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Compared to What (Live at Montreux Jazz Festival) · Les McCann · Eddie Harris
But where's that bee and where's their honey?
Where's my God and where's my money?
Unreal values, crass distortion
Unwed mothers need abortion
And it kind of brings to mind ol' young King Tut
He tried, tried, tried
Tried to make it real
Tried to make it real, yeah, but compared to what?
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****This frame was chosen on September 26th 2014 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #196. This is my Fifty Sixth photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to everyone who visited, favourite and commented on the frame*****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Nine metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:41am, (sunrise was at precisely 06.15am) on Saturday 6th September 2014 off the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on Lochside Drive close to Frost Avenue and the Lochside Waterfront Park, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Here, I am standing beside the wooden decked viewing platform, looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as Koma Kulshan, she is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, standing 3,286 metres tall and was first ascended in 1868, her last eruption recorded in 1880.
These Canada Geese, along with many other small groups, fly across the lake from East to West every morning and back again every evening at Sunset, and I love to watch the classic Vee formations and listen to the honking as they pass me by.
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Nikon D800 70mm 1/1000s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Manual focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 48d 38m 15.77s
LONGITUDE: W 123d 24m 12.83s
ALTITUDE: 9.0m
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HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.0 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
For the half-marathon (21.1 km) results, here are the local (Ottawa & area) participants -- sorted by cities and first name -- in the September 18, 2011, Canada Army Run held in Ottawa, Ontario. There were 6,397 runners in the 21.1 km race, an increase of about 900 runners compared to 2010.
Click here and enter the bib numbers (see below) for the full individual race results. Thank-you to Sportstats.
* Also, click here for race photos by Brightroom™, Inc.
Lists of local half-marathon race participants:
Part A. Ottawa, A-L (see below)
Part B. Ottawa, M-Z (Click here.)
Part C. Other Communities (Alexandria to Magog) (Click here.)
Part D. Other Communities (Maitland to Woodlawn) (Click here.)
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Part A: (Ottawa, bib number & name)
556…Aaron Auyeung
5174…Aaron Guzman
1386…Abbey Saunders
1387…Abdulhak Nagy
5177…Achint Sandhu
1397…Adam Dawe
5179…Adam Desjarlais
1390…Adam Hamilton
3743…Adam Harris
1394…Adam Orton
34107…Adam Struthers
1389…Adam Welcher
7617…Adria Patzer
3427…Adriana Zeleney
3404…Adrienne Mertin
1400…Ahsan Ahmed
572…Al Okroy
5998…Al Stewart
3352…Alain D'arbelles
147…Alain Gauvin
1404…Alain Gendron
116…Alain Therriault
588…Alain Vermette
867…Alan Chaffe
5055…Alan Chan
679…Alan Yeadon
5184…Alana Fong
3750…Alana Morin
1410…Alec Forbes
3752…Alec Wong
1415…Alex Bota
1416…Alex Burnet
5187…Alex Eloise
6103…Alex Havers
3755…Alex Ho
426…Alex Lavoie
5060…Alex Renwick
3758…Alexander Gribbon
6542…Alexandra Averbeck
4978…Alexandra Bushell
1419…Alexandra Gruca-Macaulay
1422…Alexandra Skupek
6105…Alexandra Vallianatos
5189…Alexandra Weirich
1425…Alexis Bosse
3764…Alexis Bunny Conrad
3765…Alice Donachey
6089…Alice Kwong
5193…Alice Retik
6547…Alicia Ch Nier
1427…Alison James
6548…Alison Mccray
3767…Alison Salhany
1021…Allan Crisford
3513…Allan Gauci
1430…Allan O'connor
6551…Allison Grimsey
1434…Allison Lainey
6107…Allison Mackenzie
3639…Allison Meek
6552…Allison Sephton
1440…Alp Oran
3772…Alyson Byrne
5202…Amanda Amaratunga
3781…Amanda Brown
3779…Amanda Macfarlane
5200…Amanda Robertson-Smiderle
5206…Amanda Sully
1339…Amanda Van Beinum
3776…Amanda Watson
3786…Amin Mirzaee
3787…Ammar Riaz
1447…Amy Hiltz
5208…Amy Hum
1446…Amy Plint
1452…Anabela Barreira
3472…Anais Lussier-Labelle
6564…Andr E Morin
1461…Andr St-Laurent
6116…Andre Boivin
1459…Andre Charbonneau
901…Andre Dion
1312…Andre Hiotis
1454…Andre Pharand
1465…Andrea English
1466…Andrea Ferrari
3797…Andrea Fitzgerald
1234…Andrea Holland
6562…Andrea Lau
1306…Andrea Letham
1090…Andrea Matthews
5212…Andrea Mccaffrey
7385…Andrea Mills
5214…Andrea Pietila
3796…Andrea Seaby
3798…Andree Deslauriers
1223…Andree-Anne Girard
7620…Andree-Anne Lamothe
155…Andrew Archibald
3802…Andrew Bellamy
7434…Andrew Buzza
3800…Andrew Chatham
16298…Andrew Colautti
1481…Andrew Feltham
1475…Andrew Ha
3357…Andrew Keleher
156…Andrew Leikucs
1470…Andrew Lenz
3806…Andrew Marble
976…Andrew Mendes
603…Andrew Ng
3803…Andrew Niefer
889…Andrew Parker
7621…Andrew Patzer
1482…Andrew Spurrell
3417…Andrew Staples
1473…Andrew Weekes
1490…Andy Wilson
3575…Angela Hardy
931…Angela Koskie
7397…Angela Lamb
6572…Angela Marcantonio
1121…Angela Scanlon
3809…Angela Steele
3810…Angelo Garcia
5111…Angy Dauth
5226…Anick De Sousa
762…Anika Clark
825…Anita Choquette
7438…Anita Portier
1145…Ann Gregory
6007…Ann Lanthier
3448…Ann Marie Fyfe
7440…Ann Mccaffrey
1497…Ann Piche
5229…Ann Walton
3817…Anna Aylett
1500…Anna Hardy
1289…Anna Hoefnagels
6576…Anna Pham
1502…Anne Bailliu
7624…Anne Biscope
6578…Anne Bowker
3820…Anne Francis
1504…Anne Houston
3449…Anne Mcnamara
1236…Anne Pearce
3821…Anne Strangelove
3826…Anne-Marie Desormeaux
1505…Anne-Marie Fraser
7625…Annie Corriveau
6583…Annie Oger
1507…Annie Plouffe
695…Ann-Marie Reid
5113…Anthea Garrick Menard
1510…Antoine Guimond
1511…Antonio Zappavigna
6123…Antoun Rahal
5232…Anya Pavlova
6588…April Dickson
158…Arif Aziz
4948…Arleigh Romyn
1515…Arthur King
1516…Arthur Winnik
6589…Ashlee Linton
3833…Ashley Brennan
1517…Ashley Browne
6590…Ashley Butcher
1518…Ashley Mulroney
5233…Ashley Proceviat
34117…Ashley Towns
693…Audrey Taylor
1523…Avdo Nalic
527…Aveta Graham
1524…Aydin Mirzaee
6593…Azhra Mcmahon
1526…Barbara Campbell
7428…Barbara Campbell
3461…Barbara Dundas
5062…Barbara Jovaisas
6034…Barbara Mingie
3839…Barnabas Fung
1529…Barry Le Grys
640…Bart Bakker
159…Ben Howe
406…Ben Lawson
6598…Ben Tobali
6601…Beno T Pag
3846…Benoit Goulet
905…Ben-Zion Caspi
1029…Bernard Charlebois
1540…Bernard St-Laurent
1542…Bernie Car
5242…Bernita Butler
727…Betty Bulman
3847…Betty-Jane Horton
6136…Bev Denison
3851…Bill Horne
908…Bill Mceachern
6604…Bill Salminen
6605…Bill Wilson
3852…Billie Hillis
5247…Blair Malcolm
3515…Blake Davis
161…Blake Poirier
6137…Bob Fraser
3585…Bob Mcculloch
927…Bob Mcgillivray
5248…Bob Moquin
6608…Bob Muise
3856…Bob Stevenson
5250…Bonita Martin
6610…Bonnie Mechefske
3859…Bonnie Nelson
5252…Brad Austin
7429…Brad Lobregt
5253…Bradley Fleming
1559…Brandon King
4976…Brenda Bethune
5258…Brenda Jenkins
1562…Brenda Makowichuk
6612…Brenda Primmer
1563…Brenda Quinlan
5256…Brenda Ryan
6525…Brent Burton
1568…Brent Edwards
1567…Brent Russell
1566…Brent Wakeford
3868…Brian Arscott
1580…Brian Berube
5262…Brian Bowering
3680…Brian Davis
1584…Brian Double
428…Brian Harding
1583…Brian Mcneill
3867…Brian Nolet
100…Brian O'higgins
1571…Brian Radey
1575…Brian Rolfe
3431…Brian Sanford
658…Brian Senecal
1572…Brian Tweedie
3346…Brianna Saunders
1585…Brianne Bota
5266…Brigit Jessup
1586…Brigitte Cossette
8…Brigitte Jackstien
1587…Brigitte Joly
6621…Brigitte Martel
5267…Brittany Gallant
1588…Brittany Hinds
1589…Brittany Leblanc
1590…Britt-Mari Sykes
3872…Brodie Fraser
6622…Bronwyn Burke
620…Bruce Jackson
3874…Bruce Moquin
1596…Bruce Moran
6094…Bruce Muise
1595…Bruce Squires
996…Bryan Morris
1599…Bryan Norrie
1597…Bryan Sirois
6145…Bryan Wright
1056…Byron Holland
7630…C Line Beaudoin
7450…C Line Houle
892…Caitlin O'higgins
6147…Caitlin Viitamaki
165…Caleb Walker
3878…Calvin Mak
3879…Calvin Reid
3573…Cameron Beare
3691…Cameron Fraser
1606…Candice Dandurand
343…Candice Hilder
1607…Cara Thibault
6150…Cari Minogue
1608…Carl Marcotte
3882…Carla Harding
1611…Carmen Vierula
1613…Carol Bennett
6154…Carol Doiron
3887…Carole Barabe
3886…Carole Chenard
1197…Carole Harrison
3888…Carolene Preap
3889…Caroline Glynn
5277…Carolyn Brown
5276…Carolyn Phillips
5278…Carolyn Tapp
3897…Carrie Johnston
6156…Carrie Roussin
6641…Carrie Stewart
3899…Carrie-Ann Pierce
3901…Casey Carswell
3900…Casey Thomas
990…Cassandra Chouinard
5997…Cassandra Lively
6074…Cassie Hodgins
7327…Catherine Beacher
1040…Catherine Caron
3678…Catherine Khordoc
3904…Catherine Lacroix
3906…Catherine Milley
5286…Catherine Nesbitt
903…Catherine Peirce
6645…Catherine St. Louis
5288…Catherine Yarker
1630…Cathlin Antonello
1632…Cathy Blanchard
3911…Cathy Gloade
3627…Cathy Takahashi
3913…Celeste Morley
172…Chad Wilson
5091…Chanel Huard
1224…Chantal Campbell
19…Chantal Evans
1637…Chantal Fallows
6651…Chantal Lacroix
3920…Chantal Lanthier
5294…Chantal Nault
1175…Chantal Pilon
7451…Chantal Proulx
5296…Charbel Choueiri
6653…Charlene Mathias
1644…Charlie Rate
6162…Chelsea Bull
6029…Chelsea Macdonell
3932…Cherinet Seid
3937…Cheryl Bateman
3516…Cheryl Birker
1649…Cheryl Giles
3936…Cheryl Kardish-Levitan
3935…Cheryl Mcgrath
5162…Cheryl Mcintyre
7453…Cheryl Perry
5300…Cheryl Shore
5301…Chiara Andrisani
6023…Chloe Macdonell
3946…Chris Bark
1659…Chris Bartholomew
3947…Chris Best
1664…Chris Bowen
130…Chris Bright
6512…Chris Campbell
1667…Chris Davies
6658…Chris Gardner
5306…Chris Garrioch
6075…Chris Hale
1653…Chris Hayes
1663…Chris Henderson
3944…Chris Hill
6659…Chris Liebenberg
3948…Chris Macdonald
5304…Chris Minogue
871…Chris Moule
906…Chris Nestor
1657…Chris Phelan
3954…Chris Rath
3945…Chris Reid
5074…Chris Renwick
5007…Chris Salter
1660…Chris Sliwka
5302…Chris Spiteri
1658…Chris Steele
6661…Chris Sutherland
6662…Chris Weicker
7454…Chris White
7455…Chris Wojcik
6664…Christene White
1674…Christian Boucher
99…Christian Del Valle
1672…Christian Maillet
6666…Christiane Laperri Re
6667…Christie Swann
6668…Christina Gubbels
6669…Christina Jutzi
1676…Christina Romanin
3964…Christine Atwood
3958…Christine Benne
7457…Christine Fortier
778…Christine Geraghty
1681…Christine Halliburton
3673…Christine Hodge
5320…Christine Leung
5315…Christine Marshall
3962…Christine Mayer
1684…Christine Racicot
3361…Christine Rivas
4961…Christine Robbins
3356…Christine Stilborne
1678…Christine Turmaine
934…Christopher Barber
1697…Christopher Cook
3967…Christopher Elliott
528…Christopher Fennell
1698…Christopher Hassall
