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City of Truth or Consequences (T or C) Police Department.
Unit 601 2010 Dodge Charger slicktop,
T or C is the county seat of Sierra County, NM.
Photo credit: Unknown from Social Media that I saved a few years ago
Little photo editing by me
Pic date April 2018
Students Face Drinking Driving Consequences Head on
Photos Duane Burnett
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Accidents involving youth are often
some of the most tragic events paramedics,
police and fire crews attend. On
Monday, April 28, paramedics with the
BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) joined
Sunshine Coast RCMP, Sechelt volunteer
fire crews, and ICBC at Chatelech
Secondary School in Sechelt to simulate
a motor vehicle accident involving students.
The exercise was held to demonstrate
the dangers and consequences of
drinking and driving.
“Accidents involving drinking and driving
can have some of the most serious
and most lasting consequences, but they
are often the simplest to prevent,” said
Health Minister George Abbott. “What
the BC Ambulance Service is doing with
its Emergency Service Partners will help
to educate our youth in making good
choices in these situations.”
Over 1,000 students from Gibsons,
Pender Harbour and Sechelt schools
watched the staged scenario where a drunk
driver collided with another vehicle. The
consequences of this mock accident resulted
in one fatality and four seriously
wounded patients. The scenario showed
how easily an accident involving speed
and alcohol could turn into a nightmare.
Photos Duane Burnett
“We want to make the consequences of
drinking and driving as real as possible to
these students,” said BCAS Sechelt Unit
Chief Roger Munn. “Accidents involving
youth are some of the hardest scenes to attend
and if we can prevent any of them by
doing this it will be a great success.”
High School Senior drama students
played the occupants of both vehicles.
To create a situation as close to reality as
possible, a number of distraught parents
were also present. In addition to the mock
crash, a guest speaker who lost the use of
his legs because of a drinking and driving
accident did presentations following the
scenario at both Elphinstone and Chatelech
Secondary Schools.
“I really hope that through this demonstration
students understand how serious
the consequences of drinking and driving
can be,” said Rob Rogers, principal of
Chatelech Secondary. Summer is a time
for celebration and fun for young people;
sadly, the highest rate of motor vehicle accidents
(MVA) involving youth also occurs
during this time. The BCAS attended
an astounding 35,784 MVAs from April
1, 2007 to March 31, 2008.
Written by
Sarah Taylor, Communications Officer,
BC Ambulance Service
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Cyber bullying can result in severe consequences. A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying.
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A 72 y.o. farmer from the village in Borobudur area left without a crop for his family and household
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team with host, Stephanie Piche were at the 5th Annual TorC Film Fiesta.
This year’s TorC Film Fiesta was held from October 22-24, 2021 in Truth or Consequences New Mexico and screened winning feature and short films from the Santa Fe Film Festival and some local films in addition to “Walking with Herb’ a truly New Mexican film from the author of the book to the filmmaker.
The festival also had Anthony Michael Hall, who is a star in the new “Halloween Kills” movie along with a rich history of film and TV work. Three of the films that AMH made with John Hughes, “Weird Science,” “16 Candles,” and “The Breakfast Club” were screened on the opening night of the festival with AMH available for photos, signed merch and a Q&A held after the final film was shown to a grateful audience of fans.
Screenings of films "Walking with Herb," "The Kennedy incident," "Earl biss Doc," Steven Maes "Caffeine & gasoline," Jerry Angelo "Artik," Hafid abdelmoula "Broken GAite," Ruben Pla "The Horror Crowd," Jordyn Aquino "Can't have it both ways," Jordan Livingston "DeLorean: Living the dream," Jeanette Dilone "Rizo," & Two 'Best Of' Shorts screenings
In addition to the screenings, the El Cortex Theatre, was enjoying a grand re-opening after being shuttered for years and the town was thrilled to see the progress of the updates being done for this event.
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Filmmakers were also honored with a filmmaker brunch, a panel by esteemed entertainment lawyer, Harris Tulchan, at Ingo’s Cafe, after parties at the Point Blanc Winery and Glam Camp which also had a fire dancer perform in addition to everyone letting loose and singing Karaoke songs throughout the night.
