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Nature quickly dispatches a lawn cover of buttercups before our routinely dry summer begins to take root.

Vancouver Fleet Weekend wrapped up on Sunday, May 1, 2022 with RCN (Royal Canadian Navy) and MARPAC (Maritime Forces Pacific) conducting a Battle of the Atlantic Commemorative Ceremony at North Vancouver’s Sailor’s Point Memorial from 10 to 11:30 am. The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous battle of World War II and Canada played a central role in the conflict. Sailor's Point is located on The Spirit Trail, Waterfront Park, North Vancouver

 

"The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of the Second World War and the most important. Canada was a major participant: this country’s enormous effort in the struggle was crucial to Allied victory. While the ships and personnel of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) operated across the globe during the war, they are best remembered for their deeds during the Battle of the Atlantic. [...]" Dr. Roger Sarty www.warmuseum.ca/learn/dispatches/the-royal-canadian-navy...

Dispatches -different ways to get the message out.

I can't remember what this structure was or even whether I took it in the city of San Francisco or from one of the surrounding freeways. But it looked like something you might find in a large space port.

This LIncoln monument stands in front of the West Virginiia state capitol building in Charleston. A poem by Vachel Lindsay inspired the sculptor.

 

This statue brings to mind the terrible decisions LIncoln faced during the war. He often was at the White House telegraph office late at night waiting for dispatches from the front. This reminds me of what he must have felt after reading the dispatches that detailed the horrific sacrifices of both armies.

Himalayan brown bears exhibit sexual dimorphism. Males range from 1.5m up to 2.2m (5 ft - 7 ft 3in) long, while females are 1.37m to 1.83m (4 ft 6 in - 6 ft) long. They are the largest animals in the Himalayas and are usually sandy or reddish-brown in colour.

"Dzu-Teh," a Nepalese term, has also been associated with the legend of the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, with which it has been sometimes confused or mistaken. During the Daily Mail Abominable Snowman Expedition of 1954, Tom Stobart encountered a "Dzu-Teh". This is recounted by Ralph Izzard, the Daily Mail correspondent on the expedition, in his book The Abominable Snowman Adventure. The report was also printed in the Daily Mail expedition dispatches on May 7, 1954 . However Tom Stobart was not a native of the region and his identification was merely based on a presumption that he knew an animal that he had never seen before from very ambiguous evidence. Native Tibetans deny that Dzu-Teh refers to any kind of a bear (It means "Cattle raider") and the name is used in areas where bears are not found. George Eberhart in MYSTERIOUS CREATURES, A Guide to Cryptozoology, Clio Books 2002, articles Dzu-Teh p. 151 and Dre-Mo p. 148-149, says that the problem is the result of conflating the Dzu-Teh with a different creature known as the Dre-Mo, and that one definitely is a bear. Eberhart says under the article Dzu-Teh that "there is considerable doubt that the locals made any such claim." (ibid, p. 152)

Besides iron ore, the port of Rotterdam also dispatches quite a lot of coal to various places in Germany - much of it in heavy trains. Here, 189 084 and 081 are hauling one such convoy past Griendtsveen, 06-05-2023.

P633, better known as the Agawa Canyon Tour Train, rolls southbound through northern Ontario's rugged backcountry skirting Frater Lake and the eastern border of Lake Superior Provincial Park. CN still dispatches the Soo Sub for Watco and the tour train's ID hasn't changed. This location has been a nemesis for me with rogue clouds being the norm and I could finally relax upon the rousing sound of the hardworking F40s in the distance on this blue dome fall afternoon - MP 102.5 Soo Subdivision.

This great grey owl was well 'enlightened' by the setting sun, but, unlike Voltaire, I don't think the bird was philosophizing or writing scientific treatises on the relationship between owl and vole. It simply catches them and and dispatches them. Not the best angle, but you can see the vole in the owl's talons.

 

"Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

Westbound NS train #115 races west on main #3 a few minutes after sunrise. Between WB Jct and CA Jct the NS and BNSF use joint trackage on the Marceline Sub. Between Hardin and WB Jct there is 3 main tracks and main #3 sits off a ways from the 2 BNSF mains as seen to the left of the train. The NS maintains the south track between the 2 points with NS signal hardware but BNSF Dispatches this busy section.

Happy October Polaroid Week!

Day 1

 

With everything that's happening in the world right now, I thought this week is a good time to catch up with what I've been working on with the series DIspatches from the dreaming of the next world that I started in 2020. It's about seeing the way out of fractured darkness, and the glimpses of tenuous hypnogogic-like visions that sometimes are hard to grab hold of but can lead to new ideas, new hopes and new ways of being that bring about new tomorrows.

 

Change is always possible. Peace is always possible.

