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Some background:

Following World War II the Allies dissolved the Wehrmacht with all its branches on 20 August 1946. However, already one year after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in May 1949 and because of its increasing links with the West, the Consultative Assembly of Europe began to consider the formation of a European Defence Community with German participation on 11 August 1950.

Only a small number (40 plus two prototypes) of Spähpanzer Puma (Neu) were eventually converted or re-build from spares, but they became in 1957 the launch equipment of the Bundeswehr’s armored reconnaissance brigades, together with M8 Greyhound scout cars donated by the USA, even though the latter were soon complemented and replaced by tracked vehicles, based on the Schützenpanzer Kurz. However, due to their high road speed and excellent range, the Puma (Neu) scout cars were popular and remained in service until the late Seventies, when a new generation of 8x8 reconnaissance vehicles in the form of the amphibious Spähpanzer Luchs was introduced and replaced all 1st generation Bundeswehr vehicles.

Specifications:

Crew: Four (commander, gunner, driver, radio operator/2nd driver)

Weight: 10.500 kg (23,148 lbs)

Length: 6.02 m (19 ft 9 in)

Width: 2.36 m (7 ft 9 in)

Height: 2.84 metres (9 ft 4 in)

Suspension: Independent on each wheel, with leaf springs

Track width: 1.95 m (6 ft 4 1/2 in)

Wading depth: 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in)

Trench crossing capability: 2m (6 ft 6 1/2 in)

Ground clearance: 350 mm (13 3/4 in)

Climbing capability: 30°

Fuel capacity: 240 l

Armor:

9-30 mm (.35-1.18 in) steel armor

Performance:

Maximum road speed: 80 km/h (49 mph)

Operational range: 800 km (500 mi)

Fuel consumption: 30 l/100 km on roads, 45 l/100 km off-road

Power/weight: 17 PS/t

Engine:

Air-cooled, supercharged 10,622 cc (648³ in) Magirus-Deutz F8L 614K V8 diesel engine,

with 132 kW (180 hp) output at 2.500 RPM

Transmission:

Büssing-NAG "GS" with 6 forward and reverse gears, eight-wheel drive

Armament:

1× 20 mm (0.79 in) Rheinmetall (Hispano-Suiza) MK 20 Rh202 autocannon with 750 rounds

1× co-axial 7.62 mm MG42/57 light machine gun 2.000 rounds

The kit and its assembly:

This German 8x8 vehicle is a contribution to the “Back into service” Group Build at whatifmodelers.com in late 2019. Beyond aircraft I also thought about (armored) vehicles that could fit into this theme, and the SdKfz. 234/2 “Puma” (even though this popular name was never official!) came to my mind, because it was a very effective vehicle with many modern features for its time. So, what could a modernized Puma for the young Bundeswehr look like…?

The starting point became the very nice Hasegawa SdKfz. 234/2 kit, which did not – except for some PSR between the hull halves – pose any complications. I did not want to change too much for the Bundeswehr update, but new/wider wheels and a new, more modern turret with a light post-war weapon appeared sensible.

The wheels come from a ModelTrans aftermarket resin set for the LAV-25 – they are quite modern, but they do not look out of place. Their different, more solid style as well as the slightly bigger diameter and the wider tires change the Puma’s look considerably. In order to mount them, I modified the suspension and cut away the former attachment point on the four axles, replacing them with thin, die-punched styrene discs. This reduced the track width far enough so that the new, wider wheels would fit under the original mudguards. It’s a tight arrangement, but does not look implausible. The spare wheel, normally mounted to the vehicle’s rear, was omitted.

The turret was taken from a Revell “Luchs” Spähpanzer kit, but simplified so that it would have a more vintage look. For instance, the machine gun ring mount above the commander’s hatch was omitted, as well as the rotating warning light and the modern smoke grenade dischargers. The latter were replaced by the WWII triple dischargers from the Hasegawa kit, for a more vintage look.

To my astonishment, the Luchs turret was easy to mate with the Puma chassis: its attachment ring diameter was almost identical! The new part could be attached almost without a problem or modification. I just added some reinforcements to the hull’s flanks, since the Luchs turret is slightly wider than the SdKfz. 234/2’s horseshoe-shaped turret. Beyond that, only small, cosmetic things were added, like mirror fairings for both drivers above their workstations, license plates at the front and the rear and antennae.

Painting and markings:

Creating an early Bundeswehr vehicle is a simple task, because there is only one potential color option until the Eighties: a uniform livery in Gelboliv (RAL 6014). Due to the livery’s simplicity, I used a rattle can to paint hull, turret and wheels separately.

After some detail painting, a very dark brown wash with acrylic paint and some post shading with Revell 42 (also Gelboliv, but a rather greenish and bright interpretation of the tone) as well as dry-brushing with Revell 46 and 45 along the many edges were used to weather the model and emphasize details. After decals had been applied (mostly from a Peddinghaus sheet for early Bundeswehr vehicles, plus some tactical markings from the Revell Luchs), the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.

Once dry and completed, some artist pigments were added around the wheels and lower hull in order to simulate dust and dirt. On the lower chassis, some pigments were also "cluttered" onto small patches of the acrylic varnish, so that the stuff soaks it up, builds volume and becomes solid - the perfect simulation of dry mud crusts. I found the uniform livery to look quite dull, so I added some branches (real moss, spray-painted with dark green acrylic paint from a rattle can) to the hull – a frequent field practice.

This was a very quick project – in fact, the model was completed in the course of just one evening, and painting it was a quick affair, too, lasting only another day. However, I like the result. The SdKfz. 234/2 already had a quite modern look in its original guise, but the new wheels and the Luchs turret change its look considerably, it really has an even more modern feel that fits well into the early Bundeswehr era.

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Scenes from the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) Side Event: A Feminist Accountability Framework: What the World Needs to Achieve Gender Equality and All the Sustainable Development Goals, co-sponsored by ICRW and its partners Equal Measures 2030, Save the Children, Global Citizen, Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO), UN Women, the Government of Costa Rica, and the Government of Zambia. Held at the Church Centre in New York on 18 July 2017.

Pictured Above: Ambassador Rolando Castro, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent of Costa Rica to the United Nations

Speakers included:

Eleanor Blomstrom, Co-Director and Head of Office at WEDO, Women’s Major Group Chair

Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, at the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University

Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women

Ambassador Rolando Castro, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent of Costa Rica to the United Nations

Wallace Nguluwe, Gender Specialist, Ministry of Gender, Zambia

Sai Jyothirmai Racherla, Program Director, ARROW (representing Women’s Major Group)

Alison Holder, Director, Equal Measures 2030

Jenny Ottenhoff, Policy Director, Global Health at ONE

Grace Choi, Associate Director for Global Gender Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children USA

Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

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Wakehurst Place Sussex.

