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This will by my confession
Often feeling depression
Because I am not with that one
Instead I am with none
I am a lonely heart
Slowly falling apart
Becoming rather distant
Almost nonexistent
Evaporated into the air
Forever in despair
Contemplating my obsessions
These were my confessions
- Confession, by Ryan Martinez
Taken for June 09 MSH - Persona Non Grata.
According to Wikipedia - Persona non grata literally means 'an unwelcome person', it is a term used in diplomacy with a specialized and legally defined meaning. In non-diplomatic usage, calling someone 'persona non grata' is to say that he or she is ostracized, so as to be figuratively nonexistent.
After struggling for ideas for this category I thought what better way to illustrate it than with a featureless nonexistent person.
Cedars of Lebanon State Park is a state park in Wilson County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It consists of 900 acres situated amidst the 9,420-acre Cedars of Lebanon State Forest. The park and forest are approximately 10 miles (16 km) south of Lebanon, Tennessee.
Cedars of Lebanon State Forest is known for its cedar glades, a unique type of ecosystem that has adapted to the thin (or nonexistent) soil layers that often occur in the eastern Central Basin. These glades are typically flanked by thick stands of red cedar, a type of juniper tree that can survive in soil layers too thin to support most large wooded plants. The presence of the red cedar in the basin reminded the region's early Euro-American settlers of the Lebanese cedar forests of Biblical fame.
Cedars of Lebanon State Forest is underlain by Ordovician period limestone, formed roughly 460 million years ago from calcareous ooze deposited by a primordial sea that once covered Middle Tennessee. Weathering of this rock has led to the creation of karst formations such as joints, underground streams, caves, and sinkholes, which are common throughout the park and forest. The forest is located in a flat section of the Central Basin characterized by thin soil layers where the limestone bedrock is often exposed.
Cedar glade communities have adapted to the basin's harsh barrens, where the soil is too thin to support most plant types, especially large wooded plants. The glades are typically open areas resembling rock or gravel-strewn meadows. Most glades include small areas of bare rock where nothing grows, gravelly areas where only grasses grow, and patches of very thin soil that support shrubs and small red cedars. Cedar glades are typically surrounded by stands of red cedar known as cedar thickets. Beyond the cedar thickets, the soil is thick enough to support a hardwood forest consisting primarily of oak and hickory.
The cedar glades of Cedars of Lebanon State Forest are home to 350 plant species, 29 of which are endemic to the cedar glades. Flowering plant species living in the glades include the formerly endangered Tennessee Coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis), the Prickly Pear cactus (Opuntia humifusa), Limestone flame flower (Phemeranthus calcaricus), Gattinger's Prairie Clover (Dalea gattingeri), Glade Phlox (Phlox bifida), and Nashville Breadroot (Pediomelum subacaule). Nonflowering plants include reindeer moss and glade moss. Along with the red cedar, trees in the surrounding forest include white oak and shagbark hickory. Wildlife chiefly consists of rodents and birds.
I apologize for the crappy picture...
While helping me upgrade a multimedia projector, my colleague found this cable splice in the false ceiling. Besides the fact the cable is not plenum-rated (jacket can melt and create toxic gases in the event of a fire), the integrity of the shield is nonexistent at the splice.
We ran a new cable to make things right.
On the Greenbush Line.
So why is this station called a "junction" when there's only 1 line here? And why is it called Nantasket (old name for the town of Hull) when it's located in Hingham? "Nantasket Junction" is the historic name for this station when it was on the Old Colony RR (and later the NY, NH & H RR Old Colony division.) It was a junction of the Boston-Scituate line (same one as the current Greenbush line) and the now-nonexistent Nantasket Line that went from here to Pemberton Point at the northern tip of Hull.
