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Now this chap was rocking it old school, cosplaying as Dick Dastardly from the Wacky Races, this made me smile! Had to explain to friend's wee boys who this was, long before their time!
Last weekend was Edinburgh Comic-Con, and I was along with my chum who took his wee boys (their first comic con). Had a good chat going round the circuit talking to some of the writers and artists I knew, and of course there were lots of cosplayers. Nice family feeling too, lots of kids there, and some family groups all cosplaying on a theme, like a dad in Stormtrooper armour with his wee girl also in armour and the youngest dressed as Rey from the new Star Wars, lovely to see! Great day www.heroconventions.com/
We'd just arrived in Camp Moremi and were indulging in the perfect cold beer when wat seems like a deer wandered onto the camp property. We were explained that the electric fence around the camp only keeps the elephants out, but 'anything smaller than a hippo can get in'. I am sure a lion is smaller than a hippo, but am explained that hippos are more dangerous than lions. Of course...
Named after Chief Moremi of the BaTawana tribe, Moremi Game Reserve is located on the South Eastern side of Botswana's Okavanga Delta and provides strong contrasts between areas which are largely dry and those that are permanently under water. The thick tree zones abruptly change from lush green to dead wood, stripped bare by elephants. Covering a relatively small 5000 sqm, about 70% is part of the Okavango Delta, and as such often swampy or under completely water. The 4x4 vehicles routinely cross the lagoons, while larger distances have to covered by Cessna, between the many small airstrips. Shorter distances can also be covered by foot to create a more unusual safari experience.
Home to some 500 species including Buffalo, Giraffes, Lions, Hyaenas, Jackals Impalas, Lechwe and Leopards, with the latter hard to find in the dense fauna. Although warned about mosquitos, we encountered few on this part of our trip.
The Okavango Delta is the world's largest inland Delta. The Okavango River starts in Angola as the Cubango River, it then follows the border between Angola and Namibia, and drops across the Popa Falls as it enters Botswana. The Okavango River by then spreads itself some 1.2km wide before encountering the Kalahari Desert's northern Basins where it forms the spectacular Okavango Delta. A partial escape is found in the rainy season, when there is an outflow to the Boteti River, which then discharges into the Makgadikgadi Pans, and so providing the seasonal wetland where tens of thousands of Flamingos congregate.
The Delta is constantly under threat due to the Water conflict between Namibia and Botswana. Namibia wants to construct a water canal draining off the Okavango River as it passes through its Caprivi Strip to relieve local draught. The Delta would likely reduce, or even disappear, which would have a devastating impact on Botswana's tourism, not to mention the impact on the flora and fauna. Botswana itself is continuously under fire for its sustained use of veterinary fence, which protect cattle farms, but also block natural migration routes. Two fences cut right through the Delta.
how long "Little Guy" was when he was rescued in 1997 and really was a "little guy" only about 10 inches long. "Little Guy" is a Great Basin rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus lutosus). Photo of Frank and "Little Guy" at Boise State University Reptile and Amphibian Workshop September 17 - 18, 2016 by Scott..
Explainer: While I wish I could fully dress, wig-up and make-up regularly, those days are rare. So I post these AI renderings. FYI: the photos are AI generated, from actual photos of me, enhanced slightly with FaceApp and then dressed from outfits I see and love on the interweb. Enjoy them or not! I do, that's all that matters! Love, Crystal
I saw Holy Trinity come up on the Heritage Weekend website, so I thought a nice Sunday afternoon out, a drive, an ice cream, and visit a new church.
But turns out that Holy Trinity is the Victorian church the other end of the High Street, and I came to the much older one, which happened to be open, but also explains the rest of the account below......
The passing of HM the Queen changed plans somewhat, but I didn't know that.
Sittingbourne is not a pretty town. It has a main road driven through the middle of it, and the area around the church, not pretty either. Four Ne'er-do-wells were drinking and smoking in the churchyard, and in time would attract the attention of two PCOs.
The blurb talked about visiting the crypt and so on, so I was looking forward to the visit. And upon entering, I was pretty much the only one looking round, in the south aisle a coffee shop had been set up.
A woman came up to me and asked:
"Are you SFM?", which I assume to be Swale FM, the local radio station.
I told her I wasn't. But then I did have my new Tron t shirt on, and and looked like a nerd. The actual nerd came out from behind the organ carrying leads and mics. He was SFM.
I introduced the woman to the guy and got on with my shots.
A voice behind me asked:
"Are you SFM?"
Again, I said I wasn't, but there was a guy around who was.
It seems a service was being broadcast, and they were setting up equipment, and in time members of the choir arrived and people carrying instruments. Either that or it was the mafia.
By then I had my shots, and so we made to leave, as yet more people came into the church, while outside people waited for the service to start.
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SITTINGBORNE.
THE next parish westward from Murston is Sittingborne, antiently written Sedingbourne, in Saxon, sœdingburna, i. e. the hamlet by the bourne, or small stream.
THE PARISH and town of Sittingborne is situated about forty miles from London, the high road from thence to Dover leading through it. The parish, though rather above the level of the marshes, which bound the northern side of it, from which the ground rises to the town, is still a damp situation, and both from the air and water is not accounted a healthy one, though much more so than several of the neighbouring parishes equally northward, than which it has a more chearful and populous aspect; from the town the ground still keeps rising southward till it joins Tunstall, in the road to which about a quarter of a mile from the town is a good modern house called Glovers, which lately belonged to Thomas Bannister, esq. who resided in it, and died in 1791, and his widow, Mrs. Bannister, now owns it; eastward from which, at about the same distance, are the estates of Chilston and Fulston, and Hysted Forstall, with Golden-wood at the boundary of the parish, part of which is within it, adjoining to Bapchild and Rodmersham. The parish, which is but small, contains little more than eight hundred acres of land, consisting of arable, pasture, orchards, hop ground, and woods. In the upper and western parts it is much inclined to chalk and thin land, but the rest of it is in general a fertile loam, especially about the town, which was formerly surrounded by orchards of apples and cherries, but many of them have been destroyed to make room for plantations of hops, which, however, are not so numerous as formerly, and several of those which remain are kept up only as nurseries for young plantations of fruit trees, to which they must soon in their turn give place. Northward from the town the grounds are entirely pasture and orchards, lying on a descent to the town of Milton and the creek, both about half a mile distant from it; on the latter is a key called Crown key, of great use to this part of the country for the exporting of corn and wood, and relanding the several commodities from London and elsewhere. At a small distance north-west from the town is Bayford-court.
It appears by a survey made in the 8th year of queen Elizabeth, that there was then in this parish houses inhabited eighty-eight; lacking inhabitants five; keys two, Crown key and Holdredge key; ships and boats three, two of one ton, and one of twenty-four tons.
THE town of Sittingborne is built on each side of the high road at the fortieth mile-stone from London, and stands on a descent towards the east. It is a wide, long street unpaved, the houses of which are mostly modern, being well built of brick, and sashed, the whole having a chearful aspect. The principal support of it has always been from the inns, and houses of reception in it for travellers, of which there are several.
The inhabitants boast much of John Northwood, esq. of Northwood, having entertained king Henry V. on his triumphant return from France, at the Red Lion inn, in this town; and though the entertainment was plentiful, and befitting the royalty of his guest, yet such was the difference of the times, that the whole expence of it amounted to no more than 9s. 9d. wine being then sold at two-pence a pint, and other articles in proportion. The principal inn now in it, called the Rose, is perhaps the most superb of any throughout the kingdom, and the entertainment afforded in it equally so, though the traveller probably will not find his reckoning near so moderate as that of John Northwood before-mentioned. About the middle of the opposite side of the town there is a good family seat, which was once the residence of the Tomlyn's, and then for many years of the Lushingtons, several of whom lie buried in this church, of whom a further mention has already been made under Rodmersham manor, which they possessed. At length Thomas Godfrey Lushington left it to reside at Canterbury, and his second son the Rev. James-Stephen Lushington, becoming possessed of it afterwards, sold it to Mr. John May, who resided in it for some time. Since which it has been converted into an inn. At this house, whilst in the possession of the Lushingtons, king George the 1st. and 11d. constantly lodged, whenever they travelled through this town, both in their way to, and return from visiting their German dominions.
The church and vicarage stand almost at the east end of the town, near which there rises a clear spring of water in the high road, which flows from thence northward into Milton creek.
Queen Elizabeth, by her charter, in her 16th year, incorporated the town of Sittingborne, by the name of a guardian and free tenants thereof; and granted to it a market weekly on a Wednesday, and two fairs yearly, the one at Whitsuntide, and the other at Michaelmas, with many other privileges: which charter was used for several years, and until the queen was pleased, through further favor to grant to it another more ample charter, in her 41st year, by which she incorporated this place, by the name of a mayor and jurats, and regranted the market and fairs, with the addition of a great number of privileges, and among others, of returning two members to parliament.
This charter does not appear ever to have been used, or the privileges in it exercised. The market, after having been used for several years, was dropped, and only the two yearly fairs have been kept up, which are still held on Whit-Monday and the two following days, for linen and toys, and on October 10, and the four following days, for linen, woollen, cloaths, hardward, &c. and on the second day of it, for the hiring of servants, both in the town, and in a field, called the Butts, at the back of it.
Lewis Theobald, the poet, made famous by Mr. Pope, in his Dunciad, was born at Sittingborne, his father being an attorney at this place.
SOME FEW of our antiquarians have been inclined to six the Roman station, called, in the second iter of Antonine, Durolevum, at or near Sittingborne; among which are Mr. Talbot, Dr. Horsley, Baxter, and Dr. Stukeley in his comment upon his favorite Richard of Cirencester; (fn. 1) but they have but little to offer in support of their conjecture, except the distances made use of in one or two copies, which are so different in many of them, that there is no trusting to any one in particular; consequently each alters them as it suits his own hypothesis best. The reader will find more of this subject under the description of both Lenham and Newington.
In the year 893, the Danes having fitted out a great number of ships, with an intention of ravaging the coasts of this kingdom, divided them into two fleets; with one of which they failed up the river Limene, or Rother, and with the other, under the command of Hastings, their captain, they entered the mouth of the river Thames, and landed at the neighbouring town of Milton. Near Milton they built a castle, at a place called Kemsley-down, about a quarter of a mile north-east from where the church of Milton now stands, which being overgrown with bushes, acquired the name of Castle rough. King Alfred, on receiving intelligence of these depredations, marched his forces towards Kent, and in order to flop their incursions, some time afterwards built on the opposite or eastern side of the creek, about a mile from the Danish intrenchments, a fortification, part of the ditches of which, and a small part of the stone-work, is still to be seen at Bayford-castle, in this parish.
Gerarde, the herbalist, found on the high road near this place,
Tragoriganum Dodonæi, goats marjorum of Dodo- næus.
Ruta muraria sive salvia vitæ, wall rue, or rue maidenhair; upon the walls of the church-yard here.
Colutea minima five coronilla, the smallest bastard sena; on the chalky barren grounds near Sittingborne, (fn. 2) and lately likewise by Mr. Jacob.
Hieracium maximum chondrillæ folio asperum; observed by Mr. John Sherard, very plentisully in the road from this place to Rochester.
Lychnis saponaria dicta, common sopewort; by him on the same road.
Tithymalus Hybernicus, Irish Spurge; between this place and Faversham.
Erysimum sophia dictum; found by Mr. Jacob, on the road sides near Sittingborne, and on the Standard Key.
Oenanthe cicutæ facie Lobellii, hemlock dropwort, found by him in the water lane between Sittingborne and Milton. (fn. 3)
THE MANOR OF MILTON is paramount over this parish, subordinate to which is
THE MANOR OF GOODNESTON, perhaps so called from its having been the property of Goodwyne, earl of Kent, who might have secured himself here at Bayford castle, in the year 1052, when having taken up arms against king Edward the Consessor, he raised an army, and ravaged the king's possessions, and among them the town of Milton, which he burnt to the ground.
On his death it most probably came to his son king Harold, and after the battle of Hastings into the hands of the crown, whence it seems to have been granted to the eminent family of Leyborne, of Leyborne, in this county. William, son of Roger de Leyborne, died possessed of it in the 3d year of king Edward II.
