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New election poster by the incumbent Governor Apirak Kosayodhin (อภิรักษ์ โกษะโยธิน) of the Democrat Party. It makes him look very statesman-like.
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The Queen arrived in Norfolk after making a special pilgrimage ahead of the 70th anniversary of her father's death while staying at Prince Philips' beloved Wood Farm country home for the first time without him.
The 95-year-old monarch usually spends the festive period at Sandringham, but she has remained at Windsor Castle since the autumn as a covid precaution and she held silent Christmas celebrations with close family last month.
However, in preparation for her father George VI's birthday in 1952, the Queen made a special helicopter trip followed by a short drive to Norfolk.
A source told the Mail on Sunday: "Everything is getting in order for the Queen's visit.
"We've been told that she will be staying at Wood Farm, rather than the main house, which is good, as she always had a special place in her heart."
The Queen has stayed in the cottage before, but it will be the first time since Philip died in April last year.
The last time she visited the estate was in early November and normally she would have spent the weekend after Halloween at Sandringham with Philip and she didn't want to miss out.
However, just a week later, aides at Buckingham Palace were forced to announce that it was "with a heavy heart" that the Queen would be unable to attend the Remembrance Sunday parade at the Cenotaph due to a "back sprain".
This is Tapout. I rescued him from the side of the highway today along with a standard poodle. There was a four month old pap puppy, but a highway worker took him. Little did I know, my mother grooms the standard poodle. His name is Bobo and he is a rescue. He got away, along with Tapout and the puppy, from his trainer who breeds and shows papillons in AKC. Not only did I know the poodle, the pap handler is friends with two border collie people that my boss shows for. So, what a small world! We are going to get a male pap pup from the woman as well!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
on a sunny Sunday afternoon, my girlfriend and I along with your sister we left something out there taking pictures, I like this treatment, reminds me a little tumblr or whatever, is just different.
Worku was playing disc golf at one of the local parks. When I saw him he had just made a very nice shot as he was below the basket in a sunken area and made a nice throw right in to the chains. As he walked to the next part of the course I caught up with him and told him about the project. He thought it was pretty cool and agreed. Worku is from Ethiopia. He's lived in the States for about 16 years and in Colorado Springs about as long as myself. He's only been playing disc golf (he said it was also called Frolf) for about a year. I passed my information so Worku could find his photo. If he does I have to thank him again for his patience with me. I for some reason had a mental block with his name but I finally got it after a couple of tries. Thanks for your portrait Worku!
This picture is #47 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
GST day at Flitton Moor removing Himalayan Balsam 18/7/2017 TL0536
Subject: Next Tuesday's Task
Hi All,
I hope you’ve all stopped itching from the nettle stings on Tuesday!
Next Week’s task will be balsam pulling downstream from Flitton Moor and will be led by Andrew (his last day). The site is accessible from Flitton Moor, so meet at the barn at Flitton Moor at 10am (map attached).
The good news is that there are nowhere near as many nettles as at Sandy Smith but there is plenty of balsam and it’s along steep-sided river/ditch banks and the only way to deal with it will be to get in! Fortunately, the water doesn’t look too deep!
Andrew will bring waders to the task but it might be a good idea if everyone could bring wellies – there might be some areas where wellies might be better than cumbersome waders.
There will also be some brush-cutting.
Regards,
Tim
Hello balsam pullers
A thank you from us to whoever removed the doggy doo doo bag on our behalf. We lost track of it when the bags were moved downstream and then forgot to look for it as we left. It wasn't there when Baz went back for it this evening so we must presume a kindly soul disposed of it on our behalf.
The list of emails above is a bit thin - people certainly on task but we don't have emails for them all, e.g. Barbara & Derek. Please forward to anyone you see is missing from our list.
See you soon
Jane & Baz (irresponsible dog minders)
Hi Jane & Baz & fellow Voles
Lola's bag was there when I came back to get my water/tea.
Anyway what a day, even though the gang finished earlier than usual it was just as well. It was boiling hot and very sticky. You were all a bit smelly too but you were magnificent in victory. I shall not forget Jim's giant leap and wrestle with several big stands of HB across a ditch filled mainly with un-fathomed amounts of ooze covered by a layer of Equisetum (Horsetail) or hearing about Jim's vanishing into another pool where they had to call the RNLI to drag him ashore. Or the happy look on Merv's face relating the joy of submerging into the same primordiall ooze or Dave & others who gallantly waded from Flitton Bridge toend of the track. Then there was Maryla, determined to get her full wack of HB in the 1&1/2 hours available to he, roped on a very steep bank grabbing each plant with a wicked glee, take that you naughty naughty HB you. Well you get my drift, the Voles were down and dirty but unbowed.
A bit of the atmosphere in my snaps at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Sadly we had to say farewell to Andrew who has moved on to pastures drier than Flitton Moor.
Take care & see you next week?
