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Caught children in Sikkim in various acts.... only they can be good at! each of the following attributes hold true..
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontanious, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers. The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:
Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright
Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory and Concerns Commission, and other dignitaries held the LGBTQ Pride Flag-Raising ceremony as part of Newark Gay Pride Week on Thursday, July 14, 2016, at 5 p.m. in the City Hall First Floor Rotunda.
The rainbow flag, a universal symbol of LGBTQ pride, will fly outside City Hall for the duration of the 11th annual Newark Pride Week. Mayor Baraka has made a firm commitment to supporting the needs and equality of the LGBTQ community. The City of Newark created its first-ever LGBTQ Commission seven years ago. This year marks the 11th anniversary of Newark Gay Pride.
This year’s events celebrate the last 11 years of accomplishments in Newark’s LGBTQ Community as well as in the global LGBTQ Community. The event will also honor the 49 victims of the recent mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, which targeted that City’s LGBTQ community.
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I often find myself questioning my religion, which i guess is only normal. This installation deals with this frustration.
The installation is seperated into two parts. The bottom part deals with my "Heretical" ideas, represented by snakes, battling catholic dogmas and theologies.
the upper part shows the heirarchy of the catholic church, each level is yet to be fought with.
polymer clay
ceramics
wax
gold leaf
artificial flowers
wood
cloth
tin metal
Location:
HSPVA Houston, TX
Lately I have been questioning myself on the use of watermaking my photos . Confused whether to watermark them or not(as you all might have seen some of my pictures are watermarked and some not ).
Arghh !! I can't decide ..
The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers. The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:
Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright
Enjoying! On the way to Nathu La! Tsomgo So Lake!
Caught children in Sikkim in various acts.... only they can be good at! each of the following attributes hold true..
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontanious, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
Waiting to cross the road! Darjeeling!
Caught children in Sikkim in various acts.... only they can be good at! each of the following attributes hold true..
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontanious, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
Fun and frolic in a school near phodong - north Sikkim
Caught children in Sikkim in various acts.... only they can be good at! each of the following attributes hold true..
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontanious, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
I found myself questioning the legality of this photograph, but only for a moment before realizing that I don't care. Nebraska DOR "No Parking" and "No Trespassing" signs litter Highway 6; however, I figured Tesla wouldn't mind if I parked well off the road and ran a half-mile in for a quick shoot & scoot... I've wanted this shot for years and figured that with a consist like this, today's LINLIN would be the time I break the rules and tried for it. You know what, the guilt is just tearing up my insides.
It might also be interesting to note that this shot includes one of only 2 lighthouses in the state of Nebraska. #funfacts
Rosie O’Donnell Defends Speculating That Barron Trump Is Autistic — Read Emotional Message Rosie O’Donnell has defended questioning if Barron Trump is unfit by conveyance of title that her own girl has the disorder which she acknowledges the indications. The comedian enclosed AN emotional data to enthusiasts on her web-site on Saturday once sparking fury amongst Twitter followers earlier within the week once she shared a on-line video that counseled the president-elect’s 10-yr-previous son is unfit. Insisting that her post was ‘from the heart’, she explained it knowledgeable ‘nothing’ to try and do together with her previous foe Donald Trump. ‘I don't have any sick can for his young children or any young children,’ explained O’Donnell, incorporating that her own girl, 3-yr-previous Dakota, was diagnosed with substantial in operation syndrome in Gregorian calendar month. The row commenced on Monday once O’Donnell shared AN anti-bullying on-line video of Trump’s son. It speculated that he may be unfit hooked in to the manner he clapped throughout AN overall check up on the Democratic nationwide Conference. Thanks for watching please subscribe for more: www.youtube.com/channel/UC-bLatYV26xySBO94fuulyQ youtu.be/eF2bGs-JcSM
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontaneous, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
I am questioning my assistant's work ethic. Actually due to lack of childcare my son was forced to hang out while I was shooting.
During a press conference, an Italian journalist, Lorenzo Consoli, questions Claudio Fava on the implications of his report @European Parliament/Pietro Naj-Oleari
From the John T. Dyer Collection (COLL/3503) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
[RE]DESIGN 05 THE EXHIBITION
[re]design 05 is a celebration of friendly design showcasing 100 desirable domestic designs that are friendly to you, friendly to society and friendly to our environment.
[re]design 05 is here to invite you to try sustainable, friendly design for yourself. Good' design can also be gorgeous.
Monday off from school- Allans birthday party. i woke up questioning this event but knowing that if i went id have a lot of fun with people that i havent been around in a long time. but i needed to hang with sarath and i needed to buy him a gift. so me and sarath went shopping this morning looking and searching for something to give allan. we decided on a joint gift since we were a couple, pooling our money to get allan something bigger. we didnt want to get a gift card or just cash, thatd be saying that we did know him at all. i wanted to get him something that hed like and appreciate.... a giant nerf gun? yeah. we got him a giant nerf gun. hopefully he likes it, i gave him the gift reciept just in case. but wat guy at his age doesnt want a flippin giant nerf gun?!
so anyways, me and sarath got to the party fashionably late. we played uno and cards and guitar hero. had tons of food and fun and cake. i chatted with people i have not seen in a long long time- ei- carlos and natalie and jon jon and pat n paul, nacy and lawrence. and carlos even sang piano man and he has a really really nice voice. so after a while me and sarath decided to head off, figuring it was getting a bit late and we wanted to chill before we parted. so we went to my house which didnt go exactly as planned. it was nice, but we've found that we need ueo alerts- unecessary emotional outburst alerts. because just because, we both get distrought when the other is emotionally out of it....its just the way our energies feed off each other. its really odd, but makes a lot of sense, and even though we sometimes need ueo's, it makes me think thats theres gotta be a lot between us to be so emotionally connected. then we had a nice chat [insert finger quotes] " "
which seemed to be quite lengthy " "
all in all today was really fun. and apparently i looked like an uber ginger and sarath applied to journeys : )
thats sarath on speaker phone in the picture btw
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontaneous, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
Mayor Ras J. Baraka, the City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory and Concerns Commission, and other dignitaries held the LGBTQ Pride Flag-Raising ceremony as part of Newark Gay Pride Week on Thursday, July 14, 2016, at 5 p.m. in the City Hall First Floor Rotunda.
