FilmPhoto.io
View allAll Photos Tagged write-articles
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces.
There is no special trick about writing or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it....
The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.
The point of being an artist is that you may live....
You won't arrive. It is an endless search.”
― Sherwood Anderson
Photo captured at the beautiful sim, ][Octopussy][ goes Cuba, Libera (108, 149, 21) - Adult
You can also follow my work on Instagram シ
www.instagram.com/yasha_jakovsky/?hl=hr
This is the most important news
Since man landed on the moon
Here it is a part of an interview from last year in June
Held in Italy on island San Giorgio Maggiore
In the doctor’s house in Venetian Lagoon
Hello doctor, hello.
Why people call you "Wacky"?
It is because I wasn't lucky
I got my big W scar on the face
While I was fighting in Vietnam
Some people also call me a Scarface
But that's not relevant for this interview...
All right tell us more about your new vaccine
Good afternoon to all readers
I guess very soon I would
Become the most famous doctor
From my science whole world will have a boon
I heard that scientists will write articles about my vaccine
Warner Bros in my honor want to make
A movie, comic book and cartoon
I Dr. Wacky Chucky made first COVID-19 vaccine
Together with my keen assistant Mr. Bean
In a secret laboratory in Berlin
Many thanks for financial support
From our comrades KGB and band Helloween
Tomorrow for Friday the 13th
We will vaccinate everyone who wish
From older people, youth and teens
We will finally stop this mean COVID-19
In the end Dr. Chucky finished statement for The New York Times:
"We need to be united, harmonious and plucky in such a crazy time".
P.s. Doctor Wacky Chucky recommend you 3 cool songs: Helloween - Dr. Stein, W.A.S.P. - Doctor Rockter, W.A.S.P. - I don't need no doctor
* If you check movie poster from a movie Cult of Chucky (2017) you will see similarity with my picture. It was Chucky idea to make him a good guy as it stated on his cloth (Good Guys). We need to stay positive. I hope this idea is humoristic. We need some humor in this crazy time in which whole world is coping. Greetings from me & doctor Wacky Chucky シ.
Philosophers ask questions about ideas (concepts). They try to find answers to those questions, and the results are surprising
rubiks cube symbol questions or are thinking.
lights are lit symbols find the answers.
explosion, shock symbol with the answers he found.
..............................................................................................
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philosophy is a way of thinking about the world, the universe, and society. It works by asking very basic questions about the nature of human thought, the nature of the universe, and the connections between them. The ideas in philosophy are often general and abstract. But this does not mean that philosophy is not about the real world. Ethics, for example, asks what are the ideas underlying our everyday lives. Metaphysics asks about how the world works and of what it is made.
Sometimes people talk about how they have a "personal philosophy", which means the way a person thinks about the world. This article is not about people's "personal philosophies". This article is about the ideas that have discussed by philosophers (people who think and write about ways of thinking) for a long time.
One philosophical question is this: "Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?".[1] Other questions asked by philosophers are these:
What is good?
What is beauty?
Do we have free will?
Does God exist?
Does the world around us exist?
What is a person?
What is truth?
What is evil?
What is the relationship between mind and body?
What is science?
What is philosophy?
What is love?
Philosophy is the study of humans and the world by thinking and asking questions. It is a science and an art. Philosophy tries to answer important questions by coming up with answers about real things and asking "why?"
Sometimes, philosophy tries to answer the same questions as religion and science. Philosophers do not all give the same answers to questions. Some people think there are no right answers in philosophy, only better answers and worse answers. Many types of philosophy criticize or even attack the beliefs of science and religion.
Philosophers ask questions about ideas (concepts). They try to find answers to those questions. Some thinkers find it very hard to find those words that best describe the ideas they have. When they find answers to some of these questions philosophers often have the same problem, that is how to best tell the answers they found to other people. Depending on the meaning of the words they use, the answers change.
Some philosophers are full-time thinkers (called academics), who work for universities or colleges. These philosophers write books and articles about philosophy and teach classes about philosophy to university or college students.
Other philosophers are just "hobby" thinkers who think about philosophy during their free time. A small number of hobby thinkers have thought so much about philosophy that they are able to write articles for philosophy magazines. Other people approach philosophy from another job. For example monks, artists, and scientists may think about philosophical ideas and questions.
Most philosophers work by asking questions and looking for good definitions (meanings) of words to help them understand what a question means.
Some philosophers say the only thing needed to answer a question is to find out what it means, and that the only thing that makes philosophical questions such as those above difficult is that people do not really know what they mean (for example Ludwig Wittgenstein).
Philosophers will also often use both real and imaginary examples to make a point. For example, they may write about a real or fictional person in order to show what they think a good person or a bad person is like.
Some philosophers look for the simplest way to answer a question and say that is probably the right answer. This is a process called Occam's razor. Others believe that complicated answers to questions can also be right. For an example of a philosophical problem, see the God paradox.
Philosophers use logic to solve problems and answer questions. Logical consistency is a cornerstone of any acceptable theory. Philosophers who disagree with a theory will often try to find a logical contradiction within the theory. If they can find one, this gives them a reason to reject that theory. If they cannot find any inconsistency, the philosopher might try to show that the theory leads to a conclusion which is either unacceptable or ridiculous. This second approach is usually called reductio ad absurdum.
Remembering Selma Huxley Barkham: friend, historian and geographer.
Selma was an extremely loving and talented woman and through her research added a great deal to Canadian History. You can read more about her amazingly interesting life here in a tribute to her by her daughter, Oriana Barkham Huxley and granddaughter, Serena Barkham:
ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN"S DAY & HER BIRTHDAY:
Remembering Selma Huxley Barkham: historian and geographer specialising in Basque connections to Canada
by Oriana and Serena Barkham
The yellow tent was up and straining on its guy ropes in the Labrador wind. The black flies were viciously biting. Rain poured down. They were cold and soaked to the bone. But Selma Huxley Barkham, with her two youngest children in tow, was ecstatically happy. She had found what she was looking for: eroded pieces of red roofing tiles scattered on the shores, in vegetable patches and in gardens.
The locals called the red tile ‘red rock’, and some, as children, had used it to write on school slates. But Selma knew that the tiles had been brought in ships across the Atlantic from the Basque Country in the sixteenth century. On the way over to Terranova, the New Found Land, the tiles were used as ballast. On the return journey, the ships hulls were filled with barrels of whale oil, and sometimes with dried or green salted cod. The tiles were left in Terranova where they were used to construct roofs over shelters, and the ovens where whalers boiled down whale oil.
Selma now knew her excursion to Labrador in the summer of 1977, funded by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, to identify Basque whaling sites in the 1500s & 1600s, was a success. In each port she had so painstakingly identified as having been used by the Basques in the 16th and 17th centuries, she had found tiles. Years of interest, meticulous research, and gruelling hours in archives had brought her here.
Selma’s first awareness of the Basques was as a child in the 1930s, when she and her brother Thomas were given a cesta punta, a curved wicker-work basket worn on the hand, to play the world’s fastest game, Jai Alai. Rodney Gallop, a friend of her parents and author of a still seminal book on the Basques, had brought the cesta puntas to their home in Bosham Hoe, Sussex. Selma also knew her father Michael Huxley, founder of Geographical magazine, had studied Spanish in San Sebastian/ Donosti. And her family were aware of the Basque children brought over to Southampton, some ending up in Hayling Island near Selma’s family home, fleeing the violent Spanish Civil War in 1937.
As a young adult in the early 1950s, while working as the librarian of the Arctic Institute of North America at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Selma fell in love with Brian Barkham. An architect from Bartlett’s, University College London, he was at McGill doing an MA in French Canadian rural architecture. His undergraduate thesis had been on rural architecture in the Basque Country. Brian took Selma to Euskadi/The Basque Country for a late honeymoon in 1956, introducing her to friends there. Among these was the priest Don Pio de Montoya who told her about the Basque fishermen who had been going to what is now Canada for centuries. When Brian died tragically at the age of 35, leaving Selma a widow with four children between the ages of two and nine, she started working for Historic Sites Canada. One of the projects she worked on was the French Fort in Cape Breton, Louisbourg. Some of the documents from the 18th century related to a French Basque merchant’s house, Lartigue.
