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LUGNuts' founder Lino Martins has graciously given me permission to replicate his series of automotive illustrations based on various mixed alcoholic drinks.

 

The fourth in this series is a Lego -model replication of 'Boo-Berry' - Chevrolet 1963 Impala Low-rider.

 

In Lino's own words.

 

"For the first installment of a holy trinity of cars I went with a 1963 Chevy Impala customized as a lowrider. Starting in Los Angeles in the 1940’s, lowriders are an important part of Mexican-American culture and often include flamboyant paint jobs and religious iconography. I figured Boo Berry would best serve as “The Holy Ghost” in my Holy Trinity of cars. Thin whitewalls, small 100-spoke gold rims and minor gold details completes the look nicely. This one features subtle luminescent orbs that some believe to be spirits, especially when appearing in photographs. Let me know what you think and stay tuned for more soon. Thanks for stopping by. Procreate and Apple Pencil."

The station opened on 26 August 1864. It was given the name Plunkett on 10 April 1966 in commemoration of Joseph Plunkett, one of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. In November 2016 it was announced the station could lose another rail service that has been to Limerick Junction by 2018 as CIE/IE wish to close the line to save money. The station has already lost a service to Rosslare in September 2010.

  

Waterford railway station (Plunkett Station) serves the city of Waterford in County Waterford, Ireland. The station is located across Rice Bridge on the north side of the city.

 

There are two bays at the west end of the station. These are platform 5 and 6 respectively. The main platform is quite long and due to a crossover it can be operated as two platforms if necessary. The eastern end is platform 3, the western end being platform 4. A large signal cabin is situated across the running lines.

The "Welcome Stranger" was the name given to a large gold nugget, measuring 61 cm (24 inches) by 31 cm (12.2 inches), discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869 about 9 miles north-west of Dunolly. Found only 2 inches (5 centimetres) below the surface on a slope leading to what was then known as Bulldog Gully. Its gross weight was 3523.5 troy ounces, the trimmed weight was 2520 troy ounces, and net it weighed 2315.5 troy ounces or 72.02 kg. It is the largest alluvial gold nugget found in the world, and the calculated refined weight was 2,283 ozs 6dwts 9grs.[1]

 

The goldfields warden F. K. Orme reported 2268 ounces 10 dwt 14 grains (70.5591 kg) of smelted gold obtained from it (97.9% of the total weight), irrespective of scraps that were given away by the finders, estimated as totalling another 47 ounces 7 dwt.

 

At the time of the discovery there were no scales capable of weighing a nugget of this size and it was broken into three pieces on an anvil for weighing by Dunolly-based blacksmith Archibald Walls.

 

They took the nugget to the London Chartered Bank, in Dunolly, which advanced them £9,000. Deason and Oates were finally paid an estimated £19,068 for their nugget, which became known as the "Welcome Stranger". It was bigger than the "Welcome Nugget" (of 2217 ounces/68.96 kg) found in Ballarat in 1858 by a team of 24 men who were mining in shafts.

 

An obelisk commemorating the discovery of the "Welcome Stranger" was erected near the spot in 1897.

 

John Deason (Deason) was born in 1829 at Tresco, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England. Prior to being a gold miner, in 1851 he was a tin dresser.[1] Deason continued with gold mining and workings most of his life and although becoming a store keeper at Moliagul. He lost a substantial proportion of his wealth through poor investments in gold mining. He bought a small farm near Moliagul where he lived at the end of his life and died in 1915, aged 85 years.

 

Richard Oates was born about 1831 at Pendeen, Cornwall, England.[2] After the 1869 find Oates returned to England and married. He returned with his wife to Australia where they had four children. The Oates family purchased 800 acres (3.2 km²) of land at Marong in 1895 about 15 miles (25 km) west of Bendigo, Victoria, and Oates farmed until his death at Marong, Victoria in 1906 aged 75 years.

5054. A request from a London viewer has given us a chance to correct an old misjudgment. We posted a cropped version of this wonderful image by the late Roger Eastwood of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH in the Thames in 1955, not quite realizing it was a much lower resolution version than the same wider, uncropped image we have here.

 

QUEENBOROUGH is being passed by the Thames passenger launch ABERCORN here in 1955, and Ben of the River Thames Flickr photostream [rhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/31235337@N00/[ used to travel to work on her in the 1990s! Ben was seeking a larger image, we hope this fills that request.

 

As we have now mentioned many times, this visit by QUEENBOROUGH, which had been on training deployment to the Joint Anti-submarine Warfare School in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was actually the first time a RAN vessel had been up the Thames.

 

No doubt for that reason, we eventually received or came across quite a few photos of this event including two here from the HMAS CERBERUS Museum, starting at pic NO 2206 :

 

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Pic 2160 followed by 2161 here:

 

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Another from the RAN Archives here at pic 4268:

 

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No more sightings of ferry launch ABERCORN unfortunately.

 

This photo: The late Roger Eastwood, courtesy of his son, Geoff Eastwood.

 

A two-part COMPENDIUM of the Photostream's 60+ images of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH begins at Entry NO. 5435, here:

 

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Given the nearing deadline for lightweight service buses to be fully DDA compliant the number of Mercedes-Benz minibuses still in use has declined sharply over the past few years, therefore I was quite surprised to find this elderly example parked in the back streets of Leek. K424ARW is a Wright Nimbus bodied Mercedes-Benz 811D which is owned by small operator Hamps Valley Coaches of Winkhill, nr Leek, its main duty seemingly being the 329 school service - wherever that may go, 20/09/2013.

 

Does anyone know whose livery it wears?

Well, this kit was given to me back in 1997 and I sort of dabbled with some assembly but soon lost interest – for I really hate the Robocop 3 movie, but no hard feelings on the figures – and chucked the partly assembled figure in the box and forgot about it until yesterday afternoon. I was tiding up my office and it stood out so I took it out and had a look. Many parts were missing through the years so I slapped whatever I see fit and here is the result and I decided to paint it as if it is of military issue. Painting took me one Back to the Future Part 1 movie and a bit – that is when I was painting I watched the movie. I love watching my favorite movies while I build model kits. As I did rush to finish it I did not want to wait after painting one layer and wait a day or two then put another coat for proper blending work – especially the face area – I literally slapped multiple layers at the same time so the paint is not yet dry and it will take a long while before I get to do the final top coat with flat varnish. Well, most of the job done, I can wait. However, I will move on to the next project. By the way, I just remembered that I forgot to attach the metal hose which connects the left arm and the backpack! It would've been much nicer...

 

Islamabad, PK – 24 March 2015 – Media literacy and freedom given to information continuously sways the practices of the industry in Pakistan. This raises many questions about media’s influence on the cognitive behavioral response of the public. To highlight and identify the need to develop editorial space for education journalism; academicians, journalists and development sector professionals, students debate and discuss safety and security of journalists, the psychological effect of media’s exposure. AGAHI in collaboration with UNESCO Pakistan organized a town-hall dialogue on ‘Media and Information Literacy and Education Journalism in Pakistan’ today at the Islamabad, Marriott Hotel.

 

Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder & President AGAHI, opening the discussion forum, encouraged the stakeholders to review policy gaps and devise sustainable interventions that enables the citizenry of Pakistan to make decisions that improves the quality of not only their lives but which also empowers the society to move forward. She further added, we are no longer living in times when one can work in isolation; collaborative networks are the future for planning and decision-making.

 

Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Representative/Director of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while talking about media and information literacy said that empowerment of people through Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is an important prerequisite for fostering equitable access to information and knowledge; promoting free, independent and pluralistic media and information systems. She said that Media and Information Literacy recognizes the primary role of information and media in our everyday lives. It lies at the core of freedom of expression and information – since it empowers citizens to understand the functions of media and other information providers, to critically evaluate their content, and to make informed decisions as users and producer of information and media content. She mentioned that UNESCO’s strategy brings together the two fields, Information Literacy and Media Literacy, as a combined set of competencies, knowledge, skills and attitude, necessary for life and work today. MIL considers all forms of media and other information providers such as libraries, archive, museums and Internet irrespective of technologies used.

 

The first interactive session of the town-hall meeting had experts on education journalism in Pakistan. “Education plays a catalytic role towards human development, both at the individual as well as at the societal level”, said Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University. Since mass media have the potential for reaching colossal audiences, the journalist has a vital role to play in wiping out these social menaces”, he added. He also said that Education is needed not only for personal development of citizens, but also to produce a skilled workforce, promote economic growth, preserve and promote culture and values in the society, and enhance participation of all segments of population in decision making at various levels.

 

The second session focused on the cognitive behavioral response and psychological limitation to learning emphasizing on the importance of using media’s editorial and broadcast content as a tool for molding and changing perceptions to create a prosperous society.

 

While talking to the participants, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, said that continuous reporting of terrorism and extremism can be suggestible, adolescents may turn into terrorists by identifying themselves with these terrorists, considering them as reformers. She further added, or they simply become conditioned and show no empathy towards such news, becoming insensitive to world issues altogether.

 

The issue of safety and security of journalists in Pakistan with respect to ethical dimension was explored in the third session. The session addressed challenges related to access, privacy, safety and security of journalists. Encapsulating basic provisions proposed by the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, of the scale and number of attacks on journalists and media workers as well as of incidents affecting their ability to exercise freedom of expression by threats of prosecution, arrest, imprisonment, denial of journalistic access. Number of measures have been adopted by the United Nations (UN) at the international level; the UN Security Council adopted Resolution S/RES/1738 in 2006, which established a coherent, action-oriented approach to the safety of journalists in armed conflicts.

   

Mr. Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman, Minister of State for federal Education, Professional Training, Interior and Narcotic Control, Ms. Vibeke Jensen, Director UNESCO, Mr. Haroon Rashid Editor BBC, Mr. Zahir Shah, Executive Vice President BOL, Ms. Fareeha Idris, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Arshad Sharif, Anchorperson and journalist, Mr. Hassan Bilal, News Editor Dawn, Mr. Rana Jawad, Bureau Chief Geo TV, Syed Ali Shah, Bureau Chief Dawn News TV Quetta, Ms. Shazia Javed, Educationist, Ms. Afia Salam, Senior Media Development Specialist, Dr. Abdul Siraj, Head of Mass Communications Department Allama Iqbal University, Ms. Nausheen Shahzad, Educational Psychologist, Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Chairman Department of Mass Communications Department Islamic University, Mr. Shahzad Baloch, Senior Reporter Express Tribune, Mr. Amir Jahangir, Chief Executive Officer Mishal Pakistan, Ms. Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder and President Agahi, and the journalist community as well as the mass communication students and faculty members of National University of Science & Technology (NUST), International Islamic University (IIUI), and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) attended the townhall meeting.

 

AGAHI is a not for profit organization established in Islamabad in 2011 under the Society Registration Act 1860. Its primary function is to create non-paid communication strategies, content intelligence structures, development collaterals and tools for diverse sectors and organizations. AGAHI encourages and advises individuals and institutions in pursuing and supporting initiatives to improve the state of development in Pakistan. It works on developmental frameworks facilitating information and knowledge sharing platforms on understanding challenges in global perspective. Its research work mainly focuses on national and international security, ICT, competitiveness, human capital development, and governance. AGAHI in association with several leading national and international partners focuses on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking, and knowledge sharing. AGAHI is at the forefront of devising foresight research and future scenarios work in Pakistan.

 

This year AGAHI, celebrates AGAHI AWARDS – Beyond 2015 by recognizing best reporting practices on categories such as: Business & Economy (Competitiveness), Creating Shared Value, Disaster & Catastrophe, Education, Gender, Health, Youth Empowerment, Human Rights, Infotainment, Innovation Journalism, Judiciary, Millennium Development Goals, Journalism for Peace, Photo Journalism, Entrepreneurship, Sports, Energy, Water, Agriculture, Environment, Foreign Policy, Foresight and Futures.

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Adrien Dailly is sitting in 7th place which ties him with Sam Hill for the series lead given the current results.

A side view of the National Cathedral School for Girls, sitting directly across from the Washington National Cathedral. It was actually built before the Cathedral itself, in 1900. An Episcopal, independent college preparatory day school for girls in grades 4-12. The school motto is: Noblesse Oblige ("Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required." St. Luke XII, 48)

 

We arrived on the grounds in the early morning hours, while the clouds were still glorious.

  

A relative of mine apprenticed here to become an auto mechanic.

Bob Given Photography

Cuánto tiempo perdemos en soltar eso que nos hace mal?

Que no nos damos cuenta que nos está afixiando lentamente, que nos mata el corazón...

 

Soltar los pensamientos negativos, las personas negativas y ventajeras...

 

Creemos que el otro hará y sentirá lo mismo que uno, al menos para los que buscamos paz. Mas allá de que la paz está dentro de uno y no afuera... intentamos encontrar alguien parecido a nosotros.

