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The effigy of count Friedrich IV of Moers (ca. 1380-1448) shows us a beautiful example of a Western German armour from the late 1440s, early 1450s.
Note the plackart (reinforcement of the kastenbrust breastplate) with flutings, similar to those on the tassets and pauldrons.
The besagews (rondels) on the armpits are identical to those on the couters.
The visored sallet is worn together with a bevor.
Friedrich also wears the knightly collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a title which was bestowed upon him by duke Philip the Good of Burgundy in Lille, Flanders, in 1431.
The effigy has undergone some restoration, i.e. the 'darker' parts.
His lower right arm and gauntlet, a small part on the left of the bottom fauld/tasset, his left poleyn, and parts of the greaves, are all later additions.
Friedrich's effigy is accompanied by that of his son, count Vincenz of Moers (+1499), depicted in a late 15th century gothic armour.
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//What a disaster
William Saunderson-Meyer says the floods just another blow to a province that was already on its knees
KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster to try to cope with the devastating floods of the past week.
This is normally a temporary mechanism of which the primary purpose is to facilitate speedy national government assistance to hard-pressed provincial and local authorities. It also triggers the release of emergency funds from the National Treasury.
But in KZN’s case, they might as well make it permanent. This is a province that has been on its knees for some time and it ain’t getting up any time soon.
After all, KZN hasn’t even staunched the bloodied nose it suffered nine months ago. That’s when one wing of the African National Congress government — the Radical Economic Transformation followers of former president Jacob Zuma — tried to bury the other — the so-called reformists led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
KZN hasn’t even properly tallied the body blows it suffered then. The official estimates for the insurrection were 45,000 businesses affected, R50bn in economic damage, 129,000 jobs lost, and 354 killed.
These estimates are probably on the low side. For example, the number of people who were killed in the mayhem doesn’t include the many whose bodies were simply never found and counted.
And the true economic cost is incalculable. There’s been substantially increased emigration of minorities, cancelled investment, and the loss of international confidence in KZN as a safe tourist destination. In at least a dozen small, country towns, all the business infrastructure was destroyed, paradoxically by the very people who worked and shopped in those buildings.
Now the floods. The death toll is over 300 and still rising. Some 6,000 homes have been destroyed and road, water sewage and electrical infrastructure uprooted. As I write this, roaming mobs are opportunistically plundering container depots, stranded trucks, abandoned homes and vulnerable businesses, reportedly unhindered — as was the case during last year’s riots — by the police and army.
Naturally, no disaster is complete without a scapegoat. Ramaphosa, as is his style, was quick off the mark to finger the culprit — climate change.
“This disaster is part of climate change. It is telling us that climate change is serious, it is here,” Ramaphosa told reporters while inspecting a devastated Durban. “We no longer can postpone what we need to do, and the measures we need to take to deal with climate change.”
What balderdash. Whatever role climate change may or may not have played in the larger scheme of things, it’s nonsense to pin on it responsibility for the plight of KZN. That lies with the ANC government.
First, this was not an unforeseeable bolt from the heavens. The forecasters warned months back that this was likely to be an exceptionally wet summer because of the La Niña weather pattern that occurs every few years.
There are also historical precedents for extreme weather in KZN, which a prudent administration would have taken note of.
In 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina wreaked havoc in a swathe from Mozambique, through Swaziland to KZN. Although the current downpour is worse, the scale is nevertheless in the same ballpark.
This latest storm — as yet unnamed — dumped 450mm of rain on Durban in 48 hours. Domoina let loose 615mm in 24 hours on Swaziland and northern KZN.
But the true difference between those events, 38 years apart, lies in the lack of preparedness on the part of today’s authorities. In 1984 the SA Air Force deployed 25 helicopters to airlift people to safety. In the 2000 Mozambique floods, 17 SAAF helicopters rescued more than 14,000 people.
This time, according to a News24 report, the SA Police Service and the SAAF, combined, have been unable to put a single chopper in the air. The erosion of South Africa’s military means that of the SAAF’s 39 Oryx helicopters, only 17 are serviceable.
Durban-based 15 Squadron has not a single helicopter available for search and rescue — they are reportedly primarily used as VIP transport — but two SAAF choppers supposedly have been despatched from Gqeberha to help. The SAPS airwing has only one serviceable helicopter but “the pilot on duty has been booked off sick”.
