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It took China long way to develop and produce a true supersonic fighter aircraft: in March, 1964, Shenyang Aircraft Factory began the first domestic production of the J-7 jet fighter. However, the mass production of the aircraft, which had been developed through Soviet help, license production and reverse-engineering, was severely hindered by an unexpected problem—the Cultural Revolution. This incident and its consequences resulted in poor initial quality and slow progress.
This, in turn, resulted in full scale production only coming about in the 1980s, by which time the J-7 design was showing its age. However, through the years the J-7 saw constant development and refinement in China.
One of the many directions of the prolific J-7 family was the J-7III series, later re-coded J-7C. This variant was in so far special, as it was not based on the 1st generation MiG-21F. It was rather a reverse-engineered MiG-21MF obtained from Egypt, but just like the Soviet ejection seat, the original Soviet radar failed to impress Chinese, so a domestic Chinese radar was developed for the aircraft called the "JL-7". JL-7 is a 2 cm wavelength mono pulse fire radar weighing 100 kg, with a maximum range of 28 km, and MTBF is 70 hours.
However, due to the limitation of Chinese avionics industry in the 1980s, the performance of the domestic Chinese fire control radars were not satisfactory, because due to their relatively large size, the nosecone had to be enlarged, resulting in decrease in aerodynamic performance of the series. As a result, only very limited numbers of this series were built.
The J-7III prototypes comprised a series of a total of 5 aircraft, equipped with domestically developed HTY-3 ejection seat and KL-11 auto pilot. These machines had to be powered by the domestic WP-7 engine (a copy of the MiG-21F's Tumansky R-11) because the intended WP-13F (a license build of the Tumansky R-13) failed to meet the original schedule. The J-7III was planned to enter service in 1985, but due to the delay of WP-13 development, it was not until 1987 when the design was finally certified.
Production of the true J-7C fighter started in 1989, when the WP-13 became available, but only a total of 17 were built until 1996. It was soon superseded by the J-7IIIA, the prototype of the more sophisticated J-7D. This upgraded all-weather fighter was equipped with KJ-11A auto pilot, JD-3II TACAN, ADS-1 air data computer, Type 563B INS, WL-7A radio compass, Type 256 radar altimeter, TKR-122 radio, 930-4 RWR, 941-4A decoy launcher, and an improved JL-7A radar.
The fighter was to be armed with PL-7 & PL-8 AAMs and carried a twin 23 mm gun (a copy of the MiG-21MF's ventral GSh-23-2 cannon). A HK-13A HUD replaced HK-03D optical sight in earlier models. The upgraded JL-7A fire control radar had look-down/shoot-down capability added.
The production J-7D received an uprated WP-13FI engine, and initial certification was received in November 1994, but it was not until more than a year later in December 1995 when the model was finally fully certified due to the need to certify the WP-13FI on the aircraft. But, again, the results were not satisfactory and only 32 were built until 1999.
Even though the J-7C and D had been developed from a much more modern basis than the earlier MiG-21F derivatives, the "new" type offered - except for the more capable radar and the all-weather capability - no considerable benefit, was even less manoueverable in dogfight situations, more complex and expensive, and also had a very limited range. What was needed was a revolutionary step forward.
Such a proposal came from Chengdu Aircraft Corporation's general designer Mr. Wang Zi-fang (王子方) in 1998, who had already worked on the J-7D. He proposed the addition of fuselage elements that would partly replace the inner wing sections and create lift, but also offer additional room for more and better avionics, allowing the carriage of state-of-the-art weaponry like the PL-11 AAM, together with more internal fuel. Furthermore, the adaptation of the WS-13 turbofan, a new engine for which project work had just started and which would improve both range and performance of the modified aircraft.
In 2000, while an alternative design, the J-7FS, had been under parallel development and cleared for service by then, CAC received green lights for a developmental technology demonstrator under the label J-7DS (S stands for Shi-yan, 试验, meaning "experimental" in Chinese).
While the general third generation MiG-21 outlines were retained, the blended wing/body sections - certainly inspired by US American types like the F-16 and the F-18 - and a new, taller fin changed overall proportions considerably. Esp. from above, the bigger wing planform with extended LERXes (reminiscent of the MiG Analog experimental delta wing aircraft that were used during the Tu-144 development in the Soviet union) created the impression of a much more massive and compact aircraft, even though the dimenions remained unchanged.
Thanks to the additional space in the BWB sections, new and better equipment could be installed, and the aerodynamics were changed, too. For instance, the J-7's air brakes under the forward fuselage were deleted and replaced by a new pair of splayed design, stabilizing the aircraft more effectively in a dive. The single air brake in front of the ventral fin was retained, though, as well as the blown flaps from the MiG-21MF.
The ventral gun pod with a domestic copy of the GSh-23-2 was also deleted; this space, together with the air brake compartment, was now used for a semi-recessed laser range finder, so that guided ammunition could be deployed. But a gun was retained: a new, more effective Type 30-I 30 mm (1.18 in) cannon (a copy of the Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1) with 150 rounds was placed into the port LERX, under the cockpit.
Inside of the LERX on the other side, compartments for new avionics (esp. for the once more upgraded JL-7B fire control radar) were added. With this radar and weapons like the PL-11 missile, the aircraft finally achieved the long desired BVR interception capability.
Flanking the new, longer WS-13 engine, the BWBs held extra fuel tanks. For en even more extended range and loiter time, provisions were made for a fixed air-refuelling probe on the starboard side under the cockpit.
Under the inner wings, an additional pair of pylons was added (for a total of seven), and overall ordnance load could be raised to 3.000 kg (6.600 lb).
The first J-7DS first flew in summer 2005, still only powered by an WP-13I engine, for a 22-month test program. Three prototypes were built, but only the first two aircraft were to fly – the third machine was only used for static tests.
The driving force behind this program was actually the PLANAF, the People's Liberation Army, Naval Air Force (中國人民解放軍海軍航空兵). While the Chinese Air Force rather placed its bet on the more modern and sophisticated Chengdu J-10 fighter, the PLANAF was rather looking for a more simple and inexpensive multi-role combat aircraft that could carry out both air defence and strike missions, and replace the ageing (and rather ineffective) J-8 fighters and Q-5 attack aircraft, as well as early J-7II fighters with limited all-weather capability. Consequently, the type was only operated by the PLANAF from 2010 onwards and received the official designation J-7DH ("H" for 海军 [Haijun] = Navy).
Production was still continuing in small numbers in late 2016, but the number of built specimen is uncertain. About 150 J-7DH are supposed to be in active service, mostly with PLANAF Northern and East Fleet units. Unlike many former J-7 variants (including its ancestor, the PLAAF's more or less stillborn C and D variants), the J-7DH was not offered for export.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 14.61 m (47 ft 10½ in)
15.69 m (51 ft 5 in) with pitot
Wingspan: 7,41 m (24 ft 3½ in)
Height: 4.78 m (15 ft 8½ in)
Wing area: 28.88 m² (309.8 ft²)
Aspect ratio: 2.8:1
Empty weight: 5,892 kg (12.977 lb)
Loaded weight: 8,240 kg (18.150 lb)
Max. take-off weight: 9,800 kg (21.585 lb)
Powerplant:
1× Guizhou WS-13 turbofan with a dry thrust of 51.2 kN (11,510 lbf)
and 84.6 kN (19,000 lbf) with afterburner
Performance
Maximum speed: Mach 2.0, 2,200 km/h (1.189 knots, 1.375 mph)
Stall speed: 210 km/h (114 knots, 131 mph) IAS
Combat radius: 1.050 km (568 nmi, 652 mi) (air superiority, two AAMs and three drop tanks)
Ferry range: 2,500 km (1.350 nmi, 1.550 mi)
Service ceiling: 17,500 m (57.420 ft)
Rate of climb: 195 m/s (38.386 ft/min)
Armament:
1× Type 30-I 30mm (1.18") cannon with 150 rounds in the port forward fuselage;
7× hardpoints (6× under-wing, 1× centerline under-fuselage) with a capacity of 3,000 kg maximum (up to 500 kg each); Ordnance primarily comprises air-to-air missiles, including PL-2, PL-5, PL-7, PL-8, PL-9 and PL-11 AAMs, but in a secondary CAS role various rocket pods an unguided bombs of up to 500kg caliber can be carried
The kit and its assembly:
Another Chinese whif, and again a MiG-21 derivative - a fruitful source of inspiration. The J-7DH is not based ona real world project, though, but was rather inspired by an article about a Chinese 2020 update for the MiG-21 from Japan, including some drawings and artwork.
The latter depicted a late MiG-21 with some minor mods, but also some characteristic F-16 parts like the chines and the BWB flanks grafted to it - and it looked good!
Since I recently butchered an Intech F-16 for my Academy T-50 conversion (primariliy donation the whole landing gear, including the wells), I had a donor kit at ahnd, and I also found a Mastercraft MiG-21MF in my stash without a true plan. So I combined both for "something Chinese"...
The build was pretty starightforward - except for the fact that the Intech F-16 is a rather clumsy affair (donating the fin and the fuselage flanks) and that no part from the Mastercraft MiG-21 matches with another one! Lots of improvisation and mods were necessary.
On the other side, the F-16 parts were just glued onto the MiG-21 fuselage and blended into one with putty (in several layers, though).
The fin was taken wholesale from the F-16, but clipped by about 5mm at the top. I originally wanted to use F-16 wings with wing tip launch rails and the stabilizers, too, but when I held them to the model it looked wacky - so I reverted to the Fishbed parts. The stabilizers were taken OOB, but the wing span was reduced at the roots, so that the original MiG-21 wing span was retained. Only the landing gear wells had to be adapted accordingly, but that was easier than expected and the result looks very organic.
With more wing area, I added a third pair of hardpoints under the wing roots, and I kept the gun under the cockpit in the LERX. That offered room inside of the fuselage, filled by a laser rangefinder in a canoe fairing where the original gun used to be.
On the tail, a new jet nozzle was mounted, on the fuselage some air scoops and antennae were added an an IR sensor on the nose. A new seat was used in the cockpit instead of the poor L-shaped OOB thing. The PL-2 & -11 ordnance consists of simple AIM-9Bs and slightly modified AIM-120, plus some launch rails from the scrap box.
Paintings and markings:
Modern Chinese military aircraft are hardly benchmarks for creative paint schemes - and the only "realistic" option in this case would have been a uniform grey livery. The original J-7C PLAAF night fighters carried a high contrast sand/dark green/light blue livery, similar to the MiG-21 export scheme (a.k.a. "Pumpkin"), but I found the latter not suitabel for a naval operator.
