~ Eileen Caddy

The word of the week at Parallel Vision is "Fun." This past week I got to have SO MUCH FUN at a vintage photo shoot. I got to have my hair an makeup done and pose around/inside a GORGEOUS home. Josh, Megan, and Brindy made me feel sooo glamorous :)

Cory was sure to bring our camera along so he could snap a shot or two. This is one he took (and I edited) while I was sitting getting my makeup done.

~ Alice Walker

Valentine's Day is just a few days away! Cory and I went a little overboard with baking and decorating... be expecting lots of Valentine's photos and a new "Tiny Treasures" post on Valentine's Day featuring some of our wonderful group member's photographs :)

Speaking of Tiny Treasures, it has been nominated on "The Lovelies!"

I would love your support :)

Please go vote by leaving a comment or twittering the feed...

Voting is open through February 28th. Thank you to everyone who has already voted... it means so much to me :)

“To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.”

- Beatles

HBW...

Explore #486 December 23, 2009...

Australia is a very multicultural country now. If you wait long enough - a few generations, it all becomes a blur as cultures mix and become homogenous.

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

A shot of the ocean break using a 10x ND filter. 15sec exposure at f29

Quotable Quote Theme

ODC Our Daily Challenge: 5 Quotable Quotes

"Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny."

~Stephen Hawking

- Elon Musk

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

- Kahlil Gibran

I pass Harry Lawson trucks on a regular basis on my travels, this beauty was parked at Seaton flats as I made my way down to Aberdeen Harbour,the driver agreed to me taking some photos, and had a chat about the company and what they do, a fine fellow indeed.

Harry Lawson Ltd. commenced operation in 1945 when the founders, Harry Lawson and his wife Dora, purchased a one vehicle business operating a daily carrier service between Dundee and Carnoustie. Their son Harry joined the company in 1961, at which time the fleet had increased to 12 vehicles. Harry continued to develop the business, taking over as Chief Executive in 1976 with Harry senior retiring by the end of the 70s. With marked determination to offer an efficient, high quality service and reliable road transport solutions, Harry soon built up an extensive portfolio of customers, including a number of blue chip accounts.

Despite now operating throughout the UK it was, however, the Company’s strong links with local enterprises which proved to be the catalyst in the Company’s move into tanker haulage. This niche was developed as Harry foresaw that the business would benefit from having a clear focus or speciality in the transport sector and whilst the business continues to operate both tanker haulage and general haulage, it is perhaps the tanker haulage sector for which it is best now known.

Harry Lawson Ltd., remains a family owned business operating from its base in Broughty Ferry and is now entering the third generation with Michael, Harry’s son, having joined in 2004. Today’s fleet comprises around 70 trucks and 150 trailers and the Company continues to take great pride in the presentation and cleanliness of its vehicles and the instantly recognisable two tone green livery is sure to be a familiar sight to many collectors and truck enthusiasts alike.

Harry Lawson Ltd. is a well established family transport business based in Broughty Ferry in the North East of Scotland,they have been in the general transport business for more than 70 years.

Specialising in providing bulk liquid, powder and general haulage transport services throughout the UK to a wide customer base in a range of markets.

Volvo FH series

Overview

ManufacturerVolvo Trucks

Production1993–present

AssemblyGothenburg, Sweden

Ghent, Belgium

Body and chassis

ClassHeavy truck

Body style COE

Day cab

Sleeper cab

Globetrotter High cab

Powertrain

Engine

Inline 6 turbodiesel intercooled

Volvo

D12A(12.1 L) 420 309kw 1993–1998

D12C (12.1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 1998–2001

D12D (12.1 L) 420 309kw. 460 340kw 2001–2005

D12F (12,1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 2004–2006 EGR

D13A,B,C(12.7 L)2005–present

D13K (12.9 L) 2012-present (Euro VI)

D16A,B(16.1 L)1993–2001

D16C,E,G(16.1 L)2006–present

Cummins

ISX600(14.91 L)1998–2006 (Australia)

Transmission

14 speed synchro manual

SR1900 (1993–1998)

SR(O)2400 (1993–1998)

VT2514(OD) (1998–present)

VT2814(OD) (2006–present)

VT(O)2214B (2012-present)

VT(O)2514B (2012-present)

VT(O)2814B (2012-present)

16 speed synchro manual (ZF)

ZT1816

12 speed semi-automatic (I-Shift)

V2512AT (2007–present)

V(O)2812AT (2007–present)

VO3112AT (2008–present)

AT2412D (2012-present)

AT(O)2612D (2012-present)

AT2812D (2012-present)

ATO3112D (2012-present)

ATO3512D (2012-present)

6 speed automatic (Powertronic)

VT1706PT

VT1906PT

Chronology

PredecessorF series

The Volvo FH is a heavy truck range produced by Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks. Introduced in late 1993 as FH12 and FH16, production still continues with the now the second generation of FH range model lineup.

FH stands for Forward control High entry, where numbers denominate engine capacity in litres. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide.[1]

In September, 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with significant technology upgrades

The new Volvo FH (2012–present)

The 2012 model of Volvo FH.

In September 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with major technology upgrades, a new design and more.

The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which is available as an option on the new Volvo FH and compulsory for new trucks in Europe from January 2014. Other quotable new features is the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel saving technology. With the new thirteen-litre engine, the name has changed to FH13.

AEB

Volvo Trucks have demonstrated the new AEB system for their FH series on YouTube. The truck did well and stopped only centimeters from the car ahead. The tractor trailer was fully loaded to 40 tons GCW when Volvo demonstrated the system.

The AEB system combines a radar and a camera that work together to identify and monitor vehicles in front. The system is designed to deal with both stationary and moving vehicles and can prevent a collision with a moving target at relative speeds of up to 70 km/h.

When the system detects a vehicle that the truck will hit at its current speed, the warning system activates a constant red light in the windscreen in order to bring the driver's attention back to the road.

- Og Mandino

Well, as you know, I have passed the CBEST Exam and now tomorrow, at 7 in the morning (yeah, that's right 7 IN THE MORNING), I will be taking my Praxis II Tests:

Art: Content, Traditions, Criticism and Aesthetics (3 essay questions)

AND

Art: Content Knowledge (70 multiple choice questions)

The multiple choice covers a wide range of topics. Questions about artists, architecture, painting techniques, artistic movements, sculpting techniques. Basically, everything and anything about art. An example of a multiple choice question is as follows:

1)The pointillist paintings of Georges Seurat are most notable for containing which of

the following characteristics?

(A)An expressionistic use of broad brushstrokes and tactile surface texture

(B) Lively figures created through the use of forceful lines

(C) Static figures and a sense of optical surface movement

(D)An emotional use of strident colors with a high degree of simplification

An example of an essay question is as follows:

Audrey Flack’s Queen is an example of Photorealism, an art movement of the 1970’s that grew out of a revival of interest in realism. Write a critique of this work in which you discuss the following:

(PART A) What are the primary concerns and techniques of Photorealism as represented by Queen?

(PART B) How does Flack’s treatment of realism compare with the treatment of realism in earlier periods, for example Dutch Realism or nineteenth-century Realism?

(PART C) How does the work challenge the viewer’s perception of reality and art? Why is it challenging? What questions does the work cause the viewer to ask?

Yeah, that is ONE essay question and I only have 20 minutes to answer it.

It is not going to be easy. Please send me those brainy vibes of yours!! They worked so well for the CBEST :)

So now I will be spending the rest of the day studying and worrying and over-thinking :/

I will be catching up on all of your streams this weekend.

Happy Friday everyone...

Various photos from St. Petersburg and Moscow, during our trip to Russia in April 2008.

Another view of St. Basil's Cathedral, with a huge area cleared of all people and patrolled by guards. People ringed the square area, but we were told that whatever was going to happen would not actually take place for another hour, at 2:30 PM ... so we left.

Note: this photo was published in a May 29, 2009 blog titled "'Year of India' in Russia." It was also published as an illustration in an Oct 2009 Mahalo blog titled "Russia," at www-dot-mahalo-dot-com-slash-Russia. And it was published in a Dec 13, 2009 blog titled "Quotable Quotes: Universal Russian Proverbs."

Moving into 2010, it was published in a March 2, 2010 blog titled "Tumbling with the Russian Bear." And it was published in a March 5, 2010 blog titled "Lesson from an Alzheimer-Drug Failure: Beware Russian Clinical Trial Data." It was also published in a No 29, 2010 blog titled "Russia to Invest 0 Billion in Energy Efficiency."

Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Feb 18, 2011 "Vagabond Traveler" blog titled "Photo Of The Day: St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow, Russia." And it was published in a Jul 5, 2011 "Gadling blog titled Russians ready to travel, voting on destinations." It was also published in a Jul 26, 2011 blog titled "Ultimated Female Travel Packing List for Russia in Summer."

Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a May 23, 2012 blog titled "Local Clemson Student Heads to Russia." And a cropped version of the photo (omitting the stone foreground) was published in a Jun 20, 2012 blog titled "Gobierno ruso quiere crear su propio Facebook." It was also published in an Aug 29, 20912 Forbes blog titled "Russia: Shell-Shocked From U.S. Shale Over Shtokman." And it was published in an Oct 22, 2012 Forbes blog titled " A Weak Russia Is A Dangerous Russia For BP." It was also published in an Oct 30, 2012 blog titled "Russia can make Greece prospering state in one year."