Background Information

During the summer and fall of 1899, Robert Heffron Murray and Frank Cox experimented with kite aerial photography in the Beverly Neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Their experiments were reported in local newspapers, with articles explaining the science behind Cox and Murray's studies and including aerial images taken by a camera attached to their kite. According to newspaper accounts, the experiments were conceived by Murray after he had read about similar work being conducted by the United States government at Blue Hill Observatory in Massachusetts for the purpose of measuring air currents for improved weather forecasting.

Cox and Murray used a Hargrave kite (i.e., box kite) that measured 108 inches in length and 96 inches in width. The total area of their kite was 125 square feet, 91 square feet being composed of lifting surface. The wood framework of the kite was made using southern yellow pine, while the bracing was made of No. 18 soft iron wire.

The highest altitude that Cox and Murray's kite reportedly achieved was about 500 feet, but Murray is quoted in one article stating that the kite could achieve an altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 feet. Murray also stated the one use for the kite could be for military reconnaissance - particularly in the Philippines where the kite could be used "in locating insurgents, and might be a means of saving a great many lives in addition to making military operations successful."

The camera used in taking this photograph is reported to have been a Kodak No. 2 Falcon. The No. 2 Falcon was a rather affordable $5.00 box camera that took pictures of 3.5 x 3.5 inch (9 x 9 cm) on a spool of daylight loading film for 12 or 18 photographs. It was introduced to the market in September 1897. The Kodak No.2 Falcon was advertised as a "bicycle camera." The combination of bicycling and snap-shot photography was popular activity during the 1890s, and numerous cameras were advertised as bicycle cameras at that time.

Photograph Information

This photograph was taken in an open field that today would be located north of West 103rd Street, east of the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad tracks, and west of South Wood Street in Chicago (Beverly Neighborhood). This particular area was referred to as Blue Island Ridge, and it was where many of the finest homes in suburban Chicago were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s. At the time this photograph was taken, Murray and his family were residing at 1911 West 103rd, which would have been very near the kite launch site.

Here, present day South Longwood Drive can be seen along the bottom of the photograph, while West 103rd Street is seen along the left side. The photograph was taken looking almost directly west at an altitude of 400 feet. The castle-looking structure at the upper left is the Robert C. Givens residence, which is known today as the Beverly Castle Academy. Robert C. Givens accumulated his wealth through real estate development; he was also a novelist. The large home at the upper right was the home of Horace E. Horton, who at the time this photograph was taken was the president of the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works. Both structures still standing today [ca. 2012]. Incidentally, Robert Heffron Murray married Horace E. Horton's daughter, Sue Mary Horton, on November 4, 1905, in Richmond, Virginia.

Source: Robert Heffron Murray scrapbook, 1898-1905

About Robert Heffron Murray....

Robert Heffron Murray was born Wednesday, October 18, 1881, in Washington Heights, Cook County, Illinois, the son of George William Murray and Cora May (Heffron) Murray. After attending the Lewis Institute (forerunner of Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago for secondary school education, Robert enrolled and later graduated from The University of Chicago on Tuesday, June 14, 1904. Robert married Sue Mary Horton on Saturday, November 4, 1905, in Richmond, Virginia; no children resulted from their union. Sue was a childhood neighbor of Robert and the daughter of Horace E. Horton, the founder of Chicago Bridge and Iron. In 1917, Robert joined the United States Army and was commissioned as a Captain in the Army Reserves. He was elevated to Major when ordered to report for deployment to Europe during World War I. Upon return from active duty in Europe, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and was therefore commonly referred to as Colonel Murray. He started developing Sunset Hill Farm in 1934, which is located in the northwest quarter of Section 25 in Liberty Township, Porter County, Indiana. Leroy "Pete" Hanrahan, who served as Colonel Murray's farm manager from 1934 until his death in 1952, was instrumental in assisting Colonel Murray develop Sunset Hill Farm. Today, Sunset Hill Farm operates as a county park. After Robert's wife Sue died on Monday, February 26, 1962, he remarried Elizabeth (Linn) Allen, the widow of John B. Allen, on Saturday, January 11, 1964, in Liberty Township, Porter County, Indiana. Elizabeth, commonly referred to as Bips, was a member of the Chicago Board of Education and the grandniece of Jane Addams, a very well known early Twentieth Century progressive and the founder of Hull House in Chicago. Colonel Murray died on Saturday, October 28, 1972, in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana. Elizabeth "Bips" Murray died on Saturday, June 14, 1997, in Washington, DC.

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I've seen a lot of versions shooting the old port but the skies that day demanded a bit of a straight forward approach for me to compose the scene. This image was shot about 4 months ago. I wanted to show our newly inducted alumni's of the Chasing Light workshop how rewarding it is to be a Landscape photographer and what our place has to offer. Building the right attitude and mindset, We all can be great with what we love to do. I miss shooting with great light. I hope to capture more after the stormy weather. Batch 22 lets do a group shoot this time around! its gonna be an adventure!

Mediterranean river discharge patterns depend on properties of the atmospheric water budget as well as on the geographical characteristics of the Mediterranean catchment. A substantial latitudinal gradient characterizes Mediterranean precipitation year-round, with dry areas along the African coast and significantly wetter ones north of the Mediterranean Sea (Struglia et al. 2004). Winter is the main rainy season for the European land regions, which contribute most of the discharge, while summers south of 40 degrees N are basically dry. Most of the water discharge in the northern region occurs during short floods associated with maximum river flow after heavy rainfall, which generally occurs between February and May. The strong summer-winter rainfall contrast, which increases from north to south and from west to east, is the major characteristic of the Mediterranean climate (UNEP/MAP/MED POL, 2003). In the large and medium-sized river basins in north and central Europe, wide-ranging and continuous precipitation is the most common cause of flooding. Floods also occur in association with snow melt in late spring and early summer. Intense shortlasting rainfall during spring and fall affecting small coastal catchments is the main cause of coastal floods in arid and semiarid parts of the Mediterranean area.

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Stained glass Masonic Square and Compasses hang at the foot of my bed.

Masonic Square and Compasses.

The Square and Compasses (or, more correctly, a square and a set of compasses joined together) is the single most identifiable symbol of Freemasonry. Both the square and compasses are architect's tools and are used in Masonic ritual as emblems to teach symbolic lessons. Some Lodges and rituals explain these symbols as lessons in conduct: for example, Duncan's Masonic Monitor of 1866 explains them as: "The square, to square our actions; The compasses, to circumscribe and keep us within bounds with all mankind".

However, as Freemasonry is non-dogmatic, there is no general interpretation for these symbols (or any Masonic symbol) that is used by Freemasonry as a whole.

