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Optimism and Pessimism
He loves me – he loves me not.
Venus - Goddess of Peace and Lust
Innocence of Youth
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Falls Psychologie und Astrologie interessieren:
Die junge Venus mit dem Marstransit
Motivationskräfte sind so unterschiedlich wie Blätter an einem Baum. Und dennoch unterscheidet sich das Blatt einer Palme extrem von dem einer Eiche. Auch kann man Unterscheide finden zwischen Bäumen, die ihr Laub im Winter abwerfen und jenen in den tropischen Urwäldern, die das ganze Jahr über grünen. Und so gibt es auch Unterschiede bei Menschen, in denen eine bestimmte Motivationskraft wirkt. Beispielsweise gibt es bei der sanften Venus aggressive Energien, die typisch sind für Mars. Doch die Ausnahmen wie Mars oder die apollinische Rationalität bestätigen nur die Regel, wenn es sich grundsätzlich um eine Frau des sinnlichen Typs „Venus" ( B5) handelt.
Der Wechsel der psychischen Energien ist in der Astrologie bekannt, denn das Konzept ist dynamisch. Es zeigt den Wandel der Motivationskräfte anhand des Kreislaufes der Planten, die um die Sonne kreisen.
Angewandte Astrologie sagt das Auftauchen und Verschwinden von Energien voraus, etwa in folgender Art:
„Für die Jungfrauen heißt es jetzt aufpassen, da ein Mars-Transit angesagt ist. Vermeiden Sie Streit, auch wenn in den nächsten Wochen oft die Wut aufsteigt, besonders bei Angelegenheiten, die Sie für ungerecht halten. Der Transit birgt die Gefahr der Eskalation auch kleiner Konflikte. Doch wir erwarten schon bald einen Wechsel der Energie, denn Venus beginnt mit ihrem Einfluss auf die Jungfrauen.“
Eine sommerlich gekleidete junge Frau, die mir im Zugabteil gegenüber saß, blickte gedankenvoll durch das Fenster mit seinen vorbeiflitzenden Bäumen, Zäunen, Wiesen mit Kühen und im Hintergrund eine langsam verschwindende Kirchturmspitze. Ein Dorf kuschelte sich um sie herum und verschwand, während ich für ein paar Sekunden das von langem Haar nahezu verhangenne Gesicht im Profil betrachtete.
Sie schwieg und starrte aus dem Fenster, seit sie das Abteil betreten und mich freundlich nach dem Fensterplatz gefragt hatte. Auf diese Weise saßen wir gegenüber und unsere Füße begegneten sich beinahe.
Ich war etwas verwirrt, denn mit tiefem Ausschnitt, Kettchen und lackierten Fingernägeln legte sie Wert darauf, von sich ein attraktives Bild zu machen. Natürlich wollte sie auf Männer in ihrem Alter so wirken und vermutlich wäre sie kontaktfreudiger, wenn ihr spezieller Typ auf meinem Platz säße, dennoch schien sie stur und verbockt zu sein, denn die meiste Zeit hielt sie ihre Arme vor der Brust verschränkt.
Ich fragte mich, warum sie dicht gemacht hatte und spekulierte mit dem Gedanken, dass sie schwerwiegende Differenzen mit ihrem Freund austrug.
In der Art wie sie saß, erkannte ich meine eigene Gestik wieder, in die ich falle, wenn ich verstockt bin, um mich von bestimmten Gefühlen nicht mehr quälen zu lassen. Eifersucht beispielsweise schmerzt und demütigt.
Wut und Verstocktheit sind die Reaktion auf jene Person, die diesen Schmerz auslöst. Die Wut konfrontiert und droht: Tu das nie wieder! Das ist die aggressive Energie, das heißt Macht.
Die Verstocktheit dagegen sagt gar nichts, zieht sich schweigend ins Schneckenhaus zurück und gehört damit zur defensiven Seite ein und derselben Medaille, die als Yin und Yang gesehen werden kann.
Die junge Frau machte mir nicht den Eindruck dass ihre natürliche Energie der Offenheit sehr lange vom aggressiven Mars in Wut gehalten werden konnte. Wenn ich jetzt Astrologe wäre hätte ich vielleicht gesagt: „Schon morgen ist Mars zurück in seiner Kaserne und Venus taucht als Morgenstern am Horizont auf.“
Das Auftauchen und Verschwinden von Interessen hat schon die frühe Menschheit beobachtet und machte höhere, unsichtbare Wesenheiten dafür verantwortlich, die Götter. Liebe kommt und Liebe geht. Liebesglück und Liebesleid sind die Folgen.