ERDC collaborates with the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and others to solve significant projection and protection challenges facing Soldiers in A2AD environments. ERDC’s force projection research is focused on developing and demonstrating technologies for planning and conducting forcible entry operations with nonexistent, damaged or destroyed infrastructure to ensure that the joint force can operate in any environment, at any time, regardless of terrain. Recent successes include demonstration of rapid airport and seaport repair solutions; terrain surfacing kits for unmanned aircraft landing strips, helicopter landing zones, and logistics over shore operations; and remote monitoring technologies and decision support tools for assessing critical infrastructure and littoral zones. To protect facilities that allow the U.S. to project force into denied areas, ERDC is exploring advanced materials and unique structural components that are incorporated into structural hardening solutions, as well as decision support tools that aid vulnerability assessments of critical facilities and mission impact.
We found Andrew Linn drifting around in the almost nonexistent breeze in his Puddle Goose, using plans from Michael Storer as inspiration, but adding significant personal touches.
A one-off, this little car was allegedly actually used for a number of years. I don't suppose the brakes were very impressive, but it has one heck of a cooling system for its Indian V-twin motorcycle engine.
The combination of essentially nonexistent braking and a food processor for a front bumper may have made this unpopular with local pedestrians.
"may the smell of burning oil & defeat live on forever in our hearts"
Betty the Barina was a car, she was a car in the same way that a Turd Sandwich is still a sandwich.
Betty I will miss your faulty CV joints, your nonexistent brake pads, the one working indicator, the window winder that snapped off in my hand one evening, the windscreen wipers that only had 2 settings; fast and super fast and had to be turned off by timing it just right that you flicked the switch when they got to the bottom. I will miss the smell of burning oil and melting clutch, the big coolant stain on the passenger side floor (my bad), the non-existent air-conditioning, the shitty shitty shitty radio & its coat hanger aerial. Most of all, I'll miss the massive oil stain you were creating on our garage floor.
Betty the Barina, may you continue to piss people off in car heaven!
PS - Betty was still going strong when we traded her in and bought a new car today!
I had to include this photo for old times sake. I found this Gameboy while I was home over Thanksgiving break. I could not believe how unfortunate the images and graphics were, and for the color? More like nonexistent color! Video games today have become so much more advanced over the last 15 years from when I received this as a Christmas gift.
Chloe Brynn Wedlock
Born September 3rd, 2010
4lbs 9oz and 18" long. Tiny but healthy!!
The hospital we are in has Internet but they apparently block everything that I would need. I can't get photos to upload from my computer to Flickr, iTunes store won't connect, and AIM is nonexistent. We finally get to go home today though. Staying in a room for 3 days can make you extremely stir crazy.
Hopefully there will be better photos on here soon. For now, the iPhone is all I have that can reach the outside world.
The idea of developing and running your home business may be interesting; however, there will still be challenges to surmount. If you truly want to run a successful home business, use the following advice to your advantage.
When you launch your home-based business, email your family members, pals and colleagues to let them understand about your new venture. Give them something free of cost or offer a fantastic price cut to get them considering your new business. Encourage them to spread the word about your new business. There is nothing quite as effective as personal referrals.
Before you start selling anything, you should make certain to find out what the price variety for it is in the current market. Consider the prices of comparable products, and purpose to slightly undercut the competition. It is very important to bear in mind that no matter what, you should highlight the good aspects of your business and not the adverse aspects of other businesses.
Find a forum to join that's major topic is home business. You will be able to interact with other company owner. Other people running a home business will understand your situation. They will be the best people to share information with and receive good advice from.
If you aren't sure what you would like to do, look online for home business suggestions. But enjoy out. The Internet is also an area where scams abound. Be careful. Always check to see if the information you want is available somewhere else free of cost. You should also enjoy out for complex scams that offer access to nonexistent work for a fee, or tuition for on the internet courses that are ineffective. If an offer sounds unbelievable, it's probably a scam.
Develop a detailed home business plan. Your business plan isn't repaired; you can change it in response to market realities, or even put it aside. However, your plan will work as a guide map when you're getting started, and will be a convenient tip of what you 'd like to accomplish with your business. Your business plan should be continually progressing.
Keep an accurate accounting of all financial records of your business. If the IRS wants to audit your business, things will be a lot much easier if you have specified records available. These records can also give you a clear peek of how you are doing month to month.