Selma’s health suffered during Canada’s six-month-long winters. She developed recurring pneumonia. In 1969, the idea of searching for more on the Basque seafarers’ connections to Canada, led her to move to Mexico. It was cheap, warm, and there she, and her children, could learn Spanish, which was essential if she were to carry out research on documents in Spain. To survive, Selma found herself a job teaching English at The British Council School in Guadalajara. After three years in Mexico, she took her four children by boat across the Atlantic, on a half cargo, half passenger ship – the Covadonga – to Bilbao. There was a short stop in Miami to avoid the worst of a hurricane. Arriving in the Basque Country, Selma had no income, no job and four children, but she was determined to try and find out about these Basques who had been to Canada.
From Mexico, she had booked the family into a hostel in the older quarter of Bilbao, as it was around the corner from the Municipal Archives, where she had hoped to start her research immediately. Here she came across an archivist, who was, at first, rather unhelpful and disdainful of ‘this British woman’. He told her that if she hoped to do any research on early documents, she would have to study palaeography with him at the University of Deusto, where he taught History. Most native Spanish speakers could not, and cannot, read the very convoluted Spanish handwriting of the 16th century with all its abbreviations as well as difficult loops, let alone a female foreigner. While she took the course in 1972, she started working once again as an English teacher, to be able to scrape by, and at the same time she started her own research at the Archives.
Selma was told that most archives along the Spanish Basque coast had been burnt during the Napoleonic wars, but perhaps she should try the archives of the Consulado del Mar in Burgos? There, a kind, very helpful archivist, Floriano Ballesteros, introduced her to the 16th century insurance policies stored there. He also recommended she try looking at the copies of notarial documents from the coast that were held in the Oñati archives.
For 400 years, legajos (books of notarial documents) from towns across the province of Gipuzkoa, had lain in the attics of the 1543 University of Oñati. Don José María Aguirrebalzátegui, one of the village priests, had rescued many over the years, filling three huge university rooms with legajos.
When Selma arrived, Don José María showed her the three rooms of books of notarial documents. There was no index, but he gave her the key to the archives. In 1973, she moved, along with her four children, to Oñati, because she could see that there were years of work for her there. For hours on end, often till the early hours of the morning, Selma sat turning over each page in these thousands of ancient books. During their school holidays, she also sat her four children down around her. She taught them to recognise some of the formulae used in these 16th century documents, as well as the key word ‘Terra nova’. Most of the documents were to do with local problems, neighbours arguing over property boundaries, for example. But a few, mixed in amongst so many others, were to do with The New Found Land/‘Terra nova’.
Because of these ‘Terra nova’ documents, and a desperate need to have something to live on, she persuaded the Public Archives of Canada to give her contracts to collect and microfilm documents referring to Canada, found in archives throughout the Iberian Peninsula. Being extremely honest, she and her children only lived on a six-month contract every year, because she felt this gave her the freedom to devote the other six months to her own research.
Though based in Oñati, Selma spent months in Burgos, where Floriano let her and her four children, duly kitted out with white gloves, sift through the Consulado’s insurance policies, again looking for the word ‘Terra Nova’. She also often visited the archives in the Real Chancilleria de Valladolid, the Archives in Simancas, the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, the archives in Oviedo, Setubal, Lisbon, Aveiro & Oporto in Portugal, and parish archives in many other Basque towns.
The information she gathered from these different archives provided Selma with specific information on individuals, their families, their homes, their movements, their ships, their voyages, their towns all along the Spanish Basque coast in the 16th and early 17th centuries. In parish records, Selma found records of births, deaths, marriages and baptisms. Through insurance policies in Burgos, she found insurances of ships and their voyages. Through notarial archives, she found contracts, wills (some of which were written in ‘Terra nova’), powers of attorney, loans, donations, policies, proceedings, agreements. Through lengthy lawsuits in other archives, she learnt among other things of disagreements between crew members, claims made by widows of fishermen who had died in ‘Terra nova’, ships that had sunk on the other side of the Atlantic.
Over the years, Selma meticulously made notes and collated the information she so painstakingly compiled, including information about the ships themselves, where they were from, when they were built, who owned them, who kitted them out, who insured them. About the ships’ voyages: many were used not only for the ‘Terra nova’ run, but also for the ‘Carrera de las Indias’ i.e. Mexico & the Caribbean. And some of the ships ended their days in Newfoundland, in the Indies, off Iceland or our UK shores having been embargoed by the King of Spain – Felipe II – for the Armada. Selma also pieced together the names of many of the sailors, whalers, shipowners, their wives, their relationships, where they lived and where they died.
Fascinated, Selma visited Basque towns, caseríos (Basque farmhouses), churches, ports, shipyards, which she found mentioned in her documents. She met local clergy, townsfolk and dignitaries, learning more about these towns, some of which still had fishermen going to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. She became involved in conservation, saving or trying to save, town centres and ancient caseríos from destruction. She was asked to give talks to locals interested in their history, to schools, and universities. She met archivists, linguists, anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, shipbuilders, cartographers, topographers, fishermen, whalers, academics, and other experts.
Selma had noticed that every now and then the scribes writing in the 1500s would insert a word in Basque in the Spanish text. She concluded that some of the scribes would be simultaneously translating what fishermen were telling them in Basque.
The 1970s was not an easy time to live in the Basque country. The Basques, their language, their culture, were being viciously repressed by General Franco’s regime. Children at school were physically punished if they spoke Basque. Selma and her family knew many people, from boys of 17 to mothers of 50, who, simply for speaking their language or putting up a Basque flag, were taken before dawn from their homes and families by violent civil guards with Alsatians, imprisoned, tortured, disappeared. The Barkhams sometimes stood in silence alongside their Basque friends in Oñati, who held pictures of the disappeared. They too celebrated with a bottle of Codorniú the end of the dictatorship in 1975.
Selma began to write articles on her discoveries. Given the breadth of her research, she wrote on various topics, women’s lives in the 16th century, merchants, trade routes, corsair activity, early Labrador ports, toponymy, etc. In this magazine, in 1973, she wrote ‘Mercantile community in inland Burgos.’ v. 42, no. 2, November, p. 106-113. In 1977, ‘First will and testament on the Labrador coast.’ v. 49, no. 9, June, p. 574-581.
Amongst the thousands of documents in different archives which Selma analysed, besides finding the word ‘Terra nova’, she also sometimes found names of specific ports, such as Samadet, Los Hornos, Chateo, Buttus.
If you look nowadays at a map of the Canadian Atlantic Coast, you will not find these place names anywhere. ‘Terra nova’ simply means the New Found Land, and could refer to anywhere at that time along that North Atlantic seaboard.
So, Selma went to libraries and archives in Spain, France, Portugal, the Vatican and England, to look for early 16th century maps & rutters (mariners’ handbooks of written sailing directions). Through this cartographic research, she managed to piece together such an accurate picture of where these Basque fishing and whaling ports in the New Found Land were, that she was able to pin point them on present day maps of Nova Scotia, Québec, Newfoundland and Labrador. She gave talks on her findings from this research on Basque topographical names in ‘Terra Nova’ at various international conferences.
Selma poured over UK admiralty charts, looking at the depths of ports, searching for prevailing winds. She located on maps the places she thought ships had foundered, two of which were in
Red Bay. She then gave a talk in January 1977 to the underwater archaeological society in Ottawa, where she had maps with Xs marking where exactly she thought the shipwrecks she had found in documents had sunk. It was there that Parks Canada archaeologists got all excited and asked her not to let anyone else know lest the wrecks be located by ‘treasure divers’. Though the Public Archives of Canada, for whom Selma worked, had already passed on information about her finds in Spain and on the Atlantic seaboard of Canada to Parks Canada.
The year after Selma’s 1977 excursion to Labrador, Parks Canada sent a team of underwater archaeologists up to Labrador to look at the places Selma had told them several ships had sunk, in Chateau Bay, in Red Bay, among others. Her research was so exact that a diver found one of her wrecks the first day of diving in Red Bay. This one was not as deep as the Chateau Bay ones, and the town itself was accessible by road, which is probably why they focussed on Red Bay.
The discovery of the ship San Juan was announced to the press at the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa for whom Selma worked, and not at Parks Canada for whom the divers worked, because it was Selma’s pioneering historical-geographical research which had found the wreck.
Selma’s extensive research also shed light on trade routes, fishermen turned corsairs in times of war, contact between the Malouins, Bristolmen, Irish, Icelanders, and with First Nations in Canada. She discovered what the Basque fishermen and whalers took aboard ship; that several generations of fishermen and often people from the same villages all went over together on the same ships; learnt about accidental overwinterings, the seasons they went over, the renting of their shallops which they often left in Labrador for the following year, hidden so they would be less likely to be borrowed by members of the First Nations. She was entranced and thrilled when she found sketches of ships in the documents, or a will that had been folded over so that when it arrived back at the notary’s office in Euskadi/The Basque Country, after several months at sea, the part on the outside was dark where it had rubbed against something on the long trip home. 500 years later, this will written in the New Found Land was found sewn into the legajo, with clear signs of being folded, the dark outer square obvious.
