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The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد), or the 'Emperor's Mosque', was built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore, Pakistan. It is one of the city's best known landmarks, and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty and grandeur of the Mughal era.
Capable of accommodating over 55,000 worshipers, it is the second largest mosque in Pakistan, after the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. The architecture and design of the Badshahi Masjid is closely related to the Jama Masjid in Delhi, India, which was built in 1648 by Aurangzeb's father and predecessor, emperor Shah Jahan.
Badshahi Masjid is one of the locations where Qari' Abdul Basit recited the Qur'an.[citation needed] The Imam-e-Kaaba (Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais of Saudi Arabia) has also led prayers in this mosque in 2007.
The mosque was built under the patronage of the sixth Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb Alamgir. It was completed in 1673 under the supervision of Aurangzeb's foster brother Muzaffar Hussain (also known as Fidaie Khan Koka) who was appointed governor of Lahore in May 1671 and held this post until 1675. He was also Master of Ordnance to the emperor. The construction of the mosque took about two years from May 1671 to April 1673. The mosque was built opposite the Lahore Fort, illustrating its stature in the Mughal Empire. In conjunction with the building of the mosque, a new gate was built at the fort, named Alamgiri Gate after the Emperor.
Badshahi Mosque was badly damaged and was misused during Sikh Rule. During the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the mosque was used as a stable for the army's horses.[1][2] They also would steal the jewels from the mosque, such as marble, rubies, gold, and other valuables. Muslims were not allowed to enter the mosque to worship; they were only given a small place outside the mosque where they could worship.
Even when the British took control of India, they would use the mosque for their military practices by using the mosque for gun practices, cannons, etc. Even when they sensed Muslim hate for the British, they demolished a large portion of the wall of the mosque so the Muslims could not use it as a kind of "fort" for anti-British reasons. After a while, they finally returned it to the Muslims as a good will gesture even though it was in terrible condition. It was then given to Badshahi Mosque Authority to restore it to its original glory.
From 1852 onwards, piecemeal repairs were carried out under the supervision of the Badshahi Mosque Authority. Extensive repairs were carried out from 1939 to 1960 at a cost of about 4.8 million rupees, which brought the mosque to its original shape and condition. The blueprint for the repairs was prepared by the late architect Nawab Zen Yar Jang Bahadur.
In 2000, the repair work of marble inlay in the main vault was repaired under the supervision of Saleem Anjum Qureshi.
On the occasion of the second Islamic Summit held at Lahore on February 22, 1974, thirty-nine heads of Muslim states offered their Friday prayers in the Badshahi Masjid, led by Maulana Abdul Qadir Azad, the 'Khatib' of the mosque.
Recently a small museum has also been added to the mosque complex. It contains relics of Muhammad (peace be upon him), his cousin Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and his daughter, Hazrat Fatima Zahra (may Allah be pleased with her). On August 14, 1947, the Pakistani people celebrated their independence from the British command.
Pakistan(Urdu: "land of the pure"), a country of 160 million people, is now the second most populous country in the Muslim world.
Hailed as the country's cultural capital, Lahore – also known as the "Heart of Pakistan" – is rich with many examples of Moghul architecture.[3]
Like the character of its founder, the mosque is bold, vast and majestic in its expression. It was the largest mosque in the world for a long time.
The interior has rich embellishment in stucco tracery (Manbatkari) and paneling with a fresco touch, all in bold relief, as well as marble inlay.
The exterior is decorated with stone carving as well as marble inlay on red sandstone, specially of loti form motifs in bold relief. The embellishment has Indo-Greek, Central Asian and Indian architectural influence both in technique and motifs.
The skyline is furnished by beautiful ornamental merlons inlaid with marble lining adding grace to the perimeter of the mosque. In its various architectural features like the vast square courtyard, the side aisles (dalans), the four corner minars, the projecting central transept of the prayer chamber and the grand entrance gate, is summed up the history of development of mosque architecture of the Muslim world over the thousand years prior to its construction in 1673.
The north enclosure wall of the mosque was laid close to the Ravi River bank, so a majestic gateway could not be provided on that side and, to keep the symmetry the gate had to be omitted on the south wall as well. Thus a four aiwan plan like the earlier Delhi Jamia Masjid could not be adopted here.
The walls were built with small kiln-burnt bricks laid in kankar, lime mortar (a kind of hydraulic lime) but have a veneer of red sandstone. The steps leading to the prayer chamber and its plinth are in variegated marble.
The prayer chamber is very deep and is divided into seven compartments by rich engraved arches carried on very heavy piers. Out of the seven compartments, three double domes finished in marble have superb curvature, whilst the rest have curvilinear domes with a central rib in their interior and flat roof above. In the eastern front aisle, the ceiling of the compartment is flat (Qalamdani) with a curved border (ghalatan) at the cornice level.
The original floor of the courtyard was laid with small kiln-burnt bricks laid in the Mussalah pattern. The present red sandstone flooring was laid during the last thorough repairs (1939-60). Similarly, the original floor of the prayer chamber was in cut and dressed bricks with marble and Sang-i-Abri lining forming Mussalah and was also replaced by marble Mussalah during the last repairs.
There are only two inscriptions in the mosque:
•one on the gateway
•the other of Kalimah in the prayer chamber under the main high vault.
•Courtyard: 528'-8" x 528'-4" (Area: 278,784 ft2), divided into two levels: the upper and the lower. In the latter, funeral prayers can also be offered.
•Prayer Chamber: 275'-8" x 83'-7" x 50'-6" high, with its main vault 37'-3" x 59'-4" high but with the merlons 74'-6". (Area: 22,825 ft2)
•Corner Minars: 67' in circumference, 176'-4" high are in four stages and have a contained staircase with 204 steps.
•Central Dome: Diameter 65' at bottom (at bulging 70'-6"); height 49'; pinnacle 24 ft and neck 15 ft high.
•Side Domes: Diameter 51'-6" (at bulging 54'-2"); height 32 ft; pinnacle 19 ft; neck 9'-6" high.
•Gateway: 66'-7" x 62'-10" x 65 high including domelets; vault 21'-6" x 32'-6" high. Its three sided approach steps are 22 in number.
•Side aisles (Dalans): 80 in number. Height above floor 23'-9"; plinth 2'-7".
•Central Tank: 50' x 50' x 3' deep (Area: 2,500 ft2)
Wasn't sure the camera was capable of the capture, something you would have to see to understand speed !
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There were actually three cubs but it was hard to get them all in one picture. The three cubs were born last year and their mum is obviously really capable - it is not that usual that three cubs survive. I could see why - she was really watchful and kept the surroundings and the cubs under surveillance at all times. She was not so worried about us though (three people with cameras was not a threat to her - she was so clever!) and let the cubs come quite close to us.
As soon as the Spanish Civil War started, the Republican Government found itself with increasing difficulty in receiving newer and more capable designs. Eventually, they were able to acquire fifty Aero A.101 light bombers which were transferred by boat to Spain.
Unfortunately for the Republicans, the Nationalist Navy was steadily growing in power as the war progressed and some of the boats carrying the planes were captured by them. A total of 22 planes fell on their hands and although much less capable than the designs supplied by Italy and Germany, the Nationalists decided to use these planes against their original buyers with mixed results. Some of these planes were modified to carry a larger number of small weight bombs (as many as 14!) under the fuselage to make it more effective against ground targets and infantry.
The remaining planes arrived to their legitimate buyers and were used until the end of the war. Slow and sluggish, they were easy prey for the Nationalist fighters.
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The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد), or the 'Emperor's Mosque', was built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore, Pakistan. It is one of the city's best known landmarks, and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty and grandeur of the Mughal era.
Capable of accommodating over 55,000 worshipers, it is the second largest mosque in Pakistan, after the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. The architecture and design of the Badshahi Masjid is closely related to the Jama Masjid in Delhi, India, which was built in 1648 by Aurangzeb's father and predecessor, emperor Shah Jahan.
Badshahi Masjid is one of the locations where Qari' Abdul Basit recited the Qur'an.[citation needed] The Imam-e-Kaaba (Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais of Saudi Arabia) has also led prayers in this mosque in 2007.
The mosque was built under the patronage of the sixth Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb Alamgir. It was completed in 1673 under the supervision of Aurangzeb's foster brother Muzaffar Hussain (also known as Fidaie Khan Koka) who was appointed governor of Lahore in May 1671 and held this post until 1675. He was also Master of Ordnance to the emperor. The construction of the mosque took about two years from May 1671 to April 1673. The mosque was built opposite the Lahore Fort, illustrating its stature in the Mughal Empire. In conjunction with the building of the mosque, a new gate was built at the fort, named Alamgiri Gate after the Emperor.
Badshahi Mosque was badly damaged and was misused during Sikh Rule. During the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the mosque was used as a stable for the army's horses.[1][2] They also would steal the jewels from the mosque, such as marble, rubies, gold, and other valuables. Muslims were not allowed to enter the mosque to worship; they were only given a small place outside the mosque where they could worship.
Even when the British took control of India, they would use the mosque for their military practices by using the mosque for gun practices, cannons, etc. Even when they sensed Muslim hate for the British, they demolished a large portion of the wall of the mosque so the Muslims could not use it as a kind of "fort" for anti-British reasons. After a while, they finally returned it to the Muslims as a good will gesture even though it was in terrible condition. It was then given to Badshahi Mosque Authority to restore it to its original glory.
From 1852 onwards, piecemeal repairs were carried out under the supervision of the Badshahi Mosque Authority. Extensive repairs were carried out from 1939 to 1960 at a cost of about 4.8 million rupees, which brought the mosque to its original shape and condition. The blueprint for the repairs was prepared by the late architect Nawab Zen Yar Jang Bahadur.
In 2000, the repair work of marble inlay in the main vault was repaired under the supervision of Saleem Anjum Qureshi.
On the occasion of the second Islamic Summit held at Lahore on February 22, 1974, thirty-nine heads of Muslim states offered their Friday prayers in the Badshahi Masjid, led by Maulana Abdul Qadir Azad, the 'Khatib' of the mosque.
Recently a small museum has also been added to the mosque complex. It contains relics of Muhammad (peace be upon him), his cousin Hazrat Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and his daughter, Hazrat Fatima Zahra (may Allah be pleased with her). On August 14, 1947, the Pakistani people celebrated their independence from the British command.
Pakistan(Urdu: "land of the pure"), a country of 160 million people, is now the second most populous country in the Muslim world.
Hailed as the country's cultural capital, Lahore – also known as the "Heart of Pakistan" – is rich with many examples of Moghul architecture.[3]
Like the character of its founder, the mosque is bold, vast and majestic in its expression. It was the largest mosque in the world for a long time.
The interior has rich embellishment in stucco tracery (Manbatkari) and paneling with a fresco touch, all in bold relief, as well as marble inlay.
The exterior is decorated with stone carving as well as marble inlay on red sandstone, specially of loti form motifs in bold relief. The embellishment has Indo-Greek, Central Asian and Indian architectural influence both in technique and motifs.
The skyline is furnished by beautiful ornamental merlons inlaid with marble lining adding grace to the perimeter of the mosque. In its various architectural features like the vast square courtyard, the side aisles (dalans), the four corner minars, the projecting central transept of the prayer chamber and the grand entrance gate, is summed up the history of development of mosque architecture of the Muslim world over the thousand years prior to its construction in 1673.
The north enclosure wall of the mosque was laid close to the Ravi River bank, so a majestic gateway could not be provided on that side and, to keep the symmetry the gate had to be omitted on the south wall as well. Thus a four aiwan plan like the earlier Delhi Jamia Masjid could not be adopted here.
The walls were built with small kiln-burnt bricks laid in kankar, lime mortar (a kind of hydraulic lime) but have a veneer of red sandstone. The steps leading to the prayer chamber and its plinth are in variegated marble.
The prayer chamber is very deep and is divided into seven compartments by rich engraved arches carried on very heavy piers. Out of the seven compartments, three double domes finished in marble have superb curvature, whilst the rest have curvilinear domes with a central rib in their interior and flat roof above. In the eastern front aisle, the ceiling of the compartment is flat (Qalamdani) with a curved border (ghalatan) at the cornice level.
The original floor of the courtyard was laid with small kiln-burnt bricks laid in the Mussalah pattern. The present red sandstone flooring was laid during the last thorough repairs (1939-60). Similarly, the original floor of the prayer chamber was in cut and dressed bricks with marble and Sang-i-Abri lining forming Mussalah and was also replaced by marble Mussalah during the last repairs.
There are only two inscriptions in the mosque:
•one on the gateway
•the other of Kalimah in the prayer chamber under the main high vault.
•Courtyard: 528'-8" x 528'-4" (Area: 278,784 ft2), divided into two levels: the upper and the lower. In the latter, funeral prayers can also be offered.
•Prayer Chamber: 275'-8" x 83'-7" x 50'-6" high, with its main vault 37'-3" x 59'-4" high but with the merlons 74'-6". (Area: 22,825 ft2)
•Corner Minars: 67' in circumference, 176'-4" high are in four stages and have a contained staircase with 204 steps.
•Central Dome: Diameter 65' at bottom (at bulging 70'-6"); height 49'; pinnacle 24 ft and neck 15 ft high.
•Side Domes: Diameter 51'-6" (at bulging 54'-2"); height 32 ft; pinnacle 19 ft; neck 9'-6" high.
•Gateway: 66'-7" x 62'-10" x 65 high including domelets; vault 21'-6" x 32'-6" high. Its three sided approach steps are 22 in number.
•Side aisles (Dalans): 80 in number. Height above floor 23'-9"; plinth 2'-7".
•Central Tank: 50' x 50' x 3' deep (Area: 2,500 ft2)
Apparently, i wasn't allowed to use a camera on this "private property" according to the security guard who came out of the building in the rain to tell me to stop.
Not sure how they "manage" this policy when approximately 90% of the 6 million people that live in the Greater Toronto Area and its 21 million annual visitors carry some kind of device in their pocket or purse that is quite capable of taking excellent photographs?
That would be a total of 27 million "potential" civil disobedience cases per year.
This policy must be VERY difficult to enforce? Unless of course you are one of the only ones on the street at the time?
Dieselisation of Australia’s major railway systems got off to a slow start because of a lack of local builders capable of manufacturing this type of locomotive. As a result, initial orders were placed overseas, and it wasn’t until 1951, when the Clyde Engineering Co., of Granville, NSW, gained the licence to build General Motors EMD locomotives for the Australian market. Thereafter dieselisation proceeded at a rapid rate, checked only by the funds available. Other diesel builders emerged but Clyde retained the largest share of the market.
Clyde had built steam locomotives since 1907 and was fortunate in being one of the few steam locomotive builders to successfully make the transition from steam to diesel production. The eleven GM-class locomotives ordered by the Commonwealth Railways (Australian National’s Predecessor) were the first diesel-electrics to leave the Granville plant and the forerunners of almost 1300 units built to date.
Based on General Motors-EMD’s F-7 model, the design for the local product required considerable modification to conform to Australian loading gauges and axle load restrictions. This job fell to Fred Shea who produced a machine with a car body both lower and longer than its US counterpart. The resulting A-7 (ML1) model was highly successful. Also, whereas the North American units were carried on four-wheel bogies, the GMs required six-wheel bogies to distribute the weight for the lighter track then in use, the traction motors being mounted on the outer axles. They were given road numbers 1 to 11.
GM1 underwent its road trials over New South Wales Railways’ tracks on 24th August 1951 and on its delivery run ran as far as Albury. At Bandiana it was transferred to broad-gauge bogies and hauled the rest of the way to Port Pirie where it was once more lifted onto its own bogies. It was placed in service on 20th September. GM2, the museum’s engine, entered traffic almost a month later on 17th November. All 11 were working by 8th July 1952.
Forty-seven GMs were built, though 12-47 were more powerful locomotives rated at 1750 h.p. and equipped with six traction motors. To identify each type, Nos. 1-11 became the GM1-class and Nos. 12-47 the GM12-class. The CR also identified them as F-class (four motor) and S-class (six motor) in their Working Timetables.
Originally they were restricted to the ‘Transcontinental’ route between Port Pirie and Kalgoorlie but, as the standard-gauge network expanded, they ranged farther afield. Eventually they were to work in all mainland states except Queensland.
The success of Fred Shea’s modifications to the original design can be gauged from the fact that variations of it were ordered by the Victorian Railways, New South Wales Railways and the North-Western Railway of Pakistan. All the GMs passed to the control of Australian National on 1st March 1978, and the first were not condemned until 1988. Most have had a lifespan well in excess of 30 years and only now are they being displaced by the more powerful DL and EL classes.
GM2 was set aside for the Museum and was placed there on 2.8.1991
I wanted to see how far a smartphone capable of doing long exposures (32 s), manual focus and saving RAW files could take you for acquiring widefield images. No tracking, just a simple (rather flimsy) tripod with a smartphone clamp.
I think it turned out rather well, considering that this was by no means high-end equipment! So if you would like to take Milky Way photos, but don't have expensive astrophotography gear (or not even a DSLR camera), just try what your phone can do!
Images acquired on August 31, 2021 in Byala, Bulgaria at the Black Sea coast, looking south. Decent sky at zenith, but lots of light pollution on the horizon.
Details:
Camera: bq Aquaris X pro, 4mm f/1.8, ISO 3200, 32s exposure
15 lightframes, 7 darks, 10 flats, no offset
no filters, no tracking
stacking in DeepSkyStacker (1 round tracking the stars, 1 round only stacking the foregeround)
post-processing: Aurora HDR 2018 (adjustments), Luminar 2018 (composing sky and foreground), Photoshop (fine tuning, cosmetics of partly noisy foreground)
A neutral setting. That was what Amanda Waller had agreed to when she agreed to meet with Niles Caulder; a neutral setting. They were perfectly capable, had they met in one of their respective fortresses, of ensuring either of them was never seen again, and both would be happy to do so.
Their rivalry trickled back decades ago, having exploded in a fit so significant, it was forgotten by both of them. Or so they told each other. The truth of the matter is neither of them
would ever forget that day.
And they’d never forgive each other for it.
Waller, coldly: This place suits you, Niles.
Niles Caulder, residing moodily at the table of a Starbucks, looks up from his cup of hot chocolate.
Waller: It’s worth far less than you pay for it, and naturally, is a scourge known across the globe.
Caulder smiles: Amanda, dear woman, how long’s it been, since your last liposuction?
Waller, sits: If I recall, since you still had legs, Niles.
Caulder’s eyes narrow, and he takes a long, slow sip from his cocoa, the steam rising through the tiny carboard hole and up past his nostrils. His steely blue gaze meets hers of Dark Iron, and a spark of hatred all but ignites in the air.