There was a filmmakers brunch at the Center Gallery and a filmmakers lounge with specialty cocktails during the festival.
In addition to honoring filmmakers, it was a joy to hear that they were excited to see their films on the big screen.
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The consequences of crisis: the eurozone and European strategy
Chair: Sarah Raine, Consulting Senior Fellow for Geo-Economics and Security, IISS
Camille Grand, Director, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
Nick Witney, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Daniela Schwarzer, Director, Europe Program, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Graham Muir, Head of Strategy and Policy, European Defence Agency
Discussant: Ulf Sverdrup, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Hoe komt het dat de levensstandaard in Berlijn hoger is dan in andere steden met hogere salarissen? Is koopkracht een goede indicator van levenskwaliteit? En hoe verhoudt het zich tot ruimtelijke kwaliteit? De Amerikaanse landschapsarchitecte Jessica Bridger presenteerde in het kader van de Jaap Bakema Fellowship de resultaten van haar jaarlange onderzoeksproject Purchasing Power and Spatial Consequences: A 21st Century Mashup. ‘Je kunt veel zeggen over een stad aan de hand van het gekozen plaveisel’. Robert Kloosterman, hoogleraar economische geografie en planning, reageerde in relatie tot zijn eigen onderzoek. |
Why is the quality of life in Berlin so much higher than in other cities with higher salaries? Is purchasing power a good indicator of the quality of life? And how does it relate to spatial quality? The American landscape architect Jessica Bridger presented the results of her year-long Jaap Bakema Fellowship project: Purchasing Power and Spatial Consequences: A 21st Century Mashup. ‘You can tell a lot about a city from the pavement it chose’. Robert Kloosterman, Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, responded in relation to his own research.
Deelnemers | Featuring: Jessica Bridger, Robert Kloosterman & moderator Ole Bouman.
Foto | Photo: Ashley Govers
Truth or Consequences volunteer Fire dept Support-1 - 1994 International/Becker Equipment Utility Truck
Dans l'agglomération d'Agen de nombreux administrés pensent manger sainement en cultivant leur potager mais à chaque fois qu'ils laissent une heure ou deux décanter l'eau de la nappe phréatique dans un arrosoir propre, un film huileux se forme à la surface.
Par leur je-m'en-foutisme et par leur inaction de nombreux entrepreneurs ainsi que les autorités locales sont indéniablement responsables de nombreux cancers.
Il faut mettre les irresponsables qui sont censés gérer l'agglomération d'Agen en prison!
River of Destiny by Barbara Erskine
On the banks of the river Deben in Suffolk lie barns dating back to Anglo Saxon times, within whose walls secrets have lain buried for centuries.
New arrivals Zoe and Ken move into one of the converted barns ready to start a new life away from the hustle and bustle of the city. To the outside world they seem happy, but they are growing ever more distant by the day. Meanwhile the strange presence Zoe feels within their home, and the ghostly shapes she sees through the cloying mists on the river are getting harder to ignore.
Nearby, farmers are ploughing the land beside the river, and human bones are found. Are they linked to the Victorian tragedy the locals whisper about? What is the secret of the grassy mound which has remained untouched across many centuries, but has now been disturbed with seemingly devastating consequences?
The river is ready to reveal its bloody secrets…..
This story jumps through different timelines set in the same area. I found it quite a page turner.
"The papacy inspires the same sentiment like the Roman goddess, Queen of Heaven, and leads its followers to consider Eve's sin in the same way as paganism did. as paganism. In the canon of the Mass, the most solemn service in the Roman
missal, we find the following expression in the apostrophe to the fault of our first parents:
"O beata culpa,quas talem meruisti Redemptorem!"
