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Joyeuses Paques et Printemps ! Happy Easter and Spring...
“There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.”
Chogyam Trungpa
There is a distinct relationship between the Spring Equinox and Easter. The new religion of the Catholic Church absorbed the existing traditions and their symbols and developed a new name, ‘Easter’, which is obviously a variant of a German / Saxon Goddess name whose festival was with the arrival of spring.
In the pre-Catholic times the celebration of the Vernal Equinox was about new life and hope, the planting of seeds and the activation of the fertility cycle. But the Catholic Church replaced this with solemn displays commemorating Christ and Christian or Catholic dogma (written rules). The Old Testament heroine was the goddess Ishtar in thin disguise (Esther is the Aramaic word for Ishtar)... Ishtar is Persian for 'star'... So Ishtar was the goddess of the morning & evening star, as well as being the Great Mother, Shining One, Lady of Visions, Priestess of Priestess', she was the source of the Oracles of Prophesy, & Possessor of the Tablets of Life's Records... Her symbols were the eight pointed star, the pentagram, dove, serpents, & the double axe... Her planet was Venus... She wore a rainbow necklace...
The Persians converted this necklace (the rainbow) into a razor-sharp bridge that led to the Mount of Paradise... In ancient Sumeria, she had 180 shrines where women gathered daily for prayer, meditation, & socializing. The night of the full moon, known as Shapatu, saw joyous celebrations in her temples... At these rites (known as Qadishtu), women who lived as priestesses in her shrines took lovers to express the sacredness of sexuality as a gift from Ishtar.
Taken in 2016.
A little girl skates trepidly along the ice-skating path at "Boston Winter" on City Hall Plaza.
Seems early, but there is a tree with leaves beginning to change to autumn colors. The tree is on the property of the apartment complex where my wife and I live.
My testimony to Irish Parliament, 2013
Thank you for inviting me to participate in this profoundly important hearing.
Beginning in 2006, I began conducting comprehensive interviews with medical professionals, Chinese law enforcement personnel, and over 50 refugees from the Laogai System, in order to piece together the story of how mass harvesting from prisoners of conscience evolved in China. Based on my research, here is a short timeline:
In 1994, we have evidence that the first live organ harvests were performed on the execution grounds of Xinjiang.
In 1997, following the “Ghulja massacre,” we have evidence that the first political prisoners, specifically Uyghur activists were harvested on behalf of high-ranking cadres.
In 1999, Chinese State Security launched its largest action of scale since the Cultural Revolution, the eradication of Falun Gong.
By 2001, Chinese military hospitals were unambiguously targeting select Falun Gong prisoners for organ harvesting.
By 2005, overall transplant numbers--and the refugees that I have spoken to--suggest that the number of numbers of Falun Gong who are being harvested had increased dramatically.
In early 2006, the Epoch Times revealed the first charges of organ harvesting of Falun Gong, and this was followed that summer by the distribution of the Kilgour-Matas report.
In 2012, Wang Lijun attempted to defect at the US Consulate in Chengdu. Two weeks later information surfaced that he had overseen thousands of organ transplants. Six weeks later the Chinese State declared an end to organ harvesting of death-row prisoners over a five-year time frame. No mention was made of prisoners of conscience. Any attempt at third-party verification was rejected.
I can’t supply a death-count for House Christians, Uyghurs and Tibetans. But I estimate that 65,000 Falun Gong were murdered for their organs from 2000 to 2008.
What does this have to do with Ireland? China is the organ repository of last resort and Ireland—in spite of its sterling human rights record—is no exception. So my policy recommendation is simple enough.
Down in Australia, the local legislature of New South Wales is currently discussing criminalizing organ tourism—i.e. if you go to China and come back with a new organ you will be incarcerated. Simple as that. And until the Chinese authorities provide a full accounting of this crime against humanity, this is precisely the model that Ireland should follow.
Ethan Gutmann
Fluid Beginnings~
Had fun with this one, tried experimenting with negative space a little bit, hope you like it if you check out:) Used mainly acrylic paint on canvas panel 11x14
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I just came back from exploring in a nearby grove. The sun peeked in from time to time. It didn't feel like it at the time, but finally...it's beginning to look more like summer.
Photos by www.RonSombilonGalleryPhotography.com
Founded in 2001, WIL is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing women in leadership roles. WIL delivers innovative programming to help thousands of women across Canada to develop their leadership skills. We are present in key cities, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver (head office). Since our beginnings in 2001, we have grown to organize a nation-wide mentorship program, as well as a series of talks and speaker series aimed at aboriginal women, women in mining, and other audiences.