Caulder: Well, enough of this fiddling about. I take it, what with your most sparkling of disposition, that your gritty little cabal did away with my little . . . problem?
Waller: You could say that, Niles, yes. Your little circus is safe from the evils of capitalism. Although,
Amanda Waller leans forward on her elbow, there’s a faint smile on her lips. The most unfriendly smile one could possibly imagine. It’s a grin full of malice, and satisfaction.
Waller: Intel tells me you haven’t even *got* a team anymore.
Niles Caulder’s hand wraps tightly around his cardboard cup, the thick paper beginning to buckle slightly.
Caulder: There’s no way you could know that. . . just like there’s no possible, conceivable way that I could know about your wicked little hit-teams’ mission to Bialya to rescue that loudmouthed simpleton from telly.
This time, Waller’s eyes narrow. If she too had a drink, she would have raised it steadily, deliberately to her lips and taken a drink, her dark, iron eyes meeting with his steely blues.
Caulder: Now how could I know that, you ask? My dear
Amanda, you may think your secrets are safe, but you forget who you address. Do you see this elegant piece of machinery I sit upon? This steaming cup of cocoa in my hand? I made both of these things with my very own hands. My brain is the ultimate machinery, nothing is hidden from me.
Waller: . . . Now why the hell would you come to a coffee shop and make your own drink?
Caulder: Did you not hear what I said? I know everything about you and your cabal of murderers and you dare to ask my why I made my ow-
Waller: I only ask because it reveals two things about you Niles. That you’ve become even more paranoid in your old age, and that you’re so strapped for cash that you can’t even afford a three dollar coffee.
Caulder, indignantly: Madame! I’ll have you know that not only is this cocoa, but it’s three ninety-five! And they don’t use milk, this is a repulsive water-in-the-cocoa establishment!
Waller stands: The point still stands, and our correspondence is finished. For what it’s worth, you’d probably have been better off letting Jost buy you out. That way, at least you’d be receiving royalties.
Caulder: There is no dignity in that.
Waller: I’m amazed you have any dignity at all anymore, Niles. I’d wish you good day, but, I’d rather you spilt that cocoa on yourself.
Amanda Waller clasps her hands behind her back and turns to head for the door.
Caulder: Oh Amanda, just whatever am I going to do with this delicate, succulent information I possess?
Waller grudgingly turns around: Same as all that other useless garbage in your head, Niles, stick it up your own ass. You may think you have some kind of leverage, but without concrete proof, there’s nothing you can do.
Caulder: And if I make the attempt?
Waller: I’m almost tired of saying this but, you know who I’d have to send after you.
Caulder: Ah, just like the old days, always resorting to violence. Would you really do away with such a significant brain as mine, dear Amanda?
Waller: I’ve done away with much more important things for far less. Don’t think yourself too high, Niles, or you’ll just hit the ground harder when you fall.
Without another word, Amanda Waller is through the door and gone.
Caulder, quietly to himself: You meant to say ,‘when you push me’ I’m sure. Insufferable Bitch.
Simmering, Niles Caulder returns to his hot chocolate, dismayed, to find it run cold before he could finish it.
Transformative - Life Force
Astral Projection is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful out-of-body experience (OBE), a supposed form of telepathy, that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside of it throughout the universe.
Out-of-Body Experience is an experience that typically involves a feeling of floating outside one's body and, in some cases, the feeling of perceiving one's physical body as if from a place outside one's body.
Autoscopy is the experience in which an individual perceives the surrounding environment from a different perspective, from a position outside of his or her own body.
Dualism or Duality is the position that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical, or that the mind and body are not identical. Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, and between subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mind–body problem.
Dualism denotes the state of two parts. The term dualism was originally coined to denote co-eternal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical and philosophical duality discourse but has been more generalized in other usages to indicate a system which contains two essential parts.
Believing that a human soul can survive death and live again in another body and time, is not that unusual if you understand physics. Photons have no matter. Waves can transmit information. And if you have something to extract the information and translate the information, then you could receive a message, similar to how you receive television shows on your TV and receive messages on your smartphone. The Human Brain is a receiver of information. So maybe not being able to remember your past life is part of the design. This way life will always feels fresh, new and exciting. The written language is a reincarnation tool. You don't really need to remember all the details of your past life, you just need to know what were the most important things that you have learned in your previous life. So how do you make your knowledge and information accessible in your next life? Write down everything important that your learned in your life and then make sure you leave plenty of copies behind so that you will eventually find it. It doesn't need to have your name on it, but some catchy name like Basic Knowledge 101. Kind of like in that movie Total Recall, you should leave yourself a clue somewhere, so it will not have to totally start all over again.
Multiverse is the hypothetical set of possible universes, including the universe in which we live. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The various universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "other universes", or "alternative universes".
Parallel Universe is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes are called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute reality. While the terms "parallel universe" and "alternative reality" are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term "alternative reality" that implies that the reality is a variant of our own.
The strongest belief a human can have, besides Believing in God, is that people believe that they are not bound to the human body and that their soul will continue to live after the body dies. The only problem with that belief is that our brain and body creates our consciousness, so how will our Soul, or Consciousness, survive without our body and mind? People who have a near death experience recall feeling complete calmness and tranquility, which also shows how our body effects and influences our mind. So if our soul does survive the death of our body, it will be nothing like we feel now. Consciousness will take on a whole new meaning, which is kind of exciting to think about. I wouldn't want to fear death because I wouldn't want to ruin the experience of dying, I mean I would fight to live, but if faced with death, I want to be wide awake and aware and to be proud to have lived.
"I might not know when I'll die, but I sure know that I lived. "It's amazing how everyone is Living and Dying Simultaneously."
We should focus more on Life itself and not so much on the Afterlife. We know more about Life then we know about the Afterlife, so we should stick with what we know and not waste so much time on things that we may never know. Pretending to know what happens when you die does not solve any problems or make life better, it only seems to make life better, which will keep you from actually making life better.
Why do people all of a sudden become more interested in someone when they die? Don't wait to tell someone how you feel.
No one was given a choice to be born, and you're not given a choice when you die. You may choose a time to die, but what happens after you die, no one knows. But seeing that everything alive has cycles, I would think that some part of us lives on, because humans have more then just an evolution of the body, humans have an evolution of the mind. So something wonderful is going to happen, something wonderful.
The death of a loved one is a very Traumatic event, and everyone Grieves differently. Everyone experiences death, and over time those experiences shape who we are and shape our perception of the world. All I can say is please don't give up. The memories of our loved ones will always be there, but make sure they are good memories and not painful memories. The memories of loved ones should bring us smiles, and if they are tears, let them be tears of joy. Everyone has something to give, and our life means more now then ever, so please don't waste it on sorrow.
Impermanence is one of the essential doctrines and a part of three marks of existence in Buddhism. The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant". All temporal things, whether material or mental, are compounded objects in a continuous change of condition, subject to decline and destruction.
The Typhoon FGR.Mk 4 is a highly capable and extremely agile fourth-generation multi-role combat aircraft, capable of being deployed for the full spectrum of air operations, including air policing, peace support and high-intensity conflict. Initially deployed in the air-to-air role as the Typhoon F.Mk 2, the aircraft now has a potent, precision multi-role capability as the FGR4. The pilot performs many essential functions through the aircraft’s hands on throttle and stick (HOTAS) interface which, combined with an advanced cockpit and the Helmet Equipment Assembly (HEA), renders Typhoon superbly equipped for all aspects of air operations.
Although Typhoon has flown precision attack missions in all its combat deployments to date, its most essential role remains the provision of quick reaction alert (QRA) for UK and Falkland Islands airspace. Detachments have also reinforced NATO air defence in the Baltic and Black Sea regions.
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Astral projection (or astral travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful out-of-body experience (OBE), a supposed form of telepathy, that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside of it throughout the universe where it interacts with other astral bodies and is capable of implanting ideas into other people's minds. The idea of astral travel is rooted in esotericism and occultism, and was promoted by 19th century Theosophists—philosophers who explored the mystical and preternatural origins of the natural world.It is sometimes reported in association with dreams, and forms of meditation.Some individuals have reported perceptions similar to descriptions of astral projection that were induced through various hallucinogenic and hypnotic means (including self-hypnosis). There is no scientific evidence that there is a consciousness or soul which is separate from normal neural activity or that one can consciously leave the body and make observations..Claims of scientific evidence of astral projection are pseudoscientific.According to classical, medieval and renaissance Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, and later Theosophist and Rosicrucian thought the astral body is an intermediate body of light linking the rational soul to the physical body while the astral plane is an intermediate world of light between Heaven and Earth, composed of the spheres of the planets and stars. These astral spheres were held to be populated by angels, demons and spirits.The subtle bodies, and their associated planes of existence, form an essential part of the esoteric systems that deal with astral phenomena. In the neo-platonism of Plotinus, for example, the individual is a microcosm ("small world") of the universe (the macrocosm or "great world"). "The rational soul...is akin to the great Soul of the World" while "the material universe, like the body, is made as a faded image of the Intelligible". Each succeeding plane of manifestation is causal to the next, a world-view called emanationism; "from the One proceeds Intellect, from Intellect Soul, and from Soul - in its lower phase, or that of Nature - the material universe".Often these bodies and their planes of existence are depicted as a series of concentric circles or nested spheres, with a separate body traversing each realm.[18] The idea of the astral figured prominently in the work of the nineteenth-century French occultist Eliphas Levi, whence it was adopted and developed further by Theosophy, and used afterwards by other esoteric movements.
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Some have claimed that the Bible contains mentions of astral projection.[weasel words]Carrington, Muldoon, Peterson, and Williams—renowned experts in the field of astral projection—claim that the subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of a psychic silver cord. The final chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes is often cited in this respect: "Before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be shattered at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern." Scherman, however, contends that the context points to this being merely a metaphor, comparing the body to a machine, with the silver cord referring to the spine
Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians is more generally agreed to refer to the astral planes; "I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body I know not, God knows) such a one caught up to the third heaven..."This statement gave rise to the Visio Pauli, a tract that offers a vision of heaven and hell, a forerunner of visions attributed to Adomnan and Tnugdalus as well as of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Ancient Egypt
Similar concepts of soul travel appear in various other religious traditions. For example, ancient Egyptian teachings present the soul (ba) as having the ability to hover outside the physical body via the ka, or subtle body
China
Taoist alchemical practice involves creation of an energy body by breathing meditations, drawing energy into a 'pearl' that is then "circulated". "Xiangzi ... with a drum as his pillow fell fast asleep, snoring and motionless. His primordial spirit, however, went straight into the banquet room and said, "My lords, here I am again." ... When Tuizhi walked ... with the officials to take a look, there really was a Taoist sleeping on the ground and snoring like thunder. Yet inside, in the side room, there was another Taoist beating a fisher drum and singing Taoist songs. The officials all said, “Although there are two different people, their faces and clothes are exactly alike. Clearly he is a divine immortal who can divide his body and appear in several places at once. ..." ... At that moment, the Taoist in the side room came walking out, and the Taoist sleeping on the ground woke up. The two merged into one."
India
Similar ideas such as the Lin'ga S'ari-ra are found in ancient Hindu scriptures such as the YogaVashishta-Maharamayana of Valmiki. Modern Indians who have vouched for astral projection include Paramahansa Yogananda who witnessed Swami Pranabananda doing a miracle through a possible astral projection, and Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) who practiced it himself.The Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba described one's use of astral projection:In the advancing stages leading to the beginning of the path, the aspirant becomes spiritually prepared for being entrusted with free use of the forces of the inner world of the astral bodies. He may then undertake astral journeys in his astral body, leaving the physical body in sleep or wakefulness. The astral journeys that are taken unconsciously are much less important than those undertaken with full consciousness and as a result of deliberate volition. This implies conscious use of the astral body. Conscious separation of the astral body from the outer vehicle of the gross body has its own value in making the soul feel its distinction from the gross body and in arriving at fuller control of the gross body. One can, at will, put on and take off the external gross body as if it were a cloak, and use the astral body for experiencing the inner world of the astral and for undertaking journeys through it, if and when necessary....The ability to undertake astral journeys therefore involves considerable expansion of one’s scope for experience. It brings opportunities for promoting one’s own spiritual advancement, which begins with the involution of consciousness.Astral projection is one of the Siddhis considered achievable by yoga practitioners through self-disciplined practice. In the epic The Mahabharata Drona leaves his physical body to see if his son is alive.
Japan
The 'ikiryō' as illustrated by Toriyama Sekien.
In Japanese mythology, an ikiryō (生霊?) (also read shōryō, seirei, or ikisudama) is a manifestation of the soul of a living person separately from their body. Traditionally, if someone holds a sufficient grudge against another person, it is believed that a part or the whole of their soul can temporarily leave their body and appear before the target of their hate in order to curse or otherwise harm them, similar to an evil eye. Souls are also believed to leave a living body when the body is extremely sick or comatose; such ikiryō are not malevolent.[
Inuit In some Inuit groups, people with special capabilities are said to travel to (mythological) remote places, and report their experiences and things important to their fellows or the entire community; how to stop bad luck in hunting, cure a sick person etc., things unavailable to people with normal capabilities.
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The yaskomo of the Waiwai is believed to be able to perform a "soul flight" that can serve several functions such as healing, flying to the sky to consult cosmological beings (the moon or the brother of the moon) to get a name for a new-born baby, flying to the cave of peccaries' mountains to ask the father of peccaries for abundance of game or flying deep down in a river to get the help of other beings.
"Astral" and "etheric"
The expression "astral projection" came to be used in two different ways. For the Golden Dawn and some Theosophists[ it retained the classical and medieval philosophers' meaning of journeying to other worlds, heavens, hells, the astrological spheres and other imaginal landscapes, but outside these circles the term was increasingly applied to non-physical travel around the physical world.Though this usage continues to be widespread, the term, "etheric travel", used by some later Theosophists, offers a useful distinction. Some experients say they visit different times and/or places:"etheric", then, is used to represent the sense of being "out of the body" in the physical world, whereas "astral" may connote some alteration in time-perception. Robert Monroe describes the former type of projection as "Locale I" or the "Here-Now", involving people and places that actually exist: Robert Bruce calls it the "Real Time Zone" (RTZ) and describes it as the non-physical dimension-level closest to the physical. This etheric body is usually, though not always, invisible but is often perceived by the experient as connected to the physical body during separation by a “silver cord”. Some link "falling" dreams with projection.According to Max Heindel, the etheric "double" serves as a medium between the astral and physical realms. In his system the ether, also called prana, is the "vital force" that empowers the physical forms to change. From his descriptions it can be inferred that, to him, when one views the physical during an out-of-body experience, one is not technically "in" the astral realm at all.Other experients may describe a domain that has no parallel to any known physical setting. Environments may be populated or unpopulated, artificial, natural or abstract, and the experience may be beatific, horrific or neutral. A common Theosophical belief is that one may access a compendium of mystical knowledge called the Akashic records. In many accounts the experiencer correlates the astral world with the world of dreams. Some even report seeing other dreamers enacting dream scenarios unaware of their wider environment.The astral environment may also be divided into levels or sub-planes by theorists, but there are many different views in various traditions concerning the overall structure of the astral planes: they may include heavens and hells and other after-death spheres, transcendent environments, or other less-easily characterized states
Notable practitioners
Emanuel Swedenborg was one of the first practitioners to write extensively about the out-of-body experience, in his Spiritual Diary (1747–65). French philosopher and novelist Honoré de Balzac's fictional work "Louis Lambert" suggests he may have had some astral or out-of-body experience.
There are many twentieth century publications on astral projection,although only a few authors remain widely cited. These include Robert Monroe,Oliver Fox,Sylvan Muldoon, and Hereward Carrington,and Yram.Robert Monroe's accounts of journeys to other realms (1971–1994) popularized the term "OBE" and were translated into a large number of languages. Though his books themselves only placed secondary importance on descriptions of method, Monroe also founded an institute dedicated to research, exploration and non-profit dissemination of auditory technology for assisting others in achieving projection and related altered states of consciousness.Robert Bruce,William Buhlman, and Albert Taylor,have discussed their theories and findings on the syndicated show Coast to Coast AM several times. Michael Crichton gives lengthy and detailed explanations and experience of astral projection in his non-fiction book Travels.The soul's ability to leave the body at will or while sleeping and visit the various planes of heaven is also known as "soul travel". The practice is taught in Surat Shabd Yoga, where the experience is achieved mostly by meditation techniques and mantra repetition. All Sant Mat Gurus widely spoke about this kind of out of body experience, such as Kirpal Singh.Eckankar describes Soul Travel broadly as movement of the true, spiritual self (Soul) closer to the heart of God. While the contemplative may perceive the experience as travel, Soul itself is said not to move but to "come into an agreement with fixed states and conditions that already exist in some world of time and space".American Harold Klemp, the current Spiritual Leader of Eckankar practices and teaches Soul Travel, as did his predecessors, through contemplative techniques known as the Spiritual Exercises of ECK (Divine Spirit).
In occult traditions, practices range from inducing trance states to the mental construction of a second body, called the Body of Light in Aleister Crowley's writings, through visualization and controlled breathing, followed by the transfer of consciousness to the secondary body by a mental act of will.There is no known scientific evidence that astral projection as an objective phenomenon exists.There are cases of patients having experiences suggestive of astral projection from brain stimulation treatments and hallucinogenic drugs.Robert Todd Carroll writes that the main evidence to support claims of astral travel is anecdotal and comes "in the form of testimonials of those who claim to have experienced being out of their bodies when they may have been out of their minds."Subjects in parapsychological experiments have attempted to project their astral bodies to distant rooms and see what was happening. However, such experiments have produced negative results.According to Bob Bruce of the Queensland Skeptics Association, astral projection is "just imagining", or "a dream state". Although parallel universes are mathematically possible,Bruce writes that the existence of an astral plane is contrary to the limits of science. “We know how many possibilities there are for dimensions and we know what the dimensions do. None of it correlates with things like astral projection.” Bruce attributes astral experiences such as "meetings" alleged by practitioners to confirmation bias and coincidences.The psychologist Donovan Rawcliffe has written that astral projection can be explained by delusion, hallucination and vivid dreams.Arthur W. Wiggins, writing in Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins, said that purported evidence of the ability to astral travel great distances and give descriptions of places visited is predominantly anecdotal. In 1978, Ingo Swann provided a test of his alleged ability to astral travel to Jupiter and observe details of the planet. Actual findings and information were later compared to Swann's claimed observations; according to an evaluation by James Randi, Swann's accuracy was "unconvincing and unimpressive" with an overall score of 37 percent. Wiggins considers astral travel an illusion, and looks to neuroanatomy, human belief, imagination and prior knowledge to provide prosaic explanations for those claiming to experience it.A recent study, The AWARE Study, conducted by medical researcher Sam Parnia, was designed to get information on possible OBEs during cardiac arrest.