The rainbow flag, a universal symbol of LGBTQ pride, will fly outside City Hall for the duration of the 11th annual Newark Pride Week. Mayor Baraka has made a firm commitment to supporting the needs and equality of the LGBTQ community. The City of Newark created its first-ever LGBTQ Commission seven years ago. This year marks the 11th anniversary of Newark Gay Pride.
This year’s events celebrate the last 11 years of accomplishments in Newark’s LGBTQ Community as well as in the global LGBTQ Community. The event will also honor the 49 victims of the recent mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, which targeted that City’s LGBTQ community.
This official City of Newark photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the Mayor of Newark, the City of Newark, or Newark City Hall.
Any use or reprinting of official City of Newark photos must use the following credit language and style: Newark Press Information Office.
This photo proves beyond doubt that Bielefeld DOES exist (a German insider joke...): Lufthansa Airbus A320-211 D-AIQB Bielefeld is climbing out of runway 25R.
This A320 (MSN 200) has had its first flight on 22.04.91 with the test registration F-WWDJ and was delivered to LH on 21.06.91.
(Have a look at the "Bielefeld conspiracy" in the English Wikipedia!)
Siddhu playing and teasing me on the way back from North Sikkim
Caught children in Sikkim in various acts.... only they can be good at! each of the following attributes hold true..
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontanious, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
From the John T. Dyer Collection (COLL/3503) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
A child coming back from school. children walk about 10kms on average one way to school.. North sikkim
Caught children in Sikkim in various acts.... only they can be good at! each of the following attributes hold true..
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontanious, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
On September 11, 2012, radical Islamic terrorists attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing US Ambassador Chris Stevens and several other staff members and employees. Today, October 11, 2012, a US congressional panel has begun questioning State Department officials about the adequacy of the protection around Ambassador Stevens as new details of the attack are coming to light.
The day following the pillage and murders, Jerusalem Prayer Team cited reports from credible sources that recognized that what happened in Benghazi was a well-conceived terrorist attack. It took six more days for the White House to admit that it was. During that entire first week, White House officials tried to convince the American public that it was just a part of the Muslim reaction to a poorly made anti-Islamic film posted on YouTube.
Here now is more of the story about what happened on the fateful day. Some of the details may be unsettling.
- When the attack started, Stevens and Sean Smith were taken to a safe room by a security guard.
- Trapped inside the room with the attackers closing in, the three men decided to make a run for it. Following SAP, the security guard went first. He was barely outside the building when he was killed by rocket-propelled grenades.
- Stevens and Smith remained in the safe room. Once the guard left, no one ever saw them alive again.
- As several security agents attempted to escape the burning compound by car, they encountered crowds in the streets that made it impossible for them to pass. They were attacked with grenades and assault rifles. The gunmen shot repeatedly from a distance of two feet.
- Other agents attempted in vain to reach the safe room, but were unable to penetrate the dense diesel-oil-laden smoke from the fires that the attacks had ignited.
- Although unable to find Stevens, the guards dragged Smith’s body to an armored vehicle and left the consulate, still under fire from “an unbelievable amount of bad guys.”
- In order to avoid ambushers lying in wait, the agents had to drive the armored vehicle across the median and drive against oncoming traffic.
- Although no one seems to know exactly how, Steven’s body was taken to the local hospital where doctors used his cell phone to call recently dialed numbers.
- The next time the survivors saw Ambassador Stevens, his body was being delivered to the airport for their flight out of Libya.
The scale of a tragedy like this cannot be measured in the number of lives lost or the cost of the damages. The loss of lives on 9/11/2012 is no less tragic that the loss of lives on 9/11/2001. Just ask the families and friends of those who died. The grief they experienced was just as great.
As our hearts break over this tragedy, as we grieve for the troubles of the nations, and as we pray for the peace of Jerusalem and of spiritual awakening in Israel and America, let us pray with broken and contrite spirits knowing that God will hear from Heaven and will answer our prayers.
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At long last my case against the riot police who attacked me in September simply for taking photos during a peaceful demonstration has shown signs of life. After spending a couple of months amassing evidence (including a doctor's report of my injuries that ran to more than two pages) I filed suit in December. This morning I found this taped to the front door of the apartment I live in.
Basically, it's a call to appear at the central courts within 48 hours or as it says I'll be taken there forcibly and fined the grand, if prosaic, sum of 14.67 Euros. Just one problem the date underneath is 18/01/2007 so technically I'm an outlaw subject to violent detention if caught.
UPDATE
Looks like I made a mistake in my translation as I have to go to the central courts and not the police station (got my megaros/halls mixed up).
For a full account of what happened
teacherdudebbq.blogspot.com/search?q=mat+full+story.
For photos.
www.flickr.com/photos/59089088@N00/sets/72157601950330927/
For video
The Lost World (20th Century Fox, 1960).
youtu.be/h1CLA-gJbmA?t=5s Trailer
Irwin Allen, the producer who would go on to make the disaster film a huge success in the seventies, brought us this Saturday afternoon fodder with giant lizards posing as dinosaurs. Starring Michael Rennie, David Hedison, Claude Rains and Jill St. John.
Intended as a grand sci-fi/fantasy epic remake of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. The first film adaptation, shot in 1925, was a milestone in many ways, but movie making and special effects had come a long way in 35 years. Irwin Allen's Lost World (LW) & 20th Century Fox version was derailed on the way to greatness, but managed to still be a respectable, (if more modest) A-film. Allen's screenplay followed the book fairly well, telling of Professor Challenger's expedition to a remote plateau in the Amazon upon which dinosaurs still lived. Aside from the paleontological presumptions in the premise, there is little "science" in The Lost World. Nonetheless, dinosaur movies have traditionally been lumped into the sci-fi genre.