Selma’s research was groundbreaking in many ways. For it, she received the gold medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (1980), the first woman to receive this medal. Then followed the Order of Canada (1981), the Lagun Onari (2014) from the Basque Government, the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (2015), various honorary doctorates, and the International Prize of the Sociedad Geográfica Española (2018), amongst other honours, for her exceptional work, ‘a classic piece of historical-geographical research’.
Though the 16th & 17th centuries became alive for Selma because of her research, the present was also equally interesting to her. She started exchanges of Basques with Newfoundlanders, of Basques and Mi’kmaqs, groups of them visiting each other’s countries. She worked up and down the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland with locals talking about their villages’ links with the Basques, about 16th century wills written on their shores, about contact between Basques and Inuit and Montagnais, and other First Nations, about shipwrecks. She helped them put up historical plaques in their villages. She organised conferences for 11 years on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, bringing in experts in different fields to talk about local history, ecology, geology and cartography. She got in touch with the James Cook society, as James Cook had charted the Straits of Belle Isle, and brought speakers over. She keenly felt her historical research could help the local economy. And it has. Historical tourism now brings many visitors to Newfoundland and Labrador because of her work. One of the sites Selma found all those years ago, which she first explored on that expedition in 1977, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Selma Huxley Barkham’s work has been picked up and used by archivists, historians, cartographers, topographers, anthropologists, archaeologists, conservators, museographers, linguists, and more. Albaola is re-building a ship which she found by piecing together information from documents from three different archives, and by working in different countries on early maps to find where the port of Buttus was, and then by looking at depths and prevailing winds to find where it had sunk. Selma’s work, her 50 publications in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese, her many lectures, and her generous sharing of her research, has led to a wide variety of further work in her field. Unfortunately, she has not always been duly credited.
Selma’s work is seminal. As the citation for the gold medal of the Canadian Geographical Society states: ‘This medal is an occasional award intended to recognise a particular achievement in the field of geography, also to recognise a significant national or international event. In this case, the Society felt Barkham deserved this recognition on both counts.
She's currently doing her doctorate in philosophy and she's a professor and scholar in the field of bioethics. She was born with a motor disability and walks around with the help of Canadian crutches. She writes articles advocating the rights of disabled people, and she asked me not to use what she finds to be sweetened euphemisms like "special abilities".
In 2011 I wrote to her with an invitation for a portrait. It took her 10 years to reply. Now she was willing and ready.
Lens: Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm f/1.8 (Icarex BM mount, 1968-72).
I've given a lot of thought to where I want my photographic home on the web to be - and I'm afraid flickr no longer comes close to being at the top of the list.
I have a lot of fantastic contacts here, some longstanding, some made only recently, but all who are valued.
However, after being trapped in the New Photo Experience Beta for nearly two months, and struggling to keep up with contacts because of its complete inadequacy, then being turfed out again, probably because I wrote some home truths on their 'Feedback' page, I no longer feel like I can continue to upload the main body of my work to flickr.
As some of you will know, I've been trying out ipernity for a couple of months now, and have found it to be a breath of fresh air. This morning I paid my subscription fees for the next two years!
The people over there are friendly, the photography is great, there are groups, albums, and the ability to write articles too! And, you'll never believe this, but the staff actually answer your e-mails!
I'll stay on flickr until the day the New Photo Experience is forced on everyone, and believe me, that day is coming, but then I'm off for good.
I'd love to see you all over on ipernity - come and say hello!
Nearly forgot, if you're already a member over there, leave a link to your page in the comments! Thanks! :)
Da erobert etwas die Welt – und zwar in einem Tempo, dass wir nicht fähig sind von Wahrheit und Fiktion zu unterscheiden. Da werden Stimmen imitiert -Lebensechte Videos von Personen des öffentliche Lebens erstellt. Schauspieler könnten ersetzt werden. Politiker hätten ebenfalls ihren Dienst getan. Wäre eine künstliche Intelligenz imstande, ohne Emotionen die Welt zu regieren. Längst nutzen Zeitungen, um Artikel zu schreiben, den Einsatz einer künstlichen Intelligenz.
Wir sollten aufpassen das uns diese Technologie nicht bald selbst um die Ohren fliegt. Wieviel ist noch gut?
Das Web wird überflutet mit angeblichen Fotos – erstellt mit künstlicher Intelligenz. Mittlerweile habe ich damit ein Problem. Warum kennzeichnet man das nicht als KI? Warum verkauft man ein Foto als selbst gemachtes geschossenes Foto? Wenn die Menschen, die KI Bilder erstellen, ihre Bilder in einem Raum ausstellen, wo es nur KI Bilder gibt, dann kann man sich auch daran messen. Aber ich sehe es als Betrug an, ein KI Bild als Foto zu verkaufen. Man sitzt in seinem Wohnzimmer oder wo auch immer, gibt ein paar Merkmale ein und Tada hat man Bild, als wenn man auf dem Himalaya war oder ein super Shooting mit einem Model hatte und Mega kreativ war.
Endlich Traumbilder wie man sie schon immer mal machen wollte. Merkt Ihr eigentlich noch was? Ihr betrügt Euch selbst! Zudem ist es ein Schlag jedes Fotografen ins Gesicht, dieses Kunst Handwerk, durch nicht gekennzeichnete KI, als Fotografie verkaufen zu wollen. Es ist ein Genre für sich, aber gehört sicherlich nicht in die Fotografie!
Tja – fotografieren will gelernt sein! Und ist wohl doch nicht so einfach, wie ein durch KI erstelltes Bild.
Something is taking over the world at a pace that we are unable to distinguish between truth and fiction. Voices are imitated - lifelike videos of public figures are created. Actors could be replaced. Politicians would also have done their job. Would an artificial intelligence be able to rule the world without emotions? Newspapers have long been using artificial intelligence to write articles.
We should be careful that this technology doesn't blow up in our faces. How much else is good?
The web is flooded with alleged photos – created with artificial intelligence. In the meantime, I have a problem with it. Why not label it as AI? Why sell a photo as a self-made photo? If the people who create AI images exhibit their images in a room where there are only AI images, then you can also measure yourself against that. But I see it as a scam to sell an AI image as a photo. You sit in your living room or wherever, type in a few features and Tada you have picture, as if you were in the Himalayas or had a great shoot with a model and was mega creative. Finally dream pictures like you always wanted to make.
Do you notice anything else? You are deceiving yourselves! In addition, it is a slap in the face of every photographer to want to sell this art craft, through unlabeled AI, as photography. It's a genre in itself, but certainly doesn't belong in photography!
Well, photography has to be learned! And it's probably not as easy as an image created by AI.
Angel statue overlooking the grave of Varina Anne Banks Howell Davis in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
Varina Anne Banks Howell Davis (May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the long time second wife of President Jefferson Davis.
She moved to a house in Richmond, Virginia, in mid-1861, and lived there for the remainder of the American Civil War.
Born and raised in the South and educated in Philadelphia, she had family on both sides of the conflict and unconventional views for a woman in her public role. She did not support the Confederacy's position on slavery, and was ambivalent about the war.
Davis became a writer after the American Civil War, completing her husband's memoir. She was recruited by Kate (Davis) Pulitzer, a purportedly distant cousin of Varina’s husband and wife of publisher Joseph Pulitzer, to write articles and eventually a regular column for the New York World.
Widowed in 1889, Davis moved to New York City with her youngest daughter Winnie in 1891 to work at writing. She enjoyed urban life. In her old age, she attempted to reconcile prominent figures of the North and South.