Y quizás tenías razon, que tipos fiel como vos no iba a encontrar, o quizás no... aunque venís acertando.

Pero cuando ya no hay amor no puede haber nada.

 

No busco un amor, busca sentirme respetada... y sabés qué? Nadie lo hace ya...

Por suerte las redes sociales te muestran la realidad que las palabras te esconden... que la mayoría de los hombres buscan el deseo y que ya no buscan amor... que vale mas un like a una mujer en ropa interior exponiendo su cuerpo (que no está mal), que un buen café y charlar de la vida...

 

Nací en el mundo equivocado.

Nací hace mucho tiempo más que vos... dónde los valores eran otros y los sentimientos sinceros...

 

Todas tenemos una puta dentro, por supuesto.

 

Pero no te jactes del hombre ejemplar, o al menos disimulalo.

 

Nací en el mundo y tiempo equivocado... yo creo en el Amor para toda la vida, y creo en un compañero que se la juegue tanto como yo lo haría por él.

 

Pero si estamos en distinta sintonía, no me vengas a tocar la puerta...

 

Yo también soy puta, pero ahora sé a quien cerrarle las piernas y tambien cerrarles las puertas de mi vida.

 

Cuando crezcas, hablamos.

  

Given To Fly...

 

Ya abrí mis Alas, y estoy dada a volar... a un mundo dónde existan mis mismos valores...

Given my consumption of hamburgers they may be right some day

Volunteers working with the Flagstaff Ranger District brush crew were given an opportunity to work with some of the tools of the trade. Trail buiding experts Ron and Matt gave tips on removing branches, cutting down small trees, and working with the variety of saws used in hand-trimming and cutting.

 

The Coconino National Forest's Flagstaff Ranger District, Arizona Conservation Corps (AZCC), Recreation Equipment, Inc. (REI), and a fantastic group of volunteers met at Deer Hill Trail for a special National Public Lands Day trail project on September 30, 2017.

 

Deer Hill Trail is a 4.6 mile long trail running along the base of the eastern side of the San Francisco Peaks, devastated in the summer of 2010 by the Schultz Fire. The human-caused wildfire burned over 15,000 acres of forest in the area, and was followed by intense flash floods when monsoon storms arrived to dump heavy rainfall on the barren slopes. Deer Hill Trail, a favorite of equestrian riders who camp at the Little Elden Springs Horse Camp at the southern end of the trail, had been closed since the fire due to severe trail damage, hazardous conditions, and large fallen trees blocking the trail.

 

This final day of trail work was the culmination of over three years of effort by numerous volunteer organizations and sponsors, hundreds of local volunteers, and the Flagstaff Ranger District to clear and repair the trail to safe standards for equestrians, hikers, and mountain bikers. The many partner organizations who have helped coordinate trail repair efforts over the years are REI, Flagstaff Biking Organization, Seeds of Stewardship, Arizona Conservation Corps, and GORE.

 

Recreationists love this trail, the beautiful ponderosa pine forest it traverses, and its magnificent views of the San Francisco Peaks, Mount Elden, Sunset Crater, and surrounding area. Closed for over seven years, the trail was officially reopened immediately following this National Public Lands Day trail event. Flagstaff Ranger District trails coordinator Matt Engbring removed the "Trail Closed/Flood Damage" sign and presented it to the REI volunteer group leader Justin Ingles to commemorate the years of devotion and hard work to this project.

 

Photo taken September 30, 2017 by Deborah Lee Soltesz. Credit U.S. Forest Service Coconino National Forest.

Wikipedia says:

 

Kuntur Wasi (Quechua kuntur condor, wasi house, "condor house") is the name given to the ruins of a religious center with complex architecture and stone sculptures, located in the Andean highlands of Peru.

 

It is believed the inhabitants had a link with the Chavín culture.

 

Kuntur Wasi is located in the Northern Mountain Range of Peru, specifically at the headwaters of the Jequetepeque River, in the region of the city of Cajamarca near the small town of San Pablo. The Jequetepeque valley provided a transportation corridor between the coastal region and the highlands.

 

Kuntur Wasi was a center where people congregated.

 

It is thought to have been constructed around 1000-700 BCE, during the Initial Period. The architecture consists of a hill-top temple, quadrangular platforms, a sunken courtyard, and series of rooms.

 

In the floor of one room there is an anthropomorphic figure made of clay, about 30 inches (75 cm) in height. It is painted with cinnabar red, malachite green, and black, yellow, and pink. Its face has big square eyes and a wide mouth with prominent canine teeth. There are also stepped platforms and funeral structures.

 

Lithosculptures have been found, similar to the Chavín style.

 

Kuntur Wasi was occupied between the years 1200-50 BC.

 

It was first discovered in 1945 by Julio C. Tello. In 1989, scientists from the University of Tokyo excavated four tombs at Kuntur Wasi. Valuable items, such as pectoral necklaces (decorative breastplates), gold crowns, ornamental stone beads, earrings, sets of dishes and iconographies of people were discovered in the burial area.

 

Since the beginning of the University of Tokyo's archaeological mission, eight tombs have been found in the area.

 

The Kuntur Wasi Museum, managed by local citizens, opened in 1994.

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Según Wikipedia:

 

Kuntur Wasi es un sitio arqueológico que data del Formativo Inferior, se encuentra ubicado en el centro poblado del mismo nombre, en la provincia de San Pablo, en el departamento de Cajamarca, en el Perú.

 

En la lengua quechua Kuntur Wasi significa "Casa del Cóndor". Según el arqueológo japonés, Yoshio Onuki, estudioso principal de este sitio arqueológico, Kuntur Wasi es una expresión prechavín pero que posteriormente posee una gran influencia no solo de Chavín sino también de Cupisnique especialmente en la orfebrería y la cerámica.

  

Kuntur Wasi pasó por los siguientes periodos:

 

Fase Ídolo: Construcción del centro ceremonial con pisos enlucidos con cal de color blanco. En esta fase hay una cierta relación con Huacaloma y Pacopampa.

 

Fase Kuntur: Construcción de un nuevo complejo ceremonial en forma de U. Se desarrolla la cerámica fina y la orfebrería.

 

Fase Copa: Modificación del complejo arquitectónico ceremonial y la renovación del sistema de canales de drenaje.

 

Fase Sotera: Existe una relación con la Fase Layzón del valle de Cajamarca. Corresponde a la decadencia de Kuntur Wasi.

One of the things being online has given me, is an appreciation of the wonders that surrounded me as I was growing up, but was ignorant of. Such a shame then that I only get to see bits and pieces when we go back to visit my Mother, of like this weekend, when I returned home for a school reunion.

 

Fritton is a small village on the A143 between Yarmouth and Beccles, and we used to go as we liked the local pub, The Decoy. It was run by an ex-RAF dentist, Eric. Nice bloke, hope he and his wife are still OK.

 

Looking through my friend's website on Suffolk churches last week, I came across the entry for Fritton, and I was intrigued: so, the first stop out of Lowestoft was Fritton.

 

Set down a quiet country lane, a simple round-towered church, but then like so many churches, the exterior does not hint at the delights and wonders inside.

 

I thought the round chancel similar to Wissington, but inside the chancel is revealed as Norman and many-arched. But let Simon describe it:

 

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Norfolk now has two Frittons, but this one used to be in Suffolk. Here we are out in the wilds of the Lothingland Peninsula, and in 1974 the border was moved a few miles south so that Great Yarmouth's dreary suburbia could all be taken into Norfolk. Unfortunately for Suffolk, the new border line was taken down to Fritton Lakes, putting this little jewel of a church and its pretty village into the northern county.

Perhaps it was compensation of a kind for also having to take on the awful town of Hopton to the east. In this case, Suffolk's loss was very much Norfolk's gain, for this is that rare thing in East Anglia, a Norman church with an apse. They are thin on the ground in the region, and the three best are now all within a few miles on the same side of the border. Hales and Heckingham are on the far bank of the Waveney; St Edmund is similarly round-towered and thatched, and if it is not quite as pretty as its two cousins, it is at least as interesting, and perhaps even more of a treasure house than they are.

 

There is a little trapdoor on the south side of the chancel, the purpose of which is not immediately clear. Inevitably in this traditionally lawless area not far from the sea, it has become known as the Smugglers' Loft. The churches of this area are all in the Norwich Diocese, even the Suffolk ones, and while the churches near to Yarmouth and Lowestoft have a reputation for being kept locked, Fritton St Edmund is, thankfully, open everyday, and you step into a pleasantly Victorianised rustic interior. The view to the east is unusual, with the little, low chancel hemmed in up one corner behind a screen which doesn't really seem to fit, and the royal arms high above on top of the eastern wall of the 14th Century rebuilt nave. When the nave was widened, the original north wall was retained and the other wall rebuilt about three metres further south, thus the curious juxtaposition between nave and chancel. In the splay of a window on this south side the rebuilders painted an image of a Saint, possibly St John the Baptist holding an agnus dei, while on the north wall opposite the south doorway is a massive St Christopher of about the same date. Otherwise, the nave is rather austere, the recut square font at the west end lending a note of gravitas.

 

This plainness and simplicity offset the fabulous jewel-like interior of the chancel, which you step down into as if into a quite different church. It is a remarkable survival. The tunnel-vaulting is an extraordinary thing to find. The trapdoor outside lets into the space above it, but more interestingly vaulting of this kind is often associated with there having been a tower above. Not only the vaulting of the apse has survived, but in 1967 a sequence of wall-paintings depicting the martyrdom of St Edmund were uncovered in the eastern end of the apse. It is one of the most complete sequences of the subject in England. The Saint himself appears crowned and shot through with arrows in the central panel, and other panels depict Danish bowmen, possibly St Peter and a donor. There is a little panel of Victorian glass depicting St Edmund at the centre, a happy accident because they could not have known about the wall paintings.

 

The chancel windows are furnished with some excellent early 20th century glass depicting a sequence of East Anglian Saints. They include St Walstan, St Olaf, St William of Norwich, St Felix, Fursey, St Wendreda, St Etheldreda and the more international seafaring Saint, St Nicholas. It is a perfect setting for them.

 

The screen has obviously been restored, perhaps more than once, but it almost certainly dates from the time that the nave was widened. There is said to be another which is almost identical, only better, in the now-closed church at Belton a few miles off, where it awaits an uncertain fate. No such fears here; I compared St Edmund with the churches of Hales and Heckingham near the start of this piece, but it is worth adding that this is the only one of those three apsed Norman churches which has not been declared redundant, and is still home to an Anglican faith community.

 

Arthur Mee, in his 1940s Kings England: Suffolk, waxes so lyrically about Fritton that you might be forgiven for thinking that he is actually writing a spoof, or a parody of himself. Here is heart's delight, he begins, for painter, poet and naturalist; great waters, spreading woodland, nursery of multitudes of water-fowl, and nightingales which sing in chorus the livelong day and night of their minstrel season. Mee also recalls the inconsequential but fascinating detail from the registers that on the 17th day of August 1816, Hannah Freeman did penance in the church for defaming the character of Mary Hanham, spinster. There is a good story behind that, no doubt.

Today, most visitors to this parish are here on holiday, because around the great Fritton Lake, which is the longest in East Anglia, spreads Fritton Country Park and its associated camping sites. Part of the lake is Fritton Decoy, a long, narrow stretch into which ducks were attracted to be shot in their hundreds by 19th century worthies. There is something pleasingly old-fashioned about the setting, as if the Famous Five might even now be in a tent nearby, awaiting an adventure.

 

Simon Knott, July 2008

 

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'Setting the Watch' dates back to the year 886 when Alfred the Great visited the City in those unsettled and troubled Viking times, and was so impressed by the place itself and the support he was given by the people against the intruders that he decided to grant the community a Royal Charter. As it was a spontaneous decision he did not have a parchment scroll or anything of that prepared. All he had to offer them as a symbol of the Charter was a horn. He told them that they should treasure the horn, refer to it henceforth as THE CHARTER HORN, and look after it for ever, and the people did. It is still in safe keeping in the City Town Hall today. (A PICTURE OF THE ACTUAL CHARTER HORN GIVEN BY ALFRED THE GREAT AS IT IS TODAY CAN BE SEEN IN MY PHOTO GALLERY)

 

It was at that time he told the people of Ripon that they should be vigilant as the Vikings were still a threat and other unruly elements in the land could descend upon them and they risked losing all they held dear. He suggested that they appoint a 'Wakeman'. The 'Wakeman' would be a man who stayed awake and patrolled the area all through the hours of darkness keeping a watchful eye while others sleep safely in their beds. So they appointed a 'Wakeman', and they further decided the he could put the Horn to good use. He would sound the Horn at the four corners of the market cross at 9pm each evening to let the people know that the 'Watch' was 'Set' and they could retreat to their homes knowing full well that it was safe for sleeping, and that he was out there keeping a watchful eye all night. It has not been missed, not even for one single night since then.

