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It is five years since I was lat at St Andrew. That was on Heritage Day, when it is always a hectic day and blur getting round.
I was back this morning because it was the closest church I felt I needed to revisit, although from previous visits I know this is rarely open outside of Heritage weekend, but I found out later it is open most days now.
Tilmanstone is a former mining village, you would hardly know that now, as has reseverted back to a quiet and leafy place, with the Sandwich road passing close by, but the noise sheltered by trees.
Parking here is always difficult, as the church is on a single track lane, just round the corner there is just about enough room to park outside a cottage.
I take my camera bag up the slope to the church, and through the well-tended churchyard to find the door locked with a combination lock.
I take these shots, then on the way back to the car, the dog in the yard opposite was being very noisy, the owner came to see the source and asked me if I wanted to go inside the church?
Yes please.
He took me back to the porch, diddled the numbers and the porch door was opened.
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TILMANSTONE.
NORTH-eastward from Barson, the parish of Eythorne only intervening, lies that of Tilmanstone, in the survey of Domesday written Tilemanestone; but is now usually pronounced Tilmeston.
There are two boroughs in this parish, viz. Tilmanstone and Craythorne. The borsholder for Tilmanstone borough is chosen at North Court, it comprehends within its bounds the church and all the northern part of the parish, viz. the upper street and the three manor-houses of Dane-court, North-court, and Southcourt. The borsholder for Craythorne borough is chosen at Eastry-court, and comprehends within its bounds the southern part of this parish, viz. Lower street and Barfield farm, in all nine houses, over all which the manor of Eastry claims paramount.
THIS PARISH is pleasantly situated in a vale, adjoining to an open uninclosed country, with which the contiguous parishes abound. The soil, like that of the neighbourhood, is variable; the vallies more fertile than the higher grounds, which are generally thin and light. The northern part of the parish is more fertile than the southern part of it; the whole contains more than 1100 acres of land, 44 houses, and about 240 inhabitants; it is esteemed exceedingly healthy. This appears from the parish register, in which the ages of numbers of persons buried are from 80 to 100 years, on an average, throughout it, and the births exceed the burials full a third part in number.
There are two streets, or villages, called Upper and Lower Street, in the former of which is the church. The parish is long and narrow, being about a mile from east to west, and near two miles the other way. It is rather an unfrequented place, and has nothing further remarkable in it. There is no fair in it.
William Boys, esq. third son of William Boys, esq. of Nonington, by Mary Ringeley, resided in this parish in queen Elizabeth's time, in the 31st year of which reign, he served in parliament for Queenborough, and died s. p.
THIS PLACE was part of the antient possessions of the fee of Canterbury, and at the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the 15th year of the Conqueror's reign, was held of the archbishop by knight's service, by William Folet, and it is thus accordingly entered in that record, under the general title of Terra Militum Archiepi.
William (Folet) holds of the archbishop Tilemanestone. It was taxed at one suling. In demesne there are two carucates, and five borderers, formerly it was worth twenty shillings, now it is worth thirty shillings.
After the name of Folet was extinct here, this manor appears to have been held in separate moieties, and in king Henry III.'s reign was in the possession of Sir John de Tiddenden, and Sir Roger de Tilmanstone, who held it of the archbishop by knight's service.
THAT PART OF IT, which was held by the former, afterwards descended down to William de Tiddenden, who died possessed of it in the beginning of king Edward III.'s reign. After which it appears to have come into the name of Warden, as will be further mentioned hereafter. THE OTHER PART, on the death of Sir Roger de Tilmanstone, in king Edward I.'s reign, s. p. was carried by Matilda, his sister and coheir, in marriage to John de Sandhurst, (fn. 1) who made a claim of liberties for this manor in king Edward I.'s reign, the 6th year of it; whose son, John de Sandhurst, of Knolton, succeeded him in it, and died possessed of it in the beginning of king Edward III.'s reign.
¶AFTER WHICH these moieties, from their respective situations, acquired the names of the manors of NORTH and SOUTH COURT; THE FORMER of which was carried by Christian, daughter and heir of John de Sandhurst, in marriage to William Langley, descended out of Warwickshire, whose son William de Langley was afterwards, in her right, of Knolton; and in the 37th year of king Edward III.'s reign had the former liberties granted to this manor confirmed by inspeximus; after which it passed in like manner as Knolton, to the Peytons, in which it continued till Sir Thomas Peyton, bart. alienated it to Sir John Narborough, admiral of the British navy, whose daughter and at length sole surviving heir Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. succeeded to this manor among the rest of her inheritance, and their grandson, Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. now of Knolton, is the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.