This woman was sitting at an outdoor table of a small restaurant/coffee-shop on the west side of Columbus Avenue at 73rd Street. It's the first time that I've seen anyone in this particular area (which is near a gym that I usually visit 2-3 times a week) with a laptop, and I was delighted to see that she had a Mac.... and not just any old Mac, but a Mac Powerbook. (But not a MacBook Air :) )
Note: this photo was published in a November 24, 2008 blog posting entitled "Mobile Tech Secrets for Getting Things Done On the Go." It was also published in a Dec 14, 2008 blog entitled "5 Fantastic Blogs To Improve Your Life." It was also published in a Jul 13, 2009 "Pimp Your Mac" blog titled "Pimp my Mail." And it was published in a Jul 24, 2009 blog titled "Step Away From the Computer." For some reason, it was also published as an illustration in an undated (Nov 2009) Mahalo blog titled "Macbook Air Battery" at www-dot-mahalo-dot-com-slash-macbook-air-battery. And it was published in a Nov 20, 2009 blog titled "Breng de klanten service naar de klant." It was also published in a Nov 23, 2009 blog titled "Customer Retention: How to Retain Existing Health Club Clients and Attract New Ones." And it was published in a Dec 4, 2009 blog titled "Every Mum Wrestles With Returning To Work."
More recently, it was published in a Jan 3, 2010 blog titled "Sunday Confessional: I Can't Stop Facebook Stalking My Ex." And it was published in a Jan 22, 2010 blog titled "Best Places with Free Wi-Fi in Metro Detroit." It was also published in a Feb 11, 2010 blog titled "How Healthcare Organizations Can Benefit From Video Campaigns." And it was published in a Feb 14, 2010 blog titled "The Most Useful Bloggers on the Web." It was also published in a Feb 16, 2010 blog titled "Unresolved Obstacles to the Credibility of Online Degrees," as well as a Feb 25, 2010 blog titled Running your "Fitness Business: Online Software vs Desktop Software." It was also published in an undated (Mar 2010) blog titled "8 Ways to Discover New Music." And it was published, sometime in Apr 2010, as an illustration in the "About Me" page of Sarita Li Johnson's blog. It was also published in an Apr 9, 2010 blog titled "Technology Vs. Human Eye: You Decide the Winner." And it was published in an Apr 17, 2010 blog titled "12 Hands-on tips to protect yourself online."
It was also published in an Apr 19, 2010 blog titled EMOBILEにUQ Flat、どれがいい？高速モバイルデータ通信サービスを比較 -- which I've been told means "Ed Yourdon is really an amazing photographer," but I'm not sure I believe it. And it was published in an Apr 22, 2010 blog titled "Gift ideas for working mums," as well as an Apr 22, 2010 blog titled "La intimidad en Internet: el pánico de los padres de la Generación M" (the English-language version of which is Internet privacy: Generation M parents panic." It was also published in an Apr 27, 2010 blog about Facebook's new privacy settings, titled "Facebook, cómo darse de baja," at www-dot-tuexperto-dot-com/2010/04/27/facebook-como-darse-de-baja/ . And on May 12, 2010 it showed up in a Web ad for the movie, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
It was also published in an undated (May 2010) HeartsForU blog , with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. And it was published in a Jun 7, 2010 blog titled "5 Questions to Ask Before Starting a Small Business Blog," as well as a Jun 8, 2010 blog titled "Zmiana IP na 10 sposobów." It was also published in a Jun 21, 2010 blog titled Is "Blogging for Your Small Business Dead?" And it was published in a Jul 1, 2010 blog titled "2 Things All Content Creators Can Do." It was also published in a Jul 13, 2010 blog titled "Top 15 Countries Where Most Active Bloggers Are Located." And a cropped, horizontally flipped version of the photo was published in a Jul 27, 2010 blog titled "Welcome to the Gig Economy." It was also published in an Aug 12, 2010 blog titled "Women Spend More Time Online," and it was published in an undated (late August 2010) blog titled "Why you need to write in advance (and I do to!)." It was also published in a Sep 14, 2010 blog titled "Cool Top Blogging Subjects Images." And in one of the more bizarre publication examples I've seen on the Internet, the photo was published in a Sep 30, 2010 blog titled " Gillette Venus Original Razor, 1 Razor 2 Cartridges, 1-count Package Reviews." It was also published in an Oct 10, 2010 blog titled "17 laptop computers-17.3″ 17″ LAPTOP BAG NOTEBOOK CASE COMPUTER CARRYING." And it was published in a Nov 14, 2010 COMPARE LAPTOP PCS TABLETS & SMARTPHONES blog, with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. It was also published in two Nov 18, 2010 blogs, titled 3 Steps To Getting The Ultimate Article Marketing Guide" and "Investing On Internet Marketing Software." And it was published in a Nov 23, 2010 blog titled "The Online Business Opportunity for the New Entrepreneur," as well as a Nov 26, 2010 blog titled "Why Now Is The Right Time To Compare Online Trading." It was also published in a Nov 29, 2010 blog titled "The Truth About What Is Article Marketing." And it was published in a Dec 9, 2010 blog titled "Internet Schools- A Time for Choosing," as well as a Dec 18, 2010 Lifehacker blog titled "Step Away From Your Desk For A More Focused Environment." Also in late Dec 2010, I found that the photo had been published in the "about" page of a site called CafeWorkr.
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Jan 6, 2011 Desktopize blog/, with the same title and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Jan 8, 2011 blog titled "How to Build Your Own Profitable Small Internet Business." And it was published in a Jan 17, 2011 blog titled "How can i get my camera to take pictures like this?" It was also published in a Jan 25, 2011 blog titled "JUSTICE DEPT. WANTS PROVIDERS TO RETAIN INTERNET DATA." It was also published in a Jan 28, 2011 blog titled "7 Blogging Tips for Increased Traffic."
The photo was also published in a Feb 1, 2011 blog titled "Traveling With Your Laptop," as well as a Feb 17, 2011 blog titled "How You Can Make Changes To Your Business Website, Your Way." And it was published in a Feb 27, 2011 blog titled "Best Places with Free Wi-Fi in Metro Detroit." It was also published in a Mar 4, 2011 blog titled "Hi… What would be on your personal software wish list?? and what features wld you want in each? :)?" And it was published in a Mar 24, 2011 blog titled "11 Dos and Don’ts for Dating Online." It was also published in a May 13, 2011 blog titled "What Are Your Prospects Looking for Online?" And it was published in a May 24, 2011 blog titled "How To Achieve Success From Stone Cold Steve Austin." It was also published in an undated (late May 2011) Cafeworkr website "about" page titled "Purpose of Cafeworkr." And it was published in a Jun 1, 2011 blog titled "Blogging Tips: Top 6 WordPress Plugins." It was also published in a Jun 21, 2011 blog titled "Consumerization of IT Challenges Device-Centric ITAM." And it was published in an undated (late Jun 2011) blog titled "Internet privacy: Generation M parents panic." It was also published in a Jul 31, 2011 Compare-online blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page, as well as an Aug 3, 2011 bog titled "How To Search For A Repeatable & Scaleable Business Model." And it was published in an Aug 28, 2011 blog titled "Facebook vi rende più disinvolte negli approcci?"
Moving into the fall of 2011, the photo was published in a Sep 8, 2011 blog titled "Entidade da UE descontente com a auto-regulamentação de publicidade comportamental on-line." And it was published in a Sep 14, 2011 blog titled "New Rules for Business in the Social Media Age." It was also published in an Oct 5, 2011 Tolle Crazy Computer blog and a Nov 7, 2011 Active-Internet-dot-de blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written here on this Flickr page.
Moving into 2012, the photo wa published in a Jan 12, 2012 Romanian blog titled "Mămici fără griji la service ." And it was published in a Jan 29, 2012 blog titled "Nice Online Dating Secrets of Success Photos." It was also published in an undated (early Feb 2012) blog titled "WIEDEN + KENNEDY TECH INCUBATOR PICKS ITS STARTUP CLASS OF 2011", as well as a Feb 17, 2012 blog titled "Internett og WiFi i Amsterdam." And it was published in a Mar 7, 2012 blog titled "Somebody's Tracking You," as well as a Mar 3, 2012 blog titled "5 Things You Should Never Share on Social Networking Sites." It was also published in a Mar 15, 2012 blog titled "Elo7 faz parceria com editora Globo e lança portal de conteúdo." And it was published in a Mar 21, 2012 blog titled "Internet to rank as 6th-largest economy by 2016." It was also published in an Apr 19, 2012 blog titled "Facebook for eCommerce: It’s About Customer Retention, Not Acquisition." And it was published in an Apr 30, 2012 blog titled "Ask LH: Do I Really Need To Be That Worried About Security When I’m Using Public Wi-Fi?", as well as a May 1, 2012 blog titled "Be in the Office Without Being in the Office." It was also published in a May 3, 2012 I Music News Radio blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in a May 4, 2012 blog titled "Kaspersky Lab ha elaborado un pasaporte 3.0 para mamás en el que presentan cómo utilizar herramientas de control parental." And it was published in a May 23, 2012 blog titled "Less professor time doesn’t hurt: study." It was also published in a Jun 18, 2012 blog titled "Nikon COOLPIX AW100 16 MP CMOS Waterproof Digital Camera."
