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Jon Magnuson, Executive Director of the nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette Michigan th
906-2285494
magnusonx2@charter.net
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
10 faiths: Roman Catholic" "Episcopal" "Jewish" "Lutheran" "Presbyterian" "United Methodist" "Bahá'í" "Unitarian Universalist" "American Friends" "Quaker" "Zen Buddhist" "
EK II website
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute
Marquette, MI
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
Deborah Lamberty
Program Analyst
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Great Lakes National Program Office
Chicago, IL
Lamberty.Deborah@epa.gov
312-886-6681
Pastor Albert Valentine II
Manistique, MI
Manistique Presbyterian Church of the Redeemer
Gould City Community Presbyterian Church
Presbytery of Mackinac
Rev. Christine Bergquist
Bark River United Methodist Church
First UMC of Hermansville
United Methodist Church Marquette District
Rev. Elisabeth Zant
Eden Evangelical Lutheran Church
Munising, MI
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Northern Great Lakes Synod
Heidi Gould
Marquette, MI
Marquette Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Rev. Pete Andersen
Marquette, MI
ELCA
Helen Grossman
Temple Beth Sholom
Jewish Synagogue
Rev. Stephen Gauger
Calvary Lutheran Church
Rapid River, MI
ELCA
Jan Schultz, Botanist
U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
Eastern Region 9
EK II Technical Advisor for Community Gardens
Milwaukee, WI
USFS
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/nativegardening
Pollinator photos by Nancy Parker Hill
Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor
Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor
Messiah Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Marquette, Michigan
Rev. David Van Kley, Senior Pastor
Rev. Amanda Kossow, Associate Pastor
NMU EK II Student Team
Katelin Bingner
Tom Merkel
Adam Magnuson
EK II social sites
www.youtube.com/EarthKeepersII
www.facebook.com/EarthKeepersII
www.twitter.com/EarthKeeperTeam
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Init...
pinterest.com/EarthKeepersII/EarthKeepers-II-and-the-EPA-...
Lake Superior Zendo
Zen Buddhist Temple
Marquette, Michigan
Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg
906 226-6407
plehmber@nmu.edu
Dr. Michael Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
Helen Grossman, representing Jewish Temple Beth Sholom in Ishpeming, MI
906-475-4009 (hm)
906-475-4127 (wk)
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/tikkun
www.templebethsholom-ishpeming.org/aboutus
Wild Rice: 8 videos
www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/wild-rice-m...
Birch – 2 videos
www.learningfromtheearth.org/video-interviews/paper-birch...
Photos (click on each name or topic to see the respective photo galleries):
www.learningfromtheearth.org/photo-gallery
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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:
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]
before i explain this funny little video....let me first say..
please please try (if you can) to ignore my hideous baby talking voice. i really need to stop doing that!
i shot this yesterday morning on my way to work. needless to say i pretty much live out in the woods but there is a very long and empty road that use to be dirt (recently paved) that i take and there are always critters of sorts crossing, lounging, sunning, eating, ...something along the way.
i'm pretty much always late because of these things.
i can't tell you how many times i've stopped to pick up a turtle or two...or 70 and put them on the other side of the road.
or how many deer i stop and give "the talk" to...."now you stay out of the road ok...and keep your babies away from it too and make sure that when you see men in orange that you run really far"....
this past summer i stopped and wrangled a 6ft black rat snake out of the middle of the road. it was early and he was all coiled up ...just sunning himself. having a lazy morning. i didn't want some idiot to come plowing along and pancake him. so i got out and gave him "the snake talk". but he wasn't budging. i tried to do the "shoo" thing w/my hands above him. nope. just looked at me w/one eye like "seriously lady?!?!!" so (in my heals) i run to the edge of the woods and get a stick. i gently poke him in the butt. ....then again... eventually he got the idea and very slowly slithered off the road and into the woods.
so yesterday i see the cute wild turkey family that I watched grow up. let me just tell you how freakin cute baby turkeys are!!! holy crap!!! and they make "peep peep peep" sounds.
oh and incase you're wondering what "the turkey talk" was....it went a little something like this "hi poopies...keep you're babies away from the big black snakes that i see around here...and make sure when november rolls around you stay away from all people...they might try to make you dinner".
anyway....i'll stop rambling and introduce you to turkey family :)
In the medical field, also popular as hybrid medical animation, this technology is used to visualise the mechanism complexities of science and human anatomy.
“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.”
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.
Kachinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. These spirits are believed to visit the Hopi villages during the first half of the year. The local pantheon of kachinas varies from pueblo community to community. A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept; there may be kachinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, as well as many other concepts.
Kachinas are understood as having human-like relationships: families such as parents and siblings, as well as marrying and having children. Although not worshipped, each is viewed as a powerful being who, if given veneration and respect, can use his particular power for human good, bringing rainfall, healing, fertility, or protection, for example. The central theme of kachina beliefs and practices as explained by Wright (2008) is "the presence of life in all objects that fill the universe. Everything has an essence or a life force, and humans must interact with these or fail to survive. (Wikipedia)
Rags explains her former olympian daughter is bronilla resembling songarita mother hair appeared for this love on effect green suit with bell costume goddess ellis for good aqua centolm figure lutine the purple elf ouka nagisa seolla schweizer lamia loveless excellen browning looks on table created the forcefield needles and generators spawned on every location
Dad was asked a lot of questions. It was a blast sharing information with the boys who listen to every word. One of the joys of being a parent.
