, but good-naturedly.
Floyd: To me never having shot either of you.
He clinks their glasses back.
Harley: I’ll take that.
Digger: Comin’ from you Floyd, that’s an honor.
Floyd: Chuck another tray at my head and that toast gets revoked.
Digger: Yyyeaaahh, that’s fair mate. I gotta apologize f’r that. Wasn’t m’self y’see.
Floyd: Oh you were yourself, you’re just lucky I’m used to yourself by now.
They each take a few sips more, and just try and relax for a little while. Harley finds she can’t, doomed to stare out the window and wonder just who will be waiting for her at the end of their journey. Digger sinks lowers into his chair, remembering the events of a few nights ago, and pushing his glass away from himself gently. Floyd’s eyes just dart from person to person, seat to seat. Old habits die hard, and so will he.
Harley rips her attention from the window: So, when was the last time either of you guys were on a train?
Floyd puts his glass down: ‘Bout a year ago. Had some work for the Russian mob out of Coast City. Nailed the target from the moving train as another passed in front of me. Time before that, I fought Bats on top of a train headed to Metropolis.
Harley: Have ya ever been on a train not for business before today?
Floyd: Not until today. The business eats you alive. You oughta know that, Harls. Think of how many years you spent in costume, compare that to how many you spent as yourself. Swallowed whole I bet.
Digger: That’s what I like aboutcha Floyd, always so chipper.
Harley: How ‘bout you, Boomer?
Digger smiles: So there I was, eh? Me, and Sam and Lenny, we was pullin’ one hell of a heist—Th’score that was gonna make us retire. Entire kit and kaboodle. Had it all planned out too, Sammy got us in, then created a giant portal to the mirror-verse, sucked the train right up. Lenny froze the wheels and all the staff on board, and I kicked about and clobbered anybody what gave us a dirty look, right? Or at least, that’s the game plan. But what happens is ole Lenny see, he gets too eager, he’s got bills t’pay and whatnot, maybe his ulcer is actin’ up. Who knows. Point is, he freezes the wheels too early, the train nearly bloody flips over, and by that point, ole yeller boots himself has shown up, zippin’ in and out as he does, right? Saving civvies and the crew and the like, but cause we were the ‘bad guys’ he saves us for last. By that time, Sammy’s bailed, he’s taken the first mirror shard outta there, and Lenny’s nowhere to be seen. Think he made himself an ice slide and slip-slid away, pretty as you please. So there I am, right, in this tumbling train which is slowly becomin’ a bloomin inferno. I think, me goose is cooked, right? By the time Ole Flashy’s saves me arse it’ll be char-broiled. I start whalin’ on the controls to no avail, and finally he gets to me. But like, I got a reputation to uphold, yeah? I can’t just start blubberin to him, beggin and all that. So I do what I do, I chucked some rangs at him, gave him a little challenge! Next thing I know: fist in me face, boot up me arse, and I’m back into the slammer.
There’s a prolonged silence and then,
Harley: Eaten by the business.
Floyd: Jesus, that was a long story.
Digger: What can I say, I like to get the details in. Game of cards?
He produces a pack of cards from his pocket, and spreads them out on the table. With surprising efficiency, he begins to shuffle.
Digger: Name the game eh? Poker, Blackjack, Rummy?
Harley, sheepishly: How’s go fish sound?
Digger: Get your reels out ladies and gents (and Floyd), we’re going fishin.
Despite the game and Floyd occasionally flicking cards at Digger’s forehead with familiar accuracy, Harleen Quinzel finds that the only thing she can focus on is passing flowers and powder blue shoes.
"The Chimacum, also spelled Chemakum and Chimakum are a near extinct Native American people (known to themselves as Aqokúlo and sometimes called the Port Townsend Indians), who lived in the northeastern portion of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay" Wiki
A photo of the Hicks family near Chimicum Creek circa 1914 can be seen here along with details of other first nation communities on the peninsula: www.nps.gov/olym/learn/historyculture/tribes-of-the-olymp....
Opposite the south end of Vancouver Island and directly west of Seattle, the Chimacum people occupied a land of very real mist and rain, as the Olympic peninsula is well known for its good air and dominant rain, with up to 355cm a year. Tall trees of the north west coast were used for Totem poles - often placed in coves behind the worst laps of the sea - and they start to appear along the coastal mainland, opposite and around Vancouver Island just to the north of Discovery Bay. The carved poles then continue up the laced coast into Alaska - a close enough cultural vision to be a symbol for today's Seattle (aside the Chimacum). (www.burkemuseum.org/news/how-did-totem-poles-become-symbo...). 'Looking' at but not living with. Were there arborglyphs or decorations assigned for their real tree giants, with the permanent carving starting in the near yonder?
Some of the tallest trees in the world come from the reserves along this coast. The World's tallest Spruce, Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir are all old growths living through and past the Chimacum rains on the Olympic Peninsula. The biggest tree today reads 75m tall by 6m circumference and 5.7m diameter. Chimacum rains in the spaces between these trees.
In this clip the tall totems and mythical trees are in modern cement, and they draw in 'worshipers' of modernity. Norman Foster's bridge is very successful, and during our visit we met a Brazilian who was motorbiking to see the best bridges of Europe (Lisbon, Porto (!!) and on up to Millau...). The Millau bridge tilts to respect the line of the hills either side of the valley, and it curves slightly to undulate with the mist and river. In the days prior to the bridge, the drive up to the Larzac plateau was a chain of old lorries puffing like steam-trains at walking pace, with summer cars overheating to a general breakdown, and a steep tilted jam that seemed to crumple and slide back down into the city of Millau; so the bridge does adapt well to today's lifestyle of car and long distance haulage. Despite that, it is a totemic forest of cement and hardened sand that has turned a landscape with a deep past into another visible link from a modern web.
Lynda Perhac's LP 'Parallelograms' was released on Kapp records in the same years as Joni Mitchell's 'Ladies of the Canyon', and between the two Karen Dalton LPs. For the recording, she used the studio knowhow and orchestration skill of Leonard Rosenman, who is perhaps best known for the music and work he did with the film star James Dean ('Giant', 'Rebel without a cause'). After a long break, Lynda returned to release on Sufjan Steven's 'Asthmatic Kitty' label, with other releases currently through Sundazed and Omnivore.
Her style is often described as 'Psychedelic folk', which seems a miss-up. There can a psychological expressionism to her folk music - not unlike Kate Bush, but with the intimate spaces of early Sufjan or Joni. And she really doesn't need a category as she has a name.
Was this shot taken of Lynda by the Olympic peninsula?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FzsY7AXEBQ
Here Lynda talks about the visual method behind her song writing. Being inspired by the sea, or Larks rising; a New York crossroads, or Dr Caligari are all examples of the visual senses mapping into music. Lynda went a step further and abstracted her own visual for the musical subject before then transcribing. Creative ways to inspire the mind's eye are more common in musical composition than is apparent in the generic and 'manufactured' and should not be mixed up with issues of drugs or disorders even if both have appeared in the history of music:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEW5CRnnnws
An original demo of Chimacum rains:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJsViR_PV0
AJM 09.11.22
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was printed in Switzerland by Engadin Press on behalf of Swissair.
On the divided back of the card is printed:
'Swissair Boeing 747-357.
Wing Span 59.6 m
Length 70.6 m
Height 19.3 m
Max. Cruising Speed 976 km/h
Passenger Seats 375 (Passenger Version)
252 (Combi Version)'.
The aircraft in the photograph (Registration Number H8-IGD) entered service with Swissair on the 19th. March 1983, and stopped being used by them on the 30th. June 1999. The aircraft was originally delivered to Swissair as a Combi Passenger/Freight Version.
After Service with Swissair it went to Northwest Airlines. A conversion to full freighter is planned, although the aircraft is currently (2019) sitting in storage in the Mojave Desert.
The Boeing 747 and its Safety Record
As of 2025, the Boeing 747 was first flown commercially 55 years previously in 1970.
As of August 2020, 62 Boeing 747 aircraft, or just under 4% of the total number of 747's ever built, have been involved in serious accidents and incidents resulting in a hull loss.
Hull loss means that the aircraft has either been destroyed, or has been damaged beyond economic repair.
Of the 62 Boeing 747 aircraft losses, 29 resulted in loss of life. In three separate hijackings, a total of 23 passengers were executed, and in a fourth hijacking, a terrorist was killed.
Some of the aircraft that were declared damaged beyond economic repair were older 747's that had sustained relatively minor damage. Had these planes been newer, it might have been financially viable to repair them, although with the 747's increasing obsolescence, this is becoming less common.
747's have been involved in accidents resulting in:
(a) The highest death toll of any aviation accident.
(b) The highest death toll of any single aeroplane
accident.
(c) The highest death toll resulting from a mid-air collision.
However, as with most aircraft accidents, the causes of these incidents involved multiple factors which rarely could be attributed to flaws in the 747's design, manufacture, or its flying characteristics.
Specific 747 Incidents
Specific 747 events are as follows:
-- 1970's
(1) On the 6th. September 1970, a new Pan American World Airways aircraft flying from Amsterdam to New York was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
It was flown first to Beirut, then on to Cairo. Shortly after the occupants were evacuated from the aircraft after arriving at Cairo, it was blown up. Pan Am Flight 93 became the first hull loss of a Boeing 747.
