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Does Donald Trump TRULY UNDERSTAND Why Some African Americans Continue Struggling In 2017?
I am curious to learn if Renegade Republican Donald Trump, as well as many of my American neighbors, TRULY UNDERSTAND why significant numbers of perfectly healthy American newborns who begin life with a perfectly healthy, clean hard drive mounted above their shoulders...
...mature into depressed, angry, frustrated sometimes violent teens and adults engaging in homicidal and/or suicidal (NY Times May 18, 2015 - Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers) behaviors that frequently harms or seriously impairs the Quality of Life for their peaceful neighbors and community?
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Tagged: #JamylaBolden, #TyshawnLee, #JulieDombo, #ChildhoodTrauma, #ChildAbuse, #FatherlessAmericanChildren, #ShamirHunter, #ChildMaltreatment, #ChildhoodDepression, #TeenDepression, #TeenViolence, #GangViolence, #GunViolence, #CommunityViolence, #CommunityFear, #PoliceAnxiety, #TeacherEducatorFrustration, #CognitiveDissonance, #MentalHealth, #MentalIllness, #PTSD, #DemeaningGovernmentHandouts, #Resentment, #MATERNALRESPONSIBILITY, #KendrickLamar, #TupacShakur, #Obama, #T_H_U_G_L_I_F_E, #A_F_R_E_C_A_N,
"America’s Firm Resolve to End Childhood Abuse and Neglect”
Are you familiar with America's current HEALTH CRISIS, aka America's #T_H_U_G_L_I_F_E Culture of African American Child Abuse & Emotional Neglect/Maltreatment the late American story-TRUTH-teller Tupac Shakur, as well as many of his urban story-truth-teller peers, including a number of Mr. Barack “My Brother’s Keeper” Obama and Mrs. Michelle "Girl Power" Obama White House guests and friends, vividly describe in their American artistry or public interviews?
"The Hate U Give Little Infants Fvvks Everyone" ~Tupac Shakur
Are you aware of the #A_F_R_E_C_A_N remedy for the #T_H_U_G_L_I_F_E HEALTH CRISIS experienced, through no fault of their own, by significant numbers of American children and teens?
"America’s Firm Resolve to End Childhood Abuse and Neglect”
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"America’s Firm Resolve to End Childhood Abuse and Neglect”
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
Type 4 Personality: The Romantic. The Artist.
What I Like About Being a Four:
>My ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
>My ability to establish warm connections with people
>Admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
>My creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
>Being unique and being seen as unique by others
>Having aesthetic sensibilities
>Being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
What's Hard About Being a Four:
>Experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
>Feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
>Feeling guilty when I disappoint people
>Feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
>Expecting too much from myself and life
>Fearing being abandoned
>Obsessing over resentments
>Longing for what I don't have
Antwerp/Antwerpen/Anvers
Belgium/Belgie/Belgique
March 9, 2011
Antwerp is a most cosmopolitan city. There seems to be a certain indescribable ennui throughout much of Belgium- but not in Antwerp. There is a causal sophistication here. Unlike Bruges, which is stuck in time, and Brussels which seems to have lost its identity in its role on the international stage, Antwerp is vibrating through another golden age.
The area has been settled at least since the Roman era, but really rose to prominence in the 1500’s after the Zwin River silted up and Bruges’ economy collapsed. If Bruges was an incredibly prosperous port whose realm of trade stretched throughout medieval Europe and the Levant, Antwerp was a port of intercontinental scale- one of the first such ports in the world. As part of the Spanish Empire, it brought in goods from as far as the Americas and Asia. Some sources say that in the early 1500’s, Antwerp saw up to 40 percent of global trade, and was one of the largest cities in Europe.
This, of course, is where the city’s cosmopolitanism originated. Merchants from across Europe set up shop in Antwerp, and the spirit of tolerance inherent in most port cities attracted a large population of orthodox Jews. And, as always, wealth attracted the arts, including some of the most prominent painters and musicians of the Northern Renaissance.
Despite this boom period, there was a great underlying tension rising. The Low Countries became swept up by the Protestant Reformation and by a growing resentment of Spanish rule. Violence erupted in 1566, with the Iconoclastic Fury, in which Protestants ransacked towns and churches, destroying Catholic icons. A reason why many Medieval churches in Belgium have interiors adorned in the style of the Renaissance and the Baroque is that so many of the items made before 1566 were lost. The fiercely Catholic Spanish came down hard, and thus began the Eighty Years’ War which resulted in the independence of the Netherlands.
As a city at the heart of the Dutch Revolt, Antwerp suffered mightily. In November of 1576, Spanish troops sacked the city, plundering property and killing 6,000 residents - an event which became known the “Spanish Fury”. In 1585, Spain took full control of Antwerp and expelled the Protestants to the north. The population was reduced by half, and Amsterdam became the new center of international trade.
After this, the city fell into a long period of decline and was revived only in the early 19th century, when Napoleon invested in upgrading the long-neglected port (which the British attempted to capture in a disastrous campaign). In the 1890’s, Antwerp hosted a World’s Fair, and in 1920, the Olympics. The city was heavily damaged by German bombs in WW2, but today is on the rise once again- today ranking among the top 20 of busiest ports in the world- certainly larger than the port of New York. Standing on the bank of the River Scheldt, one can see shipping facilities stretching to beyond the horizon.
And once again, Antwerp is a cosmopolitan place. There is a diverse immigrant community, the arts have returned, and the city is taking a seat among the most prominent fashion centers of the world. 80 percent of the world’s rough diamonds pass through its diamond markets (unfortunately though, this includes many blood diamonds).
In short, there is a lot of action here. By day, the streets bustle with a certain vibrancy and lust for life. By night, bars and restaurants host a sophisticated conviviality. It feels like a new city.
It’s interesting how history works though. Walking at dusk through the Grote Markt, with its magnificent Golden Age houses of trade, under the sublime carillon of the Cathedral, you realize that, though the faces and much of the cityscape have changed, it is, in essence, the same city it was half a millennium ago.
Joseph Keynes took up the land in 1841 and his descendants still live and farm in the area. Joseph Keynes (1810-1883) was the eldest son of a Congregational minister in southern England. He was educated by his father and wanted to become a farmer. His father Richard wrote to George Fife Angas in 1838 seeking information on South Australia. Angas offered Joseph the position of overseer of his stock in South Australia. Joseph accepted, arrived in 1839 and managed the farm at Flaxman's Valley for Angas. In 1841 he leased property which became Keyneton Estate. His partnership with Angas was dissolved in 1843 and Keynes declared his bankruptcy in 1846, leaving Angas with £9000 in debts, great resentment and injured pride. But by 1850 the once despairing farmer had become a member of the 'squattocracy', with land in the Barossa Ranges, the Wakefield River valley and at Mount Remarkable. Keynes systematically amassed thousands of acres, wealth and social respect, being a member of the North Rhine District Council from its formation in 1873 to 1883. He died in 1883 at Lockleys and his son Richard took over the property. In 1884 Keynes had married Margaret Ruth Shannon of nearby Moculta.
The 12-year-old Dickens began working ten hour days in a Warren's boot-blacking factory, located near the present Charing Cross railway station. He earned six shillings a week pasting labels on the jars of thick polish. This money paid for his lodgings in Camden Town and helped him to support his family. The shocking conditions of the factory made an ingrained impression on Dickens.