Second, throughout the province, local government is also in a state of disaster and unable to do its job. The scale of the KZN impairment can be measured in the flood destruction of homes.
Some 4,000 shanties have been destroyed, many because officialdom was too lax to forbid building on the floodplain and against precariously unstable hillsides. Another 2,000 of the homes swept away were so-called RDP houses, shoddily built during the kickback-and-steal bonanza of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme of the late 1990s.
In Durban, the eThekwini metro is bloated and inert. It carries a rates and services debt of R17bn, of which R1bn is owed by the national government.
Durban is also infamously corrupt. Former mayor Zandile Gumede — along with 21 co-accused — is facing fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges in connection with a R320m municipal tender.
Yet at the weekend, even as the rain was bucketing down, she won the ANC’s regional leadership contest hands-down, despite the party’s supposed “step-aside when accused” rule.
The ANC-aligned Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has no illusions about the party it supports. It issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that unlike the plundering of Covid-19 emergency relief funds, the KZN disaster funds were not stolen or misused.
Fat chance. The ANC has already announced that its parliamentary constituency offices in KZN would become “hubs for humanitarian support” and appealed for the donation of relief supplies. Watch the trousering by the ANC’s public representatives of anything that the public is dumb enough to leave with them.
It’s in KZN where the ANC’s brazen indifference to the law and antipathy towards the Constitution is at its most obvious and most destructive.
On Monday, Zuma's corruption trial once again failed to take off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court when he successfully blocked the process with another round of delaying legal actions. His lawyers also had some carefully threatening words for the judiciary in a separate Supreme Court of Appeal action.
They urged SCA President Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest corruption prosecution challenges. They warned that last year’s deadly July unrest was “in part, traceable to a perceived erroneous and unjust judicial outcome” that put Zuma briefly in prison for contempt of court.
“When such conceived mistakes are committed, the citizens (wrongly) feel entitled to resort to self-help…”
Floods, fires and locusts are devastating but at least happen relatively rarely. The ANC, alas, is a seemingly unending plague.
tiny cross stitch picture I made from this freebie chart talyrasmirror.deviantart.com/art/Hamster-Cupcake-Pattern-... sweet, isn't it:) I think of making a card with it for the breeder I have Fili from(maybe for some more people if I manage to make more of them:)
~TITLE OF ARTWORK~
~ Count Quint Baker ~
ARTWORK CREATED ON: Acid Free Paper
APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8.5" x 11" inches
Media:Acrylics, Watercolors, Pen & Ink
This piece is Signed - Dated & Titled
Artwork Created in July 2009.
There is a real life vampire named Count Quint Baker. He contacted me a couple months back about my art and he lives in New Zealand. I talked to this vampire and he told me that the raise of the vampires is at hand within the next couple years. He told me that I should not be worried and that I should be happy because I was on the list to be turned and not just dinner. In a way I was happy but what about my friends , my fans , my family ? Are they on the " good" list ? I hope so...
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The Tick: Luny Bin #2: To The Rescue! (or "Friday Ad Nauseum")
This was the second of the Luny Bin series if you don't count the preview. It is larger than most comics at 40 pages The ultimate Tick saga with answers to many long-running questions about "the man(?)" known as The Tick! NECP Staff: Bob Polio; NECP Staff: George Suarez; Backup Story: Tak Toyoshima; Backup Story: Gabe Crate; Backup Story: Marc Silva; Concept: Ben Edlund; Creator: Eli Stone eli5stone.wix.com/5stone#!portfolio/c1han; NECP Staff: Dave Snyder
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Houston Texas Sesame Street Live musical ELMOS GREEN THUMB Elmo find a new home for Sunny the sunflower February 8 2009 Bert Big Bird Ernie Oscar the grouch Grover Cookie Monster Zoe Rosita Count Von Count Abby Cadabby Telly Baby Bear Prairie Dawn Grundgetta Honkers
My newest crochet pattern. It was inspired by my sons, who are learning their numbers and counting. They love to take the cookies out of the jar one by one and tell me which number it is.
