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Beggars Opera / Waters of Change
Track listing:
- "Time Machine"(Park/Griffiths/Gardiner) - 8:00
- "Lament" (Park/Wilson) - 1:51
- "I've No Idea" (Park/Griffiths) - 7:42
- "Nimbus" (Sellar/Griffiths/Gardiner) - 3:43
- "Festival" (Park/Griffiths/Erskine) - 6:00
- "Silver Peacock / Intro" (Griffiths/Scott) - 0:22
- "Silver Peacock" (Park/Griffiths/Scott) - 6:33
- "Impromptu" (Gardiner/Scott) - 1:14
- "The Fox" (Gardiner/Griffiths/Scott) - 6:52
Ricky Gardiner - lead guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar
Martin Griffiths - lead vocal, Cow Bell
Alan Park - organ, piano
Gordon Sellar - bass and acoustic guitar, vocals
Virginia Scott - Mellotron, vocals
Raymond Wilson - percussion
Marshall Erskine - bass, flute on "Festival"
Recorded at Command Studios and De Lane Lea Studios, London
sleeve design: ?
Label: Vertigo Records / 1971
ex Vinyl-Collection MTP
101108 - photomanip for fun - Obama Went to Don King's Hairstylist
politics aside, just for fun, no political statement intended
Caption: A thousand students from Rizal High School, in Pasig City,
Philippines form a human banner that reads: “Act for our Future,” to call
for a strong and fair global climate agreement ahead of the international
climate talks in Paris that will start on November 30. This activity was
made possible through the#NowPH
project of the
National Youth and the Climate Change Commission, which aims to gather
voices of the Filipino youths to take part in the battle against climate
change. Photo: Gerald Niu/350.org
In the front left corner of the 1/76 scale London Tramway layout I have built a 'change pit'.
In the central areas London trams drew their power from rails in an underground conduit, by means of a 'plough' that passed through a slot in the road between the running rails. This did away with the untidiness of overhead wires, but was expensive to build and to maintain. As the system extended further out from the city, overhead wire was used. Trams needed to change from one method of current collection to the other - this was done at the change pit.
Trams running on the conduit (from right) would have their ploughs ejected following the centre slot, which, as can be seen, diverged to a point between the two tracks. As the car slowed the conductor would be raising the trolley pole to contact the overhead wire.
Trams approaching on the wire (from left) would slow and an attendant would use a fork like implement to manouvere a plough that was already in the slot, underneath the car to be supported by a pair of angle irons. Meanwhile the conductor would be stowing the trolley pole.
Ploughs would thus be deposited and then picked up by cars going back to the centre. Change pits were generally marked by a pair of lamps (here illuminated) , a canvas hut for the attendant to shelter in and a stock of ploughs and a fork. I need to make some ploughs and a fork and find a suitable recruit!
The scene fills an awkward corner space on the layout and will also serve to answer the question - "Why don't the trams have overhead wires?"
The tracks here are simply scenic and so won't actually be used by the model trams - indeed as can be seen they run off the edge of the baseboard.
Saudia, or Saudi Arabian Airlines (take your pick!) is undergoing a few changes in preparation for the Summer 2016 schedule which will begin in only 3 months time where demand will increase over time. Saudia is planning changes to its 2 flights operating to London Heathrow from both Jeddah and Riyadh.
Effective from 27th March 2016, London Heathrow to Jeddah (SV115/116) operates daily but will see the flight operating with 2-class Boeing 777-300ER's rather than the current Boeing 777-200ER. Meanwhile, London Heathrow to Riyadh (SV117/118) operates daily using First Class-configured Boeing 777-300ER's rather than on selected flights.
Currently, Saudia operates a fleet of 45 Boeing 777's, this includes 23 Boeing 777-200ER's (one is VIP-configured), 3 Boeing 777F's with one more example on-order, and lastly 19 Boeing 777-300ER's with one more example left on-order.
Alpha Kilo Charlie is currently one of 23 Boeing 777-200ER's in service with Saudia as well as just 12 Boeing 777-200ER's that feature First Class interiors. She was delivered new to Saudia in December 1997 and is powered by 2 General Electric GE90-92B engines.
Boeing 777-268(ER) HZ-AKC on final approach into Runway 09L at London Heathrow (LHR) on SV115 from Jeddah-King Abdulaziz (JED).
Teri asked Kevin if he wanted to help change the diaper. He said, "Wait one minute." And returned like this.
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'I promise change"
~ Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney's Biggest Flip Flops
ABORTION
Flip: "I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it. I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice." — Debate with Sen. Edward Kennedy, 1994
"I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard." — Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate, 2002
Flop: "Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position." — Iowa Straw poll debate, 2007
"What I would like to see happen would be for the Supreme Court to say, look, we’re going to overturn Roe v. Wade and return to the states the authority to decide whether they want to have abortion or not, state by state. That’s the way it was before Roe v. Wade. So I am firmly pro-life." — Town hall meeting, Hopkinton, NH, 2011
VIETNAM
Flip" "I was not planning on signing up for the military. It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam." — Quoted by the Boston Herald, 1994
Flop: "I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam." — Quoted by the Boston Globe, 2007
HEALTH CARE REFORM
Flip: "I like mandates. Mandates work." — Presidential primary debate, 2008
"I'm proud of what we've done. If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing [Romneycare], then that will be a model for the nation." — Speech in Baltimore, 2007
Flop: "At the time I crafted the plan in the last campaign I was asked is [Romneycare] something that you would have the whole nation do, and I said no. This is something that was crafted for Massachusetts. It would be wrong to adopt this as a nation." — Presidential primary debate, 2011
Bret Baier: "Governor, you did say on camera and in other places, at times you thought [Romneycare] would be a model for the nation."