The Membranes performing at the Universe Explained at Gorilla, Manchester, on Saturday 20th July 2013
Digital camera sbap of Sacredness
www.flickr.com/photos/psychoactivartz/4536712083/sizes/l/
www.flickr.com/photos/psychoactivartz/4275957066/sizes/l/...
It is da dedication of its use to da pursuit of da Divine ......
.......which renders it a catalyst to worship
...............~~~~~~~~~
"Da inherent imagination and spiritual receptivity is definitely influenced by dis differential chemical endowment.".
This is a hard one to explain. Richard Brown, resident neuroscientist at the Exploratorium, had an exhibit for the Liminality party, called "A world without colors". You walked into a room, and all of a sudden you were in a black and white movie: everything was monochromatic, a pale shade of yellow, and it was impossible to determine the color of anything. Very stunning sensation.
At the entrance of the room there was a rainbow-striped carpet: as you passed the threshold (the "limen"), the rainbow lost all its colors and became a collection of stripes in shades of gray. Posters on the wall looked like black ink etchings. There were big bowls of multi-flavored Jelly beans, and they all looked gray and black. It made it harder to identify the flavor, showing that taste is a very complex and multimodal perception, which relies on more than just the taste receptors on our tongues, but includes sight as well as smell. When we say that we eat with our eyes, it is literally (albeit partially) true.
How did it work? He flooded the room with low-vapor sodium lights, which put out only one frequency of light. Our brain can compute color by comparing the information that comes in from our three different types of cones (photoreceptors in the retina, the back of the eye). By flooding the visual scene with one frequency, this comparison is shortcircuited, and the brain interprets everything as monochromatic.
Another genius bit was that he had arranged a number of regular flashlights that you could pick up and go around the room shining a beam of full-spectrum light on objects. This brought back the colors only in the spot where the light shone. It was like having a magic wand that painted colors on the world.
He had also arranged colored markers and index cards, so that you could make a "black and white" drawing, then with the flashlight discover the colors in them. And a lot of other small details. It was a fascinating and fun room to spend some time in, albeit a little eerie and otherworldly.
Of course, digital cameras are not like our brains, so taking pictures did not work very well. They came out strongly dominant in the yellow, but the sense of monochromaticism was lost. So I photoshopped this image to reproduce the percept of what it felt like to be in the room. I think it came out relatively true to the experience.
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
Explain differentiation This third module of the Teaching series we investigate the planning and design of classes. Professor Eamon Murphy of the Department of Social Sciences at Curtin University devotes an entire chapter of Lecturing at University (1998) to emphasise his view that careful planning is the most important aspect of lecturing.
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!
...Cry to hear folks chatter
And I know you cheat...
...Right or wrong, don't matter
When you're with me, sweet...
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The Postcard
A postcard that was published by the Stecher Lithographic Co. of Rochester, New York. There is no reference on the card to explain the presence of what look like very large aerials behind the houses in the drawing.
The card was posted in Lowell, Massachusetts on Friday the 27th. August 1920 to:
Mrs. V. E. Williams,
Madison,
Maine.
Lock Box 1184.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Sister,
How are you today?
We are fine, and having
some great weather, why
don't you come down!
Love and best wishes
to all.
Sister Idris".
Sociedad Radio Argentina
So what else happened on the day that Idris posted the card to her sister?
Well, on the 27th. August 1920, the first radio broadcast from what one source describes as "The oldest radio station in the world" began at 9:00 in the evening.
The Sociedad Radio Argentina aired a live performance of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal from the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires. Only about 20 homes in the broadcast area had radios at the time.
A Guatemalan Election
Also on the 27th. August 1920, four days of voting began in Guatemala for a new president, and Carlos Herrera, the acting president since April, was approved for a six-year term.
However, Herrera served only 15 months before being overthrown in a coup d'état.
The Jailing of Cork Mayor MacSwiney
Also on that day, Irish-American longshoremen in New York City, and many of their co-workers, showed their disagreement with the jailing of Cork Mayor Terence MacSwiney by refusing to work on freight ships that were coming from or going to Great Britain.
Terence James MacSwiney (28th. March 1879 – 25th. October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920.
He was arrested by the British Government on charges of sedition, and imprisoned in Brixton Prison. His death there in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike brought him and the Irish Republican campaign to international attention.
Terence MacSwiney - The Early Years
Born at 23, North Main Street, Cork, Ireland, MacSwiney was one of eight children. His father, John MacSwiney, had volunteered in 1868 to fight as a papal guard against Garibaldi. John became a schoolteacher in London, and later opened a tobacco factory in Cork.
Following the failure of this business, John MacSwiney emigrated to Australia in 1885, leaving Terence and the other children in the care of their mother and his eldest daughter.
MacSwiney's mother, Mary Wilkinson, was an English Catholic with strong Irish nationalist opinions. Terence was educated at the North Monastery school in Cork city, but left at fifteen to help support the family.