Moving into the 2nd half of 2012, the photo was published in a Jul 6, 2012 blog titled "Jobs for Shy People: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," as well as a Jul 7, 2012 blog titled BUILD YOUR BUSINESS WITH QUALITY ARTICLE MARKETING." It was also published in a Jul 31, 2012 blog titled "22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros." And it was published in an Aug 28, 2012 blog titled El 51% de los argentinos utiliza Internet como su principal fuente de información." It was also published in a Sep 3, 2012 blog titled "Cool Best Ecommerce Websites images." And it was published in a Sep 21, 2012 blog titled "この先、生き残れるノウハウはこれだ," as well as a Sep 22, 2012 blog titled "Top 5 Blogs for Teachers, You Must Need To Know." It was also published in an Oct 1, 2012 blog titled "How to transfer computer files safely," as well as an undated (early Oct 2012) blog titled "11 Dos and Don’ts for Dating Online." And it was published in a Nov 2, 2012 blog titled "El fenómeno de las madres blogger y otras noticias en nuestro Flash Digital de octubre." And it was published in a Nov 9, 2012 blog titled "Sites de rencontres: La bonne rencontre en ligne, possible?" It was also published in a Nov 14, 2012 blog titled "The New Geography of Jobs." And it was published in a Nov 15, 2012 blog titled "MyGift 15 inch Fascinating Peacock Notebook Laptop Sleeve Bag Carrying Case for most of MacBook, Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Toshiba," with the same detailed notes and comments I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in a Nov 20, 2012 blog titled "How to write a feature that connects." And it was published in a Dec 3, 2012 blog titled "Do I Really Need to Worry About Security When I’m Using Public Wi-Fi?" It was also published in a Dec 4, 2012 blog titled "Your Employees & Their Online Presence: How Will It Effect Your Brand in 2013?" And it was published in a Dec 14, 2012 blog titled "Nice Do It Yourself Calendar 2013 Photos," along with the same detailed notes I had written on this Flickr page.
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in a Jan 6, 2013 blog titled "Tips And Strategies On How To Be Successful In Article Promotion." And it was published in a Jan 9, 2013 blog titled "Take This Advice And Succeed With Article Advertising." It was also published in a Jan 15, 2013 blog titled "Capital Ideas Digest: 01.15.13." And it was published in a Jan 23, 2013 blog titled "Amazon Prime Is Worth the Price." It was also published in a Jan 28, 2013 blog titled "Nice Social Media Marketing Tips For Small Business photos," as well as a Feb 3, 2013 blog titled "Nice Online Trading Tips photos" and a Feb 3, 2013 blog titled "The Following Steps Can Help You To Market Any Article." And it was published in a Feb 20, 2013 blog titled "Guest Post via PostJoint: Write Drunk; Edit Sober." It was also published in a Feb 26, 2013 blog titled "퓨처워커에게 사업 멘토링 받는 방법#1." And it was published in a Mar 2, 2013 blog titled "Como manter um namoro online." It was also published in a Mar 6, 2013 blog titled "The Price of Nasty by Erica Brown," as well as a Mar 11, 2013 blog titled "Noise vs. Quiet: Which Is Better for Productivity?" I also found the photo in a Mar 11, 2013 blog titled "4 Steps to your Best Travel Insurance Purchase Every Time.," as well as a Mar 18, 2013 blog titled " Online College: Valuable Tool Or Waste Of Your time?", and a Mar 19, 2013 blog titled "Here’s Why Blogging is Not Your Cup of Tea, Wanna Leave? or Stick to it?" and a Mar 19, 2013 blog titled "Finally, Feds say cops’ access to your e-mail shouldn’t be time-dependent." It was also published in a Mar 23, 2013 blog titled "Dating Advice for PlentyOfFish-dot-com., as well as a Mar 27, 2013 blog titled "Online Dating: Yes or No?" And it was published in a Mar 31, 2013 Mashable blog titled "How Vizify Gives Recruiters Context for Your Digital Identity," as well as an Apr 4, 2013 blog titled "The most likely buyer of Nokia or BlackBerry now in talks to acquire NEC’s handset unit." And it was published in a May 1, 2013 blog titled "RESOURCES TO HELP FIND A TRAVEL COMPANION." It was also published in an undated (late May 2013) blog titled "Come trovare lavoro con i social network: cinque consigli utili per cambiare," as well as a May 21, 2013 blog titled "Consumers Can Now Upload Profile Photos for Unclaimed Place Pages." It was also published in a Jun 6, 2013 blog titled "El Consejo De Ministros Aprueba El Proyecto "Emprende En 3"," as well as an undated (mid-June 2013) blog titled "Sites de rencontres: La bonne rencontre en ligne, possible?" And it was published in a Jun 10, 2013 blog titled "10 Rules to Optimize Online Dating." It was also published in a Jun 19, 2013 blog titled "What Is ReMarketing?", as well as a Jul 1, 2013 blog titled "This is why you’re single. The top 3 reasons why your relationship fails." And it was published in a Jul 25, 2013 blog titled "The dangers of dating," as well as an Aug 1, 2013 blog titled "Higher Ed: 7 Things to Consider as You Prepare for the Year." It was also published in an undated (late Aug 2013) blog titled "Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft."
Moving into 2014, the photo was published in a Jan 13, 2014 blog titled "Be More Productive On Social Media With 10 Easy Tips." It was also published in a Feb 25, 2014 blog titled "Guía para el Periodista Freelance (I): Los primeros pasos legales, con Remo." And it was published in an undated (mid-September 2014) blog titled "12 MUST-HAVE BUSINESS APPS FOR THE MOBILE WORKER."
**********************
This is part of an evolving photo-project, which will probably continue throughout the summer of 2008, and perhaps beyond: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.
For the most part, I've deliberately avoided photographing bums, drunks, drunks, and crazy people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ...
The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, *far* more people who are *not* so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them. It was also published in a Jun 19, 2013 blog titled What Is Re-Marketing?", as well as a Jun 25, 2013 blog titled "言明してしまうことで自分を規定してしまうこと."
I took this shot of 28 year old Dr Roslyn Fuller about one month ago and have only got around to processing it recently. She's a Doctor of International Public Law (from Trinity College, Dublin) and wrote her First Bar Exams in Germany at Georg-August-Universitaet in Goettingen.
She writes articles about International Public Law and she teaches some Masters Courses at Trinity College (International Trade Law and Comparative Constitutional Law).
Dr Rosyln Fuller actually has long, long black hair and she specifically asked me to give her a bald head and those spikes running up and down the back of her body ;-).
I'd like to thank her for allowing me to add her portrait to my portfolio and for her kind permission and openess in allowing me to tell you a little about herself
She really is a rather special young lady and was a pleasure to work with.
We plan on doing another shoot when the weather gets warmer as water will be involved :-)
LAST DAY for ordering calendars on the NEW website!
1.) WEBSITE: Fresh new website, fresh new photo store! This is also where I am going to sell my upcoming night photography books and write articles/blog posts. I will also add some more galleries as time permits. I am super excited about integrating everything into one location. I have been wanting to do this for years, and finally got around to doing it with some major help from Lisa. www.kenleephotography.com
2.) CALENDARS: I am creating some calendars of my night photography for 2020! If you are interested in purchasing one, you may go to www.kenleephotography.com and click on CALENDARS. The calendars will be $US16, which includes shipping in the United States. "$16.00" and you should be good.
I will submit the order Wednesday November 27th 2019, which is the day before Thanksgiving. This will be the only printing, as I wish to receive these and mail them out before the holidays, so this isn't one of those arbitrary "last chance to get your calendar" things. I have to submit the order!!! :D
Thank you very much.