Square and Compasses:

Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

These two symbols have been so long and so universally combined — to teach us, as says an early instruction, "to square our actions and to keep them within due bounds," they are so seldom seen apart, but are so kept together, either as two Great Lights, or as a jewel worn once by the Master of the Lodge, now by the Past Master—that they have come at last to be recognized as the proper badge of a Master Mason, just as the Triple Tau is of a Royal Arch Mason or the Passion Cross of a Knight Templar.

So universally has this symbol been recognized, even by the profane world, as the peculiar characteristic of Freemasonry, that it has recently been made in the United States the subject of a legal decision. A manufacturer of flour having made, in 1873, an application to the Patent Office for permission to adopt the Square and Compasses as a trade-mark, the Commissioner of Patents, .J. M. Thatcher, refused the permission as the mark was a Masonic symbol.

If this emblem were something other than precisely what it is—either less known", less significant, or fully and universally understood—all this might readily be admitted. But, Considering its peculiar character and relation to the public, an anomalous question is presented. There can be no doubt that this device, so commonly worn and employed by Masons, has an established mystic significance, universally recognized as existing; whether comprehended by all or not, is not material to this issue. In view of the magnitude and extent of the Masonic organization, it is impossible to divest its symbols, or at least this particular symbol—perhaps the best known of all—of its ordinary signification, wherever displaced, either as an arbitrary character or otherwise.

It will be universally understood, or misunderstood, as having a Masonic significance; and, therefore, as a trade-mark, must constantly work deception. Nothing could be more mischievous than to create as a monopoly, and uphold by the poser of lacy anything so calculated. as applied to purposes of trade. to be misinterpreted, to mislead all classes, and to constantly foster suggestions of mystery in affairs of business (see Infringing upon Freemasonry, also Imitative Societies, and Clandestine).

In a religious work by John Davies, entitled Summa Totalis, or All in All and the Same Forever, printed in 1607, we find an allusion to the Square and Compasses by a profane in a really Masonic sense. The author, who proposes to describe mystically the form of the Deity, says in his dedication:

Yet I this forme of formelesse Deity,

Drewe by the Squire and Compasse of our Creed.

In Masonic symbolism the Square and Compasses refer to the Freemason's duty to the Craft and to himself; hence it is properly a symbol of brotherhood, and there significantly adopted as the badge or token of the Fraternity.

Berage, in his work on the higher Degrees, Les plus secrets Mystéres des Hauts Grades, or The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Grades, gives a new interpretation to the symbol. He says: "The Square and the Compasses represent the union of the Old and New Testaments. None of the high Degrees recognize this interpretation, although their symbolism of the two implements differs somewhat from that of Symbolic Freemasonry.

The Square is with them peculiarly appropriated to the lower Degrees, as founded on the Operative Art; while the Compasses, as an implement of higher character and uses, is attributed to the Decrees, which claim to have a more elevated and philosophical foundation. Thus they speak of the initiate, when he passes from the Blue Lodge to the Lodge of Perfection, as 'passing from the Square to the Compasses,' to indicate a progressive elevation in his studies. Yet even in the high Degrees, the square and compasses combined retain their primitive signification as a symbol of brotherhood and as a badge of the Order."

Square and Compass:

Source: The Builder October 1916

By Bro. B. C. Ward, Iowa

Worshipful Master and Brethren: Let us behold the glorious beauty that lies hidden beneath the symbolism of the Square and Compass; and first as to the Square. Geometry, the first and noblest of the sciences, is the basis on which the superstructure of Masonry has been erected. As you know, the word "Geometry" is derived from two Greek words which mean "to measure the earth," so that Geometry originated in measurement; and in those early days, when land first began to be measured, the Square, being a right angle, was the instrument used, so that in time the Square began to symbolize the Earth. And later it began to symbolize, Masonically, the earthly-in man, that is man's lower nature, and still later it began to symbolize man's duty in his earthly relations, or his moral obligations to his Fellowmen. The symbolism of the Square is as ancient as the Pyramids. The Egyptians used it in building the Pyramids. The base of every pyramid is a perfect square, and to the Egyptians the Square was their highest and most sacred emblem. Even the Chinese many, many centuries ago used the Square to represent Good, and Confucius in his writings speaks of the Square to represent a Just man.

As Masons we have adopted the 47th Problem of Euclid as the rule by which to determine or prove a perfect Square. Many of us remember with what interest we solved that problem in our school days. The Square has become our most significant Emblem. It rests upon the open Bible on this altar; it is one of the three great Lights; and it is the chief ornament of the Worshipful Master. There is a good reason why this distinction has been conferred upon the Square. There can be nothing truer than a perfect Square--a right angle. Hence the Square has become an emblem of Perfection.

Now a few words as to the Compass: Astronomy was the second great science promulgated among men. In the process of Man's evolution there came a time when he began to look up to the stars and wonder at the vaulted Heavens above him. When he began to study the stars, he found that the Square was not adapted to the measurement of the Heavens. He must have circular measure; he needed to draw a circle from a central point, and so the Compass was employed. By the use of the Compass man began to study the starry Heavens, and as the Square primarily symbolized the Earth, the Compass began to symbolize the Heavens, the celestial canopy, the study of which has led men to think of God, and adore Him as the Supreme Architect of the Universe. In later times the Compass began to symbolize the spiritual or higher nature of man, and it is a significant fact that the circumference of a circle, which is a line without end, has become an emblem of Eternity and symbolizes Divinity; so the Compass, and the circle drawn by the Compass, both point men Heavenward and Godward.

The Masonic teaching concerning the two points of the Compass is very interesting and instructive. The novitiate in Masonry, as he kneels at this altar, and asks for Light sees the Square, which symbolizes his lower nature, he may well note the position of the Compass. As he takes another step, and asks for more Light, the position of the Compass is changed somewhat, symbolizing that his spiritual nature can, in some measure, overcome his evil tendencies. As he takes another step in Masonry, and asks for further Light, and hears the significant words, "and God said let there be Light, and there was Light," he sees the Compass in new light; and for the first time he sees the meaning, thus unmistakably alluding to the sacred and eternal truth that as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so the spiritual is higher than the material, and the spiritual in man must have its proper place, and should be above his lower nature, and dominate all his thoughts and actions. That eminent Philosopher, Edmund Burke, once said, "It is ordained that men of intemperate passions cannot be free. Their passions forge the chains which bind them, and make them slaves." Burke was right. Masonry, through the beautiful symbolism of the Compass, tells us how we can be free men, by permitting the spiritual within us to overcome our evil tendencies, and dominate all our thoughts and actions. Brethren, sometimes in the silent quiet hour, as we think of this conflict between our lower and higher natures, we sometimes say in the words of another, "Show me the way and let me bravely climb to where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease. Show me that way. Show me the way up to a higher plane where my body shall be servant of my Soul. Show me that way."

