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Ray Church is located 2.5 km northeast of Falcarragh, near the confluence of the Yellow River and Ray River.
St Fionnán founded this church in the 6th century. Ray stood next to the Ray River, an ancient boundary between the Cenél Luighdech and Cenél Duach. Four 7th-century abbots of Iona were of the Cenél Duach; Ray was almost certainly their home church.
Ray high cross is the largest early medieval stone cross in Ireland. Local lore claims it was made by Columba (521–597) on Muckish to bring to Tory Island, but local saint Fionnán recovered Columba's Gospel Book and he gave the cross to Ray. The cross actually dates to the late 8th century.
The church was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers in the 17th century. During Sunday Mass, the entire congregation was slaughtered in the Massacre of Ray (Marfach Ráithe). The dead are buried in a mass grave called Resting Place of the Bones (Lag na gCnámh).
The cross was knocked down in a storm about 1750, and lay broken in the graveyard until it was repaired by the Office of Public Works in the 1970s. [Wikipedia ]
Scientific Name: Pteromylaeus bovinus (Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 1817)
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Para além da sua coloração típica, uma das características mais curiosas do ratão-bispo é o seu focinho em forma de bico de pato, muito útil para procurar moluscos ou crustáceos que vivem junto ao fundo e que constituem o seu alimento. Os machos podem também desenvolver pequenos cornos imediatamente por cima dos olhos. Podem ser encontrados sozinhos, ou em grupos, em costas tropicais e temperadas quentes. Embora seja mais raro, podem também aparecer no mar alto. Por vezes são vistos a saltar sobre a água, numa aparente tentativa de se libertarem de parasitas ou de rémoras. O período de gestação é de cerca de um ano, nascendo 3 a 4 pequenas raias completamente desenvolvidas.
Besides its typical colouring, one of the bull ray’s most curious characteristics is its snout in the shape of a duck bill, very useful to search for molluscs or crustaceans that live near to the bottom and are its menu. The males can also develop small horns right above their eyes. One can find them alone or in groups, in tropical and warm coasts. Though more rare, it may also appear in the open sea. Sometimes they are seen jumping above the water, in an apparent attempt to get rid of parasites or remora. Its gestation lasts around one year, ending in the birth of 3 or 4 small fully developed rays.
“Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.”
Thomas Hardy
Ray Charles at Grammy rehearsal 2/20/90 - Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can
It was a gray, dismal, morning as I made my way to the shore of Wailes Lake.
But I saw a ray of hope on the horizon.
This is a full color shot, it was a black and white morning.
Detail of an everlasting daisy flower.
One of the shots taken on the Canberra Flickr Chickrs botanic gardens wander.
Rayos anticrepusculares desde el Teide
Refugio de Altavista, P. N. del Teide
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J. C. Casado
Rayos anticrepusculares desde el refugio de Altavista al anochecer
Anticrepuscular rays from Altavista refuge at twilight
sun rays coming through the trees down at the river, making 'striped' shadows on the river bank...
translated into silver leaf stripes on a terracotta tile in relief, found right there, on the edge between water and sand bank
warm grey cotton pulp with a very rocky character framing the tile - I should call this material from now 'cotton clay'! :)
Lots and lots of x-rays. One thing that concerned Dr. Killian was that Allison's curve worsened AFTER she had supposedly stopped growing. But MRI, CT, and x-ray showed nothing serious - just idiopathic scoliosis.
American postcard by Kline Poster Co. Inc., Phila.
Charles Ray (1891-1943) was an American actor, scriptwriter, and director of the silent screen, who knew a parabole from rags to riches and back again. He worked for Paramount, his own company, United Artists and MGM. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, he was a very popular actor and one of Hollywood's best-paid stars.
Charles Edgar Ray was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1891. He moved several times in his youth before settling in Los Angeles, where he finished his education. Ray started his career as an actor on stage. Later he also began to act in short silent films, making his debut as an extra in The Fortunes of War (Thomas Ince, 1911). He appeared in several bit parts before moving on to supporting roles. From 1913 he had a steady career as the male lead in one- and two-reel short Western, Quaker, and Civil War dramas at Kaybee Pictures, Broncho Pictures, and Domino Pictures. In these films, he would be paired with actresses such as Enid Markey, Bessie Barriscale, Louise Glaum, and Dorothy Davenport. Ray must have worked fast then, as in 1913 and in 1914 he had a ratio of a film every two weeks. At Kaybee, Ince would direct him at times, at times also Raymond West, while at Bronco he was often directed by Charles Giblyn, and in 1915 a few times by William S. Hart. In 1915, Ray had his breakthrough in his first feature The Coward, produced by Thomas Ince for Kay-Bee and directed by Reginald Barker. In this Civil War drama, Ray played the son of a Virginia colonel (Frank Keenan), who needs to overcome his cowardice.