Synopsis
When his plane lands in London, crusty old professor George Edward Challenger is besieged by reporters questioning him about his latest expedition to the headwaters of the Amazon River. After the irascible Challenger strikes reporter Ed Malone on the head with his umbrella, Jennifer Holmes, the daughter of Ed's employer, Stuart Holmes, offers the injured reporter a ride into town. That evening, Jenny is escorted by Lord John Roxton, an adventurer and big game hunter, to Challenger's lecture at the Zoological Institute, and Ed invites them to sit with him. When Challenger claims to have seen live dinosaurs, his colleague Professor Summerlee scoffs and asks for evidence. Explaining that his photographs of the creatures were lost when his boat overturned, Challenger invites Summerlee to accompany him on a new expedition to the "lost world," and asks for volunteers. When Roxton raises his hand, Jenny insists on going with him, but she is rejected by Challenger because she is a woman. Ed is given a spot after Holmes offers to fund the expedition if the reporter is included. The four then fly to the Amazon, where they are met by Costa, their guide and Manuel Gomez, their helicopter pilot. Arriving unexpectedly, Jenny and her younger brother David insist on joining them. Unable to arrange transportation back to the United States, Challenger reluctantly agrees to take them along. The next day, they take off for the lost world and land on an isolated plateau inhabited by dinosaurs. That evening, a dinosaur stomps out of the jungle, sending them scurrying for cover. After the beast destroys the helicopter and radio, the group ventures inland. When one of the creatures bellows threateningly, they flee, and in their haste, Challenger and Ed slip and tumble down a hillside, where they encounter a native girl. The girl runs into the jungle, but Ed follows and captures her. They then all take refuge in a cave, where Roxton, who has been making disparaging remarks about Jenny's desire to marry him solely for his title, angers Ed. Ed lunges at Roxton, pushing him to the ground, where he finds a diary written by Burton White, an adventurer who hired Roxton three years earlier to lead him to the lost diamonds of Eldorado. Roxton then admits that he never met White and his party because he was delayed by a dalliance with a woman, thus abandoning them to certain death. Gomez angrily snaps that his good friend Santiago perished in the expedition. That night, Costa tries to molest the native girl, and David comes to her rescue and begins to communicate with her through sign language. After Gomez goes to investigate some movement he spotted in the vegetation, he calls for help, and when Roxton runs out of the cave, a gunshot from an unseen assailant is fired, nearly wounding Roxton and sending the girl scurrying into the jungle. Soon after, Ed and Jenny stray from camp and are pursued by a dinosaur, and after taking refuge on some cliffs, watch in horror as their stalker becomes locked in combat with another prehistoric creature and tumbles over the cliffs into the waters below. Upon returning to camp, they discover it deserted, their belongings in disarray. As David stumbles out from some rocks to report they were attacked by a tribe of natives, the cannibals return and imprison them in a cave with the others. As the drums beat relentlessly, signaling their deaths, the native girl reappears and motions for them to follow her through a secret passageway that leads to the cave in which Burton White lives, completely sightless. After confirming that all in his expedition perished, White tells them of a volcanic passageway that will lead them off the plateau, but warns that they must first pass through the cave of fire. Cautioning them that the natives plan to sacrifice them, White declares that their only chance of survival is to slip through the cave and then seal it with a boulder. After giving them directions to the cave, White asks them to take the girl along. As the earth, on the verge of a volcanic eruption, quakes, they set off through the Graveyard of the Damned, a vast cavern littered with dinosaur skeletons, the victims of the deadly sulfurous gases below. Pursued by the ferocious natives, Roxton takes the lead as they inch their way across a narrow ledge above the molten lava. After escaping the natives, they jam the cave shut with a boulder and, passing a dam of molten lava, finally reach the escape passage. At its mouth is a pile of giant diamonds and a dinosaur egg. As Costa heaps the diamonds into his hat, Challenger fondles the egg and Gomez pulls a gun and announces that Roxton must die in exchange for the death of Santiago, Gomez' brother. Acting quickly, Ed hurls the diamonds at Gomez, throwing him off balance and discharging his gun. The gunshot awakens a creature slumbering in the roiling waters below. After the beast snatches Costa and eats him alive, Ed tries to dislodge the dam, sending a few scorching rocks tumbling down onto the monster. Feeling responsible for the peril of the group, Gomez sacrifices his life by using his body as a lever to dislodge the dam, covering the creature with oozing lava. As the cave begins to crumble from the impending eruption, the group hurries to safety. Just then, the volcano explodes, destroying the lost world. After Roxton hands Ed a handful of diamonds he has saved as a wedding gift for him and Jenny, Challenger proudly displays his egg, which then hatches, revealing a baby dinosaur. The End.
The 50s had seen several examples of the dinosaur sub-genre. LW is one of the more lavish ones, owing to color by DeLuxe and CinemaScope. The A-level actors help too. Claude Rains plays the flamboyant Challenger. Michael Rennie plays Roxton, perhaps a bit too cooly. Jill St. John and Vitina Marcus do well as the customary eye candy. David Hedison as Malone and Fernando Lamas as Gomez round out the bill.
The first film version of LW was a silent movie shot in 1925: screenplay by Marion Fairfax. The film featured stop-motion animated dinosaurs by a young Willis O'Brien. Fairfax followed Doyle's text, but Fairfax added a young woman to the team, Paula White. Ostensibly trying to find her father from the first failed expedition, she provided the love triangle interest between Malone and Roxton.
Allen's screenplay tried to stick to Doyle's text as much as Hollywood would allow. It carried on Fairfax's invention of the young woman member of the group as triangle fodder. Fairfax had Doyle's ape men (ape man) but omitted the native humans. Allen had the natives, but no ape men. Allen revived the Gomez/revenge subplot, which Fairfax skipped. Doyle's story had Challenger bringing back a pterodactyl. Fairfax made it a brontosaur who rampaged through London streets (spawning a popular trope). Allen suggested the baby dinosaur traveling to London.
Willis O'Brien pitched 20th Century Fox in the late 50s, to do a quality remake of LW. He had gained much experience in the intervening 35 years, so his stop-motion dinosaurs were to be the real stars. Fox bass liked the idea, but by the time the ball started rolling, there was trouble in studioland. Fox's grand epic Cleopatra was underway, but was already 5 million dollars over budget. Cleo would nearly sink 20th Century Fox when it was finally released in 1963. To stay afloat, all other Fox films' budgets were slashed. Allen could no longer afford the grand O'Brien stop-motion.
