Dr. Michaela Beder is one of 300 doctors who have demanded action from the city on shelter conditions to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Another piece for the "My Ink Runs Cold" show that ran at the DVA Gallery in Chicago in 2006.

hasselblad 503cx, 50mm, fuji pro 400

Don't leave that imbecile chrome-dome out of your sight Black Widow....and report to me when he screws up. I trust that lousy snake face as far as I can throw him. Don't kill him though...he's always good for business and a laugh.....

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So a bunch of my Amazon orders came in lol. I really wanted the 2016 Holiday Barbie with the Claudette sculpt and she was $15, I knew if I waited any longer she’s going to go for bonkers prices later on.

I figured I pick up another doll or two to save on shipping so I grabbed a Batman doll to steal his body, and picked up this Henry Higgins doll cuz I’ve been wanting a brown suit but they’ve all been $30+ and Henry here was $23 so.

Claudette’s dress is BIG though it sheds glitter and literally feels like a tent due to the plastic fabric. I actually really liked Model Muse bodies cuz the solid vinyl legs and dynamic poses make them good candidates for modeling clothing and photography, but this one? It’s AWFUL. The legs are hollow plastic and there’s messy seams everywhere so it’s basically garbage.

Batman is a weird one but I have no issues with him asides from his head looking like a burping potato and ALL his accessories are super soft vinyl, so I can’t imagine these surviving very well.

Henry Higgin’s suit is a Jacket and combination shirt and pants thing but… I miss this level of quality from Mattel. The fabric is hemmed, the jacket is fully lined and it just feels so much better than either of these other dolls lol. However his shoe did explode off and the box is degrading a lot so yeah.

Maserati Car Orders Almost Triple During 2013.

Maserati, the Italian luxury manufacturer, proudly announced receiving an incredible 20,300 orders over the first eight months of 2013, tripling the amount sold last year.

As of June, Maserati reported having received 14,159 orders. Of those orders, over 7,900 were for the new Maserati Quattroporte. The 110,000 euro ($147,300) Quattroporte sedan was the biggest seller, Maserati brand chief executive Harald Wester said.

Selling more Maseratis is an important piece of Fiat’s latest strategy to return to profit in 2016 in Europe, where it lost 700 million Euros last year in a shrinking market.

With an incredible run in July and August of 6,000 orders, Maserati seems to have secured a return to profit in 2016 as more consumers are selecting its new car models as their luxury vehicles of choice.

Considering Maserati sold all of 6,300 cars globally in 2012, its goal of selling 50,000 by 2015 seemed like a bit of a stretch to say the least, but it turns the Fiat-owned automaker was on to something. Reuters is reporting that Maserati has already received about 20,300 orders for cars this year, with help from the new 2014 Quattroporte and strong demand in China.

The US continues to be the top market for Maserati sales, but the report quotes Harald Wester, brand chief executive, as saying that China is now the top market for Quattroporte. As big of an improvement as this is it bears mentioning that the Ghibli isn't even on sale yet and the Levante SUV, a redesigned GranTurismo and a new 911-fighting coupe are still waiting in the pipeline.

Having visited this dockyard in August 2017, it brought back many memories for me having sailed out from there in 1963 on H.M.S. Venus to the Azores. I was then a Cook in the Royal Navy serving at H.M.S Ganges in Suffolk. It was a cold winter day then and I was over the side of the ship scrubbing it clean before we sailed. Arriving at the entrance it was a bit disconcerting to see the queues of people waiting to get in. The queue took 40 minutes to allow where I was to arrive at the ticket gate. A bag search told me I was to leave my Monopod with them for safe keeping at the ticket office. This also applies to Tripods for camera equipment so remember this.

The first ship you see is the H.M.S Warrior on the left hand side dock. This ship was the fastest, largest and most powerful warship in the world when she was launched. Such was her reputation that enemy fleets were intimidated by her obvious supremacy and deterred from attacking Britain at sea although she never fired a shot in anger. HMS Warrior was a 40 gun steam powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. On board HMS Warrior which was launched in 1860, Britain’s first iron-hulled, armoured battleship. The ship is powered by steam and sail and was the largest, fastest and most powerful warship of her day and had a lasting influence on naval architecture and design. Work and life on board reflected both the changes the Royal Navy experienced as it evolved into a professional service and shifts in Victorian society.Built to encounter the latest of the French ships, Warrior was, in her time, the ultimate sea warrior. Yet by creating a new era in naval technology, she very soon became outdated. After 22 years’ service, Warrior’s hull was to be used as a depot, floating school and an oil jetty. Painstakingly restored in Hartlepool and then back home to Portsmouth since 1987, Warrior is a unique survivor of the once formidable Victorian Navy and now serves as a museum ship, visitor attraction, popular private hire venue and more. HMS Warrior was rescued in the 1980’s, restored and brought back home to Portsmouth and is owned by Warrior Preservation Trust, an independent charity. Sadly, time has it taken its toll and today she is in a sorry state - her bulwarks, which keep her watertight, have failed and are deteriorating to a point which places her at significant risk.

