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"Economics is on the side of humanity now."
– Isaac Asimov, in "The Currents of Space" (1952).
"Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Kavanagh: A Tale"(1849), Chapter XIII.
"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."
– Ramsey Clark
Built in the 1000s on the foundations of an earlier church, listed as a Historic Landmark on Prosper Mérimée’s very first list in 1840, the abbey church of Saint Theudère stands in the village of Saint-Chef in the French département of Isère, east of Lyon, towards the Alps.
When I say “earlier church”, I mean the one built in the 500s (of which nothing visible remains) when Theudère of Dauphiné, a local Benedictine monk who had been a trained disciple of Saint Césaire in Arles, returned to bis birthplace to found an abbey. The village of Saint-Chef grew around it during the Middle Ages, while the abbey itself reached its apogee around 1200, at the end of the Romanesque age, when it ruled over a dozen priories and about 80 churches in the environs. Decline came shortly after 1300, when the monks, profoundly divided in two factions, could not elect a new abbot. Pope John XII, then residing in Avignon, issued a bull in 1320 whereby the archbishop of Vienne would become the abbot of Saint-Chef, which forever lost its independence as of that fateful day.
The last remnants of the Benedictine communal life were washed away in the 1530s when the remaining “monks” (but could they still be called that?) were authorized by King Francis Ist and Pope Paul III to abandon their religious status and their vows (including that of poverty!), thus turning them into secular canons. The canons then went on living what was probably a much more comfortable (in all material respects!) life, until that wasn’t even good enough: in 1774, they requested and obtained (claiming isolation and the insalubrious nature of the area, poor dears) to abandon the village of Saint-Chef and be transferred to the abbey of Saint-André-le-Bas in the city of Vienne.
It should come as no surprise that, when the French Revolution erupted a few years later, not many voices were raised to defend and protect the abbey’s buildings, which were sold, destroyed and their stones used for construction works in the village and surrounding area.
The church itself, turned into a parish church, remained as the only legacy of what the powerful abbey had once been.
This rather sad story of downfall, lack of resolve and backbone, and probably outright lack of faith, outweighed by an appetite for creature comforts and personal wealth by those who had vowed to forsake them, has fortunately not contaminated the church itself, which remains as it ever was, one of the most striking examples of Romanesque architecture in the Dauphiné province. Even more importantly, the Saint Theudère former abbey church houses one of the finest (in all of France!) sets of Romanesque alfresco paintings from the 1100s, located in places not normally open to the public, but to which I managed to secure access. I hope you will enjoy them.
Back down at nave level, this shows the chancel and apse. The capitals around the chancel are the only sculpted ones in the church, and the leafy motifs remain very simple, almost at the level of a rough outline, a preliminary study. The stained glass is 19th century, as are the ugly paintings on the cul-de-four vault of the apse —or at least, what’s still visible of them, as they have been deteriorated by humidity seeping through.
In the 1950s the "peace sign", as it is known today, was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a group at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK, and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and elsewhere.
The logo commonly recognized as the “peace sign” since the late ‘50s supposedly began as the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). According to the CND, it was designed in 1958 by an English professional artist/designer named Gerald Holtom, who had graduated from the Royal College of Arts. Holtom, a conscientious objector who had preferred working on a Norfolk farm during WWII instead of joining the conflict, incorporated the hand-held flag symbols (semaphores) for N and D into his logo, the N standing for “nuclear” and the D for “disarmament.” In semaphore, the letter N is formed by a person holding two flags in an upside-down V, and the letter D is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. By superimposing the flag orientation of these two letters, the bars of the peace sign were derived.
Holtom presented his design to officials in the Peace News office in London and to the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. The Direct Action Committee was already planning its first major anti-nuclear march from London to Aldermaston, where British nuclear weapons were manufactured. Bertrand Russell, an organizer of this march, selected the symbol to be placed on buttons and banners for the march. The "peace sign" made its first public appearance in the U.K. on that march over the 1958 Easter weekend. Holtom originally had intended to use the cross symbol within a circle as the logo for the march but various clergy he consulted about the idea were obviously not enthusiastic about using the cross on a protest banner. Holtom described the use of the downward V to represent the despair that he felt due to nuclear proliferation. He later reportedly regretted his choice, rather preferring an upward V, which he felt would express the joy of peace. He requested that the upward V peace sign be placed on his tomb, but this request was not heeded.
