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One of my lesser ambitions, to see all Concordes in preservation, received a substantial setback today. On a second visit to Barbados, I was able to get a private car to help me to fulfil an outstanding wish to see G-BOAE. I now regret more than before a failed attempt of five years ago. When we drove to the exhibition entrance, it was clearly closed and looked as though it had been for some time. There was no specific information at the gate. I asked my driver to go past the terminal where I saw the sign displayed in the open air check in area. I took the phrase 'Closed for Renovations' at face value but was very disappointed.
When I researched further, disappointment turned to something approaching anger. The Barbados Concorde Experience has been closed since at least 1 July 2018 and the exact reasons remain unclear. I am emotionally attached to Concorde as are many people and I fervently hope that AE, which is at least indoors, will not be neglected like AB. Eighteen of the twenty Concordes built are preserved and that is exactly the way it should be.
At least I saw the Adams VOR-DME (BGI) 😊 (top picture, far left)
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After a financial setback. the Charles Congdon family eventually moved to the Italianate house, constructed in 1875. The upstairs porch was added to the house.
Photograph from Chicago Architecture Center Evanston Along the Lake walking tour. Photograph from Chicago Architecture Center Evanston Along the Lake walking tour.
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After four mornings in a row of changing sheets at 5:30 in the morning, we're putting him in pullups again at night.
(Jan. 17, 2014) The girls played very well and dominated the Cal City High squad, despite injury setbacks to the Bishop Roster. Was lots of fun to shoot!
the Fran and Kukla Alley has the garage with a deep setback from the alley to accomodate underground utility right of way. Rear loaded utilities allows hmes to be built closer to the street for a better walkable environment. The developer of the project is quite a punster with alley names. Also nearby is "Alley of the Dolls"
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NEWARK, Del. (Sept. 27, 2008) - Coming off a disappointing setback a week earlier and with the memory of an upset lost to Albany two seasons ago still in their minds, Delaware made sure of the outcome this time. Backed by a defense that allowed just 150 total yards and a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown by Tyrone Grant, the No. 17 ranked Blue Hens dominated the second half and cruised to a 38-7 victory over Albany Saturday night.
Greenfield Thunder's Alex Peters is dismissed by Crompton Crusaders at Ladhill Lane during the first semi-final of the Pennine Power T20 Finals Day. Despite this setback, event hosts Thunder won the tie by 17 runs, but in the Final suffered a tense three-wicket defeat, with just two balls remaining, by Monton Mayhem.
Event statistics:
Admission: free. Programme: four pages (£3, all proceeds to the Thomas Hardman Fund in aid of Cardiac Risk in the Young). Attendance: 310. Refreshments: tea (75p). Three types of pie and barbecue items also available.
First Semi-Final (10am): Greenfield Thunder 176-7 off 20 overs (Samit Patel 68, Joe Hepworth 24, Daniel Taylor 3-20) beat Crompton Crusaders 159-6 off 20 overs (Dennis Louis 62, Stephen Wright 49 not out) by 17 runs. Crusaders won the toss and elected to field.
Second Semi-Final (1pm): Monton Mayhem 197-6 off 20 overs (Josh Lenihan 81, Ben Chapman 23) beat Friarmere Cavaliers 99 off 15.3 overs (Adil Mustafa 23, Ben Chapman 3-18) by 98 runs. Cavaliers won the toss and elected to field.
Final (4pm): Greenfield Thunder 112-6 off 20 overs (Samit Patel 53, Ali Nawaz 3-23, Danny Collins 2-22, Josh Lenihan 2-25) lost by three wickets to Monton Mayhem 114-7 (Tom Coe 37 not out, Christiaan Jonker 25, Adam Hayes 3-21) off 19.4 overs. Thunder won the toss and elected to bat. Official Man of the Match: Tom Coe.
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Market Update
Housing activity continues to remain above year-ago levels despite some setbacks resulting from the now-expired tax credit. Improved stability in home prices with similar levels of distressed properties seen last year offers a hopeful sign the market is holding its ground. However, the economy still has a considerable way to go to achieve its full recovery.
Consumers are saving more and being picky about how they spend their money. While a higher savings rate means less spending in the near term, this is a positive sign that households are taking control of their finances to build some cushion that can be used to pay down debt and/or support future spending.
Existing home sales marked the twelfth consecutive month of year-over-year increase in June. On a monthly basis, sales activity eased 5.1% from May. The moderation in home sales reflects “understandable swings as buyers responded to the tax credits,” according to Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist. He anticipates such impact to show up in the next two months.
June’s median home price increased for the fourth consecutive month. Distressed homes, accounting for 32% of sales last month, continued holding home prices at highly affordable levels for the time being. While distressed sales hovered around the same level as a year ago, the gain in home prices is pointing to a sustained stability in the making.
Interest Rates
Mortgage rates set a new record low in July as consumer confidence softened and unemployment remained elevated. This presents a great opportunity for buyers and investors. Coupled with lowered home prices and a robust rental market, investors are finding their way to cash-flow opportunities. As recovery gains deeper roots, rates will need to rise to keep inflation in check.
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Consumers Beware: New Credit Card Tricks
On May 22, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, marking a turning point for American consumers and ending the days of unfair rate hikes and hidden fees. While the new law offers significant safeguards, consumers still need to be vigilant against new practices designed to outflank the new rules.
Stay as informed as possible, read your statement , report any irregularities immediately, and watch for these tricks.
Shortened Billing Cycle: The CARD Act requires companies to allow a window of at least 21 days from when a statement is mailed and when payment is due. Cardholders are reporting being shortchanged on billing cycle time and then being assessed late-payment fees.
Advice: Watch out for shortened payment dates.
Sunday Due Dates: The CARD Act stipulates if a creditor does not receive or accept payments on weekends or holidays, then the date is extended and late-payment fees shouldn’t be triggered. However, some banks say they’re open for business even when there’s no mail delivery.
Advice: Don’t assume you are safe.
Low-Limit Cards: The CARD Act says a card’s total annual fees can’t exceed 25% of a borrower’s credit line. However, some issuers may be evading the fee restrictions by charging an up-front processing fee that doesn’t fall under the 25% cap.
Advice: Watch out for processing and other fees.
