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Once upon a time, I used to travel with work all the time. One year it was 38 different trips.
It was normal, I suppose.
But it drained me, mentally and physically.
And then came COVID and my change in role, and travel became much less common. So rare now, its almost a pleasure to be away.
Almost.
We got up at ten past five. We had slept long, and various cats were indicating it was breakfast. Jools was still COVID positive, so was to work from home again, but I would be away, she could have the table and spare screen all to herself.
The rain of the weekend continued, and if anything came down even harder. So that rather than drop me in town, Jools dropped me off at the car hire office, me dodging the storm get get inside.
Everyone was nice, but I had a half hour wait for the car, so sat watching the rain hammer down outside, and rush hour traffic out on Townwall Street inch past.
The car was ready, a black sporty Peugeot thing, with retro looking switches rather than buttons and dials. But I soon got it, so after signing off the agreement, I climbed in and drove back along Reach Road back home.
Already the road was partially flooded in three places, so I inched the car through the floods and reached home, where I had breakfast with Jools, then packed, booked the ferry crossing and loaded the car.
Traffic was awful out there; protesters had blocked several sections of the M25, but a tweet said it was back open, so thought I would give it a try to get to Southampton.
All was OK all the way through Kent, even if rain did fall in heavy showers, but onto the M25, and within two miles traffic was stationary. Rain fell in sheets, and we inched forward, taking an hour to get to the services and into Surrey.
Traffic did begin to move again, but the delay did mean I would not make the half one ferry, and the one at three was full, so should I try to get on, or find somewhere to while away three hours?
I reached the M3, turned off and headed south. I decided to stop at Fleet Services, and have lunch. A proper lunch, sitting down at a table to eat and everything. Amazingly, the place was full of people, I'm guessing off coaches, and most seemed to be of a certain age, and a few needing frames to walk along. I watched as they tried to order a tea from the Burger King app.
You're never too old.
I went to Starbucks, where it is Holiday time, so have my annual flavoured latte, eggnog this time, but with an extra shot, to go with the paninni.
I watched people as I ate, its a hobby. And free.
I realised I could not spend another two hours here, so decided to drive to the ferry port and try to get on the earlier sailing.
A half hour run through yet more heavy rain and into the city, rushing to get through before schools empty out and road clogged with cars.
Which I do.
I arrive at the terminal, drive up to the booth, and my boarding pass was issued, for the three o'clock sailing, no questions asked. No arguments needed.
IN fact, through the driving rain, I saw the ferry approach, and we all waited to board. All vehicles got on, there was even room for many more too, so not sure why no tickets had been available online......
I took a seat in the lounge, until the relentless coughinh of the couple next to me drove me to the bracing fresh air out on deck, where even in November, it wasn't that cold.
I feast on a pack of salt n vinegar crisps and supped from a bottle of Cherry Coke as we sailed across the Solent, and the change in direction as we turned for Cowes set all the car alarms off below.
As usual.
In Cowes, the floating bridge/chain ferry was working, so I waited in line to get over the river, then drive the half mile to the hotel.
Back again.
The hotel is half empty, and because of yet more rain falling, I book a table in the hotel for dinner. Up in my room I unpack the laptop and check on the world. Its still screwed, so I put on some music and edit some shots.
Hotel dining rooms are a delight in themselves. Devoid of atmosphere, the awkward silences broken by the scraping of cutlery or an apology for spilling some gravy. The two young ladies behind me had clearly failed to read the hotel rules, and guzzled wine and talked loudly about nail polish and the such.
A different life.
I had fried brie followed by a burger. I was all very adequate.
London Bridge (of stone ) : pictured pre-1758 .
Thames Bridges.
The building of the most famous London Bridge a structure of stone, was begun in 1176 during the reign of King Henry 2nd - the builder appointed being Peter of Colechurch.
The physically arduous construction work was to take thirty-three years .
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Unfortunately before too many decades had passed the bridge roadway had become obstructed by shops or merchants places that had been permitted there so that revenue be raised towards bridge building costs. . Eventually there were as many as two hundred such businesses.
As centuries passed the crossing of the bridge became almost an impossibility, a crisis state of affairs developed that was only resolved by an Act of Parliament that directed that many be pulled down. The demolitions were completed during the years 1758 to 1762.
[The above drawing of London Bridge with numerous structures built upon it - is from a magic lantern slide .]
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A Ford near Kingston.
Over eleven hundred years before, in the summer of b.c.54 a large Roman invasion force commanded by Julius Caesar had sailed to Britain from Gaul. Despite being met with intense native resistance his army moved towards London , to do so, crossing the Thames
at a ford near Kingston.
Some of the British tribes, after suffering high loss by their unsuccessful resistance, submitted to Caesar or sued for peace - which he granted subject to tribute terms.
Caesar did not remain long, he and his troops returned to Rome carrying off a number Britains to be sold as slaves in the public market. His expedition was not considered profitable and had cost many lives . It was to be ninety years before the Romans returned.
Traitor !
However return they ultimately did, but only after a British prince named Beril had journeyed to Rome to seek the great power's military support in controlling ever warring British tribes.
Rome having thought it in its own interest, agreed to Beril's request and in the year 43 a large force led by General, Aulus Plautius - set out to invade Britain. It had the considerable advantage of the native knowledge and guidance given it by prince Beril . Consequently the invasion force easily landed and gained territory. It was joined for a short while by Emperor Claudius.
At that time, though the Roman general Vespasian was by rank second in command to Beril , it was the true Roman, Vespasian, that conducted military matters. He fought thirty-two battles against the Britons and ravaged Britain's south.
Eventually, Plautius was replaced by Ostorius and the centuries long Roman presence in Briton was begun.
The Romans left .
When the Romans left Britain circa the year 410 a three-hundred and twenty years occupancy was ended . Suddenly, both foreign and native marauders had unhindered opportunity to loot property and seize land. The Britons couldn't repulse every determined enemy . Their ( Roman built ) Thames bridge fell into disrepair, deliberately neglected, so it could not to be a convenience to raiders.
William the Conqueror rebuilt the wooden bridge, but it was destroyed in 1091 in the ‘London Tornado’. It was also rebuilt and repaired by both William II and King Stephen.
Pillaging - London City
The Romans built the first version of what was to become London Bridge. This was probably a pontoon style crossing and it linked the Roman roads called Stane Street and Watling Street with the Camulodnum settlement.
The bridge was made more permanent by the Romans in about 55 AD and, although the bridge was probably destroyed during the revolt led by Queen Boudicca, it would have been rebuilt and the town of Londinium ( London ) grew around it.
It is recorded that in the year 457 fugitives from a body of looting Saxons fled London (the city) by the then Thames bridge (certainly a Roman structure) : but it was to be another seventy years ( 527 ) before the successful conquering invasions by Saxons and their neighbours, the Angles, took place. Almost simultaneously, the Angles overran the area now known as East Anglia as Saxon fighters, having taken Essex, advanced into Middlesex and seized London .
Wealth
The London of that old time was a place of considerable trade . Of its streets and surroundings modern eyes would recognise little. Its dwellings were confined to what is still called the city, a place within walls that had been built by the Romans. Beyond it was open country, mostly unenclosed. To its north, a marsh covered the space called Moorfields and the adjoining Finsbury. At its west was an area of undergrowth, called Thorney Island, now the site of Westminster Abbey. At the south only a few building lay on the banks of the Thames; beyond them was marshy ground extending to the rise of the Surrey hills.
Centuries later, by the year 1014, another London bridge, a wooden construction, straddled the river Thames .
The First Stone Bridge
The building of the most famous London Bridge a structure of stone, was begun in 1176 during the reign of King Henry 2nd - the builder appointed being Peter of Colechurch.
The arduous construction was to take thirty-three years .
It was not until the year 1209, in the time of King John , that the bridge was finally completed.
Though the finished bridge was not celebrated for any particular structural elegance or embellishments other than it having been given a chapel dedicated to the memory of Thomas Becket constructed near the middle of its span. Its nineteen irregularly spaced arches firmly held its three hundred yards of roadway (give or take a few agricultural cart lengths) high above the River Thames as had been intended.
Unfortunately before too many decades had passed the bridge roadway had become obstructed by shops or merchants places that had been permitted there so that revenue be raised towards bridge building costs. . Eventually there were as many as two hundred such businesses.
As centuries passed the crossing of the bridge became almost an impossibility, a crisis state of affairs developed that was only resolved by an Act of Parliament that directed that many be pulled down. The demolitions were completed during the years 1758 to 1762.
To enable better navigation of the river two narrow centre arches were removed and replaced by a much wider single one . Previously the narrowness of the water channels through the bridge's arches had obstructed the free flow of the river's tidal waters and caused river craft to face dangerous (weir-like) dangerous obstructions.
In winter the water upstream of the bridge froze.
19th Century Stone Bridge.
On the 1st August 1831 a new bridge over the Thames was opened . The bridge of 1209 had served for six hundred and two years.
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All air vehicles save for about 1 of each fighter will be CGI. Ground vehicles will be physically built.
Vehicles of the Greater German Reich:
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin LZ 201 Flugzeugträger (The zeppelin in the above image. Will either be a mini or a CG model made in LDD or Leocad.)
Messerschmidt ME 270 "Richthofen" Fighter-bomber (Fighters in the above image)
Arado AR E.555 (High-altitude bomber) www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS433US433&q=arad...
Panzerkampfwagen VIII E50 Tiger-Maus heavy tank ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/1-Vehicles/Axis/1-Germany/03...
Landkreuser P. 1000 Ratte (Being re-designed for easier production)
At least one more Sd.Kfz. 322 GTK
1-3 Opel Blitz 3-ton trucks ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/1-Vehicles/Axis/1-Germany/11...
Vehicles of the United Continental States of America
1-2 more M35 Trucks
1-2 more Bantam scout cars
M6A2E1 Super-heavy tank upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/M6a2e1.jpg
M4A8 Sherman Medium Tank
F-91 Thunderceptor upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/XF-91_3view.png
B-36 Peacemaker heavy bomber www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-36-1949.jpg
A Sikorsky UH-19 Chickasaw and another AH-53 Blackfoot
Vehicles of the Republic of Canada
Universal carrier
Tortoise heavy assault tank
Centurion main battle tank
*The possibilities for activities are very extensive, but in the centre stands the unique nature that through the dramatic terrain clearly offers a wide range of activities.*
*Regarding events for the physically active and sporty, there are limitations in that the area is a bit difficult in the vast and dramatic landscape*.
*Learning about this vast area and its possibilities often require more time than the active can boast, and therefore map and certain points can offer an immediate way to find highlights within half an hour's walk from Entoto Kidane Mehret*
*For those groups who want to get a lot of pleasures without any physical exertion or effort is the opportunity to easily reach the vast high plateau that extends around Entoto Maryam and its society.*
*At this location, both museums and historic buildings are offered with very unique architecture together with an excellent opportunity for leisurely walks in any direction of charming buildings and other things that can be expected from a mountain plateau with its former location as the Capital.*
*The sights and activities described with a starting point from Entoto Kidane Mehret with its quite challenging hiking will at Entoto Maryam offer a very different terrain. A high plateau of the gentle undulated landscape is here evident, and accessible trails are here presented where a terrain vehicle can provide reasonably close contact with the unique sights and activities described in most of the earlier hiking trails from Entoto Kidane Mehret*.
Entoto Natural Park (Nursery): goo.gl/maps/vrQhZB6jdEw
PDF: mediaserver.dwpub.com/fjd-profile/13086/Entoto.pdf
*Water:* It is important that there is water available all year round. Most of the brooks dry out sometime during a year. There are, however, a few springs within the park area, providing water for all seasons.
*Rain Season:* There are two rainy seasons per year, the small rains from March to May and the big rains from July to September. The highest rainfall intensity occurs in July and August (Demissew 1988).
*Adventure History*
"Entoto's climate during the rainy season was moreover far from pleasant, for it suffered from many storms. A French traveller, Jules Borelli, states that it was a place of much lightning, thunder and fog, while his compatriot, Charles Michel remarked that, ''exposed to the wind, difficult of access, and without drinking water'' (Ibid, p.103).
*Photographs*
These photos of water-filled streams and cascading waterfalls are all shot just above Bees' Cliff (14) at Entoto's southern highland plateau - from early October to the beginning of November.
It has at the time for all of these active water sports photographs passed about one to two months since the long rain season ended.
*Seasons for Swimming or Hiking*
Despite the period passed from these photos opportunities and the previous rains are over a month, it is still a great asset of bath and fresh spring water flow on the higher ground of Entoto. But maybe for those some hilarious adventures, it would have been even more suitable if they had occurred a month earlier and thus offered an even more pleasant spontaneous bath activities.
_*A graceful invitation to the waiting adventures*_
Attractively inviting amongst the purging water and the seductively curved river banks cliffs start here below Entoto Kidane Mehret (32) the alluring options for the continued hiking adventure. With a river character of beach curved rocks in harmonious wave formations where the children play, and the laundry dries on the inviting soft and clean, polished rock bed, this place is an appealing beauty to appreciate already the first steps on the bridge below Entoto Kidane Mehret.
_*Clear and Pleasant Hiking Trails*_
The southern hillside of Entoto's rising shoulder is here apparent and from this site (22) with the gully and its valley just beneath Entoto Kidane Mehret (32) the mountain dominating very close. This ancient highland mountain with its secret high plateau of real old serenity lure here intriguingly where it towers in full contact on the opposite side of Entoto Kidane Mehret and its, seductive polished rock-gully bottom (22). The mountain's mighty hillside is initiating here the first steps of Entoto's threshold and rises majestically over the southern slope. In profound veneration of reverence, it appears to any visitors as it towers above to relatively high altitude. Caution is, therefore, an essential foundation for preparation because the mountain's rise is quite demanding for visitors with otherwise healthy activities from lowland experience.
_*Towards the Fresh Well-Fragrance of Highland*_
Despite this somewhat harsh highland air the hiking is entirely captivating and comfortable but require regular rest but also the very essential to drink regularly and this from the brought-with and robust water bottle. However, here underneath in the valley and just after the handcrafted bridge rises the mountain's slope towards Entoto's high plateau continuously upwards towards secret places of pure serenity and this often with views of breathtakingly beautiful hights. Well fragrant and aesthetically unforgettably alluring are these paths from Entoto Kidane Mehret's valley bottom (gully 22) and the river (35) there they rise towards breathtakingly sublime heights of aesthetically unforgettable dream paths.
_*The Rising Shoulder of Entoto's Massif*_
Here the trails follow a clear direction up to Entoto's high plateau and furthermore including all of these exciting and surprisingly attractive paths along the eastern slope of the river bank; they are very easy to follow in the landscape. This visible clarity in the appearance and selection of trails is apparent here thanks to the attractive overview of the sculptural introduction towards this very family friendly gorge.