The symbol was brought to the U.S. by Bayard Rustin, a U.S. civil rights protester, who had participated in the Aldermaston march. The peace sign was first used in the United States later in the same year when a pacifist protestor, Albert Bigelow, sailed his small boat near a scheduled U.S. nuclear test site displaying the CND banner. It was later used on civil rights marches and appeared at anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.
A young Peregrine Falcon watching a pond filled with ducks.
*image reprocessed using different noise software.
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This was taken today at out new office in Brighton.
From left to right:
Nik Fletcher, Ben Counsell, Dan Counsell, Aron Carroll, Danny Greg.
Unfortunately it’s only 5 of the team as the other 3 (Andre, Josh & Kevin) are spread out around the globe!
MB75.
Ferrari Testarossa (1984-1991).
Escala 1/59.
Matchbox Superfast.
Matchbox Int´l Ltd.
© 1985.
Made in Macau.
Año 1986.
All versions in:
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Ferrari Testarossa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Ferrari Testarossa (Type F110) is a 12-cylinder mid-engine sports car manufactured by Ferrari, which went into production in 1984 as the successor to the Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer.
The Pininfarina-designed car was originally produced from 1984 to 1991, with two model revisions following the ending of Testarossa production and the introduction of the 512 TR and F512 M which were produced from 1992 to 1996.
Almost 10,000 Testarossas, 512 TRs, and F512 Ms were produced, making it one of the most-produced Ferrari models, despite its high price and exotic design.
In 1995, the F512 M retailed for $220,000 (£136,500)."
"The Testarossa is a two-door coupé that premiered at the 1984 Paris Auto Show.
All versions of the Testarossa had the power fed through the wheels from a rear-mounted, five-speed manual transmission. The rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout (engine between the axles but behind the cabin) keeps the centre of gravity in the middle of the car, which increases stability and improves the car's cornering ability, and thus results in a standing weight distribution of 40% front: 60% rear.
The original Testarossa was re-engineered for 1992 and released as the 512 TR, at the Los Angeles Auto Show, effectively as a completely new car, and an improved weight distribution of 41% front: 59% rear.
The F512 M was introduced at the 1994 Paris Auto Show."
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"The Testarossa sports a 4.9 litre (4,943 cc or 301.6 cu in) Ferrari flat-12 engine mid mounted."
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"The Ferrari Testarossa can accelerate from 0–100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) in 5.3 seconds and from 0–60 miles per hour (97 km/h) in 5.2 seconds and on to 100 mph (161 km/h) in 11.40 seconds."
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"The maximum speed of the Testarossa is 290 kilometres per hour (180 mph)."
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Testarossa
Production
1984–1991 (7,177 produced)
Engine
4.9 L F12 291 kW (390 hp)
Wheelbase
2,550 mm (100.4 in)
Length
4,485 mm (176.6 in)
Width
1,976 mm (77.8 in)
Height
1,130 mm (44.5 in)
Curb weigh
t1,708.2 kg (3,766 lb)
Predecessor
Ferrari BB 512i
Successor
512TR
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Ferrari Testarossa, 512 TR and F512 M
Manufacturer
Ferrari
Production
1984–1996
Assembly
Maranello, Italy
Designer
Leonardo Fioravanti, Ian Cameron, Guido Campoli, Emmanuele Nicosia, Diego Ottina
at Pininfarina
Class
Sports car (S)
Body style
2-door berlinetta
Layout
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive
Transmission
5-speed manual
Predecessor
Ferrari BB 512i
Successor
Ferrari 550 Maranello
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found this in a vintage car & truck bone yard..the owner was kind enough to let me gets some shots of his wonderful old vechicles !
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we ordered a baked potatoe but wouldn't want any dressings. but the software of the ordering system wouldn't provide that, so hidden in some subsubnavigation there was "potatoe, with no options". still sounds odd to me.
1 AB-1600 thru large Paul C. Buff soft box camera left key light, 1 SB-800 thru hand held medium Lastolite soft box camera right and 1 bare SB-800 boomed overhead. Strobes controlled with Pocket Wizard TT5 units, AC3 and AC9. Nikon D3 + 85mm f/1.4, image processed in Lightroom CC 2017, Photoshop CC and Nik Software. Thanks very much for viewing!