Brethren, if that prayer expresses desire of our hearts, let us take heed to the beautiful teachings of the Compass, which silently and persistently tells each one of us,

"You should not in the valley stay

While the great horizons stretch away

The very cliffs that wall you round

Are ladders up to higher ground.

And Heaven draws near as you ascend,

The Breeze invites, the Stars befriend.

All things are beckoning to the Best,

Then climb toward God and find sweet Rest.”

The secrets of Freemasonry are concerned with its traditional modes of recognition. It is not a secret society, since all members are free to acknowledge their membership and will do so in response to enquiries for respectable reasons. Its constitutions and rules are available to the public. There is no secret about any of its aims and principles. Like many other societies, it regards some of its internal affairs as private matters for its members. In history there have been times and places where promoting equality, freedom of thought or liberty of conscience was dangerous. Most importantly though is a question of perspective. Each aspect of the craft has a meaning. Freemasonry has been described as a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. Such characteristics as virtue, honour and mercy, such virtues as temperance, fortitude, prudence and justice are empty clichés and hollow words unless presented within an ordered and closed framework. The lessons are not secret but the presentation is kept private to promote a clearer understanding in good time. It is also possible to view Masonic secrecy not as secrecy in and of itself, but rather as a symbol of privacy and discretion. By not revealing Masonic secrets, or acknowledging the many published exposures, freemasons demonstrate that they are men of discretion, worthy of confidences, and that they place a high value on their word and bond.

Masonic Square and Compasses.

The Square and Compasses (or, more correctly, a square and a set of compasses joined together) is the single most identifiable symbol of Freemasonry. Both the square and compasses are architect's tools and are used in Masonic ritual as emblems to teach symbolic lessons. Some Lodges and rituals explain these symbols as lessons in conduct: for example, Duncan's Masonic Monitor of 1866 explains them as: "The square, to square our actions; The compasses, to circumscribe and keep us within bounds with all mankind".

However, as Freemasonry is non-dogmatic, there is no general interpretation for these symbols (or any Masonic symbol) that is used by Freemasonry as a whole.

Square and Compasses:

Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

These two symbols have been so long and so universally combined — to teach us, as says an early instruction, "to square our actions and to keep them within due bounds," they are so seldom seen apart, but are so kept together, either as two Great Lights, or as a jewel worn once by the Master of the Lodge, now by the Past Master—that they have come at last to be recognized as the proper badge of a Master Mason, just as the Triple Tau is of a Royal Arch Mason or the Passion Cross of a Knight Templar.

So universally has this symbol been recognized, even by the profane world, as the peculiar characteristic of Freemasonry, that it has recently been made in the United States the subject of a legal decision. A manufacturer of flour having made, in 1873, an application to the Patent Office for permission to adopt the Square and Compasses as a trade-mark, the Commissioner of Patents, .J. M. Thatcher, refused the permission as the mark was a Masonic symbol.

If this emblem were something other than precisely what it is—either less known", less significant, or fully and universally understood—all this might readily be admitted. But, Considering its peculiar character and relation to the public, an anomalous question is presented. There can be no doubt that this device, so commonly worn and employed by Masons, has an established mystic significance, universally recognized as existing; whether comprehended by all or not, is not material to this issue. In view of the magnitude and extent of the Masonic organization, it is impossible to divest its symbols, or at least this particular symbol—perhaps the best known of all—of its ordinary signification, wherever displaced, either as an arbitrary character or otherwise.

It will be universally understood, or misunderstood, as having a Masonic significance; and, therefore, as a trade-mark, must constantly work deception. Nothing could be more mischievous than to create as a monopoly, and uphold by the poser of lacy anything so calculated. as applied to purposes of trade. to be misinterpreted, to mislead all classes, and to constantly foster suggestions of mystery in affairs of business (see Infringing upon Freemasonry, also Imitative Societies, and Clandestine).

In a religious work by John Davies, entitled Summa Totalis, or All in All and the Same Forever, printed in 1607, we find an allusion to the Square and Compasses by a profane in a really Masonic sense. The author, who proposes to describe mystically the form of the Deity, says in his dedication:

Yet I this forme of formelesse Deity,

Drewe by the Squire and Compasse of our Creed.

In Masonic symbolism the Square and Compasses refer to the Freemason's duty to the Craft and to himself; hence it is properly a symbol of brotherhood, and there significantly adopted as the badge or token of the Fraternity.

Berage, in his work on the higher Degrees, Les plus secrets Mystéres des Hauts Grades, or The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Grades, gives a new interpretation to the symbol. He says: "The Square and the Compasses represent the union of the Old and New Testaments. None of the high Degrees recognize this interpretation, although their symbolism of the two implements differs somewhat from that of Symbolic Freemasonry.

The Square is with them peculiarly appropriated to the lower Degrees, as founded on the Operative Art; while the Compasses, as an implement of higher character and uses, is attributed to the Decrees, which claim to have a more elevated and philosophical foundation. Thus they speak of the initiate, when he passes from the Blue Lodge to the Lodge of Perfection, as 'passing from the Square to the Compasses,' to indicate a progressive elevation in his studies. Yet even in the high Degrees, the square and compasses combined retain their primitive signification as a symbol of brotherhood and as a badge of the Order."

Square and Compass:

Source: The Builder October 1916

By Bro. B. C. Ward, Iowa

Worshipful Master and Brethren: Let us behold the glorious beauty that lies hidden beneath the symbolism of the Square and Compass; and first as to the Square. Geometry, the first and noblest of the sciences, is the basis on which the superstructure of Masonry has been erected. As you know, the word "Geometry" is derived from two Greek words which mean "to measure the earth," so that Geometry originated in measurement; and in those early days, when land first began to be measured, the Square, being a right angle, was the instrument used, so that in time the Square began to symbolize the Earth. And later it began to symbolize, Masonically, the earthly-in man, that is man's lower nature, and still later it began to symbolize man's duty in his earthly relations, or his moral obligations to his Fellowmen. The symbolism of the Square is as ancient as the Pyramids. The Egyptians used it in building the Pyramids. The base of every pyramid is a perfect square, and to the Egyptians the Square was their highest and most sacred emblem. Even the Chinese many, many centuries ago used the Square to represent Good, and Confucius in his writings speaks of the Square to represent a Just man.

As Masons we have adopted the 47th Problem of Euclid as the rule by which to determine or prove a perfect Square. Many of us remember with what interest we solved that problem in our school days. The Square has become our most significant Emblem. It rests upon the open Bible on this altar; it is one of the three great Lights; and it is the chief ornament of the Worshipful Master. There is a good reason why this distinction has been conferred upon the Square. There can be nothing truer than a perfect Square--a right angle. Hence the Square has become an emblem of Perfection.