(2) Japan Airlines Flight 404, the second 747 hull loss, was very similar to the first. The aircraft was hijacked on a flight from Amsterdam to Anchorage, Alaska, on the 20th. July 1973, again by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine working together with the Japanese Red Army.
The aircraft flew to Dubai, then Damascus, before ending its journey at Benghazi. The occupants were released, and the aircraft was blown up. One of the hijackers died.
(3) Lufthansa Flight 540 was the first fatal crash of a 747. On the 20th. November 1974, it stalled and smashed into the ground moments after taking off from Nairobi, with 59 deaths and 98 survivors. The cause was an error by the flight engineer, in combination with the lack of an adequate warning system.
(4) Air France Flight 193, a Boeing 747 operating the sector between Mumbai and Tel Aviv to Paris CDG, was destroyed by fire on the 12th. June 1975 at Mumbai's Santa Cruz Airport, following an aborted take-off.
(5) Imperial Iranian Air Force flight ULF48, a 747 freighter, crashed near Madrid on the 9th. May 1976, due to the structural failure of its left wing in flight, killing the 17 people on board.
The accident investigation determined that a lightning strike caused an explosion in a fuel tank in the wing, leading to flutter and separation of the wing.
(6) This is The Big One. On the 27th. March 1977, the highest death toll of any aviation accident in history occurred when KLM Flight 4805 collided on the runway with Pan Am 1736 in heavy fog at Tenerife Airport, resulting in 583 fatalities.
There were 61 survivors, all from the Pan Am 747. The Pan Am aircraft was coincidentally the first 747 to have entered commercial service.
Joani Feathers was one of the 61 who survived. She recalled how she saw a fellow passenger sliced in half by her seatbelt, and another woman set alight.
After the smash, her then-boyfriend Jack Ridout tried to help a stewardess trying to deploy an escape raft – only for an explosion to decapitate the Pan Am worker.
Recalling the near-death experience to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Feathers told of how she was nervous about the presence of the KLM 747 that crashed into her plane moments before it happened. After voicing her fears to Ridout, he jokingly replied:
"Don’t worry. If he hits us,
you won’t feel a thing."
She felt the plane she was on veer sharply to the left as it tried to avoid the other airliner, then looked up to see the roof of the 747 sliced open like a tin can. Feathers, who had been flying from Los Angeles to the Canaries to begin a Mediterranean cruise, added:
"All my rings had come off
my fingers. My shoes came
off. I just didn’t want to burn
up.’
The ex-cop credits her law enforcement training for making her one of the few survivors, as she knew not to wait to help, and to keep a constant check on her surroundings.
She and Ridout freed themselves from their seats, before jumping two storeys from a door of the wrecked jet. The couple then sprinted away from the plane, shortly before it exploded in a huge fireball.
Feathers, who now lives in Daytona Beach, said she kept repeating "No. No. I can’t believe this is happening" as she ran from the plane. She added:
"The plane went up
like an atom bomb."
Afterwards, Feathers and Ridout were flown back to California where they lived, but split up soon afterwards.
(7) On the 3rd. November 1977, one passenger died after a decompression event on an El Al 747 over Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
(8) Air India Flight 855 crashed into the sea off the coast of Mumbai on the 1st. January 1978. All 213 passengers and crew died.
The cause was lack of situation awareness on the captain's part after executing a banked turn due to the failure of an attitude detector. The false reading led to pilot confusion and spatial disorientation.
-- 1980's
(9) Korean Air Lines 747-200 Flight 015, operating a flight from Los Angeles to Seoul was damaged beyond repair on the 19th. November 1980. The aircraft undershot its landing, and impacted just short of the runway.
The landing gear collapsed, and the aircraft caught fire after it slid to a stop. Of the 226 occupants, 8 passengers and 6 crew members died, along with one person on the ground.
(10) On the 11th. August 1982, Pan Am 747-100, Flight 830, was en route from Tokyo to Honolulu with 285 aboard when a bomb exploded under a seat, killing 16-year-old Toru Ozawa, and injuring 16 others. The damaged airliner was able to land safely in Honolulu.
Mohammed Rashed, linked to the 15th. May Organisation, was convicted of murder in 1988.
(11) On the 16th. August 1982, China Airlines 747 encountered severe turbulence near Hong Kong; two of the 292 passengers were killed.
(12) On the 4th. August 1983, Pan Am Flight 73, a 747-100, struck a VASI light installation and its concrete base while taking off at Karachi International Airport, causing the nose gear to collapse backwards to the left.
This resulted in the total destruction of the VASI light installation, and damage to the forward cargo hold, the floor of the first class section, and the stairway leading to the upper deck.
(13) On the 1st. September 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a 747-200B from New York City to Seoul, strayed into Soviet air space as a result of a navigation error.
The aircraft was shot down just west of Sakhalin Island by the Soviet Air Force, killing all 269 passengers and crew on board.
(14) On the 27th. November 1983, Avianca Flight 011, a 747-200 flying from Paris to Bogotá via Madrid, crashed into a mountainside due to a navigational error while manoeuvring to land at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 181 out of the 192 on board.
(15) On the 19th. February 1985, China Airlines 747SP was flying from Taipei to LA. About 350 miles from San Francisco, incorrect crew responses to an engine failure led to an uncontrolled descent.
The aircraft lost 30,000 feet, and high air speeds and g-forces led to damage to the horizontal stabilisers, wings and landing gear doors. The crew diverted to San Francisco, and all 22 crew members and 374 passengers survived.
(16) On the 16th. March 1985, a UTA Boeing 747-300 was destroyed on the ground at Paris CDG when a fire was accidentally started while the aircraft's cabin was being cleaned. (.... How can you start a major fire when cleaning a plane???)
(17) On the 23rd. June 1985, a bomb exploded on Air India Flight 182, a 747-200B en route from Montreal to New Delhi, causing the aircraft to explode and crash off the Southwest coast of Ireland, killing all 329 on board.
Until the September 11 attacks of 2001, the Air India bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack involving aircraft. It remains the worst mass murder in Canadian history.
(18) On the 12th. August 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed when the rear pressure bulkhead of a 747 flying from Tokyo to Osaka failed at cruising altitude, destroying most of the aircraft's vertical stabiliser.
The pilots kept it in the air for 32 minutes - time for passengers to write notes to their loved ones - but the aircraft eventually crashed on Mount Takamagahara. Out of the 524 people on board, only four survived, making it the deadliest-ever single-aircraft accident.
Among those who had caught the flight was one of Japan 's most popular singers, Kyu Sajamoto. He had become known to Western audiences in the 1960's with his hit record Sukiyaki.
(19) On the 5th. December 1985, Air France Flight 91 overshot the runway during a landing at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport, Brazil. There were no fatalities, but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
(20) On the 5th. September 1986, Pan Am Flight 747-100 Flight 73 was about to depart Karachi for a flight to Frankfurt when four hijackers boarded the aircraft and attempted to take control of it.
However, the flight crew left the aircraft via the cockpit escape hatch (I'm all right, Jack). The hijackers killed 20 of the passengers before the hijacking ended.
(21) On the 28th. November 1987, South African Airways Flight 295, a 747-200 Combi en route from Taipei to Johannesburg, crashed into the ocean off Mauritius.
A fire had broken out in the rear cargo hold, leading to separation of the tail and damage to vital control systems. All 160 people on board died.
(22) On the 5th. April 1988, Kuwait Airways 747-200 Combi Flight 422 was hijacked during a flight from Bangkok to Kuwait. The aircraft was first diverted to Iran and later to Cyprus.
During the 16-day event, two hostages were killed in Cyprus before the hijackers surrendered at their final stop in Algeria.
(23) On the 21st. December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, a 747-100, disintegrated in mid-air after a bomb in the luggage hold exploded; the wings, with their tanks full of fuel, landed on Lockerbie, Scotland.
All 259 people on board and 11 people in Lockerbie died. A Libyan national was eventually convicted at a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands of murder in connection with the bombing.
(24) On the 19th. February 1989, Flying Tiger Line Flight 66, a 747-100F, was flying using a non-directional beacon (NDB) approach to Runway 33 at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Kuala Lumpur, when the cargo aircraft hit a hillside 600 ft (180 m) above sea level.
The crash resulted in the deaths of all four people on board. The crew had descended below the glide path after receiving ambiguous instructions from air traffic control.
(25) On the 24th. February 1989, United Air Lines 747-100, Flight 811 was flying from Honolulu to Auckland when it experienced sudden decompression.
The crew was able to return to Honolulu and land 14 minutes after the decompression. All 18 crew members survived, but 9 of the 337 passengers were killed. (...What did the 18 crew members do to ensure that they all survived???)
-- 1990's
(26) British Airways Flight 149 was a 747-100 flying from London Heathrow to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Kuala Lumpur with stopovers in Kuwait International Airport and Madras International Airport (now Chennai).
The aircraft landed in Kuwait City on the 1st. August 1990, four hours after the Gulf War had broken out. (Bad Move!!!)
All 385 passengers and crew were taken hostage by Iraqi forces; one was executed but the others were released. The aircraft was subsequently blown up. (....Why didn't someone radio the captain during the initial four hours of the war and mention that they were about to land in a war zone???? Who knows ....)
