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SERENDIPITOUSLY REFLECTED ...
Not staged, but found as it was and all I did was click. Mother Nature is the Artist and I am just an observer and capturer of a precious moment in time that was short-lived, but is eternal here, in my picture, preserved.
"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c
AUTUMN LEAVES – EVA CASSIDY
I fell in love with Autumn
from an early age
looking at the trembling leaves
leafing through my favourite page
a book of wisdom given to me
on a perfect Spring day on an early birthday
devouring all it had to tell
I gained knowledge through my childhood play
skipping through the rustling leaves
tousled hair tumbling in the breeze
jumping a stile to where the grass was greener
leaving behind what I found with ease
that life is the same beyond the fence
nothing much changes; I stayed the same
wide-eyed and innocent despite the bruises
I never looked for or sought to blame
and Autumn was bright and beautiful
I escaped my life in books and Fall
and when Winter shed it's icy beauty
I waited patiently for Spring and the Cuckoo's call
I remember woolly and itchy jumpers
too big for me; hand-me-downs
my sister was twice as big as me
I was the waif and stray from an unknown realm
with stick-thin legs and mittens on strings
a little puppet to Punch like Judy
with a broken arm like a broken wing
I flew in circles so dark and distant and deeply moody
but Nature taught me that life could be good
and enthralled me with it's imparted secrets
the gifts it gave me I treasure still
and especially in Autumn I never forget
to let live; let love and tomorrow will bring
the best the days have to offer
a brilliant blue sky with scudding white clouds
and Autumn fruit trees bend down and proffer
all of their bounty for it's ours for the taking
in repayment for all our good deeds
when we care for nature and thank God for our days
our pains will ease even though we still bleed
we are never given more than we can carry
I know this from experience; it is a fact
so God thinks I'm strong, so the least I can do
is repay all His kindness and make up for all I lack
for I am not perfect; I do not profess
to be anything other than I am
but God loves the most those who try their hardest
than those who take for granted and who don't give a damn
but He still loves us all; we are his children
and so he gifts us the beautiful Fall
a time of peace and quiet reflection
a change of the seasons
where we can find reasons
to improve all our chances;
to give it our all.
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I always find when photographing Red Kites they have a fantastic sense of presence... they are just there in a swarm at the feeding station commanding the attention with an almost menacing purpose about them that you'd not mess with!
This is quite a large crop on the R5 but the detail it renders still is just amazing... I cant deny the purchase has got me into about a year and a half of debt repayments but every time I use it... I think i'll take that debt happily for such pleasure and enjoyment I get when shooting with the camera!
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I found this uniquely shaped potato recently. I thought it would make a great subject for a photo like this one.
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Another victim of societal inequality, this guy was soon to be aggressively harangued by his 'mate' who wanted repayment for whatever it was he owed - I would imagine it may have been drug related. I hung around long enough to make sure he was okay and then went about my privileged life leaving the 'lad' to get on with his own.
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/videos/God-hopes-to-gain-faith-a...
Introduction
Jesus Worship Song | "God Hopes to Gain Man's True Faith and Love for Him"
God hopes when you understand,
understand the true side of Him,
you will grow even closer to Him;
you will truly appreciate His love
and His concern for mankind;
you’ll give your heart up to Him,
having no more doubts,
having no more suspicions about Him.
He does everything for man, though quietly so,
doing it all silently
through His sincerity, faithfulness, and love.
Never does He have any apprehension or regret for what He does;
never does He ask for repayment from man,
nor hope to get anything from them.
His only purpose in all He does
is for man’s true faith and love for Him.
When your heart truly knows God’s disposition
and you have a deep appreciation for His substance,
you will sense God right by your side.
It’s just that you had never genuinely accepted God in your heart.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
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About 10 minutes away from where I was staying were the remains of Croxden Abbey. Amazing to see all the intricate details and workmanship that was built all those centuries ago. Here's some back history taken from wikipedia:
(In 1176, Bertram de Verdun, the lord of the manor of Croxden, endowed a site for a new abbey near Alton, Staffordshire, to a group of 12 Cistercian monks from Normandy. Bertram founded the abbey, like many noblemen of his time, for the souls of his family and on the condition that the monks would celebrate mass.
The abbey continued to expand into the 13th century, with King John awarding the monks an annuity of £5 from the Exchequer of Ireland in 1200, before exchanging it for land in Adeney, Shropshire, in 1206. Croxden was relatively prosperous at this time, drawing the majority of its wealth from sheep farming. By 1315, the monks were supplying more wool to the continent than any other religious house in the county, with transactions being recorded with Florentine merchants well into the 1420s.
By the 14th century, Croxden's financial situation had worsened. The strains of royal taxation and the repayment of loans combined with bad harvests and plague were a drain on the abbey's resources. In 1537 the abbey was surrendered and the land and property sold off to later be converted into a farm.)
There is nothing exotic about this old fashioned daffodil, but it blooms year after year in clusters all around my backyard garden. It's yellow cheerfulness promising spring even when the temperatures are shouting winter. A pretty generous repayment of a few hours of planting years ago.
Please enjoy the cheerful details in Large. Thank you so much for your visit!
The Brighton Eye
Brighton used to have a Brighton Eye the same as this one but it had to go when Brighton and Hove City Council agreed a deal with British Airways to build the i360 on the site of the old West Pier. The attraction cost £46 million, with £36 million being funded by a Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) loan through B&H City Council.
Formerly known as the "Brighton i360", the project aimed to attract up to 800,000 paying customers every year. The owner of the site, the West Pier Trust, hoped in 2014 that a successful i360 would lead to the rebuilding of the historic West Pier.
In June 2018, disappointing visitor numbers forced the owners to ask B&H City Council and the LEP for better loan repayment terms. The local paper reported that "in the first full year, from August 2016, the i360 had just over 500,000 visitors, significantly fewer than the 800,000 predicted." The shortfall in visitors was blamed on “poor weather and the unreliable train service to and from London”.
The i360 made a loss of more than £5 million last year, the latest financial reports have revealed. B&H City Council are now owed almost £48 million as the attraction suffered another successive year in the red.
New Engine Shaft Engine house with Old Engine Shaft engine house behind. Both are Grade II listed.
Wheal Trewavas is located on towering cliffs near Trewavas Head. The large engine houses are comparable to the Crown Engine Houses at Botallack Mine in Penwith. Unlike Botallack Wheal Trewavas is off the main tourist trail and much less well known.
Click here for more photographs of Wheal Trewavas: www.jhluxton.com/Industrial-Archaeology/Mines-of-Devon-Co...
Wheal Trewavas' history starts around 1834. The Mining Journal reported that profitable lodes were found by locals who fished in summer and mined in winter. Initial operations included a small pumping engine and a horse-powered whim to haul ore.
By 1836, the discovery of a significant copper lode resulted in an increase in employment and the acquisition of a new, larger pumping engine from Harvey & Co of Hayle. The mine shafts subsequently extended deeper and further out to sea.
Wheal Trewavas expanded in the 1840s, working four copper lodes and one tin lode beneath the seabed: Trewavas Old Lode, North Lode, Sowan Lode, and Nimble Cutter Lode. At its peak, the mine employed about 160 men underground and 40 bal-maidens above, all from the local area.
By 1842, the mine was making annual profits of £4000. It was about 70 fathoms (130 meters) deep. The conditions must have been daunting for the workers, being so far underground and under the sea.
Despite rumours of flooding and several fatal accidents, including the death of 16-year-old Henry Richards and a boiler explosion in December 1842, Wheal Trewavas did not close due to these incidents. A miner named Richard Gilbert was also accused of stealing ore, but this too was unrelated to the mine's closure.
There are numerous rumours and local legends regarding the sudden closure of Wheal Trewavas in 1846. However, it is highly unlikely that the cessation of operations was attributable to a shortage of profitable ore. Records indicate that between 1834 and 1846, the mine produced approximately 17,500 tons of copper ore, with an estimated value of over £100,000—equivalent to roughly £6 million today. Furthermore, it is believed that significant quantities of valuable metal remain unexploited within the mine.
What caused the owners to suddenly advertise the entire concern for sale in May 1846? Some suggest that, despite profits, the mine's financial affairs raised suspicion in 1845. Rumours indicated they were paying dividends with a bank overdraft. In December, before Trewavas closed, another shaft was sunk to 96 fathoms (175m), likely following another lode. However, the bankers demanded immediate repayment of £2000 from the overdraft, suggesting the owners didn't have the money; or did they...?
An oft-repeated tale tells of the mine being suddenly flooded during a shareholder dinner. Each year, a meal was set in the mine, deep beneath the sea. Recent excavations had brought them close to the sea floor, and water began leaking from the tunnel roof during final preparations. The waiters quickly retreated, and within minutes the mine was flooded, ruining the dinner.
The story does not end here. There is another reason that has been proposed for the closure of Wheal Trewavas, despite its continued production of valuable ore. It is believed that the owners might have owed money to the Duchy of Cornwall. The Royal Cornwall Gazette reported on December 9th 1859: ” . . . the celebrated Trewavas Mine which is said to have been abandoned in consequence of a dispute between the Lord and the Duchy, although it is well known that the lodes were rich at the time of stopping.”
It was suggested that the mine was deliberately flooded by Captains N and J Vivian in order to avoid paying the Duchy of Cornwall their backdated dues by concealing any evidence of the extent of the tunnels. This may also be why no plan of the mine survives either.
Captains N and J Vivian allegedly flooded the mine to hide the tunnels and avoid backdated payments to the Duchy of Cornwall, which may also explain the absence of any mine plans.
The mine equipment was advertised for sale by auction in 1846. Since then, the engine houses have stood silently on the cliffs they are now in the care of the National Trust. They are Grade II Listed.
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The Church of St. Eustache, Paris is a church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The present building was built between 1532 and 1632.
Situated near the site of Paris' medieval marketplace (Les Halles) and rue Montorgueil, Saint-Eustache exemplifies a mixture of multiple architectural styles: its structure is Flamboyant Gothic while its interior decoration and other details are Renaissance and classical. It is the second largest church in the city, just behind Notre-Dame.
The 2019 Easter Mass at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris was relocated to Saint-Eustache after the Notre-Dame de Paris fire.
The origins of Saint Eustache date back to the 13th century. A modest chapel was built in 1213, dedicated to Saint Agnes, a Roman martyr. The small chapel was funded by Jean Alais, a merchant at Les Halles who was granted the rights to collect a tax on the sale of fish baskets as repayment of a loan he gave to King Philippe-Auguste. The church became the parish church of the Les Halles area in 1223 and was renamed Saint-Eustache in 1303.
The name of the church refers to Saint Eustace, a Roman general of the second century AD. He was a passionate hunter; his conversion followed a vision he had of a crucifix in the horns of a deer he was hunting, He was martyred, along with his family, for converting to Christianity. He is now the patron saint of hunters. The church was renamed for Saint Eustache after receiving relics related to the Roman martyr as donations from the Abbey of Saint Denis.
As the area prospered, the church became too small for its congregation; the church wardens decided to build a larger building. Construction of the current church began in 1532, during the reign of François I and continued until 1632, and in 1637, it was consecrated by Jean-François de Gondi, Archbishop of Paris.
(source: Wikipedia)
Two drab EMD’s, given to Steamtown as repayment for the N&W 1218 “hostage situation”, lead a Steamtown train through Elmhurst, Pennsylvania. Although the units are now repainted as NKP 514 and DL&W 500, respectively, only white flags add much class to the power as shown here.
Roy Lichtenstein's monumental 32 feet tall and 20 feet wide sculpture "Brushstroke" in front of The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
During the 1940 and 50's Joseph Hirshhorn amassed a large collection of American modernism of the 20th century and sculptures. A 1962 sculpture show at New York's Guggenheim Museum awakened an international art community to the breadth of Hirshhorn's holdings. Word of his collection of modern and contemporary paintings also circulated, and institutions in Italy, Israel, Canada, California, and New York vied for the collection. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley successfully campaigned for a new museum on the National Mall.In 1966, an Act of Congress established the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Most of the funding was federal, but Hirshhorn later contributed $1-million toward construction. The groundbreaking was in 1969.