Next ship I saw was H.M.S. Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship. In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission. This the world’s most famous warship HMS Victory is crumbling under her own weight. An 18-month programme to bring this historic ship back to its original condition. H.M.S. Victory has been sitting in dry dock in Portsmouth since 1922 supported by 22 steel cradles positioned at six metre intervals. It has been well recorded that the 252 year old ship is collapsing ( so to speak ) under her own weight and following a detailed laser scan of 89.25 billion measurements and computer modelling, a new support system has been designed to record how the ship would sit in water.

The Mary Rose Museum is run by the Mary Rose Trust. The construction has been a challenge because the museum has been built over the ship in the dry dock, which is now a listed monument. During construction of the museum, conservation of the hull continued inside a sealed hotbox. In April 2013, the polyethylene glycol sprays were turned off and the process of controlled air drying began. In 2016 the hotbox walls were removed and after reopening on 20 July 2016 the ship is currently on display behind glass. This new museum displays most of the artefacts recovered from within the ship in context with the conserved hull. Since the opening it has been visited by over a million people. The museum is dedicated to the 16th century Tudor navy warship Mary Rose as well as the historical context in which she was active. The museum opened in 1984.T he Mary Rose is a Tudor ship that was built in 1510. In service for 34 years, it sank in 1545 and then discovered in 1971 and was raised in 1982.

Another ship I went to visit was HMS M.33 which is the only sole remaining British veteran of the bloody Dardanelles Campaign of 1915-1916, and also the Russian Civil War which followed. The ship is one of just three British warships from World War I still in existence. HMS M.33 was built in 1915 on the orders of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. She was a floating gun platform designed to bombard coastal positions from the sea. Her first active operation was the support of the British landings at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in August 1915. She remained stationed at Gallipoli until the evacuation in January 1916. She served in the Mediterranean for the remainder of the War and was involved in the seizure of the Greek fleet at Salamis Bay in 1916.

In the dockyard you will find many other attractions and museums along with various shops catering for items of interest connected to this historic site.

A soldier issues orders whilst on patrol in Afghanistan

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Southern service destined for Victoria speeds past the Up Starting signal at Amberley. The surviving semaphore signals on the Mid-Sussex/Arun Valley line are soon to be replaced.

History of organ Redoute

General Information

History as a multipurpose facility Reduty Publicly construction begins in 1901, when the city of Bratislava as one of the cultural centers of Austria-Hungarian Empire Teresian bought the former granary, built on the banks of the Danube in 1773 on the orders of Maria Theresa. After the demolition of the city granary built in the years 1913-1919 multifunctional building in neo-baroque style with elements of Rococo and Art Nouveau. The name itself implies Redoute object of linguistic terms for interpretation in French ("Redoute"- Ball, prom or dance hall, etc.) Public multipurpose building. This was originally the seat of several associations, trade as well as cultural organizations and served on a large scale public capital Bratislava on musical events, dance parties and performances and to provide similar services.

The seat of the Slovak Philharmonic has become Redoute up to the beginning of the 50th years for the period of post-war Czechoslovak Republic. The focus of its activities, the provision of general and particular cultural services to the public concentrating varied Concerts. This house featured artists (male) and artists (female) from Slovakia but also many foreign guests from all over the world. At that time (in 1956) was to Slovak Philharmonic concert hall organ built and placed under the window in the facade of the building facing the street Medená. It is about a 85 štvormanuálový registering body Rieger-Kloss. Organ is electro pneumatic traktúry and one sliding game table. The factory was built by the authority located in Krnov in the current Czech Republic. Its current condition is marked by particular problems of quality materials available in the post-war market of Czechoslovak Republic in the mid 50s. Apart from the fact that the architecture (design) of this monumental musical instrument became not only a symbol of the object Reduty but also the Slovak Philharmonic.