Moving into 2013, the photo was published in a Nov 21, 2013 blog titled "Russian Visa Checklist."

everyday I get to sit and watch a new day

ODC - the everyday

Happy Cliche Saturday

7DOS - "7 Days of Shooting" "Week #10 - Quotable Quotes " "Shoot Anything Saturday" - An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer – Sarah Ban Breathnach - The author of two books about Victorian customs and more,

Sarah Ban Breathnach was something of an expert on how people

lived in the 19th century. The 20th century was another matter,

though, and its demanding pace had left Ban Breathnach

frustrated, exhausted, and unhappy. Instead of writing a third

book, she took time off to sort out her inner life and determine

what was truly important to her. In so doing, she rediscovered

everyday pleasures like a good meal, a well-ordered closet,

and an afternoon nap. She documented her 'safari of the self' in

"Simple Abundance," a day- by-day guide to contentment that

has been embraced by some 2 million readers.

Scavenger Challenge: 17. Religion is the subject. Represent a faith or belief which is NOT Christianity or Judaism.

Circumnavigating Australia Blog: nancyjean-alanarose.blogspot.com.au/

We visited a store called Space which specialises in Italian and other Europen arty farty stuff, and having been there before I knew there would be opportunities for some photography - if I was allowed, which I didn't expect to be.

To cut to the chase, this gorgeous young lady in the most fabulous shoes helped Mrs Mail solve Meremails Xmas problem.

I asked Miss Gorgous if I could take a photo or two and she said store policy banned photography, but she would turn a blind eye.

While I was also wondering how to ask her for a shot of her legs, especially her shoes, without sounding (and perhaps looking) like an old fart with a foot fetish, Mrs Mail smashed down the door by telling her how much she loved her shoes.

Not one to miss an opportunity, I pounced and she happily obliged,

There were in fact too many legs in the original shot, as it was a furniture store with chair legs :-), so I have used a chainsaw and removed all those that are not of interest, read - not human.

Aren't these funky.

~Author Unkown

Explore #452 on February 2, 2010 ♥

For the wonderful and lovely group Parallel Vision...

The word for the week is Connection...

Now I have to take a moment and GUSH. It has been a truly wonderful week:

1) I won first place in the "I heart Faces" photo challenge and received some AMAZING textures from Shana Rae that I literally was just about to buy for myself as an early birthday gift. It was my first time entering... thanks Rosina for mentioning the texture challenge to me! You are a doll!

2) Cory and I walked into our favorite sushi place to get some lunch and saw his business card had been selected in their monthly drawing ($50 gift certificate for us!)

3) I was the recipient of a pair of earrings from a giveaway hosted by the incredibly lovely Westsidebeadery {Barb} (who also happens to be co-creator of parallel vision).

4) Got to watch my uncle (who is a Portland Police Bureau Lieutenant) and Cory plunge. Which also means the end of Cory's month long beard growing experiment (yay to being able to kiss a smooth face again).

5) Received an invite to participate in a "simulation activity" from the PSU Graduate Teacher Education Department which means they are seriously considering me for acceptance into their program.

6) Received some very special letters and emails that truly touched my heart and solidified that I'm making the right choices when it comes to living my life.

7) Got to buy wonderful, beautiful, useless things such as the balloon in the above picture because it is almost Valentines Day (Feb. 14th!) AND almost my birthday (Feb. 3!).

8) Just started a new group here and am so thrilled with how it's being accepted...

9) Got to get together with a dear, dear friend that I hadn't seen in FOREVER. He is a blessing...

10) Cory got to use some of his vacation time from work and we were able to spend some special time together taking photos, watching movies, eating, chatting, and laughing.

At the beginning of the week I was having health problems and now look at all the things I have to be thankful about! I feel so blessed...