Terence became an accountancy clerk, but continued his studies and matriculated successfully. He continued in full-time employment while he studied at the Royal University (now University College Cork), graduating with a degree in Mental and Moral Science in 1907.
In 1908 he founded the Cork Dramatic Society with Daniel Corkery, and wrote a number of plays for them. His first play 'The Last Warriors of Coole' was produced in 1910. His fifth play 'The Revolutionist' (1915) took the political stand made by a single man as its theme.
In addition to his work as a playwright, Terence also wrote pamphlets on Irish history.
Terence MacSwiney's Political Activity
MacSwiney's writings in the newspaper 'Irish Freedom' brought him to the attention of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He was one of the founders of the Cork Brigade of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, and was President of the Cork branch of Sinn Féin.
He founded a newspaper, 'Fianna Fáil', in 1914, but it was suppressed after only 11 issues. In April 1916, he was intended to be second in command of the Easter Rising in Cork and Kerry, but stood his forces down on the order of Eoin MacNeill.
Following the rising, he was imprisoned by the British Government under the Defence of the Realm Act in Reading and Wakefield Gaols until December 1916. In February 1917 he was deported from Ireland and imprisoned in Shrewsbury and Bromyard internment camps until his release in June 1917.
It was during his exile in Bromyard that he married Muriel Murphy of the Cork distillery-owning family. In November 1917, he was arrested in Cork for wearing an Irish Republican Army uniform, and, inspired by the example of Thomas Ashe, went on a hunger strike for three days prior to his release.
In the 1918 general election, MacSwiney was returned unopposed to the first Dáil Éireann as Sinn Féin representative for Mid Cork.
After the murder of his friend Tomás MacCurtain, who was the Lord Mayor of Cork, on the 20th. March 1920, MacSwiney was elected as Lord Mayor in his place.
On the 12th. August 1920, Terence was arrested in Cork for possession of “seditious articles and documents", and also for possession of a cipher key. He was summarily tried by a court on the 16th. August and sentenced to two years' imprisonment at Brixton Prison in South London, England.
Terence MacSwiney's Hunger Strike and Death
In prison Terence immediately started a hunger strike in protest at his internment and the fact that he was tried by a military court. Eleven other Irish Republican prisoners in Cork Jail went on hunger strike at the same time.
On the 26th. August, the British Government stated that:
"The release of the Lord Mayor would have
disastrous results in Ireland, and would
probably lead to a mutiny of both military
and police in the south of Ireland."
MacSwiney's hunger strike gained world attention. The British Government was threatened with a boycott of British goods by Americans, while four countries in South America appealed for the Pope to intervene.
Protests were held in Germany and France as well. An Australian politician, Hugh Mahon, was expelled from the Australian parliament for "seditious and disloyal utterances at a public meeting", after protesting against the actions of the British Government.
Food was often placed near Terence to persuade him to give up the hunger-strike. Attempts at force-feeding MacSwiney were undertaken in the final days of his strike, however to no avail.
On the 20th. October 1920 Terence fell into a coma, and died five days later after 74 days on hunger strike. He was 41 years of age when he died. His body lay in St. George's Cathedral, Southwark in London where 30,000 people filed past it.
Fearing large-scale demonstrations in Dublin, the authorities diverted his coffin directly to Cork, and his funeral in the Cathedral of St. Mary and St Anne on the 31st. October attracted huge crowds.
MacSwiney is buried in the Republican plot in Saint Finbarr's Cemetery in Cork. Arthur Griffith delivered the graveside oration.
Bobby Sands
Sixty years later, another Irish Republican died following a hunger strike.
Robert Gerard Sands (9th. March 1954 - 5th. May 1981) was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.
Sands helped to plan the 1976 bombing of the Balmoral Furniture Company in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape, and sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession.
He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During Sands' strike, he was elected to the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block candidate.
Bobby's death at Maze Prison in Northern Ireland at the age of 27, and those of nine other hunger strikers, was followed by a new surge in IRA recruitment and activity. International media coverage brought attention to the hunger strikers, and the republican movement in general, attracting both praise and criticism.
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.
[27]
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.
with newspaper mask, hunting trophy, copper spray paint.
As an hommage to Joseph Beuys' performance "How to explain the pictures to the dead hare".
Wie man der Jagdtrophäe die Nachrichten erklärt.
mit Maske aus Zeitungspapier, Jagdtrophäe, Kupferspray.
In Anlehnung an die Performance von Joseph Beuys "Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt"
Making a presentation at the 100th PechaKucha nite at SuperDeluxe, Roppongi. Tame causes quite stir in his running rig. More on this interesting athlete...
Can't explain...
Anything...
Not even how im feeling...
My emotions are so messed up lately...
Im not myself, But sometimes im more than myself.
I don't sleep.
Im just not me, Then who am i?
I act stuck up and mean, But thats not me.
Whats gotten into me...
I need to find myself, But i can't.
I push everyone close to me away...