1703…Christopher Jones
1700…Christopher Linton
3494…Cindy Maraj
6675…Cindy Mcalpine
1705…Cindy Qu
1709…Cindy Scott
1706…Cindy Warwick
5323…Claire Lehan
1713…Claire Millington
1173…Claire Samson
3503…Claude B Land
6680…Claude Papineau
791…Claudia Rutherford
3977…Clemence Allard
1721…Cliff Martin
1725…Colette Kenney
1724…Colette Nault
3978…Colin Baril
1730…Colin Kiviaho
1729…Colin Langille
1728…Colin Martel
1726…Colin Welburn
3563…Colleen Bigelow
1731…Colleen Crane
5992…Connie Acelvari
5330…Connor Grimes
3985…Conrad Kupniewski
816…Constance Craig
1734…Corey Crosby
1002…Cori Dinovitzer
6686…Corinna Simmons
6687…Cory Martin
1027…Court Curry
1737…Courtney Henderson
6688…Courtney Kalbfleisan
3988…Courtney Watson
1739…Craig Bascombe
1743…Craig Blair
106…Craig Carney
1745…Craig Crant
5004…Craig Mantle
3990…Craig Roberts
3383…Craig Rosario
4918…Craig Williams
1747…Cristina Santostefano
1749…Crystal Gottfried
3993…Currie David
1329…Curtis Mcgrath
1751…Cyndi Kennedy
5336…Cynthia Desnoyers
5337…Cynthia Larue
1758…Dale Pike
3999…Dalelle Mensour
1764…Dan Cowan
1762…Dan Dalby
6563…Dan Mcglinchey
4002…Dan Mclaughlin
4000…Dan Moore
1766…Dan Pihlainen
4001…Dan Rolfe
4003…Dan Seekings
6076…Dan Shea
1358…Dan St-Arnaud
178…Dan Steeves
16292…Dan Ziniuk
4005…Dana Van Gulik
1769…Dani Gaucher
7465…Danica Seguin
5340…Daniel Albahary
1777…Daniel Burke
499…Daniel Charlebois
4008…Daniel Gosselin
3595…Daniel Guerrette
5338…Daniel Leonard
4006…Daniel Minor
352…Daniel Pharand
1783…Daniel Reifler
4007…Daniel Suh
1776…Daniel Vincent
6699…Danielle Cote
3648…Danielle Halloran
5346…Danielle Hoegy
7467…Danielle Simard
1785…Danielle Wehbi
1786…Danny Gagne
1788…Darcia Bunny Kmet
6037…Darlene Hackett
697…Darlene Joyce
6707…Darlene Sabourin
6708…Darrell Williams
6503…Darren Boomer
1792…Darren Uchman
5028…Darryl Bilodeau
181…Daryl Howes
1112…Dave Bergeron
1806…Dave Bossmin
1302…Dave Goods
182…Dave Kary
1801…Dave Langlois
1804…Dave Morin-Pelletier
111…Dave Saville
1800…Dave Silvester
552…Dave Spagnolo
3533…Dave Yarker
1796…Dave Yarwood
1835…David Dawson
6188…David Delaney
1823…David Eggleton
6714…David Gagnon
1152…David Gregory
6716…David Gulas
4032…David Hennessy
1822…David Henry
935…David Jackson
1…David Johnston
4023…David Kirk
1829…David Leech
1816…David Liimatainen
1825…David Macquistan
1819…David Mccaw
5353…David Migicovsky
1826…David Nash
3600…David Perry
1242…David Rain
1831…David Rampton
1821…David Sproule
842…David Thomson
3698…David Tobin
1812…David Tuck
1837…Davina Gordon
4035…Davina Walker-Priebe
6190…Dawn Boudreau
1054…Dawn Montgomery
6723…Dawn Styan
1075…Dean Justus
3692…Deb Hogan
4037…Deb Quayle
4038…Debbie Bloom
6727…Debbie Carrick
5144…Debbie Ling
6729…Debby Duford
7470…Debby Simms
7472…Deborah Chamney
3517…Deborah Newhook
6730…Deborah Potter
1843…Deborah Taymun
5150…Dee Sullivan
5064…Deidre Kelly
6733…Demi Kotsovos
4047…Denis Binette
5365…Denis Niles
1846…Denis Thompson
6193…Denise Deschenes
6194…Denise Gillam-Gledhill
4051…Denise Plaa
3732…Denise Thibault
6734…Denise Walter
801…Dennis Bulman
1850…Dennis Waite
1853…Derek Dobson
1854…Derek Fildebrandt
1855…Derek Gledhill
4054…Derek Hille
5372…Derek Lanouette
184…Derek Mcmaster
1852…Derek Parent
504…Derek Smith
7475…Des Keon
1857…Desmond Gosse
1859…Devin Dreeshen
1858…Devin Harrington
6738…Devon Forde
5011…Diana Harrison
4058…Diana Schembri
5374…Diane Dupuis
6090…Diane Mackinder
4062…Diane St-Laurent
1866…Diane Wilson
7478…Dianne Panarella
649…Dick Gunstone
6746…Dillon Vahey
1868…Dion Edmonds
1870…Dj Roy
1874…Dominique Chiasson
4069…Dominique Keuthen
789…Don Andersen
7479…Don Evoy
1876…Don Moors
6749…Don Orr
5119…Dona Hill
7480…Donald Darrell
5966…Donald Henry
1879…Donald Mcfarling
1877…Donald Taylor
6200…Donald Tupper
1022…Donald Waldock
6201…Donna Dandele-Macnabb
7481…Donna Perry
5382…Doris Leung
5084…Doris Mclean
4077…Dorothy Dalton-Smith
1883…Dorothy Kessler
1014…Doug Eagle
4079…Doug Mirau
4080…Douglas Brecknell
1891…Douglas Carles
669…Douglas Cooper
6755…Douglas Loader
1886…Douglas Macaulay
1890…Douglas Mcginn
1887…Douglas Petryk
1889…Douglas Thomas
6757…Drew Clipperton
1893…Drew Dodington
1894…Drew Mcnair
187…Duaine Simms
5384…Duane Forward
1898…Duncan Bunny Shaw
1895…Duncan Mackintosh
1323…Dung Bui
6038…Dvora Rotenberg
4083…Dwayne Aylward
1901…Dwayne Lemon
1902…Dwight Obst
4084…Dylan Price
1136…Dylan Shields
1906…Ed Clouthier
5386…Edith Bostwick
4088…Edith Greenlee
753…Edith Knight
4087…Edith Tam
1913…Edward Fox
7483…Edward Jun
1914…Edward Livingstone
1244…Edward Vonk
5387…Eileen Vincent
1915…Eira Macdonell
5389…Elaine Petrie
5120…Elaine Yardley
7399…Eleanor Ford
7485…Eleanor Hastings
6763…Eleanore Brickell
4093…Eli Tannis
6764…Elisabeth Baechlin
4096…Elissa Renaud
5393…Elizabeth Burn
4101…Elizabeth Howe
1921…Elizabeth Kerr
4100…Elizabeth Murray
4098…Elizabeth Richards
4097…Elizabeth Rodgers
6766…Elizabeth Rose
3651…Elke Keating
4103…Ellen Bunny Campbell
5083…Ellen Carter
1923…Ellen Curtis
3601…Ellen Lamarre
6514…Ellen Nikonorova
5097…Ellen O'halloran
90…Elyse Pratt-Johnson
1925…Elysia Van Zeyl
3311…Emilee Lloyd-Krusky
6768…Emilie Lavigne
4104…Emilie Porlier
1926…Emilie Tougas
1932…Emily Burton
1928…Emily Gildner
3726…Emily Joyce
6769…Emily Larocque
1930…Emily Sharples
4107…Emma Doucet
4108…Emmanuelle Deaton
6770…Enjoli Stevens
6771…Eric Arnold
188…Eric Arseneault
5399…Eric Belchamber
339…Eric Bourlier
4110…Eric Bradbury
3469…Eric Burpee
123…Eric Charland
7423…Eric Sewell
680…Eric Weaver
4921…Erik Husband
3727…Erik Laflamme
6774…Erin Beasley
6213…Erin Beck
6775…Erin Collins
1955…Erin Enros
4122…Erin Ferraris
4119…Erin Holtby
6214…Erin Langton
5409…Erin Mutterback
1958…Etienne Goudreau
4124…Eva Burnett
6777…Evamarie Weicker
6778…Evan Clarke
3373…Evan May
5412…Evelyn Wheeler
1961…Faye Goldman
4126…Fern Lima
189…Fiona Johnston
4127…Flavia Pontes Nascimento
1969…Frances Enright
6783…Frances Muldoon
3384…Frances Ryan
3730…Francesca Craig
593…Francesca Macdonald
1970…Francesca Tauvette
6050…Francine Gaulin
5415…Francine Vachon
1972…Francis Ouimet
6784…Francisco Fernandes De Sousa
965…Francisco Salazar
1973…Franco Pasqualini
660…Francois Dumaine
1979…Francois Lavertu
1099…Frank D'angelo
4138…Frank Gelinas
393…Frank Maloney
4141…Frank Rayal
1985…Franz Ferraris
191…Franz Kirk
1984…Franz Kropp
4142…Fraser Cole
1987…Fraser Pearce
1988…Fred Pelletier
1989…Fred Smith
5420…Frederic Levesque
394…Frederic-Francois Desmarais
1996…Fuen Leal-Santiago
6789…Gabby Moser
6790…Gabe Batstone
763…Gabriela Balajova
6793…Gabrielle Nadeau
4143…Gaby Moreau
6092…Gail Baker-Gregory
6223…Garrett Maurstad
894…Gary Mckenna
84…Gary Wilkes
2004…Gaspare Mangiaracina
2005…Gavin Hunt
6225…Gavin Kelly
4146…Gavin Lemoine
194…Geb Marett
2006…Geneva Collier
2010…Genevieve Ashton
2008…Genevieve Butler
3420…Genevieve Le Jeune
4148…Genevieve Lemieux
5425…Genevieve Paris
2007…Genevieve Pineau
4150…Genevieve Tanguay
792…Gennifer Stainforth
582…Geoff Cooper
636…Geoff Dunkley
3717…Geoff Dunn
4151…Geoff Mroz
2013…Geoff Roth
1287…Geoffrey Dudding
7400…Geoffrey Ford
2017…George Condrut
1003…George Ferrier
975…George Garrard
6511…George Hajecek
5427…George Mcleod
2015…George Wehbi
6798…Georges Rousselle
5428…Georgette Demers
196…Gerald Aubry
4154…Gerry Clarke
2020…Gerry Nigra
6799…Gil Brunette
6226…Gilbert Lepine
1246…Gilbert Nkusi
2028…Gilles Beauparlant
2024…Gilles Lafleur
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860…Gillian Andersen
2034…Gillian Reid-Schachter
5124…Gillianne Beaulieu
3520…Gina Charos
2035…Gino Rinaldi
6229…Girard A-C
2037…Giuseppe Agnello
1059…Glen Gobel
2039…Glen Trevisani
2042…Glenn Boustead
16259…Glenn Cheney
6802…Glenn Cowan
5430…Glenn Franklin
2041…Glenn Poirier
719…Gloria Baeza
5431…Gloria Teague
674…Gord Baldwin
960…Gord Coulson
2043…Gordon Mcgillivray
2044…Grace Harju
1101…Grace Howland
2046…Graeme Hamilton
2045…Graeme Wardlaw
2051…Graham Acreman
2047…Graham Schuler
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5435…Greg Brockmann
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2054…Greg Macdougall
2059…Greg Mcneill
2053…Greg Penner
6806…Greg Zinck
3636…Gregg Reddin
2060…Gregory De Knoop
2063…Guillaume Croisetiere
2062…Guillaume Proulx
2071…Guy Boyd
1017…Guy Pelletier
5437…Guy Warwick
4169…Guylain Thorne
2074…Gyro Inman
2075…Hai Nguyen
342…Harold Boudreau
909…Harold Geller
6812…Harry Fischer
7490…Hazel Ullyatt
1089…Hazen Harty
2081…Heather Bigelow
4170…Heather Carriere
4173…Heather Chew
4172…Heather Cudmore
6235…Heather D Wilson
995…Heather Dye
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3375…Heather Mccready
6816…Heather Nixon
3500…Heather Paulusse
1102…Heather Watts
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2084…Helen Wright
6818…Helene Boucher
7386…Helene Leduc
5075…Henri St-Martin
4953…Hidetaka Nishimura
3369…Hieu Nguyen
6819…Hilary Chaiton
2092…Hilary Mellor
6820…Hillary Rose
737…Hollie Anderson
3558…Holly Johnson
4180…Holly Skelton
4181…Holly Stoss
506…Howard Smith
2096…Hugo Whitfield
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590…Iain Macdonald
9580…Ian Anderson
2108…Ian Bunny Joiner
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5447…Ian Iacovitti
554…Ian Krepps
1311…Ian Malcolm
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500…Ian Roney
2101…Ian Shea
5448…Ian Siegert
2102…Ian White
1248…Ian-Guy Dupuis
6238…Ingrid Berljawsky
6824…Ingrid Neufeld
2109…Ione Jayawardena
1103…Ir Ne Dionne
597…Irvin Hill
5451…Iryna Abramova
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2112…Isaac Wesley
6240…Isabelle Beach
5453…Isabelle Cantin
5454…Isabelle Carriere
4190…Isabelle Gosselin
4188…Isabelle Saint-Laurent
5455…Isagani Valencia
2116…Ivan Stefanov
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5457…J Lahaie
1070…Jack Gilmer
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3459…Jacki Sachrajda
5459…Jaclyn O'Brien
2119…Jacques Olivier
4198…Jaffer Majeed
2132…James Beaupre
2138…James Bunny Sauve
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2125…James Derosenroll
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2129…James Mcnamee
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6838…James Vannier
710…Jamie Bell
1125…Jamie Hurst
4205…Jamie Mccarthy
7499…Jan Riopelle
2146…Jana Veltheim
2150…Jane Anne Brown
1316…Jane Gibson
2147…Jane Hazel
2148…Jane Latham
5467…Jane Marie Obst
4207…Jane Morris
3531…Jane Rooney
6024…Jane Schofield
1344…Jane Spiteri
6839…Janelle Denton
3675…Janet Cooper
2154…Janet Curran
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4210…Janet Hart
3451…Janet Nuutilainen
542…Janet Perkins
6841…Janet Sol
4213…Janice Chan
6843…Janice Mccoy
2160…Janick Aquilina
113…Jared Broughton
2164…Jasmine Clancy