Hirshhorn spoke at the inauguration (1974), saying: "It is an honor to have given my art collection to the people of the United States as a small repayment for what this nation has done for me and others like me who arrived here as immigrants. What I accomplished in the United States I could not have accomplished anywhere else in the world." One million visitors saw the 850-work inaugural show in the first six months.
The museum and garden complex was designed by Gordon Bunshaft (1909-1990) and provides 60,000 square feet of exhibition space inside and nearly four acres outside in its two-level Sculpture Garden and plaza.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn who enjoyed much success from uranium-mining investments, began creating his art collection from classic French Impressionism to works by living artists, American modernism of the early 20th century, and sculpture. He expanded his collection to warehouses, an apartment in New York, and an estate in Greenwich, Connecticut, with extensive area for sculpture.
In 1966, an Act of Congress established the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Most of the funding was federal, but Hirshhorn later contributed $1-million toward construction.
Joseph Hirshhorn spoke at the inauguration (1974), saying: "It is an honor to have given my art collection to the people of the United States as a small repayment for what this nation has done for me and others like me who arrived here as immigrants. What I accomplished in the United States I could not have accomplished anywhere else in the world."
Express delivery, 12 bore shotgun cartridge I found in a old box from a boot sale, it's been sitting in my shed for 4 years and now I have used it as a photographic prop.
Just shows it's good not to throw everything out ... you never know when it may come in handy?
The Macro Mondays theme this week is .... "Danger" ..... I should image this would be classed as a danger especially if you hit the top ..... "Boom" ......
I hate guns and shooting, but love nature in all its forms, I would dislike anyone who would shoot poor innocent animals especially with a shotgun ..... all those pellets damaging or wounding our poor wildlife etc.
Love nature and it will certainly love you back, feed the wild birds, get repayment with their singing, their pest control, their beautiful presence.
Oh' yes I nearly forgot ..... a lovely warning feeling in your Heart for being kind, nothing feels better.
Love & Peace everyone!!!!
long stories shortened... (discarded and abandoned and intertwined short stories) well..actually they are chunks and fragmets and notes of stories that never made it
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a young PhD math candidate writing his dissertation on an obscure arab mathematician from the middle ages who specialized in cycles and periods in infinite series and develops a process to determine prime number density in a large number space. (which is all and good) except this makes it an excellent tool to decrypting military grade encryption, which is based on the computational difficulty of factoring large numbers into their prime components
the arab mathematician was ultimately censured by the religious mullahs for developing tools to rationalize the infinite, which is of course the nature of Allah and for man to attempt to place Allah into a human scale is blasphemy
so the arab mathematician disappears and the young phd candidate finds that his dissertation has been suspended pending review but cant get any information on who is reviewing it
finally another young mathematician approaches him and starts a long discussion on math and the nature of numbers and the mathematicians love of the underlying structure of reality that math represents. the phd candidate is leary of this mathematician cause he wont answer what he does or where he went to school or how he knows so many cutting edge fields in math
eventually, the young mathematician offers the phd candidate a position with the NSA, National Security Agency, (where all the big crypto and high math goes on) but explains that if he accepts that he will essentially disappear from his current world. his work will be classified, he will not be able to publish in academic journals or speak in public, or talk about his work to his friends on the outside, but the compensation is that he
would be able to work unfettered with the greatest math minds in the country, totally funded, free to explore any field or fancy he thought. after a few moments of thought, the phd accepts.
then the story will go back to the arab mathematician who is also approached my a young beared mullah, who offers him a position within his group of thinkers who do ponder and explore the nature of nature reality and Allah through mathematics, but that by joining them he would need to disappear from the world, after a few minutes of thought, he too accepts...
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Daniel sipped his 6th coffee (colloidal suspension for caffeine transport) while his batch jobs on ramanet, the Indian supergrid, finished their checksum verification. His chin, a bit stubbly, itched. His eyes, a bit red, were sore. The goa trance shoutcast feed had mushed into a fast cadence drone. The flat screen monitor warped and bulged with the oscillating fan blowing on Daniel's face
'O' glamorous larval life of a PhD student...' he jotted and doodle-circled on his notepad.
Daniel cracked his neck and jutted his jaw, stretching out the accumulation of kinks, as RamaNet finished the final integrity check on his dataset. this two hour round of processing on the Indian supergrid would cost about $130 out of his precious grant fund, but you couldnt beat the bargain. 120 minutes times 150,000 PCs in the RamaNet processing collective = 1,080,000,000 seconds or 18,000,000 minutes or 300,000 hours or 12500 days or 34.25 years of processing time for the price of a video game. Calculation was commoditized now. You uploaded your pre-fromatted dataset to RamaNet. the data was packeted and sent to out to 150,000 Indians who lent a few percents of never-to-be missed CPU cycles off their systems for background processing. when their alotted package was completed it was sent back to RamaNet for re-assembly into something coherent for the buyer. in return the Indians got a rebate on their net access charges or access to premier bollywood galleries or credit towards their own processing charges. a good deal all the way around. Daniel's dataset, an anthology of complex proofs from a long-dead arab mathematician, was queued with amateur weather forecast modeling, home-brewed digital CGI for indie movies, chaos theory-based currency trading algorithms, etc. the really high end, confidential jobs, like protein folding analysis or big pharm drug trials were more likely handled by the huge western collectives of several million collaborative systems, usually high-performance machines in dedicated corporate server farms. the cost there was out of Daniel's range, but you got a faster return and better promises of encryption for your buck.
Daniel scratched his scalp and flexed his fingers. 'two months from today i will be a doctor of mathematics...and no job. damnit. i need to find something fast.' Daniel calculated in his mind how quickly the student loans repayments would kick in and completely wipe him out. RamaNet would have done it in nanoseconds, ha! he laughed to himself. Daniel had avoided the rounds of job interviews and recommendations that passed his way. he was too absorbed in his research to look ahead, and perhaps a bit intimidated by the idea of the job hunt flea market. flexing his CV, getting a monkey suit, trying to explain his research to recruiters, who were often the same finger-counting business majors in college that made his skin crawl. Daniel always felt a bit embarrassed when he announced he was math PhD candidate. folks would immediately glaze over,
tsk tsk out a 'that's interesting', and swiftly change the subject. something will come up, he mantra'd to himself over and over, something will come up. stick with ali, there is something real in there, just a bit deeper. the real problem was his thesis advisor. dr. fuentes was not returning his calls, his secretary was not taking appointments from Daniel. he had submitted his finished draft of his thesis two weeks ago, but hadnt heard back since, except for a cryptic email saying that the review committee was having some issues with his paper and that Daniel would be hearing from him shortly. Daniel was rerunning his calculations on RamaNet to assuage the gnawing doubt that he completely botched some component of his argument and that the review committee was debating some manner of telling him to redo the entire effort. no PhD and no job. that would ice the cake. Daniel started calculating his body mass and general aerodynamic resistance relative to the height of the school cathedral to figure out if he had time to reach a terminal velocity before impact...only a failed math PhD would attempt to determine at what speed his body would smack concrete, he morbidly thought to himself.
ali ja'far muhammed ibn abdullah al-farisi slipped meditatively on his cup of water, thinking about his proof. he dipped a finger in the cup and held up a droplet of water under his fingertip, watching the sunlight prisimatically splay out on the mouth of the cup. 'praise be Allah and his wonderous bounty' he mumured to himself.
the elders had been in conference all day over his proof. though the heavy doors to their chamber were closed, he would occasionally hear muffled but distinctly angry shouts. ali sat on a divan in the anteroom, served numerous cups of tea by an obviously nervous secretary. ali knew there was deep resistance to his research, but for the life of him he couldnt figure out why. he was a simple mathematician. he came up with some unique observations. he wanted to share them with his peers...
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Overview: biotech researcher discovers a new life-extension technology and is murdered. He is cryogenically frozen for 150 years. When he is
revived he must stop a dark corporate conspiracy – and find his murderer.
Summer 2015 - Hot genius free-lance biotech researcher unravels the key component of a radical life-extension gene therapy that will ensure 300 years of robust life to its recipients. The researcher is murdered shortly after he hides the critical component. His distraught friend has him cryogenically frozen. 150 years later, the researcher is revived by the same major bio-med corporation for which he had originally been working.
Quickly he realizes that their motives are less than altruistic: his modification of the gene therapy is needed to resolve an unforeseen debilitation now creeping up in the recipients of the life-extension process. The recipients, now nearing 125 years off added life, are decompensating into psychotics. The researcher at first tries to remember and reconstruct what he did with the hidden critical component, but stops in disgust when he learns that in the past 150 years the life-extension therapy has been reserved solely for the ultra-affluent and has created an extreme and cruel global gerontocratic elite. He voices his disgust to his corporate minders, who cease being beneficent and show their true colors as trying to gain control of this critical technology in order to control the elites.
In the process of dealing with the corporation, he learns about his murder and begins investigating.As he comes closer to the identity of his murderer, he uncovers a wider conspiracy and is the target of more murder attempts.
He was killed by a friend in 2015. The friend was the CEO of a small bio-gen firm that the researcher was doing the LET work for. The CEO, a biz-head with a genetics academic background, took the researcher’s work and exploited it as his own, in the process growing his small firm into a bio-med powerhouse and him into one of the world’s wealthiest individuals.
The CEO also was the first recipient of the LET and is now 190 years old, but doesn’t look a day over 45. Smart, urbane, ruthless, the CEO used his wealth and position to start the cabal of Ultras. It is a faction of the top 50 smartest and wealthiest people in the world who have ‘ascended from the world’ (faked their demise) and control the global economy with their vast coordinated wealth. Perhaps they will call themselves ‘The Ascended’. We need to decide how the cabal lives. Are they sequestered on a luxurious island compound, or do they live in the open, surgically re-sculpted after each faked death, or do they live in the open.
Also we need to figure out what the world will look and feel like in 150 years.
As the ultras decompensate into psychosis, the CEO orders the researcher to be revived in order to find a cure. The CEO had the researcher’s lab notes decrypted and figured that the he was close if not successful in finding the missing component to stabilize the LET.
Tiberius Syndrome: the decline into cruel psychosis experienced by the ultras, named after the roman emperor Tiberius’ degenerate behavior after he sequestered himself on Capri.
The ironic twist might be that there is no cure, no stabilization. The psychosis is not the result of the LET alone, but also due in part to the unfettered ego/wills of the ultras. Absolute power corrupts…
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a brazilian hacking syndicate was subcontracted by a st petersberg crew to run interference on a hit on SWIFT, the global currency clearinghouse notification network. The UniFavela clan was going to run a multi-flank raid. They specialized in fast propagating virii and had created a custom mail-in virus that exploited a few microsoft vulnerabilities that they had discovered and kept mum. Their target was a Latin American PR spokesman listed on the corporate web site for press queries. The PR flak would be just the sleepy guard on the wall for their virus to slip past. 30 minutes after opening an inocuous spoofed email from a French e-trade publication requesting clarification on the SWIFT-Indentrus partnership. the virus would port scan and map its entire site LAN, salmoning its way up the router paths till it found the deep waters of the main corporate campus network in Brussels. Shortly, the internal LAN at Brussels would be suffering switch and router buffer overflows and traffic would gasp, ack, and sputter. UniFavela would then towel whip out a vanilla DDOS on the main company web site, any INTERNIC-registered addresses, and any other system in the IP block reserved for SWIFT that had previously port scanned as interesting, or ,even, as nothing. Mongols charging the village gates and tossing flaming torches on thatched roofs. IT Operations would be running to and fro, trying to figure out the internal bandwidth crunch and if there was a bleedout causing the external net problems.
