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Frankfurt / Hessen / Germany
[EXPLORE - 2013-12-08]
Album of Germany (the west - Frankfurt): www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72177720295...
ODESSA: " Wooow! You got a present "two in one!".....handmade chocolate truffles....and a hat too! :)"
OTIS: " Yes, these are my favorite chocolates, but I´m not sure that I look nice with this hat!?"
ODESSA: " Don`t worry! I have a better idea! After eating sweets you can shut the ball again and use it for your secret things!"
OTIS: " What secret things? I have no secrets!"
ODESSA: "We'll find something......"
This sweet little girl is a lovely present from my boyfriend, to celebrate our 4years being a couple. She has no name, nothing prepared for her, but my heart is filled with love. <3
A stump most likely leftover from the eruption 31 years ago. Lots of new growth trying to replenish the landscape. This area was stripped clean by a Lahar during the eruption. Mount St. Helens. I was fishing on a lake in Central Oregon and heard the eruption from there.
Detail from a site specific work I really enjoyed at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
The work is by Barbara Kruger (1945), an American conceptual artist and collagist, whose work often employs ironic quotes, questions and paraphrases to challenge and stimulate the viewer and question mass culture’s representations of power, identity and sexuality.
Within the art piece, you are immersed in room sized text. The whole piece covered an immense area.
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a bright full moon rose
seeming near enough to touch
perigee present
~Mim Eisenberg
I shot this last night from my front yard without a tripod. It's by no means a great photo, but it is a shot of the full moon that is the brightest of 2008 because it is at perigee, the closest it gets to Earth in its orbit around it. In fact, it is the closest perigee since 1993, at just 221,560 miles from Earth. Its farthest apogee will be on December 26, when it will be 252,650 miles away.
I hope to catch up with you later, but I may be preoccupied with an unpleasant task: trying to stop a spoofer who, though one of my listservs, has appropriated some addresses, including mine (which is on a Mac!) and is using it to send virus-infected spam. If I don't get back to you today, please understand and know how much I appreciate your visits.
EDIT: I've learned that it was just one person who happens to be on the listserv whose address book was breached. Nevertheless, all the addresses in that address book are now in the hands of the spammer, even those that are on a Mac. There's little that can be done. Fortunately, I've been made aware of just one spam message containing a virus-infected attachment that was sent by a spoofer impersonating me, or using my address as the return address.
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Poznan, Poland
Klasztorna Street in the Stary Rynek
Fog adds to the moodiness of this area and slips me back into a time past....love this area and spend a good deal of time wandering through here....especially when the moody element of the day or season is in full swing. Nothing like the charm of today and yesteryear to merge...
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Presentazione del libro "Attimi d'abisso" nella scuola materna di via Manno 4 a Belvì, all'interno della rassegna culturale "Sonos de Linna".
(en): at present . . to wait is to pretend
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
A scientific theory should it only predict the results of experiments on the world or should it also explain it? The question of accessibility of the real is asked.
Une théorie scientifique doit-elle seulement prédire les résultats des expériences sur le monde ou doit-elle aussi expliquer ce dernier ? La question de l'accessibilité du réel se trouve posée.
( Etienne Klein - Petit voyage dans le monde des quanta )
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
Bas-Relief @ Rockefeller-Center - NYC
Thisr panel is about time and communication. The floating woman is the muse of radio and represents the middle of the day. Pegasus, the winged horse, moves in union with her. The torch she carries is symbolic of knowledge. The lightening bolt symbolizes the power of electricity and the immediate availability of radio communication.
En montant sur le haut d'Etretat, tout près du monument dédié à Ningesser et Coli. Un jardin créatif...
Avec un texte de présentation à retrouver sur le site:
"Le jardin Zen représente l’harmonie de l’union de l’humanité et de la nature. Les végétaux choisis sont uniquement des plantes à floraison blanche. Le spectateur éprouve une sensation de pureté virginale et de communion avec la nature. L’installation sonore du jardin reflète l’idée d’éveil du bien. Elle fait découvrir de nouveaux moyens d’appréhender le monde à travers l’art."
Some presents are simply the best. I am going to love wearing my new T shirt. If you're not familiar with Baby Shark Dance here's the link and of course you can join in.
There’s no time like the present…for presents! Merry Christmas everyone!
This Blythe doll is Lady Panacea for Winter Celebration in Blythe Pure and Simple on Facebook. The Skipper doll is a Hallmark ornament, as is the guitar.
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Visitors taken aback by the realities of gas warfare as soberly presented by the Imperial War Museum. As with other parts of the museum, the presentation is commendably objective in what it displays.