O blessed fault, which has provided us with such a Redeemer. -
The idea contained in these words is entirely pagan. Here's what they boil down to: "Thanks be to Eve, whose fault whose fault has obtained for us the glorious Savior." -
The idea of a primordial tradition emerged in Germany in the early 19th century as a consequence of the discovery of the great Eastern sacred texts: it enabled the universal claims of the biblical narrative to be transposed by assigning it a common ancestor with India, Persia and China. In fact, his approach remained marked by his Catholic training and the notion of apostolic tradition based on the two sources of truth: the Scriptures and transmission through the chain of the priesthood."This is the great connection between the physical and the and the spiritual, the earthly and the supersensible, which he wanted to present, as well as the way, which the
the path that man must take through his developing cognitive abilities the path that man must take through his developing cognitive abilities if he wants to ascend from the earthly to the spiritual. to the spiritual. This is a question that man must always ask himself. Schiller had presented this problem in his own witty way in the "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man".
This treatise, only little known and studied, is a
treasure trove for the one who sets out to solve this riddle. Goethe was inspired by it to express himself on the same question and he did so in the fairy tale "Green Snake and the beautiful Lily", which he later added to the "Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten" (conversations of German emigrants). The fairy tale "Green Snake and the beautiful lily" shows the development of the human soul to ever higher insight,
All human soul forces can develop, not only the human thinking faculty. All soul forces, also feeling and willing, can penetrate into the objective secrets of the world. But they must learn to
must learn to switch off.
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"In itself, the reality which we now call 'Christian religion' existed even among the ancients, and was present from the beginning of the human race until Christ came in the flesh; and it is in consequence of this coming, that the true religion existing from all time, began to be called Christian."
- Saint Augustine, Retractaciones, I, XII, 3
"My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks, and a temple for idols, and the Kaabah of the pilgrim, and the table of the Thorah and the book of the Qorân. I am the religion of Love, whatever road its camels take; my religion and my faith are the true religion."
Ibn Arabi (Tarjumân al-Ashwâq)
"As far as religions are concerned, only transcendent unity, achieved from above, is valid: the unity that results from the recognition of the One Tradition beyond its various particular and historical forms, the recognition of the constant metaphysical contents that present themselves in various guises - like so many translations into several "languages" - in the world's multiple religions and sacred traditions. The prerequisite, then, is an "esoteric" understanding of what manifests itself in the confusing and sometimes contradictory variety of religions and traditions. Encounter, therefore, can only take place at the top, at the level of elites capable of grasping the inner, transcendent dimension of the various traditions; then unity would automatically follow, and "dialogues" could take place without disturbing the limits proper to each tradition at the level of "base" and external doctrine. But there is nothing of the kind in the recent reformist initiatives that have given rise to "ecumenical euphoria". It's essentially a matter of simple tolerance that more or less renounces dogma."
Julius Evola (1898-1974)
For René Guénon, religious practice in general concerns only the exoteric, essentially social and moral, aspect of the Primordial Tradition. His knowledge is therefore intended to go beyond the religious point of view, without denying it, but assuming it in its entirety19. Epistemologically speaking, for traditionalists, metaphysical knowledge is not simply a matter of reason, but of intellectual intuition, which is supra-rational20. Knowledge of this hidden truth is therefore aimed at "metaphysical realization" through traditional initiatory rites that are distinct from mere religious rites and inaccessible to the majority. Christianity is, however, an exception for Frithjof Schuon and Jean Borella, for whom Christian sacraments are indeed initiatory. Be that as it may, the Traditional Method is in many respects a "method which is the opposite of a method, since it maintains the secrets, the trials". Beyond his rejection of modernity, Guénon rejected the autonomy and primacy of reason, in contradiction to the entire evolution of Western thought since the end of the Middle Ages, in favor of a purely spiritual "intellectual intuition". Such an approach led him to view the entire cosmos as an illusion destined to dissolve into divine unity at the end of time. These choices gave rise to two complementary features essential to the development of his system: 1) the existence of an original revealed datum, which the work of reason had first commented on and then distorted, and which he called "primordial Tradition", long predating Judeo-Christianity; a tradition handed down from master to disciple since the dawn of time; 2) the central role attributed to the forces of evil, the only "motor of history" driving the world into a slow, ineluctable "descent".
