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The Ancient Art of Kushti
The ancient traditional art of Indian wrestling, known as ‘kushti’, thrives in wrestling gyms, or ‘akhara’, scattered around the India. Akhara are one of the few places in India where Hindu men who come from different castes are considered equals.
Guru Jasram Ji's Akhara is on Mathura Road Highway in South Delhi near Modi Mill Flyover. It is one of the biggest and most reputed Akharas (wrestling training centers) in India. The Akhara is run by 85-year-old Guru Jasram Ji. Everyday he comes to the Akhara at 5.a.m. and 3 .p.m. to train the wrestlers.
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“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
– Maya Angelou
Pompeii, a thriving Roman city of 8,000 to 10,000 people, was hit by an earthquake in 62, causing extensive damage. However, the city recovered, but the earthquake may have been caused by the sagging of a hearth roof clod that had come loose on the volcano's vent plug.
In the fall of 79 large amounts of pumice and ash were thrown out. Some residents left the city for fear of an eruption from the volcano. Vesuvius erupted at the end of November. The eruption ejected large amounts of ash, lava and gases into the atmosphere. This cloud was carried by the wind across the land to Pompeii. Shortly after the eruption began, pumice began to rain. Pompeii was buried under a layer of volcanic ash and pumice up to 25 meters thick for over 1500 years. Pompeii has been systematically excavated since about 1750. About two-thirds of the city have now been uncovered
But there is a modern Pompei as well.
Bartolo Longo, a meanwhile beatified Italian lawyer, started restoring a church in disrepair in 1873. In 1875, he obtained a painting of Our Lady of the Rosary from a convent in Naples and raised funds to restore the image. Miracles began to be reported and pilgrims began flocking to the church. Bartolo Longo was encouraged by the Bishop of Nola, to begin the construction of a larger church—the cornerstone being laid in 1876. The church was consecrated in 1891. It was expanded significantly in the 1930s and now holds 6,000 people.
Seen in this photo is Stephensons of Essex Three Rivers Enviro 200 EU65 EOK (474) at Braintree on a route 38A journey to Halstead Colne Road!
This plant can be a nuisance if left unchecked but I cannot bring myself to destroy it when it delivers such flowers.
Dusting off my compact P&S cameras.
Now that I've moved to a bigger house, it is interesting to notice how life thrives in any small space it finds. This one shot is exactly to illustrate this miracle, and also to show that it's quite possible to pull off some shallow DOF from compact P&S cameras!
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ3
27.06.2010
Pride Parade in the morning. To work straight afterward. Burrito for dinner <3
I'm hoping I'll get a call from the camera repair man tomorrow.
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Thrive Collective returned to BSSWA for a second consecutive year, and brought street art legend Sonic BAD to help us develop a Street Art 101 curriculum. The results are breathtaking, as approximately 180 students collaborated with Sonic to bring their vision to life.
The last of my Peggy Rockefeller views from September 27th. According to my web search this flower variety should have some shades of brown on the inner petals but this year and on this bush it just came out a deeper pink.
I've been photographing this Acorn Woodpecker since at least April 2018. She's been coming to my feeders and birdbath regularly and I'm happy to see she's thriving despite the deformed bill. For a different view of the bill, see adjacent photo.
Belfast (/ˈbɛl.fɑːst/ or /ˈbɛl.fæst/; from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning mouth of the sandbanks) is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, on the River Lagan. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 286,000. Belfast was granted city status in 1888.
Belfast was a centre of the Irish linen, tobacco processing, rope-making and shipbuilding industries: in the early 20th century, Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic, was the biggest and most productive shipyard in the world. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, and was a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast the biggest city in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, and industrial and economic success was cited by unionist opponents of Home Rule as a reason why Ulster should fight to resist it.
Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. The city suffered greatly during the period of conflict called "the Troubles", but latterly has undergone a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years, and substantial economic and commercial growth. Additionally, Belfast city centre has undergone considerable expansion and regeneration in recent years, notably around Victoria Square.
Belfast is served by two airports: George Best Belfast City Airport in the city, and Belfast International Airport 15 miles (24 km) west of the city. Belfast is a major port, with commercial and industrial docks dominating the Belfast Lough shoreline, including the Harland and Wolff shipyard, and is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city.
Name
The name Belfast is derived from the Irish Béal Feirsde, which was later spelled Béal Feirste. The word béal means "mouth" or "rivermouth" while feirsde/feirste is the genitive singular of fearsaid and refers to a sandbar or tidal fordacross a river's mouth. The name would thus translate literally as "(river) mouth of the sandbar" or "(river) mouth of the ford". This sandbar was formed at the confluence of two rivers at what is now Donegall Quay: the Lagan, which flows into Belfast Lough, and its tributary the Farset. This area was the hub around which the original settlement developed. The Irish name Béal Feirste is shared by a townland in County Mayo, whose name has been anglicised as Belfarsad.
An alternative interpretation of the name is "mouth of [the river] of the sandbar", an allusion to the River Farset, which flows into the Lagan where the sandbar was located. This interpretation was favoured by Edmund Hoganand John O'Donovan. It seems clear, however, that the river itself was named after the tidal crossing.
In Ulster Scots the name of the city is Bilfawst or Bilfaust, although "Belfast" is also used.
History
The site of Belfast has been occupied since the Bronze Age. The Giant's Ring, a 5,000-year-old henge, is located near the city, and the remains of Iron Age hill forts can still be seen in the surrounding hills. Belfast remained a small settlement of little importance during the Middle Ages. John de Courcy built a castle on what is now Castle Street in the city centre in the 12th century, but this was on a lesser scale and not as strategically important as Carrickfergus Castle to the north, which was built by de Courcy in 1177. The O'Neill clan had a presence in the area.
