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dance like there is no one else watching-over you
and fly like you just don't care about this f*cking world... and their bullshit thoughts...
live honey.... just live it....
and be just a little courageous...
Just a little.... :)
This is a fascinating account of a truly courageous woman:
ʻŌhelo (Vaccinium spp.) was considered a sacred plant by the early Hawaiians. No one was to eat any berries without first offering them to Pele, the goddess of fire, lightening, dance, volcanoes, and violence.
With branches of ʻōhelo berries in hand, they would say:
"E Pele, eia ka ʻōhelo 'au; e taumaha aku wau ʻia ʻoe, e ʻai hoʻi au tetahi." (O Pele, here are your ʻōhelo [branches]; I offer some to you, some I also eat.)" Then, they would toss a portion of the branch with berries attached into the crater as an offering to Pele. After which they were allowed to eat some.
In 1823, among the first white people to visit Kīlauea was Reverend William Ellis and his missionary entourage, accompanied by Hawaiians. On the journey, when the missonaries became hungry they ate some ʻōhelo berries and were quickly warned to give some to Pele first before partaking of them. Ellis wrote, "We told them ...that we acknowledged Jehovah as the only divine proprietor of the fruits of this earth, and felt thankful to Him for them, especially in our present circumstances. We traveled on, regretting that the natives should indulge in notions so superstitious."
Following the example of Ellis, in December 1824, the High Chiefess Kapiʻolani (c.1741-1841) set out on a mission from Kona to visit the still active Kīlauea where she would dare Pele to do her worst, even though her husband and others tried to dissaude her. She made the long journey of about one hundred miles mostly by foot with a large company. There she was met by a preistess of Pele threatening her with Pele's displeasure if she continued with her hostile errand, and prophesied that she and her followers would perish miserably. With defiance, she descended into the crater, gathered ʻōhelo berries and ate them without first offering them to Pele, and threw rocks into the crater to insult the goddess. She and her eighty followers went to the edge of Halemaʻumaʻu caldera and addressed her followers: "Jehovah is my God. He kindled these fires. I fear not Pele. If I persih by the anger of Pele, then you may fear the power of Pele; but if I trust in Jehovah, and he should save me from the wrath of Pele, when I break her tabus [taboos], then you must fear and serve the Lord Jehovah. All the gods of Hawaii are vain!" Then they sang hymns.
There was no wrath from Pele. Kapiʻolani and her followers did not succumb to any horrible death as prophesized they surely would.
(Unknown artist. Painting not signed)
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* There are three Hawaiian endemic species of ʻōhelo (Vaccinium calycinum, V. dentatum, V. reticulatum) belonging to the Heath family (Ericaceae).
ʻŌhelo share the same genus (Vaccinium) with delicious edibles as blueberries, huckleberries, bilberries, cranberries, and ligonberries.
Vaccinium calycinum
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Bagnall 2680/1942 ‘Courageous’ heads away from the marina during the Ribble Steam Railway's Spring Steam Gala. 24th March 2018. (Eric Harrison)
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To believe in God and trust in Him! That is what the movie Courageous is about. It’s by chance that I came across this movie, while it doesn’t have Hollywood’s brightest, the acting isn’t bad, what’s more important is the message from this movie. As J. Lin would say, “…to live and play in a God-glorifying way…”. It may be hard sometimes, but it is the way.
* I’ve never had much courage to sit in one of these swing thingies. For one, I could never get it to move, no matter how I nudged or jerked, I’d be as still as the Eiffel Tower on a calm sunny day. More importantly, I was hit by one of these at full swing; right on my jaw, it’s probably what a heavy uppercut feels like. Thank God I was ok; after landing a few feet away from where I was hit.
September 27th 2011
Today I heard the terrible sad new that my Dear Flickr Friend Cat lost her battle with Cancer yesterday...
An incredibly courageous Lady who will be sadly missed by all here that came to know and love her...
My heart and sincerest thoughts go out to her wonderful husband James and adorable son Nathaniel...
Both of whom we are also got to know and love through Cat's wonderful photos!
Ted and I have pulled this out of the archives.... especially for Cat and her family...
'Bench Monday' was one of Cat's wonderful special themes that she shared...