WIL is a national, non-profit organization with Charity Status (Registered Charitable No. 86600 3536 RR0001).
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A major exhibition of Isamu Noguchi at the YSP in collaboration with the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York.
Beginnings, 1965, Andesite, Isamu Noguchi
Irish parliamentary history is a bit complicated. I hope I’m not mis-stating anything here. Despite being under English control beginning in the 1150s, Ireland had its own parliament between 1297 and 1800 (albeit controlled by Anglo-Irish protestants known as the Protestant Ascendancy). This former Parliament Building seen in this series of photos was completed in 1739 and was actually the very first purpose-built parliament building in Europe.
During the late 18th century, revolutions in America and France inspired the Irish Catholics to demand independence from the English crown and the all powerful Protestant Ascendancy. Unfortunately, the rebels spooked the British administration and England ended Ireland’s “self-government.” An Act of Union in 1800 integrated Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Parliament of Ireland was dissolved completely in 1801.
The former Parliament building was sold to the Bank of Ireland, which remains till the present time.
The former House of Commons, sadly, was removed in 1802 and became part of the banking hall, though the House of Lords survived and is open to the public.
The modern parliament (known as the Dáil Éireann) of the Republic of Ireland only was established in 1919, three years after the 1916 Easter Uprising but three years before the formal establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.
San Agustin Church
A centuries old Spanish era church gets a fresh coat of paint much to the chagrin of those who loved the texture of the old masonry. Photo is set against the glow of the setting sun reflected in the clouds.
© 2008 Bong Manayon | FB: Bong Manayon Photography
Pentax K10D + SMCP A 35-70/4
«This is not the end, but the beginning. All endings start something better.»
«Ce n'est pas ma fin mais le commencement. Toutes fins donnent toujours naissance à quelque chose de mieux»
Neale Walsch
(View in large on A day on Earth)
Built in 1905, this former ten room dental surgery and residence was erected for Dr. F. W. Kiel who set up his practice at the more affluent end of Sydney Road in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg.
Between the 1890s and 1914, Federation Queen Anne style was a very popular architectural design in Melbourne, and this surgery and residence was built in just such a style. The red brick is very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the shingling both above and below the upper bay window of Dr. Kiel's drawing room. So too is the half timbered bargeboard below the eave with its Mock Tudor latticework and rough cast stucco. The wonderful stained glass upper panes with stylised tulips in them are Art Nouveau influenced.
The Queen Anne style, was mostly a residential style inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in England, but also encompassed some of the more stylised elements of Art Nouveau, which gave it an more decorative look. Queen Anne style was most popular around the time of Federation. With complex roofline structures and undulating facades, many Queen Anne houses fell out of fashion at the beginning of the modern era, and were demolished.
Built next to the Coburg Anglican Church and opposite The Avenue, Coburg's most prestigious residential street, Dr. Kiel for many years gained the custom of some very wealthy upper and upper-middle class families and his business florished.
At the time of photographing, the former dental surgery and residence were for sale, which explains why geraniums choke the front garden almost to the point that the gate leading to the surgery is immobilised. The property has since been sold, and the new owners have given the geraniums a good trim!
Designer: Liu Yuyi (刘宇一), Liu Haomei (刘浩眉)
2004
Beginning of Spring
Chuchun (初春)
Call nr.: BG E15/760 (Landsberger collection)
More? See: chineseposters.net
Photo of the day April 16, 2021 - My wife and I have a Carolina allspice bush in our backyard. Today I noticed it's beginning to blossom!
Day 19
These photo is to tell you the truth about my house.
I'm not kidding, I swear.
I live in a house (duh obvious) and there is a ghost. All the members of my family feel him.
We think he is an old man that lived here before.
I feel him almost everynight near my bed when I'm trying to sleep. My brother feels him too in his room,
he says that at the beginning it was very scary and all that but now its almost like ''good night ghost!'' haha.
And there is another ghost too, he hadnt beeen showing now haha.
We call him ''The lump''.
I have never seen him, but my mother, father, and sister and brothers says that he is like a little boy walking that just appear through nowhere.
My family have a lot of stories about ghosts that just take out the crap outta me.