False Inactive Fees: Issuers will no longer be able to charge inactivity fees or extra charges for people who don’t spend a certain amount each year, effective August 22. However, some issuers are charging an annual fee that’s waived if cardholders reach a certain spending threshold.
Advice: Watch out for conditional annual fees.
Rebate Offers: Some credit cards offer refunds on finance charges when customers pay on time. However, rebate offers aren’t governed by the CARD Act, and such offers can be revoked suddenly and for any reason, leaving cardholders stuck with higher charges.
Advice: Rebates may translate to real savings in finance charges.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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Locomotive R761 waits to setback behind the departure signal at Bendigo. R761-T395 were running the Steamrail Northern Weekender to Swan Hill and Echuca. 8th June 2014.
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Her vision in life is to help and support the goals, aspirations and desires of individuals. With her background she is more than capable and qualified to assist others in their life’s journey.
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Patricia Anne’s life experiences give her the knowledge and wisdom to understand and know the Heart Matters. Her journey has brought many experiences, both good and bad. With each experience came the hard lessons of life that resonate in her heart to share in her coaching.
Her spirituality is powerful and aligned with the Universe. Her walk of Life is to remain humble, sensitive, and with a patient, nurturing soul. With her loving kindness and caring, she is rewarded by listening and assisting others. She is giving and open minded to building a better life for her clients.
Her vision in life is to help and support the goals, aspirations and desires of individuals. With her background she is more than capable and qualified to assist others in their life’s journey.
She supports adults dealing with abandonment setbacks; or women who face emotional, mental or physical trauma. Working with the setbacks or trauma in your life’s journey, Patricia can coach you to deal with forgiveness in order to live a fuller, freer, happier life.
The Heart Matters coaching is looking forward to teaming up with you in nurturing a lifetime with truth, authenticity and aliveness. With personal growth and exceptional intentional living, YOUR life will be taken to the next level.
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The way to the State contract
Although the Allies declared the restoration of Austria as an independent state to one of their war aims already in the "Moscow Declaration" in 1943 and Austria was designated the first "victim" of Hitler's policy of aggression, after 1945 the way to a State treaty became difficult and was marked by repeated setbacks. This was mainly due to the disagreement between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. In the beginning of the "Cold War", Moscow feared that an independent Austria could enter into a military alliance with the Western powers. In addition, the Soviets repeatedly pointed out that the State Treaty alone would not provide sufficient protection against a renewed attachment of Austria to Germany and the associated threat of war, and therefore made its signature dependent on a solution to the "German Question" (Germany was divided in West Germany and East Germany, the latter one controlled by the Soviet Union). It was ultimately Stalin's death on 5 March 1953 that made movement on the Soviet side possible. In February 1955, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov in a speech to the "Supreme Soviet" for the first time suggested the solution of the absolute package deal between the Austrian State Treaty and the German Question. In March Molotov invited Chancellor Raab to Moscow for negotiations. These negotiations in April, where in addition to Raab also Vice Chancellor Adolf Schärf, Foreign Minister Leopold Figl and State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry, Bruno Kreisky, participated, should then bring the breakthrough. The talks took place in an excellent mood, and the diplomatic skills of the Austrian negotiators were praised by both the Soviets and Western diplomats. In the final communique - the "Moscow Memorandum" - a "speedy conclusion" of the State treaty was also promised. Austria agreed not to join a military alliance or to allow military bases of foreign power on its territory. The repayment by Austria of the "German assets" confiscated by the Soviets - a sum of 150 million dollars had been stipulated in the 1949 State Treaty Bill - could be made entirely in deliveries of goods. The oil production sites and the Danube steam shipping company should also get Austria back. Furthermore, the release of the remaining Austrian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union was agreed.
At the beginning of May, the "Conference of Ambassadors" began in Vienna, in which Figl and Kreisky participated in addition to the diplomatic representatives of the four occupying powers. In the process, the last obstacles should be removed and a conference prepared by the foreign ministers of Austria and the occupying powers. This "Foreign Ministers' Conference took place on May 14, one day before the signing of the State Treaty. The Foreign Ministers agreed to essentially adopt the 1949 State Treaty, and the in the "Moscow Memorandum" documented results of the Moscow negotiations include as annex. Austria's freedom from alliance should be guaranteed by the status of neutrality. It was agreed that this concept of neutrality should be defined precisely by diplomatic means. Figl also achieved that the third paragraph of the preamble, putting the blame on Austria for complicity, was canceled "for moral reasons". One of the first to congratulate the Austrian government on its success was German SPD chairman Erich Ollenhauer. Probably not unjustly he congratulated Austria for its "smooth diplomacy".
Der Weg zum Staatsvertrag
Obwohl die Alliierten schon in der "Moskauer Deklaration" 1943 die Wiederherstellung Österreichs als unabhängigen Staat zu einem ihrer Kriegsziele erklärt hatten und Österreich als erstes "Opfer" der Aggressionspolitik Hitlers bezeichnet worden war, gestaltete sich nach Kriegsende 1945 der Weg zum Staatsvertrag schwierig und war von wiederholten Rückschlägen gekennzeichnet. Dies war vor allem auf die Uneinigkeit zwischen den Westalliierten und der Sowjetunion zurückzuführen. Im beginnenden "Kalten Krieg" befürchtete Moskau, dass ein unabhängiges Österreich ein militärisches Bündnis mit den Westmächten eingehen könnte. Außerdem wiesen die Sowjets immer wieder darauf hin, dass der Staatsvertrag allein keinen ausreichenden Schutz vor einem neuerlichen Anschluss Österreichs an Deutschland und einer damit verbundenen Kriegsgefahr böte, und machten deshalb ihre Unterschrift von einer Lösung der "Deutschen Frage" abhängig (Deutschland war in Westdeutschland und die von der Sowjetunion kontrollierte Deutsche Demokratische Republik geteilt.). Der Tod Stalins am 5. März 1953 war es letztlich, der auf sowjetischer Seite Bewegung ermöglichte. Im Februar 1955 deutete der sowjetische Außenminister Molotow in einer Rede vor dem "Obersten Sowjet" erstmals die Lösung des unbedingten Junktims zwischen österreichischem Staatsvertrag und Deutscher Frage an. Im März folgte eine Einladung Molotows an Bundeskanzler Raab zu Verhandlungen nach Moskau. Diese Verhandlungen im April, an denen neben Raab auch Vizekanzler Adolf Schärf, Außenminister Leopold Figl und der Staatssekretär im Außenministerium, Bruno Kreisky, teilnahmen, sollten dann auch den Durchbruch bringen. Die Gespräche fanden in ausgezeichneter Stimmung statt, und das diplomatische Geschick der österreichischen Verhandler wurde sowohl von den Sowjets als auch von westlichen Diplomaten gelobt. Im Schlusskommunique - dem "Moskauer Memorandum" - wurde dann auch ein "schleunigster Abschluss" des Staatsvertrags in Aussicht gestellt. Österreich erklärte sich bereit, keinem Militärbündnis beizutreten oder Militärstützpunkte einer fremden Macht auf seinem Staatsgebiet zuzulassen. Die Ablösung des von den Sowjets beschlagnahmten "deutschen Vermögens" durch Österreich - im Staatsvertragsentwurf von 1949 war eine Summe von 150 Millionen Dollar festgeschrieben worden - konnte zur Gänze in Warenlieferungen erfolgen. Auch die Erdölproduktionsstätten und die Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft sollte Österreich zurück erhalten. Weiters wurde die Freilassung der noch in der Sowjetunion verbliebenen österreichischen Kriegsgefangenen vereinbart.