 

The ritual continued almost unchanged throughout the centuries to the year 1604 when a second Charter was granted to the City by James 1st, (who was James1st of England and James 6th of Scotland and the first king to rule over a united Britain). This time it was a written Charter. It was decided at that time that things should become more democratic in Ripon because the Wakeman of the day had become all too powerful. He was elected by and from a group of about 15 of the most powerful men in the City, no one else had a say in the matter, and once elected to the office of Wakeman for a one year term of office, he simply appointed the others as his constables. Between them they ruled the City with a rod of iron, made up laws to suit themselves, and meted out justice as they saw fit including lashings on the square where the ancient ceremony now takes place. However at the granting of the second Charter, the office of Wakeman was discontinued, and he was replaced by the first Mayor to be elected by vote by all the people, and the Mayor appointed a Hornblower to carry on the ceremony of 'Setting the Watch' on his behalf.

 

The first Mayor of Ripon was a man called Hugh Ripley and the house he lived in still stands at the South West corner of the square and is known as 'The Wakeman House', and is now used as a cafe. However Mr. Ripley did not trust his Hornblower and put a rule in place so that he could keep his eye on him and to make sure he has done his duty each evening. That rule requires that, when the Hornblower has 'Set the Watch' at the market cross at 9pm, he must find the Mayor of the day, wherever he is in the City and report to him that he has done his duty by standing in front of him and after sounding the Horn three times, he must bow his head, raise his hat and shout the words "Mr. Mayor, the Watch is Set". That is still done today, and must be done wherever the Mayor is, whether it be at home, at a function, or in the Town Hall. If the Mayor is outside the City or away on holiday it had to be done on the Town Hall steps as if he was in residence.

 

It is said that if the Horn is not sounded to his satisfaction, the ghostly face of Hugh Ripley will appear in the attic window of the Wakemans House and a pestilence and other great tragedies will descend upon the City.

 

The nightly Ceremony attract visitors from all over the world as well as from every part of the U.K. At the height of summer there could be up to a hundred people there each evening, and in the depth of winter there are always some people looking on.

 

The city has four Ceremonial Horns. The original Charter Horn given by Alfred the Great in 886 does still exist. It is not blown any more and is in safe keeping in the Town Hall. It is now covered in black velvet and capped with solid silver and hangs on a wide leather Baldric which bears the badges and crests of previous Mayors and Wakemen.

 

The Charter Horn was replaced by the 1690 horn which is the only Horn the city ever paid for. They were charged six shillings and eight pence at the time, which is equal to a mere thirty four pence in today's money. It is recorded that it was considered a princely sum, and those who charged that price were referred to as no less than thieves, rogues and vagabonds by the Council members of the day. That Horn can still be used today for the 'Setting The Watch' and is brought out on special occasions for that purpose, and is a wonderful specimen of craftsmanship from that era.

 

The next Horn to be introduced was a very large African Ox Horn given in 1886 to celebrate 1000 years of granting of the first Charter. This is always in the possession of the first Deputy Hornblower who has to be fully equipped and prepared at all times to stand in at short notice should the Hornblower of the day himself be unable to carry out the duty of 'Setting the Watch'.

 

Horn number four, is the one used by George Pickles the Hornblower from 2004 to 2015. This was given to the City in 1986 to celebrate 1100 years of granting of the first Charter. It is a large Ox type animal Horn with copper fittings and was created by a local craftsman and financed and donated to the City by a local company called Sigma Antiques. This is considered by most as the most beautiful of all the Horns.

 

There is a fifth Horn in the City but it has never been blown. It stands 93 feet (30Mtrs) up on top of the Obelisk as a symbol of the City. It is a weather vane and also a sealed time capsule. It was sealed the time before last in 1889 for one hundred years, and it was always said it contained 7 gold sovereigns. It was taken down in 1986, three years before the hundred years was up because urgent repair work was needed to the upper part of the Obelisk. When it was opened up the sovereigns were gone and there was just the bill for the last time repairs were carried out. This, to put it mildly, did cause some disappointment !!. It was re-sealed in 1986 for a further 100 years and this time there is money inside the sealed Horn. Maundy money given to the City by the Queen is now in the Horn together with a bill for the repairs this time. The bill for repairs in 1889 was 42 pounds and the bill for almost identical repairs in 1986 was 13 thousand pounds. That gives some indication how things have changed over the years.

 

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Given to me by my friend Jennifer, I like these, and I do have at least one top and skirt that pair well with them, especially with white tights. ^_^;

I was given access to the factory in Dursley in November 2008 and took this selection, showing the various stages of the assembly of the renowned Lister Diesel engines.

I was given a box of expired Ektar so I thought I'd try it. Vivid! But where's my stylist!? :)

 

Linhof Master Technika | Rodenstock APO-Sironar-S 135mm | Kodak Ektar 100

 

Scanned with Epson V750

 

Cinestill C-41

  

given to me today by a relative of the owner this coach still exists in north wiltshire as a caravan although not been on the road for some time. svw 667r is ex thomas calne and is seen here just after purchase by the new owner and having been repainted. although still complete and a runner the paintwork is now peeling off and she has been stood for many years. its a bedford ymt

Bob Given Photography

THese were pieces given to me by my Aunt Lavina. They were items that we think were stitched long ago by my grandmother when she was young. Grandma married in 1920.

The pictures here are given at 600x400 pixel if you wish see that size use the download facility there is an icon on the lower right of the Flickr webpage. If you have any problems with the pictures please contact me. If you would like any other views of this war memorial please do ask. These pictures have been copyrighted to protect them, but I want them to be used to continue the commemoration of the sacrifice and futility of war. If you wish to use them then please do ask.

 

PHH Sykes ©2020

phhsykes@gmail.com

 

Here is a transcription of the memorial and some information gathered relating to it. Please do send details of any corrections that can be made.

 

OUR GLORIOUS DEAD

 

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN THE LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH

WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR, 1918-1919

ERECTED BY THE THEIR FRIENDS 1920

 

NEIL PRIMROSE , M.C.ROYAL BUCKS, HUSSARS

 

GEORGE ALVES, CAMERON HDRS.

WILLIAM ALVES, CAMERON HDRS.

GEORGE BEATTIE,BLACK WATCH.

JAMES W. BLAKE,R. G. ARTILERY.

JOHN A. TEMPLE BLAKE, CAN. MTD. RIFLES.

THOMAS FULLERTON,ROYAL ENGINEERS.

GEORGE JOHNSON,ROYAL SCOTS.

MARTIN JOYCE,47TH. BAT. CAN.

ROBERT LEES,K.O.S.B.

JAMES McDOUGALL,A. & S. HDRS.

DONALD McGLASHAN,R.F. ARTILLERY.

ANDREW NEILL,SCOTS GUARDS.

THOMAS RAMAGE,A. & S. HDRS.

ARCHIBALD YOUNG,BLACK WATCH.

JAMES YOUNG,CAMERON HDRS.

 

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.

 

THOMAS ALVES, R.N. 1939-1945 IAN KERR, R.A.C.

  

Monument Abbreviations Extended

 

Cameron Highlanders

Royal Garrison Artillery

Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force

47th Battalion (British Columbia) Canadian Expeditionary Force

King's Own Scottish Borderers

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)

Royal Field Artillery

Royal Navy

Royal Armoured Corps

  

Below is a list of information found at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, www.cwgc.org/ and St. Giles High Kirk and other websites. I have tried to confirm and collect it together here.

 

CAPTAIN The Rt. Hon. NEIL JAMES ARCHIBALD PRIMROSE

Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars 1st/1st

Died 15 November 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY D. 49.

Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

Personal Inscription HE LIVES BY LOVE

Awards Military Cross, Mentioned in Despatches

Second son of 5th Earl of Rosebery (the former Prime Minister) and Countess of Rosebery; husband of Lady Victoria Primrose (now Lady Victoria Bullock), of Swynford Paddocks, Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket. Privy Councillor and Member of Parliament for Wisbech Division, Cambs. Since 1910.

He has a memorial in St Giles High Kirk on the High Street Edinburgh which reads as follows,

IN MEMORY OF

CAPTAIN THE RIGHT HON

NEIL JAMES ARCHIBALD

PRIMROSE M.P. M.C.

WHO WAS BORN AT DALMENY

DECEMBER 14TH 1889

WAS KILLED IN ACTION

NOVEMBER 15TH 1917

AT THE HILL OF GEZER

IN PALESTINE AND LIES BURIED

AT RAMLEH

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY

HIS PROUD & AFFLICTED FATHER

 

HIS LIFE WAS LOVELY AND

PLEASANT & HE DIED IN GLORY

THEY GO FROM STRENGTH TO

STRENGTH EVERY ONE OF THEM

IN ZION APPEARING BEFORE GOD

 

PRIVATE GEORGE ALVES Service Number: S/13290

Cameron Highlanders 7th Bn.

Died 25 September 1915

Buried or commemorated at LOOS MEMORIAL

Panel 119 to 124.

France

 

PRIVATE W B ALVES Service Number: S/13281

Cameron Highlanders 1st Bn.

Died 23 September 1918

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at BRIE BRITISH CEMETERY

III. B. 1.

France

 

PRIVATE GEORGE BEATTIE Service Number: S/11800

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 2nd Bn.

Died 22 April 1916

Buried or commemorated at BASRA MEMORIAL Panel 25 and 63.

Iraq

 

PRIVATE JOHN ARCHIBALD TEMPLE BLAKE Service Number: 117150

2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion

Died 16 June 1916

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY

VIII. B. 96.

France

 

SAPPER T FULLERTON Service Number: 414779

Royal Engineers

"B.W." Cable Sect.

Died 11 October 1917

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY

IV. E. 36.

France

 

PRIVATE MARTIN JOYCE Service Number: 227705

Canadian Infantry 47th Bn.

Died 28 October 1917

Age 43 years old

Buried or commemorated at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

Panel 10 - 26 - 28.

Belgium

 

SECOND LIEUTENANT ROBERT WALLACE LEES

King's Own Scottish Borderers 7th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn.

Died 03 September 1916

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Pier and Face 4 A and 4 D.

France

 

PRIVATE JAMES McDOUGALL

Service Number: S/11915

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st Bn.

Died 29 September 1918

Buried or commemorated at MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA 420.

Greece

 

SHOEING SMITH CORPORAL D McGLASHAN

Service Number: 635500

Royal Field Artillery "A" Bty. 256th Bde.

Died 12 October 1917

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

X. F. 1.

Belgium

 

CORPORAL T RAMAGE Service Number: S/9821

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st/7th Bn.

Died 20 July 1918

Buried or commemorated at MARFAUX BRITISH CEMETERY

VI. A. 7.

France

 

PRIVATE JOHN ARCHIBALD YOUNG Service Number: 27256

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 9th Bn.

Died 16 September 1918

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at ST. MARY'S A.D.S. CEMETERY, HAISNES V. F. 1.

France

 

PETTY OFFICER STOKER THOMAS ALVES Service Number: P/K 59736

Royal Navy H.M.S. Vortigern

Died 15 March 1942

Age 47 years old

Buried or commemorated at PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Panel 67, Column 3.

United Kingdom

Son of John and Mary Alves; husband of Alice Alves, of Hornsey, London.

 

CAPTAIN IAN KERR Service Number: 151541

Died 26 June 1944

Age 26 years old

Son of John and Margaret Kerr; husband of Diana Joan Kerr, of Gorebridge, Midlothian.

JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, CHOUAIN, Calvados, France.

I just returned from the Hajj. Given the nature of the journey/pilgrimage I don't have alot of photos, but still have enough to sort through.

 

This was a quick shot just before I started my first ever tawaaf around the Kaabah (on the top level), as part of the Umrah for Hajj. With the crowds in place just days before the Hajj, it took a little manoeuvering to get this.

Cameraphone.

2010 Mattel USA Fall Catalog. This was a catalog given to store managers, a vendor catalog, with manufacturing numbers so store managers could order items to then sell in their stores. All items in this catalog should have a packaging date of 2009, the date on the Barbie box or fashion pack should be 20098. The photographs in this catalog are similar to production, press or prototype information so the actual dolls and fashions sold in store might be slightly different have different colors, etc. This is especially true for the cheaper items and playsets. special editions and store exclusives may not be listed here. Items in this catalog include Barbie Video Girl R4093, R4087, T8157, Fab Life Day Looks Fashion Assortment N8322, R6814, R6815, R6816, N8328, R4251, R4252, R4253, Fab Life Fun Looks N4855, R6817, R6818, R6819, Fashionista Dolls N4844, R9878, R9883, T3324, T3325, T3326, T3327, S.I.S. dolls, SIS dolls, Puppy Swim School T2706, T2707, I no longer share catalogs without the website name on them because people posted my images on Facebook and Pinterest without giving me credit. You are welcome to download and repost catalog pages with the BarbieReference.com watermark on them. A link back to my website is also appreciated. If you found this useful please stop by BarbieReference.com and click an ad to support the site. More pages from this catalog are only available on BarbieReference.com

 

i take out our given.today in the fifth of august two thousand eighteen.in the city Mohali averse to me made by the punjabis not but hindi speaking so .