Now a few words as to the Compass: Astronomy was the second great science promulgated among men. In the process of Man's evolution there came a time when he began to look up to the stars and wonder at the vaulted Heavens above him. When he began to study the stars, he found that the Square was not adapted to the measurement of the Heavens. He must have circular measure; he needed to draw a circle from a central point, and so the Compass was employed. By the use of the Compass man began to study the starry Heavens, and as the Square primarily symbolized the Earth, the Compass began to symbolize the Heavens, the celestial canopy, the study of which has led men to think of God, and adore Him as the Supreme Architect of the Universe. In later times the Compass began to symbolize the spiritual or higher nature of man, and it is a significant fact that the circumference of a circle, which is a line without end, has become an emblem of Eternity and symbolizes Divinity; so the Compass, and the circle drawn by the Compass, both point men Heavenward and Godward.

The Masonic teaching concerning the two points of the Compass is very interesting and instructive. The novitiate in Masonry, as he kneels at this altar, and asks for Light sees the Square, which symbolizes his lower nature, he may well note the position of the Compass. As he takes another step, and asks for more Light, the position of the Compass is changed somewhat, symbolizing that his spiritual nature can, in some measure, overcome his evil tendencies. As he takes another step in Masonry, and asks for further Light, and hears the significant words, "and God said let there be Light, and there was Light," he sees the Compass in new light; and for the first time he sees the meaning, thus unmistakably alluding to the sacred and eternal truth that as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so the spiritual is higher than the material, and the spiritual in man must have its proper place, and should be above his lower nature, and dominate all his thoughts and actions. That eminent Philosopher, Edmund Burke, once said, "It is ordained that men of intemperate passions cannot be free. Their passions forge the chains which bind them, and make them slaves." Burke was right. Masonry, through the beautiful symbolism of the Compass, tells us how we can be free men, by permitting the spiritual within us to overcome our evil tendencies, and dominate all our thoughts and actions. Brethren, sometimes in the silent quiet hour, as we think of this conflict between our lower and higher natures, we sometimes say in the words of another, "Show me the way and let me bravely climb to where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease. Show me that way. Show me the way up to a higher plane where my body shall be servant of my Soul. Show me that way."

Brethren, if that prayer expresses desire of our hearts, let us take heed to the beautiful teachings of the Compass, which silently and persistently tells each one of us,

"You should not in the valley stay

While the great horizons stretch away

The very cliffs that wall you round

Are ladders up to higher ground.

And Heaven draws near as you ascend,

The Breeze invites, the Stars befriend.

All things are beckoning to the Best,

Then climb toward God and find sweet Rest."

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John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution and Economy, Scottish Government appeared before the Finance Committee to give evidence on the Scotland’s Fiscal Framework. 02 March 2016. Pic - Andrew Cowan/Scottish Parliament

Ray Harryhausen's interview for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms : youtu.be/ftve5PT1sYI

Starring Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey, Donald Woods, Lee Van Cleef, Steve Brodie, Jack Pennick. Directed by Eugene Lourie. Ray Harryhausen special effects, stop motion animation master.

The opening title is against a waterspout and the credits over a kelp forest and other underwater scenes. Narration tells us, "This is operation experiment, a secret base far north of the Arctic Circle. Experiment was the code name for this top priority scientific expedition." Two radar operators (Alvin Greenman) and Charlie (James Best) spot the plane on radar and reports its location. Prof. Tom Nesbitt (Paul Christian/Hubschmid) and the military liaison officer Col. Jack Evans (Kenneth Tobey) observe the explosion of a Hydrogen Bomb. Charlie calls Col. Evans to report a very large object spotted on radar, but by the time Evans arrives it's gone. They chalk it up to something being tossed in front of the radar antenna.

Nesbitt and Evans are reviewing their test results. George Ritchie (Ross Elliott) states, "You know, every time one of these things go off, I feel as if were helping to write the first chapter of a new Genesis." They depart to collect radiation results from forward observation posts. Ice blocks their path by tractor, so they go on foot the final distance. At Post 16 they take a radiation reading and decide it's too high. They decide they should split up; one visit Post 17 and the other Post 18 to limit their radiation exposure. They agree to meet back at Post 16. The weather gets worse. Ritchie spots a large dinosaur and hears its roar. He shouts out to his colleague, but Tom Nesbitt can't hear him. He explores a little further and distracted by the beast falls into a crevice, breaking his leg in the process. Nesbitt completes his task and returns to Post 16 and waits. Ritchie shoots a gun into the air, hoping its loud report will bring help. Nesbitt hears it and responds. Following his tracks left in the snow he finds his colleague. He tries to move him alone, but decides he needs more help. Ritchie tries to warn Nesbitt about "a prehistoric monster." Nesbitt attributes his rambling to the cold, pain, and shock. Then Nesbitt hears and sees Ritchie's "hallucination" himself. The creature's proximity and weight creates an avalanche that buries Ritchie and nearly kills Nesbitt. Nesbitt is brought back to base, barely alive from shock and exposure. The doctor tells Col. Evans to get him to a hospital in the states immediately. Nesbitt comes to and begins to ramble about Ritchie and a monster. He is flown to New York's Hartley Hospital. After a two week physical recovery he is started on "Psychiatric Interrogation for Traumatic Hallucinations." He is introduced to Dr. Ingersoll (King Donovan) who tells him that shock and trauma are the reason behind his dinosaur sighting. Col. Evans arrives to tell him that they found no trace of Ritchie or the beast. His primary care physician, Dr. Morton (Frank Ferguson) insists he rest.

The fishing ketch, Fortune, is out in a storm in the North Atlantic. The captain enters the wheelhouse, his first mate Jacob Bowman (Jack Pennick) is at the wheel. Bowman spots something outside and calls for the Captain, abandoning the wheel as he recoils in fear. They hear a roar and see a huge black shape rise up from the ocean. It destroys their vessel and sinks it off the Grand Banks.

The next morning Nesbitt is having his breakfast in his hospital room and spots the story in the newspaper. Bowman was the lone survivor of the disaster. Nesbitt dresses and visits the Paleontology Department of a local University. He talks to the department dean, Prof. Thurgood Elson (Cecil Kellaway) and his assistant Miss Lee Hunter (Paula Raymond). Elson is sympathetic but does not believe his story. Nesbitt asks if it is possible that the H-Bomb thawed the 100 million year old ice and freed the dinosaur. Elson does not think it possible a creature frozen for that length of time could survive. Lee Hunter interrupts to mention that a herd of Mastadon were thawed in Siberia after thousands of years, "yet their fur intact and the meat still edible." Nesbitt leaves dejected. Dr. Morton examines Nesbitt and tells him he can leave the hospital anytime. The radio is playing in his room and a broadcaster announces a second sea serpent sighting, this time from Marquette, Canada. Capt. George LeMay's ship was destroyed.