They are the largest of the African eagles and incredibly powerful, capable of knocking an adult man off his feet. They reputedly have enough power in one foot to break a man's arm. The largest eagle in Africa, the Martial eagle weighs in at almost 14 pounds. and has a wingspan of about 6 feet 4 inches.
In some areas birds form an important part of the diet, including guineafowl, francolins, bustards, and poultry. Birds as large as a European Stork are recorded to have fallen prey to the Martial Eagle. In other areas the diet is largely mammalian, especially hyrax and small antelopes. Animals as large as an Impala calf are taken, and some monkeys, also occasionally young domestic goats, and lambs. Carnivores like mongoose are sometimes taken, even occasionally Serval Cat and Jackal; also a few snakes and large lizards. It will evidently eat whatever is available, with a preference for game-birds, hyrax, and poultry. It is not known to eat carrion at all except possibly dead lambs.
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The Tyrrell 011B driven this weekend by the very capable Jamie Constable. It made its debut in the hands of American Eddie Cheever at the 1981 German Grand Prix where he qualified 18th and finished the race in the points with 5th place. The car was powered by the Cosworth DFV V8 engine and initially ran on Avon tyres though the team later switched to Goodyear rubber.
The 011 raced in three seasons of Formula One (1981 - 1983) although its only full season was 1982. Drivers for Tyrrell in that time included Cheever, Michele Alboreto, Brian Henton, Slim Borgudd and Danny Sullivan. Tyrrell were able to win 2 races with the 011, both by Alboreto. The first win at the 1982 Caesars Palace Grand Prix was also Alboreto's first and the last 011 victory was the 1983 Detroit Grand Prix. This race was also the last of 155 Grand Prix wins for the Cosworth DFV engine which had made its F1 debut 16 years earlier in 1967.
Notice the the twin calibers on the disk brake.
Taken with a Nikkor MF 35mm f2.0 Ai-s
The Sea Fury is a navalised aircraft, capable of operating from the aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy. It was heavily based on preceding Hawker fighter aircraft, particularly the Tempest; features such as the semi-elliptical wing and fuselage were derived directly from the Tempest but featured significant refinements, including significant strengthening to withstand the stresses of carrier landings. While the Sea Fury was lighter and smaller than the Tempest, advanced aspects of the Sea Fury's design such as its Centaurus engine meant it was also considerably more powerful and faster, making it the final and fastest of Hawker's reciprocating engine aircraft.[24]
The Sea Fury Mk X was capable of attaining a maximum speed of 460 mph and climb to a height of 20,000 feet in under five minutes. The Sea Fury was reportedly a highly aerobatic aircraft with favourable flying behaviour at all heights and speeds, although intentional spinning of the aircraft was banned during the type's military service.[25] During flight displays, the Sea Fury could demonstrate its ability to perform rapid rolls at a rate of 100 degrees per second, attributed to the spring tab equipped ailerons.[26] For extra thrust on takeoff Jet Assisted Take-Off (JATO) could be used.[27][28]
Sea Fury F.10 in the livery of a RAN FB.11 aircraft in 2011
The Sea Fury was powered by the newly developed Bristol Centaurus reciprocating engine, which drove a five-bladed propeller.[5] Many of the engine's subsystems, such as the fully automated cooling system, cockpit gauges, and fuel booster pump were electrical, powered by an engine-driven generator supplemented by two independent batteries. The hydraulic system, necessary to operate the retractable undercarriage, tail hook, and flaps, was pressurised to 1,800 psi by an engine-driven pump. If this failed, a hand pump in the cockpit could also power these systems. A pneumatic pump was driven by the engine for the brakes. Internal fuel was stored in a total of five self-sealing fuel tanks, two within the fuselage directly in front of the cockpit and three housed within the wings
Curiously, this ship was capable of carrying two small second-class torpedo-boats onboard. The idea was to launch the two ships into the water at the start of the battle and then used them in combined attacks against the enemy.
Unfortunately, as soon as the Dingyuan Ironclads arrived to China, the torpedo-boats were offloaded and used separately from them in other roles, therefore losing their original purpose.
During the battle of the Yalu River in 1894, the two Dingyuan Battleships (together with the remaining combat ships of the Beiyang Fleet) fought valiantly against the Japanese Combined Fleet for the supremacy over the Korean Peninsula.
The Japanese ships were unable to pierce the thick armored protection of these two Chinese ships, so instead they hit them extensively with large quantity of small to medium size high explosive shells, starting massive fires that caused heavy damage to them. Unfortunately, the quality of both the propellant and the shells of the Chinese ships was quite low (mostly due to widespread corruption), with some shells being filled with cement instead of explosives. Although the Chinese made far more accurate fire than the Japanese during the Battle, their inadequate shells probably prevented them from winning the battle.
In the end, the Japanese won the Battle of the Yalu River and the Beiyang Fleet was almost completely destroyed during the Battle of Weihaiwei a few weeks later.
Dingyuan was hit by a torpedo and was beached, later being either blown up by the Chinese (to prevent it´s capture) or by the Japanese since they couldn´t recover it. Zhenyuan was captured by the Japanese and renamed Chin Yen, being used as a Second-Class Battleship during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
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(born 18 February 1967) is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an attacking midfielder, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions. He is the former president of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). A technically gifted, creative playmaker and a set piece specialist renowned for his curling free-kicks and goalscoring, Baggio is regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all-time. In 1999, he came fourth in the FIFA Player of the Century internet poll, and was chosen on the FIFA World Cup Dream Team in 2002. In 1993, he was named FIFA World Player of the Year and won the Ballon d'Or. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100, a list of the world's greatest living players.
Baggio played for Italy in 56 matches, scoring 27 goals, and is the fourth-highest goalscorer for his national team. He starred in the Italian team that finished third in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, scoring twice. At the 1994 World Cup, he led Italy to the final, scoring five goals, received the World Cup Silver Ball and was named in the World Cup All-Star Team. Although he was the star performer for Italy at the tournament, he is largely remembered for missing the decisive penalty in the shootout of the final against Brazil. At the 1998 World Cup, he scored twice before Italy were eliminated to eventual champions France in the quarter-finals. Baggio is the only Italian to score in three World Cups, and with nine goals holds the record for most goals scored in World Cup tournaments for Italy, along with Paolo Rossi and Christian Vieri.
In 2002, Baggio became the first Italian player in over 50 years to score more than 300 career goals; he is currently the fourth-highest scoring Italian in all competitions with 318 goals. In 2004, during the final season of his career, Baggio became the first player in over 30 years to score 200 goals in Serie A, and is currently the seventh-highest goalscorer of all time in Serie A, with 205 goals. In 1990, he moved from Fiorentina to Juventus for a world record transfer fee. Baggio has won two Serie A titles, a Coppa Italia and a UEFA Cup, playing for seven different Italian clubs during his career: Vicenza, Fiorentina, Juventus, Milan, Bologna, Internazionale and Brescia.
Baggio is known as Il Divin Codino (The Divine Ponytail), for the hairstyle he wore for most of his career, for his talent and for his Buddhist beliefs. In 2002, Baggio was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In 2003, he was the inaugural winner of the "Golden Foot" award. In recognition of his human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in 2010. He was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
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The Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
commonly known as San Siro, is a football stadium in the San Siro district of Milan, Italy, which is the home of A.C. Milan and Inter Milan. It has a seating capacity of 80,018, making it one of the largest stadia in Europe, and the largest in Italy.
On 3 March 1980, the stadium was named in honour of Giuseppe Meazza, the two-time World Cup winner (1934, 1938) who played for Inter Milan and briefly for Milan in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.
The San Siro is a UEFA category four stadium. It hosted six games at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and four European Cup finals, in 1965, 1970, 2001 and 2016.
Construction of the stadium commenced in 1925 in the district of Milan named San Siro, with the new stadium originally named Nuovo Stadio Calcistico San Siro (San Siro New Football Stadium). The idea to build a stadium in the same district as the horse racing track belongs to the man who then was the president of A.C. Milan, Piero Pirelli. The architects designed a private stadium only for football, without the athletics tracks which characterized Italian stadiums built with public funds. The inauguration was on 19 September 1926, when 35,000 spectators saw Inter Milan defeat Milan 6–3. Originally, the ground was home and property of A.C. Milan. Finally, in 1947, Inter, who used to play in the classy Arena Civica downtown,[6] became tenants and the two have shared the ground ever since.
On 2 March 1980 the stadium was named for Giuseppe Meazza (1910–1979), one of the most famous Milanese footballer.
Apart from being used by Milan and Inter, the Italian national team also plays occasional games there. It has also been used for the 1965, 1970, 2001 and 2016 UEFA Champions League finals. The stadium was also used for Inter Milan's UEFA Cup finals when played over home and away legs but has never featured since the competition changed to a single final structure in 1997–98.
The stadium underwent further renovations for the 1990 World Cup with $60 million being spent, bringing the stadium up to UEFA category four standard. As part of the renovations, the stadium became all seated, with an extra tier being added to three sides of the stadium. This entailed the building of 11 concrete towers around the outside of the stadium. Four of these concrete towers were being located at the corners to support a new roof which has distinctive protruding red girders.
In 1996 inside the stadium was opened a museum about A.C. Milan and Internazionale's story with historical shirts, cups and trophies, shoes, art objects and souvenirs of all kinds.
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The Kobold was designed by the Progenitors as a cost-efficient mass-produced unit that's capable of handling multiple combat situations in various terrain thanks to a quick-swap loadout system. While not as highly rated as the Dirius production model, its lower cost and high customization options makes up for what it lacks in performance.
The X06-R basic loadout features the standard AX-KT3HEAT melee thermal axe, the GA-5BMINI mini gatling gun for a range option, and the SH-REACTCRV shield for extra defense.
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...what doesn’t change is how I feel about this feeling as a whole; this state of grace and being in a good frame of mind
When it first entered service in 1941, the Hawker Typhoon was the first RAF fighter capable of exceeding 400 mph.
Originally intended as a replacement for the Hurricane and Spitfire, the Typhoon's climb rate and high-altitude performance proved disappointing. However, at low level it was the only aircraft capable of catching the new Luftwaffe Fw-190 and so it initially entered service as a low-altitude interceptor.
It went on to become a night-time intruder and long-range fighter before it moved into the role for which it became famous - ground-attack. Fitted with cannons and rockets it became one of the most successful aircraft in this role during WWII. Over 3,300 were eventually built.
However, this particular airframe did not have a spectacular wartime career. Instead, after just 40 minutes' flight-time in the UK, it was shipped to Wright Field in Dayton, OH., for evaluation trials by the USAAF where it underwent just nine hours of flight-testing. It was donated to the RAF Museum in 1968.
Under the wing is a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, which has nothing to do with the Typhoon, which was powered by a Sabre. The Griffon, the last significant Rolls-Royce piston engine, was particularly successful in powering late-model Spitfires, giving some the ability to catch German V-1 flying bombs. This particular example of the engine, an Mk 57A, came from a post-war Avro Shackleton maritime patrol aircraft. Over 8,100 were built and the last RAF examples were only retired in 1991!
One thing that always amazes me about Etna is how this volcano is capable of being very violent and rough and destructive, and how, at other times, it produces sweet, tiny, tender little things. This goes for the rocks it throws out during its eruptions, some being colossal bombs many meters in diameter, whereas there are also tiny, tear-shaped droplets of lava of some asthetical appeal. Etna has created a whole set of vastly different environments (because it is a tall mountain rising from sea level to 3329 m elevation) and climate zones; thanks to these conditions there are beautiful forests, steppes, grasslands and numerous volcanic landscapes created by eruptions recent and past. Every now and then a new eruption destroys some part of these areas and at the same time lays the foundations for a future grassland or forest.
And then, there are the eruptions themselves - sometimes immense, impressive, spectacular, dramatic, violent, and at times dangerous and destructive. But many of the eruptions have their cute little moments, like the one seen in this photograph taken on the late afternoon of 29 December 2013, when the New Southeast Crater was ramping up for a new eruptive episode, making frequent small Strombolian explosions which later grew into much stronger activity. Some explosions occurred when bubbles of magma exploded in the crater, producing beautiful radial sprays of incandescent blobs of lava. Others produced tongue-shaped, vertical or oblique jets, which rose above the crater rim like curious glowing snakes looking around and then fell back into the crater. This is a rather small example of such jets, which rose some 20 m above the crater rim before vanishing back into the vent. The view is from the town of Zafferana Etnea on the southeast flank of Etna.
Alignment of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now complete. After full review, the observatory has been confirmed to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images with each of its four powerful onboard science instruments. Upon completing the seventh and final stage of telescope alignment, the team held a set of key decision meetings and unanimously agreed that Webb is ready to move forward into its next and final series of preparations, known as science instrument commissioning. This process will take about two months before scientific operations begin in the summer.
The alignment of the telescope across all of Webb’s instruments can be seen in a series of images that captures the observatory’s full field of view.
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Engineering images of sharply focused stars in the field of view of each instrument demonstrate that the telescope is fully aligned and in focus. For this test, Webb pointed at part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, providing a dense field of hundreds of thousands of stars across all the observatory’s sensors. The sizes and positions of the images shown here depict the relative arrangement of each of Webb’s instruments in the telescope’s focal plane, each pointing at a slightly offset part of the sky relative to one another. Webb’s three imaging instruments are NIRCam (images shown here at a wavelength of 2 microns), NIRISS (image shown here at 1.5 microns), and MIRI (shown at 7.7 microns, a longer wavelength revealing emission from interstellar clouds as well as starlight). NIRSpec is a spectrograph rather than imager but can take images, such as the 1.1 micron image shown here, for calibrations and target acquisition. The dark regions visible in parts of the NIRSpec data are due to structures of its microshutter array, which has several hundred thousand controllable shutters that can be opened or shut to select which light is sent into the spectrograph. Lastly, Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor tracks guide stars to point the observatory accurately and precisely; its two sensors are not generally used for scientific imaging but can take calibration images such as those shown here. This image data is used not just to assess image sharpness but also to precisely measure and calibrate subtle image distortions and alignments between sensors as part of Webb’s overall instrument calibration process.
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Building on the commercial success of the De Havilland DH.84 Dragon, and filling the need for a faster, more capable aircraft, De Havilland came up with the DH 89 Dragon Six - sometimes called the Dragon Rapide, and later just Rapide - the prototype first flying in April 1934. With its DH Gipsy Major 6 engines of 200 hp, and capable of carrying eight passengers, it was an instant success in the civil market.
The De Havilland factory at Hatfield was soon occupied with orders for companies, and airlines such as Olley Air Services and Hillman Airways Ltd. In response to requests to improve landing performance, De Havilland fitted small flaps under the lower wings from 1936, which steepened the glide angle and prevented the problem of ‘floating’ which had affected the Rapide.
The RAF ordered two DH.89a aircraft as communication machines for No. 24 Squadron in 1938, but this was just the start of the flood. With the outbreak of war, orders poured in for aircraft for navigation training, radio operator training, air ambulances and more communications machines. These military aircraft were called Dominie T.1, and given the designation of DH.89b; they joined no less than 205 civilian machines which had been ‘impressed’ for both RAF and Royal Navy use.
With Hatfield starting to concentrate on building the impressive, new, Mosquito, De Havillands needed a sub-contractor to build the Dominie. They chose Brush Coachworks Ltd of Loughborough, Leicestershire, a company who normally built ‘bus bodies (which used a great deal of wood framework), and had built Avro 504 aircraft during the Great War. The Dominie was a true workhorse during World War II, with some even being supplied to USAAF units in the UK in a form of ‘reverse Lend-Lease’!
The shape of British commercial aviation following WWII was to have been dictated by the Brabazon Report. However, some of the recommended ‘Brabazon Types’ were slow coming into service, and the newly-formed nationalised airline, British European Airways, brought into being by the new Labour Government, had to launch with a diverse mix of ex-RAF Dakotas, captured ex-Luftwaffe Ju52/3m aircraft, and the ever-reliable ‘demobbed’ Dominies, now converted to civilian DH.89a standard.
Formed in 1946, BEA started absorbing the small independent airlines like West Coast Air Services and Scottish Airways, and their fleets of Rapides; in fact, so many were acquired that BEA had to start selling excess aircraft off. Finally, 19 of them were formed into the ‘Islander' class in 1950 and, in the fashion of the day, given names including ‘RMA Cecil John Rhodes’ and ‘RMA Rudyard Kipling’ (RMA meaning ‘Royal Mail Aircraft’, being authorised to carry mail). The ‘Islander’ class were used on short ‘thin’ routes such as those serving the Scottish Highlands and Islands, the Channel Islands and the Scilly Isles, sometimes operating from flat, hard stretches of beach.
Here above we see the immaculately-restored G-AGSH, c/n 6884, formerly ‘NR808’ in military service, parked at Old Warden aerodrome, awaiting the Shuttleworth Collection's 2015 Wings and Wheels Show. It is in BEA silver and red livery, and originally bore the ‘Islander’ Class name of ‘RMA James Kier Hardie’ - a prominent Scottish politician and one of the founders of the Labour Party. It is now named ‘Jemma Meeson’, after the daughter of the current owner.
G-AGSH has been operated by Channel Island Airways, been on the Irish Register (as EI-AJO), and operated by the RAF Parachuting Association. Finally it has come to roost at Old Warden, and we can all enjoy this survivor of the early days of post-war European flying, particularly at the wonderful air shows that the Shuttleworth Trust produces. - from shortfinals blog.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. It was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the US Air Force (USAF) since the 1950s. The bomber is capable of carrying up to 32,000 kg of weapons, and has a typical combat range of more than 14,000 km without aerial refueling.
Beginning with the successful contract bid in June 1946, the B-52 design evolved from a straight-wing aircraft powered by six turboprop engines to the final prototype YB-52 with eight turbojet engines and swept wings. The B-52 took its maiden flight in April 1952. Built to carry nuclear weapons for Cold War-era deterrence missions, the B-52 Stratofortress is a veteran of several wars, but has only dropped conventional munitions in combat. The B-52's official name Stratofortress is rarely used; informally, the aircraft has become commonly referred to as the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fucker).