4224…Jason Adair
4219…Jason Arbuthnot
2167…Jason Baertschi
4221…Jason Bond
1110…Jason Chouinard
2173…Jason Downey
2179…Jason Gagnon
2174…Jason Haug
207…Jason Mah
2180…Jason Meahan
2171…Jason Moodie
2166…Jason Pantalone
6846…Jason Raymond
2168…Jason Riordon
3353…Jason Saunders
1113…Jason Stewart
781…Jason Verner
4222…Jason Walker
1391…Jaswant Singh
2181…Jay Lymer
1360…Jayme Pettit
2186…Jean Bouffard
2187…Jean Lacroix
2185…Jean Lapointe
4228…Jean Mcdonell
4229…Jean Wright
2189…Jean-Christophe Bund
2197…Jean-Francois Brideau
6851…Jean-Guy Perron
4234…Jean-Marc Gionet
2201…Jeanne Millons
4235…Jeanne Percival
389…Jeanne Robitaille
1159…Jeannie Daly
2202…Jeannine Bailliu
80…Jean-Philippe Dion
1249…Jean-Pierre Ch Nier
4236…Jean-Pierre Cote
2206…Jean-Pierre Morin
8019…Jean-Pierre Simard
3534…Jeff Bardell
2217…Jeff Frobel
5480…Jeff Hawn
5481…Jeff Hunt
214…Jeff Mccue
2208…Jeff Moore
6855…Jeff Ross
213…Jeff Smart
4238…Jeff Smart
4241…Jeff Stoss
217…Jeffery Vanderploeg
4243…Jeffrey English
4244…Jeffrey Lafontaine
2218…Jeffrey Macdonald
218…Jeffrey Smith
818…Jenna Blois
5484…Jenna Jessup
6856…Jenna Lacharity
606…Jenna Ladd
2231…Jennifer Adams
4258…Jennifer Balao
3712…Jennifer Balcom
6859…Jennifer Bergeron
711…Jennifer Beyak
2220…Jennifer Biondi
4964…Jennifer Blattman
1076…Jennifer Brenning
6001…Jennifer Bucknall
2222…Jennifer Clinton
4264…Jennifer Degouffe
6861…Jennifer Dumoulin
3616…Jennifer Fergusson
6862…Jennifer Harnden
2223…Jennifer Hartley
5046…Jennifer Hood
3718…Jennifer Leblanc
5493…Jennifer Lim
4265…Jennifer Mccabe
4263…Jennifer Moher
1349…Jennifer Moores
2228…Jennifer Morris
2229…Jennifer Morrison
6863…Jennifer Morse
4253…Jennifer Murphy
3539…Jennifer Nutt
4260…Jennifer Paul
2226…Jennifer Payne
5103…Jennifer Shortall
5485…Jennifer Stadler
2225…Jennifer Taillefer
6868…Jennifer Tighe
4262…Jennifer Tindale
4256…Jennifer Wenzel
16294…Jenny Koumoutsidis
4268…Jenny Lewis
219…Jeremy Irving
6872…Jeremy Kerr
2236…Jeremy Mansfield
2237…Jeremy Mcgee
5497…Jess Keller
4271…Jesse Blondin
4272…Jesse Craig
3559…Jessica Brown
2244…Jessica Devries
2250…Jessica Eamer
1252…Jessica Kight
5498…Jessica Lanouette
2243…Jessica Moss
2249…Jessica O'gorman
4275…Jessica Pancoe
6874…Jessica Roche
4273…Jessica Wilson
690…Jesula Drouillard
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6877…Jf Fauteux
6878…Jian Wu
1026…Jill Ainsworth
5500…Jill Frook
4280…Jill Perry
4282…Jill Pomeroy
220…Jill Stapleton
4281…Jill Thompson
2253…Jill Turner
828…Jillian Osborne
120…Jim Carter
4287…Jim Hogan
2254…Jim Lothrop
6267…Jim Mcinnes
4285…Jim Steel
7643…Jimmy Cox
4304…Jo Lle Sabourin
4292…Joan Bard Miller
7380…Joan Carpini
5505…Joan Kam Cheong
6269…Joan Norgren
1181…Joan Tourangeau
6043…Jo-Ann Brault
6887…Joann Garbig
831…Jo-Anne Belliveau
6890…Joanne Bradley
5510…Jo-Anne Guimond
6271…Joanne Johnson
4298…Joanne Merrett
1155…Joanne Ritchie
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3555…Jocelyn Kearney
71…Jodi Wendland
6895…Jodi Wilson
6896…Jody Bergen
2261…Jody Delwo
1132…Joe Gunn
2262…Joe Paraskevas
6898…Joel Allaert
2264…Joel Edwards
2265…Joel Elliott
2270…Joel Le Floch
6273…Joel Neuheimer
6900…Joel Pennycook
2267…Joel Weaver
668…Joel Westheimer
98…Joey Rogowy
6902…Johanne Dery
898…John Beaudoin
2281…John Bowen
3657…John Brady
2274…John Carson
2285…John Downey
2293…John Gillissie
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5522…John Hawkins
3658…John Horvath
6280…John Leblanc
989…John Ledo
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2284…John Meikle
6904…John Mitchell
3709…John Oliver
4318…John Patrick Sloan
5519…John Pemberton
6905…John Rajman
2287…John Sobey
5520…John Sowiak
5518…John Swift
4312…John Sylvestre
222…John Timmermans
618…Johnathan Macdonald
3364…Jolene Savoie
4915…Jon Mcdougall
316…Jon Neill
2305…Jonathan Carreiro
2299…Jonathan Cox
4321…Jonathan Dawe
862…Jonathan Godin
226…Jonathan Moher
2298…Jonathan Murphy
4319…Jonathan Noynay
5024…Joni Ogawa
4325…Jonny Sullivan
2306…Jon-Rhys Evenchick
2307…Jordan Freed
6907…Jordan Mcleod
5524…Jordan Menzies
5527…Josee Boudreault
7510…Josee Bradley
628…Josee Picard
810…Josee Surprenant
2313…Joseph Kozar
2315…Joseph Smith
567…Josette Day
5964…Josh Larocque
6283…Josh Pringle
4330…Joshua Burrill
16271…Joshua Karanja
7511…Josip Basar
4332…Joy Halverson
2323…Joy Kim
390…Judah Leung
4937…Judy Patterson
7393…Judy Taylor
607…Julia Barss
2327…Julia Bernier
2330…Julia Bunny Fournier
6288…Julia Gardiner
5047…Juliann Castell
1198…Julie Burke
4341…Julie Croteau
2335…Julie Dale
3609…Julie Gourlay
5544…Julie Greenspoon
4344…Julie Laflamme
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6923…Julie Laplante
3418…Julie Lefebvre
2331…Julie Murdock
2336…Julie Pickering
2333…Julie Rollwagen
1336…Julien Beauchamp
4346…Julien Bourgeois
7514…June Fawaz
602…Justin Ferns
964…Justin Laroche
6930…Kaari Hukkala
5548…Kaelen Bray
5549…Kaila Mctavish
4982…Kailena Van De Nes
2341…Kailey Mclachlan
5550…Kait Reeves
534…Kaitlin O'reilly
4348…Kammal Tannis
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2344…Kara Mitchell
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4945…Karen Marshall
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807…Karen Sauve
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1220…Karine Circe
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5562…Karl St-Hilaire
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700…Kate Borowec
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5026…Kate Lewis
2357…Kate Spellen
1303…Kate Swetnam
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822…Katharine Mullock
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2361…Katherine Heath-Eves
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6947…Katherine Macdonald
5567…Katherine Venance
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2368…Kathleen Carter
2369…Kathleen Denny
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7645…Kathleen Holloway Jun
5569…Kathleen Satterthwaite
6950…Kathlene Allen
3662…Kathryn Aubrey-Horvath
6951…Kathryn Burbridge
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5095…Kathy Lewis
6955…Kathy Norris
802…Kathy O'brien
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4372…Katie Mailhot
4374…Katie Stewart
6958…Katie Tottenham
1194…Katrina Isacsson
3529…Katy Harrison
3297…Kaveh Rikhtegar
6301…Kayla Gregg
6302…Kayt Render
91…Kazutoshi Nishizawa
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6960…Keiko Umemoto
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2376…Keith Pomakis
1291…Keith Savage
2380…Kel Doig
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6967…Kelly Cooper
2381…Kelly Debruyn
4385…Kelly Gray
4388…Kelly Hewitt
2384…Kelly Mckean
4381…Kelly Roberts
4386…Kelly Tchorewski
4382…Kelly Watters
2382…Kelly Whitty
5581…Kelsey Clark
6308…Kelvin Chan
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6526…Ken Brough
2388…Ken Fong
671…Ken Gibson
229…Ken Grant
4392…Ken Macinnes
1009…Ken Mcnair
6309…Kendall Miller
5584…Kenneth Buajitti
6969…Kent Daboll
3505…Kerry Nolan
2407…Kevin Briggs
911…Kevin Dulude
6975…Kevin Germundson
2401…Kevin Huber
2410…Kevin Mercer
575…Kevin O'brien
2398…Kevin Semeniuk
118…Kevin Wickens
7519…Kezia Martin
2412…Khanh Huynh
6981…Khorina Ou
6982…Khorithy Ou
2413…Kia Goutte
2414…Kien Ly
2417…Kim Baars
6983…Kim Benjamin
5589…Kim Leach
1337…Kim Moir
2418…Kim St-Denis
6051…Kim White
6010…Kim Wilson
5164…Kimberly Rennie
7648…Kirstin Doull
4410…Kitdapawn E
750…Kiza Francis
3452…Kp Mcnamara
2424…Kris Bulmer
2425…Krishna Sharma
2429…Krista Campbell
2426…Krista Gifford
730…Krista Lewis
684…Krista Macdonald
2433…Kristen Beausoleil
4415…Kristen Cairncross
6990…Kristiana Stevens
95…Kristin Le Saux-Farmer
6991…Kristin Macrae
4418…Kristina Beauchesne
4983…Kristina Dyck
4999…Kristine Joan Proudfoot
6315…Kristine Lee
3354…Kristine Simpson
2436…Kristy Belanger
4420…Krystal Hess
4421…Krystel Carrier-Sabourin
2437…Kumar Saha
2438…Kyle Biggar
2439…Kyle Gibbens
6995…Kyle Villenuve
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4423…Kym Shouldice
6997…Kymberlee Lightowlers
4424…L. Pelly
3445…Laen Hanson
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7521…Lamar Mason
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5609…Laura Jane Johnson
6320…Laura May
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2447…Lauren Eyre
3719…Lauren Gamble
5433…Lauren Gouchie
6324…Lauren Kappius
7010…Laurence Ahoussou
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608…Laurent Potiez
1158…Laurent Roy
5977…Laurie Bouolet
859…Laurie Cairns
7…Laurie Gorman
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5611…Laurie Maybury
5612…Laurie Maynard
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589…Lawrence Wong
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5616…Lee Trainer
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745…Leigh Howe
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344…Leila Ahad
738…Lena Maione
5169…Lenore Macartney
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2455…Leo Murphy
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484…Leona Crabb
1218…Les Woolsey
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2456…Leslie Anne Bailliu
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1346…Liam Kennedy
954…Lidnina Rodriguez
2458…Liisa Vexler
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5620…Linda Descarie
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7524…Linda Yusak
1332…Lindsay Grace
6332…Lindsay Gracey
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2464…Lindsay Walker
848…Lindsey Gresham
7526…Line Gosselin
2467…Line Robitaille
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72…Lisa Balerna
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2474…Lisa-Marie Inman
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630…Lori Camilucci
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5633…Lori Swift
7528…Lorna Duguay
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507…Lorne Schmidt
7045…Lorraine England
7530…Lou Descarie
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232…Louis Tay
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2502…Lynette Martin
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5087…Lynn Nightingale
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2505…Lynne Smart
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I was able to get my hands on Clone Army Customs Orbital Armor, and Helmet, it's interesting, and even though I have my nick-picks I still think it's pretty cool. I'm comparing it with my Brickforge armored Master Chief (or what he looked like before).