I eventually found a compromise, using one of the J-7C schemes as pattern but using grey tones instead - still not very colorful, but the "clover" patterns would help disrupt the aircraft's outlines and support the modern look and feel of this whif.
Basic colors are Humbrol 140 (Dark Gull Grey, FS 36231) and 165 (RAF Medium Sea Grey) from above, plus 122 (IAF Pale Blue, FS 35622) on the undersides. With the dark grey pattern placed with no direct connection to the Pale Blue undersides, there's even a blending effect between the tones - not spectacular, but IMHO effective.
The cockpit interior became pale teal (a mix of Soviet Cockpit Blue and white), while the landing gear wells were painted with a mix of Humbrol 56, 119 and 225 - for a yellow-ish, dull metallic brown. The wheel discs became bright green (Humbrol 131), and any di-electric panel and the radome became deep green (Humbrol 2).
The decals come from a Begemot MiG-21 sheet (roundels), while the tactical 5-digit code comes from an Airfix 1:72 B-17 sheet. The yellow code is a bit unusual, as well as its place on the fin, but both occur on Chinese fighters.
The code itself is based on the information published in the 2010 book “Chinese Air Power” by Yefim Gordon und Dmitriy Komissarov, where the Chinese code system is explained – I hope that it is more or less authentic.
The kit received a light black ink wash and some dry painting with lighter blue-grey shades, but no weathering, since modern Chinese aircraft tend to look pretty clean and pristine. Since the kits both did not feature much surface details, and a lot of the few OOB details got lost during the PSR process for the BWB wing sections, I painted some details and panel lines with a soft pencil - a compromise, though. Finally, the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.
The result is a pretty subtle whif, and with the F-16 parts added the result even looks very conclusive! From above, the extra fuselage width makes the Fishbed look very massive, which is underlined by the extended stabilizer span. But I think that retailing the original MiG-21 delta wing was a good decision, because it helps retaining the Fishbed's "fast" look.
I am just not 100% happy with the finish - but for the crappy kits I used as basis it's O.K.
A quick graphic I draw in excel to hopefully illustrate the negative impact of anti-price gouging laws.
For a very simple yet thorough breakdown of this concept I recommend this podcast which is hosted by some friends of mine.
fee.org/shows/audio/words-numbers/the-law-of-demanding-mo...
"I'm in my dream world."
(Hunter Hayes- American country music singer, b.1991)
This is a dancer in the French musical "La Légende du roi Arthur" (The Legend of King Arthur), writen and produced by Dove Attia.
It is directed and choreographed by Giulian Peparini.
The excellent lighting performance is by Xavier Lauwers.
And the amazing make-up is done by my friend Carmen Arbues Miro.
Some of the pictures I took during the Première came as if they were shot in a dreamlike world or an oneiric universe...
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One consequence of the Countryliner crisis is that Stagecoach swoops are now in use on Fleet Buzz routes. This is Merc breadvan 40906 (N906 NAP) on Fleet Buzz route 73.
The Stagecoach South MD had always been very careful not to allow this to happen before, ensuring repaints happened first and also a Sainsbury's orange Dart and a purple breadvan got transferred. This was to maintain the experiment of running Fleet Buzz as a low cost unit.
But the situation with Countryliner has evidently meant this had been broken.
How long till a Stagecoach ends up in Reading?!
Kingsmead, Farnborough, Hampshire.
It is imperative that people knows about the consequences of leaving unattended water containers because they are a good source of breeding sites.
Credits: Joshua E. Cogan.
Berlin boasts two zoological gardens, a consequence of decades of political and administrative division of the city. The older one, called Zoo Berlin, founded in 1844, is situated in what is now called the "City West". It is the most species-rich zoo worldwide. The other one, called Tierpark Berlin ("Animal Park"), was established on the long abandoned premises of Friedrichsfelde Manor Park in the eastern borough of Lichtenberg, in 1954. Covering 160 ha, it is the largest landcape zoo in Europe. Both have now a common directorate.
Im Tierpark Berlinsind 2023 rund 20 lebensgroßen Dinosaurier, über den Park verteilt, zu sehen.. Die tonnenschweren Nachbildungen sind nicht nur optisch bis ins Detail ihren lebenden „Vorfahren“ nachempfunden. Spezielle Technik lässt die Dinosaurier täuschend echt wiederbelebt erscheiunen. Sie zeigen so auch typische Bewegungsabläufe und geben akustische Laute von sich. Zusätzlich zu den beweglichen Exponaten erfahren die Besucher*innen in einer thematischen Ausstellung mehr über die Lebensweise der Dinosaurier und können erstaunliche Parallelen zur heutigen Tierwelt entdecken. „Dinosaurier gelten als das bekannteste Symbol für ausgestorbene Tierarten – die Faszination für T-Rex und seine Artgenossen ist bis heute ungebrochen“, verkündet Zoo- und Tierpark-Direktor Dr. Andreas Knieriem. „Und das Thema Artensterben ist hockaktuell – über 37.000 Arten gelten derzeit weltweit als unmittelbar vom Aussterben bedroht. Auch heutige Giganten, wie der Afrikanische Elefant oder das Spitzmaulnashorn, könnten – wenn wir nicht intervenieren – ausgerottet werden“, ergänzt Knieriem. Die Dinosaurier-Ausstellung ist von April bis Oktober 2023 zu sehen. Der Besuch bei Triceratops und Co. ist im regulären Eintrittspreis enthalten.
Quelle: www.tierpark-berlin.de/de/aktuelles/alle-news/artikel/din...
In 2023, around 20 life-size dinosaurs are on display in the Berlin Animal Park, spread throughout the park. The replicas, which weigh several tonnes, are not only visually modelled on their living "ancestors" down to the last detail. Special technology makes the dinosaurs look as if they have been brought back to life. They also show typical movements and make acoustic sounds. In addition to the moving exhibits, visitors can learn more about the dinosaurs' way of life in a thematic exhibition and discover astonishing parallels to the animal world of today. "Dinosaurs are considered the best-known symbol of extinct animal species - the fascination with T-Rex and his fellow species is still unbroken today," announces Zoo and Animal Park Director Dr. Andreas Knieriem. "And species extinction is highly topical - more than 37,000 species are currently considered to be in imminent danger of extinction worldwide. Even today's giants, such as the African elephant or the black rhinoceros, could - if we don't intervene - be wiped out," adds Knieriem. The dinosaur exhibition is on display from April to October 2023. A visit to Triceratops and Co. is included in the regular admission price.
Source: www.tierpark-berlin.de/de/aktuelles/alle-news/artikel/din... (German only)
Storm consequences from the storm in 2013 which hit Zagreb and Medvednica. See more on the following link | ivanklindic.info/2015/08/15/since-the-big-storm-back-in-2...
Tuesday 22 November 2016, saw local Greater Manchester Police officers join HMP Manchester Community Team in a visit to St. Edward’s RC Priamry School in Lees, Oldham as part of the ‘Actions Have Consequences’ campaign.
‘Actions Have Consequences’ workshops inform pupils on how their actions can affect them and their local community and the negative outcomes that could occur if they were to stray off the beaten track.
Subjects include nuisance 999 calls, bullying, anti-social behaviour, stranger danger, internet safety as well as others. Although the workshops carry a serious message, they are structured to be fun, informative and engaging.
The HMP Community Team gave the young people an idea of the harsh reality of prison life and the dangers of knife and gang-related crime.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Tuesday 22 November 2016, saw local Greater Manchester Police officers join HMP Manchester Community Team in a visit to St. Edward’s RC Priamry School in Lees, Oldham as part of the ‘Actions Have Consequences’ campaign.
‘Actions Have Consequences’ workshops inform pupils on how their actions can affect them and their local community and the negative outcomes that could occur if they were to stray off the beaten track.
Subjects include nuisance 999 calls, bullying, anti-social behaviour, stranger danger, internet safety as well as others. Although the workshops carry a serious message, they are structured to be fun, informative and engaging.
The HMP Community Team gave the young people an idea of the harsh reality of prison life and the dangers of knife and gang-related crime.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Thus the consequences for ignoring the rules. I love to break rules. I am not the type to read a sign like this and ponder whether I would get into trouble or any potential health risk. The first immediate thought that comes to mind is “FUN”. This beach to me is a much more interesting place with it taped off with caution tape and “KEEP OUT” signs surrounding it. To me that is like screaming “GO GO GO GO GO”.
I love doing things I shouldn’t be doing. I love being places I shouldn’t be going. I’m always raring to go if something someone suggests to me is against the norm. I want to go where other people don’t. I will always be the willing participant for something that others don’t want to try. Bring in some weird shit that no one else will eat? Let Ryan try. Who the hell will jump from there? I bet Ryan will. Why in the fuck would I want to go THERE? Ryan will go.
Never say never. I’m willing to try almost anything once. I’m a risk taker. I'm a god damn daredevil. I love change. I need excitement. I don’t want to live the same stupid boring life day after day after day after day after . . . . you get my point. Give me something no one else will dare do and I promise you I’ll do it, within reason. I don’t care what people think for the most part. And worryingly enough, I don’t usually take into account death or a potential hazard. That really makes for all the better reason to do something. I love it. If I could be a movie character I’d be Indiana Jones. But instead of the whip I’d have nunchucks, because they are just cooler.
I guess I’ll just settle for exploring contaminated beaches for now.
March 11th, 2009
Here is my fan art for the Planet of the Apes Motion Book Series & Fan Art Challenge
go.deviantart.com/journal/Planet-of-the-Apes-638108031
I made the apes, the background was made by Genzoman Genzoman
This is a fan art as a derivative work of the copyrights and trademarks owned by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and/or Madefire, Inc. (“Fox” and “Madefire”) in and to the Planet of the Apes movies, motion books and other associated works (the “POTA Assets”)
Este es mi fan art para el reto Motion Book Series & Fan Art Challenge del Planeta de los Simios
go.deviantart.com/journal/Planet-of-the-Apes-638108031
Yo hice los monos, el fondo fue hecho por Genzoman Genzoman
Este es un fan art derivado de los derechos de autor y marcas registradas propiedad de Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. y/o Madefire, Inc. ("Fox" y "Madefire") en, y para las películas, libros y otros trabajos asociados con el Planeta de los Simios
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degredation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.
