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The Baker Hotel ~ Mineral Wells, TX
Disclaimer:
I was in the Baker Hotel by permission and was in the presence of a Mineral Wells city official. I did not trespass!
Here we take a look at the interior of Arriva Buses Wales VDL Pulsar CX07 CUW 2659 as this is on route 62 to Cemaes Bay and its been fitted with a next stop screen announcement.
Near mint condition LP by the Crew Cuts, High School Favorites. 1962, Mercury-Wing Records #MGW12180
Found at a recent estate sale. This was their 6th album out of 8 that were released.
The Crew-Cuts were a Canadian vocal quartet, that made a number of popular records that charted in the United States and worldwide. They named themselves after the then popular crew cut haircut, one of the first connections made between pop music and hairstyle.[citation needed] They were most famous for their recording of The Chords' hit record, "Sh-Boom."
Band members
Rudi Maugeri (January 27, 1931 - May 7, 2004) (lead and baritone)
John Perkins (born August 28, 1931) (lead and tenor)
Ray Perkins (born November 24, 1932) (bass) (John Perkins' brother)
Pat Barrett (September 15, 1933 - July 27, 2016) (lead and tenor)
Biography
They all had been members of the St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, which also spawned another famous quartet, The Four Lads. Maugeri, John Perkins, and two others (Bernard Toorish and Connie Codarini) who later were among the Four Lads first formed a group called The Jordonaires (not to be confused with a similarly named group, The Jordanaires, that was known for singing backup vocals on Elvis Presley's hits) and also The Otnorots ("Toronto" spelled backwards being "Otnorot"), but they split from the group to finish high school.
When the Four Lads returned to Toronto for a homecoming concert, John Perkins and Maugeri ran into each other and decided that they could themselves have a musical future. They joined with Barrett and Ray Perkins in March 1952. The group was originally called The Four Tones (not to be confused with The Four Tunes, a group on the borderline between pop music and rhythm and blues).
A Toronto disk jockey, Barry Nesbitt, put them on his weekly teen show, whose audience gave the group a new name, The Canadaires. All four of the members were at the time working at jobs with the Ontario government, but quit their jobs to sing full-time. They worked clubs in the Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, NY area, but saved up their money and drove to New York City, so they could appear on Arthur Godfrey's television and radio program, Talent Scouts, where they came in second to a comedian. While they did get a record with Thrillwood Records and recorded a song titled "Chip, Chip Sing A Song Little Sparrow", this led to no improvement in their fortune, however, and they continued playing minor night clubs.
In March 1953, they returned to Toronto and appeared as an opening act for Gisele MacKenzie at the Casino Theatre. She was impressed with them and commented favorably to her record label, but could not remember the group's name.
They were playing in a Sudbury, Ontario, night club in a sub-zero Canadian winter when they received notice that they had been invited to appear as a guest on a Cleveland television program. They drove 600 miles at -40° temperatures to appear on the Gene Carroll show, where they remained for three appearances. While in Cleveland, they met local disc jockey Bill Randle. On his show, on Cleveland radio station WERE (1300 AM), he coined the name that would, from that point on, belong to the group. In addition, Randle arranged for them to audition with Mercury Records, who liked them enough to sign the quartet to a contract.
The name Crew Cuts refers to their short hair as opposed to long hair, which implied classical music at the time. It was a decade later that long hair came to be associated with the counter-culture movement.
Although their first hit, "Crazy 'Bout You, Baby," was written by Maugeri and Barrett themselves, they quickly became specialists in cover recordings of originally-R&B songs. Their first cover, "Sh-Boom" (of which the R&B original was recorded by The Chords) hit #1 on the charts in 1954. A number of other hits followed including "Earth Angel" which rose to the number 2 spot on the charts and had great success in England and Australia.
Interestingly, many of the non-cover songs of theirs that became hits in Canada were unknown in the United States of America, while it was only their covers that had great success in the United States.
The group moved from Mercury to RCA Records in 1958 and eventually broke up in 1964, but they all moved to the U.S. and reunited in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1977. In the 1990s they were inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame. In recent years, the three remaining members have appeared on a PBS special filmed in Atlantic City's Trump's Taj Mahal. The program, "Magic Moments: The Best of '50s Pop", continues to air as part of the fund raising efforts for the Public Broadcasting System.