The concept of "intellectual intuition" is rather difficult to grasp. Guénon also rejects mysticism. Does this "intellectual intuition" correspond to the spirit of the classical body-soul-spirit triptych (with reason referring to the body and mysticism to the soul)? Things change when we consider, beyond the method of approach, the nature of knowledge: what Guénon calls pure intellectual intuition is immediate access to "Deity", to use Master Eckhardt's language, beyond the revealed God. It refers to that identification with God himself which led the Sufi master al-Hallaj to martyrdom, and to what other great spiritualists, recognized by Guénon himself as esoteric, have called mysticism.
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The Two Babylons, subtitled Romanism and its Origins, is a book that started out as a religious pamphlet published in 1853 by the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland theologian Alexander Hislop (1807–65). Its central theme is the argument that the Catholic Church is the Babylon of the Apocalypse which is described in the Bible.[1] The book delves into the symbolism of the image which is described in the Book of Revelation – the woman with the golden cup – and it also attempts to prove that many of the fundamental practices of the Church of Rome, and its Modus Operandi in general, stem from non-scriptural precedents. It analyzes modern Catholic holidays, including Christmas and Easter, and attempts to trace their roots back to pagan festivals. It also attempts to show that many other accepted doctrines (such as Jesus' crucifixion on a Cross) may not be correct. Hislop provides a detailed comparison of the ancient religion which was established in Babylon (allegedly by the Biblical king Nimrod and his wife, Semiramis) by drawing on a variety of historical and religious sources, in order to show that the modern Papacy and the Catholic Church are the same system as the Babylon that was mentioned by the apostle Paul in the first century (when he commented on the iniquity that was already creeping into the 1st century Christian church and the author of Revelation. Most modern scholars have rejected the book's arguments as erroneous and based on a flawed understanding of the Babylonian religion, but variations of them are accepted among some groups of Christian religious evangelical Protestants. The book was expanded in 1858, going through many editions. A 3rd edition was published in 1862, a 7th in 1871, (thus, a mere six years after the author's death, four successive posthumous editions had already appeared), and a popular edition in 1903.
Description
Hislop builds on the Panbabylonian school of Hyperdiffusionism, which was common in the 19th century, to argue that Classical and Ancient Near Eastern civilization took its inspiration from Babylon. From this he derives the argument that the mystery religions of Late Antiquity were actually offshoots of one ancient religion founded at the Tower of Babel. Panbabylonism has since been relegated to pseudohistory by 20th-century scholars. Much of Hislop's work centers on his association of the legendary Ninus and his semi-historical wife Semiramis with the Biblical Nimrod as her husband and her son, with their incestuous male offspring being Tammuz. Hellenistic histories of the Ancient Near East tended to conflate their faint recollections of the deeds of ancient kings into legendary figures who exerted far more power than any ancient king ever did. In Assyria, they invented an eponymous founder of Nineveh named Ninus, who supposedly ruled 52 years over an empire comparable to the Persian Empire at its greatest extent. Ninus' wife Semiramis was in turn a corruption of the historical figure Shammuramat, regent of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 811 BC.[10] Hislop takes Ninus as a historical figure and associates him with the Biblical figure Nimrod, though he was not the first to do so. The Clementine literature made the association in the 4th Century AD. An influential belief throughout the Middle Ages was that Ninus was the inventor of idolatry,[11] a concept that Hislop clearly drew upon. However, Hislop wrote before the historical records of the ancient near east had been thoroughly decoded and studied, that cast doubt in the decades after he wrote whether there was any such figure as Ninus, and the Greek authors whom he quoted lacked credibility on the subject. The Two Babylons heavily relies on Austen Henry Layard's publications of his excavations at Nineveh, which had only been just discovered in 1851. This gave his work an appearance of being well-researched at the time of its publication. For example, Hislop linked the name of Easter with Astarte, the Phoenician fertility goddess by citing Layard's recent discovery of Astarte's Assyrian name, Ishtar, which Hislop took to be "identical" to Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar.