--Dalai Lama
Explore #468
Story thus far: Yoshiko must summon a demon on Halloween in order to join the Sisters of Darkness. She got a spell book from Rin, an accomplished mage, studied it, and cast some spells which summoned animals.
Yoshiko realized she was responsible for all the creatures she had summoned. "Where will I keep them? How will I feed them?" Yoshiko began to understand that there is responsibility with casting spells.
- - - - -
Story continues here.
Ash has just spent a week in hospital after being shot by Nio, and is out in her wheelchair when she sees Ember...
Ashur Kentoku blinks owlishly at Em as she aproaches...
Emberen Twine's anger dissapates at the sight of Ash, tears silently gathering and pooling before streaming down her cheeks. "Ash?" she says, her voice shaky..."You alright?"
Ashur Kentoku's face is pale from her exertions and the pain, and a light sheen of sweat causes a few strands of hair to stick to her cheeks...she nods slowly, eyes brimming with tears now too at the sight of Em..."yes,' she mews in a small voice. "I'll live....are you okay?"
Emberen Twine nods, her lips curving downward into a pained frown. "I'll live," she says, her voice quivering, before breaking out into sobs as she toddles over to Ash and sits by her . She grasps her hand and looks up at her, eyes wide, cheeks glistening.
Ashur Kentoku bends painfully over and rests her cheek against Em's, trying to purr, although it hurts her to do so..."Then everything's gonna be all right," she merrs. She clings to Em, sniffling....but she's smiling....
Emberen Twine: "Oh Ash...I was so scared...and I couldn't remember most of what happened after you got to the hospital. AndI thought I was gooing to lose my only family...I thought you were gonna die! I...I...." She just stops talking....stops breathing...only sobs, shaking her head as she thinks about it all, overwhelmed, and unable to take it all in at one time.
Ashur Kentoku: "Shhh," she meers, petting Em, trying to soothe her..."I might have died but I didn't...I'm here....we're here." She swallows, and lifts her face away and brushes tears from Em's cheek, the faint smile still on her face.
Emberen Twine sniffles and rests her forehead on Ash's knee, still shaking it back and forth. "It was all just so awful...There was so much blood." She takes a deep breath and brings a hand up to her cheeks, blotting away the tears. "I never left you Ash...I didn't leave," at least that she remembers.
Ashur Kentoku strokes her fiery red hair..."Yeah...amazing how much blood there is in a person, huh?" She tilts her head..."Yeah, one of the nurses told me you refused to leave my side..." She smiles..."Love ya, kitten. Won't ever forget that..."
Emberen Twine: "But you left mine," she whispers as she raises her eyes to study Ashur's. "You wouldn't even listen to me...wouldn't wait to get just a little better. It was like you didn't care if you died." She swallows hard her face contorting with a pained grimace.
Ashur Kentoku blinks..."Maybe I don't."
Emberen Twine sucks up a soggy breath, startled at Ashur's answer. "So..." she looks down, assembling her thoughts, raising her eyes once again to Ash with confusion. "So I get spend my nights worried sick about you, end up with unexplained wounds and a bloody axe....and you don't even care enough about me to live?" She gapes, her eyes searching for some sort of sense that could come from all of this.
Ashur Kentoku shakes her head..."No...I dont mean it that way...just that I didnt expect Nio to try murder me. I know you care and I dont want you to have to suffer...dammit I wanna live as much as the next person..." She sighs.
Emberen Twine: "But...when you regained conciousness in the hospital...you ...you wouldn't even lay down. You...wouldn't even let the doctor clear you before you left! I...I was so worried that you would bleed again. AndI was hurt that you would jeopardise your life again for...for a meeting. "
Ashur Kentoku nods..."I just had to do something normal...show them they can't keep me down. I went baaaack for a while afterwards,' she says defensively.
Emberen Twine stares at her, remaining quiet for a while. Her brows knit together with grief, slight relief that her friend, her family, is still alive. "Gods Ash...I would lose my mind if anything ever happened to you." Hell, she already did. "You're gonna heal now right? You are gonna take it easy and not endanger yourself again?"
Ashur Kentoku nods again, another glassy blink..."Yes...the Oracle gave me some nanites...should heal me up faster than normal. And then I can pay Nio a visit..." She smiles.
Emberen Twine: "Ash...." she says, her tone measured, brow furrowing. "Revenge isn't going to make things any better. Don't you know that? It's only going to wind up in more blood on the pavement. Please don't. Please don't meet her violence with your own." This is what she had been fearing...retribution. "I talked to her...and she admited her mistake. She knows that what she did was wrong."
Ashur Kentoku perks her ears..."Oh, I've not decided whether I'll return her attempt at murdering me in kind," she merrs. "I very well may...but I am certainly going to pay her a visit. What transpires will be determined mostly from her behaviour...and judging from her last psychotic response, it may well be blood again, yes. But not mine, this time."
Emberen Twine: "Ash! Gods...you totally goaded her into it! She had no right to do what she did...but I got the feeling you wanted to push her into a reaction. You just weren't counting on her reaction being so...overblown!" That anger that she felt the day it happened spikes, making itself known with a burn in her chest. Tears, now dried, stain her cheek, and a resolve to call Ash on her shit sets in.
Ashur Kentoku's face becomes expressionless and she withdraws from Em..."I told the furball to get lost because the furball was goading me, Em. you know s well as I do that the corner I was standing on is disputed territory at best, and that often non-Catwalkers hang out there. You have, yourself. She deliberately used it as an excuse to try murder me. She aimed for my head after shooting me in the chest," she growls. "Don't think I didnt see that...or forget it. So don't talk to me about goading..."
Emberen Twine: "You could have given in to her...that corner, or standing your ground wasn't worth a chest full of holes. Did you really think that battle would win the war? At best it gave you an excuse to start one. Let them protect their prison with their lives. Let them rot in it! As long as you aren't dying along with them for some "cause" which will never be one you can win!" She stares at Ash intently as she speaks, unwilling to back down, unwilling to let her retreat.
Ashur Kentoku: "That wasn't a battle, Em," she whispers quietly. "if it was, it would have been Nio you'd have been visiting in hospital, not me...."
Ashur Kentoku: "But you're right about their prison...nevertheless, I AM going to pay Nio a visit. Nothing you can say will change that. What happens during that visit, happens. As I've said."
Emberen Twine: "So you mean to tell me you had no intention of getting her to shoot you by mouthing off like that? You want me to believe that...that your refusal to move was in no way designed to get her to lose her shit on you?" She shakes her head, realizing she can't change Ash's mind, before shuddering at the sound of shots fired.
Ashur Kentoku: "I mean to tell you that it's time certain people in this city learned that there are consequences to their actions, and that Nio is learning that. And I intend to make sure the point is driven home...to see that for myself. Because trying to murder someone for standing where you don't want them to stand is wrong, and carrying a big gun doesnt mean it grants you the right to behave that way."
Emberen Twine sighs...unable to disagree with that logic. It's so much easier to argue with Ash when she isn't being rational. But the blood lust was absent from her...this night. "Ash," she says softly..."Just...just be careful. I..." Tears yet again.."I just don't want a life without you in it."
Tuesday 22 November 2016, saw local Greater Manchester Police officers join HMP Manchester Community Team in a visit to St. Edward’s RC Priamry School in Lees, Oldham as part of the ‘Actions Have Consequences’ campaign.
‘Actions Have Consequences’ workshops inform pupils on how their actions can affect them and their local community and the negative outcomes that could occur if they were to stray off the beaten track.
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An Unexpected Consequence
Something woke me up around 3:30 am that Saturday morning, not sure what. But something since my head was throbbing, I assumed that was the culprit.
I slowly, silently arose, not wishing to disturb the others who had gathered in our suite's living room for a “sleepover after an evening of heavy partying. But by the looks, everyone was still passed out.
I wasn’t surprised, judging from the amount of drinks we all had consumed.
What happy drunks we had all been.
I carefully tiptoed amongst them through the room, deciding to get aspirin from my bathroom.
The girls and I had all fallen asleep in the living room instead of retiring to our respective bedrooms that connected to the master suite
I was surprised to see my bedroom door was closed.
Was someone else inside?
I looked around the room, not noticing anyone missing.
Shrugging it off, I went inside, closing the door behind me.
I saw my reflection in the wall-sized mirror at the end of the room, next to the surprisingly open outside balcony door.
“Looking good.” I complimented myself.
I was wearing my slinking long pure silk nightgown, coloured a deep chocolate brown. Along with my shiny matching robe. The robe was open and I could see my peaking out chest, my smallish mounds bulging, sexily outlined by my nightgown.
I ran my fingers down the front, touching them, feeling a rather pleasant sensation that I was still not awake enough to fully enjoy.
There is nothing like the feel of a bit of nice silk lying against one’s naked figure.
I took a step back, admiring my figure, clad tightly in shiny silk, with jewels sparkling that were reflected in the hotel suite's mammoth mirror.
For, from my evening out, I was still wearing my long diamond earrings(£18,000) and three diamond rings(£12,000,£5,000, £3,000) because I love to sleep with my diamonds on, and they had looked so pretty with my black satin evening gown, along with the rest of my diamonds, that I had worn out for the evening before.
They had looked even more delicious worn with my spaghetti strap chocolate silk slinky nightgown as I played with them,and myself, a wee bit more.
I guess I kept wearing them because I wanted the feeling to continue on, as it was.
We had all been dressed up to the nines, attire, and jewellery, Friday evening, including the three of us girls who were staying in the two connected rooms.
Though last night those rooms, like mine, had been empty since all of us were asleep in the living room, sort of an adult storytelling sleepover.
Though I will admit deep down a smouldering yearning was felt to have it being a role-playing sleepover.
Now as I looked myself over in the mirror I started to have a prickly sensation that I was after all, not alone in the room.
I literally jumped because that feeling was immediately confirmed as an unfamiliar male voice commanded:
“Freeze sister, not a peep out of you now!”
I froze… not knowing what the hell was going on.
Except I was correct in using the word ‘Hell’
^^^^
A thin, muscular male comes out of one of the room’s shadowy corners, facing me.
I could tell his intentions by the black tight-fitting spandex suit, gloves, and ski mask he was wearing.
He nodded his head to me….
“I don’t wish to hurt you, lady, I’m only after the “ice” I was told you were wearing out tonight. Now don’t scream. I will use force and some of your friends may be hurt. You don’t want that to happen, do you? Nod if you’re going to be a good lass.”
I nodded yes, feeling my earrings swing against my face.
“That’s the girl. Undo your pretty robe, drop it to the floor. Good. Now move it over unto the bed.”