_*A Guiding Canyon Deliver Path Assistance*_
The open and pleasant contact with the lush hillside of these riverbanks towards the river (35) and its mysterious twilight cleft is here apparent and an excellent place for the well-equipped family to appreciate unforgettably thrilling adventures but also the most pleasant magical mountain views where cosy picnics places offer an utterly captivating nature.
*35. Season Limited Creek Hiking*
This dry creek bed hiking can be an exhilarating experience where the shadows fall mysterious in pesky creatures from the past and concealed cliff space just waiting for the action in a somewhat overwhelming flow of impressions.
Observe, the hiking directly in the dry brook bed is only possible if it has elapsed some months since the last rainy season but then offers adventure experiences that are unique to those who may have the courage to surprise a pleasant strenuous Hyena.
*The close encounter with wild Hyena*.
By echoes from the past becomes the hiking here an exciting and mysterious experience that appears to trigger forgotten abilities who have been genetically dormant sleeping since many profoundly ancient times.
Especially startling here is, therefore, the location of this place the tributary (36), which invites to a careful study of Hyenas that greatly appreciate the site's freshness and natural wealth.
*Harmonic Currents Along the River.*
Since all streams around Entoto run up within a short distance to the highest part of the plateau, there is no risk of being surprised by a far and accumulated sudden river flow from an unknown range. There is also no known weakness in the deep rock pools that could constitute a magazine water mass just waiting to break through a weak point in the cliff bottom.
*However, be careful and expect even the worse type of scenario, because the animals are wild and even the most solid rock will break if the bad luck together with very rare and significant earthquake would be coincident.**
**14. **Enchanting Lush Attractions Above the Abyss.*
Bees' Cliff constitutes a hidden, unknown void, which can become a real danger and, further, does not allow direct, easy proximity from either the east or the west side of the gorge's slopes.
These precipitous cliff sides are so seriously too steep that all visual contacts towards the bottom of the abyss are impossible.
In all their nature, of a multi-dimensional, graceful beauty is nevertheless, a false invitation of safety delivered.
Through this deceiving natural trickery, the eastern canyon's slope gives an impression of invitingly lush beauty but yet a treacherous one with a fertile green breathtaking threshold, well hiding a shocking void.
*Safety Preparations & Unique Adventures.*
Qualifications and care are necessary as the hiking trails are either unusually varied or dramatic in their diversity propagation up to Entoto's high plateau.
Depending on the possible risk of injury, fatigue or heart fragility, should not any concealed walk in the dry creek bed be done without company, but at least one more person requires in this type of concealed seasonal hiking.
At least two litres of water per person in unbreakable bottles is a minimum for these Highlands adventures to Bees' Cliff.
From the history of our parish
1.10.2008
Twenty-eighth October 1888 was for our ancestors, then living in the suburbs of Bratislava called New Town, solemn day, the day of consecration new temple. But this day is solemn and important for us and will be important also for future generations. Our grandfathers built and because church leaders dedicated the temple on that day not only for themselves and for their children, but for all future generations. Those who build Blumentál physically, but spiritually primarily through your prayers, we left a wonderful legacy: church dedicated to the Assumption, the church, which has one hundred and twenty years invites believers can confidently say that the whole city that it glorified God, bring the sacrifice of Christ, purify your soul and implore the gifts of the Spirit for themselves and for their loved ones.
Celebration of consecration
The parish priest Jozef Poeck completed his work, who has devoted many years of his life, as we wrote about in previous figures. For believers Bratislava Nové Mesto parish is 118 years after its establishment saw to it that the faithful have a decent temple, whose tall slender tower towered over the entire eastern part of the city. Blumental Church was until recent times the only dominating this site. As he writes in his book Pozdech pastor, consecration of a new church in Bratislava expected not only residents of suburban New City but the entire Bratislava. Dedication of the temple designated day for 28 October on the feast of St. Simon and Jude, which that year fell on the October last Sunday.
Building a new church was of great interest of the Cardinal John Simor and the highest church dignitary of the Archdiocese of Esztergom, to which at that time belonged Bratislava. He himself a considerable amount contributed to its construction and it is no wonder that himself this new tabernacle of God sanctified .
Bratislavans prepared Cardinal decent adoption. Cardinal-Primate arrived in Bratislava on 27 October At the main station hailed him a great multitude of believers who lined the streets along which he passed to the Primate's Palace. There he has always stayed when visiting Bratislava (the Town palace bought in 1903 for their needs), and even there that day to receive the representatives of the city, various offices, army officials, townspeople and professional groups. The whole city was decorated and lit.
Newly built temple consecration ceremonies began 28 morning at nine. Ceremony was attended by about 30,000 believers (Bratislava at that time had about 70 000 inhabitants). We can imagine where it is today around our church could gather such a large crowd? At that time, however, surrounding the church was not built like today. 9.00 h in the morning on day dedication Blumentálu rozozvučali the bells of all the churches in Bratislava and the Cardinal-Primate, accompanied by church officials came to the new temple. Assisted prelates Cardinal Dr. Francis Horecký and Charles Rimel, Bratislava canons. Accompanied were prelate Dr. Jozef Danko, honest deacons Anton Leek and Joseph Urge, canon Graeff, and other dignitaries, priests and religious. Ceremony was also attended by Dr. Julius Machovič, notary stool Archbishop of Esztergom and the archbishop's office director Dr. John Black, who later became Archbishop of Esztergom. Bishop became a member of another parade Dr. Rimley. Ceremony was attended by prominent city officials, representatives of various agencies and states, armies, and large numbers townspeople simple people of God.
The ceremonies began before the temple gate, then svätiteľ Cardinal Simor escorted entered the church, where the ceremonies continued sanctification anointing altars and the temple walls. To save the remains of the altar stone martyr Adalbert and Gerhard. First Mass in our church served Baltizár bishop and the first sermon delivered svätiteľ Cardinal Simor. The church preached three preachers: Jesuit P. Emil Volbert German, and two Franciscans, one Slovak and one Hungarian. The ceremonies lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon. After the solemn procession returned to the Primate's Palace, where Cardinal Simor for invited guests was given a formal dinner. It goes without saying that it is attended by a priest Poeck, without whose selfless work would not stand this temple.
In connection with the consecration of Blumentálu mentions the event, which was to become the pastor Poeck fatal. On the way to the Primate's Palace was stampeded horses pulled the carriage in which he sat, and as pastor writes Pozdech only by God's providence remained alive.
Celebrations dedication of the temple after years
Believers of this site for years to commemorate the big day solemn consecration of the temple worship, after which they were folk festivities. The annual celebration of the dedication of the temple waving their spiritual and secular. The spiritual part was solemn character, Mass serve senior dignitaries and preachers coming festive. Worship enriched various choirs and ensembles; secular part called. Forgive was associated with folk festivals and party. That day came not only parishioners, but people from all over the city from the nearer and wider surroundings. At that time, around the church still extremely suitable for such celebrations. Open space provide plenty of room for a variety of stalls, attractions, festivals roundabouts... spestrovala brass band from Záhorska Bystrica.
Pozdech pastor remembers that when he wrote his memories, older parishioners at these festivities still remember, as young as yourself to participate in them. Such spectacular folk festivals disappeared after the First World War.
Great was the celebration of consecration Blumentálu in the twenty-fifth anniversary. Although the history of the temple twenty-five years is not much, because the church is built on centuries, writes pastor Pozdech: every believer adhesions with its parish church, where baptism was received into the bosom of the Church, there is divested of their sins, receive the Savior, there is a double promises connects life inextricably to a man with a woman and introduces a new family, there priest begs for mercy for those who embarked on the path of eternity...
Spiritual program began a day before the big feast solemn litanies. In the anniversary Mass celebrated by the parish priest Evariast Czaykowski and preached prelate A. Gaibl. Ceremony was attended by celebrities Bratislava, led by mayor.
In 45 Blumentálu anniversary of the dedication of the restored organ.
In December r. Opened in 1941 Blumentálska fare lecture hall. On that occasion was solemn litany in our church Nuncio Msgr. Dr. Joseph Burzio, who repeatedly took part in the celebrations in Blumentáli. In Slovakia, had to r., 1945. Farewell to Mons. Burzio held on Blumentálska fare.
On the 60th year anniversaries were scheduled to work on the renovated church interior, upgraded lighting should be introduced electric heating, had to return the original painting, restore the altars, and an altar of Our Lady of Lourdes. Estimated costs were two to two and a half million dollars. A Committee made the collections and 4 April 1948 launched the work. On how to fix Blumentálu continued, we have news.
The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the consecration and stodesiateho Blumentálu would know what to say - then- pastor VDP. John Frog and long-time parish administrator VDP. Stephen Herényi. Written reports we have .
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Statistics have proven that, physically, no harm will come to the jumper, short of a heart attack or a stroke from a first time fright.
The system is actually very gentle on a person who jumps.
You can be a big strong guy or a little wee girl or a paraplegic or a very old person - it's no problem to jump all these people because the thing about Bungy is that it's from the shoulders up, not the shoulders down.
The thrill is inside your head. 99% of people who have tried it say it's the best thing they have ever done.
NOTE: I have uploaded this as a whole set (37 pics) all at once, for obvious reasons. Run this in slideshow after reading the background comments on the SET page.
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The Kawarau Gorge Bungy Center
Queenstown, South Island of New Zealand.
Buenavista, Guimaras Iloilo, Philippines
Located southwest of Panay, Guimaras is separated physically from Iloilo by a narrow channel, which takes about fifteen minutes to cross by pumpboat from the Ortiz landing on Iloilo to Jordan. There are two other ways to get there, the Parola wharf in Iloilo to the municipality of Buenavista. The Parola wharf is used exclusively whenever the water is rough. There also is a roll on roll off (RORO) ferry that travels around five times a day and is used by the Iloilo bicycle clubs on Sunday to travel to Guimaras. Geologists opine that the island formed one landmass with Panay in the past. Guimaras was formerly known as Himal-us.
Guimaras is also famous for its beaches. Clear blue waters, white sand and marine life rivals that of Boracay. Commonly visited ones are at Roca Encantada, Alubihod and Puerto del Mar.
The beige bricks are supposed to evoke memories of flying insects.
The building is physically within the National Park Service's "Wellsburg Historic District," but has been designated a "noncontributing property" to the district. Snooty and rude!
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In downtown Wellsburg, West Virginia, on July 8th, 2020, outside Cipoletti Plumbing Heating Supply, a/k/a Cipoletti Hardware, at the northeast corner of 10th Street and Charles Street. The building is from 1960.
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Superboy physically appeared in a retailer exclusive boxed minfigure gift set in 2014.
Based on his appearance in comics
Pregnancy is a beautiful time in a woman's life, but it can also be challenging, both physically and emotionally. One of the most common questions that pregnant women have is whether it's safe to have sex during pregnancy, it may not cause any disease like Infertility. While there are many myths and misconceptions surrounding sex during pregnancy, the truth is that it's generally safe and can even have several benefits. In this blog post, we'll debunk some of the most common myths surrounding sex during pregnancy and help you understand the benefits of having sex during this time.
Read more- relationclinic.com/treatments/low-sex-drive-treatment/
Myth #1: Sex during pregnancy can harm the baby
Many women worry that having sex during pregnancy can harm the baby, but this is not true. The baby is well protected by the amniotic sac and the cervix, which acts as a barrier to the penis. In fact, having sex during pregnancy can even help improve blood flow to the uterus and promote a healthy pregnancy.
Myth #2: Pregnant women need to have sex every day
While there's no harm in having sex during pregnancy, pregnant women don't need to have sex every day. It's perfectly safe to have sex as often as you and your partner are comfortable with. In fact, many women experience a decrease in libido during pregnancy, which is normal due to hormonal changes.
Myth #3: Sex during pregnancy can cause preterm labor
There's no evidence to suggest that having sex during pregnancy can cause preterm labor. In fact, sex during pregnancy can actually help induce labor in some women who are past their due date. However, if you have a high-risk pregnancy, it's best to talk to your doctor before having sex.
Now that we've debunked some of the most common myths surrounding sex during pregnancy let's talk about the benefits of having sex during this time. Here are a few benefits that pregnant women can experience:
Stress relief
Pregnancy can be a stressful time, but having sex can help relieve stress and promote relaxation. Sex releases endorphins, which are natural mood enhancers that can help you feel more relaxed and happy.
Improved sleep
Pregnancy can make it difficult to get a good night's sleep, but having sex can help improve sleep quality. Sex releases oxytocin, which is a hormone that promotes relaxation and can help you sleep better.
Improved intimacy
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Ah Professional Wrestling.. or as someone once called it, "Male Soap Opera". Full of all sorts of plots, storylines, and drama. While there are highs and lows with regards to the motivation of the players, the one thing that is consistent is the fact it is a very physically demanding occupation.
I don't watch any of it these days, but I was a bit more active during what is known as the "Attitude Era", which took place during the 2000s. This wonderful time made many prominent new stars, such as Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, as well as continued the development of preexisting players like The Undertaker and of course, master of The Pedigree - Triple H, Hunter Hearst Hemsley, The Cerebral Assassin, The Game, The King of Kings... whatever you like to call him.
Picked him up on a whim cause he was cheap and more importantly, I had visions of Woody getting slammed and was curious how well articulated the wrestling bodies were.
My best guess is that this is based on a beefier standard body, and not the Tamashii Nations "Fighting Body" that the Street Fighter figures are based on.
Content wise, the set does alright. You get the figure, three total expressions (neutral, yelling, smiling), three sets of hands (closed fists, weapon grabbing fists, opening and closing fists), sledgehammer, and bottle of water. The only thing that would have been nice to add would have been a water spay effect.
Triple H certainly looks the part.. well mostly. The body is never going to be 100% accurate, but it does get his musculature and overall silhouette pretty accurately, with a somewhat undersized chest and honestly, not enough body hair for Attitude era Triple H.
The hair on his head, much like with Infinity War Widow, is gold instead of blonde, and is decently detailed for a figure of this size. Faces are hit and miss - the neutral face is fairly well done. They got expression, and the general shape of Triple H's brow, nose, and eyes. In the right light, you get a really good photo of him.
The yelling and laughing faces are... serviceable. In the right light, they're terrible, and you can be sure I had some fun with that.
Articulation isn't as refined as I'd like for a wrestling figure. I mean sure, the main points of articulation are there - ankles, double jointed knee, hips with thigh swivel, mid torso, shoulders with chest collapse, double jointed elbows with elbow twist, wrists, neck, and head. The hair, much like other figures with hair that drapes down close to the body, affects the ability of the figure to turn its head.