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The Post-Human Story of Minos:
the CEO of a powerful commercial combine is bore an illegitimate son by his indiscreet wife in retaliation for his own dalliances. the son has a hideous deformity but is fantastically brilliant - brilliant enough for the father overcome his own repulsion of the child - as a bastard and a freak. the father sequesters the child in an elaborate virtual domain. the child, a hacker savant, is used to breach competitor nets. but as his power in the digital realm expands, the child transforms into the tyrant-monster. using the nets, he lashes out at people who have caused him pain, then evolves into enjoying the taste of terror and fear. He becomes the Minotaur.
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'there was a mad scramble amongst all the big spook governments, dark side corporations, and the privacy maccabees once it was determined that quantum computation had left the tidal pool of academia, grown legs and air-breathing lungs, and was headed for the nat sec intel highlands. all previous encryption models were rendered obsolete, and worse, exposed. QC became an undefiable xray spotlight, laying bare any encrypted secret with a ease of opening a mathematical candy wrapper. And for a while it swung the advantage back to the state in the digital Boer War against the freecon partisans.'
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The Oort, to the Intras, looked as one people. Extra-stellar hillbillies, ekeing out a subsistance existence on extracted organics from the frozen crud comets and other planetesimals of the Oort Cloud that slung around the solar system in a 1K AU circuit. To the Oort there was no Oort. Each station, each kampong was distinct and seperate. Seperate dialects, traditions, norms, goals. Some were scientific collectives, some were tired mining operations, some were intense sectarian cults - they shared little between themselves beyond necessary trade links for scarce commodities.
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A young prince is disgraced in an internal court scandal and sent into a quasi-exile on a worthless mission. On his travels he builds the wisdom and learns the skills necessary to be a just and effective leader.
His exile was a gambit by his patriarch to remove Genji from the arena of pointless court intrigues and develop him as a real leader. The patriarch dispatched a team of loyal praetorians to discreetly follow and protect Genji on his odyssey.
Genji was sent as an emissary to the Oort system. He must pass through the Martian-Saturnine corridor, populated with industrial trading guilds and their private militias.
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Genealogy becomes paramount in a closed culture; hierarchy by heredity. Reference the roman patrician class’ death-grip obsession with lineage, or the medieval Japanese imperial court’s strict intra-elite caste system.
But in an era of extreme genetic engineering, how can bloodlines retain their importance? Perhaps this is the wrong question. Perhaps in an era of extreme genetic engineering, authentic bloodlines can only retain their importance. The longevity of an unchanged gene line demonstrates success in evolutionary competition. Over time however, the fitness of a rigidly enforced and ‘sequestered’ gene line will degrade. Consider the hemophilia of the European royal strata.
I would not want the imperial court of the inner system to be pure blue bloods, eschewing genetic manipulation. Rather I would have them take the opposite tack – and embrace genetic engineering in the pursuit of perfecting particular socially valued or distinctive attributes; a roman nose, elongated refined fingers, even the possession of certain ‘noble’ afflictions (for ex., the aforementioned hemophilia as a sign of noble lineage).
The elites should pursue genealogy with the same passion and gusto as horse breeders; studs and mares and percentages of bloodlines, enforced and suppressed gene expressions, surrogates, and gene modes des saisons.
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a bum finds a the wallet and keys of a man who jumped from a bridge
he goes to his townhouse to find something to eat or steal
is impressed and overwhelmed with the man's townhouse
showers, eats, gets cleaned up, finds some clothes
is ready to leave when he helps a woman wrestling with groceries at her door
she thanks him, but looks stunned.
‘are you the man in #560? umm..i have lived here for 3 years and have never actually seen you. you seem to leave so early in the morning and get
home so late and keep to yourself.’
they spend 30 minutes talking, having a generally warm friendly encounter.
‘well, I am so glad to have finally met you. Hope to see you soon.’ As she closes her door, the bum turns to leave but pauses and thinks for a moment, then goes back into the man's townhouse
he pours through the man's papers and keepsakes and learns that the man has no family that he speaks with, no friends, lives off a well-endowed trust fund
and
the bum moves in and takes over the mans identity
he brings warmth and sincerity to the man's identity
what makes a hermit tick? what lengths do they go to to remove themselves from society? does it become a game to avoid contact, trying to become a shadow, a phantom? does society dissolve away as a mental force in their thoughts, atrophy away or does it become an amputated impression?
what divsion line stands between a hermit and convict in solitary? the hermit, by and large, chooses their isolation, the convict has it enforced upon them. at what point does the human need for society or socialization collapse? is there anything left that we can inspect and evaluate? a hermit, however, is able to maintain walls against the Great Other, which would imply that they are seeking refuge from the world. a schizo or an autistic will be physically surrounded by others but unable or incapable of making contact.
when does the will to contact die? what is left over? do humans require contact to retain our humanity? can you love and sacrifice in a vacuum?
what defines humanity? oooh, a big question...
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genetic engineering will continue to deconstruct the human species
there will be catastrophic disasters: gene sequence specific viruses engineered to attack 'types' of people. Der Genkampf
petroleum will be replaced- hydrogen-powered locomotion and green power (in the wealthy states). the poor states will continue to be held hostage to oil politics
(cultures and civilizations do not move forward uneringly. they spasticly jerk forward and fro, in clumps andgrains, never ever as a lemming death drive.)
developed economies will be netized. a new state structure will be needed to manage and dsitribute resources. the corporate structure, the commercial backbone of the capitalist democracy, will replace the republic. it is flexible to markets and political forces, insistent on accountability, it provides a sufficient compromise between individual representation and republican government. they will begin their political evolution as projects in community development. assurances of an educated workforce by charter education. assurances of uninterrupted utilities by running their own power/water etc. net-based marketplaces create corporate agoras. employees are in fact de facto citizens of the corporation. citizenship, or regular employment, will be a reward for merit, stock shares will count towards suffrage.
great corporate collectives will arise. housing, education, security...all the needs of the middle class will be absorbed in the corporate state. the tradtional state will cede roles and responsibilities to the corporate state as their resources dwindle. a few isolated violent reactions (military or legal)by the republics against the corporate states, but they will fail over time. against, or more so, in conjunction with the homogenized corporatsists wil be the diasporae, non-corporates will glom to other modes of networked alignment, ethnic allegiance will become stronger over time - as the chinese, indian, and jewish disporaestrengthen as a formula for a successful competition against/with the corporates.
the american state, succored by its overwhelming techo-military supremancy, loses its mission, its vision - substitutes will to dominate for will to excel - and falls into the deep narcotic, insulated slumber of the unassailable. GE, nano, and the banknote net weaken the mythic cohesion of the american spirit. we are no longer united by common experience (mass-mediated or otherwise) the promise of science to make us stronger, smarter, near immortal is held like a manifest destiny or a divine IOU for services rendered to humanity.
Something from wensday but just uploaded it today. I had one simple goal for this week, to get a picture with some colour and where he isn't facing straight on to me. I think it worked out.
Just out of view was my best friend, she was nice enough to throw the bumper for my dogs while I photographed. Poor her, I gave her pizza in repayment. She comes over every wensday after school, work permitting, and I go to her place every sunday: work permitting.
Leaning temple of Varanasi
From this angle, it is not obvious that this temple is leaning. A view from the water would show the angle better, make itin fact, it is partly submerged in the Ganges river.
This partly submerged temple dedicated to Lord Shiva is situated at the Scindia Ghat, in Varanasi
According to a legend, this Shiva temple was built by a king named Man Singh for his mother ‘Ratna Bai’ as repayment for everything his mother had done for him. Ratna Bhai did not like the idea, though. She cursed the temple saying nothing could repay what a mother does for a daughter or son. Due the curse, the temple leaned to eventually sink.
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Old Engine Shaft Engine House and stack nearest the camera New Engine Shaft engine house in the distance.
Wheal Trewavas is located on towering cliffs near Trewavas Head. The large engine houses are comparable to the Crown Engine Houses at Botallack Mine in Penwith. Unlike Botallack Wheal Trewavas is off the main tourist trail and much less well known.
Click here for more photographs of Wheal Trewavas: www.jhluxton.com/Industrial-Archaeology/Mines-of-Devon-Co...
Wheal Trewavas' history starts around 1834. The Mining Journal reported that profitable lodes were found by locals who fished in summer and mined in winter. Initial operations included a small pumping engine and a horse-powered whim to haul ore.
By 1836, the discovery of a significant copper lode resulted in an increase in employment and the acquisition of a new, larger pumping engine from Harvey & Co of Hayle. The mine shafts subsequently extended deeper and further out to sea.
Wheal Trewavas expanded in the 1840s, working four copper lodes and one tin lode beneath the seabed: Trewavas Old Lode, North Lode, Sowan Lode, and Nimble Cutter Lode. At its peak, the mine employed about 160 men underground and 40 bal-maidens above, all from the local area.
By 1842, the mine was making annual profits of £4000. It was about 70 fathoms (130 meters) deep. The conditions must have been daunting for the workers, being so far underground and under the sea.
Despite rumours of flooding and several fatal accidents, including the death of 16-year-old Henry Richards and a boiler explosion in December 1842, Wheal Trewavas did not close due to these incidents. A miner named Richard Gilbert was also accused of stealing ore, but this too was unrelated to the mine's closure.
There are numerous rumours and local legends regarding the sudden closure of Wheal Trewavas in 1846. However, it is highly unlikely that the cessation of operations was attributable to a shortage of profitable ore. Records indicate that between 1834 and 1846, the mine produced approximately 17,500 tons of copper ore, with an estimated value of over £100,000—equivalent to roughly £6 million today. Furthermore, it is believed that significant quantities of valuable metal remain unexploited within the mine.
What caused the owners to suddenly advertise the entire concern for sale in May 1846? Some suggest that, despite profits, the mine's financial affairs raised suspicion in 1845. Rumours indicated they were paying dividends with a bank overdraft. In December, before Trewavas closed, another shaft was sunk to 96 fathoms (175m), likely following another lode. However, the bankers demanded immediate repayment of £2000 from the overdraft, suggesting the owners didn't have the money; or did they...?
An oft-repeated tale tells of the mine being suddenly flooded during a shareholder dinner. Each year, a meal was set in the mine, deep beneath the sea. Recent excavations had brought them close to the sea floor, and water began leaking from the tunnel roof during final preparations. The waiters quickly retreated, and within minutes the mine was flooded, ruining the dinner.
The story does not end here. There is another reason that has been proposed for the closure of Wheal Trewavas, despite its continued production of valuable ore. It is believed that the owners might have owed money to the Duchy of Cornwall. The Royal Cornwall Gazette reported on December 9th 1859: ” . . . the celebrated Trewavas Mine which is said to have been abandoned in consequence of a dispute between the Lord and the Duchy, although it is well known that the lodes were rich at the time of stopping.”
It was suggested that the mine was deliberately flooded by Captains N and J Vivian in order to avoid paying the Duchy of Cornwall their backdated dues by concealing any evidence of the extent of the tunnels. This may also be why no plan of the mine survives either.
Captains N and J Vivian allegedly flooded the mine to hide the tunnels and avoid backdated payments to the Duchy of Cornwall, which may also explain the absence of any mine plans.
The mine equipment was advertised for sale by auction in 1846. Since then, the engine houses have stood silently on the cliffs they are now in the care of the National Trust. They are Grade II Listed.
View through the plug door of New Engine Shaft Engine House towards Old Engine Shaft Engine House.
Wheal Trewavas is located on towering cliffs near Trewavas Head. The large engine houses are comparable to the Crown Engine Houses at Botallack Mine in Penwith. Unlike Botallack Wheal Trewavas is off the main tourist trail and much less well known.
Click here for more photographs of Wheal Trewavas: www.jhluxton.com/Industrial-Archaeology/Mines-of-Devon-Co...
Wheal Trewavas' history starts around 1834. The Mining Journal reported that profitable lodes were found by locals who fished in summer and mined in winter. Initial operations included a small pumping engine and a horse-powered whim to haul ore.
By 1836, the discovery of a significant copper lode resulted in an increase in employment and the acquisition of a new, larger pumping engine from Harvey & Co of Hayle. The mine shafts subsequently extended deeper and further out to sea.