Anfang Mai begann dann in Wien die "Botschafterkonferenz", an der neben den diplomatischen Vertretern der vier Besatzungsmächte auch Figl und Kreisky teilnahmen. Dabei sollten die letzten Hindernisse aus dem Weg geräumt und eine Konferenz der Außenminister Österreichs und der Besatzungsmächte vorbereitet werden. Diese "Außenministerkonferenz" fand am 14. Mai - einen Tag vor der Staatsvertragsunterzeichnung - statt. Die Außenminister einigten sich darauf, im Wesentlichen den Staatsvertragsentwurf von 1949 zu übernehmen und die im "Moskauer Memorandum" festgehaltenen Ergebnisse der Moskauer Verhandlungen als Annex beizufügen. Die Bündnisfreiheit Österreichs sollte durch den Status der Neutralität garantiert werden. Man vereinbarte, diesen Neutralitätsbegriff auf diplomatischem Wege noch genau zu definieren. Figl erreichte auch, dass der dritte Absatz der Präambel, der Österreich eine Mitschuld am Krieg zuwies, "aus moralischen Gründen" gestrichen wurde. Einer der ersten, der die österreichische Regierung zu ihrem Erfolg beglückwünschte, war der deutsche SPD-Vorsitzende Erich Ollenhauer. Wohl nicht ganz zu Unrecht gratulierte er zu Österreichs "geschmeidiger Diplomatie".
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its a story about disdain for fake titties! god this is weird. I suggested to Nerve, after the first incident to do right by me and ask permission to use an image of mine somewhere on their site and credit me.
I got just that and all the weird aftershocks. it is hard to see, but my name is on there.
dizzying.
On the front page of Nerve
NSFW!!!
NS ES40DC #7695 pulls up to the home signal at Winton Place as Y121, the Ivorydale Turn, rolls around it with CSXT GP40-2 #6905 leading. That's the one disadvantage about the triple track at Winton Place.
Lots on this block have deep setbacks, and homes are set along a ridge that is, at one point, said to be the highest elevation in Chicago.
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A sliver of building only 25 feet wide and 24 stories tall, wedged into Midtown, Manhattan.
Designed by Raimund Abraham (1933-2010), one of my favorite architects, and opening in 2002, the ACFNY is my favorite building in the city. I make a point to visit it every time I'm in NYC and after numerous encounters it has yet to disappoint.
Dramatic, suspenseful, and evocative of kinetics, the facade of the building turns code requirements into a series of sloped blades, seemingly sliding into the sidewalk below.
There is a gallery on the first few floors that is free and open to the public. The Austrian Cultural Forum is located at:
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Construction equipment build a lift across a new setback levee alignment at the lower breach site of Missouri River Levee Unit L-575 south of Hamburg, Iowa. This is the final breach of five between L-575 and L-550 that the Omaha District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to repair. This project is scheduled to be completed March 1 in time for the beginning of the new runoff season.
This is the devil himself who according to archaichism fell because of selfishness and piety, in catholicism (christianity) he fell because of pride (same story in Judiasm and Islam). The devil challenged God for his glory and throne but Michael smote him (tearing his wings off) and thus banished him into eternal damnation! Since then Lucifer never forgave the heavens but grew bitter, then in his hatred to spite God he tempted and persuaded mankind to sin. He earned many names and titles throughout the eon of man, he would call upon all infidels of the earth to join his axis to challenge God one final time in Armageddon! After his final defeat, men would be made immortal thus to live for a thousand years and not suffer any mortal setbacks. Man's immortality is one thing Lucifer doesn't want us to have! To have psychic ability he wants for us even less!
Patricia Anne’s life experiences give her the knowledge and wisdom to understand and know the Heart Matters. Her journey has brought many experiences, both good and bad. With each experience came the hard lessons of life that resonate in her heart to share in her coaching.
Her spirituality is powerful and aligned with the Universe. Her walk of Life is to remain humble, sensitive, and with a patient, nurturing soul. With her loving kindness and caring, she is rewarded by listening and assisting others. She is giving and open minded to building a better life for her clients.
Her vision in life is to help and support the goals, aspirations and desires of individuals. With her background she is more than capable and qualified to assist others in their life’s journey.
She supports adults dealing with abandonment setbacks; or women who face emotional, mental or physical trauma. Working with the setbacks or trauma in your life’s journey, Patricia can coach you to deal with forgiveness in order to live a fuller, freer, happier life.
The Heart Matters coaching is looking forward to teaming up with you in nurturing a lifetime with truth, authenticity and aliveness. With personal growth and exceptional intentional living, YOUR life will be taken to the next level.
Heart Matters coaching begins with Action.
Photograph by Sergeant Richard Britten, 37th (Buckinghamshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry
After the setbacks sustained during 'Black Week' in December 1899 the British government realised it would need more men to defeat the Boers. It responded by raising the Imperial Yeomanry on 24 December 1899. Although based on the existing county yeomanry regiments, the new formations also contained a large contingent of volunteers. The Buckinghamshire Yeomanry were part of the First Contingent of Imperial Yeomanry formed in 1900 from around 10,0000 volunteers who signed up for 12 months service as mounted infantry.