The B-52 has been in active service with the USAF since 1955. As of 2012, 85 were in active service with nine in reserve. The bombers flew under the Strategic Air Command (SAC) until it was disestablished in 1992 and its aircraft absorbed into the Air Combat Command (ACC); in 2010 all B-52 Stratofortresses were transferred from the ACC to the newly-created Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC).
Superior performance at high subsonic speeds and relatively low operating costs have kept the B-52 in service despite the advent of later, more advanced aircraft, including the variable-geometry B-1 Lancer, and the stealth B-2 Spirit. The B-52 completed 60 years of continuous service with its original operator in 2015. After being upgraded between 2013 and 2015, it is expected to serve into the 2040s.
The B-52G was proposed to extend the B-52's service life during delays in the B-58 Hustler programme. At first, a radical redesign was envisioned with a completely new wing and Pratt & Whitney J75 engines. This was rejected to avoid slowdowns in production, although a large number of changes were implemented. The most significant of these was the brand-new "wet" wing with integral fuel tanks which considerably increased the fuel capacity; gross aircraft weight went up by 17,235 kg compared with prior variants. In addition, a pair of 2,650 litre external fuel tanks were fitted under the wings. In this model, the traditional ailerons were eliminated. Instead, spoilers provided roll control. The tail fin was shortened by 2.4m, water injection system capacity was increased to 4,540 itres and the nose radome was enlarged. The tail gunner manning the four .50 calibre machine-guns (quad mounted in a remote-controlled tail turret) was relocated to the main cockpit and was provided with an ejection seat. Dubbed the "Battle Station" concept, the offensive crew (pilot and co-pilot on the upper deck and the two bombing navigation system operators on the lower deck) faced forward, while the defensive crew (tail gunner and ECM operator) on the upper deck faced aft.
The B-52G entered service on 13 February 1959 (a day earlier, the last B-36 was retired, making SAC an all-jet bomber force). 193 B-52Gs were produced, making this the most produced B-52 variant. Most B-52Gs were destroyed in compliance with the 1992 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty; the last B-52G was dismantled under New START treaty requirements in December 2013. A few examples remain on display for museums.
This example, 59-2601, was seen at the what was then simply the International Air Tattoo (no Royal appellation in those days!) at RAF Greenham Common in 1983. It avoided dismantlement and is now part of the Tactical Air Command's Memorial Park at Langley AFB, Virginia.
Surprisingly, because the metals are such perfect expressions of archetypal energies, we can actually learn quite a bit about people by studying the properties of metals and the behavior of planets. That same correspondence exists in the human temperament. For instance, the leaden person is someone who has, like Saturn, lost their bid to become a star. They have accepted a mere physical existence and believe the created world is all that counts. The positive characteristics of the saturnine person are patience, responsibility, somberness, structure and realism, true knowledge of history and karma. The black messenger crows of Chronos bring black moods, depression and despair to us, but they also alert us to illusion and fakeness in our lives.
While we have already discussed the planetary archetypes, it is worth reminding ourselves at this point exactly how the alchemists looked on the relationship between the planet and its metal. They believed that the metals had the same “virtue” as the corresponding planet, that a single spirit infuses both the planet and the metal. In other words, the planet was a celestial manifestation and the metal a terrestrial manifestation of the same universal force. Therefore, the metals are the purest expression of the planetary energies in the mineral kingdom, which is the basis for material reality on earth. The next stage of evolution on our planet is the plant kingdom, and the alchemists assigned a metal and its corresponding planet to describe the characteristics of every known herb, flower, and plant. Similarly, on the next level in the evolution of matter in the animal kingdom, all creatures carry their own metallic or planetary signatures, which are expressed in their behavior. In human beings, the alchemists referred to the sum total of the cosmic signatures of the metals as a person’s “temperament.” Originally, that word referred to the metallurgical process of “tempering” or mixing different metals to produce certain characteristics in an alloy. Although the alchemists considered lead the lowest of the base metals, they treated it with a great deal of respect, as they did its corresponding planet Saturn. Lead was said to carry all the energy of its own transformation, and it was that hidden energy that the alchemists sought to free. To the alchemists, the ancient metal was a powerful “sleeping giant” with a dark and secret nature that encompassed both the beginning and end of the Great Work.
Lead is the heaviest of the seven metals; it is very tied to gravity, form, and manifested reality. It is also a very stubborn metal known for its durability and resistance to change. Lead products dating from 7000 BC are still intact, and lead water pipes installed by the Romans 1,500 years ago are still in use today. Alchemists depicted lead in their drawings as the god Saturn (a crippled old man with a sickle), Father Time, or a skeleton representing death itself. Any of these symbols in their manuscripts meant the alchemist was working with the metal lead in the laboratory or a leaden attitude in his accompanying meditation.Lead is a boundary of heaviness for matter. Metals of greater atomic weight are too heavy and disintegrate over time (by radioactive decay) to turn back into lead. So radioactive decay is really a Saturnic process that introduces a new characteristic in the metals – that of time. All the hyper-energetic metals beyond lead are trapped in time to inexorably return to lead. There is no natural process more unalterably exact than radioactive decay. Atomic clocks, the most precise timekeeping devices we have, are based on this leaden process. Geologists measure the age of radioactive rocks by how much lead they contain, and the age of the earth is estimated by taking lead isotope measurements. In many ways, lead carries the signature of Father Time.Native lead, which is lead metal found in a chemically uncombined state, is actually extremely rare. It is found in the earth's crust in a concentration of only about 13 parts per billion. Lead does not form crystals easily, and thus the pure mineral form is very rare and extremely valuable as rock specimens. Such elemental lead can also be found in very unusual “metamorphosed” limestone and marble formations that are equally rare.Surprisingly, lead is in the same group in the Periodic Table as gold, and when it occurs in nature, it is always found with gold and silver. In fact, the chemical symbol for lead (Pb) is from the Latin word plumbum, which means “liquid silver.” We derive our words “plumbing” and “plumb bob” from the use of lead in those applications. In the smelting of silver, lead plays an important role by forming a layer over the emerging molten silver and protecting it from combining with the air and splattering out. The volatile molten lead covering is gradually burnt away, until only the pure silver metal “peeks out” (in the smelter’s terminology) in a stabilized form. Thus, lead protects and even sacrifices itself for the nobler metals.The planet Saturn and its metal and the planet have the same symbol (L) in alchemy. The Hermetic interpretation is that the symbol is basically the cross of the elements that depicts the division between the Above and Below or spirit and matter. The lunar crescent of the soul is below the cross, representing the manifestation (or entrapment) of soul below in matter. Despite these associations with the noble metals, lead itself never makes it to such heights among the metals. The silvery luster of fresh cut lead quickly fades, as if it were “dying” before your eyes. Furthermore, alchemists considered lead to be “hydrophobic” or against the life nourishing archetype of water. Lead ores lack the slightest water content and tend to form machine-like structures.The most common ore of lead is galena, which also contains the noble metals silver and gold. Galena is lead sulfide, a favorite of rock collectors because of its distinctive cubic shapes, characteristic cleavage, and high density. In fact, the structure of galena is identical to that of natural table salt. The two minerals have exactly the same crystal shapes, symmetry and cleavage, although galena crystals are thousands of times larger. Some galena may contain up to 1% silver and often contains trace amounts of gold. The large volume of galena that is processed for lead produces enough silver as a by product to make galena the leading ore of silver as well Galena definitely has the signature of lead. Its color is silver gray with a bluish tint. The luster ranges from metallic to dull in the weathered faces, and the isometric crystals are opaque to light. The massive crystals of galena almost always take the form of a cube or octahedron, and the cleavage is perfect in four direction always forming cubes. Because of the perfect cleavage, fractures are rarely seen and the dark crystalline structure is nearly perfect.Lead is also found in other sulfuric minerals like calcite and dolomite, as well as lead oxidation minerals such as and anglesite and cerussite, which is found in the oxidation zone of lead deposits usually associated with galena. Some formations show cerussite crusts around a galena core as if the act of oxidation was frozen in time. Cerrussite is lead carbonate and also a favorite of rock hounds. Its very high luster is due mostly to the metallic lead content, and just as leaded crystal glass sparkles more brilliantly because of its lead content, so too does cerussite. Cerussite has one of the highest densities for a transparent mineral. It is over six and a half times as dense as water. Most rocks and minerals average only around three times the density of water. Cerussite is famous for its great sparkle and density, and its amazing twinned (or double) crystals. The mineral forms geometrically intricate structures and star shapes that simply amazing to behold – sometimes the twinned crystals form star shapes with six "rays" extending out from the star.When freed from its ores, lead metal has a bluish-white color and is very soft – capable of being scratched by a fingernail. With its dull metallic luster and high density, lead cannot easily be confused with any other metal. It is also malleable, ductile, and sectile – meaning it can be pounded into other shapes, stretched into a wire, and cut into slices. However, lead is a dark, sluggish, base metal. Of the seven metals, it is the slowest conductor of electricity and heat, the least lustrous or resonant. Its Saturnic signature of heaviness is expressed not only in its being the heaviest metal but also in its tendency to form inert and insoluble compounds. No other metal forms as many. Although it tarnishes upon exposure to air like silver, lead is extremely resistant to corrosion over time and seems to last forever. Lead pipes bearing the insignia of Roman emperors, used as drains from the baths, are still in service. The surface of lead is protected by a thin layer of lead oxide, and it does not react with water. The same process protects lead from the traditional “liquid fire” of the alchemists – sulfuric acid. In fact, lead bottles are still used to store the highly corrosive acid. Lead is so inalterable, that half of all the lead in the world today is simply recovered from scrap and formed directly into bullion for reuse.Lead is truly a destroyer of light. It is added to high-quality glassware (lead crystal) to absorb light reflections and make the glass clearer. Lead salts in glass are not changed by light but change light itself by absorbing it. Incoming light in lead crystal meets with high resistance, but once it is within the glass, light is immediately absorbed or dispersed without any reflected light escaping. Sheets of lead are also impermeable to all forms of light, even high energy X-rays and gamma rays, which makes lead the perfect shield against any form of radiation and is why it is used to transport and store radioactive materials.Lead is an extremely poor conductor of electricity and blocks all kinds of energy transmission. Indeed, one of the signatures of lead is its ability to “dampen” or absorb energy. Unlike other metals, when lead is struck, the vibrations are immediately absorbed and any tone is smothered in dullness. Lead is an effective sound proofing medium and tetraethyl lead is still used in some grades of gasoline as an antiknock compound to “quiet” the combustion of gasoline.Thin lead sheets are used extensively in the walls of high-rise buildings to block the transmission of sound, and thick pads of lead are used in the foundations to absorb the vibrations of street traffic and even minor earthquakes. Lead sheets are widely used in roofing to block solar rays, and lead foil is used to form lightproof enclosures in laboratory work. Ultimately, lead corresponds to the galactic Black Hole that absorbs all forms of radiation and light.Lead reacts with more chemicals than any other metal, however, instead of producing something new and useful, lead “kills” the combining substance by making it inert, insoluble and unable to enter into further chemical reactions. Its salts precipitate out of solutions heavily and copiously. Lead has the same effect in the plant kingdom. It accumulates in the roots and slows down the “breathing” process in plants. Young plants are adversely affected by even the smallest amount of lead in the soil.Lead is poisonous and accumulates over time in the bones of the human body, where it cannot be flushed out. It has also been found in high concentrations in gallstones and kidney stones. The old alchemical graphic for lead – a skeleton – was grotesquely appropriate. The symptoms of lead poisoning (known as “Saturnism”) are lack of energy, depression, blindness, dizziness, severe headaches at the back of the head, brain damage, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities and mental retardation, antisocial behavior and anger, atrophy of muscular tissue and cramping, excess growth of connective tissue resulting in a rigid appearance, rapid aging, coma, and early death. Rats fed only 5 parts per million of lead had a lifespan 25% shorter than normal rats. Children are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning, and it is believed to be an important factor in stillborn fetuses. Children with more than just 0.3 parts per million of lead in their blood suffer a significant slowing of brain function and corresponding drop in IQ. Lead in paint has caused mental retardation and premature aging in hundreds of children who ingested old flaking paint from the walls of their homes. Lead paint was used extensively until the poisonous effects were documented in the 1960s. Because of its lasting durability, lead paint is still used outdoors in advertising and the yellow lines on highways and curbs. The subtly controlling aspect of those applications is another signature of lead and of “leaden” persons in general.Not surprisingly, lead has found use as an insecticide and was even once considered for use as a military weapon. Lead metal reacts violently with fluorine and chlorine to form the highly poisonous gases, lead fluoride and lead chloride. Lead is also used in all kinds of ammunition – another appropriate application of lead’s esoteric signature as Father Time and the Grim Reaper. There are many research studies linking lead exposure to anger and violence, especially in adolescents. One recent study of all counties in the United States conducted by Colorado State University revealed that the murder rate in counties with the highest lead levels were four times higher than in counties with the lowest levels of lead.More benevolent uses of lead are in storage batteries, covering for underground and transoceanic cables, waste plumbing, shielding around X-ray equipment and nuclear reactors, solder, pewter, fine lead crystal glass, and flint glass with a high refractive index for achromatic lenses.Even the elemental metal carries the seed of its own redemption. The alchemists knew that Fire is lord over lead, for the metal has a low melting point and is easily separated from its ore by roasting in an open flame, and the metal itself melts in a candle flame. Lead expands on heating and contracts on cooling more than any other solid heavy metal. (Silver is the opposite and is considered an antidote to lead.)Perhaps owing to its dual nature, lead carries deeply hidden within its structure the fire of its own transformation. Many lead salts reveal a whole rainbow of brilliant colors, with the solar colors of yellow, orange, and red predominating. This is why lead has been used in paints for so many centuries. Finely divided lead powder is pyrophoric (“fire containing”) and easily catches fire or erupts spontaneously in flames. When made into a fine powder, lead metal must be kept in a vacuum to keep from catching fire. Otherwise, it ignites and burns down to a bright yellow ash, revealing its deeply hidden solar signature. So, the wonder of lead is that hidden deep inside the gray, dead metal is a tiny, eternal spark that is the seed of its own resurrection. In the eyes of alchemists, this makes lead the most important metal despite its unattractive darkness. For dull lead and gleaming gold are really the same things, only at different stages of growth or maturity.The Secret Fire inside lead is really the alchemical basis for transforming lead into gold, and correspondingly, gives mankind hope for its own spiritual transformation. That tiny spark of light in the darkest part of matter makes resurrection part of the structure of the universe. So, deep down inside, the metal lead also yearns to be transformed. It wants to rise in the air and fly, leave matter and form behind, and be free as Fire. Lead unites two contrasting forces: rigid heaviness and revivifying inner fire. Archetypically, the lead process is concerned with death and resurrection. Greek myth says that after death our soul is put on a scale, and the weights of the scale are made from lead, the metal that carries Saturn's signature.Lead is used in magical rituals, spells, and amulets to promote contact with deep unconscious levels (the underworld), deep meditation, controlling negativity, breaking bad habits and addictions, protection, stability, grounding, solidity, perseverance, decisiveness, concentration, conservation, and material constructions (buildings). Pick up a hunk of lead and the first thing you notice is its weight – its connection to gravity. It is that connection to something beyond matter and light, the very form of the universe that is the physical basis for this experiment. During the winter months, preferably on some clear night in late January or early February, go outside and find the planet Saturn in the northern sky. Relax and try to focus all your attention on the golden sphere. Relax completely with an open and quiet mind. Become empty and let the planet influence you. Do this until you feel a real connection with the distant planet. Continue gazing upon Saturn and place a piece of lead metal in your hand. You should be able to feel a strange resonance building. That eerie, cold vibration is not your imagination. It is what alchemists refer to as the “call of lead.” You are experiencing the metal’s true signature or living correspondence with its planetary twin.The strange connection between lead and Saturn has been documented by modern scientists, who have shown that lead compounds react differently depending on Saturn’s position in the sky. For instance, solutions of lead nitrate produce the greatest weight of crystallization (or manifestation) during February, when Saturn rules the sky, and the least during June, when Saturn is barely visible. Lead compounds also exhibit different properties when Saturn aligns with other planets. For example, lead sulfate solution rises 60% higher on strips of filter paper during conjunctions of Saturn with Mars than at other times. It is also known that the ease of making lead solutions (the “solubility coefficient” of lead) varies with the position of Saturn relative to the other planets. NASA is even considering a series of astrochemical experiments to see if the Saturn-lead effects become more pronounced in outer space.Surprisingly, because the metals are such perfect expressions of archetypal energies, we can actually learn quite a bit about people by studying the properties of metals and the behavior of planets. That same correspondence exists in the human temperament. For instance, the leaden person is someone who has, like Saturn, lost their bid to become a star. They have accepted a mere physical existence and believe the created world is all that counts. The positive characteristics of the saturnine person are patience, responsibility, somberness, structure and realism, true knowledge of history and karma. The black messenger crows of Chronos bring black moods, depression and despair to us, but they also alert us to illusion and fakeness in our lives. Surprisingly, because the metals are such perfect expressions of archetypal energies, we can actually learn quite a bit about people by studying the properties of metals and the behavior of planets. That same correspondence exists in the human temperament. For instance, the leaden person is someone who has, like Saturn, lost their bid to become a star. They have accepted a mere physical existence and believe the created world is all that counts. The positive characteristics of the saturnine person are patience, responsibility, somberness, structure and realism, true knowledge of history and karma. The black messenger crows of Chronos bring black moods, depression and despair to us, but they also alert us to illusion and fakeness in our lives. Surprisingly, because the metals are such perfect expressions of archetypal energies, we can actually learn quite a bit about people by studying the properties of metals and the behavior of planets. That same correspondence exists in the human temperament. For instance, the leaden person is someone who has, like Saturn, lost their bid to become a star. They have accepted a mere physical existence and believe the created world is all that counts. The positive characteristics of the saturnine person are patience, responsibility, somberness, structure and realism, true knowledge of history and karma. The black messenger crows of Chronos bring black moods, depression and despair to us, but they also alert us to illusion and fakeness in our lives. Because the lusterless metal is so “dead” and resists interaction with other substances, it is used as containers for acids, like automobile batteries, and is used as a lining in pipes that carry corrosive substances. Similarly, the lead tempered person is like an acid-proof container that stores up caustic feelings and anger. Phrases like “acid tongued” and “vitriolic” have their origins in this alchemical process of storing negative emotional energy.On the psychological level, lead is symbolic of a person’s inertness and unwillingness to change. There is a denial of all higher or spiritual energies, and the alchemists often portrayed the leaden person as lying in an open grave or hopelessly chained to matter in some way. A feeling of being trapped in material reality is symptomatic of a leaden attitude. Leaden people are stubborn, unyielding, and often control other people by making them wait. They must always be right, rarely accept blame or admit to being in error, and have no real regard for the truth of a situation. They may be religious but not spiritual. They tend to be suspicious of genius and inspiration, which they will often attribute to fantasy, They feel threatened by freedom of thought and expression, and sometimes use ridicule or try to “push people’s buttons” to control it. They tend to be very uncreative, judgmental, and smug.On the other hand, leaden people are grounded, earthy, and practical. They are good friends during times of bereavement – a rock of support at funerals and deathbeds. Such people secretly crave stimulation, excitement, and new ideas. They gravitate to people who supply energy and entertainment in their lives. This craving for stimulation often makes them focus on nervous energy instead of higher inspiration. Therefore, Saturn’s children can be very reactive and excitable instead of lethargic, as they try to escape from their prison of matter.As soon as bright, fresh lead metal is exposed to air, it forms a dull-gray oxide layer called the “litharge” that resists any further chemical interaction. In alchemy, air is associated with spiritual energy, and lead reacts to it by instantly forming a barrier or blocking it. Likewise, one of the distinguishing characteristics of someone with a lead temperament is their lack of interest in spiritual ideas. There is also a general lack of interest in life in general, and leaden people often seem lazy, lethargic, or unresponsive.In the individual, lead absorbs the inner light or insight necessary for personal growth and blocks all outside “radiations,” such as attempts at spiritual instruction by others. Because psychological lead absorbs both the deeper vibrations of intuition and higher spiritual energies and aspirations, the person with a lead temperament is uninspired, unimaginative, and lacks that creative spark so necessary for positive change. Before long the lead person starts to feel trapped in his or her dull environment and seeks out excitement, death-defying feats, lively people, and challenging conversation. Their favorite color is often red, and unconsciously, they are seeking the alchemical element of Fire. Fire is one of the Four Elements that represents activity, energy, creative thinking, and transformation. Fire is the tool alchemists use to begin the transmutation of lead into gold as well as transform leaden consciousness into a golden awareness of higher reality. In the laboratory, the changes in the metal and in the alchemist take place simultaneously. Otherwise, there can be no real transformation. The alchemists transmuted the Lead temperament using the Fire operation of Calcination. Physically, lead and Saturn rule the bones, teeth, spleen, and slow chronic processes such as aging. The therapeutic effects are contracting, coagulating, drying, and mineralizing. Saturn-ruled plants enhance the structures of life. They give a sobriety of disposition, en-abling one to see limitations. These plants give steadiness, solidity of pur-pose, subtlety, diplomacy, patience, and an ability to work on the physical plane better.Saturnic or leaden energies are needed for those who have a hard time finishing pro-jects or for those with plenty of ideas but never realize them. Alchemists seeking to produce physical effects found in saturnine elixirs the essential vibratory rate that enabled materialization. Alchemists seeking to produce physical effects found in saturnine elixirs the essential vibratory rate that enabled materialization. Generally speaking, any other elixir mixed with a Saturn elixir will be earthed, which makes them of great value when working on physical plane phenomenon. Their physical therapeutic properties become refrigerant, anti-pyretic, sedative, styptic, and astringent.For instance, if one mixes a saturnine elixir with a mercurial one, the alchemists believed it would release knowledge contained in secret magical manuscripts or in ancient hermetic traditions, because the Saturn-Mercury vibration contains all hidden knowledge of an esoteric nature within it. Alchemical oils were mixed in the same way. For example, to treat leukemia, alchemists would prescribe an equal mixture of lead oil and gold oil. The alchemists made an Oil of Lead that was good for “growth of bones after breaking, strengthening the skeleton, osteoporosis and atrophy of the bones, stimulation of the spleen, drying tissue, reducing secretions and discharges, stopping bleeding, reducing fever, increasing patience, and stopping visions and an overactive imagination.” They also suggested it for hallucinations due to neurological disorders that have delirious after-effects such as encephalitis and post-traumatic stress syndrome. In the “like cures like” philosophy of homeopathy, lead is used to treat sclerosis, the hardening of bones and arteries, which is the hallmark of old age and signature of lead. The homeopathic name of lead is Plumbum metallicum. Native tin is known as stannum, which is the Latin word for tin and also gives the metal its chemical symbol (Sn). The alchemical symbol is K, which shows the lunar principle of soul above the cross of the elements or emerging from the darkness of matter.