A dark and atmospheric church on a steep hill above the village-end. Built of flint with stone and brick work of later periods it has changed little in a hundred years. The Victorian benefactors who refurnished the church did us a great favour – keeping the best of the old whilst giving us the best of the new. Most windows are by Kempe and some are uncommonly good – especially King David in the low side window of the nave. Both nave altars had their own arch and window and the Victorian Rood Screen creates a medieval effect. In the chancel is a fine late medieval brass to one of the owners of Dane Court – the big house of the village, because it has always been on the wall it is in pristine condition. The gorgeous reredos by Powell’s showing Christ the Alpha and Omega is especially fine. Outside the gate is a good set of village stocks!
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The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, is a small mean building, consisting of a body and chancel, with a square tower at the west end, very low, but formerly higher, having been taken down a few years ago; there is one bell in it. In the chancel, against the east wall, is a brass plate, on it are the figures of a man and woman, on his side one son, on her's three daughters, all kneeling, with the arms of Fogg, with a label of three points, impaling Sackville, with a crescent, for Richard Fogg, esq. and Anne his wife; he died in 1598. A gravestone for Richard Fogg, esq. father of fourteen children, famous for his poetry, and skill in heraldry, obt. 1680. A gravestone for Jane, daughter of the Rev. Strangford Viol, late rector of Upminster, in Essex, and Jane his wife, daughter of Richard Fogg, esq. obt. 1719; she married Edward Jacob, surgeon, of Canterbury, who died in 1756. In the east window are three shields of painted glass; the first, the field gone, On a chief, azure, three lions rampant, or; on the sides in black letter, Sir John Lisle, knt. The field was probably or; second, Gules, a cross, argent; third, azure, a bend cotized, argent, between six martlets of the second, under which was formerly this legend, Orate p aia Wi. Tonge, now obliterated. In the north window are remaining four figures; first, a man in armour with a shield, having a plain cross on it, on his breast, in the attitude of thrusting a lance through the jaws of a beast lying at his feet; probably, by the cross designed for St. George; second, a young man crowned; third, an older man crowned, with a globe and sceptre in his hands, and seemingly weeping; fourth, an antient man kneeling, full bearded, on his shoulder a child holding a globe and sceptre, to which he is looking up. In the south window is the figure of a man bearded, with a palmer's bonnet on, and staff, holding in his right hand a book. In the body of the church, a marble monument against the north wall, near the chancel, and inscription, shewing that in the vault underneath are deposited the remains of Michael Hatton, esq. of Dane-court, obt. 1776; also Mrs. Alice Hatton, his widow, obt. 1791; arms, Azure, a chevron, between three wheat sheaves, or, impaling gules, three lilies, argent, stalked and leaved, vert. A monument against the same wall for Thomas Michael Tierney, late student of Brazen Noze college, Oxford, and son of Thomas Tierney, of London, by Savine his wife, obt. 1770, at Arras, in France, on his return to England, æt. 19. On seven different gravestones are memorials for the Smiths, resident at Thornton, from the year 1632 to 1664. In the windows of this church were formerly much more painted glass, both of figures and coats of arms.
This church was antiently part of the possessions of the knights hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, to whom it was appropriated by archbishop Langton, about the end of king John's reign; the archbishop reserving to himself and successors, the nomination and institution of a vicar, and at the same time he endowed the vicarage, decreeing that the vicar should receive the whole altarage, and the moiety of all the tithes belonging to this church, and a certain messuage, &c. belonging to it; (fn. 3) in which state the appropriation and vi carage of this church remained until the dissolution of the above order, in the 32d year of king Henry VIII.'s reign, when they both came into the king's hands, and remained there till the year 1558, being the last of Philip and Mary, when the advowson of the vicarage was granted among others to the archbishop; and the appropriation likewise in the third year of queen Elizabeth, this rectory being then valued at six pounds per annum; since which both the appropriation and advowson have remained part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, the archbishop being now possessed of them. The vicarage of Tilmanstone is valued in the king's book at 7l. 12s. 6d. It is now a discharged living, and is of the yearly value of forty-five pounds. In 1588 here were one hundred and nine communicants, in 1640 there were the like number of communicants, and it was valued at fifty pounds. In 1740 it was of the value of sixty pounds.