Your family requires to be supportive of your home business. Establishing a home business can be incredibly time consuming, and often comes with a fantastic bargain of stress. If your family members are not ready to help and support you, even just by giving you alone time to work, you will not be able to successfully run a home business.
Promote your home business by utilizing SEO strategies. For people who wish to market online to a large network of individuals, SEO work is essential. Many different tips exist for carrying out SEO on your own, and there are many resources out there that can assist you.
As pointed out, being your own boss and following your dreams is very interesting to many people. Performing the tips shared here will help make a home business prosper in a big way.
It is crucial to bear in mind that no matter what, you should highlight the good aspects of your business and not the adverse aspects of other businesses.
A good protective step you can take when establishing a home business is to rent a PO box and use it as your business address. It can be a good idea to set up your own home business network to conveniently connect with other businesses. Talking improperly about rivals is never good business; simply build up your own business.
To keep track of your business, open a checking account strictly for the business. www.empowernetwork.com/webmillionaire/blog/best-home-base...
“The problem isn’t dying; the problem is figuring out how to live.” – Glenn Villeneuve ~ Alaskan survivalist living a subsistence lifestyle sixty-five miles above the Arctic Circle
It is understandable that we are afraid of death, it is one of the most humanistic emotions that we have. It is this fear that allows us to survive. But if all we are doing is just surviving, we are missing out on really living. The worst thing is not dying, it’s never really living at all.
Time will come and go without ever waiting for us to figure out what we are supposed to do with this life that we are given. It needs to be our goal to fathom our purpose as soon as possible in life so that we can take full advantage of as many days as possible.
There are many people all over the world who do not have the luxury to do anything else but survive. They struggle every day to stay afloat; they live life one breath at a time. It is our responsibility to those people to not waste a single second of our lives, to stop focusing on the bad and realize how much good we have around us. But no one can do that for us, no one can wake us up out of the dreary daze that has overtaken us. When need to wake up tomorrow, splash cold water on our face, and exclaim that this is my day, this is the day when I will truly live.
There are a lot of things to be afraid of, but what should top that list is wasting even one second worrying about the rest, instead of living for the best. The one thing that we have complete control over is how we deal with what life throws at us. We can curl up in a ball, we can put our heads in the sand, or we can embrace each moment like it may be our last. We owe it to those who do not have fresh food and water to drink, who do not have a roof over the heads and a bed to sleep in at night, to love each day, and to love each person we come across, because we have so much to be thankful for.
How do you live each day? Are you worried about dying, or are you worried about never truly living? People may remember how we died but they will never forget how we lived. The greatest joy in life comes from helping others realize how amazing their life can be, and we do this by being a living example of how great life really is.
If you’re not sure yet whether you’re living, or just surviving, concentrate on one thing: the person standing next to you. The best way to take full advantage of the moments you are given is to embrace your neighbor like you want to be embraced. When we focus on love, we do not waste a single day. It is your time to shine, your time to finally start living.
When we do it together nothing can stop us from figuring out how to live. Failure is nonexistent when we put our efforts into those around us. Love never fails, and neither do you. Live a life unshackled by the chains of unrelenting time, because now you have broken free.
(The Kenai River called Kahtnu in the Dena’ina language, is the longest river in the Kenai Peninsula of south central Alaska.)
#GlennVilleneuve
#QuoteOfTheDay
#LifeBelowZero
#StartLiving
#LoveOneAnother
@LifeBelowZeroPT
Not very good but they are my new favorite nonexistent couple :] comment if you take/use it please :)
The C-208 is loaded with double 8" LF/MF and a single high energy 2" HF driver. Each enclosure is constructed of high grade birch ply-wood and is custom fitted with steel fly hardware that has been test rated for a 7:1 static load, hanging up to 16 enclosures in a single array. Our user friendly hardware allows for hanging and ground stacking applications, permitting the user to stack up to six enclosures.