  

THE EARTH IN A HEAVEN INSTAL WAS BY A M.S.KOHLII.

  

THE EARTH IN A REAL CHANGE IS.

 

WE SEE WE AS A TRY AS A WE AS A SEAS AS A SEAMANS AS A NONE BUT AS A SIKH AS A RESEARCHES AS A SEA AS.

 

WE SAW AS A SHRI S.C. KAUSHAL AS A SEA AS A DACOITIES AS A SEAS AS A WE AS A SEA AS A RESEARCHES ASS AS A SHISHES

  

AS A WE TO DEFEATS AS A WE AS A STRONGESTS AS A TO BE AS A TRYS AS.

  

AS WE HE WE SAW A STRONG STRATEGY OF DEVELOPING THE WORLD INTO A BETTER WORLD.

 

LOOKING TO ME GOD AND BORROWING FROM ME IN THE NAME OF THE WORLD DEVELOPMENT.

 

NOTED IN HIS NAME AS A CREATOR OF THE INVENTIONS WERE BY THE UNITED NATIONS AS A SOUND COURT AS A THE COURT OF THE UNION. THEY WERE CORRECT .

 

ANYTHING THAT YOU DO WE FROM ARE.

 

AS WE ARE THE FLASH TO YOUR MIND ON WHAT YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU ARE ASKING WE THE MOTHER NATURE OR ME THE CREATOR THE GOD OF ALL gods , goddesses WHO DIED BUT LEFT A NAME AS MEN WOMEN WHO DID A SINGLE LITTLE IMPROVEMENT TO THE WORLD.

 

WHEN YOU CONCENTRATE OF THE god YOURS SEEKING BLESSINGS ACTUALLY YOU ARE CONCENTRATING ON THE LIFE IN SYSTEM WE NOT THE THOSE WHO CAME TO EARTH AND ARE REMEMBERED AS ONES WHO OR WHOSE FOLLOWERS CAME TO JOIN AND SAY THEY WERE A RELIGION WRITING STORY OF THEIR .

 

THERE NEED NOT BE A FOOLING AROUND.

 

WE ARE HERE ....... TO INVESTIGATE WHY YOU ... AS A EARTH ITSELF HAVE GONE OFF LOGIC.

  

IT IS EXTREMELY SAD TO LOOK AT YOU.

  

HAVING BECOME REDUCED TO LEVEL MONKYS.

 

WE HAVE FOUND AFTER A THOROUGH DISPLAY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING SHOWN TO YOU FOR SEEING YOUR REACTIONS AND CAPABILITY TO PERCEIVE WHAT IS HAPPENING.......THAT YOU ARE NOT PERCEIVING WHAT IS HAPPENING.

  

THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IS DISPLEASING.

  

SO WE HAVE TAKEN TO WRITING AS WELL AS DOING ALL THAT CAN CAUSE A CHANGE .

 

THE WE BY CAUSED ELECTION IN THE MID-TERM

IN THE U.S.A. IS A SUCCESS PUT BEFORE YOU BY THE WE AS A PERCOLATION INTO THE SOME IN THE U.S.A.

 

THE WE STATE THE WE BY FIXED IS IN THE SEPTEMBER.2018.FIXED BY THE SENATE UNDER M.S.KOHLII EXTERNA. JUSTIN UNITED NATIONS,SUPREME COURTS ALL..U.N. .IMPRISONED AND PUT TOO TO THE RADIATIONS IN THE WE RESIDENCE IN 397,PHASE ONE,MOHALI WHILE SHOWING WE OCCUPYING A PRESDENTAILITY.HAVING CROSSED TO USING OUR MONEYS AND POSITIONS AS THE GOD SINCE OUR BIRTH ADVISED BY MISTER GANDHI..WE SUGGEST THOROUGH ROUGHENING OF THE THEY IN IT.TAKING A LOOK INTO DAMAGES IN HIND AS A INDIA NOT FROM NINETEEN FORTY SEVEN TOO NOY BUT THE THREE OF THE THIRTY SIX....IN FROM THE POTHOHAR AS A ISLAMABAD.PAKISTAN AS A ACTIONS OF THEY MUSLIMS..CONTINUING AS A MONEY EATERS.....AS A SINDHUS.IN SEX MERCHANDISING IN ABSENCE OF DIRECT VISIBLE SLAVERY SENDING IN EACH HOUSE A SLAVER AS A WE AS A OUT TO BE IT TODAY FORCED INTO WE BY THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOURER MISS MADHU PRITHAK.SERVERS AS A DEFAULTY.MADE BY A A.S. BRAR HER SEXER REPORTED BY WE AS A SEXER OF OUR WIFE IN A MULTIPLES AS A WE TO HARASS.LET DISPLAYED BE AS A HER OWN WRONGS AS.IN LIFE HERS AS A WE AS.LIVING WITH A LOYAL.PROMISE.GOD IDENTIFIED AT AGE ONE,FIVE,SIX,SEVEN,EIGHT,NINE,TEN,ELEVEN,TWELVE,THIRTEEN BY WE,FOURTEEN,FIFTEEN,SIXTEEN,SEVENTEEN,EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN.KILL IN PERMANENTLY PUT BY THE ANIMAL.HERE IN THIS VOLUN.COUNTRY AS THE HIS MONEY ,LANDS,POWER POSITIONS,COURTS ASSAULTERS PROMOTED BY THE POLICER.

  

FROM HIS AGE TWENTY ONE HE WERE THE SENIORMOST ON HIS OWN MERIT.ELECTED BY THE WORLD AS THE CHIEF IN THE JUSTICE AND LAW AND ORDER..IN NAME JUSTIN..SUPPLEMENTED BY THE POSITION SUPREME COURTS ALL LICENCING AUTHORITY.INDIA HAD NO COURTS.SINCE FREEDOM.OF IT'S OWN AS WERE IN DACOITY ON COURTS.COURTS OF THE U.N. .

 

IN ANY PLANET COUNTRIES ARE. LAWS ARE.LAWS BETWEEN COUNTRY ARE SAME AS ARE LAWS.

 

THERE CAN NOT BE ANY DIFFERENCE.

 

IN A PLANET FOLLOWING DEMOCRACY.

 

WE ORDER ENQUIRY BY WE.

 

WE ASK DELHI POLICE CHIEF TO BE WE TO SENT.AS WE ARE THE OWNER OF THE INDIA.WE GAVE DEMOCRACY . TO ALL NATIONS ON EARTH WHILE GIVING FREEDOM AS

THE OWNER EARTH TOO PURCHASED THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS AS THE RICHEST IDENTIFIED AND HAVING PER UNITED NATIONS ASSETS OTHERS WANTED.

 

WE NEVER MADE ANY AGENT.

 

WE NEVER SOLD ANY TERRITORY OR IT'S RIGHTS.

 

WE NEVER GIFTED ANY LAND OR POSITION TO ANY.

 

WE NEVER NOMINATED ANY TO BE IN ANY POSITION.

  

WE WERE KILLED TWICE WHEN JOINING A POSITION IN INDIA.NEEDS AN INVESTIGATION. WE HAVE COME TO HEALTH ONLY NOW AND WANT TO LOOK INTO TRUE PICTURE.UNDER OUR OWN CONTROL OR THE OUR OWNED UNITED NATIONS.WE ARE THE ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS OWNER EARTH AS A FIFTY PERCENT OWNER OF ALL FROM EARTH.WE HAVE ALL NATIONS IN ASSETS ENOUGH TO GET OUR SHARE.WE ARE IN LAW AS THE LAW.LAW AUTHORITY OF THE WORLD ADMINISTERING THE WORLD.

 

WE GAVE YOU HEAVEN AS A DEAD AS A ALMOST EVER COMING BACK TO LIFE AFTER ATTACKS AS A INSERTION OF THE CYANIDE THROUGH THE WIFE TOO BODY'S BROTHER TOO UNDER POLICE FORCE POLITICAL FORCE UNDER UNDER ASSAULTER UNKNOWN TO POLICE BEING BEGGERS WHO HAD MOUNTED TACTFULLY BEING SLAVER OF WOMEN IN EXPERIENCE OF ENSLAVING WOMEN WITH POISONS STARTING EXPERIMENTALLY SAME AS A METHODS AS A BOTH THE WOMEN ENSLAVING AND POISON ON POLICERS INSIDE THEIR HOMES ENTERING AS A VERY MUCH IN NEED OF HELP ASKING A KIND ATTENTION.USING POISON LATER ONCE INSIDE FROM A FLOWER VASE LIKE MECHINE ON ALL STARTING ENSLAVING ALL RESIDENTS.

 

WE WARNED OF IT IN THE YEAR OF IT'S HAPPENING AFTER CAREFUL STUDY DONE ABSOLUTELY CAREFULLY KEEPING DATA TO WE AND INDIRA GANDHI.ON PHONE AVAILABLE TO ALL APPROACHING TO HAVE A PERSONAL TILL LISTEN.WHO CAME UNDER ATTACK FROM BEGGERS-----POLICE WERE NOT THERE DESPITE ON PHONE TO M.S.KOHLII HER FAMILY TALKING PROBLEMS COMING TO HER,HER SON,HIS WIFE.POLICE WERE OVERTAKEN OR WERE ASKED BY A OFFICER MIXED UP AS A MISORIENTER MISORIENTING THEY DISINFORMING EVERY MINUTE TAKING OVER TAPPING OF OUR BOTH-------NEEDS LOOKED INTO WHY HE WERE SO FEARSOME OR WERE A PART PARTNER GETTING ADVANTAGES----IF NOT WAS HE A RELIGION OR RELIGIOUS OPPOSING ONE OF THE RELIGIONS EIGHTEEN MADE BY M.S.KOHLII WHILE SERVING PLANET TO ESTABLISH SECTIONS AS A TO BE STABLE LAW OBSERVERS MAKING LAW EASY FOR THEM ALL AND IT THIS GROUP TAPPINGLY MADE USE OF TO MOUNT THE GOD WE AS A COSMOS BOMBING WE AS WELL THE EARTH AS A PRESIDENTS OF THE U.S.A. BEING SHOT BY THEM.

 

M.S.KOHLII AS A RARE WERE A MAN IS CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED JUSTIN AND SUPREME COURTS ALL ABOVE SECURITY COUNCIL.

  

PUT IN OPERATE BY WE THROUGH A ENTIRE WE=A MAN LOOKING TO GOD AT ALL TIMES =ALL TWENTY FOUR HOURS A DAY AS THE NA MA JE HOVE' TE' KINNU VEKHIYE' AS A WE AS A TO IN A WEEP HIS AS A ALL SPLIT SECONDS AS A DEAL WHAT ------FEEL CONSISTENT OF WE FINDING THOUGH IN THIS VERY PRACTICAL WORLD FINDING PRACTICAL PATHS OPEN TO HE OPPOSED BY TWELVE THOUSAND AS A SEVENTY TWO HOURS AS A DAY AS IF IT WERE THAT AS A ALACRIT AS A SEEING ALL HIS AS A DONE AS A ACTIVE WORK TO BE OPPOSED AS A PROFESS AS A TWELVE THOUSANDS AS A DAYLONG AS A ACTIVE WE.

 

HE WE SAW WE AS A SEA AS A WERE NOT.

 

SO WE LET HE BE.

 

IN THE SEA HIS.

 

AFTER ALL THAT WERE THE POLICY WE WERE FOLLOWING FOR CENTURIES TO ALL THE AVTARS TOO OTHERS TOO TRYING AS THEY WERE FOR THEM TO TRY AND SEE THE SEA THEIR PLANET WERE TO THEY AND OTHERS AS A WORK THEY FOR IF THEY WERE TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED AS A ANY IN ANY ACTIVITY.THEIR EARN THEIRS OURS OURS.WE EVER FOLLOWED THIS AS A LAW FOR WE OURSELVES AS A MENTION IN THE SCRIPTURE HE WE FOUND AND CORRECTLY IT TOLD THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET AS THE BEST GUIDE ON WHO TODAY WE FEEL PROUD WRITING A CRITICAL ASSAY AS A ANALYSIS OF HE AS A ACTIVITY POTENTIAL OF THE TEN THOUSAND MILLION OF PROPHETS AS A DHAN=ASSET AS A WE AS A STRONGESTS AS A WE AS A HE HIS EARN AS A TOTAL AS A IS GIVEN TO WE.ERLIER TOO IT WERE SO.