Despite the cold and rainy spring, the plants are starting to look pretty nice. They're very far behind compared to last year (which was unseasonably warm for the same time of the year), but probably up to speed compared to normal years.
Zakouma is an unusual park when compared to the better-known national parks of East or Southern Africa, because on normal game drives through the park, you simply don’t see elephants, except for the handful of bulls, that hang around the airstrip and the park HQ in the area of the park that is actually called Zakouma, elsewhere you just don’t see them, not unless you are actively looking for them and know in advance where they are. You won’t drive around a corner and find a small herd feeding beside the road as you might in a park like say Ruaha in Tanzania, to understand why this is the case, you need to know the tragic history of Zakouma’s elephants.
For roughly 6 months of the year between June and November Zakouma National Park is almost entirely inundated with floodwaters, at this time elephants would often disperse into the surrounding area of what is now the Salamat Faunal Reserve. During this time Arab horsemen from the Darfur region of neighbouring Sudan would come to hunt the elephants, as they had done for perhaps several hundred years. Traditionally a group of up to 20 horsemen armed with lances would charge a herd aiming to separate out one of the elephants, picking one with good tusks. A single horseman would then ride in front of this elephant to draw its attention and get it to pursue him, allowing the other men to ride in and spear it from behind with their lances. They would aim for the elephant’s hamstrings in its hind legs, these if severed would bring the animal down and ensure it could not get up again. Huge numbers of elephants were killed this way and in response the surviving herds in the region, have learned that at the first sign of horsemen, their best defence is to bunch up into tight groups, to ensure that no individual can be separated out.
Today this is no defence, the horsemen are Janjaweed militiamen and members of the Sudanese armed forces and they come not with the lances used by their ancestors, but with AK47s, belt-fed machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. This habit of bunching up into a single large herd, has meant that the poachers can easily kill 50-60 elephants in a single attack by simply machine gunning the terrified animals as they try to escape. In 2005 an aerial count found 3,885 elephants in Zakouma and the surrounding area, in under a decade the population was reduced to just 430 and had stopped breeding due to the constant stress. Since African Parks took over Zakouma the poaching has been almost entirely stopped and the elephants are breeding again, they have not lost an elephant to poaching in 6 years at the last count in 2021 the population had reached 636.
Zakouma had become famous for what was often described as the largest elephant herd in Africa, simply because the majority of the park’s elephants were congregating together in a huge unnatural mega-herd, that would include bulls that would normally have been pushed out. Besides sticking together for protection, the elephants also like to remain in the thick bush and woodlands, avoiding open areas of the park, this is why you just don’t see them when driving around. Just in the last couple of years the elephant herd has started to split into several big herds instead of just one, but they still stay deep in the bush, doing their best to avoid people entirely.
The best chance of seeing them is at the Bahr Salamat, where they have to come every day to drink, if you can anticipate which part of the river they will come to, and position yourself so that they won’t be aware of your presence, you can have an amazing elephant experience. When we tried to find them, despite receiving tracking information from the park HQ, (some of the elephants are wearing tracking collars) and having a ranger to assist us, we were not lucky, instead of seeing the whole herd come to drink where we had chosen to wait, we just saw two single bulls. The herd did come to drink but at a different stretch of the Salamat, not too far away, unfortunately we missed them.
Comparing my hand to the bark of a very large poplar tree growing in Seminary Fen Scientific & Natural Area in Chanhassen/Chaska, Minnesota.
This was originally the site of the Mudcura Sanitarium, a world-famous spa that was opened in 1909 and operated until 1951.
Per MNOpedia, in 1951, the sanitarium was sold to the Black Franciscans, Order of Friars Minor Conventual, from Louisville, Kentucky. They named it Assumption Seminary and the site became linked with both the Colleges of St. Catherine and St. Thomas in St. Paul.
The Seminary remained in operation until 1970 and then sat vacant for many years, becoming a popular hangout for teens and other thrill seekers. The main building burned and was demolished in 1997.
The land is now home to a Minnesota DNR Scientific & Natural Area that protects the rare calcareous fen that is now the star of the show here.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History
United States
Name:Atlanta
Namesake:City of Atlanta, Georgia
Builder:Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey
Laid down:22 April 1940
Launched:6 September 1941
Sponsored by:Margaret Mitchell
Commissioned:24 December 1941
Struck:13 January 1943
Identification:Hull symbol:CL-51
Honors and
awards:
Silver-service-star-3d.png 5 × battle stars
Presidential Unit Citation
Fate:Scuttled after severe damage in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal by friendly fire from USS San Francisco, 13 November 1942
Notes:Approximate location of sinking: 9°23′S 159°58′E
General characteristics (as built)[1][2]
Class and type:Atlanta-class light cruiser
Displacement:
6,718 long tons (6,826 t) (standard)
8,340 long tons (8,470 t) (max)
Length:541 ft 6 in (165.05 m) oa
Beam:53 ft (16 m)
Draft:
20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) (mean)
26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) (max)
Installed power:
4 × Steam boilers
75,000 shp (56,000 kW)
Propulsion:
2 × geared turbines
2 × screws
Speed:32.5 kn (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h)
Complement:673 officers and enlisted
Armament:
16 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber Mark 12 guns (8×2)
12 × 1.1 in (28 mm)/75 anti-aircraft guns (3×4)
8 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons
8 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armor:
Belt: 1.1–3 3⁄4 in (28–95 mm)
Deck: 1 1⁄4 in (32 mm)
Turrets: 1 1⁄4 in (32 mm)
Conning tower: 2 1⁄2 in (64 mm)
USS Atlanta (CL-51) of the United States Navy was the lead ship of the Atlanta class of eight light cruisers. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Designed to provide anti-aircraft protection for US naval task groups, Atlanta served in this capacity in the naval battles Midway and the Eastern Solomons. Atlanta was heavily damaged by Japanese and friendly gunfire in a night surface action on 13 November 1942 during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. The cruiser was sunk on her captain's orders in the afternoon of the same day.
Atlanta, in some works, is designated CLAA-51 because of her primary armament as an anti-aircraft cruiser. Hence, all of the Atlanta-class ships are sometimes designated as CLAA. However, her entire battery of 5-inch (127 mm) guns were dual-purpose (DP) guns, and were capable of being used against both air and surface targets, able to fire anti-aircraft, high-explosive and armor-piercing shells.
The Atlanta-class ships were lightly armored, making them poor surface combatants compared to a typical light cruiser. In terms of armament, the Atlanta class was closer to a destroyer, being armed with 5-inch guns, than a light cruiser, which were generally equipped with 6-inch guns; but at well over 500 feet (152 m) in length, and combined with their large battery of sixteen 5-inch (127 mm) guns (reduced to twelve in number for later ships of the class), they were designated as light cruisers. Typical destroyers of the time only carried five or six 5-inch guns.[citation needed] Despite being under-armored for light cruisers, they had thicker armor than destroyers, which were notoriously underprotected.
Construction and commissioning
The first of the new class of ships was laid down on 22 April 1940 at Kearny, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., launched on 6 September 1941, sponsored by Margaret Mitchell (author of Gone with the Wind), and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 24 December 1941, Captain Samuel P. Jenkins in command.[3]
Armament
Atlanta was fitted with eight twin 5-inch gun turrets, placed in a unique configuration. She had three forward turrets and three aft turrets, mounted inline and increasing in height toward the midships, giving her a symmetrical appearance, with a "gap" in the middle superstructure. In addition, the aft battery also had one "wing-mounted" turret on each side, for a total of 16 five-inch guns. The firing arcs of the forward and aft batteries intersected at a very limited angle, giving her an arc of 60° in which she could fire all of her guns broadside (excluding the wing turrets). Because Atlanta was able to bring all her guns to bear only within that narrow arc, her ability to engage surface targets was limited. Her firing arcs were ideally suited to bringing her guns to bear on an aircraft, however, with a minimum of six guns available from any angle.
Service history
After fitting out, Atlanta conducted shakedown training until 13 March 1942, first in Chesapeake Bay and then in Maine's Casco Bay, after which she returned to the New York Navy Yard for post-shakedown repairs and alterations. Adjudged to be "ready for distant service" on 31 March, the new cruiser departed New York for the Panama Canal Zone on 5 April. She reached Cristobal on 8 April. After transiting the isthmian waterway, Atlanta then cleared Balboa on 12 April with orders to reconnoiter Clipperton Island, a tiny barren, uninhabited atoll about 670 mi (1,080 km) southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, in the course of her voyage to the Hawaiian Islands, for any signs of enemy activity. Finding none, she ultimately reached Pearl Harbor on 23 April.[3]
Battle of Midway
Punctuating her brief stay in Hawaiian waters with an antiaircraft practice off Oahu on 3 May, Atlanta, in company with McCall, sailed on 10 May as escort for Rainier and Kaskaskia, bound for Nouméa, New Caledonia. On 16 May, she joined Vice Admiral William F. Halsey's Task Force 16 (TF 16), formed around the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Hornet, as it steamed back to Pearl Harbor, having been summoned back to Hawaiian waters in response to an imminent Japanese thrust in the direction of Midway Atoll. TF 16 arrived at Pearl on 26 May.[3]
Atlanta again sailed with TF 16 on the morning of 28 May. Over the days that followed, she screened the carriers as they operated northeast of Midway in anticipation of the enemy's arrival. At the report of Japanese ships to the southwest, on the morning of 4 June, Atlanta cleared for action as she screened Hornet. Squadrons from the American carriers sought out the Japanese, and during that day, planes from Yorktown and Enterprise inflicted mortal damage on four irreplaceable enemy aircraft carriers. Japanese planes twice hit TF 17, and it took the brunt of the enemy attacks. Over the days that followed the Battle of Midway, Atlanta remained in the screen of TF 16 until 11 June, when the task force received orders to return to Pearl Harbor.[3]
Reaching her destination on 13 June, Atlanta, outside brief periods of antiaircraft practice on 21 and 25–26 June, remained in port, taking on stores and provisions and standing on 24-hour and then 48-hour alert into July 1942. Drydocked on 1–2 July so that her bottom could be scraped, cleaned and painted, the cruiser completed her availability on 6 July and then resumed a busy schedule of gunnery practice with drone targets, high-speed sleds, and in shore bombardment in the Hawaiian operating area.[3]
On 15 July 1942, Atlanta, again in TF 16, sailed for Tongatapu. Anchoring at Nukuʻalofa, Tonga on 24 July, where she fueled Maury and then took on fuel from Mobilube, the light cruiser pushed on later the same day and overtook TF 16. On 29 July, as all preparations proceeded for the invasion of Guadalcanal, Atlanta was assigned to TF 61.[3]
Screening the carriers as they launched air strikes to support the initial landings on 7–8 August, Atlanta remained there until the withdrawal of the carrier task forces on 9 August. For the next several days, she remained at sea, replenishing when necessary while the task force operated near the Solomons.[3]
Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Further information: Battle of the Eastern Solomons
As the Americans consolidated their gains on Guadalcanal, the critical need for reinforcements prompted Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to send the Combined Fleet south to cover a large troop convoy. American scout planes spotted the Japanese forces on the morning of 23 August. With the enemy reported to the northwest, Enterprise and Saratoga launched search and attack planes, but they failed to make contact because of deteriorating weather and the fact that the Japanese, knowing that they had been spotted, reversed course.[3]
Throughout the day on 24 August, Atlanta received enemy contact reports and screened Enterprise as she launched a strike group to attack the Japanese carriers. The sighting of an enemy "snooper" at 1328 sent Atlanta's sailors to general quarters, where they remained for the next 5½ hours. At 1530, the cruiser worked up to 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) as TF 16 stood roughly north-northwestward "to close [the] reported enemy carrier group." At 1637, with unidentified planes approaching, Atlanta went to 25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h). Enterprise then launched a strike group shortly thereafter, completing the evolution at 1706.[3]
In the meantime, the incoming enemy bombers and fighter aircraft from Shōkaku and Zuikaku prompted the task force to increase speed to 27 knots (31 mph; 50 km/h), shortly after Enterprise completed launching her own aircraft, the Japanese raid, estimated by Captain Jenkins to consist of at least 18 Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bombers, came in from the north northwest at 1710. Over the next 11 minutes, Atlanta's 5 in (127 mm), 1.1 in (27.9 mm) and 20 mm batteries contributed to the barrage over Enterprise, as the light cruiser conformed to Enterprise's every move as she maneuvered violently to avoid the dive bombers.[3]
Despite the heavy antiaircraft fire, Enterprise took one hit and suffered some shrapnel damage from an estimated five near hits. Captain Jenkins later reported that his ship may have shot down five of the attackers.[3] Atlanta was not damaged in the engagement.[3]
Reporting to TF 11 for duty the following day, Atlanta operated with that force, redesignated TF 61 on 30 August, over the next few days. When I-26 torpedoed Saratoga on 31 August, the light cruiser screened the stricken flagship as Minneapolis rigged a towline and began taking her out of danger. The force ultimately put into Tongatapu on 6 September, where Atlanta provisioned ship, fueled from New Orleans, and enjoyed a period of upkeep.[3]
Underway on 13 September, the light cruiser escorted Lassen and Hammondsport on 15 September. After seeing her charges safely to their destination at Dumbea Bay, Nouméa, on 19 September, Atlanta fueled, took on stores and ammunition, and sailed on 21 September as part of Task Group 66.4 (TG 66.4). Becoming part of TF 17 on 23 September, the light cruiser was detached the following day to proceed in company with Washington, Walke and Benham to Tongatapu, which she reached on 26 September.[3]
Underway with those same ships on 7 October, Atlanta briefly escorted Guadalcanal-bound transports from 11–14 October, before putting into Espiritu Santo for fuel on the afternoon of the 15th. Assigned then to Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee's TF 64, the ship sailed after dark that same day to resume operations covering the ongoing efforts to secure Guadalcanal. Returning briefly to Espiritu Santo for fuel, stores and provisions, the warship stood out from Segond Channel on the afternoon of 23 October.[3]
Two days later, with a Japanese Army offensive having failed to eject the Americans from Guadalcanal, Admiral Yamamoto sent the Combined Fleet south in an attempt to annihilate the American naval forces doggedly supporting the marines. Atlanta operated in TF 64, along with Washington, San Francisco, Helena and two destroyers, as the opposing forces engaged in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October. That day, Atlanta patrolled astern of the fueling group supporting the two American carrier task forces. On 27 October, when I-15 attacked TF 64, the force maneuvered at high speed to clear the area.[3]
On the morning of 28 October, Atlanta brought on board Rear Admiral Norman Scott from San Francisco, and became the flagship of the newly designated TG 64.2. After fueling from Washington, Atlanta, screened by four destroyers, headed northwest to shell Japanese positions on Guadalcanal. Reaching the waters off Lunga Point on the morning of 30 October, Atlanta embarked Marine liaison officers at 0550, and then steamed west, commencing her bombardment of Point Cruz at 0629 while the destroyers formed a column astern. Provoking no return fire, TG 64.2 accomplished its mission and returned to Lunga Point, where Atlanta disembarked the liaison officers. She then proceeded, in company with her screen, to Espiritu Santo, where she arrived on the afternoon of 31 October.[3]
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
Main article: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
Convoy escort
Atlanta on 25 October 1942.