(27) On the 29th. December 1991, China Airlines Flight 358, a 747-200, crashed shortly after take-off from Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, killing all 5 crew members.
The crash occurred when the number-three and number-four engines (both on the right wing) detached from the aircraft. (... One engine falling off could perhaps have a valid explanation, but both????)
(28) On the 20th. February 1992, a passenger on Aerolineas Argentinas 747 en route to LA from Argentina died from food poisoning.
(29) On the 4th. October 1992, an El Al 747-200 cargo flight crashed shortly after take-off from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport after the right-side engines both fell off due to metal fatigue and damaged the right wing.
The aircraft crashed into an apartment building, killing all three crew members and the single passenger on board, as well as 43 people in the building and on the ground.
(30) On the 4th. November 1993, China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400 flying from Taipei to Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, landed 2000 feet past the threshold of runway 13, with insufficient braking power.
Unable to stop before the end of the runway, the captain steered the aircraft into Victoria Harbour. All passengers were evacuated via inflatable life rafts.
The vertical fin was blown off with explosives, as it disrupted airport operations. The aircraft was recovered from the harbour days later, and was written off.
(31) On the 11th. December 1994, a small liquid-explosive bomb detonated under a seat of a Philippine Airlines 747-200 flying from Cebu to Tokyo. The bomb, which exploded over the Pacific, killed one of the 287 passengers and injured 10 others.
The aircraft itself was seriously damaged by the blast, and although vital control systems were damaged, the pilots were able to safely land the airliner at Okinawa an hour later.
The bomb was assembled and planted for al-Qaeda by Ramzi Yousef, as a test for the planned bombings of the Bojinka plot. This was a January 1995 al-Qaeda plot to destroy several airliners over the Pacific Ocean using liquid explosives. The conspirators were discovered before they could carry out the terrorist attacks.
(32) On the 17th. July 1996, TWA Flight 800, a 747-100 bound for CDG Airport in Paris, exploded during its climb from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing all 230 people aboard.
A spark from a wire in the centre fuel tank caused the explosion near Long Island. Changes in fuel tank management were adopted after the crash.
For more information on the TWA 800 crash and the virtuoso guitarist who was one of the passengers, please search for the tag 74GND75
(33) On the 5th. September 1996, Air France 747-400 experienced severe turbulence near Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The turbulence injured 3 of the 206 passengers. One of the 3 later died of injuries caused by an in-flight entertainment screen. (.... How can an in-flight entertainment system kill you??? Perhaps it was terminal boredom. Alternative explanations on a postcard please).
(34) On the 12th. November 1996, Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763, a 747-100B, collided with Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907, an Ilyushin Il-76, in mid-air over Charkri Dadri in Haryana, India.
The collision resulted in the deaths of all 349 occupants of both aircraft, more than any other mid-air collision in history. The Ilyushin had apparently descended below its assigned altitude.
(35) On the 6th. August 1997, Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashed into a hillside while on a night-time approach in heavy rain to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport on the island of Guam.
The crash resulted from a controlled flight into terrain due to insufficient training and pilot fatigue. Of the 254 people on board, only 26 survived.
(36) On the 28th. December 1997, United Air Lines 747-100, Flight 826 encountered severe turbulence when flying from Tokyo to Honolulu. All 19 crew members survived, but one of the 374 passengers was killed.
(37) On the 4th. January 1998, Olympic Airways 747 was scheduled to fly from Athens to New York. Prior to the flight, an asthmatic passenger with a history of sensitivity to second-hand smoke asked for a seat in the non-smoking area of the aircraft.
However, once on board, it was clear that the assigned seat was only 3 rows ahead of the smoking section, with no partition.
Three requests were made to the cabin crew to switch seats, but the cabin crew would not move the passenger to one of the eleven available unoccupied seats. Several hours into the flight, the passenger suffered a reaction to the ambient smoke and died.
(.... Why didn't the flight crew just let the passenger move seats??? Who knows ...)
(38) On the 5th. August 1998, Korean Air Flight 8702, a Boeing 747-400, overshot a runway at Incheon International Airport while landing. The fuselage split and 25 people were injured.
(39) On the 5th. March 1999, Air France flight 6745, a 747-2B3F carrying 66 tons of cargo from Paris CDG to Madras International Airport via Karachi and Bangalore HAL Airport, was destroyed by fire after landing with gear up. There were no fatalities.
(40) On the 23rd. September 1999 Qantas Flight 1, a passenger flight between Sydney and London was involved in a runway overrun at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok as it was landing for a stopover.
Visibility was very poor due to heavy rain, and the previous aircraft had executed a go-round, although the Quantas crew were not made aware of this.
Flight 1 landed over 3,000 feet beyond the runway threshold, and the undercarriage wheels aquaplaned on the wet ungrooved runway.
The Pilot and First Officer took conflicting corrective action, leading to the aircraft running off the end of the runway over a long stretch of boggy grassland, colliding with a ground radio antenna as it did so, and coming to rest with its nose resting on the perimeter road.
38 passengers sustained minor injuries, but there were no fatalities. The extensive damage to the aircraft was such that it was initially declared a write-off, but to preserve the company's reputation, Qantas had it repaired at a cost of $100 million. By returning the aircraft to service, Qantas was able to retain its record of having had no hull-loss accidents since the advent of the Jet Age.
(41) On the 22nd. December 1999, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a 747-200F from London Stansted Airport, crashed shortly after take-off, killing all four crew. The captain of the aircraft had mishandled it due to erroneous indications on his attitude indicator.
-- 2000's
(42) On the 31st. October 2000, Singapore Airlines Flight 006, a 747-400 flying from Singapore to LA via Taipei, collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off in heavy rain from a closed runway at Taiwan's Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport.
The aircraft caught fire, killing 79 passengers and four crew members on board. There were 96 survivors.
(43) On the 31st. January 2001, Japan Airlines Flight 907, a Boeing 747-400 en route to Naha Airport, Okinawa, narrowly avoided a mid-air collision with Japan Airlines Flight 958, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
The incident was attributed to errors made by air traffic controller trainee Hideki Hachitani and trainee supervisor Yasuko Momii. Had the collision occurred, given the combined total of 677 people on board both aircraft, this could have potentially been the deadliest aviation accident ever, surpassing the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster.
Once they had seen each other, the two aircraft avoided collision by using extreme evasive manoeuvres, and passed within about 135 metres (443 ft) of each other.
Seven passengers and two crew members in the 747 sustained serious injuries; one 54-year old woman broke her leg. Additionally, 81 passengers and 10 crew members reported minor injuries.
Some unbelted passengers, flight attendants, and drink carts hit the ceiling, dislodging ceiling tiles. The manoeuvre threw one boy across four rows of seats. In addition, a drink cart spilled, scalding some passengers.
After a criminal investigation, on the 11th. April 2008, the two air traffic controllers were found guilty of giving incorrect instructions, and received suspended prison sentences.
(44) On the 23rd. August 2001, Saudia Flight 3830, 747-368, rolled into a drainage ditch at Kuala Lumpur Airport and toppled forward, causing severe damage to the nose section. The aircraft was being taxied by a ground engineer.
When trying to make a turn, the brakes and steering had no effect, and the aircraft continued into the ditch. It emerged that the auxiliary hydraulic pumps, which actuated the brakes and steering, were switched off.
(45) On the 21st. November 2001, MK Airlines 747-200F was on an international cargo flight from Luxembourg to Port Harcourt, Nigeria when it crashed about 700 metres short of the runway. Of the 13 individuals on board, 1 died.
(46) On the 25th. May 2002, China Airlines Flight 611, a 747-200B en route to Hong Kong International Airport from Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport, broke up in mid-air 20 minutes after take off, and crashed into the Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 people on board.
Subsequent investigation determined the cause to be metal fatigue cracking due to an improperly-performed repair after a tail strike.
The aircraft was about to be sold to another carrier the following month. According to Boeing, it had been delivered to China Airlines in July 1979, and had accumulated approximately 21,180 landings and 64,394 flight hours. (.... That's a total of over 7 years in the air!!!)
This 22-year old aircraft was nevertheless younger than similar models in the fleets of US airlines. According to the FAA, the average age of Boeing 747-200 and 300 models in US fleets at the time of the event was 24 years.
(47) On the 14th. October 2004, MK Airlines Flight 1602, a 747-200F, crashed while attempting to take off from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven on board.
The aircraft's take-off weight had been incorrectly calculated, and it was only airborne briefly before stalling at the end of the runway.
(48) On the 8th. September 2005, while Saudi Arabian Airlines 747-300 was taxiing for takeoff on a flight from Colombo to Jeddah, air traffic controllers had an anonymous call concerning a possible bomb on the aircraft. The crew performed an emergency evacuation.
This resulted in 62 injuries amongst the 430 passengers and crew members. One passenger died as a result of his injuries, and 19 were hospitalised. A subsequent search revealed that there was no bomb on board.
(49) On the 7th. June 2006, Tradewinds International Airlines Flight 444, a 747-200F, aborted a take-off from Rionegro/Medellín-José María Córdova Airport and overran the runway. The aircraft was damaged beyond economic repair, and was withdrawn from service.