I did so and he picked up my robe laying it out onto the end of the bed. Then he picked up my robe's satin sash.
“Now ladybird , hold out your hands.”
I obeyed. He looked down at my fingers. I could see my rings glistening and saw he was watching also.
He pleasurably sighed, then got to business.
“Spread out your fingers!”
I did and he slowly located, then worked off my three pretty rings. Reaching over, he plopped each onto my chocolate-coloured silk robe.
“Now sister, clasp your hands in front of you…”
I obeyed and he firmly tied my wrists together with the robe’s silk sash.
“Now lay back on the bed”
I did so and he lifted my bound wrists and using one of my long black satin gloves tied them to a bedpost. Then he took the other glove gagging my mouth with it.
I could see my reflection in the vanity mirror. Almost surreal, like I was watching someone else.
He turned on his torch, catching my long diamond earrings in the beam.
“Blinding those, lovely to look at, but I’m running out of time aren’t I? Leave them for later, eh luv!”
Moving easily like a muscular black panther, he rose and strolled over to the vanity dresser. He opened the pair of jewelry cases belonging to me and my sister-in-law Cadie.
The beam caught up with the reflection of the jewellery both contained. I could see them sparkling.
He turns, shined the light in my face…
I was told you birds were wearing “ice” but there’s much more here. Let’s say I save time by taking it all for sorting later..”
It wasn’t a question.
With a sigh, I watched as he emptied onto my silk robe, the glimmering contents of first one, then the other of our jewel cases.
The pile dazzled with explosive, expensive sparkling.
Discarding both emptied cases, he turned his light back on the dresser. There were more of our expensive personal items laid out there. Cadie’s, my husband’s, and mine.
Several times he reached in sweeping some of them into his palm. Dumping them onto the chocolate-coloured silk robe
My husband’s possessions. Rolex money clip, billfold, silver gunmetal cigarette case, and matching lighter.
Cade’s silver comb and mirror, silver makeup compact, and her satin evening clutch.
Along with my gold makeup compact kit, gold Lamé clutch purse, gold cigarette case, and gold lighter.
He next shined the light carefully around the room.
Stopping on the open closet.
He went over and rummaged through it.
He whistled, and from my close he pulled out my rust-coloured mink jacket, throwing it onto the bed.
Then he turned back, fingering through my good skirts, blouses, party dresses, gowns, satins, and silks all of them.
He pulled my back satin opera outfit, a long satin skirt with the rhinestone belt and matching rhinestone embellished jacket, that I usually wore with one of my silky long-sleeved high-neck tops.
Lovely this he said shingling his light so it sparkled.
Then he tossed it on my bed, covering the fur.
He happily “dived” back in, and I heard him exclaiming…
“This is more like it, good thing I didn’t take a pass on the closet.”
He was pulling out the black satin gown with rhinestone trimmings I had worn out this past evening. His light caught my beautiful broach (£38,000), which I had left attached.
it came into sparkling life under the torch beam.
He whistled as he walked over, eyeing it up.
The thief then shined his torch beam in my face
You weren’t going to try and hold this out now were you love? I’ll pretend you were going to point it out.”
He laid it out on the bed, then approached me…
“With that said, lady. Are you holding anything else out!”
I shook my head, no, my eyes pleading since my mouth was gagged into silence.
Grinning, his torch beam was shined into one ear then the other
“Not quite telling the truth, Lovely sparkler’s them.”
He reached up, I was limp, with no fight in me.
The thief then laid the torch on the bed…
With his teeth the wanker pulled off his thin black gloves, he looked positively evil wearing that ski mask. His eyes are large and I swear, beguilingly, studying me.
His mouth opened wide as he reached over with long touching fingers, to begin working off each of my earrings, tossing them onto the valuably shimmering piled out on my beautiful satiny silky robe.
Again he stared into my eyes, his own masked lined menacing one’s mere millimeters away.
“Not saying I don’t trust you telling your not hiding anything valuable, but, well luv, I’ll be having myself a look anyway. You’ll understand…”
I cringed, arching my back as his fingers grasped my arms.
He then reached down and squeezed around my bulging chest ,noticing they were hard and perking, pointing up through the sheer fabric of my silky nightgown like a pair of plump fleshy mounds with hard tips.
Then I felt his fingers smoothly running over along my silk-clad figure, until he reached my wet pussy and discovers why my “mounds” were so firm under his touch.
For yes, I will have to confess having been sinfully aroused throughout the whole wickedly hot experience.
You see it started when he was pulling off my rings.
No, actually I told a lie…
It was when he first grasped me:
The abruptness, the shock, and the surprise, quickly turned to aroused waves of tingling sexually tinged excitement at being held captive, by a thief after my jewels.
As he worked at stealing our valuables, a tingling, cringing feeling of helplessness and horror watching a masked man doing that, with the look of pleasure he had in his eyes.
Then as he pulled off my rings, well I realized I was growing even more acutely aroused in a quite “horney” role play’esque situation.
Arousal that began its stimulating flame, arising from the explosive emerging “kindling” that is one’s own erotica being played out for real when least expected.
He could see my struggle against my bonds, and he knew, the Git just instinctively knew why….
Then the prat just touched the hairs around my privates
Stroking gently, reaching deep enough inside my pussy hairs, just enough to keep me aroused, but not allowing me to come into orgasm.
My eyes were opened wide staring at his masked form hovering over me.
Then he plunged his fingers deeply inside.
My whole figure arched up, fingers tingling.
Then the stinking prat, he pulled back. The wanker knew and stopped, just as my figure was trying to come in a full-body arching, explosive orgasm.
It was bad enough The bloody thief was stealing my jewels, but adding in robbing me clean of a chance at feeling that titular flame of orgasmic stimulation as I had closed my eyes starting to wince with excitement, that was just bloody rude.
^^^^^^
Then he was done, all back to business, as he nimbly rose, then picking up his gloves said the chilling words as he put them back on….
“Do the other rich dame’s bedrooms have things this nice, as I was told. No answer eh? Well, we will see for me self now won’t I!”
He picked back up his torch, letting the beam play down the long chocolate-silken night gown I was wearing over my naked figure.
He nodded his head in disbelieving approval.
Turning it off, he pocketed the torch, then reaching down he rolled up my satin robe with our valuables in it.
Picking up a black backpack he purred…
“The lads that were following you birds around last night, they put me onto this job saying to just to snatch the shiny jewels you and your girlfriends wearing out this evening. But lady you have enough here I could make a bit extra for me self!”
He stuffed the chocolate satin robe inside his jogger's pack. Followed by cramming in my black gown with the broach.
Then lifting my mink he said
But I better see how much of the good stuff your lady friends have in their rooms first. But I’ll take this item in case I have the storage space.”
Extinguishing his torch, He started to walk out, then looked back at me and came to my bedside.
“And don’t worry about this”
he said touching my now still prickly, damp crotch.
"Your not the first broad I’ve tied up to rob whose felt this way, now we’re you!?”
Snickering, he confidently opened the door, slipping without a look back
He was now in the living room where the others were all sleeping!
^^^^
That night thief thoroughly cleaned us out of all our jewels and various other items of high value we had in our bedrooms.
Though it was a very nasty thing to have happened to all of us. I did feel a wee bit guilty.
For to tell the truth, since I had been erotically aroused by the entire incident that occurred in my bedroom under the thief’s hands whole robbing me, I didn’t quite feel as sad about it as my equally jewel-relieved girlfriends.
Fini
This series of 7 photos is the result of an outing through the streets of Lausanne. The adventure began in the Flon district and ended 2 hours later in the Vallon district. These two districts are exciting places to play, because they have an alternative side that arouses my curiosity and inspiration.
The photos I've chosen represent different feelings and themes that I experienced as I explored them. I'll try to share these feelings with you through the titles of the photos. Perhaps you'll also feel them when you look at my photos?
Cette série de 7 photos est le résultat d’une sortie dans les rues de Lausanne. L’aventure a débuté dans le quartier du Flon pour finir 2 heures plus tard dans le quartier du Vallon. Ces deux quartiers sont des espaces de jeux passionnants car ils ont un côté alternatif qui éveillent ma curiosité et mon inspiration.
Les photos que j’ai choisies représentent différents sentiments et différents thèmes que j’ai pu ressentir au fur et à mesure de cette exploration. Ces sentiments je vais essayer de vous les partager au travers des titres des photos. Peut-être les ressentirez-vous aussi en regardant mes clichés ?
Runnymede is a water-meadow alongside the River Thames in the English county of Surrey, and just over 20 miles (32 km) west of central London. It is notable for its association with the sealing of Magna Carta, and as a consequence is, with its adjoining hillside, the site of memorials. Runnymede Borough is named after the area, Runnymede being at its northernmost point.
Topography
The name Runnymede refers to land in public and National Trust ownership in the Thames flood plain south-west of the river between Old Windsor and Egham. The area includes (to the west of A308 road) the Long Mede and Runnymede, which together with Coopers Hill Slopes is managed by the National Trust. There is also a narrower strip of land, east of the road and west of the river, known as the Yard Mede. Slightly further downstream from the area shown on the map are (inter alia): a recreational area with a car park; a number of private homes; a large distribution centre; and an hotel.
The landscape of Runnymede is characterised as "Thames Basin Lowland", urban fringe. It is a gently undulating vale of small fields interspersed by woods, shaws, ponds, meadows, and heath. The National Trust area is a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI) which contains a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Both sites are overseen by Runnymede Borough Council.
The National Trust holding includes:
188 acres (0.76 km2) donated in 1929 set behind a narrow riverside park with occasional benches on the southern river bank, with car and coach parking;
110 acres (0.45 km2) of broadleaved woodland on Coopers Hill Slopes, given in 1963 by the former Egham Urban District Council.
Long Mede is a meadow north of the ancient "mede" (meadow) of Runnymede towards Old Windsor and has been used for centuries to provide good-quality hay from the alluvial pasture. Runnymede itself lies towards Egham. It is likely that Runnymede proper was the site of the sealing of Magna Carta, although the Magna Carta Memorial (see below) stands on Long Mede, and the event is also popularly associated with Magna Carta Island, on the opposite bank of the Thames.
Near the Island, on the north-east flood plain, in parkland on the eastern bank of the river, are Ankerwycke and the ruins of the 12th century Priory of St Mary's. The Thames has changed course here occasionally, and these areas may once have been an integral part of Runnymede. Both were acquired by the National Trust in 1998.