After the Velvet Revolution, the object Reduty gradually transformed to fit the multifunctional cultural facility with a rich European musical tradition and at the same time it was decided the reconstruction and completion of the building

Current Status

History of organ Redoute

+ Organ in the Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic was built in 1956 by Ing. Veverku. vyrobený, made ​​by organ Krnov, Czechoslovakia;

+ Characteristics of organ type - Rieger-Kloss Organ Opus 3210; technical design consists of the following parts - 4 manuals and pedal, 84 registers sounding, about 6,000 pipes, electrical traktúra, bowling tube, and moving game table;

+ Appearance organ (ie prospectus, ie its front part is called fancy face organ) adapt its constructor works of art of the concert hall SF)

+ A successful (visual) art solution fits into the interior of the concert hall and accepting some creative themes linked to the overall interior decoration,

+ Adaptation of the technical solutions addressing the visual, the sound of the organ was very inconvenient, many pipes are deaf - and has broken above a disproportionately large - length, which is due to the technical structures and organs due to inadequate acoustics solution;

2 Current status and review of existing organs

· Current state of the organ is difficult for artistic production incapacitated, is permanently faulty and can not be efficiently modified or rebuilt,

· Internal structure has only a minimal amount of material and the addition of a smaller pipework is not applicable construction elsewhere,

· The historically - art website does not constitute the organ of no value,

· Its hilarious appearance - art rendition of the facade of the organ (its face), may be the subject of consideration in the design of new creative solutions to future body;

3 Description of the disposition of the existing organ in the Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic

Switch (Absteller):

1 switch drum

2 The switch 16 ' Man. + 32 ' Ped.

3 Reed switch registers of

I. manual:

4 Principal 16'

5 Burdon 16'

6 Principal 8'

7 Hollow Flute 8'

8 Viola da gamba 8'

9 Octave 4'

10th Recorder Flute 4'

11th Supe roktáva 2'

12th Transverse flute 2'

13th Whistle sparkling 4x 4'

14th Mixture 8 -10X 1 1/3 - 4'

15th Trumpet 16'

16th Trumpet 8'

17th I / II

18th III / II

19th IV / II

II. Manual:

20th Kvintadéna 8'

21, Cover 8'

22, Principal 4'

23 Roh night 4'

24th Glucanase 2 2/ 3'

25th Octave 2'

26th 2 flute flat'

27th Superkvinta 1 1/ 3'

28th Superoktáva 1'

29th Mixture 6 - 8x 1' - 4'

30th Crooked horn 8'

31 String shelf 4'

32 III / I

33 IV / I

34th I tremolo

Switch (absteller):

35th Hand switch registers

36th Switch connectors from the Register

37th Sub switch (couplings)

38th Super switch (couplings)

39th Mixtur switch

40th Pedal switch

III. manual:

41 Pommer indoor 16'

42 Principal 8'

43 Dome Flute 8'

44th Salicional 8'

45th Cover Musick 8'

46th Vox coelestis 1 - 2x 8 + 8'

47th Octave 4'

48th Flute pipe 4'

49th Violina 4'

50th Fifth covered 2 2/3'

51 Kvintadecima 2'

52 2 flute forest'

53 Seskvialtera - 2 2/3' + 1 3/ 5'

54th Mixture 7 - 9x 1 1/3 - 4'

55th Dulcimer - 3 8/9 ' - 1 1/ 3'

56th Field Trumpet 8'

57th Vox humana 8'

58th Klarina 4'

59th Harp 8'

60th IV / III

61st III tremolo

IV. manual:

62 Roh Kamzíková 8'

63 Roh night indoor 8'

64th Fluttering flute 1 - 2 8' + 8'

65th Principal 4'

66th Flute radius 4'

67th Fifth pipe 2 2/3'

68th Octave 2'

69 Tonus Fabri 2 + 1'

70th Terciová Flute 1 3/ 5'

71 Flute Kvintová 1 1/3'

72 Swiss fife 1'

73 Mixture Nono's 8/9' - 2 2/5'

74th AKUTOL 4x 1/2' - 4'

75th Cimbál terciový 3x 1 /4 - 2'

76th Rankettregál 16'

77th Dulcian 8'

78th Shawm 4'

79th Bells big G - works

Pedal

80th Plinth 32'

81st Double Bass 32' + 16'

82 Principálbas 16'

83 Apertabas 16'

84th Subbas 16'

85th Burdonbas 16'

86th Fifth Big 10 2/3'

87th Octavebas 8'

88th Hollow Flute 8'

89th Kvintadéna pipe 8'

90th Cover 8'