(50) On the 25th. May 2008, a Kalitta Air 747-200F broke up when it overran Runway 20 at Brussels Airport, Belgium, while en route to Bahrain International Airport, with no injuries.
(51) 44 days later, on the 7th. July 2008, another Kalitta Air 747-200F crashed into a farm field near the village of Madrid, Colombia shortly after take-off from El Dorado International Airport.
This time, the crew had reported an engine fire, and were attempting to return to the airport. One of the aircraft's engines hit a farmhouse and killed three people inside it.
-- 2010's
(52) On the 3rd. September 2010, UPS Airlines Flight 6, a 747-400F, crashed near Dubai International Airport, killing two crew members. The crash was blamed on a major fire that had been triggered by the auto-ignition of 81,000 lithium-ion batteries in a cargo pallet in the hold.
(53) On the 28th. July 2011, Asiana Airlines Flight 991, a 747-400F, caught fire and crashed in the sea near Jeju island, killing both crew members.
(54) On the 29th. April 2013, National Airlines Flight 102, a 747-400BCF, stalled and crashed shortly after taking off from Bagram Airfield, killing all 7 crew members.
At one point, the aircraft had rolled to the right past 45 degrees. Although the crew managed to get the wings more or less level, by then the aircraft was too low, and it impacted the ground at high vertical speed, causing an explosion and fire.
(55) On the 22nd. December 2013, the right wing on British Airways Flight 34, a Boeing 747–436, struck a building at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg after missing a turning on a taxiway.
The wing was severely damaged, but there were no injuries amongst the crew or 189 passengers, although four on the ground were injured. The aircraft was officially written off in February 2014.
(56) On the 19th. March 2015, a 747-SP used by the president of Yemen was damaged by gunfire from troops loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Photos released a few months later showed the remains of the aircraft after it had been set on fire.
(57) On the 16th. January 2017, Turkish Airlines Flight 6491, a 747-400F operated by ACT Airlines en route from Hong Kong to Istanbul via Bishkek, overshot the runway on landing in thick freezing fog at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
The aircraft caught fire, and 39 people died, including all four crew members, as well as 35 residents of a village at the crash site.
(58) On the 7th. November 2018, SkyLease Cargo Flight 4854, a 747-400F, overran the runway while landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Although the aircraft sustained substantial damage, all four crew members survived with minor injuries.
-- 2020's
(59) On the 27th. August 2020, a Boeing 747-SP belonging to Las Vegas Sands Corporation was damaged beyond economic repair by Hurricane Laura while being stored at Chennault International Airport in Louisiana.
The tip of the right wing struck a steel beam, causing the tip to separate. The nose section of the aircraft was also damaged by the wing of another aircraft stored at the airport.
(60) On the 20th. February 2021, Longtail Aviation Flight 5504 littered the Dutch town of Meerssen with metal parts that fell from the sky onto property and people, shortly after departing Maastricht Airport for New York.
According to witness reports, there was a fire visible in one of the Boeing 747-400 cargo plane’s engines. The plane was able to land safely at Liège airport in Belgium, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of where it took off.
Soon after the incident Maastricht Airport spokesperson Hella Hendriks stated that several cars and houses had been damaged, and that pieces were found across the residential neighbourhood on roofs, gardens and streets.
Ms Hendriks confirmed that dozens of pieces fell. The metal parts apparently measured 5cm wide and 25cm long. She noted:
"The initial photos indicate they were parts
of engine blades, but that’s being investigated.”
Two people were injured by the debris, including an elderly woman who had to be taken to hospital.
The plane was powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines, a smaller version of those on the United Airlines Boeing 777 that caught fire and dropped engine parts over Denver on the same day.
(61) On the 8th. September 2022, part of a Boeing 747’s engine plunged through a couple's garage roof. Louis and Adela Demaret, from Waremme in the Liège region of Belgium, heard a low-flying aircraft, followed by a deafening noise.
The flight was being operated by Air Atlanta Icelandic, and was travelling to Malta-Luqa airport when it lost the aft cowl of one of the engines.
Their garage window was also damaged, and another section of the plane’s engine landed next to the couple’s driveway. Fortunately no one was injured.
Summary
The 61 incidents listed above resulted in a total of 3,930 fatalities.
3,930 people standing in a line with a one metre gap between each would form a queue over 5.23 km (3.25 miles) long.
People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped.
~Author Unknown ~
This is Karriem AKA Dream'z my youngest son,
I relate this quote to him because he has ADHD & is Asthmatic, now you give a kid with ADHD some Albuterol & see what you get, LMAO
Anyway they said give him the ADHD meds, me no way!
I've had him tested but they say he doesn't need special classes.
They also noted that on one of the test he scored so high now this was in the 5th grade mind you!, that they couldn't believe it there were adults that didn't come close.
Doc says that most kids with ADHD are borderline genius but the attention isn't right.
Well Karriem is 18 & doing just fine!
I'm proud because he's mine, I never medicated him & there were time's where I had it up to here over how they called me back & forth to school but he's not lost.
He's taught himself how to play the guitar on his own & there is almost nothing you can tell him about a computer.
He didn't get it from me, lol...
It's OK to be different it's OK to be you, because no one else can be it & nobody can live your life for you.
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Being asthmatic, the smoke from the wild fires has just about done me in, so today it was just a quick trip into the garden to see what was around. I was delighted to find this little one wandering across the lavender.
The bottom of the 199 Steps at Whitby.
These old infirm legs and asthmatic chest weren't up to climbing the Steps, and we took the Tour Bus to the Abbey instead, but I managed to walk down them OK.
Whitby was eerily quiet (Friday 10th May 2024, and sunny)
Whitby, Yorkshire Coast, North Yorkshire, UK
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This appears to be a vintage press photo of an older photo. This young lady comes with quite the story, as you'll read below.
That is what I imagine to be a nude body suit used for artist-modeling which allowed them to be clothed, but naked in a time when public nudity was a major crime?
Written on back:
#44387
Irene Kelynack
"The Venus of the 20th Century"
Artist's Model
Hesser
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Dorothea Irene Kelznack/Kelynack was born on January 27, 1895, in New York City, New York to RICHARD & Mary Kelynack. She married Ernest J. Turley on December 21, 1917, in Boston, Massachusetts. She died in 1973 in New York at the age of 78.
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From a 2016 Article by Lynn Peril:
On March 15, 1916, New York’s Evening World newspaper declared 21-year-old Dorothea Irene Kelynack “an exact flesh-and-blood replica of the marble Venus of the Louvre.” This was newspaper hyperbole, of course; to begin with, the Venus de Milo is six feet eight inches tall. Nevertheless, for a short period of time just before America entered the First World War, newspapers declared one or another young woman “a modern Venus” based on her measurements’ adherence to a scaled-down version of the statue. There was a Swarthmore Venus and one from Wellesley (the women’s colleges had such data at the ready as incoming freshmen were routinely measured nude in a relentless hunt for scoliosis; men’s colleges did the same, but no competition to discover a “modern David” followed). Now, Venus had emerged from New York City.
According to the paper’s “Venus Chart,” Kelynack was a smidge under five feet four inches tall, weighed 125 pounds, and measured as follows: neck, 12.5 inches; chest, 34.2 (two inches larger when inflated); waist 25.9. Her ankle measured a dainty 8.2 inches. The female reporter cooed about the “springing, supple lines” and “arresting charm” of Dorothea’s “perfectly modeled, perfectly managed body.”
The new Venus conceded she wore a corset, albeit a “very loose” one. Otherwise, she was a bit of a rebel. “I drink a little wine with my dinner when I feel like it, and I eat candy,” she said, though she practiced “temperance” when it came to both (this may have been a jibe at prohibition bluenoses to whom temperance meant full abstinence where alcohol was concerned). She believed that a career kept a woman “mentally alert” and helped to “preserve her beauty longer than the mere idler.” Dorothea herself had trained at the London Academy of Music, and aspired to appear on the stage or in the movies.
She had been a tomboy, who loved to climb trees and ride horses. “I believe that the tomboy has a better chance of becoming a Venus than the affected, artificial, repressed child whose one duty in life is to be ‘be a little lady,’” she concluded, in the type of statement for which the word “foreshadowing” was invented.
One might have expected Dorothea to make a match equal to that of her non-Venusian sister, who married a wealthy linen dealer after a shipboard romance. Instead, Dorothea eloped with Ernest Turley, a Navy man, in early 1918. The papers later called him “a handsome, two-fisted, go-getting sort of fellow” who “put up a whirlwind wooing that made paunchy millionaires, in Dorothea’s eyes, seem just funny,” but he was without question a bit player in the drama that followed. A daughter, Mattie, was born in December, and a son the following year.
The family moved to California, then, in July 1933, to Arizona, hoping the climate would aid Dorothea’s asthmatic lungs. News photos showed a rustic shack in which Ma and Pa Kettle would have felt right at home. It was easy to imagine a skunk taking up residence under the house. Mattie said she was aiming at one on November 18, 1933, when she tripped and unloaded both barrels of her shotgun into her father’s back. He was wounded, but alive. Mattie was a month shy of her fifteenth birthday.