She shared her thoughts... and wonderful photos of her two special Men...
All her photos are an absolute joy and delight...
and express the fun and love she shared with them both...
She was extremely courageous in sharing with us the plight of her illness too.
I will miss Cat... I will miss the wonderful images and thoughts she shared...
I will miss following Nathaniels adventures, her photos and love for him were such a delight to see
My heart goes out to him in the loss of his beautiful Mother.
Please take the time to check out some of Cat's photos in the links above if you haven't already...
Rest in Peace now Sweet Angel... XOXO
Another installation by Patricia Piccinini as part of the Curious Affection exhibition. A little boy on top of a whole pile of stacked chairs.
50032 "Courageous" passes through Bristol Temple Meads with the Ashton Meadows Tunnel Inspection train. 20/7/90.
One of several cabins at the abandoned Chub Lake Resort along State Hwy 1 between Isabella and Ely, Minnesota. I have an old real photo postcard of this cabin from the 1920's.
The resort was owned for years by Bob and Lois Anderson. A family from the Princeton, MN area bought it in 1973.
I haven't been able to find out when or why it eventually closed. My guess is that it was in the late 70's or sometime in the 80's when a lot of mom and pop places were lost to the changing economy and rising gas prices.
Word has it that a couple from the Twin Cities own it now and that they wanted to restore the place, but found out that the cost would be prohibitive. A major issue is that the main lodge was made of poplar logs and some of the bottom ones are rotten. Meanwhile, harsh weather and vandals continue to take their toll. #ONLYinMN
Bagnall 16 inch class 0-6-0ST no 2680 Courageous heading away from the swing bridge with a train for Strand Road.
BR class 50 50032 'Courageous' stands at a wet Birmingham New Street in the mid 1980's and about to join its train to London Paddington
Photo taken with my old Pentax ME Super 35mm film camera and scanned from my original 35mm colour slide
Model: Courageous, MM#438262
Photographer: Sarah, MM#669133
Lighting: Elinchrom Ranger 'A' head with gold reflector into 4x3 softbox camera left at near-full power. Triggered by Skyports.
"Ajeet Singh and the GURIA organisation work to end the trafficking and forced prostitution of women and children in India. He organises protest marches and has carried out raids on the brothels to rescue children.
The pimps and the brothel owners and the police who protect them see him as a threat to their profits.
On March 25th, 2010, a group of people entered the centre and said that they would break the legs and hands of anyone who attempted to continue teaching the children there.
Ajeet Singh was one of the shortlisted nominees for the 2005 Front Line Award, which is given each year to a human rights defender who has shown exceptional courage."
("Courageous souls who risk all to defend human rights", The Irish Times - Friday, December 31, 2010)
This is a picture of Ajeet and Manju Singh with some of the Guria family.
It was shot from the balcony of the small house which belongs to GURIA in Varanasi (Benaras).
Guria is a Human Rights organisation fighting against the sexual exploitation of women and children, particularly those forced into prostitution and trafficking.
Manju and her husband Ajeet Singh are running this non-profit organisation at great personal risk, providing shelter and hope to many children.
They need any kind of help (money, food, toys, clothes,...) in order to carry on their task.
They are facing many difficulties from all those who would like to use those children as a second generation prostitution.
Manju and Ajeet Singh are modern heroes, this is why I decided to upload a few pictures connected to their work.
There are many ways to help and give a kind of support to Guria, this is its website, www.guriaindia.org and you may contact Manju and Ajeet at guriaajeet@rediffmail.com
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The Grampian Courageous was built in 2006 at Balenciaga Shipyard, Spain. The vessel is an IMT 948 Emergency Response and Rescue Vessel.