Charles Ray's popularity rose after appearing in a series of films, as Wikipedia writes "which cast him in juvenile roles, primarily young, wholesome hicks or naive 'country bumpkins' that foiled the plans of thieves or con men and won the heart of his dream girl." Ray's Kay-Bee films were now distributed by Triangle Distributing. Victor Schertzinger, the musician who had provided the music for The Coward, turned director at Kay-Bee and directed Ray in several films in 1917. Ray, Ince, and Schertzinger moved over to Paramount in 1917, where Ince got his own production company and where Schertzinger directed Ray in more films, such as The Claws of the Hun (Victor Schertzinger, 1918), a propaganda film signalling the US's participation in the First World War. Ray's star rose and rose. By 1920, he was earning a reported $11,000 a week (approximately $138,000 today). Ray had also earned a reputation for being egomaniacal and difficult to work with. In 1920, he left Paramount after studio head Adolph Zukor refused to give him a substantial pay raise. Ray started his own production company. Charles Ray Productions, and bought a studio on Sunset Boulevard where he began producing and shooting his own films. While he initially was fairly successful, an experiment for First National with a film without intertitles, The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921), co-starring Laura La Plante, had critical but not a huge popular success. Mind you, this was years before Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's famous Der Letzte Mann/The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924), which was made with only one intertitle.
In 1922, Charles Ray signed a contract with United Artists and starred in e.g. The Girl I Loved (1923) with Patsy Ruth Miller. He was fed up with the hillbillies types and strove to profile himself as a romantic lead and man of the world. Against everybody's advice to avoid lengthy historical drama, Ray insisted on the making of The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923), investing $500,000 (approximately $7,353,000 today) of his own money, including a $65,000 (approximately $956,000 today) 180-ton replica of the Mayflower. The film was a box office failure, Ray lost all his money and his reputation went down too. It did not mean his career was all over (despite what Wikipedia writes), because he first continued as a leading actor at smaller companies, produced by Ince, and in 1925 he got a contract at MGM, where he played for two years and acted as the male lead opposite actresses such as Pauline Starke, Joan Crawford, and May McAvoy. In those years Ray and his wife Clara Grant were enormous spendthrifts, with an over-the-top villa in Beverly Hills, a huge staff, and expensive cars. Grant would never wear a dress two times. Yet, in December 1925 Ray had to file for bankruptcy and his production company went under as well. Though he continued to act, after MGM the companies he worked for were less prestigious, such as Universal. In 1928 he made his last silent film, The Count of Ten (James Flood, 1928), after which he acted on stage for years, in off-Broadway productions, without much success. In 1932 Ray returned to the sets, but without success, and in 1934 he declared bankruptcy again. In 1935 he got divorced from Clara Grant, from whom he was already separated as of 1930. Ray still acted in cinema but in the mid-1930s in minor parts and in the early 1940s on uncredited parts. He tried to earn money by writing short stories and a popular movie magazine but to no avail. Charles Ray died of a systemic infection caused by an impacted wisdom tooth in 1943. He was only 52. In 1960 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the motion picture industry.
Sources: Wikipedia (English, French and Italian), and IMDb.
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Like the recently passed Gerry Anderson Ray Cusick is one of the blessed legion of designers, writers, musicians etc who filled our childhoods with wonder and in Ray's case terror.
Of course it's hard to say nowadays why the Daleks scarred us so, in a world of Alien vs Predator and endless zombies, Daleks are almost a risible foe. But with their cold logic, short tempers and unstoppable hatred they WERE really scary. Nothing came close to that moment when a dalek turned to face the camera and the screen flashed to and fro into negative while it screamed Exterminate!
We knew then that even the weak jokes about flights of stairs wouldn't protect you if the Dalekss actually ever burst out of our telly and got through your hastely constructed sofa barricade to find us cowering in joyful terror.
Of course next day at school you too could be dalek anorak pulled tight round your face one fist thrust forward robotic voice.
So here's my tribute to to Ray (did I mention he designed James Burke's Connections too)
In a last ditch effort to be creative with a VERY limited amount of skills, I took a look inside me. I even tried to tap into my inner 12 year old, but he didn't help me.
Then I thought - why not show inside me?
So here you go.
(This is not my x-ray, by the way.)
Day 360 of 365.
5 days and counting...
From 1996 until 2000, Ray Gibbs of Nuneaton operated Bova Duple Calypso 1533 UR as his only coach. It had been new to Parks of Hamilton as A461 JJF.
AEP Ohio lineworker repairs lines on a power pole from his bucket truck while a single ray of light shines down on his efforts to restore hope and power to those impacted by Hurricane Michael