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

````````` ~Nelson Mandela"

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ODC - 8/6/2022 - Quotable Quotes

A left of field look at the extermination of aboriginal or indigenous woman. The genocide of their genetics, their culture, and its extended application to the extermination of the woman of the west, and their genocide. A look into the meta data of a Canadian genocide in progress, and its reflection on the USA, and the west. Looking at statistically applied genocide again, using an analysis of meta data, and gross numbers, with a good dose of just join the dots, thrown in for good measure.

Number for number, the extermination of woman is the most effective way to galvanise genocide, within a group or population. Either via VD (venereal disease), social engineering, or otherwise… The murder of female blood lines, via sterilization using germ warfare and social engineering, is and has been extraordinarily effective. The effectiveness relies on three major points, one, a woman getting VD that terminates her ability to have children, the second is that since an in-utero baby and or non-conceived foetus is classified as not human yet, there can be no charge of murder, and the third point is, that a woman who chooses a childless existence after indoctrination are seen to be exerting her own free will, in a process of self-determination.

How would I know, or have a right to comment? At one stage I was approached to work in the Biosecurity facility in Victoria, Australia, an offer I declined. Why head hunt me? I had been doing theorisation at university on the logic patterns for treatments and curing of HIV, as a 19-year-old, it must have resonated with someone, for them to send someone to the university to see me. So, no, I am not some uneducated crack pot conspiracy theorist, and I hate to shatter some people’s little world or bubble, but people work at this type of horrid work both in defence and offence all the time. The other reason I am commenting is, I went behind, what some would call enemy lines, into the Arts humanities and observed firsthand, racist, and sexist indoctrination, of people just outside of their childhood. No, it should not have been seen as enemy lines or so I thought, as I am a feminist. But the level of misandry for white males was quite profound, and ironically misogynist behaviour conducted by females was quite shocking. Additionally, I feel at liberty to write, as I have studied and written about genocide at university.

So let’s get into it. Why murder or sterilize aboriginal or indigenous woman? One of the things I looked at was that men can impregnate hundreds in a lifetime, but a woman’s uterus is only so capable, it is in fact highly limited. I observed through finger printing or meta data and extrapolation that some abhorrent groups males and or females, are doing maths on how many women do they need to kill of aboriginal decent, before they get rid of all those that can be considered aboriginal. Why would someone or a group do something so horrible? This scenario will greatly aid foreign interests in the taking of countries like Australia and the Americas, in the future.

We are going to have a little look at a field of study that for some is unfortunately very large, and for some is a horrifically very creative field of endeavour, so my considerations and observations will be limited in scope, to keep this writing manageable.

My considerations of indigenous genocide raised many questions such as. Does giving up your land coincide or correlate with a reduction in a woman’s chance of genocide or an increase? And if so in either case why? If a woman will give up her uterus to outsiders, does she suffer a lower rate of genocide, or is it more? The techno YouTube hit by The Halluci Nation “Burn your village to the ground” help make me ponder similar questions, here is a link to the YouTube video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNi__fnadTM&list=WL&index=82 It can be argued between warriors and wise men about the process of colonisation, its effect, and the motives for that colonization other than, the at times, murderous acquisition of land. But when it comes to the act of murderous colonisation, its effectiveness is amplified to an accelerated final solution of sorts. When you exterminate a woman’s genetics with the eradication of their unborn babies or foetuses before they are even conceived, it leaves no legal recourse. Murdering woman, and sterilizing them are potent weapons, when performing the act of genocide. When woman are used as breeding vessels, for foreign genetics, or sterilized via VD (venereal disease), or sterilized with anti-feminist dogma masquerading as feminist mantras, the result is a loss of land and resources. Before I go further, I will go on the record, that I have no issues with mixed race relationships, as I have been in a few. I have always found them enlightening, and culturally enriching, and it is my sincere hope that those relationships were mutually beneficial.

The relatively recent insertion into humanity and the debate about the purity of races goes back to a period most of us but not all of us wish had not happened, the second world war. And unusually it was a conundrum for those that argued it, and what would be the future outcomes in the west, if it had of been achieved globally. It presented a legal consideration that I have identified, and its possible application for many indigenous, and their extended families. In one respect it is not a complex one and is unusually of benefit to all nations who have an indigenous culture and or peoples. Provided an indigenous cultures and peoples still exist, it can be argued that under international law the west has a failsafe or caveat for future attempts of colonization via foreign powers. ie. if someone comes to our countries with colonialist intent trying to divide the tribes as it where, and says we, as in those considered nonindigenous have no write to be here, and that we, whoever we are, or may be have stolen the land, we politely ask our indigenous relatives, some of which need to be overtly aboriginal, to tell them to go away. They then say these are my blood relatives and this is not your land to comment on. For the new world order colonist, it is a slap in the face, and they are left eating their own words. It is a polite conversation, one that should end the colonialist’s verbal pursuit in its tracks, and it can only go further, if that foreign power, turns to violence, or a forced acquisition of the land through murder and or subjugation. It is simple legally, but a big ask emotionally, and politically, for all the family’s involved. As members of our families have murdered, other members of our families, and stolen land from them. It is like a doom’s day sentence of language, to get out of hell, one that relies on forgiveness, but not forgetting our at times horrific past. This approach helps failsafe against future forced or coerced loss of land. It was a principle based on a piece of mathematics an Australian soldier did on the synchronisation of fireflies’ flashes, and was popularised by the movie six degrees of separation. I just applied it to our families in OZ and the US when it came to the connections between blood relatives that are aboriginal or indigenous, and the rest of us, instead of social connections as was depicted in the original piece of math.

Although the theft of land and unhonored treaties is without question a horrific tragedy, and for some it is a Rorschach ink blot and not a legal contract, it presents us as in those in the west of all descriptions and spiritualties a means of great opportunity to stifle New World Order colonialist colonization of our shared family land. Regardless of race, if no one tries to politically capitalise on the process of the recognition of our family as a nation, and go outside of genuine good will, it is an utterly profound, legal, and social statement. Essentially it aids countries in the west like Australia and the US. Nations essentially made up of family, a family that includes aboriginal natives and or the indigenous. Like it or not. This legal consideration led me to consider if I could see this benefit as an individual, maybe, think tanks full of psychopaths brighter than me, who are hell bent on the acquisition of our land could too. And thus, we, or at least me, can see a motive for modern day colonialist destabilization of the west, along race, and spirituality lines, one that ends in a process of genocide. This scenario has been publicly debated and raised in a myriad of fashions, on a myriad of platforms, so my interpretation is just and extension of that open discourse. The dark part to the consideration is as far as I can statistically observe, though meta data, is it has resulted in current day murder or genocide, of aboriginal people, and their mixed-race relatives, who are bridges between the different races or family groups of people.

The extermination of woman and that process’s ability to kill nations is unquestionable. The question is not are they trying to kill off huge sections of the West’s population, as that is both a measurable and an observable given, the question is, is it non-discriminatory population control, or is it just straight-out genocide of targeted groups in the west? Meta data leads me to believe it is a statistical driven or targeted genocide. But who started it, and who perpetrates it now. Was this a process of neo feminism or woman’s science, to exterminate the uteruses, ovaries, and fallopian tubes of childbearing persons, or as they were historically called woman? Had they, whoever they are, othered people, until a state sanctioned and funded enterprise was created? Producing a sociological statistically driven apparatus to perpetrate genocide. There is no more effective way to terminate a culture than kill off its woman or sterilize them on mass, especially when their numbers are low to begin with. Why sterilize and neuter the woman? Because I presume, they have found out that murdering children is not well looked upon! You don’t have to kill the babies and children if they are not conceived. Sexually transmitted disease, and progressive ideology, have done an amazing job at exterminating female blood lines in the west, a highly ironic event for some feminists to learn, but not for this one to observe. How did I come up with this hypothesis, I extrapolated from Margret Sanger’s work. Margret Sangers work would and has enable mass baby elimination. Later others would extend on her eugenics train of thought in the west, and it would become adult murder as people went down the slippery slope of euthanasia, to the outright murder of healthy adults, via public health care, or a state sponsored system. From her work, she would go onto produce a statistically targeting medical industrial complex apparatus, that would extinguish or kill millions of unborn or not yet conceived foetuses, or as they were historically called babies. Her work was aided with the use of group speak and group think. In what could only be described as a state funded and sanctioned genocidal murder machine. Her ability and desire to exterminate the existence of black foetuses, historically called babies by some, is legendary on the net, and a little look into her motives should leave the hairs on every black, or mixed-race woman, on the planet standing on end. With her revealing in a letter, that and to quote, “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population..." in a Letter to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, December 10, 1939, p. 2

How prophetic it was that at 4:48 in the YouTube techno hit, “Burn your village to the ground” by The Halluci Nation, a man says, and to quote, “…they have to kill us, they have to kill us, because they can’t break our spirit…” that man was John Trudell. Here is a link to that YouTube music video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNi__fnadTM (Please note, there are graphic depictions of genocide, or mass murder shown, and it can be argued that those images should be viewed by adults only, or at least by a mature audience under supervision, and with wise adult guidance). When I first heard him say this, I was genuinely shocked, but on consideration, and with a little look at what happened to the indigenous around the world… I believe he had full, and firsthand knowledge, of the situation at hand. Looking at what Margeret Sanger had planned for black Americans, I can only concur with Trudell. And after a few months of letting it sink in, I had concluded my contemplation on what he had said, and, although still being shocked or confronted by his words, what he said I concluded in his short sentence, was utterly, and profoundly, true.