Schwarz und weiß ist das Leben in seinem Wechsel der häufig durch weiße oder schwarze Vögel charakterisiert und metaphorisch dargestellt wird.
Die hier auf diesem Bild gezeigte Venus ist noch jung. Unschuldig sitzt die weiße Taube auf ihrer Hand, doch ist der Rabe, der pechschwarze Vogel der Unterwelt auch schon da. Die Erfahrung der Unterwelt bringt mit jeder Enttäuschung ein Stück Reife mehr im Leben und schließlich sitzen bei der gereiften Venus, das heißt der weisen Frau beide Vögel auf den geöffneten Handflächen.
Alles hat seine Zeit, auch der Reifeprozess einer Frau, deren Leben in erster Linie von der Göttin der Sinnlichkeit (Motivationskraft B5) bestimmt wird.
Die junge Frau stand auf, stieß versehentlich an meinen Fuß und entschuldigte sich. Unsere Blicke trafen sich kurz und ich sah in der Tiefe ihrer Augen den aufsteigenden Stern. Für eine Sekunde vergaß sie ihren Groll. Als ich lächelte tat sie es spontan zurück.
„Würden Sie für zehn Minuten auf mein Gepäck aufpassen?“ fragte sie. „Ich möchte einmal sehen, wo mein Verlobter abgeblieben ist.“
Es stellte sich heraus, dass sie ihr gemeinsames Abteil verlassen hatte, weil er mit seinem PC arbeitete und auf ihren Protest hin sagte, sie solle sich doch jemanden zur Unterhaltung suchen, er müsse den Bericht bis abends fertig haben.
Tatsächlich unterhielten wir uns bis ich aussteigen musste. Als ich vom Bahnsteig aus einen letzten Gruß zum Fenster sandte, winkte sie zurück. Neben ihr kam ein junger Mann ins Bild. Ich erfuhr nie, ob es ihr Verlobter mit dem Laptop war oder…
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Photo captured via Minolta MD Rokkor-X 85mm F/1.7 lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Early November 2020.
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it feels unreal to live here in temp home..like i would be in another country. can't explain. still must be optimistic and keep the head high..hopefully soon we'll be back home again.
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I hope you're about to have an amazing day.
I've made that my goal.
In the last five or six... shit... maybe seven years I've been in so much trouble.
I've been in a lot of trouble I've deserved and that's a bummer but it doesn't bother me.
But trouble you find yourself in that you don't deserve to be in...
that's a different story.
Especially when it's motivated by revenge... anger... or a vendetta.
I've had a hard time dealing with that.
A really hard time.
Paying thousands upon thousands of dollars in lawyer's fees to deal with pure fiction.
And when fiction gets you into trouble that becomes a 'real problem.'
I've gone through a number of trials...
in one the prosecution told me that if I didn't take their 'deal' that they were going to ask the judge to send me to jail for a year.
Damn... for something that never happened... a malicious and manipulative fabrication.
I hope you never know what that experience is like.
But it happens to people every single day in this country.
Yesterday I was able to put all of that behind me.
It feels so good.
Shit... I got into so much trouble in the last few years that it started to weave itself together.
'This trouble' and 'that trouble' came together and they became 'one trouble.'
I blew the whistle on some government wrongdoing that hurt a lot of people.
A few people are going to spend quite a bit of time in federal prison for it.
People in your government who were either responsible, complicit or negligent got away with it completely and remain in positions of authority in your government today.
There should be a few more going to prison but they're powerful and wealthy people and their only punishment for destroying the health and lives of so many people are millions of dollars in legal bills and the disgrace of their names.
I will always maintain that they murdered those people.
To them I say 'fuck you... you deserve it... in fact you deserve so much more.'
If nothing else karma will have your ass.
In the end I believe that I will be personally responsible for a whole bunch of attorneys making more than a hundred million dollars.
Maybe hundreds of millions of dollars.
Stirred up a shitstorm on that one alright.
The prosecution of these government officials by the government is a disgrace in itself.
They seem hell bent on keeping the truth from the people and prosecuting only to the extent that they need to in order to look like they actually 'gave a shit.'
Your government has a propensity to try not to make itself look bad.
I can assure you that anyone you've ever seen prosecuted for government corruption wasn't really prosecuted for that... they were prosecuted for 'stepping on the toes' of someone else in a powerful position or a coalition of people in positions of power.
But I go on without anger or malice in my heart.
Because it's filled with love and light.