After a few months, his family was able to leave Marshalsea, but their financial situation did not improve until later, partly due to money inherited from his father's family. Dickens's mother did not immediately remove him from the boot-blacking factory, owned by a relation of hers, and he never forgave her for this. Resentment of his situation and the conditions under which working-class people lived became major themes of his works, championing the causes of the poor and oppressed. As Dickens wrote in David Copperfield, judged to be his most patently autobiographical novel, "I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind,
Französisch Buchholz in the Berlin borough of Pankow, is a district that developed from an earlier settlement in the 13th century and became known as Buchholz. It got its current name because numerous Huguenot families, religious refugees from France, settled here at the end of the 17th century.
By about 1750, the name Französisch Buchholz had become established and the village had become a popular destination for Berliner day trippers.
Because of anti-French resentment in the run-up to the First World War, the district changed its name to Berlin-Buchholz in 1913 and was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920.
At the end of the Second World War, Buchholz became part of the Soviet sector of Berlin. After reunification and with some local pressure, the district became Französisch Buchholz again on 30th May 1999, thus after 86 years, regaining its former name.
Returning from Germany’s eastern front in 1918, Menne Spiegel is decorated with the Iron Cross. Twenty-five years later, living as a popular horse merchant in Westphalia, he’s branded with a different insignia: the Star of David. On the eve of a mass deportation of Jews, Spiegel seeks out his old comrade Heinrich Aschoff, a Catholic farmer with a conscience, who instantly agrees to shelter Spiegel’s wife Marga and daughter Karen at his farm despite the risk to his own family. Based on the real Marga Spiegel’s best-selling memoir, Saviors in the Night relates the extraordinary story of the two families’ perilous years together, and with a forthrightness befitting the salt-of-the-earth Aschoff family (later recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial for their death-defying act of compassion). Dutch director Ludi Boeken (Other Face of Terror, SFJFF 1986) captures the characters’ vulnerability as they endeavor to escape detection—rarely has a handheld camera felt more appropriate in a historical drama where a child’s thoughtless remark might mean a death sentence. The Aschoffs’ rural village isn’t as malignant as the one in Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, but the good deeds of the few are undermined by neighbors’ whispers and resentment. Moreover, family bonds are tested, as the Aschoffs must justify their act of courage to a daughter whose friends have joined the Hitler Youth and a son who is fighting on the front. With outstanding performances and a riveting conclusion, Saviors in the Night delivers a powerful message about the price—and rewards—of altruism. This is an extraordinary feature film that powerfully records one memorable instance of moral courage under desperate conditions.—Max Goldberg
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2014 Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival
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news clippings ;
Bell Canada Union Busters - Apr 2004 - Bell Canada Toronto has turned its back on telecommunication telephone workers in Atlantic Canada and tried starving out 4300 striking telephone employees in a legal strike that has lasted 5 months while local Supervisors and scab labor try to cope ?
The marathon strike is finally over ? 4300 exhausted Bell Aliant employees from all 4 Maritime Provinces will finally return to work on Sept 16th 2004 after spending 5 months eating road dust on the picket line ?
www.itbusiness.ca/news/telco-union-ends-five-month-strike...
Bell Let's Talk ? Abandoning your telephone workers, refusing to talk to them, and leaving them out on the Street for 5 Months does not contribute to good mental health ? And, U Ottawa Scotty suggests that the internet, phones and the Social media are also all taking a heavy toll on the mental health and well being of today's society and so maybe there's some hypocrisy shown here by such a major profiteer of this phenomenon ? www.youtube.com/shorts/31f3sZndK6w
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51844732131/in/album-7...
MONTRÉAL, Jan. 6, 2020 - a hatchet-man this way comes ? Bell welcomes Mirko Bibic as the new President and Chief Executive Officer, www.bce.ca/news-and-media/releases/show/bell-welcomes-mir...
Apr 12 2024 - Bell Canada’s 4,800 layoffs, largest in nearly 30 years, ‘feel like death by a thousand cuts,’ says Canadian Association of Journalists
www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/02/12/bell-medias-4800-jobs-...
Feb 2024 - Bell Canada cuts news in the East Coast - places the Maritimes in peril ? Cructal news coverage cut-backs targeting the Maritimes have created a local community safety hazard ? Bell Canada and CTV have deafened and blindfolded Maritimers after eliminating many hours of critical prime time local and community TV news programming in the Atlantic region ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53577394363/in/album-7...
Local news cuts at Bell come even after Bell was granted $40M in regulatory relief: montrealgazette.com/news/national/local-news-cuts-at-bell...
Feb 9th 2024 - Trudeau 'pissed off' by Bell Media's 'garbage decision' to lay off journalists ? On Thursday the media company — which owns CTV and BNN Bloomberg — announced 4,800 jobs "at all levels of the company" would be cut. Bell said it's the largest round of cuts in nearly 30 years. After announcing the job cuts Bell said it would push ahead with a more generous dividend payout to shareholders.
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-bell-media-cuts-pissed-1...
Feb 11th 2024 - Las Vegas USA, - ( 'great Canadians eh' ) ,,
Bell and CTV live broadcast multiple hours of American's Superbowl but ignore and refuse to show a minute of their own Countries Canadian Grey Cup ??
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53523500175/in/album-7...
Feb 11, 2025 - Bell Canada offering severance packages to 1,200 unionized employees'' www.cbc.ca/news/business/bce-severance-packages-1.7456016
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Following a 2 year absence due to Covi,, the 2022 Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival. (and Parade) will be held as per usual this year.. Unfortunately the Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess competition has had to be postponed until next year due to time constraints.
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Shocking news from ABF,
* There's been a stunning development at ABF. *
Apparently in a new younger generation there are those who harbor resentment towards our nations history, for English colonialism, and even for the Monarchy ? Other minority groups have voiced discontent over the diversity and inclusion issue ? And so it seems that the current ABF Board of Directors has listened to the concerns and complaints of a few small minority groups while apparently ignoring and excluding the overwhelming majority of Valley residents ? And it appears that this current Board of Directors chose to resolve such discontent by simply moving to implement and execute the nuclear option and the final solution ? And therefore after a highly successful lengthy run of 87 consecutive years in a row, the extremely anticipated, very popular, family oriented, inclusive and diverse, multi village Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant along with the prestigious Royal Coronation crowning ceremonies held in Wolfville have all been terminated forever by this current board of Directors ?
Will a drag Queen replace an apple blossom Queen in Kentville ? www.nsbuzz.ca/life/kentville-all-ages-drag-show-draws-pro...
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival 2023 - ABF Board of Directors has announced drastic new changes in format and even deeper cut-backs to the annual People's Festival ? Concerns over ceremony, symbolism, the monarchy and colonialism, along with some complaints over inclusion and diversity may have had an influence on the current ABF board of Directors and they have seen a need to update the long running Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess pageant in order to bring it up to a standard they view as being more relevant to the current times ? And so the Directors must have held an extremely private 'think tank' last Winter, and without notifying, caring, considering or consulting with any of the long time participating Valley communities, they had decided that rather than trouble themselves any further with this pesky issue, why not just take the easy way out and simply get rid of it ? And so it seems they made a final decision in private last Winter and moved to execute the final and fatal solution to their problem by ordering that the iconic 87 year old Pageant competition be immediately shut down and terminated forever ? And therefore, as a result of an uninclusive and uncontested decision made in private, one of the longest running, popular, identifiable, well known, highly anticipated, most inclusive and diverse, proud all family events that has ever benefited Valley residents of every age, has just been taken away ?