I like to do extrapolations both mathematical, and all manner of types of correlation and causations within my capabilities, because they generate subsequent considerations of interest in me. To trigger a few people, I do my own research. When I come across things that interest me, and I become inquisitive about things I deem as important, I look further. I had a look at what Mr Trudell said and its application and or implications to other groups of Americans, Black and White. It seemed almost like a dogma being applied currently on many fronts for all Americans, regardless of race, due to their resilience and adaptability. It had been tried before openly, and in wide open public view on the indigenous Americans and the black Americans. Whoever they are, seems to have just kept on going, finding new methods, and new groups, to apply genocide to, for the process to continue. That process is measurable, and identifiable genocide.

Part of the webster definition of what is an American, is and to quote “...a native or inhabitant of North America or South America…”. For me at least the key word is native, and the question it raises in me, is when and who does this apply to, or where does it start and end? Is it all Americans? I have written about writing from a distance about America in isolation here in Australia, and how sometimes it is beneficial. I can write in hindsight, unincumbered by the pressure to respond instantly to events, and it is especially advantages when contemplating the differences and similarities between Australia and the US. I concur and extend on John Trudell, the American, and or, its native or American spirit cannot be exterminated, someone is going to have to kill the owners of it, if they want to overthrow America. So, they, whoever they are, are giving it a good shot. Mr Trudell nailed it. Whoever is perpetrating genocide in the west and killing off Americans or “…we the people… “is doing it, because their spirit cannot be quashed. It should be noted that they are not discriminating on race now, when it comes to who they kill, as they are now killing blacks, whites, and natives, in what appears to be a demographically selective process. Boy have they been busy and gotten to work.

Previously the killing of the west could not be accomplished externally, so lest all thank the American military industrial complex for that. It could only be destroyed from within, but that is not the case anymore. How do they exterminate the people of the Americas, North and South. Via their own hands and words. The elephant in the room is, who could now move Americans against Americans and who are they? It is not a question of if it is happening, it is a question of who is doing it, and how are they manipulating the people, as in “…we the people…”, to be complicit, in such a diabolical series of events. A series of events, that have ended, and end, in Americans murdering other Americans. And where on further observation in the west, westerners now murder each other, for their own perceived safety and good?

Is Germ warfare being used on our own people? It is a horrible question, but I am going to ask it anyway. And I am going to have a look at the water shed moment of the 60s sexual revolution. The 60s saw the spread of enough VD to kill millions of US and western children or babies before they were born regardless of race. Yes, I just approached the where does life begin paradigm, or the conundrum, and found genocide. Ironically it is not murder under the now common definitions of group think, and group speak. Genocide has been rebranded as sexual liberation and not statistical sterilization, ending, and or, enabling genocide. Doubly ironic, is it effected the intellectuals mostly, in the summer of love. Latter it would spread through their use of drugs and the indoctrination of their children into an orgy of mass fornication. The whole process was aided by drugs that promoted hyper sexualization of the liberal left. From there it was a domino effect to the greater number, but less educated, and more religious, lower socioeconomic groups, essentially encompassing “…we the people…” Raising the question, who needs smallpox infested blankets to murder the Americans regardless of their race, when you can get them to hump themselves into a disease riddled oblivion? Martin Niemöller is utterly quotable in this instance, and a read of his most prophetic statement or poem can be a source of inspiration and insight for many, in my belief. It leaves you asking the question who are they, or who were they? It was a question posed by this very wise man, and interestingly he never directly says who they are.

This is his poem.

First, they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

Looking at the American indigenous. First, they came for the warriors regardless of colour creed or denomination, taking their guns. They then came for the religious or spiritual people and tried to exterminate those religious or spiritual people. They tried in vain to destroy their beliefs and teachings. Then they went after the woman and children. When that wasn’t aloud, they then got the woman and children to go after themselves, in an act of induced insanity. Like Martin Niemöller, I cannot identify the instigators, but I can see their effect. To insert some black humour, and in general I was never a fan of the show, this seen in the Simpsons, can be viewed www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFCgz959ARY. Just imagine, visualize, think, or insert different groups of Americans into the Simpsons family’s seats. Kind of like the Milgram experiment, on satirical steroids. Here is a wiki link to a description of the Milgram experiment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_ It was an experiment where people were duped into believing they were doing good when they were not. The university system may not have looked at this paper in a long while or forgotten it. But I have not forgotten the principle once it was introduced to me. Ironically the universities may have felt immune or above the results of the experiment. But they have become the perpetrators, or vector, for the very thing they said they were there to stop, ie. harm.

We can list, or go through massacre, after massacre, of people during the colonization of the Americas, but I will not. Instead, I will take a closer look at a small number of murdered people. At university in a subject dedicated to the topic of genocide, I looked at and wept, at the mass murder of my family, by other members of my family. The part that made me weep was the consideration of mathematics and physics related to the event, and the consideration that every life is of immeasurable and unquantifiable value. The consideration was done via the extended theorisation and analysis of a small number. I wept off and on for days at what I saw, as I came to grips with what had happened to my family, but despite that I will take another look here too.

By looking at what appears to be a small number of women and children that were wounded, but then died of their injuries. These woman and children were seen as subhuman, but were not, they were very human. Just what happened to them was inhuman. Those people are the 47 woman and children that died of their wounds during the massacre at Wounded Knee. Consideration of these woman and children produces some shocking and chilling considerations in maths, as to how many people their families would have produced today. I will qualify my statement before going on, by saying when I use the words small number, that it is in no way a reflection of the cost, suffering, and misery their slaughter would have caused. And I hope to show that that, relatively small number when amplified over time produces a horrific number, that no human should feel emotionally immune or isolated from. When considering this number, I looked at Shindler. Shindler was a German industrialist, here is a link to the wiki page, for the movie that immortalised him in the west, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List Shindler had saved about 1200 jews from the German gas chambers of world war two, and today their descendants are in the order of 7000. With exponential population growth this number, and all things not considered, this relatively small number, should become a larger number over time with more babies. That number will or should increase exponentially to a point. And the mathematics of the dead and their progeny when time is considered infinite becomes a very large number. It is a flawed, and highly simplistic isolated theoretical look, at the growth of a population of people. But the consideration of large numbers can help a person, get a grasp of the potential magnitude, of an event, or events. A small number of humans in this case can become a large number over time.

Despite these acts of genocide being a war crime, that is commemorated for all to see, people have recently in the west committed two things on mass. One, the error in thought that it would not happen again, let alone in the west. And two, the error in hubris that it could not happen to them, and or, that they would be the perpetrators of that genocide. But it has happened on both counts with modern techniques. How did it happen so fast? The west has now become tribal under university or higher education teaching, and or the dogma, spread by the influence, of the pseudo intellectual left. The group taught on mass not to other, now others everyone they can. They the left, left us all wide open for a blindside of colonial techniques to be used on us, and thus they let it spread to the greater community, or “…we the people…” What causes it was selective outrage on genocide and selective outrage on sex-based abuses. It was compounded by the ignorance of not being able to see, that foreign actors would profit or capitalize from that selective outrage. As it turned out by pitting citizen against citizen, apparently, “…we the people of the west where not people…” “…with unalienable rights...” we were not “…one nation…” of “…indivisible…” people, we were not people “…with liberty and justice for all…”.” We the people” of western nations turned out instead to be a rabble. But I can only hope it is at least hopefully, for a transient period.

Part of the old tried and true processes of colonialism is othering. Essentially 101 of colonialism. To enable othering, first you find the tribes that had a history of conflict between each other. The example of wounded knee comes back into play in the discussion of othering. As not to be left out are serval relevant sociological points on othering can be found in the above incident at Wounded Knee. One is that people can be conditioned to consider some groups of people to be of so little value that you can murder them on mass, the other is that these people can be conditioned to kill woman and children in cold blood, then take their photos so as to celebrate the incident, as if what they had did was something wonderful. The MO, or modus operandi, of othering a person or group to murder was and is to stoke that fire, or conflict, between groups or tribes, give them weapons to fight each other, but not enough power to be independent. The result is thus, get the tribes to murder each other, while you sit by and profit from that murder. Essentially the first rule of colonial conquest as taught in class 101 of colonialism at university. Furthermore, get them to divulge secrets about the other tribes, so that those secrets, could be capitalized on, when it came to their subjugation, or murder. This type of selective outrage or outright genocidal hypocrisy generated by othering was very observable in the me to movement when it comes to their hypocrisy in the treatment of indigenous woman and the treatment of Judaeo Christian children or woman. Later it spread or come from the UN or United Nations. They othered what could essentially be described as white men in an indiscriminate, blatant contradiction empowered by absolute contempt for due process, a fundamental of the law. Harvey Weinstein sexualized female adults with psychological manipulation and went to jail for it, but the left or the me to movement seem to be silent when it comes to sexualization of children, and the manipulation of those children into performing sex acts by the pseudo intellectual left, for their social profit. In an almost parallel of Weinstein, they the left substituted adult woman for children and they did it on mass. It appears some females and children are worth more than others, and we are not all created equal before the law, or to be precise, at least under the new leftist pseudo morality.