Relief of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, whose name Hislop incorrectly claimed to be the root behind the English word Easter
Hislop's claim that Easter is derived from Ishtar is rejected by historical linguists and is an example of folk etymology. Philologists derive the word Easter from Old English Ēostre, the name of a West Germanic goddess. Ēostre derives from the Proto-Germanic goddess name *austrōn-, whose name in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European deity and personified dawn *h₂ewsṓs (from the Proto-Indo-European root *aus-, meaning 'to shine' and thus 'dawn, east'). Other dawn goddesses who developed from *h₂ewsṓs include Latin Aurora, Ancient Greek Eos, and Vedic Sanskrit Ushas.[14][15][16] Ishtar, however, is unrelated. Ishtar is a Semitic name of uncertain etymology, possibly taken from the same root as Assyria, or from a semitic word meaning "to irrigate". Hislop ultimately claimed to trace Catholic doctrines back to the worship of Nimrod, asserting that the Catholic Church represented Whore of Babylon of the Book of Revelation and that "the Pope himself is truly and properly the lineal representative of Belshazzar." He claimed that the Christogram IHS, the first three Greek letters in the name of Jesus, represented Latin characters standing for Isis, Horus and Seb.
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In the note by the editor of the 7th edition, which was published in 1871, it was claimed, "that no one, so far as we are aware, has ventured to challenge the accuracy of the historical proofs adduced in support of the startling announcement on the title page." Since then, however, there have been many who have challenged the accuracy of Hislop's claims. For example, Lester L. Grabbe has highlighted the fact that Hislop's entire argument, particularly his association of Ninus with Nimrod, is based on a misunderstanding of historical Babylon and its religion.[4] Grabbe also criticizes Hislop for portraying the mythological queen Semiramis as Nimrod's consort, despite the fact that she is never even mentioned in a single text associated with him, and for portraying her as the "mother of harlots",[4] even though this is not how she is depicted in any of the texts where she is mentioned. In 2011, a critical edition was published. Although Hislop's work is extensively footnoted, some commentators (in particular Ralph Woodrow) have made the assertion that the document contains numerous misconceptions, fabrications, logical fallacies, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, and grave factual errors.
Influence
Some fundamentalist Protestants still regard Hislop's book as proof that the Roman Catholic Church is, in fact, the continuation of the ancient Babylonian religion. In 1921 A. W. Pink confidently asserted that Hislop's work had "proven conclusively that all the idolatrous systems of the nations had their origin in what was founded by that mighty Rebel, the beginning of whose kingdom was Babel."[20] Jehovah's Witnesses' periodical The Watchtower frequently published excerpts from it until the 1980s.[21][better source needed] The book's thesis has also featured prominently in the conspiracy theories of racist groups such as The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord and other fringe groups. Anti-Catholic Evangelical publisher Jack Chick endorsed the book, and his store still offers it. non-primary source needed] A number of Seventh-day Adventists still use The Two Babylons as source material. An example is the somewhat controversial Walter Veith, who still use the conclusions from Hislop's book to support his articles published at the website "Amazing Discoveries". Adventist magazine Spectrum, however, dismisses Veith as a conspiracy theorist. As well, various viral image posts have appeared on the internet, usually in neopagan or atheist spaces, citing Hislop's theory of Easter being etymologically derived from Ishtar, as well as adding in more misleading pieces such as claiming Ishtar's symbols were the "bunny" and the "egg". This view has been echoed by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, who has since redacted the claim.[
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Babylons
This book has been reissued many times. Its first publication was in 1916. The edition I read was printed in 1965. The title has one of those old lengthy subtitles underneath it: “Or, the Papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrod and his wife.” I guess the subtitle about sums it up. The author carefully examines the various elements of Roman Catholicism and concludes in each case that it has its foundation in the ancient religion and practices of old Babylon as opposed to New Testament Christianity. The topics covered include: mitres, robes, candles, rosaries, statues, crosses, fishes, festivals, doctrines, developments and much more. It is pretty comprehensive, at least up until the date when it was written. The book will also go some way to explaining the origins of ‘the gods’ showing that they were founded upon the patriarchs and their deeds. The style of this book is more suited to academics and particularly those who are familiar with classical mythology. Neither of which describes myself and I would have to admit that much of the finer detail went over my head. The book can be made easier to comprehend and considerably shortened by not reading the frequent and lengthy footnotes. Why am I recommending this book? Well, quite simply the subject matter in hand is of such vital importance to God’s children. Many through woeful ignorance have been seduced into thinking that Catholicism is somehow ‘Christian’. This book is something of a standard work when it comes to exposing, not just a few ‘errors’ in Catholicism, but the entire system for what it is really all about. From both history and doctrine Mr Hislop shows overwhelmingly that the origins and practices of this religion are founded upon ancient Babylonian mysticism. Whether it is through this particular book or one of the many others that have been ably written on this subject I think that every one who is a believer in the biblical Gospel should acquaint himself with the facts of what that religion is really all about. There is no inference whatsoever in this book that anyone should have cause to despise catholic people. It focuses purely on the facts of the development of the system and concludes, just as many others do, that God has one specific word to those who are caught up with this ‘Alternative Church’ – “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” In conclusion, this particular book may not be the one for everyone on this subject, but those with a slightly more academic bent will appreciate the carefully researched detail and its presentation.