91st Naza covered 5 1/3'

92nd Chorálbas 4'

93rd Pointed Flute 4'

94th Cink 2 + 1'

95th Pipe effervescent 4x 5 1/ 3'

96th Mixture 7-9 x 2-4'

97th Kontrapozón 32'

98th Dulcian 16'

99th Požoň 16'

100th Trumpet 8'

101 Klarina 4'

102 I / P

103 II / P

104th III / P

105th IV / P

4 available combinations

Rollers

III. and IV. in impoundments

Electric traktúry

Man C - c5 (manuals)

Before C - g1 (pedal)

4 Inadequate design parameters of the existing functional organ from a technical point of view

· Occupy too much space - for the system design,

· Pipe section realized the sound of difficult material (zinc) and hardly tunable material (lack priezvučnosť prospectus is inappropriate resonance, etc.),

· Many pipes are broken, have only a decorative function,

· Poor artistic appearance of the body organ pipes - inappropriate striebrenkový coat;

· Middle balkónovitý projection bodies (positive) is inappropriate, interferes with musical productions, in the future it will be necessary to imbed into the sides of the level, but to lose plasticity breakdown; prospectus shift back by 1 m;

www.filharmonia.sk/index.php?page=organ-history

forest fires are thick in central BC, here is more info;http://globalnews.ca/news/3602161/b-c-wildfire-status-list-of-latest-evacuation-orders/

Orders

Denver, 18 March 1978

In March 1978, I finished Air Force Tech School at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, Texas.

My orders said that I was "authorized" "commercial air" or "commercial surface" transportation. I called up my Air National Guard unit and asked them if I could use "commercial surface" to get home from Wichita Falls to Sacramento. They said it was OK with them, so instead of getting an air ticket, my friend Herbie, who was permanent party and had a car, drove me to the Wichita Falls Continental Trailways station the night that tech school ended and I caught a bus for Denver.

We were overnight to Amarillo (Amarillo by Morning is an old country song) and then spent the day going north through the Texas and Oklahoma panhandle, then through eastern Colorado. We went through Boise City, Oklahoma and Limon, Colorado, that i remember, and a look at a map says we must have been on US 287 all the way from Wichita Falls to Denver. I didn't get any train photos out the bus window. I remember seeing an ATSF train going south somewhere around Boise City and remember crossing other rail lines, but if I saw other trains in addition to the Santa Fe one, I don't remember them.

I had a lot of luggage as I was moving back home after 9 months away with all my Air Force uniforms as well as civilian clothes, so I got a cab from the bus station to the Oxford Hotel, a block from Union Station. I'd stayed at the Oxford in 1975, when I was in town for a UP 8444 special and remember the room costing $8 per night in 1975...the room was probably more expensive in 1978, but the Oxford had not yet been refurbished into the classic luxury hotel it was in 1991 when my wife and I stayed there.

After dropping my bags, I headed to Union Station and then the rail yards that used to be behind Union Station. The whole area has changed beyond recognition today, but in 1978, the area around the station was still Skid Row and behind the station were train yards. Tracks in Union Station still went through, and freights would sometimes come through on platform tracks.

With only Amtrak's SF Zephyr, the Rio Grande Zephyr and the Ski Train, Union Station was not nearly as busy as it had been even 10 years earlier when we came through on the CZ

I wandered around the yards in the late afternoon light, taking advantage of the fact that nobody seemed to care that I guy with a camea was in areas that would be off limits today. I even went into the BN roundhouse for a quick photo. UP had a DD35 in town, as well as other long vanished models.

SCL 501 was parked in the station, looking rather out of place, far from the Atlantic coast. The Nebraska Zephyr articluated set that it had been coupled to in 1975 was gone, but it was coupled to an observation car.

Shortly before the light faded, a swticher brought a couple of cars, including a dome, to be added to the SF Zephyr for the trip to Chicago. My final shot was of the Ski Train equipment parked in Union Station.

Of the photos I've taken here, the only one that could be replicated today is the view down 17th St, of the station. , and at that, the street looks a lot better today.

MP + Leitz Summar 5cm f2. Kodak ColorPlus

The random collection of red coats drill early in the morning. Making sure they're in top condition for the day.

Contax G2

Carl Zeiss Planar 2/45 T*

Rollei Retro 100

Kodak Xtol (1+1) 9:45 @ 20C

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Moments from an evening with the Noodle Master, at GB Hand-Pulled Noodles on Edward St in Toronto.