 

But I know how impossible it can feel right now. This is my way to keep my own sorrow and cynicism of the world at bay. I hope you know the world needs your light, your love and your humanity. It's crucial right now. <3

 

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Also, I'm trying out some new workflows with scanning and color correcting this week. I already had to tweak todays images and re-upload. Who else has trouble seeing the flaws of your scan file or color correcting until it's out in the wild? That's me every time ha!

 

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A leaf the green that a child would choose

if asked

to draw a leaf.

 

*

 

This heavy-petalled rose

is humid as the accent

of my current correspondent.

 

*

 

Trees unberried by bird.

Trees unleafed by beetle.

 

*

 

My correspondent

is a tentative man and I

am unaccustomed to tentative men.

 

*

 

White rose blossom

browning at the edges.

Paperback book.

 

*

 

Inside, my mother humming

a song I’ve never heard.

 

*

 

Kinds of holiness.

 

*

 

Trees unbarked by winter deer.

 

*

 

My correspondent

will not let me love him.

 

*

 

Green things make

such mild noise.

 

*

 

I uncross my legs

to find, with a bare foot,

that sun has warmed the stone.

I partake of the sun.

 

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And the stone.

 

By Rebecca Lindenberg

A pair of EMD SD70Ms pull the Evanston Local through Echo, Utah on June 13, 2024. UP dispatches the LUJ62B out of Riverdale Yard in Ogden on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. The train "turns and burns" at Evanston, Wyoming, returning to Ogden the same day.

Union Pacific rarely dispatches OCS trains across the former Rio Grande main line between Denver and Salt Lake City. An eastbound special crossed the entire D&RGW on April 26, 2017, here pulling into Helper, Utah for a crew change. I admit to preferring the appearance of a pair of EMD SD70Ms pulling a UP special than a GE ET44AH toaster.

Still my favorite of the whole spider season! I actually missed this one when she disappeared one day. So colorful... and hey, anything that dispatches a lady bug has got to be a Good Thing right?

Happy October Polaroid Week!

Day 4

 

From the continuing series DIspatches from the dreaming of the next world

 

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Scale Model of American Armed Brig, Circa 1810

Source: Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia

 

The European and American Navies of the 19th Century had brigs to carry dispatches, escort convoys and raid commerce. A full crew, with marines, numbered around 300, but only about 20 men were needed to sail the ship.

 

USS STERETT (DDG 104), is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer commissioned on August 9, 2008. It's currently docked at BAE Systems San Diego dry dock undergoing repairs.

 

The USS Sterett was named after Lieutenant Andrew Sterett, born 27 January 1778 in Baltimore, Maryland. Andrew’s father was a successful shipping merchant who had served as a captain during the Revolutionary War. Andrew was the fourth of ten children and despite his sizable inheritance, entered the Navy as a Lieutenant on 25 March 1798 at the age of twenty. He served as Third Lieutenant aboard the newly commissioned frigate Constellation. He was in command of a gun battery during the undeclared war with France in which the fledgling U. S. Navy scored its first victory on the high seas against the French frigate L’Insurgente.

 

By February 1800 Andrew Sterett had been promoted to First Lieutenant and participated in successful battles against French ships. Later that year he assumed his first command, the schooner Enterprise. This was the first US Navy ship to bear that name.

 

The Enterprise sailed to the Mediterranean with Commodore Richard Dale to quell the Barbary pirates. Andrew Sterett and the Enterprise went up against the pirate warship Tripoli in a furious engagement. He successfully fought off three attempts by the pirates to board his crippled ship. Enterprise beat back all attacks and defeated the pirates. He was presented with a sword by President Thomas Jefferson and his crew received an additional month’s pay for their heroism. Following several more dispatches to the coast of Tripoli, Sterett and the Enterprise witnessed the return of freedom of the seas in the Mediterranean for American ships. He returned home in March of 1803 and resigned from the Navy in 1805. He pursued a career in the merchant marine and died a premature death in Lima, Peru on 9 June 1807 at the age of thirty.

 

Andrew Sterett left the U.S. Navy with a rich tradition of determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. His bravery, gallantry and heroism live on in the ships that bear his name.

 

Source: www.surfpac.navy.mil/Ships/USS-Sterett-DDG-104/About-Us/

Once known as the Bald Eagle Valley Branch by the Pennsylvania Railroad. This 54-mile line was actually a connection between the PRR Middle Division main at Tyrone and the Buffalo Line at Lock Haven. It provided a short cut for traffic between Pittsburgh and the New England states. The line was busy enough after WWII that CTC was installed the length of the line.

 

Fast forward to 1984 when Conrail sold the line to the Nittany & Bald Eagle (SEDA-COG) operated by the North Shore Railroads group. This sale included the 12-mile Bellefonte Secondary Track.