Atlanta served as Admiral Scott's flagship as the light cruiser, accompanied by four destroyers, escorted Zeilin, Libra and Betelgeuse to Guadalcanal. The cruiser and her consorts continued to screen those ships, designated TG 62.4, as they lay off Lunga Point on 12 November unloading supplies and disembarking troops.[3]
At 0905, the task group received a report that nine bombers and 12 fighters were approaching from the northwest, and would reach their vicinity at about 0930. At about 0920, Atlanta led the three auxiliaries to the north in column, with the destroyers spaced in a circle around them. 15 minutes later, nine "Vals" from Hiyō emerged from the clouds over Henderson Field, the American airstrip on Guadalcanal. The American ships opened fire soon after, putting up a barrage that downed "several" planes. Fortunately, none of the primary targets of the attack, Zeilin, Libra and Betelgeuse, suffered more than minor damage from several close calls, though Zeilin sustained some flooding. The three auxiliaries returned to the waters off Lunga Point as soon as the attack ended and resumed working cargo and disembarking troops.
A little over an hour later, at 1050, Atlanta received word of another incoming Japanese air raid. 15 minutes later, Atlanta led the three auxiliaries north with the destroyers in a circle around the disposition. The "bogeys", 27 Mitsubishi G4M "Bettys" from Rabaul, closed, sighted bearing west by north, approaching from over Cape Esperance in a very loose "V" formation. Although the destroyers opened fire, the planes proved to be out of range and the ships checked fire. The "Bettys", for their part, ignored the ships and continued on to bomb Henderson Field. Upon the disappearance of the planes, TG 62.4 resumed unloading off Lunga Point.[3]
On 12 November, Atlanta was still off Lunga Point, screening the unloading, as part of TF 67 under Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan in San Francisco. At about 1310, Atlanta received a warning that 25 enemy planes were headed for Guadalcanal, slated to arrive within 50 minutes. The light cruiser went to general quarters at 1318 and received the signal "prepare to repel air attack...."[3]
Within six minutes, Atlanta and the other combatants of the support group formed a screen around the transport group (TG 67.1), and the two groups steamed north together at 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h). At about 1410, the Americans sighted the incoming raid, consisting of what appeared to be 25 twin-engined bombers ("Bettys") which broke up into two groups after clearing Florida Island, and came in at altitudes that ranged from 25 to 50 ft (8 to 15 m). Juneau opened fire at 1412. Atlanta did so a minute later, training her guns at planes headed for the gap in the screen between San Francisco and Buchanan. Atlanta claimed to have shot down two "Bettys", just after they dropped their torpedoes, at about 1415, only three minutes before the attack ended. Once the last Japanese plane had been splashed, the work of unloading the transports and cargo ships resumed. One "Betty", crippled by antiaircraft fire, crashed into the after superstructure of San Francisco, inflicting the only damage on the force.[3]
Night attack
The abrupt end of the air attack gave Atlanta and her colleagues only a brief respite, however, for trouble approached from yet another quarter. A Japanese surface force, made up of two battleships, one cruiser and six destroyers, was detected steaming south toward Guadalcanal to shell Henderson Field. Admiral Callaghan's support group was to "cover [the retiring transports and cargo vessels] against enemy attack." TG 67.4 departed Lunga Point about 1800 and steamed eastward through Sealark Channel, covering the withdrawal of TG 67.1. An hour before midnight, Callaghan's ships reversed course and headed westward.[3]
Helena's radar picked up the first contact at a range of 26,000 yd (13 nmi). As the range closed, Atlanta's surface search radar, followed by her gunnery radars, picked up a contact on the enemy ships.[3]
Admiral Callaghan's order for a course change caused problems almost at once, as Atlanta had to turn to port (left) immediately to avoid a collision with one of the four destroyers in the van, the latter having apparently executed a "ships left" rather than "column left" movement.[3] As Atlanta began moving to resume her station ahead of San Francisco, the Japanese destroyer Akatsuki illuminated the light cruiser; and immediately suffered the consequences. Atlanta shifted her main battery to fire at the enemy destroyer, opening fire at a range of about 1,600 yd (1,463 m) and, along with other US ships that concentrated on Akatsuki's searchlights, simply overwhelmed the hapless destroyer.[4]
As two other Japanese destroyers crossed her line, Atlanta engaged both with her forward 5-inch (127 mm) mounts, while her after mounts continued to blast away at the illuminated ship. An additional, unidentified assailant also opened up on the light cruiser from the northeast.[3] At about that time, at least one torpedo plowed into Atlanta's forward engine room from the port side, fired almost certainly by either Inazuma or Ikazuchi[5] (Akatsuki's destroyer consorts). Atlanta lost all but auxiliary diesel power, suffered the interruption of her gunfire, and had to shift steering control to the steering engine room aft. Meanwhile, Akatsuki drifted out of the action and soon sank with heavy loss of life. Michiharu Shinya, Akatsuki's Chief Torpedo Officer, one of her few survivors, was rescued the next day by US forces and spent the rest of the war in a New Zealand prisoner of war camp.[6] He later stated unequivocally that Akatsuki had not been able to fire any torpedoes that night before being overwhelmed by gunfire.[7]
Soon after being torpedoed, Atlanta was then hit by an estimated nineteen 8-inch (203 mm) shells when San Francisco, "in the urgency of battle, darkness, and confused intermingling of friend or foe", fired into her. Though almost all of the shells passed through the thin skin of the ship without detonating, scattering green dye, fragments from their impact killed many men, including Admiral Scott and members of his staff. Atlanta prepared to return fire on her new assailant, but San Francisco's own gun flashes disclosed a distinctly "non-Japanese hull profile" that resulted in a suspension of those efforts.[3] San Francisco's shells, which passed high through Atlanta's superstructure, may have been intended for a Japanese target further beyond her from San Francisco's perspective.[8]
After the 8-inch (203 mm) fire ceased, Atlanta's Captain Jenkins took stock of the situation, and, having only a minor foot wound, made his way aft to Battle II. His ship was badly battered, largely powerless, down by the head and listing slightly to port, and a third of his crew was dead or missing. As the battle continued, the light cruiser's men began clearing debris, jettisoning topside weight to correct the list, reducing the volume of sea water in the ship, and succoring the many wounded.[3]
Sinking
Daylight revealed the presence nearby of three burning American destroyers, the disabled Portland, and the abandoned hulk of Yūdachi, which Portland summarily dispatched with three salvoes. Atlanta, drifting toward the enemy-held shore east of Cape Esperance, dropped her starboard anchor, and her captain sent a message to Portland explaining the light cruiser's condition. Boats from Guadalcanal came out to take her most critically wounded. By mid-morning, all of those had been taken off the ship.[3]
Bobolink arrived at 09:30 on 13 November, took Atlanta under tow, made harder by the cruiser's still lowered anchor, and headed toward Lunga Point. During the voyage, a "Betty" bomber neared the disposition, and one of the two surviving 5 in (127 mm) mounts—which was powered by a diesel generator—fired and drove it off. The other manually-rotated mount could not be trained on the target in time.[3]
Atlanta reached Kukum about 14:00, at which point Captain Jenkins conferred with his remaining officers. As Jenkins, who was later awarded a Navy Cross for his heroism during the battle, later wrote, "It was by now apparent that efforts to save the ship were useless, and that the water was gaining steadily." Even had sufficient salvage facilities been available, he allowed, the severe damage she had taken would have made it difficult to save the ship. Authorized by Commander, South Pacific Forces, to act at his own discretion regarding the destruction of the ship, Jenkins ordered that Atlanta be abandoned and sunk with a demolition charge.[3]
Accordingly, all remaining men except the captain and a demolition party boarded Higgins boats sent out from Guadalcanal for the purpose. After the charge had been set and exploded, the last men left the battered ship. Ultimately, at 20:15 on 13 November 1942, Atlanta sank 3 mi (5 km) west of Lunga Point in about 400 ft (120 m) of water. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 January 1943.[3]
Exploration of the wreck
The wreck of USS Atlanta was discovered in 1992 by an expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard using a remotely operated underwater vehicle, (ROV). Dr. Ballard was famous for leading the expeditions that discovered RMS Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck. Unfortunately, strong ocean currents and poor visibility prevented the expedition from thoroughly exploring Atlanta. In 1994, two Australian technical divers Rob Cason and Kevin Denlay travelled to Solomon Islands with the intention of being the first scuba divers to dive Atlanta but this was unsuccessful because of the lack of a suitable surface support vessel and strong surface currents; this was also the first mixed gas scuba diving expedition to Guadalcanal. However, they did manage to dive one of the two other, deepest diveable wrecks; the Japanese transport Azumasan Maru, which is almost 90 m (295 ft) deep at the stern and Sasako Maru, which Denlay dived in 1995 at over 90 m (295 ft) in the collapsed debris field of the bridge. Many other World War II wrecks discovered by Dr. Ballard in Iron Bottom Sound are beyond the current technical limit for scuba and are only accessible by ROVs or submersibles. Dr Ballard gives an account of this in his book The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal. In the same year, Denlay returned with American Terrance Tysall and made the first successful scuba dive on USS Atlanta, which was at the time the deepest wreck dive by free swimming divers in the southern hemisphere.[citation needed]
In the following years, Denlay and Tysall mounted several larger expeditions to survey Atlanta, exploring and videoing the wreck in detail to a depth of 130 m (427 ft) at the bow.[9] The civil unrest in Solomon Islands from late 1998 prevented further diving around Guadalcanal for several years. However, on the final expedition that year, the then deepest wreck dive by a woman was made by Kevin's wife, Mirja, on Atlanta. Denlay's last visit to the wreck was in 2002 using a closed circuit rebreather or CCR, the first CCR dive on Atlanta.[10] Since then, very few dives have been conducted on Atlanta, although in May 2011 a very experienced deep diving team from Global Underwater Explorers successfully videoed the wreck for documentary purposes, the first survey of the wreck since Denlay's expeditions up to 1998.[11]
Awards
Atlanta was awarded five battle stars for her World War II service and a Presidential Unit Citation for her "heroic example of invincible fighting spirit" in the battle off Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942.[3]
I prefer this one,
because the little bird pass through top of roof.
makes me feel lonely but hopeful.
btw, I bought a xa2 already!
thank you my friend vignlio ! :)*
Humboldt County, California
Compare with yesterday's Opalescent Nudibranch, notice how the cerata (finger like projections) are red compared to the more brown of the individual I saw in Cayucous.