I need them more than ever rightnow.
sometimes i feel like my heart
is beating extremlyy fast like im having
a heart attack, almost like im dying,
i've been told these are panic attacks
bah i get them most frequently grr
Random Fact: that peace sign headband i wear that almost everyday. :)
One of the exhibits at the National Science Museum in Daejeon is this early 1990s Hyundai Elantra, donated by the manufacturer, explaining how an automobile works.
Throughout the 1980s, Hyundai was able to market only a two-vehicle lineup in the export markets: initially two RWD models, the Pony and the Stellar, switching later to FWD equivalents, the Excel and the Sonata. The Excel, in particular, was extremely popular in the US market. But eventually Hyundai started to hit a wall; there was only so much it could do by selling low-tech cars and relying heavily on cheap labor (which was becoming a thing of the past in South Korea). It had to expand its lineup.
The Elantra was introduced in 1991 to that end. Initially intended to replace the Excel, instead it coexisted with the Excel as a more upscale sibling. Its claim to fame was a Mitsubishi-developed 16-valve DOHC engine; it was the first Hyundai to utilize multi-valve and/or multi-camshaft designs, by then common among competitors as a quick way to increase engine output without sacrificing fuel economy.
Hyundai was definitely very late to the DOHC and multivalve party, as well as ABS and airbag parties. Just two decades later, however, Hyundai would be at the forefront of new technologies, such as widespread use of electronic stability control and gasoline direct injection in non-luxury cars.
The original Elantra received the J1 chassis code. Subsequent Elantras used RD, XD, HD, and MD.
In the Korean domestic market, the name Elantra was applied only to the original J1. All models RD and later are known by a different name, Avanté, which is not used in export markets due to possible clash with the Audi "Avant" all-wheel-drive vehicles. RD and later are also equipped with Hyundai's own engine designs rather than the J1's Mitsubishi; that helped Hyundai tremendously with performance, fuel economy, and reliability issues. In some export markets, a slightly modified name, Lantra, was used for J1 and RD to avoid confusion with the Lotus Elan sports car.
Well it's mid September 2020. The Age of Wonders has yet to arrive, with a new, later theatrical debut every time I look at the website. But, the merchandise seems to be on schedule, namely the S.H. Figuarts WW84 Wonder Woman figure.
WW84 takes place in 1984, and takes place before Justice League. While I know continuity has been an issue with the DCEU movies, there's a few things I hope this movie will explain... of course it could just be me that cares about these things. Gal Gadot returns as the lead character, with an interesting supporting cast including Chris Pine, who needs to regale audiences with the story as to why he's not dead.
Contents of the WW84 package are... kind of slim for the price point of 6,600 Yen. You get the figure, two face plates (eyes forwards, eyes to the right), an empty Lasso of Truth holster, six additional posing hands, and an uncoiled mid motion Lasso of Truth. This time around, she apparently has no sword or shield (which I believe were smashed to bits in the previous movie). On a related note, she also has no leather bandolier this time around either. The coiled Lasso of Truth is now a single piece along with actual holster. which helps displaying the figure with no Lasso in hand.
Lets get the obvious out of the way. In the event it wasn't obvious, Tamashii Nations effectively recycled the previous body and slapped on a new head. The colours were tweaked (most likely due to movie costume changes) and the side by side photos should give good indication of that. Skin tone was darkened because, well, Gal Gadot has a complexion.. or the guy in charge of that sort thing wasn't blind this time around.
With regards to the head, it should be readily apparent that Tamashii Nations tried much, much, much harder to this time to actually get that Gal Gadot accuracy. It's not perfect, most notable being the eyes front sculpt seems to have issues with regards to paint location for the pupils, but its definitely recognizable as Gadot, and a hell of an improvement over the first one.
How anyone could possibly mistake that one for Gal Gadot is something that probably needs an entire Netflix series to explain.
The aforementioned issues with eyes front sculpt seem to be a widespread QC issue, so overall the eyes right sculpt is definitely the better of the two, and works better with her hair anyway.
In addition to getting the right image for the digital painting, Tamashii Nations updated the actual shape of the face, and her hair/wig, replicating her half front/half back look from many of the promotional photos, and also allows Gadot/Wonder Woman to showcase her strong jawline. Detailing on the hair itself is finer as well.
So now that her face and hair are more accurate, there's one more improvement to discuss before leaving this section. One of my pet peeves about the first release was that there was no thought given as to how the head would turn, as that section of hair that goes over the right should had no give. It also got in the way of the shoulder movement.
Tamashii Nations fixed this by adding in the hair, which allows the hair to move out of the way for turning, and will yield in the event the shoulder is moved. It's a bit clunky, but it does work. Maybe they'll do something to fix the back hair the next time.
Moving on to our usual overview criteria, articulation points are plentiful. You get goes, ankles with tilt and pivot, double jointed knees, hips with thigh swivel and displaced joints to allow for greater range of motion, waist, mid-torso, shoulders with chest collapse, single jointed elbows, wrists, neck and head.
Due to lack of bulk in the arms, the single jointed elbows appear to sufficient for posing purposes. The back of her head unfortunately does get in the way of tilting her head back, so no flying poses or tilting the head up. You can do a nice variety of action poses, including her trademark Bracers pose, but's she's no Revoltech. Furthermore, you really just have the Lasso as a weapon (and it's not even the spinning one like the Hot Toys has) so generally speaking rope tricks is about as exotic as you're going to get on the figure.