This unconditional act of finality will now end the long running 88 year reign of her royal Heinous Queen Annapolisa and will terminate all participation of the 7 to 10 Apple Blossom Princess contestants and their child attendants that represent 7 to 10 local Valley communities ? It will also mean the end of the many beautiful hand crafted award winning Princess floats that always highlight Grand Street Parade, and it will also signal the end of the ultra glamorous Queen and Ladies-in-waiting Crowning ceremonies held annually and televised each year from Acadia University in Wolfville ? This also puts an end to the many popular community Princess Tea events, and also ends all Royal Party visitations to local Schools, hospitals and old folks homes that are so welcome and appreciated by Students, Seniors and shut-ins ? This also signals the end of Royal Party appearances at Kentville Children's Parade, at the Memorial Park Friday night open air concert and fireworks, and all Royal attendances at many other events held annually throughout the Valley and the Province ?
It appears now that current ABF Officials led by President Logan Morse along with Kentville town rep Lindsey Young have not only interrupted the Pageant in 2022 when they temporarily postponed it, but have now in 2023 moved to terminate this prestigious event forever explaining that their radical decision has been made to improve, include, modernize and evolve the famed beauty pageant ? This final act of termination ends almost 90 years of royal pageantry and also leaves a huge gap in the Festival itself ? It will also negatively affect so many of the nearby Valley communities who always participate and enter contestants in the Pageant ? The ending of such an important multiple community event and the taking away of the better half and Star of the Apple Blossom Festival brings forth the question of what replacement is planned, and what are local towns and villages that always play major roles in both the Queen and Princess competition suppose to do now ? And what about Valley youth and the childhood dreams of one day becoming a child attendant or an Apple Blossom Princess or even a Queen ?
You have to marvel at the level of ego and disrespect shown by this latest Board of Directors who have dared appoint themselves as the ones that will end the Pageant and then to think that Valley residents are stupid enough to believe that by cancelling and taking away a cherished and long running event, that they have in some perverted way of thinking moved the Valley forward or improved and modernized anything ? It seems far more likely that they have taken the Valley on a giant step backwards and they have robbed the people of a much beloved, long running, multi community, all inclusive, local production that has always been a highly anticipated all Valley highlight for the past almost 90 consecutive years ?
Why current ABF Management who have applied themselves to be the stewards who are in charge and responsible for the promotion and presentation of this event, appear as unable to perform their duties and do the job they are compensated to do and do what their predecessors have always done so well before them each and every year for the past 87 years often in far more trying circumstances and in far less prosperous times, is hard to understand ? And you have to wonder, Whatever happened to the # 1 rule in business that says that if you can't do the job because of inexperience, immaturity, inability, incompetency, bias, or just plain stupidity, then,,,, You're all FIRED ! (and a Class action recovery suit may be forthcoming ! )
ABF news updates :
Logan Morse and a newcomer ABF Board of Directors break the hearts of Valley families especially the Children when moving to terminate the historic and long running Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant after 88 years ? Directors show no remorse, only saying that bold action was needed to improve, evolve and bring the pageant up to their modern standards ? www.pressreader.com/canada/annapolis-valley-register/2023...
May 26, 2023 - We Are the Ones. An unusual degree of disrespect shown when the long running all Valley Peoples Pageant is cancelled without either of consideration or consultation ? A modern generation of newcomer ABF Directors with bold new ideas have apparently proclaimed themselves to be the generation that will interrupt and then permanently end 88 years of wonderful multi Valley village Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess enjoyment ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/apple-blossom-festival...
Annapolis Valley families are in shock and children cry upon learning their beloved Queen Annapolisa Pageant has been cancelled without notice, consultation, consideration or compassion ? Newcomer Directors say they are taking this bold action to improve, evolve and modernize the historic Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.saltwire.com/atlantic-
Valley residents lose a long time major public yearly entertainment event after the ever popular ABF Greenwood Airshow is terminated and will be no more. Fast forward to Aug 24, 2024, and corporate greed ? Air Show Atlantic Inc. now charges big bucks to see taxpayer owned aircraft at a taxpayer owned airport in a far inferior airshow ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52345513615
Kentville IS the Cornwallis Inn and the Cornwallis Inn IS Kentville ! If you were to google the 2 words Cornwallis Inn you will get over 600,000 entries with almost all of them married to the word Kentville.. (what a great promotional tool) . The world famous Cornwallis Inn is the source of many fond memories for all local and Valley residents.. "It was the centre of everything’: The past and present of Kentville’s iconic Cornwallis Inn"
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/it-was-the-centre...
Kentville, an identity crisis. Help, Is there a Superhero out there to save Kentville from the newconers ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51811175986/in/album-7...
The controversial 2017 Grand Street Parade - Has Kentville once again been the target of exploitation ? After Warden Brothers, (Greenwood ) and Liberal MP L Glavine (Kingston) had all but hijacked Waterville Airport and then relocated it to their own home riding in the Kingston/Greenwood area, it seems that the town of Kentville must face yet another attack from the Kingston area when Alxys Chamberlain, the Kingston Apple Blossom Princess, and ABF Directors attempt to take yet another major source of revenue and major attraction away from the town of Kentville ?
Et tu, Madama Chamberlain ? The unconscionable attempted hijacking and subsequent recovery of Kentvilles's most beloved yearly event ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/18506181065
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade - Disregard for safety shown as unrestrained Senior citizens are precariously perched atop an unshaded, no sided, stop and go, large unstable jerking motion moving platform ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53900780519/in/album-7...
Exploiting a Queen for a photo op ? Politicians at the official opening of the 2023 Apple Blossom Festival pretend that there's still a Pageant while knowing full well that Queen Annapolisa has been terminated forever and will no longer be a part of this Festival ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53755100811/in/album-7...
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade ABF stewards defy Trudeau's call for diversity and inclusion ? Many nearby local Valley towns and villages that always normally attend are now excluded from the parade ? This exclusion also means an absence of the diversity provided from the attendance of these many local communities ? Where is Canning, Digby, Annapolis Royal, Hantsport Greenwood, Windsor ? Where's Queen Annapolisa ? Where's the Apple Blossom Princesses and all of the individual Town floats including Princess Kentville ? To view the complete 2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade press here, www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
89th Kentville Grand Street Parade May 27th 2023,, It's the sad ending of an Era ? ABF Organizers take away tremendous diversity when all Royal proceedings have been excluded from this years festival, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52934419451
Facebook, Friends of Kentville - The site Administrator, a new arrival from PEI, says she wants to see Kentville as the queerest town in all of Nova Scotia ? www.facebook.com/groups/2588266877982288
Will a drag Queen replace an apple blossom Queen in Kentville ? www.nsbuzz.ca/life/kentville-all-ages-drag-show-draws-pro...
Nov 16 2023 - Apple Blossom Princesses call for a return of Queen Annapolisa,
www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/communities/former-apple...
The Town of Kentville has moved to cut back and eliminate many hours of public outdoor entertainment that were held as a part of the Apple Blossom Festival ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52094784785
A medley of the guest Tribute bands that have performed at Memorial Park Kentville - Always free of charge in the past at the Apple Blossom Festival : Petty Larceny, Fleetwod Mix, Keep the Faith, Stones Tribute, Green River Revival, Viscious, Eddy's Basement, Matt Minglewood,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5hqti9
Mean corporate greed is shown by the newcomer ABF directors in this years Apple Blossom Festival ? Instead of providing a free guest Tribute band at the free Memorial Park Friday night concert, it will now cost 50.00 pp to see the 'Queen tribute band' performance. that's 50.00 per ticket in 2025 ? acadiau.universitytickets.com/
A Scrooge-like cheap Town of Kentville rips off its own citizens (and right at Apple Blossom Festival time) ? Cold capitalism shown by Town of Kentville and by the newcomer ABF management ? Citizens burdened with an out of pocket expense of TWENTY DOLLARS each just to attend an outdoor street dance held downtown on taxpayer owned property during Apple Blossom Festival ? Is there no sense of shame ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54546051832/in/photost...