Well, this has certainly been a long time coming.... Way way back in February 2018 the Transdev Blazefield twitter page revealed a new graphic showing off a brand new livery and identity to be applied to all buses in the York fleet, the bus being in 2-tone blue slightly deeper than the current Coastliner livery yet lighter than the old Coastliner 844 livery - however all that there was to show for this was Versa 203 being given some vinyls to adapt it's darker Coastliner 844 livery to match the style of the new identity that had been revealled online. A couple of months after the online unveiling I did ask when the first repainted bus could be expected in York, and was told that they might not do it because the York depot runs a number of contracted services which expire in 2019 - my reply to this was that *smaller* companies operating in York also run services on contracts that expire at the same time in 2019 as hey're from the same batch of tendered services, yet said companies have gone out and purchased additional vehicles, so surely a company with a bigger budget like Transdev could put some paint on the buses for York as was promised.... My reply from the Transdev company management, mainly from the public relations and marketing manager, was a load of vitreol and abuse - including the corker suggesting I should go and get a job instead of making online comments about the buses - certainly nhot something you'd expect from somebody in charge of PUBLIC RELATIONS, and the comment itself got a 'LOL' reaction from another senior manager at Transdev Blazefield who regularly writes articles for a bus journal. Another 2 or 3 months passed and I asked the question again as to where the repainted buses for York were, and again I got similar abuse back from the same people. That all remains in screenshot format on my PC just in case anybody ants to see how the top-level management at this company REALLY view their potential customers.....
..... but August 2018 saw one of the 8 Optare Versa V1110's from Harrogate repainted and parked at Starbeck depot for a while. It was due to be delivered to York on a friday during august, but on the wednesday it failed it's test run with electrical problems and so it stayed at Harrogate a while longer. When it was delivered to York in late September the rear differential had failed and so the bus stayed parked there until somebody eventually fixed it....
.... but on the last week of November 2018, some NINE MONTHS after the new livery for York was unveiled, we finally have a single vehicle showing off the full version of the new livery. What's ironic is that because they have taken so long with this one bus, that if Transdev do lose the York contracts next year then the bus(es) will have been on that road in this livery for even less time than had the repainting work been done back in February when they would have had at least a years' use.
Seen still looking fresh from its repaint, YJ12 MZU is at Piccadilly with the final 10 service of the night to Stamford Bridge
Anthophora terminalis. Orange butt. Three teeth. Internal wing cells almost entirely free of hairs (why are there hairs, sometimes hundreds of hairs, on many bees wings? Good question and perhaps answering that question would gain you the Nobel Peace Prize, but more likely it would simply generate mild curiosity among a very small academic crowd, unless your organization had a publicist who would likely hype it in a way that would get a lot of google hits so that the publicist would get a bigger bonus at the end of the year and reporters could interview you and write articles like "Do hairy wings make bees buzz?" or some other demoralizing, pun infested article that shows how very little respect you command compared to an astronomer (who, btw, discovering something so very far away that even the astrologists believe it never did and never will have any influence over our lives)). Photo by Anders Croft (studying to be a marine biologist, a semi-serious profession). ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Well, this has certainly been a long time coming.... Way way back in February 2018 the Transdev Blazefield twitter page revealed a new graphic showing off a brand new livery and identity to be applied to all buses in the York fleet, the bus being in 2-tone blue slightly deeper than the current Coastliner livery yet lighter than the old Coastliner 844 livery - however all that there was to show for this was Versa 203 being given some vinyls to adapt it's darker Coastliner 844 livery to match the style of the new identity that had been revealled online. A couple of months after the online unveiling I did ask when the first repainted bus could be expected in York, and was told that they might not do it because the York depot runs a number of contracted services which expire in 2019 - my reply to this was that *smaller* companies operating in York also run services on contracts that expire at the same time in 2019 as hey're from the same batch of tendered services, yet said companies have gone out and purchased additional vehicles, so surely a company with a bigger budget like Transdev could put some paint on the buses for York as was promised.... My reply from the Transdev company management, mainly from the public relations and marketing manager, was a load of vitreol and abuse - including the corker suggesting I should go and get a job instead of making online comments about the buses - certainly nhot something you'd expect from somebody in charge of PUBLIC RELATIONS, and the comment itself got a 'LOL' reaction from another senior manager at Transdev Blazefield who regularly writes articles for a bus journal. Another 2 or 3 months passed and I asked the question again as to where the repainted buses for York were, and again I got similar abuse back from the same people. That all remains in screenshot format on my PC just in case anybody ants to see how the top-level management at this company REALLY view their potential customers.....
..... but August 2018 saw one of the 8 Optare Versa V1110's from Harrogate repainted and parked at Starbeck depot for a while. It was due to be delivered to York on a friday during august, but on the wednesday it failed it's test run with electrical problems and so it stayed at Harrogate a while longer. When it was delivered to York in late September the rear differential had failed and so the bus stayed parked there until somebody eventually fixed it....
.... but on the last week of November 2018, some NINE MONTHS after the new livery for York was unveiled, we finally have a single vehicle showing off the full version of the new livery. What's ironic is that because they have taken so long with this one bus, that if Transdev do lose the York contracts next year then the bus(es) will have been on that road in this livery for even less time than had the repainting work been done back in February when they would have had at least a years' use.
Seen still looking fresh from its repaint, YJ12 MZU is at Piccadilly with the final 10 service of the night to Stamford Bridge
And with advance to REALITY COPY there’s certainly no way of changing this perception only enforcing it, nothing in reality is good enough for “REALITY COPY” that is just another paradox that is not futuristic.
We might be still skeptical about the arrival of REALITY COPY, but its only before its sold at the supermarkets.
What would happen after “Reality Copy” when the progress of all possible levels of true “reality copy” (in technical sense, not psychologically-philosophical) are achieved. The reality hence is copied and sealed.
Technology won’t stop there… one wonders. What is next.
In political sense when reality in representation is something embraced by conservative social power than with “reality copy” the conservative power is the dominating from the social point of view having new level of reality and it’s copy to be controlled.
*seems like the only possibly alternative to REALITY COPY could be ultra radical Invisibility)
In principle the artist aims to deform the reality subjectively to create not the “reality copy” lacking such skills but to convey the artistic poetic goal of expressing whatever given artist wants to express.
In a matter of “reality copy” what is left for the artist to argue with and deform… to question and test… Nothing really changes socially except for more pressure applied to the issue of dealing with self-image and tools to “sell” When a person changes the image the higher the technology the more transformed is the final product.
The progress of mental growth is just as conservative as control on the “visual image of reality” and its copy.
The ongoing technological progress is irreversible as it carries percent of good with bad,
It is common knowledge how for instance internet is benefit and at the same time does damage. A person who knows about the addiction and suffers would acquire the knowledge and hope from the place the person suffers the internet of course.
Same thing is with photography and video. Reality copy would add more psychological problems to the present but create more visual attraction of true-life experience with whatever could be rediscovered in Lifecopy style. Probably is benefits pornography since it will continue same as consumption of food. The basic things… Consumerism benefits since it is super-trained for “instant reach” affect and will commercially exploit the “reality copy” to sell more of “reality copy” gadgets the phones, screens, etc.
New generation of people will repeat the cycle in new technological means of having “reality copy” as nothing new but similar to any visual information currently available.
The creative people are the ones BEHIND the time it seems in a matter of “reality copy” and being unable to have anything is an alternative.
The Invisible alternative is the ONLY ONE to question “reality copy”
That is the power of UNKNOWN.
Techno progress can deal in “reality” bringing higher resolution to the fore to sell new generation of phones and gadgets.
But it really doesn’t change the philosophical issue of questions asked by philosophers, what is life, what is art, why do we live. Questions remain unanswered when techno progress veils those questions with the promise that higher technology would bring the end to all unanswered questions and answer them for people.
So far the techno advance puts the artistic, literary and philosophical field out of business. As when people get the toys (gadgets) and the playground (the podium of internet) the art is irrelevant and completely disconnected from the social phenomenon of self-representation. Art is not interested to question something with no philosophical substance to it.
The commercial art is willing to supply more stuff for consumerism. If its reality-copy than someone empowered by financial wealth (born rich) would come up with more decorative solutions that could serve REALITY COPY in needed fashion, add more details to the “reality set” to those who can afford it.
Same way it is now when people with means live with more things.
“Reality Copy” of people without means would look just as it is in reality, gray and unexciting. To help people without means the software would offer “decoration” solutions to add the faux details able to transform the surroundings to less depressing. It would enter the person into “life copy” of vacation at Caribbean resorts… etc.
What in such situation could be philosophically questioned, if nothing changed in human morality, but techno advance manage to involve people into self-entertainment to such degree that a person is no longer interested to read books about other people or watch movies and hear news. Self-promotion is the ongoing and time-consuming thing. One has to research the “popular” topics.
As to participating in reality activities, there’s the issue of not having time for anything that doesn’t deal with self-promotion and earning a living.