Mitt Romney: "You're wrong, Bret." — Fox News interview, 2011
CLIMATE CHANGE
Flip: "I believe the world’s getting warmer. I can’t prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I believe that humans contribute to that. ... And so I think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you're seeing." — Town hall meeting, Manchester, NH, June 2011
Flop: "My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us." — Q&A session, Pittsburg, PA, October 2011
BUSH TAX CUTS
Flip: "[R]omney spoke at the 10th annual legislative conference organized by U.S. Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Lowell) and met with the Massachusetts delegation. ... Congressional sources said that a point of contention arose when Romney refused to take a position on Bush’s massive, 10-year tax cut plan.” — Boston Herald, 2003
Flop: "McCain opposed President Bush’s tax cuts, Romney noted. 'I supported them,' the former governor said." — Quoted in The State (SC), 2007
Mitt Romney: The character of a loser
For Mitt Romney, the only prize is that of a loser, and that has never been more plainly evident than in his talk with his political campaign donors Wednesday when he blamed his loss on “the gifts” he said President Obama gave to Hispanics, blacks and young voters during his first term.
Romney said this just a week after delivering a surprisingly magnanimous concession speech that, had he walked away quietly afterwards, would have left even those who would never have voted for him feeling that perhaps they had misjudged his character during a campaign in which he made it so easy to do so.
But now, I suspect that we can all see that it wasn’t the primaries nor the debates that truly defined the Romney character so much as two talks he had with his deep-pocket donors, rich fat-cats some would call them, with whom the former Massachusetts governor obviously has more in common than he does with the common American who so astutely rejected his bid for the presidency last week.
For it was that speech back in May that fortunately was recorded and made public as the campaign was heating up that probably was the single factor, if any one thing was, that cost Romney a presidential victory that was his to lose, given the fact that no incumbent had ever been reelected with the kind of unemployment rate currently plaguing the country.
That was the speech in which Romney told his supporters that 47 percent of American voters were deadbeats who didn’t pay taxes and that he could more easily win the presidency if only he were Hispanic.
Forty-seven percent of America should have rejected him after that speech. And if they all didn’t, then at least almost eight out of every 10 Latinos who voted – and it turned out to be a record Hispanic turnout – said hasta la vista, deadbeat Mitt.
Romney tried to weasel out of those words by saying that sometimes his thoughts didn’t come out as he intended. It didn’t seem to matter, as Romney appeared headed toward certain defeat until the evening of October 3 when an overconfident Obama stumbled so badly in their first debate that the Romney campaign was given new life.
Thankfully, Romney lost. But if there was ever any doubt about the kind of president he would have been and whose interests he would have protected, it was removed Wednesday in his pathetic attempt to suggest that Obama had somehow bought the votes of Hispanics, blacks and the young with everything from the Affordable Health Care Act to his deferred action program to undocumented Latino youth, as if Romney’s own intentions to protect the wealthy from a fare share of taxation were some kind of benevolent act.
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Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
` Matthew 19:23-24
Changing pad with a dedicated pocket for your wipes and another amply sized pocket for diapers and baby-changing accoutrements.
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Change
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Twilight while walking home in the city of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Taken a year ago. I got off the train and the twilight was great. Taken on the Boulevard de Pérolles while walking home.
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Set: Back Home (» see other shots from "Back Home")
Refinements: Noise reduction, saturation, contrast.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, Sigma 10-20mm
"MANY CITIZENS USE BERLIN'S POST OFFICES FOR WRITING THEIR LETTERS
This is one of Berlin's many branch post offices. The public writing room is well lighted, with comfortable chairs, tables, inkpots and blotters. No doubt Teutonic thoroughness and painstaking also provide pens that will write!"
Photograph by Douglas Chandler
(This historic photograph is from a National Geographic article in the February 1937 issue titled "Changing Berlin". It offers a fascinating look at Berlin, Germany, a few years before the start of World War II.)
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Author Unknown
This particular butterfly was kind of...dead.
Critiques and comments are welcome. :)
These three images follow on from my last post yesterday. Hopefully showing the ever changing environment...
Thanks for looking
CJ
Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct 10 2010
Local students made a giant 350 to promote solutions to climate change and to urge politicians to pass clean energy policies.
This was one of over 7,000 climate action events taking place in in 188 countries around the world on 10/10/10 as part of “The Global Work Party.” This synchronized international event is organized by 350.org, and is expected to be the largest day of environmental activism in history.
Photo credit: 350.org
Copyright info: This photo is freely available for editorial use and may be reproduced under an Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 license
This was totally unintentional. Someone was passing out stickers at South Station and I grabbed one. Brought it home, pulled it out of my bag, and somehow it ended up here, on top of the bowl of change on Mike's desk. It made us laugh, so I had to take a photo.
Introducing simple & elegant solution - Changing Room in a Pouch! Our portable and packable changing room allows easy change of cloth or beachwear in any public place, such beach or boat or community swimming pool.
Acer palmatum dissectum (Laceleaf) 'Crimson Queen'
In mid October the darker purple leaves of this acer change to this bright red colour.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbbuaIA3Ds
This is the backside of a 2013 penny. Notice anything different? Am I the only person who didn't know about/notice this change to our change?? Does it really matter? Probably not, but I'm keeping an eye on you, US Treasury Dept.
The changing face of the Liverpool waterfront, in the setts are old railway lines that would have linked the docks to the warehouses, in the brick wall can be seen some iron supporting columns for the Liverpool Overhead Railway, known as the 'Dockers Umbrella' which opened on the 4th February 1893 and closed on 30th December 1956, now a new era is beginning of expensive high rise appartments with views over the River Mersey.
14th November 2014