Archbishop Wake, in 1719, on the petition of Nicholas Carter, vicar of this church, gave licence for him to take down the old vicarage-house and to erect a new one. (fn. 4) This vicarage is at present endowed with one half of the great tithes, with a vicarage-house, and garden only, for the vicar's use. The remaining half of the great tithes belongs to the parsonage, with twenty-four acres of glebe land, held on a beneficial lease from the archbishop, by the two sons of the late Mr. John Curling, of Ham. There are fifteen acres of land in this parish allotted as a glebe to Eastry parsonage.
In the parish register (the antient part of it) are the names of Cocks, Fogg, very numerous, Arden, Willford, Billingsley, Bargrave, Pattinson, Burville, Capell, Boys, Picks, and Ower.
So I had an eventful long weekend doll hunting. The timing was the absolute worst because the weather was horridly wet and there were people everywhere due to long weekend sales. I also had a bunch of chores to do at home.
But my husband saw the white haired Amaya Raine hair studio set at a local store, so I had no choice but to venture out.
Overall, the entire hunt took about 6 hours spread out over two rainy crowded days. Most of it was spent picking through all the defective looking dolls. Not sure why, but the defect rate for the blue haired Amaya was through the roof! It was insane really. Nearly every single doll had absurd black stains over her nose or body. It's as if the staff at the factory that produced her were all drunk, or just taking the piss. Which is a real pity because this Amaya has the new neck articulation allowing head tilts. Not sure how (probably by lowering my bar ^^"), but I still managed to pick out three decent ones for my collection. I can't wait to test out her new neck articulation!!
Next up was Bella Parker. I managed to pick up two of her. I must have checked at least fifty Bellas and they ALL had misprinted eyeshadows, though this may not be immediately obvious due to the subtlety of her makeup. In theory, Bella should've been my ultimate favourite doll since she's pastel pink - but she's not. Her soft makeup makes her eyes look super beady. I also don't like her clothes, they're a bit too 90s preppy for me. And her California Dream shirt is so tacky and clashy with the rest of her glam outfit. It doesn't help that she's rather unlikeable on the show. So yes, unfortunately Bella's not amongst my favourites.
Now for my favourite doll of this haul, white haired Amaya Raine! I've wanted this doll since the start of Rainbow High in late 2020. Im not sure why they took so long to get her in. I'm besotted with her soft pearly porcelain aesthetics, and her ethereal pastel colours. What a stunning doll! Amaya also gets extra brownie points for being so sweet and likeable on the show (so far anyway!). I managed to pick out three good ones, one had perfect makeup but a slight scratch on one of her legs so I might need to rebody her. I'll probably need to get a fourth Amaya for this, but I'll wait until there's a sale going on (she's $99 here in NZ ouch!). There's also the ingenious option of rebodying using the blue haired Amaya's body, which has the new neck articulation and is close to half her price. Though the biggest hurdle is finding a decent one without random black stains!! (Actually, on further inspection, the white haired Amaya dolls in NZ may also have the new neck articulation too! I'll need to check once I debox mine, it would be totally amazing if she does! *Update (12/6/21) - I deboxed one of my white haired Amayas and she does come with the new neck articulation! YAAAAAY!!!! That's so awesome!)
I was also lucky enough to pick up a second Cheer Skyler, a third Cheer Sunny and a third Cheer Violet. I needed a third of both Sunny and Violet because some of the ones I have at home have minor issues eg poorly sewn socks or slightly thinner hair on one side etc that I wouldn't mind replacing.
Now that's all for Rainbow High. Next up are some dolls from Mattel!
So I came across some #2 Barbie Extras during my doll hunt, and two of them looked soooo good I had to pick them up. I already had two at home (that I've showcased on flickr) but these new ones had much better face up with evenly aligned eyes, and cleanly thick rooted hair, so I ended up returning my original two. Sorry but I don't need four of you!
I also stumbled across the new Hello Kitty and Friends dolls! They were released a few months ago in the US and as you might know, I'm a massive Sanrio fan, my favourites being My Melody and Cinnamoroll. So of course, I couldn't resist picking up a couple of these adorable little dolls. I bought two My Melody and Stylie, two Cinnamoroll and Cloudine and one Hello Kitty and Eclair. Unfortunately, none of the stores stocked Badtz-Maru and Jazzlyn, I'm thinking NZ never imported her at all? Which is odd, because Jazzlyn is super spunky and chic.
