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October 13-17, 2012
SSIR Living a Life of Consequence students learning about social movements in the downtown eastside of Vancouver
QuoteoftheDay 'One who is worried about the consequences cannot love.' - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
This is a picture from my stay at Riverbend Hot Springs in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
You can read more about my visit to the resort at the link.
BEIJING - launch of the Urban Flux magazine which featured the Architecture of Consequence exhibition
This is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life.
We went out here early in the morning and we were first there.
From Wikipedia:
In 1980, artist Lars Vilks began construction of two sculptures, Nimis (Latin for "too much", a structure made of 75 tonnes of driftwood) and Arx (Latin for "fortress", a structure made of stone), in the Kullaberg nature reserve in north-west Skåne, Sweden. The location of the sculptures is difficult to reach, and as a consequence they were not discovered for two years, at which point the local council declared the sculptures to be buildings, the construction of which was forbidden on the nature reserve, and demanded that they should be dismantled and removed.
In Slavutych, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena paid tribute to the Ukrainians who eliminated the consequences of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident.
“38 years ago, the Chornobyl disaster occurred. A radiation accident whose consequences went far beyond Ukraine, and even our entire Europe. The world felt that disaster. But still, it was localized. People stood up to defend life and fulfilled their duty,” the Head of the State said.
The memory of heroes — liquidators of the Chornobyl disaster was honored with a minute of silence.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked everyone who protected lives 38 years ago and presented the Orders of Merit of the third class and the Orders “For Courage” of the third class to Chornobyl NPP employees and liquidators of the accident.
The President expressed his respect to all the people in Slavutych for saving us all then and helping Ukraine in the spring of 2022, during the full-scale Russian invasion.
“Slavutych did not submit to the occupiers. It showed its temper. It fought. It defended itself. And we all saw you right here on this square. We also saw the heroism of those of our people who worked shifts at the station during the Russian occupation. People saved Ukraine in 2022, and it is only people, our entire nation, that will defeat Putin. No evil can stand against brave people who do everything to protect life,” he noted.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also talked to the residents of Slavutych, including the relatives of the captured National Guardsmen, who appealed to the Head of State to return the Chornobyl NPP defenders home.
“We will definitely return everything. Not only our territory, but first of all our people, all our POWs: both military and civilians, warriors of both our Armed Forces and our National Guard. We remember everyone. We will definitely do it,” the President assured.
In Slavutych, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena paid tribute to the Ukrainians who eliminated the consequences of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident.
“38 years ago, the Chornobyl disaster occurred. A radiation accident whose consequences went far beyond Ukraine, and even our entire Europe. The world felt that disaster. But still, it was localized. People stood up to defend life and fulfilled their duty,” the Head of the State said.
The memory of heroes — liquidators of the Chornobyl disaster was honored with a minute of silence.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked everyone who protected lives 38 years ago and presented the Orders of Merit of the third class and the Orders “For Courage” of the third class to Chornobyl NPP employees and liquidators of the accident.
The President expressed his respect to all the people in Slavutych for saving us all then and helping Ukraine in the spring of 2022, during the full-scale Russian invasion.
“Slavutych did not submit to the occupiers. It showed its temper. It fought. It defended itself. And we all saw you right here on this square. We also saw the heroism of those of our people who worked shifts at the station during the Russian occupation. People saved Ukraine in 2022, and it is only people, our entire nation, that will defeat Putin. No evil can stand against brave people who do everything to protect life,” he noted.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy also talked to the residents of Slavutych, including the relatives of the captured National Guardsmen, who appealed to the Head of State to return the Chornobyl NPP defenders home.
“We will definitely return everything. Not only our territory, but first of all our people, all our POWs: both military and civilians, warriors of both our Armed Forces and our National Guard. We remember everyone. We will definitely do it,” the President assured.
The Postcard
A cropped Paragon Series postcard that was published by A. H. & S. These initials stand for Abel Heywood & Sons of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.
The card was posted in Margate using a 2d. stamp on Thursday the 7th. September 1950. It was sent to:
Mrs. Aston,
10, Markhouse Avenue,
Walthamstow,
London E17.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Cliftonville - Thursday.
Dear Nana,
Just a card to let you
know that we are still
enjoying our holiday
but it is going far too
quickly.
The weather has been
lovely, but today it is
rather grey. However
we are hoping for the
best.
We are going to
Broadstairs today for
the ride, & we think it
is more sheltered.
Valerie is still enjoying
the sea & sands.
Cheers & love from
Ivy & Walter."