JP (Pitzy)
I noticed him on our deck just outside the glass doors at our pond. He was almost 3 feet long. I was amazed how close he let me get. This was close enough for me. They have a viscous bite which injects an anti-coagulant to insure that you bleed profusely. No thanks!
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Another shot in the garden over my deceased neighbour. I miss him, he was a part of our experience here. There's not much interest in the house and the realtor apparently doesn't give a shit, because the garden is now overgrown. I know, that happens almost overnight in spring, but still. I don't mind, because I like overgrown gardens, many people sneak in for free flowers and my cats have a blast. But it's odd.
On a different note - I have a new camera. It's not a recent model, but a new version with improved specs. And I'm sad to say I really dislike it. It came highly recommended and it was very expensive, so at least from a technical perspective, it must be me. But in other areas, I can confidently say it isn't me.
I can NOT believe how behind the times Sony is. I had no idea companies like this still existed - they might keep up with technology, but they have no idea how to present themselves. Their website, especially the support pages, is cringeworthy. It's very messy, old-fashioned, not easy to navigate, far from sleek. Same thing with the menus on the camera - the language is so bad it's hard to follow and it looks so cluttered and cheap.
Also, it's not intuitive at all. I had to spend ten minutes finding out how to set the camera to self-timer. I shit you not. And mind you - that information was not in the regular manual and the advanced manual is not readily available. When you go to the product page, where all the manuals, instructions, warranty documents etc. are supposed to be, there's only the regular manual with only the most basic of instructions (and not about taking photos, only about battery, where to find the parts and buttons, etc.). I could not find it anywhere when searching the Sony website, until I googled it and found it in some faraway corner.
Also, Sony is very rigid and not customer friendly. There's a cash back promotion ongoing, and for that, you literally have to cut up the box. You have to fill in a hard copy form and you have send that via snail mail with the original barcode attached, which means a big chunk of brand new box is gone, meaning I could never return it, it looks bad if I ever want to sell it, etc. I made many suggestions to them on how I could prove to them it's not fraudulent (photo along with my passport, accompanied by the original receipt with shop owner signature, etc.), but they wouldn't budge. I mean... GUYS! It's 2018!
Admittedly, I've only shot in intelligent auto mode, but I'm very disappointed. Even without any manual adjustments, shots should be better if they're taken with a EUR 1100 camera. It might be my unfamiliarity with the camera, but holy shit, I hope it improves.
I also hope I'll never have to deal with Sony much because they need to be ashamed of themselves. Again, I'm sure the technical side of things is good, but I feel their communication will only suit people over 60 that have a discoloured computer with Windows 98 and a digital desktop as full as their physical desktop. Ugh.
O.k., o.k., end of rant. I'll try to do some homework to familiarize myself with the camera, because I'm almost in a panic because I'm leaving for Scotland in a little over a week.
American postcard by Fotofolio, NY, NY, no. HR72. Photo: Herb Ritts. Caption: Anjelica Huston, Visalia, 1990.
Herb Ritts (1952-2002) was an American photographer and director known for his photographs of actors, models, and other celebrities throughout the 1980s and 1990s. His work concentrated on black and white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture, which emphasized the human shape.
Herbert Ritts Jr. was born in 1952 in Brentwood, Los Angeles. His father, Herb Ritts Sr. (née Rittigstein), was a furniture designer, and his mother, Shirley Ritts (née Roos), was an interior designer. Together, their furniture business helped to popularise rattan furniture in the 1950s and 1960s. Raised in an affluent Jewish family, he and his three younger siblings lived next door to actor Steve McQueen, whom he considered to be "like a second father". At his bar mitzvah, his father gifted him with a Kodak Brownie camera. He attended Palisades High School and moved to upstate New York in 1972 to study at Bard College, where he received a degree in economics with a minor in art history. Upon graduation in 1974 or 1975 (sources differ), he moved back to California to work as a sales representative in the family business, Ritts Co. Herb bought his first camera for a vacation in 1976, a 35mm Miranda DX-3. In 1978, while living in Los Angeles, he became interested in photography when he and buddy Richard Gere went for a ride in the California desert. A tire blew somewhere near San Bernardino. To kill time while in a local garage getting the car fixed, Ritts started shooting Gere with his camera. In his white tank top, with long hair and cigarette dangling, Gere could have been a mechanic. A few months later, with three film roles quickly making him famous, Gere’s publicist asked for the pictures. The garage photos appeared in several magazines throughout Europe and the U.S., including Mademoiselle, Vogue and Esquire, which ran them under the headline 'The Beefcake Boys'. Ritts, then 27, was suddenly a published portrait photographer. His first assignment was for Italian Harper's Bazaar. Ritts enlisted his roommate, a successful model named Matt Collins, for the shoot. The pair spent two days in the diffuse natural light beneath the Santa Monica Pier photographing the clothes, and the pictures were published. Collins also introduced Ritts to photographer Bruce Weber. Weber helped Ritts with contacts at fashion magazines and became Ritts’ mentor. In 1981, he photographed Brooke Shields for a cover of Elle, and he photographed Olivia Newton-John for her 'Physical' album. Five years later, he replicated that cover pose with Madonna for her release, 'True Blue' (1986). That year, he photographed Tina Turner for the album 'Break Every Rule'. Bill Sharpsteen in Los Angeles Times: "His mostly black-and-white portraits of the glorified among us are shot with a facile eye for simplicity and style. They often are deceptively casual, sometimes ironic, stripped bare of backgrounds and occasionally clothes. They look like lucky shots of our friends on a good day, without the outlandish staging of David LaChapelle or the edginess of Annie Leibovitz. Ritts instead turns the gods and goddesses of the moment into the icons next door".