 

THOUGH WE TIED ARE WE WILL PUT IT HERE.

 

HE SET UP N's OF FACTORS AS A INPUTS AS A WE TO TOO BE HAPPY NOT BUT HE TO WE AS A HAPPINESS.

 

TOOK TO WRITING ON A PIECE AS A START AS A STAR.

 

HIS TARGET OF EXISTANCE AS A WE AS A NOT BUT AS A EMERSON AS A POLATED.FOR HE HIMSELF POSSIBLY BUT FORGETTING IN THE LOOSE AS A STOPPERS AS A WERE TO HE TOO IN THE ENGLAND AS A KING AS..A DESRAELI NOT GLADSTONE NOT BUT TOO LIKE THEY ANY MANY TRYING TO LOOK SMARTER THAN HE ESSAYIST AS A GOT LISTED FROM A MASTER AS A CHANGER OF THE WORLD.FOLLOWED BY THREE WE CHANCERE OF THEY THE ENGLAND.

 

LATER WE SAW A M.S.KOHLI REPLACED CHARLES AS A SAME TAKEN FROM A BOOK THINK AD GROW RICH NOT BUT GOT HE THE HE HIMSELF TO WRITE IT AS A TRAINING OF THE WORLD AS WE HAD GOT HE TO DO ERLIER GETTING A BOOK THE LAW OF SUCCESS WRITTEN TWENTY ONE YEARS AS A AFTER THE DEATH OF LISTED AUTHOR.FORCING THOUGHT ON THE PLANET NOT EXPOSING IT TO IN THE NAME OTHERS IN VIEW OF THE RESISTANCES AS A SENIORS NOT AS A MIDDLE TOO NOT AS A LOW JOINING TOGETHER AS A CHINIS AS A D.I.S.KOHLI AS A SHRARTIS AS A TAKING OVER OF THE ALL OF THE HE THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE PLACEMENT GETTER AS A CARDS THEIRS AS A SMART THOUGHTS AS A SOLE LANDOWNER IN THEIR GIRAFT AS A TOO AS A LAND OIL EXCAVATED AS A NEW AS A MATTER AS A TOO IN THE IRAN AND JORDAN KINGS TOO A REACHES TRIED TOO WERE THEY BY KILLING ALL..OF THE OIL AS A OIL EXCAVATORS AS A INC. NOT BUT TOO IN THE OPEC TRYING TO POSE AS A WE AS A USA AS A INTERVENES AS A STRIVES AS A WE AS A SAVED WERE.

 

TO BRING UP WORLD AS A TRADE AS A TRY AS A WERE OF THE TWO ONLY SO FAR. ONE WERE A OF THE WE=M.S.KOHLII AS A EXPRESSION WE AS A U.N. GOD IDENTIFIED BY THE WORLD IN ALL.THE OTHER WE'SASS AS A FOLLOWERS AS A USA AS A OUR CHILD.NO THEREAFTER EFFORT WERE AS A TRADE BUILDERS.WE TWO TRIED TO BRING UP A WORLD .IT WERE TRIED AS A A.S. BRAR GROUP AS A LISTED BY THEN AS A ASSERS AS A SINNERS AS A GIVEN A CLEAN CHIT AS A SEX ASSAULTS UNDER BEFORE LIVING HUSBANDS WEEPING CAUGHT BY SOME THEY FORCE ENTER INTO THE HOUSE AS A SEVEN AS A SEEN BY NONE AS A WHO SAYS-----------WE SAW WE AS A SOLE LANDOWNER INDIA AS A D.I.S.KOHLI TOO REPORTED AS A SAY IN THE WE TOO REPORTED SOON TO BE TOLD IT WERE WE WHO WERE THE FIRST SO BE SLAUGHTERED IN THE CHOWK=CROSSINGS OF THE STREET SELECT AS A WE TO SAY IN THE THEY BY WERE THE D.I.S. AS A SMART GUY.DITCHING THE ASS HIS FORCER AS A ASSERS AS A STARTS AS A WE AS A JAGJIT SINGH ANAND AS A WE AS A GOT MADE A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT AS A WISER THAN HE BY THE TEN THOUSAND MILLIONS OF TIMES AS A GURUS TEN TOO TO HE AS A WE AS A MOTHER SHRI K.K.KOHLI INTRODUCED WE IN THE VERY BEGINING AS A GHOSTS AS A WE AS A SAN. AS THIRD AUTHOR AS A GURU GRANTH SAHIB OF THE SIKH.A BOOK DICTATED BY WE THE GOD THROUGH HE WE AS A POLATIONS FEW BUT TAKABLE AS A WE AS A APPEARING TOO IN THE WE AS A STARTED GOT WORK AS A JUDGE AS A WE AS A CORRECT NOT AS A POLATE IN GIVING HE FIRST AUTHORSHIP IN THE AGAINST HIS FATHER AS A WE AS.WE SAW IT AS A WE AS A MATTERS AS A CHALLENGED AS A WE AS A SIKH ALL NOT BUT SO SAID AS A ASSERS AS A SEWS AS A SOME IN THE THEY THE DACOITY.

 

HE WE SAW A STRATEGY TOO IN THE WE HE AS A WE AS A SEAS AS.

 

LUSH LUSH ALL EARTH BE AS A TRY AS A WE AS A SARDAR AS A WE AS A WERE THERE WE AS A SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME ON ANY EARTH IN THE COSMOS.

 

WE ARE VERY SAD HIS VERY NAME WERE REMOVED AS A SARDI AS A WAVES AS A CHARDI HUI AS A WE AS A ASSER AS A A.S. BRAR AS A DIL KA DARD BHI AS A WE AS A ASSERS AS A CONSTANT AS A WE AS A GOVERNMENT OF THE COSMOS BY WAS.

given to me on my birthday yesterday (18th Mar).

Made with soft dough. :-)

definitely the most delicious cake i had in my life.

Tana Toraja Regency (Indonesian for Torajaland or Land of the Toraja, abbreviated Tator) is a regency (kabupaten) of South Sulawesi Province of Indonesia, and home to the Toraja ethnic group. The local government seat is in Makale, while the center of Toraja culture is in Rantepao. But now, Tana Toraja has been divided to two regencies that consist of Tana Toraja with its capital at Makale and North toraja with its capital at Rantepao.

 

The Tana Toraja boundary was determined by the Dutch East Indies government in 1909. In 1926, Tana Toraja was under the administration of Bugis state, Luwu. The regentschap (or regency) status was given on 8 October 1946, the last regency given by the Dutch. Since 1984, Tana Toraja has been named as the second tourist destination after Bali by the Ministry of Tourism, Indonesia. Since then, hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors have visited this regency. In addition, numerous Western anthropologists have come to Tana Toraja to study the indigenous culture and people of Toraja.

 

GEOGRAPHY

Tana Toraja is centrally placed in the island of Sulawesi, 300 km north of Makassar, the provincial capital of South Sulawesi. It lies between latitude of 2°-3° South and longitude 119°-120° East (center: 3°S 120°ECoordinates: 3°S 120°E). The total area (since the separation of the new regency of North Toraja) is 2,054.30 km², about 4.4% of the total area of South Sulawesi province. The topography of Tana Toraja is mountainous; its minimum elevation is 150 m, while the maximum is 3,083 above the sea level.

 

ADMINISTRATION

Tana Toraja Regency in 2010 comprised nineteen administrative Districts (Kecamatan), tabulated below with their 2010 Census population.

 

The Torajans are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the regency of Tana Toraja ("Land of Toraja").[1] Most of the population is Christian, and others are Muslim or have local animist beliefs known as aluk ("the way"). The Indonesian government has recognised this animistic belief as Aluk To Dolo ("Way of the Ancestors").

 

The word Toraja comes from the Buginese language term to riaja, meaning "people of the uplands". The Dutch colonial government named the people Toraja in 1909. Torajans are renowned for their elaborate funeral rites, burial sites carved into rocky cliffs, massive peaked-roof traditional houses known as tongkonan, and colourful wood carvings. Toraja funeral rites are important social events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several days.

 

Before the 20th century, Torajans lived in autonomous villages, where they practised animism and were relatively untouched by the outside world. In the early 1900s, Dutch missionaries first worked to convert Torajan highlanders to Christianity. When the Tana Toraja regency was further opened to the outside world in the 1970s, it became an icon of tourism in Indonesia: it was exploited by tourism development and studied by anthropologists. By the 1990s, when tourism peaked, Toraja society had changed significantly, from an agrarian model—in which social life and customs were outgrowths of the Aluk To Dolo—to a largely Christian society. Today, tourism and remittances from migrant Torajans have made for major changes in the Toraja highland, giving the Toraja a celebrity status within Indonesia and enhancing Toraja ethnic group pride.

 

ETHNIC IDENTITY

The Torajan people had little notion of themselves as a distinct ethnic group before the 20th century. Before Dutch colonisation and Christianisation, Torajans, who lived in highland areas, identified with their villages and did not share a broad sense of identity. Although complexes of rituals created linkages between highland villages, there were variations in dialects, differences in social hierarchies, and an array of ritual practices in the Sulawesi highland region. "Toraja" (from the coastal languages' to, meaning people; and riaja, uplands) was first used as a lowlander expression for highlanders. As a result, "Toraja" initially had more currency with outsiders—such as the Bugis and Makassarese, who constitute a majority of the lowland of Sulawesi—than with insiders. The Dutch missionaries' presence in the highlands gave rise to the Toraja ethnic consciousness in the Sa'dan Toraja region, and this shared identity grew with the rise of tourism in the Tana Toraja Regency. Since then, South Sulawesi has four main ethnic groups—the Bugis (the majority, including shipbuilders and seafarers), the Makassarese (lowland traders and seafarers), the Mandarese (traders and fishermen), and the Toraja (highland rice cultivators).

 

HISTORY

From the 17th century, the Dutch established trade and political control on Sulawesi through the Dutch East Indies Company. Over two centuries, they ignored the mountainous area in the central Sulawesi, where Torajans lived, because access was difficult and it had little productive agricultural land. In the late 19th century, the Dutch became increasingly concerned about the spread of Islam in the south of Sulawesi, especially among the Makassarese and Bugis peoples. The Dutch saw the animist highlanders as potential Christians. In the 1920s, the Reformed Missionary Alliance of the Dutch Reformed Church began missionary work aided by the Dutch colonial government. In addition to introducing Christianity, the Dutch abolished slavery and imposed local taxes. A line was drawn around the Sa'dan area and called Tana Toraja ("the land of Toraja"). Tana Toraja was first a subdivision of the Luwu kingdom that had claimed the area. In 1946, the Dutch granted Tana Toraja a regentschap, and it was recognised in 1957 as one of the regencies of Indonesia.

 

Early Dutch missionaries faced strong opposition among Torajans, especially among the elite, because the abolition of their profitable slave trade had angered them. Some Torajans were forcibly relocated to the lowlands by the Dutch, where they could be more easily controlled. Taxes were kept high, undermining the wealth of the elites. Ultimately, the Dutch influence did not subdue Torajan culture, and only a few Torajans were converted. In 1950, only 10% of the population had converted to Christianity.

 

In the 1930s, Muslim lowlanders attacked the Torajans, resulting in widespread Christian conversion among those who sought to align themselves with the Dutch for political protection and to form a movement against the Bugis and Makassarese Muslims. Between 1951 and 1965 (following Indonesian independence), southern Sulawesi faced a turbulent period as the Darul Islam separatist movement fought for an Islamic state in Sulawesi. The 15 years of guerrilla warfare led to massive conversions to Christianity.

 

Alignment with the Indonesian government, however, did not guarantee safety for the Torajans. In 1965, a presidential decree required every Indonesian citizen to belong to one of five officially recognised religions: Islam, Christianity (Protestantism and Catholicism), Hinduism, or Buddhism. The Torajan religious belief (aluk) was not legally recognised, and the Torajans raised their voices against the law. To make aluk accord with the law, it had to be accepted as part of one of the official religions. In 1969, Aluk To Dolo ("the way of ancestors") was legalised as a sect of Agama Hindu Dharma, the official name of Hinduism in Indonesia.

 

SOCIETY

There are three main types of affiliation in Toraja society: family, class and religion.