All C-208 enclosures are hand wired using premium 14 gauge wire and Neutrik brand NL8 connectors. All drivers are built with cast fame baskets for strength and longevity. Our compression drivers have replaceable titanium diaphragms for superb sound quality, performance and durability. We use a standard phase plug design to control the isophasic wave form as well as a wave guide system for smooth coverage and coupling. Our components are designed and built to a commercial standard and have a proven track record on tours ranging from stadiums to festivals of up to 30 shows per month with practically a nonexistent failure rate.
All C-208 enclosures are equipped with a removable back panel that can be disconnected and replaced by an internal TVi multi channel "Class D" power amplifier module. Each power amplifier has a built in multi-channel processor that has been chamber tuned for the C-208 to achieve a flat response curve with pre set limiters, DSP and crossover points. One amplified C-208 enclosure will also power one additional non-powered C-208 enclosure in tri amp mode by daisy chaining an NL8 cable.
Dylan next to the Apollo 11 (?) command module at the Air & Space Museum in Washington DC. May have been a Gemini capsule -- memory imperfect, notes nonexistent
First shots with Sony DSC-HX200V using panorama setting. Camera auto stitches five frames.
Mendon Ponds Park is owned and very poorly maintained by the County of Monroe, NY.
Unfortunately, this extraordinary property is rapidly deteriorating due to an egregious lack of care. Trails are not cleared of debris... signs are useless. Park maintenance is essentially nonexistent. They do have a marketing department. Seriously, the taxpayers are paying the salaries of a county parks marketing department.
Email Mendon Ponds Park complaints to: countyexecutive@monroecounty.gov
Russian infantry training with flamethrower sappers.
It is not clear if the flamethrower is a static or portable model. In the center of the photo, sappers in heavy fireproof suits can be seen.
They appear to be waiting to take turns at the flamethrower; one is seen running to the right.
The flameproof overalls were copies of the British Suit, Anti-liquid Fire, Pattern 3023/1918.
Photos of Russian flamethrower sappers in action are virtually nonexistent.
The acrocanthosaurus was a T-Rex-like dinosaur that lived during the Mesozoic era, before T-Rex did. Like T-Rex, it had big teeth, a long tail, powerful hind legs, and almost nonexistent forelegs. Given that general configuration, it probably acted a lot like a flightless bird. A very large, carnivorous flightless bird.
Photographs by Paul Russell
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Starting a conversation about Capitalism is like walking up to a stranger and asking, “Can I talk to you about Jesus?”
The word “capitalism” is a red flag. And for good reason—pretty soon either some dude is talking your ear off about “The System” or aggressively confronting you about taxes. Ugh.
At the same time, capitalism is discussed every day using euphemisms like “jobs,” “job creation,” “the business climate,” and discussing whatever “crisis” is deemed relevant; a housing crisis, financial crisis, social security crisis, tax crisis, or fill- in-the blank crisis. But the whole is rarely a topic of frank discussion—much less alternatives or meaningful reform.
As a culture, we need the vision and boldness it takes to discuss the problem itself. The idea that “there is no alternative” to the way our world works takes away our ability to dream. As citizens we need the courage to begin these discussions on order to move on to new and better visions for the future.
But what to do? Start a conversation about capitalism and friends edge away slowly, and strangers even faster.
This is what art is for. This is what art does well. It creates a space where new ideas and perspectives can be explored. A space unlike any other.
Throughout my artistic career I’ve challenged myself to take on difficult subject matter in ways that are engaging and fun. I’ve found humor and popular culture can open doors to difficult but worthwhile subjects and enable us to envision and move toward new, utopian futures.
The sign starts here in Cleveland and will tour the US leading up to and beyond the 2012 presidential election. People who vote will be given the opportunity to have their portrait taken and give a short statement about why they voted the way they did. There will be a book, website, and videos that document people’s interactions and thoughts.
I’m excited that this piece takes on what for most Americans is a taboo, or even nonexistent subject: whether global, hegemonic capitalism actually works for most people. But whew, talking about that is boring! And telling people what to think is worse! This sign gets passers by to participate in deceptively simple vote (True/ False) which only pretends to offer resolution. Every aspect of the interaction draws them in to more complex questions and conversations, leading to new thoughts and ideas about a better world!