Paint work is excellent, with no observable bleeds between colours or overspray. Details on the face itself are great, and honestly just keep me excited for improvements we'll see next time around (in a good way). The only messy paint apps are basically invisible - they're on the edges of armour that expose flesh bits. I also mentioned the issues with the location of pupils on the eyes front sculpt.
All in all, pupil location aside, only the most anal retentive will find something to complain about paint wise on this figure.
Finally, with regards to build quality, everything is in order for a figure of this price point. Limbs are the same length and joints operate as designed. Finishes on the parts themselves are very good, with the usual Figuarts level of seam polishing. The only beef I have is that the front hair section likes to come off on mine a bit to easily. Other than that, everything holds together as expected.
It's amazing what a "simple" head change can do for a figure - it's almost like a brand new thing when in reality, it's effectively the same. This new head. even with its somewhat wonky articulation, this is undoubtedly the best Gal Gadot Wonder Woman figure at this size.
She looks the part, and now, can actually utilize the full posing capabilities of the body. I just wish she had more gear to pose with.
There has been no news about a Golden Armour version of her being released... on the other hand, this wouldn't be the first time a winged figure was released, so there's hope it can and will happen.
I guess we'll have to wait till December to (hopefully) find out.
Opening scene
It is late in the 22nd Century. United Planet cruiser C57D a year out from Earth base on the way to Altair for a special mission. Commander J.J Adams (Leslie Neilsen) orders the crew to the deceleration booths as the ship drops from light speed to normal space.
Adams orders pilot Jerry Farman (Jack Kelly) to lay in a course for the fourth planet. The captain then briefs the crew that they are at their destination, and that they are to look for survivors from the Bellerophon expedition 20 years earlier.
As they orbit the planet looking for signs of life, the ship is scanned by a radar facility some 20 square miles in area. Morbius (Walter Pigeon) contacts the ship from the planet asking why the ship is here. Morbius goes on to explain he requires nothing, no rescue is required and he can't guarantee the safety of the ship or its crew.
Adams confirms that Morbius was a member of the original crew, but is puzzled at the cryptic warning Morbius realizes the ship is going to land regardless, and gives the pilot coordinates in a desert region of the planet. The ship lands and security details deploy. Within minutes a high speed dust cloud approaches the ship. Adams realizes it is a vehicle, and as it arrives the driver is discovered to be a robot (Robby). Robby welcomes the crew to Altair 4 and invites members of the crew to Morbious residence.
Adams, Farman and Doc Ostrow (Warren Stevens) arrive at the residence and are greeted by Morbius. They sit down to a meal prepared by Robbys food synthesizer and Morbius shows the visitors Robbys other abilities, including his unwavering obedience. Morbius then gives Robby a blaster with orders to shoot Adams. Robby refuses and goes into a mechanical mind lock, disabling him till the order is changed.
Morbius then shows the men the defense system of the house (A series of steel shutters). When questioned, Morbius admits that the Belleraphon crew is dead, Morbius and his wife being the only original survivors. Morbius's wife has also died, but months after the others and from natural causes. Morbius goes on to explain many of the crew were torn limb from limb by a strange creature or force living on the planet. The Belleraphon herself was destroyed when the final three surviving members tried to take off for Earth.
Adams wonders why this force has remained dormant all these years and never attacked Morbius. As discussions continue, a young woman Altaira (Anne Francis) introduces herself as Morbius daughter. Farman takes an immediate interest in Altaira, and begins to flirt with her . Altaira then shows the men her ability to control wild animals by petting a wild tiger. During this display the ship checks in on the safety of the away party. Adams explains he will need to check in with Earth for further orders and begins preparations for sending a signal. Because of the power needed the ship will be disabled for up to 10 days. Morbius is mortified by this extended period and offers Robby's services in building the communication facility
The next day Robby arrives at ship as the crew unloads the engine to power the transmitter. To lighten the tense moment the commander instructs the crane driver to pick up Cookie (Earl Holliman) and move him out of the way. Quinn interrupts the practical joke to report that the assembly is complete and they can transmit in the morning.
Meanwhile Cookie goes looking for Robby and organizes for the robot to synthesize some bourbon. Robby takes a sample and tells Cookie he can have 60 gallons ready the next morning for him.
Farman continues to court Altair by teaching her how to kiss, and the health benefits of kissing. Adams interrupts the exercise, and is clearly annoyed with a mix of jealous. He then explains to Altair that the clothes she wears are inappropriate around his crew. Altair tries to argue till Adams looses patience and order Altair to leave the area.
That night, Altair, still furious, explains to her father what occurred. Altair takes Adams advice to heart and orders Robby to run up a less revealing dress. Meanwhile back at the ship two security guards think they hear breathing in the darkness but see nothing.
Inside the ship, one of the crew half asleep sees the inner hatch opened and some material moved around. Next morning the Captain holds court on the events of the night before. Quinn advises the captain that most of the missing and damaged equipment can be replaced except for the Clystron monitor. Angry the Capt and Doc go back to Morbius to confront him about what has occurred.