Built between 1921 and 1926, this Renaissance Revival-style Cathedral Basilica was designed by Emile Ulrich as a shrine paying homage to the Blessed Mother Mary. The basilica replaced the previous St. Patrick’s Parish Church, a Gothic Revival-style structure that stood on the same site that was damaged by fire in 1916, leading to temporary repairs, with Father Nelson Baker, whom built up the surrounding charitable institutions that were once located in a series of red brick Queen Anne-style buildings around the basilica, subsequently making plans for a new, grander church to replace the old building. Dedicated as a shrine to the Virgin Mary, the basilica was constructed with funds from a direct-mail fundraising club, which sourced funding from across the United States, and was built without incurring debt in the process.
The church was complete enough by late 1925 to hold its first worship services, with the first mass being held on Christmas in 1925, with the church being consecrated in May of 1926, with the church being elevated to the status of Minor Basilica by Pope Pius XI in July of 1926, being the second church being bestowed the title in the United States, with The Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis, Minnesota preceding it by five months.
The building originally featured two 165-foot-tall towers that were inspired by Portuguese Renaissance and Baroque architecture, but a thunderstorm in 1941 saw the towers struck by lightning and severely damaged, being lowered and simplified into their present form, with copper domes replacing what used to be the third tier of the towers, shortening them considerably, and the remaining portion of the towers being fully enclosed. This has led to the dome over the crossing being made more dominant in the building’s profile and front facade, with the original towers having stood as tall as the lantern on top of the dome, unbalancing the hierarchy of the composition to lean more towards the dome in the back, with it no longer being balanced as it originally was by the towers in the front.
The building is clad in marble with green copper on the domes, with the largest dome, located at the crossing of the nave and transepts, being 165 feet in height, and holding the distinction when completed in 1925 of being the second-largest dome in the United States, only surpassed in size by the dome atop the United States Capitol. However, much larger domes have since been built than the one on either building. The dome features a lantern at the top, and four copper statues of angels with trumpets, which are positioned at 90 degree intervals around the base, shifted 45 degrees from the rest of the building. The building features a multi-tiered massing with setbacks at the semi-circular apse on the rear facade, with roman arched and oxeye stained glass windows, a high gabled central nave and transepts with low shed and hipped-roofed aisles to either side, a recessed arched portion of the front facade between the base of the two towers with statues above a first floor portico with a domed copper roof and doric columns at the main entrance to the building, flanked by pilasters, quoins at the corners of the bases of the towers, and arcing colonnades flanking the front facade, with sculptures atop the ends, doric columns and pilasters, and pediments at the end bay of the colonnades. The interior of the basilica is richly decorated with murals, sculptures, classical columns and pilasters, an organ loft above the entrance, multiple tabernacles around the perimeter of the sanctuary, an ornate high altar with sculptures and spiraling stone columns with ionic capitals, African mahogany pews, and stone floors with multiple colors creating a decorative composition.
The basilica is in active use as the primary Catholic church for Lackawanna and South Buffalo, as well as being a popular pilgrimage site for devout Catholics in the Buffalo region. The basilica is part of the Diocese of Buffalo, though the diocese is seated at St. Joseph Cathedral in Downtown Buffalo.
The advancement of Spring suffered a minor setback on April 2nd 2021. I was sad for the setback but kinda excited to get a few pics of flowers in the snow
Item Number: 4073-28
Document Title: Mt. Tom Golf [v]/ Wyckoff Park, Schedule of Building Setback s [r]
Project: 04073; Mount Tom Golf Club; Holyoke; Massachusetts; 10 Country Clubs, Resorts, Hotels, Clubs; 42 PLANS ()
Artist/Creator: OBLA / OLMSTED BROTHERS ||HVH
Location: Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, MA
Category: PLANS
Purpose: A&E (Architectural & Engineering)
Physical Characteristics: 11 1/2" x 9 3/4" graphite --ink draft cloth
Dates: 30-JUN-1923 [r]
Notes: Lots 1-46, Set Back from Street, Set Back from Side Line when less than called for by General Rules, remarks [r]/ [Figures and Notes in graphite r]/ * Never except in case of attached garages . All other figures more than allowed, 20' [r]
Please credit: Courtesy of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
Just trust me when I say I needed to move the dai dai maru and replace the fuyu persimmon trees.
The dai dai maru overwintered in a big pot, out of harms way. I found a suitable replacement fuyu in a nursery. Both went into the ground in Spring 2024. They sprouted nicely. That -7°C September frost must have been a record. The resulting leafless sticks weren't exactly liveless; nor were they anymore lively.
Slow recovery through Summer 2024 brought hope of something better next year; this year now. Spring, apart from the wind, had been benign, they were bounding along; all big, healthy shoots and promise.
Like the fig, this is early in the day. That soft fleshy tip of the fuyu has succumbed immediately to the overnight frost; a biggy for November. By the afternoon, they look like walking sticks hung with black rags.
What's next? Well, I'm helping a man unload his van so he can install some new doors for me. But there's a smell in the air; both familiar and alien… I'll investigate in a while.
Hartford’s bright start to the season suffered its first setback on Sunday at the Matthews Sportsplex in Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite great efforts from Danny Barrera and Preston Tabort Etaka, as well as goalkeeping heroics from Jeff Caldwell, two brilliant individual goals and a deflected strike helped Charlotte to seal the three points and My8four3's Jerry Self was on the Pitch keeping the fans #LockedIN. Stay #active with LockedIN Magazine #ruLockedIN?