 

Today the CTC is long gone and the NS still dispatches the now dark territory line between Tyrone and Lock Haven. NS occasionally operates freight and coal trains on the route. NBER runs turn jobs out of Bellefonte to each end of the line. Here a turn job to Tyrone hauls ass at Port Matilda behind a pair of great looking Geeps. I paced them once at 40MPH.

Happy October Polaroid Week!

Day 6

 

From the continuing series DIspatches from the dreaming of the next world

 

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Happy October Polaroid Week!

Day 3

 

From the continuing series DIspatches from the dreaming of the next world

 

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"and use the new substitution code in your dispatches."

There is a Vietnam - Laos border 80 km northwest of Kon Tum, which is called Bờ Y. This photo was taken just after crossing the Bờ Y border into Laos.

 

The bus painted like the Vietnamese flag was a direct service from Pleiku (Gia Lai), 48 km south of Kon Tum, to Pakse in the Champasak province of Laos. It took 10 hours to travel 358 km from Kon Tum to Pakse.

 

The road was OK and the bus was good, but the problem was that the bus did not use a bus terminal in Kon Tum. I was informed to go to a rotary on QL 14 near the city centre where I waited for almost an hour watching all the number plates of the busses passing by.

For tourists, taking a long distance buss is not easy in Vietnam except for Futa Bus that dispatches a vehicle to your hotel to pick you up. After travelling in areas that are not covered by Futa Bus, I realised how valuable that service was.

The former Santa Fe Railway "Surf Line" stretches from San Diego to Orange County along California's Pacific Coast. The tracks are owned by the Orange County Transportation Authority and the North County Transit District, and hosts Metrolink's Orange County Line and Inland Empire–Orange County Line, the San Diego Coaster, and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner passenger trains. The BNSF Railway operates freight over the Surf Line via trackage rights.

 

I was at CP Ash in downtown San Diego the evening of July 2, 2024. BNSF Railway dispatches a San Diego to Barstow manifest out of the former Santa Fe yard in the evenings, after the rush of commuter rail trains. This image was shot with my three-camera iPhone 15 Pro on the "wide angle" setting, hence the distortion. I like it!

Happy October Polaroid Week!

Day 4

 

From the continuing series DIspatches from the dreaming of the next world

 

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Sidewalk drama: A female crab spider, Xysticus sp., dispatches a European Earwig. Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, October 13, 2017.

Happy October Polaroid Week!

Day 1

 

From the continuing series DIspatches from the dreaming of the next world

 

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Another #roidweek is upon us, and here I am, starting on day 3. Everything has been a lot lately, though I doubt I'm in a unique position there.

 

I can tell you very little of this photo. It's me and it's on Spectra. The scratches are VERY real. If I had to take a guess, this was shot on Treasure Island in the doorway of the old gas station in 2010, but who really knows. Its companion piece I can date a little more closely given the eventual destruction of the artwork.

 

Last dispatches from a fading star, or something like that.

Apparently misnomered as it dispatches an arachnid. Lake St. Clair.

In the early 1800's, many thoughtful Americans believed that isolation and the difficulties of communication would force the Mississippi Valley settlements to form a separate nation. Hoping to hold the frontier, Congress, in 1800, established a post route from Nashville (TN) to Natchez (MS). The Trace, then a series of Indian Trails, had drawn from the Secretary of State the bitter comment, "The passage of mail from Natchez is as tedious as from Europe when westerly winds prevail." To speed the mail, President Jefferson ordered the army to clear out the trail and make it a road. Postriders, carrying letters, dispatches, and newspaper helped bind the vast turbulent frontier to the republic. However, their day passed by the mid-1830's when steamboats, running from New Orleans to Pittsburg, robbed the Trace of its usefulness as a main post route.

 

The pathway shown above is a section of the original Old Natchez Trace (before the road) that you can walk on as it winds back and forth across the newer Natchez Trace Road. Some sections are fairly flat adjacent to the nearby roadway and others are deeper, worn out paths that are usually referred to as the 'Sunken Trace'.

 

This section of the Old Trace is located within Pioneer Cemetery near the Meriwether Lewis National Monument. On February 6, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish this National Monument. The War Department managed the monument and the superintendent of Shiloh National Military Park was put in charge of the monument site. From 1926-1933 the War Department made several improvements to the site, including replacing the deteriorating cemetery headstones and straightening and repointing the Lewis Monument’s stone. The War Department also marked the sections of old Natchez Trace that traveled through the site (like the section shown in the photograph above).

 

Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.

 

"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11

 

The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/

Happy October Polaroid Week!

Day 3

 

From the continuing series DIspatches from the dreaming of the next world

 

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Procamera; processed using iColorama, Procreate& Lenslight, using iPad Pro and Apple pencil.