History
Runnymede's historical significance has been heavily influenced by its proximity to the Roman Road river crossing at nearby Staines-upon-Thames.
The name Runnymede may be derived from the Anglo-Saxon runieg (regular meeting) and mede (mead or meadow), describing a place in the meadows used to hold regular meetings. The Witan, Witenagemot or Council of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of the 7th to 11th centuries was held from time to time at Runnymede during the reign of Alfred the Great. The Council met usually in the open air. This political organ was transformed in succeeding years, influencing the creation of England's 13th century parliament.
The water-meadow at Runnymede is the most likely location at which, in 1215, King John sealed Magna Carta. The charter indicates Runnymede by name as "Ronimed. inter Windlesoram et Stanes" (between Windsor and Staines). Magna Carta had an impact on common and constitutional law as well as political representation also affecting the development of parliament.
Runnymede's association with ideals of democracy, limitation of power, equality and freedom under law has attracted placement there of monuments and commemorative symbols.
The last fatal duel in England took place in 1852, on Priest Hill, a continuation of Cooper's Hill by Windsor Great Park.
The National Trust land was donated in 1929 by Cara Rogers Broughton and her two sons. The American-born widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, she was permitted by letter from George V to join her son's new peerage in tribute to her husband and this gift and be officially styled Lady Fairhaven. The gift was given in memory of Urban Broughton. At the time the New Bedford Standard-Times commented "It must be a source of gratification to all Americans, and especially to us here and in Fairhaven, that the presentation of this historic spot as public ground has been brought about by an American woman, an appropriate enough circumstance considering that the great charter underlies the USA's conception of government and human rights."
Features
Urban H. Broughton Memorials
After the death of Urban Broughton in 1929, Sir Edwin Lutyens was commissioned to design a set of twin memorials consisting of large kiosks and posts or "piers" with stone blocks crowned with laurel wreaths and formalised urns at the Egham end and with lodges and piers at the Windsor end. Lutyens also designed a low wide arch bridge to carry the main road over the Thames to the north, integrating the road layout and bridge design into his plans for the memorials. The southern kiosks were moved to their present location when the M25 motorway was constructed.
There are two octagonal kiosks with piers facing each other across the A308 towards Egham. These piers are a shorter version of those adjacent to the lodges either side of the same road towards Old Windsor in the Long Mede. The lodges show typical Lutyens design features with steeply angled roofs, large false chimneys and no rainwater gutters at the eaves.
The piers carry similar inscriptions. On one face is the inscription:
“ In these Meads on 15th June 1215 King John at the instance of Deputies from the whole community of the Realm granted the Great Charter the earliest of constitutional documents whereunder ancient and cherished customs were confirmed abuses redressed and the administration of justice facilitated new provisions formulated for the preservation of peace and every individual perpetually secured in the free enjoyment of his life and property. ”
and on the other the words:-
“ In perpetual memory of Urban Hanlon Broughton 1857 – 1929 of Park Close Englefield Green in the county of Surrey Sometime Member of Parliament These meadows of historic interest on 18th December 1929 were gladly offered to the Nation by his widow Cara Lady Fairhaven and his sons Huttleston Lord Fairhaven and Henry Broughton ”
The memorials were opened in 1932 by the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and are Grade II listed buildings.
Langham Pond SSSI
Langham Pond was created when the meandering River Thames formed an oxbow lake. Its status as a wetland Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) was first notified in 1975 and later reviewed under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 when the protected area was extended to 64 acres (260,000 m2) within Runnymede as managed by the National Trust.
The pond and associated meadow form a habitat considered unique in Southern England and of international importance for nature conservation. The flora and fauna include nationally scarce plants and insects including a species of fly unrecorded elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
Air Forces Memorial
The Air Forces Memorial commemorates the men and women of the Allied Air Forces who died during the Second World War and records the names of the 20,456 airmen who have no known grave.
From the top of the tower visitors can see long views over Windsor, the surrounding counties and aircraft taking off and landing at Heathrow. On a good day visitors can see as far as the Wembley Arch and even the Gherkin in the City of London. The memorial was designed by Sir Edward Maufe, architect of Guildford Cathedral.
John F. Kennedy Memorial
The British memorial for U.S. President John F. Kennedy was jointly dedicated in May 1965, by Queen Elizabeth II and Jacqueline Kennedy, prior to a reception for the Kennedy family at Windsor Castle. The memorial consists of a garden and Portland stone memorial tablet inscribed with the famous quote from his Inaugural Address:
“ Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty. ”
Visitors reach the memorial by treading a steep path of irregular granite steps, intended to symbolise a pilgrimage. There are 50 steps in total. Each step is different from all others, with the entire flight made from 60,000 hand-cut granite setts.[10] Landscape architect Geoffrey Jellicoe designed the garden; sculptor Alan Collins designed and carved the stone inscription. The area of ground on which the memorial is situated was given as a gift to the United States of America by the people of Britain. (Though property ownership was transferred to the federal government of the United States, the area remains under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.) It is maintained by the Kennedy Memorial Trust, which also sponsors educational scholarships for British students to attend university in the United States.
In 1968 the 7-ton stone was damaged by a bomb during a time of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations; it was later repaired by the sculptor.
Magna Carta Memorial
Situated in a grassed enclosure. on the lower slopes of Cooper's Hill, this memorial is of a domed classical style monopteros, containing a pillar of English granite on which is inscribed "To commemorate Magna Carta, symbol of Freedom Under Law". The memorial was created by the American Bar Association (ABA) to a design by Sir Edward Maufe R.A., and was unveiled on 18 July 1957 at a ceremony attended by American and English lawyers.
Since 1957 representatives of the ABA have visited and rededicated the Memorial, renewing pledges to the Great Charter. In 1971 and 1985 commemorative stones were placed on the Memorial plinth. In July 2000 the ABA came:
“ to celebrate Magna Carta, foundation of the rule of law for ages past and for the new millennium. ”
In 2007, on its 50th anniversary, the ABA again visited Runnymede. During its convention it installed as President Charles Rhyne, who devised Law Day, which in the USA represents an annual reaffirmation of faith in the forces of law for peace.
In 2008 floodlights were installed to light the memorial at night.
In 2015, in anticipation of the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta, the two wooden benches at the memorial were replaced by stone benches. On 15 June, the anniversary day, the ABA, accompanied by US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, rededicated the memorial in a ceremony led by HRH The Princess Royal in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and other members of the Royal family.
The Magna Carta Memorial is administered by the Magna Carta Trust, which is chaired by the Master of the Rolls.
Ceremonial Tree Plantings
The Duke of Kent together with David K. Diebold, a Minister-Counselor at the US Embassy in London, planted an oak tree adjacent to the Magna Carta Memorial in 1987, as did P. V. Narismha Rao, Prime Minister of the Republic of India. The Prime Minister left a plaque reading:
“ As a tribute to the historic Magna Carta, a source of inspiration throughout the world, and as an affirmation of the values of Freedom, Democracy and the Rule of Law which the People of India cherish and have enshrined in their Constitution. March 16, 1994 ”
In 1987 two further oak trees were planted near the Memorial. One, planted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, marked National Tree Week. Another, planted by John O. Marsh, Secretary of the Army of the USA, has a plaque which reads:
“ This oak tree, planted with soil from Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, commemorates the bicentenary of the Constitution of the United States of America. It stands in acknowledgement that the ideals of liberty and justice embodied in the Constitution trace their lineage through institutions of English law to the Magna Carta, sealed at Runnymede on June 15th, 1215. ”
The Jurors
The Jurors artwork was commissioned by Surrey County Council and the National Trust to mark the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta. The sculptor Hew Locke created 12 bronze chairs each of which is decorated with symbols of past and present struggles for freedom, equality and the rule of law. The artist / sculptor invites participants to sit, reflect upon and discuss the themes represented. In the image the back of the chair nearest the viewer is a representation of Nelson Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island, South Africa. The portrait seen of the further chair is of Lillie Lenton wearing insignia related to the imprisonment and activism of suffragettes.
The installation was inaugurated at Runnymede by Prince William during the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary celebrations.
Cooper's Hill House
A large house on Cooper's Hill, overlooking Runnymede and the River Thames, has played a number of roles – as the Royal Indian Engineering College; wartime Post Office headquarters; storage for the Statue of Eros during World War II; an emergency teacher training college; Shoreditch College – a centre for craft and handiwork education – and most recently, Brunel University's design school (has removed to Uxbridge Main Campus).
Ankerwycke Yew
The revered +1,400 year old Ankerwycke Yew, on the left bank of the river, is also a possible site where Magna Carta may have been sealed. The sacred tree could have been the location of the Witan council and influenced the founding of St Mary's Priory there. This religious site may well have been the preferred neutral meeting place of King John and the barons.
Land development proposals threatening the yew led to action resulting in the tree and surrounding estate passing into the protection of the National Trust in 1998.
Henry VIII is said to have met Anne Boleyn under the tree in the 1530s.
In 1992, botanist and environmental campaigner David Bellamy led a dedication at the yew, stating:
“ We the free people of the islands of Great Britain on the 777th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta do:
Look back and give thanks for the benefits that the signings, sealing and swearing of oaths on that document handed down to us. Look forward to a new age of freedom through sustainability by granting the following rights to all the sons of plants and animals with which we share our islands and our planet.
”
There followed ten pledges to sustain all life forms.
Location and access
Runnymede is 20 miles (32 km) west by southwest of the centre of London. It is owned by the National Trust and is open 24 hours, seven days a week, at no charge.
Runnymede is accessed via the road or river towpath on foot or by bicycle, or by motor vehicle via the A308 road near Egham about 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Windsor. Two car parks (on the A308) adjoin the Windsor entrance (these may be closed in winter due to flooding etc.). Runnymede is also along the Thames Path National Trail. The nearest railway station is Egham. One of the Lutyens lodges at the Windsor entrance to the meadow houses a popular tea room.
The Anckerwycke area on the other bank of the river is accessible from the B376 between Wraysbury and Staines (nearest station Wraysbury).
There are consequences for not meeting the toy building quota. Head Elf is about to find out what that is. It's nice to see Mr. and Mrs. Claus still finding things to do as a couple. Even during the busy holiday season, they seem to find the time.
'Shoes' by Antonio Carty (8th April 2017)
(105cm square - Pencil, acrylics & inks on paper)
Shoes.
Here to accompany my words, being an artist, is a picture I just made about the great encounter between europe & refugee people that is occurring, as a consequence of the industry and interests of war.