Cliftonville
Cliftonville is a coastal area of the town of Margate, situated to the east of the main town. It contains the area known as Palm Bay.
The original Palm Bay estate was built in the 1930's as a number of large, wide avenues with detached and semi-detached houses with driveways, garages and gardens. This land was sold by Mr Sidney Simon Van Den Bergh to the Palm Bay Estate Co. on the 23rd. June 1924. Such avenues include Gloucester Avenue and Leicester Avenue.
East Cliftonville
The Palm Bay estate covers the eastern part of Cliftonville, and was fields before the first avenue was built. It extends east beyond Northumberland Avenue and has been developed in phases. The later phase extending eastwards of Princess Margaret Avenue is a modern-style housing estate with small houses largely identical in appearance and of less substantial build quality than the original 1930's estate.
The eastward expansion of Cliftonville has included much of the former parish of Northdown, including Northdown Park and House.
West Cliftonville
West Cliftonville was originally developed as the up-market alternative to bustling Margate, and had many small private hotels and guest houses with outstanding Victorian architecture which catered for the many visitors to what was in the first half of the 20th. century a thriving holiday resort.
Many of the large hotels have been converted into one bed flats; this has brought about positive action from Thanet District Council which introduced selective licensing, ensuring that quality home improvements are maintained by landlords (2006) and restricting planning permission for one bedroom flats (2007).
Cliftonville now has many of its streets protected by conservation area orders. The seafront area once included many large hotels, including at one time a large Butlins complex. Some fantastic hotels remain, e.g. Smiths Court Hotel overlooking the sea, and The Walpole Bay Hotel.
Tourism and visitor numbers have increased in Cliftonville (2018) with the addition of newly opened bed and breakfasts changing the Cliftonville landscape. Northdown Road and Cliff Terrace have also had a resurgence, with many trendy and hip businesses opening up.
The Oval Bandstand and lawns run by community group GRASS Cliftonville bring an opportunity to bring community engagement to Cliftonville, and they host a monthly award-winning farmers' market on the last Sunday of every month.
During the summer there are a number of activities and events, including musical shows. The Tom Thumb Theatre brings a host of music events and theatre to Cliftonville.
Writing and Poetry
During the first half of the 20th. century, Cliftonville was considered the fashionable hotel quarter of Margate. It was during the autumn of 1921 that T. S. Eliot spent a period of convalescence at the Albermarle Hotel. His widow has confirmed that he found inspiration for, and wrote significant sections of 'The Waste Land' in the Grade II listed Nayland Rock promenade shelter.
The spirit of early 20th. century Margate and Cliftonville was caught by John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) in his poem "Margate 1940":
Margate 1940
From out The Queen's Highcliffe for weeks at a stretch
I watched how the mower evaded the vetch,
So that over the putting-course rashes were seen
Of pink and of yellow among the burnt green.
How restful to putt, when the strains of a band
Announced a thé dansant was on at The Grand,
While over the privet, comminglingly clear,
I heard lesser Co-Optimists down by the pier.
How lightly municipal, meltingly tarr'd,
Were the walks through the lawns by the Queen's Promenade
As soft over Cliftonville languished the light
Down Harold Road, Norfolk Road, into the night.
Oh! then what a pleasure to see the ground floor
With tables for two laid as tables for four,
And bottles of sauce and Kia-Ora and squash
Awaiting their owners who'd gone up to wash -
Who had gone up to wash the ozone from their skins
The sand from their legs and the rock from their chins,
To prepare for an evening of dancing and cards
And forget the sea-breeze on the dry promenades.
From third floor and fourth floor the children looked down
Upon ribbons of light in the salt-scented town;
And drowning the trams roared the sound of the sea
As it washed in the shingle the scraps of their tea.
Beside The Queen's Highcliffe now rank grows the vetch,
Now dark is the terrace, a storm-battered stretch;
And I think, as the fairy-lit sights I recall,
It is those we are fighting for, foremost of all.
We know from Betjeman's letters that he visited Margate in 1929 while staying at nearby Birchington with his convalescing employer.
This visit alone would have been sufficient to acquaint him with Margate's pre-war gaiety, the innocent pleasures it offered as a family seaside resort, as well as the more upmarket pretensions of its eastern extension, Cliftonville.
There were probably subsequent visits, one of which must have taken place in the early years of the second World War, as recorded in the poem 'Margate, 1940'.
The evocation of the resort's former glories poignantly conjures up, by contrast, the neglected, bomb-battered desolation it had become.