Wheal Trewavas expanded in the 1840s, working four copper lodes and one tin lode beneath the seabed: Trewavas Old Lode, North Lode, Sowan Lode, and Nimble Cutter Lode. At its peak, the mine employed about 160 men underground and 40 bal-maidens above, all from the local area.
By 1842, the mine was making annual profits of £4000. It was about 70 fathoms (130 meters) deep. The conditions must have been daunting for the workers, being so far underground and under the sea.
Despite rumours of flooding and several fatal accidents, including the death of 16-year-old Henry Richards and a boiler explosion in December 1842, Wheal Trewavas did not close due to these incidents. A miner named Richard Gilbert was also accused of stealing ore, but this too was unrelated to the mine's closure.
There are numerous rumours and local legends regarding the sudden closure of Wheal Trewavas in 1846. However, it is highly unlikely that the cessation of operations was attributable to a shortage of profitable ore. Records indicate that between 1834 and 1846, the mine produced approximately 17,500 tons of copper ore, with an estimated value of over £100,000—equivalent to roughly £6 million today. Furthermore, it is believed that significant quantities of valuable metal remain unexploited within the mine.
What caused the owners to suddenly advertise the entire concern for sale in May 1846? Some suggest that, despite profits, the mine's financial affairs raised suspicion in 1845. Rumours indicated they were paying dividends with a bank overdraft. In December, before Trewavas closed, another shaft was sunk to 96 fathoms (175m), likely following another lode. However, the bankers demanded immediate repayment of £2000 from the overdraft, suggesting the owners didn't have the money; or did they...?
An oft-repeated tale tells of the mine being suddenly flooded during a shareholder dinner. Each year, a meal was set in the mine, deep beneath the sea. Recent excavations had brought them close to the sea floor, and water began leaking from the tunnel roof during final preparations. The waiters quickly retreated, and within minutes the mine was flooded, ruining the dinner.
The story does not end here. There is another reason that has been proposed for the closure of Wheal Trewavas, despite its continued production of valuable ore. It is believed that the owners might have owed money to the Duchy of Cornwall. The Royal Cornwall Gazette reported on December 9th 1859: ” . . . the celebrated Trewavas Mine which is said to have been abandoned in consequence of a dispute between the Lord and the Duchy, although it is well known that the lodes were rich at the time of stopping.”
It was suggested that the mine was deliberately flooded by Captains N and J Vivian in order to avoid paying the Duchy of Cornwall their backdated dues by concealing any evidence of the extent of the tunnels. This may also be why no plan of the mine survives either.
Captains N and J Vivian allegedly flooded the mine to hide the tunnels and avoid backdated payments to the Duchy of Cornwall, which may also explain the absence of any mine plans.
The mine equipment was advertised for sale by auction in 1846. Since then, the engine houses have stood silently on the cliffs they are now in the care of the National Trust. They are Grade II Listed.
BNSF 2090 West leads CN L540 31 04 up to the WSS at Shantz Station to prepare for work, with CN 7025 trailing elephant style. The hph debt repayment agreement between BNSF and CN continues to persist into the winter months now, with many of the American geeps in Ontario starting to see some snow scenes after a warm last 2 months to 2023. Here's to a strong start to 2024!
Fotogruppe Netzwerk 55plus
Fototour Gerresheim Industriekultur
Die Siedlung Am Zollhaus in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
In Gerresheim kämpfte man mit der Wohnungsnot.
Ab 1928 errichtete die Bürohaus GmBH, die an vielen Düsseldorfer Bauprojekten beteiligt war, am Hang zum Torfbruch hin die „Reichsheimstättensiedlung Am Zollhaus“.
Hier entstand eine der bedeutendsten Düsseldorfer Siedlungen der zwanziger Jahre.
Ziel war es, Eigenheime zu errichten, die nicht mehr kosteten als eine Mietwohnung.
Der zu zahlende monatliche Betrag lag bei 54 Reichsmark (einschließlich Straßenreinigung und Tilgung), wobei sich der Betrag bei voranschreitender Tilgung verringerte. Die Häuser waren sehr schlicht gehalten, verfügten jedoch über ausreichende Sanitäranlagen und einen Garten zur Selbstversorgung. Das Projekt war äußerst erfolgreich, zumal die Nachfrage 3 mal höher lag als das Angebot. Der Düsseldorfer Kunsthistoriker Professor Jürgen Wiener sieht in ihr ein zu unrecht in der Öffentlichkeit vergessenes Wohnungsbauprojekt. Wie wichtig generell die Wohnungsprojekte der Weimarer Republik waren, verdeutlicht die Aufnahme mehrerer vergleichbarer Berliner Wohnanlagen in die Liste des UNESCO-Weltkulturerbes.
The Am Zollhaus settlement in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
In Gerresheim people struggled with the housing shortage.
From 1928, Bürohaus GmBH, which was involved in many Düsseldorf construction projects, built the “Reichsheimstättensiedlung Am Zollhaus” on the slope towards the peat quarry.
One of the most important Düsseldorf settlements of the 1920s was built here.
The aim was to build homes that cost no more than a rental apartment.
The monthly amount to be paid was 54 Reichsmarks (including street cleaning and repayment), with the amount decreasing as repayment progressed. The houses were very simple, but had sufficient sanitary facilities and a garden for self-sufficiency. The project was extremely successful, especially since demand was 3 times higher than supply. The Düsseldorf art historian Professor Jürgen Wiener sees it as a housing project that has been unfairly forgotten by the public. How important the housing projects of the Weimar Republic were in general is illustrated by the inclusion of several comparable Berlin residential complexes on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Elige la vida, elige un empleo, elige una carrera, elige una familia, elige un televisor grande que te cagas, elige lavadoras, coches, equipos de compact disc y abrelatas electricos. Elige la sal, colesterol bajo y seguros dentales, elige pagar hipotecas a interés fijo, elige un piso piloto, elige a tus amigos. Elige ropa deportiva y maletas a juego, elige pagar a plazos un traje de marca en una amplia gama de putos tejidos, elige el bricolaje y preguntate quién coño eres los domingos por la mañana, elige sentarte en el sofa a ver tele-concursos que embotan la mente y aplastan el espíritu, mientras llenas tu boca de puta comida basura, elige pudrirte de viejo, cagándote y meándote encima, en un asilo miserable, siendo una carga para los niñatos egoistas y hechos polvo que has engendrado para reemplazarte, elige tu futuro, elige la vida. Pero ¿porqué iba yo a querer hacer algo asi?. Yo eligí no elegir la vida, yo elegi otra cosa. ¿Y las razones?, ¡no hay razones!. ¿Quién necesita razones cuando tienes heroína?
From Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh.
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin?
De Trainspotting de Irvine Welsh.
Bizitza aukeratu, lanpostua aukeratu, karrera aukeratu, familia aukeratu, telebista benetan handia aukeratu, garbigailuak aukeratu, kotxeak, compact disk-ekipoak eta poto-irekigailu elektrikoak. Gatza aukeratu, kolesterol baxua eta hortzetako asegurua, interes-tasa finkoko hipotekak ordaintzea aukeratu, etxebizitza pilotua aukeratu, zure lagunak aukeratu. Kirolezko arropa eta ondo ematen duten maletak aukeratu, ehun-aukera lupu batetik markazko jantzi bat epetan ordaintzea aukeratu, brikolajea aukeratu eta ea nor demontre zaren galdeiozu zeure buruari goizetik igandero. Sofan esertzea, burua traketsen eta arima zapaltzen duten programak ikusteko, ahoa otordu laster lupuz betetzen duzun bitartean aukeratu.
A rather potted history surrounds this bus : New to Greater Manchester Transport in 1978 as 8007, this Leyland Fleetline with standard Northern Counties bodywork led a rather unremarkable life like its bretheren serving the public of Manchester and its environs. At deregulation in October 1986 the Manchester fleet was reduced in size by roughly 400 buses. 8007 was one that was withdrawn and it was filtered though the secondhand market by Kirkby Central, the dealer who was working with Greater Manchester to sell the redundant vehicles on.
Yorkshire Rider, which was the new trading name for the former West Yorkshire PTE fleet had rid itself of some of its newer vehicles as the leasing repayments were somewhat high and cost savings needed to be made in this brave new world of deregulation. To replace the vehicles sold, Rider purchased around forty former Manchester buses and aquired a good number of Fleetlines of which 8007 was one. She entered service with other similar specimens at Halifax depot, the Gardner 6LXB engine and semi-automatic gearbox being suited for the hilly terrain around the Calder valley.
She served her new owners well until 1994, when the newly former northern bit of the recently split GM Buses had a requirement for buses to work from a new operating base in Liverpool to counter act that cities operator, Merseybus encroaching on GM Buses Norths territory. Around a dozen vehicles sold by GM Buses at deregulation to Yorkshire Rider made their way back home across the Pennines for the new Merseyside venture. Since the buses had been sold, partial fleet renumbering had taken place to coincide with a new radio system being fitted and all 8xxx and 69xx numbered buses had been grouped together in a 4xxx series, hence 8007 became 4007.
After a truce had been called between the two waring operators, the Liverpool unit was closed and the buses returned home, being allocated where extra vehicles were required. The former LUT depot at Atherton received half a dozen or so and 4007 was one of them. The bus is seen at Hindley, Bird i'th Hand at the end of the long 38 service from Manchester still with a GMN Liverpool via blind fitted, though with the Liverpool lime green band replaced with standard grey.
Ants are essential to the life cycle of many 'blue' butterflies. The relationship begins after the caterpillars first moult and continues almost incessantly until the butterfly has emerged from the chrysalis. The caterpillars have organs which attract the ants and secrete honeydew and possibly other hormones which drive the ants wild. In repayment of this, the ants will protect the caterpillar from other carnivorous ants and parasitic wasps and this protection lasts around the clock. They will cover the caterpillars in earth over night to protect them. The chrysalis too gets protection and supplies amino acids for the ants and actually 'sings' to the ants. When the chrysalis is ready to open for the emerging butterfly it 'sings' again and the ants help it emerge and will guard it until the wings are fully pumped with blood and it is ready to fly away. True symbiosis in nature. It's well worth reading up on.
This should enlarge nicely for more detail.
Pakistan Kidney Sellers Association Chairman, 25-year-old Pakistani Iqbal Zafar (3R) and three other villagers, show their scars after they each sold a kidney to pay off debts in Sultan Pur, Pakistan. As the illegal kidney trade gets rampant in Pakistan, the country's legal experts are giving final touches to a draft law that will curb the dirty business said senior official on Sunday 29 January 2006. The money earned by the poor donors is used for a variety of purposes including marriages, house building, loan repayments, drug abuse or simply to have a good time. Many Pakistani hospitals, which provide transplant facilities, have hundreds of donors listed with them, offering a transplant to anyone who can pay 5,000 to 6,000 dollars. EPA/OLIVIER MATTHYS
Ancient Land Bridge and Legend
Scientists believe that about 1,000 years ago, a giant landslide from the north shore of the Columbia River blocked the Gorge and stopped the river’s flow. This natural dam created an inland sea in eastern Oregon, Washington, and into Idaho. Over time, water eroded the dam and created an awesome natural stone bridge. Eventually, this bridge fell, creating the Cascade rapids.
Native American legend also speaks of the creation and destruction of this natural bridge. The People of the Columbia River had great difficulty crossing the Columbia River. Manito, the Great Spirit, was sympathetic and build a stone bridge for them. This stone bridge, called the great crossover, was so important that Manito placed Loo-Wit, an old and wise woman, as its guardian.
Over time, the People began to fear that the bridge would wash away, and they appealed to the Great Spirit. Manito agreed to protect the bridge, and the grateful People gave it a new name, the Bridge of the Gods.
At about the same time, Manito also sent to earth his sons- three great snow mountains; Multnomah, the warrior (Mt. Rainier), Klickitat, the totem-maker (Mt. Adams), and Wyeast, the singer (Mt. Hood). All was peaceful until beautiful Squaw Mountain moved into a small valley between Klickitat and Wyeast.