Courtney needs help! 10 years ago we did a small TNR project on Melrose St. Two of the cats from this project are still going strong despite some recent setbacks. One, Bean, was attacked by a raccoon and had to have a leg amputated. The other, Courtney, has been trucking along well but due to recent weight loss her caretakers took her in to see the vet. They determined she badly needs a dental cleaning and extraction, plus she has hyperthyroidism which will require ongoing medication. The estimate for all this is about $1000. Can you spare a few bucks for an old Bushwick Street Cat? Please donate if you can, either through our donation page (link in bio) or directly to the caretakers' Venmo: @ Lauren-Corry-1 See the last pic for what she looked like when we first trapped her. Thanks both to those who donate and Courtney's amazing caretakers for keeping her going all this time! #helpCourtney #catsofbushwick #feralcat #TNR #seniorcat #seniorferal ❤️ Help Courtney ❤️ You may or may not be familiar with one of Bushwicks local celebrities, a @bushwickcats TNR OG Courtney! She was trapped about 8-9 years ago and has stuck around Melrose street and been under our care with helpful neighbors for over 6 years. She’s very friendly but very outdoors oriented and in her senior years. We noticed she was losing weight and having trouble with eating - brought her to the vet and found that shes luckily FIV/FL negative but a thyroid condition and needs a rotting tooth pulled. Between our house and the neighbor we will be able to manage the meds and fronted costs for her assessment, but need help get her tooth pulled as it may cost up to $1000. Any amount of money donated will go directly to her care. We want Courtney to enjoy her senior years! Accepting cash donations (if you are in the area and want to meet up) or via Venmo. Will post process updates as we get them! Reposted from @caffiend314 instagr.am/p/CoU5OJSORg0/
An early morning wakeup got us out of the door and on our way to catch the first of two flights. It was morning, but there was still three hours or more of darkness left in the sky. The first flight was a short two hour flight from Orlando, Florida to Washington, DC. The second flight would be seven times longer than that. There was only one hour and ten minutes between connecting flights, so any delay would domino into a series of major travel setbacks on the destination end of this trip. We gave ourselves a comfortable two-hour cushion to catch the first airplane.
While driving south on Interstate Highway 95, we were talking about how the 14-hour flight would not seem too bad if we compared it to our customary 26-hour sail from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas.
Jill had just said, "At least we don't have to be awake to watch for other traffic during this trip", when the brake lights of the long-haul truck ahead of us suddenly glowed brightly. I quickly summoned the Jeep’s brakes. Through the early morning darkness I could see a cloud of dust in the median ahead to my left. Everything on the highway came to a complete stop. I stopped the Jeep a few yards behind the huge truck ahead, which had fishtailed on the roadway to avoid becoming part the calamity on the dark road ahead.
The calamity was caused by two large eighteen-wheel cargo haulers hitting each other at very high speeds. I can only speculate that one or both of the drivers fell asleep after driving all night. The result was a lot of debris strewn all across the highway, the right lane blocked by a smashed transfer truck and the left median littered with the bent trailer and cab of the other freight carrier.
Just like that, the two-hour cushion we had given ourselves to catch the first flight didn't seem to be enough. The truck ahead of us moved to the edge of the highway. Its driver got out to help. Lights of emergency vehicles were already approaching from the opposite direction. There was a slim opening amongst the debris. In my judgment there was just enough room for the jeep to squeeze by and gain access to the empty highway ahead. A crowd of drivers gathered around the two hapless truck cabs as I maneuvered the Jeep past the scene. We gingerly missed unrecognizable cargo lying in the left lane and broke free of the fiasco just as a police car pulled across the median and blocked the lane behind us. If I would have waited another minute to make my move through the wreckage, I am sure we would have missed our flights; both of them. I said a silent prayer for the two truck drivers, and then pressed down on the gas pedal to take advantage of the empty highway ahead of us.
We still had our two our cushion after we went through airport security. We had time to have a little breakfast, the first of many meals that would be a big part of the next two weeks.
An early morning wakeup got us out of the door and on our way to catch the first of two flights. It was morning, but there was still three hours or more of darkness left in the sky. The first flight was a short two hour flight from Orlando, Florida to Washington, DC. The second flight would be seven times longer than that. There was only one hour and ten minutes between connecting flights, so any delay would domino into a series of major travel setbacks on the destination end of this trip. We gave ourselves a comfortable two-hour cushion to catch the first airplane.
While driving south on Interstate Highway 95, we were talking about how the 14-hour flight would not seem too bad if we compared it to our customary 26-hour sail from Miami to Nassau in the Bahamas.
Jill had just said, "At least we don't have to be awake to watch for other traffic during this trip", when the brake lights of the long-haul truck ahead of us suddenly glowed brightly. I quickly summoned the Jeep’s brakes. Through the early morning darkness I could see a cloud of dust in the median ahead to my left. Everything on the highway came to a complete stop. I stopped the Jeep a few yards behind the huge truck ahead, which had fishtailed on the roadway to avoid becoming part the calamity on the dark road ahead.
The calamity was caused by two large eighteen-wheel cargo haulers hitting each other at very high speeds. I can only speculate that one or both of the drivers fell asleep after driving all night. The result was a lot of debris strewn all across the highway, the right lane blocked by a smashed transfer truck and the left median littered with the bent trailer and cab of the other freight carrier.
Just like that, the two-hour cushion we had given ourselves to catch the first flight didn't seem to be enough. The truck ahead of us moved to the edge of the highway. Its driver got out to help. Lights of emergency vehicles were already approaching from the opposite direction. There was a slim opening amongst the debris. In my judgment there was just enough room for the jeep to squeeze by and gain access to the empty highway ahead. A crowd of drivers gathered around the two hapless truck cabs as I maneuvered the Jeep past the scene. We gingerly missed unrecognizable cargo lying in the left lane and broke free of the fiasco just as a police car pulled across the median and blocked the lane behind us. If I would have waited another minute to make my move through the wreckage, I am sure we would have missed our flights; both of them. I said a silent prayer for the two truck drivers, and then pressed down on the gas pedal to take advantage of the empty highway ahead of us.
We still had our two our cushion after we went through airport security. We had time to have a little breakfast, the first of many meals that would be a big part of the next two weeks.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, established in 1789, holds the distinction of being the oldest extant cemetery in the City of New Orleans. In 1788, the City of New Orleans suffered a number of significant setbacks including the first of two great fires and an epidemic that taxed the already full cemetery located on St. Peter Street, bounded by St. Peter, Burgundy, Toulouse, and Rampart Streets. In response to concerns from physicians about the spread of diseases, the acting government of the city ordered the earlier cemetery to be closed and a new cemetery to be established further away from the population. The Church selected a 300-square-foot parcel bordering marshy swampland outside of the confines of the fortified city, and about 40 yards from the rear garden of the then location of Charity Hospital as the site for the new cemetery. A picket fence was erected around its perimeter and burials began immediately.