I have spent so much time in court in the last five years I never want to walk through the doors of a courthouse again.
I don't like courthouse doors.
They give me the willies because I know what goes on there.
It isn't fair or pretty or real.
And as much as I've been there I've never seen 'justice' once.
I've only seen highly intelligent people manipulate the realities of what happened to try and change the outcome for their clients.
And I've seen them do that well.
I once spent a day on the stand as a witness... cross examined by the defense they just tore me apart... got me to admit to things I couldn't believe I admitted to even as I admitted them... precisely the way that they wanted me to admit to them.
I got off that stand that day expecting to be taken straight to jail in handcuffs.
For a long time.
I whispered to the attorney... 'did I just admit to a felony?'
That letter I wrote to the Chief of Police... the one that in his chambers the Judge complimented me for saying 'I have never seen such a despicable letter written to a public official in all my time as a judge'...
he said it with a smile because he knew that I was right.
How can it be 'blackmail' if you tell a guy that if he doesn't 'do the right thing' that you're gonna 'squeeze his nuts in the nutcracker until they pop.'
But they really made it look like blackmail... or witness tampering at the very least.
And I signed that letter with my name.
'Statute of Limitations' you've been a friend to me.
I got off that stand and I didn't even like myself.
I realized that they could have done the same thing to Mother Teresa.
A good lawyer could tear her apart and make an evil dictator look like a 'victim' of her 'diabolical scheming and manipulative ways.'
I've seen so many things I only wish I could 'unsee.'
But I stood up and did the right thing.
Sometimes that was the hardest thing to do.
Gahd it cost me a lot.
I did my civic duty.
If no one stands up to fight evil and challenge wrongdoing the world will crumble into a state that I'd hate to see it fall into if only for the fact that I have children who will have to live here even after I'm gone.
Yesterday I became free of the last vestiges of those years of conflict.
It was the most personal battle in that long series of battles.
I don't think it's really sunk in yet.
I keep 'looking behind me' still.
Thinking 'what in the hell is gonna happen next.'
I must have asked the attorneys a half a dozen times... is this it... is it over... can any of this shit be regurgitated... revived... dug up... brought up again or otherwise reincarnated to come back and haunt my ass anymore?
'No' I was told again and again.
I still don't believe it.
Maybe it will sink in over the next couple of 'conflict free' weeks.
I've learned so much.
I've learned that when you go to court and there's a dude there to sketch you with pastels that you're in a world of shit.
I've learned that when Dr. Phil chimes in you're fucked.
I've learned that I look goofy on television.
I've learned how awkward it is to see your life all over the newspapers, the TV, the radio and especially the internet.
I've learned so many things.
I have seen the very worst in human behavior and I hope I see nothing like it ever again.
I've watched people fight just to fight and in the end only end up fighting with themselves.
I've seen people pervert the justice system with their vendettas and try to use the courts of this state purely for revenge.
I've sat there or stood there and watched people lie under oath.
Flat out lie.
No big.
I've seen people violate the orders of the court without getting so much as a slap on the hand.
I've seen people get away with murder.
But I did what I had to do.
And in the end most of the bullshit and the shennanigans were made apparent by the light of day.
Maybe it took an excruciatingly long time.
But I've seen a judge make wise and fair judgements.
That's the one thing I'm left with being impressed with throughout the debacles of these last few years.
I don't know how the hell these judges do it.
They always hear two very different stories and they've got to render a judgement and go home and sleep that night.
Yesterday a judge thoroughly impressed me with his command of the courtroom and the fairness of his judgement.
But if he could have only 'heard the truth' he would have probably judged things differently.
Our legal system makes it hard to even bring the truth in front of that judge not just sometimes... but all of the time.
I'm not sure if I'm at liberty to say much more at this point...
partly because I still can't believe I'm done with this shit... and partly because I've had that liberty 'taken away from me' and I don't know where that stands.
I slept better last night than I have in a long time.
I woke up ready to take on the day and focus on the things in my life that need to be focused on...
not to deal with a bunch of bullshit that wasn't real in a fight that was being obviously fought for the sake of fighting it and nothing else.
The morning sunshine looked so much brighter today.
I feel so much lighter.
My heart is filled with love and light.
I feel free.
I am filled with an optimism that I haven't been filled with in a long time.
And I feel good.
I feel really good.
I hope you're feeling good and optimistic today too.
I hope you're feelin' that love and light just like I am.