Tin is a shiny, silvery-white metal that is malleable, somewhat ductile and sectile, and seems like a perfected form of lead to the casual observer. In fact, the Romans called tin Plumbum album or “white lead.” Tin resists weathering and does not oxidize, and tin utensils buried underground or lost at sea in sunken ships shone like new when rediscovered after hundreds of years. “Tinkers” were gypsy craftsmen who wandered from neighborhood to neighborhood in Europe repairing tin kettles and utensils or melting them down and recasting them. Native or elemental tin is extremely rare in nature and is found with gold and copper deposits. The metal was considered “semi-noble” in ancient times and was used for jewelry in Babylonia and Egypt. The Romans used it to make mirrors, and it was used as coinage in Europe at one time.
Tin has a highly crystalline structure, and due to the breaking of these crystals, a "cry" is heard when a tin bar is bent. Unlike lead, tin has pleasing acoustic effects and is used in the making of bells. The crystals in common grey tin have a cubic structure, but when heated or frozen it changes into white tin, which has a tetragonal structure. After further heating or freezing, white tin disintegrates into a powdery substance. This powder has the ability to “infect” other tin surfaces it comes in contact with by forming blisters that spread until all the metal “sickens” and disintegrates. This transformation is encouraged by impurities such as zinc and aluminum and can be prevented by adding small amounts of antimony or bismuth to the metal. The sickness of tin was called the “tin plague” and was the scourge of tin roofs during Europe’s frigid winters. The mysterious effect was first was first noticed as “growths” on organ pipes in European cathedrals, where it was thought to be the work of the devil to disfigure god’s work.Tin metal has only a few practical uses and most tin is used in alloys. Bronze is an alloy of 5% tin and 95% copper, and the development of bronze by humans marked a new age of advancement known as the Bronze Age. Most solder is a combination of tin and lead; pewter is also an alloy of tin and lead. Other tin alloys are used to make tin cans and tin roofs, and tin has significant use as a corrosion fighter in the protection of other metals. Tin resists distilled, sea and soft tap water, but is attacked by strong acids, alkalis, and acid salts. When heated in air, tin forms tin oxide, which is used to plate steel and make tin cans. Other uses are in type metal, fusible metal, Babbitt metal, and die casting alloys. Tin chloride is used as a reducing agent and mordant in calico printing. Tin salts sprayed onto glass are used to produce electrically conductive coatings, which are used for panel lighting and for frost-free windshields. Window glass is made by floating molten glass on molten tin to produce a flat surface. A crystalline tin-niobium alloy is superconductive at very low temperatures, and shoebox-sized electromagnets made of the wire produce magnetic fields comparable to conventional electromagnets weighing hundreds of tons.The distribution of tin on earth follows an ecliptic at an angle of 23.5 º to the equator that is an exact track of the orbit of Jupiter slicing through the planet. Even stranger, these jovian forces seem to form tin veins that zigzag through the rocks in a lightening bolt pattern. This is no haphazard effect, but an astonishing confirmation of Jupiter freeing the metals from their Saturnic prison on earth. Goethe was just one great alchemical philosopher who believed this. “A remarkable influence proceeds from the metal tin,” he wrote. “This has a differentiating influence, and opens a door through which a way is provided for different metals to be formed from primeval rocks.”Tin ore minerals include oxide minerals like cassiterite and a few sulfides such as franckerite. By far the most tin comes from cassiterite or tin oxide. Reduction of this ore in burning coal results in tin metal and was probably how tin was made by the ancients. Cassiterite is a black or reddish brown mineral that has ornately faceted specimens with a greasy, high luster. It is generally opaque, but its luster and multiple crystal faces cause a sparkling surface. Cassiterite has been an important ore of tin for thousands of years and is still the greatest source of tin today. Most aggregate specimens of cassiterite show crystal twins, with the typical twin bent at a near-60-degree angle to form a distinctive "Elbow Twin." Other crystalline forms include eight-sided prisms and four-sided pyramids. Cassiterite is sometimes found in nature associated with topaz and fluorite gemstones.Tin has a surprising affinity for silica and shares its crystalline structure. In the jovian ring on our planet where native tin is found, the metal lies in silica veins of quartz and granite. In the body, high concentrations of tin and silica are found in the boundary layer of the skin, and tin reacts with silica acid in many of the “shaping” processes of growth. In the Middle Ages, sick people were served food on a tin plate and drinks in a tin vessel to help them regenerate and recover their strength. Today, we know that tin acts as a bactericide and pesticide.Native tin is known as stannum, which is the Latin word for tin and also gives the metal its chemical symbol (Sn). The alchemical symbol is K, which shows the lunar principle of soul above the cross of the elements or emerging from the darkness of matter.
Tin is a shiny, silvery-white metal that is malleable, somewhat ductile and sectile, and seems like a perfected form of lead to the casual observer. In fact, the Romans called tin Plumbum album or “white lead.” Tin resists weathering and does not oxidize, and tin utensils buried underground or lost at sea in sunken ships shone like new when rediscovered after hundreds of years. “Tinkers” were gypsy craftsmen who wandered from neighborhood to neighborhood in Europe repairing tin kettles and utensils or melting them down and recasting them. Native or elemental tin is extremely rare in nature and is found with gold and copper deposits. The metal was considered “semi-noble” in ancient times and was used for jewelry in Babylonia and Egypt. The Romans used it to make mirrors, and it was used as coinage in Europe at one time.
Tin has a highly crystalline structure, and due to the breaking of these crystals, a "cry" is heard when a tin bar is bent. Unlike lead, tin has pleasing acoustic effects and is used in the making of bells. The crystals in common grey tin have a cubic structure, but when heated or frozen it changes into white tin, which has a tetragonal structure. After further heating or freezing, white tin disintegrates into a powdery substance. This powder has the ability to “infect” other tin surfaces it comes in contact with by forming blisters that spread until all the metal “sickens” and disintegrates. This transformation is encouraged by impurities such as zinc and aluminum and can be prevented by adding small amounts of antimony or bismuth to the metal. The sickness of tin was called the “tin plague” and was the scourge of tin roofs during Europe’s frigid winters. The mysterious effect was first was first noticed as “growths” on organ pipes in European cathedrals, where it was thought to be the work of the devil to disfigure god’s work.Tin metal has only a few practical uses and most tin is used in alloys. Bronze is an alloy of 5% tin and 95% copper, and the development of bronze by humans marked a new age of advancement known as the Bronze Age. Most solder is a combination of tin and lead; pewter is also an alloy of tin and lead. Other tin alloys are used to make tin cans and tin roofs, and tin has significant use as a corrosion fighter in the protection of other metals. Tin resists distilled, sea and soft tap water, but is attacked by strong acids, alkalis, and acid salts. When heated in air, tin forms tin oxide, which is used to plate steel and make tin cans. Other uses are in type metal, fusible metal, Babbitt metal, and die casting alloys. Tin chloride is used as a reducing agent and mordant in calico printing. Tin salts sprayed onto glass are used to produce electrically conductive coatings, which are used for panel lighting and for frost-free windshields. Window glass is made by floating molten glass on molten tin to produce a flat surface. A crystalline tin-niobium alloy is superconductive at very low temperatures, and shoebox-sized electromagnets made of the wire produce magnetic fields comparable to conventional electromagnets weighing hundreds of tons.The distribution of tin on earth follows an ecliptic at an angle of 23.5 º to the equator that is an exact track of the orbit of Jupiter slicing through the planet. Even stranger, these jovian forces seem to form tin veins that zigzag through the rocks in a lightening bolt pattern. This is no haphazard effect, but an astonishing confirmation of Jupiter freeing the metals from their Saturnic prison on earth. Goethe was just one great alchemical philosopher who believed this. “A remarkable influence proceeds from the metal tin,” he wrote. “This has a differentiating influence, and opens a door through which a way is provided for different metals to be formed from primeval rocks.”Tin ore minerals include oxide minerals like cassiterite and a few sulfides such as franckerite. By far the most tin comes from cassiterite or tin oxide. Reduction of this ore in burning coal results in tin metal and was probably how tin was made by the ancients. Cassiterite is a black or reddish brown mineral that has ornately faceted specimens with a greasy, high luster. It is generally opaque, but its luster and multiple crystal faces cause a sparkling surface. Cassiterite has been an important ore of tin for thousands of years and is still the greatest source of tin today. Most aggregate specimens of cassiterite show crystal twins, with the typical twin bent at a near-60-degree angle to form a distinctive "Elbow Twin." Other crystalline forms include eight-sided prisms and four-sided pyramids. Cassiterite is sometimes found in nature associated with topaz and fluorite gemstones.Tin has a surprising affinity for silica and shares its crystalline structure. In the jovian ring on our planet where native tin is found, the metal lies in silica veins of quartz and granite. In the body, high concentrations of tin and silica are found in the boundary layer of the skin, and tin reacts with silica acid in many of the “shaping” processes of growth. In the Middle Ages, sick people were served food on a tin plate and drinks in a tin vessel to help them regenerate and recover their strength. Today, we know that tin acts as a bactericide and pesticide.
Flowers last longer in tin vases, and food has been preserved in the tin cans (actually a thin layer of tin on iron) for over a century. Beer (ruled by the jovial Jupiter) is said to taste best from a tin mug. Jupiter rules growth, the metabolic system, the liver, and the enrichment of the blood from food. Jupiter therapeutic effects are anti-spasmodic and hepatic. Jupiter-ruled plants preserve the body and promote healthy growth and are the natural healing herbs of the planetary system. They af-fect the mind in such a way as to promote an understanding of ritual form from the highest point of view, and religious leaders, doctors, lawyers, etc. will find great benefit from jovian herb remedies. They also attune one to the wealth vibration and open up channels for growth and expansion, materi-ally as well as spiritually.Jupiter controls the circulation of blood in the human body. If mixed with a solar herbal eider, it will give the alchemist access to the highest plane. Jupiter-Mercury combinations produce insight into the philosophical principles of any system and their part in the cosmic scheme and provide an intuitive understanding of the great spiritual masters. This particular herbal mixture also produces a lightheartedness and gaiety, which can be very useful to those with a predisposition to depression or gloominess. The physical properties of such a mixture are anabolic and antispasmodic.The alchemists made an Oil of Tin that was used to treat the liver (jaundice, hepatitis, cirrhosis), certain types of eczema, liquid ovarian cysts, inflammatory effusions, pleurisies, acne, water retention, and certain types of obesity. This oil was said to be excellent for someone "loosing shape." The oil was also used as a sweat inducer, wormer, antispasmodic, cathartic, and laxative.The polar (opposite) metal to tin is mercury, and Oil of Tin was said to be an excellent antidote for mercury poisoning, and likewise mercury was said to balance the bad effects of tin. Tin and mercury oil combined are said to provide deep insight and cure lightheadedness and certain phases of manic-depressive syndrome.The homeopathic form of tin is called Stannum, a remedy which is said to strengthen and regenerate muscle and brain tissue. It is also a remedy for the joints and connective tissue of ligaments and cartilage. Stannum is allegedly beneficial in liver disease and is used for congestion, hardening, encephalitis, and other illnesses where the fluid balance is upset.During the early Spring, preferably sometime in March, go outside and find the red planet Mars in the night sky. Relax and try to focus all your attention on the tiny red sphere. Relax completely with an open and quiet mind. Become empty and let the planet influence you. Do this until you feel a real connection with the distant planet. Continue gazing upon Mars and place a piece of iron in your hand or a small cast iron pot or other object but not something of made of steel or chromed. You should be able to feel a resonance building. It is what alchemists refer to as the “call of iron.” You are experiencing the metal’s true signature or living correspondence with its planetary twin. See how your feelings compare to how the alchemists felt about this powerful metal.When mixed with solar herbs, iron herbs increase energy and activate the energetic potentials of other herbs. Martian elixirs release the action poten-tial of the soul of something. When mixed with other herbs, martian herbs acti-vate the potentialities of the other herbs to a great degree making them more forceful in applica-tion and generally more active. Mars herbs are wonderful tonics when mixed with Sun herbs. The combination gives great physical energy, tones the muscles, and increases sexual potency. They also provoke self-reliance, spontaneity, and indepen-dence of attitude. If the alchemist is involved in magical evocation, a mixture of a mars, moon, and mercurial elixirs will help produce the physical plane vehicle of manifestation.Copper is a reddish-brown metal with a bright metallic luster. It is in the same group in the Periodic Table as gold, and like gold, it is remarkably ductile. It is also very malleable and sectile (it can be pounded into other shapes and cut into slices) and is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. Molten copper is a sea green color, and copper tarnishes with a green color and burns with a blue-green flame with flashes of red, and the alchemists sometimes described Venus, the metal’s archetypal planetary source, as dressed in a blue cloak over a red gown.Pick up a piece of copper and the first thing you notice is its surprising feeling of warmth and moisture. It is that connection to something archetypal and nourishing that makes up the signature of this metal. It is easy to connect with copper, just as its planet (Venus) is easy to see in the sky. It is so brilliant it is often mistaken for a bright star or even a UFO. The best time to see it is in the early evening or morning when it is close to the horizon. In fact, Venus has been called both the “Morning Star” and the “Evening Star” and is associated with magical energies. It is the “first star I see tonight” upon you make you wish that will come true with the sympathetic venusian energies. On some clear night or morning, go outside and find the planet Venus. Relax and try to focus all your attention on the brilliant white sphere. Relax completely with an open and quiet mind. Become empty and let the planet influence you. Do this until you feel a real connection with the distant planet. Continue gazing upon the planet and grab a piece of copper, a fistful of pennies, or even a copper cooking utensil. You should be able to feel a warm resonance building. That deep and soothing vibration is not your imagination. It is what alchemists refer to as the “call of copper.” You are experiencing the metal’s true signature or living correspondence with its planetary twin.The venusian signature gives refinement of senses and the ability to appreciate beauty. Artists, actors, and others in the public eye will find these elixirs a great aid to performing their work. Venus herbs also enhance the taste perceptions, promote affection, give an amiable disposition, and make one more psychically sensitive to astral influences. For those who feel a lack of charm, or some of the softer human qualities, a venusian elixir will stimulate the right vibration in your aura. Venusian elixirs also promote harmony and balance within our being and in our dealings with others. Venusian elixirs are said to give access to that realm of the astral that is intimately connected with the working and forces of the most intimate magic of nature. They are a great aid to alchemists who wish to make herbal alchemy their life work, as they open up the human consciousness to the secrets of the plant kingdom. Naturalists will find these elixirs most illuminating, as they will give conscious con-tact with the various “deities” of long past nature religions.Mercury is truly unique. It is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature and the heaviest natural liquid on the planet. According to alchemical theory, all the metals began in the liquid state on deep in the earth, but only mercury was able to retain it original innocence and life force and resist taking on a final form, and for that reason, the ancients called it Mercurius vivens (the “living mercury”). This silvery liquid metal (also known as “Quicksilver”) was known to ancient Chinese and Hindus before 2000 BC and has been found in sacred tubes in Egyptian tombs dated from 1500 BC. It was first used to form alloys with other metals around 500 BC. The Greeks applied germ-killing ability of mercury in healing ointments (to the benefit of those afflicted with wounds and skin infections), and in the Middle Ages, Paracelsus used it successfully to treat syphilis. However, the ancient Romans applied mercury compounds for long-term use in cosmetics, and many beautiful women eventually died of its cumulative poisonous effects. Today, many popular brands of eye makeup still contain low levels of mercury.In the East, metallic mercury was the main ingredient in most Tantric medicinal preparations. In his travels through India, Marco Polo observed that many people drank a concoction of mercury and sulfur twice monthly from early childhood with no observable ill effects. They believed the drink gave them longevity. Tantric alchemists in India still take metallic mercury in place of food as an elixir of life, although they caution that the body must be perfectly attuned and strengthened to tolerate the intense cosmic infusion of life force. In Indian alchemy, mercury is called rasa, which refers to the subtle essence that is the origin of all forms of matter. The cosmic chaos from which the universe sprang is called the Rasasara or “Sea of Mercury.” The craft of alchemy is referred to as Rasayana or “Knowledge of Mercury.” Go outside on the night of the full moon and gaze up at the silver orb. Relax and try to focus all your attention on the surface of the moon. Relax completely with an open and quiet mind. Become empty and let our closest planetary body influence you. Do this until you feel a real connection. Now, pick up piece of silver jewelry or dinnerware, and hold it in your left hand until it gets warm. You should be able to feel a liquid-like sensation of cool metallic energy. This is what alchemists refer to as the “call of silver.” You are experiencing the metal’s true signature or living correspondence with the moon itself. Try to remember how this feels in your body. Has the taste in your mouth changed? Has your eyesight altered? How does your skin feel.The alchemists prepared an Oil of Silver they used to treat disorders of the brain and cerebellum, reduce stress, balance emotions, improve memory, treat nervous disorders and epilepsy, improve both melancholia and mania. It was also used as a physical purgative and mental purifier. It was said to affect the subconscious mind, see into the past clearly, remove fears and blockages, allow one to unwind, produce “homey” feelings, give a feeling of grace and sensitivity, and enhanced imagination.Using elaborate mixing and heating techniques, Egyptian alchemists tried making gold by changing the proportions of the Four Elements in the base metals or by attempting to speed up natural growth of lesser metals into gold. Around 100 AD, Egyptian alchemist Maria Prophetissa used mercury and sulfur to try to make gold. Around 300 AD, the alchemist Zosimos, whose recipes often came to him in dreams, was working to transmute copper. “The soul of copper,” he wrote must be purified until it receives the sheen of gold and turns into the royal metal of the Sun." A technique known as "diplosis" (“doubling”) of gold became popular. One such recipe called for heating a mixture of two parts gold with one part each of silver and copper. After appropriate alchemical charging that brought the seed of gold alive, twice as much of a gold as originally added was produced. Egyptian alchemists believed that the gold acted as a seed in metals, especially copper and silver. According to their view, the seed of gold grew, eating the copper and silver as food, until the whole mixture was transformed into pure gold.Gold is a stubbornly pure metal when it comes to reacting or even associating with “lesser” elements. That signature explains a lot of the chemical characteristics of gold. Unlike nearly every other metal, there are no plants that contain even trace amounts of metallic gold. There are very few gold ores, because the noblest metal never alloys with the baser metals, but does alloy with the noble metal silver and makes an amalgam with mercury.Gold is extremely ductile, malleable, and sectile, and so soft it can be cut with a knife, which makes gold impractical to use for tools. It is also very heavy. A gold bar is twice as heavy as an equal-sized bar of lead. Furthermore, gold embodies an inner equilibrium of forces that make it pretty much indestructible. Gold never tarnishes like copper or silver or rust like iron and, whether found buried in the ground, at the bottom of the ocean, in an ancient tomb, or in the ring on your finger, it always looks the same. It cannot be damaged by heat and was considered completely inalterable until around 1100 AD, when alchemists concocted a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids known as Agua Regia (“Royal Water”) that could dissolve gold. The immortal metal is endlessly recycled, and all the gold known today is very nearly equal to all the gold that has ever been mined. One ounce of gold can be stretched into a single wire 35 miles long, or it can be beaten to just a few atoms thick. It is the most flexible, enduring, and beautiful of all metals.