Nesbitt returns to work at the Atomic Energy Commission, New York Regional Office. His secretary, Miss Ryan, is glad to have him back. She tells him that Lee Hunter is waiting to see him. She brings the newspaper with the LeMay story and tells him it is worth investigating. She's gathered sketches of the known species of dinosaurs and tells him if he can identify the creature that would be proof. That evening they meet at her apartment to look at the sketches. He narrows in on a few likely candidates, and she helps him identify the one he picks as the Rhedosaurus. She tells him if Capt. LeMay can identify the same sketch that would be proof. He calls Canada to talk to the Captain. LeMay (Leo Mostovoy) answers but can only speak French. Nesbitt asks him about the serpent, and the captain promptly hangs up the phone. The operator tells Nesbitt that he won't talk to him further. Nesbitt makes a personal visit but misses him. He speaks to the newspaper editor. He decides to visit Jacob Bowman in the hospital. He convinces Bowman to return to New York and identify the creature.

Elson is packing for a vacation; Lee is helping him. He notes that Lee is developing a budding romance with Nesbitt. Nesbitt arrives with Bowman in tow. Bowman reviews the sketches and picks the same creature--the Rhedosaurus. Elson is now convinced, and speaks to Col. Evans on the phone. Evans tells Elson he will check with a friend in the Coast Guard if anything unusual is reported.

A lighthouse on the coast of Maine contains a keeper and his assistant. One plays a concertina while the other wipes down the equipment. The creature comes ashore and climbs up the lighthouse, drawn to the beacon. They see it and try to escape down the spiral staircase, but the creature destroys it before they can safely exit.

Col. Evans pays a visit to Capt. Philip Jackson (Donald Woods) at his U.S. Coast Guard office. He tells him the story Nesbitt and Elson told him. He asks about any unusual occurrences. That evening at the ballet, Nesbitt and Lee are on a date when Nesbitt is handed a message. They quickly depart and meet with Elson and Evans at Jacksons USCG office. Jackson explains that in addition to the lighthouse, there was shore wreckage in Massachusetts reported. Elson looks at the chart and sees a pattern. It is following the Arctic Current southward. He concludes the beast is heading for New York, its ancestral home. Elson wants to see it before he can formulate a plan to capture the creature alive. He makes arrangements with Jackson for the use of a diving bell.

On the ship Elson boards a diving bell for their first drop into the Hudson submarine canyon system. Elson is in communication with Nesbitt on the surface and provides periodic reports of progress. He spots the Rhedosaurus, only the shoulder and the leg, but confirms it is enormous. Then as he describes it to Lee Hunter in more detail, it attacks and chews off the bell from the cable. The newspaper story the next day confirms Elson's death.

Longshoremen are working at a New York port facility when the Rhedosaurus comes ashore. What starts as a few people scattering turns into a mob in full panic. People stuck in buildings look on in horror at the panic in the streets and the beast's destruction of property. People abandon their cars on the street and run. A patrolman shoots it with his service revolver, with little effect other than annoying the beast. As he reloads the dinosaur bends down and latches on to him by the head. He lifts him up and swallows him whole to the shock and horror of a woman witness. As it walks the streets of New York it destroys cars, utility poles and buildings. The police respond with greater numbers and rifles. Many people seek refuge in the subway system. The National Guard is called out and the Wall Street and Lower Manhattan area is turned into a battlefield. A newspaper headline indicates 180 dead and 1500 injured during the first rampage. A bazooka team fires a couple of rounds wounding the beast in the neck. The ER doctor (Michael Fox) has concluded that the beast has some very dangerous virus or bacteria in its blood that is fatal to humans. A patrol of soldiers begins collapsing after exposure to large patches of the creature's blood.

Evans and Nesbitt discuss how to eliminate the beast. Anything that will spread the blood particles is out. Just as they think the creature may be dying of its wound, it is announced that the beast is alive and ashore at Manhattan Beach at the amusement area. Nesbitt suggests a radioactive isotope shot directly into the wound.

The Army arrives at the amusement park. The Rhedosaurus is at the Roller Coaster. They wait for the isotope to be delivered. Evans selects his best marksman, Corp. Stone (Lee Van Cleef) for the job. He and Nesbitt don radiation suits and take a roller coaster car to the top for a better shot. Nesbitt retrieves the isotope from a lead lined container and Stone fires it into the beast's neck wound. He scores a direct hit and the beast, now in great pain, damages some of the wooden framework and rails. The coaster they were riding gets away from them, crashes, and starts a fire. The two men climb down the burning coaster while the beast goes through its death throes. The Rhedosaurus knocks out a section of burning coaster framework and makes its way to the beach and collapses. We close with Nesbitt and Lee embracing, then turning to view the dead dinosaur.

Scenes from the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) Side Event: A Feminist Accountability Framework: What the World Needs to Achieve Gender Equality and All the Sustainable Development Goals, co-sponsored by ICRW and its partners Equal Measures 2030, Save the Children, Global Citizen, Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO), UN Women, the Government of Costa Rica, and the Government of Zambia. Held at the Church Centre in New York on 18 July 2017.

Pictured Above: Jenny Ottenhoff, Policy Director, Global Health at ONE

Eleanor Blomstrom, Co-Director and Head of Office at WEDO, Women’s Major Group Chair

Charlotte Bunch, Founding Director and Senior Scholar, at the Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University

Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women

Ambassador Rolando Castro, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent of Costa Rica to the United Nations

Wallace Nguluwe, Gender Specialist, Ministry of Gender, Zambia

Sai Jyothirmai Racherla, Program Director, ARROW (representing Women’s Major Group)

Alison Holder, Director, Equal Measures 2030

Jenny Ottenhoff, Policy Director, Global Health at ONE

Grace Choi, Associate Director for Global Gender Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children USA

Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

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Common name: Japanese Honeysuckle, Suikazura 水鬘 or スイカズラ (Japanese), Halls honeysuckle, White Honeysuckle, Chinese Honeysuckle

Botanical name: Lonicera japonica

Family: Caprifoliaceae (honeysuckle family)

Origin: Japan

The Japanese Honeysuckle is a species of honeysuckle native to eastern Asia including Japan, Korea, northern and eastern China, and Taiwan. It is a twining vine able to climb up to 10 m high or more in trees, with opposite, simple oval leaves 3-8 cm long and 2-3 cm broad. The flowers are double tongued, white to yellow, and sweetly scented. The fruit is a globose dark blue berry 5-8 mm diameter containing numerous seeds.

This vigorous, heat-tolerant, and nearly indestructible vine is suited to a variety of applications. It can be grown as a loose groundcover or planted on banks for erosion control. It also grows quickly on a trellis, fence, or other framework, providing a fast wind screen or source of shade. The vine blooms heavily in spring and to some extent year round. It's easy to grow and nearly indestructible. The flashy and fragrant flowers will attract hummingbirds and butterflies all summer long. The resulting fruit of the Honeysuckle flower will provide a fall treat for your local songbirds as well. Many honeysuckles will thrive in containers.