A remix of their version of the song "Sh-Boom" was featured in the credits of the video game Destroy All Humans!. The original recording of their song "Sh-Boom" can also be heard on one of the in-game radio stations in Mafia II.
In later years Rudi Maugeri became a well known Music Director of one of the best known music syndication companies, Radio Arts in Burbank California. The company supplied music on ten inch reels of audiotape for use in radio station automation systems and for "Live Assist" use, around the world.
Maugeri selected and issued a playlist every week for the company. His record of picking hit songs for syndication was in the upper 90% and record promoters had Radio Arts on their list of 'must see' companies because Radio Arts provided music to hundreds of stations weekly.
Interviewed in 1979 on the syndicated radio show ShBoom Radio Show, Maugeri was quoted, "We came along at a time when the big bands were almost finished and we were the new,... and yet we toured with Ralph Marteri's Big Band as the opening act and were quite well accepted by both the adults and the teens of the day. It wasn't until we hit the charts with "Crazy Bout You Baby", that the teens adopted us as their own and after that tour we became the headliners."
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I dedicate this series to Moroccan women. I want them to know all the good that I think of them! I do not comment, I just want you to read between the "images"
Alabaster, Early Dynastic II-III, ca. mid-3rd millennium B.C.E.
H. 34.8 cm.
Condition: face reaffixed; bust reaffixed to legs, with a strip filled in below belt at back and with a section filled over stomach between belt knot and clasped hands; right arm reaffixed, two small wedges filled, consolidated with glue here and there. Abrasion to tip of penis and testicles.
Missing: back of head, upper right side of face with half of eye, section of beard, left elbow, inverted V-shaped wedge on lower right side of right leg and a large diagonal section sliced from upper front to end of back of left thigh.
Also missing: the horns for which there remains over half the section of a large, deep round hole for the insert of the left horn, showing that the horns were inset c. 2 cm and thus were probably of lapis lazuli; there is also the remains of a deep round perpendicular hole drilled in the head just behind the insertion emplacement for horns on a slight forward slant; the ears; the inlaid eyes and eyebrows; the hair of the beard that was probably a worked sheet of metal; whatever was affixed to the two holes on the chest; the tail for which there remains the large, deep hole between the buttocks, and the lower legs and hooves that were possibly of silver [1] or copper [2] for which there remains a section of the large hole in the left thigh, c. 3.5 cm long, for affixing the lower leg.
The inlays could have been of shell, lapis lazuli, gold, silver or copper.
The two holes in the left elbow, six holes in the break on the left thigh and the two holes on the end of the right thigh are modern and made for affixing restoration. All modern restoration removed save for above-mentioned fillings.
The alabaster a lovely greenish-yellow with rust-colour veins and large striations and patches of an orange hue. The present surface of the face is somewhat discoloured and has lost its sheen, as immersion - to remove the plaster restoration - has leeched out the calcium sulphate in the alabaster. The rest of the figure retains its original smoothness and lustre.
The history of this figure is worth mentioning as, since its discovery at Tell Djokha with another similar piece around 1930, a confusion as to its ownership and location has arisen, leading to erroneous information being given in scholarly publications.
Both figures of translucid greenish alabaster were a chance find and found together. This example entered a private collection and its companion piece, measuring 27.5 cm, the Iraq Museum Baghdad [3]. A temporary exhibition there at the end of the second world war was described by Seton Lloyd [4]. Notwithstanding what precedes, H. Frankfort [5] mentions the location of the present figure as Baghdad Museum and reproduces the plaster cast [6] in possession of the Museum. The mistake is taken up by J.A. Potratz [7] and, curiously, repeated with an added error in Treasures of the Iraq Museum, by Faraz Basmachi, a publication of the Ministry of Information 1975-76, where the Bull-man is reproduced pl. 67 and given inventory 51023 which belongs to its smaller brother and pendant. A. Spycket [8] mentions both figures, mistakenly ascribing them both to the Iraq Museum and reproduces the present example.
Umma was a major Sumerian city, best known today for the war [9] with its neighbour and rival Lagash, modern al Hiba.
The inscription behind the right shoulder has proved difficult to read [10], but is generally accepted as: "For Enlil. Pabilgagi, king of Umma" [11]. At this time many Sumerian rulers also assumed the role of priests.