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Primordial Tradition is Perennialism's idea that a single metaphysical truth intrinsically links all sacred traditions to an original revelation, the cause of which is non-human (divine). This truth, intrinsic to all traditions, constitutes the unique "Universal and Unanimous Tradition "1, which can be discovered through the multiple symbolic, mythical and ritual correspondences shared by the various sacred traditions of mankind.Developing the concept of Perennis Philosophia, the concept of Primordial Tradition has been theorized and problematized in contemporary times by the "School of Tradition "2 . This school is made up of writers, philosophers, anthropologists, historians and essayists from various religious denominations, whose founder and principal representative is the metaphysician René Guénon. For him, Primordial Tradition refers to humanity's oldest tradition, of meta-historical origin, which is "common to all authentic and 'orthodox' traditions, whose traces and signs appear very legibly in the symbols, rites and myths "3 of the various "traditional forms" or observable religions. Primordial Tradition is a concept that refers to the founding myths of mankind's various sacred traditions, such as the earthly paradise of the Bible, the Golden Age of Greco-Roman mythology or the Hindu krita yugaAS 1. Intimately linked to intuitive and intellectual knowledge of the "Ultimate Principle", Primordial Tradition thus designates a state of spiritual being that man lost during the Fall, and which he must regainAS 2 through metaphysical knowledge, both speculative (oral or written teaching) and operative (ritual initiation). The traditionalist imaginary is thus attentive to what each observable orthodox tradition says, and draws from their common account of a golden age the conclusion of a "Revelation, or primitive illumination of human thought". The starting point is therefore that the unity of the Principle of reality, God, is matched by the unity of a primordial revelation, expressed and revealed in the various sacred traditions of mankind. The traditionalist therefore gives equal credence to the accounts of the different "religions" as legitimate testimonies to the same original metaphysical experience. The "Traditional Method" thus endeavours to "discover an essential unity or equivalence of symbols, forms, myths, dogmas and disciplines beyond the varied expressions that the contents may have in the different historical traditions", with the aim of "bringing out the universal character of a symbol or teaching by comparing it with other corresponding symbols belonging to other traditions, in order to establish the presence of something superior and anterior to each of these formulations, different from each other, but nevertheless equivalent". The School of Tradition's approach is therefore not limited to the religious realm, but penetrates what it considers to be its inner, metaphysical aspect. From this perspective, the "synthesis" it intends to make of the various doctrinal expressions is not a "syncretism", as it does not intend to mix rites, symbols or myths, but to draw comparisons between them. Indeed, "Syncretism consists in bringing together, from the outside, elements that are more or less disparate and which, seen in this way, can never really be unified; in short, it's just a kind of eclecticism, with all that eclecticism always entails in terms of fragmentation and incoherence. This is something purely external and superficial; the elements taken from all sides and brought together artificially in this way only ever have the character of borrowings, incapable of being effectively integrated into a doctrine worthy of the name. Synthesis, on the other hand, is essentially performed from within; by this we mean that it properly consists in considering things in the unity of their very principle, in seeing how they derive and depend on this principle, and thus uniting them, or rather becoming aware of their real union, by virtue of a link that is all interior, inherent in what is deepest in their nature."