Photo captured from the Sweet Creek Falls Interpretive Trail at Sweet Creek Rest Area, alongside State Route 31, the International Selkirk Loop and the North Pend Oreille Scenic Byway, via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24mm F/2.8 Lens. Selkirk Mountains Range. Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Pend Oreille County, Washington. Early October 2017.
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View of the west side of Cleveland the day after a snow storm (taken from the MetroHealth tower)
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Brooklyn Bridge
Carries Motor vehicles (cars only)
Elevated trains (until 1944)
Streetcars (until 1950)
Pedestrians, and bicycles
Crosses East River
Locale New York City (Manhattan–Brooklyn)
Maintained by New York City Department of Transportation
Designer John Augustus Roebling
Design Suspension/Cable-stay Hybrid
Total length 5,989 feet (1825 m)[1]
Width 85 feet (26 m)
Longest span 1,595 feet 6 inches (486.3 m)
Clearance below 135 feet (41 m) at mid-span
Opened May 24, 1883
Toll Free both ways
Daily traffic 123,781 (2008)[2]
Coordinates 40°42′20″N 73°59′47″W / 40.70569°N 73.99639°W / 40.70569; -73.99639 (Brooklyn Bridge)Coordinates: 40°42′20″N 73°59′47″W / 40.70569°N 73.99639°W / 40.70569; -73.99639 (Brooklyn Bridge)
Brooklyn Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
NYC Landmark
Built/Founded: 1883
Architectural style(s): Gothic
Added to NRHP: 1966[3]
Designated NHL: January 29, 1964[4]
NRHP Reference#: 75001237
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.
Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge in a January 25, 1867 letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,[5] and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an iconic part of the New York skyline. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964[4][6][7] and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.[8]
Contents [hide]
1 Construction
2 Pedestrian and vehicular access
2.1 Notable events
2.2 100th anniversary celebrations
2.3 125th anniversary celebrations
3 Cultural significance
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links
[edit] Construction
The Brooklyn Bridge was initially designed by German immigrant John Augustus Roebling, who had previously designed and constructed shorter suspension bridges, such as Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, and the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio.
While conducting surveys for the bridge project, Roebling sustained a crush injury to his foot when a ferry pinned it against a piling. After amputation of his crushed toes he developed a tetanus infection which left him incapacitated and soon resulted in his death, not long after he had placed his 32 year-old son Washington Roebling in charge of the project.[9]
Washington Roebling also suffered a paralyzing injury as a result of decompression sickness shortly after the beginning of construction on January 3, 1870.[10] This condition, first called "caisson disease" by the project physician Dr. Andrew Smith, afflicted many of the workers working within the caissons.[11][12] After Roebling's debilitating condition left him unable to physically supervise the construction firsthand, his wife Emily Warren Roebling stepped in and provided the critical written link between her husband and the engineers on-site.[13] Under her husband's guidance, Emily had studied higher mathematics, the calculations of catenary curves, the strengths of materials, bridge specifications, and the intricacies of cable construction.[14][15][16] She spent the next 11 years assisting Washington Roebling helping to supervise the bridge's construction.
When iron probes underneath the caisson found the bedrock to be even deeper than expected, Roebling halted construction due to the increased risk of decompression sickness. He deemed the aggregate overlying the bedrock 30 feet (9 m) below it to be firm enough to support the tower base.[17]
The Brooklyn Bridge was completed thirteen years later and was opened for use on May 24, 1883. The opening ceremony was attended by several thousand people and many ships were present in the East Bay for the occasion. President Chester A. Arthur and New York Mayor Franklin Edson crossed the bridge to celebratory cannon fire and were greeted by Brooklyn Mayor Seth Low when they reached the Brooklyn-side tower. Arthur shook hands with Washington Roebling at the latter's home, after the ceremony. Roebling was unable to attend the ceremony (and in fact rarely visited the site again), but held a celebratory banquet at his house on the day of the bridge opening. Further festivity included the performance of a band, gunfire from ships, and a fireworks display.[18]
On that first day, a total of 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 people crossed what was then the only land passage between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Emily Warren Roebling was the first to cross the bridge. The bridge's main span over the East River is 1,595 feet 6 inches (486.3 m). The bridge cost $15.5 million to build and approximately 27 people died during its construction.[19]