I always thought the Marine camo pattern was one of the coolest uniforms from the GI Joe line. (Including the Land Adventurer from the AT series.)
I never owned a marine style uniform until...well..until the Masterpiece reproduction Joes came out in the late 1990's. However, I took advantage of the fact that over the next 5 years or so Hasbro released a lot of sets that included the classic marine camo uniform!
WIth all of those sets, I've noticed quite a variance in color and pattern, so here I'll show a comparison of the variations that I have. To give a baseline to the camo variations, the figures are holding a vintage marine tent.
You can see the biggest difference between the uniforms if you look at the uniform pants across the photo.
From Left to right we have....
1 - Starting from the left is a 40th Anniversary Marine with the 'mint' colored background on his uniform.
2 - 40th Anniversary Marine with a medium green uniform base for the camouflage. This also seems to be the closest match to the original uniform.
3 - 40th Anniversay Marine with an olive uniform base. Also notice that the pattern is a bit denser, with more black flecks. (Or is it just that the green painted flecks stand out better on this lighter material, making it look like a denser pattern?)
4 - Masterpiece GI Joe Marine uniform. The base color on this uniform is closer to tan. Uniform is displayed on a Timeless Collection GI Joe.
5 - This is the uniform from the Spy Island Timeless Collection figure. The uniform base color shows a heavy yellow influence under a lot of lighting conditions.
6 - The rightmost figure is wearing the uniform from the Timeless Green Beret Machine Gun outpost. The base color for this uniform is tan, and the camouflage pattern is fairly loose.
I just wanted to share these observations, since there seems to be so much variation in the reproduction uniforms that Hasbro released from 1998-2003.
A wide shot of First Devon and Cornwall solos YJ06 YSK and YJ56 AOT.
This pair were not at the Hamilton Road today, so it is best guessed that they will be returning to Cornwall shortly
53503, 53504, Hamilton Road, Taunton, 28/02/15.
Many thanks to Chris Firth for suggesting a comparison of old and new Ordnance Survey maps on my last post concerning a Dorset drove road.
The older map above was published between 1888 - 1892, whilst the newer edition dates from 2007. By the way, the area covered is approximately one mile / 1.5 kms from north to south and roughly 2.5 kms / one and a half miles west to east.
My previous post was taken from the southern, highest point of Sandy Drove. I'll start things off by pointing out that the start, finish and line of Sandy Drove looks unchanged over some 130 years!
Edit : Scroll down for an even older map of the same location found courtesy of Dave G.B!
Inside Passage- Not far from Juneau, Alaska...Tracy Arm tidewater glaciers are a dynamic and unpredictable powerful force of nature. These glaciers are the result of centuries of snowfall in the Stikline Coastal Range and a predominantly colder climate. Glaciers are born when when gravity causes the build up ice to flow slowly downhill. Rocks and debries caught in the massive flow of ice gives the glacier its tremendous grinding power.
Comparing notes about the great jump in the lake. The guy on the left was a buddy of the three jumpers, who was recording all the fun – here comparing and exchanging videos taken of the spectacle.
If we had continued with our walk all the way around the lake, we would have missed all this fun. We got about half way but decided to come back because we hadn't yet checked out of our hotel (the Schweizerhof), and weren't sure about how long the whole walk-around would take. Once checked out, we were then free to do other things before catching our mid-afternoon train on to Zürich.
The St Moritz experience was topped off with the first banana splits since Austria in 2011, sitting under an umbrella in a village plaza, as the last thing before heading to the railway station ... as you do!
In Part 2, I discussed how the Serpent was used as a symbol for not only initiation into the mysteries and immortality but also a symbol for sexuality, generation, death and rebirth due to the creature’s ability to shed its skin of the old to reveal a shiny new skin underneath. The mythologized Serpent, of course, does appear in almost every culture around the world over. Genesis 3 relays how the Serpent offers knowledge in the form of a fruit grown from the Tree of Knowledge (the “Good ” and “Evil” part may have have been added later as a gloss.) Like the Serpent, the Tree of Knowledge is sometimes considered to be a phallic symbol. This Fruit along with the Tree also were used to signify the result or effect of some cause, having both a positive and a negative effect and origin.
The Two Trees.
The Tree of Knowledge and digesting the forbidden fruit in Genesis according to Jewish tradition represented the primeval mixture or intermingling of good and evil, light and darkness in an almost Manichean fashion. Eating the fruit forbidden set off a chain reaction where humanity developed a “yeitzer hara” or “evil inclination.” Unlike the earlier Hebrews, who blamed themselves for their woes, the Jewish Rabbis believed God had implanted in the ‘heart’, the Hebrew place of the unconscious of each individual, at his birth or conception. The yezer was not hereditary. It was intrinsically good and the source of creative energy, but had a strong potential for evil through appetite or greed. Only strict observance of the Law could keep the strong, irrational passions it engendered under control. To the commentators in the five centuries before Christ, Adam’s death was due to his own “sinful actions”, and not to the Augustine-authored “original sin nature” or “ancestral sin” inherent in the DNA in the race of man because of the disobedience of the primal parents. The Zohar claims that Adam and Eve lost their immortality by ingesting the fruit which is ironically enough compared to the occult:
Hear what saith scripture when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree by which death entered into their souls or lower nature, ‘And when they heard the voice of the Lord of the Alhim walking in the garden’ (Gen. iii-8), or, as it ought to be rendered, had walked (mithhalech). Note further that whilst Adam had not fallen, he was a recipient of divine wisdom (hochma) and heavenly light and derived his continuous existence from the Tree of Life to which he had free access, but as soon as he allowed himself to be seduced and deluded with the desire of occult knowledge, he lost everything, heavenly light and life through the disjunction of his higher and lower self, and, the loss of that harmony that should always exist between them, in short, he then first knew what evil was and what it entailed, and, therefore, it is written, ‘Thou art not a God that approveth wickedness, neither shall evil dwell with thee’ (Is. v-5); or, in other words, he who implicitly and blindly follows the dictates of his lower nature or self shall not come near the Tree of Life.
According to the Babylonian Talmud, Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden for just twelve hours before being unceremoniously thrown out. This is half a day in Paradise. That snake sure was a fast worker! Yahweh gave Adam and Eve the tour round Eden, told them what they could or couldn’t do and had no sooner turned his back than they were disobeying him and he had to expel them and sentence them, and the whole human race to come, to hell-fire for all eternity. Is that not the biggest (pardon this author’s french) fuck up of all time? It takes a spectacular degree of incompetence to screw things up that badly, so quickly. And yet the source who engineered this monumental disaster is supposed to be the Creator of the Universe, all-knowing and all-powerful, incapable of error! It is any wonder why the Gnostics called the creator god of Genesis as a dark and brutal god who was also given names such as: Samael (Blind One) and Saklas (idiot-retard)?
The Catholic Church Father Irenaeus mentions in Adv. Hear. 1, 29, 3, that the Barbelognostics revered the classic Qabalistic symbol of the “Tree, which itself they call Knowledge (gnosis).” This Tree is generated by two more primordial entities or “Aeons” called “Man” and “Knowledge.” It is hard to know just what his source for this passage may have been, for the kabbalistic symbol of the Tree does not figure in any of the surviving versions of the Apocryphon of John. There is, however, a passage in the Church Father Origen’s description in Contra Celsum of the diagrams of the cosmos envisaged by the Ophites:
And everywhere there, the Tree of Life, and the resurrection of flesh from the Tree …
This passage suggests that the form of the Tree had been imposed on the whole diagram. The Church Father Origen also gives a number of “ten circles”, the traditional number of the emanations or “sefiroth” associated with the cosmic spheres in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life – though roughly only seven of them can have planetary names. This image of the spiritual powers circling in the heavenly spheres, which the Jewish scholar, Gershom Scholem has suggested entered Jewish esoteric teaching from Hellenistic-Egyptian traditions in the centuries before Christianity (or at least Christian gnosticism) arose bears also upon the enigma of the seven-headed form of Iao in the fourth sphere (as discussed in the Apocryphon of John), that of the Sun.
This idea of the Archons situated upon the astral “aerial toll houses” of Eastern Orthodoxy (and of course Gnosticism, especially in the First Apocalypse of James) does indeed seem to originate in ancient Egypt where the the Book of the Dead lists protective spells learned by initiates to guard against the dangerous “judges” during the post-mortem journey of the soul. Speculation in Christian and in Gnostic circles concerning the order of the celestial hierarchy hinged upon a few passages in the Pauline literature, which seem to imply, however, different sequences as Colassians 1:16 states:
For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.
The names of the authorities are as follows, featured and listed in the Ophite doctrine, refuted by Celsus in Contra Celsum:
Michael – lion, Souriel – bull, Raphael – serpent, Gabriel – eagle, Thauthabaoth – bear, Erathaoth – dog, Taphabaoth/Onoel – ass.
The sequence was composed using the figures of four biblical Cherubim, to whom three new personages were added. The animal forms are derived from the biblical story of the famous vision of Ezekiel as is the iconography of the four evangelists. Ezekiel had seen four monstrous beings in the shape of winged men with four faces: of a man, a lion, a bull and an eagle, on each of the four sides. Jerome connects this tetramorph with the Four Evangelists, being Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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In the Trimorphic Protennoia, the Archons claim that they also were derived from a tree:
For as for our tree from which we grew, a fruit of ignorance is what it has; and also its leaves, it is death that dwells in them, and darkness dwells under the shadow of its boughs. And it was in deceit and lust that we harvested it, this (tree) through which ignorant Chaos became for us a dwelling place.
As mentioned in Part 1, the Gospel of John 15, 1-2 equates Christ with the vines and fruit of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, which also sounds vaguely Dionysian. Dionysus was also called the surname Dendritês, the god of the tree, which has the same import as Dasyllius, the giver of foliage.
The Gospel of Truth also equates the cross to the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden:
He was nailed to a tree (and) he became fruit of the knowledge of the Father. It did not, however, cause destruction because it was eaten, but to those who ate it, it (cause) to become glad in the discovery, and he discovered them in himself, and they discovered him in themselves.
The Gospel of Philip also makes the connection between the Tree of Life, the resurrection via the chrism (anointing) and Jesus Christ, explicit:
Philip the apostle said, “Joseph the carpenter planted a garden because he needed wood for his trade. It was he who made the cross from the trees which he planted. His own offspring hung on that which he planted. His offspring was Jesus, and the planting was the cross.” But the Tree of Life is in the middle of the Garden. However, it is from the olive tree that we got the chrism, and from the chrism, the resurrection.
Elsewhere in the Gospel of Philip, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is identified with the flesh and the Law (the lower natures as opposed to the pnuematic one). Using a riff from the Epistle to the Romans 7:7-11, the author says:
“It has the power to give knowledge of good and evil. It neither removed him from evil, nor did it set him in the good. Instead it created death for those who ate of it. For when it said, ‘Eat this. Do not eat that.’ it became the beginning of death.”
The pseudepigraphic Jewish-apocalypse Book of Enoch 31:4, describes this tree of knowledge in the midst of the “Garden of Righteousness”:
It was like a species of the Tamarind tree, bearing fruit which resembled grapes extremely fine; and its fragrance extended to a considerable distance. I exclaimed, How beautiful is this tree, and how delightful is its appearance!
Irenaeus’ pupil, Hippolytus would write in Against All Heresies (VI, 27) on how the Valentinians compared the Logos to the fruit of the Tree of Life:
This (one) is styled among them Joint Fruit of the Pleroma. These (matters), then, took place within the Pleroma in this way. And the Joint Fruit of the Pleroma was projected, (that is,) Jesus,— for this is his name—the great High Priest. Sophia, however, who was outside the Pleroma in search of Christ, who had given her form, and of the Holy Spirit, became involved in great terror that she would perish, if he should separate from her, who had given her form and consistency.
He also writes that the Father projected a warrior Aeon as a defense mechanism to protect the Aeonic realm of the Pleroma from the shapeless void created by the fallen Sophia, who is often shaped in a Cross:
Now this (Aeon) is styled Horos, because he separates from the Pleroma the Hysterema that is outside. And (he is called) Metocheus, because he shares also in the Hysterema. And (he is denominated) Staurus, because he is fixed inflexibly and inexorably, so that nothing of the Hysterema can come near the Aeons who are within the Pleroma.
This description also matches with Irenaeus’ account (Against Heresies 1.3.5) on how the Valentinian Christians viewed the hidden, metaphysical meaning and nature of the Cross:
“They show, further, that that Horos of theirs, whom they call by a variety of names, has two faculties,-the one of supporting, and the other of separating; and in so far as he supports and sustains, he is Stauros, while in so far as he divides and separates, he is Horos. They then represent the Saviour as having indicated this twofold faculty: first, the sustaining power, when He said, “Whosoever doth not bear his cross (Stauros), and follow after me, cannot be my disciple; ” and again, “Taking up the cross follow me; ” but the separating power when He said, “I came not to send peace, but a word.” They also maintain that John indicated the same thing when he said, “The fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge the floor, and will gather the wheat into His garner; but the chaff He will burn with fire unquenchable.” By this declaration He set forth the faculty of Horos. For that fan they explain to be the cross (Stauros), which consumes, no doubt, all material objects, as fire does chaff, but it purifies all them that are saved, as a fan does wheat. Moreover, they affirm that the Apostle Paul himself made mention of this cross in the following words: “The doctrine of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.” And again: “God forbid that I should glory in anything save in the cross of Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.”