During the 1980s and 1990s, Herb Ritts photographed celebrities in various locales throughout California. He also took fashion and nude photographs of models Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, and Cindy Crawford. Ritts' work with them ushered in the 1990s era of the supermodel. For Per Lui magazine, he made a spread called 'The Boys of the Body Shop' (1985). Ritts was assigned to photograph men’s raincoats but instead took his models to a gas station at Highland and Willoughby. He dressed them in vintage jeans, overalls and a few chains rented from Western Costumes. The best-known result of this slightly homoerotic tableau was 'Fred With Tires', featuring model Fred Harding holding two Winston tires in his muscular arms. Ritts also worked for Interview, Esquire, Mademoiselle, Glamour, GQ, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar, Rolling Stone, Time, Vogue, Allure, Vanity Fair, Details, and Elle. He made several classic photographs: Julia Roberts in her boyfriend’s skivvies, Madonna clutching her crotch, a cross-dressing Cindy Crawford, a paralysed Christopher Reeve and a post-brain surgery Elizabeth Taylor. He persuaded Madonna to pose with Minnie Mouse ears, and he immortalised Jim Carrey with a mermaid's tail. Ben Sharpsteen: "Ritts also has created remarkable portraits of Ronald Reagan, Tom Cruise, Stephen Hawking, the Dalai Lama and Monica Lewinsky at the height of her fame. They’re lasting, memorable images, and yet some have derided them as mere celebrity posters with no deeper artistic value." Ritts had an exclusive contract with publisher Conde Nast said to be worth about $1 million a year. As a fashion photographer, he worked for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Revlon and Giorgio Armani, earning some $40,000 a day plus another $40,000 or so for usage rights. Film studios such as Paramount and Warner Bros. hired him for movie advertising. Ritts took publicity portraits for the films Batman (Tim Burton, 1989), Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, 1995), and Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher, 1997), which appeared on magazine covers and merchandise. He published books on photography for various fashion designers. From 1996 to 1997, Ritts' work was displayed at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, attracting more than 250,000 people to the exhibit. In 2003, a solo exhibition was held at the Daimaru Museum in Kyoto, Japan. Herb Ritts was openly gay. He was in a relationship with entertainment lawyer Erik Hyman from 1996 until he died in 2002. His parents were accepting and supportive of his sexuality. Ritts was HIV-positive. He was first diagnosed in 1989 and used alternative herbal treatments to fight his condition. He never publicly disclosed his diagnosis. In 2002, Ritts died in Los Angeles from pneumonia at the age of 50. Ritts was HIV-positive, but this particular pneumonia was not PCP (pneumocystis pneumonia), a common opportunistic infection of AIDS, but his immune system was compromised.
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Dự án căn hộ Him Lam Chợ Lớn
có quy mô lớn nhất Quận 6 hiện nay, được chủ đầu tư Him Lam phát triển, đến nay đang vào giao đoạn hoàn thiện, Khi mở bán cho khách hàng sẽ có #canho vào ở ngay,
có quy mô :
- Tổng diện tích của dự án : 4.08 hecta
+ Đất ở: 22.348 m2 (chiếm 54,76%)
+ Đất cây xanh-TDTT: 4.052 m2 (chiếm 9,93%)
+ Đất giao thông vỉa hè: 9.910 m2 (chiếm 24,28%)
+ Đất công trình công cộng: 4.500 m2 (chiếm 11,03%)
- Nhà ở: gồm 1.468 căn toàn bộ là căn hộ chung cư, trong đó:
+ 01 Khối tái định cư lô A: cao 11 tầng, gồm 60 căn hộ với diện tích 63 -68 m2
+ 04 Khối thương mại lô C1, C4, B1, B4: cao 21 tầng, gồm 640 căn hộ với diện tích 98 - 105,5 m2
+ 04 Khối thương mại lô C2, C3, B2, B3: cao 25 tầng, gồm 768 căn hộ với diện tích 98 - 105,5 m2
- Công viên cây xanh – thể dục thể thao: Diện tích 4.052 m2
- Công trình công cộng: Trường tiểu học với diện tích 4.500 m2 cao 3 tầng.