One week after the opening, on May 30, 1883, a rumor that the Bridge was going to collapse caused a stampede, which crushed and killed at least twelve people.[20] On May 17, 1884, P. T. Barnum helped to squelch doubts about the bridge's stability—while publicizing his famous circus—when one of his most famous attractions, Jumbo, led a parade of 21 elephants over the Brooklyn Bridge.[21][22][23][24]
Plan of one tower for the Brooklyn Bridge, 1867At the time it opened, and for several years, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world—50% longer than any previously built — and it has become a treasured landmark. Since the 1980s, it has been floodlit at night to highlight its architectural features. The towers are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement. Their architectural style is neo-Gothic, with characteristic pointed arches above the passageways through the stone towers. The paint scheme of the bridge is "Brooklyn Bridge Tan", although is has been argued that the original paint was "Rawlins Red".[25]
At the time the bridge was built, the aerodynamics of bridge building had not been worked out. Bridges were not tested in wind tunnels until the 1950s—well after the collapse of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie) in 1940. It is therefore fortunate that the open truss structure supporting the deck is by its nature less subject to aerodynamic problems. Roebling designed a bridge and truss system that was six times as strong as he thought it needed to be. Because of this, the Brooklyn Bridge is still standing when many of the bridges built around the same time have vanished into history and been replaced. This is also in spite of the substitution of inferior quality wire in the cabling supplied by the contractor J. Lloyd Haigh—by the time it was discovered, it was too late to replace the cabling that had already been constructed. Roebling determined that the poorer wire would leave the bridge four rather than six times as strong as necessary, so it was eventually allowed to stand, with the addition of 250 cables. Diagonal cables were installed from the towers to the deck, intended to stiffen the bridge. They turned out to be unnecessary, but were kept for their distinctive beauty.
After the collapse in 2007 of the I-35W highway bridge in the city of Minneapolis, increased public attention has been brought to bear on the condition of bridges across the US, and it has been reported that the Brooklyn Bridge approach ramps received a rating of "poor" at its last inspection.[26] According to a NYC Department of Transportation spokesman, "The poor rating it received does not mean it is unsafe. Poor means there are some components that have to be rehabilitated." A $725 million project to replace the approaches and repaint the bridge was scheduled to begin in 2009.[27]
The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge is detailed in the 1978 book The Great Bridge by David McCullough[13] and Brooklyn Bridge (1981), the first PBS documentary film ever made by Ken Burns.[28] Burns drew heavily on McCullough's book for the film and used him as narrator.[29] It is also described in Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, a BBC docudrama series with accompanying book.
[edit] Pedestrian and vehicular access
Cross section diagramAt various times, the bridge has carried horse-drawn and trolley traffic; at present, it has six lanes for motor vehicles, with a separate walkway along the centerline for pedestrians and bicycles. Due to the roadway's height (11 ft (3.4 m) posted) and weight (6,000 lb (2,700 kg) posted) restrictions, commercial vehicles and buses are prohibited from using this bridge. The two inside traffic lanes once carried elevated trains of the BMT from Brooklyn points to a terminal at Park Row via Sands Street. Streetcars ran on what are now the two center lanes (shared with other traffic) until the elevated lines stopped using the bridge in 1944, when they moved to the protected center tracks. In 1950 the streetcars also stopped running, and the bridge was rebuilt to carry six lanes of automobile traffic.
The Brooklyn Bridge is accessible from the Brooklyn entrances of Tillary/Adams Streets, Sands/Pearl Streets, and Exit 28B of the eastbound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. In Manhattan, motor cars can enter from either direction of the FDR Drive, Park Row, Chambers/Centre Streets, and Pearl/Frankfort Streets. Pedestrian access to the bridge from the Brooklyn side is from either Tillary/Adams Streets (in between the auto entrance/exit), or a staircase on Prospect St between Cadman Plaza East and West. In Manhattan, the pedestrian walkway is accessible from the end of Centre Street, or through the unpaid south staircase of Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall IRT subway station.
View from the pedestrian walkway. The bridge's cable arrangement forms a distinct weblike pattern.The Brooklyn Bridge has a wide pedestrian walkway open to walkers and cyclists, in the center of the bridge and higher than the automobile lanes. While the bridge has always permitted the passage of pedestrians across its span, its role in allowing thousands to cross takes on a special importance in times of difficulty when usual means of crossing the East River have become unavailable.