DIMENSIONS
LOA 48.25 metres
LBP 40.50 metres
Breadth Moulded 11.8 metres
Draft Loaded / Depth 5.65 metres / 7.4 metres
TONNAGE
GRT 1130 Tonnes
NRT 339 Tonnes
DWT 465 Tonnes
CAPACITIES AND CRANES
Fuel Oil (MGO) / Connection 298 m3
Fresh Water / Connection 171 m3
Ballast Water Approx 350 m3
Oil Based Mud / Connection N/A
Brine / Connection N/A
DMA (Base Fluid) / Connection N/A
Dry Bulk(s) / Connection N/A
Deck Area Approx 120 m2 (Steel Deck)
Deck Loading 3 Tonnes per metre2
Deck Crane # 1 Dreggen DKF 40 2T @ 15 metres
Deck Crane # 2 N/A
Deck Crane # 3 N/A
Winch N/A
Wire Reel N/A
Deck Tuggers N/A
ENGINES/THRUSTERS/AUX
Main Engine(s) MAK 2050 BHP
Propeller(s) 1 x CPP
Bow Thruster(s) Schottel Azimuth @ 400BHP
Stern Thruster(s) N/A
Rudder Systems / Type Schilling Fishtail HP Rudder
Aux Engines 2 x Volvo @ 270kW per unit
Shaft PTOs 1 x PTO from Main Engine
Emergency Generators 1 x Emer Genset @ 150 kW
CONTROL SYSTEMS AND DYNAMIC POSITIONING
Control Positions Fwd, Aft, Port & Stbd consoles
Full Manual Control Fwd & Aft consoles
Integrated Joystick Control Schottel Masterstick
Joystick Control Aft, Port and Starboard consoles
RESCUE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE EQUIPMENT
Daughter Craft Davit 2 x Grampian Hydraulics Heave Compensated
Daughter Craft 2 x Delta Phantom 10.25 metre (Diesel)
Fast Rescue Craft Davit # 1 Grampian Hydraulics Heave Compensated
Fast Rescue Craft Avon SR 6.4 15 Man (Petrol)
Dacon Scoop 7 Metre Dacon Scoop
Dacon Rescue Crane Dreggen DKF 40 Knuckle Boom 2t @ 15m
Cosalt Rescue Basket Fitted & Launched from aft deck
Jason Cradles Frames Fitted
Winch Area Located on Aft Main Deck
Emer. Towing Capability Towing Hook Fitted
Dispersant Tanks 2 x 5 Tonne Tanks below Main Deck
Dispersant Spray Booms Fully outfitted Port & Starboard
Searchlights 4 x IBAK Kiel Fwd, Port, Stbd & Aft
NAVIGATION AND COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
Radar(Fwd) 1 x Furuno 2817 ARPA 1 x Furuno 2837 ARPA
Radar Rptr (Aft) Hatteland
ECDIS Micro-Plot ECDIS System
PLB System N/A
DGPS(s) Furuno DGPS 90
Gyro(s) Anschutz S22 Gyro
Autopilot Anschutz NP 60
Magnetic Comp Gillie 2000
Echo Sounder FE 700 ES
Digital Depth Recorder FE 720
Navtex Furuno NX 700 Navtex
Sat Comms Inmarsat C Felcon, Fleet 77 CapSat (A3)
MF/HF Radio Furuno FS 2570 C (A3)
UHF 3 x UHF Units
VHF (Fwd) FM8800 GMDSS VHF, ICOM ICM 401E
VHF (Aft) FM8800 GMDSS VHF, ICOM ICM 401E
Helo Radio ICOM IC A110
AIS Jotrun AIS TR 2500
VHF Direction Finder Taiyo TDL 1550
Doppler Log Furuno DS 80
SSAS Furuno Felcom
Portable VHF 3 x Jotrun GMDSS
Portable VHF 6 x ENTEL HT 640 VHF
Portable UHF 3 x ENTEL HT 880 UHF
Portable UHF 2 x Kenwood UHF
Sonic Helmets 4 x Sonic Helmets Mk 10
Smartpatch Phone ICOM PS1
CREW FACILITIES
Crew Cabins 15 Man Single Berth cabins c/w en suite facilities
Recreation & Leisure 1 Messroom, 2 Lounges
Leisure 1 x Sauna, 1 x Gym, 1 x Ship’s Office
'Courageous' with an up express in the spring of 1980. Highly likely this was the 1V28 08.22 Liverpool Lime Street to London Paddington.