The refugee people I have portrayed in this moment are Syrian's, who having crossed the Mediterranean sea in their tiny rubber dingy and are just about to land their hopes and set foot on the shores of Europe. I created the picture from an actual photos sacred trace caught in time.
I title this picture 'Shoes' www.flickr.com/photos/antoniocarty/33692526774/in/datepos...
Why shoes? Because we all need them and we understand each other when we try to walk in each others! The picture portrays great multitudes of individual people all gathered together in a moment of expectant spectation, the stadium becomes a vast beach shore where every grain of sand is counted. Making this effort thru' art to render every individual in the vast crowd together all at once, I hope to awaken and fulfill a respect, for the simultaneous magnitude of all the lives and stories that makes a society. By looking at the real mystery of our gathered multitude as individuals, this social art hopefully asks us to see ourselves and helps us to believe in the true responsibility of how we each treat the other. Are we just spectators or the actors in our lives, is it to be, or not to be!
As Pope Francis in a gathering of European children along with children who had survived the desperate and brave Mediterranean crossing, all sang together in a common sense chorus, about the crisis of the Refugee, "They are not a danger, they are in danger, They are not a danger, they are in danger!!"
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This picture's description is part of a longer social essay I have written called 'Civilization and the River' where my picture here 'Shoes' was the main featured illustration. It is available to read as a 24 page pamphlet and as a blog. If you like to read the full blog it is here in this first link below.
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This picture was exhibited as part of Kilmainham & Inchicore's August 2017 Festival's Group Art Show in Dublin. The show of 10 artists organized by my fellow artists Sean O'Neill & Catherine Ryan was called 'An Ideal World' & my series of large drawing paintings as part of it, I called 'In Your Shoes'
In Your Shoes.
'My social art believes there is sacred truth and creativity to be realised in every moment we encounter. I like to journey into moments caught in time, to try unravel and truly see them in art. Looking in the mirror of an other's shoes, we can find ourselves, alive thru' them!'
-Antonio Carty
(August 25th 2017)
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Civilization and the River
-Reversing Social Austerity and Validating a Popular Progressive Society
by Antonio Carty - 27th May 2017
Why?
Why the Collapse?
Social Austerity and our loss of democratic control to debtors has crippled society, rightly enraged us and out of necessity is politically awakening the global constitution of 'We the People' of our world.
This great strain on societies resources, this great gap, is been blamed on different scapegoats, the wealthy usually like to blame it back on society, implying life's population is the burden, that our societies expectations are to great, wages are unsustainable, people want to much, our multitude health needs are an unending waste, a weakness that the sensible mature wealth of this world just cant in good conscience afford! Look at the barbarity of the 'health' bill that just passed in USA Congress, it will cause at least 24 million more people to lose health protection, but it gets celebrated by the wealthy in power as a 'victory for freedom'… freedom from responsibility.
The majority of people polled everywhere naturally disagree, people think and feel this social austerity is not a fair reward for our work, that society is underfunded and we should expect and have more to fulfill all our lives and societies potential. We protest, because there is a lack of money in wages, taxes and spending, yet at the same time we see there is greater profits being made and boasted in our world, than ever before.
Why is our world set this way? Because it is natural and was always meant to be?.. No, the world changes and leans to different directions according to action and influence.
One great influence is Democracy, which translates as the Rule of People. But the influence of people's voice and vote has been usurped by private and corporate wealth. Gigantic never before existing corporate powers have now grown and manifested to influence our world. This is a key fact. Social Austerity which has rightly angered and makes desperate the lives and pride of our majority, is caused by the great wealth not paying its fair share, why don't they?
Because they do not have to! Corporations are courted by nations. Its we nations who follow and compete to please and favour their interests, why?
Because they can simply Hop. If they don't like their deal, if wages and taxes are not low enough, if environmental regulations are not compliant to their interests, they Hop!
The Hop.
Is this hopping just a law of nature?
No, they hop because it is an advantageous dynamic for them to exploit, to get our nations to compete against each other and we do, we compete in a race to the bottom of our own societies wealth, health and future. We compete to increase our austerity and environmental loss, to help them continue to profit and become ever more influential and powerful, over our lives.
This 'race to the bottom', this contraction of social austerity and suicidal environmental collapse is getting worse and worse. Causing anger, doubt and fear in people. Even making some of us so desperate as to lose confidence in our character's fair reason, in our dignity and the grace of compassion, letting ourselves instead become hopeless, divided and conquered cowards, putting our fear and blame more easily onto the consequences, the victims of the economy, on the local poor and jobless, on enviously reversing the hard one equality of proud minorities, or blaming migrants of economic poverty and refugees, victims who must exodus the murdering global consequences of our cruelest industry, War.
But how do we change this desperate economic dynamic, this doomed global race to the bottom, so big businesses wont hop and might chose to stay and pay their fair share, to follow our democratic common sense agreements for mutual survival?
We turn from the established leaderships, because we've seen that their pro corporate low tax and wage Centre, is not offering a choice to vote for real effective change, from this doomed dynamic, no plan of change to achieve a better funded fairer world that is not this way. But how could it be different, this is the Market we must follow, this is how its meant to be, many repeat and echo this, making it seem absolute and true.
It is not.
We Are The River.
Yes we can influence, we can guide the market for better, like our great ancient civilizations who's necessity, with confidence, learnt and acted to guide the rivers on which they lived and depended so as they could better grow and prosper! But how do we today fix the river/market in our social interests with out corruption, bias and causing it to dry up and collapse?
I believe the answer is possible once you have questioned the problem and decided to act. We must unite the world's nations in an agreement to benefit all our economies. An agreement in regard and to the purpose of ending, the necessity of our nation's competing with each other into lower and lower wages and corporate taxes, in what is such a mutually doomed race to the bottom. An agreement that instead, sets to guiding the global river of all our honest work and efforts to more fairly irrigate and suit our human civilization.
But what kind of agreement, can achieve that?
We set healthy world wide Universal Minimum Wage and Tax Thresholds that all business over a certain size must pay and that cant be lowered and undermined by one nation against another. So, no more special package holiday deals for big corporates, that also unfairly disadvantage local and smaller business.
Now Hopping has less incentive and business has to settle and get on with creating a profit with the way the river is. And it will. Don't worry and listen to the shouting and bluster of the old gods, business will get on with it because it will be its reality and only way to make profit. But now the wages and the taxes they pay as they go will be fair and flow in to fund all our societies and nations around the world. People can prosper and live where they wish and not where they must. Democracy will not be twisted to the river, the river that We work, will rightly provide for and serve Our democracy as it flows!
So, as the great civilizations of the world before us once awoke and united to fix the river to benefit their lives and environment, now we must unite, to agree a range of global thresholds in wages and taxes.
To help ensure that business will be attracted to invest in nations with less developed infrastructure, markets and expertise. According to GDP development perhaps, 3 Tiers of Universal thresholds could be set. Developing nations could offer a lower minimum tier in tax and wages but still a decent one. The other 2 Tiers would be set gradually higher for more developed nations with their better infrastructures and education and training to offer potential business as incentive to settle there. But all the tiers of universal minimums in wages and taxes would be set at a good, fair and decent minimum that cant be undercut. So now as the river of the market flows, people of all nations are properly rewarded for their work, real spending and its economy will also rise everywhere with this new wider distribution of income buoyancy! Our societies' facilities will have the corporate tax previously not paid, to fulfill their best potentials not the lowest cut. Our Democracy will mature to have real and effective meaning beyond the values of economic desperation. Our public forum's fair and willful consensus of decisions, creating powerful new referendums and agreements, as we invest in our constitutions and direct our futures thru' the debates of our concerns, values and ideas.
We are the river! Our pride and dignity can have a better world wide civilization and sustainable healthy environment if we agree to guide and command our river's to fairly irrigate the land.
Now, this clear and practical idea of setting the river's flow to ensure society's prosperity, will have opposition!..
Wholesale Corpratism.
The economic chaos exploiting retreaters like trump, brexit and le pen and all the rest who offer an autocratic brute and shallow civil war inducing realization of national ego, encouraging their supporters to revel in their suppressed fears, envy and hate and misplace their blame against blind caricatures of each other.
In the USA this new great so called 'Economic Nationalism' has instead, shown itself to be a brazen advancement into Wholesale Corpratism. After waiting 100 days trump reveals the real deal is for huge corporate tax cuts. To go along with his dismantling of the rest of the people's society. Maybe this might attract a few corporate pharaohs to return to USA and have cheap pyramids built in their honour for low wages. Thats 'Jobs' get ready for a 'great nation' of worthless corporate slaves, waving empty flags, made to feel satisfied and empowered instead by a colosseum of cruelties to weaker minorities living among them.
A nation is all its people. Their is nothing nationalist about trump, the corporations he is appointing to run the nation will not be obliged, or even be asked to give a better deal in wages, and obviously not in tax. Their new deal is a sellout future, of humiliations not national pride and dignity, a betrayal of what the true wealth of a nation, its people, could have and deserve by their honest work and life.
The same is true for brexit, le pen and the rest who offer the hype of solution by this glorious retreat from the world community of possibility, thru' a xenophobic nationalist charade. It is only by the regaining of corporate tax and fair wages thru' international agreements of universal tax and wage minimums that our social austerity and the race to the bottom can be reversed. Only by international unity not retreat that 'a good deal' can be realized and a future thats 'great' can be founded.
But this wholesale corpratism that calls itself nationalist, wont be the only obstacle against a practical solution to our austerity. An international agreement for Universal Minimums in fair and decent Wages, Taxes and Environmental protection will also be fiercely condemned, ridiculed and scorned as a most unrealistic impertinence by the establishments of so called Centrists who have led us to this underfunded low corporate tax and wage social austerity crunch.
Centrists
They call themselves Centrists as if their way is not an ideology, not a left or a right or even an opinion but simply our now and forever truth! They believe most righteously their market worshiping ideologies rise to power was 'the end of history'.
They 'Follow the Market' and so like the days when a pro aristocracy Catholic Church would not allow peasants to change their fates and given stations in life as it was God's will, the pro corporate market Centrists wont allow us to fix how our wage and tax river's work as it is the Market's will! As if we are all apart from our world, consumers, passengers, grazers to be harvested, dumb spectators not actors in our own lives, for as they say Our history has ended!