They the leftists then applied themselves against the nations that they should have been there to protect, the ones that had subsidised or funded their educations, or indoctrination. Colonialism continues in different forms, through divide and conquer, and the lies used to achieve it are aided by psychological manipulation. Mark Twain wrote and to quote "The glory which is built upon a lie soon becomes a most unpleasant incumbrance. ... How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" according to my copilot.

Another case I found of great interest was the disappearance of, or the outright murder, or worse of 174 Canadian indigenous women, who have just vanished into thin air. It got some air play but didn’t seem to draw much worldwide scrutiny and even less critical thought from the international white left and right, especially when compared to other more recent but smaller white atheist tragedies, like the misgendering of children. All they the left seemed to do, was politized the horror story for media exploitation, while doing nothing, not to mention not report their potential proactive role in the process, that caused those women to be vanished into thin air. It did not end there as running parallel to these disappearances was the political move by the Canadian left to reintroduced and rebirth past atrocities from Canadian history. How did they do it? They did it with the aid of the modern-day arts humanity’s faculty. Somehow, despite all the waffling talk, and the best efforts of everyone, they managed to reconstruct the effects and processes of Canadian residential schools.

Like in Macbeth, the bloody hands cannot be washed clean, and it just seems to keep on cascading further out of control, and deeper into madness. We have an expression here in Australia and it is called a shit stain, in this case the abuse of woman and children is an utter shit stain on humanity that will and would not go away. Canada should not feel alone as here in the land of OZ, non-Christian atheists have used the public school system as indoctrination centres, or daytime social re-education camps for children. Just like the residential schools where the objective was to take the Indian out of the Indian, or to commit cultural genocide. The new school curriculum was designed here in Australia and the west to strip the Christians of the last vestiges of their religion or spirituality. It ended the same way as it did when the aboriginal protectorate board here in Australia took mixed race children from their parents and stripped them of any chance of their traditional teachings. People ended up hiding their children in bushes, so they were not taken away from their parents and or families. Or in the modern-day iteration of a repeat of history, they the persecuted would try to home school their children to protect and hide them from cultural and spiritual genocide.

The old Australian aboriginal protectorate board was responsible for the sexual farming out of some female children to some white Australians as domestic servants. And ironically the new age new world order atheists, would sexualize children and indoctrinate them on mass, in a process of state sanctioned and legally enforced grooming. A sexualization of children, that what would unfortunately leave the Australian numbers of raped indigenous girls used for sexual gratification in the homes that were meant to protect them to shame. Moving back to Canada, Despite or possibly outright because of it, it seems like residential schools were used as a smoke screen for the left, as they practiced and reintroduce the process of state sanctioned child obduction, and cultural genocide for selected white and black Canadians. Part of that process was to try to reengineer Canadian’s children on the biochemical level, manipulate their psychology and or disfigure them with scalpels. It was and is a process that leaves the promises of not repeating the residential school’s horrific results, to an utter shameless lie. The state turned into Jack the ripper, and Dr Frankenstein in the space of less than one generation, with social sciences that had taken generations to build and apply. While the public or “…we the people…” became the mob chasing all of the above, with torches into the night. It was all achieved, as the leaders of democratic countries, and a republic, did not obey the wills of their people, or the new age plebians, as some would have you believe they are. Fundamental human rights of children, and woman, to be protected from harm’s way, where “Gone with the Wind”, in a pollical battle for a populist win at the ballot box.

The left in its zealot like zeal to do good, or at least that is what they are saying they are consciously doing “…pathed a way to hell, with good intentions….” (to quote a Portuguese proverb) for millions of families. With what have been called good intentions, members of the government and the supposed higher educated or intellectual classes once again used the schools to do it. No Catholics required it seems this time. In fact, in total irony of the media propagated and promoted big government narrative, Catholics where and are being arrested for trying to stop the travesty. So, if it cannot be blamed on the Catholics this time, what or who is the common denominator? And what is the common objective for those adding and abetting the genocide. The common objective was as far as I can see is unaccountable murder, and the desire for unaccountable control. And to achieve that power grab it was aided and abetted via university or peer approved definitions of words. It enabled them to butcher little kids with blades, and sterilizing many with puberty blockers, under state encourage and enforced programs, created by the leftist state. They enforced it by legal orders. But what was the motive? Do they even know? How does this relate to a discussion on the genocide of woman? Well, if you can’t sterilize or murder the mother, you may as well sterilize her kids under state sanction and legal order, it appears?

Via university definitions of language, the atrocities didn’t end there. In a populist echo chamber the pseudointellectual left at universities worked out not just how to redefine a baby as an embryo up to full term, but they also worked out how to sell it with propaganda, in a fallacy of logic. This sale of a utopian existence for woman that encapsulated a childless, partnerless, future for millions, was like selling KFC shares to chickens in battery pens, (to verbally adapt one of the funniest Facebook memes I have ever seen). Whoever did it deserve a Nobel prize in advertising. Or at least a person of the year picture on the front of Time magazine. With VD being left untreated and or uncured in many cases, woman where both sterilized and neutered in a process that could be easily described as nothing other than genocide with no one to be held accountable, but the woman themselves. Some on the right blamed the women’s lax morals but they were wrong. It had been promoted and indoctrinated by the groups that withheld treatment or cure to those women. Although baby murder may be permitted on a word technicality, as far as I know genocide of blood lines and cultures are not. And to be noted the technicality that enabled the execution of both events via a few degrees of separation was the use of group think and group speak.

Canada produces a gold mine of inquiry, into the processes of state sanctioned genocide, and it is a very interesting case study when looking at the legislation for the euthanasia of the poor, or the people that had been selectively made poor by them, the leftist Canadian government. Who would question the ability of the left after that, to not offer euthanasia for women suffering depression for their childless, partnerless, existences. All the while they the pseudo intellectual left and their allies of diverse descriptions, perpetrated cultural genocide on Christianity and Christians. Where did or do they perpetrate it? The process occurs globally or all over the world, but it gets very little mainstream media air play. Not ironically, the leftists don’t block streets for months in unison with Christians, to protest mass murder, that is almost unmentionable outside of Christian chat pages. Chat pages now deemed as Christian nationalist hot beds of anti-democratic gatherings. Gatherings said to be against the state, by some in the pseudo leftist media, and weaponised law enforcement agencies.

I have a shirt that says “…if the government says you don’t need a gun, you need a gun!!!”. It had an American Indian man on it. I presume it was in reference to the slaughter of disarmed Aboriginal Americans murdered in cold blood by government forces, on their own land, once they had been disarmed. For me it is a very pro-American constitution or bill of rights statement. The shirt is a few sizes too big as I ordered an American size from here in Oz, so it looks like a skirt on me. I never wear it much if at all because of that. Despite that, I think it is very profound. Now it seems that if the government and pseudo left wing media, say, you should not have a media outlet, I would argue, to paraphrase my shirt, you need a media outlet. And you need them both for the same reason, your protection. Not so ironically both things are covered for in the American bill of rights. They were deemed so important that they the founding non birthing people, or as they were historically known the founding fathers, put them number one and two.

It appears that aboriginal Canadians and Christians now have something in common, and it is their attempted genocide. Attempted genocide of both of their blood lines and of their cultures. With someone or something instigating that process and sitting outside of the murderous anarchy. The left falls silent when it comes to the cultural and actual genetic genocide of Christians on a global scale. Why? Isn’t all life worth saving? Or is it that only the left, and the lefts supposed allies are worthy of life, and a self-determined existence, determined by the left. Apparently, all life is not worth saving, and we don’t all have “…unalienable rights…”

The numbers show the slow but sure death or stagnation of western populations, and a rapid genocide of its culture. But they are not alone, it had been perpetrated on the natives first, now it is applied to all north Americans, and to varying degrees most countries in the West. Where is the outcry from other feminists against the sterilization of millions of women and girls liberated of their sexual constraints? Where is the outcry for woman and girls of all races, denominations, and demographics in the west by the left? Why are these deaths of unborn children or babies not seen to be of the same value as colonized Americans or the murdered indigenous, by the left? Or hideously not ironic, in this inquiry, it can be asked, are they all considered on the same subhuman level by some? After having their woman murdered, their children stolen, sexualized, groomed, raped, and sterilized what will be the response of” …we the people...”???

They the left don’t seem to like, or use guns very much, as they I presume, know they are outnumbered on that front, well for the moment at least. Like any good army in that situation, they have chosen to out flank their opponents. Their opponents the constitutionalists, and their pesky second amendment, where outflanked by the left abusing the first amendment on mass. Not satisfied there, and enamoured by a blitzkrieg of success, they tried, or are trying it appears to reword, rewrite, or destroy the whole document, that has protected their families for several centuries. That document is the American constitution. The pseudo intellectual left has been involved at every point. They have think tanks, think tanks where they weaponize their own words, then ironically call others words violence. It is like a gorilla action, or pincer movement on the first amendment. Words that are used to attack it, the constitution, are part of language constructs, produced for the logic gating of people. They the left are involved in inciting violence with words, (as words are not violence per say), then said they were using them to create peace… They produced language constructs that logic gated people into doing things that are not in their favour. The right where duped or out flanked when they argued words where not violence, forgetting to add, that they can incite violence. They the intellectual left, logic gated millions of women into childlessness, and neutered them to boot, with the statistical outcomes via their use of language, at universities. Language recited verbatim by the reporters who did not report, and a mainstream media, that did not apply critical thought to what they were saying. Like cattle they were led to the slaughter for following the lefts new age new world order mantras.