Papoted

I'm hoping someone orders a girly cake from me REALLY soon, I am on boy overload! ;)

I tried a different method for the soccer ball...instead of cutting out each piece I covered the ball in a thinner piece of wht fondant then covered it in a fairly thick one, marked the shapes with the template pieces I had cut then painted in the black. It took less time and I was able to widen or reshape the shapes as needed. My husband thinks it better looking than the other ones with the cutouts...I'm on the fence. It taking 45 minutes was a plus though! :)

Cinderella is lifting her skirt to expose her legs and ''glass slippers.'' As with all the Disney Store 17'' LE dolls since Wedding Rapunzel early this year, she has the new ball and hinge jointed ankles, which allow for much greater poseability. Unfortunately, the instep sides of her shoes have reddish brown stains on them, from prolonged contact with the doll stand's support rod while boxed. Also visible are the many layers of her skirt, starting with the jeweled sheer organza over skirt, two layers of fine tulle overskirts, the satin skirt, all in light blue, and finally a single layer stiff tulle petticoat in white.

Cinderella has been totally deboxed, and is posed standing. She is fairly stable free standing, but it takes a bit of time and effort to balance her just right. Therefore she is supported by the included doll stand, so I didn't have to worry about her falling over during shooting.

Cinderella Limited Edition 18'' Collector Doll

Disney Store $99.50 US

Released in store and online Oct 2, 2012.

Pre-orders started June 30, 2012 and were sold out by Sept 5 in the US.

Pre-ordered on June 30, received at the store on Oct 2.

#2955 of 5000.

Photographed boxed, during deboxing, and fully deboxed, alone and with comparable dolls.

Product information from the US Disney Store website:

Limited Edition Cinderella Doll: 18''

Item No. 6070040901401P

Our Price: $99.50

Sold Out

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo! The Fairy Godmother has worked her magic on the stunning dress featured with this Limited Edition Cinderella Doll. The bodice is encrusted with sparkling rhinestones and her hair is beautifully styled and accented with jewels!

Product Details

Available to own October 2, 2012

Please Note: Each Guest will be limited to ordering a maximum of one of this item per order.

•Satin bodice covered with rhinestones

•Full peplum features layers of tulle and organza detailed with rhinestones

•Choker of ebony beads

•Opera gloves dotted with silver rhinestones

•Hair is accented with a glittering headband and gleaming hair clip

•Display stand included

•Plastic /polyester

•18'' H

•Ages 6+

•Imported

•Includes Certificate of Authenticity

•Limited Edition of 5000

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.

And now back to some Algoma Central photos...here tail end brakeman Del B is catching the orders from operator Gary M as No, 10 leaves town.

In the Nine Years War Speyer was occupied on 28 September in 1688 by French troops. When the French General Montclar finally announced that he had orders to destroy the entire city except the cathedral, brought the Speyerer citizens its furniture and household effects, as far as they could not carry it away with the carts provided by the French in the cathedral and piled it there several meters high. On 31 May 1689, the city was finally set on fire. After the fire had spread to the vicinity of the cathedral, it was succeded to prevent the flames from spreading by hammering of adjacent roofs and putting up water tanks. By a thunderstorm on the night of 2 June but the fire was so strongly fanned that even the multiple extinguishing of the burning west end could not prevent that the fire eventually spread to the poorly accessible east dome. In this chaos invaded French soldiers in the cathedral and plundered the upper imperial and royal tombs. Only the tombs of the Salian were spared except the grave of Henry V, as they were very deep in the ground and the soldiers apparently fled from the cathedral where they left their digging equipments. Those were found at the opening of imperial tombs in 1900. Also spared was the Madonna as it was stored in a shrine. It was after its rescue brought in the Frankfurter Catherine's church and during the recolonisation of Speyer returned in the cathedral. Because of the tremendous heat the vault in the western part became fragile and collapsed. The eastern part, however, resisted the flames. It was after the repopulation of Speyer closed by a wall and further used for worship. 1755 the upper portion of the residual west end with the two towers because of the danger of collapse had to be removed.

In the second half of the 18th century was enough money availabe to build the western part of the cathedral again. Under Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann, the son of the famous baroque architect Balthasar Neumann, 1772-1778 the yawning gap in the western part of the nave has been closed in its original form. The almost completely torn down west end was under inclusion of the Romanesque porch replaced by a contemporary Baroque facade. However, it had only 100-year existence. Still today the rupture especially in using other bricks can be seen, the overall picture, however, is uniform. This early act of reconstructive preservation of historical monuments in spite of everything can be explained by the rather scarce funds of the city: A baroque new construction of the main building as a consequence also would have had the new construction of the choir to obtain an aesthetically pleasing spatial impression.