However, for whatever reason, many of the darker realities of British military history are not mentioned either here or elsewhere. Although I can't be sure whether I might have missed anything, I didn't notice any mention of the following
1) Almost two years after end of the First World War, and despite knowing its horrific effects, Churchill supported the use of poison gas against rebels fighting for freedom in Mesopotamia and elsewhere across the British Empire
On 18 June 1920, as Secretary of State for War, Churchill circulated to Cabinet ministers the comments of the chief of the imperial general staff, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. The Field Marshal hated any interference in military matters by mistrustful politicians he derided as ‘Frocks’ and he had been incensed on learning of a memorandum submitted to ministers a few days earlier, cautioning against the use of poison gas and written by the president of the board of education, Herbert Fisher.
Six weeks earlier, Wilson had presented a proposal to the Cabinet, supported by Churchill, that Britain should continue to use gas as a weapon so it could ensure a technological edge over "recalcitrant tribes" across the Empire. Fisher now warned that its use would be expensive, politically counter-productive to winning over hearts and minds and unethical when ‘used against an uncivilised enemy possessing little or no medical equipment.’
Churchill was not prepared to allow such sentimental idealism go unanswered. Nor was Wilson. He dismissed Fisher’s skepticism, countering that poison gas was in fact an economical method of counterinsurgency ‘with at least two or three times the casualty producing power of ordinary shell,’ that it was a grave mistake to make chivalrous considerations towards enemies, who ‘before killing our wounded perpetrate such horrors as it is unnecessary to dwell on here’ and reminded ministers that his opinions were shared by the General Staff, who considered the use of poison gas as ‘necessary to safeguard, as far as is humanly possible, the safety of the Empire.’
2) The British used poison gas against the Turks during the First World War even though the Turks themselves had never resorted to such barbaric measures.
On 19 January 1917, the War Cabinet considered the request of General Sir Archibald Murray, commanding the British expeditionary force in Egypt, to be able to deploy poison gas against Turkish troops. Until then, it had been accepted that poison gas would not be used in the campaign unless the Turks used it first. However, according to the Cabinet minutes, ministers had ‘no hesitation’ in approving Murray’s request, despite the Turks not having resorted to first use. The Cabinet concluded that it was unnecessary to spare Turkish troops from chemical warfare because of Turkish ‘atrocities perpetrated on subject races’ and ‘their maltreatment of Allied prisoners.’
3) During the First World War, the British press was euphoric about the deadly effects of gas.
On 26 September 1918, the British army began an offensive to break through the German ‘Hindenburg line’ in France, by firing 10,000 mustard gas shells at the enemy trenches. Another 22,000 gas shells exploded among the German lines over the next three days. Mustard gas was the most feared of the poison gasses deployed on the Western front, resulting in agonising injuries and death.
The British press was jubilant at the news. The London Daily News reported that ‘one reason for the large strides at the front is that we are using a mustard gas which shifts the Hun,’ after ‘the Hun soaked our front with mustard gas and caused our gallant men unspeakable torture.’ It added gleefully that following ‘a year of experiment, the Ministry of Munitions has produced a mustard gas, that permeates the enemy’s gas masks, clothes and boots. This gas is delivered to the Boche in shell form, and he is getting it in handsome quantities.’ The Western Morning News was equally euphoric, reporting under the headline ‘”Medicine” for the Huns,’ that ‘this mustard gas penetrates the gas masks and the clothes of the Boche; nothing will keep it out,’ explaining that the ‘shortage of rubber has prevented the enemy getting the best protective devices,’ and adding triumphantly that ‘this is not the only surprise the Allies have up their sleeves.’
4) Less than a year before the end of the Second World War, and when complete victory over Nazi Germany was already clearly in sight, Churchill urged that German cities and towns be drenched in poison gas during massive bombing raids. Had the Chiefs of Staff conceded to his request, it's likely that thousands of innocent civilians would have suffered an agonising death.
Writing a memo to General Sir Hastings Ismay on 6 July 1944, Winston Churchill urged the Chiefs of Staff to urgently consider the use of poison gas against German towns and cities. The memo came one month after British and American soldiers had landed in France and as Germany clearly faced imminent defeat, with the rapid retreat of its forces on all fronts.
Churchill asked the Chiefs of Staff to consider ‘very seriously’ a plan ‘to drench Germany with poison gas,’ informing them that ‘I want the matter studied in cold blood by sensible people and not by… psalm singing uniformed defeatists.’ He ridiculed the concern over civilian casualties, claiming that ‘it is absurd to consider mortality on this topic… in the last war the bombing of open cities was regarded as forbidden. Now everybody does it as a matter of course. It is simply a question of fashion changing as she does between long and short skirts of women.’
When the Chiefs of Staff expressed their reluctance, not on principle, but because it might provoke German retaliation, Churchill fired off another memo declaring himself ‘not at all convinced’ by their opposition. In the end, the only obstacle which prevented Churchill from insisting on the implementation of the plan was that the weapons ordered from the United States were not ready in sufficient quantity for another year, by which time the war in Europe was over.