His grand-daughter Juliana, daughter of Thomas de Leyborne, who died in his life-time, became her grandfather's heir, and succeeded in this manor, to which she entitled her several husbands successively, all of whom she survived, and died S. P. in the 41st year of king Edward III. when no one being found, who could make claim to any of her estates, this manor, among the rest of them, escheated to the crown.
After which this manor of Goodneston, as it was then called, seems to have been granted by the crown to Robert de Nottingham, who resided at a seat adjoining to this manor, called
BAYFORD-CASTLE, where his ancestors had resided for several generations. Robert de Nottingham lived here in the reign of king Edward I. and dates several of his deeds apud castellum suum de Bayford, apud Goodneston. Robert de Nottingham, his successor, who became possessed of the manor of Goodneston as beforementioned, was sheriff in the 48th year of king Edward III. and kept his shrievalty at Bayford, bearing for his arms, Paly, wavy of two pieces, gules and argent, in which year he died, and was found by the inquisition to die possessed of lands at Sharsted, Pedding in Tenham, Newland, La Hirst, Higham in Milsted, Bixle, now called Bix, in Tong, and lastly, Goodneston, with Bayford, in Sittingborne; all which descended to his only son John Nottingham, who died without issue male, leaving Eleanor his daughter his sole heir, who marrying Simon Cheney, of Crall, in Sussex, second son of Sir Richard Cheney, of Shurland, he became, in her right, entitled to it. His grandson Humphry Cheney alienated both Goodneston and Bayford, at the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign, to Mr. Richard Lovelace, of Queenhyth, in London.
His son Launcelot Lovelace was of Bayford, and purchased the manor of Hever in Kingsdown, near Farningham, under which a more ample account of him and his descendants may be seen. His second son William, heir to his eldest brother Sir Richard, who died S. P. at length became possessed of Goodneston, with Bayford, at which he resided, and dying anno 17 king Henry VII. left two sons, John and William Lovelace, esqrs. who possessed this manor and seat between them; the former of whom resided at Bayford, where he died in the 2d year of Edward VI. holding the moiety of this manor in capite, by knight's service, and leaving seven sons, of whom Thomas Lovelace, esq. his eldest son, inherited his interest in this manor and seat. He procured his lands to be disgavelled, by the act passed anno 2 and 3 Edward VI. and afterwards in the 10th year of queen Elizabeth, together with his cousin William Lovelace, by a joint conveyance, alienated Goodneston, with Bayford, to Mr. Ralph Finch, of Kingsdown, in this neighbourhood, whose son Mr. Thomas Finch, of that place, passed it away by sale to Sir William Garrard, who had been lord mayor in 1555, whose ancestors had been of this parish for several generations before, and perhaps were seated at Fulston in it, as many of them lie buried, in the chancel belonging to that seat, in this church. (fn. 4)
He died in 1571, and was buried in St. Magnus's church, in London, bearing for his arms, Argent, on a fess sable, a lion passant of the field; which arms, borne by his ancestors, are carved on the roof of the cloysters at Canterbury. After which it descended down to his grandson Sir John Garrard, or Gerrard, as this family now began to spell their name, who was of Whethamsted, in Hertfordshire, and was created a baronet in 1621. He was succeeded in it by his eldest son of the same name (at which time Bayford was become no more than a farm-house, being called Bayford-court farm). He died in 1700, leaving an only daughter and heir Mary, who carried the manor of Goodneston, with Bayford, among the rest of her inheritance, in marriage to Montague Drake, esq. of Shardeloes, in Agmondesham, in Buckinghamshire, who bore for his arms, Argent, a wivern, with wings displayed, and tail moved, gules. In whose descendants it continued down to William Drake, esq. M. P. for the borough of Agmondesham, as his ancestors had been, some few intermissions only excepted, ever since its being restored to its privilege of sending members to parliament, as a borough, anno 21 James I. He died possessed of this estate in 1796, and his heirs are at this time possessed of it.
A court baron is held for the manor of Goodneston, with Bayford.
CHILTON is a manor situated in the south-east part of this parish, which was formerly accounted a manor, and had owners of that furname, who held the manor of Chilton in Ash, near Sandwich, both which William de Chilton held at his death in the 31st year of king Edward I. one of whose descendants, in the beginning of king Edward III.'s reign, passed it away to Corbie, whose descendant Robert Corbie, of Boughton Malherb, died possessed of this manor of Chilton, alias Childeston, in the 39th year of that reign. (fn. 5) After which it passed by a female heir of this name in like manner as Boughton Malherb, to the family of Wotton, and from them again to the Stanhopes, (fn. 6) in which it continued till Philip, earl of Chesterfield, about the year 1725, alienated it to Richard Harvey, esq. of Dane-court, whose grandson, the Rev. Richard Harvey, died possessed of it in 1772, leaving his widow surviving, since which it has been sold to Balduck, and by him again to Mr. George Morrison, who now owns it, and resides in it.
FULSTON, called antiently Fogylston, was a large mansion, situated at a small distance southward from Chilton last-described, which, from the burials of the Garrards in the chancel belonging to this estate in Sittingborne church, seems to have been the early residence of that family in this parish. However that be, in the reign of Henry VIII. it was become the estate and residence of John Cromer, esq. the third son of Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall, who died in 1539, and was buried in this church, leaving his three daughters his coheirs; and in one of the windows of this church were the arms of John Cromer, esq. of Fulston, and his two wives, Guldeford and Grove, and their several quarterings.
Probably, by his will, or by a former entail, on his dying without male issue, this seat descended to his nephew Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall, whose grandson, of the same name, dying without male issue in 1613, Christian, one of his daughters and coheirs carried it in marriage to John Hales, esq. eldest son of Sir Edward Hales, of Tenterden, knight and baronet, as has been already more fully mentioned before under Tunstall, and in his descendants it has continued down to Sir Edward Hales, bart. of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, the present owner of it. The greatest part of this mansion has been pulled down within memory, and a neat farm-house has been erected on the ruins of it.
Charities.
JOHN ALLEN, of Sittingborne, by his will in 1615, gave 40s. per annum for repairing the alms-houses in Crown-key-lane, and firing for the poor in them, to be paid out of Glovers, now Mrs. Bannister's.
ROBERT HODSOLE, by will in 1684, gave 10s. per annum to the poor, payable every Christmas-day yearly, out of Mrs. Rondeau's land.
JOHN GRANT, by will in 1689, gave 20s. per annum, to be paid in corn and bread on January 1, out of Mrs. Trott's farm.
FIVE SEAMS of boiling peas are yearly paid from the parsonage, to be distributed to the poor on every Christmas-day yearly.
KATHERINE DICKS, by her will, left the sum of 25l. to be put out on land security, the interest of it to be said out for ever in six two-penny loaves, to be given to six poor widows &c. who attend divine service, beginning every year on the first Sunday after Christmas-day, of the annual produce of 1l.
The poor annually relieved are about forty; casually eight hundred and fifty.
SITTINGBORNE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JU RISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deany of Sittingborne
The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is a large, handsome building, of three isles and two chancels, and two cross ones; at the west end is a tower beacon steeple, in which is a clock, a set of chimes, and six bells.
On the stone font, which is an octagon, are the arms of archbishop Arundel, a shield, having on it a cross story; and another with the emblems of Christ's crucifixion on it.
On the 17th of July, 1762, the wind being exceeding high, a fire broke out on the roof of this church, occasioned by the plumbers, who were repairing the leads, having left their fire burning during their absence at dinner, which consumed the whole of it, except the bare walls and the tower. Next year a brief passed for rebuilding of it, which with the contribution of the inhabitants, and a gift of fifty pounds from archbishop Secker, they were enabled to set about.
This was stopped for some little time by the owners of the three chancels, belonging to the Bayford, Chilton, and Fulston estates, refusing to contribute to the rebuilding of them, and they were at length rebuilt at the same cost with the rest of the church; and the whole of it was afterwards completed and fitted up in a very handsome manner. By the fire the monuments against the walls were destroyed, and most of the gravestones broken by the falling of the timbers. The latter, in the rebuilding of the church, have, the greatest part of them, been most absurdly removed from the graves over which they lay, to other parts of the church, and some even from the church-yard, as it suited to make the pavement complete; so that there is now hardly a guess to be made, where the bodies lie, that the inscriptions commemorate, but the gravestones of the Lushingtons, I believe, were none of them removed. In the south cross chancel belonging to the estate of Fulston, is a monument for Thos. Bannister, gent. obt. 1750, arms, Argent, a cross story, sable. The brass plate, on which the inscription was, for John Crowmer, of Fulston, and his two wives, in this chancel, being loose, there was found on the under side of it one in Latin, for Robert Rokele, esq. once dwelling with the most revered lady, the lady Joane de Bohun, countess of Hereford, Essex, and Northton, who died in 1421, an instance of œconomy which has been discovered at times in other churches.
The south-east chancel belonged to the Chilton estate; there are many gravestones of the family of Lushington in it. Dr. Lushington's monument was entirely destroyed at the time of the fire. In the upper part of this chancel is a vault, belonging to the Chilton estate, in which is only one coffin, of Mr. Harvey, who died in 1751, and a great quantity of bonespiled up at one end of it.
The archdeacon's court, in which he holds his visitation, is at the upper end of this chancel.
The coats of arms in the windows of the church, which were many, were entirely destroyed, and they have been since entirely resitted with modern glass.
The middle chancel is the archbishop's, and belongs to the parsonage; in which there is a memorial for Mathew, son of Sir John, and grandson of archbishop Parker, who died in 1645. The north chancel is made use of now as a vestry. The north cross chancel belongs to the Bayford estate. In the north wall of it there is the effigies of a woman, lying at length, in the hollow of the wall, with an arch, carved and ornamented, over her, and midway between the arch and figure, a flat table stone of Bethersden marble: the whole of it seems very antient.
In this church there was, before the reformation, a chantry, called Busherb's chantry.
The church of Sittingborne belonged to the Benedictine nunnery of Clerkenwell, to which it was appropriated before the 8th year of king Richard II. and it remained part of the revenues of it till its dissolution, in the 31st year of king Henry VIII.'s reign.
¶This church thus coming into the king's hands, seems to have remained part of the revenues of the crown till queen Elizabeth, in her 3d year, granted the parsonage of it, with the advowson of the vicarage, the former being then valued at 13l. 6s. 8d. to archbishop Parker. Since which they have continued parcel of the possessions of the archbishopric, and remain so at this time.
The parsonage has been from time to time leased out on a benesicial lease, at the yearly rent of 13l. 6s. 8d. In 1643 John Olebury, gent. was lessee; in later times, Cockin Sole, esq. of Bobbing, whose son John Cockin Sole, esq. died possessed of it in 1790, since which this lease has been sold under the directions of his will.
In the 8th year of king Richard II. this parsonage was valued at 23l. 6s. 8d.
In 1578, on a survey of the diocese of Canterbury, it was returned, that this parsonage was impropriate to the queen's majesty; the vicarage also in her gift; dwelling-houses eighty; communicants three hundred; the tenths twenty shillings.
The vicarage is valued in the king's books at ten pounds, the yearly tenths being one pound. In 1640, it was valued at fifty-six pounds. Communicants three hundred and eighty.
The vicarage is situated not far from the north side of the church-yard, adjoining to which is the only piece of glebe land belonging to it.
Dr Stuart Clark performing at the Universe Explained at Gorilla, Manchester, on Saturday 20th July 2013
Nith Navigation September 2015
Ships, shanties, burgers and boules:
T’was another early start for most of our intrepid explorers as this week’s adventure took us westwards and upwards to Dumfries and the Nith Navigation Race. Ours was a truly Northumbrian contingent as members of three clubs banded together to crew “Coquet Spirit”. Huge thanks to those good folks who joined us, bringing their energy, enthusiasm (and Tupperware boxes) and helping make this trip happen (hurrah!)
We cheerfully observed the ever darkening skies as we crossed the A69 and we're motivated en route by texts from those crew-mates who had travelled the previous evening, explaining their relaxing morning and full Scottish breakfast in detail (cheers folks!). Rain turned into more rain but we managed to seek solace in the fact we were heading for a marginally lighter shade of grey! (Skiffies are waterproof anyway!) The puddles at the sides of the road raised columns of water as we rattled along the narrow country lanes, the view at times akin to the parting of the red sea. At one point we considered taking the boat off the trailer and rowing along the road itself.