In 1794, revolutionary troops devastated the cathedral, and the house of God was deconsecrated. In the process, the entire interior was lost, and the portrait of Mary there was destroyed. Under Napoleon Bonaparte, the French troops used the cathedral as a cowshed and as food and material store. After in the Peace of Luneville of 9 February 1801 the left-bank areas binding under international law were ceded to France, the ownership of the cathedral passed to the French government. In Concordat of July 15, 1801 respectively in the Bull of Circumscription "Qui Christi Domini vices" of the November 29, 1801 recognized Pope Pius VII the dissolution of the diocese of Speyer and the assignment of the local Catholic church to the diocese of Mainz. Since the cathedral was dilapidated, due to the building assessment of architect Peter Henrion it should be demolished in 1805, the remainder of the west-wing (west-bau) being turned into a triumphal arch. However, the city council of Speyer refused to take over the for the demolition necessary costs. After the bishop of Mainz, Joseph Ludwig Colmar, had used his good relations with the wife of Napoleon, Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais and the French Culture Minister, Jean Etienne Portalis to convince them of the outstanding cultural importance of the cathedral, Napoleon agreed to withdraw the already issued demolition disposal. By imperial decree of 23 September 1806, he ordered the return of the cathedral to the Catholics of Speyer, which in it were also made responsible for the future maintenance costs. As at this time the as a church foundation established Speyer Cathedral Parish was the only in the town existing Catholic legal person, this one took over in a public ceremony on 3 November 1806 from the hands of mayor Ludwig Sonntag, as the representative of the Frenche State, the ownership of the cathedral.

After Napoleon's defeat, the diocese on the left-Rhenish area was newly established in 1817, and the cathedral not only served as a parish, but in addition again as a bishop's church; 1818-1822 it was restored and 1822 newly consecrated. 1846-1853 created the painters Johann Schraudolph and Joseph Schwarzmann commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria frescoes in Nazarene style.

On behalf of the former Bavarian King Ludwig I, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I and the Duke Adolph of Nassau, in 1854-1858 was undertaken the new construction of the west-bau in neo-Romanesque style. Heinrich Hübsch, one of the most renowned architects of early Historicism, oriented himself freely to the original west-bau taking up central tower and two smaller flanking towers, however, he deviated from the draft both in the choice of materials as in the proportions considerably. The renovation of the west facade and the decoration of the cathedral were considered in the 19th century as "great work". Ludwig I was convinced that for a long time nothing greater had been created as the frescoes in the cathedral of Speyer.

At the turn of the 20th century, there was a change of mood: Georg Dehio complained in 1916 even cautiously among the disasters that have hit the dome the changes of the 19th century were not the smallest.

Im Pfälzischen Erbfolgekrieg wurde Speyer am 28. September 1688 von Französischen Truppen besetzt. Als der französische General Montclar schließlich verkündete, er habe den Befehl, die gesamte Stadt außer den Dom zu zerstören, brachten die Speyerer Bürger ihre Möbel und ihren Hausrat, soweit sie ihn nicht mit den durch die Franzosen bereitgestellten Karren wegschaffen konnten, in den Dom und stapelten ihn mehrere Meter hoch. Am 31. Mai 1689 wurde die Stadt schließlich in Brand gesetzt. Nachdem sich das Feuer bis in die Umgebung des Domes ausgebreitet hatte, gelang es, das Übergreifen der Flammen durch das Einschlagen von benachbarten Dächern und das Aufstellen von Wasserbehältern zu verhindern. Durch einen Gewittersturm in der Nacht zum 2. Juni wurde das Feuer aber so stark angefacht, dass selbst das mehrfache Löschen des brennenden Westbaus nicht verhinderte, dass sich das Feuer schließlich bis in die schlecht zugängliche Ostkuppel ausbreitete. In diesem Chaos drangen französische Soldaten in den Dom ein und plünderten die oberen Kaiser- und Königsgräber. Nur die Gräber der Salier blieben bis auf das Grab Heinrichs V. verschont, da sie sehr tief im Boden lagen und die Soldaten den Dom offenbar fluchtartig verließen, wobei sie ihre Grabgeräte zurückließen. Diese fand man bei der Öffnung der Kaisergräber im Jahr 1900. Ebenfalls verschont blieb das Marienbildnis, da es in einem Schrein gelagert wurde. Es wurde nach seiner Bergung in die Frankfurter Katherinenkirche gebracht und bei der Wiederbesiedlung Speyers in den Dom zurückgebracht. Durch die gewaltige Hitze wurde das Gewölbe im Westteil brüchig und stürzte ein. Der Ostteil hingegen hielt den Flammen stand. Er wurde nach der Wiederbesiedlung Speyers durch eine Mauer abgeschlossen und wurde für Gottesdienste weiter benutzt. 1755 mussten der obere Bereich des stehen gebliebenen Westbaus mit den beiden Türmen wegen Einsturzgefahr abgetragen werden.