She's Ruined It ! Our great Festival is no longer even recognizable ? How could anyone take a world class event and turn it into something that can only be described as stupid ? President Erica Gillis has to be the worst ever ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54493011308/in/dateposted
2025 Kentville Grand Street Parade - A brief 45-minute and a very limited and compacted Kentville Grand Street Parade this year ? Zero large marching street bands and majorettes invited other than 1 mini version of the standard RCMP entrée, No Sottish pipers or pipe bands, zero in Royalty or their famous royal floats, Most of the regular nearby Valley village participants weren't here, Zero horses or wagons, No armaments, soldiers, bands or displays from the Aldershot military or Greenwood, etc etc, ? And yet the Guest parade announcer proclaims in quote @ 29:17, " this parade is the largest in Canada, incl Toronto - it's the longest with the largest route and has the most entries. " Wha-a-a-t, where did she come from and what is she talkin about ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQuaIdrQi00
Mayor in Kentville Grand Street Parade - A new Royal rider rolls down Main Street aboard the Kentville Apple Blossom Princess float ? This year the newcomer Mayor graces the royal throne. 'Somebody get that king a crown and scepter '
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54557663677/in/dateposted
they've ruined it part 2 ? May 31st, 2025 Grand Street Parade - From 100,000 down to 10,000, Parade attendance shrinks to all time low, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54568017261/in/photost.... Also see, They've ruined the Festival and the Parade too ?
ABF Directors may disapprove and may have terminated the beloved Queen Annapolisa pageant and the multiple village Apple Blossom Princess competition but Valley residents will always admire, support, respect and remain fond of the British Monarchy. The majority of Valley citizens are delighted to hear that his Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla are invited and will be coming for a royal visit to Canada on May 26 and 27, 2025. This year's incomplete and now Royalty-less ABF starts on the 28th, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/king-charles-canada-visit-1.7524946
The long proud history of past Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess winners has been removed from sight and erased from the official Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival website ? A special honorary history page dedicated to previous Queen Annapolisa winners from 1933 thru 2019 has been taken down and apparently replaced with jumbo size portraits of the newcomer President and other ABF directors who have taken over and ruined the world famous Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.appleblossom.com/history/past-queens
Meet the directors,
May 30th, 2025 - a 20 dollar hamburger and a ride on the bouncycastle ? High level security enforcement brought in for this years ABF Memorial Park Friday night rock concert ? ( must have taken up most of the budget ) ? Town of Kentville brings in outside police, closes roads, and sets up security perimiter with manned guard posts to provide tightened security for their Friday night Memorial Park Apple Blossom outdoor concert that in the past had always featured guest rock bands, interesting displays, and a Royal visit following the glamorous coronation ceremony in Wolfville, but has now been cut down to some kind of an outdoor romper room type family show featuring food trucks, fireworks, air blown bouncy jumpers and minimal live local entertainment on the main stage ? It has been reported that a parking violator was successfully apprehended thanks to the upgraded crowd control security and strict traffic control hired by the Board for this occasion ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569
May 30th, 2025 Memorial Park Kentville - Seniors and those with disabilities are made to walk long distances in order to reach this year's disappointing ABF Friday night outdoor rock Concert that didn't bring in a rock band, (nor much of anything else) ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569/in/photost...
Oct 4th, 2025 - Kentville Harvest Festival Centre Square, A disappointing harvest festival this year that forgot about hayrides, pumpkin people making, the harvest and the farmer ?https://www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54835089011/in/photostream/
Upgrade 2025 ? taken from the front of Phinneys dept store - a massive expenditure is budgeted for a major upgrade to the Mayor's business backyard - Downtown Kentville Webster Street gets a complete and total beautification makeover with new installations of street paving, paint, new sidewalks both sides, driveway entrances, and new curb and gutter both sides ? All the other streets that surround the Phinneys' downtown business block have also been upgraded including Aberdeen Street, Cornwallis Street, and Main Street ?
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On the recent 2023 edition of the Grand Street Parade :
"it looked as if some spectators along the route just joined in and began to walk along and make themselves a part of the parade ? "
May 27th, 2023 - Dismay, disillusion and extreme disappointment prevail in Kentville over shocking changes and many missing regular entrees in this years 2023 Grand Street Parade ? Where is our famous Queen Annapolisa and where are the many Apple Blossom Princesses and their child attendants riding in their beautiful hand crafted decorated floats ? Where's the town criers ? And what about the dazzling majorette groups, the Scottish pipers and large multi instrumental marching bands that always come ? And where are the Hantsport and Windsor floats and their large delegations ? And where are Digby, Aylesford, Annapolis Royal, Canning, Middleton, Wolfville, and more ? Why are so many towns and villages that normally participate in the parade not included this year ? It was also a major disappointment when for the first time ever Kentville's own Apple Blossom Princess, (aka Miss Kentville) was no longer included in the parade as many toen residents young and old identify with their chosen Apple Blossom Princess at this time of year ? However the now royalty-free Princess float was still used to transport a grouping of normal everyday town residents sitting around together in a social scene meant to identity Kentville as a diverse and inclusive place ? The New Minas float also did not include an Apple Blossom Princess for this year, however her float was transformed into an advertisement for the famous New Minas UFO incident which all New Minions identify with. The Berwick float didn't include a Princess Berwick this year either. but was altered to proudly identify with the town's upcoming Centennial celebrations. And the Kingston float was also missing an Apple Blossom Princess this year but was instead promoting their long running Kingston Steer Barbecue that all Kingstonians readily identify with. It was good to see an RCMP contingent again although they sent far less officers this year than usual ? And it was notable that only 1 other large marching band appeared in the parade when usually 4 or more big bands, many with many pipers usually attend after traveling up from places like Cape Breton, Bridgewater, Dartmouth etc ? And where have all of the pets and animals gone ? There's no horse teams, wooden wagons, riders or livestock this year ? Even the usual greyhound dogs weren't there ? Also noticed that some spectators must have just joined in and began walking along within the parade, and others must have come over from the Children's parade with their strollers to join in ? There was a variety of advertisers, most from out of town but some local ? There were various Political parties represented with the largest delegation coming from the Kody Blois Liberals ? All in all, this Year's parade seemed a bare minimum and a weak effort that really missed the inclusion of royal pageantry and the 7 to 10 spectacular Princess floats, and also missed the large marching bands and majorette groups that usually enter, the usual agriculture horticulture and livestock component, the popular Scottish pipers bands that always attend, and also the many large out of town contingents that always participate ? This was not the famous grand street parade that patrons are accustomed to seeing and did not reach the high standards and the degree of professionalism set by previous Grand Street Parades ? It became obvious that what was being advertised as a newer, bolder, more inclusive and more diverse parade was instead the exact opposite because this new version of our Grand Street Parade had lost the inclusion, diversity and major contribution put forth by the many absent Valley communities along with their individual Princess contestants and Child attendants that always come to Kentville to participate in the Queen Annapolisa competition, the Friday evening coronation gala at Acadia University in Wolfville, the many Princess Teas, and the Royal attendances at schools, hospitals, senior citizen homes and shut-ins, as well as appearances at the Friday night Memorial Park outdoor concert and fireworks, Royal attendances highlighting the Saturday morning Children's Parade, and a Royal trip down Main street Kentville aboard a beautiful hand crafted royal float in the famous Grand Street parade ?