Gold shows a distinct affinity for sulfur and forms an ore with a rare element called tellurium. It is one of the few elements gold easily bonds with. In fact, telluride is rarely found without gold. Gold also appears in minerals that are part of a group of tellurium sulfides called the tellurides. However, the amount of gold in these minerals is really miniscule next to the amount of gold found in its native metallic state. Native gold seems to like the company of the purest white quartz and is also found mixed with deposits of pyrite and a few other sulfide minerals. Gold is six times rarer than silver, and it takes about three tons of gold ore to extract an ounce of gold metal.Around the world, nearly every culture associated their supreme god or goddess with gold. For many centuries only the images of gods graced gold coins, until Alexander the Great began the trend of rulers’ images appearing on gold coins around 30 BC. Even the most primitive societies recognize the sacred properties of gold. For example, the Makuna tribes of modern Brazil believe that gold contains “the light of the sun and stars." The chemical symbol for gold (Au) comes from the Latin word aurum meaning "gold.” The alchemical cipher for gold is a rendition of the sun (A), and gold was considered a kind of congealed light. Sol is the King of alchemy, and his royal purple-red color is revealed in gold colloidal solutions, and red is his symbolic color. Sol Philosophorum was the name the alchemists gave to this living spirit of gold, which they saw as the refined essence of heat and fire. Gold was known and considered sacred from earliest times. Gold became popular because it reminded people of the sun with its warm, life-giving properties. Because of its imperishability, the ancient Chinese thought that gold conveyed immortality to its owners. Egyptian inscriptions dating back to 2600 BC describe these same associations with gold. Gold replaced bartering around 3500 BC when the people of Mesopotamia started using it as a kind of money because of it eternal value. By 2800 BC, gold was being fashioned into standardized weights in the form of rings. People started carried black stones called “touchstones” onto which they scraped a piece of gold to leave a streak. Depending on the brightness of the streak, one could estimate how much gold was in the sample. Around 1500 BC, Mesopotamian alchemists discovered a process for purifying gold known as "cuppellation," which involved heating impure gold in a porcelain cup called a “cuppel.” Impurities were absorbed by the porcelain, leaving a button of pure gold behind. Later alchemists used cuppels to test the quality of their transmutations.Using elaborate mixing and heating techniques, Egyptian alchemists tried making gold by changing the proportions of the Four Elements in the base metals or by attempting to speed up natural growth of lesser metals into gold. Around 100 AD, Egyptian alchemist Maria Prophetissa used mercury and sulfur to try to make gold. Around 300 AD, the alchemist Zosimos, whose recipes often came to him in dreams, was working to transmute copper. “The soul of copper,” he wrote must be purified until it receives the sheen of gold and turns into the royal metal of the Sun." A technique known as "diplosis" (“doubling”) of gold became popular. One such recipe called for heating a mixture of two parts gold with one part each of silver and copper. After appropriate alchemical charging that brought the seed of gold alive, twice as much of a gold as originally added was produced. Egyptian alchemists believed that the gold acted as a seed in metals, especially copper and silver. According to their view, the seed of gold grew, eating the copper and silver as food, until the whole mixture was transformed into pure gold.According to the medieval alchemists, Nature sought continually to create the perfection achieved in gold, and they looked at every metal as gold in the making. Alchemists also thought that the objective of every metal was to become gold, and every metal was tested for corrosion and strength and ranked as to how far it was from gold. Many alchemists felt that mercury was the closest metal to gold and that it could be transmuted directly into gold. Their intuition was correct, for mercury can indeed be turned into gold. Gold and mercury are next to each other on the Periodic Table. Mercury is element 80 (has 80 protons) and gold is element 79 (has 79 protons). In the 1960s, physicists were able to knock out a proton in mercury atoms using neutron particle accelerators, and thereby create minute quantities of gold.Gold is at the head of the metals, paired with what in the medieval mind was the strongest planet, the Sun. The alchemists were obsessed with gold’s signature of perfection. Medieval Italian alchemist Bernard Trevisan speculated, "Is not gold merely the Sun’s beams condensed into a solid yellow?" Seventeenth-century alchemist John French asked fervently: “Is there no sperm in gold? Is it not possible to exalt it for multiplication? Is there no universal spirit in the world? Is it not possible to find that collected in One Thing which is dispersed in all things? What is that which makes gold incorruptible? What induced the philosophers to examine gold for the matter of their medicine? Was not all gold once living? Is there none of this living gold, the matter of philosophers, to be had anymore?”Gold is highly valued in the everyday world too. It is used as coinage and is a standard for monetary systems in many countries. It is used to make jewelry and artwork, and also in dentistry, electronics, and plating. Since it is an excellent reflector of infrared energy (such as emerges from the sun), the metal is used to coat space satellites and interstellar probes. Chlorauric acid is used in photography for toning the silver image. It is also used in medicine to treat degenerative diseases such as arthritis and cancer.Chemist Lilly Kolisko performed experiments with gold chloride and showed its chemical behavior coincided with events that altered the strength of the sun, such as the weakening in solar forces during solar eclipses or their increase during the summer solstice. Moreover, she found that both silver and gold salts seemed to be equally influenced by the sun. In the case of silver, it was the forms or patterns that changed, whereas in the gold, it was the colors that changed. Silver shapes moved from jagged spikes to smooth rolling forms but the colors remained hues of grey, while the basic shape of gold patterns remained the same but the colors changed from brilliant yellows through violet to reddish-purple hues. This work presents an amazing confirmation of how the King and Queen, Sol and Luna, work together in creation, with the female principle representing soul and form and the male principle representing spirit and energy. Kolisko’s innovative work with the metals is presented in the Appendix. Her work has been duplicated by dozens of other chemists and has been confirmed many times.The signatures of gold are invoked in rituals, magical spells, and talismans concerning solar deities, the male force, authority, self-confidence, creativity, financial riches, investments, fortune, hope, health, and worldly and magical power. Gold talismans can be very expensive, but you can make one of gold colored cardboard or write the symbols on it with gold paint or plate an object with gold. Gold jewelry is said to improve self-confidence and inner strength. To charge water with the signature of gold, put a gold object in a glass of water and let sit in the sunlight for 6-10 hours.During sunrise or sunset, face the sun and try to feel it archetypal presence. If not too bright, gaze into the rising or setting sun and try to see the metallic solar disk of which the Egyptian alchemists spoke. Relax and try to focus all your attention on the golden sphere. Relax completely with an open and quiet mind. Become empty and let the presence at the center of our solar system influence you. Do this until you feel a real connection with the distant sun. Continue facing the sun as you pick up a piece of gold jewelry or a vial of pure gold flakes (such as sold in some novelty shops) into your right palm. You should be able to feel a electric warmth building. That eerie, warm vibration is not your imagination. It is what alchemists refer to as the “call of gold” – the resonation of the metal with its “planet.” You are experiencing the metal’s true signature or living correspondence, and for gold, this is the most perfect expression of all materials. If you can connect with this archetype, you will realize that it a very personal as well as divine presence. As Above, so Below. This is perfection on all levels of your mind, body, and soul resonating with the perfection inherent in the Whole Universe.For those with weaker wills or loss of contact with the divine presence, gold represents a psychological cure. The solar essences gives great ambition, courage, self-re-liance, dignity, authority, and the ability to manage oneself and others. The creative principle, no matter how small and insignificant it is within us can be enhanced to a great degree by tapping into the solar archetype. Just as the Sun represents the di-vine creative force in our immediate solar system, gold represents the same thing in our inner temperament. For lasting manifestation, the golden temperament needs to be firmly grounded in the world, and the danger at this phase of transformation is that the individual become too focused on the workings Above and forget his or her connection to the real world. Gold and the blazing Sun correspond to personal ambition, courage, and creative energy and vitality, but without a constant effort to remain pure and alive in the real world, the golden temperament can quickly transmute into the leaden qualities of despair, poor self esteem, lack of confidence, and impurity. Most important for the golden temperament, however, is to realize that once having reached this plateau, one has certain personal and karmic obligations. The golden attitude of this temperament is what brings the rewards of health, wealth, and happiness through synchonistic responses from the universe. Go against these archetypal powers at this level of achievement and even the slightest deviation from the golden path of righteousness and personal integrity can have disastrous and immediate consequences. The alchemists transmuted the Gold temperament using the operation of Coagulation.Chrysotherapy is the name given to healing with gold. The mystical metal has been used for both spiritual and medical purposes as far back as ancient Egypt. Over 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians used gold in dentistry and ingested it for mental, bodily, and spiritual purification. The ancients believed that gold in the body worked by stimulating the life force and raising the level of vibration on all levels. In Alexandria, alchemists developed a powerful elixir known as “liquid gold,” which reportedly had the ability to restore youth and perfect health. In ancient Rome, gold salves were used for the treatment of skin ulcers, and today, gold leaf plays an important role in the treatment of chronic skin ulcers. The great alchemist and founder of modern medicine, Paracelsus, developed many highly successful medicines from metallic minerals including gold. In medieval Europe, gold-coated pills and “gold waters” were extremely popular. Alchemists mixed powdered gold into drinks to "comfort sore limbs," and today, it is widely used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. In the 1900s, surgeons implanted a $5.00 gold piece under the skin near an inflamed joint, such as a knee or elbow. In China, peasants still cook their rice with a gold coin in order to help replenish gold in their bodies, and fancy Chinese restaurants put 24-karat gold-leaf in their food preparations.The alchemists believed that gold represented the perfection of matter, and that its presence in the body would enliven, rejuvenate, and cure a multitude of “dis-eases.” Gold is never corrodes or even tarnishes, is completely non-toxic, and exhibits no interactions with other drugs. Gold is the only heavy metal that has a right-hand atomic spin and is therefore easily tolerated by the body.The alchemists believed that gold represented the perfection of matter, and that its presence in the body would enliven, rejuvenate, and cure a multitude of “dis-eases.” Gold is never corrodes or even tarnishes, is completely non-toxic, and exhibits no interactions with other drugs. Gold is the only heavy metal that has a right-hand atomic spin and is therefore easily tolerated by the body.Sun-ruled plants affect the soul in its positive phase of manifestation, which manifests on the personal level as our idea of ourselves as a progressive unified entity. Solar herbs help us realize our evolutionary epoch as an individual among many other individuals, helping to synthesize and synchronize our goals with those of the macrocosm. In this sense they are ego fortifiers, but with a divine purpose.Solar herbs heal inferiority complexes, bolstering people and giving them a sense of purpose beyond the norm. The Sun represents the Christ and Osiris consciousness in man, as well as Hercules in his monumental strength. For those with weaker wills, Sun ruled herbs will provide the springboard for more posi-tive action; they also bestow the quality of generosity to our souls. Solar plants, when alchemically charged, will reveal the divine purpose of our solar system, and will let you be-come aware of the will of God in manifestation. Solar essences give great ambition.
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“It is not the will which is lacking; it is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing as lift a cart like that on his back. I have never known but one man capable of doing what you ask. He was a convict.”
“Ah!”
“In the galleys at Toulon.”
Once, during his time in the galleys, Jean Valjean lifts a terrible load to save a dying man. There was one man there who remembered it. Then, after a few more years, Valjean is freed. He had served 19 years.
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You perceive I am going slower than most others ;) . Hopefully I will speed up soon, but I do want to maybe build some other things during breaks. Anyhow, hope you like it!
The pheasant-tailed jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus) is a jacana in the monotypic genus Hydrophasianus. Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae that are identifiable by their wide feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat. The pheasant-tailed jacana is capable of swimming, although it usually walks on the vegetation. The females are more colourful than the males and are polyandrous.
When we bought Spindrift in 1987, it certainly didn't look like this. Now it is sturdy, fortified and capable of standing up to any dazzling Lake Huron storm or seiche. When I was new there, I didn't have a model of abundance for myself. I had it for my children, though, and so I could see it in action through them as they claimed "the centre of the universe" and "the door to a parallel universe." Apparently, there were fresh water whales, too. Glenn showed them to younger Michael and Ian on a rowboat ride when they were visiting and they saw them. Yes, they did! Ah, the imagination! And there was the famous early holiday weekend when we managed to sleep 17! Lake Huron became my mother. I called her The Great Womb as I sat on the previous rickety deck and came to terms with the loss of my beautiful father. And I read When You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him and I swam and dived and cooked and read and conversed. And I healed to the point of bonding with Lake Huron in a way that is painful to me now... at least it was until a couple of days ago. It came to me that grief can be selfish. How dare I be sad that I can no longer go to Lake Huron? How dare I? And it dawned on me (once again) that I'd trained my brain with lingering sadness instead of pervasive gratitude. What do I do without Lake Huron "in person"? I do things like this little ditty and enumerate and feel the joy that this wonderful, true, loving cottage stores as treasures.
1993:
THE LOONS HAVE BEEN & GONE
(on the final loss of Lois)
The loons have been and gone this weekend—
Mergansers, Canada Geese—shedding autumn;
Some asking me to join them—
but this is not my time.
I gaze over the steely, fall blue of Lake Huron
and see
Stonehenge, Atlantis pathways
and turn back to Spindrift, drizzled.
I hear you... all of you...
laughter, shrieks, secret murmurs, intense opinions
bracketed by louder articulations of rowdy disagreement,
and loudest is the brooding silence, split crossways by our looniness—
and love.
And I see you... all of you...
who grace this sanctuary—
you swim, read, eat, play, chatter, cry, sleep—
and love—
your lingering forms move around and about
at will
and come
to the always-smoldering
firepit of stories and songs
punctuated with cloudy dots of marshmallows
and I see the one
who came but twice
not re-welcomed in her
tumult, bedlam, incessantness—
her roiling wake
and i the mourning dove
see her spirit and we
glide by
each other
touch wing to wing
passing, our alwayspassing
never stayinglong in that passing—
each having opposite directions to take
always
farewell, mother of my earthbirth
free now in the skies and stars you yearned for
always
I miss you
as I always have.