In der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts war genügend Geld vorhanden, den Westteil des Doms wieder aufzubauen. Unter Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann, dem Sohn des berühmten Barockbaumeisters Balthasar Neumann, wurde 1772–1778 die klaffende Lücke im westlichen Teil des Langhauses in der ursprünglichen Form geschlossen. Das fast völlig abgetragene Westwerk wurde unter Einbeziehung der romanischen Vorhalle durch eine zeitgemäße barocke Fassade ersetzt. Sie hatte jedoch nur gut 100 Jahre Bestand. Heute noch ist der Bruch vor allem an der Verwendung anderer Mauersteine zu erkennen, das Gesamtbild jedoch einheitlich. Dieser frühe Akt einer rekonstruktiven Denkmalpflege lässt sich mit den trotz allem eher begrenzten Geldmitteln der Stadt erklären: Ein barocker Neubau des Langhauses hätte auch den Neubau des Chors zur Folge haben müssen, um einen ästhetisch ansprechenden Raumeindruck zu erhalten.

Im Jahr 1794 verwüsteten Revolutionstruppen den Dom, und das Gotteshaus wurde profaniert. Dabei ging die ganze Innenausstattung verloren, auch das Marienbildnis wurde dabei zerstört. Unter Napoleon Bonaparte nutzten die französischen Truppen den Dom als Viehstall sowie als Futter- und Materiallager. Nachdem im Frieden von Lunéville vom 9. Februar 1801 die linksrheinischen Gebiete völkerrechtlich verbindlich an Frankreich abgetreten worden waren, ging das Eigentum am Dom an die französische Regierung über. Im Konkordat vom 15. Juli 1801 bzw. in der Zirkumskriptionsbulle „Qui Christi Domini vices“ vom 29. November 1801 anerkannte Papst Pius VII die Aufhebung des Bistums Speyer und die Zuordnung der dortigen katholischen Gemeinde zum Bistum Mainz. Da der Dom baufällig war, sollte er infolge eines Baugutachtens des Architekten Peter Henrion im Jahr 1805 abgerissen werden, wobei der Rest des Westbaus zum Triumphbogen umgebaut werden sollte. Der Stadtrat von Speyer weigerte sich jedoch, die für den Abriss notwendigen Kosten zu übernehmen. Nachdem der Mainzer Bischof Joseph Ludwig Colmar seine guten Beziehungen zur Frau Napoleons, Kaiserin Joséphine de Beauharnais sowie zum französischen Kultusminister Jean Etienne Portalis dazu genutzt hatte, diese von der überragenden kulturellen Bedeutung des Doms zu überzeugen, erklärte sich Napoleon einverstanden, die bereits erlassene Abrissverfügung zurückzunehmen. Mit kaiserlichem Dekret vom 23. September 1806 verfügte er die Rückgabe des Doms an die Katholiken von Speyer, die darin auch für die künftigen Unterhaltskosten verantwortlich gemacht wurden. Da zu diesem Zeitpunkt die als Kirchenstiftung errichtete Speyerer Domgemeinde die einzige in der Stadt existierende katholische juristische Person war, übernahm diese im Rahmen einer öffentlichen Zeremonie am 3. November 1806 das Eigentum an der Kathedrale aus der Hand des Bürgermeisters Ludwig Sonntag als dem Vertreter des französischen Staats.

Nach der Niederlage Napoleons wurde das Bistum 1817 auf linksrheinischem Gebiet neu errichtet, und der Dom diente nicht mehr nur als Pfarr-, sondern daneben auch wieder als Bischofskirche; 1818–1822 wurde er saniert und 1822 neu geweiht. 1846–1853 schufen die Maler Johann von Schraudolph und Joseph Schwarzmann im Auftrag Ludwig I. von Bayern Fresken im Nazarener Stil.