And so, quickly summing up, can this strange looking, incomplete, shortened, royal-less, newcomer mentality and amateur version of our world famous Kentville Grand Street Parade that was missing her heiness Queen Annapolisa and missing all of the 7 to 10 Apple Blossom Princesses and their personal 7 to 10 beautifully handcrafted individual Town Princess floats, and that was also missing the unique character and diversity brought forth by numerous Valley villages and communities that were no longer included, and that had also failed to include many large out of town marching bands and pipers who usually attend, and that also lacked in the representation of local area farming, agriculture and livestock,,, now signal the end of the once glorious Grand Street Parade era ?
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Previous parades :
2011 Grand Street Parade Kentville 79th ABF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgh3Dh2xn8&t=208s
2012 Grand Street Parade Kentville www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1VBx50b18
2014 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEo14IZKxp8&t=11s
2015 Kentville Grand Street Parade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBifeG2SdPY&t=47s
2016 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wedvN5_Iw&t=8s
2017 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozwyGpvfSY&t=1978s
2018 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOK1GmiLmNk&t=986s
2019 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdEx8Zf-q0&t=1492s
The exclusion of many participants and the denial of their valued diversity have marred the 2023 edition of Kentville Grand Street Parade ? Many nearby Valley communities were missing in the Parade when longtime participants were no longer included ? Where is Canning, Digby, Annapolis Royal, Hantsport Greenwood, Windsor ? Where's Queen Annapolisa ? Where's the Apple Blossom Princesses and all of the individual Town floats including Princess Kentville ? To view a complete (newcomer version) of the world famous Kentville Grand Street Parade press here www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
They've ruined the Festival and the Parade too ?
A concerned Kentvillian must finally speak out, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/44424045874
Kentville is an incorporated town in Nova Scotia. It is the most populous town in the Annapolis Valley. As of 2021, the town's population was 6,630.
Yes, another appropriation, suitable for Culture Jam! or for merely noticing how it manages to make class resentment into something both humorous and poignant. Or am I merely being full of shit here?
Originated byEmily Strange...and if you're on MySpace, you should use her brilliant graphics and layouts. Especially if you're emo (female helps, too...or gay, I guess.)
The language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, was a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken. This language was most commonly communicated through tussie-mussies (small flower bouquets seen in previous collage), an art which has a following today.
Above, cats introduce 16 examples of the language of flowers for the uninitiated.
1) Morning Glory - Love In Vain
2) Grass - Submission
3) Petunias - Anger and Resentment
4) Sweet Peas - Goodbye, Thank You For A Wonderful Time
5) Lavender - Distrust
6) Maiden Hair Fern - Discretion
7) Daffodils - You're The Only One
8) Hydrangea - Heartlessness
9) Hollyhocks - Ambition
10) Forsythia - Anticipation
11) Dandelion - Coquetry, Flirt
12) Lilac - First Love
13) Forget_Me-Not - Remember Me Forever
14) Aloe - Grief, Frigidness
15) Dead Leaves - Sadness
16) Mint - Suspicious
THIS COLLAGE LOOKS GOOD ON BLACK.
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1. www.flickr.com/photos/lilycat/2843165958/ Untitled,
2. www.flickr.com/photos/21586168@N05/2104764555/ Cat In The Grass
3. www.flickr.com/photos/entikryst/156883925/ Angel,
4. www.flickr.com/photos/gembone/3270142070/ My Sweet Pea,
5. www.flickr.com/photos/hellgah/7423084490/ lavender sniffer,
6. www.flickr.com/photos/78343702@N00/3050289395/ DSC_0222,
7. www.flickr.com/photos/33985896@N03/3306006224/ Daffodils with cat,
8. www.flickr.com/photos/lorie09/268714191/ Bella with hydrangea,
9. www.flickr.com/photos/cheshirewayne/177422141/ The-cat-in-the-window,
10. www.flickr.com/photos/28117049@N00/4493341363/ evie in the forsythia,
11. www.flickr.com/photos/maastrichian/513851299/ Rama in the Dandelions,
12. www.flickr.com/photos/cammyclaudia/4593381799/ baby kitty sniffs the lilacs,
13. www.flickr.com/photos/demurefolk/4597748721/ demure folk,
14. www.flickr.com/photos/kevinpcullen/7207504222/ Curiosity,
15. www.flickr.com/photos/tribalpath/6473887269/ After the fight,
16. www.flickr.com/photos/gudlyf/3644777174/ Dirk in the mint
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
She looks like a doll!
QUIZ : Do you Cherish your cat?
by tibbypeyry
> Is your entire body covered with tiny scars?
> Do you take care to pet each cat in the special the way SHE likes to be stroked or scratched?
> Do you schedule trips to the vet according to when it will least inconvenience your cat? (And never on Friday, in case there's a reaction to the shots.)
> If your cat must spend a night at the vet's, do you take along an article of your (worn) clothing for him to sleep on?
> When you go on vacation do you--or are you tempted to--buy a treat or new toy to take home to your cat?
> When your cat tries to wake you in clever ways, such as knocking your watch off the shelf, are you amused and proud instead of annoyed?
> Do you sometimes play with your cat for ten minutes or more only to realize YOU are playing and SHE is merely watching?
> Do you feel resentment toward, or even stop inviting, people who are afraid of or allergic to (they say) cats?
> Do you delay getting up from your chair because a cat is in your lap?
> Do you sit in a less comfortable chair because your cat is in yours?
> Have you ever used your computer kneeling or standing because the cat is in your office chair?
> When you lie down to take a nap, do you feel lonely or even unable to sleep if your cat doesn't join you?
> Do you give your cat a few strokes to jump-start his eating if necessary?
> When your cat was very ill and refusing to eat, did you trap mice and dangle them in front of her eyes?
> When you get up during the night to go to the bathroom, do you wriggle out from the covers, then wriggle back in so as not to disturb the cats on either side of you?
Answer the following questions if you have indoor/outdoor cats:
> Do you interrupt a meal -- as many as six times -- to let cats in and out?
> If your cat is outside and you hear a dog bark, do you check to see where your cat is and whether she needs to come in?
> If you can't remember which of your cats is in and which out, do you frantically comb the house doing a head count?
> Have you ever stood on the top rung of a 12-foot ladder hugging a tree that your cat was in, coaxing him to come down?
> If your cat didn't come when you called, did you then wait up for her and feel only relief when she sauntered in an hour past dark? (You get a bonus point if you then started plotting how not to let this happen again.)
Scoring: Any score from 1 to 21 makes you a true cat cherisher in my book!
The Arvada Center presents Dividing the Estate by Horton Foote in the Black Box Theater
April 30 - May 26, 2103
720-898-7200
Dividing the Estate, a sardonic comedy by Pulitzer Prize winner author, Horton Foote
Once a family of comfortable wealth, the Gordon’s now find themselves facing a looming financial crisis. The only asset left is the family’s Texas estate but matriarch Stella is determined not to divide the 100 year old property. Her three children have other ideas and set out to convince Stella to go with their plan and come into some money. Old resentments and sibling rivalries surface as the members of this quirky, dysfunctional family connive to see who will claim the biggest piece of the pie in Dividing the Estate.