Ankles can rotate a full 360 degrees so you can replicate Kurt Angle breaking it, I suppose.
The chest collapse allows for pretty good replication of various holds, but the posing of the upper body is somewhat hampered by the elbows not allowing as deep a bend as I'd like.
While the hips pull down to allow for greater range of motion, the thighs are designed such in a full seated position they do no come together, which can make posing posing drivers or other seated slams a bit challenging.
Similar to the elbows, the knees could have used a bit more range of motion, but to do that you'd probably have to cut into the thigh and mess with silhouette.
From a paint perspective, he's deceptively simple looking. While not as vibrant as the other figures I've looked at. there's actually quite a bit of paint on the figure. For starters, the flesh coloured parts are almost all painted, with some dark airbrushing to emphasize muscles. It's the lack of colours that makes things hard to see. Overall, you get smooth paint applications, with average-at-best masking, especially given how simple the actual masking spots are. The digital face painting itself seems to be reasonably sharp, with the sculpt itself being what throws things off.
Build quality is what you expect - solid across the board. No issues with joint strength, limbs are the right length, parts hold together well, and no alignment issues. The finish isn't quite a strong as a Figma in terms of hiding seam lines, but again, Fiiguarts rarely are.
A neat figure and a pretty good Triple H, probably no worse off in terms of accuracy as any other figure based on a live action property. Not sure how well these (the WWE Figuarts line) sold, based on the pricing I've seen, but I imagine over here it's a bit tougher to get wrestling fans to buy based on the MSRP, even if the body and accuracy are better than your run of the mill figure. The sledgehammer was definitely a must have in this set... Triple H without a sledgehammer is like selling Stone Cold without a beer.
I've got a few interesting figures waiting to be unboxed, and one or two coming in the mail, a group of which includes a few things that effectively showed up because of "support local business" and aren't in my appetite.
So stay tuned!
Physically, technically and, as you can plainly see, emotionally.
I've no idea what she was objecting to here. It was a kind of random complaint, just thrown out there in the middle of an otherwise co-operative and affectionate photo shoot. We were alone at this point, Lucy having run off somewhere, and Bailey not yet having put in a Saturday appearance.
I'm pretty annoyed at chopping the tops of her ears off, but I was so keen to capture her annoyed mew that I rushed the shot.
This is the fourth and final photo in my Barbie mini-series. In this piece, Barbie has altogether rejected the Barbie lifestyle psychologically, emotionally, and physically. The police's presence speaks to the idea of criticism for women who defy social norms.
The first piece: www.flickr.com/photos/tear-at-the-seam/7174508194
The second piece: www.flickr.com/photos/tear-at-the-seam/6623766593
The third piece: www.flickr.com/photos/tear-at-the-seam/7163066152
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This is the fourth photo in my Barbie mini-series... I had to skip 2 because I didn't have the car mount that I needed, but I'm ordering the parts tonight so I can make it! Expect the third (and probably final photo) in the series within the next two weeks!
Modeling by the talented Taylor Fricano
And hair/makeup by Joy Chang (who also has a Flickr - check it out!)
As well, I have to thank the Inverness Police Department. The policemen there were incredibly accommodating to me and my idea.
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Strobist info(sorry I didn't get a setup shot!):
Key: LP160 into white umbrella with diffuser and CTO in front of police car (to mimic headlights - cloned out)
Fill: LP160 into O-ring flash for on-axis fill
Background: LP160 to back camera left zoomed in just to throw some light back there
I wanted to keep the lighting really simple. The on-axis fill is providing the majority of the light with only a little supplemental light from the "headlight" light. I didn't just wanna use an unjustified key light in the middle of this night scene, so this sort of shapeless fill (like would exist at night) seems sensible! Lighting with a purpose, y'all...
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Male and female ring-tailed lemurs are similar physically. They are roughly the same size, measuring about 42.5 cm (1.4 ft.) from head to rump and weighing roughly 2.25 kg (5 lb.).
Highly social creatures, ring-tailed lemurs live in groups averaging 17 members. Their society is female-dominant, and a group will often contain multiple breeding females. Females reproduce starting at 3 years of age, generally giving birth to one baby a year.
"The Event
On September 11, 2001, America suffered an assault on its home soil that resulted in almost 3,000 dead and countless others physically and emotionally wounded. The victims were nationals of more than 70 countries, making this tragedy global in impact. Dedicated on this, the 11 Day of September, 2011 on the 10th Anniversary of September 11, this memorial is a lasting tribute to the heroes who perished.
Lest we forget.
Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes and the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders"
"The Sculpture
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are an icon of the events of September 11, 2001, and a constant reminder of the human loss there, at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. This monument displays a segment of a steel girder salvaged from the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the attack. The steel cable was part of a World Trade Center elevator and was acquired only a few months before tragedy struck. They are displayed here in a simple setting to keep fresh in our memories the stark reality of September 11th and to encourage reflection on the events of that day and their enduring consequences."
"The Memorial evokes the physical and emotional impacts of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, while also asserting our collective strength to overcome the fear and loss they engendered.
The longitudinal axis of the Memorial is oriented north-to-south, a bearing of 180 degrees, the heading of the first plane that slammed into the World Trade Center. Four aluminum benches, representing each of the four hijacked planes, sit at the northern end of the Memorial, facing a monumental, unfinished concrete wall. Two flanking walls sweep inward and upward, suggesting the movement of an airplane, terminating abruptly at the concrete wall. The wall is concave—as if it has been forced inward—yet is unbroken. This wall serves as a backdrop for a composition comprised of a 10 foot- long fragment of a massive steel beam from the World Trade Center and 13 steel cables that extend outward from the wall to grasp the beam. The cables represent the 13 municipalities of Mercer County. Steel cable has special prominence in Mercer County’s industrial heritage, since wire rope (cable) was invented and manufactured by the John A. Roebling & Sons Company of Trenton and utilized in many important bridge projects across the Country. The Memorial represents the collective strength and resiliency of the people of Mercer County to endure the terror attacks, with the cables set in dynamic tension, lifting the beam, echoing the continuing process of healing and recovery. Bronze lettering on the wall reinforces the message of the Memorial through the words of Booker T. Washington:
“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength:
one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
These pictures were taken on 9/11/11 - six hours before the dedication ceremony.
The Mercer County September 11 Memorial is located in the Marina section of Mercer County Park in West Windsor, New Jersey - Google Map -
Miles from Ground Zero: 58
Apparizioni e altre manifestazioni mariane
From the history of our parish
1.10.2008
Twenty-eighth October 1888 was for our ancestors, then living in the suburbs of Bratislava called New Town, solemn day, the day of consecration new temple. But this day is solemn and important for us and will be important also for future generations. Our grandfathers built and because church leaders dedicated the temple on that day not only for themselves and for their children, but for all future generations. Those who build Blumentál physically, but spiritually primarily through your prayers, we left a wonderful legacy: church dedicated to the Assumption, the church, which has one hundred and twenty years invites believers can confidently say that the whole city that it glorified God, bring the sacrifice of Christ, purify your soul and implore the gifts of the Spirit for themselves and for their loved ones.
Celebration of consecration
The parish priest Jozef Poeck completed his work, who has devoted many years of his life, as we wrote about in previous figures. For believers Bratislava Nové Mesto parish is 118 years after its establishment saw to it that the faithful have a decent temple, whose tall slender tower towered over the entire eastern part of the city. Blumental Church was until recent times the only dominating this site. As he writes in his book Pozdech pastor, consecration of a new church in Bratislava expected not only residents of suburban New City but the entire Bratislava. Dedication of the temple designated day for 28 October on the feast of St. Simon and Jude, which that year fell on the October last Sunday.
Building a new church was of great interest of the Cardinal John Simor and the highest church dignitary of the Archdiocese of Esztergom, to which at that time belonged Bratislava. He himself a considerable amount contributed to its construction and it is no wonder that himself this new tabernacle of God sanctified .
Bratislavans prepared Cardinal decent adoption. Cardinal-Primate arrived in Bratislava on 27 October At the main station hailed him a great multitude of believers who lined the streets along which he passed to the Primate's Palace. There he has always stayed when visiting Bratislava (the Town palace bought in 1903 for their needs), and even there that day to receive the representatives of the city, various offices, army officials, townspeople and professional groups. The whole city was decorated and lit.
Newly built temple consecration ceremonies began 28 morning at nine. Ceremony was attended by about 30,000 believers (Bratislava at that time had about 70 000 inhabitants). We can imagine where it is today around our church could gather such a large crowd? At that time, however, surrounding the church was not built like today. 9.00 h in the morning on day dedication Blumentálu rozozvučali the bells of all the churches in Bratislava and the Cardinal-Primate, accompanied by church officials came to the new temple. Assisted prelates Cardinal Dr. Francis Horecký and Charles Rimel, Bratislava canons. Accompanied were prelate Dr. Jozef Danko, honest deacons Anton Leek and Joseph Urge, canon Graeff, and other dignitaries, priests and religious. Ceremony was also attended by Dr. Julius Machovič, notary stool Archbishop of Esztergom and the archbishop's office director Dr. John Black, who later became Archbishop of Esztergom. Bishop became a member of another parade Dr. Rimley. Ceremony was attended by prominent city officials, representatives of various agencies and states, armies, and large numbers townspeople simple people of God.
The ceremonies began before the temple gate, then svätiteľ Cardinal Simor escorted entered the church, where the ceremonies continued sanctification anointing altars and the temple walls. To save the remains of the altar stone martyr Adalbert and Gerhard. First Mass in our church served Baltizár bishop and the first sermon delivered svätiteľ Cardinal Simor. The church preached three preachers: Jesuit P. Emil Volbert German, and two Franciscans, one Slovak and one Hungarian. The ceremonies lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon. After the solemn procession returned to the Primate's Palace, where Cardinal Simor for invited guests was given a formal dinner. It goes without saying that it is attended by a priest Poeck, without whose selfless work would not stand this temple.
In connection with the consecration of Blumentálu mentions the event, which was to become the pastor Poeck fatal. On the way to the Primate's Palace was stampeded horses pulled the carriage in which he sat, and as pastor writes Pozdech only by God's providence remained alive.
Celebrations dedication of the temple after years
Believers of this site for years to commemorate the big day solemn consecration of the temple worship, after which they were folk festivities. The annual celebration of the dedication of the temple waving their spiritual and secular. The spiritual part was solemn character, Mass serve senior dignitaries and preachers coming festive. Worship enriched various choirs and ensembles; secular part called. Forgive was associated with folk festivals and party. That day came not only parishioners, but people from all over the city from the nearer and wider surroundings. At that time, around the church still extremely suitable for such celebrations. Open space provide plenty of room for a variety of stalls, attractions, festivals roundabouts... spestrovala brass band from Záhorska Bystrica.
Pozdech pastor remembers that when he wrote his memories, older parishioners at these festivities still remember, as young as yourself to participate in them. Such spectacular folk festivals disappeared after the First World War.
Great was the celebration of consecration Blumentálu in the twenty-fifth anniversary. Although the history of the temple twenty-five years is not much, because the church is built on centuries, writes pastor Pozdech: every believer adhesions with its parish church, where baptism was received into the bosom of the Church, there is divested of their sins, receive the Savior, there is a double promises connects life inextricably to a man with a woman and introduces a new family, there priest begs for mercy for those who embarked on the path of eternity...
Spiritual program began a day before the big feast solemn litanies. In the anniversary Mass celebrated by the parish priest Evariast Czaykowski and preached prelate A. Gaibl. Ceremony was attended by celebrities Bratislava, led by mayor.
In 45 Blumentálu anniversary of the dedication of the restored organ.
In December r. Opened in 1941 Blumentálska fare lecture hall. On that occasion was solemn litany in our church Nuncio Msgr. Dr. Joseph Burzio, who repeatedly took part in the celebrations in Blumentáli. In Slovakia, had to r., 1945. Farewell to Mons. Burzio held on Blumentálska fare.
On the 60th year anniversaries were scheduled to work on the renovated church interior, upgraded lighting should be introduced electric heating, had to return the original painting, restore the altars, and an altar of Our Lady of Lourdes. Estimated costs were two to two and a half million dollars. A Committee made the collections and 4 April 1948 launched the work. On how to fix Blumentálu continued, we have news.
The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the consecration and stodesiateho Blumentálu would know what to say - then- pastor VDP. John Frog and long-time parish administrator VDP. Stephen Herényi. Written reports we have .
www.blumental.sk/casopis-blumental/2008/10/z-historie-nas...
Swabs are tested mentally and physically during sea trials, a day-long event that showcases the skills they will need as officers in the United States Coast Guard, New London, Conn., Aug. 14, 2015. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Lisa Ferdinando.
Daniel Libeskind’s Berlin Juedisches Museum is one of the world’s undisputed museums and architectural gems. The JMB is a stunning achievement in the architecture of cultural identity, a lasting expression of Jewish presence and dislocation and above all the attempt at reconciling, physically and spiritually, the meaning of the Holocaust into the memory and consciousness of the city of Berlin. For Libeskind, who was born a few hundred kilometres from Berlin in Lodz Poland and whose family was decimated during the Holocaust, the project presented to the Berlin Senate in 1988 – one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall – was a mission to acknowledge and incorporate the fractured course of German-Jewish history and the void of Jewish life in Berlin. In Daniel Libeskind’s words, “it thematizes and integrates for the first time in post-war Germany the history of the Jews in Germany, the repercussions of the Holocaust and spiritual displacement. It is also just a museum with exhibits on the walls”. Libeskind’s own name for the Jewish Museum project was ‘Between the Lines’. Starting with the vision of two lines, the first straight broken and fragmented, the other tortuous but indefinitely continuous, he gave visual form to the elements of fragmentation coexisting with hope, continuity and connectivity, Jews and Germans, East and West, tradition and present. There are three underground passageways or axial routes connecting the new building with the older Baroque one. The first leads to the Stair of Continuity and to the museum itself and the permanent exhibition; the second to the Garden of Exile and Emigration while the third leads to the Holocaust Void which is the only dead end. The Void symbolizes the absence of Berlin’s Jewish citizens. The building is characterized by its shimmering zinc-clad walls, irregular lines and a star-shaped zig-zag ground design with light coming through asymmetric slits reminiscent of brutal stabs on the otherwise smooth façade of the monolithically shaped building. Seem from the air, the shape is that of a lightning-bolt. The window slit does in fact follow a precise matrix, the addresses of prominent German and Jewish citizens which Libeskind derived from a map of pre-war Berlin. Amongst the architectural feats is the ground layout which consists of spaces cut through an east-west axis which can only be crossed on passageways. The structural elements are represented by the concept of the void, something which cannot be exhibited. Five vertical voids run through the New Building. The walls are dark bare concrete, visible from the exhibition level as dark walls. The latest addition to the Libeskind building is the spectacular Glass Courtyard completed in September 2007. Known as Sukkah from the Hebrew, meaning Tabernacle, the steel supports of the glass structure are arched branch-like formations referring to a social gathering.