Note: 'Vetch' is a climbing plant in the pea/legume family. It produces small, pealike flowers (often blue, purple, yellow, or white). It grows quickly and is highly valued in farming for forage (animal feed) and as green manure. Like other legumes, vetches host bacteria on their roots that take nitrogen from the air and convert it into a natural fertilizer, thereby improving soil health.
Cliftonville Lido
The cream coloured Art Deco complex with its porthole windows, bright red roof tiles and four-sided ‘Lido’ beacon has been closed for over 30 years. The swimming pool is now filled with sand.
The lido was built by John Henry Iles, the creator of Dreamland - Margate’s celebrated pleasure park - and was a vibrant part of the town right up until the 1970's, when it was last used as a disco. The swimming pool (where artist Tracey Emin learnt to swim) was finally shut in the 1980's.
The Clifton Baths were listed in 2008 due to their importance in British seaside history - they were one of the earliest surviving sea bathing establishments in the country.
Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard was born in Cliftonville on the 29th. September 1913.
More on Trevor below.
September 7, 1950 (Thursday)
The Birth of the Nikkei
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 7th. September 1950, the Nikkei 225 index, a measure of stock price rises and falls on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, was introduced.
The Arrest of Qian Xuesen
Also on that day, Qian Xuesen, a Chinese-born professor at Caltech and one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
This occurred a few days before he was scheduled to travel to the People's Republic of China to visit his sick father. Earlier in the year, his security clearance had been revoked when his name appeared in a document of the Communist Party USA.
The United States Customs Service searched his luggage and found technical papers that appeared to have been accumulated from his work in aircraft and missile design.
Qian was returned to Communist China in 1955 as part of an exchange of prisoners of war, and went on to found China's ballistic missile program.
Ernest Hemingway
Also on the 7th. September 1950, the first fiction by Ernest Hemingway, in more than a decade, was seen with the publication of Across the River.
Truth or Consequences
Also on that day, the game show Truth or Consequences made its debut on the CBS television network at 10:00 pm Eastern Time, after having been a successful radio program.
Truth or Consequences (affectionately known as "T or C") is also a quirky, laid-back city in southwestern New Mexico which is famous for its natural geothermal hot springs.
Originally founded as "Hot Springs," the city made national headlines in March 1950 by legally changing its name to Truth or Consequences. It was an audacious publicity stunt after the host of the popular NBC radio quiz show of the same name, Ralph Edwards, promised to broadcast the program from any town that re-named itself to match the show.
Australia's Greatest Conman
The 7th. September 1950 also marked the birth of Johann Friedrich Hohenberger, in Munich, West Germany.
He became known as John Friedrich, Australia's greatest conman. He committed suicide in 1991.
More on John below.
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The winds today were ferocious (by California standards). Tons of leaves and broken branches strewn about. This is near the Mountain View library.
This is photo #56 in my Project 365 series.
the cover for the culture jam/rock LP called: "Karl Rove: Courage and Consequence" a musical response to Karl Rove's memoir
Truth or Consequences New Mexico small old west NM town in the Desert 2010 Buildings Roads Signs distress T or C Hot Springs
Un avion de tourisme tombé dans les vignes de Rochegude en juillet 2011. Aucun blessé.
Surprenant comme l'histoire se répète parfois... le dimanche 14 février 1932.... Mr Langlois Berthelot, agriculteur à Tourville près de Pont-Audmer, a été contraint de poser son avion de tourisme, vers 16 heures, par suite d'une panne d'essence, à Rochegude....Drôme.
Source info : Le Réveil du Tricastin et de Pierrelatte édition du jeudi 18 février 1932.
Truth or Consequences New Mexico small old west NM town in the Desert 2010 Buildings Roads Signs distress T or C Hot Springs
She knew the consequences. She knew what was at stake. She knew what people said. They said she was crazy, not right in the mind. She was starting to think that maybe they had been right all along. But what they said about her just gave her more motivation.
Fire. That’s how they would remember her. That’s how they would thank her later (And there would definitely be a “later” for her and all of them).
So she ignited the flame, standing at the top of the highest cliff. She laughed as loud as she could, shrilly, almost like a scream at the top of her lungs. Watching it burn, hearing the screams, smelling the smoke, feeling the energy and life of the fire; yet she was still close enough to taste the salty air of the ocean, to breathe it in.
The smoky air, the engery, the vibrance of that fire enveloped her. Her last breath.
But she still stood there. A ghost. A smile on her face, knowing that she had done it. That this was truly The Anthem of Our Dying Day. <3
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This was the story I wanted to tell in Photography when asked about my final photo for the semester. The words on the image are lyrics from “Anthem of Our Dying Day” by Story of the Year.