But when the sheriff asked why, if the gun discharged as she fell, the shot’s path through her father’s body angled up and not down, Mattie let loose with a bombshell. She shot Ernest Turley on purpose — because the Ouija board she and her mother consulted said that her father must die in order for Dorothea to marry a handsome cowboy. “Mother told me the Ouija board could not be denied,” Mattie later told a jury, “and that I would not even be arrested for doing it.” Despite her professed belief in the Ouija’s infallibility, Dorothea nevertheless sought a second opinion. She reached for a deck of cards and drew one. “The ace of spades,” Mattie testified, “meant death for Daddy.” She lost her nerve when she first took aim, then thought about “how much it would mean” to her mother and fired.
Mattie pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted murder. Law enforcement wisely looked to the other set of hands on the planchette during that fateful session with the Ouija board and jailed Dorothea as an accomplice.
Ernest Turley died six weeks after the shooting. Dorothea was charged with murder, and the newspapers went berserk. Mattie was now the “beautiful 15-year-old shotgun slayer of her father.” Still “pretty” at 38, Dorothea had been chosen the American Venus over 3,000 or 50,000 other beauty contest entrants (in 1916 she told a New Jersey paper that her resemblance to the statue had been “discovered by accident” when “a relative noticed in the papers something about a would-be Venus at one of the colleges, and asked her to have herself measured”). Pictures of mother and daughter ran side by side for comparison.
Details were lurid. The handsome cowboy was tracked down, a 22-year-old named Kent Pearce. Like Dorothea before him, he dreamed of a movie career. Mattie testified that her mother and Pearce frequently drove out of town for late-night petting parties, with 14-year-old Mattie and a friend of Pearce’s in the backseat. Once the foursome stayed out until morning. “I have a hell of a good time on the Mesa,” Dorothea told a neighbor.
Dorothea maintained that the shooting was accidental. Yes, she owned a Ouija board, but she never asked it “Shall we kill father?” as her daughter testified. Mattie was angry with her and her father because they “didn’t want her to use rouge or to run about at night with cowpunchers or to cross her legs the way she did or to wear such short dresses.” She tried to pin the blame on her mother, Dorothea said, “because some of the cowboys didn’t like me.”
Through it all, Mattie stuck to the Ouija story. She also expressed deep remorse. “They thought I wouldn’t take the rap,” she said. “But I killed Daddy and I want to pay for it. That’s the only way I can show the world and him how sorry I am.” When she was taken away to begin serving her sentence at the grim-sounding State School for Girls, Dorothea told her, in what Mattie called and cold and sarcastic tone: “I thank you for your cooperation. Be a good girl.”
Dorothea was sentenced to 15 to 25 years for masterminding her husband’s murder, but had served less than three when she was granted a new trial and the charges against her were dropped. She went straight to the convent where Mattie remained in custody following the closure of the reform school. A “happy and contented” Mattie at first refused to meet with her mother, then relented long enough to tell Dorothea she never wanted to see her again. She was paroled shortly thereafter, and disappeared into what one can only hope was a satisfying adult life.
Dorothea told reporters that the day would come when Mattie would “realize the terrible wrong” she had done her to her mother. In the meantime, she unsuccessfully sued the former superintendent of the State School for Girls for “poisoning” her daughter’s mind against her.
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This is a scanned image from a batch of wire photos, publicity photos, vintage snapshots, cabinet cards, CDVs and real photo postcards purchased at auction. You are welcome to pin, re-post, embed and share this image, but please do not reproduce for your personal gain or profit without my permission.
I did some small, cosmetic clean-up retouches in photoshop.
Any comments or observations are much appreciated!
This guy sat down beside me for a while, little lost for breath, asthmatic, puffed on his inhaler,caught his breath, then pointed at my camera,he wanted to see what i was shooting, then let me do a few portraits.. nice.
Dry season in the tropical Top End of the Northern Territory, the air is heavy with smoke and ash from the grass fires that burn off thousands of square kilometres each year.
Not to good for the asthmatics but makes for spectacular sunsets
Scott Rand was a relatively normal high school student when his entire soccer team was mysteriously transported to the Chinese village of K’un L’un. The village had been plagued by a dragon for centuries, and stories told of its enormous size and power.
In reality, however, it was a rather asthmatic-looking creature that wheezed and panted as it chased its prey. Scott’s entire soccer team panicked at the sight of it anyway. Scott did as well. Being an eternal klutz, however, he tripped and fell backward immediately, and his foot somehow struck the dragon in the throat hard enough to make it choke.
Having “slain” the beast, Scott was granted its power. Which, since he had vanquished it with only his right foot, meant that he could now kick incredibly hard with that one foot. After walking eighty miles to the nearest airport to get a flight home, Scott fights crime armed with his new power and a disconcertingly dark sense of humor.
"I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform."
Stephen Fry
DD108 (Dave Maltby) is usually confined to local school runs these days due to being, shall we say, a little asthmatic, however this week due to fleet availability he has been 'on tour' - that is being trusted with some longer journeys including Suthers schools and on this occasion the rather lengthy 730 from Tuxford Academy to North Wheatley!
As if just to prove a point, having arrived at the terminus I decided to take a photo to show that he made it, so here is Dave - parked next to the village sign by the Primary School.
German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/407. Photo: Lothar Winkler.
Curvaceous Austrian actress Marisa Mell (1939-1992) became a cult figure of 1960s Italian B-films. Her most famous role is criminal mastermind Eva Kant in Mario Bava’s Diabolik (1968).
Marisa Mell was born as Marlies Theres Moitzi in Graz, Austria, in 1939. She was raised by her schoolteacher mother. In 1954, she appeared in an uncredited part in the film Das Licht der Liebe (1954, Robert A. Stemmle) starring Paula Wessely. Marlies left Graz to study acting at the Max-Reinhard-Seminar in Vienna, where she graduated together with Senta Berger, Heidelinde Weis and Erika Pluhar. Her beauty and natural talent gave her plenty of stage presence. She changed her name to Marisa Mell and left Austria for Germany in the late 1950s. A string of minor roles followed in films like Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond (1959, Wolfgang Glück), Am Galgen hängt die Liebe (1960, Edwin Zbonek) and the Edgar Wallace adaptation Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee/Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962, Helmut Ashley) with Christopher Lee. She played her first lead in Venusberg (1963, Rolf Thiele). Just now her career began to escalate, she was involved in a nasty car accident in France. For six hours, she lay unconscious, unaware that she had nearly lost her right eye. The disfigurement extended to her lip as well. She spent two years undergoing plastic surgery. No damage remained in her face, except for a distinctive curl of her upper lip, but, according to her fan ‘Blundering Man’ at Cult Sirens, this added “even more charm to her already attractive features.” Following her recovery, Mell headed for Britain, where she easily played the role of a film star in French Dressing (1964), the first feature of Britain's bad boy Ken Russell. She next made Masquerade (1965, Basil Dearden) with Cliff Robertson. She turned down a seven-year Hollywood contract, saying that while the payment would have been great, "the contract was a whole book. I think that even to go to the toilet, I would have needed permission." Instead of Hollywood, she chose Rome.
Marisa Mell started her Italian film career with the Oscar-nominated comedy Casanova 70 (1965, Mario Monicelli) starring Marcello Mastroianni. Among her co-stars were other ravishing beauties like Michèle Mercier and Virna Lisi. The following year, she played one of the leads in the spy thriller New York chiama Superdrago/New York Calls Super Dragon (1966, Calvin Jackson Padget aka Giorgio Ferroni). Mell's beauty and flair for comedy helped bring her career into full swing. In 1967, she was cast by American producer David Merrick for the title role in the Broadway musical Mata Hari. The director was Vincente Minelli, and her co-star was Pernell Roberts. Marisa got a buildup that included coverage in Vogue and McCall's, but at the Washington preview, “everything from the scenery to the sound system came apart”, according to Time magazine. Mata Hari opened to “lethal reviews”, and Merrick closed the production before it could open on Broadway. Marisa returned to Italy and starred as Eva Kant in Diabolik/Danger: Diabolik (1968), directed by Mario Bava and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. The film was based on one of the longest-running and most successful Italian comic strips. Eva Kant is the sexy and mysterious sidekick to antihero Diabolik, a criminal mastermind who finds great pleasure in leading the authorities on various wild goose chases. According to Blundering Man at Cult Sirens, Bava “had preferred her over Catherine Deneuve, no less, as he was searching for a ‘comic book’ style of beauty. Danger: Diabolik remains a successful adaptation of a comic on the big screen (and maybe the ultimate role for stolid star John Philip Law) and the various superhero costumes could've been an inspiration for Tim Burton's Batman.”