For 50 years it has been unacceptable, politically, in the United States to ask what is basically a straightforward question. We have a particular economic system, it’s called capitalism. We have every right as a society to ask of that system, is it working? Is it working for us? Do the benefits and the costs balance themselves out in a way that says, do we want to keep this system? Or that says, we want to change this system? Or that says, we ought to look at an alternative system. We’ve been afraid to ask that question. We’ve been afraid to have public debates—that’s the legacy of the cold war. We can’t afford anymore to not do that. We have to raise the question.
Stopped by the "Store Closing" sale last weekend. This store was depressing even before Sears announced it was closing. It's only worse now.
The sale just began, so the discounts were still pretty weak on most everything, and almost nonexistent (10%) on things like appliances and tools. Don't bother....
On the road to Cut Spring, after the Dome Fire. View is looking southeast toward Kessler Peak and the Ivanpah Mountains. In the foreground is a mostly incinerated landscape of Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia jaegeriana), Mojave Yucca (Yucca schidigera), Buckhorn Cholla (Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa), and Banana Yucca (Yucca baccata) with poor to nonexistent chances of ever returning to its former state. Time will tell.
There's a lot disturbing about the current era of American history, but one of the most troublesome trends is the seeming increase in the number of people who claim willingness to take arms against the government in some sort of full-scale rebellion. These people illustrate the adage about not knowing history. They'd do well to educate themselves about what happened during the winter of 1777-1778, when a bunch of disorganized yahoos who'd gotten themselves in the middle of a war decided to hole up at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. (Of course, the yahoos would eventually win that war, in part because they weren't going up against people with missiles and F-22s.)
A Patriotic American would likely take umbrage at my description of George Washington's Continental Army as "disorganized yahoos," but it doesn't take a very close read of history to see that this is exactly what they were. They'd emerged as a fighting force from numerous bands of colonial militias made up largely of local weekend warrior types, men who had day jobs but stood ready to play soldier after-hours if they needed to defend their specific corner of their specific colony. But the militias of Massachusetts had performed well enough when fighting broke out at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775 that in June the Continental Congress in Philadelphia stopped arguing about things long enough to turn them into an actual army. They did this mostly by saying, "Hey, militia guys! You're an army now." They didn't really add any money for training or equipment or anything, because despite our affection for the phrase, "Freedom isn't free," Americans have a long tradition of not wanting to pay for anything.
The Patriots fought through the winter of early 1776 and into the spring and summer. They crossed the Delaware River near Trenton in December, 1776, and spent that winter camped in Morristown, New Jersey. They fought again through the summer and fall of 1777, when they lost Philadelphia to the British. Then winter came on strong, and Washington's army was forced to settle down in about as unreasonable a place as they could find. Washington put them atop a couple of forested hills near the site of an old iron forge, and they set about building what shelter they could.
Of course, they'd been running around New Jersey and Pennsylvania now for a year and a half, and they were tired and worn. Their gear was falling apart. Their clothes were shredded, and only a third of them had shoes. Supply lines were tenuous, and there wasn't much supply to send anyway, so they lived mostly on flour and water paste. Starvation and disease ran rampant through the camp. Morale was nonexistent, and desertions were common. Of 12,000 soldiers who camped at Valley Forge that winter, 2,500 would never see the spring.
Day 16: After falling into a pattern of taking photos of things in and around the house, I was determined to make today's shot something outdoors. Since Sunday is the day my coed recreational softball team plays, I took my camera to the field looking for something to capture. After the softball game, we stayed at the park to test out a friend's new portable commercial grill. We had tacos with three types of meat (carne asada, al pastor, and chicken) and several varieties of salsa. Luckily for me, as we were enjoying our tacos just before sunset, the skies over our field turned a pretty reddish-orange shade. Unfortunately, I took dozens of shots but was not quite able to capture the real-life beauty of the sky. After initially failing to get the shot right in post-processing, I uploaded an SOOC shot. After doing so, I couldn't shake my unsatisfied feeling, so I spent a couple of hours with Lightroom 3 tutorials and getting to know the software better. This updated photo represents my best attempt to salvage my shot.