During transit strikes by the Transport Workers Union in 1980 and 2005, the bridge was used by people commuting to work, with Mayors Koch and Bloomberg crossing the bridge as a gesture to the affected public.[30][31]
Following the 1965, 1977 and 2003 Blackouts and most famously after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, the bridge was used by people in Manhattan to leave the city after subway service was suspended. The massive numbers of people on the bridge could not have been anticipated by the original designer, yet John Roebling designed it with three separate systems managing even unanticipated structural stresses. The bridge has a suspension system, a diagonal stay system, and a stiffening truss. "Roebling himself famously said if anything happens to one of [his] systems, 'The bridge may sag, but it will not fall.'"[32] The movement of large numbers of people on a bridge creates pedestrian oscillations or "sway" as the crowd lifts one foot after another, some falling inevitably in synchronized cadences. The natural sway motion of people walking causes small sideways oscillations in a bridge, which in turn cause people on the bridge to sway in step, increasing the amplitude of the bridge oscillations and continually reinforcing the effect. High-density traffic of this nature causes a bridge to appear to move erratically or "to wobble" as happened at opening of the London Millennium Footbridge in 2000.[33]
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper c.1883[edit] Notable events
First jumper
The first person to jump from the bridge was Robert E. Odlum on May 19, 1885. He struck the water at an angle and died shortly thereafter from internal injuries.[34] Steve Brodie was the most famous jumper, or self-proclaimed jumper (in 1886).
Bungee jump
On June 1993, following 13 reconnoiters inside the metal structure, and with the help of a mountain guide, Thierry Devaux performed (illegally) eight acrobatic bungee jumps above the East River close to the Brooklyn pier, in the early morning. He used an electric winch between each acrobatic figure.[35]
1994 Brooklyn Bridge shooting
Main article: Brooklyn Bridge Shooting
On March 1, 1994, Lebanese-born Rashid Baz opened fire on a van carrying members of the Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish Movement, striking sixteen-year-old student Ari Halberstam and three others traveling on the bridge.[36] Halberstam died five days later from his wounds. Baz was apparently acting out of revenge for the Hebron massacre of 29 Muslims by Baruch Goldstein that had taken place days earlier on February 25, 1994. Baz was convicted of murder and sentenced to a 141-year prison term. After initially classifying the murder as one committed out of road rage, the Justice Department reclassified the case in 2000 as a terrorist attack. The entrance ramp to the bridge on the Manhattan side was named the Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp in memory of the victim.[37]
The 2003 plot
In 2003, truck driver Iyman Faris was sentenced to about 20 years in prison for providing material support to Al-Qaeda, after an earlier plot to destroy the bridge by cutting through its support wires with blowtorches was thwarted through information the National Security Agency uncovered through wiretapped phone conversations and interrogation of Al-Qaeda militants.[38]
2006 bunker discovery
In 2006, a Cold War era bunker was found by city workers near the East River shoreline of Manhattan's Lower East Side. The bunker, hidden within the masonry anchorage, still contained the emergency supplies that were being stored for a potential nuclear attack by the Soviet Union.[39]
[edit] 100th anniversary celebrations
The centennary celebrations on May 24, 1983, saw a cavalcade of cars crossing the bridge, led by President Ronald Reagan. A flotilla of ships visited the harbor, parades were held, and in the evening the sky over the bridge was illuminated by Grucci fireworks.[40] The Brooklyn Museum exhibited a selection of the original drawings made for the bridge's construction, some by Washington Roebling himself.
[edit] 125th anniversary celebrations
Beginning on May 22, 2008, festivities were held over a five-day period to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. The events kicked off with a live performance of the Brooklyn Philharmonic in Empire–Fulton Ferry State Park, followed by special lighting of the bridge's towers and a fireworks display.[41] Other events held during the 125th anniversary celebrations, which coincided with the Memorial Day weekend, included a film series, historical walking tours, information tents, a series of lectures and readings, a bicycle tour of Brooklyn, a miniature golf course featuring Brooklyn icons, and other musical and dance performances.[42]
Just before the anniversary celebrations, the Telectroscope, which created a video link between New York and London, was installed on the Brooklyn side of the bridge. The installation lasted for a few weeks and permitted viewers in New York to see people looking into a matching telectroscope in front of London's Tower Bridge.[43] A newly renovated pedestrian connection to DUMBO was also unveiled before the anniversary celebrations.[44]
[edit] Cultural significance
Contemporaries marveled at what technology was capable of and the bridge became a symbol of the optimism of the time. John Perry Barlow wrote in the late 20th century of the "literal and genuinely religious leap of faith" embodied in the Brooklyn Bridge ... "the Brooklyn Bridge required of its builders faith in their ability to control technology."[45]
References to "selling the Brooklyn Bridge" abound in American culture, sometimes as examples of rural gullibility but more often in connection with an idea that strains credulity. For example, "If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you."[citation needed] References are often nowadays more oblique, such as "I could sell you some lovely riverside property in Brooklyn ...".[citation needed] George C. Parker and William McCloundy are two early 20th-century con-men who had (allegedly) successfully perpetrated this scam on unwitting tourists.[46] The 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon Bowery Bugs is a joking reference to Bugs "selling" a story of the Brooklyn Bridge to a naive tourist.