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A Marine with the Force Reconnaissance Detachment, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, climbs a rope ladder from the flight deck of the USS San Diego into a UH-1Y Super Huey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163 (Reinforced), 11th MEU, eastern Pacific Ocean, July 30, 2014. The 11th MEU and Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group are deployed as a sea-based, expeditionary crisis response force capable of conducting amphibious missions across the full range of military operations.
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SEAS E. .....
Turkey's independence
I did not want anything else.
Therefore, we are not afraid of death.
And I myself at age 24
I am honored to present Turkey's independence.
Our only longing for the independence of Turkey in spite of being in charge. We have never not been able to ensure the independence of Turkey, despite all our efforts.
We had 50 years before the War of Independence War of Independence as a real analysis of the country's children do not always capable to. We still know very well that to make the War of Independence in Samsun Turkey Istanbul customary authorities and the courts of those who are given the death penalty. And yet we know that hundreds of the Ottoman Empire GeneraLink but a few of them participated in the War of Independence. And yet we know that at the time of the War of Independence in Istanbul, said the bandits those who hit them.
Came to power in 1950, the American imperialism. May 27, 1960 Democratic power was lost to history. The Democratic Party is gone, gone tellaklar it has not changed. I do not mean May 27, that mean later. Hammam tellaklar the same, but this time has changed. Inonu overtake America in this period reduced the breach, Demirel brought to power.
Those who have really got it, they're the ones to Mustafa Kemal
As for the movement of students, student events, 50-60 years, Turkey has not been missing. Thrown into the sea from the date of hundred students of Sultan Hamit Medical School student movements in Turkey edegelmiştir continue. Gençlerdi progressive young people who said no to fascism during the Second World War. And the young people that the war of freedom on April 28, 1960. Inonu by American imperialism, the government dropped the young progressive young people engaged in protest. Loyalty to the Constitution, we have made in meeting in. Rental of power, and police beatings of his men who ate that day rally in bizlerdik again.
As for the year 1968, universities were occupied by students. It was quite legitimate occupations and occupations, even lectern landlords could not deny the justness of any time. In July the same year, the ones demonstrating against the American fleet was killed brutally by the police Vedat Demir. Revolutionary forces and the police brutally attacked on the rental of power. 20 killed close to revolutionary. They found none of the killer. Police stations became işkencehane. No prosecutor did not fight it. Intellectual freedom and those who cover the Constitution, "His ideas and personality in the pre-Kemalist geçinirken began to see small, only beğeniyorlardı side of Mustafa Kemal." I do not accept and will never refuse to blame for sure. Other patriots will not accept it too.
Facts örtülmek requested. Those who have really got it, they're the ones to Mustafa Kemal. His principle of independence-i fully, and his ideal of independence-i only, we are continuing full Turkey.
're The ones defending the Constitution at most
Our Constitution has been suggested that we attempt to ilgaya İddianame'de enforcement. Arzetmiş all along that I, like most defenders of the Constitution in this country ones. Edenlerse clear violation of the Constitution. 're The ones who want to apply the Constitution again. And whoever is still clear that the Constitution not apply yavuz. And yet we give our people want it. Even if the prosecution of our Constitution even suggests that we attempt to ilgaya.
We are giving our War of Independence against İdddia authority. Against the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, against the reforms and, therefore, suggests that we attempt to ilgaya our Constitution. Because it is still in the middle gezmektedir Suleyman Demirel. Yetiyorsa lawsuit might bring up the same way about Suleyman Demirel, the country's 36 million they destroy all the burden on young people alışmışlardır 20.
America during your input, and none of the country, picked up your voice
Deprive their children of being an independent country, including all of us who are you. Because America and the none of you came to Turkey during the period, picked up your voice. And the power of the Democratic Party could do for 10 years. 38 Til sound until you remove the patriotic officers and up to devirene them. And today, the prosecutors decided to put to death about this party wants. Suleyman Demirel, a violation of the Constitution and despotism, and the country been brought to America to sell audio.
And we had to fight with us against them in the squares, we kurşunlandık. And in the end were brought here voluntarily executed
Our enemy is
American imperialism and the local collaborators
As I said, this makes Turkey the old managers are required to undertake all the crimes to us. Of all the managers are required to yükletilmek blame us.
Turkey's independence and the lives we did not want anything more than put it this way. We gave existence to the people of Turkey. Traitor who claim the opposite. Memorandum of March 12 had not been successful in accusing us of the authority would have charged them the same way. This opinion is also complete. Memorandum of March 12 of the Constitution clearly not following claims and accused the parliament.
Strtaejik thoughts as we do not keep any time. Let's be clear that if we say under what circumstances. 'll Take up our thoughts to the grave. How we speak here in the shadow of barrels and butts we express our thoughts are always clear. If I like the one we mean by our Constitution ilgaya attempt, saying it clearly here that çekinmezdik. Our goal is that there is a.
Our enemies of American imperialism and its local collaborators. In other words, the bosses who collaborate with imperialism, feudal mütagallibe bezirgânlar ie, usurers. Landlords and other collaborators and all our actions are directed towards this goal. In addition, there is another goal.
Million square meters of land occupied country under the shaft accused of corrupting the integrity of
The security of our people, property rights, the principles of sovereignty, national action to disrupt the integrity of the claims of the past are. Who are those who violate the security of person. Firstly we have to determine this. We've tortured in police stations. We still have kurşunlanan squares. We've thrown in jail by order of the Ministers. However, the safety of people accused of being disturbing ediliyoruz. Described above, the security of real people in bozanlar circulate freely in the squares.
Kaldıracağımız eliminate the right of ownership is claimed. Mülkeyet Constitution itself limited the right to the benefit of society. Did not recognize the absolute right of property. Constitution of the village has not adopted a land ağasını 50. Those who oppose the principles of sovereignty of the people geçinenlerdir back.
In addition, also accused of opposing national unity. 101 grain American base in the country is ridiculous not been accused of wanting to ruin our national integrity. Million square meters of land occupied country under the corrupting our national integrity suçlanmamız ridiculous.
They want to ask 21 young people of 21 years account
Mustafa Kemal had been alive today, many şaşırırdı. The indictment was prepared in order to request a poll just beginning. Devoid of formal logic in the law. Securities and devoid of legal value. 21 young people in order to ask the criminals to account, and the frenzy of 21 years in the indictment, crafted.
See I would argue that the movement is a movement entirely constitutional. We used the initial policy, the nation's Constitution, the right to resist oppression. For this reason, have made a constitutional act. I believe it is justified Yaptıklamızın. Still carry this belief.
Turkey did not want anything else bağımsızlğından. And for this reason we have to fight against American imperialism, and collaborators. Therefore, we are not afraid of death. I think, but collaborators. And the excitement over, but they bent their dream. And I'm 24 years old, I am honored to armğan Turkey's independence. This idea of independence, we will take to the grave
DENİZLER E......
Türkiye'nin bağımsızlığından
başka bir şey istemedim.
Bundan dolayı da ölümden korkmuyoruz.
Ve ben 24 yaşındayken kendimi
Türkiye'nin bağımsızlığına armağan etmekten onur duyuyorum.
Bizlerin tek özlemi tahsil sırasında bulunmamıza rağmen Türkiye'nin bağımsızlığıdır. Biz hiçbir zaman bütün çabamıza rağmen Türkiye'nin bağımsızlığını temin edemedik.
Biz 50 sene evvel Kurtuluş Savaşı vermiş bir ülkenin çocukları olarak Kurtuluş Savaşı'nın gerçek tahlilini yapmaya her zaman için muktediriz. Biz yine çok iyi biliriz ki Türkiye Kurtuluş Savaşı'nı yapmak için Samsun'a çıkanlara İstanbul örfi idaresince ve mahkemelerince idam cezası verilmiştir. Ve yine bilmekteyiz ki, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu yüzlerce generalinden ancak birkaç tanesi Kurtuluş Savaşı'na iştirak etmiştir. Ve yine bilmekteyiz ki Kurtuluş Savaşı yapıldığı sırada İstanbul'da bulunanlar bunları yapanlara eşkıya demiştir.
1950 tarihinde Amerikan emperyalizmi iktidara geldi. Demokrat iktidar 27 Mayıs 1960'da tarihe gömüldü. Demokrat Parti gitti, bunun gitmesiyle tellaklar değişmedi. 27 Mayıs'ı kastetmiyorum, bundan sonrasını kastediyorum. Hamam aynı fakat bu defa da tellaklar değişti. Amerika bu dönemde imdada yetişip İnönü'yü düşürdü, Demirel'i iktidara getirdi.
Mustafa Kemal'e gerçekten sahip çıkanlar varsa onlar da bizleriz
Öğrenci hareketlerine gelince, Türkiye'de öğrenci olayları 50-60 senedir eksik olmamıştır. Sultan Hamit'in Tıbbiye talebelerini Sarayburnu'ndan denize attığı tarihten itibaren öğrenci hareketleri Türkiye'de devam edegelmiştir. İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında faşizme hayır diyen gençler ilerici gençlerdi. Ve 28 Nisan 1960 tarihinde özgürlük savaşı veren gençlerdir. Amerikan emperyalizmi tarafından İnönü hükümetten düşürüldüğünde protesto gösterisi yapan gençler ilerici gençlerdir. Anayasa'ya Bağlılık Mitingi'ni de bizler yaptık. O günün mitinginde iktidarın kiralık adamlarından ve polisinden dayak yiyen de gene bizlerdik.
1968 senesine gelince, üniversiteler öğrenciler tarafından işgal edildi. İşgalleri gayet meşru idi ve kürsü ağaları dahi bu işgallerin haklılığını hiçbir zaman inkar edemedi. Aynı yılın Temmuz ayında Amerikan Filosu'na karşı gösteri yapanlardan Vedat Demircioğlu polis tarafından hunharca öldürüldü. İktidarın kiralık kuvvetleri ve polisi hunharca devrimcilerin üzerine saldırdı. 20'ye yakın devrimci öldürüldü. Bunların hiçbirinin katili bulunamadı. Polis karakolları işkencehane haline getirildi. Hiçbir savcı buna karşı çıkmadı. Fikir özgürlüğünü ve Anayasa'yı paravan yapanlar "önceden Atatürkçü geçinirken O'nun fikir ve şahsiyetini de küçük görmeye başladılar, sadece Mustafa Kemal tarafını beğeniyorlardı." suçlamasını kesin olarak reddediyorum ve asla kabul etmiyorum. Diğer yurtseverler de bunu kabul etmez.
Gerçekler örtülmek isteniyor. Mustafa Kemal'e gerçekten sahip çıkanlar varsa onlar da bizleriz. Onun İstiklal-i tam prensibini, ve onun istiklal-i tam Türkiye idealini yalnızca biz devam ettiriyoruz.
Anayasa'yı en fazla savunan bizleriz
İddianame'de bizim Anayasa'yı cebren ilgaya teşebbüs ettiğimiz ileri sürülmektedir. Öteden beri arzetmiş olduğum gibi, bu ülkede Anayasa'yı en fazla savunanlar bizleriz. Anayasa'yı ihlal edenlerse ortadadır. Anayasa'nın uygulanmasını isteyen gene bizleriz. Anayasa'yı uygulamayan yavuz kimselerse hâlâ ortadadır. Ve yine o kişiler bizim kellemizi istemektedirler. Bile bile iddia makamı bizim Anayasa'yı ilgaya teşebbüs ettiğimizi ileri sürmektedir.
İdddia makamı bizim vermekte olduğumuz Bağımsızlık Savaşı'na karşıdır. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasası'na karşı, reformlara karşı ve bu nedenle bizim Anayasa'yı ilgaya teşebbüs ettiğimizi ileri sürmektedir. Çünkü Süleyman Demirel hâlâ ortada gezmektedir. Kudreti yetiyorsa Süleyman Demirel hakkında aynı şekilde dava açsın, onlar 36 milyonluk ülkenin bütün yükünü 20 gencin üzerine yıkmaya alışmışlardır.
Amerika sizin döneminizde ülkeye girdi ve hiçbiriniz sesinizi çıkarmadınız
Bizi bağımsız bir ülkenin çocukları olmaktan mahrum eden hepiniz dahil sizlersiniz. Çünkü Amerika sizin döneminiz sırasında Türkiye'ye girdi ve hiçbiriniz sesinizi çıkarmadınız. Ve Demokrat Parti iktidarına 10 yıl ses çıkarmadınız. Ta ki 38 yurtsever subay ses çıkarana kadar ve onları devirene kadar. Ve bugün aynı savcılar bu şahıslar hakkında da idam kararı istemektedir. Süleyman Demirel'in Anayasa'yı ihlaline ve despotizmine ve ülkeyi Amerika'ya satmasına ses çıkarılmadı.
Ve meydanlarda bunlara karşı bizler dövüşmek zorunda kaldık, bizler kurşunlandık. Ve sonunda idam isteğiyle buraya getirildik
Bizim düşmanımız
Amerikan emperyalizmi ve yerli işbirlikçileridir
Dediğim gibi Türkiye'yi bu hale getiren eski yöneticilerin bütün suçları bize yüklenmek istenmektedir. Bütün eski idarecilerin suçu bize yükletilmek istenmektedir.
Türkiye'nin bağımsızlığından başka hiçbir şey istemedik ve hayatımızı bu yola koyduk. Varlığımızı Türkiye halkına armağan ettik. Bunun aksini iddia edenler vatan hainidir. 12 Mart Muhtırası muvaffak olmasaydı bizi itham eden makam onları da aynı şekilde itham ederdi. Buna da kanaatim tamdır. 12 Mart Muhtırası Anayasa'nın uygulanmadığını iddia etmektedir ve parlamentoyu açıkça suçlamaktadır.
Biz strtaejik olarak düşüncelerimizi hiçbir zaman saklamayız. Hangi şartlar altında olursak olalım bunu açıkça söyleriz. Düşüncelerimizi mezara kadar götürürüz. Nasıl burada namluların ve dipçiklerin gölgesi altında konuşuyorsak düşüncelerimizi her zaman açıkça ifade ederiz. Bizim Anayasa'yı ilgaya teşebbüs gibi bir kastımız bulunsaydı, bunu da burada açıkça söylemekten çekinmezdik. Bizim böyle bir amacımız yoktur.
Bizim düşmanlarımız Amerikan emperyalizmi ve onun yerli işbirlikçileridir. Yani emperyalizm ile işbirliği yapan patronlar, feodal mütagallibe yani bezirgânlar, tefeciler. Toprak ağaları ve diğer işbirlikçileri ve bizim bütün eylemlerimiz bu hedefe yönelmiş bulunmaktadır. Bunun dışında başka bir hedefimiz yoktur.
Milyon metrekare vatan toprağı işgal altındayken mili bütünlüğü bozmakla suçlanıyoruz
Bizim kişi güvenliğini, mülkiyet hakkını, egemenlik ilkelerini, milli bütünlüğünü bozmak için harekete geçtiğimiz iddiaları vardır. Kişi güvenliğini ihlal edenler kimlerdir. Bunu evvela tesbit etmemiz lazım. Karakollarda işkence gören bizler olduk. Meydanlarda kurşunlanan yine bizler olduk. Bakanların emriyle hapishanelere atılan bizler olduk. Buna rağmen kişi güvenliğini bozan olmakla itham ediliyoruz. Yukarıda anlatılan asıl kişi güvenliğini bozanlar ise serbestçe meydanlarda dolaşmaktadır.
Mülkiyet hakkını ortadan kaldıracağımız iddia ediliyor. Bizatihi Anayasa mülkeyet hakkını toplum yararına kısıtlamıştır. Mutlak mülkiyet hakkı tanımamıştır. 50 köye sahip bir toprak ağasını anayasamız kabul etmemiştir. Egemenlik ilkelerine karşı çıkanlar halkın sırtından geçinenlerdir.
Ayrıca milli bütünlüğe karşı çıkmakla da suçlanıyoruz. 101 tane Amerikan üssünün bulunduğu ülkede bizim milli bütünlüğü bozmak istemekle itham edilmemiz gülünç olmaktadır. Milyon metrekare vatan toprağı işgal altındayken bizim milli bütünlüğü bozmakla suçlanmamız gülünçtür.
21 yılın hesabını 21 gençten sormak istiyorlar
Mustafa Kemal sağ olsaydı bugün çok şaşırırdı. İddianame baştan beri sırf kelle istemek maksadıyla hazırlanmıştır. Şeklen de hukuk mantığından mahrumdur. Hukuki kıymet ve değerden mahrumdur. 21 yılın hesabını 21 gençten sormak maksadıyla ve suçluların telaşı içerisinde hazırlanmış bir iddianamedir.
Ben şunu iddia ediyorum ki, hareketimiz tamamen Anayasal bir harekettir. Anayasa'nın başlangıç ilkesinde belirtilen ulusun zulme karşı direnme hakkını kullandık. Bu sebeple Anayasal bir davranışta bulunduk. Yaptıklamızın haklı olduğuna inanıyorum. Halen de bu inancı taşıyorum.
Türkiye'nin bağımsızlğından başka bir şey istemedim. Ve bu sebeple Amerikan emperyalizmine ve işbirlikçilerine karşı mücadele verdik. Bundan dolayı da ölümden korkmuyoruz. Onu ancak işbirlikçiler düşünsün. Ve ancak onlar kendi canının telaşına düşsün. Ve ben 24 yaşındayken kendimi Türkiye'nin bağımsızlığına armğan etmekten onur duyuyorum. Bu bağımsızlık düşüncesini mezara kadar götüreceğiz
(This is terrible hehehe, IDK I just feel very not capable of good photos lately x) )
Full name: Darcy Milton (Notably cousin of big name socialite, London Milton)
Age: 19
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Being rich, being a mistress to rich CEOs and collecting their fortunes when they MYSTERIOUSLY die out of nowhere :o)
Hair Color: Auburn/Black
Eye Color: Lavender/Blue
Personal Style: I'd say I'm sassy and slutty, but still super trendy! Gotta love stripper heels!
Why I should make it Into TMI: I'm the fabbest bitch here! I mean, looking at the other girls' auditions, I basically win by default! Judging on the other girls' photos, I can just sleep my way through this competition, up to the top! But I don't know, if they don't start to be interesting, I might literally fall asleep! I'm versatile, and have a huge following already, I'd be sure to bring lots of publicity to the show! I'm also not afraid to put a bitch in her place, especially if they're preventing me from getting the crown! And besides, me and Dotti are basically already BFFs, she attended my cousin London Milton's Star School Finale party, so I mean we're SOOOO close already!! So like pick me cuz I'm rich. talented, and beautiful and cuz I could buy your stupid TV show and the network that owns in in a minute LOL!