P.S. I've only been using Lightroom 3 for a month. I'm a total newbie to serious photo-editing software. In that sense, this project is allowing me the opportunity to develop my almost nonexistent post-processing and photo-editing skills.
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Have you ever had difficulty determining the difference between shit and shinola?
Well, I have, and I’ve found a solution, thanks to a collaboration between Ronco and Apple. Together, they've developed an app for your iPhone that solves the puzzle once and for all.
Simply take an iPhoto of the suspect items and load them into the Ronco “Sniffer” application on your iPhone. Thanks to decades of military research, the Sniffer converts the iPhotos to digital representations of iShit and iShinola, then almost immediately displays the results on your iPhone in an easy to understand format with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.
All I can say is thank you, Ronco and Apple, for making my life so much easier!
Yeah, there's an app for that!
This is an actual customer's testimonial. No actors were paid for this advertisement.
Carpenter bees (the genus Xylocopa in the subfamily Xylocopinae) are large, hairy bees distributed worldwide. There are some 500 species of carpenter bee in 31 subgenera.[1] Their name comes from the fact that nearly all species build their nests in burrows in dead wood, bamboo, or structural timbers (except those in the subgenus Proxylocopa, which nest in the ground). Members of the related tribe Ceratinini are sometimes referred to as "small carpenter bees".
In several species, the females live alongside their own daughters or sisters, creating a sort of social group. They use wood bits to form partitions between the cells in the nest. A few species bore holes in wood dwellings. Since the tunnels are near the surface, structural damage is generally minor or nonexistent.
Carpenter bees can be important pollinators on open-faced flowers, even obligate pollinators on some, such as the Maypop (Passiflora incarnata), though many species are also known to "rob" nectar by slitting the sides of flowers with deep corollas.
Somewhere on the train ride from Kandy to Haputale. Communication was almost nonexistent and only nonverbal, but I really think they wanted to have a photo taken. Bit shaky because there wasn't much light :-/ (I added some brightness with gimp...)
And unfortunately we didn't manage to get a written address where to send it to....
This station in Norton was once a stop on the Taunton Branch Railroad. It's a pretty early station, built in 1853. This station is only 4 miles from where I live if you were to travel along the nonexistent rail line (half that distance is now a bike path) -- it would have been a quick ride even on a slow old steam train. (It's only slightly farther traveling along the roads, but less fun.)
This station has been recently been restored and is now for sale as a private home, asking price $409,000. It has previously held a post office, a glue factory, a bakery, and a bistro (not at the same time...) Its role as a passenger station ended in 1938, although the railroad line continued to exist until 1965.
The real estate ads that I found for this building online do mention that it used to be a train station. I'm not sure why the for sale sign has been pulled out -- according to all the websites, it's currently for sale. Next, I might have to pretend to be a potential buyer so I can get a real estate agent to show me the interior :)
HELP!! The label says this is from Tsumeb, where pyromorphite has been noted once or twice, but is thought to be almost nonexistent. Does anyone have any thoughts on what those brown transparent crystals might be?
This fighter doesn't exist. It has an ejectable seat, flick fire missiles and other missiles. I know, lots of missiles, here's a video of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd5H6bZNybU
This Mustang convertible will be a major undertaking to restore. The floor pans were mostly nonexistent. There was no instrument cluster or dash in the car. Amazingly, at the end of the show, it was started and driven, hopefully to a trailer, leaving the aroma of stale gas being burned.
Naysayers claim that public transportation in Florida is almost nonexistent, but the PSTA begs to differ.
US 19 at 118th/Bryan Dairy, Pinellas Park.
This slideshows star is a field of barley or wheat and Tara hill in the background. Its in Coolgreany, Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland. I walk by this most days with my dog. Its made up of about 60 photos thoughout the seasons. Music is a free download from YouTube called "Where Silence is Nonexistent - A Himitsu" to help pass the time.
Used my Huawei p30 for the photos.