In his second book The Bridge, Hart Crane begins with a poem entitled "Proem: To Brooklyn Bridge." The bridge was a source of inspiration for Crane and he owned different apartments specifically to have different views of the bridge.
[edit] References
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[edit] Further reading
Cadbury, Deborah. (2004), Dreams of Iron and Steel. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-716307-X
Haw, Richard. (2005). The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-3587-5
Haw, Richard. (2008). Art of the Brooklyn Bridge: A Visual History. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-95386-3
McCullough, David. (1972). The Great Bridge. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-21213-3
Strogatz, Steven. (2003). Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. New York: Hyperion books. 10-ISBN 0-7868-6844-9; 13-ISBN 978-0-7868-6844-5 (cloth) [2nd ed., Hyperion, 2004. 10-ISBN 0-7868-8721-4; 13-ISBN 978-0-7868-8721-7 (paper)]
Strogartz, Steven, Daniel M. Abrams, Allan McRobie, Bruno Eckhardt, and Edward Ott. et al. (2005). "Theoretical mechanics: Crowd synchrony on the Millennium Bridge," Nature, Vol. 438, pp, 43–44.link to Nature articleMillennium Bridge opening day video illustrating "crowd synchrony" oscillations
Trachtenberg, Alan. (1965). Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226811158 [2nd ed., 1979, ISBN 0-226-81115-8 (paper)]
[edit] External links
New York City portal
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Brooklyn Bridge
360° Interactive panorama from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge: A Study in Greatness
NYCroads.com – Brooklyn Bridge
Transportation Alternatives Fiboro Bridges – Brooklyn Bridge
The story of Brooklyn Bridge – by CBS Forum
Panorama of Brooklyn Bridge 1899 – Extreme Photo Constructions
Structurae: Brooklyn Bridge
Great Buildings entry for the Brooklyn Bridge
American Society of Civil Engineers
Railroad Extra – Brooklyn Bridge and its Railway
Images of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Bridge Photo Gallery with a Flash VR 360 of the Brooklyn Bridge Pedestrian Walkway
Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 at Project Gutenberg
Brooklyn Bridge at Historical Marker Database
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In March 1969 the prototype Bristol VRLL Eastern Coach Works bodied double deck motor coach for Standerwick, fleet number 50, was in Victoria Coach Station. There was so much optimism and excitement for this and subsequent vehicles of the batch at the time, but I think they eventually became a liability due to a number of problems in their design. My photo.
I am always trying to be the optimist in life- to find the silver lining, to be the spin doctor. It’s not always easy and I’m not always successful, but what I have learned in these later years is that every journey has its pitfalls. Every one of them. I learned that if I let that pitfall sideline me or set me back, I will never get anywhere. Every day is a new day and a new opportunity to pick back up where I left off…
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Year Nine Of My 365 Project
Clem brought his daughter, Lucy, to work with him. She had never ridden in a train engine before let alone driven one. Pretty big day for a four year old. Too bad Clem suffered a heart attack and hadn't bothered showing Lucy how to stop the train!
The above story is fictitious.
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Bohn was a Detroit-based manufacturer of metals and alloys with a reputation for union-bashing. In the 1940s they invested heavily in a long series of adverts that looked forward to a future utopia where human ingenuity would triumph over the constraints of space, time and gravity, grandly presented in full page and full colour streamlined visions. The presiding genius behind the campaign was local illustrator, Arthur Radebaugh (1906-74) who described a world where monorails, flying cars and torpedo-shaped ocean liners battled the elements to conquer time and space. It was an ingenious effort to combine the after-imagery of the Streamline era with the galactic vision of Astounding Science Fiction to project forward into an imagined future of unlimited connectivity. Vast aviation hubs, multi-level cities, high speed trains, towering cruise ships and driverless cars have all, to some degree come to pass - only the monorail has stubbornly failed to catch on. Later attention turned to more prosaic consumer products (lawnmowers, telephones, motorcycles, kitchen storage). It seems that Radebaugh himself already inhabited the future he was busy imagining for the rest of us. He would travel the nation in a 1959 Ford Econoline van that he had customised into a mobile studio complete with futuristic styling. As for Bohn, post-War optimism decayed into anti-Communist paranoia, shelling out for ads that would tear the mask of peace from the hard vicious face of Communism.