 

Same base image as that used in 'Homage to Nefertiti'

 

Included in The App Whisperer showcase, 2/3/16 theappwhisperer.com/2016/04/03/mobile-photography-art-fli...

Trenord dispatches a mix of ALn668 and ATR125 on the track no. 141 Pavia-Alessandria. The pair of ALn 668 1119 + 1116 is just leaving as R 4595 Pavia - Alessandria from Zinasco Nuevo (28.09.2019).

 

Trenord fährt auf der KBS 141 Pavia-Alessandria mit einer Mischung aus den klassischen ALn668 und den moderneren ATR125. Am 28.09.2019 verlässt das aus ALn668 1119 und 1116 gebildete Pärchen als R 4595 Pavia-Alessandria den Bahnhof von Zinasco Nuevo.

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Must be an Australian pilot as he is flying upside down :)

 

The Blades Aerobatic Display Team are a brand new Team comprising ex-Red Arrows pilots and a world championship level aerobatic instructor.

 

The Blades’ pilots have two OBEs, a Distinguished Flying Cross and a ‘Mentioned in Dispatches’ between them. Five of them were Harrier pilots, one was a Jaguar pilot, all were RAF instructors and three displayed the Harrier. Two of them commanded RAF Harrier Squadrons in the most exacting of circumstances (in Iraq and Afghanistan) and one of them led The Red Arrows. Blades 1 to 4 are all ex-Red Arrows.

Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1 May 1735 – 24 May 1819), or Count of Doggersbank, was a Dutch naval officer. Having had a good scientific education, Van Kinsbergen was a proponent of fleet modernization and wrote many books about naval organization, discipline and tactics.

 

In 1773, he twice defeated an Ottoman fleet while in Russian service. Returning to the Dutch Republic in 1775, he became a Dutch naval hero in 1781, fighting the Royal Navy, and gradually attained the position of commander-in-chief as a lieutenant-admiral. When France conquered the Republic in 1795 he was fired by the new revolutionary regime and prevented from becoming Danish commander-in-chief, but the Kingdom of Holland reinstated him in 1806, in the rank of fleet marshal, and made him a count. He was again degraded by the French Empire in 1810; after the liberation the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1814 honoured him with his old rank of lieutenant-admiral.

 

Van Kinsbergen, in his later life a very wealthy man, was also noted for his philanthropy, supporting poor relief, naval education, the arts and the sciences.

 

Early career

Van Kinsbergen was born in Doesburg as the eldest son of the non-commissioned officer Johann Henrich van Kinsbergen, who had been born in Netphen, Germany, in 1706, started his military career in Austrian service, and originally spelled his family name as "Ginsberg". When he was six, he moved with his parents in 1741 to Elburg. Three years later he left with his father for the Southern Netherlands and at the age of nine enlisted as a soldier of the Dutch field army during the War of the Austrian Succession, returning in 1748. Reading the biography of Gerard Brandt about the life of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, he decided to become a naval hero as well and went to the naval academy of Groningen, where he was trained as an engineer between 1751 and 1755.

 

Russian service

In the late 1760s, due to severe financial difficulties, few Dutch ships were active and Van Kinsbergen used his free time to write a large series of publications about naval modernization. He was seen as a typical example of the new generation of Dutch naval officers of the era. They no longer owed their position to either a merchant fleet career or a noble background (the old "tar - tarpaulin" distinction) but to a thorough scientific education. He had already established a minor international reputation as a naval thinker because he enthusiastically corresponded with many influential foreign contacts.

 

In 1769, Van Kinsbergen was disappointed by his failure to secure a promotion in the Dutch navy and therefore he obtained leave to enter the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and depart for the Dutch Indies for four years.

 

He was informed by Prince Henry of Prussia that due to the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) the Russian navy was in search of naval experts and would offer him a position there. On 15 August 1770, Van Kinsbergen got permission from the Dutch admiral-general, stadholder William V, Prince of Orange, to depart for Russia.

 

In the summer of 1771, Jan Hendrik travelled via Berlin, where he visited Prince Henry, to Saint Petersburg where he on 29 September was appointed acting captain in the Imperial Russian Navy, on 2 October he was promoted to captain second class. He immediately left for the Black Sea; on arrival he was charged with commanding a troop of cossacks and fought, meanwhile learning Russian, on land during the winter campaign. In a fight he was shot through the knee and saved from under a heap of corpses by a cossack, whom he would later get an appointment at the Amsterdam naval wharf.

 

From 9 February 1772 at Iaşi he repaired river vessels captured from the Turkish Danube fleet. On 12 June he got his first naval command in Russian service, bringing dispatches on a galiot to Azov. From 13 November he brought dispatches from the southern army to Saint Petersburg. He was on that occasion introduced to the empress and made a favourable impression on her with his enthusiastic plans for the Black Sea fleet.