The statuette's nudity and his representation as a bull-man identify him as a mythological figure. Seton Lloyd [12] suggests that the copper statues represent naked priests or "heroes" functioning as stands.
The vertical hole in the head of the present statue and the square hole in its smaller pair may suggest that both figures served as cult objects, possibly fulfilling the function of stands for a lamp or bowl of incense [13]. May we conjecture that they were placed in the cella of the temple in front of the divinity, maybe the king himself assuming the role of the god.
This statuette and its pendant in Baghdad of a particularly fine greenish alabaster with rust-coloured veins are the only two examples of bull-men in the round that have been found so far in Mesopotamia. Notwithstanding the difference in size between them, the workmanship of the sex, nose and mouth, the similarity of the three-tiered belt, the way the stone is carved to reveal veining across the shoulders, their polish and general appearance suggest that they are not only from the same major workshop but in all likelihood by the same hand.
The bull-man, often ithyphallic, appears on seals with heroes and in animal combat scenes.
Likewise in semi-translucent alabaster of a warm, slightly amber colour is a naked, bearded, kneeling figure with a similar girdle, four- or five-tiered, though in a different stance and not ithyphallic, found at Tell Asmar [14]. He may be a product of the same workshop, the hollowed-out cavity on top of the head probably indicating that the figure was also a support [15].
These objects probably form part of what we may call, for want of a better word, temple furnishings, and are not ex-votos, although they adopt the clasped-hands gesture of worshippers (see cat. nos. 1, 13). To the same general tradition belongs the earlier kneeling figure in limestone holding a vessel on its head from the Sara temple at Tell Agrab and dated Early Dynastic I/II, c. 2800-2600 B.C. [16]
On loan and exhibited:
Iraq Museum Baghdad: 1930s
Published:
Frankfort, H.: Sculpture of the Third Millennium B.C. from Tell Asmar and Khafajah, OIP 44 (Chicago, 1939), no. 206, pp. 12, 41, 78-79 pl. 115E.
Potratz, J.A.: Die Kunst des Alten Orient (Stuttgart, 1961), pl. 8,1. Spycket, A.: La statuaire du Proche-Orient ancien (Leiden/Cologne, 1981), pp. 56-57 fig. 20 (dated ED II, 2750-2600 B.C.).
The inscription:
Lambert, M.: Sumer III, 1947, p. 131 ff. - Edzard, D.O.: Sumer XV, 1959, pp. 20-22. - Steible, H.: Die altsumerischen Bau- und Weihinschriften 2, Freiburger altorientalische Studien 5 (Wiesbaden, 1982), pp. 265-266. - Cooper, J.S.: Sumerian and Akkadian Royal Inscriptions, I. Presargonic Inscriptions, The American Oriental Society, Translation Series 1 (New Haven, 1986), pp. 91-92.
Mentioned:
Lloyd, S.: Some Recent Additions to the Iraq Museum, Sumer II,1946, pp. 1-2. - Orthmann, W.: Der Alte Orient. PKG 14 (Berlin, 1975), p. 163.
1 A smaller representation and of a bull with decoration and various anatomical parts likewise added in different materials, still has three of its legs which are of silver: Orthmann, W.: PKG 14, no. 14b, p. 162 pl. 14b.
2 Frankfort, H.: OIP 44, p. 12.
3 IM 51023: Orthmann, W.: op. cit., no. 16, p. 163 pl. 16.
4Sumer II, 1946, pp. 1-2: "On the left is a coloured plaster cast of a damaged figure in veined, greenish alabaster, found at Tell Jokha (ancient Umma) in about 1930 and at present in private possession".
5 Frankfort, H.: op. cit., no. 206, pp. 12, 78-79 pl. 115E.
6 As evidenced by the photograph, in that the rust-coloured veins on the right shoulder are painted on and the two holes on the chest for inlay show plaster remains.
7 Potratz, J.A.: Die Kunst des Alten Orient, p. 424 pl. 8,1 (taken after Frankfort).
8 Spycket, A.: La statuaire du Proche-Orient ancien,
pp. 56-57 fig. 20.