Squaw Mountain grew to love Wyeast, but thought it great fun to flirt with Klickitat, his big, good-natured brother. Soon a rivalry sprang up between the two brothers over Squaw Mountain. They argued, growled, stomped their feet, spat ashes and belched great clouds of black smoke. Each hurled white-hot rocks, setting fire to the forests and driving the people into hiding. Finally, they threw so many stones onto the Bridge of the Gods and shook the earth so hard that the stone bridge broke in the middle and fell in the river.
Upon hearing this, Manito was angry and in punishment for the destruction of the bridge he caused a series of huge rapids to form in the river.
Meanwhile, Klickitat won the fight over Squaw Mountain and Wyeast admitted defeat. This was a severe blow to Squaw Mountain as she loved Wyeast. Though she took her place by Klickitat, her heart was broken, and she sank into a permanent deep sleep. She is known today as Sleeping Beauty and lies where she fell, just west of Mt. Adams.
When this happened, Klickitat had a high, straight head, like Wyeast. But Klickitat truly loved Squaw Mountain, and her fate caused him such grief that he dropped his head in shame and has never raised it again.
During the war Loo-Wit, the guardian of the bridge, tried to stop the fight but she failed and fell with it. The Great Spirit heard of her faithfulness and promised to grant her a wish. She asked to be made young and beautiful once more. However, being old in spirit she did not desire companionship. The Great Spirit granted Loo-Wit her wish. He turned her into the most beautiful of all the mountains and allowed her to settle by herself far to the west. She is now known as the youngest mountain in the Cascades, the beautiful and powerful Mt. St. Helens.
Modern Bridge
The Bridge of the Gods as it exists today was created in a much less dramatic fashion than the original bridge, but it sits in beautiful contrast to the powerful scenery of the Gorge. The cantilevered bridge is the third oldest bridge on the Columbia River.
In 1920, the US War Department issued a construction permit for the bridge to the Interstate Construction Corporation. By 1925, the company had managed only to construct one pier. Wauna Toll Bridge Company purchased Interstate’s interest in the bridge in October 1926 at a cost of $602,077. The finished structure has a cantilever main span of 707’9″, with 211’8″ anchor arms. The total cantilever structure length is 1,131 feet and overall bridge length is 1,858 feet, with a width of 35 feet. The original bridge had a wooden deck and was 91 feet above the river.
The 1938 completion of Bonneville Dam necessitated raising the bridge 44 feet to accommodate the rise in backwater. Congress allotted funding for the project which was completed in 1940 for $762,276.
In 1953, the Columbia River Bridge Company acquired the bridge and after 8 years of discussion, the Port of Cascade Locks Commission purchased the bridge with $950,000 in revenue bonds, issued on November 1, 1961. Today, the bridge is owned and operated by the Port of Cascade Locks. In 1966, the Commission authorized a second $300,000 revenue bond for re-decking, painting and construction of a new toll canopy.
Revenues from the bridge pay for maintenance, painting, inspections, and bond repayment. While the original cost to build the bridge was $602,077, today it would cost around $270 million to replace the bridge.
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It had been an ordinary sort of day for Mr Milk. He'd had to listen to the usual tales of woe from the struggling farmers who could not meet their repayments to his boss. Mr Milk always gave them extra time to pay, even covering their debts out of his own pocket. He knew just how hard it was to control the spiralling costs of unorthodox loans. However, this evening Mr Milk was even less talkative than usual; as his oldest friend and current drinking partner owed the syndicate heavily for his Mahjong addiction.
Tomorrow, after the hangover had started the real pain would begin. Mr Milk would have to take what meagre possessions his friend had and leave his family homeless. He did not want to tell his friend this evening. Let him enjoy his beer, for tomorrow he would be destitute, and if no funds were forthcoming, minus a couple of fingers.
Mr Milk did not enjoy his profession. He'd always wanted to be a magician.
Before Eastern State Penitentiary was conceived of or built, the roll of prisons were to simply house offenders until their punishment was decided and then carried out. Their sentence would come from the physical punishment -public whipping, branding, or hanging. Time spent in prison was certainly unpleasant, but not considered bad enough to constitute punishment or repayment to the public for their crimes.
In 1787 Benjamin Franklin founded the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons to promote prison reform from a system of punishment to a system with a focus on correction rather than punishment. The idea they promoted was based on a religious belief that everyone longed to be good. So, the idea was that criminals would be isolated for a period of time in order to force them to think about what they had done and how they could improve their lives. They were not to see or communicate with anyone for the duration of their sentence. Masks were placed over their head when they had to be moved and no communication of any kind was allowed. Many prisoners were punished for attempting to communicate by banging on pipes,etc. Care was taken by the wardens not to make noise or have contact with the prisoners even when food was delivered.
In 1822 construction of Eastern State Penitentiary, the first ever prison based on the idea of correction, was begun. It was finished in 1829. By 1836 prisons around the world were being reformed and remodeled to copy Eastern State's model which was called the "Pennsylvania System".
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All things taken into consideration, her life is a happy one.
I was bad compromise with her. I refused the money for college from the mother. I did not want to make the IOU to her. I was graduated from the University of Arts in scholarship and part-time-job. Repayment was the tough thing. However, across all of the cats Rainbow Bridge. The next.
Nene
New Engine Shaft Engine house with Old Engine Shaft engine house behind. Both are Grade II listed.
Wheal Trewavas is located on towering cliffs near Trewavas Head. The large engine houses are comparable to the Crown Engine Houses at Botallack Mine in Penwith. Unlike Botallack Wheal Trewavas is off the main tourist trail and much less well known.
Click here for more photographs of Wheal Trewavas: www.jhluxton.com/Industrial-Archaeology/Mines-of-Devon-Co...
Wheal Trewavas' history starts around 1834. The Mining Journal reported that profitable lodes were found by locals who fished in summer and mined in winter. Initial operations included a small pumping engine and a horse-powered whim to haul ore.
By 1836, the discovery of a significant copper lode resulted in an increase in employment and the acquisition of a new, larger pumping engine from Harvey & Co of Hayle. The mine shafts subsequently extended deeper and further out to sea.
Wheal Trewavas expanded in the 1840s, working four copper lodes and one tin lode beneath the seabed: Trewavas Old Lode, North Lode, Sowan Lode, and Nimble Cutter Lode. At its peak, the mine employed about 160 men underground and 40 bal-maidens above, all from the local area.
By 1842, the mine was making annual profits of £4000. It was about 70 fathoms (130 meters) deep. The conditions must have been daunting for the workers, being so far underground and under the sea.
Despite rumours of flooding and several fatal accidents, including the death of 16-year-old Henry Richards and a boiler explosion in December 1842, Wheal Trewavas did not close due to these incidents. A miner named Richard Gilbert was also accused of stealing ore, but this too was unrelated to the mine's closure.
There are numerous rumours and local legends regarding the sudden closure of Wheal Trewavas in 1846. However, it is highly unlikely that the cessation of operations was attributable to a shortage of profitable ore. Records indicate that between 1834 and 1846, the mine produced approximately 17,500 tons of copper ore, with an estimated value of over £100,000—equivalent to roughly £6 million today. Furthermore, it is believed that significant quantities of valuable metal remain unexploited within the mine.
What caused the owners to suddenly advertise the entire concern for sale in May 1846? Some suggest that, despite profits, the mine's financial affairs raised suspicion in 1845. Rumours indicated they were paying dividends with a bank overdraft. In December, before Trewavas closed, another shaft was sunk to 96 fathoms (175m), likely following another lode. However, the bankers demanded immediate repayment of £2000 from the overdraft, suggesting the owners didn't have the money; or did they...?
An oft-repeated tale tells of the mine being suddenly flooded during a shareholder dinner. Each year, a meal was set in the mine, deep beneath the sea. Recent excavations had brought them close to the sea floor, and water began leaking from the tunnel roof during final preparations. The waiters quickly retreated, and within minutes the mine was flooded, ruining the dinner.
The story does not end here. There is another reason that has been proposed for the closure of Wheal Trewavas, despite its continued production of valuable ore. It is believed that the owners might have owed money to the Duchy of Cornwall. The Royal Cornwall Gazette reported on December 9th 1859: ” . . . the celebrated Trewavas Mine which is said to have been abandoned in consequence of a dispute between the Lord and the Duchy, although it is well known that the lodes were rich at the time of stopping.”
It was suggested that the mine was deliberately flooded by Captains N and J Vivian in order to avoid paying the Duchy of Cornwall their backdated dues by concealing any evidence of the extent of the tunnels. This may also be why no plan of the mine survives either.
Captains N and J Vivian allegedly flooded the mine to hide the tunnels and avoid backdated payments to the Duchy of Cornwall, which may also explain the absence of any mine plans.
The mine equipment was advertised for sale by auction in 1846. Since then, the engine houses have stood silently on the cliffs they are now in the care of the National Trust. They are Grade II Listed.
I got eye problems and may not be as active on flickr that I would like right now so forgive me my friends if I did not leave any comments. I'm very grateful and happy for your visits, comments, faves and invitations. I repayment as soon as I get well. Hugs
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En 1976, la remuneración media de los máximos ejecutivos de las corporaciones estadounidenses era 36 veces superior al sueldo medio de un trabajador de la empresa; en 1989, era 71 veces, y en 2007, cada directivo recibió 275 veces más que la retribución que sus trabajadores, según las cifras de The Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy. Este mismo informe revela que entre 1996 y 2006 las retribuciones de los consejeros delegados crecieron un 45%, cuando el sueldo medio del trabajador estadounidense aumentó sólo un 7%.
El País
In 1976, the average remuneration of the maximum executives of the American corporations was 36 times average pay of a worker of the company; in 1989, it was 71 times, and in 2007, each director received 275 times more than the repayment than his workers, according to the numbers of The for Institute Policy Studies and for United to Fair Economy. This same report reveals that between 1996 and 2006 repayments of the delegated advisors grew a 45%, when the average pay of the American worker increased only a 7%.
I keep wanting to take more creative pictures, but they end up being more like magazine ads. Ah well .. go with the flow.
If any maker needs modeling or pictures I never charge. Simply message 'Sweetdiantha Resident'. My passion is doing for others without need for repayment.
This is a older item by CLBlue which you can find here > marketplace.secondlife.com/p/CLBlue-Betty-String-Swimsuit.... The textures in the HUD are mostly mine including the one in this picture. It was named 'Pink' in the HUD but its actual name is 'Candy Stripe'.
If you own this item, or buy it, here is an additional set of textures to use. Three different normals (5%, 10%, 15%), one diffuse and one specular. imgur.com/a/5qQ7XUR. You must use the specular with one of the three normals if you decide to use them.
The cheetah diffuse seems to have been removed from the HUD so adding it here for those to use in the Betty swimsuit or any other items they may like. Simply know that the provided textures are my work and are not public domain. By using the provided textures you agree that the textures are mine and that you have no rights to them besides personal use. They may not be included in anything for sale.
If you see the textures used in anything for sale simply message 'Sweetdiantha Resident' in-world.
How to use the cheetah diffuse : It was designed to be included in items at various angles, not simply as a non-angled tiled texture. So make sure you angle it when including it in items for the best look.
(In the photo I am wearing the 10% normal on the Candy Stripe)
The normal is perfect for emulating a textured shine or cloth.
"Major General Nathanael Greene Homestead at Twilight"
Coventry, RI
January 9, 2021
Major General Nathanael Greene:
Nathanael Greene was born at the Forge Grist Mill in Potowomut, Warwick R.I., July 27, 1742, to Nathanael a preacher in the Society of Friends and Mary (Mott) Greene.