Hoe komt het dat de levensstandaard in Berlijn hoger is dan in andere steden met hogere salarissen? Is koopkracht een goede indicator van levenskwaliteit? En hoe verhoudt het zich tot ruimtelijke kwaliteit? De Amerikaanse landschapsarchitecte Jessica Bridger presenteerde in het kader van de Jaap Bakema Fellowship de resultaten van haar jaarlange onderzoeksproject Purchasing Power and Spatial Consequences: A 21st Century Mashup. ‘Je kunt veel zeggen over een stad aan de hand van het gekozen plaveisel’. Robert Kloosterman, hoogleraar economische geografie en planning, reageerde in relatie tot zijn eigen onderzoek. |
Why is the quality of life in Berlin so much higher than in other cities with higher salaries? Is purchasing power a good indicator of the quality of life? And how does it relate to spatial quality? The American landscape architect Jessica Bridger presented the results of her year-long Jaap Bakema Fellowship project: Purchasing Power and Spatial Consequences: A 21st Century Mashup. ‘You can tell a lot about a city from the pavement it chose’. Robert Kloosterman, Professor of Economic Geography and Planning, responded in relation to his own research.
Deelnemers | Featuring: Jessica Bridger, Robert Kloosterman & moderator Ole Bouman.
Foto | Photo: Ashley Govers
An example of a typical girl-guy relationship.
featuring Qees from:
Toxic Swamp Series - Red Bear
United States of Qee Series - Alaska Inuit Bear
Once upon a time ago I worked in one place. All territory look like this :)
This photo I made on Sony Ericsson P1i + postproduction.
Palomas Springs. Hot Springs. Truth or Consequences. Take your pick.
"T or C" -- the shorthand name usually used by New Mexicans for the town seen here -- first developed as a small community called Palomas Springs located near a natural hot springs bathhouse. The town was later renamed "Hot Springs" and became a somewhat popular spa-resort along the old Camino Real.
In 1950, the producers of a popular NBC game show called "Truth or Consequences" made a bold offer: If a town officially changed its name to that of the show, the producers would pay for an annual festival (and get some great free publicity). The good folks of Hot Springs, New Mexico took the bait and their community has been named Truth or Consequences ever since.
There have been occasional attempts to change the town's name back to Hot Springs, but the majority of voters have always sided with the status quo. I, too, hope it stays T or C forever.
Kanye West, GLC, and Consequence perform during the G.O.O.D. Music Showcase at Levi's Fader Fort during Day 4 of SXSW 2009 on March 21st, 2009 in Austin, TX
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The palace chapel, as a consequence of the Duke's death, now obtained even greater importance. The design was altered by the Marlboroughs' friend the Earl of Godolphin, who placed the high altar in defiance of religious convention against the west wall, thus allowing the dominating feature to be the Duke's gargantuan tomb and sarcophagus. Commissioned by the Duchess in 1730, it was designed by William Kent, and statues of the Duke and Duchess depicted as Caesar and Caesarina adorn the great sarcophagus. In bas relief at the base of the tomb, the Duchess ordered to be depicted the surrender of Marshal Tallard. However, the theme throughout the palace of honouring the Duke did not reach its apotheosis until the dowager duchess's death in 1744. Then, the Duke's coffin was returned to Blenheim from its temporary resting place, Westminster Abbey, and husband and wife were interred together and the tomb erected and completed.[15] Now Blenheim had indeed become a pantheon and mausoleum. Successive Dukes and their wives are also interred in the vault beneath the chapel. Other members of family are interred in St. Martin's parish churchyard at Bladon, a short distance from the palace.
This is a modest hommage to the courageous people of Fukushima prefecture. They survived a triple disaster in 2011 and are now, nine years later, still fighting with the consequences. I wish them well in their strugle for their beautiful province and thank them for their kindness during this trip.
Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (14,000 km²), and one of its least densely populated. The prefecture is divided into three main regions: Aizu in the west, Naka dori in the centre and Hama dori in the east. Aizu is mountainous with snowy winters, while the climate in Hama dori is moderated by the Pacific Ocean.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this soundpronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.
The accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.] On detecting the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their fission reactions. Because of the reactor trips and other grid problems, the electricity supply failed, and the reactors' emergency diesel generators automatically started. Critically, they were powering the pumps that circulated coolant through the reactors' cores to remove decay heat, which continues after fission has ceased. The earthquake generated a 14-meter-high tsunami that swept over the plant's seawall and flooded the plant's lower grounds around the Units 1–4 reactor buildings with sea water, filling the basements and knocking out the emergency generators. The resultant loss-of-coolant accidents led to three nuclear meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions, and the release of radioactive contamination in Units 1, 2 and 3 between 12 and 15 March. The spent fuel pool of previously shut-down Reactor 4 increased in temperature on 15 March due to decay heat from newly added spent fuel rods, but did not boil down sufficiently to expose the fuel.
In the days after the accident, radiation released to the atmosphere forced the government to declare an ever larger evacuation zone around the plant, culminating in an evacuation zone with a 20-kilometer radius. All told, some 154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors.
Large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster. Michio Aoyama, a professor of radioisotope geoscience at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, has estimated that 18,000 terabecquerel (TBq) of radioactive caesium 137 were released into the Pacific during the accident, and in 2013, 30 gigabecquerel (GBq) of caesium 137 were still flowing into the ocean every day. The plant's operator has since built new walls along the coast and also created a 1.5-kilometer-long "ice wall" of frozen earth to stop the flow of contaminated water.
While there has been ongoing controversy over the health effects of the disaster, a 2014 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and World Health Organization projected no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident. An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years, plant management estimate.
On 5 July 2012, the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) found that the causes of the accident had been foreseeable, and that the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had failed to meet basic safety requirements such as risk assessment, preparing for containing collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. At a meeting in Vienna three months after the disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted lax oversight by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, saying the ministry faced an inherent conflict of interest as the government agency in charge of both regulating and promoting the nuclear power industry. On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants.
Red Haven Motel
605 North Date Street
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico 87901
Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Cable T.V.;5 miles to Elephant Butte Lake, across street from Catholic Church, Reasonable Rates. BankAmericard and Mastercharge.
The clock that controls the lives of migrating birds (like hummingbirds) pays no attention to what we humans do or when we do it. When it's time to go, it's time to go.
As promised, I stopped feeding the hummingbirds in October. Not because I don't love having them around, but because I do. Even if I were willing to feed them all year long (and I would..), they would only die when it got cold. So actually it would be selfish and cruel to continue feeding them.
The migration is dangerous and tough for these guys, and some won't make it, I'm sure. But that *is* the way of the world, whether we like it or not. And mucking around with the way of the world always, always has "unforeseen consequences"..
Always.
Everything we do has consequences. Some things are more important, others less so. Often, the future doesn’t look too bright. Catastrophes, crises and environmental destruction appear to be looming. A force majeure seems to be in control of our destiny … But is that really the case? Get together with experts in peace, aid and the environment, and develop new images of the future! And then print out your ideas, creatively and artistically, in the THINKING PICASSO art project.
Panelists:
Agnes Aistleitner (u19 Prix-Gewinnerin 2012 / AT), Karl Kumpfmüller (Friedensforscher und Lektor an der Universität Graz / AT), Wolfgang Kromp (Leiter des Instituts für Sicherheits- und Risikowissenschaften an der BOKU Wien / AT), Sophie Schaffner (Jugendrotkreuz / AT), Günter Stummer (Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz, Internationale Katastrophenhilfe / AT), Andreas Urich (Erziehungswissenschafter, Coach / AT). Moderation: Bernhard Fellinger (ORF Ö1 / AT)
credit: Erhard Grünzweil
We have received a good deal of rain the last 48 hours. Over 1" last
night and maybe up to 2" today. Even though we have not had any
significant rainfall since last September we are already overwhelmed
with water. The street outside our place has started flooding. I've
read that various businesses in town are using sandbags ands that two
local highways have been closed.
Wendy and I caught some rain last night and enjoyed a nice soak in
our hot springs this morning while washing our hair with freshly
harvested rain water. We will probably catch 40 gallons of water
today in just 5 gallon buckets. Sadly our 250 gallon tote has a leak
at the bottom that prevented us from filling it last night.