- See more at: Căn hộ Him Lam Quận 6
Fanpage: Him Lam Chợ Lớn
Met him in Button Street near the famous Mathew Street in Liverpool's Cavern Quarter.
He was brill bloke and we chatted for quite a while. He's a 'Roadie' for a band --- which must remain nameless.
Lovely to meet and chat to you Dave. I hope you like your pics, which I'll send to you as promised, as soon as possible.
Shot him at Biker Treff - Bigge Grill, Biggesee/Biggetalsperre Road/Bundesweg L512, Hohenhagen 11, 57439 Attendorn. Distict of Saurland, NRW. Germany. Saturday May 31. 2014.
He was on sale , and I bought him for the demin jacket, for my Action Man, but the AM hands couldn´t go through the sleeves. ( it´s fine for Max Steel) The pants are a bit too short for Ken, they fit if he wears them low rise. The shoes are also a bit short for Ken, a part of his feet stand out of the shoe. The T shirt fits both Action Man and Ken, but it says Cody Simpson! This doll went straight to my no use box (both of this articulated feet were broken).
In frame: Mathematik
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Photo by: Patrick Younger @illashootxr
All Rights Reserved - Toronto, ON. Patrick Younger 2018
After taking a nature hike through the Westminster grounds on Aug. 27, the pre-kindergarten class stopped by Mr. O'Neil's office to say hello and learn more about him.
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Don't believe the doctrine of being save will always be saved !
Being saved in Christ doesn't give you the freedom to murder.
Killing your own body is still murder .
Don't take your own life to escape from unbearable suffering and stress.
Other christia denominations speak lightly of suicides commited by Christians.
But let the word of God speak ,not church men that did not follow the scriptures.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
" Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple. ! ~
It's clear and simple words !God will destroy YOU if you destroy your body as temple made for you ! Leave God in His time to take the temple /your body and life away ,not you !The devil has a counterfeit doctrine to propagate sugar coated lies ,never believe it ,rather check it against
what the word of God says.
1 Corinthians 6 :19
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
Hebrews 9:27
"And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
How can you ask forgiveness after you die ,no chance ever. Don't gamble your eternity to foolies of men's doctrines.Don't believe in church doctrines which states people can still pray for your salvation after your die.No ,it's absolutely wrong .Many are lead to eternal damnation to hell following this doctrine that could never be found within the Bible .After you die,that's it for you !
Matthew 7:21
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
There you go - how clear it is !
Revelations 21:8
"But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars--their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
If we LIE about God's teachings and twist them for our own glory and pride ,we are hold accountable to it!
1 Corinthians 6 :9
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind"
Praying for a dead person isn't right ,as it's over and it's finality of someone.Upon reading the Bible ,I stopped praying for a dead relative ,this was decades ago .You can not pray for his salvation .When someone dies it's all finished .Rather pray for his or her family left behind to cope for the loss.If he or she rejects Jesus' free gift of salvation when alive ,then the word of God itself speaks about the destination of the unbelieving and those who reject Christ.If the person has Christ in his life ,then surely it's an eternal victory going back to God ,where eternal peace and pure joy abides in the habitation of God. Large number of people who had near death experiences of seeing a place they call heaven ,share about seeing unimaginable beauty ,human words could hardly describe the glorious kingdom of of light and of God .
This is the place we should aspire as eternal destiny ,not the eternal torment and unspeakable horror in hell.
Prayers for the dead can not save the someone who's already dead from God's judgement as told in the Bible .So why pray for the dead ?
I did visit my family's graveyard but I don't pray for them - as it is final .The Bible said so. Therefore who on earth even man or your Bishop or a Pastor can say it's NOT ,giving excuses ,unless they are following false doctrine /being a false prophet to lead many astray .
While you are breathing and alive ,this is the chance for salvation
( every ticking minute is vital ) by receiving Jesus Christ as personal saviour and lord in your life and with true repentance at heart.You don't need a big witness of people . You don't need to join a religion .Salvation is a free gift of God and achieved not by your good works .The Holy Bible says good works without Christ are but filthy rugs in the sight of God.
We are justified righteous by God only through Jesus ,who sheed His blood as a sacrificial lamb of God for the redemption of man .
I knew many people can ridicule this message .
But in the mouth of death ,it's hard to ridicule what awaits at eternity.
, when we are faced with "What ifs " .
No one knows for certain when death comes .Death sometimes comes by surprise ,very untimely ,very sudden,like a blink of an eye.
Are we prepared for such moment?
Without Jesus in our lives ,we are lost eternally .
Jesus is the only way the truth and the life ,no one comes to the father except through Jesus ,the sacrificial lamb of God.
Neither the doctrine of Mary worship is acceptable in the eyes of God .
You can not gain salvation through Mary. Mary was only a human vessel used by God and never to be worshiped ,as God is a spirit .