Tortola, British Virgin Islands. 110v. 60hz current used despite the English made transformers & insulators.Taken 1971. This voltage, nonexistent in America, is common in UK.
The line for the Main Bar is always long, but the line for the Front Bar is nonexistent. Really people?
UPDATE: The store that housed this exhibt was burned down. Google The Wilde Collection, Houston TX to read the story. The child mortality rate in Victorian England was high; with a quarter of babies dying before their first birthday. For a select few, the ritual of séance became the only method of extending their cruelly short parenthood. Out of all spirit contact, child spirits were the most difficult to engage. With a limited or nonexistent vocabulary, conventional methods such as talking boards were not feasible. The child spirit was no different than a living child; shy and scared of initial interaction with unknown adults. New methods had to be devised to lure child spirits into the circle so that they could, once again, be reunited with their bereaved parents. Due to this problem, Hungarian spiritualist, Ciprian Zaharie, felt compelled to create an unusual and never before devised method for child spirit communication: the Christening Doll.
Many in contemporary society would see this as morbid, during Victorian times, Zaharie’s Christening Doll was one of the most sought after gift for the new mother. The doll would be given to the mother bald, with no eyes or teeth. Once the baby arrived and the new mother saw their eye color, she would take it to the doll maker where they will install the eye color to match her child’s. Once the child got their first haircut, the mother would again take it back to the doll maker for them to root the baby’s hair into the dolls head. The same was repeated when the baby lost their baby teeth. Inside the doll, was a tin compartment where the mother would place the physical nine month mother child attachment: the umbilical cord. This process was to give the Christening Doll, as much likeness and energy of the child, much like voodoo dolls.
Every day, the new mother would set aside a special time of the day for the baby to play with the doll and no other toy. As a child becomes attached to a toy in life, it can equally become as attached in death. Scheduling playtime with the doll would ensure that it would become the child’s favorite toy and they would, more easily be attracted to play with it even after their untimely death.
The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia they are nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon climatic conditions. Black Swans are large birds with mostly black plumage and red bills. They are monogamous breeders that share incubation duties and cygnet rearing between the sexes.
The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that is a surprise (to the observer), has a major effect, and after the fact is often inappropriately rationalized with the benefit of hindsight. The expression derives from the Old World presumption that all swans must be white because all historical records of swans reported that they had white feathers. In that context, a black swan was impossible or at least nonexistent.
Yorgui Teyrouz is a pharmacy student at the Lebanese American
University. He’s been a scout for 15 years. He also served in the Red
Cross in 2003 for a year.
Yorgui is the founder of Donner Sang Compter (DSC), and he has
been working to better the blood donation cause in Lebanon for the
past 5 years. Lebanon lacks a national blood bank, or any public
blood donation service and awareness about the importance of
voluntary blood donation is often nonexistent. DSC is composed of
young volunteers from various social and professional backgrounds.
Their job is to raise awareness about voluntary blood donation
across the Lebanese territory: from schools and universities, to
churches and mosques, to movie theatres and even nightclubs.
Along with awakening young people to the vital importance of the
selfless act itself, DSC is encouraging them to become voluntary
blood donors. The service is completely free of charge and relies
solely on the registered donors’ selfless efforts to help save a life.
When he’s not donating blood, running his NGO or studying, Yorgui
goes camping and loves to discover new places in Lebanon. His
activities are all about friends and team sports. Reggae music keeps
him smiling and is a part of his daily life.
This series of photos shows our cruise ship's journey along the Fiordland coast between Milford Sound and Doubtful Sound, and then our looping route in one entrance to this enormous fiord and out another. The reaction of my fellow passengers to this magnificent New Zealand scenery was, in itself, wonderful to observe.