Allen's production is often criticized for its "cheap" dinosaurs, which were live monitor lizards and alligators with fins and plates and horns glue onto them. (more on that below) These were already a bit cheesy when used in the 1940 film One Million B.C.. O'Brien is still listed on the credits as "Effects Technician," but all Allen could afford was lizards with glued on extras. Somewhat amusingly, the script still refers to them as brontosaurs and T-Rexes.
The character of Jennifer Holmes starts out promising. She's a self-assured to the edges of pushy, and is said to be able to out shoot and out ride any man. Yet, when she gets to the Amazon jungle, she's little more than Jungle Barbie, dressed in girlie clothes and screaming frequently. She even does the typical Hollywood trip-and-fall when chased by the dinosaur, so that a man must save her.
Bottom line? FW is a finer example of the not-quite-sci-fi dinosaur sub-genre. The actors are top drawer, even if some of their acting is a bit flat. Nonetheless, FW is a fair adaptation of Doyle's
classic adventure novel, given the constraints of Hollywood culture.
The Movie Club Annals … Review
The Lost World 1960
Introduction
There was absolutely nothing wrong with Irwin Allen's 1960 production of The Lost World. Nothing. It was perfect in every way. I therefore find myself in the unique and unfamiliar position of having to write a rave review about a Movie Club movie that was entirely devoid of flaws.
Faced with such a confounding task, I half-heartedly considered faking a bad review, then praying my obvious deceptions would go unnoticed. But the patent transparency of my scheme convinced me to abandon it posthaste. After all, leveling concocted criticisms at such an unassailable masterpiece would be a futile and tiresome exercise, the pretense of which would escape nary a semi-cognizant soul.
Thus, having retreated from my would-be descent into literary intrigue, I start this review in earnest by borrowing a quote from the legendary Shelly Winters, spoken during the 1972 filming of Irwin Allen's The Poseidon Adventure:
"I'm ready for my close up now, Mr. Allen.” Shelly Winters, 1972
Review
A bit of research into the casting choices of Irwin Allen, who wrote, produced, and directed The Lost World, begins to reveal the genius behind the virtuosity.
The first accolades go to Irwin for his casting of Vitina Marcus, the immaculately groomed Saks 5th Avenue cave girl with exquisite taste in makeup, jewelry, and cave-wear. No finer cave girl ever graced a feature film.
Vitina Marcus, as The Cave Girl
She was the picture of prehistoric glamour, gliding across the silver screen in her designer bearskin mini-pelt, her flawless coiffure showing no signs of muss from the traditional courting rituals of the day, her perfect teeth the envy of even the most prototypical Osmond. Even her nouveau-opposable thumbs retained their manicure, in spite of the oft-disagreeable duties that frequently befell her as an effete member of the tribal gentry.
By no means just another Neanderthal harlot, Vitina had a wealth of talent to augment her exterior virtues. Her virtuoso interpretation of a comely cave girl in The Lost World certainly didn't escape the attention Irwin Allen. In fact, he was so taken with her performance that he later engaged her services again, casting her as the Native Girl in episode 2.26 of his Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea TV series.
Leery of potential typecasting, Vitina went on to obtain roles with greater depth and more sophisticated dialogue. This is evidenced by the great departure she took from her previous roles when she next portrayed the part of Sarit, a female barbarian, in episode 1.24 of Irwin Allen's The Time Tunnel TV series.
Vitina, as Sarit
Vitina's efforts to avoid typecasting paid off in spades, as she was soon rewarded with the distinctive role of Girl, a female Tarzanesque she-beast character, in episode 3.14 of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series.
Lured back from the U.N.C.L.E. set by Irwin Allen, Vitina was next cast in the role of Athena (a.k.a. Lorelei), the green space girl with the inverted lucite salad bowl hat, in episodes 2.2 and 2.16 of the revered Lost in Space TV series.
And with this, Vitina reached the pinnacle of her career. For her many unparalleled displays of thespian pageantry, she leaves us forever in her debt as she exits the stage.
For those who would still question the genius of Irwin Allen, I defy you to find a better casting choice for the character of Lord John Roxton than that of Michael Rennie. Mr. Rennie, who earlier starred as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still, went on to even greater heights, starring as The Keeper in episodes 1.16 and 1.17 of the revered Lost in Space TV series. Throughout his distinguished career, Mr. Rennie often played highly cerebral characters with
unique names, such as Garth A7, Tribolet, Hasani, Rama Kahn, Hertz, and Dirk. How befitting that his most prolific roles came to him through a man named Irwin, a highly cerebral character with a unique name.
The selection of David Hedison to play Ed Malone was yet another example of Irwin's uncanny foresight. Soon after casting him in The Lost World, Irwin paved Mr. Hedison's path to immortality by casting him as a lead character in his Voyage to The Bottom of The Sea TV series. Although Voyage ended in 1968, Mr. Hedison departed the show with a solid resume and a bright future.
In the decades following Voyage, Mr. Hedison has been a veritable fixture on the small screen, appearing in such socially influential programs as The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Knight Rider, The Fall Guy and The A Team. Mr. Hedison's early collaborations with Irwin Allen have left him never wanting for a day's work in Hollywood, a boon to the legions of discerning fans who continue to savor his inspiring prime time depictions.
Irwin selected Fernando Lamas to play Manuel Gomez, the honorable and tortured soul of The Lost World who needlessly sacrificed himself at the end of the movie to save all the others. To get a feel for how important a casting decision he was to Irwin, just look at the pertinent experience Mr. Lamas brought to the table:
Irwin knew that such credentials could cause him to lose the services of Mr. Lamas to another project, and he took great pains to woo him onto the set of The Lost World. And even though Mr. Lamas never appeared in the revered Lost in Space TV series, his talent is not lost on us.
Jay Novello was selected by Irwin Allen to play Costa, the consummate Cuban coward who perpetually betrays everyone around him in the name of greed. In pursuing his craven calling, Mr. Novello went on to play Xandros, the Greek Slave in Atlantis, The Lost Continent, as well as countless other roles as a coward.
Although Mr. Novella never appeared in the revered Lost in Space TV series, his already long and distinguished career as a coward made him the obvious choice for Irwin when the need for an experienced malingerer arose.