There's no Mary worship commanded in the Bible - no nothing you'll find !Sorry if this can be disappointing . But I'd rather share the truth
that I knew as spoken by sole authority of the Holy Bible ,the Word of God .
Only in the name Jesus ( Yeshua in Hebrew ) where salvation is given.
There's no name given under Heaven except through Yeshua where we get saved.
Romans 3 :23
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God"
There's no exception for all of us are under one umbrella as sinners,and no offense intended ,even the pope included.
We all need a saviour !
JESUS IS OUR SALVATION !
Not until today did I see people playing 'Dress Up' with the sculptures. This version had a digital camera, case, jacket slung over the shoulder in a wild carefree manner, sunglasses, and a hat dangerously raked to one side to show the world he's unique...
The sculpture is part of "Meeting" by Wang Shugang, part of the Vancouver Biennale's Open Air Museum.
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don't want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don't think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won't have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that's the easy thing to do
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian
There's lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I'd feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!
~Words and music by John Rox
performed by Gayla Peevey (1953)
Ok this is Don Kelley - right away when I saw him I knew he was not from Little Rock.
I was right he is from the mountains of Gettysburg, PA. I asked him what he was doing here and he said that his girlfriends sisters husband went to Afghanistan and that they came down here to keep her company. He told me he didn't care much for the city life and preferred the mountains. I totally understand - he also told me that at one point he took up a 5 month internship on a 1500 acre goat farm were part of his duties included cutting cedar trees and tending to the farm. Currently he is a line cook for the club "the Rev Room". He's been with his girlfriend Bekah for 3 years and they have a 2 year old son named Lyric. I thought that was cool - he told me that he was pretty artistic , did dance for 12 years specifically ballet and he has since taken up playing hand drums. I found this very interesting and I asked him what else he did as a hobby, he loves to cook and also does a bit of wood carving. I doubt he stays in Little Rock for long...he doesn't have a car and walks to work each day.
Thank you for being my 11th stranger in my project. When I asked him if I could take his picture he didn't hesitate and said sure, as I was taking test shots and testing the ambient light I asked his name and said, "take my picture first that way I'm a stranger when you take it" I thought that was clever...I'm glad to say we are no longer strangers and it was a pleasure to talk to you Don. Thanks for the portrait.
For this shot I used the rogue flash bender, it was held by his girlfriend, about 7-10 inches from his face. I am able to use it in ETTL mode with my MINI and FLEX, then stopped it down a stop with the AC3 controller. Having an assistant is really nice, thanks Bekah.
This picture is #011 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
"Here reposeth ye most virtuouse, most obliging & charitably good Lady Blanch Napier, married to Sir Nathaniel Napier knight & baronet, 37 years & by him had 13 children. She was one of the daughters of Sir Hugh Wyndham knight, Judge of ye Common Please: She was 53 years old, who languishing under a tediouse sicknes of halfe a year, with great joy & willingness received the fatall stroke from ye cold hand of death ye 1st day of Aprill anno 1695 who carried her from all her sicknes, paines & miserys here belowe, to joys, ease & happiness unspeakable, there to live in ye blest habitation of angels to all eternity. Erected by her deare husband Sir N. Napier 1695"
Blanche was the daughter of Sir Hugh Wyndham 1684 flic.kr/p/CmdWGg by 1st wife Jane daughter of Sir Thomas Wodehouse / Woodhouse 1658 of Kimberley
She m Sir Nathaniel Napier 1708 flic.kr/p/E3DVcN
Children - 5 sons and 4 daughters
1. Elizabeth m (1st wife) John Guise of Rendcomb who m2 Anne Russell www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/R671rd co-heiress of Sir Francis Russell of Strensham www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/R44d8Y
2. Gerard 1689 m Elizabeth Lucy
3. Wyndham 1659-1679
4. Lennox 1665-1689
5. Nathaniel 1669-1728 m1 Jane daughter of Robert Worsley and Mary Herbert flic.kr/p/DygYtH m2 Catherine 1667-1724 daughter of William Lord Alington, Baron of Wimond and Diana daughter of William Russell Duke of Bedford
Picture with thanks - Copyright Basher Eyre CCL
Jaisalmer Fort is one of the largest fortifications in the world. It is situated in the city of Jaisalmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is a World Heritage Site. It was built in 1156 AD by the Rajput ruler Rawal Jaisal (whose son was Shalivahan II. Manj & Bhati Rajputs are the descendants of him.), from whom it derives it name. The fort stands proudly amidst the golden stretches of the great Thar Desert, on Trikuta Hill, and has been the scene of many battles. Its massive yellow sandstone walls are a tawny lion colour during the day, fading to honey-gold as the sun sets, thereby camouflaging the fort in the yellow desert. For this reason, it is also known as the Sonar Quila or Golden Fort. The fort is located in the very heart the city, and is one of the most notable monuments in the locality.