Overall, there were no major issues with quality control, unlike with Rainbow High. There were variations in eye placements especially with Eclair so I would still prefer to pick them out in person. I also bought a Keroppi and Dashleen, and another Hello Kitty and Eclair for my sister and her husband (alluding to their Twitch channels since one is neko themed and the other frog themed lmao! I hope they get it because neither of them collect dolls!!!)
All in all, it was an extremely exhausting but successful doll hunt. I'm delighted with all the new dolls in my collection, and I desperately need to start putting away my Monster Highs so I can make space for all the newcomers!
Now that would be the perfect quiet and relaxing activity I could do on these rainy crowded days!
Because of the shadows, strong sunlight and multiple reflections from windows and brass plates it was not easy to photograph in this area.
Church Lane is the laneway surrounding St Canice’s Cathedral and can be accessed via Dean Street. It is very narrow and I certainly would not choose to drive along it because there is just about space for one car to drive along it.
Because nothing is more perfect than getting a gun during the holiday where suicides are the highest.....
I did a Tweetup in London tonight at a pub near the Tower of London called "Hung, Drawn & Quartered." Over the course of two hours, I drank more alcohol than I did in the whole of 2010.
(Which is to say: er, I had nearly two pints.)
Tasty stuff, this. It's a very popular commercial "real ale," a term I remembered from my first trip to London. As with most beers, though, when I finished the serving it was because I was enjoying the novelty of drinking beer as much as I enjoyed the actual taste.
Because of the great fire wall of Chinese policy, it's so hard to cross the limit to visit flickr, so I could not reply my dear friends, I'm so sorry about that and please forgive me,thank you so much and hope my friends can still hit on me！由于中国网络原因，访问flickr很困难，速度很慢，所有暂时没有办法一一回应各位好友，请朋友们见谅！还请各位好友继续关注我！
My pro account is out of time，thank you my friends here for supporting me what a long time！！May I have a pleasure to receive a pro gift from you？我的pro账号到期了，感谢朋友们长期以来的热心支持！！有好心人能赞助一个pro账号给我吗，在此先表感谢！！
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3059, which lies about 57 million light-years from Earth. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 collected the data in May 2024 as part of an observing program that studied a number of galaxies. All of the observations used the same range of filters: partially transparent materials that allow only very specific wavelengths of light to pass through.
Astronomers use filters extensively in their observations. These filters may allow either extremely narrow or somewhat broader ranges of light through to the telescope’s instruments. Narrow-band filters are invaluable from a scientific perspective because they filter specific wavelengths of light that are associated with specific physical and chemical processes. For example, under certain conditions, hydrogen atoms emit red light with a wavelength value of 656.46 nanometers called H-alpha emission, or the ‘H-alpha line’. It is very useful to astronomers because its presence indicates certain physical processes and conditions and is often a tell-tale sign of newly forming stars.
The data in this image used a narrow-band filter that allowed H-alpha emission through to the telescope’s detectors. The particular filter, called F657N (F for filter, N for narrow, and 657 for the wavelength in nanometers) or the H-alpha filter, lets through light very close to the 656.46 nanometer H-alpha line’s wavelength. It reveals pinkish star-forming regions in the galaxy.
Data from five other wide-band filters also contributed to this image. As their name implies, wide-band filters allow a wider range of wavelengths through to Hubble’s instruments. They isolate sections of the electromagnetic spectrum allowing astronomers to explore different aspects of the object Hubble is looking at.
In the case of this image, wide-band filters revealed the bluish patches that hold older stars. In addition, information from multiple filters provides image processors with the data to make beautiful and informative images such as this one.
Text Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker
For more information: science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-examines-a-barred...
Because the tailored suit was obviously based on upper-class men’s attire, it had a subversive charge when worn by women. The addition of masculine accessories, such as starched shirts and neckties, reinforced this effect. Although tailored suits were also worn by heterosexual women, they were much favored by lesbians.
Wool twill and velvet, 1905, USA, gift of Mrs. K.G. Getman, 77.161.2
Photo by Eileen Costa
The Museum at FIT
Because of weekend trackwork projects, the F train has its usual terminus changed from Coney Island Stillwell-Avenue to Euclid Avenue, replacing the C train. To compensate, G trains are extended past Church Avenue to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue. Here, two G trains sit at Stillwell Avenue.