It leaves the question as to who is prompting these people of the left to press the electric shocker until the person or peoples they are meant to be helping die? Or to be more literal and not use an analogy, based on the Milgram experiment, who prompts these people to commit genocide, on mass, for the perceived greater good? Who gets these people to commit Hara-kiri before the idol of the left. And why cannot they see what they are doing? Like good Zero pilots in a kamikaze act for the empire, the left sacrifice millions of woman’s breeding power, for a shadow emperor that is nowhere to be seen. There cannot be to many degrees of separation between the instigators and the perpetrators. So, who are they? Why is the death or nonexistence of so many babies, or children, caused by the neutering and or murder of their mothers, not up for constant public debate and scrutiny. Maybe because the left will not be critical of itself, as it can do no wrong. These considerations are not far right-wing propaganda, they are the very thing that the left use as mantras for their group speak and group think, but don’t do. Where is their commitment to a universal stance against genocide, that isn’t a selective biased application, or literally a front to commit the very act itself? Many white North Americans may have forgotten something, that something, is they are part of nations, and those nations help make up the people of the Americas.

How does the current or past genocide help any American? And as a feminist I must ask openly are American and the wests females under attack regardless of race? Are they weeding out the intellectuals first, with VD and old age childlessness, as their ovaries shrivel up? These are rhetorical questions. And it must be noted that I once said that the only people who can bring down an American president are the American people, and I latter extrapolated that the same could be said for its society. And to leave with yet another set of questions as always. Who, or what, stokes these tragedies to occur, and or, who is profiting from these current day colonialist like internal conflicts in the West?

--Andy Warhol

Don't you just love that people are famous for saying things that you think about all the time??? =]

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I had the great honor to sit next to Senator Biden as he addressed the lunch gathering at Steve Westly’s house this weekend:

Here’s a collection of Biden’s comments:

“In the last 8 years we have had the most significant redistribution of wealth since 1921. We have to help the middle class from sliding further back.

The campaign is going to get uglier. McCain is spending $60MM on robocalls spreading scurrilous messages and misinformation.

John McCain hired the very people that orchestrated the attacks on him when he was running against Bush. Literally the same people. Charlie Black was the architect of the smear campaign against McCain, and now McCain has hired him.

And Palin recently told the people of North Carolina that it’s good to be in a part of the country that’s patriotic. Now, I know here in California, you are a bunch of Commies.” (laughter)

And then he addressed a larger group. Biden downplayed the importance of the VP role versus the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, leading one fan in the audience to quip: “At least you know what the VP does!”

Biden chuckled: “Right now, our VP does too damn much.”

More quotables:

“We’ve been here before – poised to win an important election. We can’t be complacent. How can you swiftboat a national hero? They did it.

America’s image in the world will be restored within 15 minutes of Obama being elected.

But the new President will face more challenges than FDR. Without a scintilla of hyperbole, I swear this is the most important election you have voted in ever, ever, ever. This administration will be tested, like JFK when he was elected. But we have an opportunity to unite the nation.

On the second day of the convention, my young granddaughter Finnegan came to me in the hotel and said “we need a sleepover.” I had promised her a tent and all when we got back, so I told her that it would have to wait a few days. “Well, no, I mean now. Barack’s kids have already talked to Barack. Can you pull the beds out of the room and we’ll put in mats, and have pizza and popcorn and Little Mermaid.” So Barack’s two daughters, two of Michelle’s brother’s children, my 11 year old nephew and two grandkids all had a sleepover. When I looked in the room and saw all those black and white children cuddled up together, it tells me more about what the core of this election is about. I knew we had made the right decision. We have become genuinely close friends.

John McCain used to be a close friend. (in Biden’s DNC speech, he still was a close friend)

He is attempting to win by appealing to cynicism of American people that the government cannot work.

Let me end by reciting an Irish poet. The Irish are the greatest poets in the world. I don't say that because I'm Irish; I say that because the Irish *are* the greatest poets in the world. (laughter) This is from Seamus Heaney:

So hope for a great sea-change

on the far side of revenge.

Believe that a further shore

is reachable from here.

and hope and history rhyme.

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” ~ Anne Lamott

- Dion Boucicault

(I got this old, but new-to-me Olympus PEN camera a few days ago. This little camera is built like a little brick and doesn't have as much of the plasticky feel the newer cameras have. Paired with the little Panasonic Lumix 12-32mm kit lens, this camera is going to be a lot of fun).

The lines on the stairs are shadows of the handrails ... in case it wasn't already apparent.

Quotable stairs.

Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.

Canon 6D Mark II and Sigma 24-105mm f4.0 Art lens with circular polarizer.

Volvo FH16-750 (2012-on) Engine 16150cc

Registration Number F 3 CCM

Operator Cubicle Centre

VOLVO TRUCK SET

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Volvo launched the FH16 with the slogan The Worlds Strongest Truck is here. Built for transporting heavy goods over long distances, it has a 16 litre engine which comes in three forms 540, 600, 700 and the most powerful 750bhp

In September 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with major technology upgrades, a new design and more The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which is available as an option on the new Volvo FH and compulsory for new trucks in Europe from January 2014. Other quotable new features is the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel saving technology.

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One of Australia's largest rainforest trees may be seen in the mid north coast region of New South Wales.

The laser returned a figure of 66.1 metres. (64.4 metres on the screen, 1.7 metres added for the height above the ground at eye level). The tree was measured on the other side of the Wilson River, and the base of the tree was somewhat raised above the river bank. Though 150 metres downstream of the laser.

So the actual figure would be less than this number, by a metre or three. 63 or 64 metres tall are quotable figures for this tree.

I'm dubious of published heights of Australian trees. The scientists are too conservative. And the commercial and tourist publications exaggerate.

These figs are immense; they are giants, leviathans, colossal in the height and breadth. There's one nearly as tall, up at Sheepstation Creek in the Border Ranges.

Scientific publications say this tree may reach 30 metres. Don't you believe it!

Other tree species over 45 metres tall nearby include Brush Box, Red Carabeen, Yellow Carabeen, White Beech and Sydney Blue Gum. (Lophostemon confertus, Karrabina benthamiana, Sloanea woollsii, Gmelina leichhardtii and Eucalyptus saligna).

I was tagged by midolls*melissa, Blue is Me, emily☆ and floccentric to tell you 16 things about me. "Post a photo and state 16 things about you on the description, then tag 16 people to do the same." Yay!

So, here are 16 very random but lengthy bits about me.

(Pic is of Licca from our last summer's visit to Spain.)

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1. The easiest and simplest answer I can give to people who ask me why I'm "still playing with dolls at my age" is: "Because it makes me happy." It's amazingly simple, isn't it?

2. My dream profession is costume design. I'd love to work at a local theatre and design costumes for the plays.

3. I'm allergic to teen movies – I simply can't stand them. The same old plots, the same old cliched and stereotyped characters, you name it. The only teen movies I love (to death, really) are The Breakfast Club and 10 Things I Hate About You. Well-acted, immensely quotable and still in the public consciousness to this day. TBC is arguably the movie of the 80's while 10 Things just had its 10th Anniversary and is also one of Heath Ledger's most popular movies. Both are among the TOP 5 most popular teen movies ever made.

4. Foreign languages I studied at highschool were English (after 4 years of English in elementary school), German and Italian. My best subject in general was German but after speaking mostly English whenever I'm online, my German has gotten poorer over the years. It's embarrassing. :/

5. My favourite book character is Sherlock Holmes. I've been in love with the character since I was 12 (I'm almost 28 now) and have read more books about him than on any other subject. Seriously, there are thousands of Holmes related books out there. I've read somewhere he's the second most recognizable literary character ever, right after Hamlet.

6. If I was a movie and could marry another movie, I'd so woo Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas.

7. I'm addicted to pear juice lately. I can't stop thinking about it. *laugh*

8. One of the coolest ways to bond with my mom is to watch crime tv dramas with her. We watch Poirot and CSI the most. I'm so crushed the character Grissom is leaving CSI! Nooo! Just one more ep and he's gone!

9. I've given this a lot of thought... If I could have *one* super power it would either be the ability to fly or teleportation. Both would enable me to travel long distances quickly and I could go anywhere I wanted. The major problem here is breaking the law – what if I got caught by the police in a foreign country without a passport (or a passwort with no stamp from that country)? Haha!

10. When I was about 15 a group of fellow pupils and I went on a children's tv show to be quizzed about the book Peter Pan. We beat the pupils from the rival school. ^^ It was a mix of a quiz show, singing, dancing and other entertainment. It was just around Halloween, too, and the show hosts were dressed up as Peter Pan characters! So cool! A very fond memory. I still have the show recorded on tape somewhere.

11. One of my favourite songs ever is Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark". I love, love the music video! *imagines Bruce is that awesome white t-shirt* Wooo!

12. The color I'm least likely to wear is red. I maybe have two pieces of red clothing.

13. A historic era I'm very interested in is Victorian England. Anything Victoriana is very appealing to me!

14. One of the most fun and memorable experiences I've ever had was attending the biggest European Lord of the Rings convention dressed up as the elf Legolas and meeting stars from the movie! I'll never, ever forget it.

15. When I was little I had a small turtle as a pet. I loved watching it swim in the fishtank. Funnily, the first ever toy I owned was a yellow turtle with brown eyes and a patchwork-patterned back.

16. And yes, you've seen this one coming: I really, really want to go to Japan one day. It's been my dream destination since I was about 3 or 4 years old.

I pass Harry Lawson trucks on a regular basis on my travels, this beauty was parked at Seaton flats as I made my way down to Aberdeen Harbour,the driver agreed to me taking some photos, and had a chat about the company and what they do, a fine fellow indeed.

Harry Lawson Ltd. commenced operation in 1945 when the founders, Harry Lawson and his wife Dora, purchased a one vehicle business operating a daily carrier service between Dundee and Carnoustie. Their son Harry joined the company in 1961, at which time the fleet had increased to 12 vehicles. Harry continued to develop the business, taking over as Chief Executive in 1976 with Harry senior retiring by the end of the 70s. With marked determination to offer an efficient, high quality service and reliable road transport solutions, Harry soon built up an extensive portfolio of customers, including a number of blue chip accounts.

Despite now operating throughout the UK it was, however, the Company’s strong links with local enterprises which proved to be the catalyst in the Company’s move into tanker haulage. This niche was developed as Harry foresaw that the business would benefit from having a clear focus or speciality in the transport sector and whilst the business continues to operate both tanker haulage and general haulage, it is perhaps the tanker haulage sector for which it is best now known.