The cemetery was initially constructed as a temporary burial site but was soon after approved as permanent by Spanish royal decree on August 14, 1789. It can be assumed that during the 18th century interment within the new cemetery, now known as St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, took the form of in-ground burials, following the convention established in the St. Peter Street Cemetery. In 1803, a city ordinance was issued mandating that all forms of interment occur above ground in an effort to deal with the low-lying landscape of the cemetery and the constant threat of flooding. Though the mandate was not strictly followed it did prompt the style of interment we are most familiar with today in New Orleans, above-ground tombs, an aesthetic tradition of memorial architecture that we inherited from France and Spain, with the added benefit of it solving the issues associated with a very high water table.
Through heavy use throughout its early years the cemetery expanded from the confines of its original footprint, eventually reaching directly up to the ramparts of the fortified city, and covering about one third of the block bordered today by Conti, Basin, Bienville, and Treme Streets. Following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, the demographics of New Orleans’ population shifted dramatically. Americans from the Northern states flooded the city and brought Protestantism with them, and thousands of refugees from Haiti arrived with a mixture of Catholic, Caribbean and West-African-based religious beliefs. The cemetery was enlarged to accommodate this influx, with an additional parcel of land added at the rear of the original footprint for use as a Protestant burial ground, and adjacent to it a space allotted for the burials of African-Americans and people of color.
In 1805, the city granted the newly established Episcopal congregation of Christ Church ownership of the Protestant burial ground, which they managed from that point until 1822 when the city offered their growing congregation a tract of land on Faubourg Street, at the head of Girod Street, for the building of a new Protestant cemetery, which would later be known as the Girod Street Cemetery.
In June of 1832, the New Orleans City Council set upon a plan to extend Conti, Treme, and Basin streets, in a way to cross the land occupied by St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. The Church Wardens and City Surveyor Joseph Pilie supervised the work to transfer the burials within the way of the extensions to within the smaller planned footprint of the cemetery. The current main entrance gate dates to this road project.
In the years that followed, Treme Street was laid out, bisecting the Protestant parcel and separating it, and the space set aside for the burials of African-Americans and people of color, from the rest of the cemetery.
By 1838, the majority of the remains in the Protestant section had been relocated to the Girod Street Cemetery, and in 1840 what was left of the section on the west side of Treme Street was sold as building lots. Today, only a small strip of the Protestant section remains bordering Treme and Conti Streets and is now under the care of New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries.
In 1847, the Board of Church Wardens of the St. Louis Cathedral agreed to relinquish a portion of the cemetery bordering St. Louis Street to the First Municipality of the City of New Orleans so that improvements could be made in that area. Between 1847 and 1852 the remains of those interred within that portion of the cemetery were relocated to newly built vaults on Basin and Conti Streets as well as to private family tombs.
In 1975, St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as having a national level of significance in the areas of art and architecture. It was later listed as part of the African American Heritage Trail by the State of Louisiana in 2008 due to the large number of historically and culturally significant African Americans interred within the cemetery.
New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries is currently working on securing that significance through our Abandoned Tomb Initiative in which we restore tombs in accordance with The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation Projects as outlined by the National Park Service. The initiative is funded through tourism revenue and support from individual and corporate donors. To learn more about the initiative and how to donate to this important cause please visit: Abandoned Tomb Initiative
Proxima Centauri - Planet B
Efforts to reach Proxima Centauri have been ongoing for years, with researchers making significant strides and facing considerable setbacks. Advancements in interplanetary travel, wormholes, and black hole studies have transformed fundamental aspects of life on Planet A. Now, we observe a completely different sky, with previously unseen and unrecognised stars visible to the naked eye. This phenomenon, while breathtaking, has sparked debate over whether it signifies progress or impending catastrophe. Albert Einstein's theories on curved space seem validated, yet there are unforeseen elements, even beyond Einstein's predictions, such as the emergence of temporary rifts in space-time that allow for instantaneous travel across vast distances. These rifts, while facilitating unprecedented exploration, also bring the risk of instability, potentially merging different points in the universe unpredictably. Moreover, the altered celestial visibility has led to the discovery of new planetary bodies with unusual gravitational effects, creating both opportunities for resource extraction and threats of cosmic collisions. These developments, blending wonder with danger, continually challenge our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Introduction on Exoplanets
Exoplanets, or extrasolar planets, are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. Since the confirmation of the first exoplanets in the early 1990s, the search for these distant worlds has become a key focus in the field of astronomy. To date, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, varying immensely in size, composition, and orbit. They range from gas giants many times the size of Jupiter to small, rocky planets that may be akin to Earth.
These discoveries have been made using a variety of methods, including the transit method, where a planet's passage in front of its star causes a slight dimming detectable by telescopes, and the radial velocity method, which measures the star’s wobble due to the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet. These techniques have unveiled a rich tapestry of planetary systems vastly different from our own.
The nearest exoplanets are found in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the Sun, approximately 4.24 light-years away. If humanity could develop a spacecraft capable of reaching 25% of the speed of light, a journey to Proxima Centauri would theoretically take about 17 years. Such a voyage would represent an unprecedented technological challenge, involving extreme durations and distances far beyond our current capabilities. Yet, as we face global environmental crises such as climate change and rising sea levels, the interest in potentially habitable exoplanets as a 'Plan B' continues to grow.
Traveling to the nearest exoplanet, Proxima Centauri, at a speed similar to that of the Space Shuttle (about 28,000 kilometers per hour) would take approximately 163,429 years. This highlights the immense distance to even the nearest stars outside our solar system and illustrates the significant challenges associated with interstellar travel using today's technology.
The nearest known exoplanet is Proxima Centauri b, which orbits the star Proxima Centauri. Proxima Centauri is the closest star to our solar system and is part of the larger star system known as Alpha Centauri, which also includes the brighter stars Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B.
Proxima Centauri b
Distance from Earth: About 4.24 light years.
Discovery: Proxima Centauri b was discovered in 2016 using the radial velocity method, which measures small changes in the star's speed caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet.
Location in the Sky
Proxima Centauri is part of the constellation Centaurus, which is visible from the Southern Hemisphere. It is not visible from most Northern latitudes. The constellation Centaurus is far from the North Star, which is part of the constellation Ursa Minor, and therefore it is not directly related to or close to known Northern constellations.
To locate Proxima Centauri in the sky from the Southern Hemisphere:
Identify Alpha Centauri: This is one of the brightest stars in the Southern sky and serves as a guide to Proxima Centauri.