All Because of You
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Because of Flickr's 10MiB limitation the uploaded picture is only one fourth of the original panorama.
You can explore the panorama in its maximum resolution using the google maps interface (javascript) or with zoomify (flash).
I had to build one of these extra large panorama as an exercize before leaving for vacation (where I hope to shoot more appealing stuff).
This was shot as 78 pictures (3 rows of 26) and stitched with autopano-sift, hugin, and enblend. (EXIF data from the first picture.)
The original panorama is 34704x6251 pixels. That's nearly 217 megapixels.
The uncompressed image file is 620MiB, the size of a CDROM.
PS: Yes, I've noticed there is dust on my sensor.
PPS: Can you find the guy peeing on a wall?
PPPS: Thanks to Seb for all the links.
For the wdydwyd? (why do you do what you do?) pool, part of a large-scale and wonderfully revealing project by Tony Deifell.
BECAUSE I SEE, I take pictures.
More specifically: Because since birth I have seen everything in two dimensions (using only one eye), I love photography and all forms of art that involve a flat surface. Or at least that's the explanation that makes the most sense to me! I have never minded having no depth perception -- it's just the way it's always been, and I believe it has defined me and perhaps even given me certain advantages.
It's why I do what I do!
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Because of the clouds the humidity was very high. This has a bad impact on these pictures because it makes them less clear and popping.
Sony a6000 + Tamron 18-200mm 16-50mm Kit lens
Keep drinking coffee, stare me down across the table
While I look outside
So many things I’d say if only I were able
But I just keep quiet and count the cars that pass by
You’ve got opinions, man
We’re all entitled to ‘em, but I never asked
So let me thank you for your time, and try not to waste anymore of mine
And get out of here fast
I hate to break it to you babe, but I’m not drowning
There’s no one here to save
Who cares if you disagree?
You are not me
Who made you king of anything?
So you dare tell me who to be?
Who died and made you king of anything?
You sound so innocent, all full of good intent
Swear you know best
But you expect me to jump up on board with you
And ride off into your delusional sunset
I’m not the one who’s lost with no direction
But you’ll never see
You’re so busy making maps with my name on them in all caps
You got the talking down, just not the listening
And who cares if you disagree?
You are not me
Who made you king of anything?
So you dare tell me who to be?
Who died and made you king of anything?
All my life I’ve tried to make everybody happy
While I just hurt and hide
Waiting for someone to tell me it’s my turn to decide
Who cares if you disagree?
You are not me
Who made you king of anything?
So you dare tell me who to be?
Who died and made you king of anything?
Who cares if you disagree?
You are not me
Who made you king of anything?
So you dare tell me who to be?
Who died and made you king of anything?
Let me hold your crown, babe.
Sara Bareilles
King of Anything
Would you really like to know why I am looking so happy on this photo? Its because I am feeling well and healthy and happy and contented and guess what? I am going to stay blonde. Ive been "Red Ed" for years, and although I have loved being a red head I felt like a complete and utter change. This means I can wear scarlet and hot pinks now without it clashing with the hair!
So now no one on flickr can call me Lucy (Lucille Ball) anymore........I think its the spirit of one of my heroines, and guides: Miss Diana Dors.
ALSO Guess what?!!!!! Now Fluffy has built the pergola we are now spending the next month of Sundays filling it in and its going to be.......
The Ancient Egyptian Healing Therapy room!
We are building the roof as a pyramid, putting in double glazed windows and doors and the floor is going to be gold...there will be orange voile at the windows, armchairs all of an Ancient Egyptian theme. I am going to purchase a therapy bed and hopefully wicker table and chairs. A ceiling fan will hang from the centre point of the pyramid and everywhere you look, on the walls there will be Egyptian paintings...and And Ancient Egyptian figures and memorabilia.
We will set up a surround sound system so that when I give treatments the client can lie there and drift into another world. The therapies will include: facials, massage, aromatherapy massage, hand on healing, colour and sound healing, crystal healing, hypnotherapy and Past Life Regression, and of course, in depth tarot and crystal ball readings using "Ishbels Temple of Isis Egyptian Tarot", which I believe are very rare and hard to get these days. I shall also read with the Egyptian Cartouche. Also...makeup, face, neck and shoulder massage...in fact everything anyone could need for mind, body and spirit enlightenment and rejuvenation.