9 Related on numerous inscribed stone and clay monuments.
10 Spycket, A.: op. cit., p. 56 n. 52.
11 Cooper, J.: Sumerian and Akkadian Royal Inscriptions, I. Presargonic Inscriptions, pp. 91-92. T. Potts says: "For Enlil, Pabilgagi, king of Umma (dedicated this)".
12 Lloyd, S.: The Archaeology of Mesopotamia (London, 1985), p. 126.
13 Such holes could have served for the insertion of a rod for a basket-like support which are usually found held up by human figures or protruding from the backs of animals in metal (see cat. nos. 16, 30).
14 Frankfort, H.: op. cit., no. 16, pp. 58-59 pl. 26-27.
15 Spycket, A.: op. cit., p. 56.
16 Chicago, Oriental Institute Museum: Orthmann, W.: op. cit., no. 36a, p. 169.
Text from the website of George Ortiz.
This is the first time that I have used the Zeiss Batis lens to photograph the various follies in St.Anne’s Park and I must admit that I am very happy with the results mainly because of the detail captured in the images that I have published online. I am so pleased with the 25mm lens that I have decided to purchase the new 18mm Batis if I can raise the cash. I am also considering the new Sony GM lenses but they may prove to be too expensive for me.
St. Annes is known for its follies, of which there are approximately ten, mainly around the Naniken river. The follies include a Herculanean Temple on a mock-ruined bridge abutment along the Naniken river, which served as a tearoom for the family, a Pompeian Water Temple of Isis on the banks of the duckpond, and the Annie Lee Tower and Bridge near the chestnut walk.
Other follies include Saint Anne's Well beside the duckpond, after which the park gets its name, the Hermitage Bridge, Yew Circle and Fountain (behind the formal walled garden beside the house), rustic cave and bridge, three rustic archways and a rock work feature. A "Druidic Circle" of Giant's Causeway basalt was lost at an earlier stage. An unusual folly is the Roman style viewing tower which stands on the hill overlooking the duckpond. This started out as an observation tower on the roof of the original house. Later, the tower was removed during extensive refurbishment of St. Anne's house in about 1873 and placed in its current location. It is modelled on the Tomb of the Julii at Glanum near St. Rémy in France.
Many of the follies are in a neglected condition at present, with graffiti being an ongoing problem. For example, the Roman style viewing tower is graffiti covered and has been closed for many years. In addition it is completely hidden by mature trees and could only be revealed by felling them, which would be detrimental to the environment of the park. An alternative proposal is that the tower be moved instead to the site of the old rockery, near the junction of James Larkin Road and Mount Prospect Avenue.
In 2010, Dublin City Council, with the support of the Heritage Council, commissioned a strategy by conservation architects (Shaffrey and Associates) for the long-term conservation of these follies, and it is planned to implement this on a phased basis. It is now 2016 and I have visited the park at least twice per year since 2010 and I am convinced that the follies are now in a worse condition than they were back in 2010 and I am not at all sure that they can be saved
1979 Renault Gordini R1326 ( USA specs), 1647 cc Hemi, engine type 843-13, 109 HP, Bosh- L –Jetronic injection, factory air conditioning and power steering. “Decouverable” sliding fabric electric roof over stainless steel structure.
History:
The chassis and most of the running gear came from the Renault 12, while the 1647 cc 108 PS (79 kW; 95 hp) 843-Type engine in the more powerful R17 TS and R17 Gordini models was derived from the engine in the Renault 16 X. The R17 Gordini was to be the last model to bear the Amedee Gordini name fitted for USA with the 843-13 Hemi engine with 1647 cc. Though the mechanicals of the cars were derived from other Renaults, the body was completely new.
Please check the car and driver test for the R17 gordini at:
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Motosport:
Renault abandoned plans to contest the World Rally Championship which it won in 1973. Instead, the factory developed a high-performance version of the 17 coupé at the Alpine Competition Factory which used many of the A110 bits to compete in "selected" European events. The Gordini-developed engine had two twin-choke Webers, a hot cam, an 11.5 compression ratio, big valves and tuned extractor exhaust system. The body was very light, featured fibreglass doors, boot and bonnet panels, plus plastic windows and a stripped interior. The factory said the car's weight was lowered by more than 25 percent.
Its most famous outing was the "Press on Regardless" WRC in the United States, in Michigan, 1974. The Rally was the USA section of the World Rally Championship. The car that won the rally was a Renault 17 Gordini driven byJean-Luc Thérier and Christian Deiferrer, with a similar car coming third.