For Marisa Mell, the best and most productive years of her career started. She worked mainly in Italy, with occasional stops in France and Spain. In 1969, she played the challenging dual role of an asthmatic, dying wife and a seductive stripper in Una sull'altra/One on Top of the Other (1969, Lucio Fulci). That year, she had a miscarriage. The father of the child was Pier Luigi Torri, with whom she lived for about three years. During that time, Torri produced one of Marisa's better (yet unsuccessful) films, Senza via d'uscita/No Way Out (1970, Piero Sciumé), co-starring Philippe Leroy. Torri had to leave Italy in 1971 after a notorious cocaine scandal to avoid prison. Another interesting film is the spaghetti western Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso/Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1971, Umberto Lenzi) starring the father of Hollywood hunk Antonio Sabato, Antonio Sabato Sr. In 1975, she appeared in the Diana Ross musical Mahogany (1975, Berry Gordy). In Some Like It Cool/Casanova & Co. (1977, Franz Antel), Marisa was joined by Tony Curtis, Marisa Berenson, Sylva Koscina and Britt Ekland. In between, Marisa found the time to pose nude for the Italian version of Playboy in the November 1976 issue. As Mell got older, femme fatale roles in good films were no longer offered to her. In the 1980’s she appeared in more and more obscure B-films, the majority being soft sex comedies, which were distributed only in Europe. In the late 1980s, the television show Mystery Science Theatre 3000 brought the actress to a new generation of B-film viewers when Danger: Diabolik was featured in an episode in 1988. The show also spoofed another of her films, New York chiama Superdrago/New York Calls Super Dragon. She wrote her autobiography, Coverlove, which was published in Vienna in 1990. In 1990, she appeared in Quest for the Mighty Sword/Ator III: The Hobgoblin (1990, Joe D'Amato), co-starring strongman Eric Allan Kramer and Laura ‘Black Emmanuelle’ Gemser. Her last film appearance was in the comedy I Love Vienna (1991, Houchang Allahyari). In Vienna, Marisa Mell passed away from throat cancer in 1992. She was only 53 and died in poverty. Only a few friends attended her funeral. She had been married twice, to Henri Tucci and Espartaco Santoni. In 1996, her best friend Erika Plughar published 'Marisa, Rückblenden einer Freundschaft (Marisa, Flashbacks of a Friendship).
Sources: Mirko di Wallenberg (Marisa Mell blog), Blundering Man (Cult Sirens), Brian J. Walker (Brian’s Drive-In Theatre), Time, Wikipedia and IMDb.
Barney?
Yes Flynn?
You hear any blackbirds?
Nope.
Is the buzzard about?
Nope. Skies are clear.
What about... pheasants?
No!
Hmm, I can't see any of 'em either. The birds are being sneaky today. What about down the hill, anything comin' from that direction??
Only Hooman! She's walkin' slower than a snail an' huffin' & puffin' worse than an asthmatic badger. Maybe you should go down an' collect her, Flynn?
Can't you do that, Barney? I'm busy, keeping an eye on stuff...
ME?!!! I only just got up meself... an' that was hard enough work. I am NOT goin' back down now! You're younger, Flynn. You go!
But I'm guarding this 'ere bench!
Eh? Guarding the bench? I thought you were just lookin' for pheasants?
Well, what if a pheasant came to steal the bench? What then?
A pheasant? Why would a pheasant want this bench?
To sit on. Duh.
Flynn... I never saw a pheasant sit on a bench.
That's cause I was 'ere to stop 'em!
I never saw a pheasant on any bench in nearly sixteen years, Pup.
That don't mean they won't start though!
Hmm, if you say so. Oh look, Hooman's nearly up the hill now... do ya think she's brought snacks?
For some reason, Flynn really does tend to get rather cross at the birds, when we're at this particular bench! He'll be fine for a while & then he might hear the pheasants making a racket, or the alarm call of a blackbird- or he might spot a red kite, buzzard, or raven flying overhead & he puffs up, paces about & growls & woofs at them. Flynn generally isn't fussed about birds, so I'm not entirely sure why he thinks they're so problematic up here! Perhaps it's the way the wind funnels sounds up the slope, or the fact the wood comes right up behind the bench? Haha, or perhaps he knows something we don't & they're actually an especially disreputable, bench-thieving flock, in this area!! Barney quite clearly thinks his little brother is being a complete twit & refuses to join in with "guard duty"!
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(Please, while I appreciate the idea of sharing, no multiple invitations .. thanks!)
There was a time when stramonium, a drug obtained from the leaves and seeds of Datura stramonium, was used medicinally (Herbalgram). The alkaloid was known as daturine. From the seeds was made extractum stramonii. The tinctura stramonii was made from the leaves. Stramonium was used to relax the smooth muscle of the bronchial tubes, and thus it was used to treat an asthmatic's bronchial spasm. Cigarettes were made of stramonium leaves which could be smoked; or the tincture was taken internally. Frequently the leaves were powdered together with equal quantities of the leaves of Cannabis and Lobelia mixed with potassium nitrate, and were burned in an open dish. The preparation was reported to give off dense fumes which afforded great relief to the asthmatic paroxysm. Around the turn of the century numerous patent "cures" for asthma contained these ingredients in varying proportions. Daturine was also used to treat acute mania as hyoscyamine was said to produce sleep. Because of the dangers of tropane poisoning, datura is not used medicinally today, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has claimed it to be unfit for human consumption. However, atropine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine are FDA approved drugs that are used every day for a variety of conditions.
My Favourite Albums of the Year 2015
From California to the Faeroes Islands, Germany to Kentucky, right back to here in Vancouver, these are my favourite albums of the year.
Cayucas – Dancing at the Blue Lagoon (Secretly Canadian)
A rare California entry on my year-end list. Their sunny brand of quirky indie rock struck me in just the right way. Released to almost zero acclaim, this might be my pick-me-up album of the year.
Leon Bridges – Coming Home (Columbia)
Rarely does a debut album hit me as hard as this one did. Borrows heavily from the 50’s and 60’s American soul catalogue in lyrics and form, but hey, who cares when you have a voice as smooth as his.
Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
Lauded seventh studio release from the now Brooklyn-based musician is one of his best. References his childhood memories of a mostly-absent mother and a mostly-present stepfather. Touching, solid, memorable.
Valley Maker – When I Was a Child (Brick Lane Records)
Seattle heart-wrenchers mix male-female harmonies, sparse guitar lines and poetic lyrics for an entrancing release.
Beirut – No No No (Pompeii Records)
Critically panned but, in my humble opinion, still well worth a listen for its brilliant instrumentations and clever lyrics despite being an even bigger step towards the radio-and-streaming-friendly centre
Daniel Martin Moore – Golden Age (Sub Pop)
Kentucky singer-songwriter reminds me of the similarly beautiful and melancholy Jesse Marchant with a slight Americana twist
Hayden – Hey Love (Arts & Crafts)
Hayden is like a cousin to me, a brother, an old friend. When he gets it right, as he usually does, his albums speak to me in a way that few others could. He’s older, wiser, and more of a lyricist here than ever but much of his simple boy-next-door songs remain the same as they did when I first listened to him so many lifetimes ago.
Villagers – Darling Arithmetic (Domino Recording Co.)
Ireland’s Villagers were once nominated for Mercury Prize but are, as so often s the case, still more or less unknown on North American shores. Largely the baby of leadman Conor O’Brien and in part a coming-out record, it features simpler songs than past albums but now more deeply personal and affective as a result.
Peter Broderick – Colours of the Night (Bella Union)
Once a member of Horse Feathers and Efterklang, two of my all-time favourites, Portland’s Broderick now spends much of his time in Europe adding his talent to many an album as a recording and touring musician. He recorded this release in Switzerland borrowing talent and inspiration from his musical brethren.
Nils Frahm – Solo (Erased Tapes)
German modern pianist released this album of solo tracks for free in the spring but the delicate music is rich beyond words.
Marius Ziska – Home (Stargazer Records)
Proof that there is great music everywhere, Ziska is a singer songwriter from the Faeroes Islands with great melodies and soaring vocals that remind me of, dare I say it, a young Chris Martin.
Honourable Mention:
Fort Frances – No One Needs to Know Our Name; Father John Misty – I Love You, Honeybear; Colin Stetson & Sara Neufeld – Never Were the Way She Was; Patrick Watson – Love Songs for Robots; Other Lives - Rituals; Simen Mitlid – While We Wait
Video showing it off in all 3 dimensionsL youtu.be/rM5oOX0UK-E
I'm going to have to do all of these now...
In other news Asthmatic Kitty themselves Tweeted Lego Illinois twitter.com/asthmatickitty/status/682199929499029504
Ardisia crenata is a species of flowering plant in the primrose family, Primulaceae, that is native to East Asia. It is known by a variety of names such as Christmas berry, Australian holly, coral ardisia, coral bush, coralberry, coralberry tree, hen's-eyes, and spiceberry.
Ardisia crenata is an invasive species that was introduced to the United States in the early twentieth century as an ornamental plant. It is viewed as an environmental weed in Australia, particularly in its rainforests. Preparations made from the root of this plant are used as an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. The leaves of the plant are being investigated as a remedy to stop asthmatic contractions and spasms.
atelier ying, nyc.
I'm so happy to have a design for Lomography!
Being totally relying on his memory and intuition, The novelist Marcel Proust would profit greatly from the use this very impressionistic, plastic Toy Camera with its high end accessories.
The name of this special camera, Belair, comes from the French meaning "fresh air". That provided the architecturally-inspired parti for this design.
For Marcel Proust was an asthmatic all his life. This is the prime reason why he was bedridden and the main impetus for him late in his life to rely entirely upon his memory to create the single work that would bring him everlasting fame.