Nathanael Jr. and his brothers were trained by their father as ironmasters. The family business at the forge prospered and this led to the establishment of a second ironworks in Coventry, ten miles from the Potowomut forge on the south branch of the Pawtuxet River. This business grew and by 1768 over 100 families lived in the vicinity of their Coventry forge. Nathanael made his home at the Coventry forge in 1770 and ran the family business. A setback occurred in 1772 when a fire destroyed the Coventry forge. Although efforts to rebuild were slow, the forge was eventually rebuilt. Today there is no evidence of a forge. An avid reader since boyhood, Nathanael actually had no formal education.
Nathanael believed that a war was inevitable between the colonists and the mother country, Britain. Because of this concern, he joined in the establishment of the Kentish Guards of East Greenwich. This military unit, organized by charter of the Rhode Island General Assembly, was trained by a British sergeant, a deserter, who Nathanael had persuaded to join the colonists' cause. On the evening of April 19, 1775, news of the British attack at Lexington reached Nathanael. Realizing the gravity of the situation, Greene mounted his horse and rode to East Greenwich where he joined other members of the Kentish Guard and marched onward to Boston. Soon after, the Rhode Island general Assembly appointed Greene, General of the Army of Observation. With a portion of this force, he joined the American troops besieging Boston. Six weeks later, Congress appointed Greene Brigadier General of the Continental Army. Later, he was named Major General.
As Quartermaster General and war strategist, Greene was involved in the major battles of the Revolution including Harlem Heights, Trenton, Brandywine, Valley Forge and Portsmouth Rhode Island. Following the defeat of Generals Lincoln and Gates in the south, Washington appointed General Greene to command the southern forces. Under this command came success at Eutaw Springs and Guilford Court House and the withdrawal of Lord Cornwallis to Virginia. As the war ended, General Greene and others received gifts of land tracts and Tory plantations from South Carolina and Georgia in appreciation for the defeat of Cornwallis. Among the holdings given Greene was Mulberry Grove, a plantation on the Savannah River in Georgia.
After the war ended, the Greenes faced with enormous debts incurred during the war from the letter of credit Nathanael had received to provide money for provisions for his troops. An agent sent to purchase the provisions absconded with the funds. The provisions had to be provided, so Greene pledged repayment expecting Congress to compensate him. The creditors' demands for reimbursements obliged the General to sell some properties. Congress did vote the funds but it was not until 1792 several years after Greene's death, that the matter was finally resolved.
In 1783, General Greene's family moved from Coventry to Newport for a brief time and then to Mulberry Grove. The Homestead in Coventry was signed over to his brother Jacob. In 1786, General Greene died of sunstroke while riding through his plantation. He was buried in the colonial cemetery of Christ Episcopal Church in the Graham vault in Savannah, Georgia. Later his remains were removed from the cemetery and re-interred in Johnson Square, Savannah Georgia.
The Homestead:
Built by Nathanael in 1770, the "Homestead" as it historically has been known, was originally called "Spell Hall" as it was indicated in one of Nathanael's letters. Constructed on the hillside, the site chosen for the Homestead was well sheltered on the west by natural woods. The land to the front sloped eastward as a terrace to the Pawtuxet River. Originally the house overlooked a broad area of open woodland meadow. The building is a well preserved 18th century structure of simple, yet refined design. Originally the site had 83 acres but at the time of the 1919 sale to the Homestead Association, it had been reduced to 13 acres of open space and woodlands. The 2 & 1/2 story structure is typical of it's time in design. Around the 1870's, the front door area was Victorianized with a bracketed hood and double window door. During the early 1920's, an 18th century door with appropriate trim was attached to the opening making it look as it would have in Nathanael's time. During the 1870's a fire started that burned up to the second floor in the vicinity of the door.
The two main floors of the home each consist of four rooms on either side of a central hall. The rooms on the first floor are dining room, parlor, library and kitchen - each having a paneled fireplace. The completely intact interior was first restored in the early 1920's with the establishment of the building as a museum. A second major restoration was accomplished in 1990 showing from then on a more correct perspective of the house when the Quaker family lived there. An extensive paint analysis was accomplished in the 1990 restoration giving now the earliest colors used throughout the 18th century home. The rooms on the second floor are what we feel they would have been there in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first bedroom on the right as you ascend the stairs might have been used by Nathanael and later his brother Jacob. The room diagonally across the hall might have been used by Jacob Varnum Greene, the son of Jacob and the bedroom on the right is decored Victorian style with wallpaper and lace curtains since the occupant, Elizabeth Margaret who was the daughter of Jacob Varnum, lived until 1899, the Victorian era. The fourth room is used now as a museum shop.
When Nathanael and Caty moved from Coventry, the house was purchased by Nathanael's brother Jacob. He and his wife Peggy continued to live there until they died and the same was true of the next two generations. Upon the death of Elizabeth Margaret, the property was inherited by the children of her first marriage, Patience and Harris Inman. In 1915 the home was sold out of the family. Showing great concern for the property, four members of the Kent County Chapter of the Rhode Island Sons of the American Revolution purchased the property in 1919, restored it and gave it the name we know today as the Nathanael Greene Homestead. the first caretaker, actually lived in the house but by 1935, a caretaker's cottage was built and is used to this day.
Just waitin' for the postie to arrive. I has just applied to Feline Bank for a credit card with a spending limit of at least a GAZILLION bucks! Handy eh? Just planning on how to spend all that dosh! If mi' credit score is not wonderful (and I doubt that it is) and they decline the application, Brushtail Mousie sez she knows a Fennec Foxie called Lucy who works at the bank, who will fix it for me (for a slice of the dosh of course!).
Since I is unemploid at the moment, I can't promise to make any repayments at the moment at least. I doubt if Feline Bank will go busticated anyways. They are one of the largest feline financial institutions on the planet! =^^=
8-)))))
A pair of borrowed Indiana Railroad SD9043MACs led Canadian Pacific train 281 as it departed Chicago for the Twin Cities.
For a small window of time, CP ran these things around the Midwest, apparently due to horsepower hour repayment. It ended just as fast as it began, but a sight such as this was a reason to get out of bed.
At the time, INRD 9008 was leased from CEFX; built in 2000 as CEFX 135, after the lease was up it was sold to Norfolk Southern who rebuilt it as SD70ACu 7337.
Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald. Based on the 1993 novel of the same title by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996.
The Academy Award-nominated screenplay by John Hodge follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life.
The soundtrack for Trainspotting has gone on to become a pop culture phenomenon. Nearly all of the score is pre-recorded music from existing artists. This score is divided into three distinct groups, all representing a different eras and styles: The first being pop music from the 1970s, by artists such as Lou Reed and Iggy Pop; who are all musicians closely associated with drug use and are referred to throughout the original novel. The second group is the music from the Britpop era in the 1990s, with bands Blur and Pulp. Finally, there is the techno-dance music from the 1990s, including Underworld, Bedrock and Ice MC. (From Wikipedia)
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : [narrating] "Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"
The epic finale song: youtu.be/iTFrCbQGyvM
Happy 25th anniversary, Trainspotting!
An aboriginal thunder god and the last survivor of Earth-7. As repayment for his salvation by Nix, the last Monitor, he formed a team of heroes from other dimensions to rescue him from the creatures that destroyed his home - the Justice League of the Multiverse, better known as Justice Incarnate!
I intended to make the whole team, but ran into some trouble with a few members. All that remained that I was truly happy with were Thunderer and Calvin Ellis. His spear is a little too long, but there aren't a lot of trans-light blue options for that sorta thing.
It is fabled that during the summer solstice the sun shines directly on the coffee machine at Costa*
* Other coffee outlets are available, terms and conditions apply, your home may be at risk if you do not keep up repayments.
White day (2015)
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White Day is a day that is marked in South Korea on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day.
In South Korea, White Day is also observed as a day for men to give women sweets, as a sort of repayment for the gifts women gave on Valentine's Day (usually of the chocolate variety).
30 St Mary Axe is a commercial skyscraper in London's primary financial district, the City of London. It was completed in December 2003 and opened in April 2004. With 41 floors, it is 180 metres tall and stands on the sites of the former Baltic Exchange and Chamber of Shipping, which were extensively damaged in 1992 in the Baltic Exchange bombing by a device placed by the Provisional IRA in St Mary Axe, a narrow street leading north from Leadenhall Street.
After plans to build the 92-storey Millennium Tower were dropped, 30 St Mary Axe was designed by Norman Foster and the Arup Group. It was erected by Skanska; construction started in 2001.
The building has become a recognisable landmark of London, and it is one of the city's most widely recognised examples of contemporary architecture. It won the 2003 Emporis Skyscraper Award.
The building stands on the site of the former Baltic Exchange (24–28 St Mary Axe), which was the headquarters of a global marketplace for shipping freight contracts and soft commodities, and the Chamber of Shipping (30–32 St Mary Axe). The tower's topmost panoramic dome, known as the "lens", recalls the iconic glass dome that covered part of the ground floor of the Baltic Exchange and much of which is now displayed at the National Maritime Museum. The Gherkin nickname was applied to the current building at least as early 1999, referring to the plan's highly unorthodox layout and appearance.
On 10 April 1992, the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb close to the Baltic Exchange, causing extensive damage to the historic building and neighbouring structures. The United Kingdom government's statutory adviser on the historic environment, English Heritage, and the City of London's governing body, the City of London Corporation, were keen that any redevelopment must restore the Baltic Exchange's old façade onto St Mary Axe. The Exchange Hall was a celebrated fixture of the shipping market.
English Heritage then discovered that the damage was far more severe than initially thought, and they stopped insisting on full restoration, albeit over the objections of architectural conservationists. The Baltic Exchange and the Chamber of Shipping sold the land to Trafalgar House in 1995. Most of the remaining structures on the Baltic Exchange site were then carefully dismantled, and the interior of Exchange Hall and the façade were preserved, hoping for a reconstruction of the building in the future. The salvaged material was eventually sold for £800,000 and moved to Tallinn, Estonia, where it awaits reconstruction as the centrepiece of the city's commercial sector.
In 1996, Trafalgar House submitted plans for the London Millennium Tower, a 386-metre building with more than 140,000 m2 of office space, apartments, shops, restaurants and gardens. This plan was dropped after objections that it was totally out-of-scale in the City of London, and anticipated disruption to flight paths for both London City and London Heathrow airports; the revised plan for a lower tower was accepted.
John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, granted planning permission on 23 August 2000 to construct a building on the site, which would be much larger than the old Exchange. The site needed development, was not on any of the "sight lines" (planning guidance requires that new buildings do not obstruct or detract from the view of St Paul's Cathedral dome when viewed from a number of locations around London), and had housed the Baltic Exchange.
The plan for the site was to reconstruct the Baltic Exchange. GMW Architects proposed a new rectangular building surrounding a restored exchange: it would have the type of large floor plan that banks liked. Eventually, the planners realised that the exchange was not recoverable, forcing them to relax their building constraints; they hinted that an "architecturally significant" building might obtain a favourable reception from City authorities. This gave the architect a free hand in the design. The building was designed according to the client's needs, rather than for the needs of a large, capital-efficient, money-making building.
The new building's low-level plan satisfied the planning authority's desire to maintain London's traditional streetscape, with its narrow streets. The massing of the tower was not too imposing. Like Barclays' former city headquarters in Lombard Street, the idea was that the passer-by in neighbouring streets would be nearly oblivious to the tower's existence until directly underneath it.
The building was constructed by Skanska, completed in December 2003 and opened on 28 April 2004. The primary occupant of the building is Swiss Re, a global reinsurance company, which had the building commissioned as the head office for its UK operation. The tower is thus sometimes known as the Swiss Re Building, although this name has never been official and has more recently fallen out of favour, since the company's main headquarters is in Zurich and the Gherkin name has become more popular.
The building uses energy-saving methods which allow it to use only half the power that a similar tower would typically consume. Gaps in each floor create six shafts that serve as a natural ventilation system for the entire building, even though required firebreaks on every sixth floor interrupt the "chimney". The shafts create a giant double glazing effect; air is sandwiched between two layers of glazing and insulates the office space inside.