Use a telescope: Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf and is very faint, so it is not visible to the naked eye. With a telescope, it can be found near Alpha Centauri.
Poem
In the cosmos' wide embrace,
We spin, a lonely, pale blue face,
Yet out there, in the vast night sky,
Worlds beyond our sun do lie.
Whispered secrets of distant suns,
Of planets where no foot has run,
Across the stellar sea, we yearn,
For exoplanets, our hearts turn.
To Proxima’s gentle glow,
To lands where alien breezes blow,
Our dreams take flight on astral wings,
To where the starlight softly sings.
Haikus
Distant worlds circle,
Stars whispering in deep space,
Secrets held in light.
Exoplanet dreams,
Voyages across the stars,
New homes in the void.
Other title: Woolworth Building (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934
Date: 1910-1913
Current location: New York City, New York, United States
Description of work: Through shrewd control of proportions, setbacks, window groupings, and vertical articulation, Gilbert produced a building that is both a 29-story office block and a huge, 50-story, stepped tower that rises through the block. Of particular note in achieving this effect is the way the narrow-wide-narrow spacing of the tower articulation is extended down through the substructure. There verticalism is reinforced by the lavish, but delicate, white terra-cotta Gothic detail, which clothes the building with fine vertical lines; these are overspun at intervals by crisp stringcourses and fluid runs of suspended Gothic canopies, with subtle decorative accents gathering in richness toward the top. The various Gothic formulae were exploited, Gilbert explained, to make what was dubbed the "Cathedral of Commerce" ever more "spiritual." (Trachtenberg, Marvin. Architecture, From Prehistory to Postmodernity. 2nd Ed. Prentice-Hall Inc. 2002. pg 526)
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Style of work: Modern; Revival: Gothic Revival
Culture: American
Materials/Techniques: masonry
Source: Greber, Jacques. L'architecture aux etats-Unis: Preuve de la force d'expansion du genie Francais, heureuse association de qualites admirablement complementaire. 2 vols. Paris: Payot & cie, 1920. Vol. 2 Illustration 12
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Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
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Sub collection: office buildings
NEWARK, Del. (Nov. 22, 2008) -- Villanova ran up 317 yards on the ground led by Aaron's Ball's 105 yards and two touchdowns as the Wildcats downed Delaware 21-7 Saturday afternoon at Delaware Stadium in the Blue Hens' final football game of the 2008 season. Delaware, which got its only points on a 34-yard scoring strike from Robby Schoenhoft to Martwain Johnston (above) in the final quarter, closed out a disappointing, injury-plagued season with a record of 4-8.
Chieko Okazaki, a member of the General Relief Society Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1990-1997, passed away recently.
Beloved Mormon women’s leader Chieko Okazaki dies
On best-selling Mormon author Chieko Okazaki’s 84th birthday in October, her family reluctantly moved her to an assisted-living center.
When she blew out the candles on a cake the family had provided, the frail and gray-haired grandmother said her birthday wish was “to get to know each and every one of [the residents],” adding that she was “so grateful” to be there and to have “all these new friends.”
Gratitude in the face of health setbacks, loss of independence and an uncertain future is rare, but “a classic Chieko response,” recalled Carol Lee Hawkins, a longtime friend who was with her at the time. “At every turn, she was totally at peace.”
On Monday, Okazaki — a popular speaker, master teacher and the first non-Caucasian woman to serve in an LDS general presidency — died of congestive heart failure in Salt Lake City.
With her death, the Utah-based faith has lost "a uniquely powerful voice," said Kathleen Flake, a friend who teaches religious history at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. "She accomplished that by being fearlessly honest about herself and the problems that members of the church faced."
Okazaki, who served as first counselor in the church's General Relief Society Presidency from 1990 to 1997, was one of the first speakers to address, in a church setting, the question of sexual abuse, Flake said, and to discuss balancing work and family; homosexuality; blended families; and coping — as she had — with racism.
"She took real and pressing problems and not only comforted," Flake said, "but led women in how to constructively engage those problems using the resources of the gospel."
She did it all by turning everyday items and experiences into powerful metaphors — a crazy quilt, a piece of rope, a "cat's cradle" string, left-side driving rules — that formed the centerpiece of her sermons.
Her first collection of speeches, Lighten Up, sold more than 100,000 copies. She went on to publish at least five more volumes, becoming one of the most-read LDS authors in history.
Physically, emotionally and spiritually, Okazaki "roamed everywhere," Hawkins said. "She had an ability to go where others didn't, to see past limitations and boundaries to ask deep questions that helped people see through silliness or traditions."
And she did it all with an unfailing optimism that created sermons out of sorrows, many of them her own.
Okazaki was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who married a non-Mormon, experienced infertility, faced racial discrimination, endured bouts of breast cancer and lost her husband.
She was born in 1926 to Japanese laborers on a plantation on the big island of Hawaii.
As a Buddhist, a young Chieko followed many of that religion's traditions. She faithfully put fruit and rice on the family's shrine each day. She recited prayers with beads draped over her hands.
When she was 11, an LDS missionary couple offered a class on Mormonism at her school. She often had seen the church's chapel behind the school and wondered about it. The class coincided with her study hall, so she and three friends enrolled.
"It was a different experience,'' she told The Salt Lake Tribune in 1996. "I was used to shrines and incense and gold brocade materials. This was just plain, nothing there except listening to the gospel."
Okazaki continued to go to the Mormon meeting every Wednesday for four years and also to Sunday services. She enjoyed being both Mormon and Buddhist, but eventually joined the LDS faith at 15.
Okazaki's parents were set on her getting an education. They worked extra hours in the fields and made slippers to send her to the University of Hawaii. There, she met Ed, a World War II veteran. He was a Congregationalist, which caused another dilemma: Should she marry outside her newfound faith?
Ten months after their wedding, Ed joined the LDS Church. The couple moved to Salt Lake City in 1951 so he could pursue graduate studies in social work at the University of Utah. Okazaki worked at Uintah Elementary on the city's east side.
There the couple faced discrimination against those of Japanese descent. Though she had never lived in Japan, Okazaki was associated in the minds of some Utahns with "the enemy.'' Three mothers refused to allow their children to be in her kindergarten class.