Morbius is unavailable, so the two men settle in to wait. Outside Adams sees Altair swimming and goes to speak to her. Thinking she is naked, Adams becomes flustered and unsettled till he realizes she wants him to see her new dress. Altair asks why Adams wont kiss her like everyone else has. He gives in and plants one on her. Behind them a tiger emerges from the forest and attacks Altair, Adams reacts by shooting it. Altair is badly troubled by the incident, the tiger had been her friend, but she can't understand why acted as if she was an enemy.
Returning to the house, Doc and Adams accidently open Morbius office. They find a series of strange drawings but no sign of Morbius. He appears through a secret door and is outraged at the intrusion. Adams explains the damage done to the ship the previous night and his concern that Morbius was behind the attack.
Morbius admits it is time for explanations. He goes on to tell them about a race of creatures that lived on the planet called the Krell. In the past they had visited Earth, which explains why there are Earth animals on the planet. Morbius believes the Krell civilization collapsed in a single night, right on the verge of their greatest discovery. Today 2000 centuries later, nothing of their cities exists above ground.
Morbius then takes them on a tour of the Krell underground installation. Morbius first shows them a device for projecting their knowledge; he explains how he began to piece together information. Then an education device that projects images formed in the mind. Finally he explains what the Krell were expected to do, and how much lower human intelligence is in comparison.
Doc tries the intelligence tester but is confused when it does not register as high as Morbius. Morbius then explains it can also boost intelligence, and that the captain of the Belleraphon died using it. Morbius himself was badly injured but when he recovered his IQ had doubled.
Adams questions why all the equipment looks brand new. It is explained that all the machines left on the planet are self repairing and Morbius takes them on a tour of the rest of the installation. First they inspect a giant air vent that leads to the core of the planet. There are 400 other such shafts in the area and 9200 thermal reactors spread through the facilities 8000 cubic miles.
Later that night the crew has completed the security arrangements and tests the force field fence. Cookie asks permission to go outside the fence. He meets Robby who gives him the 60 gallons of bourbon. Outside, something hits the fence and shorts it out. The security team checks the breach but finds nothing. A series of foot like depressions begin forming leading to the ship. Something unseen enters the ship. A scream echos through the compound.
Back at the Morbius residence he argues that only he should be allowed to control the flow of Krell technology back to Earth. In the middle of the discussion, Adams is paged and told that the Chief Quinn has been murdered. Adams breaks of his discussions and heads back to the ship.
Later that night Doc finds the footprints and makes a cast. The foot makes no evolutionary sense. It seems to have elements of a four footed and biped creature; also it seems a predator and herbivore. Adams questions Cookie who was with the robot during the test and decides the robot was not responsible.
The next day at the funeral for Chief Morbius again warns him of impending doom facing the ship and crew. Adams considers this a challenge and spends the day fortifying the position around the ship. After testing the weapons and satisfied all that could be done has, the radar station suddenly reports movement in the distance moving slowly towards the ship.
No one sees anything despite the weapons being under radar fire control. The controller confirms a direct hit, but the object is still moving towards the ship. Suddenly something hits the force field fence, and a huge monster appears outlined in the energy flux. The crew open fire, but seem to do little good. A number of men move forward but a quickly killed.
Morbious wakes hearing the screams of Altair. Shes had a dream mimicking the attack that has just occurred. As Morbious is waking the creature in the force field disappears. Doc theories that the creature is made of some sort of energy, renewing itself second by second.
Adams takes Doc in the tractor to visit Morbius intending to evacuate him from the planet. He leaves orders for the ship to be readied for lift off. If he and Doc dont get back, the ship is to leave without them. They also want to try and break into Morbious office and take the brain booster test.
They are met at the door by Robby, who disarms them. Altair appears and countermands the orders given to Robby by her father. Seeing a chance Doc sneaks into the office. Altair argues with Adams about trying to make Morbius return home, she ultimately declares her love for him.
Robby appears carrying the injured Doc. Struggling to speak and heavy pain, Doc explains that the Krell succeeded in their great experiment. However they forgot about the sub conscious monsters they would release. Monsters from the id.
Morbius sees the dead body of Doc, and makes a series of ugly comments. His daughter reminds him that Doc is dead. Morbius lack of care convinces Altair she is better off going with Adams. Morbius tries to talk Adams out of taking Altair.
Adams demands an explanation of the id. Morbius realizes he is the source of the creature killing everyone. The machine the Krell built was able to release his inner beast, the sub conscious monster dwelling deep inside his ancestral mind.
Robby interrupts the debate to report something approaching the house. Morbius triggers the defensive shields of the house, which the creature begins to destroy. Morbius then orders Robby to destroy the creature, however Robby short circuits. Adams explained that it was useless; Robby knew it was Morbius self.
Adams, Altair and Morbius retreat to the Krell lab and sealed themselves in by sealing a special indestructible door. Adams convinces Morbius that he is really the monster, and that Morbius can not actually control his subconscious desires.
The group watch as the creature beings the slow process of burning through the door. Panicked Morbius implores Altair to say it is not so. Suddenly the full realization comes, and he understands that he could endanger or even kill Altair.