Therefore "Bel Air" is the perfect and perhaps the only suitable name for a homage to him. What would give him more pleasure and fresh air than a beach front house built upon a cliff by the sea? The little white structure is set at a slight angle and rises out of the bellows of the camera and functions as the viewfinder for a digitally modified Belair. It is the perfect visual representation of the viewfinder for a digital conversion of an analogue camera because it would give the impression of an extra long focal length. Like a penthouse apartment, it appears to survey everything below from an exclusive position. To further the luxury and folly, a second opening from the bellows extends out into the imaginary sea via zig zagging stairs down to a long cantilevered terrace over a little private beach in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright.
The existing external viewfinder of the Belair is not coupled to the camera. Therefore, the experience I propose is not to be the typical interior views I have employed in my other viewfinder designs but a different approach is done here, to tilt and adjust the viewfinder on its own swivel and change its lens so that it points to and focuses upon only the roof view of and from the Beach house as yet another idyllic impression that its owner can remember. A second modified viewfinder on the side allows yet another voyeuristic view of the structure. Little plastic figurines are provided for fantasy placement all along the camera.
Digitizing this plastic lens camera would be a treat.
The wobbly lens board now becomes an asset with the more flexible untethered bellows (the cantilever walk is supported by piers with springs on a faux beach) allows a modest tilt, shift and swing.
Also, true vintage large format lenses can be fitted on now expanding the look of the photographs.
The Lumix GF1 is almost 20-30% smaller than the Belair and is nicely scaled down behind it.
One technical note: when drilling the hole for the lens, it is advisable to use safety goggles and a drill press, and to go at it in pulses rather than bore straight through as the fragile lomography camera body would easily shatter.
To complement the additional features, a crafted anthracite gray crocodile skin embossed leather is offered for this design. It is the perfect background skin for the stucco white penthouse structure and the inlayed marquetry of various woods for the terrace and stairs
Design Drawing is copyright 2013 by David Lo
"I've got a nice slightly used Acura for sale. Might need a little paint job, but it still has its four wheels (so far). I'm willing to give a fare price for this beauty because honestly, I suspect it might have a minor engine problem. Reason for selling it: I'm asthmatic..."
The house where 16-year-old Sylvia Likens was tortured to death in 1965.
Here's the Wikipedia synopsis of the case:
Sylvia Likens was the third child of carnival workers Betty and Lester Likens. Her birth came between two sets of fraternal twins, Diana and Daniel (two years older), and Jenny and Benny (two years younger). The marriage of the Likens was unstable and the family moved many times. Likens was often boarded out or forced to live with relatives while her parents were working.
In 1965, Likens and her sister Jenny, who was disabled from polio, were living with their mother in Indianapolis when the elder woman was arrested and jailed for shoplifting. Lester Likens, who had recently separated from his wife, arranged for his daughters to board with Gertrude Baniszewski, the mother of Paula, a girl with whom the Likens girls had become acquainted. Although the Baniszewski family was poor, with seven children, three spoons, and no stove, Lester Likens, as he reported in the trial, "didn't pry" into the condition of the house, and encouraged Baniszewski to "straighten his daughters out". He agreed to pay her twenty dollars a week.
Baniszewski, described by the Indianapolis Star as a "haggard, underweight asthmatic" suffering from depression and the stress of several failed marriages, began taking her anger out on the Likens girls, beating them with paddles after payments from their parents failed to arrive on time.
Sylvia Likens in particular became a target of abuse. Baniszewski accused her of stealing candy she had bought from a grocery store and humiliated her when she admitted that she had once had a boyfriend. She kicked Likens in the groin and accused her of being pregnant. Paula Baniszewski, who was in fact pregnant at the time, became enraged and knocked Likens onto the floor. Likens became convinced that she was pregnant, although medical examination proved that she was not and could not have been.
Likens allegedly retaliated by spreading rumors at their high school that Paula and Stephanie Baniszewski were prostitutes. That supposedly prompted Stephanie's boyfriend, Coy Hubbard, to physically attack Likens. Mrs. Baniszewski encouraged Hubbard and other neighborhood children to torment Likens, including, among other things, putting cigarettes out on her skin, forcing her to remove her clothes and inserting a Coke bottle into her vagina.
After Likens admitted stealing a gym suit, without which she was unable to attend gym class, Baniszewski pulled her out of school and did not allow her to leave the house. When Likens urinated in her bed, she was locked in the cellar and forbidden to use the toilet. Later, she was forced to consume feces and urine. Baniszewski began to carve the words "I'm a prostitute and proud of it!" into Sylvia's stomach with a heated needle, although Richard Hobbs finished the carving when Baniszewski couldn't.
Likens attempted to escape a few days before her death. As punishment, she was tied in the basement and given only crackers to eat. On October 26, 1965, after multiple beatings, she died of brain hemorrhage, shock, and malnutrition.
Two of the young people tried to revive Likens before realizing it was a lost cause.
On May 19, 1966, Gertrude Baniszewski was convicted of first-degree murder, but spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison. Her daughter Paula, who had given birth to a daughter named Gertrude during the trial, was convicted of second-degree murder and also given a life term. Richard Hobbs, Coy Hubbard, and John Baniszewski were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two-to-21-year terms.
The boys would spend two years in prison. In 1971, Paula and Gertrude Baniszewski were granted another trial. Paula pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was released two years later. Gertrude Baniszewski, however, was again convicted of first-degree murder. She came up for parole in 1985, and despite a public outcry and petitions against her release, the parole board took her good behavior in prison into account, and she was set free.
Gertrude Baniszewski changed her name to Nadine van Fossan and moved to Iowa, where she died of lung cancer in 1990. When Jenny Likens, who was then married and living in Beech Grove, Indiana, saw her obituary in the newspaper, she clipped it out and mailed it to her mother with the note: "Some good news. Damn old Gertrude died. Ha ha ha! I am happy about that." Jenny Likens Wade died of a heart attack on June 23, 2004 at the age of 54.
For the millions of people suffering from asthma around the world, pioneering research in orbit is uncovering new ways of understanding what goes wrong in patients with airway inflammation. The results are helping to develop quick and ultra-sensitive lung tests for an improved quality of life – both on Earth and in space.
With each lungful of air, our bodies absorb oxygen and exhale waste-product molecules. In people with asthma, inflammation in the lungs adds nitric oxide to exhaled air. Doctors measure the amount of nitric oxide exhaled by patients to diagnose inflamed lungs and asthma.
On the Moon and Mars, an astronaut’s lungs may become easily irritated or inflamed by dust particles. The reduced gravity on those celestial bodies makes the dust floating around a real threat for humans. The Airway Monitoring experiment looks at the amount of nitric oxide expelled by the astronauts in a microgravity environment and reduced pressure.
An easy-to-use and accurate device is used in clinics and hospitals today, helping asthmatics and offering a cheaper way to diagnose lung problems around the world.
Credits: ESA
Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
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This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
If you want to see more:
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3555/1, 1928-1929. Photo: Kiesel, Berlin.
Yugoslav film actress and beauty queen Ita Rina (1907-1979) was one of the major film stars in Germany and Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Ita Rina was born as Italina Lida ‘Ida’ Kravanja in the small town of Divača (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) in 1907. She was the first daughter of Jožef and Marija Kravanja. Rina had a younger sister Danica. Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, the family moved to Ljubljana, where Rina matriculated in 1923. Her dream was to become an actress. In October 1926, Slavic People magazine organized a beauty pageant for a Miss to represent Yugoslavia at the Miss Europe contest. The attractive nineteen-year-old secretly entered the beauty contest, not telling anyone at home. She was crowned Miss Slovenia and should travel to the final event for Miss Yugoslavia in Zagreb. However, her mother did not want to let her go to Zagreb. After a group visit of the Slovenian delegation, Marija Kravanja slacked. Unfortunately, when Rina arrived in Zagreb, the jury was already choosing the most beautiful of three finalists. However, she was noticed by Adolf Müller, the owner of Balkan Palace cinema in Zagreb. He sent her photographs to German film producer Peter Ostermayer, who invited her to come to Germany. As her mother did not want to let her go to Berlin, Rina ran away from home and arrived in Berlin in 1927. After her first audition, she had classes in acting, diction, dancing, driving, and riding. She made her film debut in the leading role in Was die Kinder ihren Eltern verschweigen/What Do Children Hide from Their Parents (Franz Osten, 1927) with Mary Johnson. Ita Rina was actually a model of fulfilled dreams of glory and success in film. After some small film roles in 1927 and 1928, the critics noticed her in Das letzte Souper/The Last Supper (Mario Bonnard, 1928) starring Marcella Albani. That same year, Rina met her future husband Miodrag Đorđević, a student. Her big breakthrough came the following year, opposite Olaf Fjord in Erotikon/Seduction (1929), directed by Gustav Machatý. She was starring in the leading female role, Andrea. The film was a great success but also upset some moral and Christian organizations. Robert J. Maxwell at IMDb loved Rina’s performance: “She's a beauty by any metric. Her eyes are slanted and large. When she's excited, the irises are surrounded entirely by the whites. I can't do that. I just tried it in the mirror. And her nose is exquisite. It begins between her eyebrows, disregarding the usual need for a glabella, and cleaves her features in two. That nose is magnetic, exactly the right size for nibbling.”