The warm Autumn sunshine vanished seconds before "Pug" 19 and Bagnall 2680/1945 rumbled on to the swing bridge at Preston Dock, Sunday 2nd October 2022. The Pug has recently been restored to steam. It is one of two surviving former L&YR "Pugs" and 19 was built at Horwich (w/n 1097) in 1910. It became 11243 under LMS ownership, but was sold in 1931 to contractor John Mowlem for use on a major project on Southampton Docks, where it was known as "Bassett". Four years later, the loco moved to Charlton, London, working for United Glass Bottle Manufacturers Ltd. where it was named "Prince". It was bought for preservation in 1967, moving to Haworth, where the extensive work needed meant the loco became a static exhibit. A move to Steamport (Southport) followed, before a move to Preston after the demise of Steamport in 1998. Early in 2020, and against the background of the pandemic, the owners took the noble decision to restore the locomotive to working condition.
3237 and 5917 power up hill away from Gunning with Lachlan Valley Railways 8S02 from Sydney to Cootamundra
The pair were on their way to Cootamundra to be fitted with ICE Radios as the cut off day was nearing for ARTC's network.
Monday 6th October 2014
Some very courageous people having fun on a very cold and windy day!
Info from Wikipedia:
Quebec City (pronounced /kwɪˈbɛk/ (About this sound listen) or /kəˈbɛk/; French: Québec [kebɛk] (About this sound listen)); French: Ville de Québec), officially Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. The city had a population estimate of 531,902 in July 2016, (an increase of 3.0% from 2011) and the metropolitan area had a population of 800,296 in July 2016, (an increase of 4.3% from 2011) making it the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada.
The narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River proximate to the city's promontory, Cap-Diamant (Cape Diamond), and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided the name given to the city, Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning "where the river narrows". Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico, and were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the 'Historic District of Old Québec'.
The city's landmarks include the Château Frontenac, a hotel which dominates the skyline, and La Citadelle, an intact fortress that forms the centrepiece of the ramparts surrounding the old city. The National Assembly of Quebec (provincial legislature), the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), and the Musée de la civilisation (Museum of Civilization) are found within or near Vieux-Québec.
Visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City
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This is my wife. Twenty days ago her right knee was removed and replaced with an artificial implant made with plastic and titanium. The time since the operation has included significant pain and discomfort, exacerbated by the daily exercises needed to insure continued functioning of the joint. Yesterday she was able to walk to the end of our street, where Stanley Park begins, a significant milestone in her exercises and recovery.
We didn't even notice the rain...
68029 'Courageous' and Coaching Set TP04 form 1U27 the 8.03am York to Scarborough Trans - Pennine Express service approaching Seamer West.
" At the gates of Hell I stand,
Ready to enter as a man,
Sought out by evil here,
It shall find me without fear."
- Lillian Casillas
East Bay Photo Collective June Photo Walk through downtown Oakland California!
Ricoh GR film camera
Ilford fp4+
developed in Eco Pro 10 min.
68029 'Courageous' gets into its' stride departing Scarborough with 1F72 the 3.34pm Scarborough to Manchester Victoria, Trans. - Pennine Express service.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London no. 1175a. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Freddie Bartholomew in Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming, 1937).
English-American Freddie Bartholomew (1924-1992), was one of the most famous child actors in film history. Born in London, he emigrated for the title role of MGM's David Copperfield (1935) to the United States He became very popular in 1930s Hollywood films such as Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) and Captains Courageous (1937).