As the creature breaks through Morbius rushes forward and denies its existence. Suddenly the creature disappears but Morbius is mortally wounded. With his dying breath he instructs Adams to trigger a self destruct mechanism linked to the reactors of the great machine. The ship and crew have 24 hours to get as far away from the planet as possible
The next day we see the ship deep in space. Robby and Altair are onboard watching as the planet brightens and is destroyed. Adams assures Altair that her fathers memory will shine like a beacon.
The great mystery of Worlds End is why is it so called? The traditional explanation is explained thus: the first pastoralists here looked out and thought this was semi-arid country, (beyond Goyder’s Line) and likely to court disaster and looked like the world’s end. Is this nonsense? Goyder’s Line did not exist in 1851 when the Scottish pastoralist Donald McDonald took out the first lease here. He called his run Worlds End. We think that every pastoralist in SA could have look at their country and called its worlds end. A far more likely explanation for the name is that Donald McDonald was a good Scot. He would have been thinking about Worlds End Pub in Edinburgh. This pub was built just beyond the original stone walls of the ancient city of Edinburgh. After the English beat the Scots at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 King James of Scotland realised his capital city of Edinburgh was almost defenceless. He hastily had his men build a wall to protect the city. A pub just on the outside edge of the wall was called Worlds End Pub as it was beyond the defences. This pub still exists and you can visit it in Edinburgh. The current one is actually built on the foundations of the wall erected after the Battle of Flodden. Furthermore, Donald McDonald would probably also have known about Worlds End House in Aberdeenshire where McDonald came from. It was built in 1767. Furthermore he would also have known about the Worlds End pub on Magill Road as it was first licensed in 1845. It was only demolished in 1967 when the new Magill Post Office was erected. Worlds End is a well known name as there was even a Scottish fable based on the Well of Worlds End. To us it seems that Worlds End was named because of Donald McDonald’s Scottish connections, not his views about the appearance of his sheep run! Poor Donald McDonald came to a sticky end. His body was found on a north Queensland property near Bowen in 1864 where he was working. His body had two Aboriginal spears in it. No one was charged over the incident but reprisals by white stockmen were common.
SA’s Worlds End was just beyond Goyder’s Line and largely settled by farmers of German background who had moved on from the Robertstown area. The grid town of Lapford (1877) never developed at all. Worlds End on Burra Creek had a school for some years (1888-1944), a Post Office (1876-1971) and a Wesleyan Methodist Church (1889-1975). Most of the German settlers traversed the Hallelujah Hills, part of the Burra Ranges ,weekly to Emu Downs to attend the Lutheran church (and cemetery) there. The locality of Worlds End also had a swinging bridge (1892) across Burra Creek to enable access when the creek was in flood. Some of this information has been provided by Max Duldig whose ancestors lived here. Private Oswald Duldig 1893-1917 of Worlds End was killed in action in France during World War One. Max’s grandfather Friedrich Duldig operated a creamery here in the 1890s and churned the milk into cheese which he then sold in Burra.
Members of the American High School Theatre Festival presenting excerpts of their show "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" on and around one of the Virgin Money free stages on The Mile
Here's a scene that helps to explain why the U.S. Congress has trouble steering in any direction.This Cadillac, bearing a California license plate and a dashboard pass for the 112th Congress, was left hanging near the Maryland/District of Columbia boundary. It had been driven over a sidewalk and the edge of a sunken parking lot for GEICO's office building. With back wheels in the air, the car required a tow truck to get back to the road. Fortunately, the mishap was on a Sunday, when the lot was nearly empty. No one hurt, apparently.
I hadn't been able to take out the M4 and 35mm Nikkor in awhile, so brought it with me on several occasions. Was trying to focus on the pictures in my mind rather than what was in front of me, basically to construct things differently. I had seen a number of flickeranians who really impressed me with their work where I could feel what they were doing, from images in Los Angeles to the tri-state area to South East Asia. I keep trying and thank those who keep inspiring!
These two. Tough to really explain just how much they mean to me. Kate's more than my best friend. She's my sister. And my god daughter? I can't even. I was honored to help her get ready for her big daddy-daughter dance by straightening her naturally wavy hair and putting a few braids into it. She was pretty excited. I was just happy to spend time with my monsters.
Photo by Cutty McGill
The Hudson River Ramble and Jay Day were a huge success!!
Read more here:
www.lohud.com/article/20120924/NEWS02/309240026/Families-...
The Jay Heritage Center (JHC) hosted its annual Fall Family Festival on Sunday, September 23rd celebrating American culture and traditions. Highlights included costumed tours of the Jay Mansion along with activities for all ages.
The event was organized by JHC's Young Preservationists, a group of parents committed to the adaptive reuse of John Jay's landmark home as a community learning center for children and adults, a place furnished with lively ideas and people, not just furniture. The fresh vision of these volunteers had great resonance last year as over 800 people showed up to applaud their efforts while munching on crisp autumn apples and sipping cider. Activities included parents and kids painting pumpkins and coring apples. The Jay estate was once itself a working farm with plentiful crops and gardens. Farmer's market offerings of pumpkin muffins and homemade jams on hand thanks to Meredith's Bread from Kingston while sweet cravings were satisfied by frosty organic Go-Go Pops from Cold Spring Harbor.