Jill St. John was Irwin's pick to play Jennifer Holmes, the "other" glamour girl in The Lost World. Not to be upstaged by glamour-cave-girl Vitina Marcus, Jill played the trump card and broke out the pink go-go boots and skin-tight Capri pants, the perfect Amazonian summertime jungle wear.
Complete with a perfect hairdo, a killer wardrobe, a little yip-yip dog named Frosty, and all the other trappings of a wealthy and pampered prehistoric society, Jill's sensational allure rivaled even that of a certain cave girl appearing in the same film.
With the atmosphere rife for an on-set rivalry between Jill and Vitina, Irwin still managed to keep the peace, proving that he was as skilled a diplomat as he was a director.
Claude Rains, as Professor George Edward Challenger
And our cup runneth over, as Irwin cast Claude Rains to portray Professor George Edward Challenger. His eminence, Mr. Rains is an entity of such immeasurable virtue that he is not in need of monotonous praise from the likes of me.
I respectfully acknowledge the appearance of Mr. Rains because failure to do so would be an unforgivable travesty. But I say nothing more on the subject, lest I state something so obvious and uninspiring as to insult the intelligence of enlightened reader.
Irwin's casting of the cavemen mustn't be overlooked, for their infallibly realistic portrayals are unmatched within the Pleistocene Epoch genre of film. Such meticulous attention to detail is what separates Irwin Allen from lesser filmmakers, whose pale imitations of his work only further to underscore the point.
To be sure, it is possible to come away with the unfounded suspicion that the cavemen are really just a bunch of old white guys from the bar at the local Elks lodge. But Irwin was an absolute stickler for authenticity, and would never have allowed the use of such tawdry measures to taint his prehistoric magnum opus.
In truth, Irwin's on-screen cavemen were borne of many grueling years of anthropological research, so the explanation for their somewhat modern, pseudo-caucasian appearance lies obviously elsewhere. And in keeping with true Irwin Allen tradition, that explanation will not be offered here.
1964 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Season One, Episode 7 - "Turn Back the Clock", featuring Vitina Marcus as The Native Girl. Produced by Irwin Allen.
And then there was Irwin Allen's masterful handling of the reptilian facets of The Lost World, most notably his inimitable casting of the dinosaurs. His dinosaurs were so realistic, so eerily lifelike, that they almost looked like living, breathing garden variety lizards with dinosaur fins and horns glued to their backs and heads.
The less enlightened viewer might even suppose this to be true, that Irwin's dinosaurs were indeed merely live specimens of lizards, donned in Jurassic-era finery, vastly magnified, and retro-fitted into The Lost World via some penny-wise means of cinematic trickery.
But those of us in the know certainly know better than that, as we are privy to some otherwise unpublished information about The Lost World. The lifelike appearance of the Irwin's dinosaurs can be attributed to a wholly overlooked and fiendishly cunning approach to the art of delusion, which is that the dinosaurs didn't just look real, they were real.
While the world abounds with middling minds who cannot fathom such a reality, we must follow Irwin's benevolent leanings and temper our natural feelings of contempt for this unfortunate assemblage of pedestrian lowbrows. In spite of Irwin's superior intellect, he never felt disdain toward the masses that constituted his audiences. He simply capitalized on their unaffectedness, and in the process recounted the benefits of exploiting the intellectually bereft for personal gain.
The purpose of all this analysis, of course, is to place an exclamation point on the genius of Irwin Allen, the formation of his dinosaur exposé being a premier example. Note how he mindfully manipulates the expectations of his unsuspecting audience, compelling them to probe the dinosaurs for any signs of man-made chicanery. Then, at the palatial moment when the dinosaurs make their entry, he guilefully supplants the anticipated display of faux reptilia with that of the bona fide article.
Upon first witnessing the de facto dinosaurs, some in the audience think they've been had, and indeed they have. Irwin, in engineering his masterful ruse, had used reality as his medium to convey the illusion of artifice. His audience, in essence, was blinded by the truth. It was the immaculate deception, and none but Irwin Allen could have conceived it.
Indeed, the matter of where the live dinosaurs came from has been conspicuously absent from this discussion, as the Irwinian technique of fine film making strongly discourages the practice of squandering time on extraneous justifications and other such trite means of redundant apologia. For the benefit of the incessantly curious, however, just keep in mind that Irwin Allen wrote and produced The Time Tunnel TV Series, a fact that should provide some fair insight into his modis operandi.
Carl R.
One of the most well known evangelists of the Twentieth century, Asa Alonso Allen was known as 'God's man of faith and power'. He was incredibly gifted, dramatic and controversial. Brother Allen was born in Sulphur Rock, Arkansas, March 27th 1911. His childhood was one of growing up in poverty and plain hard work as was common in those days. His father was known to be a chronic alcoholic, and his mother was said to be living in sin with other men.
In 1934 Brother Allen was converted in a Holy Ghost filled Methodist church. He was ordained in 1936 as an AOG minister and launched out in his life of preaching.
Revivalism during those times of depression was tough on an evangelist. A driving spirit and God's grace empowered Brother Allen to continue on...
In 1947 he settled into pastoring a small church in Corpus Christi, Texas and left the field. Two years later Allen attended an Oral Roberts tent meeting in Dallas. Brother Allen was touched at the results of Robert's Revival meeting and was convinced that a great revival was ahead. That meeting exposed Brother Allen to miracle after miracle and he was convinced that the Spirit of God was moving across the land with displays of great power.
Asa Allen left that meeting with such a conviction for the lost to receive God's miracle working power that he asked his church board to allow him to start a radio program. They refused. This seemed to damper Brother Allen's spirit immensely, although he had inside of him a great overpowering urge and determination that pushed him beyond the barriers imposed by man and he resigned from pastoring to hit the gospel road again. It was at this point that Allen started his Healing Revival Campaigns.