Set: www.flickr.com/photos/connectirmeli/sets/72157632405642272/
"As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free."
"Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within."
- Deepal Chopra -
- May your 2013 be filled with joy!
LOVE WILL TEAR US APART
When routine bites hard,
And ambitions are low,
And resentment rides high,
But emotions won't grow,
And we're changing our ways,
Taking different roads.
Then love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side.
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect runs so dry.
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives.
But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
You cry out in your sleep,
All my failings exposed.
And there's a taste in my mouth,
As desperation takes hold.
Just that something so good
Just can't function no more.
But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
The Buddha Siddhartha Gautama once told his son Rahula , practice so that you’ll be like the earth." People might throw on the earth things like perfume, excrement, urine, all the dirty things, but the earth always receives all of that without anger. No matter whether it is the perfume or jewels or gold or silver or flowers or garbage or dirt or excrement or urine, the earth receives all of that without any resentment, any anger, because the earth is great, is large. The earth has the power to transform all these. The earth has a great power of transformation, because the earth is great. So practice so that your heart becomes as great as the earth. You suffer only if you are small, if your heart is small. But when your heart is expanded you don’t have to suffer. You don’t need to make an effort to bear the suffering #FreeHumanity 8 Layer #Stencil on Woodcut. - So i say to you, make your heart big like the Earth
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
Rotherham Town Brass Band Playing at the Jo Cox 'The Great Get Together' Brodsworth Hall, Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
For those outside the UK, Jo Cox was a Labour Party MP that (like myself) passionately hated any form of racism, or prejudice of any sort. She was murdered on 16th June 2016 by an extreme right winger that was (as they all are) full of hate, prejudice and resentment - and completely lacking humanity, common sense and any form of intelligence.
Jo was killed during our Brexit discussions. There was an evil side to some discussions that some right wingers seemed to take as validation for violence against immigrants (and in their simple minds anti-Brexiteers). Fascist publications like the Daily Mail (or the 'Fanzine of the English Defence League' as I call it) also loved to stir up these feelings.
A year on, 'The Great Get Together' was a series of around 120,000 street parties etc. all over the UK (and some beyond) to show that in the words of Penny from The Big Bang Theory, 'Love trumps Hate'.
I don't know what the answer is to this sort of hatred - nobody does. Maybe some sort of education in schools about the horrors of the World Wars etc., as a result of this form of right wing hatred.
In Jo's own words from her first House of Commons speech as an MP, 'We have far more in common than that which divides us'. A very true statement that sadly caused her untimely death at the hands of a complete nutcase.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40307337
It doesn't look too busy, but most people (like us) were sheltering in the shade from the extreme sunny heat of that day.
He is one who never inflicts pain. This description is both refined and, as far as it goes, accurate. He is mainly occupied in merely removing the obstacles which hinder the free and unembarrassed action of those about him; and he concurs with their movements rather than takes the initiative himself. His benefits may be considered as parallel to what are called comforts or conveniences in arrangements of a personal nature; like an easy chair or a good fire, which do their part in dispelling cold and fatigue, though nature provides both means of rest and animal heat without them. The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast --- all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at his ease and at home. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort; he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp saying for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out. From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend. He has too much good sense to be affronted at insults, he is too well employed to remember injuries, and too indolent to bear malice. He is patient, forbearing, and resigned, on philosophical principles; he submits to pain, because it is inevitable, to bereavement, because it is irreparable, and to death, because it is his destiny.
If he engages in controversy of any kind, his disciplined intellect preserves him from the blundering discourtesy of better, perhaps, but less educated minds; who, like blunt weapons, tear and hack instead of cutting clean, who mistake the point in argument, waste their strength on trifles, misconceive their adversary, and leave the question more involved than they find it. He may be right or wrong in his opinion, but he is too clear-headed to be unjust; he is as simple as he is forcible, and as brief as he is decisive. Nowhere shall we find greater candor, consideration, indulgence: he throws himself into the minds of his opponents, he accounts for their mistakes. He knows the weakness of human reason as well as its strength, its province and its limits.
If he be an unbeliever, he will be too profound and large-minded to ridicule religion or to act against it; he is too wise to be a dogmatist or fanatic in his infidelity. He respects piety and devotion; he even supports institutions as venerable, beautiful, or useful, to which he does not assent; he honors the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or denouncing them. He is a friend of religious toleration, and that, not only because his philosophy has taught him to look on all forms of faith with an impartial eye, but also from the gentleness and effeminacy of feeling, which is the attendant on civilization
John Rutledge (September 17, 1739 – July 23, 1800) was an American statesman and judge. He was the first Governor of South Carolina following the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the 31st overall. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, where he chaired a committee that wrote much of what was included in the final version of the United States Constitution, which he also signed. He served as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, and was the second Chief Justice of the Court from July to December 1795. He was the elder brother of Edward Rutledge, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Rutledge was born into a large family in Charleston. His father was Scots-Irish immigrant John Rutledge (Sr.) (1713–1750), a physician. His mother, South Carolina–born Sarah (nee Hext) (born September 18, 1724), was of English descent. John had six younger siblings: Andrew (1740–1772), Thomas (1741–1783), Sarah (1742–1819), Hugh (1745–1811), Mary (1747–1832), and Edward (1749–1800). John’s early education was provided by his father until the latter's death. The rest of Rutledge's primary education was provided by an Anglican priest.
When he was 17 years old, Rutledge began to read law under a man named James Parsons. Two years later, Rutledge sailed to England to further his studies at London's Middle Temple. In the course of his studies, he won several cases in English courts.After finishing his studies, Rutledge returned to Charleston to begin a fruitful legal career. At the time, many lawyers came out of law school and barely scraped together enough business to earn their livings. Most new lawyers could only hope that they would win well-known cases to ensure their success. Rutledge, however, emerged almost immediately as one of the most prominent lawyers in Charleston, and his services were in high demand.
With his successful legal career, he was able to build on his mother's fortune. On May 1, 1763, Rutledge married Elizabeth Grimke (born 1742). Rutledge was very devoted to his wife, and Elizabeth's death on July 6, 1792, was a major cause of the illness that affected Rutledge in his later years. John and Elizabeth had 10 children: Martha Henrietta (1764–1816), Sarah (born and died 1765), John (1766–1819), Edward James (1767–1811), Frederick Wilkes (1769–1821), William Spencer (1771–1821), Charles Wilson (1773–1821), Thomas (born 1774 and died young), Elizabeth (1776–1842), and States Whitcomb (1783–1829).
In mid 1765 Rutledge was an important figure in the Stamp Act Congress. This congress produced a resolution that stated that it was "the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives". Rutledge chaired a committee that drew up a petition to the House of Lords attempting to persuade them to reject the Stamp Act. They were ultimately unsuccessful.
John Rutledge continued to serve in the First Continental Congress and the Second Continental Congress until 1776. That year, he was elected President of South Carolina under a constitution drawn up on March 26, 1776. Upon taking office, he worked quickly to arrange the new government and to prepare defenses in case of a British attack.
In June 1776, Rutledge learned that a large British naval force was moving toward Charleston. In response, he ordered the construction of Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) on Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbor. By the time the British arrived, the fort was only half completed. General Charles Lee of the Continental Army, who had arrived a few days earlier with reinforcements from North Carolina, told Rutledge the fort should be evacuated, as Lee considered it indefensible. Lee said that the fort would fall in under a half an hour, and all the men would be killed.] In a note to the fort’s commanding officer, Colonel William Moultrie, Rutledge wrote "General Lee [...] wishes you to evacuate the fort. You will not, without [an] order from me. I would sooner cut off my hand than write one."