 

Accordingly, on 23 April 1773 he became flotilla-commander in the Black Sea. His force was rather insignificant consisting of just two ketches of twelve cannon each and two yachts. Van Kinsbergen decided nevertheless that the moment had arrived to make a name for himself and acted as aggressively as his limited powers allowed. He entered the Sea of Marmara through the Bosporus, charted it as the first Western European ever, then entered the Dardanelles and finally returned to the Black Sea after duelling with a coastal fortress of Istanbul.

 

Twice that year he defeated a Turkish fleet and won the title 'Hero of the Black Sea'. On 23 June, he encountered a Turkish flotilla of three frigates of 52 cannon and a ship-of-the-line of 75 and despite the disparity in firepower at once attacked it and wiped it out, the first major "Christian" naval victory in the Black Sea in four centuries.

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Kingdom of Holland

In the summer of 1806, on orders of Emperor Napoleon I the Kingdom of Holland was created and his brother, the new King Louis Bonaparte, on 16 July appointed Van Kinsbergen member of the Dutch Council of State and First Chamberlain — and these were only the first of a long list of honours bestowed on the old admiral: e.g. on 26 December he was made marshall, on 15 May 1808 Marshal of the Hollandic Naval Forces and on 4 February 1810, when on French orders all Dutch marshals had to be degraded, he was appointed full admiral. On 4 May 1810 he was made Count of the Dogger Bank. On 11 October 1808 Alexander I of Russia had awarded him the star of the Order of St. Andrew which entailed the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the White Eagle, the Order of St. Anne, first degree, and the Order of St. Stanislaus.

 

In 1810 though, the Kingdom of Holland was annexed by the French Empire and Van Kinsbergen degraded to a French vice-admiral. However, on 18 December 1810 he was made a French count and on 2 January 1811 appointed French senator. Van Kinsbergen wrote to Napoleon on 11 January that he was too old to move to Paris — knowing quite well the emperor had not intended him to — and asked that his salary might be redirected to the navy, causing an annoyed Napoleon to react: "Does this proud Holland sailor think he can use me to dole out his alms?". Meanwhile, Van Kinsbergen continued his charitable works: e.g. in 1811 he donated a fire engine to the municipality of Elburg.

 

Continued appreciation from the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Late 1813 cossacks liberated the territory of the Northern Netherlands; Van Kinsbergen used his knowledge of Russian to negotiate an armistice between the French forces occupying Het Loo and the Russian troops, preventing that this later royal palace was plundered. Also he raised two regiments of Dutch volunteers to besiege the French garrison holding out in Deventer. On 28 March 1814 he was appointed one of the six hundred electors to approve the new Dutch Constitution. On 12 June 1814, he was appointed by the new sovereign prince, William VI of Orange, titular lieutenant-admiral and on 11 July a full lieutenant-admiral: in the new United Kingdom of the Netherlands this was to be a purely honorary rank, bestowed for great merit, in the case of Van Kinsbergen for his "excellent merits and constant Patriotism". In 1815 he became, on 8 July, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of William.

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On 20 November 1816 van Kinsbergen received the royal writ by the new King William I of the Netherlands that he was promoted to jonkheer. He died three years later shortly after his 84th birthday at Apeldoorn, from a chronic lung disease, where he was buried on 27 May. In 1821 a marble grave monument was finished by Gabriël in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, but this is a cenotaph.

 

Namesakes

The Dutch Navy has named a training vessel (launched in 2000) after him, as well as a 1980s Kortenaer class frigate and an artillery-instruction ship that served from 1939 until 1952. A street has been named after him in every town to which he was related: Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, Elburg and The Hague.

  

ter herinnering aan

luitenant admiraal jan hendrik van kinsbergen

1735-1819

zeeheld en apeldoorns weldoener

met steun van kinsbergenfonds,

stadscafe van kinsbergen, centraal beheer achmea

en vele ingezetenen

onthuld op 12 september 2008 door

burgemeester mr. g.j. de graaf

en commandant zeestrijdkrachten

luitenant-generaal der mariniers d.l. zuiderwijk

initiatief: ignaat simons, gemeente apeldoorn

en stichting apeldoornse monumenten

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vanderkrogt.net/standbeelden/object.php?record=GL02by :

 

Beschrijving

 

Half figuur oprijzend uit de golven. Aan zijn verleden als zeeheld herinneren attributen uit de admiraliteit zoals kanonskogels, maar ook het kostuum met op de sjerp het motto eximiae virtutis praemium (beloning voor uitnemende dapperheid), het motto van het grafelijk wapen dat Van Kinsbergen in 1810 door koning Lodewijk Napoleon kreeg. De uitgestrekte handen staan symbool voor zijn vrijgevigheid, een uitnodigend gebaar.