Harry Lawson Ltd., remains a family owned business operating from its base in Broughty Ferry and is now entering the third generation with Michael, Harry’s son, having joined in 2004. Today’s fleet comprises around 70 trucks and 150 trailers and the Company continues to take great pride in the presentation and cleanliness of its vehicles and the instantly recognisable two tone green livery is sure to be a familiar sight to many collectors and truck enthusiasts alike.

Harry Lawson Ltd. is a well established family transport business based in Broughty Ferry in the North East of Scotland,they have been in the general transport business for more than 70 years.

Specialising in providing bulk liquid, powder and general haulage transport services throughout the UK to a wide customer base in a range of markets.

Volvo FH series

Overview

ManufacturerVolvo Trucks

Production1993–present

AssemblyGothenburg, Sweden

Ghent, Belgium

Body and chassis

ClassHeavy truck

Body style COE

Day cab

Sleeper cab

Globetrotter High cab

Powertrain

Engine

Inline 6 turbodiesel intercooled

Volvo

D12A(12.1 L) 420 309kw 1993–1998

D12C (12.1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 1998–2001

D12D (12.1 L) 420 309kw. 460 340kw 2001–2005

D12F (12,1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 2004–2006 EGR

D13A,B,C(12.7 L)2005–present

D13K (12.9 L) 2012-present (Euro VI)

D16A,B(16.1 L)1993–2001

D16C,E,G(16.1 L)2006–present

Cummins

ISX600(14.91 L)1998–2006 (Australia)

Transmission

14 speed synchro manual

SR1900 (1993–1998)

SR(O)2400 (1993–1998)

VT2514(OD) (1998–present)

VT2814(OD) (2006–present)

VT(O)2214B (2012-present)

VT(O)2514B (2012-present)

VT(O)2814B (2012-present)

16 speed synchro manual (ZF)

ZT1816

12 speed semi-automatic (I-Shift)

V2512AT (2007–present)

V(O)2812AT (2007–present)

VO3112AT (2008–present)

AT2412D (2012-present)

AT(O)2612D (2012-present)

AT2812D (2012-present)

ATO3112D (2012-present)

ATO3512D (2012-present)

6 speed automatic (Powertronic)

VT1706PT

VT1906PT

Chronology

PredecessorF series

The Volvo FH is a heavy truck range produced by Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks. Introduced in late 1993 as FH12 and FH16, production still continues with the now the second generation of FH range model lineup.

FH stands for Forward control High entry, where numbers denominate engine capacity in litres. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide.[1]

In September, 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with significant technology upgrades

The new Volvo FH (2012–present)

The 2012 model of Volvo FH.

In September 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with major technology upgrades, a new design and more.

The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which is available as an option on the new Volvo FH and compulsory for new trucks in Europe from January 2014. Other quotable new features is the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel saving technology. With the new thirteen-litre engine, the name has changed to FH13.

AEB

Volvo Trucks have demonstrated the new AEB system for their FH series on YouTube. The truck did well and stopped only centimeters from the car ahead. The tractor trailer was fully loaded to 40 tons GCW when Volvo demonstrated the system.

The AEB system combines a radar and a camera that work together to identify and monitor vehicles in front. The system is designed to deal with both stationary and moving vehicles and can prevent a collision with a moving target at relative speeds of up to 70 km/h.

When the system detects a vehicle that the truck will hit at its current speed, the warning system activates a constant red light in the windscreen in order to bring the driver's attention back to the road.

~ Rachel Carson

Woke up in the middle of the night tonight with HORRIBLE lower back pain... hopefully it isn't related to my UC...

Decided to try to calm myself down and focus by playing around with some old images...

Well, it's 3am now... time to try and sleep...

Hope you are all sleeping soundly...

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Last week I was fortunate enough to meet talented photographer and blogger, Bree Walk. We have been online friends and we wanted to get together and do a photo shoot (A couple days after this shoot she was leaving with her family and moving to California. I couldn't let her get away before we had the chance to meet!)

She was lovely and I can't wait for her to come back so we can do more shoots together :)

This photo is one Cory snapped and I edited with some of my own touches and with the help if Kim Miller's outstanding actions! I've been wanting to purchase them for quite awhile and I treated myself today because I just found out I got in to the Masters of Art in Teaching Program at Pacific University!! :D :D :D

I am so thrilled. My dream of becoming an art teacher is finally coming true. It has been a long road to get here but I am so glad for all that I have gone through and even more excited for all that is to come...

Like I said, the snow didn't forget about us. It snowed constantly for about 8 hrs... then melted the next day, haha. Cory and I were able to go out and get a few shots in before it disappeared however.

We call this my "Santa Coat." Years ago when I worked as a receptionist at a high-end salon, there was a stylist there who always brought in vintage dresses and coats for me when she would clean out her closet. We shared a love of vintage and sarcasm :)

I miss her.

HBW everyone. LOOK, it's "geese"keh! :D

For FGR & Quotably Suitable for Framing

I pass Harry Lawson trucks on a regular basis on my travels, this beauty was parked at Seaton flats as I made my way down to Aberdeen Harbour,the driver agreed to me taking some photos, and had a chat about the company and what they do, a fine fellow indeed.

Harry Lawson Ltd. commenced operation in 1945 when the founders, Harry Lawson and his wife Dora, purchased a one vehicle business operating a daily carrier service between Dundee and Carnoustie. Their son Harry joined the company in 1961, at which time the fleet had increased to 12 vehicles. Harry continued to develop the business, taking over as Chief Executive in 1976 with Harry senior retiring by the end of the 70s. With marked determination to offer an efficient, high quality service and reliable road transport solutions, Harry soon built up an extensive portfolio of customers, including a number of blue chip accounts.

Despite now operating throughout the UK it was, however, the Company’s strong links with local enterprises which proved to be the catalyst in the Company’s move into tanker haulage. This niche was developed as Harry foresaw that the business would benefit from having a clear focus or speciality in the transport sector and whilst the business continues to operate both tanker haulage and general haulage, it is perhaps the tanker haulage sector for which it is best now known.

Harry Lawson Ltd., remains a family owned business operating from its base in Broughty Ferry and is now entering the third generation with Michael, Harry’s son, having joined in 2004. Today’s fleet comprises around 70 trucks and 150 trailers and the Company continues to take great pride in the presentation and cleanliness of its vehicles and the instantly recognisable two tone green livery is sure to be a familiar sight to many collectors and truck enthusiasts alike.

Harry Lawson Ltd. is a well established family transport business based in Broughty Ferry in the North East of Scotland,they have been in the general transport business for more than 70 years.

Specialising in providing bulk liquid, powder and general haulage transport services throughout the UK to a wide customer base in a range of markets.

Volvo FH series

Overview

ManufacturerVolvo Trucks

Production1993–present

AssemblyGothenburg, Sweden

Ghent, Belgium

Body and chassis

ClassHeavy truck

Body style COE

Day cab

Sleeper cab

Globetrotter High cab

Powertrain

Engine

Inline 6 turbodiesel intercooled

Volvo

D12A(12.1 L) 420 309kw 1993–1998

D12C (12.1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 1998–2001

D12D (12.1 L) 420 309kw. 460 340kw 2001–2005

D12F (12,1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 2004–2006 EGR

D13A,B,C(12.7 L)2005–present

D13K (12.9 L) 2012-present (Euro VI)

D16A,B(16.1 L)1993–2001

D16C,E,G(16.1 L)2006–present

Cummins

ISX600(14.91 L)1998–2006 (Australia)

Transmission

14 speed synchro manual

SR1900 (1993–1998)

SR(O)2400 (1993–1998)

VT2514(OD) (1998–present)

VT2814(OD) (2006–present)

VT(O)2214B (2012-present)

VT(O)2514B (2012-present)

VT(O)2814B (2012-present)

16 speed synchro manual (ZF)

ZT1816

12 speed semi-automatic (I-Shift)

V2512AT (2007–present)

V(O)2812AT (2007–present)

VO3112AT (2008–present)

AT2412D (2012-present)

AT(O)2612D (2012-present)

AT2812D (2012-present)

ATO3112D (2012-present)

ATO3512D (2012-present)

6 speed automatic (Powertronic)

VT1706PT

VT1906PT

Chronology

PredecessorF series

The Volvo FH is a heavy truck range produced by Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks. Introduced in late 1993 as FH12 and FH16, production still continues with the now the second generation of FH range model lineup.

FH stands for Forward control High entry, where numbers denominate engine capacity in litres. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide.[1]

In September, 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with significant technology upgrades

The new Volvo FH (2012–present)

The 2012 model of Volvo FH.

In September 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with major technology upgrades, a new design and more.

The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which is available as an option on the new Volvo FH and compulsory for new trucks in Europe from January 2014. Other quotable new features is the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel saving technology. With the new thirteen-litre engine, the name has changed to FH13.

AEB

Volvo Trucks have demonstrated the new AEB system for their FH series on YouTube. The truck did well and stopped only centimeters from the car ahead. The tractor trailer was fully loaded to 40 tons GCW when Volvo demonstrated the system.

The AEB system combines a radar and a camera that work together to identify and monitor vehicles in front. The system is designed to deal with both stationary and moving vehicles and can prevent a collision with a moving target at relative speeds of up to 70 km/h.

When the system detects a vehicle that the truck will hit at its current speed, the warning system activates a constant red light in the windscreen in order to bring the driver's attention back to the road.

The first section has quotes from all the students both new & old. It's also nice that they didn't just re-use the old quotes for the older students as well.

I was asked to produce photographs for Robert Kirkmans company, Skybound Comics. They released a book called The Quotable Negan, based on quotes from a Comic Book Character from The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman even got in on the action!

By Bambam-Collective: Marc Hennes, Berta Mattern, Joe Villion,

Marek Kochanowicz, Mariya Sulymenko, Benedikt Rugar,

Pia Zölzer, Lena Schrieb, Ellen Wagner.

17,5 x 24,5 cm / Edition of 100 /

cover: laserprint / 44 Pages: riso print / 12 €.

thebambamcollective.blogspot.com/search/label/Quotable

“Once in a golden hour,

I cast to earth a seed,

And up there grew a flower,

That others called a weed.”

― Alfred Tennyson

quote by Willy Wonka, one of the most quotable people ever imagined.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

~ Ernest Hemingway

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”

- Daisaku Ikeda

At 8am tomorrow I will be taking the CBEST Exam. It measures your intelligence in reading, writing, and math. I have to pass it in order to get into the GTEP program at PSU (I'm working towards earning my teaching certificate in order to become an art teacher. I earned my BFA this past May). I have always been comfortable with reading and writing... in fact, I enjoy both immensely. But, Math... UGH. You know how Superman feels about kryptonite? It's kind of like that. It just has never come easy to me: I have always had to struggle and study over it. And don't even get me started on multiple choice tests. I hate a test where they ask you what choice is "most right." Isn't that based on opinion? Oh well. Overall I feel pretty good about it... I'm even a bit excited to take it. Is that strange?