It wasn’t long however before the horizon on the sat nav turned from green to blue and we found ourselves at our destination. Opening the car door and alighting we found we’d parked next to a sign that cheerfully welcomed us with the words “Warning, fast tides and quicksand” (I must admit our hearts leapt a bit with excitement at the tides… and a touch of trepidation at the quicksand)
We quickly dashed across the car park to seek welcome shelter. Here we commented thankfully on the genius of planning a row that started at a café and ended at a pub.
We’d poured into the café at 9.00 only to be told that they didn’t really open for another hour, but the cheerful chap happily agreed to tear up the rule book and furnish us with tea and bacon rolls anyway… it wasn’t however until 10.00 that he put the lights on !!! By this time the room was filling with skiffies and the car park was filling with water as we watched the tide start to hurtle by the windows. Today’s tide wasn’t particularly high (but still a belter by east coast standards) so the anticipated tidal bore wasn’t as dramatic as previously recorded (8 to 10m tides !!!!) .. But there certainly was still some cracking energy in the water. The Cox’s briefing pointed us to the fastest part of the flow and with a wicked grin we were advised to “use this to our advantage”. It was a short drag to the slip where fully-loaded skiffs were pushed down to the water by diesel power and floated off into the current for an energetic row back up to the starting point (against the tide).We chose the "push to the edge and clarty feet" option to save removing electrics etc. Thankfully someone had cleared the silt from the slip so we could tell it apart from the "sinky stuff" Once back up at the starting point, crews had steered themselves into the mud banks to get some purchase before a staged start (partly to avoid clutter and partly because you’d never get boats to stop in that current .. never mind line up!) and with a wave….we were off…….
The first half of the six mile course was ably assisted by the tide, then time to lengthen out the strokes and pick up the pace a touch. Eager heads were cast over shoulders to try and gauge the field in comparison to our relative starting positions as Boatie Blest (starting last) grew from a spec on the horizon to pass us in the last few minutes. For a while we held our own and it was great to race through the bridges together. Before we knew it chequered flags were waived (by Elsie from Gosforth!!) and all crews applauded each other’s efforts as a close field came in one shortly after the other. A quick draw of breath saw the last of the rain pass and skies clear in time for a row in company back down the river. This time we took the opportunity to look at the scenery we’d obviously ignored on the way down. This included a derelict mill building that looked as if it came straight out of an episode of Scooby Doo (Mr Grimes the caretaker would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for those meddling skiffs!!).
With the sun out and in clear water we broke into a few “traditional” shanties (artistic license and local flavour applied aplenty as usual!!) before turning and mooring up at Kingholme Quay, alongside tall ship La Malouine. Here boats were admired and oars/footrests/mascots/blisters compared before the “skiff extraction machine” swung into action. At this point chains and strops were secured and lowered over the quay edge and skiffs were lifted from the water, swung around and deftly lowered to their waiting trailers (thanks guys!!). Several fingernails may have been bitten as the first skiff was lifted, but these were quickly forgotten and the clubs all pulled together checking landings, moving trailers and unhooking/re-hooking chains. Here new friendships were made and old ones rekindled … all with the re-assuring squelch of mud underfoot. Rob revisited the “shuggy boats” of our youth as he was lifted to land aboard the final skiff as Geoff and Jenny furnished the masses with pasties and chilli infused scotch eggs from Tupperwares 1 and 2)
With the boats safely on trailers we adjourned to the pub where skiffies of all ages filled the room with hearty chatter. At this point Ian and Elsie broke out Tupperwares 3 and 4 supplying the table with Rocky Road and flapjacks (fruit well soaked) before Roy (our gracious host) announced that food was served and we were treated to a mountain of cracking burgers and sausage buns. All were well and truly stuffed when glasses were "pinged" to herald the announcement that more burgers had arrived… well? It would be rude not to would it ?? Buttons were universally unfastened and attention drawn to the presentations where all crews received a commemorative bottle of whisky featuring the fair Malouine herself (a really nice touch, thanks) and apologies made for lack of planned cheese due to an accident involving the “cheese man” (we all wish him well!!) The final presentation was made to the deserved winners Boatie Blest (hip hip……)
At this point hugs and handshakes are normally exchanged and folks make their way home, however this is not the way of Nith. Seconds later a stranger in a beret carrying a French flag entered from stage left (looking uncannily like our host) and we were marched to the riverside for the first “Coastal Rowing Boules Tournament” a respectful nod to the lineage of the fair ship to our left. The rules were explained, heats were drawn and eager skiffies set about examining the equipment and discussing proposed technique. Watched by an enthusiastic crowd the crews ran through two qualifiers and a final with Troon taking the inaugural title followed by three hearty and well deserved cheers for our hosts and all involved…. (Absolutely cracking way to round off a day)
The sun was now well and truly beaming and we toddled up to the tall ship and were welcomed and offered open access to “climb aboard and take to look”. Here we were regaled with tales of the ship’s chequered history from Icebreaker to party boat in Martinique to the theft of its sails in France and how it ultimately found residence here. We did all but climb the rigging before bidding Roy a fond farewell with a promise to return (any other NE skiffs fancy coming next year and staying over perhaps??)
By now we’re used to these stories extending (brevity is not, I’m afraid, a gift that I posses to any great degree) and today was to be no exception …so we settled back in the beer garden for a quick beverage and the remnants of Tupperwares 1,2,3 and 4 (sounds like the ACRC equivalent of Thunderbirds!!) Conversation was varied and eclectic and shifted from boat and surfboard building through to 18 month sourdough cultures to the absorbency of bread buns and “whims”. As if fate couldn’t have arranged a better day already, a lady from behind the bar came out to our table with an additional beer stating simply that “it was our lucky day”. We responded in the only manner we knew how, tastefully arranging a plate from our respective Tupperwares, taking it into the bar and reciprocating her sentiment word for word….. Happy days indeed!
Farewells were finally exchanged as we recounted the day’s events and were again astounded at what you can fit into 12 hours when you’ve got a skiff, some water and good company…
Huge thanks to all involved.
Right then fellow adventurers……… what’s next ???
Note: Apologies that there are no actual race photos to accompany this …. Maybe someone can help us out?
Ahhhh, yes, the PC crashed. Really. 4 weeks ago during my week of house-sitting with no internet. Then, I set off on more trips, gatherings, then work again, and finally... I am back at the odd post. Now Elements has been reinstalled, yahoo passwords recovered... may the posting continue now.
This was from shortly after the crash... reuinion with my friends Natascha and Juergen in Berlin. A great day, topped off with a faboulous concert at the Komische Oper - but of course no photos of that.
On 1-12-15 I wrote this description to the pictures I labeled as #1 to “#34 D of nukes, VJ day & 911”. It's because the Sweet and Low T-shirt I'm wearing led to a “theory of relativity” revelation that I explained in class #4 vimeo.com/116519992, here's the title:
#4 has a Sweet & Low "theory of relativity" explanation of Pearl Harbor, the 911 disaster and a “Heal The World” Christmas present from heaven.
The best Christmas present seemed to be class L123 (2-2013) because it has the most divine signs to assure us that there will be no nuclear war on earth. It includes the warning I gave on 12-18-02 that the USA was in danger of a nuclear war and the letter I wrote to six states on 9-21-04 saying we’d been delivered from the threat of the nuclear war. I got more confirmations of that on 12-7-04 at Pearl Harbor at pictures #23 to 32. Like #31 is a picture of a rainbow going through “the Christmas tree” on the USS Missouri. That was just like pictures #23, 24 & 25 at the Bowfin submarine museum of nuclear warheads pointed at a kid standing by a Christmas tree. These were big confirmations of the signs I got that we had been delivered from the threat of nuclear war especially because of another example when heaven took away our fears and gave us a Merry Christmas in it's place in 1993.
From class 216 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfKJYXCgGNg&index=14&list....
In this video I explained that people were afraid of all the end of the world signs that were so obvious by December 1993, (it started with Desert Storm in January 1991). I was eating dinner at a restaurant in Waikiki when I heard a Christmas song and realized the answer to those “end of the world” fears was to get into the spirit of Christmas, it was a Christmas present from heaven to trade fear for a merry Christmas that year. This starts with a view of Waikiki where I was eating that dinner and the Christmas song I heard called “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of Year”.
These pictures at Flickr started when I was called, (loud and clear from heaven), to go to Pearl Harbor about four times a year from 1999 to my last visit on 9-2-05. One reason why is what I wrote at Pearl Harbor picture #2 at Flickr.
In my hotel room in Olgalala Nebraska in 1994 I saw cartoon of how much Porky pig hated history, (it was my worst subject in school), and the spirits of the founding fathers were teaching him that it's worth learning about. It's like the picture (#5 D of nukes) of me having a drink with a cigar, (because I needed two cigar breaks to get through a day at Pearl Harbor). After my third visit to Pearl Harbor at my cigar break I noticed on the cans of Nestea a snowman and a sign that said “it cools you to the core”. I knew it was a sign so I said to God, “I’m not getting anything out of this but I'll keep coming if you say it's going to cool me to the core”. I finally got up to speed on Pearl Harbor just before the 9/11 disaster which was like the saying “those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it” and that is main reason why we got a repeat of Pearl Harbor on 9/11/01. In other words it was the founding fathers teaching Pearl Harbor to the rest of the Porky pigs in the United States. I just realized that might be in the Beatles song, Come together, right now
Over me.
He roller coaster
HE GOT EARLY WARNING
He got muddy water
He one mojo filter
He say one and one and one is three
Got to be good looking
'Cause he's so hard to see [that’s don't exceed your 15 minutes of fame(?)]
Come together, right now
Over me
There's too much to write on this so I'll just provide links to the classes where talked about this before, like at this last paragraph at class L112 vimeo.com/50116128 or see my patriotic playlist at YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVDkjTNqYqh0ylmTqlRo-H5dVl....
This is a list of my patriotic classes at vimeo.com/user8696549 and www.viddler.com/channel/Mikeoverson.
#186a vimeo.com/32431850 & b vimeo.com/32431994 were first then 169 and 161, (the links are below). Class 161 is about The Pentagon Wars and classes 99, 103 and L109 have nearly an hour patriotism. I condensed L109 into L112 and made L113 vimeo.com/50390744 to go with it then I summed it all up in class L123 vimeo.com/60109388. Class 171 vimeo.com/43436258 is how America needs to get the magic of patriotism back. Class L97 vimeo.com/45990216 shows the difference in human rights and freedom in the USA verses in Europe. I tell a sweeter version of that at my YouTube
playlist PL11 www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVDkjTNqYqh1adV--hsXO4URt4..., it's at the fourth video, class L127C or read my patriotic playlist
PL7 www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVDkjTNqYqh0ylmTqlRo-H5dVl....
PL6 has similar info and so does PL1 to PL5 at www.youtube.com/channel/UC3-RWtlOIS_k_TbVkYj_c5Q/playlists.
A video plays on page 1 & 2 at MikeOversonEndTimes.org to explain why you need to be tolerant of a teacher, prophet and "the one" who is a disabled mess on welfare, (it's because this is the best your money and applause would pay for). It's also where I have more patriotic classes like on page 3 at #182a1 is 1776 & Vietnam @ 38 to 54 min.
Here's what I wrote at Pearl Harbor picture #1 here at Flickr.
Pearl Harbor picture #7 is nearly the same view as this picture #1 except it's from the other side of the Arizona and the Mo. I think only God could arrange for that aircraft carrier and crew to provide a perfect completion and balance of these pictures. It's just another example of how magic our military is like I said at class 161 vimeo.com/33034450, (after the first three paragraphs the rest is just extra info).
When I was trying to find out why this 161 was such a special class it seemed to be due to how much I paid attention to military, (=rq704pm on vets day 11-11-13 is a big confirmation). When it happened again in classes 99 vimeo.com/36995187 and L109 vimeo.com/49352072 I finally gave proper credits in L123 vimeo.com/60109388 when I said "the most magic in my classes always comes from touching base with the greatness of the US military, so here's the the American Revolution and World War II" @ 54 min. If the US military is this much good luck and magic when when you're doing bad, (the first 11 minutes of 161 is about corruption in the military), imagine what it would be like when you're doing good, (read 206 vimeo.com/76811342).
From class 169 vimeo.com/30629125.
I was hoping that God would bless us with a visit from heaven in this 169 if I put America’s heros first (@ 1 to 15 min) and that’s exactly what happened. One reason that is so important to God is because it’s impossible to comprehend all that God has done for us but a very good parallel is to pay proper respect to the sacrifices of America’s heros, (or any heros of faith like Ghandi or Bible heros). This 169 was the start of the AWESOME military magic in classes 161, 99, L109, L112 & L123 and all because I loved porn so much that I thought up a new angle to beg God to bless us with a visit. See how impressed God was with me @ 8 min in L5b vimeo.com/35772901.
The best two 15 minute summaries of this military magic and US history are in classes L112 vimeo.com/50116128 and L127c vimeo.com/107209155. I watch them both on a regular basis because it's such a good refresher course.
From class 194 @ vimeo.com/90080993.
The Eagles reunite CD titled "Hell Freezes Over" was also a prophetic "see (c//) parallel" confirmation sign and combined with my "rhythm nation" drive, (& many other c// signs), it all added up to a loud and clear sign to the USA and the world that everyone is going to heaven when they die. Another big proof of it is class 161 because it covers the next 16 years of my life to 2011. It includes when my "Rhythm Nation drive" ended and I flew back to Hawaii on 1-11-95, then it explains why I had to pray at least eight hours a day from March to September of 1995, (the #955 means "stay alive in 95" and only those long prayers could've kept me from being killed). Then I tell about "the powers that be" who persecuted me up to the 9-11 disaster and then backed off, here's a summary of it from the comments at
L99 vimeo.com/46238993.
Next was my way of mocking THE FBI ON 8-28-01, we were both saying that each other would die except MY PREDICTION CAME TRUE and theirs didn't. It's in class 161 @ 40 minutes where I said “Squirm you (powerless) worms I won big-time and you know it. Except I didn’t know HOW BIG I WON until after the 9/11 disaster”. Then I put it in class L127 vimeo.com/105315202 at 4 to 8 minutes, here's the title:
L127 is Walt Disney's 1948 prophecy of me as Pecos Bill saying to the powers that be “squirm you powerless worms!”
I could do that mainly due to how powerful prayer is to conquer evil and how important prayer is to God at 20 to 32 minutes in this 161.
From class 167:
I made #167 after Vimeo deleted 53 of my videos over copyright violations. I explained the apparent wrath of God that followed when 36 people were shot in New York over the Labor Day weekend in the 9-5-11 news, in other words Vimeo should watch class 167 before deleting messages from heaven over copyright violations, (this video #161 sums it up much better at 39 to 55 minutes).
My rock'n roll playlist PL11, (& PL2, 3, 5 & 9), at www.youtube.com/channel/UC3-RWtlOIS_k_TbVkYj_c5Q/playlists might best sum up the end of these classes or read L112 vimeo.com/50116128.
The Bottom Line of my classes is THE POWER OF PRAYER in L124 @ vimeo.com/63452028.
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This is a photograph from the annual St. Coca's AC 5KM Road Race 2013 which was held in Kilcock, Co. Kildare, Ireland at 20:00 on Friday 27th June 2013. This superb road race is now firmly established again as one of the fastest and best organised road races of it's kind in Leinster. The course is left handed and starts outside the 'Bawn Og' St. Coca's AC track. It then proceeds around a well known local walking route around Laragh and in the closing kilometer runs parallel to the Royal Canal into the finish at the railway station. The members of St. Coca's AC and the many volunteers from the local community must be given great praise for organising another fantastic night of racing for runners, joggers, and walkers. The 5KM course is very flat with the exception of short incline up a motorway overpass and makes its way along narrow country lanes sheltered on either side by hedgerows. The weather was dry and humid and this made a good evening for an enjoyable night for everyone with a large crowd gathering at the finish to cheer on participants. Over 400 people participated in the race. There was a fantastic spread of refreshments (cakes, biscuits, sandwiches and hot drinks) in the school afterwards.
We have a large set of photographs from the event today. The full set is accessible at: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157645423471903/
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q
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2014 St. Coca's 5KM Results www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2056
GPS Trace of the 5KM Course (course hasn't changed in a few years) connect.garmin.com/activity/194011978
St. Coca's AC Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/stcocas.ac?ref=ts&fref=ts
St. Coca's Race Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/stcocas.roadrace?ref=ts&fref=ts
Start/finish area on Google Maps [Start: www.google.ie/maps/@53.397601,-6.675909,15z Finish: goo.gl/maps/3kPKq] are all within easy access of race HQ and the local village.
Google Streetview of the Location of the Race Finish: goo.gl/maps/3kPKq
Our Flickr Photograph Set of the St. Coca's 5KM 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157634382263872/
Our Flickr Photograph Set of the St. Coca's 5KM 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157630347296616/
Our Flickr Photograph Set of the St. Coca's 5KM 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627042558602/
The Boards.ie Discussion Forum Thread about the Race in 2014: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057223729
The Boards.ie Discussion Forum Thread about the Race in 2013: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056954512
Read the Irish Heart Foundation Booklet on the "Slí na Sláinte" which the race encorporates: www.irishheart.ie/media/pub/slinaslainte/maps/kilcock.pdf
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EarthKeepers II (EK II) Project Coordinator Kyra Fillmore Ziomkowski explains creating 30 interfaith community gardens (2013-2014) across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that include vegetables and native species plants that encourage and help pollinators like bees and butterflies.
The video was shot on April 5, 2013 at the Big Bay Point Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast in Big Bay, MI during a meeting of EK II representatives.
An Interfaith Energy Conservation and Community Garden Initiative Across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Restore Native Plants and Protect the Great Lakes from Toxins like Airborne Mercury in cooperation with the EPA Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, U.S. Forest Service, 10 faith traditions and Native American tribes such as Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
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Rapid River, MI
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“Albert Einstein speculated once that if bees disappeared off the surface of the earth, then humans would have only four years of life left.”
the late Todd Warner, KBIC Natural Resource Director
Links:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:
Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project
www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-pr...
www.cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagki...
Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):
KBIC Pollinator Preservation
www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...
Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay www.indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/0...
Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E
United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o
2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4
2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI
Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:
www.webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSectio...
Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
USFS Success Stories:
Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
News Stories:
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...
Effort to protect pollinators launched
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):
www.mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators
www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view...
Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...
Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729
Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:
ZaagkiiProject on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject
www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject
Zaagkii on youtube:
Zaagkii on bliptv:
Zaagkii on word press:
www.zaagkiiproject.wordpress.com
Zaagkii on Blogger:
www.zaagkiiproject.blogspot.com
Zaagkii on Photobucket:
www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds
www.photobucket.com/ZaagkiiProjectWingsSeeds/?start=all
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project website:
Cedar Tree Institute: Zaagkii Project
cedartreeinstitute.org/2010/07/wings-seeds-zaagkii-project
cedartreeinstitute.org/2009/01/wings-seeds-the-zaagkii-pr...
Zaagkii Project Videos on youtube (also uploaded to dozens of internet sites):
KBIC Pollinator Preservation
indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/08/15...
Zaagkii Project Indigenous Plants Help Give New Face to Sand Point on Keweenaw Bay indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ictarchives/2008/09/03...
Zaagkii Project 2010: U.S. Forest Service & Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoq5xXHDF4E
United States Forest Service sponsored Zaagkii Project featured on Pollinator Live
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P3DPfxx7Jw
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #9: Teens Painting Mason Bee Houses in Northern Michigan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIIV6jrlT20
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #8: Marquette, Michigan Teens Build Mason Bee Houses
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3MBfV7ION8
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #6: "The Butterfly Lady" Susan Payant teaches teens about Monarchs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlIgsuTFSuM
2009 Zaagkii Project Vid #5: Terracotta half-life, Marquette, MI band supports environment projects
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqlFCHwW30o
2009 Zaagkii Video #4: Michigan teens meet 150,000 swarming honeybees with beekeeper Jim Hayward
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2B4MEzM7w4
2009 Zaagkii Video #3: Michigan teens give away mason bee houses, honor supporters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqfWeEgDxTY
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Historic KBIC native plants greenhouse, USFS protects pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8H5nhvzzc
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Students make bee houses, plant native species plants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8jqJAQyXwE
Zaagkii Project Butterfly Houses: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, U.S. Forest Service:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQScEI9x7Q
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens, KBIC tribal youth protect pollinators
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoPJOXHt7pI
Zaagkii Project – Northern Michigan University:
webb.nmu.edu/Centers/NativeAmericanStudies/SiteSections/A...
Native Village stories: Beautiful Layout by Owner Gina Boltz:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: A Project by Ojibwe Students from the Keweenah Bay Indian Community
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
NMU Students Join Pollinator Protection Initiative
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
KBIC Tribal youth protect pollinators
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
Teens Help with Sweet Nature Project
www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/KBIC...
USFS Success Stories:
Restoring Native Plants on the Enchanted Island
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6274
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plant Greenhouse & Workshop
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5499
Intertribal Nursery Council Annual Meeting a Success
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=6276
New Greenhouse for KBIC Restoration
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5336
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds - An Update
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=5076
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project
www.fs.fed.us/r9/ssrs/story?id=4025
News Stories:
U.P. teens build butterfly houses, grow 26,000 indigenous plants
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/519835.html?...
Effort to protect pollinators launched
www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/512810.html
Marquette Monthly (Sept. 2009):
mmnow.com/mm_archive_folder/09/0909/feature.html
As bees die, Keweena Bay Indian Community adults, teens actively protect pollinators
nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
Michigan Teens Build Butterfly Houses and Plant 26,000 Native Plants through the Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project
www.treehugger.com/culture/michigan-teens-build-butterfly...
Examples of numerous Gather.com articles with lots of photos/videos:
Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan teens and KBIC tribal youth are protecting pollinators by building butterfly houses and planting native plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977550233
Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project: Protecting Pollinators
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977428640
2009 Zaagkii Project #2: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in 2010 to build first Native American native species plants greenhouse on tribal property in U.S.
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040745
2009 Zaagkii Project #1: Northern Michigan Teens Protect Pollinators with U.S. Forest Service, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, NMU Center for Native American Studies: Build mason bee houses, butterfly houses, distribute thousands of native species plants
www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978040729
Zaagkii Project Internet sites – blogs, photos, videos etc.:
ZaagkiiProject on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/zaagkiiproject
www.flickr.com/people/zaagkiiproject
Zaagkii on youtube:
Zaagkii on bliptv:
Zaagkii on word press:
Zaagkii on Blogger:
Zaagkii on Photobucket:
A midway worker explains how the game worrks to three prospective players at the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, Minnesota.
from wikipedia
Street photography is photography that features the human condition within public places and does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. The subject of the photograph might be absent of people and can be an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.
Framing and timing are key aspects of the craft, with the aim of creating images at a decisive or poignant moment. Much of what is now widely regarded, stylistically and subjectively, as definitive street photography was made in the era spanning the end of the 19th Century through to the late 1970s; a period which saw the emergence of portable cameras. The portable camera enabled candid photography in public places became an issue of discussion. Street photographers create fine art photography (including street portraits) by capturing people in public places, often with a focus on emotions displayed, thereby also recording people's history from an emotional point of view. Social documentary photographers operate in public places documenting people and their behavior in public places for recording people's history and other purposes. Services like Google Street View also record the public place at a massive scale. Photojournalists work in public places, capturing newsworthy events, which may include people and private property visible from public places.
Origins[edit]
Europe[edit]
Paris is widely accepted as the birthplace of street photography.[citation needed] The cosmopolitan city helped to define street photography as a genre.[citation needed]
Eugene Atget is regarded as the father of the genre, not because he was the first of his kind, but as a result of his popularity as a Parisian photographer.[citation needed] As the city developed, Atget helped to promote the city streets as a worthy subject for photography. He worked in the city of Paris from the 1890s to the 1920s. His subject matter consisted mainly of architecture; stairs, gardens, and windows. He did photograph some workers but it is clear that people were not his main focus.
John Thomson, a Scotsman, photographed the street prior to Atget and had more of a social subject style than Atget. Though he does not receive the same amount of recognition, Thomson was vital in the transition from portrait and pictorial photography to capturing everyday life on the streets.[1]
Henri Cartier-Bresson, who has a reputation comparable to Atget, was a 20th-century photographer whose poetic style focused on the actions of people. He was responsible for the idea of taking a picture at the ideal moment. He was influenced by his interest in traditional art, as his ambition was to be a painter. This influence is revealed through his skill in combining timing and technique.[2]
United States[edit]
The beginnings of street photography in the United States can be linked to that of jazz in the music domain, both emerging as outspoken depictions of everyday life. This connection is visible in the work of the New York School of Photography. The New York School was not a formal institution, but rather comprised groups of photographers in the mid-20th century based in New York City. One of its most notable and influential photographers, Robert Frank, was a part of the beat movement interested in Black-American and counter cultures. Frank's 1958 book, The Americans, was significant. Raw and often out of focus,[3] Frank's images questioned mainstream photography of the time, such as Ansel Adams's landscapes, "challenged all the formal rules laid down by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans" and "flew in the face of the wholesome pictorialism and heartfelt photojournalism of American magazines like Life and Time."[3] The mainstream photography community in America fiercely rejected Frank’s work, but the book later "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it".[3] It was a stepping stone for fresh photographers looking to break away from the restrictions of the old style[1] and "remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century."[3]
Inspired by Frank, in the 1960s Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and Joel Meyerowitz began photographing on the streets of New York. Phil Coomes, writing for BBC News in 2013, said "For those of us interested in street photography there are a few names that stand out and one of those is Garry Winogrand";[4] critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said "In the 1960s and 70s, he defined street photography as an attitude as well as a style – and it has laboured in his shadow ever since, so definitive are his photographs of New York."[5]
Technique[edit]
Eddie Wexler: East Village, New York City, 1998
Most kinds of portable camera are used for street photography; for example rangefinders, digital and film SLRs, and point-and-shoot cameras. A commonly used focusing technique is zone focusing — setting a fixed focal distance and shooting from that distance — as an alternative to manual-focus and autofocus. The traditional (but not exclusive) focal lengths of 28 to 50 mm (in 35 mm terms), are used particularly for their angle of view and increased depth of field, but there are no exclusions to what might be used. Zone focusing also facilitates shooting "from the hip" i.e. without bringing the camera up to the eye. Alternatively waist-level finders and the tiltable LCD screens of digital cameras allow for composing or adjusting focus without bringing unwanted attention to the photographer.
Street photography versus documentary photography[edit]
Street photography and documentary photography can be very similar genres of photography that often overlap while having distinct individual qualities.
Documentary style is defined by its premeditated message and intention to record particular events in history. The documentary approach includes aspects of journalism, art, education, sociology and history. In documentary's social investigation, often the images are intended to pave way to social change. Street photography is disinterested in its nature, allowing it to deliver a true depiction of the world.[6] Street photographs are mirror images of society, displaying "unmanipulated" scenes, with usually unaware subjects.[2]
Legalities[edit]
Several legal cases in the United States and other countries, for example the Nussenzweig v. DiCorcia case, have established that taking, publishing and selling street photography (including street portraits) is legal without any need for the consent of those whose image appears in the photos, because photography is protected as free speech and artistic expression by the First Amendment in the US and Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights in the European Union.[7]
The issue of street photographers taking photos of strangers in public places without their consent (which is the definition of candid photography) for fine art purposes has been controversial in some countries, notably France,[8] even though France was the home of several well-known street photographers in past and present, for example Cartier-Bresson.[9]
While individuals may complain of privacy or civil inattention violations when they become the subject of candid photography, the work of photographers cannot be done in any other way and if candid photography were restricted then society and the future generations would lose works of art, educational images, newsworthy images, and images of people's history.[citation needed]
In France, a legal case between a street photographer and a woman appearing on a photo published in the photographer's book decreed that street photography without the consent of the subject is an important freedom in a democracy: "the right to control one’s image must yield when a photograph contributes to the exchange of ideas and opinions, deemed “indispensable” to a democratic society."[8]
From 15 March 2014 anyone taking photographs in Hungary is technically breaking the law if someone wanders into shot, under a new civil code that outlaws taking pictures without the permission of everyone in the photograph. This expands the law on consent to include the taking of photographs, in addition to their publication.[10]
Subscribe for fun family videos: bit.ly/TheFunnyrats Yesterday's Vlog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCvLUZmwWo&list=UUd3jVOqiNsH... Like, Comment and Subscribe to show your Shiggity Shankness! In today's fun family daily vlog, I took the kids outside because they didn't want to take a nap, so I played with them in the truck outside so that my wife could nap. While I was playing in the truck with the kids, my toddler explains how a truck works. Our family has a few things coming up including Festival International, a birthday party and eating a guava. While the kids and I were playing in the truck, I went live on Periscope and the kids and I had a lot of fun chatting with you guys. Also while the kids and I were playing in the truck I started wondering what the future of music storage will be. We started with 8-tracks and records and now it's all online. What is the future? Brain implants? For our family dinner tonight, my wife cooked a delicious pork roast in the crock pot. My son was really tired because he didn't take a nap, but it's been raining all afternoon so hopefully he sleeps good tonight. We actually have a flash flood watch. This week it's back to the bump and grind... I mean the old grind. Spring Break is over. If you enjoyed today's video, make sure to click that Thumbs up button, and if you want more of our videos, click the subscribe button. If you read all of this, put "I'm grinding" in the comments below! Members Only Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/2412655535/ Mystery Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfrJ1c00YdE&list=UUd3jVOqiNsH... Year 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq-4yuo18SE&list=UUvCcu2CeK8f... Year 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmzOpz_RTg&list=UUd3jVOqiNsH... Year 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xjwGXQQyds&list=UUd3jVOqiNsH... Year 4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XYWlw_yULk&list=UUd3jVOqiNsH... Year 5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pxtuqT36QA&list=UUd3jVOqiNsH... New Videos are uploaded to TheFunnyrats everyday at 3:00pm CST. Subscribe so that never miss one! GET TO KNOW US: - Birth of Our Kids: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znzrq95mAnw&index=1&list=... - Proposal, Wedding, and Anniversaries: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tL_dh8ghtk&index=1&list=... - A Few of my Favorite Videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7DQj9bvPsg&list=PLr15H0y-sbv... TheFunnyrats is a family of four based out of Lafayette, LA, who make brand new videos on YouTube every day at 3:00pm CST. We love to take our two kids, Amelia and Jacques, on adventures as a family. My wife, Krista, and I have a goal to sell everything we own (including our house), buy an Airstream Travel Trailer, and explore this beautiful Earth living full-time in the RV! We guarantee that you will love our videos. Subscribe now to join our journey and discover the the world with us! It's easy and free, just click that red button! Also we love when you follow and interact with us on our social media links above. Our Favorite Products: Shot on a Canon G7X: amzn.to/1MckI59 Join The Shiggity Shank List for extra content, contests, announcements, coupon codes and more: LaneVids.com/email You guys are AWESOMELY SHIGGITY SHANK! SOCIAL LINKS --------------------- SnapChat: TheFunnyrats Instagram: instagram.com/LaneVids Facebook: facebook.com/LaneVids Twitter (Lane): twitter.com/Lanevids Twitter (Lane): twitter.com/TheFunnyrats Twitter (Krista): twitter.com/mrsfofo Pinterest: pinterest.com/lanevids/ Google Plus: plus.google.com/+lanevids/posts LANEVIDS SHIRTS: lanevids.spreadshirt.com WEBSITE: www.LaneVids.com
I read a tutorial on a blog explaining how to create Panographs, this inspired me to give it a whirl, i had the Liverpool Waterfront in mind so i spend an afternoon in Liverpool on a photo walkabout and headed over to the Waterfront where i shot about 70+ photos (med jpeg). During the processing i used 38 of the photos to create the image. After flattening the layers i decided to convert to Mono because i like the contrast of the shadows and highlights, the vignette was added at the final stage by erasing a black layer.
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I shall explain to you why I’ve chopped off the back half of this poor duck. Basically It dived maybe 9-10m away and resurfaced in front of me only 3-4m away so he was more than full frame, I wanted a close up but not that close up!
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti- Petty Officer 3rd Class Antonio Seisdedos (LEFT), of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Seaman Apprentice Chloe Hicks (CENTER) of Jacksonville, Ark., help a young, injured Haitian girl put in ear plugs just prior to be loaded into a Dolphin rescue helicopter for transport to an area hospital Monday, January 18, 2010. Seisdedos helped the crew communicate with the patients by translating for them, explaining what the crew was doing and asking if the patients were comfortable. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Etta Smith)
On January 4, 2011 I made a decision that would shape the next five years of my life, and change me forever as a person. For the previous five years, I had suppressed my inner passion for dolls that had been part of me since I was two years old. As a teenager, I felt embarrassed and ashamed of my once beloved hobby. In an attempt to "grow up" I denied myself any dolls, or even any thoughts of them. But after my dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in late 2009, my view of myself and of life changed for the better. It took me a while to finally reclaim my doll hobby, but eventually I picked up where I left off. It was this day in January 2011 that finally motivated me to do the unthinkable--I asked my dad if I could buy a Satiny Shimmer Mulan doll from eBay. I really can't explain why it was this particular doll that broke me, but when I found Mulan while scrolling through eBay listings, I simply couldn't pretend that I wasn't into dolls anymore. Even though I was terrified of what dad and my sister might say, I gathered the courage and found it within myself to ask Dad if I could get her. It might have taken me several years to fully banish dolls from my life, but it was effortless for them to become a part of it again. Within the same day of ordering Mulan, I had purchased several other Disney dolls on eBay. I think part of why it took me so long to crack and to finally buy another doll was because I was afraid that all the time that had passed would somehow have changed my love for them. I was terrified that things would be different and not like they were when I was younger. While my feelings for dolls had not changed, times had, and as a result my collection became something even more wonderful than it had been before. If I had never taken that risk and asked for Mulan, I wouldn't be the same person, and as a result, my life would be unrecognizable. That is why I wanted to dedicate a photo to this day in my life--because it started a chain reaction that would alter the course of the next five years. This is the story of the journey that I have been on for the past five years, who I have ultimately become, and how my collection came to be what it is today.
The early days of my resurgence back into dolls were very different than today. I saw this time as a fresh start for myself and my collection, so I seized the opportunity and tried to "perfect" it. In the beginning, my intention had only been to collect old Mattel Disney dolls. I was not interested in any Barbies, Bratz, American Girl dolls, etc, and I did not want to give any new generation or different manufacturer a chance. I also decided that now that I was a "collector" and not a kid, I should try and keep dolls boxed. But from the get go, this limited doll collection did not work for me. Within a month or so, I started to buy Barbie dolls, and I even dabbled with Disney dolls that did not fit my "requirements." I also realized that I could not physically keep a doll boxed...I could never resist the urge to open them. By the end of that year, Bratz had made a massive comeback into my life, and they became my favorite thing to collect. Even though I "broke" my earliest set of rules, that didn't stop me from making new ones for myself. I was very adamant about not keeping duplicates. I actually had a yard sale/donation bin that I kept in my basement. Each time I acquired a duplicate in a lot, I chose which one to keep, and put the other in the dreaded yard sale container. I'm ashamed to say that many of my childhood favorites and cherished adult purchases spent time in this container waiting for the day that they would be sold at a yard sale. Luckily, that day did not come for most of my dolls, although there were quite a few that I did manage to get rid of. During the first two years of collecting, from 2011 to 2013, I chased after the never ending pursuit of perfection. Whether that meant feeling bad about how many dolls I had, pretending not to like a type of doll that didn't fit into the mold I created, or constantly customizing dolls until they were completely destroyed. As much as I was grateful for the return of dolls into my life, I was constantly analyzing my collection, and thus taking the fun out of the hobby. By the end of 2013, I hit a crossroad. I came to the realization something needed to change...my attitude. At the time, I had an old Flickr account under another name. I opted to delete it because I had so much going on in my life and in my head. I decided that I needed rediscover myself and my passion for dolls in the purest of ways, which meant cutting myself off from the internet and from my own set of "rules."
My break from the internet and my quest to rediscover what I loved about dolls in the first place, was the second best decision I ever made for my collection. There were many dolls and experiences that changed my perspective about doll collecting and about myself. It was during this time that I really figured out who I was as a collector and what I wanted to get out of my doll hobby. I decided to have an open mind and an open heart towards all dolls. Whatever preconceived notions I had, I let go of them. Bratz were really the dolls that helped shape this new found attitude. I learned to love all generations of them, whether they were tall, fish lipped, or just plain gimmicky. By learning to accept Bratz, a switch in my brain flipped. Suddenly, I was able to take that same mentality and use it towards all types of dolls. My entire outlook changed, and I was able to enjoy all sorts of different dolls for the first time in my life. There were dolls that completely surprised me--like Gem Styling Merida or Quick Curl Skipper. They were both dolls that my sister and I previously wrote off as "cheap" and "unworthy." But after rescuing both of these dolls and showing them a little love, we realized just how rewarding both of them were. This wasn't limited to just the two of them--I realized this about so many dolls. If I just gave them a chance, showered them with love and attention, I would discover something magnetic and magical about each one. I came to see that every doll has his or her own flaws, and that none of them would ever truly be "perfect." I learned to be okay with that--in fact, it is these quirks that give a doll their identity, just like as human beings we all have our faults. I started to see my life in the same way that I saw a doll--I approached every day and every situation with an open mind, and instead of fixating on what I didn't like, I focused on the positive attributes. This realization that nothing in life, no doll, no person, no situation, is perfect, liberated me. It gave me the ability to fully enjoy everything, especially my collection. That fear that once held me back, was gone. I was no longer afraid of change--I was motivated to buy dolls that previously I feared would disappoint me. Dolls like Nellie helped me get over those fears. She gave me back a piece of my childhood that I had been missing. I was stunted by the fear that American Girl dolls would let me down, so I had avoided fully getting back into them until 2014. Overcoming those feelings gave me back what I had lost years before, and allowed me the opportunity to fulfill childhood dreams, like owning a Julie doll. I decided in this time to throw out the "rule book" that I had written for myself. If I wanted to buy that brand new Barbie, I would. If I liked that American Girl doll that came out during my doll hiatus, I bought her. If I acquired an eighth Strut It! Yasmin in a bin of dolls, I kept her. If I in fact liked the "tall" Bratz, Bratzillaz, Moxie Girlz, etc, I embraced it, and didn't repress them from my collection any longer. I let these new dolls and experiences inspire me and shape my collection, and by doing so, I freed myself.
All of these years, both when I was a child and when I started my adult collection, have made me into the person and collector that I am today. I can honestly say that I am more passionate and inspired by dolls than I ever have been in my entire life. They have become one of the most rewarding and fulfilling experiences for me, because I have allowed them to be. I love dolls of all makes, eras, generations, types, etc. nowadays. While I don't collect every doll in the world, and I probably never will, I always try to keep an open mind, because one day, that doll I "don't like" might mean the world to me. I've finally learned to harness my passion for dolls and art and to unite the two together. I've discovered who I am as an artist, and I how I want to portray that through my collection. I've realized that some things will never change. I still love rescuing dolls from flea markets and second hand places, and restoring them to their former glory. Dolls still have "feelings" to me. I have accepted that I will always have "too many" dolls, and that I quite frankly am incapable of having a small, limited collection. I've come to see that I have so many different interests, and that I should embrace them instead of control them. I finally got around to fulfilling a dream I've had since I was twelve years old and first discovered the "Katti's Dolls" website that I used to spend hours on daily. I've found a purpose for the internet--to not only share my collection, but to inspire others to stay true to themselves and find happiness in their lives and collections. I want to project as much positivity and love to the world by using my dolls. These days, I try to only focus on what I love about life and my dolls, and I've stopped wasting any of my energy or my time on negativity. I've let go of the reins that were holding onto my collection and I let it do its own thing. I allowed my experiences, current phases, and whatever dolls I come across shape my collection. I've realized that collecting isn't about the end result, but it is about the journey, what you learn from it, and how happy it makes you.
I am grateful for every mistake and wrong turn that brought me here. Without my mess ups and if I had not lost myself altogether at some point, I wouldn't be the person or collector I am today. If I had not taken a five year hiatus, if I hadn't tried so hard to aspire to be someone I wasn't, I wouldn't have been able to rediscover who I actually am. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to fall in love with dolls all over again. I think at some point in all our lives, we lose sight of who we are, and we don't recognize the person staring back at us in the mirror. But that's part of our journey to self discovery. The only mistake worth regretting is one that you don't learn from. Therefore, I harbor no regrets and no resentment towards any of the decisions that I have made. If I had never gotten "too cool" for dolls, I would never value and appreciate my dolls the way I do now. When I stopped forcing my collection into a box, when I stopped trying to prod it into the perfect "idea" of what it should be, it became even more wonderful than what I ever could have imagined. Looking back, I see that my largest mistake during my early days of collecting was that my over analytical approach to dolls made the hobby become stressful instead of fun. As my mom once told my sister and I when we were young, "Choosing which dolls you want to play with isn't a life changing decision, like choosing to do drugs." Those words hold so much wisdom because sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the small details, and to miss the overall picture. At the end of the day, whatever you choose to do in life should ultimately make you happy and should not stress you out or ignite negativity. My dolls have taught me that sometimes you have to let go and allow things to take their own natural course. My dolls have truly freed me from my pursuit of perfection, my negativity, and they have allowed me to find genuine happiness and self acceptance, and for that I will always be grateful...and without my Satiny Shimmer Mulan doll, none of this would have been possible.
“It gets under your skin and lives inside you, and you can’t run from it, you can’t hide. It finds you, and traps you, it grows over your soul like an encasing vine and it stays with you, you can’t get away from it.
It’s like being in a room with 30 radios going all at once, on full volume, and you can’t turn them off, nothing stops it.”
Yesterday morning as I got out of the shower I noticed that Dash had a really cute stuffed polar bear in his mouth. Then I realized that it was pristine...This little devil had figured out which gift bag was his and helped himself to his Christmas gift. I told him that Santa was passing him by this year because of his transgressions, here he is explaining to me why he knows that the fat man is coming to see him no matter what!
Lt. Kamber, Croatian Volcano Battery platoon commander, explains trajectory and targeting to U.S. Army officers of the Battle Group Poland prior to the Croatian Volcano Battery Live Fire Exercise, the first outside of Croatia and with the Battle Group Poland near Bemowo Piskie Training Area, Poland, on November 29, 2017.
OK let me explain, and apologize to Flickr Folks who don't share my love for PLANESPOTTING. I know how crazy this seems. Why all the pictures of the same airline, in this case, FedEx? Well if you look close, you will find a Registration Number that's unique to each airplane. If you type that into Google, you can see that airplane's history, including where it's been flying. I belong to a group Planespotters and they are interested in each individual airplane's history and photographs of it on different days at different airports. So with that, here they are, ENJOY!!!
April 17, 2018
Memphis International Airport (MEM), Memphis, Tennessee
It is some years, maybe 5 or more, since we last visited the cathedral in Canterbury. In the spring, I found the entrance to St Augustine's Abbey, so the plan yesterday was to visit them both.
I arrived just after ten, soon after it opened its doors, and was shocked to find that the multi-entry you used to get after paying your entrance fee had been discontinued. When I tried to ask the young man at the ticket office, he wasn't really able to speak much English to explain this to me, repeatedly holding one finger up at me as I asked the questions. £10.50, is not bad, I guess, especially as photography is allowed everywhere, except in the crypt, so I don't mind paying.
The site has been a place of worship probably since Roman times, and in the grounds of St Augustine's, just a short distance away, remains of a 7th century church still remain. What we see now in the cathedral is largely Norman, but with many improvements over the centuries.
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Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site. It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion; the archbishop, being suitably occupied with national and international matters, delegates the most of his functions as diocesan bishop to the Bishop suffragan of Dover. Its formal title is the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury.
Founded in 597, the cathedral was completely rebuilt from 1070 to 1077. The east end was greatly enlarged at the beginning of the twelfth century, and largely rebuilt in the Gothic style following a fire in 1174, with significant eastward extensions to accommodate the flow of pilgrims visiting the shrine of Thomas Becket, the archbishop who was murdered in the cathedral in 1170. The Norman nave and transepts survived until the late fourteenth century, when they were demolished to make way for the present structures.
Christianity had started to become powerful in the Roman Empire around the third century. Following the conversion of Augustine of Hippo in the 4th century, the influence of Christianity grew steadily .[2] The cathedral's first archbishop was Augustine of Canterbury, previously abbot of St. Andrew's Benedictine Abbey in Rome. He was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 as a missionary to the Anglo-Saxons. Augustine founded the cathedral in 597 and dedicated it to Jesus Christ, the Holy Saviour.[3]
Augustine also founded the Abbey of St. Peter and Paul outside the city walls. This was later rededicated to St. Augustine himself and was for many centuries the burial place of the successive archbishops. The abbey is part of the World Heritage Site of Canterbury, along with the cathedral and the ancient Church of St Martin.
Bede recorded that Augustine reused a former Roman church. The oldest remains found during excavations beneath the present nave in 1993 were, however, parts of the foundations of an Anglo-Saxon building, which had been constructed across a Roman road.[5][6] They indicate that the original church consisted of a nave, possibly with a narthex, and side-chapels to the north and south. A smaller subsidiary building was found to the south-west of these foundations.[6] During the ninth or tenth century this church was replaced by a larger structure (49 m. by 23 m.) with a squared west end. It appears to have had a square central tower.[6] The eleventh century chronicler Eadmer, who had known the Saxon cathedral as a boy, wrote that, in its arrangement, it resembled St Peter's in Rome, indicating that it was of basilican form, with an eastern apse.[7]
During the reforms of Dunstan, archbishop from 960 until his death in 988,[8] a Benedictine abbey named Christ Church Priory was added to the cathedral. But the formal establishment as a monastery seems to date only to c.997 and the community only became fully monastic from Lanfranc's time onwards (with monastic constitutions addressed by him to prior Henry). Dunstan was buried on the south side of the high altar.
The cathedral was badly damaged during Danish raids on Canterbury in 1011. The Archbishop, Alphege, was taken hostage by the raiders and eventually killed at Greenwich on 19 April 1012, the first of Canterbury's five martyred archbishops. After this a western apse was added as an oratory of St. Mary, probably during the archbishopric of Lyfing (1013–1020) or Aethelnoth (1020–1038).
The 1993 excavations revealed that the new western apse was polygonal, and flanked by hexagonal towers, forming a westwork. It housed the archbishop's throne, with the altar of St Mary just to the east. At about the same time that the westwork was built, the arcade walls were strengthened and towers added to the eastern corners of the church.
The cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1067, a year after the Norman Conquest. Rebuilding began in 1070 under the first Norman archbishop, Lanfranc (1070–77). He cleared the ruins and reconstructed the cathedral to a design based closely on that of the Abbey of St. Etienne in Caen, where he had previously been abbot, using stone brought from France.[9] The new church, its central axis about 5m south of that of its predecessor,[6] was a cruciform building, with an aisled nave of nine bays, a pair of towers at the west end, aiseless transepts with apsidal chapels, a low crossing tower, and a short choir ending in three apses. It was dedicated in 1077.[10]
The Norman cathedral, after its expansion by Ernulf and Conrad.
Under Lanfranc's successor Anselm, who was twice exiled from England, the responsibility for the rebuilding or improvement of the cathedral's fabric was largely left in the hands of the priors.[11] Following the election of Prior Ernulf in 1096, Lanfranc's inadequate east end was demolished, and replaced with an eastern arm 198 feet long, doubling the length of the cathedral. It was raised above a large and elaborately decorated crypt. Ernulf was succeeded in 1107 by Conrad, who completed the work by 1126.[12] The new choir took the form of a complete church in itself, with its own transepts; the east end was semicircular in plan, with three chapels opening off an ambulatory.[12] A free standing campanile was built on a mound in the cathedral precinct in about 1160.[13]
As with many Romanesque church buildings, the interior of the choir was richly embellished.[14] William of Malmesbury wrote: "Nothing like it could be seen in England either for the light of its glass windows, the gleaming of its marble pavements, or the many-coloured paintings which led the eyes to the panelled ceiling above."[14]
Though named after the sixth century founding archbishop, The Chair of St. Augustine, the ceremonial enthronement chair of the Archbishop of Canterbury, may date from the Norman period. Its first recorded use is in 1205.
Martyrdom of Thomas Becket
Image of Thomas Becket from a stained glass window
The 12th-century choir
A pivotal moment in the history of the cathedral was the murder of the archbishop, Thomas Becket, in the north-west transept (also known as the Martyrdom) on Tuesday, 29 December 1170, by knights of King Henry II. The king had frequent conflicts with the strong-willed Becket and is said to have exclaimed in frustration, "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" The knights took it literally and murdered Becket in his own cathedral. Becket was the second of four Archbishops of Canterbury who were murdered (see also Alphege).
The posthumous veneration of Becket made the cathedral a place of pilgrimage. This brought both the need to expand the cathedral and the wealth that made it possible.
Rebuilding of the choir
Tomb of the Black Prince
In September 1174 the choir was severely damaged by fire, necessitating a major reconstruction,[15] the progress of which was recorded in detail by a monk named Gervase.[16] The crypt survived the fire intact,[17] and it was found possible to retain the outer walls of the choir, which were increased in height by 12 feet (3.7 m) in the course of the rebuilding, but with the round-headed form of their windows left unchanged.[18] Everything else was replaced in the new Gothic style, with pointed arches, rib vaulting and flying buttresses. The limestone used was imported from Caen in Normandy, and Purbeck marble was used for the shafting. The choir was back in use by 1180 and in that year the remains of St Dunstan and St Alphege were moved there from the crypt.[19]
The master-mason appointed to rebuild the choir was a Frenchman, William of Sens. Following his injury in a fall from the scaffolding in 1179 he was replaced by one of his former assistants, known as "William the Englishman".
The shrine in the Trinity Chapel was placed directly above Becket's original tomb in the crypt. A marble plinth, raised on columns, supported what an early visitor, Walter of Coventry, described as "a coffin wonderfully wrought of gold and silver, and marvellously adorned with precious gems".[22] Other accounts make clear that the gold was laid over a wooden chest, which in turn contained an iron-bound box holding Becket's remains.[23] Further votive treasures were added to the adornments of the chest over the years, while others were placed on pedestals or beams nearby, or attached to hanging drapery.[24] For much of the time the chest (or "ferotory") was kept concealed by a wooden cover, which would be theatrically raised by ropes once a crowd of pilgrims had gathered.[21][23] Erasmus, who visited in 1512–4, recorded that, once the cover was raised, "the Prior ... pointed out each jewel, telling its name in French, its value, and the name of its donor; for the principal of them were offerings sent by sovereign princes."[25]
The income from pilgrims (such as those portrayed in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) who visited Becket's shrine, which was regarded as a place of healing, largely paid for the subsequent rebuilding of the cathedral and its associated buildings. This revenue included the profits from the sale of pilgrim badges depicting Becket, his martyrdom, or his shrine.
The shrine was removed in 1538. Henry VIII summoned the dead saint to court to face charges of treason. Having failed to appear, he was found guilty in his absence and the treasures of his shrine were confiscated, carried away in two coffers and twenty-six carts.
Monastic buildings
Cloisters
A bird's-eye view of the cathedral and its monastic buildings, made in about 1165[27] and known as the "waterworks plan" is preserved in the Eadwine Psalter in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge.[28] It shows that Canterbury employed the same general principles of arrangement common to all Benedictine monasteries, although, unusually, the cloister and monastic buildings were to the north, rather than the south of the church. There was a separate chapter-house.[27]
The buildings formed separate groups around the church. Adjoining it, on the north side, stood the cloister and the buildings devoted to the monastic life. To the east and west of these were those devoted to the exercise of hospitality. To the north a large open court divided the monastic buildings from menial ones, such as the stables, granaries, barn, bakehouse, brew house and laundries, inhabited by the lay servants of the establishment. At the greatest possible distance from the church, beyond the precinct of the monastery, was the eleemosynary department. The almonry for the relief of the poor, with a great hall annexed, formed the paupers' hospitium.
The group of buildings devoted to monastic life included two cloisters. The great cloister was surrounded by the buildings essentially connected with the daily life of the monks,-- the church to the south, with the refectory placed as always on the side opposite, the dormitory, raised on a vaulted undercroft, and the chapter-house adjacent, and the lodgings of the cellarer, responsible for providing both monks and guests with food, to the west. A passage under the dormitory lead eastwards to the smaller or infirmary cloister, appropriated to sick and infirm monks.[27]
The hall and chapel of the infirmary extended east of this cloister, resembling in form and arrangement the nave and chancel of an aisled church. Beneath the dormitory, overlooking the green court or herbarium, lay the "pisalis" or "calefactory," the common room of the monks. At its north-east corner access was given from the dormitory to the necessarium, a building in the form of a Norman hall, 145 ft (44 m) long by 25 broad (44.2 m × 7.6 m), containing fifty-five seats. It was constructed with careful regard to hygiene, with a stream of water running through it from end to end.[27]
A second smaller dormitory for the conventual officers ran from east to west. Close to the refectory, but outside the cloisters, were the domestic offices connected with it: to the north, the kitchen, 47 ft (14 m) square (200 m2), with a pyramidal roof, and the kitchen court; to the west, the butteries, pantries, etc. The infirmary had a small kitchen of its own. Opposite the refectory door in the cloister were two lavatories, where the monks washed before and after eating.
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Priors of Christ Church Priory included John of Sittingbourne (elected 1222, previously a monk of the priory) and William Chillenden, (elected 1264, previously monk and treasurer of the priory).[29] The monastery was granted the right to elect their own prior if the seat was vacant by the pope, and — from Gregory IX onwards — the right to a free election (though with the archbishop overseeing their choice). Monks of the priory have included Æthelric I, Æthelric II, Walter d'Eynsham, Reginald fitz Jocelin (admitted as a confrater shortly before his death), Nigel de Longchamps and Ernulf. The monks often put forward candidates for Archbishop of Canterbury, either from among their number or outside, since the archbishop was nominally their abbot, but this could lead to clashes with the king and/or pope should they put forward a different man — examples are the elections of Baldwin of Forde and Thomas Cobham.
Early in the fourteenth century, Prior Eastry erected a stone choir screen and rebuilt the chapter house, and his successor, Prior Oxenden inserted a large five-light window into St Anselm's chapel. [30]
The cathedral was seriously damaged by an earthquake of 1382, losing its bells and campanile.
From the late fourteenth century the nave and transepts were rebuilt, on the Norman foundations in the Perpendicular style under the direction of the noted master mason Henry Yevele.[31] In contrast to the contemporary rebuilding of the nave at Winchester, where much of the existing fabric was retained and remodelled, the piers were entirely removed, and replaced with less bulky Gothic ones, and the old aisle walls completely taken down except for a low "plinth" left on the south side. [32][6] More Norman fabric was retained in the transepts, especially in the east walls,[32] and the old apsidal chapels were not replaced until the mid-15th century.[30] The arches of the new nave arcade were exceptionally high in proportion to the clerestory.[30] The new transepts, aisles and nave were roofed with lierne vaults, enriched with bosses. Most of the work was done during the priorate of Thomas Chillenden (1391–1411): Chillenden also built a new choir screen at the east end of the nave, into which Eastry's existing screen was incorporated.[30] The Norman stone floor of the nave, however survived until its replacement in 1786.
From 1396 the cloisters were repaired and remodelled by Yevele's pupil Stephen Lote who added the lierne vaulting. It was during this period that the wagon-vaulting of the chapter house was created.
A shortage of money, and the priority given to the rebuilding of the cloisters and chapter-house meant that the rebuilding of the west towers was neglected. The south-west tower was not replaced until 1458, and the Norman north-west tower survived until 1834, when it was replaced by a replica of its Perpendicular companion.[30]
In about 1430 the south transept apse was removed to make way for a chapel, founded by Lady Margaret Holland and dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. The north transept apse was replaced by a Lady Chapel, built in 1448–55.[30]
The 235-foot crossing tower was begun in 1433, although preparations had already been made during Chillenden's priorate, when the piers had been reinforced. Further strengthening was found necessary around the beginning of the sixteenth century, when buttressing arches were added under the southern and western tower arches. The tower is often known as the "Angel Steeple", after a gilded angel that once stood on one of its pinnacles.
Arthur Kinoy, a civil rights attorney and Rutgers University professor, is shown August 17, 1966 in Washington, D.C. explaining to journalists how he was ejected from a hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) earlier in the day and arrested.
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Kinoy was debating a legal issue with committee chair Rep. Joe Pool (D-TX) when he was seized by U.S. marshals and dragged choking and screaming from the hearing room and charged with disorderly conduct.
Attorneys for other witnesses denounced the arrest as “terror and intimidation” and walked out of the hearing creating a legal problem for the committee since witnesses were guaranteed legal counsel “of their own choice” and cannot be forced to testify in the absence of counsel.
A witness friendly to the committee, Phillip A. McCombs, assistant editor of the right-wing National Review, began testifying about pro-National Liberation Front figures in the anti-Vietnam War movement and mentioned the name of Walter Teague, an organizer of the U.S. Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front.
Kinoy and his law partner William Kunstler objected saying they were entitled to cross-examine the witness because the testimony would otherwise “defame” Teague.
Pool ruled against the objections, but Kinoy kept pressing the point and that’s when the marshals seized him.
Other attorneys denounced the “brutal,” “inexcusable,” “unprecedented” treatment of Kinoy.
Kinoy was found guilty August 19, 1966 and addressed the judge before sentencing “I make no plea for mercy. I have no regrets or remorse for what I have done. I would do it again and again and again.” Kinoy was fined $50.
It took two years and three court-proceedings, but Kinoy was exonerated by the U.S. Court of Appeals August 6, 1968. Over 1,000 lawyers had earlier submitted a friend-of-court brief on Kinoy’s behalf.
The Court ruled that Pool had violated the committee’s own rules by ordering the ejection on his own rather than obtaining concurrence from a majority of the committee.
The Court further held that the committee had not pursued a case against Kinoy at any stage for contempt and therefore it was “difficult to understand how or why an independent tribunal can lawfully proceed.”
The court noted that Kinoy had been charged under a statute that prohibits congregation and assembly and the “use of loud and boisterous talking.” However, the court said, “whatever groups may be included in the definition of unlawful assembly, a lawyer permitted to represent his clients at a hearing of a House subcommittee is not one of them.”
Arthur Kinoy biography:
Arthur Kinoy (September 29, 1920-September 19, 2003) was brought up in Brooklyn by Jewish immigrants. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1941 and served with the U.S. Army in North Africa and Italy where he was among the troops at Anzio that were nearly pushed back into the sea by German Nazi forces.
After the war, he graduated from Columbia University law school in 1947 where he was editor of its law review. He went to work for the United Electrical Workers (UE), a union that left the Congress of Industrial Organizations rather than be expelled as the Second Red Scare heated up.
Kinoy had a long career as a civil rights and civil liberties attorney from the early 1950s until shortly before his death in 2003.
He made the last legal appeal for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953. Kinoy lost and the Rosenberg’s were executed. He claimed he won the appeal legally, but was defeated by the judge’s cowardice.
He remembered that case in a 1982 interview, “We found some statutes that said even if a person were found guilty of espionage, capital punishment could not be applied unless the espionage was committed in a time of war. The judge, Jerome Frank, who was a liberal, a New Deal supporter, said, ‘I cannot go over the heads of my bosses.’ We were furious…And later we were listening to the car radio as the Rosenbergs were taken to the electric chair. This was just disastrous.”
He defended communists and others charged with advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government during the McCarthy era and represented clients before the HUAC and the Senate Internal Security Committee.
He became law partners with William Kunstler, another prominent defender of radical causes and civil rights.
Kinoy established an important legal principle in the struggle for Black civil rights when he persuaded a reluctant Virginia judge that plaintiffs could take civil rights complaints to federal court under laws passed after the U.S. Civil War.
He argued six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, winning five.
These included a reversal of U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell’s expulsion from Congress and a bar against U.S. President Richard Nixon from eavesdropping on antiwar activists for alleged national security reasons without a warrant.