Honeysuckles are also eaten by children, who remove the blossom by hand to suck at the sweet nectar in the center.

Medicinal use: The Japanese Honeysuckle flower is of high medicinal value in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is called rěn dōng téng (忍冬藤) or jīn yín huā (金銀花; lit. "gold silver flower"). It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, and is used (often in combination with Forsythia suspensa) to dispel heat and remove toxins, including carbuncles, fevers, influenza and ulcers. It is, however, of cold and yin nature, and should not be taken by anyone with weak and "cold" digestive system. In Korean, it is called geumeunhwa. The dried leaves are also used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Trivia: During Victorian times, teenage girls were forbidden to bring honeysuckle home because it was thought to induce erotic dreams.

Courtesy:

- TopTropicals

- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Note: Identification attempted; may not be accurate.

Javier Ramírez mostró los beneficios de Spring Framework de código abierto para desarrollo de aplicaciones en la plataforma Java

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The term trace metal is used here for potentially toxic metals that persist in the environment, bioaccumulate in human and animal tissues, and biomagnify in food chains. Metals and organometallic compounds are commonly included in emission inventories and monitoring networks, specially mercury, cadmium and lead. Urban and industrial wastewaters, atmospheric deposition and run-off from metal contaminated sites constitute the major sources of toxic metals. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. POPs persist in the environment, are capable of long-range transport, bioaccumulate in human and animal tissue, biomagnify in food chains, and have potentially significant impacts on human health and the environment. POPs include certain chlorinated pesticides and industrial chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), most of which have already been prohibited in Mediterranean countries. However, POPs can also be unintentionally released, mainly as a result of combustion processes or as by-products in some industrial processes. Some examples are dioxins and furans, hexachlorobenzene (HCB), PCBs, or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

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Most raised-bed garden books use a 4'x4' model. The slope and general arrangement of my backyard wouldn't really allow for that. I mean, it is possible, but not ideal. Boja, being the visual genius that she is, suggested a 2'x8' arrangement. As is usually the case with all of her spoken statements, she was completely right.

I decided on a place to lay the frame down and beat up the area with a mattock.

The frame is plain pine wood from Home Depot. It was difficult to find wood that was actually dry and not split or warped. I couldn't believe how heavy the wood was there. It must have seriously been cut the day before.

I would have preferred Trex or even treated wood, but I couldn't find it in the sizes I wanted. Both were too expensive anyway. Most people think that treated wood can leach chemicals into the soil, but I saw a couple of studies online that showed that this effect is negligible and not a problem at all. The sawdust is a problem during cutting, however. It might also be a bad idea to use treated wood as a cutting board. I also wouldn't use it for a crib. Homemade toothbrushes with the stuff ... yeah, they are also bad. Anyway, if I could find the sizes I wanted, I would make future beds with treated wood - it lasts much longer.

What you see here came from two 10' pieces of ~1.5"x~11.5" wood. We had two 2' pieces cut off of each big plank at Home Depot.

We drilled some holes in the sides and put big screws in there. Making sure the holes and everything lined up while dealing with these very unwieldy boards made me want to try and break them with my head. I highly recommend drinking heavily before assembly. The whole process will take just as long, but at least you will have a good time. Also, being angry and violent while drunk is somewhat acceptable.

After it was all put together, Boja and I took our frame "out back" and put it down in the area I had prepared. I made sure the box was at least somewhat level and filled in the gaps underneath the frame.

When that part was done, I stood around and posed and smiled very smugly. I really should have a stockpile of trophies for moments like those.

When the prospect of anyone besides Boja noticing how magnificent everything looked dwindled, I brought down the giant, redolent bags of soil. I don't remember how many bags we had. Maybe 16 cubic feet? Anyway, I dumped that all in, watered it, and let it sit for a couple of days before planting anything.

Yay!

Shot in London, St Pancras Station.

2013 World Bank Group/Fund Annual Meetings

Post-2015 Global Development Framework -Going From Goals (the What) to Solutions (the How).

Panelists: Robert Kirkpatrick, Director, UN Pulse; Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Finance, South Africa; Kaushik Basu, WBG Chief Economist, Homi Kharas, Lead Author; and Moderator, Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy of The World Bank Group President. Photo: Deborah Campos / World Bank

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COD: 6394

Antique Italian painting of the 19th century. Work oil on canvas depicting particular "landscape with castle and knight" of excellent painter's hand. Framework signed lower left Amalia Barabino (see photo). Wooden frame not coeval sculpted and re-gilded with some signs of wear. Paintings, for collectors and antique dealers. It has a small color drop at the bottom center, canvas in good state of conservation. Sight size: H 38.5 cm x W 53 cm.

Measure: H 51 x W 64 x D 5 cm

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The Australian Flexible Framework team will no longer be sharing offices with the Teaching and Learning team at TAFE and are moving into head office in the city.

Lab2014 students presented their final design explorations for Benjamin Bratton's Critical Frameworks section, "2 or 3 Things I Know About The Stack" at The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UCSD. The group visited an immersive 3-D projection "CAVE", a 4K digital theater and the nanotech cleanrooms on campus, as well as The Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

New Markets buildings under construction on The Moor

Yeah, just got paper version of "Guide to Programming with Zend Framework"

Shot in 2017/

The liminal version of Cynefin by Dave Snowden:

cognitive-edge.com/blog/liminal-cynefin-the-final-cut/

Shot in London, St Pancras Station.

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The Australian Flexible Framework team will no longer be sharing offices with the Teaching and Learning team at TAFE and are moving into head office in the city.

JR Nagasaki station

A ‘Mountain Day’ event was held on 4 December 2011 in Durban, South Africa on the sideline of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is the first time that a Mountain Day was held in the framework of a UNFCCC COP. The event was organized by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in close collaboration with global and regional partners, including GIZ, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, the World Bank and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). With more than 100 participants from all the mountains of the globe, the day was intended to highlight the need to preserve mountain ecosystems, which play a critical role in climate adaptation and sustainable development. A draft ‘Call for Action’ was prepared to convey this message of mountains regions to a broader audience.

Photo credit: ©GIZ/ICIMOD

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Newly launched tug Henry Miles on Wallis lake, Forster.

Launch Our Ivy in foreground

The Henry Miles was built at Forster by Henry Miles with assistance in design by Malcolm Miles; she was launched on 28th December 1939. Originally operated as a tug she was later converted into a fishing vessel and sank in the Gulf of Carpentaria on 27th November 1982.

Details

Name: Henry Miles

Official Number: 172903

Length: 80.9 ft

Breadth: 20.8 ft

Depth: 6.4 ft

Register Tonnage: Gross 120.41 Net 36.41 (1 shipping ton = 100 cu. ft.)