Now I need to invest in a new beauticians tunic although if it is the ancient egyptian room then maybe I should wear a galabea?
Whatever...I am thrilled to bits...and its going to be a haven of peace.....and a joy to work in.
You could say I am relaunching myself big time and what so many of you didnt know, was that I have actually had a period of very poor health. Colonoscopy`s, Endoscopy`s, CT scans........at one time I was so ill I thought that "that was it" and then `something` happened..something spiritual...I applied the Universal laws of attraction to heal me..and well..what do you think? Do I look ok to you?
Well I feel it and ready to take up my healing work I used to do regulary many years ago.
As far as the room is concerned.......its only a bit of work...isnt it???? And a fair bit of cash too.but hey ho!
Lets GO for it!!!!!!!!!
Blessings and Love to ALL xx
Commemorating Gen Burgoyne's defeat, the first major British defeat, in the American Revolutionary war in Oct 1777. Burgoyne launched his invasion of the Colonies from Quebec, planning to connect with Gen Howe who had masterfully routed Gen George Washington from Long Island, Staten Island and Manhattan a year earlier. Gen Howe, perhaps overconfident of victory, moved on to battle in Philadelphia leaving too few troops in Oswego NY. Burgoyne's supply to Canada began to get stretched too thin and casualties were mounting. Despite wins he was losing men at in unsustainable numbers, and Gen Howe's army was not to be found. Burgoyne pushed on along the Hudson and crossed north of Saratoga Springs, because the colonists, aided by a Polish military engineer, Koskiusko built formidable defenses that covered Hudson's River and the roads on either side. THe colonists were wilier than first thought. Burgoyne was forced to cross into unfavorable, woody, hilly, terrain (The great Redoubt). For a month starting in Sept 1777 the Yanks and British exchanged daily volleys of artillery and musketfire, and clashed in savage battles throughout the farms around Saratoga springs. It must have been miserable for all soldiers there. Hard labor digging and preparing for war, poor sanitation and medicine and daily fighting. The British were down to 7000 men (from 10,000) and supplies were stretched. Colonists were gaining their military footing were also recruiting in higher numbers and fresh men were arriving daily. It is estimated around 13,000 Yanks were at the battles. In October 1777, The British Generals, Burgoyne, Fraser and German Riedesel launched an attack. Gen Gates, Morgan Learned and Poor somewhat unwittingly went headlong into the British Attack. A frustrated Major Benedict Arnold (with permission or not...is not clear) took a contingent of Gen Poor's men and rode off and between the British lines circling in behind the British soldiers. In fierce fighting Gen Arnold attacked a redoubt from behind and cause the British to panic and retreat. Eventually the British were surrounded and Burgoyne surrendered all his troops and equipment to the colonists at this spot. The colonists were clearly far more clever and determined, and would fight more bravely than the British expected. This was the first major British defeat and considered the turning point of the revolutionary war. It's amazing to be part of such a experiment in nationbuilding...and I found this fascinating and moving. This is the grit that built America, and it always makes me feel that the deaths of these men....and so many people in so many causes, from wars to civil rights, to equal rights and justice, and all the messiness that is the great experiment "America" needs to be understood and felt more strongly by each person. Everyone should treat their country as the precious gift it is and work as hard for it as you do for yourself. Watching democracy work, and worse being an armchair quarterback to it, or.....THE Worst proclaiming your unalienable birthright to the lands and freedoms and bounty that the country can offer, while not participating except in feckless namecalling, self enriching greed.... Having the chutzpah (or lack of, since chutzpah is a another great addition to the American lexicon through our Yiddish speaking Americans) to claim who is American and who is not....sullies the name of the people who did make the ultimate sacrifice here and throughout American history.
These guys dashed into fire driven by real ideals of equality and freedom. Actually they were likely just hoping to survive the battle tot he next day and not die of infection. They knew they were fighting the right cause, but could not have ever expected the society they helped create. I imagine that after the pain of fighting, death, and time in the ground, these men, from their fish-eye position of the next life would certainly castigate the pettiness, xenophobia, racism, ignorance, etc...that permeates such a rich society. They would remind us that there is only one life, it's short, even more so if you are cut down by war, violence or illness. And regardless of whether there was a heaven or Hades, or who was the universal power...if there was one.... American life should be seized tot he fullest...get educated, learn and understand the world, understand it from other perspectives, don't mind what others have or don't have...mind your own knitting (as mom would say!). Meet others, work with others, care for others, even the ones we dislike or find most foreign. Do hard work, do good work, do it for good's sake and if profit follows be gracious, and generous and don't forget the country in which this was possible.