Asa was desperate to sum up what people were hungering after. He came to a realisation after witnessing the great crowds being drawn to the gigantic tent of Oral Roberts. In 1955 Brother Allen made a bold move of faith and purchased a tent for $8,700 that was way beyond his natural abilities to pay for, although he knew that God was the giver. With God's blessing he entered the golden era of tent evangelism with a healing/salvation theme. This was the turning point for this determined man of God. Allen was know as a man that the poor and desperate responded to. Like David of old, who drew those in debt, in distress and discontentment. There was something about his ability to relate to their needs and give them the gospel hope, and they responded to him by the thousands. During his crusades he was known as the revivalist who never ran from the hard cases. More to the point - he thrived on them! If there was someone blind, no problem. Brother Allen would pray. On one occasion, a man came to his meetings who was an ex-mine worker. This man had his eyes blown right out of their sockets in a terrible explosion. When prayed for, God instantly replaced those empty sockets of flesh with brand new brown eyes in front of the people! If there were the lame, no problem. Asa would pray. He would grab the afflicted person's crutches and throw these at the alter. The person was healed. Even the retarded would come with their faces all deformed. God would heal them instantly, their faces 'popping' back to normal! Many of the travelling evangelist had their own styles and Brother Allen was no different.
A.A.Allen had an incredible ability to set the stage of a service through music like no other of his day. Brother Allen was one of the first, along with Oral Roberts, to open his revival meetings up to an interracial crowd. This created a different kind of persecution, but he would use it as a platform to stand on and preach. He was a powerful preacher and was not fearful of prophetic declarations that had a spiritual punch to them. While in London he preached a dynamic message entitled, "God is a Killer." On another occasion he delivered a prophecy declaring a vision that he had of the "Destruction of America."
Brother Allen was apostolic in the sense that he thrived when under pressure. He felt that he was one of the most persecuted men in the ministry because he believed God for miracles. Allen, like many of his fellow revivalists, had religious enemies. Attacks of all sorts were railed at him. One of the most severe of those attacks started after an alleged arrest in 1955 for drunk driving in Knoxville, Tennessee. He never stood trial and forfeited his bail. Even today, regarding the whole incident, it is still unclear as to exactly what happened. Although well known evangelist R.W. Schambach said that he knew that Brother Allen was not drunk because he was with him that night in the car. In Allen's ministry publication, Miracle Magazine, he printed his response to the accusations for his ministry supporters. "Brother Allen declares that all this is but a trick of the devil to try to kill his ministry and his influence among his friends, at a time when God has granted him greater miracles in his ministry than ever before."
With gossip flying around, and newspaper reporters never seeming to stop, Allen found himself on the road without much denominational support. Even his fellowship, the Assembly of God, asked him to withdraw from public ministry until this matter was resolved. Brother Allen was very hurt feeling that he had been abandoned in a great time of personal need even though he had been with them for eighteen years. Asa felt that to withdraw, he would ruin his ministry and give the appearance of guilt. He surrendered his ordination papers and was on his own.
By the mid-1950s Brother Allen began to urge the Pentecostal ministers to establish independent churches that would be free of denominational controls. He felt that the denominations were limiting what the Spirit of God was trying to do. He felt that programs had replaced the old wooden altars. "With few exceptions, the churches today are leaning more and more toward dependence upon organisational strength, and natural ability, and denominational methods. They no longer expect to get their increase through the old fashioned revival altar bench, or through the miracle working power of God, but rather through the Sunday School". Sadly, the situation doesn't appear to have changed much even now.
In 1958 Jack Coe went to be with the Lord, so Brother Allen purchased his great tent. Coe's tent had seated well over 22,000 and Allen had obviously been blessed with the largest tent in the world. During a time when the revivalists of the Voice of Healing movement began to disappear, Allen was bestowed the ability to raise the support that he needed to keep this ministry going. He was one of the first to call poverty a spirit and believed in God's ability to perform miracles financially. His teaching on prosperity were a major theme in his meetings during the 60's.
Brother Allen's style was bold and outgoing. He sometimes wore lavender suits with white patent leather boots. His television commercials declared, "See! Hear! Actual miracles happening before your very eyes! Cancer, tumours, goiters disappear. Crutches, braces, wheelchairs, stretchers discarded. Crossed eyes straightened. Caught by the camera as they actually occur in the healing line before thousands of witnesses."
At the height of his ministry, Allen had over 340,000 subscribers to Miracle Magazine. He was preaching in all the major cities and auditoriums across the country, was heard on radio, and had written many cutting edge books. There are still thousands of people today that were touched by the power of God working through Brother Allen. He was one of the first to birth a national television ministry and the first to broadcast prophecies and deliverances from demons over the airwaves. His Holy Ghost rallies were shown on the television. Up to twelve hundred received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in a single service. Brother Allen helped pioneer revival in the Philippines where he preached repeatedly to over fifty thousand people in each service. He founded a Bible School in Miracle Valley, to fulfil his vision; 'a place where thousands could be trained up to deliver the Word of God to the multitudes in need'. He also started over four hundred churches.
Brother Allen said his earliest recollection of moving the public was when he was a mere child singing on the street corner for pennies. The first song that he ever sang was when he was 3 years-old, titled "It Never Runs Dry." The title of that song can be said to be symbolic of his effervescent spirit, that reminds one of that scripture in John 4:14, which says "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." In Asa A Allen's case - It never ran dry!
Asa Alonso Allen went to be with his Saviour on June 11th, 1970. He was fifty-nine years of age.
"Since 1951, under the A. A. Allen Miracle Revival tent in every campaign across the nation and in distant places around the globe, special help has always been offered those attending the meetings who were addicted to tobacco, alcohol and dope. In so many instances, these are the most neglected. No one seems to care if they struggle along alone and are lost. So many Christian ministers and workers pass them by, considering them too difficult, offensive or impossible."
"But not Jesus! He came to save that which is lost!"
"From these deliverance services where special prayer and help is given to these precious addicted souls, have come thrilling testimonies of complete deliverance. Many who were once bound are now active in a Miracle Ministry of their own. They're among Christ's most ardent workers today!"
"With such a great crowd of witnesses to God's mighty deliverance power over tobacco, alcohol and dope, is it any wonder the devil fights this ministry?!!! Is it any wonder the devil tries to make my own deliverance testimony of none effect?!!! Thank God the Word says the devil is a liar! And my deliverance from tobacco and alcohol is as real today as it was in the days immediately following my conversion thirty years ago."
"The old crowd saw it, doubted it could last, and in time had to admit that Allen really did get ‘religion’!"