Engines: Steam 20nhp C.2Cy.11" &22"-16" Bow, McLachlan, made '27 (coal powered)

Construction: Framework is of ti-tree, ironbark and box, the planking of blackbutt, the oregon decking being the only imported timber.

Owners

1940 – 1946 Henry Miles and Sons

1946 – 1967 Henry Miles jnr. and Malcolm Miles

1967 – 1974 S.G. White Pty Ltd (Ballina)

1974 – 1978 W. F. James &Co

1978 – 1982 Colless Trawlers Pty Ltd (Norm Colless)

Launch – 28th December 1939

“It is estimated that there were about 7000 people at Forster, including local residents, over the holidays. Messrs. Henry Miles and Sons had just completed the building of the hull of a new tugboat, intended for the service of the Manning River bar, said to be one of the worst on the North Coast, at which nothing but a sturdy vessel is required. The new boat is to take the place of the tug John Gollan, built by the late Captain Hector Gollan over 50 years ago, and which last year was broken up by the firm of Henry Miles and Sons. Thursday, December 28, was believed to be the date of the highest tide of the year, 5ft. 10in. at Fort Denison, and this was selected by the building firm for the launching.”

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser ) Tuesday 9 January 1940

“The 'Henry Miles'' was designed by Mr. Henry Miles, sen., assisted by Mr. M. W. Miles. The latter having had experience in Scotland and Denmark, embodied the latest in the displacement of the machinery. The keel was laid two years ago, but, through several delays when the workmen were required on other jobs, the completion took longer than was anticipated. The whole structure is of timbers obtained from the Manning and Cape Hawke districts — the framework is of ti-tree, ironbark and box, the planking of blackbutt, the oregon decking being the only imported timber. The forward deck, being raised, differs from its predecessor and is designed to increase the seaworthiness, of the ship. The dimensions of the boat are:— Length: 81ft., beam 20ft., depth 7½ft. By a strange coincidence, the last boat built by Mr. Miles was the 'Forster', which was launched in December, 1914 — just four months after the outbreak of the Great War. The Henry Miles will be docked in a fortnight's time, when the timber will have 'taken up' in the water, and will be coppered before being towed by the tug Kiola to Sydney for the installation of the engines.”

The Northern Champion (Taree, NSW) - Saturday 6 January 1940

Fitout with Boiler and Machinery

“In January 1940 the ‘Henry Miles’ was towed to James Smith’s Engineering Yard, Darling Street Wharf, Sydney, for fitting out with boiler and machinery. She was fitted with the boiler and machinery recovered from the ‘Repton, (wrecked at Urunga in 1933) and stored in the yard of H & P Stacey, Sydney”. (Wright (1988).

Henry Miles replaces Alexandra at Yamba

She arrived back in Forster on 28th May 1940/05/28 arrived at Forster, and was used locally to sound bar, etc.

“In view of its age and condition, the Maritime Services Board tug, ‘Alexandra’, stationed at the Clarence River entrance, will be placed out of commission at the end of September, 1940. Tenders have been invited by the board for the purchase of the ‘Alexandra’. Satisfactory arrangements have been made for a tug recently constructed, and owned by Henry Miles and Sons to be stationed at Yamba as from October 1, 1940. This vessel will be subsidised by the Maritime Services Board under arrangements similar to those which have been in operation for a number of years at other North Coast ports, viz., the Tweed River, Manning River and Cape Hawke Harbour.”

Northern Star (Lismore) Wednesday 11 September 1940

She departed Forster for the Clarence River on 23rd September 1940.

War Years

In September 1942 the Shipping Control Board enquired whether vessel might be available to be requisitioned for US Army. On 29th January 1943/01/29 she departed Yamba towing the hulk of tug Alexandra from Yamba to Sydney for US Army. In September 1943 she was modified to accommodate 8 men and fitted with an Aldis lamp.

In August 1944, Henry Miles senior (builder of the Henry Miles) died.

In October 1944 she was made available to the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research to carry out surveys along the coast. Ownership was transferred to Malcolm Miles and Henry Miles junior in 1946.

Sold and Converted to Fishing Vessel

In 1967 the Henry Miles was sold to S G. White Pty Ltd in Ballina. In 1969 she was converted to a motor fishing vessel by Ballina Slipway & Engineering Co. (S.G. White). An 8 Cylinder. GM diesel engine, made 1944, was installed. She was sent to the Gulf of Carpentaria for 3 seasons; subsequently fishing off the NSW and Victorian coast until sold.

In 1975 she was sold to W F James and Co. but remained laid up at Ballina.

1978 Sold to Colless Trawlers Pty Ltd (Norm Colless)

This was to be a turning point for the derelict Henry Miles sitting on S G White’s slip. By buying the vessel Norm Colless was able to employ his four sons on refitting the Henry Miles. The engine was replaced with a new Caterpillar D343 engine

Refrigeration and hydraulic winches were installed. Finally she was slipped and painted and she looked fantastic, back to her immaculate self.

Operation in the Gulf

The Henry Miles was sailed to Groote Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The skipper was Norm’s oldest son, Vivian Colless. His other three sons and another hand were the crew. On arrival at Karumba, Vivian Colless negotiated to supply prawns to the local processing factory owned by George Raftis. After a few years Norm and his wife I took on the Henry Miles with two of his sons and one of his wife's sons and they worked together until she was lost.

November 1982 - Last Days of the Henry Miles

The Henry Miles left Vanderlin Island in November 1982 bound for Karumba. On the 27th November 1982, off Little Bountiful, Norm was awoken by his wife who said she could smell smoke. Norm rushed to the engine room to find there was a bad fire on the top part of the engine room. The main engine and auxiliary engines were shut down and the doors sealed the doors and vents to the engine room. The CO2 system was engaged. The timber on the vessel was old and the timbers were smoldering – all efforts to quell the fire proved fruitless. All five on board were able to climb into the dinghy and were picked up.

Image Source Image sourced from the Archie Blanch Collection held by the Great Lakes Historical Society & Maritime Museum, Tuncurry NSW

Acknowledgements. The assistance of Mori Flapan (Mori Flapan boatregister) by providing access to his extensive database is greatly appreciated.

Notes made by Norm Colless were of great value as details have not been published.

All Images in this photostream are Copyright - Great Lakes Manning River Shipping and/or their individual owners as may be stated above and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or used in any way without prior written approval.

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Secretary of the Air Force James' visit exemplifies the strong US-Israel military relationship. This was the Secretary's first visit to Israel in her current position, and she met with senior Israel Air Force leaders, learned about IAF capabilities first-hand during visits to operational units, and looked to the future by discussing the framework for expanded security cooperative activities.

Photo Credit: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv