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Knee deep in river water, scrubbing a baby elephant with a coconut
husk, I paused to pull out my camera. One of the other elephants was
making a run for it, and his trainer was trailing behind him, holding
on to his tail to no avail, as it is much like trying to stop a moving
vehicle with a thread. Eva, the four year old female, won this tug of
war, but she didn't stray far. It seems she just wanted to have a bit
of freedom before returning to having her body scrubbed. I'd liken it
to a child objecting to having her ears excavated with a
washcloth...the baby had reached her limit for the moment.
I returned to splashing Ammu, my three year old charge. She lay
quietly in foot deep water as her trainer and I gave her a good wash.
Every couple of minutes the little "finger" on the end of her wormy
trunk would snake out of the water like the hose of a vacuum cleaner,
and find my hand. The end of an elephant's trunk is so far removed
from the main event that it seems like it's a creature all its own, a
hollow snake with an enormous craw. When her exploring gets out of
hand, her trainer speaks to her in Malayalam, and tells her to keep it
to herself--and she does, doubling it up and submerging it in the
water.
I'm less interested in brillo-ing the dung from Ammu's rump than I am
in revelling in her size, touching her hair and skin--it feels like a
cross between leather and soft rubber. I run my palm along the ends
of her hair: inch long quills that are stiff enough not to tickle, but
soft enough not to hurt.
I have so many questions about the babies, who truly look prehistoric
and not of this world. Unfortunately, none of the trainers speak
English--this evidenced by the response I get when I ask about the
runaway elephant. "Is she mad?" I asked while I pointed to Eva. The
reply was, "No, female."...on second thought, maybe he knew English
perfectly well. After all, any female I know who was ordered to sit
down and be quiet would go running downstream as well.
To my ear, Malayalam words all sound similar...and many people
speaking Malayalam all at once is the equivalent of many radios tuned
to different stations playing in your ear. Not so for the elephants,
who can discern their own trainer's voice from others, and who can
tell the difference between, "Put your legs straight out," and "Pull
your legs together like you're balancing on a ball," or "Head up,
trunk up." At three years old, I doubt I minded as well.
By the time the bathing session was over, we had washed EVERYTHING:
under trunk, under belly, under tail. It's amazing that's animals so
enormous can be trained to behave so well, although, it was a bit
eerie finding a story in the local paper when I returned back to town
detailing the killing of a muhoot (trainer) by an angry elephan
yesterday. Would Ammu ever do such a thing? It didn't seem possible
when I was hugging her head today, reaching across her torso, or
squeezing her trunk. Let's hope not.
Genesis 37:18-22 (NLT)
Joseph Sold Into Slavery
18 When Joseph’s brothers saw him coming, they recognized him in the distance. As he approached, they made plans to kill him. 19 “Here comes the dreamer!” they said. 20 “Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!”
21 But when Reuben heard of their scheme, he came to Joseph’s rescue. “Let’s not kill him,” he said. 22 “Why should we shed any blood? Let’s just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he’ll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.
DRAWING NOTES:
TIME OF DAY:
Unspecified in the Bible narrative. I have set this scene in the late morning.
LIGHTING NOTES:
The sun (unseen, high above & left) illuminates this scene, casting shadows to the right & below figures & objects.
CHARACTERS PRESENT:
Joseph is walking towards his 11 brothers & waving at them.
Sheep.
RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
This picture shows Joseph approaching his brothers & their flocks of sheep in the region of Dothan, Israel. Most of Joseph’s brothers don’t look very happy to see him, however, I decided to make Reuben’s expression happier, as we know from verse 22 that, after hearing his brother’s plans for Joseph, Reuben “was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.” So I imagine that he was more positively disposed to Joseph than the rest of Joseph’ brothers.
Notice that Issachar is nudging his brother Asher (who is eating from his lunch box!) because Asher has noticed the arrival of Joseph yet! The pair are sitting on a wooden cover for the water cistern, with there feet dangling into the large hole in the ground. Man-made caverns, excavated in solid rock, were extensively used in Israel for storing water.
Notice also the storm clouds gathering behind Joseph’s brothers on the right of the picture. This suggests an “approaching storm” for Joseph!
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Hyacynth: Sssh… Be quiet… Let him sleep…
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Yes, Hyacynth managed to spend the night at Yamato’s place. Yamato really sleeps through anything X3
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He is still a head but today he took the body of Demyan (SD13 Volks), the wig of Meiko (Asa Iple) and we tried to see Jack for the first time. Yes, we LOVE him! hehehe He is a young and our own version of Jack Sparrow ;) Long story still in process, like him.
Jack is a Vivien Reminiscence mod from Elfdoll.
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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Queen Biography
Who is Queen ?
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".
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.
Love Quotes For Him :
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If your romantic date is a little "prickly"--set him at this table..If he is "The Thorn In Your Side"..so he won't feel alone.
Hotel Vondel Cafe. North Holland, Jordaan, Amsterdam.
A cactus (plural: cacti, cactuses, or cactus)[3] is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising ca 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales.[4] The word "cactus" derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek κάκτος, kaktos, a name originally used by Theophrastus for a spiny plant whose identity is not certain.[5] Cacti occur in a wide range of shapes and sizes. Most cacti live in habitats subject to at least some drought. Many live in extremely dry environments, even being found in the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on earth. Cacti show many adaptations to conserve water. Almost all cacti are succulents, meaning they have thickened, fleshy parts adapted to store water. Unlike many other succulents, the stem is the only part of most cacti where this vital process takes place. Most species of cacti have lost true leaves, retaining only spines, which are highly modified leaves. As well as defending against herbivores, spines help prevent water loss by reducing air flow close to the cactus and providing some shade. In the absence of leaves, enlarged stems carry out photosynthesis. Cacti are native to the Americas, ranging from Patagonia in the south to parts of western Canada in the north—except for Rhipsalis baccifera, which also grows in Africa and Sri Lanka.
When first I saw him, he was holding up a sign that read "That Way!", which pointed off to the left. I asked him what lay in that direction, and he held up another left-pointing sign that read "Doom!".
"Well, " I said, "I guess I'd better go the other way. What lies to the right?" In response, he flipped his sign over.
Imagine my disappointment.
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
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A newspaper reported a story of a man who was not on good terms with
his wife. One day, one of his evil friends gave him five rolled
cigarettes of hashish. After he finishedsmoking them, he left his
house and wandered the streets until he became tired and so he rented
a hotel room and spent thenight there. The next morning, he
surrenderedhimself to the police confessing to the murder of his
step-father. However, when they investigated the case, they discovered
that he had not killed anyone, rather, the effect of the drugs had
made him imagine the crime!
Substance abuse is a problem that affects not just the abusers but
also their families and friends.People with addictions are often
multiply diagnosed with mental and physical health problems, from
obsessivecompulsive disorder to HIV/AIDS, and substance abuse
counselors work closely with them to identify reasons for their
behavior and to take steps to change and remedy it.
Given the prevalence of drug abuse, everyone ought to have some
basicinformation about drug abuse and addiction.
What are drugs and whatare their types?
Drugs in general are plants or chemical substances that affect thebody
and mind of anyone who consumes them. It makes the body lethargic,
paralyzes its energy, slows the brain and is addictive to the extent
that if deprived from taking it, one becomes enraged and distressed,
and may even resort to stealing and killing.
Drugs are divided into three types:
Natural: These are plant products, taken and usedin the same form
withoutany variation, like opium,hashish, Qat and marijuana.
Chemical: These are manufactured drugs that have the same effect as
anaesthetic substances. They are more harmful than the mixed kind.
Some examples are L.S.D.,thinner, mescaline and others.
Mixed: These are prepared by mixing somenatural and chemical
materials, like morphine, heroin and cocaine.
Why do people take drugs?
There are many reasons why people take drugs:
Weakness of faith, and not turning to Allaah The Almighty during hardship.
Having superfluous wealth and spare time.
Bad company.
Satellite channels that broadcast and promote various immoral movies
and programs which glamorize and propagatethe use of drugs.
The use of tranquilizers, painkillers and sedatives without consulting
a physician, which results in addiction unknowingly.
The misconception that drugs increase sexual performance and potency,
while the truth is contrary to this.
The desire to be able to stay up late to work or study.
The notion that drugs arenot prohibited in Islam.
Imitation of some celebrities who use drugs.
Negligence by parents while raising the child.
There are many ways to cure this dangerous phenomenon:
Raising youth with strong religious values, sound morals and virtues.
Increasing public awareness regarding the danger of drugs and their
evil consequences on individuals and the community.
Keeping the door open for addicts who want to repent and stop the use
of drugs and help in theirrehabilitation because this could help them
refrain from this evil habit.
Filling free time with useful activities like reciting the Quran,
Thikr (mentioning and remembering Allaah The Almighty), and
occupyinghimself in permissible things like trade, agriculture, or
enrolling in study circles.
Becoming aware of the Islamic ruling regarding drugs, and that the
prohibition covers all types of drugs.
Knowing the harm and illeffects of drugs.
The media should launch campaigns aiming towards spreading awareness
regarding the danger of drugs.
Strict supervision on all media programs to prevent any program which
might encourage or glamorize, in any way,the use of drugs.
Government should prevent the plantation, import and smuggling of drugs.
Having severe punishments for those who are caught smuggling or
dealing in drugs.
Making more people aware of the ways to cure addiction so that
thefamily can help the addict.
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
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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 !
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
by George di Caprio, Jim Himes, Rich Chidlaw, Matt Golden, Milt Gray, Berent Boates, Art Vitello, Dennis Ellison & Chris Lane
Published by The last gasp publishing Co.
1975
American postcard by Classico San Francisco, no. 136-012. Photo: The Ludlow Collection. Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976).
American film actor and director Clint Eastwood (1930) rose to fame as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's classic Spaghetti Westerns Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Per qualche dollaro in più/For a Few Dollars More (1965), and Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Later in the US, he played hard-edge police inspector Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films, which elevated him to superstar status, and he directed and produced such award-winning masterpieces as Unforgiven (1992), Mystic River (2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).
Clinton ‘Clint’ Eastwood, Jr. was born in San Francisco, California in 1930. His parents were Clinton Eastwood, Sr., a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth (Runner) Eastwood, a factory worker. Clint has a younger sister, Jeanne. Because of his father's difficulty in finding steady work during the depression, Eastwood moved with his family from one Northern California town to another, attending some eight elementary schools in the process. Later he had odd jobs as a firefighter and lumberjack in Oregon, as well as a steelworker in Seattle. In 1951, Eastwood was drafted into the US Army, where he was a swimming instructor during the Korean War. He briefly attended Los Angeles City College but dropped out to pursue acting. Eastwood married Maggie Johnson in 1953, six months after they met on a blind date. However, their matrimony would not prove altogether smooth, with Eastwood believing that he had married too early. In 1954, the good-looking Eastwood with his towering height and slender frame got a contract at Universal. At first, he was criticized for his stiff manner, his squint, and for hissing his lines through his teeth. His first acting role was an uncredited bit part as a laboratory assistant in the Sci-Fi horror film Revenge of the Creature (Jack Arnold, 1955). Over the next three years, he more bit parts in such films as Lady Godiva of Coventry (Arthur Lubin, 1955), Tarantula (Jack Arnold, 1955), and the war drama Away All Boats (Joseph Pevney, 1956) with George Nader and Lex Barker. His first bigger roles were in the B-Western Ambush at Cimarron Pass (Jodie Copelan, 1958), and the war film Lafayette Escadrille (William A. Wellman, 1958), starring Tab Hunter and Etchika Choureau. In 1959, he became a TV star as Rowdy Yates in the Western series Rawhide (1959–1966). Although Rawhide never won an Emmy, it was a rating success for several years. During a trial separation from Maggie Johnson, an affair with dancer Roxanne Tunis produced Eastwood’s first child, Kimber Tunis (1964). An intensely private person, Clint Eastwood was rarely featured in the tabloid press. However, he had more affairs, e.g. with actresses Catherine Deneuve, Inger Stevens and Jean Seberg. After a reconciliation, he had two children with Johnson: Kyle Eastwood (1968) and Alison Eastwood (1972), though he was not present at either birth. Johnson filed for legal separation in 1978, but the pair officially divorced in 1984.
In late 1963, Clint Eastwood's Rawhide co-star Eric Fleming rejected an offer to star in an Italian-made Western. Eastwood, who in turn saw the film as an opportunity to escape from his Rawhide image, signed the contract. The Western was called Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (1964), to be directed in a remote region of Spain by the then relatively unknown Sergio Leone. A Fistful of Dollars, also with Gian Maria Volonté and Marianne Koch, was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961). Eastwood played a cynical gunfighter who comes to a small border town, torn apart by two feuding families. Hiring himself out as a mercenary, the lone drifter plays one side against the other until nothing remains of either side. Eastwood started to develop a minimalist acting style and created the character's distinctive visual style. Although a non-smoker, Leone insisted Eastwood smoke cigars as an essential ingredient of the ‘mask’ he was attempting to create for the loner character. Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, 1964) was the first instalment of the Dollars trilogy. Later, United Artists, who distributed it in the US, coined another term for it: the Man With No Name trilogy. ‘The second part was Per qualche dollaro in più/For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965), a richer, more mythologized film that focused on two ruthless bounty hunters (Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) who form a tenuous partnership to hunt down a wanted bandit (Gian Maria Volontè). Both films were a huge success in Italy. They both contain all of Leone's eventual trademarks: taciturn characters, precise framing, extreme close-ups, and the haunting music of Ennio Morricone. Eastwood also appeared in a segment of Dino De Laurentiis’ five-part anthology production Le Streghe/The Witches (Vittorio De Sica a.o., 1967). But his performance opposite De Laurentiis' wife Silvana Mangano did not please the critics. Eastwood then played in the third and best Dollars film, Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966). Again he played the mysterious Man with No Name, wearing the same trademark poncho (reportedly without ever having washed it). Lee Van Cleef returned as a ruthless fortune seeker, with Eli Wallach portraying the cunning Mexican bandit Tuco Ramirez. Yuri German at AllMovie: “Immensely entertaining and beautifully shot in Techniscope by Tonino Delli Colli, the movie is a virtually definitive 'spaghetti western,' rivalled only by Leone's own Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).” The Dollars trilogy was not released in the United States until 1967, when A Fistful of Dollars opened in January, followed by For a Few Dollars More in May, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in December. Eastwood redubbed his dialogue for the American releases. All the films were commercially successful, particularly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which turned Eastwood into a major film star. All three films received bad reviews and began a battle for Eastwood to win American film critics' respect. According to IMDb, Sergio Leone asked Eastwood, Wallach, and Van Cleef to appear again in C'era una volta il West/Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968), but they all declined when they heard that their characters were going to be killed off in the first five minutes.
Stardom brought more roles for Clint Eastwood. He signed to star in the American revisionist western Hang 'Em High (Ted Post, 1968), playing a man who takes up a Marshal's badge and seeks revenge as a lawman after being lynched by vigilantes and left for dead. Using money earned from the Dollars trilogy, accountant and Eastwood advisor Irving Leonard helped establish Eastwood's own production company, Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwood's property in Monterey County, California. Leonard arranged for Hang 'Em High to be a joint production with United Artists. Hang 'Em High was widely praised by critics, and when it opened in July 1968, it had an unprecedented opening weekend in United Artists' history. His following film was Coogan's Bluff (Don Siegel, 1968), about an Arizona deputy sheriff tracking a wanted psychopathic criminal (Don Stroud) through the streets of New York City. Don Siegel was a Universal contract director who later became Eastwood's close friend, forming a partnership that would last more than ten years and produce five films. Coogan’s Bluff was controversial for its portrayal of violence, Eastwood's role in creating the prototype for the macho cop of the Dirty Harry film series. Coogan's Bluff also became the first collaboration with Argentine composer Lalo Schifrin, who would later compose the jazzy score to several Eastwood films in the 1970s and 1980s, including the Dirty Harry films. Eastwood played the right-hand man of squad commander Richard Burton in the war epic Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton, 1968), about a World War II squad parachuting into a Gestapo stronghold in the alpine mountains. Eastwood then branched out to star in the only musical of his career, Paint Your Wagon (Joshua Logan, 1969). Then, Eastwood starred in the Western Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Sigel, 1970), with Shirley MacLaine, and as one of a group of Americans who steal a fortune in gold from the Nazis, in the World War II film Kelly's Heroes (Brian G. Hutton, 1970)). Kelly's Heroes was the last film in which Eastwood appeared, which was not produced by his own Malpaso Productions.
Clint Eastwood’s next film, The Beguiled (Don Siegel, 1970), was a tale of a wounded Union soldier, held captive by the sexually repressed matron of a southern girl's school. Upon release, the film received major recognition in France but in the US it was a box office flop. Eastwood's career reached a turning point with Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971), The film centres around a hard-edged San Francisco police inspector named Harry Callahan who is determined to stop a psychotic killer by any means. Dirty Harry achieved huge success after its release in December 1971. It was Siegel's highest-grossing film to date and the start of a series of films featuring the character Harry Callahan. He next starred in the loner Western Joe Kidd (John Sturges, 1972). In 1973, Eastwood directed his first western, High Plains Drifter, in which he starred alongside Verna Bloom. The revisionist film received a mixed reception but was a major box office success. Eastwood next turned his attention towards Breezy (Clint Eastwood, 1973), a film about love blossoming between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl. During casting for the film Eastwood met actress Sondra Locke, who would become an important figure in his life. He reprised his role as Detective Harry Callahan in Magnum Force (Ted Post, 1973). This sequel to Dirty Harry was about a group of rogue young officers (including David Soul and Robert Urich) in the San Francisco Police Force who systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals. Eastwood teamed up with Jeff Bridges in the buddy action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino, 1974). Eastwood's acting was noted by critics but was overshadowed by Bridges who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His next film The Eiger Sanction (Clint Eastwood, 1975), based on Trevanian's spy novel, was a commercial and critical failure. His next film The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood, 1976) was widely acclaimed, with many critics and viewers seeing Eastwood's role as an iconic one that related to America's ancestral past and the destiny of the nation after the American Civil War. The third Dirty Harry film, The Enforcer (James Fargo, 1976) had Harry partnered with a new female officer (Tyne Daly) to face a San Francisco Bay terrorist organization. The film, culminating in a shootout on Alcatraz island, was a major commercial success grossing $100 million worldwide. In 1977, he directed and starred in The Gauntlet opposite Sondra Locke. Eastwood portrays a down-and-out cop who falls in love with a prostitute he is assigned to escort from Las Vegas to Phoenix, to testify against the mafia. In 1978 Eastwood starred with Locke and an orang-utan called Clyde in Every Which Way but Loose. Panned by critics, the film proved a surprising success and became the second-highest-grossing film of 1978. Eastwood then starred in the thriller Escape from Alcatraz (1979), the last of his films to be directed by Don Siegel. The film was a major success and marked the beginning of a critically acclaimed period for Eastwood. Eastwood's relationship with Sondra Locke had begun in 1975 during the production of The Outlaw Josey Wales. They lived together for almost fourteen years, during which Locke remained married (in name only) to her gay husband, Gordon Anderson. Eastwood befriended Locke's husband and purchased a house in Crescent Heights for Anderson and his male lover.
In 1980, Clint Eastwood’s nonstop success was broken by Bronco Billy, which he directed and in which played the lead role. The film was liked by critics, but a rare commercial disappointment in Eastwood's career. Later that year, he starred in Any Which Way You Can (Buddy Van Horn, 1980), which ranked among the top five highest-grossing films of the year. In 1982, Eastwood directed and starred in Honkytonk Man, as a struggling Western singer who, accompanied by his young nephew (played by real-life son Kyle) goes to Nashville, Tennessee. In the same year, Eastwood directed, produced, and starred in the Cold War-themed Firefox alongside Freddie Jones. Then, Eastwood directed and starred in the fourth Dirty Harry film, Sudden Impact (1983), the darkest and most violent of the series. ‘Go ahead, make my day’, uttered by Eastwood in the film, became one of cinema's immortal lines. Sudden Impact was the last film in which he starred with Locke. The film was the most commercially successful of the Dirty Harry films, earning $70 million and receiving very positive reviews. In the provocative thriller Tightrope (Richard Tuggle, 1984), Eastwood starred opposite Geneviève Bujold. His real-life daughter Alison, then eleven, also appeared in the film. It was another critical and commercial hit. Eastwood next starred in the period comedy City Heat (Richard Benjamin, 1984) alongside Burt Reynolds. Eastwood revisited the Western genre when he directed and starred in Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood, 1985), based on the classic Western Shane (George Stevens, 1953). It became one of Eastwood's most successful films to date and was hailed as one of the best films of 1985 and the best Western to appear for a considerable period. He co-starred with Marsha Mason in the military drama Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood, 1986), about the 1983 United States invasion of Grenada. Then followed the fifth and final film in the Dirty Harry series The Dead Pool (Buddy Van Horn, 1988), with Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson, and a young Jim Carrey. It is generally viewed as the weakest film of the series. Eastwood began working on smaller, more personal projects and experienced a lull in his career between 1988 and 1992. Always interested in jazz, he directed Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988), a biopic starring Forest Whitaker as jazz musician Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker. Eastman himself is a prolific jazz pianist who occasionally shows up to play the piano at his Carmel, CA restaurant, The Hog's Breath Inn. He received two Golden Globes for Bird, but the film was a commercial failure. Jim Carrey would again appear with Eastwood in the poorly received comedy Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn, 1989) alongside Bernadette Peters. In 1989, while his partner Sondra Locke was away directing the film Impulse (1990), Eastwood had the locks changed on their Bel-Air home and ordered her possessions to be boxed and put in storage. During the last three years of his cohabitation with Locke, Eastwood fathered two children in secrecy with flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves, Scott Reeves (1986), and Kathryn Reeves (1988). Eastwood finally presented both children to the public in 2002.
In 1990, Clint Eastwood began living with actress Frances Fisher, whom he had met on the set of Pink Cadillac in 1988. They had a daughter, Francesca Fisher-Eastwood (1993). Eastwood and Fisher ended their relationship in early 1995. Eastwood directed and starred in White Hunter Black Heart (1990), an adaptation of Peter Viertel's roman à clef, about John Huston and the making of the classic film The African Queen (1951). Later in 1990, he directed and co-starred with Charlie Sheen in The Rookie, a buddy cop action film. Eastwood revisited the Western genre in the self-directed film Unforgiven (1992), in which he played an ageing ex-gunfighter long past his prime. Unforgiven was a major commercial and critical success; and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Eastwood. Eastwood played Frank Horrigan in the Secret Service thriller In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen, 1993) co-starring John Malkovich. The film was among the top 10 box office performers that year, earning a reported $200 million. Later in 1993, Eastwood directed and co-starred with Kevin Costner in A Perfect World. At the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Eastwood received France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal, and in 1995, he was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 67th Academy Awards. Opposite Meryl Streep, he starred in the romantic picture The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995), another commercial and critical success. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Picture and won a César Award in France for Best Foreign Film. In early 1995, Eastwood began dating Dina Ruiz, a television news anchor 35 years his junior, whom he had first met when she interviewed him in 1993. They married in 1996. The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (1996). In 1997, Eastwood directed and starred in the political thriller Absolute Power, alongside Gene Hackman. Later in 1997, Eastwood directed Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, starring John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, and Jude Law. He directed and starred in True Crime (1999), as a journalist and recovering alcoholic, who has to cover the execution of murderer Frank Beechum (Isaiah Washington). In 2000, he directed and starred in Space Cowboys alongside Tommy Lee Jones as veteran ex-test pilots sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite.
Clint Eastwood played an ex-FBI agent chasing a sadistic killer (Jeff Daniels) in the thriller Blood Work (2002). He directed and scored the crime drama Mystic River (2003), dealing with themes of murder, vigilantism, and sexual abuse. The film starred Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, and Tim Robbins and won two Academy Awards – Best Actor for Penn and Best Supporting Actor for Robbins – with Eastwood garnering nominations for Best Director and Best Picture. The following year Eastwood found further critical and commercial success when he directed, produced, scored, and starred in the boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, (2004). He played a cantankerous trainer who forms a bond with a female boxer (Hilary Swank). The film won four Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman). At age 74 Eastwood became the oldest of eighteen directors to have directed two or more Best Picture winners. In 2006, he directed two films about World War II's Battle of Iwo Jima. The first, Flags of Our Fathers, focused on the men who raised the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi and featured the film debut of Eastwood's son Scott. This was followed by Letters from Iwo Jima, which dealt with the tactics of the Japanese soldiers on the island and the letters they wrote home to family members. Eastwood next directed Changeling (2008), based on a true story set in the late 1920s. Angelina Jolie stars as a woman reunited with her missing son only to realize he is an impostor. Eastwood ended a four-year self-imposed acting hiatus by appearing in Gran Torino (2008), which he also directed, produced, and partly scored with his son Kyle and Jamie Cullum. Gran Torino eventually grossed over $268 million in theatres worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of Eastwood's career so far. Eastwood's 30th directorial outing came with Invictus, a film based on the story of the South African team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. In 2010, Eastwood directed the drama Hereafter, with Matt Damon as a psychic, and in 2011, J. Edgar, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, with Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. Eastwood starred in the baseball drama Trouble with the Curve (Robert Lorenz, 2012), as a veteran baseball scout who travels with his daughter for a final scouting trip. Director Lorenz worked with Eastwood as an assistant director on several films. Clint Eastwood is also politically active and served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California from 1986 to 1988. Shawn Dwyer at TCM: “Although a registered Republican since the early-1950s, Eastwood's politics, like the man himself, were that of a true iconoclast. Over the years he had voted for candidates from both parties and publicly denounced the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. And while he had initially wished President Barack Obama well during the start of his first term in office, Eastwood, became a vocal booster for Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, dissatisfied with what he viewed as Obama's inability to govern.” But cinema is Eastwood’s major career. He has contributed to over 50 films as an actor, director, producer, and composer. According to the box office revenue tracking website, Box Office Mojo, films featuring Eastwood have grossed a total of more than US $1.68 billion domestically, with an average of $37 million per film.
Sources: Shawn Dwyer (TCM), Yuri German (AllMovie), Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Prague
Stalin's index finger and the laughter of Václav Havel
The "Museum of Communism" in Prague was founded by an American and shows the sabre-rattling Matryoshka dolls or the blazing blue-shirt-demonstrators. Does it trivialize history for this reason?
After the American director Philip Kaufman had filmed Milan Kundera's novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" in 1984, the writer immediately dissociated himself from the adaptation - it was cliché-laden. However, as hundreds of thousands of filmgoers with the large, frightened eyes of Juliette Binoche saw the penetration of the Soviet tanks into the city and thus probably for the first time got an idea of the tragedy of August 21, 1968, is waiting for museum visitors of today a discovery: in the "Museum of Communism". It was founded near the Wenceslas Square by an American. The English name of the memorial is just as much attributable to him as the posters, which show a sabre-rattling Matryoshka doll or blazing blue-shirt-demonstrators provided with the image line "But the shiniest were in the uranium mines".
Trivialization of history? Not necessarily. It is rather the case that in the appearing gloom exhibition rooms the scandal of the communist human experiment is presented in an effective way. The historical dimension is by no means omitted: the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 is documented as well as the Western treason of Munich in 1938 and Hitler's subsequent invasion. Also the liberation of Prague by the Red Army in May 1945 is not withheld. But then, starting with the Communist Seizure of Power 1948, the visitors in the rooms "Reality" and "Nightmare" is awaiting an oppressive exhibit show: original faithfully reproduced prison cells from the time of the Stalinist Show Trials, causing goosebumps radio recordings of malignant fizzling prosecutors, in addition the dubious oil paintings of Socialist Realism on which country women as blond as bread roll throw red carnations to resolutely looking soldiers, or Josef Stalin exhorting the pointing finger.
Kafka, Marx and the soldier Svejk
The fact that totalitarianism differentiated itself exactly here from traditional dictatorships that it did not suppress the people clumsily but turned those people into brainwashed complices of its domination exercise - it is a lesson, which is here sensually comprehensible and is conveyed completely en passant in the literal sense. Many of the young tourists who go through the exhibition in neat, foolish "Czech it" or beer-stein-Kafka-und-Schwejk T-shirts get the first impression of the Communist system and which for a while even cast a spell over a few naive Westerners. Even if, for example, the path of Marx's theories to the crimes of the regime were somewhat shortened, the fascinating intellectual environment of the Prague Spring might have been represented a bit more in detail: whoever sees the historical TV recordings of the protesters who are at Wenceslas Square fearlessly facing the Soviet tanks with the red star is by no means emotionally manipulated but catches an impression of the essence.
Thus, the museum can be visited in two ways: with the curious eyes of an upcoming generation born around the year 1989, as well as with the eye of the contemporary, who is regarding very critical if the complex history has been given the due attentiveness. Is it not a standard formula of the repressers from Prague to East Berlin, in the last years of its existence, the Party regime had become more moderate and was then peacefully imploded? But now the museum shows pictures of pre-military youth education from the eighties, shows - in pictures of the Austrian television - pictures of one of the numerous arrests of Václav Havel and in addition police, who yet in November 1989 were bashing up demonstrators and dragging students on the hair over the pavement - again on the Wenceslas square near the museum.
In a free word
Even who knows all this is shattered, and must not be ashamed at the end of the exhibition of his emotion when he finally sees the freedom triumphant on the screens and monitors. On November 24, 1989, Alexander Dubcek and Václav Havel stand laughing and arm in arm on the balcony of the publishing house Svobodné Slovo (The Free Word) and talk to the demonstrators who finally now can be what they have dreamed for so long: free citizens of a city that begins to breathe again.
"Museum of Communism", Prague, Na Príkope 10, open daily from 9 am to 9 pm.
Prag
Stalins Zeigefinger und das Lachen von Václav Havel
Das „Museum of Communism“ in Prag wurde von einem Amerikaner gegründet und zeigt zähnefletschende Matrjoschka-Puppen oder strahlende Blauhemden-Demonstranten. Trivialisiert es deswegen die Geschichte?
Nachdem 1984 der amerikanische Regisseur Philip Kaufman Milan Kunderas Prag-Roman "Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins" verfilmt hatte, distanzierte sich der Schriftsteller sogleich von der Adaption - sie sei klischeebeladen. Doch so, wie inzwischen Hunderttausende Kinozuschauer mit den großen, erschreckten Augen Juliette Binoches das Eindringen der sowjetischen Panzer in die Stadt gesehen haben und damit wohl zum ersten Mal eine Ahnung bekamen von der Tragödie des 21. August 1968, so wartet auch auf Museumsbesucher von heute eine Entdeckung: im "Museum of Communism". Gegründet wurde es, nahe dem Wenzelsplatz, von einem Amerikaner. Ihm ist der englische Name der Gedenkstätte ebenso zu verdanken wie die Plakate, die etwa eine zähnefletschende Matrjoschka-Puppe zeigen oder strahlende Blauhemden-Demonstranten - versehen mit der Bildzeile "But the shiniest were in the uranium mines".
Trivialisierung der Geschichte? Nicht unbedingt. Eher ist es so, dass in den düster anmutenden Ausstellungsräumen das Skandalon des kommunistischen Menschenversuchs entsprechend effektvoll präsentiert wird. Auf die historische Dimension wird dabei keineswegs verzichtet: Die Gründung der Tschechoslowakei im Jahre 1918 wird ebenso dokumentiert wie der westliche Verrat von München 1938 und Hitlers nachfolgender Einmarsch. Auch die Befreiung Prags durch die Rote Armee im Mai 1945 wird nicht unterschlagen. Dann aber, beginnend mit der kommunistischen Machtergreifung 1948, wartet auf den Besucher in den Räumen "Reality" und "Nightmare" eine bedrückende Exponatenschau: Originalgetreu nachgebaute Gefängniszellen aus der Zeit der stalinistischen Schauprozesse, Gänsehaut verursachende Radio-Aufnahmen bösartig fistelnder Staatsanwälte, dazu an den Wänden die Ölschinken des Sozialistischen Realismus, auf denen semmelblonde Bäuerinnen entschlossen dreinblickenden Soldaten rote Nelken zuwerfen oder Josef Stalin mahnend den Zeigefinger hebt.
Kafka, Marx und der Soldat Schwejk
Dass sich der Totalitarismus genau darin von traditionellen Diktaturen unterschied, dass er das Volk nicht plump unterdrückte, sondern zum gehirngewaschenen Komplizen seiner Herrschaftsausübung machte - es ist eine Lektion, die hier sinnlich nachvollziehbar und im Wortsinn ganz en passant vermittelt wird. Viele der jungen Touristen, die in nett-törichten "Czech it" oder Bierhumpen-Kafka-und-Schwejk-T-Shirts durch die Ausstellung gehen, bekommen hier wohl das erste Mal eine Ahnung davon, weshalb sich das kommunistische System so lange halten und für eine Weile sogar manch naive Westler in seinen Bann zu ziehen vermochte. Mag auch in den Erklärungstafeln etwa der Weg von Marx' Theorien zu den Verbrechen des Regimes etwas verkürzt dargestellt sein, hätte man das faszinierende intellektuelle Umfeld des Prager Frühlings auch etwas ausführlicher darstellen können: Wer die historischen Fernsehaufnahmen von den Demonstranten sieht, die sich am Wenzelsplatz todesmutig den Sowjet-Panzern mit dem roten Stern entgegenstellten, wird keineswegs emotional manipuliert, sondern erhascht einen Eindruck vom Wesentlichen.
So lässt sich das Museum auf zwei Arten besichtigen: mit den neugierigen Augen einer nachwachsenden Generation, die um das Jahr 1989 erst geboren wurde, wie auch mit dem Blick des Zeitzeugen, der durchaus kritisch betrachtet, ob man hier der komplexen Geschichte gerecht wurde. Lautet nicht eine Standardformel der Verdränger von Prag bis Ostberlin, in den letzten Jahren seiner Existenz habe sich das Partei-Regime doch gemäßigt und sei anschließend friedlich implodiert? Nun zeigt das Museum aber Bilder vormilitärischer Jugendausbildung aus den Achtzigern, zeigt - in Aufnahmen des Österreichischen Fernsehens - Bilder von einer der zahlreichen Verhaftungen Václav Havels und dazu Polizei, die noch im November 1989 auf die Demonstranten eindrosch und Studenten an den Haaren über das Pflaster schleifte - wiederum auf dem nahe beim Museum liegenden Wenzelsplatz.
Auf ein freies Wort
Selbst wer dies alles kennt, ist erschüttert und muss sich am Ende der Ausstellung seiner Ergriffenheit gewiss nicht schämen, wenn er auf den Schautafeln und Monitoren die Freiheit letztlich doch triumphieren sieht: Am 24. November 1989 stehen lachend und Arm in Arm Alexander Dubcek und Václav Havel auf dem Balkon des Verlagshauses Svobodné Slovo (Das freie Wort) und sprechen zu den Demonstranten, die nun endlich das sein können, was sie so lange erträumt haben: freie Bürger einer Stadt, die wieder zu atmen beginnt.
„Museum of Communism“, Prag, Na Príkope 10, täglich geöffnet von 9 bis 21 Uhr.
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I met Daniel in Camden market, and I have to admit, although I didn't know his name, I certainly recognised him and was a little star struck! Daniel is an actor and has a lead role in the hugely popular TV show 'Outnumbered'.
He was walking through the market doing some shopping with his mum, when I thought I would take the chance and approach him. Both Daniel and his mum were super nice to talk to, and were happy for Daniel to be part of my project. Daniel was telling me about school, and also about some new Outnumbered projects that he has coming up.
It was really nice of him to take some time out of his day, and there was no sense that he felt bugged by being stopped which was cool, as I'm sure her gets that a lot. Both Daniel and his mum seemed super 'normal' and I guess thats what makes him so good at what he does.
ALthough I like this smiling shot of him, it was his moody pose that really caught my eye!
I gave Daniel a moo card and off they went- what a gent!
Cheers Daniel for being part of my project, and I hope you like your portraits!
This picture is #43 in the second round of my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project at www.100strangers.com
PRESIDENT BUSH DELIVERS HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CHAMBER. VP CHENEY AND HOUSE SPEAKER DENNIS HASTERT SIT BEHIND HIM (RELEASE P12554-18A, RELEASE P12552-25 IS A WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE PHOTO). THE AMERICAN FLAG IS THE BACKDROP (P12606-16 IS A WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE PHOTO). LAURA BUSH IS PICTURED IN THE GALLERY WITH HAMID KARZAI, CHAIRMAN OF THE AFGHAN INTERIM AUTHORITY, LYNNE CHENEY, DR. SIMA SAMAR, MINISTER OF WOMEN'S AFFAIRS IN AFGHANISTAN; SHANNON SPANN, WHOSE HUSBAND CIA OFFICER MICHAEL SPANN, DIED IN AFGHANISTAN; FLIGHT ATTENDANTS HERMIS MOUTARDIER AND CHRISTINA JONES, AND OTHERS. MRS. BUSH STANDS AND APPLAUDS CHAIRMAN KARZAI (RELEASE, JUMBO P12581-15). THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF THE USA FREEDOM CORPS. INCLUDES CLOSE-UP SHOTS OF THE PRESIDENT'S HANDS ON THE SPEECH TEXT. INCLUDES AN OVERALL VIEW OF THE HOUSE CHAMBER (WEB SITE PHOTO P12572-13 AND P12589-27 RELEASED TO USSS). PRESIDENT BUSH GREETS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF BEFORE THE SPEECH. THE PRESIDENT SHAKES HANDS WITH MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ON THE HOUSE FLOOR FOLLOWING HIS SPEECH (P12561-25 RELEASE TO USSS). HE GREETS SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ANTHONY KENNEDY AND DAVID SOUTER (P12561-12 RELEASE TO USSS). THE PRESIDENT IS FOLLOWED BY SEN. TOM DASCHLE, SEN. TRENT LOTT, SEN. HARRY REID AND OTHERS. SEN. JESSE HELMS IS PICTURED ON THE SENATE SIDE.
Location: U.S. CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Released for a book, "Spectacular Washington" 0903
I thought he could use some filling in on the details. I'm happy with him so now he's off to his new home in WI to live with some soon-to-be newlyweds.
Earl is amazing!! And happily acclimating to his new home! He is playing hide and seek this morning. THANK YOU for taking such good care of him while he was with you!! He's talking and jumping and adventuring! I am in love!
We see Dr. Hall Tues. for his first checkup.
He's a little standoffish with our 10-year-old Westie, but since he came home I've been playing with all of us together and then each of them separately, and letting Earl know Idgie has been here and is older and he needs to be a good boy, and praising him when he is! :D He has not been at all aggressive or hissy, just a little snobby. I think they'll warm up to each other. I keep saying to him, "She wants to play with you!" because she is very loving and docile, and still very playful.
Thanks again! Here's a pic!
Tessa