This car:
I bought this car in California on April 2012. An extensive restoration took place at my shop located in Miami were my friend Alberto Cordero, a former mechanical engineer from Renault, retired after 42 years working with the company, comes to help me with the restoration of the car. He was the chief mechanic of Juan Manuel Fangio a famous Argentinean race driver who won 5 times the F1 championship and Alberto was at the 84 hs of Nurburgring with the first Renault model derived from the AMC rambler named “Torino 380 W” who gets the third place in that race on 1969.
The car was abandoned in a yard and the last registration proving the car was running was back in 1997.
The car was straight, with only surface rust and off course a not running car.
We start the restoration from the ground up, the car was completely disassembled, body was take it to the bare metal, epoxy primed and painted in its original black color. Gordini stripes and logos were drawn by myself and plotted in 3M vinyl with the original scheme color.
All interior of the cabin, floor, panels, back and engine compartment was fitted with anti-rattle-sound/heat auto adhesive insulation with aluminum foil.
The carpet is a velour German carpet, Burgundy color with leather sewed trims.
I have owned the same model back in Argentina in 1979 so I was completely familiar with the car, and after owning more than 60 high end cars in my life, I always remember the R17 as an outstanding performer, economical yet powerful and beautiful car.
The outstanding design of the “petal” seats, the sliding electric roof that leaves the car completely open, the pillar less design makes this car shine out of the crowd not only now 35 years later, but back in his own era. The feeling you will have driving the car with the roof open will be better than in a convertible car, no wind noise at all.
All parts replaced in the car are original parts coming from France, Argentina, Israel, Puerto Rico, USA.
All suspension, power steering, brakes, hoses,fittings, etc. has been replaced. Engine was with original 45,000 miles, we disassembled the engine, head, valves, gaskets, replaced all necessary parts to meet the original compression specs with 150 PSI on each of the 4 cylinders.
All Bosch –L- Jetronic was overhauled, new sensors, valves, vacuums, switches, electric fuel pump, new injectors, etc. were replaced for original parts, most of them from Germany and others locally as the R17 share most of the injection parts with the BMW 2002 TTI.
The antipollution system was restored at his original state, overhauled air pump, new vacuums, valves, sensors, brand new catalyzer.
New original windshield was fitted to replace the scratched one in the car, new upgraded upholstery in German leather as the original car was fitted with grey cloth. The petal front seat is articulated and adjustable on the sides and behind the knees for firm support as a sport car should be. Is hard to think that 35 years ago this outstanding design on the seats are still bringing one of the most comfortable position that I have had in most top of the line cars.
The car runs perfect, as a brand new car!!!, all electric and electronic components are in 100% working order, the Air conditioning was upgraded with a new Sanden compressor, new condenser, new hoses, blows at 10° Celsius (50 Fahrenheit degrees) as per original specs.
All around upgraded LED lights fitted in back up, brake light, directional lamps. New 4 halogen YELLOW headlights with 45-70w halogen lamps.
Original vintage CIBIE fog lights with covers as the Rally version.
Pioneer stereo with hand free Bluetooth phone and 4 stereo speakers.
The car is fitted with disc brakes at front wheels and drum at the rear wheels with a servo booster and brake limiter valve with weight sensor.
All weather trims were replaced with brand new weather strips.
I have published this car at the Amicale R15 R17 website, you will see the comments on the most important website dedicated at Renault 15 and 17 and you could check the comments of my fellow members about the car on
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Also, there is a link I have pusblished with the process of the restoration of this car. You will be amazed of the job we have performed on this car to bring it back to life.Please follow this link with 140 PICTURES:
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Manufactured in Medford Oregon by Tucker Sno-Cat. This one was originally purchased by the Alpine Ski Corp of Breckenridge Colorado in August of 1976. It has been restored to brand new condition. Photo taken at the 2024 Portland Roadster Show.
August 19
As is normal, we are awake before six, but in our air conditioned luxury room instead of the cabin. Not that there was anything wrong with the cabin, just having our own facilities just next door, and no need to get dressed and put on shoes in the middle of the night. Outside it was getting light, and a quick look outside revealed the car park now full, mostly of meaty SUVs and Hemis, whatever one of them is or does, anyway, night is departing and day is coming.