"The Hardest Hit" March & Parliamentary Lobby - 11.05.2011
Part (1) The Prelude to the March
Between 8,000 and 10,000 disabled people with long-term conditions, their families, carers and many trade union supporters assembled on London's Victoria Embankment to protest against the punitive cuts to welfare spending implimented by David Cameron's "Caring Conservatives", which are specifically aimed at the sick and the disabled. Using French IT company ATOS Origin to do the government's dirtiest work, the disabled are being summoned to "Work Capability Assessments" at ATOS Regional offices up and down the country, and are then subjected to a twenty minute examination by often medically unqualified staff who ask a series of questions and then try fill in tick boxes on their completely inflexible computerised forms, which are inadequate for coping with the very serious complexities which go with long-term disabilities. These accumulated scores then form that disabled person's Work Capability score. Input from Doctors, Carers and Senior Consultants is not allowed to be considered when going through this sham exercise designed to force people off Disablity benefits and mobility allowances - crucial to many working disabled people, many of whom have had to stop work because they cannot get there any more thanks to this incompetent process. Instead they become trapped in their homes, unable to shop for themselves or socialise.
The ATOS assessors are paid a bounty of around £70 for every person they instruct the Department of Work and Pensions to be thrown off their benefits, and those assessors with medical qualifications are instructed by the government when they sign contracts to do assessment work with ATOS that the normal medical code of conduct regarding their innate responsibility for the well-being of the patient is waived!
Since the introduction of this punitive and intensely cruel process several disabled people have committed suicide, having had their support ripped away from them, with many disabled people becoming homeless. There are also many instances where people with terminal illnesses have been told they are fit for work, their benefits stopped, and have died within weeks in absolute abject misery because the State has treated them monstrously.
Many previously independent disabled people in their own homes have had to be institutionalised in homes run by private comanies who are egging the government forward because they make a huge profit from running these homes. The sickest irony is that it costs around £10,000 per year to keep a disabled person living in their own home, independent and contributing to society, yet it costs the taxpayer between £30/40,000 to put them in a care home where they may be neglected or even worse abused.
Assaults and threats against the disabled has increased sharply over the last year as a direct result of the government's insulting press campaigns which have painted the sick and disabled as workshy scroungers. Nothing could be further from the truth, but as long as those in power have the ability to behave so appallingly towards the very weakest and most vulnerable members of our society just to score cheap political points, then that is what an increasing number of people in this country want to believe.
In December of last year Iain Duncan Smith, the minister for Work and Pensions, said of the disabled in Rupert Murcoch's Sun Newspaper interview:
"It embarrasses me. I think this is the greatest country on earth.
“What I cannot bear is the idea that this country was the workshop of the world. It gave everybody the free market, the industrial revolution. You think what we did to change the world. This was the place that everyone looked to.
“Yet we have managed to create a block of people in Britain who do not add anything to the greatness of this country.
“They have become conditioned to be users of services, not providers of money. This is a huge part of the reason we have this massive deficit. We have had to borrow vast sums of money. We went on this inflated spending spree."
Ever since that statement by Iain Duncan Smith the Sun, the Daily Express and the Telegraph have run continual lie-filled campaigns in their pages stating that around 75% of the disabled are fully able to work but because they are little more than complaining parasites who just want to sit at home enjoying themselves at "Our" expense. The rapid consequence of this disgusting, immoral slur which could be easily mistaken for the propaganda campaigns of the National Socialist Party in pre-war Germany.
Because the government has picked on the Disabled first, they are getting away with it. Most people in this country are unable to even begin to understand what it is like living with a severe disability. Most people in this country are too stupid and dull to have the intelligence to question what they are being told to think by the right-wing press who serve the Global Capitalists hiding 'round the curtain waiting to get the nod to start taking over huge parts of our National Health Service using the appalling American model which is all about profit and not about the patient's actual needs.
