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I know, I know, it's been done like 4 times. But, I'm rolling with major writers block, so I just shined it out and called'r a night. Enjoy...
As the controversial Policy know as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" officially ended at 12:00 AM Tuesday morning September 20th, Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner Dan Swenzy, a civilian made history as they said their vows at the Moose Meadow Lodge in the tiny Vermont hamlet of Duxbury and became the first same sex couple in the US military to be married.
At the stroke of midnight, after a short ceremony attended by family, friends and the press, the marriage was proclaimed by Justice of the Peace Greg Trulson.
Dutch postcard.
The founding father of Dutch-language rock and roll, Peter Koelewijn (1940), has his 85th birthday today!. His most famous song is 'Kom van dat dak af', which he recorded with the Rockets in 1960. It is still one of the best Dutch language songs. Koelewijn is also a successful producer and songwriter for other Dutch artists.
Peter Koelewijn was born on 29 December 1940 in in the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven. He was the son of a fishmonger. At the age of thirteen, he received his first guitar. In 1957, he started writing his first songs in English. He started his first band at secondary school with guitarists Karel Jansen and Roelof Egmond and singer Anneke Grönloh, who would become a pop legend in the Netherlands herself. Later on, Harry van Hoof, who later became a famous conductor, and drummer Peter van der Voort, joined the band. Around the same time, Grönloh left the band.
In 1959 the band, now called 'Peter and his Rockets', was joined by saxophone player Klaus Buchholz and bass guitarist Karel Jansen. In December, the band recorded 'Kom Van Dat Dak Af' for record company Bovema. The combination of American rock and roll and Dutch lyrics was revolutionary at the time. In May 1960, 'Kom Van Dat Dak Af' was a massive success in both the Netherlands and Belgium. Koelewijn, who moved on to grammar school, was told by his parents that he had to finish his schooling. Peter and His Rockets signed at Philips. Follow-up singles 'Laat Me Los' (Let Me Go) and 'Marijke' charted lower. By 1967 Koelewijn disbanded the Rockets to focus on writing and producing for other artists; he also hosted radio shows.
Source: Wikipedia.
www.holyspiritspeaks.org/on-quieting-your-heart-before-go...
Pondering the words of God and praying over the words of God at the same time as eating and drinking the actual words of God—this is the first step to being at peace before God. If you can be truly at peace before God, then the enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit will be with you.
All spiritual life is achieved by relying on being quiet before God. In praying you must be quiet before God before you can be moved by the Holy Spirit. By being quiet before God when you eat and drink God’s words you can be enlightened and illuminated and be able to achieve truly understanding God’s words. In your usual meditation and fellowship, and when you are drawing close to God with your heart, only when you are quiet before God can you have genuine closeness to God, genuine understanding of God’s love and God’s work, and true thoughtfulness toward God’s intentions. The more you are usually able to be quiet before God the more you can be illuminated, and the more you are able to understand your own corrupt disposition, what you lack, what you should enter, what function you should serve, and where you have defects. All these are achieved by relying on being quiet before God. If you truly reach some depth in being quiet before God, you can touch some mysteries in the spirit, touch on what God at present wants to do on you, touch on deeper understanding of God’s words, and touch on the essence of God’s words, on the substance of God’s words, on the being of God’s words, and you can see the path of practice more thoroughly and more accurately. If you cannot be quiet in your spirit to a certain depth, you will just be somewhat moved by the Holy Spirit, inside you will feel strength, and some enjoyment and peace, but you will not touch anything deeper. I have said before, if one does not use all their strength, it will be difficult for them to hear My voice or see My face. This refers to achieving depth in being quiet before God, not to external effort. A person who can truly be quiet before God is able to free themselves from all worldly ties and can achieve being occupied by God. All people who are unable to be quiet before God are assuredly dissolute and unrestrained. All who are able to be quiet before God are people who are pious before God, people who yearn for God. It is only people who are quiet before God who pay attention to life, pay attention to fellowship in spirit, who thirst for God’s words, and who pursue the truth. All those who pay no attention to being quiet before God, who do not practice being quiet before God are vain people who are completely attached to the world, who are without life; even if they say they believe in God they are just paying lip-service. Those God ultimately perfects and completes are people who can be quiet before God. Therefore, people who are quiet before God are people graced with great blessings. People who during the day take little time to eat and drink God’s words, who are completely preoccupied with external affairs, and do not pay attention to life entry are all hypocrites with no prospect of developing in the future. It is those who can be quiet before God and genuinely commune with God who are God’s people.
from "On Quieting Your Heart Before God"
Same as the previous picture, only shot with my 70-300mm lens zoomed to 135mm instead of the 18-55 that was used in the other picture. The star-effect from the street lights is a bit extreme for my liking.
©Janine Norton
Dr. Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyberbulling Research Center, spoke to parents at The Williston Northampton School on April 2, 2012.
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Samer's Candyland, Main Street, Mt. Pleasant, PA, now departed. This vintage look was their only look, from its opening in the 1920s right up until it closed (appx. 2001).
Aerial view showing the church (L'église Saint-Martin de Samer) and the Grand Place, population approx. 5,000.
CIM Postcard sent 1955
auf dem 1. Stuttgarter "Toleranzgipfel" mit dem Vortrag "Keine Integration in eine islamophobe Gesellschaft"
Relatives of Sri Lankan policemen who had died in the military campaign against the Tamil Tigers protest in Colombo September 11, 2013. The policemens relatives demand the same benefits as the dependents of soldiers who died in action
Headlong through the winter.
Though not on the solstice itself, I trod Pfeiffer Beach on its shortest day of 2012. In October of 2011, I visited the same sands to capture a few images before dawn (still haven’t published) and, though it took 14 months to return, I felt like I was home.