HISTORY
During medieval times, the city played a major role in trade with Persia, Arabia, Egypt and Africa. The fort contains 3 layers of walls. The outer or the lower layer is made out of solid stone blocks and it reinforces the loose rubble of Trikuta Hill. The second, or middle, wall snakes around the fort. From the innermost, or third, wall, the Rajput warriors once hurled boiling oil and water as well as massive blocks of rock at their enemies, who would become entrapped between the second and third walls. This defences of the fort include 99 bastions, of which 92 were built between the period of 1633-47.
Ala-ud-din Khilji attacked and captured the fort in the 13th century and managed to hold it for 9 years. During the siege of the fort the Rajput women committed Jauhar. The second battle at the fort happened in 1541, when Mughal emperor Humayun attacked the fort city.
With the advent of British rule, the emergence of maritime trade and the growth of the port of Bombay led to the gradual economic decline of Jaisalmer. After independence and the Partition of India, the ancient trade route was totally closed, thus sealing the fate of the city. Nonetheless, the continued strategic importance of Jaisalmer was demonstrated during the 1965 and 1971 wars between India and Pakistan. Although at one point the entire population of Jaisalmer lived within the fort, it today has a resident population of about 4,000 people who are largely from the Brahmin and Daroga communities. They are mostly descendants of the workforce of the Bhati rulers of Jaisalmer which was permitted to reside within the fort's premises. With an increase in population, people gradually relocated to the foot of the Trikuta Hill and the town of Jaisalmer spread out from the fort.
MAJOR ATTRACTIONS
Raj Mahal (Royal palace)
Laxminath temple
4 massive gateways
Merchant Havelis. These are large houses often built by wealthy merchants in Rajasthani towns and cities in North India, with beautiful, ornate sandstone carvings. Some havelis are many hundreds of years old. In Jaisalmer there are many elaborate havelis carved from yellow sandstone. Some of these have many floors and countless rooms, with decorated windows, archways, doors and balconies. Some havelis are today museums but most in Jaisalmer are still lived in by the families that built them. Among these is the Vyas haveli which was built in the 15th century, which is still occupied by the descendants of the original builders. Another example is the Shree Nath Palace which was once inhabited by the prime minister of Jaisalmer. Some of the doors and ceilings are wonderful examples of old carved wood from many hundreds of years ago.
The fort has an ingenious drainage system called the ghut nali which allows for the easy drainage of rainwater away from the fort in all four directions of the fort. Over the years, haphazard construction activities and building of new roads has greatly reduced its effectiveness.
The fort has numerous eateries, including Italian, French, and native cuisines. The famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray wrote the Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress), a detective novel, based on the fort and he later filmed it here. The film became a classic and a large number of tourists from Bengal and around the world visit the fort annually to experience for themselves the world that Ray portrayed in the movie.
THREATS TO THE FORT
The Jaisalmer Fort today faces manifold threats that are a result of the increasing population pressure on it. Water seepage, inadequate civic amenities, derelict houses and seismic activity around the Trikuta Hill are some of the major concerns impacting the Fort. Unlike most other forts, the Jaisalmer Fort has been built over a weak sedimentary rock foothill which makes its foundations especially vulnerable to seepage. Over the years this has led to the collapse of significant portions of the Fort such as the Queen’s Palace or Rani Ka Mahal and parts of the outer boundary wall and the lower pitching walls.
The World Monuments Fund included the Fort in its 1996 World Monuments Watch and again in the 1998 and 2000 reports due to the threats posed to it by an increase in its resident population and the increasing numbers of tourists who visit it every year. The Fort is one of Rajasthan's most popular tourist attractions with as many as five to six hundred thousand tourists visiting it annually. As a result, it is abuzz with commercial activities and has seen a phenomenal growth in both human and vehicular traffic.
Major restoration work has been undertaken by the World Monuments Fund and UK based charity Jaisalmer in Jeopardy. According to former INTACH chairman S.K. Misra, American Express has provided more than $1 million for the conservation of Jaisalmer Fort. The absence of coordinated action among the various government departments responsible for civic amenities, the local municipality and the Archaeological Survey that is responsible for the upkeep of the fort is a major impediment in its maintenance and restoration.
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John Gordon Hargrave (6 June 1894 – 21 November 1982), (woodcraft name 'White Fox'), was described in his obituary as an 'author, cartoonist, inventor, lexicographer, artist and psychic healer'. As Head Man of the Kibbo Kift, he was a prominent youth leader in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. He was a Utopian thinker, a believer in both science and magic, and a figure-head for the Social Credit movement in British politics.