"Like so many children who grow up in tobacco country, as far as I can remember, tobacco was plentiful in my home. Mama and Papa used strong homegrown tobacco that had dried in our own barn. I smoked before I was old enough to start school."
"My father was a talented musician who not only played for dances, but also directed the church choir. It was a formal, denominational church that did not preach against sin nor teach a life of holiness. My mother left my father when I was four, and the years that followed were hard and unhappy ones. I tried running away at the age of eleven, but when it began to rain, I got cold and hungry and went back home. Then at fourteen, I decided it was time for me to launch out on my own."
"Like most boys who leave home, I soon became attached to other unattached young friends, and traveled through much of the South. I dug ditches, picked cotton, worked in the cotton gins, waited tables and worked whatever possible, but I knew what it was to be cold, and me, hungry. From experience, I know what poverty and despair really are!"
"For seven long years I lived a life of sin, a wretched life that doesn't satisfy. It gives pleasure for a season, but it never lasts. For every night lived in sin, there's always the morning after. Many a night, after being the life of the party, I slipped out into the woods and wept bitterly. My life had no purpose; it seemed hardly worth living."
"Again and again, when my head was splitting and my frayed nerves let me shake visibly with a ‘hang over’, I promised myself I would never go on another again. But when night came, I was right back there...the life of the party! A confirmed drunkard! When the boys opened a new bottle, someone would say, "Don't let Ace drink first. If you do, there won't be any left for the rest of us!" Sometimes I wondered if changing my way of life might help. At twenty-one, I was sick. Tobacco, bad liquor and a life of sin were taking a serious toll on my body. I tried one brand of cigarettes after another, hoping to relieve the deep hacking cough. When I failed to find any less irritating, I tried to quit smoking. But every fiber of my being cried out for nicotine! I could hardly get a cigarette to my lips with one hand. And when I struck the match, I held my wrist with the other hand to control the shaking while I lit up. Broken in health and in spirit, the decision was finally made to return to my mother's house. Perhaps with Mama's good regular meals and with outdoor work on the farm, my health would return. This was a momentous decision that led to my conversion...a real step in the right direction, but not until my mother's heart was almost broken."
"Change my life! Plan as I did...I was bound by sin! Although I found myself at home, the lustful appetites of nicotine and alcohol still cried out to be satisfied. They had almost destroyed my health, yet the craving drove me on. I could not quit. My poor old mother would weep and beg me not to drink. "You're worrying your old mother to death", she pleaded. I was her only boy and her favorite child. She must have been even more deeply hurt as I laughed and joked back with her."
"Soon after I returned home, I tried a new venture that proved quite successful. I opened my own dance hall on the highway. Customers came to dance and satisfy their thirst for drink at the Allen Saturday night dances. This exclusive dance hall had good music, good dancing and ‘spirits’, and the young people gathered from far and near. But the fame and fortune of this enterprise was to prove short-lived. Only a quarter of a mile down the highway, a precious farmer who was filled with the Holy Ghost and who loved lost souls had opened his home for prayer meetings and services. He invited friends, neighbors and everyone to attend. However, progress was slow. Several months passed and he was not pleased with the success he had hoped for. The Allen dance hall was holding the young people's interest and keeping them from church. Brother Hunter finally decided if he was ever going to win his community for God, that dance hall would have to be closed!"
"A prayer group was called together to pray specifically for that purpose. Their example would be a good one for some of us to follow today. They prayed like this: "One way or another, God, close down that Allen dance hall. Save him if you can, but if he refuses to be saved, move him out of this community or take him!". God answered their fervent prayer!"
"A short time later, a little Methodist Church nearby opened its doors for a revival. A friend and I passed by one evening, just as they were singing. The music and singing sounded so joyful, and the church was full. We found a vacant spot on the back bench to see what was taking place at the church house. To my amazement, a young lady was the preacher. She was dressed in white and it seemed to me that she looked and talked just like an angel. As she began to preach against sin, I didn't want her to see me. I moved over just a little - that way I could hide my face behind the stovepipe. In a few moments, she stepped to the other side of the pulpit, looked back where we were and continued to preach the Word! For the first time in my life I came face to face with the full gospel! I was confronted with the convicting power of God! Before the altar call could be made, my friend and I slipped quietly out the door. True, I slipped away from the church and the people, but I could not get away from the Spirit of God. All night and all the next day, I could hear that joyous singing. Why, there was more joy in those songs than any I had ever heard, even more than the dance hall music! All the church music I had ever heard was slow and mournful. Over and over I recalled each happy face and the pure looking lady who had preached from God 's Word. Her words resounded in my ears."
"For so long I had sought after joy and satisfaction, but life was leading me further and further from it with each step! In my heart was an overwhelming hunger for the peace I saw on the faces of these precious church people. The gentle pleading Spirit of God continued to urge me to return to the church and let these people help me find that joy."
"The battle was on! Satan never gives up without a real fight! All the vexing, obsessing and possessing powers of the evil struggled within. But there was prayer going up before God on my behalf and the Spirit of God had began to move. When the service time came, I was there! I wouldn't have missed a song! That night, many testified and the sermon was just for me. How the blood of Jesus would wash away every sin. Concluding her sermon, the lady minister said, "Everyone who wants to be saved, will you please raise your hand?" I had reached the decision of my life! Without any hesitation, I raised my hand high. "If you really want salvation tonight, then stand to your feet." I eagerly obeyed. Several others were now standing too. When she looked at me, an anxious, troubled look came over her face. I learned later that when she realized who I was, she feared I had only come to the service and responded to the invitation to disrupt the prayer service and to make fun. It was with visible hesitation and anxiety that she finished the call, "If you really mean business with God tonight, it you really want to be saved please come forward." The others who were standing nearby sank back into their seat, but I was in deadly earnest. I really meant business! Up to the front I walked very deliberately, and stood directly in front of the pulpit, looking up to await further instructions. This almost panicked the little lady preacher. Surely, she thought, he is about to cause a scene! Otherwise he would have knelt to pray at the altar. But I did not know any better. I was only following instructions with utmost sincerity. The eyes of everyone in the church were on me; the atmosphere became somewhat tense. Still questioning my motive for coming, she asked; "Do you really want to be saved?" I said, "Certainly, that's why I came to the front!" “Then, will you please kneel here at the altar, and we will pray." To her relief and utter surprise, I did kneel and genuinely repented of my sins. The heavy load of sin rolled away. The old A. A. Allen who had been bootlegger, dancer and entertainer died that night at the altar. A new Allen stepped from the front doors of the little ‘Onward Methodist Church’. Gone were the sins and the desires that had bound me so long!"