We came on a weekday so as to avoid the throngs of other photographers jockeying for the same postage-stamp of beach. Places like this take on a life of their own amongst photographers—typically because of one or a set of popular images. And though I don’t always succeed, I usually try to do something a bit different than the cliche landscape when at these spots.
Shooting the sunset through the Doorway at Pfeiffer Beach epitomized so much of what I love about this hobby—quietude and contemplation during the long wait for light, followed by frenetic activity when it arrives—all tempered by constant self-admonishment to enjoy it with my eyes as well as my camera.
When at long last the sun dipped low enough to wink at us through the aperture of that doorway, the stack looked for all the world like the brow-ridge of a scaled and world-weary leviathan, lurching for a moment from the brine to peer at the strange and wonderful land creatures that have come for a moment to wade in the ten feet of common ground shared between marine and terrestrial.
His gaze cast a thin strip of gold upon the waves and the brown-sugar sand; and between rogue waves and the steady surge and slap of the surf, I ran that amber runway, placing my camera here and there. I hung my lens just above the spray and the splash and dragged the shutter a bit to bring back a few memories of the setting sun and the receding sea in the last, magenta minutes of an early December evening.
I once read some advice along the lines of, “Don’t photograph the scenery, photograph the light,” and I haven’t been the same since.
Blackpool Same Sex Dance Festival held at The Spanish Hall, Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Hosted by the Sugar Dandies.
samesexdancefestival.com/home.html
Images taken by Oskar Marchock
© 2013 Oskar Marchock All Rights Reserved
...still Earth, but within inches will be moving into "Wind".
I'm looking forward to working with some new colours, my eyes are 'beiged out".
This is Antenna Structure Registration 1234684, a tower built in 2015 on the same site as its predecessor on the south side of Bloomington, Indiana. It holds aloft the main and auxiliary antennas for WTIU-TV and WFIU-FM radio, both owned and operated by Indiana University.
On top of the tower is WTIU, which identifies as channel 30, its original UHF channel, but is now on channel 33, after operating for a number of years on channel 14. (After the "repack" onto channel 33, WLKY-TV in Louisville moved to channel 14 and WTTK in Kokomo moved to channel 15.)
WTIU has an ERP (Effective Radiated Power) of 345 kW, produced by an Electronics Research Inc. (ERI) ATW18H3-ETTX-33H directional antenna with three lobes pointed roughly northeast, southeast and west. The height above average terrain is 219 m (719 ft.) and 191.1 m (627 ft.) above ground level. It also has an electrical beam tilt downward of 0.75 degrees.
Next down is the main antenna for WFIU-FM on 103.7, which the station calls WFIU-1. The antenna is an 8-bay Dielectric DCR-C8CRP, side-mounted at the top of the tower below the mast for WTIU-TV, and sporting white can-shaped radomes. Its ERP is 29 kW at 197 m (646 ft.) above average terrain and 167 m (548 ft.) above the ground.
Below that, WFIU has a 163-watt translator, W270BH, on 101.9 FM, which it calls WFIU-2. Rather than translating WFIU's signal, however, it carries its own mostly separate programming. No antenna make is listed, but it transmits with an ERP of 163 watts through a 2-bay antenna at 159 m (522 ft.) above average terrain and 136 m (446 ft.) above the ground. It is slightly directional, with a small dent in the signal to the north-northeast.
Next down is WTIU's auxiliary antenna, an Electronics Research Inc. i230ECW-16-14/33, which lives inside two white can-shaped radomes. The height above average terrain is 153 m (502 ft.) and 125 m (410 ft.) above ground level. The signal is highly directional in a broad fan shape to the northwest. The electrical beam tilt is 1.0 degree.
Next down on the tower, below three microwave dishes, is WFIU's auxiliary antenna in red radomes: a two-bay Shivley 6812-2R with an ERP of 1kw and a height of 124m (407 ft.) above average terrain, and 94m (308 ft.) above the ground.
There are also cell antennas low on the tower, sufficiently numerous to represent all the major carriers.
inside the old monastery of Rumtek...which is about fifteen minutes away from the famous Dharma Chakra centre.
the monastery was almost destroyed by a fire and had to be re-built...not the only monastery in Sikkim to experience that, many others have suffered the same fate...
the location is lovely, it's quiet and serene and not as overcrowded with security or tourists...do not miss out on the old monastery if you go to rumtek.
the lama in the picture on the right hand side was the 16th Karmapa, the supreme head of the Kagyupa sect. He was responsible for building the Dharma Chakra Centre and his remains lie in the golden stupa over there...
The same Fiorino as on my previous photo, found on Google Street View.
The Fiorino is a light commercial vehicle, initially based on the 1971-1983 Fiat 127 (Tipo 147). It was available as panel van and as a passenger estate version with side windows, the Panorama.
This second generation Fiorino Tipo 146 was based on the 1983-1995 Fiat Uno. It was presented late 1987, and available as passenger car (Fiorino Panorama), as panel van (Fiorino Cargo) and as Pickup.
This second generation Fiorino received three face-lifts: in 1992 and 1994, and the last one in 2004. The 1992 Fiorino Phase II-III was based on the 1988-1995 Fiat Tipo, which was designed by Ercole Spada (It, 1937-2025) at the I.DE.A Institute.
Three different petrol engines and one Diesel L4 engine.
Performance: 56-68 bhp.
Production Fiat Fiorino series: Nov. 1977-2024.
Production Fiat Fiorino 2nd gen.: 1988-2013.
Production Fiat Fiorino 2nd gen. this Mk II: 1992-1997.
New Italian reg. number (type 1999-present).
Number seen: about 5.
Piazzolo Acreide (Sicilia), Via Annunziata, Februari 2021.
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