 

Het beeld is onthuld door commandant der zeestrijdkrachten Zuiderwijk en burgemeester De Graaf van Apeldoorn. Honderd jaar geleden werd er al gesproken over een monument, maar toen is er niets van gekomen. Het huidige staat bij stadscafé Van Kinsbergen, gevestigd in een voormalige school die gebouwd is van het geld dat indertijd voor een monument voor Van Kinsbergen opzij was gezet. Baerveldt maakte een eigenzinnig portret waarin zij de twee kanten van de admiraal laat zien. Baerveldt modelleerde het beeld naar aanleiding van tekeningen en geschriften over Van Kinsbergen.

 

Kunstenaar:

Erzsébet (Sharon) Baerveldt (Nijmegen 1968), schilder, tekenaar, beeldhouwer

Farewell October Polaroid Week

Day 6

 

Take care, stay safe, keep creating and see you next time.

 

From the continuing series DIspatches from the dreaming of the next world

 

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It was invented by the german printer Ernst Litfaß about 1854. He got from the city administration of Berlin the exclusive rights to erect these pillars, the till nowadays so called: "Litfaßsäule", in the beginning "Annonciersäule" ("annoncieren" = old german word for advertising). They have been used to inform the public for news. The first "war dispatches / telegrams 1870/1871 had been published this way. Later the Litfaßsäulen" were mainly used for advertising. In the year 2005 there have been still 51000 of these pillars in use in Germany, but also they could be seen in Vienna.

This one is an advertising pillar at the Rhine river banks in Düsseldorf, in the background the television tower which belongs to the typical silhouette of Düsseldorf city. Since 2001 the artist Christoph Pöggeler presents sculptures of typical regional people on a part of these pillars. It`s an art project called "Säulenheilige" (Saints of the pillars).

 

(in "explore" 10.Feb.2018)

This joint is now out of business.

worldofwonder.net/dispatches-from-portland-the-citys-stri...

 

Note the Grateful Dead dancing bear as part of the sign.

As a long-time fan of the Grateful Dead (I became a fan in the early 70s), it constantly amazes me that they are so incredibly popular and that their lyrics and logos are so ubiquitous.

 

Hold the Command (or Control) key and click the link.

The Rolling Stones. No extra charge for Jagger's ridiculous eye makeup, outfit and prancing. But Mick Taylor's brilliant slide guitar playing, Keith Richards' killer hooks, and Charlie Watts' drumming holding it all together makes it great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B51A6bcMeDY&ab_channel=TheRol...

Once a day on weekdays, the Rigips facility at Leissigen Bad near Leissigen receives and dispatches a varying number of wagons. This run has long been safely in the hands of the Ae 6/6 class locos, but now that they have been retired, Re 6/6 class have taken over. That day, Re 6/6 no. 11626 was on duty, with its decorative wing reminiscent of its venerable predecessors, giving this train a whiff of the past. Train 64481 Thun-Leissigen Bad is passing Faulensee. After setting down its wagons and picking up the new ones, the convoy will then head onwards to Leissigen where it can reverse. Faulensee, 07-04-2015.

A Great Blue Heron swallows an enormous shad whole. Amazingly, the heron dispatches the fish with little difficulty. Taken at the Floodwall along the James River in Richmond, Virginia.

This covey of quail was seen on January 3rd at Will Rogers Historic State Park. On January 7th a fire erupted in Pacific Palisades and the Will Rogers State Historic Park was hit hard. Will Rogers Home was destroyed as was the stables and other buildings. Not sure when the park will open again.

 

Here is a weblink to an interesting, but sad, description, of what happened to one Family living close to the Will Rogers State Park

www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a63434429/los-angeles-fires...

Excerpt from torontobiennial.org/work/syrus-marcus-ware-at-small-arms-...:

 

In the 1960s, the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) was established to regulate international relations with respect to the continent. The central treaty went into force in 1961 and was the first arms control agreement of the Cold War, limiting the continent of Antarctica’s use to scientific purposes and banning all military activity. To this day, seven of the fifty-four countries that are now party to the treaty still claim portions of Antarctica as their territory. None of these claims are currently recognized by the other nations. Antarctica is also the only continent without a known Indigenous human population. Since the ATS was established, eleven people have been born in Antarctica, of which ten were scientists sent by their respective governments for the express purpose of staking a future land claim.

 

This wild but true story is the starting point for Syrus Marcus Ware’s expansive, interdisciplinary, and multi-year project that predicts a near-future taking place between the years 2025 and 2027, wherein Antarctica has become the only habitable place on the planet. Colonial plans that had laid dormant for decades are initiated, and the people who were born on the continent are sent back to build colonial outposts and take over land.