ART commerce is growing commercially going Industrial since supplying consumer goods is always rewarding in sales. On the other hand this and techno revolution reduces interest of writers and philosophers to dig in depths where there is no depth. It makes such people disengaged with the process. When there are no critical voices to the established situation or some few art critics pretend to do what is expected of them – know about current situation not only on the art scene but at large - socially, and have strong voice against the trends that contribute to the lowering of culture. There’s no more liberal freedom since nobody reads the newspapers. Even if the working critics were principal enough to write articles and books they know their voice would not be heard. They are not vociferous about anything at all because there’s a concept of supporting and art endavour since art is in decline and anything that relates to art needs their support.
There are no voices to oppose the current situation for many reasons such as no younger people would be interested in such undertaking also for many reasons of being disoriented in expectation of techno changes or living their me-life.
The young ones are the invisibility movers, every day someone who is young, information and internet savvy adds the invisibility statement to their online identity. I saw it on tumblr and Iheart. (samples year web address – source)
Art consumer goods sell and make the seller get the goods since sale is the rule.
Art critics silently agree and actually it seems if they even try to disagree there is nothing in art that presently shows any direction against the established art situation.
There isn’t anything not saying a serious claim to deny aesthetic values of the art present and past, to turn away from any influence and history by the fashion avant-garde to question than resuscitate (bring back from death) art that lost vitality and practically is a dead art of dominating taste in an authoritarian culture and conformity.
Bring new blood to reinvent the art into weapon against the outlived old and positioning itself as direct opposition AGAINST art that represents culture of the present time.
Culture of consumerism that turned into visual consumerism with the help of internet is hard to oppose and challenge in any attempt of making bid public art spectacle, won’t challenge any concept but serve certain need for entertainment.
Invisible art of Paul Jaisini stands against all that is dominating and culturally regressive in the present, false visual multiplicity that imply democracy and absence of segregation in visual sphere, all inclusiveness.
On so many levels Paul Jaisini brings knowledge of how the present condition reflect on a mind. (non-linear thinking, information processing, constant analysis is the advanced state of high analytical creative mind /osd, adad is the side effect but there are more worse side effects) Shows the burst to create in manifestation of genius mind (can do any task without training) but unable to maintain the creative process as wholesome, bored with the immediate results. Invisibility is theoretical stability and result of high impact activity that gives fast result of creativity and genius realized in art. Then instability in the fact of the created art un--preserved and lost, destroyed.
On a lower level of people who start building some blog with enthusiasm dedicating time, research than abandoning it to become digital graveyard demonstrates inability to continue and search for new. Inability to face what yesterday seemed interesting and capture someone’s mind to give the creative boost.
(fast life, no sleep, high tech knowledge, constant search for new, unsatisfied… new is old – altogether supports “CONSUMERISM” when buying is haul more than physically needed, quantity is the need for new.
Invisible art as a concept seem to attract wide public and elite in such diametrically opposed combination, of people without high aesthetics in mind or the complete opposite illuminati-culturati. People with average or below average taste and aesthetic requirements are as interested and supportive as the elite. When it comes to someone in the middle- another phenomena, quite often those who are educated and intelligent take a stand against even one mention of the art being possibly somehow invisible.
These people respond very well and willing to agree with the concept as Invisible art is brought to them by mass media. In the beginning I was using internet to send out essays and saw the proof that as avant-garde wanted to reach people who never acquired artistically developed taste the invisible art was and now is more than ever suits their taste even to degree of obsession.
That’s adds insult to injury when nobody even pay attention and there’s nothing to offer as the alternative.
They want something tangible as the alternative, the grown philosophy to brew in the minds of people and artists as the sign of time.
The invisibility is the idea that has the power to antagonize the “reality copy” but not in a sense that is widely used in the present time. To express social isolation in case of the teens as seen on tumblr. (examples and variations of Invisibility trend in primitive pictures shared every day in such huge quantities no art publication ever knew, teens and pre-teens are those with passion among the rest of us, when they spread the word it goes far, same as the early internet time, when the word would go far distances to large number of people)
Historically known of the episodes when many artists tried to create the so-called invis art but it really didn’t involve much creativity except for the concepts they came up with, but in reality it involved the reduction of visual means and performance art when the audience came up with more ideas acting around the non-existent artwork than the artist.
Personally I discovered high interactive value of the “PRESUMED” invisible painting when I was getting a lot of responses with very interesting commentaries from the people who actually insisted I was sending them info about the invisible artworks. I never made any claims when sending written essays. People decided for me and probably this is the best way for the interactive dialogue to let people decide.
The only known versions of invisible artworks would be not something that can turn into a philosophical school of thought but random reductions of visual means of various artists. It all came to same MOA that involved frames etc., not the process of creativity or life long creativity that would show how such artistic philosophy develops and what various periods of the artist’s life produce by his belief in his artistic style.
The known precedents of exhibiting so-called invisible art were always random statements that never continued to develop in a distinct style.
What one usually expects is a blank canvas, a picture with some written ideas which is more a topography art, a picture that is in a wrapping of covered up and is a found object art. The only known artists who continued wrapping is Christo but his art is not considered invisible even though he hides or attempts to hide what is inside the wrapping….
Recently same as in more distant periods in time many artists are trying to reduce their visual means. There’s a difference though. In previous times artists ventured into reduction of visual means with more ease. The artworks from older times with reduced visual means had much less labor and look less worked on.
Now the reduction of visual means is something that doesn’t fall under the artistic philosophy when an artists trying to prevent an overkill of the visual imagery.
If Rothko worked on his abstract painting laboriously than in current standards his work would be considered not sale’s worthy. Now to be sale-worthy the abstraction is worked to show a lot of workmanship. Surely Rothko doesn’t want anyone to see a lot of workmanship quite the opposite, he wanted his paintings to look fresh and not overdone. And in current standards he would have to toil on every dot in his painting to perfect it.
Today’s abstract paintings look like very hard-worked on simulations of surfaces that look like some textures (varieties of plain or distressed surfaces /stone and whatever is the decorative surfaces of abstracts, patterns that are used in interior design.
Overworked, machine-like is expensive looking enough to sell in the gallery but it creates a certain amount of fatigue in time. The commerce knows about it, the fatigue would bring the art buyer to buy more to add some new life to the art collection ed infinitum.
Art commerce wants more art collectors in the times when art is selling and makes money and should be called what it is – decorative luxury items.
Art or luxury decorative items was always meant for people with wealth and they always wanted to get their money worth.
When abstract painting is done in a manner to be worthy of selling price it is not creativity of conceptual thought and has no abstracted meaning. The craft of simulating surfaces is widely known and is used in interior design. When it is unique that no other craftsman can repeat it is recognized nearly as jewelry and rag-making, etc. All the items that cost money due to the high workmanship and hours, months and sometimes years of creation. Same way was built the historical hand-made furniture. Same way the current abstract decorations will hold in time. It is made for someone as rich as royalties but it doesn’t mean that it has anything to do with artistic creativity, the most mysterious and unexplained human phenomenon.
So anyone who is interested to earn money as a maker of such luxury items and be able to place them in the store for sale – the art gallery, can come up with own recipe for surface replica and start working will find a paying job on the art scene nowadays...
It doesn’t involve questioning of morals, times and life. It involves many hours of working and ability to produce varieties of the same surfaces in good taste. Instead of questioning human spirituality, or questioning art means that someone considers irrelevant and outdated, not for any breakthrough to create something revolutionary new.
And with advance to REALITY COPY there’s certainly no way of changing this perception only enforcing it, nothing in reality is good enough for “REALITY COPY” that is just another paradox that is not futuristic.
We might be still skeptical about the arrival of REALITY COPY, but its only before its sold at the supermarkets.
What would happen after “Reality Copy” when the progress of all possible levels of true “reality copy” (in technical sense, not psychologically-philosophical) are achieved. The reality hence is copied and sealed.
Technology won’t stop there… one wonders. What is next.
In political sense when reality in representation is something embraced by conservative social power than with “reality copy” the conservative power is the dominating from the social point of view having new level of reality and it’s copy to be controlled.
*seems like the only possibly alternative to REALITY COPY could be ultra radical Invisibility)
In principle the artist aims to deform the reality subjectively to create not the “reality copy” lacking such skills but to convey the artistic poetic goal of expressing whatever given artist wants to express.
In a matter of “reality copy” what is left for the artist to argue with and deform… to question and test… Nothing really changes socially except for more pressure applied to the issue of dealing with self-image and tools to “sell” When a person changes the image the higher the technology the more transformed is the final product.