Born in Midhurst, Sussex, into an itinerant Quaker family, Hargrave was the son of painter Gordon Hargrave and his wife Babette Bing, of Jewish Hungarian descent. A bohemian childhood, spent partly in the Lake District, left him with a passion for Nature and a fierce propensity for self-education through reading books and observing the world around him. In 1908, the family moved to Latimer where, in 1909 Hargrave joined the First Chorleywood Scouts, a group of Baden Powell's Boy Scouts. In 1910 his career as a published book illustrator began when a few of his vignettes appeared in an edition of Gulliver in Liliiput, published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, a commission almost certainly arranged through the patronage of Lady Chesham. He was also given a year-long trial as a cartoonist on the Evening Times. He became a devotee of the naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, and one of the leading Scout authorities on Woodcraft. His interests in scouting, nature and art combined to produce the book that made his name, or rather his scouting name of 'White Fox'. This was Lonecraft published by Constable in 1913 and introducing the characteristic 'White Fox' style of no-nonsense text, interspersed with pictures and diagrams. Rising up the Scout hierarchy, Hargrave produced a succession of scouting and woodcraft books for C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, who offered him a position of staff artist in 1914, his first salaried job.
When World War I broke out, Hargrave joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and saw action at the Battle of Gallipoli. Hargrave's Quaker pacifism was reinforced by the horrors of war. The experience convinced him that modern civilisation had gone awry and he voiced his feelings in his angry polemic of 1919, The Great War Brings It Home. This was a call to action for all groups concerned with the health and character of future generations. Hargrave called for a new national scheme for character-building and physical training, and the result was the foundation of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift in August 1920. Intended as a movement for all ages and genders, the Kibbo Kift provided a co-educational, and therefore progressive, alternative to the Boy Scouts. Hargrave was initially appointed 'Head Man' as a temporary measure, but by 1924 had succeeded in becoming the undisputed leader. As Head Man he imported into the Kindred his interest in ritual and art, along with his own views about self-education, science, magic, and healthy behaviour. He was a strong believer in Darwinian evolution, holding that Kibbo Kift training would produce morally upright and healthy individuals, through whom the human race as a whole would evolve into a better state. He believed that building better individuals was the way of building a better society, thus standing apart from those on the left and right who believed in the State as the main vehicle for social change. Hargrave's vision of the better society to come owed much to his Quaker roots: he saw a future society without war, poverty or wasted lives, all kept together by the self-discipline of enlightened individuals.
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift took its name from an old Kentish term for a feat of strength[5] and it attracted support from a number of progressive thinkers, including: Patrick Geddes, Evelyn Sharp, H. G. Wells, and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Membership remained fairly small (600-800) in the 1920s and included many teachers, art teachers and youth workers. Many developed an intense personal loyalty to Hargrave, remaining with him throughout the Kindred's transformation into the Green Shirts, and the Social Credit Party.
In the 1920s Hargrave's work as an artist was dominated by the designs, drawings and diagrams he produced for the Kibbo Kift. All express his fascination with 'symbology', the use of symbols or stylised representations to convey meaning. He controlled the visual style of the movement, designing the 'official' robes, badges, symbols, theatre sets and regalia himself: although individual members were encouraged to design and make their own personal totems. He had less success as an artist outside the movement, despite trying to establish himself as a portrait or landscape painter. In 1924 he exhibited a selection of his 'symbolic paintings' 'an attempt to express through the medium of paint Ideas rather than Objects in themselves'. During the late 1920s and 1930s, he worked as a freelance commercial artist in the advertising industry, producing layouts for Lever Brothers, whose advertising manager Colin Hurry was a friend; and for Carlton Studios, where he worked on campaigns for Watney's and Boot's the Chemist amongst others. He continued to sell illustrations to book publishers, including some cover work for Mills & Boon in 1922.
Hargrave enjoyed more public success as a novelist, publishing a best-seller Harbottle: a Modern Pilgrim's Progress from This world to That Which is to Come in 1924, and following this up with a succession of popular novels published by Duckworths. Many are stylised fables borrowing structures from books that Hargrave admired (Harbottle is based on John Bunyan, and Young Winkle (1926) is based on Rudyard Kipling's Kim). Entirely original, however is Hargrave's 1935 experimental modernist masterpiece Summer Time Ends. This symphonic text aspired to the condition of radio and film, weaving its characters' speech in and out of refrains and rhythms. The book was well received in America (John Steinbeck was a fan), and was praised by Ezra Pound, by this time a Hargrave admirer.
In 1924 Hargrave was introduced to the economic theory of Social Credit, the creation of C. H. Douglas. Hargrave took up the creed with fervour, attracted by its seemingly-scientific 'truth' and its sense of mission. Social Credit changed Hargrave's belief in the reformed individual as the key to a better society: the key was actually, he now believed, a reformed economic system. By the late 1920s he had re-purposed the Kindred to be a 'megaphone' for social credit, bringing the esoteric economic theory to the public at large.