In the above paragraph, Horos or Stauros (the cross of John) is the limit (X) of Plato’s Timaeus. Simon Magus taught this same exact thing as we will see below. The cross symbolizes the separation of powers and realms. It represents the apokatastasis, the Stoic conflagration, the baptism by fire. Paul the Apostle speaks of this fire that purifies and tries men’s works in 1 Corinthians 3:10-15. To be crucified to the world is to bear the symbol of the cross which is a flat-out denial of YHWH and the Elohim archons’ creation. It is to spit in the face of the Greek gods of fate like Socrates. It is hemlock to the flesh and to the spirit it is immortality.
It is the Cross of Christ, which in the Gnostic interpretation separates God from the manifest world, the uncreated, transcendent World of Forms from the Creator and the created realm, constituting a Separate and Hidden God. This limit in essence separates the “wheat from the tares”. At the same time, it also serves as a bridge between the saved sparks of light into the realm above. The extremely esoteric Sethian text, Allogenes, mentions a power or aeon by the name of “Kalyptos”, which can mean either “hidden” or “that which covers,” which may derive from the conception of the veil parting the higher from the lower realm. This power derives from the Aeon of Barbelo, which is also a state of being in which a spiritual power descends into matter. The position of Kalyptos comes very close to that of the Valentinian Horos, Stauros or Limit that separates the highest deity Bythos (Depth or Abyss) from the other Aeons that derive from him. This limit also functions though a second barrier between the “hysterema” of the material cosmos and the realm of the Aeons. Sophia also functions as a veil in On the Origin of the World.
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All of these concepts are also reflected in Origen’s Contra Celsum (6, 33) in which he states that that on the diameter of one of the circles a sword of fire was depicted, the same one that had driven Adam and Eve from the earthly Paradise. This flaming sword guarded the Tree of knowledge (gnosis) and of life (zoe). If the sword was above the black line of Tartarus, then the tree of knowledge and of life has to be the series of circles starting from Gnosis and Sophia and leading through the circle of Life to the Father. This could be similar to the Kabbalistic number of 777 being the sum the paths that the Lightening Path of Creation travels down through the Tree of Life. It is through this channel that the Luciferian motif of bringing the light of heaven to the World of Action becomes apparent.
In Contra Celsum, Origen reports Celsus’ comments on the Christians (the Ophite-Sethian Gnostics in reality), who called their baptismal rite “seal” (recalling the Five Seals of the Sethians); the person who placed the seal was called “father”; the one who received it was called “son” and “young man”, answering: “I am anointed with the white chrism of the tree of life”. Celsus further down describes the Christian belief of “tree of life” being both synonymous with Christ and the resurrection in 6:34:
And in all their writings (is mention made) of the ‘tree of life’ (τό της ζωης ξύλον), and a resurrection of the flesh by means of the ‘tree’ (από ξύλου), because, I imagine, their teacher was nailed to a cross (σταυρω ένηλώθη), and was a carpenter by craft (τέκτων τήν τεχνην)…
Celsus connects a so-called “tree of life,” and a resurrection by means of the “tree,” to Jesus’ execution: that he was nailed to an execution pole and his trade being carpenter, joiner. The relevant point Celsus is making here is that Jesus was suspended on some kind of pole, and secured to it with nails. Clearly, the parallels between the Ophite diagram and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, with the circles shown to have numerical values, are there.
The Trimorphic Protennoia and the hermetic Discourse on Eighth and Ninth in the Nag Hammadi library pre-suppose numerical values for the manifestations of God, as does the system of Valentinus as described by his enemy, Irenaeus, which envisioned the theoretical attainment of 10 divine Aeons. He also develops a system consisting of about thirty Aeons, which would suggest that he had taken the simpler Ophite system and expanded it until it was almost uncontrollable. Even more interesting is in the Sethian text, Melchizedek, it portrays Adam and Eve defeating the guardians of the Tree of Life with their own weapon!
For when they ate of the tree of knowledge, they trampled the Cherubim and the Seraphim with the flaming sword.
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The Sephirothic Tree by Robert Fludd
The Qabalah or Kabbalah itself has many similarities with Gnosticism in their closely related teachings of the hidden God and hypostatization of God’s attributes. The Sephirot (or Enumerations, which also means “book” in Hebrew) are the ten emanations of God (or infinite light: Ein Sof Aur) into the universe. These emanations manifest not only in the physical part of the universe, but also in the metaphysical one. Kabbalah distinguish four different worlds or planes: Atziluth, or World of Emanations, where the Divine Archetypes live; Beri’ah or World of Creations, where Highest Ranking Angels are; Yetzirah or World of Formations is the astral world; and Asiyah or World of Actions, is the physical plane and “low astral” plane. Each of these worlds are progressively grosser and denser (one can see the strong Kabbalistic influence on Neo-Platonic thought here as well), but the ten Sephiroth manifest in all of them.
The Kabbalah is rooted in the Merkavah and Assyrian traditions, and the Kabbalah defines Sefirot is also based on the great visions described by Ezekiel. The Sephiroth constitutes the “Tree of Life”, and is aligned in three columns, each headed by a Supernal. The names of the Sephirot are: Kether (Crown), Chochman (Wisdom), Binah (Understanding), Chesed (Mercy), Gevurah (Severity), Tiphareth (Redeemer), Netzach (Victory), Hod (Majesty), Yesod (Foundation), Malkhuth (Kingdom). Some clear Christian and Gnostic associations on the Tree of Life is down the middle path, with Keter relating to the Father, which emanates into Tipharet relating to the Holy Ghost, and Christ as the Solar Logos and Savior, which emanates to Yesod, relating to the Son. This being the path by which God emanates into Malkut, the physical world
The Manichean Psalm CCXX illustrates the theme of matter receiving the spiritual Light rather well by using Tree imagery:
They rose, that they belong to Matter, the children of Error, desiring to uproot thy unshakable tree and plant it in their land. Matter and her sons divided me up amongst them, they burnt me in their fire, they gave me a bitter likeness.” … “I am the sweet water that is beneath the sons of Matter.
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Alchemical image of the Divine Sophia as a Tree of Learning and source of the Elixir of Life.
In Jewish Wisdom literature, it was Khokhmah who personified the female Divine. She is understood as an emanation of God, yet she resonates with the Hebrew Goddess who is otherwise assailed in the Old Testament, by Jehovah especially Asherah, the Queen of Heaven. Proverbs 3:18 calls up an image of Khokhmah that originates in the oldest core of Jewish culture: “She is a Tree of Life to all who lay hold of her.” In the same book, Khokhmah sings, “The one who finds me, finds life.” A similar aretalogy can be found in the Sethian text, Thunder-Perfect Mind. The creation story of the 2nd, Century Gnostic, Valentinus of Alexandria, the greatest of Sophia’s devotees, describes the origin and essence of the matter composing this world as emotionally and psychically consubstantial with Sophia as indicated by Irenaeus in Against Heresies, 5, 4:
This mother they also call Ogdoad, Sophia, Terra (Gaia), Jerusalem (cf. Gal. 4:26), Holy Spirit, and, with a masculine reference, Lord. Their mother dwells in that place which is above the heavens, that is, in the intermediate abode; the Demiurge in the heavenly place, that is, in the hebdomad; but the Cosmocrator in this our world. The corporeal elements of the world, again, sprang, as we before remarked, from bewilderment and perplexity, as from a more ignoble source. Thus the earth arose from her state of stupor; water from the agitation caused by her fear; air from the consolidation of her grief; while fire, producing death and corruption, was inherent in all these elements, even as they teach that ignorance also lay concealed in these three passions.
Furthermore, she knows:
the beginning and end and middle of times, the alternations of the solstices and the changes of the seasons, the cycles of the year and the constellations of the stars, the nature of animals and the tempers of wild animals, the powers of spirits and the thoughts of human beings, the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots… (Wisdom 7:15-22)
The imagery of the tree is also included in Simon Magus’s cosmology, as reported by Hippolytus of Rome, is a powerful model that describing some rare concepts that Simononians in the early third century work described in the Philosophumena, as the “Great Declaration” or “Great Announcement”. Simon very much describes a tree of fire that consumes itself. This is a third century Simonian document, positing that the root of all existence is infinite, and abides in man, who serves as its dwelling-house. The Logos or the Word is projected down by the luciferian Lightening Flash through the Aeons and into the manifest world and man. From the original root, the hidden principle, spring three pairs of manifestations of: Mind and Thought, Voice and Name, Reasoning and Reflection.
The Father is, moreover, “He that hath stood” in relation to premundane existence; “He that standeth” in relation to present being; and “He that shall stand” in relation to the final consummation. Man is simply the realization of “boundless power,” the ultimate end of the cosmic process in which the godhead attains self-consciousness. This infinite power works in all of the aeons as a compound name: He who stands, has stood, and will stand; a term alluded to in the Clementine Homilies and Recognition’s which say, that Simon Magus considered himself as the “Standing One” along with the “that power of God which is called Great”.
The Simonian author employs very Stoic language in describing what is hidden and revealed in the divine Fire, the original Boundless Power that is the stuff that the original Ineffable God is made of—the equivalent of the Qabalistic Ein Sof or Kether—the Crown. In this above entry (linked above) by Hippolytus, he refers to Simon’s theology of the “fruit from the Tree” as being the quintessential product of the human incarnation. The tripartite division of spirit, psyche and matter are simply manifest expressions of the original Stoic-like Divine Fire. This concealed fruit or “Hidden Power” which is another term that he used, requires a key in the conscious process of imagining or beholding a power to form mental images.
The Simonian author interestingly uses the term “imagining” as a reference of becoming divinized or be initiated into the mysteries. But this can only be manifested “if its imagining has been perfected and it takes the shape of itself.” Later, the text mentions a “storehouse” which is a room, located adjacent to a royal chamber within a palace where the gold, jewels and other wealth are stored. Here, the Simonian author is referring to the treasure-house and the storehouse, both concepts that are found within the Pistis Sophia that refer to a location within the “House of Many Mansions” of John 14:2.
Simon Magus also appealed to Matthew 12:33, as Hippolytus writes in Refutations of All Heresies VI, 11:
If, however, a tree continues alone, not producing fruit fully formed, it is utterly destroyed. For somewhere near, he says, is the axe (which is laid) at the roots of the tree. Every tree, he says, which does not produce good fruit, is hewn down and cast into fire.
This, of course, was also Marcion’s (and much later in Mani’s theological two principle system) main scriptural justification for his radical dualism in Christ’s maxim that a good tree does not bear evil fruit, nor does an evil tree bear bad fruit. So if we also interpret that in terms of origins, then the evil god could not possibly have originated from the good god, because good things do not produce evil things, and vice versa. The Gospel of Thomas says something very similar:
(45) Jesus said, “Grapes are not harvested from thorns, nor are figs gathered from thistles, for they do not produce fruit. A good man brings forth good from his storehouse; an evil man brings forth evil things from his evil storehouse, which is in his heart, and says evil things. For out of the abundance of the heart he brings forth evil things.”
The fact is Simon had a similar doctrine that condemned false religion and predicted a final dissolution of the cosmos, presumably dissolved in fire, so that Simon’s elect can be redeemed, viz. the Great Announcement; Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, 6:14; Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 1.23.3.
These words from Simon and John resonate with a key saying of Jesus in Matthew 7:17-20,
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
This was a key saying used by the Gnostics and Marcionites. Could it be that this metaphor originated from John the Baptist, from whom Simon also learned this same metaphor?
Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, “O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance: And think not to say within yourselves, that you have Abraham for your father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.” (Cf. John 8:39, 44; 1:17-18)
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In the text On the Origin of the World, it states that the tree of life and the tree of gnosis are situated “to the north of Paradise” and is identified as Epinoia. The Greek name Epinoia carries the meaning of “understanding” or “thought” or “purpose”. She is sent to dwell within Adam, her role being to give him consciousness of his divine origins and the way to return to the Pleroma. The author of On the Origin of the World makes a positive evaluation of the Garden of Eden:
And the tree of eternal life is as it appeared by God’s will, to the north of Paradise, so that it might make eternal the souls of the pure, who shall come forth from the modelled forms of poverty at the consummation of the age. Now the color of the tree of life is like the sun. And its branches are beautiful. Its leaves are like those of the cypress. Its fruit is like a bunch of grapes when it is white. Its height goes as far as heaven. And next to it (is) the tree of knowledge (gnosis), having the strength of God. Its glory is like the moon when fully radiant. And its branches are beautiful. Its leaves are like fig leaves. Its fruit is like a good appetizing date. And this tree is to the north of Paradise, so that it might arouse the souls from the torpor of the demons, in order that they might approach the tree of life and eat of its fruit, and so condemn the authorities and their angels.