 

FAMILY AFFILIATION

Family is the primary social and political grouping in Torajan society. Each village is one extended family, the seat of which is the tongkonan, a traditional Torajan house. Each tongkonan has a name, which becomes the name of the village. The familial dons maintain village unity. Marriage between distant cousins (fourth cousins and beyond) is a common practice that strengthens kinship. Toraja society prohibits marriage between close cousins (up to and including the third cousin)—except for nobles, to prevent the dispersal of property. Kinship is actively reciprocal, meaning that the extended family helps each other farm, share buffalo rituals, and pay off debts.

 

Each person belongs to both the mother's and the father's families, the only bilateral family line in Indonesia. Children, therefore, inherit household affiliation from both mother and father, including land and even family debts. Children's names are given on the basis of kinship, and are usually chosen after dead relatives. Names of aunts, uncles and cousins are commonly referred to in the names of mothers, fathers and siblings.

 

Before the start of the formal administration of Toraja villages by the Tana Toraja Regency, each Toraja village was autonomous. In a more complex situation, in which one Toraja family could not handle their problems alone, several villages formed a group; sometimes, villages would unite against other villages. Relationship between families was expressed through blood, marriage, and shared ancestral houses (tongkonan), practically signed by the exchange of water buffalo and pigs on ritual occasions. Such exchanges not only built political and cultural ties between families but defined each person's place in a social hierarchy: who poured palm wine, who wrapped a corpse and prepared offerings, where each person could or could not sit, what dishes should be used or avoided, and even what piece of meat constituted one's share.

 

CLASS AFFILIATION

In early Toraja society, family relationships were tied closely to social class. There were three strata: nobles, commoners, and slaves (slavery was abolished in 1909 by the Dutch East Indies government). Class was inherited through the mother. It was taboo, therefore, to marry "down" with a woman of lower class. On the other hand, marrying a woman of higher class could improve the status of the next generation. The nobility's condescending attitude toward the commoners is still maintained today for reasons of family prestige.

 

Nobles, who were believed to be direct descendants of the descended person from heaven, lived in tongkonans, while commoners lived in less lavish houses (bamboo shacks called banua). Slaves lived in small huts, which had to be built around their owner's tongkonan. Commoners might marry anyone, but nobles preferred to marry in-family to maintain their status. Sometimes nobles married Bugis or Makassarese nobles. Commoners and slaves were prohibited from having death feasts. Despite close kinship and status inheritance, there was some social mobility, as marriage or change in wealth could affect an individuals status. Wealth was counted by the ownership of water buffaloes.

 

Slaves in Toraja society were family property. Sometimes Torajans decided to become slaves when they incurred a debt, pledging to work as payment. Slaves could be taken during wars, and slave trading was common. Slaves could buy their freedom, but their children still inherited slave status. Slaves were prohibited from wearing bronze or gold, carving their houses, eating from the same dishes as their owners, or having sex with free women—a crime punishable by death.

 

RELIGIOUS AFFILATION

Toraja's indigenous belief system is polytheistic animism, called aluk, or "the way" (sometimes translated as "the law"). In the Toraja myth, the ancestors of Torajan people came down from heaven using stairs, which were then used by the Torajans as a communication medium with Puang Matua, the Creator. The cosmos, according to aluk, is divided into the upper world (heaven), the world of man (earth), and the underworld. At first, heaven and earth were married, then there was a darkness, a separation, and finally the light. Animals live in the underworld, which is represented by rectangular space enclosed by pillars, the earth is for mankind, and the heaven world is located above, covered with a saddle-shaped roof. Other Toraja gods include Pong Banggai di Rante (god of Earth), Indo' Ongon-Ongon (a goddess who can cause earthquakes), Pong Lalondong (god of death), and Indo' Belo Tumbang (goddess of medicine); there are many more.

 

The earthly authority, whose words and actions should be cleaved to both in life (agriculture) and death (funerals), is called to minaa (an aluk priest). Aluk is not just a belief system; it is a combination of law, religion, and habit. Aluk governs social life, agricultural practices, and ancestral rituals. The details of aluk may vary from one village to another. One common law is the requirement that death and life rituals be separated. Torajans believe that performing death rituals might ruin their corpses if combined with life rituals. The two rituals are equally important. During the time of the Dutch missionaries, Christian Torajans were prohibited from attending or performing life rituals, but were allowed to perform death rituals. Consequently, Toraja's death rituals are still practised today, while life rituals have diminished.

 

CULTURE

TONGKONAN

Tongkonan are the traditional Torajan ancestral houses. They stand high on wooden piles, topped with a layered split-bamboo roof shaped in a sweeping curved arc, and they are incised with red, black, and yellow detailed wood carvings on the exterior walls. The word "tongkonan" comes from the Torajan tongkon ("to sit").

 

Tongkonan are the center of Torajan social life. The rituals associated with the tongkonan are important expressions of Torajan spiritual life, and therefore all family members are impelled to participate, because symbolically the tongkonan represents links to their ancestors and to living and future kin. According to Torajan myth, the first tongkonan was built in heaven on four poles, with a roof made of Indian cloth. When the first Torajan ancestor descended to earth, he imitated the house and held a large ceremony.

 

The construction of a tongkonan is laborious work and is usually done with the help of the extended family. There are three types of tongkonan. The tongkonan layuk is the house of the highest authority, used as the "center of government". The tongkonan pekamberan belongs to the family members who have some authority in local traditions. Ordinary family members reside in the tongkonan batu. The exclusivity to the nobility of the tongkonan is diminishing as many Torajan commoners find lucrative employment in other parts of Indonesia. As they send back money to their families, they enable the construction of larger tongkonan.

 

Architecture in the style of a tongkonan is still very common. Various administration buildings were built in this style in recent years, e.g. the Kecamatan building in Rantepao.

 

WOOD CARVINGS

To express social and religious concepts, Torajans carve wood, calling it Pa'ssura (or "the writing"). Wood carvings are therefore Toraja's cultural manifestation.

 

Each carving receives a special name, and common motifs are animals and plants that symbolise some virtue. For example, water plants and animals, such as crabs, tadpoles and water weeds, are commonly found to symbolise fertility. In some areas noble elders claim these symbols refer to strength of noble family, but not everyone agrees. The overall meaning of groups of carved motifs on houses remains debated and tourism has further complicated these debates because some feel a uniform explanation must be presented to tourists. Torajan wood carvings are composed of numerous square panels, each of which can represent various things, for example buffaloes as a wish of wealth for the family; a knot and a box, symbolizing the hope that all of the family's offspring will be happy and live in harmony; aquatic animals, indicating the need for fast and hard work, just like moving on the surface of water.

 

Regularity and order are common features in Toraja wood carving (see table below), as well as abstracts and geometrical designs. Nature is frequently used as the basis of Toraja's ornaments, because nature is full of abstractions and geometries with regularities and ordering. Toraja's ornaments have been studied in ethnomathematics to reveal their mathematical structure, but Torajans base this art only on approximations. To create an ornament, bamboo sticks are used as a geometrical tool.

 

FUNERAL RITES

In Toraja society, the funeral ritual is the most elaborate and expensive event. The richer and more powerful the individual, the more expensive is the funeral. In the aluk religion, only nobles have the right to have an extensive death feast. The death feast of a nobleman is usually attended by thousands and lasts for several days. A ceremonial site, called rante, is usually prepared in a large, grassy field where shelters for audiences, rice barns, and other ceremonial funeral structures are specially made by the deceased's family. Flute music, funeral chants, songs and poems, and crying and wailing are traditional Toraja expressions of grief with the exceptions of funerals for young children, and poor, low-status adults.

 

The ceremony is often held weeks, months, or years after the death so that the deceased's family can raise the significant funds needed to cover funeral expenses. Torajans traditionally believe that death is not a sudden, abrupt event, but a gradual process toward Puya (the land of souls, or afterlife). During the waiting period, the body of the deceased is wrapped in several layers of cloth and kept under the tongkonan. The soul of the deceased is thought to linger around the village until the funeral ceremony is completed, after which it begins its journey to Puya.

 

Another component of the ritual is the slaughter of water buffalo. The more powerful the person who died, the more buffalo are slaughtered at the death feast. Buffalo carcasses, including their heads, are usually lined up on a field waiting for their owner, who is in the "sleeping stage". Torajans believe that the deceased will need the buffalo to make the journey and that they will be quicker to arrive at Puya if they have many buffalo. Slaughtering tens of water buffalo and hundreds of pigs using a machete is the climax of the elaborate death feast, with dancing and music and young boys who catch spurting blood in long bamboo tubes. Some of the slaughtered animals are given by guests as "gifts", which are carefully noted because they will be considered debts of the deceased's family. However, a cockfight, known as bulangan londong, is an integral part of the ceremony. As with the sacrifice of the buffalo and the pigs, the cockfight is considered sacred because it involves the spilling of blood on the earth. In particular, the tradition requires the sacrifice of at least three chickens. However, it is common for at least 25 pairs of chickens to be set against each other in the context of the ceremony.

 

There are three methods of burial: the coffin may be laid in a cave or in a carved stone grave, or hung on a cliff. It contains any possessions that the deceased will need in the afterlife. The wealthy are often buried in a stone grave carved out of a rocky cliff. The grave is usually expensive and takes a few months to complete. In some areas, a stone cave may be found that is large enough to accommodate a whole family. A wood-carved effigy, called Tau tau, is usually placed in the cave looking out over the land. The coffin of a baby or child may be hung from ropes on a cliff face or from a tree. This hanging grave usually lasts for years, until the ropes rot and the coffin falls to the ground.

 

In the ritual called Ma'Nene, that takes place each year in August, the bodies of the deceased are exhumed to be washed, groomed and dressed in new clothes. The mummies are then walked around the village.

 

DANNCE AND MUSIC

Torajans perform dances on several occasions, most often during their elaborate funeral ceremonies. They dance to express their grief, and to honour and even cheer the deceased person because he is going to have a long journey in the afterlife. First, a group of men form a circle and sing a monotonous chant throughout the night to honour the deceased (a ritual called Ma'badong). This is considered by many Torajans to be the most important component of the funeral ceremony. On the second funeral day, the Ma'randing warrior dance is performed to praise the courage of the deceased during life. Several men perform the dance with a sword, a large shield made from buffalo skin, a helmet with a buffalo horn, and other ornamentation. The Ma'randing dance precedes a procession in which the deceased is carried from a rice barn to the rante, the site of the funeral ceremony. During the funeral, elder women perform the Ma'katia dance while singing a poetic song and wearing a long feathered costume. The Ma'akatia dance is performed to remind the audience of the generosity and loyalty of the deceased person. After the bloody ceremony of buffalo and pig slaughter, a group of boys and girls clap their hands while performing a cheerful dance called Ma'dondan.

 

As in other agricultural societies, Torajans dance and sing during harvest time. The Ma'bugi dance celebrates the thanksgiving event, and the Ma'gandangi dance is performed while Torajans are pounding rice. There are several war dances, such as the Manimbong dance performed by men, followed by the Ma'dandan dance performed by women. The aluk religion governs when and how Torajans dance. A dance called Ma'bua can be performed only once every 12 years. Ma'bua is a major Toraja ceremony in which priests wear a buffalo head and dance around a sacred tree.

 

A traditional musical instrument of the Toraja is a bamboo flute called a Pa'suling (suling is an Indonesian word for flute). This six-holed flute (not unique to the Toraja) is played at many dances, such as the thanksgiving dance Ma'bondensan, where the flute accompanies a group of shirtless, dancing men with long fingernails. The Toraja have indigenous musical instruments, such as the Pa'pelle (made from palm leaves) and the Pa'karombi (the Torajan version of a jaw harp). The Pa'pelle is played during harvest time and at house inauguration ceremonies.

 

COGENDER VIEWS

Among the Saʼadan (eastern Toraja) in the island of Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia, there are homosexual male toburake tambolang shamans; although among their neighbors the Mamasa (western Toraja) there are instead only heterosexual female toburake shamanesses.

 

LANGUAGE

The ethnic Toraja language is dominant in Tana Toraja with the main language as the Sa'dan Toraja. Although the national Indonesian language is the official language and is spoken in the community, all elementary schools in Tana Toraja teach Toraja language.

 

Language varieties of Toraja, including Kalumpang, Mamasa, Tae, Talondo, Toala, and Toraja-Sa'dan, belong to the Malayo-Polynesian language from the Austronesian family. At the outset, the isolated geographical nature of Tana Toraja formed many dialects between the Toraja languages themselves. After the formal administration of Tana Toraja, some Toraja dialects have been influenced by other languages through the transmigration program, introduced since the colonialism period, and it has been a major factor in the linguistic variety of Toraja languages.

A prominent attribute of Toraja language is the notion of grief. The importance of death ceremony in Toraja culture has characterised their languages to express intricate degrees of grief and mourning. The Toraja language contains many terms referring to sadness, longing, depression, and mental pain. Giving a clear expression of the psychological and physical effect of loss is a catharsis and sometimes lessens the pain of grief itself.