The place was filled with butterflies - vivid butterfly painted faces and balloon animals to take home courtesy of James Daniels.
Bruce Macdonald of Ashwood Restoration opened up his preservation workshop and explained the challenges involved in restoring the mansion's front door. Visitors could also see our latest exhibit on NY Genealogy and found out if they were related to some of NY's Founding Families including the Stuyvesants, Van Cortlandts, Jays, and more!
And at the 1907 Carriage House, families participated in an archaeaolgy dig and saw a sustainable dollhouse. But many parents and grandparents were also just content to sit in wicker rockers on the veranda to watch their children play and drink in the unequalled view of New York State's oldest man-managed meadow a vista famously dubbed "a time funnel" to the past.
The event was part of the Hudson River Valley Ramble weekend which celebrates American heritage in New York State.
Celebrating 20 Years of Protecting, Preserving and Interpreting Our American History and Landscape.
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Who Must Fast?
Fasting is compulsory for those who are mentally and physically fit,
past the age of puberty, in a settledsituation (not traveling), and
are sure fasting is unlikely to cause real physical or mental injury.
Exemptions from Fasting(some exemptions are optional)
*. Children under the age ofpuberty (Young children are encouraged to
fast asmuch as they are able.)
*. People who are mentallyincapacitated or not responsible for their actions
*. The elderly
*. The sick
*. Travelers who are on journeys of more than about fifty miles
*. Pregnant women and nursing mothers
*. Women who are menstruating
*. Those who are temporarily unable to fast must make up the missed
days at another time or feed the poor.
Special Events
*. Special prayers, called taraweeh, are performedafter the daily
nighttime prayer.
*. Lailat ul-Qadr ("Night of Power" or "Night of Destiny") marks the
anniversary of the night on which the Prophet Muhammad first began
receiving revelations from God, through the angel Gabriel. Muslims
believe Lailat ul-Qadr is one of the last odd-numbered nights of
Ramadhan.
Traditional Practices
*. Breaking the daily fast with a drink of water and dates
*. Reading the entire Quranduring Ramadhan
*. Social visits are encouraged.
Eid ul-Fitr ("Festival of Fast-Breaking") Prayers at the End of Ramadhan
*. Eid begins with special morning prayers on the first day of
Shawwal, the month following Ramadhan on the Islamiclunar calendar.
*. It is forbidden to performan optional fast during Eid because it is
a time for relaxation.
*. During Eid Muslims greet each other with the phrase "taqabbalallah
ta'atakum," or "may God accept your deeds" and"Eid Mubarak"
(eed-moo-bar-ak), meaning"blessed Eid."
Ramadhan Questionsand Answers
Q: How did the fast during Ramadhan become obligatory for Muslims?
The revelations from God to the Prophet Muhammadthat would eventually
be compiled as the Quran began during Ramadhan in the year 610, but
the fast of Ramadhan did not become a religious obligation for Muslims
until the year 624. The obligation to fast is explained in the second
chapter of the Quran: "O yewho believe! Fasting is prescribed to you
as it wasprescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn)
self-restraint...Ramadhan isthe (month) in which was sent down the
Quran, as a guide to mankind, also clear (Signs) for guidance and
judgment (between right and wrong). So everyone of you who is present
(at his home) during that month should spend it in fasting..."
(Chapter 2, verses183 and 185)
Q: What do Muslims believe they gain from fasting?
One of the main benefits of Ramadhan are an increased compassion for
those in need of the necessities of life, a sense of self-purification
and reflection and a renewed focus on spirituality. Muslims also
appreciate the feeling of togethernessshared by family and friends
throughout the month. Perhaps the greatest practical benefit isthe
yearly lesson in self-restraint and disciplinethat can carry forward
to other aspects of a Muslim'slife such as work and education.
Q: Why does Ramadhan begin on a different day each year?
Because Ramadhan is a lunar month, it begins about eleven days earlier
each year. Throughout a Muslim's lifetime, Ramadhan will fall both
during winter months, when the days are short, and summer months, when
the days are long and the fast is more difficult. In this way, the
difficulty of the fast is evenly distributed between Muslims living in
the northern and southernhemispheres.
Q: What is Lailat ul-Qadr?
Lailat ul-Qadr ("Night of Power") marks the anniversary of the night
on which the Prophet Muhammad first began receiving revelations from
God, through the angel Gabriel. An entire chapter in the Quran deals
with this night: "We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night
of Power: and what will explain to thee what the Night of Power is?
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. Therein come down
the angels and the Spirit by God's permission, on everyerrand.
Peace!...This until the rise of morn." (Chapter 97) Muslims believe
Lailat ul-Qadr is one of the last odd-numbered nights of Ramadhan.
Q: Is it difficult to perform the fast in America?
In many ways, fasting in American society is easier than fasting in
areas where the climate is extremely hot. This year atleast, the
number of daylight hours will be less than when Ramadhan occurs during
the spring orsummer. In Muslim countries, most people are observing
the fast, so there are fewer temptations such as luncheon meetings,
daytime celebrations and offers of food from friends.....