Architects promote double glazing in residential houses, which avoids the inefficient convection of heat across the relatively narrow gap between the panes, but the tower exploits this effect. The shafts pull warm air out of the building during the summer and warm the building in the winter using passive solar heating. The shafts also allow sunlight to pass through the building, making the work environment more pleasing, and keeping the lighting costs down.
The primary methods for controlling wind-excited sways are to increase the stiffness, or increase damping with tuned/active mass dampers. To a design by Arup, its fully triangulated perimeter structure makes the building rigid enough without any extra reinforcements. Despite its overall curved glass shape, there is only one piece of curved glass on the building, the lens-shaped cap at the apex.
On the building's top level (the 40th floor), there is a bar for tenants and their guests, with a panoramic view of London. A restaurant operates on the 39th floor, and private dining rooms on the 38th. Most buildings have extensive lift equipment on the roof of the building, but this was not possible for the Gherkin, since a bar had been planned for the 40th floor. The architects dealt with this by having the main lift only reach the 34th floor, with a separate push-from-below lift to the 39th floor. There is a marble stairwell and a disabled persons' lift, which leads the visitor up to the bar in the dome.
The building is visible over long distances: From the north, for instance, it can be seen from the M11 motorway, some 32 kilometres away, while to the west it can be seen from the statue of George III in Windsor
In April 2005, a glass panel two thirds up the tower fell to the plaza beneath. The plaza was sealed off, but the building remained open. A temporary covered walkway, extending across the plaza to the building's reception, was erected to protect visitors. Engineers examined the other 744 glass panels on the building. The cost of repair was covered by main contractor Skanska and curtain-wall supplier Schmidlin (now called Schmidlin-TSK AG). The open-floor ventilation system did not operate as designed due to tenants adding glass partitions to increase security.
Since its completion, the building has won a number of awards for architecture. In October 2004, the architect was awarded the 2004 Stirling Prize. For the first time in the prize's history, the judges were unanimous. In December 2005, a survey of the world's largest firms of architects published in 2006 BD World Architecture 200 voted the tower as the most admired new building in the world. However, Ken Shuttleworth, who worked for Foster + Partners on the design of the building, said in 2011 that he believed the style was now out-moded: "I was looking at the glass all around and [thought], 'Why on earth did we do that?' Now we would do things differently". The building appeared in recent films such as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, A Good Year, Basic Instinct 2, and Match Point and, rechristened the Spirit of London, became the spaceship centrepiece of Keith Mansfield's 2008 novel Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London.
In September 2006, the building was put up for sale with a price tag of £600 million. Potential buyers included British Land, Land Securities, Prudential, ING, and the Abu Dhabi royal family. On 21 February 2007, IVG Immobilien AG and UK investment firm Evans Randall completed their joint purchase of the building for £630 million, making it Britain's most expensive office building. Swiss Re made a gain of more than £300 million from the sale. The new owners are seeking compensation from four of their former managers on the deal, in which about £620 million was paid for a building with a build cost of about £200 million, giving the previous owners a clear £300 million profit.
Since February 2010, Sky News has broadcast its flagship business programme, Jeff Randall Live, from a studio in the building. The top two floors of the tower have been available since at least 2015 for private hire for events.
Deloitte announced in April 2014 that the building was again being put up for sale, with an expected price of £550 million. The current owners could not afford to make loan repayments, citing differences in the value of the multi-currency loan and the British pound, high interest rates and general financing structure. In November 2014, the Gherkin was purchased for £700 million by the Safra Group, controlled by the Brazilian billionaire Joseph Safra.
"Major General Nathanael Greene's Homestead"
Coventry, RI
January 9, 2021
Major General Nathanael Greene:
Nathanael Greene was born at the Forge Grist Mill in Potowomut, Warwick R.I., July 27, 1742, to Nathanael a preacher in the Society of Friends and Mary (Mott) Greene.
Nathanael Jr. and his brothers were trained by their father as ironmasters. The family business at the forge prospered and this led to the establishment of a second ironworks in Coventry, ten miles from the Potowomut forge on the south branch of the Pawtuxet River. This business grew and by 1768 over 100 families lived in the vicinity of their Coventry forge. Nathanael made his home at the Coventry forge in 1770 and ran the family business. A setback occurred in 1772 when a fire destroyed the Coventry forge. Although efforts to rebuild were slow, the forge was eventually rebuilt. Today there is no evidence of a forge. An avid reader since boyhood, Nathanael actually had no formal education.
Nathanael believed that a war was inevitable between the colonists and the mother country, Britain. Because of this concern, he joined in the establishment of the Kentish Guards of East Greenwich. This military unit, organized by charter of the Rhode Island General Assembly, was trained by a British sergeant, a deserter, who Nathanael had persuaded to join the colonists' cause. On the evening of April 19, 1775, news of the British attack at Lexington reached Nathanael. Realizing the gravity of the situation, Greene mounted his horse and rode to East Greenwich where he joined other members of the Kentish Guard and marched onward to Boston. Soon after, the Rhode Island general Assembly appointed Greene, General of the Army of Observation. With a portion of this force, he joined the American troops besieging Boston. Six weeks later, Congress appointed Greene Brigadier General of the Continental Army. Later, he was named Major General.
As Quartermaster General and war strategist, Greene was involved in the major battles of the Revolution including Harlem Heights, Trenton, Brandywine, Valley Forge and Portsmouth Rhode Island. Following the defeat of Generals Lincoln and Gates in the south, Washington appointed General Greene to command the southern forces. Under this command came success at Eutaw Springs and Guilford Court House and the withdrawal of Lord Cornwallis to Virginia. As the war ended, General Greene and others received gifts of land tracts and Tory plantations from South Carolina and Georgia in appreciation for the defeat of Cornwallis. Among the holdings given Greene was Mulberry Grove, a plantation on the Savannah River in Georgia.
After the war ended, the Greenes faced with enormous debts incurred during the war from the letter of credit Nathanael had received to provide money for provisions for his troops. An agent sent to purchase the provisions absconded with the funds. The provisions had to be provided, so Greene pledged repayment expecting Congress to compensate him. The creditors' demands for reimbursements obliged the General to sell some properties. Congress did vote the funds but it was not until 1792 several years after Greene's death, that the matter was finally resolved.
In 1783, General Greene's family moved from Coventry to Newport for a brief time and then to Mulberry Grove. The Homestead in Coventry was signed over to his brother Jacob. In 1786, General Greene died of sunstroke while riding through his plantation. He was buried in the colonial cemetery of Christ Episcopal Church in the Graham vault in Savannah, Georgia. Later his remains were removed from the cemetery and re-interred in Johnson Square, Savannah Georgia.
The Homestead:
Built by Nathanael in 1770, the "Homestead" as it historically has been known, was originally called "Spell Hall" as it was indicated in one of Nathanael's letters. Constructed on the hillside, the site chosen for the Homestead was well sheltered on the west by natural woods. The land to the front sloped eastward as a terrace to the Pawtuxet River. Originally the house overlooked a broad area of open woodland meadow. The building is a well preserved 18th century structure of simple, yet refined design. Originally the site had 83 acres but at the time of the 1919 sale to the Homestead Association, it had been reduced to 13 acres of open space and woodlands. The 2 & 1/2 story structure is typical of it's time in design. Around the 1870's, the front door area was Victorianized with a bracketed hood and double window door. During the early 1920's, an 18th century door with appropriate trim was attached to the opening making it look as it would have in Nathanael's time. During the 1870's a fire started that burned up to the second floor in the vicinity of the door.
The two main floors of the home each consist of four rooms on either side of a central hall. The rooms on the first floor are dining room, parlor, library and kitchen - each having a paneled fireplace. The completely intact interior was first restored in the early 1920's with the establishment of the building as a museum. A second major restoration was accomplished in 1990 showing from then on a more correct perspective of the house when the Quaker family lived there. An extensive paint analysis was accomplished in the 1990 restoration giving now the earliest colors used throughout the 18th century home. The rooms on the second floor are what we feel they would have been there in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first bedroom on the right as you ascend the stairs might have been used by Nathanael and later his brother Jacob. The room diagonally across the hall might have been used by Jacob Varnum Greene, the son of Jacob and the bedroom on the right is decored Victorian style with wallpaper and lace curtains since the occupant, Elizabeth Margaret who was the daughter of Jacob Varnum, lived until 1899, the Victorian era. The fourth room is used now as a museum shop.
When Nathanael and Caty moved from Coventry, the house was purchased by Nathanael's brother Jacob. He and his wife Peggy continued to live there until they died and the same was true of the next two generations. Upon the death of Elizabeth Margaret, the property was inherited by the children of her first marriage, Patience and Harris Inman. In 1915 the home was sold out of the family. Showing great concern for the property, four members of the Kent County Chapter of the Rhode Island Sons of the American Revolution purchased the property in 1919, restored it and gave it the name we know today as the Nathanael Greene Homestead. the first caretaker, actually lived in the house but by 1935, a caretaker's cottage was built and is used to this day.
My morning walk along the seafront this morning. Sun, sea and taking some fun piccies.
Building began on this 1760 foot pier in 1891 and it opened on 20th May 1899. The designer was R.St.George Moore. A 1500 seat theatre at the seaward end opened on 3rd April 1901 and there were smaller pavilions for dining, smoking and reading. Ornamental archways carried illuminations. A tramway was used in the construction of the pier in 1899-1901 but was dismantled upon its completion. Construction had cost a record £137,000 and taken 10 years to complete. A pavilion/winter garden was added to the centre of the pier in 1910 followed a year later by a steamer landing stage. The pier was extended in 1938 but was temporarily sectioned as a war precaution in 1940.
After being re-opened after the war, the pier continued to prosper although there were was little significant change until 1973 when a barge being used during demolition of the unused landing stage drifted into the pier causing £100,000 of damage in October 1973. The theatre was closed and the landing stage was wrecked, finally being completely demolished in 1975.
The Noble Organisation took over the pier in March 1984. They dismantled the theatre in 1986, on condition that it would go into storage for eventual restoration. However, it is not now known what happened to the theatre’s remains, which has given rise to protests from the Theatres Trust and other bodies. The site of the theatre is now occupied by a large amusement and pleasure dome.
A £20 million expansion plan announced in 1995 never actually came to fruition although some enhancements, including a Ferris wheel, were introduced. In February 2000, a fire destroyed a number of the amusement rides but new rides were introduced in the summer of that year.
By 2007, several new high ‘thrill’ rides had been introduced, , and new facilities, including a food court,were opened.
The pier continued to thrive under the stewardship of the Noble Organisation, although their decision to rename the pier as simply ‘Brighton Pier’ rather than retaining the full name as ‘Brighton Palace Pier’ was opposed by the National Piers Society.
Then, in a shock announcement made on 30 June 2011, the Noble Organisation revealed that it was putting the pier on the market. The news had been leaked to The Guardian the previous day and was subsequently covered in the rest of the national papers. Purchase by Brighton & Hove Council was quickly ruled out and Leeds-based consultants, GVA Humberts Leisure, were engaged to handle the sale. A worldwide search for prospective buyers was mounted and the asking price was thought to be in excess of £30 million.
At the same time, a campaign was mounted by the local Argus newspaper to have the pier’s name restored to the original ‘Brighton Palace Pier’
Then in October 2012, the pier was taken off the market and the pier’s owners, the Noble Group, said that despite a lot of interest from potential buyers, “… a change in strategy led us to conclude the pier will now form part of the longer term group plans.”
February 2015 – Call for improvements to Brighton Palace Pier
In February 2015, a hard hitting artice in the local press criticised the way the pier had been managed by the tghen owners, the Noble Organisation, and called for them to work with tghe local council and the public to bring about improvements to the pier.
May 2015 – Accident on the pier as decking slat gives way
A young lady was injured in May 2015 when her leg went through the pier decking when one of the slats collapsed beneath her. Megan Wood was taken to the local hospital and was not found to have broken any bones but it was thought might have received some nerve damage. The pier’s General Manager said that an investigation by their health and safety consultant had satisfied them that was an isolated incident, although it was reported that a similar incident had in fact occurred the previous May.