Of couse I'm not going to teel all the stories haha,
If you dont believe me.... I dont really care haha jk ;)
The stones for the fire pit have been moved and are just sitting in a circle. Putting in gravel around it, digging up the grass and other necessary work has yet to be done.
View On Black It appears clearer...
I was on the rocks on the north side of Maroubra Beach taking some shots of the interesting rock formations. Then this little ladybug landed on my hat just for a few seconds, enough time for a quick shot...
Of course as the saying goes, ladybugs are meant to bring luck; not twenty minutes later I was very confused and pleasantly surprised!
This early sixteenth-century illuminated prayer book contains Latin prayers and passages from the Gospels. Although small in scale, it is notable for its abundance of illuminations, with nearly sixty extant small miniatures. Full-color portraits embellish the prayers to the Virgin and Suffrages, while the images within the Gospel narrative are rendered primarily in grisaille, a nearly entirely gray monochrome technique. The last folios include a trompe-l'oeil foliate margin and a Crucifixion that seems to be a later addition. Throughout the book gold initials on red or blue grounds mark the beginning of the prayers.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 274. Jane Fonda in Histoires extraordinaires (Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim, 1968).
American actress Jane Fonda (1937) is a two-time Academy Award winner for the crime thriller Klute (1971) and the Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978). Roger Vadim's psychedelic Science Fiction spoof Barbarella (1968) made her one of the icons of the European cinema of the 1960s. In 2014, she received the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award.
Jane Fonda was born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda in New York in 1937. She was the daughter of actor Henry Fonda and the Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Brokaw, née Seymour. She has a brother, actor Peter Fonda, and a maternal half-sister, Frances. Her mother committed suicide when Jane was 12. The suicide was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that her mother had died of heart failure. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class at Vassar. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by director Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of The Country Girl. Before starting her acting career, Fonda was a fashion model, gracing the cover of Vogue twice. In 1958, she met Lee Strasberg and she went to study acting in earnest at the Actors Studio. In 1960, she made her Broadway debut in the play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received the first of two Tony Award nominations. Later the same year, she made her screen debut in the romantic comedy Tall Story (Joshua Logan, 1960), in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins. In Walk on the Wild Side (Edward Dmytryk, 1962), she played a prostitute and earned a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. She rose to fame in such films as Period of Adjustment (George Roy Hill, 1962), Sunday in New York (Peter Tewksbury, 1963), Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein, 1965) opposite Lee Marvin, and Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967), co-starring Robert Redford. Fonda also worked in France. She appeared opposite Alain Delon in the delightful sexy thriller Les félins/Joy House (René Clément, 1964). That same year, she was among the all-star cast of the anthology film La Ronde/Circle of Love (Roger Vadim, 1964), based on the classic Austrian novel Der Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler. Fonda astonished everyone (none as much as her father) by becoming one of the first major American actresses to appear nude in a foreign film. Director Roger Vadim became her first husband in 1965. He featured her as a sex goddess in his next films, La curée/Tears of Rapture (Roger Vadim, 1966) with Michel Piccoli, and a segment of the anthology film Histoires extraordinaires/Spirits of the Dead (Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim, 1968), an adaptation of three horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe. In Vadim's segment, Metzgernstein, Fonda played a decadent contessa who falls in love with her pure cousin (the role of her brother Peter Fonda). In 1968, Jane featured in the title role in Vadim's psychedelic SF spoof Barbarella, establishing her status as a sex symbol. Despite the striptease-in-vacuum beginning and the kinky costumes, Barbarella is now a rather innocent and campy film. Brian J. Dillard at AllMovie: "Although it often pops up on 'Worst Movies Ever' lists, it's actually something of a treat if one approaches it with the right attitude. From the eye-popping plasticity of the production design to the gentle grooviness of the Bob Crewe Generation's campy lounge soundtrack, Barbarella is a defiantly trivial film. But Fonda's studied vacuity, Anita Pallenberg's kinky glamour, and John Phillip Law's bronzed pecs and hippie truisms keep things sexy, sweet, and funny. Fonda has spent more than three decades trying to live down the zero-gee peep show that opens the film, but besides a few bare breasts and countless double entendres, nothing here crosses the line between erotic comedy and pornography." A turning point in her career was the American social drama They Shoot Horses, Don't They (Sydney Pollack, 1969). She played one of the contenders in a desperate dance marathon in 1932, during the Great Depression. Fonda herself considers They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as one of her best films. She went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for the crime thriller Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971). In France, Fonda next starred as a reporter alongside Yves Montand in Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972). A year later, she divorced from Vadim.