 

For the 2019 Toronto Biennial, Syrus presented Antarctica (2019), an installation of soft sculptures, video, large drawings, and regular live performances that depicted the arrival of three Black, Indigenous, and POC Antarcticans and their struggle with “the Company.” An accompanying video titled Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future) (2019) was presented on the New Media Wall at Ryerson Image Centre. The video, drawing on the shared language of speculative fiction and political activism, was a portal to the future’s future, connecting passersby with a group of survivors who had left the burgeoning colonies. In the video, it is the year 2030, and a new world is glimpsed where racialized people have ultimately survived the “black death spectacle” writ large on the nightly news, survived the catastrophic impact of the Anthropocene, and survived the crushing effects of white supremacy.

 

For the 2022 Biennial, Syrus presents MBL: Freedom (2022). The work is the next chapter of the saga, wherein the three Black, Indigenous, and POC Antarcticans flee the Company’s territories and abandon their mission to colonize Antarctica, swimming in icy waters toward the only part of the continent not claimed by a country, “Mary Bird Land,” or MBL. The three set out to create a territory for all activists and abolitionists to be free in. When they land on the shores of MBL, they make an unexpected discovery that changes their trajectory. The work, reflecting on climate change, white supremacy, abolition, and disability justice, will be presented as an interactive film experience, situating participants on a campsite in MBL. During the Biennial, the audience will be invited to participate in workshops about abolitionist futures, disability justice, and revolutionary struggle and can engage in a night of performance with actors Ravyn Wngz and Dainty Smith.

Moonage Daydream

 

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Lady Grinning Soul

 

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I think I the location is correct but didn't get a GPS reading, anyway it looks right in hybrid view and the area has an interesting history.

 

The small building in the foreground may have been a butchery given the gallows on the right for lifting slaughtered animals, and the walls appear to be pise giving a cooler interior in summer, with only a single window for the same reason.

 

"Aarons Pass so named by James Blackman circa 1820 to acknowledge his native guide’s help in marking the trail from Bathurst to the Cudgegong River Valley. Soon after Lieutenant W M Lawson’s diary records “they crossed the Turon River, went North East to Crudene (sic) to a long granite hill where “the guide Aring or Aaron” after pointing out the direction of the country they were seeking, resolutely refused to move any further, as he feared the hostility of the tribe beyond his own saying: “Baal that not my country, there is where you are seeking, me go no further” and no inducement could alter his resolve.”

 

But it seems Aaron soon overcame his fears, perhaps assuaged by the white settlers protection for Lawson journal entry for 26 November circa 1821 records that Ering the black native led him “S.E. by S. through a fine grazing country to Troben called Davy” (Dabee or The Dabee Plains).

 

Aaron’s collaboration with the white settlers was also acknowledged in August 1822, W M Lawson, then Commandant at Bathurst requested brass plates for five of the local aboriginal chiefs, including Aaron “Chief of the Tabellbucco Tribe”.

 

Soon after W M Lawson was exploring the Goulburn River his journal entry on the 30th November 1822 says he enquired of his native guide “Ering” (Aaron) regarding the mouth of the river and the native replied “where the white man sits down”. Identifying Newcastle as the confluence and confirming the Goulburn as a tributary of the Hunter River.

 

In September 1823 Thomas Hawkins, was the acting coroner investigating the brutal murder of Peter Bray an assigned servant of William Lee at Bathurst Plains. Hawkins reported to the Judge Advocate “Earing, (Aaron) a black Chief of the Tabellbucoo Tribe states that he went to the hut in company with the Jurors and saw the tracks of the natives”…”the Jury are of the opinion from the statements of Earing, that the deed was perpetrated by the four Black Natives known by the names of Jackey, Taylor, Charley and Cougo-gal.” There is no evidence of any investigation into the events that precipitated the murder of Peter Bray or the motive of the four natives that Earing identified as the perpetrators.

 

In his History of Mudgee circa 1910, GHF Cox tells of Aaron’s aid to the Cox family “the faithful native guide Aaron having so frequently mentioned Dabee, in high terms” the Cox’s investigated and selected the property later known as “Rawdon…for many years it was used as a breeding station”. And then adds “Aaron, who was killed in a tribal warfare between the blacks at the long-water hole at Dabee”.

 

Rumours of Aaron’s death moved a correspondent identified as “Candid” to write to the Editor of The Sydney Gazette on Thursday 12 August 1824; “Do not the dispatches, that arrived at Head-quarters (Parramatta) in the beginning of this month affirm, that in an affair that took place at or near Mudjee (sic) five blacks were killed? Is old Aaron dead or alive? If dead in what way did he die?” A press clippings from the Cox family papers says “immense number of the native men women and children were slaughtered at Mudgee….And amongst them poor old Aaron, he was shot in the long reach of water at Dabee.” Thus Aaron’s forebodings were realised, murdered in alien tribal country probably by associates of the white men he led to the Cudgegong Valley and Dabee Plains

 

The pioneer Blackman; Lawson; Cox and Lee families lost a willing guide and servant commemorated at Aaron’s Pass. But I suspect the Aboriginal tribes of the Cudgegong, Capertee and Goulburn River Valleys had mixed feelings about Aaron, the Wiradjuri Tribal Chief who eagerly led the white dispossessors to their tribal country."