We have been, sleepwalking on this ideology, worshipping only the will and values of business profit, our art and soul's voice is seen as redundant and unemployed to this rat race. All the unique consciousness of our individual multitudes and whatever the willful votes of our democracies, are but useless arguments to this generalized and disinterested dark age. We fear the occult of ratings agencies, whose mysteriously augured predictions can devalue a nation's earned savings and perceived wealth overnight. The stock exchange doesn't invest in new business, it disinvests and plunders the works of our real economy. Its a fantasyland through which 'financial wizards' can cast spells to profit off our real world lives.
The established centrists have enabled the rise to power of these unelected corporate kings and their insidious access all areas corporate lobbyists. We experience the low tax low wage social desertification of austerity, because their great wealth is not been obliged to pay its fair share. But now inevitably from these repeating economic crashes there is, a growing inescapable conscious resolve in people, people know it and want to vote for a real change from it, where corporate wealth is made pay its fair due share back in like everyone else.
The End of trump?
Medieval serfdom, like the early American colonists wished to leave behind them in Europe, is trump's new budget 'for american greatness' a plan for 'unleashing peoples dreams' by taking all the money still left in their society and squandering it to an even greater murdering waste of war industry, xenophobia blood sports and more cherries to the cakes of his rich corporate barons, Excelsior! Born in money and contempt with his characteristic golden head top, trump has been richly empowered all his life, he has no experience of how ordinary people live in the society he is gutting. When people are at their worst fates, sick or dying it is money and the burden of cost to loved ones they must worry about first not their health and life. His huge health cuts on the poor and middle incomes are a war against our humanity, trump accelerates us into a growing world of insincere tokenistic capitalist rations, of a nation with semi or no state responsibility for its people, instead of a great society that takes care of its human values whatever they cost.
He appoints wholesale corporate wealth to control every state department, its full speed ahead for global environmental collapse, he's at war with the courts and rightly they're stoping him, he now talks of whistle blowers and freedom of speech on our internet as 'deeply troubling', he visits cruel dictatorships to congratulate them, he launches elective missile strikes against undeclared enemies while having 'really delicious chocolate cake', he boasts with pride of deporting and crushing good peoples lives he brands criminal, he green lights police to murder who they like he's got their back, he snorts inhumanities like cocaine, wanting more and more. This ugly showman's brand, is committed to the constant inflation of an ever expanding balloon, a wind bag of outrageous shock and awe reversals of our human rights, hopefully if he doesn't kill us all first, trump and all who sail in him are going to finally explode that balloon with 'the Biggest Ego Meltdown in the World's History of Losers' as he himself might tweet and twitter it!
The scary Spectre and in deed the true danger of the trump, may be enough of a nightmare to drive and deliver the mass protests of people's popular progressive anger and hopes, which where originally against social austerity, back again with relief into the arms of the failed Centrists. Even though they remain un changed in their, pro corporate low wage and tax ideology, that bankrupts society and led to the austerity that led to trump. But doctor's logic says no, we need a practical and real change to refund society, not just another pro elite Centrist to save us from terrible trump, who will promise, and get corporations to agree, to smile more again!
A Return to Extreme Centrist Failure?
So we need a real change of the fundamental problem, not just enough to seem progressive and decent. We must change the international race to the bottom or we have changed nothing. Most centrist politicians may now be clever enough to show they 'feel the pain' but put forward no real idea for change. They will likely not prefer to reflect, grasp, and believe in popular progressive demands to come together and agree, to shape a better economic river. They will say, that if we dare change the river, that it will dry up and all hell will collapse upon us. They heckle us to fear our common sense, because to their extreme market ideology all change is infantile. They believe private profits growth must come before people, because 'it raises all boats with it'. But instead we have crash after crash with rich bailouts and social austerity and repeat. Now, like the fantastic propaganda of a dying regime the unchanging Centrists incredibly proclaim we are growing prosperous again, we hear this as most experience a continued race to the bottom. If we cant effectively oblige corporations to pay back good tax and wages, then no matter their growing prosperity of record profits, it does not matter and count as our prosperity!
Desperate to hold to power and relevance Centrists wish to fight back, so conveniently they equate and deride all ideas and voices for change, as the same mad threat to peoples 'stability and future'. They attack the humanitarian popularity of the socially progressive Left, and like to merge the Left with the real threat of the Far Right, when they slyly try declare them both to be the 'Extremes' of this new and 'Dangerous Populism'. I can understand what is been meant by 'Populism', but it is an often and easily misused term to slander all change to the established status quo and it is misleading term to diagnose the irrational and divisive envy, fear and hate the Far Right wishes to trigger and unleash in people to gain their support. Why not call out xenophobia and other dangers by their name and not call them a term that presumes them naturally popular? The Centrists never want to debate their hollow hype, they just repeatedly sum it up for people like we're children in what are certainly populist mantras of 'Stability, Security' ect. By branding the danger 'populism' they imply our democratic popular vote itself is a danger, a danger that might let us finally not vote for them!
Democracy is the awoken popular will of people, that each time takes a chance that hopes to change our society, for the better or what may be worse depending on what choice the money in politics and news media allows us to chose from. It is Centrist's stagnant denial in the face of their chronic failure, that is neither a stability or responsibility. What we do or allow is what we will become. By being pro corporate profits for so long, it is the Centrists who have created this dangerously low corporate tax and wage social austerity, and our inevitable race to the bottom, competing in all our indignity of nations, for ever smaller, shaved scraps.
A Race to the Top?
The river is made of our lives and labour, we will not dry up as long as we live, this great living river on which we all trade lives thru' we the people! So if we set its tax and wage minimums to healthy water levels world wide, corporations will have to just, get on with it.
But these world wide minimums are really a good progressive and stable idea for everyone, because it means corporate and all other business will no longer need to hop nations to compete against others who do. They will in fact more likely now need to compete by offering better more useful products to the market.
Also thru' this changed dynamic business will have to offer higher wages to attract their workers from other businesses. A calmer competition can begin, a race to the top instead, for the work of people and society! If we are confident and hopeful and remember the river and the market is us, we can reverse the destructively competitive dynamic that has reduced us all. Why not, we have democracy and the numbers, we also have a growing international consciousness, thru' which we find and echo our common causes, cheap travel and migrants and refugees bring fresh perspectives and experiences, a new wider unity, also made more easily possible thru' our cheap open internet, we must keep it open!
Lets follow nature's eternal optimism through which we where born, when we seek to regenerate our economic priority a have a happy re birth of our societies central value. We can have a new Renaissance!
Cuchulainn Is Not Dead! - www.flickr.com/photos/antoniocarty/30939692460/in/datepos...
Competition and Evolution.
There is positive competition that drives business to make better products people want. Competition to test and decipher objective truth is what progresses science. In arts there is a subjective competition within each heart and mind to better echo and enlighten our existence. In every person's life, there is competition against the time we get to live, that drives us to better realize ourselves and be true to our communication of that with those we must oppose and those we love. Our societies hope to win an empathetic competition against injustice, that seeks better more equal laws ect. Much competition is a good positive drive for a better quality to our evolution.
But a harmful competition, that reduces our societies' welfare, environment and growth, a competition that pits us all against each other in a race to the bottom, is an evolutionary death.
International corporate business is locked in a ruthless competition to maximize profit that has no boundaries. Environment, social funding and wages are dissolving to increase their competing race for profits. We must regain control now, using our available national democracies and getting them to unite internationally to mutually agree on more healthy global corporate tax and wage minimums, to end the extreme 'race to the bottom' destabilization caused by corporations cut and running from dependent nations, so as to better compete against each other and keep more and more profit. But if business has to pay the same where ever it goes then it and we are free of this unlimited competing for private accumulation, a calmer competition can be worked, bounded by equal global healthy minimums of wages and taxes, a non destructive competition who's profits are more fairly shared back to serve society, workers and our environment's survival.
Money Usurps Democracy.
Legally allowing large money donations to politicians, clearly ends an open participation in democracy, for anyone but the rich. We can end donations and instead use the new fairer taxes, to also fund political participants according to their current level of votes. New candidates can get a quota of signatures of citizen support to secure their initial funding before first election. Bring politics back to the people's table!
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Car wreckage and a £50,000 pint come to Manchester
People in Manchester were be exposed to two very different consequences of drink driving by Greater Manchester Police this week. The wreckage of a car whose owner was killed in drink driving crash went on display at the University of Manchester, alongside a pint worth £50,000 – the personal financial cost of a conviction.
The £50,000 pint, displayed behind velvet ropes and housed in a protective glass case, represents the personal financial cost of drink-driving, calculated for the first time by the Institute of Advanced Motorists. The calculation reflects the fines, legal costs, rise in insurance premiums and possible job losses faced by those who are convicted.
The wreckage, known as the Think! Car, was owned by a 21-year-old man who lost control of his car on his way home and hit a tree, sadly killing him.
The activity was part of the University ‘Wellbeing Week’ and involved police conducting on the spot breathalyser tests and handing out free ‘scratchcards’, as well as activity highlighting the dangers posed to cyclists and bikers straying into the blind spots of HGVs and buses.
Inspector Matt Bailey-Smith from Greater Manchester Police said: "Drink driving ruins lives. It can cost motorists their family, job and worse still their life or that of somebody else.
"Many people do not think of the consequences of driving under the influence of alcohol until it is too late and police are committed to tackling this issue so that we can make the roads of Greater Manchester a safer place to be.
"If you are planning on driving then the safest choice you can make is to avoid alcohol all together, and if you see somebody else attempting to drink and drive then make sure you stop them. It could be the difference between life and death."
Road Safety Minister Stephen Hammond said:
“It might only look like a humble pint of beer, but it could end up costing much more than a few quid – in fact it comes with an eye-watering hidden cost if it pushes you over the limit.
“Most people know not to drink and drive but a small number still do, which is why we are highlighting the consequences of a drink drive conviction through our THINK! campaign.
“Anyone thinking of drinking and driving should be without any doubt – if you are caught driving over the limit you will face a heavy court fine and lose your licence – you could even go to prison.”
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
We've been having a lot of storms in the area lately. The consequence of this is a lot of green grass, some lightning damage, and some of the most breathtaking skies you will ever see! This was the scene across the street from my house the other night; quite marvelous!
My company held the Labor Day sale over, so I expect there might still be some traffic this week. We're all recovering from getting slammed Monday, and working 50+ hour weeks with mega stress. My store did okay, but not nearly the earth shattering numbers anyone was hoping for. I FEEL like I hit those numbers, though, as the last day was really busy and Andy and I closed most everyone who came in. It will take about a week or so for me to catch up, at least.