After the old cathedral burnt down in 1596 the Diocese of Seville (who the diocese of Cádiz reported to anyway) took over the spiritual responsibilities of the provinces of Cádiz and Ceuta.
The Bishop of Seville’s seat was physically and spiritually in Seville.
In the eyes of the people of Cadiz this was not only a loss of prestige, it was a loss of spiritual clout!
The idea of a new cathedral in Cádiz finally gained enough support, backing and momentum, so that on July 3 of 1716 it was decided to build a new cathedral.
The first stone was laid on May 3 of 1722, but work was suspended four years later for lack of funds.
Construction of the new cathedral was supervised by the architect Vicente Acero, who had also built the Cathedral de Granada. Acero left the project a few years later and was succeeded by architect Gaspar Cayon, Torcuato Cayon, Miguel de Olivares and Manuel de Machuca.
In the ensuing years there were many stops and interruptions, due to a lack of funds to buy materials and pay workers, as well as other natural (and unnatural) disasters.
A little thing called the Napoleonic Wars interrupted work on the Cathedral when Cadiz was blockaded by the British from 1797 to 1802.
They were blockaded again from 1803 until the outbreak of the Peninsular War in 1808.
In that war Cadiz was one of the few Spanish cities to hold out against the invading French, who sought to install Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother) on the throne.
As the cathedral took shape two high towers rose on either side of the front end to form an astronomical observatory.
It is an exceptional fact that the Cathedral of Cadiz was allowed to have towers of such height, since it was outlawed by the ruling Bourbons, because the construction of such structures, constituted an easy target for the enemy cannons.
Unfortunately the Bourbons should have stuck to their guns, so to speak, because it seems that the cathedral became a target, every time there was a war.
Most of the parts of the “original” new construction have been destroyed. Only the vault and part of the main entrance to the original “new” cathedral remain intact.
Here is where we branch off into a little history (just so you know the workers of Cadiz were not just lazy louts).
Cadiz became the seat of "free" Spain's military high command and of the “Cortes” ( the parliament) for the duration of the 1808 war.
It was in Cadiz that the liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812 was proclaimed. It was a groundbreaking event as it was the blueprint of a liberal Spain under a constitutional monarchy.
However, the city's status as capital of free Spain only lasted until 1814 when King Ferdinand VII, against earlier promises, and encouraged by conservatives and the Church hierarchy, rejected the Constitution.
On 4 May he ordered its abolition and on 10 May had the liberal leaders responsible for the Constitution arrested.
He quickly went from being known as "Ferdinand the Desired" to being hated by his own people.
NOTE: The whole story behind Ferdinand VII, as well as Cadiz and Spain itself, during that period, is simply fascinating and makes a wonderful story, if you care to read it. I know this starts to stray from the story of the cathedral itself, but one must understand at least some of the reasons it took 116 years to finally finish it.
Suffice it to say that Ferdinand’s misrule provoked a revolt in 1820 in favor of the Constitution of 1812 which began with a mutiny of his troops.
The king was quickly taken prisoner and moved to the declared capital of Free Spain, Cadiz.
The revolution spread across Spain like wildfire.
Alarmed by these events, the other European powers met, in October 1822, and authorized France to intervene in the conflict and restore the rule of Ferdinand, with only Britain abstaining from that decision.
The people of Spain were incensed and were sure Ferdinand had called on the French, of all people, to rescue him.
On 17 April 1823, French forces crossed the Pyrenees into Spain. They then moved south to besiege the rebels at Cádiz.
The French besieged the fort of Trocadero, which controlled the access to the city.
On 31 August 1823, in what would become know as the Battle of Trocadero, they launched a surprise bayonet attack from the seaside, using the low tide, and took the fort.
There were 400 French casualties and 500 to 600 Spanish, which comprised one-third of the garrison.
Cádiz itself held out for three weeks despite bombardments, but was forced to surrender on 23 September 1823.
King Ferdinand was handed over to the French, and was put back on the Spanish throne.
With the fall of Cadiz, Ferdinand revenged himself with a ferocity which disgusted even his far from liberal allies.
In violation of his oath to grant an amnesty he avenged himself, for three years of imprisonment and coercion, by killing on a scale which left his "rescuers" sickened and horrified.
An estimated 30,000 people were executed and 20,000 imprisoned.
So now it is easy to see the many “distractions” that took place during the building of the Cathedral de Cadiz!
During the work stoppages from 1796 to 1832, the chapels surrounding the construction of the temple around and over the High Altar were used for different purposes such as, shops, factories, warehouses, and even mortuaries during the time of epidemics.
A fire in the chapel of San Signed in 1832, used at the time to store wood, was just one more reasons for delay of the completion. Work stopped again.
The General Military Governor at the time, Don Jose Manso y Sola appealed to the re-appointed Bishop of Cadiz, Dr Fray Domingo de Silos Moreno, and encouraged him to repair the damage to the temple of the high altar, and consecrate that.
The Bishop, with commendable perseverance and will power, invested almost the revenues he had, or could find, but still could not find enough to pay all the workers.
He then turned to the generosity of the trade’s people of Cadiz and convinced them, for lesser or no wages, to overcome every obstacle in their path.
This effort immortalized his name to the people of Cadiz, and within the Catholic Church of Spain.
Before work was finally completed on the overall cathedral, the Temple of the High Altar was, in fact, consecrated in June 1838, by Bishop Domingo de Silos Moreno, and the people of Cadiz again had a cathedral that was recognized by the Catholic Church.
The aftermath to this facinating story is visiible even today.
Because of the extraordinarily long construction time, the materials used to build the Cathedral were quite varied due to different economic crisis that faced the city during the 116 year construction period.
The work delays caused many parts of the temple to be exposed to the rigors weather and time.
This, and the very situation of building by the sea, has started a decay in the cathedral’s stone that causes it to fall apart little by little.
Today nets hang down from the ceiling to prevent falling pieces of material from injuring people.
Cathedral de Cadiz
Cadiz, Spain
Sufi whirling (or Sufi turning) is a form of physically active meditation which originated among Sufis, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order and other orders such as the Rifa'i-Marufi.
It is a customary meditation practice performed within the Sema, or worship ceremony, through which dervishes aim to reach the source of all perfection, or kamal. This is sought through abandoning one's nafs, ego or personal desires, by listening to the music, focusing on God, and spinning one's body in repetitive circles.
The Mevlevi practice gave rise to an Egyptian form, tanoura, distinguished by the use of a multicolored skirt. The word tanoura refers to the colorful skirt worn by the whirler, with a color representing each Sufi order. The word may also refer to the dancer, traditionally a Sufi man. Tanoura is associated with Sufism and is performed at Sufi festivals.
From the history of our parish
1.10.2008
Twenty-eighth October 1888 was for our ancestors, then living in the suburbs of Bratislava called New Town, solemn day, the day of consecration new temple. But this day is solemn and important for us and will be important also for future generations. Our grandfathers built and because church leaders dedicated the temple on that day not only for themselves and for their children, but for all future generations. Those who build Blumentál physically, but spiritually primarily through your prayers, we left a wonderful legacy: church dedicated to the Assumption, the church, which has one hundred and twenty years invites believers can confidently say that the whole city that it glorified God, bring the sacrifice of Christ, purify your soul and implore the gifts of the Spirit for themselves and for their loved ones.
Celebration of consecration
The parish priest Jozef Poeck completed his work, who has devoted many years of his life, as we wrote about in previous figures. For believers Bratislava Nové Mesto parish is 118 years after its establishment saw to it that the faithful have a decent temple, whose tall slender tower towered over the entire eastern part of the city. Blumental Church was until recent times the only dominating this site. As he writes in his book Pozdech pastor, consecration of a new church in Bratislava expected not only residents of suburban New City but the entire Bratislava. Dedication of the temple designated day for 28 October on the feast of St. Simon and Jude, which that year fell on the October last Sunday.
Building a new church was of great interest of the Cardinal John Simor and the highest church dignitary of the Archdiocese of Esztergom, to which at that time belonged Bratislava. He himself a considerable amount contributed to its construction and it is no wonder that himself this new tabernacle of God sanctified .
Bratislavans prepared Cardinal decent adoption. Cardinal-Primate arrived in Bratislava on 27 October At the main station hailed him a great multitude of believers who lined the streets along which he passed to the Primate's Palace. There he has always stayed when visiting Bratislava (the Town palace bought in 1903 for their needs), and even there that day to receive the representatives of the city, various offices, army officials, townspeople and professional groups. The whole city was decorated and lit.
Newly built temple consecration ceremonies began 28 morning at nine. Ceremony was attended by about 30,000 believers (Bratislava at that time had about 70 000 inhabitants). We can imagine where it is today around our church could gather such a large crowd? At that time, however, surrounding the church was not built like today. 9.00 h in the morning on day dedication Blumentálu rozozvučali the bells of all the churches in Bratislava and the Cardinal-Primate, accompanied by church officials came to the new temple. Assisted prelates Cardinal Dr. Francis Horecký and Charles Rimel, Bratislava canons. Accompanied were prelate Dr. Jozef Danko, honest deacons Anton Leek and Joseph Urge, canon Graeff, and other dignitaries, priests and religious. Ceremony was also attended by Dr. Julius Machovič, notary stool Archbishop of Esztergom and the archbishop's office director Dr. John Black, who later became Archbishop of Esztergom. Bishop became a member of another parade Dr. Rimley. Ceremony was attended by prominent city officials, representatives of various agencies and states, armies, and large numbers townspeople simple people of God.
The ceremonies began before the temple gate, then svätiteľ Cardinal Simor escorted entered the church, where the ceremonies continued sanctification anointing altars and the temple walls. To save the remains of the altar stone martyr Adalbert and Gerhard. First Mass in our church served Baltizár bishop and the first sermon delivered svätiteľ Cardinal Simor. The church preached three preachers: Jesuit P. Emil Volbert German, and two Franciscans, one Slovak and one Hungarian. The ceremonies lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon. After the solemn procession returned to the Primate's Palace, where Cardinal Simor for invited guests was given a formal dinner. It goes without saying that it is attended by a priest Poeck, without whose selfless work would not stand this temple.
In connection with the consecration of Blumentálu mentions the event, which was to become the pastor Poeck fatal. On the way to the Primate's Palace was stampeded horses pulled the carriage in which he sat, and as pastor writes Pozdech only by God's providence remained alive.
Celebrations dedication of the temple after years
Believers of this site for years to commemorate the big day solemn consecration of the temple worship, after which they were folk festivities. The annual celebration of the dedication of the temple waving their spiritual and secular. The spiritual part was solemn character, Mass serve senior dignitaries and preachers coming festive. Worship enriched various choirs and ensembles; secular part called. Forgive was associated with folk festivals and party. That day came not only parishioners, but people from all over the city from the nearer and wider surroundings. At that time, around the church still extremely suitable for such celebrations. Open space provide plenty of room for a variety of stalls, attractions, festivals roundabouts... spestrovala brass band from Záhorska Bystrica.
Pozdech pastor remembers that when he wrote his memories, older parishioners at these festivities still remember, as young as yourself to participate in them. Such spectacular folk festivals disappeared after the First World War.
Great was the celebration of consecration Blumentálu in the twenty-fifth anniversary. Although the history of the temple twenty-five years is not much, because the church is built on centuries, writes pastor Pozdech: every believer adhesions with its parish church, where baptism was received into the bosom of the Church, there is divested of their sins, receive the Savior, there is a double promises connects life inextricably to a man with a woman and introduces a new family, there priest begs for mercy for those who embarked on the path of eternity...
Spiritual program began a day before the big feast solemn litanies. In the anniversary Mass celebrated by the parish priest Evariast Czaykowski and preached prelate A. Gaibl. Ceremony was attended by celebrities Bratislava, led by mayor.
In 45 Blumentálu anniversary of the dedication of the restored organ.
In December r. Opened in 1941 Blumentálska fare lecture hall. On that occasion was solemn litany in our church Nuncio Msgr. Dr. Joseph Burzio, who repeatedly took part in the celebrations in Blumentáli. In Slovakia, had to r., 1945. Farewell to Mons. Burzio held on Blumentálska fare.
On the 60th year anniversaries were scheduled to work on the renovated church interior, upgraded lighting should be introduced electric heating, had to return the original painting, restore the altars, and an altar of Our Lady of Lourdes. Estimated costs were two to two and a half million dollars. A Committee made the collections and 4 April 1948 launched the work. On how to fix Blumentálu continued, we have news.
The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the consecration and stodesiateho Blumentálu would know what to say - then- pastor VDP. John Frog and long-time parish administrator VDP. Stephen Herényi. Written reports we have .
www.blumental.sk/casopis-blumental/2008/10/z-historie-nas...
New Zealand has been physically isolated from the rest of the world since it separated from supercontinent Gondwana some 90 million years ago. Because of that, it has developed unique assemblages of animals and plants that are found nowhere else, and most animals and plants common to other continents do not occur in New Zealand, unless they were introduced by man in the last few hundred years. For example, there are no endemic mammals in New Zealand - except for 3 species of bats; mammals were not around 90 million years ago; most appeared after the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago and by that time NZ was already out of reach in the middle of the ocean.
All this to say that it is when walking in the forest that one notices the most that there is something peculiar about the biota in New Zealand. The most striking for me was the abundance of tree ferns everywhere, and it didn't seem to matter whether we were on the North Island or South Island, whether the climate was hot or cold, wet or dry, or whether we were at sea level or high in the mountains. Those tree ferns were always there. Their presence gave a special "tropical" look and feel to the forest, quite pleasant and attractive. This is partly why I took so many pictures in the forest!
H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, built by an global scientific consortium near the Gamsberg Pass in Namibia. As gadgets go, this is physically the biggest and the most technologically advanced in Namibia (there aren't any others, really, but this one is seriously awesome). The reason it was built there is that that there is nothing there to pollute the view of the night sky. No humans or concentrated human activity, no animals and not much vegetation to speak of. This is "nowhere" at it's best. Getting to H.E.S.S. from Windhoek is a drive (about 100km, of which a good part on gravel), but very worth it. The scientists working there ask for an advance booking, but will be happy to provide a tour. This photo was taken on an Open Day hosted by H.E.S.S. The telecope mirror is seen pointing at the sky, which never happens during daylight on regular duty days, as the Sun's reflection will easily destroy the sensitive camera. An American database programmer is seen in the right bottom corner of the image.