On June 28, 1776, the British attacked the fort, expecting it to fall quickly. However, the fort’s walls were made out of soft palmetto palm trees, and the British cannonballs simply sank into the logs without doing any damage. Some bounced off the spongy logs and bounced back hitting the very British ships that fired them. The British attack failed. As a result of this battle, South Carolina developed its first flag (by William Moultrie) using the Palmetto Tree and the half moon that was the buckle of the defending soldiers belts, and adopted the nickname the Palmetto State.
Rutledge continued as President of South Carolina until 1778. That year, the South Carolina legislature proposed a new constitution. Rutledge vetoed it, stating that it moved the state dangerously close to a direct democracy, which Rutledge believed was only a step away from total anarchy. When the legislature overrode his veto, Rutledge resigned.
In 1791, he was selected to represent South Carolina in the Constitutional Convention. Rutledge maintained a moderate nationalist stance and chaired the Committee of Detail, where over the July 4 convention recess he and his committee wrote the first draft of the constitution, most of which would remain in the final version. He attended all the sessions and served on five committees.
When the proposal was made that only landowners should have the right to vote, Rutledge opposed it perhaps more strongly than any other motion in the entire convention. He stated that making a rule like this would divide the people into "haves" and "have nots". It would create an undying resentment against the landowners and could do nothing but cause discord. Benjamin Franklin agreed with Rutledge, saying that such a law would suppress the ambitions of the common people. Franklin also observed that if only people who actually owned land could vote, the sons of a substantial farmer, not having land in their own names, would be denied the right to vote.
In the debate of whether or not to allow slavery in the new country, Rutledge took the side of the slave-owners; he was a Southerner and he owned several slaves. Rutledge said that if the Constitution forbade slavery, the Southern states would never agree to the Constitution.
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
Although worth more than my house (many times over) strangely I don't feel any resentment at the sight of a Bugatti Veyron. This red and silver model was sat curbside on Park Lane in London sporting the private number plate "V1", which itself is probably worth more than mine and my wife's cars put together...on second thoughts maybe I am a bit envious...
Timidly and humbly I ask the Universe
Let the white light of the Universe
enfold, protect me
and bathe me in its healing love.
Let this journey be a tool
to bring peace of mind,
love, joy and kindness back to my life.
Cleanse my soul of hurt and bitterness,
resentment, vengeful and judgmental thinking.
Give me balance and serenity
to face each trial with faith,
an open mind, love and kindness.
When I get lost, let the sun shine down
white light to show me the way back
to the path of Love.
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
Name: Sarah Anne Williams
Age 24
Family) Father - Robert Williams; Mother - Linda Williams; Stepmother - Irene Williams; Brother - Toby Williams (age 9); Sister - Colleen Williams (age 5)
Occupation: Actress
History: At the age of nine, Sarah Williams found herself being raised by her father after her mother ran off to pursue an acting career. Bewildered by her mother's sudden abandonment, Sarah hid herself in books. A few years later, both Sarah and her mother made the attempt to rebuild their relationship. Her mother became a star, and soon Sarah idolized her. When her father remarried, Sarah never really gave the woman a chance. She hated Irene from the start and resented her father for remarrying. When Sarah was fifteen, Irene gave birth to Toby. She turned her resentment and anger against her brother, and that resulted in him getting taken by the Goblin King Jareth.
Sarah was forced to then travel the Labyrinth to rescue her brother. She made several friends along the way, Hoggle, Ludo, and Sir Didymus. Sarah found the Labyrith was more than just stone walls.
Once Sarah rescued Toby, her life got better. She was able to let go of the ideal of her mother and live in present with her family. Eventually, Irene gave birth to second child she named Colleen. Sarah graduated High School and went to UCLA to study acting. She got her first acting job at twenty, in a film called Career Opportunities playing Josie McClellen
After that, her career took off. She was in five movies in four years. Sarah was not only beautiful, but also impressively talented. She won two Academy Awards, and two People's Choice awards.
Her Personal life was pretty much an open book. She didn't date, and was close with her father, stepmother and siblings. Her mother had been out of her life for seven years. Sarah doesn't discuss her personal life, but really, she's never forgotten Jareth.
Sometimes at night, Sarah reads the script of the Labyrinth, tempted to try and summon Jareth again. Despite the dangers, Jareth both still intrigues and excites her.
The other day I stepped out onto the deck and immediately heard a meow. Sitting on the patio was a young black and white cat looking up at me. I opened the gate and said "What do you want little one?" and it came right up the steps and rubbed against my leg. Not long into the act of making acquaintances on my deck with the new guest I noticed both of my cats at the screen door with wild looks in their eyes. The initial excitement and inquisitiveness quickly turned to seething resentment when they witnessed me reaching down to pet the intruder. Soon cats on both sides of the screen door had hair and tails standing straight up with arched backs. Ok... So maybe a short visit was going to have to do. I said my goodbyes and brought the kitten back down to the patio. Shutting the gate behind me I could see that my recent guest must have forgotten something, and he was coming back up the steps to inform me. Thinking that I could tactfully hold this short meeting behind a closed gate, I was surprised to see that it wasn't a relevant matter to my determined visitor, and an alternate route was executed in short order. Well, that was it then. Fate had decreed that I should grab my camera to honor one as crafty as he. Surely this small transient would tire of my incessent clicking like my own cats do and be on its merry way in no time.
Bonhams
Les Grandes Marques du Monde à Paris
The Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2023
Estimated : 1.800.000 - 2.600.000
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The most famous performance car based on the Volkswagen Beetle is, of course, the Porsche 356, but before then there was another from an unlikely source: the Luftwaffe. Specifically, the Luftwaffe's 'courier car' was based on the very first Volkswagen: the KdF Wagen Typ 60, which was in production from 1937 to 1944. The Luftwaffe's requirement was for a fast small car that would serve as a courier vehicle, while at the same time being light, reliable, cheap to build and simple to maintain. The car took its name from its German designer, Kurt C Volkhart, while the low-drag body was designed by Baron R König von Fachsenfeld, who would later produce many streamlined designs for mainstream German manufacturers.
Kurt Volkhart, born in 1890, constructed the first rocket car for Opel in 1928 based on an idea by Max Valier. He also drove it until Fritz von Opel recognised the publicity value of driving the car himself. Volkhart left Opel in resentment; he competed in car races, built his own rocket car, and briefly worked on the construction of a rocket-powered aircraft.
Volkhart had long ago recognised that performance could be improved by careful aerodynamic design, and towards the end of the 1930s planned a small, inexpensive sports car: the two-seater V1. The rear-mounted 1,172cc engine was the same as that found in the Ford Eifel and produced only 32bhp, which in the donor car was good enough for a top speed no better than 100km/h (62mph). But thanks to its extraordinarily low claimed drag coefficient of only 0.165, the slippery Volkhart was capable of speeds of up to 138km/h (85.7mph). Modern aerodynamicists later recalculated the V1's likely drag coefficient as 0.30, but when the V2 was tested in Volkswagen's wind tunnel in 2013 it was found to be 0.216, as good as the very best of modern designs.