Jane Fonda is a seven-time Academy Award nominee. She won her second Best Actress Oscar for the Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for her portrayal of the playwright Lillian Hellman in Julia (Fred Zinnemann, 1977), The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) opposite Michael Douglas, On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981) with Katherine Hepburn and her father Henry Fonda, and The Morning After (Sidney Lumet, 1986) with Jeff Bridges. In 1982, Jane Fonda released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling video of the time. It would be the first of the 22 workout videos she released over the next 13 years, selling over 17 million copies. Divorced from her second husband, the politician Tom Hayden in 1990, she married media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting. Divorced from Turner in 2001, she returned to acting with her first film in 15 years with the comedy Monster in Law (Robert Luketic, 2005) opposite Jennifer Lopez. Subsequent films have included Georgia Rule (Garry Marshall, 2007) with Lindsay Lohan, the French drama Et si on vivait tous ensemble?/All Together (Stéphane Robelin, 2011), The Butler (Lee Daniels, 2013) as First Lady Nancy Reagan, and This Is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy, 2014). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 45-year absence, in the play '33 Variations', which earned her a Tony Award nomination, while her recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012-2014), earned her two Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2010 and 2012. Jane Fonda has been an activist for many political causes. Her counterculture-era opposition to the Vietnam War included her being photographed sitting on an anti-aircraft battery on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, which was very controversial. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women and describes herself as a feminist. In 2005, she, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda currently serves on the board of the organisation. Jane Fonda published the autobiography My Life So Far in 2005. In 2011, she published a second memoir, Prime Time. She has two children, daughter Vanessa Vadim (1968) with Roger Vadim, and Troy O'Donovan Hayden (aka Troy Garity) (1973) with Tom Hayden. In the past decade, Jane Fonda appeared in several new films and series. A highlight was Youth (2015), directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.
Sources: Brian J. Dillard (AllMovie), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Laurence Dang (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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1769.With London's Tower Bridge in the background, we have a rare conjunction of warship styles from very different eras.
BRISBANE, the 3,370-4,500 ton American- designed and built RAN missile destroyer, looks comfortable beside the famous 11,553 ton Town Class cruiser HMS BELFAST of WWII and the Korean War era, now a preserved warship maintained by the Imperial War Museum in the Thames.
BRISBANE and the RNZN frigate HMNZS CANTERBURY had escorted the carrier HMAS MELBOURNE [II] to Britain for the Queen's Silver Jubileee Naval Review, which took place at Spithead in the week beginning June 28 that year.
Photo: Christopher J. Howell Collection, Bluff, NZ, and sent on disc for the RAN Centenary Photostream.
Style Card:
Dress: New Beginnings Hunt / #43 Evolve
Skin: POE4 / #160 Amacci
Other Credits:
Hair: A&A / Joy (Black)
Pumps: Baby Monkey (BM)/ Zara (Pink)
A hand painted bronze by Jonathan Hateley. One of several in the gardens of Chenies Manor. www.jonathanhateley.com/
Stepping back in time a bit, this was taken at the very beginning of color change in the leaves on the trees in the Grand Tetons. Magnificent Tetons!!!
Sanktuarium w Kalwarii Zebrzydowskiej powstało na początku XVII wieku i stworzone było na wzór drogi krzyżowej w Jerozolimie. Pomysłodawcą jego budowy był wojewoda krakowski Mikołaj Zebrzydowski.
Od 1999 roku na liście Światowego Dziedzictwa UNESCO
www.poland.gov.pl/Kalwaria,Zebrzydowska,7530.html
The sanctuary in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska was established at the beginning of 17th century and it was designed in imitation of the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. The originator of its construction was Cracow voivode Mikołaj Zebrzydowski.
Since 1999 on UNESCO World Heritage list.
en.poland.gov.pl/Kalwaria,Zebrzydowska,the,Mannerist,Arch...,(1999),,8289.html
More about Poland: www.poland.gov.pl
Fot. Mariusz Cieszewski
I was going to upload a picture of me and my new piece of technology ,unfortunately I didn’t have the camera, my housemate is out with it, probably making memories. I was thinking of waiting till she gets back home but I really didn’t want to waste the work I did this morning, coloring this sun rise. Do me a favor, and tag a part of the picture and make a wish. With new beginnings one should have hopes and wishes that hopefully will be true…
I have to go eat now... Yummy rihakuru and rice is waiting for me in the kitchen