"H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes that investigates cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from 10s of GeV to 10s of TeV. The name H.E.S.S. stands for High Energy Stereoscopic System, and is also intended to pay homage to Victor Hess , who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic radiation. The instrument allows scientists to explore gamma-ray sources with intensities at a level of a few thousandths of the flux of the Crab nebula (the brightest steady source of gamma rays in the sky). H.E.S.S. is located in Namibia, near the Gamsberg mountain, an area well known for its excellent optical quality. The first of the four telescopes of Phase I of the H.E.S.S. project went into operation in Summer 2002; all four were operational in December 2003, and were officially inaugurated on September 28, 2004. A much larger fifth telescope - H.E.S.S. II - is operational since July 2012, extending the energy coverage towards lower energies and further improving sensitivity.
The H.E.S.S. observatory is operated by the collaboration of more than 170 scientists, from 32 scientific institutions and 12 different countries: Namibia and South Africa, Germany, France, the UK, Ireland, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Armenia, and Australia. To date, the H.E.S.S. Collaboration has published over 100 articles in high-impact scientific journals, including the top-ranked ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’ journals.
H.E.S.S. was awarded in 2006 the Descartes Prize of the European Commission - the highest recognition for collaborative research - and in 2010 the prestigious Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society. In a survey in 2006, H.E.S.S. was ranked the 10th most influential observatory worldwide, joining the ranks with the Hubble Space Telescope or the telescopes of the European Southern Observatory ESO in Chile."
In other words, pretty awesome.
(Source: H.E.S.S. website www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/pages/about/)
(Source: H.E.S.S. website www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/pages/about/)
"The Event
On September 11, 2001, America suffered an assault on its home soil that resulted in almost 3,000 dead and countless others physically and emotionally wounded. The victims were nationals of more than 70 countries, making this tragedy global in impact. Dedicated on this, the 11 Day of September, 2011 on the 10th Anniversary of September 11, this memorial is a lasting tribute to the heroes who perished.
Lest we forget.
Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes and the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders"
"The Sculpture
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are an icon of the events of September 11, 2001, and a constant reminder of the human loss there, at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. This monument displays a segment of a steel girder salvaged from the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the attack. The steel cable was part of a World Trade Center elevator and was acquired only a few months before tragedy struck. They are displayed here in a simple setting to keep fresh in our memories the stark reality of September 11th and to encourage reflection on the events of that day and their enduring consequences."
"The Memorial evokes the physical and emotional impacts of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, while also asserting our collective strength to overcome the fear and loss they engendered.
The longitudinal axis of the Memorial is oriented north-to-south, a bearing of 180 degrees, the heading of the first plane that slammed into the World Trade Center. Four aluminum benches, representing each of the four hijacked planes, sit at the northern end of the Memorial, facing a monumental, unfinished concrete wall. Two flanking walls sweep inward and upward, suggesting the movement of an airplane, terminating abruptly at the concrete wall. The wall is concave—as if it has been forced inward—yet is unbroken. This wall serves as a backdrop for a composition comprised of a 10 foot- long fragment of a massive steel beam from the World Trade Center and 13 steel cables that extend outward from the wall to grasp the beam. The cables represent the 13 municipalities of Mercer County. Steel cable has special prominence in Mercer County’s industrial heritage, since wire rope (cable) was invented and manufactured by the John A. Roebling & Sons Company of Trenton and utilized in many important bridge projects across the Country. The Memorial represents the collective strength and resiliency of the people of Mercer County to endure the terror attacks, with the cables set in dynamic tension, lifting the beam, echoing the continuing process of healing and recovery. Bronze lettering on the wall reinforces the message of the Memorial through the words of Booker T. Washington:
“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength:
one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
These pictures were taken on 9/11/11 - six hours before the dedication ceremony.
The Mercer County September 11 Memorial is located in the Marina section of Mercer County Park in West Windsor, New Jersey - Google Map -
Miles from Ground Zero: 58
Mother of Disable Kalsh child appeal for Free Treatment.
CHITRAL/BUMBORAT: Mother of a physically handicapped Kalash child
appeal for free treatment of her son. According to detail Sadiq Ali 6
whose father Shahdulla died a few years back is disable for the last
four years His mother Saira Bibi told this scribe that her son Sadiq
Ali was weak after one year of his birth. She took him to Chitral
hospital but doctors could not diagnosed his illness (disease) she
added. She continue his treatment but suddenly her husband died and
now being a poor widow she can,t continue treatment of his youngest
son Sadiq Ali. She said that a wheel chair was also donated by a
foreigner tourist but she expressed her great sorrow that she was not
supported by Government of Pakistan or any Muslim. She said that she
is hardworking and gaining livelihood for her entire family and also
continue treatment of her son. She said that when Sadiq Ali take his
treatment he remain happy but when his medicines finished and I cannot
purchase it more due to my extreme poverty so Sadiq Ali became upset
and feel un easy. She appeal prime Minister of Pakistan as well as
philanthropists of the world including Pakistan to help her to
continue treatment of her son. She may be supported or contacted by
telephone No (0092) 943-404108 or by this correspondent.
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I physically cannot handle staying up late another night doing my 365 photo. So I got my boss' approval to do my photo in my office over my lunch hour. I was trying to do an environmental-type portrait, as I've been an IT (Information Technology) professional for about 12 years, and figured it wouldn't be a bad idea to document that fact. I probably should have geared it more toward writing software, as that is what I have done the most of over those 12 years... but I think it was the planning, architecting, and engineering of software that really kept me passionate about it for so long... so the white-board-me is pretty fitting.
I'm not very happy about the end result, but I seriously am not going to fret about it... cause right now my sleep is far more important than any photo. Although I will say that I realized I really messed it up because I should have done a pose with me looking at the camera. Damn... it's the kind of thing that makes you more mad the more you think about it. So I'm done thinking about it, and I'm going to bed.
Lighting/Setup Info
- SB600 at 24mm zoom and 1/32 -0.3 power level in a 15-inch Lastolite Ezybox. Positioned camera-right about 3-feet behind subject and about 6-feet high. (Key/Back Light)
- SB80DX at 14mm zoom and 1/16 power level with a dome diffuser. Positioned camera-right about 9-feet from subject and bounced off wall behind the camera. (Fill Light)
- Slow shutter to allow window light to provide some fill.
- Cybersyncs.
Greater Manchester Police has today (14 July) joined up with Manchester City Council to support charity Syria Relief with the launch of a humanitarian aid volunteering facility in Openshaw, Manchester.
The facility, provided by Manchester City Council at New Smithfield Market will give the general public an opportunity to physically and positively support the planning and hard work that goes into collecting and preparing aid for Syria. Communities are encouraged to take donations of clothes, blankets and food to the facility and get involved with packing them onto containers ready to be sent to those in need Syria.
There are many people in Greater Manchester who wish to help the Syrian refugees who have suffered terribly during the Syrian civil war, and would like to do more than simply donate money to charity. The volunteering facility offers an alternative to people who feel compelled to travel out to Syria and risk their lives to help the humanitarian aid effort.
Greater Manchester residents are being urged to stay in the UK to help at centres such as this one, or donate to well-known charities that have the expertise and access to deliver the humanitarian aid to the right areas in Syria.
GMP Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy, who is the national Prevent lead for ACPO TAM said:
“We know there are many people in Greater Manchester and nationally who want to support the millions of people who are caught up in the Syrian conflict. Anyone who does travel there is putting themselves in considerable danger and that is why this volunteering facility is so valuable right here in Greater Manchester, giving people the opportunity to donate and assist with the humanitarian effort without putting themselves and others in danger.
“It’s very positive to see communities and organisations working together and this partnership highlights the support that can be given locally to a national cause. “
Sir Peter was joined at the launch by Deputy Leader of Manchester City Council, Councillor Bernard Priest and the Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Jim Battle.
Deputy PCC Jim Battle said:
“The humanitarian crisis in Syria is something people in Greater Manchester care deeply about. This volunteering facility gives the opportunity to assist some of the most vulnerable people without the need to travel to the conflict zone.
“Community spirit has yet again come to the fore, and it’s a real credit to Greater Manchester people that they are so willing to give their own time and donations to help people far worse off than themselves. Greater Manchester Police, Manchester City Council and people from all across Greater Manchester have shown the whole world that they care.”
Cllr Priest said:
"I know that many Mancunians and people from across the North West have been strongly moved by the plight of those suffering because of the Syrian conflict, and want to do more than just donate money to charity.
"This facility is an excellent opportunity for our communities to provide experienced organisations with items that will make a difference to those in need - such as clothes, blankets and food. I urge Manchester residents to visit this centre rather than risk tragedy by attempting to travel to Syria themselves."
Chairman of Syria Relief, Dr Basil Hatahet added: "While the news currently focuses on the brutality of the war and the emergence of fundamentalist groups in Syria, the ever-worsening humanitarian situation and human suffering continue.
“This joint initiative between Syria Relief, Manchester City Council and Great Manchester Police invites the citizens of Manchester to help alleviate the suffering by giving their time and efforts, as well as their financial and in-kind donation in a safe and practical way."
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From the history of our parish
1.10.2008
Twenty-eighth October 1888 was for our ancestors, then living in the suburbs of Bratislava called New Town, solemn day, the day of consecration new temple. But this day is solemn and important for us and will be important also for future generations. Our grandfathers built and because church leaders dedicated the temple on that day not only for themselves and for their children, but for all future generations. Those who build Blumentál physically, but spiritually primarily through your prayers, we left a wonderful legacy: church dedicated to the Assumption, the church, which has one hundred and twenty years invites believers can confidently say that the whole city that it glorified God, bring the sacrifice of Christ, purify your soul and implore the gifts of the Spirit for themselves and for their loved ones.
Celebration of consecration
The parish priest Jozef Poeck completed his work, who has devoted many years of his life, as we wrote about in previous figures. For believers Bratislava Nové Mesto parish is 118 years after its establishment saw to it that the faithful have a decent temple, whose tall slender tower towered over the entire eastern part of the city. Blumental Church was until recent times the only dominating this site. As he writes in his book Pozdech pastor, consecration of a new church in Bratislava expected not only residents of suburban New City but the entire Bratislava. Dedication of the temple designated day for 28 October on the feast of St. Simon and Jude, which that year fell on the October last Sunday.
Building a new church was of great interest of the Cardinal John Simor and the highest church dignitary of the Archdiocese of Esztergom, to which at that time belonged Bratislava. He himself a considerable amount contributed to its construction and it is no wonder that himself this new tabernacle of God sanctified .
Bratislavans prepared Cardinal decent adoption. Cardinal-Primate arrived in Bratislava on 27 October At the main station hailed him a great multitude of believers who lined the streets along which he passed to the Primate's Palace. There he has always stayed when visiting Bratislava (the Town palace bought in 1903 for their needs), and even there that day to receive the representatives of the city, various offices, army officials, townspeople and professional groups. The whole city was decorated and lit.
Newly built temple consecration ceremonies began 28 morning at nine. Ceremony was attended by about 30,000 believers (Bratislava at that time had about 70 000 inhabitants). We can imagine where it is today around our church could gather such a large crowd? At that time, however, surrounding the church was not built like today. 9.00 h in the morning on day dedication Blumentálu rozozvučali the bells of all the churches in Bratislava and the Cardinal-Primate, accompanied by church officials came to the new temple. Assisted prelates Cardinal Dr. Francis Horecký and Charles Rimel, Bratislava canons. Accompanied were prelate Dr. Jozef Danko, honest deacons Anton Leek and Joseph Urge, canon Graeff, and other dignitaries, priests and religious. Ceremony was also attended by Dr. Julius Machovič, notary stool Archbishop of Esztergom and the archbishop's office director Dr. John Black, who later became Archbishop of Esztergom. Bishop became a member of another parade Dr. Rimley. Ceremony was attended by prominent city officials, representatives of various agencies and states, armies, and large numbers townspeople simple people of God.
The ceremonies began before the temple gate, then svätiteľ Cardinal Simor escorted entered the church, where the ceremonies continued sanctification anointing altars and the temple walls. To save the remains of the altar stone martyr Adalbert and Gerhard. First Mass in our church served Baltizár bishop and the first sermon delivered svätiteľ Cardinal Simor. The church preached three preachers: Jesuit P. Emil Volbert German, and two Franciscans, one Slovak and one Hungarian. The ceremonies lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon. After the solemn procession returned to the Primate's Palace, where Cardinal Simor for invited guests was given a formal dinner. It goes without saying that it is attended by a priest Poeck, without whose selfless work would not stand this temple.
In connection with the consecration of Blumentálu mentions the event, which was to become the pastor Poeck fatal. On the way to the Primate's Palace was stampeded horses pulled the carriage in which he sat, and as pastor writes Pozdech only by God's providence remained alive.
Celebrations dedication of the temple after years
Believers of this site for years to commemorate the big day solemn consecration of the temple worship, after which they were folk festivities. The annual celebration of the dedication of the temple waving their spiritual and secular. The spiritual part was solemn character, Mass serve senior dignitaries and preachers coming festive. Worship enriched various choirs and ensembles; secular part called. Forgive was associated with folk festivals and party. That day came not only parishioners, but people from all over the city from the nearer and wider surroundings. At that time, around the church still extremely suitable for such celebrations. Open space provide plenty of room for a variety of stalls, attractions, festivals roundabouts... spestrovala brass band from Záhorska Bystrica.
Pozdech pastor remembers that when he wrote his memories, older parishioners at these festivities still remember, as young as yourself to participate in them. Such spectacular folk festivals disappeared after the First World War.
Great was the celebration of consecration Blumentálu in the twenty-fifth anniversary. Although the history of the temple twenty-five years is not much, because the church is built on centuries, writes pastor Pozdech: every believer adhesions with its parish church, where baptism was received into the bosom of the Church, there is divested of their sins, receive the Savior, there is a double promises connects life inextricably to a man with a woman and introduces a new family, there priest begs for mercy for those who embarked on the path of eternity...
Spiritual program began a day before the big feast solemn litanies. In the anniversary Mass celebrated by the parish priest Evariast Czaykowski and preached prelate A. Gaibl. Ceremony was attended by celebrities Bratislava, led by mayor.
In 45 Blumentálu anniversary of the dedication of the restored organ.
In December r. Opened in 1941 Blumentálska fare lecture hall. On that occasion was solemn litany in our church Nuncio Msgr. Dr. Joseph Burzio, who repeatedly took part in the celebrations in Blumentáli. In Slovakia, had to r., 1945. Farewell to Mons. Burzio held on Blumentálska fare.
On the 60th year anniversaries were scheduled to work on the renovated church interior, upgraded lighting should be introduced electric heating, had to return the original painting, restore the altars, and an altar of Our Lady of Lourdes. Estimated costs were two to two and a half million dollars. A Committee made the collections and 4 April 1948 launched the work. On how to fix Blumentálu continued, we have news.