The remaining Kibbo Kift members were transformed into a fighting force, still disciplined and healthy but now engaged in 'unarmed military technique'. Hargrave joined up with the Legion of the Unemployed in Coventry in 1930, and furnished them with green shirts and berets. By 1932, the Kibbo Kift were also in the green uniform, together forming the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit. The Green Shirts soon became part of the street politics of the 1930s, engaging in battles with both Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, the Black Shirts, and the Red Shirt supporters of the Communist Party of Great Britain.[3] Hargrave designed a striking new flag for his Social Credit movements, the green and black double K device, which he christened the 'Key Symbol'. He also introduced a strong element of theatricality into the Green Shirts' political protest, with ritual marches round the Bank of England, drumming, 'street chalking' and publicity stunts such as throwing a green brick into 11 Downing Street.
Initially staying out of parliamentary politics, Hargrave changed his mind in 1935, re-branding the Green Shirt movement as the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the purposes of fighting the 1935 General Election. He was also impressed by the success of the Social Credit Party of Alberta (Canada). Douglas opposed the entry of the movement into parliamentary politics. Hargrave soon travelled to Alberta, frustrated at the lack of progress that the Social Credit government there was making. He was appointed an economic adviser to the Government of Alberta, and was disowned by Douglas. He left Canada in 1936, returning to find the Social Credit Party in disarray after the Public Order Act 1936 banned the wearing of uniforms by non-military personnel. Undeterred, Hargrave steered the Social Credit Party into a more evangelical mood, adopting quasi-religious slogans ('God's Providence is Mine Inheritance') and organising public 'Services of National Regeneration'. He broke with Ezra Pound, an episode which underlined his opposition to Fascism.
The Social Credit Party was mothballed during the war, although Hargrave tried to keep his ideas alive through a weekly newsletter,The Message from Hargrave. He was urged to stand for Parliament in the 1945 election, but did not: only returning to public politics in 1950 when he stood as a candidate in Hackney North and Stoke Newington in the 1950 general election. The 551 votes he received convinced Hargrave to give up, and by 1951 he had disbanded the Party.
In 1937 Hargrave became obsessed with solving the technological problems of using maps in moving aeroplanes. By 1938 a prototype of the Hargrave Automatic Navigator was ready to file with the Patent Office and articles of association had been prepared for 'Hargrave Aviation Ltd.'. The prototype was tested during the war, with government approval, but lack of capital meant that the invention was not developed further. The invention lay fallow until 1976 when Hargrave sued the British Government, claiming that the moving map display supplied by Britain to the supersonic Concorde, was in fact his Automatic Navigator. His claim was taken up by journalists, resulting eventually in a Public Enquiry. Hargrave insisted he was only asking for recognition, rather than any financial recompense, but the Public Enquiry found against him.
During the war, Hargrave had returned to his interest in science and magic (he always considered both as equally valid methods for harnessing the forces of nature). He became convinced of his own powers and set up as a healer, offering a variety of techniques. Chief among these were the use of 'Therapeutic Psychographs', abstract artworks created by Hargrave which were prescribed to his patients with instructions to stare at the artwork for a set period of time every day.
In the 1950s Hargrave earned a living as a cartoonist, working under the name of 'Spiv' or sometimes just 'H'. His work appeared in Cavalcade, The Sketch and Time and Tide. He was commissioned to write the entry on Paracelsus for the Encyclopædia Britannica (Hargrave had published The Life and Soul of Paracelsus in 1951). He submitted a stream of manuscripts, radio plays and film scripts to producers and publishers, always searching for opportunities to realise his ideas: he continued to believe that Social Credit was the solution to the world's economic problems. John Hargrave died on 21 November 1982, aged 88 at his home in Branch Hill Lodge, Hampstead.
Hargrave married Ruth Clark, the daughter of the engineer William Clark on 28 November 1919. Their marriage produced one son although the couple were divorced in 1952. He remarried in 1968, his new wife being the actress Gwendoline Florence Gray.
John Hargrave's personal papers, including his diaries and unpublished mss., are held at the British Library of Political and Economic Science. His artwork, including designs for the Kibbo Kift, work as a commercial artist and family photographs are held in the Museum of London (the Kibbo Kift Collection). Model III of Hargrave's Automatic Navigator is held in the Science Museum.
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This is my portrait with an object. I decided to use my grandfather for this photo because I wanted to show his passion for photography and how long he has had it. I had him sit outside with a black shirt on and in front of a black screen-door. I asked for him to use the oldest camera he still has, which was this Japanese Ricolet that my grandparents got as a gift in the early 1950's. Editing included boosting contrast and converting to B&W. (3648x5472)
How did you add emotional/conceptual depth to this portrait?
I wanted this photo to show my grandfathers hobby of photography which began close to 60 years ago. I tried to capture an image that shows a man who still uses the equipment that was created in his youth, showing the reader how long my grandfather has been taking pictures and how humans age more than machines do. My goal was to have a dark background to create a mysterious or suspicious look that will intrigue the viewer. The shirt and the background totally blended together, really adding to the effect and making the viewer question where this man came from and what he is photographing.