In 1930, Ita Rina acted in three films, the most notable being the first talking Czech film Tonka Šibenice/Gallows Toni (Karl Anton, 1930). The title part in this film is often named her best role. In 1931, she married Miodrag Đorđević, and changed her religion from Roman Catholic to Serbian Orthodox. Rina was baptised in the Russian Orthodox Church, and also got her new Orthodox name, Tamara Đorđević. Now at the height of her career, she earned 15,000 marks per month and was an idol to teenagers as well as modern emancipated women.
The same year, Rina was given an offer from Hollywood, but her husband forced her to choose between her career and their marriage; Rina chose to stay with him. Although she had announced her retirement from the cinema, she acted until the outbreak of World War II. Her last film appearance was in the crime drama Zentrale Rio/Central Rio (Erich Engels, 1939) co-starring Leny Marenbach and Camilla Horn. Rina and her husband settled in Belgrade. In 1940, she gave birth to their son Milan. After the bombing of Belgrade in 1941, the family moved to Vrnjačka Banja, where Rina gave birth to a daughter, Tijana. They moved back to Belgrade after the end of World War II in 1945. Although she was promised several roles in Yugoslav films, all projects were cancelled. After she had written to President Tito, Rina began working as a co-production advisor in Avala Film. She returned to the silver screen once, in the Science-Fiction drama Rat/Atomic War Bride (Veljko Bulajić, 1960). The film, which deals with the horrors of the atomic weapon era, won three Golden Arena awards at the 1960 Pula Film Festival, including for Best Director (Veljko Bulajić), Best Actor (Antun Vrdoljak) and Best Scenography (Duško Jeričević), and was nominated for the Golden Lion award at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. It was her last role. As she was ill of asthma, Rina and her husband moved to Budva (then Yugoslavia, now Montenegro) in 1967. There, she was taking care of her husband, who was ill of sclerosis. Ita Rina died in 1979 in Budva of an asthmatic attack. She was buried a few days later in Belgrade, in the presence of numerous film artists, admirers, friends, and family. A few years ago, the Slovenian Cinematheque mounted a permanent exhibition of the actress’s photos and posters at the Škrjateljnova domačija, the house where she was born. The Slovenian Cinematheque also marked the recent centennial of her birth by reprinting a monograph on her life and work, now in an extended edition complete with English translations.
Sources: Slovenia.si, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Banana Spider (Non-venomous)
Banana spiders vary from reddish to greenish yellow in color with distinctive whiteness and the beginning of the abdomen. They have striped legs specialized for weaving. Their contrast of dark brown/black and green/yellow allows warning and repelling of potential predators to whom their venom might be of little danger. They reach sizes of 1.5 to 2 inches in, not including leg span, The largest specimen ever recorded was 2.7 inches. The venom of the Banana Spider is potent but not lethal to humans. It has a neurotoxic effect similar to that of the black widow spider; however, its venom is not nearly as powerful. The bite causes local pain, redness, and blisters that normally disappear within a 24-hour interval. In rare cases, it might trigger allergic reactions and result in respiratory troubles (in asthmatics) or fast-acting involuntary muscle cramps.
They are widespread throughout Southeast Georgia and build large yellow webs for capturing prey.
Source" Savannah Hash House
Este proyecto parte como solución a la cuarentena que estamos sufriendo, al tener Asma me veo totalmente forzado a trabajar dentro de casa. Siendo hiperactivo es una especie de condena. Siempre me gustó la idea de mezclar la fotografía con las diferentes artes. Lo que buscaba era lograr algo tridimensional en una bi-dimension y sugerir esa mirada microscópica o totalmente contraría, un escape al encierro, una cura a la cuarentena, al virus y a mí. Un escape abstracto al encierro mental…
Para ver más:
This proyect born as an answer to the quarantine, as an Asthmatic I'm really worried and forced to be inside home. I'm hiperactive too so been in this situation is a kind of confinement.
I always liked the idea of mix photography with diferents kind of visual arts. What I wanted was to get something tridimesional in a 2d image and sugest something microscopic or totally opossed like an abstract scape to the mental closure.
If you want to see more:
This was my submission for Week 2 of the '52 Weeks with C. London' challenge - To take an everyday object that is used daily and photograph its unseen importance.
I took my inhaler, I use it daily as a chronic asthmatic, and photographed it using a minimalistic approach using a white background and long shadows cast with the torch on my phone covered in a light purple flash gel. I quite liked the idea of a looming shadow which lingers over me as an asthmatic.
Canon 250D
Canon EFS 24mm F2.8 Pancake lens
13 sec
ISO 800
f/16
Dutch postcard by JosPe, no. 396. Photo: Eidophon-Film. Ita Rina in Das Lied der Schwarzen Berge/Fantom Durmitora/The Song of the Black Mountains (K. Breiness, Hans Natge, 1933).
Yugoslav film actress and beauty queen Ita Rina (1907-1979) was one of the major film stars in Germany and Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Ita Rina was born Italina Lida ‘Ida’ Kravanja in the small town of Divača (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, later Yugoslavia, now Slovenia) in 1907. She was the first daughter of Jožef and Marija Kravanja. Rina had a younger sister Danica. Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, the family moved to Ljubljana, where Rina matriculated in 1923. Her dream was to become an actress. In October 1926, Slavic People magazine organized a beauty pageant for a Miss to represent Yugoslavia at the Miss Europe contest. The attractive nineteen-year-old secretly entered the beauty contest, not telling anyone at home. She was crowned Miss Slovenia and should travel to the final event for Miss Yugoslavia in Zagreb. However, her mother did not want to let her go to Zagreb. After a group visit of the Slovenian delegation, Marija Kravanja slacked. Unfortunately, when Rina arrived in Zagreb, the jury was already choosing the most beautiful of three finalists. However, she was noticed by Adolf Müller, the owner of Balkan Palace Cinema in Zagreb. He sent her photographs to German film producer Peter Ostermayer, who invited her to come to Germany. As her mother did not want to let her go to Berlin, Rina ran away from home and arrived in Berlin in 1927. After her first audition, she had classes in acting, diction, dancing, driving, and riding. She made her film debut in the leading role in Was die Kinder ihren Eltern verschweigen/What Do Children Hide from Their Parents (Franz Osten, 1927) with Mary Johnson. Ita Rina was actually a model of fulfilled dreams of glory and success in film. After some small film roles in 1927 and 1928, the critics noticed her in Das letzte Souper/The Last Supper (Mario Bonnard, 1928) starring Marcella Albani. That same year, Rina met her future husband Miodrag Đorđević, a student. Her big breakthrough came the following year, opposite Olaf Fjord in Erotikon/Seduction (1929), directed by Gustav Machatý. She was starring in the leading female role, Andrea. The film was a great success but also upset some moral and Christian organizations. Robert J. Maxwell at IMDb loved Rina’s performance: “She's a beauty by any metric. Her eyes are slanted and large. When she's excited, the irises are surrounded entirely by the whites. I can't do that. I just tried it in the mirror. And her nose is exquisite. It begins between her eyebrows, disregarding the usual need for a glabella, and cleaves her features in two. That nose is magnetic, exactly the right size for nibbling.”
In 1930, Ita Rina acted in three films, the most notable being the first talking Czech film Tonka Šibenice/Gallows Toni (Karl Anton, 1930). The title part in this film is often named her best role. In 1931, she married Miodrag Đorđević, and changed her religion from Roman Catholic to Serbian Orthodox. Rina was baptised in the Russian Orthodox Church and also got her new Orthodox name, Tamara Đorđević. Now at the height of her career, she earned 15,000 marks per month and was an idol to teenagers as well as modern emancipated women.
The same year, Rina was given an offer from Hollywood, but her husband forced her to choose between her career and their marriage; Rina chose to stay with him. Although she had announced her retirement from the cinema, she acted until the outbreak of World War II. Her last film appearance was in the crime drama Zentrale Rio/Central Rio (Erich Engels, 1939) co-starring Leny Marenbach and Camilla Horn. Rina and her husband settled in Belgrade. In 1940, she gave birth to their son Milan. After the bombing of Belgrade in 1941, the family moved to Vrnjačka Banja, where Rina gave birth to a daughter, Tijana. They moved back to Belgrade after the end of World War II in 1945. Although she was promised several roles in Yugoslav films, all projects were cancelled. After she had written to President Tito, Rina began working as a co-production advisor at Avala Film. She returned to the silver screen once, in the Science-Fiction drama Rat/Atomic War Bride (Veljko Bulajić, 1960). The film, which deals with the horrors of the atomic weapon era, won three Golden Arena awards at the 1960 Pula Film Festival, including for Best Director (Veljko Bulajić), Best Actor (Antun Vrdoljak) and Best Scenography (Duško Jeričević), and was nominated for the Golden Lion award at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. It was her last role. As she was ill with asthma, Rina and her husband moved to Budva (then Yugoslavia, now Montenegro) in 1967. There, she was taking care of her husband, who was ill with sclerosis. Ita Rina died in 1979 in Budva of an asthmatic attack. She was buried a few days later in Belgrade, in the presence of numerous film artists, admirers, friends, and family. A few years ago, the Slovenian Cinematheque mounted a permanent exhibition of the actress’s photos and posters at the Škrjateljnova domačija, the house where she was born. The Slovenian Cinematheque also marked the recent centennial of her birth by reprinting a monograph on her life and work, now in an extended edition complete with English translations.
Sources: Slovenia.si, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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