You've probably noticed that most of my shots have been older ones, or ones I've grabbed and been working with for some time. I haven't had time for a decent shoot for a while, hence a lot of P&S photos grabbed on the fly. Even the edits have been down to a dull crawl lately. It should be slower for a little while, and I'll be able to catch up a bit, but right now I'm lucky to have a few moments to even edit a pic! Bear with me, my friends. I'll be back up and running soon!
Design
- One word: Minimalism. I don't know how LEGO did it but they were able to translate the mundane look of a real-world hazard suit and converted it into a well designed toy.
- The helmet, a large one at that, is the showcase of this minifigure. It actually has a clear plastic that shows a fearful face. You'd probably look like this is you're asked to enter the bathroom in one of the Philippines' city jails.
- At the back, it has a beautifully molded tank containing chemicals to contain toxic waste and other hazardous materials.
Paint
- This just needed a few just like naturally beautiful women. :p
Accessories
- A spray gun that can plug into the back of the hazard suit.
Fun Factor
- Ah, the world is full of pollutants. I'm sure he'd find the other minifigures polluting the environment and lecturing them about the poor polar bears, the consequences of smoking, and how annoying it is to see them urinating where a sign plainly says, "Bawala ang umihi dito".
Gripe
- I wish he had two faces, a more serious one, you know, just like Bruce Willis in Armageddon. :)
Score: Despite the gripe, I give this figure a 5/5. Go find one now!
From 22nd June 2013 route 498 was transferred from First's Dagenham Depot to Go-Ahead at nearby Rainham. This is a consequence of First's decision to pull of its Transport for London operations (see below).
Route 498 was recently converted to double-deck to cope with ever-increasing passenger numbers, and is operated with a mixture of Enviro400s and older Dennis Tridents; some of these were transferred to Go-Ahead along with the route. First's Enviro400 DN33565 (which was not one of the three Enviro400s transferred) is seen approaching Romford Station en-route to Brentwood.
Route 498 commenced on Boxing Day 2006, when Transport for London stepped in after First (ironically) withdrew its services between Brentwood and Romford. Awarded temporarily to Arriva, First (even more ironically) won the permanent contract from June 2008.
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First sold its Northumberland Park depot and operations to the Go-Ahead group from March 2012, and it had been rumoured for some time that First was seeking buyers for other parts of its London operations.
However the scale of the sell-off when it was announced on 9th April 2013 took everyone by surprise. As well as the Tower Transit deal, involving 400 vehicles and around 1,500 staff at a cost of £21.3 million, all the outer West London Garages - at Alperton, Greenford, Hayes, Uxbridge and Willesden Junction - would be sold to Metroline. 494 vehicles and around 1,700 employees will transfer in the deal that will cost Comfort DelGro Corporation Ltd, the Singapore-based holding company of which Metroline is a wholly-owned UK subsidiary, £57.5million. Both deals were finalised to take place with effect from 22nd June.
Dagenham Depot was not included in the sale, but from the same date the drivers and vehicles from First Dagenham Depot's routes 193, 368 and 498 were transferred to Go-Ahead at their nearby Rainham Depot. School routes at Dagenham also transferred, but Go-Ahead is using its own vehicles for these.
From 22nd June First will be responsible for just four Transport for London routes (165, 179, 252 and 365 at Dagenham); these are due to transfer to Stagecoach on 28th September (165, 252, 365) or 17th October (179) and First intend to operate these routes until the contracts expire.
Loving you was dumb, dark and cheap
Loving you still takes shots at me
Loving you was sunshine, but then it poured
And I lost so much more than my senses
'Cause loving you had consequences ♫
A federal law pending in Congress since 2009 is the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act. The person convicted would be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Statistic taken from:http://www.justaskgemalto.com/us/surfing/tips/what-consequences-do-cyber-bullies-face
Photo taken from:http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/03/juvenile_life_in_prison_without_parole.html
One consequence of the Queen's passing is that all Royal Warrants which were granted in her name immediately became void, although the coat of arms and legend may continue in use for a period of time. Prince Charles was able to grant Warrants as the Prince of Wales, so will those also now become void, or be retained under that title, or be 'upgraded' in line with his new role as King ? Will some process be undertaken to re-grant the existing ones ? Nobody has had to think about these matters for 70 years, have they ?
I used to make a point of photographing warrants on the sides of coaches whenever I saw them (and remembered to look for them !), but as with most things, I have now fallen behind on the current scene, and only have one of the current holders in my files. D & H Harrod were granted their warrant in 2010, which I think took the place of Carnell's of Sutton Bridge in providing coaches for Sandringham's needs.
The other current holders are Westway Coaches, for London (and presumably Windsor too), and Stagecoach Bluebird Buses for Balmoral. In earlier times, I think London and Windsor were sourced separately, as I seem to recall Charles Rickards holding a warrant at the same time as Carter's of Maidenhead, who I presume were for Windsor.
I may be wrong in some of my recollections, so feel free to correct and enhance if you can. The names of other warrant holders from the past would be nice as well, as a complete list of the privileged few would be good to see. Maybe this is the time for The Kings Ferry to get in on the act ?
A personal consequence of BREXIT?
Haus Lange in Krefeld is an address of pilgrimage for architectural studies and those people interested in Ludwig Mies von der Rohe’s style setting early work. Splendid and ageless architecture and garden environment.
Most recently this building became a new home for BREXIT refugee family that felt no longer welcome in England. Has it really become ‘a home’? If you watch the series of photos I took you might feel shocked as I was when I first lingered thru the stylish rooms. The car was still packed. The door was open… I entered as invited, saw valuable furniture, most goods still in boxes, piles of books. The pantechnicon obviously just left. Also very obvious: The landlady, mother and wife also left and will stay absent: ‘You will never see me again’ written on the mirror. That wasn’t a good sign. I felt sorry.
Then to my utmost horror I found the host floating dead in the pool… A husband, a father: dead! And nobody seems to care!
Even more desperate the boy hiding in the dining room – his distressed body language seems to ask: Can this my home? Where is my mother? Who is my mother? Where are my roots?
You may form your own opinion on this photo story – but being uprooted is the worst prerequisite for a new and positive start. Reasons are manifold. But if it comes to politics as a cause: Think before you vote, choose well whom you elect. It might affect your families’ life, too.
The artists Michael Elgreen and Ingar Dragset make us think with their fictive story and installation of an unhappy start in Haus Lange, Krefeld.
I as a photographer tried to transfer this mood and the atmosphre into 17 picture series ‘Die Zugezogenen’.
Krefeld, February 2017
Thomas Kopf
Berlin boasts two zoological gardens, a consequence of decades of political and administrative division of the city. The older one, called Zoo Berlin, founded in 1844, is situated in what is now called "City West". It is the most species-rich zoo worldwide. The other one, called Tierpark Berlin ("Animal Park"), was established on the long abandoned premises of Friedrichsfelde Palace Park in the eastern borough of Lichtenberg, in 1954. Covering 160 ha, it is the largest landcape zoo in Europe. And honouring its past as landscape park, it still has large gardened areas.
When I drew open the curtains this morning, this guy was practically in my face.
Whether or not one believes in symbolism, I found the following documentary fascinating,
because it truly hits upon some very poignant issues which have been haunting me for a year.
Hawk Spirit: meaning, symbols and totem
"Hawk totem people aim to initiate and lead, and may be impulsive from time to time.
One of the greatest gifts a Hawk totem person can give the world is their visions of a better and brighter future. Visionaries are always ahead of their time and it’s not easy seeing what other totem animal people are not ready to see.
If you are a Hawk spirit animal yourself, understand that this Spirit animal can give you a special task to hold the energy of what could be, of potentials that are waiting to be envisioned. Seek out other people who can support you in your life and never allow others to cause you to lose sight of what is really important to you.
Hawk totem people have their own unique challenges in life. As messengers, Hawk spirit animal must share their insight with others. Sometimes the messages may not be what the other person really wants to hear and yet the Hawk totem feels duty bound to relay the message, no matter the consequences.
It is important however that Hawk totem people do be aware of how they are presenting the messages they receive. They need more than many others to try and deliver the messages as gently as they can, only becoming more forceful if their inner spirit guidance absolutely says it is needed.
Sometimes simply thinking through for a time what needs to be said can help Hawk animal people find just the right words to use that will make all the difference and in this they should be encouraged to take their time and soar above for a while before speaking their truth.
Hawk totem people, like many who carry strong predator animal totems, may be shunned by others who sense and fear their inner power. Others may sense that this is a person who can see straight through them and as many people think in terms of judging things as being good or bad, they are afraid that the Hawk spirit will see who they “really” are and so they strike first in an attempt to keep the Hawk animal at bay. Hawk totem needs to learn how to veil their energy spirit somewhat, not as an attempt to deceive others but to allow people to get to know them and understand that Hawk Spirit has no interest in judging others. Often these people have seen so much of the best and worst in life that they find they have no need to judge.
Some Hawk spirit animal people may have a tendency, because of their vast ability to see clear through to the heart of things, to become an arrogant totem animal symbol. This should be avoided because it keeps them earthbound and causes interpersonal conflicts! This can start as confusion on the part of the Hawk totem person who cannot understand why others seem less aware of the larger picture and their own issues.
It is important that people with the Hawk totem understand that others are not as well developed yet in these areas and avoid blurting out what they see and know without thinking of how it may impact another person."
note: the author is not identified, but I have included a link above.
“Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? / Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? / She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.” Job 39:26
The quadruplet 'Sisters of Destruction' are immortal nymphs who fed on human flesh, namely young men. They would seduce, kill and then consume weary travelers. For their acts they were in time punished by the powers that be and sentenced to control each of the four seasons for eternity. Their anger towards their punishers and their sentence explains the sometimes unpredictable weather patterns and natural disasters we see today.
Core characters based off the same girl. Full design is a repeating pattern but not currently for sale on any products. These will also be part of a promotional wallpack for my new website, coming soon!
Did you ever thought about the consequence while you were being an underdog when playing the blame game?. You didn’t stay with me when I needed you. Always saying “it’d be safer to hate her than love her...” to your friends. Me? I just wanted to take your breath away. Now all we are supposed to have is this liquid confidence that is hard to swallow. No more contagious chemistry. Do you know something? There’s no such thing as accidental infidelity. Look at my trophy eyes now; they are not waiting for the fireworks anymore.
HOLD ME DONW - YOU ME AT SIX
I was bored and I wrote this story using the twelve tracks names. Maybe a good inspiration but didn't do a good job.