 

ECONOMY

Prior to Suharto's "New Order" administration, the Torajan economy was based on agriculture, with cultivated wet rice in terraced fields on mountain slopes, and supplemental cassava and maize crops. Much time and energy were devoted to raising water buffalo, pigs, and chickens, primarily for ceremonial sacrifices and consumption. Coffee was the first significant cash crop produced in Toraja, and was introduced in the mid 19th century, changing the local economy towards commodity production for external markets and gaining an excellent reputation for quality in the international market.

 

With the commencement of the New Order in 1965, Indonesia's economy developed and opened to foreign investment. In Toraja, a coffee plantation and factory was established by Key Coffee of Japan, and Torajan coffee regained a reputation for quality within the growing international specialty coffee sector Multinational oil and mining companies opened new operations in Indonesia during the 1970s and 1980s. Torajans, particularly younger ones, relocated to work for the foreign companies—to Kalimantan for timber and oil, to Papua for mining, to the cities of Sulawesi and Java, and many went to Malaysia. The out-migration of Torajans was steady until 1985. and has continued since, with remittances sent back by emigre Torajans performing an important role within the contemporary economy.

 

Tourism commenced in Toraja in the 1970s, and accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s. Between 1984 and 1997, a significant number of Torajans obtained their incomes from tourism, working in and owning hotels, as tour guides, drivers, or selling souvenirs. With the rise of political and economic instability in Indonesia in the late 1990s—including religious conflicts elsewhere on Sulawesi—tourism in Tana Toraja has declined dramatically. Toraja continues to be a well known origin for Indonesian coffee, grown by both smallholders and plantation estates, although migration, remittances and off-farm income is considered far more important to most households, even those in rural areas.

 

TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE

Before the 1970s, Toraja was almost unknown to Western tourism. In 1971, about 50 Europeans visited Tana Toraja. In 1972, at least 400 visitors attended the funeral ritual of Puang of Sangalla, the highest-ranking nobleman in Tana Toraja and the so-called "last pure-blooded Toraja noble." The event was documented by National Geographic and broadcast in several European countries. In 1976, about 12,000 tourists visited the regency and in 1981, Torajan sculpture was exhibited in major North American museums. "The land of the heavenly kings of Tana Toraja", as written in the exhibition brochure, embraced the outside world.

 

In 1984, the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism declared Tana Toraja Regency the prima donna of South Sulawesi. Tana Toraja was heralded as "the second stop after Bali". Tourism was increasing dramatically: by 1985, a total number of 150,000 foreigners had visited the Regency (in addition to 80,000 domestic tourists), and the annual number of foreign visitors was recorded at 40,000 in 1989. Souvenir stands appeared in Rantepao, the cultural center of Toraja, roads were sealed at the most-visited tourist sites, new hotels and tourist-oriented restaurants were opened, and an airstrip was opened in the Regency in 1981.

 

Tourism developers have marketed Tana Toraja as an exotic adventure—an area rich in culture and off the beaten track. Western tourists expected to see stone-age villages and pagan funerals. Toraja is for tourists who have gone as far as Bali and are willing to see more of the wild, "untouched" islands. However, they were more likely to see a Torajan wearing a hat and denim, living in a Christian society. Tourists felt that the tongkonan and other Torajan rituals had been preconceived to make profits, and complained that the destination was too commercialised. This has resulted in several clashes between Torajans and tourism developers, whom Torajans see as outsiders.

 

A clash between local Torajan leaders and the South Sulawesi provincial government (as a tourist developer) broke out in 1985. The government designated 18 Toraja villages and burial sites as traditional tourist attractions. Consequently, zoning restrictions were applied to these areas, such that Torajans themselves were barred from changing their tongkonans and burial sites. The plan was opposed by some Torajan leaders, as they felt that their rituals and traditions were being determined by outsiders. As a result, in 1987, the Torajan village of Kété Kesú and several other designated tourist attractions closed their doors to tourists. This closure lasted only a few days, as the villagers found it too difficult to survive without the income from selling souvenirs.

 

Tourism has also transformed Toraja society. Originally, there was a ritual which allowed commoners to marry nobles (puang) and thereby gain nobility for their children. However, the image of Torajan society created for the tourists, often by "lower-ranking" guides, has eroded its traditional strict hierarchy. High status is not as esteemed in Tana Toraja as it once was. Many low-ranking men can declare themselves and their children nobles by gaining enough wealth through work outside the region and then marrying a noble woman.

 

WIKIPEDIA

Asian Heritage Foundation's Jiyo is organizing a 4-day long handicraft and designer’s exhibition at The Ashok, Chanakyapuri. It is also hosting South Asia's first food exhibition named Sanjha Chulha, curated by Dr. Pushpesh Panth to promote the incredible variety of local and regional cuisines of South Asia showcasing the diversity of culinary art.

   

After hovering around the Lotus Bazaar (the handicraft market) for 10-15 minutes, we landed up at the nicely decorated interior of The Audh, one of the best restaurants of The Ashok, for an interaction session with chef Rajan Loomba.

   

Rajan Loomba, senior executive chef of The Ashok, who has been attached to the hotel for a very long time, explained how culinary arts have evolved rapidly in recent years. "Eating out was a rare thing in our boyhood. Wedding parties were perhaps the only means of eating out at that time", Chef Loomba continued, "Now a days the growing usage of mobile phones and internet has given a boom to this industry. Growing number of foodies and food blogging websites are also playing a enormous role here." Then moving on to the concept of Sanjha Chulha, which literarily means Community Kitchen, Chef clarified that despite political barriers how people from SAARC countries are trying to connect through art and culture. This festival is another step towards that. Chef mentioned that once you leave Asia, people hardly recognize cuisine of these 9 countries separately as the basic flavor and spices used are very similar in these places. "Look how people from Bangladesh are selling food in the street using Indian names", Mr. Loomba cited. "Diversity is there, but somehow we are connected somewhere" and this food festival is an attempt to explore that connection. When we asked how they select a few dishes given such a wide range of dishes available in these countries, Chef told that they made a selection from the dishes they can make using the available resources on the basis of feedback received over several buffet parties. They got a huge help from embassies to stitch together recipes and make them even better. Here Mr. Loomba shared a beautiful memory about how they got one of their very special dishes Irani Raita, a usual Raita with raisins, honey and peeled cucumber skin from Late Usha Narayanan, wife of 10th President of India, Late K.R. Narayanan.

   

Meantime we got to taste a few dishes: Mutton Kebab, Momo, Murg Rihana, Anda Keema Kaleji, Afgani Shorba, Coconut Naan, Rice, Haleem etc. Items were light and tasted good. Chef specially mentioned two dishes: Murg Rihana and Haleem. "Murg Rihanna is a different take on Butter Chicken ", Mr. Loomba continued "and spices of Halim are bought by one delegate from Pakistan". Specialty of the Halim is that they put chicken instead of mutton in it, which is a new concept to me. Coconut Naan along with juicy Shorba (light mutton stew) melted in our mouth. Spice level of all dishes are kept at the minimum level as their usual visitors are very health conscious. As an example Chef mentioned health consciousness of our PM Mr. Modi who wanted cookies without butter and how team of Chefs had a brainstorming session to solve it.

Given all the rumours, I thought I'd go and establish some facts today, starting with a trip to Sunray Travel's depot in Woking, the old Countryliner one.

 

The large group of VOR buses comprised:

1) Dart SLF/Marshall Capital DM43 (V361 DLH).

2) MPD DP35 (T337 TVM).

3) MAN 14.220/East Lancs Myllennium MEM7 (RX53 LFH).

4) MAN 14.220/MCV Evolution MRM2 (AE06 VPZ).

5) MAN 14.220/East Lancs Myllennium MEM11 (MM53 BLU).

6) Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer DP42 (P307 HDP).

7) Mercedes-Benz Sprinter BU04 UTP.

8) MPD DP10 (W921 JNF).

 

In this shot, from left to right, are MRM2 (AE06 VPZ), MEM11 (MM53 BLU) and DP42 (P307 HDP).

 

The depot is off Monument Way East, but the back of it is visible from the canal towpath.

 

Basingstoke Canal towpath, Maybury, Woking, Surrey.

New Milton is a market town in south west Hampshire, England. ( In 1303, Thomas de Chaucombe was given permission to hold a weekly market on Tuesdays at Milton, as well as an annual fair on the feast day of Mary Magdalene. ) The town has a high street and holds a market every Wednesday. Situated on the edge of the New Forest, the town is about six miles ( 10 km ) west of Lymington town centre and 12 miles ( 19 km ) east of Bournemouth town centre. New Milton dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, and encompasses Old Milton, Barton on Sea, Ashley, Bashley, and Wootton. It is recorded as having a population of around 23,000 in 2001. The traditional village centre of Milton was just south of the church. Up to the 1960's, moated earthworks were still visible next to the road known as Moat Lane. Excavations of these earthworks in 1956 revealed a series of peasant enclosures and hut remains dating from the 9th to the 12th century, but no evidence of a manorial farmstead was found.

The parish church of Milton is dedicated to Mary Magdalene and consists of a chancel with vestry, a nave and a western tower. The medieval church was pulled down and replaced around 1830, although the tower is of an earlier 17th century date. In 1835 a Church of England National School was founded on an island of land near the village green, where children were taught until just after World War I. In 1881, the population of the entire Milton parish was only 1489 people, and Milton was still a small village. The location of the village on the main Christchurch to Lymington road ( now the A 337 ) meant that there were two coaching inns - The Wheatsheaf and The George.

In March 1888 New Milton railway station was opened, which is still in operation today. A new town developed, which expanded rapidly with the coming of the railway and the name New Milton was used for the first time and can originally be traced back to the Post Office that stood opposite the railway station. In 1895, the owner of the Post Office, Emma Newhook, commissioned a sign, which read - New Milton Sub Post Office to differentiate it from the post office in Old Milton. This was officially accepted in 1896, and so the name New Milton caught on. Much of the local farmland has been developed, first in the 1960's for commuter housing and again in the 1970's for small industrial / trade units. There is a mix of housing from cottages on the outskirts to more modern, urban housing in the central area.

Milton village subsequently became known as Old Milton, and lies between New Milton and Barton on Sea. There are a few notable architectural points of interest in the local area. However, a distinctive row of Coast Guard Cottages are to be found in Barton Lane, Barton on Sea, which were built at the end of the 19th century by the Government of the day to house armed guards to try to stop the smuggling that was rife at the time. The Barton on Sea and Mudeford coastline was renowned for smuggling with many of the offshore seaways and routes to shore being named after well known local smuggling families. It was in this context that Frederick Marryat, author of The Children of the New Forest, was sent on patrol here as a young naval lieutenant in 1821, to watch over the Christchurch Bay area. Britain's first reinforced concrete bridge was built in 1901 just outside New Milton at Chewton. There was an earlier experiment in building with this material in its un reinforced form at Sway ( Sway Tower ).

New Milton water tower. Built in 1900 was the Tudor style water tower, which can be found adjacent to the car park in Osborne Road. It has a staircase and is constructed with a turret, slit windows and battlements. It is a striking orange - red colour, was built from locally manufactured bricks. The German Luftwaffe carried out bombing raids on New Milton on the 23rd August 1940, the 8th August 1942 and on January 22nd 1943. The town's water tower was suggested as the target. During the Second World War, New Milton homed evacuees and was a transit station for soldiers going to the battlefields. It also had an army hospital. It was a favourite for the airmen who were based at the nearby airfields at Lymington and Holmsley. The Memorial Centre in Whitefield Road commemorates those who died in the raids, as well as towns people who have died more recently. Bricks can be purchased for inscription and insertion into the wall of the Memorial Room, which stands to the left of the front door and contains mementos saved from the original building, which was destroyed by fire in the 1970's.

Ballard Lake that borders Fernhill Lane and Lake Grove Road, in New Milton is a picturesque area of New Milton that you could spend a hot summers day feeding the many ducks, mallards, geese that live around this lake. A few walks branch out from this lake to stroll along. Seats have been sited from donations from residents who have passed away and serve as a reminder to long lost friends or family. The stream from this lake meanders for many miles in many cases forming picturesque walks further along New Milton.

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Given their penchant for using Macs on "the grid" on Spooks, It was really only a matter of time before they used an iPhone or iPod Touch...

I'm always entertained by far-fetched tech on TV shows, and so when I saw this "tool" for cracking a computer's login details, I thought I'd do a version myself!

 

It's just a video, nothing cleverer than that, but the effect is exactly the same!