My struggle is proof of my strength and victory as a human being... I am ready to struggle... I am ready to be victorious. I am ready to have this exam over with. I am ready to pass and move on to my next battle as I try to further my education.

My wish is that through these struggles of mine, I will come out the other side a stronger, happier, fulfilled individual.

Send out your brainy vibes everyone! :D

Wish me luck!

(Right now I am off to see some Thesis Presentations over at PNCA! A dear friend of mine is presenting... exciting!! Then the rest of the day will be spent studying and resting... *sigh*)

Happy Friday everyone!

- Tom Fitton

101/366

Still a favorite, after all these years--certainly in my all-time top 10 (along with the same group's "Jordan: The Comeback"). I remember buying it solely based on a review in the Village Voice, probably in '85. I've bought it three times--the LP, later on CD, and, later still, a CD remaster with a bonus disc of acoustic reworkings.

So many great lyrics, like:

"I was the fool who always presumed that/I'd wear the shoes and you'd be the doormat/You wonder why my hands are still shakin'/In need of a cry, the shoulders are taken/I deserve/to be/kicked/so badly."

"It's the wonders I prefer/Pulling rabbits out of hats/When sometimes I'd prefer/Simply to wear them."

"Here she is with two small problems/And the best part of the blame/Wishes she could call him heartache/But it's not a boy's name."

Every song on it is quotable.

Walter Isaacson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s new biography of Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Prize laureate, titled ‘The Code Breaker’, gets rave reviews.

Jennifer Doudna was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

An Amazon Best Book of March 2021: Isaacson is famous for writing Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, so a title like The Code Breaker might imply a lesser book about a lesser character. But 2020 Nobel winner Jennifer Doudna, who developed the gene-editing technology CRISPR, is a giant in her own right. CRISPR could open some of the greatest opportunities, and most troubling quandaries, of this century—and this book delivers. —Chris Schluep, Amazon Book Review

Review

“This year’s prize is about rewriting the code of life. These genetic scissors have taken the life sciences into a new epoch.” – Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

"Isaacson’s vivid account is a page-turning detective story and an indelible portrait of a revolutionary thinker who, as an adolescent in Hawai’i, was told that girls don’t do science. Nevertheless, she persisted." — Oprah Magazine.com

"The Code Breaker marks the confluence of perfect writer, perfect subject, and perfect timing. The result is almost certainly the most important book of the year.” – Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Isaacson captures the scientific process well, including the role of chance. The hard graft at the bench, the flashes of inspiration, the importance of conferences as cauldrons of creativity, the rivalry, sometimes friendly, sometimes less so, and the sense of common purpose are all conveyed in his narrative. The Code Breaker describes a dance to the music of time with these things as its steps, which began with Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel and shows no sign of ending.” – The Economist

“Isaacson lays everything out with his usual lucid prose; it’s brisk and compelling and even funny throughout. You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of both the science itself and how science gets done — including plenty of mischief.” – The Washington Post

"This story was always guaranteed to be a page-turner in [Isaacson's] hands." – The Guardian

"The Code Breaker unfolds as an enthralling detective story, crackling with ambition and feuds, laboratories and conferences, Nobel laureates and self-taught mavericks. The book probes our common humanity without ever dumbing down the science, a testament to Isaacson’s own genius on the page." — O Magazine

“Deftly written, conveying the history of CRISPR and also probing larger themes: the nature of discovery, the development of biotech, and the fine balance between competition and collaboration that drives many scientists.”— New York Review of Books

“The Code Breaker is in some respects a journal of our 2020 plague year.”— The New York Times

"Walter Isaacson is our Renaissance biographer, a writer of unusual range and depth who has plumbed lives of genius to illuminate fundamental truths about human nature. From Leonardo to Steve Jobs, from Benjamin Franklin to Albert Einstein, Isaacson has given us an unparalleled canon of work that chronicles how we have come to live the way we do. Now, in a magnificent, compelling, and wholly original book, he turns his attention to the next frontier: that of gene editing and the role science may play in reshaping the nature of life itself. This is an urgent, sober, accessible, and altogether brilliant achievement." —Jon Meacham

"When a great biographer combines his own fascination with science and a superb narrative style, the result is magic. This important and powerful work, written in the tradition of The Double Helix, allows us not only to follow the story of a brilliant and inspired scientist as she engages in a fierce competitive race, but to experience for ourselves the wonders of nature and the joys of discovery." —Doris Kearns Goodwin

“He’s done it again. The Code Breaker is another Walter Isaacson must-read. This time he has a heroine who will be for the ages; a worldwide cast of remarkable, fiercely competitive scientists; and a string of discoveries that will change our lives far more than the iPhone did. The tale is gripping. The implications mind-blowing.” – Atul Gawande

"An extraordinary book that delves into one of the most path-breaking biological technologies of our times and the creators who helped birth it. This brilliant book is absolutely necessary reading for our era." — Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Now more than ever we should appreciate the beauty of nature and the importance of scientific research; This book and Jennifer Doudna’s career show how thrilling it can be to understand how life works.” —Sue Desmond-Hellmann

“An extraordinarily detailed and revealing account of scientific progress and competition that grants readers behind-the-scenes access to the scientific process, which the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us remains opaque to the wider public. It also provides lessons in science communication that go beyond the story itself.” – Science Magazine

“An indispensable guide to the brave… new world we have entered." – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A vital book about the next big thing in science—and yet another top-notch biography from Isaacson." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"In Isaacson's splendid saga of how big science really operates, curiosity and creativity, discovery and innovation, obsession and strong personalities, competitiveness and collaboration, and the beauty of nature all stand out." — Booklist (starred review)

"Isaacson depicts science at its most exhilarating in this lively biography of Jennifer Doudna, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in medicine for her work on the CRISPR system of gene editing...The result is a gripping account of a great scientific advancement and of the dedicated scientists who realized it." — Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"Isaacson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of best sellers Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs, offers a startling, insightful look at this lifesaving, hugely significant scientific advancement and the brilliant Doudna, who wrestles with the serious moral questions that accompany her creation. Should this technology be offered to parents to tailor-make their babies into athletes or Einsteins? Who gets altered and saved and why?” — AARP

"A brilliant and engaging book. There are many quotable gems but I have chosen one sentence from the epilogue that epitomizes not only Doudna but also Isaacson himself, whose book title ends with a hortatory claim that CRISPR affects the future of the human race: 'To guide us, we will need not only scientists, but humanists. And most important, we will need people who feel comfortable in both words, like Jennifer Doudna.'" — Policy Magazine

"Mr. Isaacson is a great storyteller and a national treasure — like Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and of course his latest subject, Jennifer Doudna.” — The East Hampton Star

"The journalist who told the life stories of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs is back with a timely biography of Jennifer Doudna, PhD, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry. It’s a fast-paced account of her life as a pathbreaking scientist on CRISPR — and how gene editing could alter all life as we know it." — Medium

"This challenging, fascinating story examines Doudna's background and excavates the moral quandaries she grapples with as her creation opens up more and more avenues for scientific advancement." — Elle

"It is a gripping tale, showing how our new ability to hack evolution will soon start throwing us curveballs." — New Scientist

“[A] fascinating story... [Isaacson’s] unique skill as a master storyteller of scientific development over the centuries has educated not only his fellow Baby Boomers, but also succeeding generations, helping people of all ages and backgrounds travel down the long and winding road toward understanding how life works.” – Washington Independent Review of Books

"[A] marvelous biography... With his dynamic and formidable style, Isaacson explains the long scientific journey that led to this tool’s discovery and the exciting developments that have followed....Isaacson is truly an immersive tour guide, combining the energy of a TED Talk with the intimacy of a series of fireside chats....For readers seeking to understand the many twists, turns and nuances of the biotechnology revolution, there’s no better place to turn than The Code Breaker."– BookPage

“ Isaacson expertly plumbs the moral ambiguity surrounding this new technology. ”–Scientific American

"A riveting expedition through biochemistry, structural biology, and academic politics that transcends the traditional scientific detective story and captures the raw, magical enthusiasm of living pioneers like Doudna and her colleagues. ” – New York Journal of Books

“Isaacson senses a more collaborative spirit between the rivals that will surely pay dividends come the next pandemic... The Code Breaker is a true celebration of science and scientists, for all their flaws and jealousies.” – Nature Reviews Chemistry

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, New York Herald Tribune, Apr. 18, 1954

I was stunned when I read this, I quess she approached painting as a job.

This is a visual re-interpretation of Einstein's famous quote. (Quote in title from Albert Einstein - ^ Calaprice, Alice (2005), The new quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, p. 173, ISBN 0-691-12075-7 Other versions of the quote exist.)

Cairns, ahus, stone stacking, rock balancing, inuksuk (also spelled "inukshuk") creating stacked rock temples, natural markers of beauty using the primary found object - rock, stone or pebbles, etc.

Similar to Japanese Ishidoro stone monuments, such as Gorinto, and Hokyo-into this set is in celebration of the lovely mature Cherry Tree Colonnade at the University of Washington, in a procession from the twin Art and Music buildings.

These have a commonly included feature of space, distance and time -- structures such as relationships shown marked out by the concrete grid, which brings us to the topic of human interactions. Interactions with nature, with each other, and with ourselves.

History of Happenstance -

Invited to lunch by Jill Woelf and her husband Karl during spring blooming of the University of Washington cherry tree colonnade, (which I term the Festival of Cherry Trees), I was just about to leave, walking my bike past the University of Washington's Art building I noticed some rocks laying around. Seeing nobody to notice or care, I quickly assembled them by stacking them into structures, then photographed them until the sun went down.

Before I was able to complete photographing these works, several small groups of people arrived, and treated the assemblage as an art show, except for one small child who, standing on the last large concrete block kicked all the rocks and pebbles off the top with a grin and a charge before he could be stopped. His parents apologized profusely - but I was really proud of him for doing what was natural without concern.

I believe only about 30 people saw the 15 or so original works before they were removed.

Cheers!

-Linda