Frederick Cecil Bartholomew was born in Harlesden, London, in 1924. He was the son of Lilian May (Clarke) and Cecil Llewellyn Bartholomew. He was abandoned by his alcoholic parents when he was a baby. From age three, he grew up in the town of Warminster under the care of his unmarried aunt Millicent. A precocious lad, Freddie was reciting and performing on stage at three years of age and was soon singing and dancing as well. By age six he had appeared in his first film, a short called Toyland (Alexander Oumansky, 1930). Three other British film appearances and the recommendation of his teacher Italia Conti led him to be cast by MGM in the lavishly produced adaptation of Charles Dickens's The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (George Cukor, 1935), as the title character. It resulted in a seven-year MGM contract and a move to Hollywood with his aunt. The illustrious, star-studded and highly successful David Copperfield (George Cukor, 1935) made Freddie an overnight sensation, and he went on to star in a succession of high-quality films through 1937, including Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown, 1935) with Greta Garbo, Professional Soldier (Tay Garnett, 1935), the riveting Little Lord Fauntleroy (John Cromwell, 1936), Lloyds of London (Henry King, 1936), and The Devil Is a Sissy (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936) with Jackie Cooper and Mickey Rooney. Freddie's biggest success was Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming, 1937), opposite Spencer Tracy. Following the success of Little Lord Fauntleroy (John Cromwell, 1936), Freddie's birth parents, who were strangers to him, stepped in and attempted for seven years to gain custody of him and his fortune. His aunt Millicent attempted to offset these legal expenses and payouts by demanding a raise in Freddie's MGM salary in 1937. Freddie was protected by the so-called "Coogan Law," which was supposed to prevent parents from stealing the earnings of child performers, but every time she filed suit, he was forced to expend money from the trust fund defending against her, and after a half-dozen or more times, his trust was very much depleted. Another slew of court cases ensued, this time over the MGM contract, and Freddie missed a critical year's work and some golden film opportunities. By the time he resumed acting work in 1938, he was well into his teens, and audiences grew less interested in literary period pieces as World War II erupted in Europe. Following Kidnapped (Alfred L. Werker, 1938), many of his ten remaining films through 1942 were knock-offs or juvenile military films, and only two were for MGM. The best of the films after Kidnapped (Alfred L. Werker, 1938) were Lord Jeff (Sam Wood, 1938), Listen, Darling (Edwin L. Marin, 1938) with Judy Garland, Swiss Family Robinson (Edward Ludwig, 1940), and Tom Brown's School Days (Robert Stevenson, 1940). His salary soared to $2,500 a week making him filmdom's highest paid child star after Shirley Temple.
|n 1944, at the age of 20, Freddie Bartholomew was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Force, assigned as an aircraft mechanic, and while doing repairs that year on a bomber engine, he fell from a scaffold and broke his back. He spent a year in traction at a G.I. hospital and was given a medical discharge in 1945, seemingly recovered. Unknown to himself and all but a tiny handful of those closest to him, however, he had been damaged psychologically by the injury and the recovery period. and American citizenship. The additional time away from the screen had not done him any favours, though, and efforts to revive his film career were unsuccessful. He tried to resume his career with the low-budget PRC feature The Town Went Wild, never realizing that he was deeply mentally ill. When that film failed to revive his movie career he turned to the stage, and his one effort at performing in a play, in Los Angeles, was ignored by everyone but the critics, who hated it; his mental condition was exacerbated by the tone and venom of their reviews. Worse still, he ended up marrying the publicist for the production, Maely Daniele, a Russian immigrant who was trying to escape deportation and needed the protection of the American citizenship that Bartholomew had been granted through his military service. Aunt Millicent left for England when Freddie married Daniele in 1946 against her wishes. At one point, with all but a tiny bit of his money spent, the couple was living in a car parked on the streets of Brooklyn. It was in those bad years that he made another attempt at film work, playing himself in Sepia Cinderella (Arthur H. Leonard, 1947). Freddie toured a few months in Australia doing nightclub singing and piano, but when he returned to the U.S. in 1949 he switched to television, making a gradual move from performer to host to director, at New York station WPIX. He also made one final big-screen appearance, portraying a priest in St. Benny the Dip (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1951), a strange, whimsical drama shot on the Lower East Side of New York. In 1954, re-married to TV cookbook author Aileen Paul, and he moved to Benton & Bowles advertising agency, as a television director and producer. He remarked at the time that the millions he had earned as a child had been spent mostly on lawsuits, many of which involved headline court battles between his parents and his aunt for custody of young Freddie and his money. "I was drained dry," he said. He became vice president of television programming in 1964, directing and producing several prominent long-running soap operas, including As the World Turns and Search for Tomorrow. Bartholomew retired due to emphysema by the late 1980s, and eventually moved with his third wife Elizabeth to Florida, where he died in Sarasota in 1992, but not before being filmed in several interview segments for the lengthy documentary, MGM: When the Lion Roars (Frank Martin, 1992). He had two children with Aileen Paul, Kathleen Millicent Bartholomew (1956) and Frederick R. Bartholomew (1958). Composer Jesse Zuretti is his grandson.
Sources: Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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