The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the consecration and stodesiateho Blumentálu would know what to say - then- pastor VDP. John Frog and long-time parish administrator VDP. Stephen Herényi. Written reports we have .
www.blumental.sk/casopis-blumental/2008/10/z-historie-nas...
A Mars rover is a motor vehicle designed to travel on the surface of Mars. Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months, and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote robotic vehicle control. They serve a different purpose than orbital spacecraft like Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. A more recent development is the Mars helicopter.
As of May 2021, there have been six successful robotically operated Mars rovers; the first five, managed by the American NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, were (by date of Mars landing): Sojourner (1997–1997), Opportunity (2004–2018), Spirit (2004–2010), Curiosity (2012–), and Perseverance (2021–). The sixth, managed by the China National Space Administration, is Zhurong (2021–).
On January 24, 2016, NASA reported that then current studies on Mars by Opportunity and Curiosity would be searching for evidence of ancient life, including a biosphere based on autotrophic, chemotrophic or chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms, as well as ancient water, including fluvio-lacustrine environments (plains related to ancient rivers or lakes) that may have been habitable. The search for evidence of habitability, taphonomy (related to fossils), and organic carbon on Mars is now a primary NASA objective.[1][6]
The Soviet probes, Mars 2 and Mars 3, were physically tethered probes; Sojourner was dependent on the Mars Pathfinder base station for communication with Earth; Opportunity, Spirit and Curiosity were on their own. As of July 2022, Curiosity is still active, while Spirit, Opportunity, and Sojourner completed their missions before losing contact. On February 18, 2021, Perseverance, the newest American Mars rover, successfully landed. On May 14, 2021, China's Zhurong became the first non-American rover to successfully operate on Mars.
The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers. Since December 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS). The management of the two entities work very closely together, share resources and operate facilities on each other's property.
Though the first Apollo flights and all Project Mercury and Project Gemini flights took off from the then-Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the launches were managed by KSC and its previous organization, the Launch Operations Directorate. Starting with the fourth Gemini mission, the NASA launch control center in Florida (Mercury Control Center, later the Launch Control Center) began handing off control of the vehicle to the Mission Control Center in Houston, shortly after liftoff; in prior missions it held control throughout the entire mission.
Additionally, the center manages launch of robotic and commercial crew missions and researches food production and in-situ resource utilization for off-Earth exploration. Since 2010, the center has worked to become a multi-user spaceport through industry partnerships, even adding a new launch pad (LC-39C) in 2015.
There are about 700 facilities and buildings grouped throughout the center's 144,000 acres (580 km2). Among the unique facilities at KSC are the 525-foot (160 m) tall Vehicle Assembly Building for stacking NASA's largest rockets, the Launch Control Center, which conducts space launches at KSC, the Operations and Checkout Building, which houses the astronauts dormitories and suit-up area, a Space Station factory, and a 3-mile (4.8 km) long Shuttle Landing Facility. There is also a Visitor Complex on site that is open to the public.
Since 1949, the military had been performing launch operations at what would become Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. In December 1959, the Department of Defense transferred 5,000 personnel and the Missile Firing Laboratory to NASA to become the Launch Operations Directorate under NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
President John F. Kennedy's 1961 goal of a crewed lunar landing by 1970 required an expansion of launch operations. On July 1, 1962, the Launch Operations Directorate was separated from MSFC to become the Launch Operations Center (LOC). Also, Cape Canaveral was inadequate to host the new launch facility design required for the mammoth 363-foot (111 m) tall, 7,500,000-pound-force (33,000 kN) thrust Saturn V rocket, which would be assembled vertically in a large hangar and transported on a mobile platform to one of several launch pads. Therefore, the decision was made to build a new LOC site located adjacent to Cape Canaveral on Merritt Island.
NASA began land acquisition in 1962, buying title to 131 square miles (340 km2) and negotiating with the state of Florida for an additional 87 square miles (230 km2). The major buildings in KSC's Industrial Area were designed by architect Charles Luckman. Construction began in November 1962, and Kennedy visited the site twice in 1962, and again just a week before his assassination on November 22, 1963.
On November 29, 1963, the facility was named by President Lyndon B. Johnson under Executive Order 11129. Johnson's order joined both the civilian LOC and the military Cape Canaveral station ("the facilities of Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range") under the designation "John F. Kennedy Space Center", spawning some confusion joining the two in the public mind. NASA Administrator James E. Webb clarified this by issuing a directive stating the Kennedy Space Center name applied only to the LOC, while the Air Force issued a general order renaming the military launch site Cape Kennedy Air Force Station.
Located on Merritt Island, Florida, the center is north-northwest of Cape Canaveral on the Atlantic Ocean, midway between Miami and Jacksonville on Florida's Space Coast, due east of Orlando. It is 34 miles (55 km) long and roughly six miles (9.7 km) wide, covering 219 square miles (570 km2). KSC is a major central Florida tourist destination and is approximately one hour's drive from the Orlando area. The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex offers public tours of the center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
From 1967 through 1973, there were 13 Saturn V launches, including the ten remaining Apollo missions after Apollo 7. The first of two uncrewed flights, Apollo 4 (Apollo-Saturn 501) on November 9, 1967, was also the first rocket launch from KSC. The Saturn V's first crewed launch on December 21, 1968, was Apollo 8's lunar orbiting mission. The next two missions tested the Lunar Module: Apollo 9 (Earth orbit) and Apollo 10 (lunar orbit). Apollo 11, launched from Pad A on July 16, 1969, made the first Moon landing on July 20. The Apollo 11 launch included crewmembers Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, and attracted a record-breaking 650 million television viewers. Apollo 12 followed four months later. From 1970 to 1972, the Apollo program concluded at KSC with the launches of missions 13 through 17.
On May 14, 1973, the last Saturn V launch put the Skylab space station in orbit from Pad 39A. By this time, the Cape Kennedy pads 34 and 37 used for the Saturn IB were decommissioned, so Pad 39B was modified to accommodate the Saturn IB, and used to launch three crewed missions to Skylab that year, as well as the final Apollo spacecraft for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
As the Space Shuttle was being designed, NASA received proposals for building alternative launch-and-landing sites at locations other than KSC, which demanded study. KSC had important advantages, including its existing facilities; location on the Intracoastal Waterway; and its southern latitude, which gives a velocity advantage to missions launched in easterly near-equatorial orbits. Disadvantages included: its inability to safely launch military missions into polar orbit, since spent boosters would be likely to fall on the Carolinas or Cuba; corrosion from the salt air; and frequent cloudy or stormy weather. Although building a new site at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico was seriously considered, NASA announced its decision in April 1972 to use KSC for the shuttle. Since the Shuttle could not be landed automatically or by remote control, the launch of Columbia on April 12, 1981 for its first orbital mission STS-1, was NASA's first crewed launch of a vehicle that had not been tested in prior uncrewed launches.
In 1976, the VAB's south parking area was the site of Third Century America, a science and technology display commemorating the U.S. Bicentennial. Concurrent with this event, the U.S. flag was painted on the south side of the VAB. During the late 1970s, LC-39 was reconfigured to support the Space Shuttle. Two Orbiter Processing Facilities were built near the VAB as hangars with a third added in the 1980s.
KSC's 2.9-mile (4.7 km) Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) was the orbiters' primary end-of-mission landing site, although the first KSC landing did not take place until the tenth flight, when Challenger completed STS-41-B on February 11, 1984; the primary landing site until then was Edwards Air Force Base in California, subsequently used as a backup landing site. The SLF also provided a return-to-launch-site (RTLS) abort option, which was not utilized. The SLF is among the longest runways in the world.
On October 28, 2009, the Ares I-X launch from Pad 39B was the first uncrewed launch from KSC since the Skylab workshop in 1973.
Beginning in 1958, NASA and military worked side by side on robotic mission launches (previously referred to as unmanned), cooperating as they broke ground in the field. In the early 1960s, NASA had as many as two robotic mission launches a month. The frequent number of flights allowed for quick evolution of the vehicles, as engineers gathered data, learned from anomalies and implemented upgrades. In 1963, with the intent of KSC ELV work focusing on the ground support equipment and facilities, a separate Atlas/Centaur organization was formed under NASA's Lewis Center (now Glenn Research Center (GRC)), taking that responsibility from the Launch Operations Center (aka KSC).
Though almost all robotics missions launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), KSC "oversaw the final assembly and testing of rockets as they arrived at the Cape." In 1965, KSC's Unmanned Launch Operations directorate became responsible for all NASA uncrewed launch operations, including those at Vandenberg Space Force Base. From the 1950s to 1978, KSC chose the rocket and payload processing facilities for all robotic missions launching in the U.S., overseeing their near launch processing and checkout. In addition to government missions, KSC performed this service for commercial and foreign missions also, though non-U.S. government entities provided reimbursement. NASA also funded Cape Canaveral Space Force Station launch pad maintenance and launch vehicle improvements.
All this changed with the Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984, after which NASA only coordinated its own and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ELV launches. Companies were able to "operate their own launch vehicles" and utilize NASA's launch facilities. Payload processing handled by private firms also started to occur outside of KSC. Reagan's 1988 space policy furthered the movement of this work from KSC to commercial companies. That same year, launch complexes on Cape Canaveral Air Force Force Station started transferring from NASA to Air Force Space Command management.
In the 1990s, though KSC was not performing the hands-on ELV work, engineers still maintained an understanding of ELVs and had contracts allowing them insight into the vehicles so they could provide knowledgeable oversight. KSC also worked on ELV research and analysis and the contractors were able to utilize KSC personnel as a resource for technical issues. KSC, with the payload and launch vehicle industries, developed advances in automation of the ELV launch and ground operations to enable competitiveness of U.S. rockets against the global market.
In 1998, the Launch Services Program (LSP) formed at KSC, pulling together programs (and personnel) that already existed at KSC, GRC, Goddard Space Flight Center, and more to manage the launch of NASA and NOAA robotic missions. Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and VAFB are the primary launch sites for LSP missions, though other sites are occasionally used. LSP payloads such as the Mars Science Laboratory have been processed at KSC before being transferred to a launch pad on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
On 16 November 2022, at 06:47:44 UTC the Space Launch System (SLS) was launched from Complex 39B as part of the Artemis 1 mission.
As the International Space Station modules design began in the early 1990s, KSC began to work with other NASA centers and international partners to prepare for processing before launch onboard the Space Shuttles. KSC utilized its hands-on experience processing the 22 Spacelab missions in the Operations and Checkout Building to gather expectations of ISS processing. These experiences were incorporated into the design of the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF), which began construction in 1991. The Space Station Directorate formed in 1996. KSC personnel were embedded at station module factories for insight into their processes.
From 1997 to 2007, KSC planned and performed on the ground integration tests and checkouts of station modules: three Multi-Element Integration Testing (MEIT) sessions and the Integration Systems Test (IST). Numerous issues were found and corrected that would have been difficult to nearly impossible to do on-orbit.
Today KSC continues to process ISS payloads from across the world before launch along with developing its experiments for on orbit. The proposed Lunar Gateway would be manufactured and processed at the Space Station Processing Facility.
The following are current programs and initiatives at Kennedy Space Center:
Commercial Crew Program
Exploration Ground Systems Program
NASA is currently designing the next heavy launch vehicle known as the Space Launch System (SLS) for continuation of human spaceflight.
On December 5, 2014, NASA launched the first uncrewed flight test of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), currently under development to facilitate human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
Launch Services Program
Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa)
Research and Technology
Artemis program
Lunar Gateway
International Space Station Payloads
Camp KSC: educational camps for schoolchildren in spring and summer, with a focus on space, aviation and robotics.
The KSC Industrial Area, where many of the center's support facilities are located, is 5 miles (8 km) south of LC-39. It includes the Headquarters Building, the Operations and Checkout Building and the Central Instrumentation Facility. The astronaut crew quarters are in the O&C; before it was completed, the astronaut crew quarters were located in Hangar S at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex (now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station). Located at KSC was the Merritt Island Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network station (MILA), a key radio communications and spacecraft tracking complex.
Facilities at the Kennedy Space Center are directly related to its mission to launch and recover missions. Facilities are available to prepare and maintain spacecraft and payloads for flight. The Headquarters (HQ) Building houses offices for the Center Director, library, film and photo archives, a print shop and security. When the KSC Library first opened, it was part of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. However, in 1965, the library moved into three separate sections in the newly opened NASA headquarters before eventually becoming a single unit in 1970. The library contains over four million items related to the history and the work at Kennedy. As one of ten NASA center libraries in the country, their collection focuses on engineering, science, and technology. The archives contain planning documents, film reels, and original photographs covering the history of KSC. The library is not open to the public but is available for KSC, Space Force, and Navy employees who work on site. Many of the media items from the collection are digitized and available through NASA's KSC Media Gallery Archived December 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine or through their more up-to-date Flickr gallery.
A new Headquarters Building was completed in 2019 as part of the Central Campus consolidation. Groundbreaking began in 2014.
The center operated its own 17-mile (27 km) short-line railroad. This operation was discontinued in 2015, with the sale of its final two locomotives. A third had already been donated to a museum. The line was costing $1.3 million annually to maintain.
The Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building (O&C) (previously known as the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building) is a historic site on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places dating back to the 1960s and was used to receive, process, and integrate payloads for the Gemini and Apollo programs, the Skylab program in the 1970s, and for initial segments of the International Space Station through the 1990s. The Apollo and Space Shuttle astronauts would board the astronaut transfer van to launch complex 39 from the O&C building.
The three-story, 457,000-square-foot (42,500 m2) Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) consists of two enormous processing bays, an airlock, operational control rooms, laboratories, logistics areas and office space for support of non-hazardous Space Station and Shuttle payloads to ISO 14644-1 class 5 standards. Opened in 1994, it is the largest factory building in the KSC industrial area.
The Vertical Processing Facility (VPF) features a 71-by-38-foot (22 by 12 m) door where payloads that are processed in the vertical position are brought in and manipulated with two overhead cranes and a hoist capable of lifting up to 35 short tons (32 t).
The Hypergolic Maintenance and Checkout Area (HMCA) comprises three buildings that are isolated from the rest of the industrial area because of the hazardous materials handled there. Hypergolic-fueled modules that made up the Space Shuttle Orbiter's reaction control system, orbital maneuvering system and auxiliary power units were stored and serviced in the HMCF.
The Multi-Payload Processing Facility is a 19,647 square feet (1,825.3 m2) building used for Orion spacecraft and payload processing.
The Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) contains a 70-by-110-foot (21 by 34 m) service bay, with a 100,000-pound (45,000 kg), 85-foot (26 m) hook height. It also contains a 58-by-80-foot (18 by 24 m) payload airlock. Its temperature is maintained at 70 °F (21 °C).[55]
The Blue Origin rocket manufacturing facility is located immediately south of the KSC visitor complex. Completed in 2019, it serves as the company's factory for the manufacture of New Glenn orbital rockets.
Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) was originally built for the Saturn V, the largest and most powerful operational launch vehicle until the Space Launch System, for the Apollo crewed Moon landing program. Since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, LC-39 has been used to launch every NASA human space flight, including Skylab (1973), the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (1975), and the Space Shuttle program (1981–2011).
Since December 1968, all launch operations have been conducted from launch pads A and B at LC-39. Both pads are on the ocean, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the VAB. From 1969 to 1972, LC-39 was the "Moonport" for all six Apollo crewed Moon landing missions using the Saturn V, and was used from 1981 to 2011 for all Space Shuttle launches.
Human missions to the Moon required the large three-stage Saturn V rocket, which was 363 feet (111 meters) tall and 33 feet (10 meters) in diameter. At KSC, Launch Complex 39 was built on Merritt Island to accommodate the new rocket. Construction of the $800 million project began in November 1962. LC-39 pads A and B were completed by October 1965 (planned Pads C, D and E were canceled), the VAB was completed in June 1965, and the infrastructure by late 1966.
The complex includes: the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), a 130,000,000 cubic feet (3,700,000 m3) hangar capable of holding four Saturn Vs. The VAB was the largest structure in the world by volume when completed in 1965.
a transporter capable of carrying 5,440 tons along a crawlerway to either of two launch pads;
a 446-foot (136 m) mobile service structure, with three Mobile Launcher Platforms, each containing a fixed launch umbilical tower;
the Launch Control Center; and
a news media facility.
Launch Complex 48 (LC-48) is a multi-user launch site under construction for small launchers and spacecraft. It will be located between Launch Complex 39A and Space Launch Complex 41, with LC-39A to the north and SLC-41 to the south. LC-48 will be constructed as a "clean pad" to support multiple launch systems with differing propellant needs. While initially only planned to have a single pad, the complex is capable of being expanded to two at a later date.
As a part of promoting commercial space industry growth in the area and the overall center as a multi-user spaceport, KSC leases some of its properties. Here are some major examples:
Exploration Park to multiple users (partnership with Space Florida)
Shuttle Landing Facility to Space Florida (who contracts use to private companies)
Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)-3 to Boeing (for CST-100 Starliner)
Launch Complex 39A, Launch Control Center Firing Room 4 and land for SpaceX's Roberts Road facility (Hanger X) to SpaceX
O&C High Bay to Lockheed Martin (for Orion processing)
Land for FPL's Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center to Florida Power and Light (FPL)
Hypergolic Maintenance Facility (HMF) to United Paradyne Corporation (UPC)
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, operated by Delaware North since 1995, has a variety of exhibits, artifacts, displays and attractions on the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight. Bus tours of KSC originate from here. The complex also includes the separate Apollo/Saturn V Center, north of the VAB and the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame, six miles west near Titusville. There were 1.5 million visitors in 2009. It had some 700 employees.
It was announced on May 29, 2015, that the Astronaut Hall of Fame exhibit would be moved from its current location to another location within the Visitor Complex to make room for an upcoming high-tech attraction entitled "Heroes and Legends". The attraction, designed by Orlando-based design firm Falcon's Treehouse, opened November 11, 2016.
In March 2016, the visitor center unveiled the new location of the iconic countdown clock at the complex's entrance; previously, the clock was located with a flagpole at the press site. The clock was originally built and installed in 1969 and listed with the flagpole in the National Register of Historic Places in January 2000. In 2019, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo program, and the launch of Apollo 10 on May 18. In summer of 2019, Lunar Module 9 (LM-9) was relocated to the Apollo/Saturn V Center as part of an initiative to rededicate the center and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Program.
Historic locations
NASA lists the following Historic Districts at KSC; each district has multiple associated facilities:
Launch Complex 39: Pad A Historic District
Launch Complex 39: Pad B Historic District
Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) Area Historic District
Orbiter Processing Historic District
Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) Disassembly and Refurbishment Complex Historic District
NASA KSC Railroad System Historic District
NASA-owned Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Industrial Area Historic District
There are 24 historic properties outside of these historic districts, including the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Vehicle Assembly Building, Crawlerway, and Operations and Checkout Building.[71] KSC has one National Historic Landmark, 78 National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) listed or eligible sites, and 100 Archaeological Sites.
Further information: John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS
Other facilities
The Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility (RPSF) is responsible for the preparation of solid rocket booster segments for transportation to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The RPSF was built in 1984 to perform SRB operations that had previously been conducted in high bays 2 and 4 of the VAB at the beginning of the Space Shuttle program. It was used until the Space Shuttle's retirement, and will be used in the future by the Space Launch System[75] (SLS) and OmegA rockets.
A stranger and a physically/technically difficult shot (at least for me). The 50mm doesn't focus that quickly and she liked to stick her tongue out and squint her eyes in an effort to mess up pictures (sounds annoying but I actually liked her more for doing it). She's also swinging pretty fast. It's strange how different it is taking photos of kids is as opposed to adults.
I debated for a while about whether this would count as a stranger portrait. I think it does and should.
This picture is #5 in my www.100Strangers.com project
Mother of Disable Kalsh child appeal for Free Treatment.
CHITRAL/BUMBORAT: Mother of a physically handicapped Kalash child
appeal for free treatment of her son. According to detail Sadiq Ali 6
whose father Shahdulla died a few years back is disable for the last
four years His mother Saira Bibi told this scribe that her son Sadiq
Ali was weak after one year of his birth. She took him to Chitral
hospital but doctors could not diagnosed his illness (disease) she
added. She continue his treatment but suddenly her husband died and
now being a poor widow she can,t continue treatment of his youngest
son Sadiq Ali. She said that a wheel chair was also donated by a
foreigner tourist but she expressed her great sorrow that she was not
supported by Government of Pakistan or any Muslim. She said that she
is hardworking and gaining livelihood for her entire family and also
continue treatment of her son. She said that when Sadiq Ali take his
treatment he remain happy but when his medicines finished and I cannot
purchase it more due to my extreme poverty so Sadiq Ali became upset
and feel un easy. She appeal prime Minister of Pakistan as well as
philanthropists of the world including Pakistan to help her to
continue treatment of her son. She may be supported or contacted by
telephone No (0092) 943-404108 or by this correspondent.
G.H. Farooqi C/O Manager bank Islami Main branch Chitral phone No
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H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, built by an global scientific consortium near the Gamsberg Pass in Namibia. As gadgets go, this is physically the biggest and the most technologically advanced in Namibia (there aren't any others, really, but this one is seriously awesome). The reason it was built there is that that there is nothing there to pollute the view of the night sky. No humans or concentrated human activity, no animals and not much vegetation to speak of. This is "nowhere" at it's best. Getting to H.E.S.S. from Windhoek is a drive (about 100km, of which a good part on gravel), but very worth it. The scientists working there ask for an advance booking, but will be happy to provide a tour. This photo was taken on an Open Day hosted by H.E.S.S. The telecope mirror is seen pointing at the sky, which never happens during daylight on regular duty days, as the Sun's reflection will easily destroy the sensitive camera.
"H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes that investigates cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from 10s of GeV to 10s of TeV. The name H.E.S.S. stands for High Energy Stereoscopic System, and is also intended to pay homage to Victor Hess , who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic radiation. The instrument allows scientists to explore gamma-ray sources with intensities at a level of a few thousandths of the flux of the Crab nebula (the brightest steady source of gamma rays in the sky). H.E.S.S. is located in Namibia, near the Gamsberg mountain, an area well known for its excellent optical quality. The first of the four telescopes of Phase I of the H.E.S.S. project went into operation in Summer 2002; all four were operational in December 2003, and were officially inaugurated on September 28, 2004. A much larger fifth telescope - H.E.S.S. II - is operational since July 2012, extending the energy coverage towards lower energies and further improving sensitivity.
The H.E.S.S. observatory is operated by the collaboration of more than 170 scientists, from 32 scientific institutions and 12 different countries: Namibia and South Africa, Germany, France, the UK, Ireland, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Armenia, and Australia. To date, the H.E.S.S. Collaboration has published over 100 articles in high-impact scientific journals, including the top-ranked ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’ journals.
H.E.S.S. was awarded in 2006 the Descartes Prize of the European Commission - the highest recognition for collaborative research - and in 2010 the prestigious Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society. In a survey in 2006, H.E.S.S. was ranked the 10th most influential observatory worldwide, joining the ranks with the Hubble Space Telescope or the telescopes of the European Southern Observatory ESO in Chile."
In other words, pretty awesome.
(Source: H.E.S.S. website www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/pages/about/)
(Source: H.E.S.S. website www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/pages/about/)
From the history of our parish
1.10.2008
Twenty-eighth October 1888 was for our ancestors, then living in the suburbs of Bratislava called New Town, solemn day, the day of consecration new temple. But this day is solemn and important for us and will be important also for future generations. Our grandfathers built and because church leaders dedicated the temple on that day not only for themselves and for their children, but for all future generations. Those who build Blumentál physically, but spiritually primarily through your prayers, we left a wonderful legacy: church dedicated to the Assumption, the church, which has one hundred and twenty years invites believers can confidently say that the whole city that it glorified God, bring the sacrifice of Christ, purify your soul and implore the gifts of the Spirit for themselves and for their loved ones.
Celebration of consecration
The parish priest Jozef Poeck completed his work, who has devoted many years of his life, as we wrote about in previous figures. For believers Bratislava Nové Mesto parish is 118 years after its establishment saw to it that the faithful have a decent temple, whose tall slender tower towered over the entire eastern part of the city. Blumental Church was until recent times the only dominating this site. As he writes in his book Pozdech pastor, consecration of a new church in Bratislava expected not only residents of suburban New City but the entire Bratislava. Dedication of the temple designated day for 28 October on the feast of St. Simon and Jude, which that year fell on the October last Sunday.
Building a new church was of great interest of the Cardinal John Simor and the highest church dignitary of the Archdiocese of Esztergom, to which at that time belonged Bratislava. He himself a considerable amount contributed to its construction and it is no wonder that himself this new tabernacle of God sanctified .
Bratislavans prepared Cardinal decent adoption. Cardinal-Primate arrived in Bratislava on 27 October At the main station hailed him a great multitude of believers who lined the streets along which he passed to the Primate's Palace. There he has always stayed when visiting Bratislava (the Town palace bought in 1903 for their needs), and even there that day to receive the representatives of the city, various offices, army officials, townspeople and professional groups. The whole city was decorated and lit.
Newly built temple consecration ceremonies began 28 morning at nine. Ceremony was attended by about 30,000 believers (Bratislava at that time had about 70 000 inhabitants). We can imagine where it is today around our church could gather such a large crowd? At that time, however, surrounding the church was not built like today. 9.00 h in the morning on day dedication Blumentálu rozozvučali the bells of all the churches in Bratislava and the Cardinal-Primate, accompanied by church officials came to the new temple. Assisted prelates Cardinal Dr. Francis Horecký and Charles Rimel, Bratislava canons. Accompanied were prelate Dr. Jozef Danko, honest deacons Anton Leek and Joseph Urge, canon Graeff, and other dignitaries, priests and religious. Ceremony was also attended by Dr. Julius Machovič, notary stool Archbishop of Esztergom and the archbishop's office director Dr. John Black, who later became Archbishop of Esztergom. Bishop became a member of another parade Dr. Rimley. Ceremony was attended by prominent city officials, representatives of various agencies and states, armies, and large numbers townspeople simple people of God.
The ceremonies began before the temple gate, then svätiteľ Cardinal Simor escorted entered the church, where the ceremonies continued sanctification anointing altars and the temple walls. To save the remains of the altar stone martyr Adalbert and Gerhard. First Mass in our church served Baltizár bishop and the first sermon delivered svätiteľ Cardinal Simor. The church preached three preachers: Jesuit P. Emil Volbert German, and two Franciscans, one Slovak and one Hungarian. The ceremonies lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon. After the solemn procession returned to the Primate's Palace, where Cardinal Simor for invited guests was given a formal dinner. It goes without saying that it is attended by a priest Poeck, without whose selfless work would not stand this temple.
In connection with the consecration of Blumentálu mentions the event, which was to become the pastor Poeck fatal. On the way to the Primate's Palace was stampeded horses pulled the carriage in which he sat, and as pastor writes Pozdech only by God's providence remained alive.
Celebrations dedication of the temple after years
Believers of this site for years to commemorate the big day solemn consecration of the temple worship, after which they were folk festivities. The annual celebration of the dedication of the temple waving their spiritual and secular. The spiritual part was solemn character, Mass serve senior dignitaries and preachers coming festive. Worship enriched various choirs and ensembles; secular part called. Forgive was associated with folk festivals and party. That day came not only parishioners, but people from all over the city from the nearer and wider surroundings. At that time, around the church still extremely suitable for such celebrations. Open space provide plenty of room for a variety of stalls, attractions, festivals roundabouts... spestrovala brass band from Záhorska Bystrica.
Pozdech pastor remembers that when he wrote his memories, older parishioners at these festivities still remember, as young as yourself to participate in them. Such spectacular folk festivals disappeared after the First World War.
Great was the celebration of consecration Blumentálu in the twenty-fifth anniversary. Although the history of the temple twenty-five years is not much, because the church is built on centuries, writes pastor Pozdech: every believer adhesions with its parish church, where baptism was received into the bosom of the Church, there is divested of their sins, receive the Savior, there is a double promises connects life inextricably to a man with a woman and introduces a new family, there priest begs for mercy for those who embarked on the path of eternity...
Spiritual program began a day before the big feast solemn litanies. In the anniversary Mass celebrated by the parish priest Evariast Czaykowski and preached prelate A. Gaibl. Ceremony was attended by celebrities Bratislava, led by mayor.
In 45 Blumentálu anniversary of the dedication of the restored organ.
In December r. Opened in 1941 Blumentálska fare lecture hall. On that occasion was solemn litany in our church Nuncio Msgr. Dr. Joseph Burzio, who repeatedly took part in the celebrations in Blumentáli. In Slovakia, had to r., 1945. Farewell to Mons. Burzio held on Blumentálska fare.
On the 60th year anniversaries were scheduled to work on the renovated church interior, upgraded lighting should be introduced electric heating, had to return the original painting, restore the altars, and an altar of Our Lady of Lourdes. Estimated costs were two to two and a half million dollars. A Committee made the collections and 4 April 1948 launched the work. On how to fix Blumentálu continued, we have news.
The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the consecration and stodesiateho Blumentálu would know what to say - then- pastor VDP. John Frog and long-time parish administrator VDP. Stephen Herényi. Written reports we have .
www.blumental.sk/casopis-blumental/2008/10/z-historie-nas...