So, we put on the radio and lay in bed a while, and another look outside shows the sun rising angry and red, showing deep crimson through all the dust in the atmosphere. We get dressed and go to have our free breakfast. That is another bonus, and even though it was in plastic crockery and with plastic knives and forks, it was good stuff, especially the dark roast coffee. The weather channel is on, and talking about the eclipse and another hurricane building in the middle of the Atlantic. There is advice for the eclipse; don’t look at the sun without special glasses and if you don’t have them, don’t look right at the sun’s disc. And so on, all good stuff really.
We tuck into breakfast and coffee, whilst other guests from the hotel arrive and look to see what to eat, it seems all sorts of folks stay here, from the upper classes down to the grease monkeys and everyone inbetween. We are happy enough to drink our coffee and eat the sausages, more like sausage meat rolled up really (anyway, have no skin), bacon and potato dibs.
It still wasn’t eight, but back home the football games had already begun, so I open pages from the BBC on games in the Premier League and Championship, and soon normal service is resumed as City go in 2-0 down at half time. Not much better in the 2nd half, as each time we pull level, Villa score to restore their two goal lead. It inds 4-2 in the end, but we have long since lead the building and are heading to our first destination of the day, a bead shop for Jools.
Yes, it’s not all photography based malarkey, sometimes there is stuff Jools likes to do, and it would be churlish of me to refuse. She has found the address of the shop and the opening times. So at five to ten we program the sat nav and drive out into the four lane highway outside the hotel and into town.
It goes without saying, the shop is part of a mall, a JC Penney dominates, but tucked away in a corner is the bead shop. The buildings are surrounded by a massive parking lot, free of course, and most of the slots are empty, even at ten. When Jools goes in, I stay in the car and try to find a decent radio station to listen to, but as the Mustang only has FM, it won’t be BBC anything. As expected I soon find a classic rock station, among all the country stations, so settle on that, and for an hour there is Rod, Supertramp, The Doors, AC/DC, Bad Company and so on. But every 15 minutes or so, there are ads, of course. Did it say something about the station’s demographic to have ads for dementia testing and homes? I don’t know.
More people arrive, abandon their vehicles, I won’t call them cars as they’re huge. Mostly. An Audi A6 seems like a compact in comparison.
After an hour, Jools returns so we can drive to the next location; a museum. As after looking at Tripadvisor, the number 1 attraction in the town is the Museum of the Rockies, which has a world class collection of dinosaur bones are other related stuff. Getting there is so easy, I start to type in the word museum into the sat nav, by the third letter is suggests museums. I press museum, and it comes up with a list of all the local ones, and we select the one we want, the route is confirmed, so we can set off. We will be there in 11 of your American minutes.
We have to pass through the campus of the Montana State University, with massive football stadium and basketball hall. If that’s where you play basketball. I don’t know. Anyway, through there to a low modern building, with lots of parking, as ever, and a bronze Tyrannosaurus Rex outside.
This was the place.
Fifteen bucks to get in, which isn’t bad I suppose, especially to see some of the best dinosaur fossils in the world, as in the ancient rocks in the beartooth mountains has some of the richest fossil bearing strata in the world.
We go in, and first up there is a good display explaining the scientific method, how a hypothesis becomes a theory and then is accepted as fact. But that any pf these things can be overturned if any evidence emerges to dispute it, which is why there is a theory of gravity, even though we know it exists. If not explain it fully. And finally there was some debunking, that man did not walk the earth the same time of dinosaurs, that at least 63 million years separated the latest dinosaurs and the earliest humans.
There were many exhibits, dating back to the beginning of life, to the pre=cambian era, which is my favourite, then onto the age of the dinosaurs, and how there is evidence of how some species changed after they hatched and grew to adults, how studying how muscles attached to bones, how the animals would have walked. And so on.
Star of the place are the Tyrannosaur bones and skeletons, a whole hall given up to them, and the various ones that have been found in the Montana rocks. Another hall had a whole display of Triceratops skulls, showing how the head shape changed from hatching to full adulthood. A breathtaking display.
Elsewhere there was a history of Yellowstone, the Native Americans and the pioneers who arrived in the 19th century. All rather marvelous, but the dinosaurs were world class.