Disabled activists hold '10,000 Cuts and Counting' memorial outside Parliament - London 27.09.2013
Disability rights activists from DPAC and WOW Petition held a memorial for the more than 10,000 disabled and sick people who died shortly after or during their Work Capability Assessments at the hands of controversial French IT company ATOS, at the behest of the Department for Work and Pensions. The event was led by the Dean of St Pauls Cathedral, Dr David Ison, and human rights campaigner Mohammed Ansar, and took place in front of a carpet of white flowers laid on Parliament Square to represent the tragic victims of the Coalition government's ideological brutality and unutterable cruelty towards the sick, the disabled and the dying.
The various speakers included Michael Meacher MP, John McDonnell MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Ellen Clifford (Inclusion London), Paula Peters (DPAC), Clare Glasman (WinVisible), Ian Jones (WOW Petition), Wayne Beckman (WOW Petition), Ian Chamberlain (WOW Petition), Dr Louise Irvine, Michael Horne and Dickie Upton.
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Even after the disastrous squirrel encounter, Verdie agreed to go for another walk with me. Today's mission was a number hunt.
I'm not doing a 365 project this year, and I suppose I could have used my current 100 Possibilities number, but this seemed like more fun.
WH - What's your number?
100 Possibilities #10-18 (Which amuses me because the picture itself counts up to nine. hehehe)
Monochrome Monday
No, not because I’ve run out of colour tokens, but because black and white film was used for this photograph, which unlike that digital thing all the cool cats use these days, it only gives you the option of B&W, and of course all shades of grey between. Though if you do want colour, grab that set of multi-coloured marker pens you were given as a Christmas present back in 2014 and colour your computer, mobile or tablet screen in. Or print out instead and then colour in, which will probably be better if using a shared computer in the workplace.
And today, Roger Sprocket & Deliberation Dave have been given the job of counting the number of wheels on passing trains. The wheels are only allowed to be counted once, so when there is much shunting, it can get rather confusing especially with 16 ton mineral wagons. It’s not helped today being B&W making the beaten up and rusty light grey and bauxite brown wagons look almost the same - unless you are Nasal Nigel of course.
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#nikonFE #ilfordhp5 #monochrome #35mmnikkor #35mmphotography
The effigy of count Friedrich IV of Moers (ca. 1380-1448) shows us a beautiful example of a Western German armour from the late 1440s, early 1450s.
Note the plackart (reinforcement of the kastenbrust breastplate) with flutings, similar to those on the tassets and pauldrons.
The besagews (rondels) on the armpits are identical to those on the couters.
The visored sallet is worn together with a bevor.
Friedrich also wears the knightly collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a title which was bestowed upon him by duke Philip the Good of Burgundy in Lille, Flanders, in 1431.
The effigy has undergone some restoration, i.e. the 'darker' parts.
His lower right arm and gauntlet, a small part on the left of the bottom fauld/tasset, his left poleyn, and parts of the greaves, are all later additions.
Friedrich's effigy is accompanied by that of his son, count Vincenz of Moers (+1499), depicted in a late 15th century gothic armour.
German students are raising awareness about the need to invest in birth registration – one fingerprint at a time!
The unique initiative calls on people in Germany to lend their support to Plan's Count Every Child work by donating a fingerprint.
Since November, Plan Germany's Youth Advisory Panel and Plan Action Youth Group have been running activities to collect as many prints as possible. The final display will be handed over to the German government as a kind of petition to call for the realisation of universal birth registration within effective, comprehensive and rights based civil registration and vital statistics systems.
I happened upon this sheep drive flowing past me along US Highway 14A through the Bighorn National Forest (where many livestock permits are granted for grazing rights to private individuals and larger operations). Although when I first spotted the activity I it seemed there was no human involved (except for the truck near the top of the hill), there were at least five hard-working dogs assuring the sheep kept moving where they were supposed to.
Men dressed as gladiators mill around the Colosseum in Rome waiting to fleece the unsuspecting tourist...
The Pickering War Weekend is a three-day event, which starts on Friday, commemorates the crucial role Britain’s railways played in the Second World War and provides a taste of life on the Home Front in 1943.
Photographs taken in Goathland which is also known as Aidensfield in YTV’s Heartbeat and as the bewitching Hogsmeade in the first Harry Potter Film.
Go on, admit you didn't know the counting vampire on Sesame Street was named Count von Count. Lots of fun to carve, if a bit delicate.