June 2015 – Former pop star seeks that seaside sound
In June 2015, Martyn Ware, former member of the Human League pop group, took part in a unique National Trust/British Library mapping project to capture the sounds of the British coastline. Mr Ware recorded the various different sounds from rides, slot machines and people on the pier and later continued on the beach.
August 2015 – Brighton Palace Pier is officially the fifth most visited free attraction in the country.
In August 2015, Official figures release by VisitEngland showed that Brighton Palace pier was the fifth most visited free attraction in the UK, having attracted 4,5million visitors in 2014.
April 2016 – Brighton Pier sold for £18m to ex-Pizza Express boss
In April 2016, it was announced that Brighton Palace Pier had been sold for £18m to the Eclectic Bar Group, chaired by former Pizza Express entrepreneur Luke Johnson in which the group had entered into a conditional agreement to buy Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Company.
April 2016 – Campaign for the return of ‘Palace Pier’
The Grade II* listed Brighton Marine Palace and Pier, which cost £27,000 to build, opened in 1899 and replaced the old chain pier, dating from 1823. The Eclectic Bar Group announced its acquisition of The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Company in April. The previous owners had insisted on renaming the pier as just ‘Brighton Pier’ but for many it always remained the ‘Brighton Palace Pier’ Following the change of ownership, hopes were voiced that the new owners would agree to reintroduce the word ‘Palace’ into the piers’s name
April 2016 – A spirited defence of Brighton’s Pier
Also in April, a sneering attack on Brighton’s Pier by the managing director of the city’s Fringe Festival that the pier catered to the wrong class of people, ie. you and me, who like fish and chips, rock and having a jolly time rather than the more highbrow, cultural pursuits, was firmly rebutted in a Guardian article.
June 2016 – An analysis of Brighton Pier Group shares
In June 2016, the Telegraph published a detailed analysis on the likely returns on investments in Brighton Pier Group shares. Their recommendation was to excercise caution pending the results of an underwater survey.
June 2016 – Filming of TV police drama underway at Brighton Palace Pier
Also in June, armed police officers were seen near the Palace Pier, but it turned out to be just filming for the ITV drama The Level.
July 2016 – NPS welcomes Brighton Palace Pier name change
The following month, the National Piers Society welcomed the decision by the new owners to use the original name of the pier, which was changed in 2000. A spokesman for the society said: “We are delighted that the new owners have recognized the strength of feeling demonstrated in the campaign to have the name Palace restored. The previous owners, in a fit of pique, erected the sign Brighton Pier directly facing the West Pier, an action which infuriated local residents and pier historians alike. The society looks forward to working with managing director Anne Martin and her team in this new era for the UK’s most popular pier.”
Entries soon began to flood in to the competition to design a sign for the newly re-named pier.
September 2016 – Brighton Pier owners are back in profit
Eclectic reported a pre-tax loss of £6.2m for the year ending in June 2015, but the annual result published in September 2016 showed a swing to a modest pre-tax profit of £47,000, aided by a £2.3m contribution from its bar division, partly as a result of students mid-week visits.
October 2016 – Fantastic virtual tour of Brighton Pier
Mark Thorley, events and marketing manager for Brighton Pier, narrated the video and shared some of the Pier’s rich history which dates back over 117 years.
November 2016 – Brighton’s Palace Pier reveals plans for the future
In November 2016, ITV News reporter Andy Dickenson had an exclusive interview with the managing director of Brighton Palace Pier, Anne Martin. Anne said that although the heritage aspects of the pier were very important this had to be balanced with the expectations of visitors on what a traditional seaside pier should offer. Investment in maintenance was crucial but the new owners would also be providing new children’s features and developing the restaurant facilities on the pier.
November 2016 – Restoration works begin on Brighton’s Volk’s Railway
Also in November, work began on the major restoration of the Volks Railway which runs along Brighton seafront from the pier to Black Rock. Opened in 1883, it is the world’s oldest electric railway and the first public electric railway in Britain.
January 2017 – Palace Pier set to make a historic return to Brighton!
In January 2017, the new design for the main entrance sign for the pier with the word Palace brought back was finally revealed. The new design was chosen from hundreds of entries. The winning design was by Lucy Williams of Five Ways Brighton, who also created the Open Market sign.
February 2017 – New ride based on the i360 takes off at pier
February 2017 saw the i-220, a new ride based on the i-360 tower, introduced on the Palace Pier. However, this ride would only be taking visitors to the somewhat lower height of eight metres. This would be the first of three new children’s attractions at the pier, including the return of the Dolphin Derby.
February 2017 – New fun bus celebrates pier’s rich history
Also in February, a new brightly coloured bus designed to reflect the attractions on the pier, entered service on a variety of city routes.
March 2017 – Grand plans for Palace Pier revealed as it opens Brighton’s largest soft play area
March 2017 saw an announcement by the new owners of the Palace Pier of their plans to revamp its bars and fish and chip restaurant as part of a long term overhaul of the attraction. Since taking over the pier, they have replaced some older attractions with new features and opened a new soft play area and cafe in The Dome. Further improvements were also planned.
April 2017 – Palace Pier in top 4 of Britain’s top free attractions
In April 2017, in a survey of 1,000 UK adults by National Express, the Palace Pier was voted the fourth most favourite free attraction in the country, behind the Lake District, the Peak District Hills, and Snowdonia.
May 2017 – Pier to have its own walk of fame for stars of music scene
In May 2017, it was reported that the Palace pier would be getting its own Walk of Fame as a tribute to the region’s many musicians, artists, composers and DJs from the early Sixties to the present day. David Courtney, chief executive of Walk of Fame Ltd, said: “It will be a great addition to the city’s culture, allowing the stars of yesterday and today to be paid tribute to in a very public and memorable way.”
August 2017 – Palace Pier Britain’s most visited tourist attraction outside London
In August 2017, the annual survey of visitor attractions conducted by Visit Britain found that the Palace Pier was the most visited tourist attraction outside London, with an estimated 4,650,000 people visiting the pier in the previous year.
September 2017 – Bumper year for Brighton Pier Group
In the company’s first full 12 months of trading since buying The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier Company, chairman Luke Johnson said the iconic landmark benefited from the extensive experience of the Anne Martin-led management team.
October 2017 – Brighton Palace Pier boss wins BACTA Award!
Anne Martin who was made chief executive officer of The Brighton Pier Group plc in June, received the British Amusement Catering Trade Association (Bacta) Community Award.
April 2018 – Putting the Palace back into Brighton Pier!
In April 2018, the owner of the pier, Luke Johnson, who had announced in 2016 that he would return the word Palace to its rightful place in the name of the attraction, released the first images of plans for the new BRIGHTON PALACE PIER sign.
June 2018 – Brighton Palace Pier boss offers to run i360
June 2018 saw businessman and Palace Pier boss, Luke Johnson, call on Brighton city chiefs to refuse the i360’s request to delay repayment of £6 million loans. Mr Johnson outlined what he regarded as an unsustainable financial development and suggested that he could take over management of the facility.
June 2018 – Palace Pier gets its new signage!
Also in June, the pier finally regained its full name of Brighton Palace Pier, after many years of being called just Brighton Pier by previous owners, as new signage went up above the entrance, restoring the much-loved attraction’s original name.
July 2018 – Brighton Palace Pier makes top ten amusement park list!
The following month, the pier achieved the distinction of being ranked number eight in the country in TripAdvisor’s 2018 Travellers’ Choice Awards, with visitors praising the pier as “beautiful” and “stunning” and saying it had “something for everyone”.
January 2019 – Profits fall at Brighton Palace Pier
Anne Ackord, Brighton Pier Group’s chief executive, blamed bad August bank holiday weather and engineering work on the London-Brighton train line for causing a significant dip in visitors to the famous pier.
March 2019 – Brighton Palace Pier mislay their forklift trucks!
Two forklift trucks fell from Brighton Palace Pier. The two vehicles were being used for ongoing steelworks on the pier when they both fell into the water.
April 2019 – Investigation opens into ride incident at Brighton Palace Pier
One person was injured when part of a fairground ride on Brighton Palace Pier came loose and hit them. Pier chief executive Anne Ackford said part of the Air Race ride had become detached and had struck a passer-by.
May 2019 – Brighton Palace Pier in top ten most instagrammable spots in the UK!
Brighton Marina was named as the most Instagrammable place in the UK by Google. Brighton’s famed pier also appeared in the list at number five, while Oxford University took the second spot and was followed by London’s Tower Bridge.
July 2019 – Brighton Palace Pier makes TripAdvisor top ten!
The Palace Pier and its theme park, often regarded as one of the most popular tourist hotspots in the UK, earned a ranking on this list.
September 2019 – Revenue rises at Brighton Palace Pier
The pier saw revenue up £200,000 to £14.7m following its first full year of trading since the upgrade of the restaurant and bars the previous year, while its conference and events business was up 37% year-on-year. Arcades and catering sales were up £600,000; however, rides and retail were disrupted or closed by high winds and rain, meaning EBITDA was down £300,000 versus the previous year.
October 2019 – A look-back at Brighton Palace Pier during its 120 year history
A look through some memorable photos from the history of the Palace Pier during its 120th anniversary .
November 2019 – Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a record-breaking flying iron man at Brighton Palace Pier!
A test pilot set a new world speed record by flying in a jet suit at 85.06mph alongside Brighton Pier. Mr Browning, the founder and chief test pilot of Gravity Industries, which designs, builds and flies jet suits, said: “I’m really very pleased, very chuffed – it’s the fastest I’ve ever been, even in training. Having Brighton Pier there, flying by an iconic landmark was really special”.
December 2019 – Sustainability on the agenda as Brighton Palace Pier goes green!
In December, it was reported that the Brighton Palace Pier was going green with big changes affecting packaging, the power supply and the way that waste was dealt with. They had put their names to a staff Team Charter to help the pier to become more sustainable – and just as the first pier’s vegan food outlet was opening for business.
December 2019 – Stone groyne next to Brighton Palace Pier collapses in storms
In December, Brighton council cordoned off the area around the Albion groyne, which dates from 1880 and was formerly used as a coal delivery pier.
Source: piers.org.uk/pier/brighton-palace/
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16 HE SAW THAT THERE WAS NO MAN,
AND WONDERED THAT THERE WAS NO ONE TO INTERCEDE;
THEN HIS OWN ARM BROUGHT HIM SALVATION,
AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS UPHELD HIM.
17 HE PUT ON RIGHTEOUSNESS AS A BREASTPLATE,
AND A HELMET OF SALVATION ON HIS HEAD;
HE PUT ON GARMENTS OF VENGEANCE FOR CLOTHING,
AND WRAPPED HIMSELF IN ZEAL AS A CLOAK.
18 ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS, SO WILL HE REPAY,
WRATH TO HIS ADVERSARIES, REPAYMENT TO HIS ENEMIES;
TO THE COASTLANDS HE WILL RENDER REPAYMENT.
19 SO THEY SHALL FEAR THE NAME OF THE LORD FROM THE WEST,
AND HIS GLORY FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN;
FOR HE WILL COME LIKE A RUSHING STREAM,
WHICH THE WIND OF THE LORD DRIVES.
20 “AND A REDEEMER WILL COME TO ZION,
TO THOSE IN JACOB WHO TURN FROM TRANSGRESSION,” DECLARES THE LORD.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Is 59:16–20.
59:16 In context (vv. 1–15), the description of sinfulness in the land shows how depraved the nation had become and how far it had strayed from God. Isaiah did not excuse himself from this picture (6:5); “no man,” not even the prophet, was standing up against injustice and ungodliness and interceding for the sinful community. The “man” God looked for, but did not find, could be (1) a righteous king like Hezekiah, (2) some other leader, besides Isaiah, who might respond to His messages through the prophet, or (3) no “man” at all, since the nation’s problems were beyond human solution and God must bring salvation Himself (vv. 16–21).
Ted Cabal et al., The Apologetics Study Bible: Real Questions, Straight Answers, Stronger Faith (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2007), 1073–1074.