It was one, and time for lunch, so a search on the sat nav for the nearest Outback Steakhouse, another 11 minute drive away.
We were only the other second table occupied. Our server brought water, then drinks, refilled the water, refilled the sodas and then took our order for Bloomin’ Onion to start, and battered shrimp to follow. A fine meal it has to be said, with excellent service, but again, too much food; we left half the onion and most of the fries and were still stuffed.
We spend some time by searching for the nearest Barnes and Noble bookshop, and spend an hour or so scouring it’s shelves for something interesting, of which there was much. However, we have shelves of books at home we have yet to read, so don’t buy anything.
On the way home, we fill up the Mustang, so all is set to get us to Cody tomorrow, and to the eclipse on Monday. And back. So, all is set for the main reason we came over.
In the early evening, Jools looks for her camera. She can’t find it in her bag, so goes to check the car. Can’t find it there either. So we check everything twice, three times. And the camera is nowhere to be seen.
So then comes the “when did we last see it” games. And turns out it was yesterday afternoon in Livingston. So, I try to e mail the bar, and thinking that they probably would not answer it that night, we might has well drive over, it was just an hour’s blast up the interstate.
Sun was setting behind the mountains to the west, causing the sky to go a rose pink colour. But we were heading east, into darkness, passing trucks and camper vans.
Livingstone was all lit up, the signs I had delighted in the day previous were all lit up and shining brightly. It looked fabulous. But our main port of call was the bar, and once parked on the side of the street outside, we go in and ask.
The barman checks a ledger, and at one point goes out back, but says sadly, nothing had been handed in, so we had drawn a blank. We have a beer anyway, and the woman next to Jools engages her in a conversation about brexit. I watch the pre-season game on the huge TVs on top of the bar.
I then have an idea to check at the police station, so we program the sat nave and drive the 5 blocks to the station. Not been handed in, but they take Jools’ details and say they will mail it if handed in.
I take us to the centre of town so I can snap more of the lights, all looking wonderful, and kinda wish we had stayed here instead.
Afrin will resist, Afrin will stand.
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Xelkê amedê bo Qudsê
Kane xwepeşandan bo Efrîn a kurda.?
As Kurds we know the intimate violence of endless oppressors and invaders trying to indoctrinate and condition us into an ideology of suffering and hopelessness. They tried to colonize our minds and shroud us in the bleak haze of wretchedness; and as they bombed us, erased and massacred us, raining mortars, sarin gas and cluster bombs on us they told us that it was history's righteous call, God's design and destiny's divine will. But they did not know that the more they oppressed and violated the stronger our roots grew with resistance and we became more resilient, more determined to search out freedom and heed her distant cries. So now when death knocks on Afrin's door she responds and resists with the unyielding courage of an ideology born of love and humanity. And even as she resists she raises her voice and sings love songs of liberation and hope to the oppressed because she knows her own power, her own strength- because she is the embodiment of the chained woman finally freed from the burdens they tried to enslave her with; and as she walks she shakes the very earth; and the mountains, her sacred protectors, shed tears of joy and love having waited with endless patience for this day. Even history has dusted herself off from the bloody ruins of fascism and capitalism's oppression and stands beside us- once again.
There should be no fear in our hearts. No anxiety, no self doubt because we are the children of Kurdistan, the offsprings of freedom, the love child of mist and mountains. We learned resistance in the womb of our revolutionary mothers. We were raised to the lullaby of rattling of windows and that rat-a-tat of weapons and to the screams of brothers, fathers, uncles and cousins tortured in the pits of prisons. We were carried on the shoulders of our revolutionary freedom seeking fathers across mountains. We were watered by the spirit of sacrificing love of thousands of fallen martyrs. We have known every cave and every unseen path on the sacred face of our battered but relentless land and her canyons and mountains that protected us as the world turned its face away in submissive acquiescence. We are the flowers that grew where the bombs and mortars of hate fell; and together we are the garden that emerged from the rubble and concrete remains of war's death drums. And for thousands of years to come history will sing of the courage of our revolutionary freedom fighters- our YPG and YPJ- and rename freedom in their name and honor.
Yesterday she was named Kobane, today she is named Afrin.