Im Auftrag des ehemaligen bayerischen Königs Ludwig I., des österreichischen Kaisers Franz Joseph I. und des Herzogs Adolph von Nassau kam es zu einer Neuerrichtung des Westbaus 1854–1858 im neoromanischen Stil. Heinrich Hübsch, einer der renommiertesten Architekten des frühen Historismus, orientierte sich frei am ursprünglichen Westbau, indem er Mittelturm und zwei kleinere Flankentürme aufgriff, wich jedoch von der Vorlage sowohl bei der Materialwahl wie bei den Proportionen erheblich ab. Die Erneuerung der Westfassade und die Ausmalung des Doms wurden im 19. Jahrhundert als „großes Werk“ angesehen. Ludwig I. war der Überzeugung, dass seit langer Zeit nichts Größeres geschaffen worden sei als die Fresken im Speyerer Dom.

Um die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert kam es zu einem Stimmungsumschwung: Georg Dehio beklagte 1916 sogar vorsichtig, unter den Unglücken, die den Dom getroffen hätten, seien die Veränderungen des 19. Jahrhunderts nicht die kleinsten gewesen.

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My mom was helping me pack pins. It makes me wonder, how much time I spend on these things.. with my mom's help, I probably saved an hour. Who knew that so many people would get so many pins.

Street shot taken in Temple Bar, Dublin.

Masonic Temple at the northwest corner of Dundas Street East and Foster Avenue in Belleville, Ontario

One of a series of photographic slides taken by the Keller family of Belleville between 1964 and 1994.

*Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man,

Of all things breathing and moving.

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Riken Riconar 80mm f/3.5

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So a bunch of my Amazon orders came in lol. I really wanted the 2016 Holiday Barbie with the Claudette sculpt and she was $15, I knew if I waited any longer she’s going to go for bonkers prices later on.

I figured I pick up another doll or two to save on shipping so I grabbed a Batman doll to steal his body, and picked up this Henry Higgins doll cuz I’ve been wanting a brown suit but they’ve all been $30+ and Henry here was $23 so.

Claudette’s dress is BIG though it sheds glitter and literally feels like a tent due to the plastic fabric. I actually really liked Model Muse bodies cuz the solid vinyl legs and dynamic poses make them good candidates for modeling clothing and photography, but this one? It’s AWFUL. The legs are hollow plastic and there’s messy seams everywhere so it’s basically garbage.

Batman is a weird one but I have no issues with him asides from his head looking like a burping potato and ALL his accessories are super soft vinyl, so I can’t imagine these surviving very well.

Henry Higgin’s suit is a Jacket and combination shirt and pants thing but… I miss this level of quality from Mattel. The fabric is hemmed, the jacket is fully lined and it just feels so much better than either of these other dolls lol. However his shoe did explode off and the box is degrading a lot so yeah.

Forest Haven Asylum - Laurel, MD

This abandoned hospital once catered to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities, and became notorious in the public eye for neglect and abuse toward the residents. Newspaper articles detail ex-employees tales of children without soap, clean clothes, sheets and even food; there were claims that some co-workers would beat the patients. They wrote how the foul smell of urine and feces constantly lingered in the air, and described many residents wearing diapers and banging their heads against the walls for attention. A report was also published that a deaf woman, admitted in 1930, had been kept inside the hospital for 55 years, being misdiagnosed as "mentally retarded."

Some residents spent much of their lives in adult-sized cribs, and left to live in private-care homes when the institution closed; others left through the small morgue to be buried in an unmarked field, which reputedly washes away from a nearby creek occasionally exposing graves Whether this report is simply media sensationalism or the truth is unknown.

A federal lawsuit was filed in 1978, ordering the institution to improve conditions, and yet another was placed in the late 1980s - this class action lawsuit involved 74 residents. The hospital finally shut down in 1991, due to "dangerous conditions." Much of the campus is now used as a drug rehabilitation facility, which resembles a prison in many ways (razor wire, marked and unmarked police vehicles, etc).

A memorial plaque outside one of the buildings reads, "While yet I live, Let me not live in vain."

Buttermarket Bury St Edmunds Suffolk England

013117: Washington, DC - Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly participated in a media availability alongside U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Thomas Homan, and Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) Acting Under Secretary David Glawe to discuss the operational implementation of the president’s executive orders. Seen here speaking is ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan.

CBP Photographer: Donna Burton

A fine example of a Roman Ionic capital from the large Baths of Hadrian's villa, Tivoli. The capital has been set back into place in the frigidarium of the Baths. Probably second century.

Another view of the same capital:

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