In the 14th century, Cloinne Aodha Buidhe, descendants of Aodh Buidhe O'Neill built Grey Castle at Castlereagh, now in the east of the city. Conn O'Neill of the Clannaboy O'Neills owned vast lands in the area and was the last inhabitant of Grey Castle, one remaining link being the Conn's Water river flowing through east Belfast.
Belfast became a substantial settlement in the 17th century after being established as a town by Sir Arthur Chichester, which was initially settled by Protestant English and Scottish migrants at the time of the Plantation of Ulster. (Belfast and County Antrim, however, did not form part of this particular Plantation scheme as they were privately colonised.) In 1791, the Society of United Irishmen was founded in Belfast, after Henry Joy McCracken and other prominent Presbyterians from the city invited Theobald Wolfe Tone and Thomas Russell to a meeting, after having read Tone's "Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland". Evidence of this period of Belfast's growth can still be seen in the oldest areas of the city, known as the Entries.
Belfast blossomed as a commercial and industrial centre in the 18th and 19th centuries and became Ireland's pre-eminent industrial city. Industries thrived, including linen, rope-making, tobacco, heavy engineering and shipbuilding, and at the end of the 19th century, Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the largest city in Ireland. The Harland and Wolff shipyards became one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, employing up to 35,000 workers. In 1886 the city suffered intense riots over the issue of home rule, which had divided the city.
In 1920–22, Belfast became the capital of the new entity of Northern Ireland as the island of Ireland was partitioned. The accompanying conflict (the Irish War of Independence) cost up to 500 lives in Belfast, the bloodiest sectarian strife in the city until the Troubles of the late 1960s onwards.
The Troubles
Belfast has been the capital of Northern Ireland since its establishment in 1921 following the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It had been the scene of various episodes of sectarian conflict between its Catholic and Protestant populations. These opposing groups in this conflict are now often termed republican and loyalist respectively, although they are also referred to as 'nationalist' and 'unionist'. The most recent example of this conflict was known as the Troubles – a civil conflict that raged from around 1969 to 1998.
Belfast saw some of the worst of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, particularly in the 1970s, with rival paramilitary groups formed on both sides. Bombing, assassination and street violence formed a backdrop to life throughout the Troubles. The Provisional IRA detonated 22 bombs within the confines of Belfast city centre in 1972, on what is known as "Bloody Friday", killing eleven people. Loyalist paramilitaries including the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) claimed that the killings they carried out were in retaliation for the IRA campaign. Most of their victims were Catholics with no links to the Provisional IRA. A particularly notorious group, based on the Shankill Road in the mid-1970s, became known as the Shankill Butchers.
In all, over 1,600 people were killed in political violence in the city between 1969 and 2001. Sporadic violent events continue as of 2015, although not supported by the previous antagonists who had reached political agreement in 1998.
Life is all according to how you look at it; your perception becomes your reality.
[Better on black]
Found out this morning that we had a new series coming...artwork due Wednesday. The series is on going beyond surviving in the Christian life to thriving. Basically, how to experience the abundant life Jesus came to give us. So here's what I came up with. Any comments or suggestions greatly appreciated!
Oh yeah...the top is the cover, the bottom is the guts.
Freelance Project: This is a last-minute design. I was only given a couple of hours to work on it. I need to send the graphic here in the next hour or so. But if you have any insight to take it up a notch I'd be happy to hear it.
Goal: To continue our ongoing series on the life of Christ. This series will be on "The Sermon on the Mount."
Audience: Adults/Weekend Service
Direction: Client wanted a dark feel that communicates the struggle of growth and the idea of thriving in the midst of adversity.
Project: This is a poster to promote the series. The design will be carried out to bulletins, web & power points.
As always your thoughts and feedback are welcome.
Coming back from a car show, I drove down old 124 about 8 PM where I saw the thriving crop of no-till soybeans. The beans were planted without plowing, using a planter that cuts a only a narrow slit for seeds. Chemical weed control eliminates the need for cultivating. This method saves topsoil and saves fuel by eliminating at least two trips across the fields. The field is in the Scioto River bottoms.
There's a welcome softness present in a structure that sees nothing but natural light. Since these walls were raised in the 1880s, no power lines run or incandescent bulbs buzzing. All that shines comes from the outside in, sun filtered through windows frosted and blurred to the world. What's beyond these walls exists in a fog that need not intrude on the cloistered experience — so long as it lasts. I spent much of my early life in that metaphorical mist, where the illusion of unknowing made me uneasy of learning more. But as my introverted heart grew wider, I felt a rising urge to surround myself with folks less like me. Still, the strange creature of culture is mostly decided without our input. Part of feeling whole is connecting to what we were assigned by birth. For me, that's elements of being Danish, Dutch, British, Canadian, and Christian. It informs my mindset, even when I'm wandering in opposite directions. Mythology is valuable, telling tales that define our language and perspective. But it doesn't have to be truth to have meaning, so I won't waste energy worrying what is. I was happy to discover that hope thrives outside the comforting blur.
June 20, 2025
Phinney's Cove, Nova Scotia
Year 18, Day 6431 of my daily journal.
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Although the Oconee Bell flower has a very limited range in the wild, it grows well in gardens, and is commercially available
This was one of my favorite outings!
On our hike we enjoyed rare and fleeting wonders of nature.
The best of our 848 captures are in a mini-themed album:
• Outing to Oconee State Park, SC – 2021APR13
◦ Moody Spring – 2021APR13 – SC Highway 107
◦ Oconee State Park – 2021APR13 – Mountain Rest, SC
◦ Wigington Overlook – 2021APR13 – SC Highway 413
Hope you enjoy this 17% of these 67 Oconee Bell captures today!