This depiction is in stark contrast with how the the Apocryphon of John depicts Eden as more of a zoo-like prison of the authorities:
And the archons took him and placed him in paradise. And they said to him, ‘Eat, that is at leisure,’ for their luxury is bitter and their beauty is depraved. And their luxury is deception and their trees are godlessness and their fruit is deadly poison and their promise is death. And the tree of their life they had placed in the midst of paradise.
The Apocalypse of Moses is primarily an account about Adam’s death, its cause and cure. Seth is procured along with Adam’s many other children which leads Adam to recount briefly the story of the temptation, the fall, and the the first parents’ punishment in chapters 7-8. Adam’s narrative explains the reason for his present plight. Adam then subsequently sends his wife Eve and son Seth to paradise in search of the oil of mercy that will bring him relief. (9:3) On the way to the garden, Seth is attacked by a beast (in chapters 10-12) which seems to be evidence that God’s curse in Genesis 3:15 is in effect. Adam’s request to be saved is subsequently denied.
(The oil of Mercy) will not be yours now, but at the ends of the times. Then will arise all flesh from Adam to the great day …. , and then all the joy of paradise will be given to them. … (13:2-4)
Adam knows he is going to die and later on in Chapters 22-29, God appears in paradise on his chariot while accompanied by his angels. His throne is fixed, and he indicts and sentences his creatures from the consequences of the fall being spelled out in detail in chapters 24-26. Adam seeks the oil of mercy but God commands the angels to get on with the expulsion (27:4-28:1). Again Adam pleads, this time for access to the Tree of Life (28:2). God’s response to Adam’s plea is met with a reproof:
You shall not take from it now … if you keep yourself from all evil, as one about to die, when again the resurrection comes to pass, I shall raise you up. And then there shall be given to you from the tree of life. (28:3-4)
Another time, Adam pleads with God for herbs from Eden to offer incense and seeds to grow food. God is kind enough to grant this request before Adam and Eve are kicked out from the garden in Chapter 29. The text concludes on a solemn yet promising note which expands on Genesis 3:19:
I told you that you are dust, and to dust you will return. Again I promise you the resurrection. I shall raise you up to the last day, in the resurrection, with every man who is of your seed. (41:2-3)
In the concluding portion of the book, it describes Eve’s death and her burial by Seth, who is commanded to bury in this fashion everyone who dies until the day of the resurrection. These ideas are also reflected in the apocryphal the Book of the Cave of Treasures, where the dying Adam assembles his sons, including Seth for a request to embalm him with myrrh, cassia and balsam and to leave his body in the Cave of Treasures, situated at a side of a high mountain but below paradise.
Seth himself was also considered to be the archetypal father and savior of the Gnostics, resulting from the Jewish exegesis and combination of various biblical themes: (1) that of “the sons of God” in Gen 6:4 (LXX), (2) that of Seth as “another seed” appointed by God in place of the slain Abel in Gen 4:25, who (3) was fathered by Adam as a son in his own likeness and image according to Gen 5:3.
These themes, in combination with Gen 1:26, concerning the god “Man” created in the image and likeness of God, implied the divine nature of Seth, the “planter” of the heavenly seed (Gen 4:25). Seth would recover from “the great aeons” the glory that had left Adam and Eve at their Fall, caused by the Ialdabaoth. Seth would preserve his seed against the repeated attempts of Ialdabaoth to steal it by keeping it separate from the lustful seed of Cain which came from the Archons. At the end of time, Seth (or Sophia in On the Origin of the World) would destroy Ialdabaoth and his followers in a Revelations-styled apocalypse and reinstate his seed, the part of mankind untainted by lust, into its original glory. The strongest instant that we see Seth as a Gnostic Savior is in the Apocalypse of Adam, where Adam tells his son Seth:
And the glory in our hearts left us, me and your mother Eve, along with the first knowledge that breathed within us.
Later, Adam called his son “by the name of that man who is the seed of the great generation as a planter of the righteous seed”, recalling 1 Corinthians 15: 35-49 by Paul the Apostle, who compared the resurrection to a seed. Paul states that when a plant sprouts forth from the seed, and the remnants of the seed whither away. The plant came from the seed, but the plant isn’t the seed, and the seed isn’t the plant. They’re two distinct things, and the plant doesn’t come to life until the seed dies. So what Paul is saying is that spirit is deposited as a seed in the body, and it remains a seed until the body dies and decomposes. Then the spirit sprouts forth from the body, and the body is transmuted into a spiritual body, which also recalls the Parable of the Sower in Matthew, Mark and Thomas. It isn’t reanimation of a corpse at all as Catholic Church Fathers such as Irenaeus and especially Tertullian, have maintained (Against Heresies, 5.12.1, De Resurrectione Carnis). Paul’s theology concerning the spiritual resurrection isn’t so far removed from the ideas expressed in the Great Announcement:
…the manifested side corresponds to the trunk, limbs, leaves, and encasing bark. All these members of the tree are set ablaze from the all-consuming flame of the fire and destroyed. But as for the fruit of the tree, if it’s for is perfect and it assumes the true shape, it is gathered into the storehouse, not thrown into the fire.
Here, the vegetation and tree motifs are evident. Returning to the Gnostics—is it from Seth’s descendants who would possess the Gnosis. The Apocryphon of John suggests that Sophia prepared a place for the souls in heaven, where Jesus, the incarnation of the aeon Christ would disclose the true knowledge of how to return to their true home in with the Spirit (in Pleroma), where they would ascend past the rulers (archons) and their astral spheres and be healed of all deficiency and become holy and faultless. To gain these higher realms, one must ascend above the Seven Heavens of Chaos into the Aeons as stated in the Gospel of the Egyptians:
Then there came forth from the great aeons four hundred ethereal angels, accompanied by the great Aerosiel and the great Selmechel, to guard the great, incorruptible race, its fruit, and the great men of the great Seth, from the time and the moment of Truth and Justice, until the consummation of the aeon and its archons, those whom the great judges have condemned to death.
The Apocryphon of John spells it out in a more concise manner:
And he placed seven kings – each corresponding to the firmaments of heaven – over the seven heavens, and five over the depth of the abyss, that they may reign. And he shared his fire with them, but he did not send forth from the power of the light which he had taken from his mother, for he is ignorant darkness.
Origen, despite being one of the Church Fathers (and theological enemies of the Gnostics), he actually had a doctrine very much influenced by Platonism (but stood firmly against groups like the Valentinians and Marcionites). Origen also did not accept the historicity of the Bible nor did he interpret it literally. One example of this can be taken from De Prinicipiis, 4.1.16, where he discusses the Genesis creation myth more as an allegory:
No one, I think, can doubt that the statement that God walked in the afternoon in paradise, and that Adam lay hid under a tree is related figuratively in Scripture, that some mystical meaning may be indicated by it.” And “those who are not altogether blind can collect countless instances of a similar kind recorded as having occurred, but which did not literally take place? Nay, the Gospels themselves are filled with the same kind of narratives; for example, the devil leading Jesus up into a high mountain, in order to show him from thence the kingdoms of the whole world, and the glory of them.
Likewise, the Valentinians viewed scripture as allegorical on three different levels that corresponded to the three natures. The earlier Gnostics viewed the Old Testament as a symbolic record of the struggle between Yaldabaoth-Jehovah and Sophia as testified in Irenaeus’ account in Against Heresies, VII, 3:
They maintain, moreover, that those souls which possess the seed of Achamoth are superior to the rest, and are more dearly loved by the Demiurge than others, while he knows not the true cause thereof, but imagines that they are what they are through his favour towards them. Wherefore, also, they say he distributed them to prophets, priests, and kings; and they declare that many things were spoken (7) by this seed through the prophets, inasmuch as it was endowed with a transcendently lofty nature. Themother also, they say, spake much about things above, and that both through him and through the souls which were formed by him. Then, again, they divide the prophecies [into different classes], maintaining that one portion was uttered by the mother, a second by her seed, and a third by the Demiurge. In like manner, they hold that Jesus uttered some things under the influence of the Saviour, others under that of the mother, and others still under that of the Demiurge, as we shall show further on in our work.
As we can see, the Tree was an important universal symbol for not only the Gnostics, Simonians, Valentinians, etc, but to groups like the Jewish-Kabbalists, alchemists and many occult groups throughout the ages. The Tree is highly associative with the idea of the descent and crucifixion (and eventual ascent and resurrection) of spirit into and from matter as seen in Sophia-Achamoth’s fall from the celestial world and into the prima materia which parallels the Genesis account of the fall of Eve, the “mother of the living”. In Plato’s Timaeus, do we find the account of the Fall of Atlantis, (as strange as it might sound) which could be read as symbolic of the Divine tragedy and catastrophe so predominant in Gnostic cosmology and theology.
In Part 4, we will investigate a possible Gnostic exegesis of the Atlantis myth and other Greek tales, the Gnostic science of human physiology and the mind relating to Genesis, where and how exactly Orthodox theology developed from and ultimately became victorious as a common religious Christian doctrine, along with some concluding final thoughts on this series.
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The Museum of Tomorrow (Portuguese: Museu do Amanhã) is a science museum in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was designed by Spanish neofuturistic architect Santiago Calatrava, and built next to the waterfront at Pier Maua. Its construction was supported by the Roberto Marinho Foundation
The building attempts to set new standards of sustainability in the municipality. Compared with conventional buildings, designers say it uses 40% less energy (including the 9% of its power it derives from the sun), and the cooling system taps deep water from nearby Guanabara Bay. The structure looks set to be one of Rio’s most famous tourist sights. Its solar spines and fan-like skylight have been designed so that the building can adapt to changing environmental conditions.
The museum has partnerships with Brazil’s leading universities, global science institutions and collects real-time data on climate and population from space agencies and the United Nations. It has also hired consultants from a range of related fields, including astronauts, social scientists and climate experts. It sits waterside in a port area that was left abandoned for decades, and is now being renovated with new office blocks, apartments and restaurants. The museum is part of the city's port area renewal for the 2016 Summer Olympics. (wikipedia)
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In the Medina. Marrakech
Wandering around with my X-Pro 2 and 27mm pancake lens trying to be inconspicuous. Then again a 6ft+ Northern European is never going to just merge with the locals....
Hasselblad with Zeiss Distagon 40mm f4, compared to Lomo LCA-120 (38mm f4.5)
I love my Hassy and wide 40mm and I will never give it up, but boy it's a heavy package. I just wanted to see how different the little plastic LCA-120 was in comparison.
It's hard to know what settings the LCA uses, it's an automatic point and shoot with distance scale focussing. The Hassy was set to sunny f16, 1/125 in both shots. In hindsight I should have used 1/250 as the bright white reflections were extreme. The LCA has some background blur in the dragon shot so I am not entirely sure what f stop it was using. I would have thought it would pick f16, but maybe the LCA prioritises a fast shutter and opened up the aperture a little.
I am surprised how sharp the little 5 element glass lens is on the Lomo, it's pretty darn close to the Distagon. I am also surprised there appears no difference in distortion between the two lenses, I guess if I shot a brick wall it might be a different story. The one major difference is the pretty massive vignette the Lomo gets, it's even more noticeable with colour film. Anyway I'm glad I did this test, the Lomo is the perfect bike riding 120 camera.
Both rolls developed in the same tank, rodinal stand, I admit there is a bit of uneven development here with the bright sky. I used a tripod for both shots, the parallax on the Lomo viewfinder messed me up a little for the close dragon shot.
Look at the salonchairs and compare them to the one I have here at home ( in fact I am sitting in it right now )
My pink ladiessalonchair .. from an other angle
What do you think of that all? Please comment , thanks
I was chuffed to see the swans I photographed last year have had another successful brood .. 8 little cygnets, all fit and well !!
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2011 Parks, 2011 10-Pack, 2011 Classic and 2012 Classic Tiana 12'' Dolls compared.
Ranking by feature:
Face:
Hair:
Outfits:
Shoes:
Articulation:
Overall Ranking:
Comparing various versions of the Disney Princess 12'' poseable dolls, from the years 2011 through 2012. They are all from my collection, and for each of the 10 Disney Princesses, the different models are posed side by side in group photos. They are viewed from the front, the back and with their skirts lifted to show their legs and shoes or feet (for those with skirts). I also include short reviews of the dolls.
The models shown are:
2011 Disney Parks Collection Princess Dolls (Pocahontas and Mulan not included). $18.95
2011 Disney Store Classic Film Collection Princess Dolls - 10 Doll Set for $99.50
2011 Disney Store Classic Princess Dolls - $12.50
2012 Disney Store Classic Princess Dolls - $14.50
The 10 Disney Princesses and their movies are:
Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937)
Cinderella (Cinderella, 1950)
Aurora (Sleeping Beauty, 1959)
Ariel (The Little Mermaid, 1989)
Belle (Beauty and the Beast, 1991)
Jasmine (Aladdin, 1992)
Pocahontas (Pocahontas, 1995)
Mulan (Mulan, 1998)
Tiana (The Princess and the Frog, 2009)
Rapunzel (Tangled, 2010)
compare my daily wordpress blog flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/cupboard/ - a friend walked through our apartment and shot series of interior ideas, which maybe are a sort of clothing, dressing our souls, maybe a museum of personal history, result of shopping robberies ... - note added: me (the cat) and my wife (the bear)