•Doubtful Sound is a very large and naturally imposing fiord in Fiordland, in the far south west of New Zealand. Doubtful Sound was named 'Doubtful Harbour' in 1770 by Captain Cook, who did not enter the inlet as he was uncertain whether it was navigable under sail. It was later renamed Doubtful Sound by whalers and sealers. There are three distinct arms to the sound, which is the site of several large waterfalls, notably Helena Falls at Deep Cove, and the Browne Falls which have a fall of over 600 metres. The steep hills are known for their hundreds of waterfalls during the rainy season. Access to the sound is either by sea, or by the Wilmot Pass road from the Manapouri Power Station. Most areas of the sound itself are only accessible by sea however, as the road network in this area of New Zealand is sparse or nonexistent, as is the human population. Doubtful Sound is unusual in that it contains two distinct layers of water that scarcely mix. The top few meters is fresh water, fed from the high inflows from the surrounding mountains, and stained brown with tannins from the forest. Below this is a layer of cold, heavy, saline water from the sea. The dark tannins in the fresh water layer makes it difficult for light to penetrate. Thus, many deep-sea species will grow in the comparatively shallow depths of the Sound.
Suspended Animation Classic #350
Originally published September 3, 1995 (#35)
(Dates are approximate)
The X Files; Los Omnipotents
By Michael Vance
The silliness called Psychobabble is psychology based on faulty or nonexistent science. Now, there’s a new babble in town.
A confusion of myths from Atlantis to Zulus with wings – our metaphysical beliefs from all times and nations – that I now label metababble is hot.
And metababble is kept in “The X Files”.
Government agents Mulder and Scully investigate metababble on television and in a new comic book. In current issues, they travel to St. Elias, Alaska. Atlantic is buried under the ice there.
In Atlantis, someone has rediscovered that eating a person gives the eater the eaten’s knowledge. This ancient myth of cannibalism is given veracity by the new discovery that all knowledge is stored in human DNA. Adding to the silliness, Aztecs and Toltecs have also become the Lost Tribe of Israel.
This is metababble, fun unless taken seriously.
Taken with a grain of salt is the art of this series. It’s clean, interesting storytelling with one major fault. Neither Scully nor Mulder look like Scully or Mulder.
Also salty is the written word. Stefan Petrucha has done his homework according to a long list of reference materials. He understands that adding layers of myth makes metaphysical confusion almost believable and a fun read.
In addition, unfolding plot, and characterization are intriguing. Much is promised in this half of the two-part “shocker”, “Silent Cities of the Mind”.
But you won’t be shocked. You won’t throw this in the “round” file, either.
Taken with a large grain of salt is the price of “The X Files”, which follows the standard rules of packaging like page count and paper quality. Why is it so high?
#8/22 pages, $2.95 from Topps Comics/writer: Stephan Petrucha; artist: Charles Adlard/available in comics shops, on newsstands, and by mail.
MINIVIEW: “Los Omnipotents” [El Wendigo]. Comics articles and a long, well drawn, futuristic comics drama filled with ugliness and violence. For mature, Spanish reading comics fans.
Day 68 of the 365 Journey. As I drove to work this morning, I looked at thermostat and it read 72 degrees. As it was only 6:30 in the morning, everything screamed SCORCHER! Had there only been a slight breeze it would have made the outrageous heat a tad bit bearable. However as it was, the breeze was nonexistent. After work I rushed home, grabbed the hose, and sprayed myself as if I was one of the puppies trying to avoid overheating. The title was originally “TRIPLE DIGITS”, however something about it just screamed “NIKE AD”. HAHA, so there ya have it!
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Tomorrow should be about 10 degrees cooler…..WHEW!
Strobist:
Shutter Speed 2s
Aperture F32
ISO 100
Focal Length – 40mm
White Bal – Auto
Lighting – Flashpoint Monolight 1220 at 2/5 Power with 45’’ Shoot thru Umbrella at at subject 85 Degrees (approx 5ft forward).
Memory is at once existent and nonexistent. Memories rest in our minds until the time we must recall them. Memories seem solid. KNOWN. But they are so fragile that in a moment they are gone. SHATTERED. They shift with the light that colors events and change as others move into their space. Our friends can only experience our memories from the angle we give them. Memories leave marks in our brains of the stops along our paths -- a mark for each moment -- yet some are so deeply imbedded that we cannot recall them. THEY WAVER, yet we base our lives on our memories.