Development continued but was stopped later in the war, and the project would not resurface until 1947, following an injection of funds from Sagitta. Based on a Volkswagen chassis that Volkhart had purchased during the war (which was confiscated by the British Army before being retrieved by its owner), the new V2 offered accommodation for 4/5 passengers but never came close to series production, not the least because Volkswagen refused to provide chassis. Construction of the aluminium body was entrusted to Helmut Fuchs in Niederwenningern, Ruhr, with additional work by Hans Daum's body shop. One of the V2's many interesting features was a novel 'anti-skid' mechanism mounted at the rear behind the engine as an early form of 'stability control'.
Only one example of the V2 Sagitta was built in 1947; it was purchased by Hugo Tigges, who had sourced the raw materials necessary for its construction. Tigges used the V2 as his 'daily driver' for six years before consigning it in 1953 to his garden where it served as a chicken coop!
In 1955, the V2 was so neglected that Helmut Daum, son of the aforementioned Hans Daum, was allowed to relocate the chickens and recover the car from the garden. Over the succeeding decades, it was rebuilt and repainted several times and then laid up before coming to Austria in 2011, finding a new home with an Austrian Porsche collector. "I always wanted a one-off," said the new owner in 2015. "I immediately drove to classic car events, including Villa d'Este." There, in 2012, the Volkhart V2 was declared a personal favourite by the television team's presenter, who interviewed only the owner to the chagrin of the many Ferrari owners!
When he later refused to sell the V2 to a friend, the latter offered to restore it for him. The aluminium body has been restored and the non-original British Racing Green livery replaced by silver metallic (the original finish), with the result that its sculptural lines are revealed to their full effect. We are advised that the Beetle engine's 24 horses are in good shape and sound even stronger in the lightweight V2.
Dogs are not allowed on the plaza during special events, but beauty wins out just about every time. Sweet skittish pup is most certainly not a therapy dog, but rules apply only to those that follow them. A bit of resentment, as I reluctantly had left my own pups home in my feeble attempts to follow some of the somewhat sensible rules. A gorgeous dog though no matter it's status, lol.
The subject's pose reflects the pose of Lucifer (from John Milton's "Paradise Lost") painted on the guitar by the side. In "Paradise Lost", Lucifer symbolizes the acceptance, the lamentation, and the resentment of reality that accompanies the freewill that he demands from God. This photograph attempts to both accept the subjected self as who he is, transforming himself ideal. However, it portrays his setting as dull and almost colorless to convey that his "ideal self" is not where he desires to be in his life; thus presenting his coreself through the blunt perspective on his room. The subject resents his reality as he pulls his hair off his scalp, yet he prefers the ownership of "freewill" to act on his ambitions rather than to perpetuate no ambitions.
So check me out on Spotify under "Lautrec", my tracks are fire lmao
I have been fascinated by some of the known and relatively unknown women from our mythology. We have all heard stories about Sita, Kunti, Draupadi, Radha.
Are these women just a part of the folklore or can we find deeper meanings. How relevant are their struggles and journeys in the context of today?
It comes as no surprise, that nothing has really changed for most women in our society.
In one of the earliest recorded protests against male dominated world and society, Draupadi’s characteristic fight against injustice reflects one of the first acts of feminism - a fight for ones rights, in this case the rights to avenge the wrongs inflicted on her.
Draupadi exemplifies one of the earliest feminists, be it in terms of polyandry or her thirst for revenge.
While this is an intensive subject of study, we have tried recreating a snapshot of the emotions that Draupadi might have gone through.
In this series we have attempted to showcase one aspect of her emotion -
Raudra Rasa or Raudram, one of the nine rasas in natyashastra, that is a manifestation of anger, resentment and hostility.
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
Day 260.
I have a unappealing trait and it comes in the form of jealousy.
I cannot begin to explain how irrational and destructive this emotion is and how it happens to me unexpectedly like a bolt from the blue.
I have tried to rationalise it, to understand why I suffer from it.
I think it all comes down to insecurities and low self-esteem. I always think that others are funnier, younger, better looking, know more, have more talent, more friends, more confidence.
Maybe some do, or have/are some of those things, but I also know in my heart (deep down and well hidden admittedly) that I am (or could be) as good as they are, maybe in different ways, but it doesn't stop me reacting to certain situations and getting mad or upset.
I could apologise - I do apologise - but I know it's empty because it won't stop me feeling the same again and reacting as I do.
In a way, it feels worse because I'm aware of how silly it is to be this way. I read the entry on here about envy too - it's similar and I had to check to see what the main differences are:
... jealousy involves the wish to keep what one has, and envy the wish to get what one does not have ...
The experience of jealousy involves:
* Fear of loss
* Suspicion or anger about betrayal
* Low self-esteem and sadness over loss
* Uncertainty and loneliness
* Fear of losing an important person to an attractive other
* Distrust
The experience of envy involves:
* Feelings of inferiority
* Longing
* Resentment of circumstances
* Ill will towards envied person often accompanied by guilt about these feelings
* Motivation to improve
* Desire to possess the attractive rival's qualities
* Disapproval of feelings
Maybe I also suffer from envy to some extent - but jealousy is how I always think of it.
I was going to set this to 'no comments' but I'd like to hear your views. What I don't want however, is for you to tell me that I'm silly to feel this way, that I'm funny, attractive etc - I would have to repeat that I know I'm crazy to feel as I do, but I DO.
And if you've been on the receiving end of this, then you don't need to remind me! You also know I'm sorry.
May 1, 2022 - "The Dokwerker is a statue of a dockworker and a monument located on Jonas Daniël Meijerplein in Amsterdam, a square next to the Portuguese Synagoge Amsterdam. It is as a remembrance of the "Februaristaking", strike in Februari 1941. This bronze statue was made by sculptor Mari Andriessen.
The Docker
During the years of occupation (40-45), Jews were increasingly banned from places where everyone was allowed to go before the war. Trams, public buildings and swimming pools were suddenly off limits to Jews.
When the shops and cafes were also obliged to put up a sign 'forbidden for Jews', the measure was full and many Amsterdammers went on strike.
February strike
On February 25, 1941, under the leadership of the CPN, resistance against the German occupation of the Netherlands began in Amsterdam. The indirect reason for the strike was the occupation by the Germans and the inconveniences that this entailed. Resentment also grew against the measures taken by the Germans, which were aimed in particular against the Jews.
The immediate cause was raids in the Jewish quarter after the Germans rolled up IJssalon Koco in the Van Woustraat on 19 February 1941 because two Jews who had fled Germany and ran this shop had given shelter to members of a gang. The brothers did not survive.
Do you know
A bridge over the Amstel is named after the two brothers, 'the Ernst Cahn and Alfred Cohn Bridge.'
The strike lasted two days, but the superior numbers of the Germans were so immense that nine were killed and more than twenty wounded. The strike is commemorated annually at De Dokwerker.
The statue The Dockworker
This bronze statue is located on the Jonas Daniël Meijerplein. It represents a striker, that is, the uprising of the people against the authorities.
The statue, unveiled by Queen Juliana in 1952, was made by Mari Andriessen on behalf of the city of Amsterdam in memory of the February strike of 1941. Willem Termetz served as a model for the Dokwerker.
Do you know
In 1970 the statue had to be moved due to a refurbishment, when the statue was placed back it suddenly stood in the other direction. The explanation given to it was somewhat curious. The statue would have stood with its hands first towards the Waterlooplein (read: towards the Jewish quarter) and later with its hands apart towards the Jewish Historical Museum (JHM.)
But as you can see in the picture below that is not the case at all, the picture was taken in front of the JHM." Previous text translated from the following website: www.dedokwerker.nl/de_dokwerker.html
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)