"No more dances! No more liquor! No more cigarettes! Desire for them had vanished, and a new joy and peace had taken their place. They had no part in the life of the new Allen!"
"Old friends came by. They could not imagine what had happened. "Allen's got religion", some said..."But it won't last long. He'll be back on the dance floor in thirty days". One went so far as to say, "If it lasts Allen thirty days, I'll even try it myself!"
"But what they did not know was, this was not reform. This was not turning over a new leaf. This was a new creation! They were looking at the results of the mighty transforming power of God in action! Genuine deliverance in the Mighty Name of Jesus!"
"This special deliverance excerpt from Miracle Magazine, March 1964, has been especially prepared to help you or a friend who may need this same transforming power of God. Read it all. Let it's message inspire you to believe God! Remember Jesus came to "set the captives free and to break every yoke!"
"......freely ye have received, freely give." (Matt. 10:8). Freely I have received! Can I afford not to freely give? I cannot refrain from giving forth the same message to others that saved and transformed my own life! "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new!" (11 Co r. 5:17) "
Love me without fear
Trust me without questioning
Need me without demanding
Want me without restrictions
Accept me without change
Desire me without inhibitions
For a love so free....
Will never fly away.
By Dick Sutphen
Keep your heart pure, don't clutter it with a book-keeping of lies.
Keep your love, as tender and sweet as these petals...
Lead and enjoy a good life, do and say things that enrich... and do not forget to tell the people close to you, how much you love them!
Thank you, M, (*_*)
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The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers. The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:
Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright
The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers. The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:
Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright
The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers. The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:
Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright
Happiness Quotes - questioning kids
(more life quotes here www.embellishedminds.com/2792/life-quotes/)
At this point I'm questioning my decision to buy 80 pounds of apples to can when I have so much Etsy stuff to do! I guess I'd better get to it though!
#ruralish #ruralishetsy #canning #applehill #larsenapplefarm @visiteldorado #visiteldorado
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lilcakke: I'm going to try canning this weekend so I may b calling you 😃
jetsetmom: What are you making?
ruralish: @jetsetmom I'm doing sliced apples, apple sauce and apple butter! ☺️
ruralish: @lilcakke definitely call! What are you going to make?!
lilcakke: We're not sure yet! Any suggestions for a seasonal jam? @_pog_mo_thoin_ Tami she is making sliced apples, apple sauce, and apple butter. We wanna b like you @ruralish 😘
lilcakke: And were first timers so be easy on us ☺️ @ruralish
ruralish: "B like you" lol 👆!! @lilcakke and @_pog_mo_thoin_ canning actually terrifies me! I might try a freezer jam as your first go because you don't have to do all the processing in the canner, etc. Find a recipe from a proven source like Ball or the UC Extension Master Canners (I can help!). Call me so I can terrify you as well lol. 😉
lilcakke: A freezer jam? 😕 Oh yes I will most def b calling LOL let me get thru this work day n I'll try to call before dinner time 😘
A brother and sister playing in the evening - North Sikkim
Caught children in Sikkim in various acts.... only they can be good at! each of the following attributes hold true..
amazing, altruistic, bombastic, brave, curious, calculating, conniving, creative, celebration, determined, energetic,enthusiastic, expressive, endearing, fashion conscious, fun-loving, futuristic, gesticulating, hardworking, happy, honest, harrowing, Innocent, innovative, inventive, inquisitive, jovial, Karishmatic, laughing, linguists, musical, nature lovers, naughty, nimble-footed, omnipresent, outgoing, quiet, quick, questioning, risk taking, social, spirited, spontanious, tireless, tantrum, ubiquitous, vibrant, vulnerable, vivacious, wonderment, ......
They make the world a wonderful and worthwhile place to live in. We are responsible to leave a better place for the generations to come...
Questioning Expression
A Conceptual Look at Gender Roles in Commercial and Fashion Photography
When faced with images in the media, we often see females portrayed with glossy lips and males with facial hair. Men are never seen with such suggestive expressions as the slightly opened, pouting mouth, which adorn the faces of almost every woman in advertising. It certainly does not “fit” the unshaven face, as males are usually seen smiling or have their lips pressed firmly together. Inspired by such strict gender rules, these photographs go against the norm, and act as a reminder that expression can grace the faces of any sex, shaven or unshaven.
British Intelligence Corps officer quizzing a stranger, in France, during World War I. A sergeant from the British Intelligence Corps checking the identity details of a man in a French town - possibly the town of Bethune, in Picardie. The 'IC' letters on the sergeant's armband clearly identifies him as belonging to the Intelligence Corps.
Despite the pressing need for intelligence during a war, it was not until 1905 - after the Boer War - that the British Army started drawing up plans to from an Intelligence Corps. From 1914 onwards the newly formed Intelligence Corps began co-ordinating its intelligence gathering skills. Although the Intelligence Corps achieved many successes during the war, they were disbanded after the Armistice as it was believed their services were only required during wartime.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. A British Intelligence Sergeant questioning a stranger in the deserted Streets of a French town.']
The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers. The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:
Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright
FOR THE ROMANTIC SEASON...
Love me without fear
Trust me without questioning
Need me without demanding
Want me without restrictions
Accept me without change
Desire me without inhibitions
For a love so free....
Will never fly away.
Dick Sutphen
The petals of a Red Ranunculus View On proper Black
THIS IS THE LATEST!!! NEW:
Why not take a few minutes, click on the link, sit back and relax, enjoy the beauty, you'll feel replenished?
thanx for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)
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The Newark Municipal Council as the members of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Advisory Commission take the Oath of Office on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 in the Municipal Council Chambers. The inaugural Newark, NJ, LGBTQ Advisory Commission members are as follows:
Reverend Janyce L. Jackson
Rooney Long
Darnell L. Moore
Joseph Panessidi
Perris Straughter
Margaret L. Woods
Gary Paul Wright