This is what David Cameron has planned for Great Britain, and he's starting with the disabled because disability makes most people uncomfortable because they're so self-obsessed and shallow that human empathy is too rich an emotion for them to grasp. Instead they are turning against the disabled, and talking to many disabled people it is very clear that a lot of them are now living in a climate of fear, hounded by bullies in their local communities, taunted in the streets, often physically abused or spat at, their homes broken into, their meagre possessions stolen.
And all this human misery because David Cameron's Conservatives will not punish the banks and hedge funds which caused the recession which has wrecked our economy, and he will not close down the corporate tax loopholes, shut down the tax havens and start throwing corrupt, greedy financiers in prison where they belong. All this human pain because Conservatives think that the State should stop providing services cheaply and reasonably efficiently, and instead services should be run by completely unaccountable private comanies whose only masters are the shareholders. This is all about profit, nothing else. profit at the expense of human pain and fear.
On appeal following an ATOS assessment around 70% of people win their cases, proving how incompetent ATOS' system is, but the cruellest part is that an appeal can take a year, during which that disabled person's mental and physical health has deteriorated. Many are driven to desperation and suicidal thinking. The government is just about to make it much, much harder to appeal against an ATOS decision by making it impossible to get any form of Legal Aid which would pay for a solicitor armed with the Law to represent you. It seems unbelievably wicked and cruel to me.
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
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Today I spent the morning at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA because I wanted to shoot flower macros. My niece, for whom in the past I have sweated shooting butterflies and been pooped on shooting lorakeets, wanted dragonfly pictures this time.
Well, I must really love that kid because I hate these bugs. They gross me out. But I said I would try. So I sat on my haunches and waited for these rascals to stay in one place. I saw two flying around together but not landing. Then I said to myself "Self, how much you wanna bet they're going mate right in front of me?"
No sooner had I said that to myself than two horny dragonflies landed right on the lily pad in front of me and starting knocking boots, uh wings, in front of my nose. I was so embarrassed to be witness to this very private moment that I did what any other aunt on a quest for dragonfly shots for her niece would do- I took 17 pictures during their special time, which I have to say, grossed me out even more than just looking at them did.
It must be me. Bugs and birds seem to want to get busy when I'm in front of them. This summer two lorakeets got it on at the zoo while I was shooting; I had two parrots get busy in front of me in Butterfly World,
then two butterflies got it on while I was shooting. Do they hear the shutter click and say "Hey! Show time!" I don't get it. But these bugs sure did.
Thank God I wasn't shooting gorillas.
Shot with my fake macro lens- 70-300mm
Because of the expected snow storms tonight, NSR started its special winter service today. Trains are running every 30 minutes only and many commuter trains are cancelled. For the commuter stop of Voorhout this means Intercity trains are stopping here now to pick up passengers.
Because these boy's radios had only two transistors, they could be exported to the United States from Japan as toys and avoid the higher tariffs placed on transistor radios.
Because today is Butter & Egg Day Parade in #Petaluma I was thought I would share chicken photos to celebrate the occasion. This Leghorn was obviously the toughest on the block showing his prowess. These photos were taken at Tolay Lake Regional Park. They completely removed the fence on the chicken coop and the chickens are pretty well free to roam wherever they want.
If you are familiar with my photostream, you know I have a passion for churches, especially old ones. Perhaps I am a bit partial to them because of my Christian faith, as well as the fact that I have been a Baptist preacher for over twenty years.
Another thing that tends to catch my eye are church steeples. Every once in a while, one will just "stick out" and grab my attention. While photographing this church, my eyes were drawn to the steeple more than the structure. After adding a couple layers of texture, I added this verse that I thought was appropriate to go along with the photo. I hope you enjoy.
East Cumberland Ave. Baptist Church / Middlesboro, Ky.
(Textures by SkeletalMess)
Because of the trees it is almost impossible to capture this artwork but I discovered that using a telephoto lens I could capture it from a distance.
City of London Bishopsgate Emergency Response Incident with Rescue Vehicle and Metropolitan Police Road Closure Because of Motorcycle Accident
i put these up above my bed, because after i took all the pictures off, it seemed really empty. plus, considering the fact that i made about 10 that day, i thought i'd put them to good use.
i just realized that the light on my bed is amazing if i open my blinds.
so expect more pictures from up here.
more in comments
inspired by her
haha, i realized in the fourth one in the comments, you can see where i edited in my armpits.
i used the little retouch thing in iphoto (i don't use photoshop)
cause i forgot to shave my armpits
but i really liked that picture.
ahhahahah
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