Mickel Murphy Cowie

www.mudgeehistory.com.au/wiradjuri/wiradjuri_p2.html

 

And see - To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette. (1824, August 12). The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), p. 4. Retrieved September 9, 2017, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2183114

 

Also found some Wiradjuri place names with alternate meanings to the usually accepted ones - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2009/D00428/a2094.htm

Himalayan brown bears exhibit sexual dimorphism. Males range from 1.5m up to 2.2m (5 ft - 7 ft 3in) long, while females are 1.37m to 1.83m (4 ft 6 in - 6 ft) long. They are the largest animals in the Himalayas and are usually sandy or reddish-brown in colour.

"Dzu-Teh," a Nepalese term, has also been associated with the legend of the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman, with which it has been sometimes confused or mistaken. During the Daily Mail Abominable Snowman Expedition of 1954, Tom Stobart encountered a "Dzu-Teh". This is recounted by Ralph Izzard, the Daily Mail correspondent on the expedition, in his book The Abominable Snowman Adventure. The report was also printed in the Daily Mail expedition dispatches on May 7, 1954 . However Tom Stobart was not a native of the region and his identification was merely based on a presumption that he knew an animal that he had never seen before from very ambiguous evidence. Native Tibetans deny that Dzu-Teh refers to any kind of a bear (It means "Cattle raider") and the name is used in areas where bears are not found. George Eberhart in MYSTERIOUS CREATURES, A Guide to Cryptozoology, Clio Books 2002, articles Dzu-Teh p. 151 and Dre-Mo p. 148-149, says that the problem is the result of conflating the Dzu-Teh with a different creature known as the Dre-Mo, and that one definitely is a bear. Eberhart says under the article Dzu-Teh that "there is considerable doubt that the locals made any such claim." (ibid, p. 152)

A cabinet minister, asked to submit suggestions for budget cuts, submits a drastic cut to VIA Rail train service across the country including the flagship train "The Canadian," a world-famous cruise train. He claimed that he didn't think the Prime Minister would accept it. The prime minister did, even the Canadian which was often rated in the top ten routes in the world (ok, primarily referring to the segment between Calgary and Vancouver). That British Columbia joined Canada explicitly on condition that a train be run to connect them with the east did not matter. Protests broke out across the country -- and a businessman announced starting a luxury service between Vancouver and Banff (west of Calgary) for wealthy travelers -- and crowds greeted the train at each stop: protestors, media, families of the crew, passenger families and the curious.

 

So I am booked on the last eastbound train. We are stopped in the Rockies and I am outside with the conductor getting some air while waiting for clearance to proceed. We are at the end of the train, next to the heavenly dome-observation-lounge for first class passengers, my rolling home-away-from-home except when I'm in the diner eating or the brief periods of sleep in my sleeper.

 

We are late, and as the saying goes "late trains only get later". Think of a tight, choreographed parade: lose your place and it is hard to get back into the line. Protests and media interviews guaranteed further delays. Onboard however, the mood was a mix of sad and festive. It was mostly festive until Thunder Bay, where a fire department next to the tracks rolled out all their engines and had all their lights going as we passed -- an honor reserved for fallen comrades. Then as we left Sudbury (and the last ever split for the section to Montreal, taking with it some fellow travelers) it became a race for last place as #1 (our westbound counterpart) was closing on Vancouver. In these pre-cellphone days the conductor let several of us make calls over his radiophone to loved ones. Finally the news came over the radio: #1 had tied up, we were officially the last Canadian. The car fell silent and stayed mostly so until we pulled into Toronto Union Station and said our goodbyes.

 

Two days later VIA dispatches the "new" Canadian, the rebranded Super Continental which runs over Canadian National tracks up through Edmonton and Jasper instead of the Canadian Pacific route through Calgary and Banff. One day I will ride this route, but I will be hard pressed to call it "The Canadian"...(the "Super Con" comes to mind)

  

Shot on a Yashicamat 124 and originally copied from a print using my Canon 5D Mark II and an EF 100-300mm 5.6 L, which is capable of doing quarter life-size reproduction in its so-called "Macro" setting (the print is at my parents' house and I didn't have my macro with me). Thanks to those who put this over 100 in less than a day...!

 

I've since scanned the negative. Big difference!

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