In 1965 he successfully argued the case of Dombrowski v. Pfister before the Supreme Court establishing that federal district judges could stop enforcement of laws that had a “chilling effect” on free speech.
Perhaps his most famous case was that of the Chicago 7 where five of the defendants had been convicted for crossing state lines to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Kinoy won a reversal of the convictions on appeal.
He was a law professor at Rutgers from 1964-1991 and when he reached mandatory retirement age, his students waged a campaign to keep him on. When he was finally forced out Henry Furst, an attorney and former student, said “Over his 25 years he is the reason many students came to Rutgers—to study with him, it’s like killing Socrates.”
He was a co-founder of the Center for Constitutional Rights and his last case was a victory over New York City police on a racial profiling issue.
Kinoy, a man of small stature, was known for his aggressiveness in the courtroom.
He explained in a 1992 interview in the Progressive:
“When people are fighting back or fighting to extend their own immediate rights, we learned that when you took the offensive in the courtroom, you were saying, ‘We’re not running away!’ When people saw that you were challenging the conspiracy of the establishment against them and we said, ‘They’re going to be the defendants! They’re the ones who are violating the fundamental laws of the land.’ It had a morale effect. What mattered to the leaders was not whether we ultimately won, but whether it made the people fight harder and begin to demonstrate. That would have an effect upon the courts.”
Kinoy was active in attempting to establish a third party to challenge the establishment Democratic and Republic Parties and described himself as a “scientific socialist.” In 1983 he published a book on his life entitled Rights on Trial, The Odyssey of a People’s Lawyer.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
The Membranes performing at the Universe Explained at Gorilla, Manchester, on Saturday 20th July 2013
Digital camera sbap of Sacredness
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It is da dedication of its use to da pursuit of da Divine ......
.......which renders it a catalyst to worship
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"Da inherent imagination and spiritual receptivity is definitely influenced by dis differential chemical endowment.".
On 1-12-15 I wrote this description to the pictures I labeled as #1 to “#34 D of nukes, VJ day & 911”. It's because the Sweet and Low T-shirt I'm wearing led to a “theory of relativity” revelation that I explained in class #4 vimeo.com/116519992, here's the title:
#4 has a Sweet & Low "theory of relativity" explanation of Pearl Harbor, the 911 disaster and a “Heal The World” Christmas present from heaven.
The best Christmas present seemed to be class L123 (2-2013) because it has the most divine signs to assure us that there will be no nuclear war on earth. It includes the warning I gave on 12-18-02 that the USA was in danger of a nuclear war and the letter I wrote to six states on 9-21-04 saying we’d been delivered from the threat of the nuclear war. I got more confirmations of that on 12-7-04 at Pearl Harbor at pictures #23 to 32. Like #31 is a picture of a rainbow going through “the Christmas tree” on the USS Missouri. That was just like pictures #23, 24 & 25 at the Bowfin submarine museum of nuclear warheads pointed at a kid standing by a Christmas tree. These were big confirmations of the signs I got that we had been delivered from the threat of nuclear war especially because of another example when heaven took away our fears and gave us a Merry Christmas in it's place in 1993.
From class 216 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfKJYXCgGNg&index=14&list....
In this video I explained that people were afraid of all the end of the world signs that were so obvious by December 1993, (it started with Desert Storm in January 1991). I was eating dinner at a restaurant in Waikiki when I heard a Christmas song and realized the answer to those “end of the world” fears was to get into the spirit of Christmas, it was a Christmas present from heaven to trade fear for a merry Christmas that year. This starts with a view of Waikiki where I was eating that dinner and the Christmas song I heard called “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of Year”.
These pictures at Flickr started when I was called, (loud and clear from heaven), to go to Pearl Harbor about four times a year from 1999 to my last visit on 9-2-05. One reason why is what I wrote at Pearl Harbor picture #2 at Flickr.
In my hotel room in Olgalala Nebraska in 1994 I saw cartoon of how much Porky pig hated history, (it was my worst subject in school), and the spirits of the founding fathers were teaching him that it's worth learning about. It's like the picture (#5 D of nukes) of me having a drink with a cigar, (because I needed two cigar breaks to get through a day at Pearl Harbor). After my third visit to Pearl Harbor at my cigar break I noticed on the cans of Nestea a snowman and a sign that said “it cools you to the core”. I knew it was a sign so I said to God, “I’m not getting anything out of this but I'll keep coming if you say it's going to cool me to the core”. I finally got up to speed on Pearl Harbor just before the 9/11 disaster which was like the saying “those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it” and that is main reason why we got a repeat of Pearl Harbor on 9/11/01. In other words it was the founding fathers teaching Pearl Harbor to the rest of the Porky pigs in the United States. I just realized that might be in the Beatles song, Come together, right now
Over me.
He roller coaster
HE GOT EARLY WARNING
He got muddy water
He one mojo filter
He say one and one and one is three
Got to be good looking
'Cause he's so hard to see [that’s don't exceed your 15 minutes of fame(?)]
Come together, right now
Over me
There's too much to write on this so I'll just provide links to the classes where talked about this before, like at this last paragraph at class L112 vimeo.com/50116128 or see my patriotic playlist at YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVDkjTNqYqh0ylmTqlRo-H5dVl....
This is a list of my patriotic classes at vimeo.com/user8696549 and www.viddler.com/channel/Mikeoverson.
#186a vimeo.com/32431850 & b vimeo.com/32431994 were first then 169 and 161, (the links are below). Class 161 is about The Pentagon Wars and classes 99, 103 and L109 have nearly an hour patriotism. I condensed L109 into L112 and made L113 vimeo.com/50390744 to go with it then I summed it all up in class L123 vimeo.com/60109388. Class 171 vimeo.com/43436258 is how America needs to get the magic of patriotism back. Class L97 vimeo.com/45990216 shows the difference in human rights and freedom in the USA verses in Europe. I tell a sweeter version of that at my YouTube
playlist PL11 www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVDkjTNqYqh1adV--hsXO4URt4..., it's at the fourth video, class L127C or read my patriotic playlist
PL7 www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVDkjTNqYqh0ylmTqlRo-H5dVl....
PL6 has similar info and so does PL1 to PL5 at www.youtube.com/channel/UC3-RWtlOIS_k_TbVkYj_c5Q/playlists.
A video plays on page 1 & 2 at MikeOversonEndTimes.org to explain why you need to be tolerant of a teacher, prophet and "the one" who is a disabled mess on welfare, (it's because this is the best your money and applause would pay for). It's also where I have more patriotic classes like on page 3 at #182a1 is 1776 & Vietnam @ 38 to 54 min.
Here's what I wrote at Pearl Harbor picture #1 here at Flickr.
Pearl Harbor picture #7 is nearly the same view as this picture #1 except it's from the other side of the Arizona and the Mo. I think only God could arrange for that aircraft carrier and crew to provide a perfect completion and balance of these pictures. It's just another example of how magic our military is like I said at class 161 vimeo.com/33034450, (after the first three paragraphs the rest is just extra info).
When I was trying to find out why this 161 was such a special class it seemed to be due to how much I paid attention to military, (=rq704pm on vets day 11-11-13 is a big confirmation). When it happened again in classes 99 vimeo.com/36995187 and L109 vimeo.com/49352072 I finally gave proper credits in L123 vimeo.com/60109388 when I said "the most magic in my classes always comes from touching base with the greatness of the US military, so here's the the American Revolution and World War II" @ 54 min. If the US military is this much good luck and magic when when you're doing bad, (the first 11 minutes of 161 is about corruption in the military), imagine what it would be like when you're doing good, (read 206 vimeo.com/76811342).
From class 169 vimeo.com/30629125.
I was hoping that God would bless us with a visit from heaven in this 169 if I put America’s heros first (@ 1 to 15 min) and that’s exactly what happened. One reason that is so important to God is because it’s impossible to comprehend all that God has done for us but a very good parallel is to pay proper respect to the sacrifices of America’s heros, (or any heros of faith like Ghandi or Bible heros). This 169 was the start of the AWESOME military magic in classes 161, 99, L109, L112 & L123 and all because I loved porn so much that I thought up a new angle to beg God to bless us with a visit. See how impressed God was with me @ 8 min in L5b vimeo.com/35772901.
The best two 15 minute summaries of this military magic and US history are in classes L112 vimeo.com/50116128 and L127c vimeo.com/107209155. I watch them both on a regular basis because it's such a good refresher course.
From class 194 @ vimeo.com/90080993.
The Eagles reunite CD titled "Hell Freezes Over" was also a prophetic "see (c//) parallel" confirmation sign and combined with my "rhythm nation" drive, (& many other c// signs), it all added up to a loud and clear sign to the USA and the world that everyone is going to heaven when they die. Another big proof of it is class 161 because it covers the next 16 years of my life to 2011. It includes when my "Rhythm Nation drive" ended and I flew back to Hawaii on 1-11-95, then it explains why I had to pray at least eight hours a day from March to September of 1995, (the #955 means "stay alive in 95" and only those long prayers could've kept me from being killed). Then I tell about "the powers that be" who persecuted me up to the 9-11 disaster and then backed off, here's a summary of it from the comments at
L99 vimeo.com/46238993.
Next was my way of mocking THE FBI ON 8-28-01, we were both saying that each other would die except MY PREDICTION CAME TRUE and theirs didn't. It's in class 161 @ 40 minutes where I said “Squirm you (powerless) worms I won big-time and you know it. Except I didn’t know HOW BIG I WON until after the 9/11 disaster”. Then I put it in class L127 vimeo.com/105315202 at 4 to 8 minutes, here's the title:
L127 is Walt Disney's 1948 prophecy of me as Pecos Bill saying to the powers that be “squirm you powerless worms!”
I could do that mainly due to how powerful prayer is to conquer evil and how important prayer is to God at 20 to 32 minutes in this 161.
From class 167:
I made #167 after Vimeo deleted 53 of my videos over copyright violations. I explained the apparent wrath of God that followed when 36 people were shot in New York over the Labor Day weekend in the 9-5-11 news, in other words Vimeo should watch class 167 before deleting messages from heaven over copyright violations, (this video #161 sums it up much better at 39 to 55 minutes).
My rock'n roll playlist PL11, (& PL2, 3, 5 & 9), at www.youtube.com/channel/UC3-RWtlOIS_k_TbVkYj_c5Q/playlists might best sum up the end of these classes or read L112 vimeo.com/50116128.
The Bottom Line of my classes is THE POWER OF PRAYER in L124 @ vimeo.com/63452028.
Maurice Riodan performing at the Universe Explained at Gorilla, Manchester, on Saturday 20th July 2013
So explain to me the difference between fireworks and "pyrotechnics"? These were the "pyrotechnics" that were shot off at CitiField. There are no "bursts" or flower-type fireworks, no big booms at the end -- it was just a bunch of colored lights that rippled around the roof of the stadium -- similar to what you would see at a concert. Boring, but kinda cool at the same time. Oh well.
Finally, I'm back. The norovirus got me. Despite a gorgeous sunny weekend, I was no good to anyone...and no where near the camera. :(
But, now that we're on the mend, Phoebe thought she should explain exactly why she needs to use lip balm. (Yep, she's three, and she likes lip balm.) Is this normal?
Normal or not, I'm glad I've documented it!
Happy Sunday...and good health to all!
Decided to post in full resolution for your enjoyment and readability purposes...
Oh and look carefully - there are three artifacts in this photo!
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Enjoy this picture of the Insitu ScanEagle UAV. This one helped rescue Captain Phillips in 2009 from Somali pirates by providing from the USS Bainbridge real-time aerial footage of the lifeboat Captain Phillips was kept hostage in.
Decided to post this drone picture on 18 February because the day before, the Washington State House passed drone regulation legislation. If my State Senate passes EHB 2789, the drone industry will dramatically expand in a safe, thoughtful way.
One might like the Insitu website on this fine UAV.
If someone can explain omens, perhaps s/he could tell me what it means to find a wet, but oh so lovely Flicker Feather on the doorstep to the cottage I stayed in last weekend. I left it where it was found, and said "hello" to it each time I entered or left. The heavy rains and occasional wind didn't move it at all, and it was still there when I left. I was the first guest of the year in the cottage, and had a wonderful time. Somehow I think the feather deserves some credit - perhaps it kept my mind with my friends here...