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present. in fact, more present than he could remember being for months: this breath, this air, this...
light. (look at that light!)
he stopped, stared at the white-washed wall, keenly aware of every sense he could name.
physically motionless, yet spinning wildly: obsessed with the notion that a little burst of light-energy had traveled millions of miles across darkness to intersect this exact space and time, and project this image onto this wall.
he reached for the camera.
silhouettes. shadows. inherently us, yet, also the absence of us. the us from just a moment before. he thought briefly of a short by ray bradbury that made him cry in elementary school, and then the tears he hid because he was in class, and new to that school, and didn't want others to pick on him. and how later, in high school, he learned how that the short story referenced a poem by a completely different author and how much he liked that there was an entirely new dimension to that totally familiar thing.
...and then, having raced over jumbled memories spanning half a lifetime, he lowered his arms, turned to face the sun and considered, "is it possible to be in love with the very act of falling in love?"
...
it was really that simple: an unbridled train of thought that sped across a series of experiences until being derailed entirely by a seemingly innocuous non sequitur.
the instant passed in much the way it arrived: silhouettes stepped back into to shadows, the ship sailed forward on tide waters pulled by the moon, the planet spun on its axis, whilst hurtling around the sun. (without ceremony, the system resets.)
excluding local trips to the grocery store—or, say out to the coast—he (like everyone he knows, and everyone you know) has travelled about 584 million miles since that instant, that self-reflection, that seemingly innocuous non-sequitur.
a truly great distance.
so great, that it is rather incomprehensible, really. in all that travel, all that time, it would be easy to suggest that we might all stumble across answers to our questions much the way that we might stumble across missing house keys. or that sweater we wore every day last winter. or that friend we haven't seen--or honestly, thought of--since elementary school.
but, no.
yet unanswered, the question has rattled around as an over-thought-thought, slowly forged with time and consideration into a kind of diagnostic laser. a tool used both to highlight and analyze a catalog of life experiences past, and present. a tool that is far too sharp to be used in a non-laboratory environment. a tool that he is only very recently realized is slowly, casually, setting fire to the building.
the fire! full circle....
he smiles again, thinking back to the originating short story, and how this haunting question was, in its own way, yet another entirely new dimension to a totally familiar thing.
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The crash. The attic smashing into kitchen and parlour. The parlour into cellar, cellar into sub-cellar. Deep freeze, armchair, film tapes, circuits, beds, and all like skeletons thrown in a cluttered mound deep under.
Smoke and silence. A great quantity of smoke.
Dawn showed faintly in the east. Among the ruins, one wall stood alone.
Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and again, even as the sun rose to shine upon the heaped rubble and steam: “Today is..."
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- Excerpt from: "There Will Come Soft Rains," by Ray Bradbury
Training golden eagles to hunt is physically and mentally demanding. Young Nurguli needs all her strength and a great deal of focus to call her eagle to come to her from a perch at the top of the hill and to land on her gloved arm. Her two uncles and her grandfather are on hand to help in the training process.
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Gruene Hall, built in 1878, is Texas’ oldest continually operating and most famous dance hall. By design, not much has physically changed since the Hall was first built. The 6,000 square foot dance hall with a high pitched tin roof still has the original layout with side flaps for open air dancing, a bar in the front, a small lighted stage in the back and a huge outdoor garden. Advertisement signs from the 1930s and 40s still hang in the old hall and around the stage.
In the 1800s, Gruene Hall held weekly dances and played host to everything from traveling salesmen to high school graduations to badger fights. Today, the Hall has continued to be a center for the Gruene and Central Texas social and entertainment scene, and the activities are just as varied. In any given week, locals hold court in the front bar after work talking over their day’s activities, a friend’s passing, the weather or the state of the economy. Possibly at the same time, the filming of a movie or commercial or preparation for a festival, fundraiser or a major corporation’s private party may be taking place in the main hall or beer garden.
Under the current ownership, Gruene Hall has become internationally recognized as a destination tourist attraction and major music venue for up-and-coming as well as established artists. Since 1975, the Hall has played host to hundreds of celebrities whose pictures adorn the walls. The owner’s focus on booking singer-songwriters and artists who play original material has provided a fertile proving ground for many former “new talents” such as George Strait, Hal Ketchum, and Lyle Lovett.
Gruene Hall has also become a place where working songwriters, such as John Hiatt or Rodney Crowell, Kevin Welch or Jim Lauderdale, can try out new material or just take a breather between tour dates; where music icons such as Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Merle Haggard or Kris Kristofferson can play in a more intimate venue; where former “up and comers” such as Garth Brooks, Chris Isaak or the Dixie Chicks can extend their tour; and where big names such as Willie Nelson and Aaron Neville have chosen to perform.
Through the years, the big winners have always been Gruene Hall’s patrons. A person watching a show never knows if the artist they see at the Hall today will be a star tomorrow, but they can know that the music they hear will always be top notch.
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Being a farmer is a hard life. It is physically hard, dirty, often dangerous work from sunrise to sunset, and often even late into the night. You are pitted in a difficult and sometimes desperate struggle against the weather, pests, disease, predators, thieves, poachers, well-meaning but annoying trespassers, the government, inflation, recession, and other competing farmers. It is a solitary life, involving total commitment for very little pay in the end, yet people have been doing it for thousands of years...why? Ask a farmer and you may get different reasons like " my family has always been farming"; but down at the heart of it is a love of the land, working in the fresh air with animals and good tilled earth, the pride of doing something yourself that very few are able or willing to do, the satisfaction of working with your hands and knowing that your work nurtures life. Farmers know the cycle of life and death, they see it and take part in it every day. Farmers are family people, they raise families and work hands-on with them all year round, passing on what they know to their children while they are working together. Still, growing up on a farm is not easy and involves a lot of graft and a work ethic. Children learn responsibility at an early age. Young farmers are mostly male, and they often struggle to find a wife to share their life with...partly because of the amount of work and hassle involved, and partly because of the rural and secluded lifestyle. It is a problem. Without a helpmate, a special someone to keep them company and make their lives keep them going, farming is not only a solitary life...but downright lonely. Discouraged and frustrated, many young farmers give up and go to work in the cities or towns at other jobs....and find their mates through social outlets there number of potential future farmers decreases while the existing farmers keep getting older until they cannot do it anymore and retire. Farmers are the unseen backbone of the countryside and rural life in every country where farming is practiced. Responsible farmers are not just "the salt of the earth"...they are the keepers of it. When the farmers go....farming goes.... food production will dwindle and the imbalance will do irreparable harm to the worlds economy and stability. It is certain we will see food prices increase dramatically around the globe within the next 10 years, and it is also almost certain that food shortages will occur and many will suffer. Farmers and farming are more than a profession, they are a vital lifeline that keeps the nations of the world alive.
The smallest vehicle, both physically and numerically, in the Western National fleet, at the time of this picture, was this Ford Transit minibus with South Hants bodywork, No.1. It was new to King Alfred Motor Services and passed to WN via Hants and Dorset. It is seen in Torquay in May 1980
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From the history of our parish
1.10.2008
Twenty-eighth October 1888 was for our ancestors, then living in the suburbs of Bratislava called New Town, solemn day, the day of consecration new temple. But this day is solemn and important for us and will be important also for future generations. Our grandfathers built and because church leaders dedicated the temple on that day not only for themselves and for their children, but for all future generations. Those who build Blumentál physically, but spiritually primarily through your prayers, we left a wonderful legacy: church dedicated to the Assumption, the church, which has one hundred and twenty years invites believers can confidently say that the whole city that it glorified God, bring the sacrifice of Christ, purify your soul and implore the gifts of the Spirit for themselves and for their loved ones.
Celebration of consecration
The parish priest Jozef Poeck completed his work, who has devoted many years of his life, as we wrote about in previous figures. For believers Bratislava Nové Mesto parish is 118 years after its establishment saw to it that the faithful have a decent temple, whose tall slender tower towered over the entire eastern part of the city. Blumental Church was until recent times the only dominating this site. As he writes in his book Pozdech pastor, consecration of a new church in Bratislava expected not only residents of suburban New City but the entire Bratislava. Dedication of the temple designated day for 28 October on the feast of St. Simon and Jude, which that year fell on the October last Sunday.
Building a new church was of great interest of the Cardinal John Simor and the highest church dignitary of the Archdiocese of Esztergom, to which at that time belonged Bratislava. He himself a considerable amount contributed to its construction and it is no wonder that himself this new tabernacle of God sanctified .
Bratislavans prepared Cardinal decent adoption. Cardinal-Primate arrived in Bratislava on 27 October At the main station hailed him a great multitude of believers who lined the streets along which he passed to the Primate's Palace. There he has always stayed when visiting Bratislava (the Town palace bought in 1903 for their needs), and even there that day to receive the representatives of the city, various offices, army officials, townspeople and professional groups. The whole city was decorated and lit.
Newly built temple consecration ceremonies began 28 morning at nine. Ceremony was attended by about 30,000 believers (Bratislava at that time had about 70 000 inhabitants). We can imagine where it is today around our church could gather such a large crowd? At that time, however, surrounding the church was not built like today. 9.00 h in the morning on day dedication Blumentálu rozozvučali the bells of all the churches in Bratislava and the Cardinal-Primate, accompanied by church officials came to the new temple. Assisted prelates Cardinal Dr. Francis Horecký and Charles Rimel, Bratislava canons. Accompanied were prelate Dr. Jozef Danko, honest deacons Anton Leek and Joseph Urge, canon Graeff, and other dignitaries, priests and religious. Ceremony was also attended by Dr. Julius Machovič, notary stool Archbishop of Esztergom and the archbishop's office director Dr. John Black, who later became Archbishop of Esztergom. Bishop became a member of another parade Dr. Rimley. Ceremony was attended by prominent city officials, representatives of various agencies and states, armies, and large numbers townspeople simple people of God.
The ceremonies began before the temple gate, then svätiteľ Cardinal Simor escorted entered the church, where the ceremonies continued sanctification anointing altars and the temple walls. To save the remains of the altar stone martyr Adalbert and Gerhard. First Mass in our church served Baltizár bishop and the first sermon delivered svätiteľ Cardinal Simor. The church preached three preachers: Jesuit P. Emil Volbert German, and two Franciscans, one Slovak and one Hungarian. The ceremonies lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon. After the solemn procession returned to the Primate's Palace, where Cardinal Simor for invited guests was given a formal dinner. It goes without saying that it is attended by a priest Poeck, without whose selfless work would not stand this temple.
In connection with the consecration of Blumentálu mentions the event, which was to become the pastor Poeck fatal. On the way to the Primate's Palace was stampeded horses pulled the carriage in which he sat, and as pastor writes Pozdech only by God's providence remained alive.
Celebrations dedication of the temple after years
Believers of this site for years to commemorate the big day solemn consecration of the temple worship, after which they were folk festivities. The annual celebration of the dedication of the temple waving their spiritual and secular. The spiritual part was solemn character, Mass serve senior dignitaries and preachers coming festive. Worship enriched various choirs and ensembles; secular part called. Forgive was associated with folk festivals and party. That day came not only parishioners, but people from all over the city from the nearer and wider surroundings. At that time, around the church still extremely suitable for such celebrations. Open space provide plenty of room for a variety of stalls, attractions, festivals roundabouts... spestrovala brass band from Záhorska Bystrica.
Pozdech pastor remembers that when he wrote his memories, older parishioners at these festivities still remember, as young as yourself to participate in them. Such spectacular folk festivals disappeared after the First World War.
Great was the celebration of consecration Blumentálu in the twenty-fifth anniversary. Although the history of the temple twenty-five years is not much, because the church is built on centuries, writes pastor Pozdech: every believer adhesions with its parish church, where baptism was received into the bosom of the Church, there is divested of their sins, receive the Savior, there is a double promises connects life inextricably to a man with a woman and introduces a new family, there priest begs for mercy for those who embarked on the path of eternity...
Spiritual program began a day before the big feast solemn litanies. In the anniversary Mass celebrated by the parish priest Evariast Czaykowski and preached prelate A. Gaibl. Ceremony was attended by celebrities Bratislava, led by mayor.
In 45 Blumentálu anniversary of the dedication of the restored organ.
In December r. Opened in 1941 Blumentálska fare lecture hall. On that occasion was solemn litany in our church Nuncio Msgr. Dr. Joseph Burzio, who repeatedly took part in the celebrations in Blumentáli. In Slovakia, had to r., 1945. Farewell to Mons. Burzio held on Blumentálska fare.
On the 60th year anniversaries were scheduled to work on the renovated church interior, upgraded lighting should be introduced electric heating, had to return the original painting, restore the altars, and an altar of Our Lady of Lourdes. Estimated costs were two to two and a half million dollars. A Committee made the collections and 4 April 1948 launched the work. On how to fix Blumentálu continued, we have news.
The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the consecration and stodesiateho Blumentálu would know what to say - then- pastor VDP. John Frog and long-time parish administrator VDP. Stephen Herényi. Written reports we have .
www.blumental.sk/casopis-blumental/2008/10/z-historie-nas...
Barranco Alto, Southern Pantanal | Brazil
Physically similar to our own northern river otter, the Neotropic Otter is found in both Central and South America. Diet consists mainly of fish and crustaceans, although they will occasionally feed on small mammals. We encountered them a couple of times this year on the Rio Negro and on each occasion were able to get photographs of them catching fish. Strangely their conservation status is largely unknown as they are currently listed as ‘data deficient’ which could either imply that they are simply so plentiful that formal classification is not needed, or that they are in fact not that common but not yet researched.
Sufi whirling (or Sufi spinning) is a form of Sama or physically active meditation which originated among Sufis, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order. It is a customary dance performed within the Sema, or worship ceremony, through which dervishes (also called semazens) aim to reach the source of all perfection, or kemal. This is sought through abandoning one's nafs, egos or personal desires, by listening to the music, focusing on God, and spinning one's body in repetitive circles, which has been seen as a symbolic imitation of planets in the Solar System orbiting the sun.
In the symbolism of the Sema ritual, the semazen's camel's hair hat (sikke) represents the tombstone of the ego; his wide, white skirt (tennure) represents the ego's shroud. By removing his black cloak (hırka), he is spiritually reborn to the truth. At the beginning of the Sema, by holding his arms crosswise, the semazen appears to represent the number one, thus testifying to God's unity. While whirling, his arms are open: his right arm is directed to the sky, ready to receive God's beneficence; his left hand, upon which his eyes are fastened, is turned toward the earth. The semazen conveys God's spiritual gift to those who are witnessing the Sema. Revolving from right to left around the heart, the semazen embraces all humanity with love. The human being has been created with love in order to love. Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi says, "All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!