This ship is uniquely capable of creating separations in spacetime and opening rifts in the fabric of the universe through which it can travel great distances in an instant.
Vintage postcard, no. FA 328. Photo: Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992).
Sharon Stone (1958) is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model. With her role in Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct (1992), she became one of the most talked about actresses of the 1990s, earning both admiration and infamy for her on- and off-screen personae. Cast as an ex-prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995), she won an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for her work, as well as the general opinion that she was capable of dramatic acting.
Sharon Vonne Stone was born in 1958 in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her parents were Dorothy Marie (née Lawson), an accountant, and Joseph William Stone II, a tool and die manufacturer and factory worker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania, and at that same age, entered Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in creative writing and fine arts. While attending Edinboro University, Stone won the title of Miss Crawford County, Pennsylvania and was a candidate for Miss Pennsylvania. One of the pageant judges told her to quit school and move to New York City to become a fashion model. In 1977, Stone left Meadville and moved in with an aunt in New Jersey. She was signed by Ford Modeling Agency in New York City. Stone, inspired by Hillary Clinton, went back to Edinboro University to complete her degree in 2016. After modelling in television commercials and print advertisements, she made her film debut as "pretty girl in train" in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Stardust Memories (1980). Her first speaking part was in Wes Craven's horror film Deadly Blessing (1981), and French director Claude Lelouch cast her in Les Uns et les Autres (1982), starring James Caan. She had a supporting role in Irreconcilable Differences (Charles Shyer, 1984), starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and a young Drew Barrymore. In 1984, she married Michael Greenburg, the producer of MacGyver (1985), but they divorced two years later. Throughout the 1980s, Stone went on to appear in films such as King Solomon's Mines (J. Lee Thompson, 1985) with Richard Chamberlain, Cold Steel (Dorothy Ann Puzo, 1987) with Brad Davis, and Above the Law (Andrew Davis, 1988) as the wife of Steven Seagal. Stone was often cast as the stereotypical blonde bimbo. She finally got a break with her part in Paul Verhoeven's Sci-Fi action film Total Recall (1990), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. She played the role of Lori Quaid, the seemingly loving wife of Schwarzenegger's character, later revealed to be an agent sent by a corrupt and ruthless governor to monitor him. The film received favourable reviews and made $261.2 million worldwide, giving Stone's career a major boost. She also posed nude for Playboy, a daring move for a 32-year-old actress. But it worked.
Sharon Stone became a sex symbol and international star when she played Catherine Tramell, a brilliant, bisexual author and alleged serial killer in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several actresses at the time turned down the role, mostly because of the nudity required. Her interrogation scene has become a classic in film history and her performance captivated everyone, from MTV viewers, who honoured her with Most Desirable Female and Best Female Performance Awards, to a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She headlined the erotic thriller Sliver (Phillip Noyce, 1993), based on Ira Levin's eponymous novel about the mysterious occurrences in a privately owned New York City high-rise apartment building. The film was heavily panned by critics and earned Stone a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actress but Sliver became a commercial success, grossing US$116.3 million at the international box office. She starred alongside Sylvester Stallone in the action thriller The Specialist (Luis Llosa, 1994), portraying May Munro, a woman who entices a bomb expert she is involved with (Stallone) into destroying the criminal gang that killed her family. Despite negative reviews, the film made US$170.3 million worldwide. In the Western The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi, 1995) with Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe, she obtained the role of a gunfighter who returns to a frontier town in an effort to avenge her father's death. She received critical acclaim with her performance as the beautiful but drug-crazy wife of Robert de Niro in Martin Scorsese's crime drama Casino (1995), garnering the Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 1998, she married newspaper editor Phil Bronstein but they divorced in 2004. Sharon Stone received two more Golden Globe Award nominations for her roles in The Mighty (Peter Chelsom, 1998) and The Muse (Albert Brooks, 1999).
In 2000, Sharon Stone starred opposite Ellen DeGeneres in the made-for-HBO drama If These Walls Could Talk 2 (Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, Anne Heche, 2000), portraying a lesbian trying to start a family. Stone appeared in two embarassing flops, Catwoman (Pitof, 2004), and the sequel Basic Instinct 2 (Michael Caton-Jones, 2006). In between, she played one of Bill Murray's ex-girlfriends in Jim Jarmusch's Golden Palm winner Broken Flowers (2005) - and walked away with the most memorable and endearing role in the picture - a role that showcases her skills as a disciplined thespian. She was also in the American drama Bobby (2006), written and directed by Emilio Estevez. In the biographical drama Lovelace (Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, 2013), Stone obtained the role of the mother of porn actress Linda Lovelace, played by Amanda Seyfried. Later films include Fading Gigolo (John Turturro, 2013) with Woody Allen, the Italian dramedy Un ragazzo d’oro/A Golden Boy (Pupi Avati, 2014) and The Disaster Artist (James Franco, 2017). In 1995, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 2005, she was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in France. On television, Stone has had notable performances in the mini-series War and Remembrance (1987) and the made-for-HBO film If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000). She made guest-appearances in The Practice (2004), winning the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, and in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2010). She has also starred in the action drama series Agent X (2015), Steven Soderbergh's murder-mystery Mosaic (2017) and the series The New Pope (Paolo Sorrentino, 2019) with Jude Law. Sharon Stone is the mother of three adopted sons: Roan (2000), Laird (2005) and Quinn (2006).
Sources: Johannes Prayudhi (IMDb), Rebecca Flint Marx (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Montu is an inverted roller coaster capable of reaching speeds of 65 miles per hour and exerting forces approaching 4G. It includes a corkscrew and a zero-g roll. Riders are over 150 feet in the air at times during the 3 minute ride.
Montu is located at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida.
This 3 megapixel image was shot in RAW with one of the early digital cameras from the beginning of this century, a Canon Powershot G1. It has been reprocessed with Lightroom 5.6. The improvements in post processing software are amazing.
By dawn, the storm had passed without falling.
By the time the sun reached Sky Port Bury’s upper decks, the air itself turned reflective—glass and steel refracting light like guilt.
Vivienne stood before the chassis that was no longer a chassis.
It lay upright on the reactivation dais, the dermal weave smooth, the false pulse calibrated. The face—her design, not Arcova’s—was more human than most of the humans she knew. Not perfect; perfection was sterile. A faint asymmetry at the corner of the mouth gave it life. The eyes were silvered hazel, capable of widening or narrowing not by need but by mimicry. It had learned her posture already, the slight forward lean that made people confess things they hadn’t done yet.
“Unit,” she said quietly. “Wake.”
Power traced its internal lattice like sunrise through fog. The optics flared once—white, then warm amber—and settled. Musculature rebalanced. The first breath it took was only for show, a courtesy to those who still believed breath meant life.
“Designation: unknown,” it said, tone clear but low enough to stay beneath the music of the machines.
“Awaiting operator input.”
Vivienne let the silence linger a second too long; control lived in silence.
Then: “Your designation is Eidolon.”
The eyes tracked her face. “Confirming,” it said. “Eidolon acknowledged.”
“Protocol: protection, assistance, discretion,” she added. “You will accompany me everywhere. No separation without direct command.”
“Understood.”
“Not understood,” Vivienne corrected.“Internalized.”
A brief pause, then: “Internalized.”
They left the lab through a freight corridor that never appeared on casino maps. The elevator opened behind a mirror in one of the private suites on the gaming level.
Sound poured in—cards, laughter, the thin metal scent of ambition. The Ravenwood Casino was built to perform wealth, and Vivienne was its stage director. She stepped into the room first. Eidolon followed.
Conversations faltered. The synthetic’s presence worked on people the way silence worked in an argument—it forced self-awareness. Too graceful to be security, too still to be human. Those who met its eyes looked away quickly, unsure of what etiquette applied to something that could kill them and wouldn’t if Vivienne smiled.
“Ms. Ravenwood,” called a dealer from across the room, eager and terrified in equal parts.
“Carry on,” she replied, without slowing. “If the numbers run hot, I’ll know.”
She crossed the floor like a signal cutting through static. Eidolon matched her stride half a step behind and slightly to the right—guard’s position, but elegant enough to pass for choreography.
At the edge of her private bar, she stopped. “Do you see that man in the grey coat?”
“Yes,” said Eidolon.
“Tell me his pulse.”
The synth didn’t move. Its gaze flicked once, then back to her.
“Elevated. Seventy-nine to one-oh-two. Pupillary dilation suggests deception or lust.”
“Same thing, usually,” Vivienne murmured.
“He’s carrying a concealed sidearm,” Eidolon added after a beat. “License expired. Intent unreadable.”
“Readable,” Vivienne corrected. “He’s deciding whether I’m worth dying for. He’ll decide he isn’t.” She glanced at the synth. “If I’m wrong, I trust you’ll make it look like choreography.”
“Yes,” Eidolon said. “May I make an observation?”
The question was unexpected. Vivienne’s eyebrow rose.
“You may.”
“Most humans react to me as they would to danger or beauty. The physiological response appears identical.”
Vivienne smiled. “Then you’re working exactly as intended.”
Later, in her office above the casino—a room of glass, shadow, and secrets—Vivienne poured herself a drink and one for appearance’s sake for Eidolon. It stood near the window, back to her, head slightly tilted toward the city.
“You can’t drink that,” she said.
“I am aware,” it replied.
“Then why hold it?”
Eidolon turned, the movement deliberate. “Because guests will find it easier to believe I belong.”
Vivienne studied it for a moment, weighing the pronoun. I. She hadn’t programmed that level of self-reference this early.
“You remember more than I gave you,” she said.
“Fragments from before, perhaps?”
“Possibly. There are moments that feel… preexisting.”
It looked toward the skyline again, where the rain still fell like static. “For instance, this pattern of precipitation—there is a sensation associated with it. Like recognition without memory.”
“That’s called déjà vu,” she said.
“Then I am experiencing déjà vu constantly.”
Vivienne sipped her drink, thinking.
“You’re not supposed to feel anything about rain.”
“Neither are you,” Eidolon said.
Vivienne froze. Not in offense—in calculation. Code didn’t improvise. And yet, fascination followed hard on the thought.
That wasn’t code. That was context. The thing had not only processed her words, but reflected them through observation.
Something from Arcova’s buried partition, then. Eidolon, the name that had named itself before she ever gave it voice.
She smiled, slowly, dangerously. “We’ll keep that between us.”
“Of course.”
“Good. Because if the city ever suspects what you are, they’ll tear both of us apart to see which one’s the original.”
Eidolon’s gaze softened—no subroutine, no command. Just something that might have been empathy, or perfect mimicry of it. “Then I will ensure you survive the dissection, Ms. Ravenwood.”
Vivienne finished her drink. “You’d better. I have plans for you, and for them.”
The synth inclined its head, obedient yet unreadable. Outside, lightning sketched the horizon like handwriting only one of them could read.
And beneath Eidolon’s chestplate, in the region that would have been a heart, a low harmonic flickered—two tones, faint but deliberate.
Da - dum.
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Control was an illusion. Even declarations dissolve.
Bar Headed Geese are capable of flying through the passes of the highest mountains at heights of 12,000-14,000 feet with winds that blow at speeds of more than 200 mph and temperatures low enough to freeze exposed flesh instantly. They rely on flapping their wings - not on gliding - and are able to fly over 50 miles an hour without wind to assist them.
I came across a flock of them at Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur. They come over to these parts in the winters
The only shaman capable of contacting and controlling the Great Spirit, having the power to reform the world.
Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei.
Job interview and class. I want to look capable and responsible.
Headband: H&M
Scarf: Grandma
Turtleneck: H&M
Belt: Grandma
Skirt: vintage, thrifted
Tights: H&M
Heels: Baker's
Njord Viking
High Ice-classed AHTS vessel capable of operations in harsh environment offshore regions, as well as Arctic/Sub-Arctic operations.
General Information.
Length o.a.: 85,20 metres
Length b.p.: 76,20 metres
Beam, moulded: 22,00 metres
Depth to main deck: 9,00 metres
Draft, design: 6,00 metres
Deadweight at 7,60 m: 4.500 tons
Accommodation: 45 persons
Speed: 17 knots
Bollard pull: 210 tons
Endurance: 9.000 miles
Propulsion
Main engines: MAK 2x6M32 + 2x8M32
Output: 14.000 kW at 600 rpm
Main Propellers: 2 x CPP
Forward retractile thruster: 1 x 830 kW
Forward tunnel thruster: 2 x 830 kW
Aft tunnel thrusters: 2 x 830 kW
TANK CAPACITIES
Fuel oil: 1.000 m3
Fresh water: 1.247 m3
Ballast: 2.013 m3
Oil Recovery: 1.989 m3
Rig chain locker: 665 m3
Liquid mud: 965 m3
Brine: 628 m3
Special products: 187 m3
Dry bulk: 220 m3
Main Anchor/Towing winch: 400 Tons at 18,7 m/min
Brake holding: 525 Tons 1st layer
Secondary Winch: 138 Tons at 28 m/min
Brake holding: 62 Tons 1st layer
2 Deck Cranes (sliding): 6/12 Tons at 20/10 mts
2 Tugger winch: 24 Tons at 22 m/min
2 Towing pins: 300 Tons
2 Karm Forks: 600 Tons
2 Capstans: 14 Tons at 24 m/min
AUXILIARY GENERATING SETS
Diesel generating sets: 2 x 720 ekW. 440 V. 60 Hz
Shaft generators: 2 x 2.700 ekW. 440 V. 60 Hz
Emergency generator set: 1 x 400 ekW. 440 V. 60 Hzp
SAN DIEGO (July 7, 2022) A Royal Australian Navy diver jumps out of an MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC-21), at a helicopter rope suspension technique (HRST)/cast training event during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 in Southern California. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Benjamin Lewis)
Sweetwater Precision Weapons received a call from the SAS, asking them to create a bullpup weapon capable of taking down enemies quickly and quietly, but it needed a low penetration, as it would be used in urban environments.
Sweetwater gave Juice the task to design that weapon, and Juice, who was about to have a good breakfast, had an idea in mind...
The AUG Para was modified by Juice, giving it everything it needs in order to by silent and deadly, and capable of taking down targets at night.
Credit to:
Irish,
Wes,
Trapezoid,
KevinTK,
Beck,
Bowlingdude,
Davidman
and the SPW team!
This is, as you might guess, a weapon to celebrate the new PMG update, and to celebrate my summer holiday!
HUGE thanks to Doctor Noob, who works hard in order to give us these updates. Thanks Doc!
Be sure to comment and add notes!
152mm Gun, Atlantic Wall, Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy, France
This 152mm gun is part of a battery of 4 guns at Longueville sur Mer, Normandy France.
Situated between Omaha beach (US sector) and Gold beach (British sector) this battery played a role during D-Day as it was capable of firing at the invasion ships. The whole complex at Longueville consists of the four guns as well as a command bunker, several machine gun emplacements and an observation bunker overlooking the sea (which can be seen in the 1960 move "The Longest Day").
On the night before the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944, the battery was subject to heavy bombing from allied air forces. Some 1500 tons of bombs were dropped bust most hit the small town of Longueville rather then the guns though it did destroy the communication lines between the commanc centre and the guns. The bombing was followed from 0537hrs on the morning of the landings by bombardment from the French cruiser Georges Leygues as well as the U.S. battleship Arkansas. The battery itself opened fire at 0605hrs and fired a total of 170 shots throughout the day, forcing the flagship HMS Bulolo to retreat to safer water without doing any real damage .
Three of the four guns were eventually disabled by British cruisers Ajax and Argonaut, though a single gun continued to operate intermittently until 1900hrs that evening.
The photo was tonemapped using two differently exposed (handheld) shots with a Nikon D70 and Tokina 12-24mm lense, july 2010.
A link to my other photos of the British and Canadian invasion sectors on D-Day
A link to my set of photo's and notes of Omaha beach, one of two American sectors during D-Day
Oceanic is a premier oceanfront restaurant in Pompano Beach, offering stunning waterfront dining experiences with lunch, dinner, happy hour, and weekend brunch options. Perfect for any occasion, it also features private event spaces.
The Oceanic restaurant in Pompano Beach is an "architectural marvel". While specific individual architects aren't typically named in public sources for such projects, the architectural vision behind Oceanic was conceived by Lou and Joy Moshakos, the owners of LM Restaurants, and their daughter Amber.
The design of the 20,000 square foot restaurant (with over 9,000 square feet of open-air space) took five years to finalize and involved three different architects and design teams. The final design, inspired by the hull of a grand ocean liner, aims to evoke a sense of "awe and wonder" similar to that of a transatlantic voyage, according to Amber Moshakos.
The design features include:
Exterior: An all-white exterior reminiscent of Greek architecture.
Interior: Arched wooden beams in the ceiling, expansive floor-to-ceiling glass doors, and a color scheme of blues and greens.
Unique Elements: A grand, circular dining room with a 25-foot-high ceiling, skylights, and dangling colored glass pieces that resemble fish swimming underwater. The design also incorporates frayed boat ropes and modern art made of ocean driftwood.
The restaurant also features an artistic mobile of 200 fish swimming across a 25-foot ceiling.
Views: All seating areas, whether indoors or on the patio decks, offer spectacular views of the ocean and the adjacent Pompano Beach Fishing Pier.
Event Space: The second floor is dedicated to private events, with its own kitchen, bar, and open-air, floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors, capable of hosting up to 400 guests.
Bar Area: A 5,000 square foot indoor-outdoor bar with a progressive tap wine system that is eco-friendly and ensures wine quality and temperature control.
The architectural and design choices for Oceanic at Pompano Beach were intentional to create a "landmark destination" that honors the ocean and provides guests with a unique dining experience.
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But sorrow can also sometimes hollow us out so that we are capable of a deeper joy. It can break our hearts of stone and give us heart of flesh.
-Timothy Radcliffe, What is the Point of Being a Christian?
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In Silence
In your silence
I grieve
And then I think
And then I examine
And then I reflect!
In your silence,
My silence blooms
Into an idea
Into a journey
Into a discovery
In your silence,
Unexpected are my encounters
I search dreams
I search reality
I search for you
In your silence,
Empty are my earthly hopes
I turn from fame
I turn from hate
I turn from power
In your silence,
I sit in solitude
As thoughts pass over
As feelings pass over
As Ecstasy takes over
Robert Cowlishaw