"I made a fuchsia-colored dress that showed off my skin and black hair and tucked a fuchsia flower in my hair," she wrote years later. "I was the most vivid thing in the whole school that first day. ... What I wanted the children to feel was my own joy and excitement."
By the end of the day, the three mothers wanted their kids back in.
Because of medical conditions, Okazaki had only two children, Kenneth and Robert. She continued to teach school in Utah and later Colorado, eventually becoming a principal.
In 1961, she became the first non-Caucasian to be on the church's Young Women's Board. Seven years later, she joined her husband when he served for three years as an LDS mission president in Okinawa, Japan.
A few years later, she was asked to work on the LDS Primary Board, which oversees the religious education of Mormon children. She was there until her appointment in 1990 to the Relief Society Presidency.
Okazaki then became highly visible.
Typically bedecked in striking colors and often wearing a Hawaiian lei, she would call out to her all-female audience, "Aloha," and thousands of women would answer back, "Aloha." She even gave that unconventional greeting during LDS General Conference.
Her speeches were tightly woven masterpieces that she worked over for weeks and refined continuously. She then read and reread them, practicing each word so it sounded natural and fluid.
Every speech was a teaching moment, recalled Elaine Jack, the Relief Society president who chose Okazaki as her counselor. "She used words and examples so judiciously to make a good and memorable point."
With her light touch and subtle humor, she was able "to bring religion down to earth," said Okazaki's son Kenneth. "She inspired women to have a backbone."
And, after her two sons were grown and her husband died in 1997, the gentle mother turned her nurturing attention outward to the world. She visited mobile homes and nursing homes; she spoke in tiny branches in Africa and big conferences in Australia; she found women who felt lost or alone. Her reach was global, even as her approach remained individual.
"Every trial she had — including cancer, widowhood and prejudice — she consecrated to the good of others," Hawkins said. "She saw them each as a gift to be able to connect to other people — and to the Lord."
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Funeral
P Chieko Okazaki's funeral is set for 11 a.m. Aug. 10 in the LDS Holladay South Stake Center, 4917 S. Viewmont St. (2200 East). —
Chieko Okazaki
Oct. 21, 1926 â Aug. 1, 2011 —
In her words
"Perfect people don't need a savior. He came to save his people in their imperfections. He is the Lord of the living and the living make mistakes. He's not embarrassed by us, angry at us, or shocked. He wants us in our brokenness, in our unhappiness, in our guilt and our grief."
Lighten Up, p. 176
"Adversity is frequently a call to do something great with our lives."
Aloha, p. 154
"Again, look around the room you are in. Do you see women of different ages, races or different backgrounds in the [LDS] Church? Of different educational, marital and professional experiences? Women with children? Women without children? Women of vigorous health and those who are limited by chronic illness or handicaps? Rejoice in the diversity of our sisterhood! It is the diversity of colors in a spectrum that makes a rainbow. It is the diversity in our circumstances that gives us compassionate hearts. It is the diversity of our spiritual gifts that benefits the church."
"Rejoice in Every Good Thing," Ensign, November 1991
Read the full article and download the mind map on the IQ Matrix blog: blog.iqmatrix.com/alleviating-suffering
Hitchin Town 2-2 Poole Town
A two-goal burst in the final three minutes denied the Canaries victory and maintained Poole Town's unbeaten start to the season.
Despite the late setback, Hitchin Town's young side continues to grow in confidence and defy the pre-season doubters. They were desperately unlucky not to have beaten Poole, the league leaders, but Poole overcame a sending off and showed great character in coming from two-down to earn a point.
The teams were:
Hitchin: Hulman, Rolfe, Bickerstaff, Noone (Barker 62) Lench, Pearson, Burtenshaw, Donnelly, King, Burns (Wharton h/t), Lowe
Subs not used: Segwete, Kirkpatrick, J.Gregson
Poole: Thomas, Clarke (Ohamje 23, Byerley 69), Spetch, Oliver, Whisken, Pettefer, Jagger-Kane, Devlin, Gillespie, Preston, Cann
Subs not used: Elliott, Brooks
Ref: P.Evans
The Canaries had to contend with a couple of pre-match blows, goalkeeper Tahj Bell was ruled out with a shoulder problem and veteran front-man Simon Martin was injured in the pre-match warm-up.
But it was a bright opening with both sides pushing the ball round the pitch nicely. Hitchin had the first chance of the game, a tame shot by King that was deflected for a corner.
Hitchin took the lead after 21 minutes, King shooting low into the net after Lewis Rolfe's cross was touched on by Matt Lench.
King went close to adding to Hitchin's lead just before the interval, going up to meet Rolfe's high ball into the area with Poole goalkeeper Dan Thomas but seeing his header roll wide of the target.
For all Poole's energy, they were unable to threaten Hitchin's stand-in keeper David Hulman.
Hitchin could have extended their lead when Jamal Lowe controlled King's cross and volleyed over and Gary Wharton's run ended with a low shot that was deflected for a corner.
Poole received a blow to their hopes when skipper Dan Cann was shown a second yellow card after felling Callum Donnelly. Poole responded immediately with a shot from Jacob Jagger-Kane that was well saved by Hulman.
But Hitchin continued to have the upper hand. Lowe struck the crossbar with a free-kick from the edge of the area and in the 79th minute, King netted his second goal, running onto a long ball by Rolfe and brushing aside a defender before shooting just inside Thomas' right hand post.
Poole refused to give up, and Richard Gillespie should have scored when he met a corner with the Hitchin defence in confusion. Gillespie had his moment in the 88th minute, scrambling the ball home after two earlier efforts were blocked.
Two minutes later, Poole's recovery was completed when a long cross to the far post was powered into the net by the head of defender Will Spetch. Rough justice, perhaps for Hitchin, but manager Mark Burke was still upbeat about the outcome. "Against the league leaders, I would have taken a point before kick-off," he said. "We became anxious in the closing stages but that comes down to experience - this is a young team and it is learning. I couldn't be more pleased with the way the season has started."
Not only are the tracks gone, but the roadbed, and mature oak trees have been removed along with a good deal of the fill. The Leeman sign board was located on the far side of the concrete under crossing visible in the center of the image. The new levee link to the setback levee is on the right side of the frame. In the distance is the sign board for Harbinson which is now the end of the track for the Fox River Dinner train.