Remember keep a balance for appreciation of the finite nature of existence, but still hold dear the present, and rejoice in being alive in this moment in time.
I surround myself with the reminders. Arrowheads, ancient pottery, my grandfather's war medals. They were each people, vibrant, alive - as I am now, full of the joy that lies ahead. Now they are gone - that will be me someday.
Knowing this and pondering it is a burden and a joy. You try to live fuller because of it, but always have to fight the lingering despair as you think of how fast time seems to rush us by...and one day we too will be on our deathbed with a new generation writing these words and thinking these thoughts.
I hope it's worth it.
I'm going to be optimistic today. Because, frankly, I really really need it.
1. I love my cameras. Even though I grumble about it a lot, I do enjoy looking back on my past 365s, so I can only imagine I will do the same for this one. Even the crappy, quick snaps like this.
2. My kid is my ultimate happiness. There is nothing more amazing or unexplainable than the love between a mother and her child.
3. I really enjoy rain. I know, sunshine is lovely, and lately I've been craving it...but nothing beats that low-lying blanket of clouds and the sound of raindrops plunking into puddles. For me, anyway.
4. I love coffee. A lot. I grew up every day of my life watching my parents sit at the breakfast table with big mugs of steaming coffee and talk and laugh. It's more than just some awesomely delicious liquid that zaps the sleep outta me. It's...comfort and habitual and a memory.... and I adore that.
5. I love simplicity and snuggly clutter. Yes, both. I like things like...bare white walls and a simple one color bedspread with a shelf that is just chock full of knick knacks and odds and ends. It's a balance, you see.
6. I love that feeling when you wake up all warm and comfy and know you have nowhere to be. Of course, I'm a mommy...so technically...I always have 'somewhere' to be...but at least I can do it in my jammies.
7. I love it when I can't find the words to finish what I want to say, or I say the wrong word, and whoever I'm talking to just knows exactly what I mean and doesn't say a word. Bliss.
8. I love the smell of a new book. I also love the sound it makes when you first open it.
9. I love it when everything is where it belongs. I have a mini-panic attack when I wake up to a mess...pretty much anywhere.
10. I love laughing so hard that I feel it in my stomache...the next day. Where, its so funny you are in physical pain and your eyes water. It doesn't sound awesome, but trust me....it makes your whole week better.
11. I love waking up from happy dreams, and my whole day seems that much brighter.
12. I love simple pleasures. Like a surprise candy bar, or water by my bed when I wake up, or when a diaper miraculously changes itself. Yep, my husband is pretty good at that stuff.
13. I love warm, sunny summer evenings where you have nothing but a screen door between you and the smell of growth and moisture and bbqs, and you can almost hear the grass move as you watch it.
14. I love days of quiet and privacy, where I can wander around in my shorts and tank tops all day and noone sees me but my 1 yr old. If the doorbell rings, I ain't home.
15. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Emerson
*hugs*
mwah
.K
Random Fact: 16 pennies stacked up equals one inch, and 16 pennies in a line is one foot.
Learner's definition of
OPTIMISM : a feeling or belief that good things will happen in the future : a feeling or belief that what you hope for will happen
Both of them expressed optimism about the future of the town.
The early sales reports are cause/reason/grounds for optimism.
Most of us reacted to the news with cautious/guarded optimism. [=a feeling that something good may happen but will not definitely happen]
— opposite pessimism
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose
They say that hope makes the world go round. Whether we admit this as an universal truth is a different argument altogether . But my world does revolve around hope. The impossible optimist that I am, I live on hope. I hope clean drinking water would be available to all and every child would have a fair education. I hope to wake up one day to a world where there is no poverty, no fanaticism, no war, no genocide. I hope that each of my days start only to end perfectly. I hope my friends and my loved ones would be by my side at all times. I hope that one day transcontinental travel time would let me see my mum almost as soon as I start missing her. I hope to be able to cook up a fabulous meal in a jiffy. I hope to be able to possess a Louis Vuitton without having to spend a fortune on it. I hope that these cups will magically breed cakes overnight. I hope of new hopes every day.
Another day, another dollar spent.
I'm also not grumpy today, so hells to the yes on that.
I also think this might be a record, as I took only 2 shots. For setting up a manipulation, even with me being one to half-ass things, still I am impressed by that number.
Inspiration for this? A lot of shit hitting the fan and me seeing a jar in my closet. *click*
My kid is bored. I better go play happy entertaining mommy. :)
G'night yo
mwah
.K
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