نەفرەت لە داگیرکەرانی کوردستان
Today Turkish planes conducted several airstrikes on Afrin city and its surrounding. Kurdish Afrin is one the most secure and stable cities in Syria, it is the only city in Rojava and among the few in Syria which has not been destroyed in the Syrian civil war. The city has taken in so many Syrian refugees in the last 5 years that its population has doubled to 400.000.
"Kurdish women declared the liberation of ISIS capital Raqqa. But today, the republic of Turkey is recruiting murderers who chant religious fundamentalist slogans to attack the democratic, women's liberationist, multi-cultural havens, pioneered by the revolutionary Kurdish freedom movement. The Turkish threats against Afrin are therefore an attack against another possible Middle East, where communities can live together in justice and freedom.
ههربژین شێرهكانی عهفرین ...ههربژین بۆ ورهی پۆلایینتان
Defending Afrin is a duty of everybody who does not surrender to the idea that the cradle of civilisation is destined to be the graveyard of humanity. Our region must be the graveyard of fascism only."
الله يحمي قواتنا في كل مكان والنصر ل عفرين
هەموومان عەفرینین
Am hemo Afrînîyn
کلنا مع عفرین
داوا دەکەین عەفرین وەکو کەرکووک نەفروشرێت .
Dxazin Afrîn mîna kirkukê nehêt firûtn
Efrîn Kurdistan e,Ji dijmin re goristane.
عەفرین کووردستانە، ژ دژمن را گۆرستانە.
عەفرین قەڵای بەرخودان و داستان و نەبەردی
An attack of this kind against the peaceful citizens of Afrin is a blatant act of aggression against a peaceful and democratically-governed region and population. Turkey cannot carry out such an attack without the approval of Russia, Iran and Syria – and inaction by the U.S. to stop it. The Kurdish people have endured the loss of thousands of young men and women who joined the YPG, and YPJ women’s force, to rid the world of ISIS. The U.S and the international community have a moral obligation to stand behind the Kurdish people now. We call on U.S. officials and the international community to guarantee Afrin’s stability and security and prevent further Turkish aggression from within Syria and across the Syrian border.
#DEFEND #AFRIN
#Rojava✌️
بارزان وحلبجة وكرميان .. الانفال وشنكال واليوم عفرين ، ما بالك ايها الشعب الكوردي وما هذا القدر البائس ، وجدت في محيط يكن لك كل الحقد والكراهية ، ظلموك عبر التاريخ وهاهي اليوم عفرين تقصف ويقتل ناسها واهلها بدمٍ بارد امام أنظار واعين العالم دون ان يحرك المجتمع الدولي ساكنا امام هذه الانتهاكات التركية الداعشية الأردوغانية العثمانية .. قلوبنا معكم ونذرف الدمع حزناً وألما وندعو لكم ونناشد كل الخيرين للوقوف معكم ازاء هذه الهجمة الشرسة الجبانةكلنا#عفرين#وقلوبنا معك ياعفرين
#DefendAfrin
Thousands of tweets protesting against Turkey's aggressive military attacks on Afrin
#DefendAfrin
Çiqilê zeytûnê ya Erdogan,Cîhada xomêynî ûEnfala Sedam ji kitêbekê hatine wergirtin ,ku piraniya kurdan diperestin!!!!!!!
شاخی زەیتوون ناوی ئوپەراسیۆنێ ئەردۆغان،جیھاد ئۆپەراسیۆنی خومێنی و ئەنفالی سەدام، ھەمووی لە کتێبێک وەرگیراون کە زۆربەی کوردەکان ئەو کتێبە دەپەرەستن!!!!!!
TURKEY IS INVADING AFRIN! TODAY IS THE DAY TO DEFEND THE PEOPLE OF ROJAVA!
We call on all Kurdish people and people in solidarity with the Kurdish struggle to protest and condemn this genocidal invasion.
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Mailed from California to Miss Keila Ruff of Alliance, Ohio on February 17, 1975:
Dear Leila,
We arrived here at Bernices on the 10th. We had a nice trip and seen lots of things. Bernice says, she could hardly wait until we got here. She looks real good, now. The weather here, is lovely. 67 yesterday. Carol & Nancy called us & told us about your cold weather we left. We went to Bernices granddaughters wedding last night. Hope you are O.K. Just think of you all. Love, Myrtle C. We stayed here, on our way our.
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