 

The "Cracker" is available to download from www.dkirkham.com/archives/54

Only by for Austria successful outcome of Ottoman wars in Europe the conditions were given to turn the old Hofburg, which until now was more fortress than imperial residence, into a befitting palace of a powerful dynasty. When Emperor Charles VI in 1711 succeeded to the throne, stood along the Schaufler alley until St. Michael's square yet the old two-story Chancellery Wing from the time of Ferdinand I. It was significantly lower than the Amalien wing and the Leopoldine wing, bordering the Interior Castle courtyard on the southwest and the southeast side. Between the Chancellery Wing and the Swiss courtyard there was a by Daniel Suttinger created Gate construction. In its place erected Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt in 1712 the so-called Carolingian Triumphal Arch but which was as well demolished in 1728 because now they had laid the foundation for a much more representative Chancellery Wing and in 1723 started the construction work. Hildebrandt's plans provided the unification of the entire inner castle but failed in the end due to the immense cost. 1726 he had to cede construction management to in the meantime appointed Court architect Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach. This one let the already finished construction at Schaufler alley remain but put in front of it the splendid late baroque wing at the courtyard side. Fischer too could due to lack of sufficient liquid funds of the Imperial family his ideas which comprehended also the entire castle not fully realize. Work came to a halt in 1735 and was finally discontinued. The St. Michael's gate was only from 1888 after the demolition of the old Hofburg theater finished.

Herakles of Mattielli

In Chancellery wing were until 1806 when Emperor Franz II/I resigned the Roman-German Imperial Crown the central offices of the administration of the Holy Roman Empire housed. This included especially as the most important Imperial authority the Aulic Councel. 1810 lived here the French ambassador Berthier, when he, on behalf of Napoleon, asked for the hand of Maria Louise, the daughter of Francis I. At the time of the Vienna Congress in some rooms of the Imperial Chancellery Wing was housed the king of Bavaria. 1848 served archduke Johann a suite of rooms as an apartment. In the summer of this year, he received in Great Audience Hall a delegation from Frankfurt Imperial Diet, offering him the dignity of a "German Imperial Regent". A few years later the rooms were renovated, refurbished and converted into apartments for the Imperial family. Traditionally, no Austrian Emperor has taken over the apartment of his predecessor. Franz Joseph moved into his apartment in 1857, three years after his marriage, and lived there until his death in 1916. The apartment of his wife Elisabeth was in the neighboring Amalien wing. Today, the Imperial Apartments as well as the recently opened Sisi Museum and the former Court Silver and Table Room can be visited. The latter is dedicated to the culture of courtly household and the court ceremonial.

While the front is not very spectacular in Schaufler alley, turns the five-story face side of the Imperial Chancellery Wing towards the interior courtyard. This one served till the 16th century as a tournament court. In 1561 issued Thurnierbuch (tournament book) is yet of tournaments of the future Emperor Maximilian II reported which this one had held here in June of last year. In the 17th century but here no more tournaments took place but mounted tournaments, as the then popular horse ballet. The long facade facing the courtyard is accented by three only little projecting risalits with portals and balconies (1727/29) and divided by giant pilasters. The design of the façade is already reminiscent of the design language of French classicism. Franz Joseph and Elisabeth got through the Imperor's gate in central projection to their rooms on the first floor. The leading upwards Emperor's stairway has a magnificent stucco marble equipment and is decorated with gilted bronze vases. But it is hardly ever used. Today's visitor entrance to the Imperial Apartments is located beneath the dome of St. Michael's gate. The five windows above the Emperor's gate are preceded by a long balcony which rests on strong consoles. On the attic of the central projection is attached the huge blazon of Emperor Charles VI with the double-headed eagle. It is overtopped by the German imperial crown and surrounded by a golden chain with the Golden Fleece. Flanked is it by two, carrying trumpets genii. Beside the portals of the side projections stand each two sandstone sculptures of Lorenzo Mattielli. They show the deeds of Hercules. On the ground floor were housed until 1918 various court offices, as the Chamber for payments of the Court, the House, Court and State Archives (until 1902) and the Control office of the Court. In the premises of once Imperial linen room was from 1921 to 1987 the Vienna tapestry manufacture whose leading products have been exported throughout the world.

Study of Franz Joseph

Additionally to the living quarters of the Emperor - those of the Empress were in neighboring Amalien wing - belongs to the Imperial Apartments the Guard room where the bodyguards were on sentry duty but most of all the large Audience waiting room and the Audience chamber, where the Emperor, standing at his desk, used to receive his visitors individually. Under Maria Theresa, took place the deliberations of the Imperial, Court and State Councils of the former Imperial Chancellery in Audience waiting room. Unfortunately, this beautiful, decorated in white, red and gold hall was similarly to fairy-tale grotto recently equipped with figurines in the national costume of the individual crown lands in order to document that here waited people from all walks of life and from all provinces of the country for an audience. During his long reign, there were at least more than 250,000. In this room, hang large, many-figured murals (1832) of Biedermeier painter Peter Krafft, showing scenes from the life of Emperor Franz I. From the ceiling hangs a eighty-flammy Bohemian crystal chandelier still dating from the time of Maria Theresa. The originally fitted with candles chandelier of the Imperial apartments were in 1891 electrified. The ornate pottery kilns partly still stem from the 18th century. They were heated externally via the situated behind the rooms heating passage with wood. In the equipment of his private rooms the personal modesty of the emperor is reflected. Unlike his wife, he had not even running water injected. Noteworthy is also the simple iron military bed that served him for decades as a place to sleep. His office, in which he most of the time was yet active from six o'clock in the morning is adorned with numerous photos and paintings of his family. Here hangs also a famous portrait of the Empress by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. The equipment of the 22 official and residential premises of Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth, which today can be visited as Imperial Apartments, stems from several eras: from late Baroque to Rococo and the Empire to the 19th century neo-Baroque. These include also the four rooms of Stephan's apartment which is named after Archduke Stephan Viktor. The former theater corridor which enabled a direct connection to the old Hofburg Theater is walled off today.

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Photograph taken in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada in May 2023 .

 

I was stationed in a seventy year old house I was renting in Campbell Street, Tofino in British Columbia in Canada

  

Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 600mm Shutter speed: 1/1250s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/8.0 iso320 Handheld with Tamron VC Vibration Control enabled Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Natural Light Auto, 0, 0 Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity +1.00)

  

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.

   

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Given their secretive nature, it was a real treat to watch and take shots of this Bullfinch feeding on blossom out in the open earlier this afternoon. He was with at least two others at the time and was happily feeding in branches not far above me. I was actually there to see if I could find any butterflies around the blossom, as it seemed warm enough. I had no luck in the end, but this definitely made the visit to this spot worth paying.

Given the regular use of the South Inch for exercising dogs, I'm presuming this ball-on-a-string was an enthusiastically thrown toy.

Ironically, given the number of clapped-out Atlanteans that MTL Manchester were running into the city, the newest Merseybus Atlantean around was one that they had sold !

 

Merseyside PTE took just one batch of Atlanteans with MCW bodies, in 1978 (they probably hadn't forgiven them for the Metropolitans !), and they had shorter lives with Merseybus than those from other builders. Former 1810 was one of an assortment of Atlanteans to join the South Manchester fleet in 1994 from that source, and was used briefly in the Tame Valley fleet prior to S.M. having their licence granted. It would only run for another year though, and failed to see out 1995.

 

Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, 18/10/94

 

This is a photograph from the Longwood GAA 10KM and 5KM Road Races and Fun Runs 2014 which were held in Longwood Village, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 19th October 2014 at 11:00. This is the fifth year which Longwood GAA have hosted race events. This year's event was an outstanding success with the number of participants doubling over last year's final numbers. There were almost 400 participants in both events with 224 in the 10KM and 166 in the 5KM. In the first three previous years the club had organised a 5KM road race. The events were organised as fundraisers for both the adult and juvenille teams at Longwood GAA club. The event also provided a fundraising opportunity for the local St. Vincent de Paul charity. Overall the whole day was a great success with the hard work put in by the organising committee ensuring that participants enjoyed their race experience. Both routes were accurately measured, kilometer points clearly marked, junctions well stewarded, and electronic timing provided. The event provided many local runners, joggers, fun runners and walkers with a local event to support whilst at the same time providing runners preparing for events such as the Dublin marathon with an opportunity to race a short, fast, distance in the lead up to marathon day. The GAA club provided excellent stewarding and traffic management all around the course. The race had a professional feel to it and it is sure to grow next year given the very positive feedback from many of the participants today.

 

This is a photograph which is part of a larger set of photographs taken at the event. There were photographs taken at the start of the races and the finishes of both races in Longwood GAA. The full set is available at this link www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157648845224981/

 

Longwood is a small village in South East Co. Meath and is close to the town of Enfield with access to the M4 Motorway.

  

Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2100 with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q

  

Overall Race Summary

Participants: There were about 400 participants over the two events.

Weather: The weather was very breezy but dry. The temperatures around 10C.

5KM Course: The 5KM started in Longwood village. Runners then took a left turn in the Village down St. Oliver's Road. This straight section of road brings runners to a left turn onto a very well maintained boreen road for less than one kilometer. The race then emerges and joins with the 10KM at Stoneyford where the runners take a left and then another left before arriving back at the finish line in Longwood GAA club. Overall this is a very fast and flat 5KM with no hills to speak of.

 

10KM Course: The 10KM event begins in Longwood Village outside Stoney's Pub (goo.gl/maps/Of4fW) and proceeds westward out of the village. There are some interesting points along this part of the course. At the 2KM point the runners will run under the double bridges - an aquaduct for the Royal Canal and a bridge carrying the Dublin Sligo Railway line. The race then enters county Kildare just before the 3km and after taking a right turn at the four-cross roads known locally as Lally's Cross it returns to County Meath on top of the River Boyne Bridge (Ashfield Bridge) which forms the county boundary. The race follows a straight road for the next 2KM until runners encounter Blackshade bridge which is the toughest climb on the route. As a point of interest Blackshade bridge brings runners back over the Royal Canal and the Railway line. The race then crosses the River Boyne again at Stoneyford before taking a right which will bring runners on a testing two kilometer stretch with some short hills. The 10KM course then joins with the 5Km course for the final 1.5KM back to Longwood GAA club for the finish.

 

Location Map: Longwood GAA club (Race Finish and Race Head Quarters - goo.gl/maps/4a8iQ Google StreetView)

 

Joining point of the two courses (Google Streetview goo.gl/maps/ICUvs)

 

Some Useful Links

 

RESULTS 2014: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2253

www.facebook.com/longwoodroadrace?fref=ts (may require Facebook logon)

Longwood GAA Facebook: www.facebook.com/longwoodgaa (may require Facebook logon)

 

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157636477484093/

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157631820426332/

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627782257481/

Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157625058772687/

 

Garmin GPS Trace for the 5KM Event in 2013: connect.garmin.com/player/238527691

Garmin GPS Trace for the 10KM Event in 2013: connect.garmin.com/activity/387453099

  

Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?

 

Yes - of course you can! Flickr provides several ways to share this and other photographs in this Flickr set. You can share to: email, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, LiveJournal, and Wordpress and Blogger blog sites. Your mobile, tablet, or desktop device will also offer you several different options for sharing this photo page on your social media outlets.

 

We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. Our only "cost" is our request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us.

 

This also extends the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.

 

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Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.

 

In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting does take a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.

 

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Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.

 

We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs

We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?

The explaination is very simple.

Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.

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Creative Commons aims to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

 

I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?

 

As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:

 

     ►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera

     ►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set

     ►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone

     ►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!

  

You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.

 

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That's OK! We understand!

 

If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.

 

I want to tell people about these great photographs!

Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets

 

And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky

A human being that was given to fly

 

High.. flying

  

-Pearl Jam- / -Given to Fly-

"Markirya" is a name often given to our longest Quenya text from Tolkien's hand. Il is a highly transformed version of poems written in Qenya tens of years before. These bear the title of Oilima Markirya "The Last Ark" ; the last form presented here has no title. The word oilima does not seem to be valid any longer at that stage, in its stead métima is found; on the other hand Markirya is made of the elements mar "dwelling, home" and cirya "ship" well attested in Quenya, and so could be valid even at that time; consequently this poem is often called "Markirya", an apocryphal but convenient title. There are two versions; the second was published as an addition to the essay A Secret Vice in the collection The Monsters and the Critics, with the differences of the first version, Tolkien's last corrections and a glossary.

 

Here we give the second version with Tolkien's ultimate corrections. We edited the spelling to adapt it to the uses of The Lord of the Rings, save the diaeresis that we utterly removed (it is but a purely graphic sign to help English speakers to get a correct pronunciation). We adopted the usual correction in the first line of men into man and fáne into fána: crosschecking with other Quenya sources allows to make sure these are indeed typographical errors. The English version was reconstituted by Édouard Kloczko after Tolkien's translation of the first Quenya version and the vocabulary of the glossary.