The progress of mental growth is just as conservative as control on the “visual image of reality” and its copy.
The ongoing technological progress is irreversible as it carries percent of good with bad,
It is common knowledge how for instance internet is benefit and at the same time does damage. A person who knows about the addiction and suffers would acquire the knowledge and hope from the place the person suffers the internet of course.
Same thing is with photography and video. Reality copy would add more psychological problems to the present but create more visual attraction of true-life experience with whatever could be rediscovered in Lifecopy style. Probably is benefits pornography since it will continue same as consumption of food. The basic things… Consumerism benefits since it is super-trained for “instant reach” affect and will commercially exploit the “reality copy” to sell more of “reality copy” gadgets the phones, screens, etc.
New generation of people will repeat the cycle in new technological means of having “reality copy” as nothing new but similar to any visual information currently available.
The creative people are the ones BEHIND the time it seems in a matter of “reality copy” and being unable to have anything is an alternative.
The Invisible alternative is the ONLY ONE to question “reality copy”
That is the power of UNKNOWN.
Techno progress can deal in “reality” bringing higher resolution to the fore to sell new generation of phones and gadgets.
But it really doesn’t change the philosophical issue of questions asked by philosophers, what is life, what is art, why do we live. Questions remain unanswered when techno progress veils those questions with the promise that higher technology would bring the end to all unanswered questions and answer them for people.
So far the techno advance puts the artistic, literary and philosophical field out of business. As when people get the toys (gadgets) and the playground (the podium of internet) the art is irrelevant and completely disconnected from the social phenomenon of self-representation. Art is not interested to question something with no philosophical substance to it.
The commercial art is willing to supply more stuff for consumerism. If its reality-copy than someone empowered by financial wealth (born rich) would come up with more decorative solutions that could serve REALITY COPY in needed fashion, add more details to the “reality set” to those who can afford it.
Same way it is now when people with means live with more things.
“Reality Copy” of people without means would look just as it is in reality, gray and unexciting. To help people without means the software would offer “decoration” solutions to add the faux details able to transform the surroundings to less depressing. It would enter the person into “life copy” of vacation at Caribbean resorts… etc.
What in such situation could be philosophically questioned, if nothing changed in human morality, but techno advance manage to involve people into self-entertainment to such degree that a person is no longer interested to read books about other people or watch movies and hear news. Self-promotion is the ongoing and time-consuming thing. One has to research the “popular” topics.
As to participating in reality activities, there’s the issue of not having time for anything that doesn’t deal with self-promotion and earning a living.
ART commerce is growing commercially going Industrial since supplying consumer goods is always rewarding in sales. On the other hand this and techno revolution reduces interest of writers and philosophers to dig in depths where there is no depth. It makes such people disengaged with the process. When there are no critical voices to the established situation or some few art critics pretend to do what is expected of them – know about current situation not only on the art scene but at large - socially, and have strong voice against the trends that contribute to the lowering of culture. There’s no more liberal freedom since nobody reads the newspapers. Even if the working critics were principal enough to write articles and books they know their voice would not be heard. They are not vociferous about anything at all because there’s a concept of supporting and art endavour since art is in decline and anything that relates to art needs their support.
There are no voices to oppose the current situation for many reasons such as no younger people would be interested in such undertaking also for many reasons of being disoriented in expectation of techno changes or living their me-life.
The young ones are the invisibility movers, every day someone who is young, information and internet savvy adds the invisibility statement to their online identity. I saw it on tumblr and Iheart. (samples year web address – source)
Art consumer goods sell and make the seller get the goods since sale is the rule.
Art critics silently agree and actually it seems if they even try to disagree there is nothing in art that presently shows any direction against the established art situation.
There isn’t anything not saying a serious claim to deny aesthetic values of the art present and past, to turn away from any influence and history by the fashion avant-garde to question than resuscitate (bring back from death) art that lost vitality and practically is a dead art of dominating taste in an authoritarian culture and conformity.
Bring new blood to reinvent the art into weapon against the outlived old and positioning itself as direct opposition AGAINST art that represents culture of the present time.
Culture of consumerism that turned into visual consumerism with the help of internet is hard to oppose and challenge in any attempt of making bid public art spectacle, won’t challenge any concept but serve certain need for entertainment.
Invisible art of Paul Jaisini stands against all that is dominating and culturally regressive in the present, false visual multiplicity that imply democracy and absence of segregation in visual sphere, all inclusiveness.
On so many levels Paul Jaisini brings knowledge of how the present condition reflect on a mind. (non-linear thinking, information processing, constant analysis is the advanced state of high analytical creative mind /osd, adad is the side effect but there are more worse side effects) Shows the burst to create in manifestation of genius mind (can do any task without training) but unable to maintain the creative process as wholesome, bored with the immediate results. Invisibility is theoretical stability and result of high impact activity that gives fast result of creativity and genius realized in art. Then instability in the fact of the created art un--preserved and lost, destroyed.
On a lower level of people who start building some blog with enthusiasm dedicating time, research than abandoning it to become digital graveyard demonstrates inability to continue and search for new. Inability to face what yesterday seemed interesting and capture someone’s mind to give the creative boost.
(fast life, no sleep, high tech knowledge, constant search for new, unsatisfied… new is old – altogether supports “CONSUMERISM” when buying is haul more than physically needed, quantity is the need for new.
Invisible art as a concept seem to attract wide public and elite in such diametrically opposed combination, of people without high aesthetics in mind or the complete opposite illuminati-culturati. People with average or below average taste and aesthetic requirements are as interested and supportive as the elite. When it comes to someone in the middle- another phenomena, quite often those who are educated and intelligent take a stand against even one mention of the art being possibly somehow invisible.
These people respond very well and willing to agree with the concept as Invisible art is brought to them by mass media. In the beginning I was using internet to send out essays and saw the proof that as avant-garde wanted to reach people who never acquired artistically developed taste the invisible art was and now is more than ever suits their taste even to degree of obsession.
That’s adds insult to injury when nobody even pay attention and there’s nothing to offer as the alternative.
They want something tangible as the alternative, the grown philosophy to brew in the minds of people and artists as the sign of time.
The invisibility is the idea that has the power to antagonize the “reality copy” but not in a sense that is widely used in the present time. To express social isolation in case of the teens as seen on tumblr. (examples and variations of Invisibility trend in primitive pictures shared every day in such huge quantities no art publication ever knew, teens and pre-teens are those with passion among the rest of us, when they spread the word it goes far, same as the early internet time, when the word would go far distances to large number of people)
Historically known of the episodes when many artists tried to create the so-called invis art but it really didn’t involve much creativity except for the concepts they came up with, but in reality it involved the reduction of visual means and performance art when the audience came up with more ideas acting around the non-existent artwork than the artist.
Personally I discovered high interactive value of the “PRESUMED” invisible painting when I was getting a lot of responses with very interesting commentaries from the people who actually insisted I was sending them info about the invisible artworks. I never made any claims when sending written essays. People decided for me and probably this is the best way for the interactive dialogue to let people decide.
The only known versions of invisible artworks would be not something that can turn into a philosophical school of thought but random reductions of visual means of various artists. It all came to same MOA that involved frames etc., not the process of creativity or life long creativity that would show how such artistic philosophy develops and what various periods of the artist’s life produce by his belief in his artistic style.
The known precedents of exhibiting so-called invisible art were always random statements that never continued to develop in a distinct style.
What one usually expects is a blank canvas, a picture with some written ideas which is more a topography art, a picture that is in a wrapping of covered up and is a found object art. The only known artists who continued wrapping is Christo but his art is not considered invisible even though he hides or attempts to hide what is inside the wrapping….
Recently same as in more distant periods in time many artists are trying to reduce their visual means. There’s a difference though. In previous times artists ventured into reduction of visual means with more ease. The artworks from older times with reduced visual means had much less labor and look less worked on.
Now the reduction of visual means is something that doesn’t fall under the artistic philosophy when an artists trying to prevent an overkill of the visual imagery.
If Rothko worked on his abstract painting laboriously than in current standards his work would be considered not sale’s worthy. Now to be sale-worthy the abstraction is worked to show a lot of workmanship. Surely Rothko doesn’t want anyone to see a lot of workmanship quite the opposite, he wanted his paintings to look fresh and not overdone. And in current standards he would have to toil on every dot in his painting to perfect it.
Today’s abstract paintings look like very hard-worked on simulations of surfaces that look like some textures (varieties of plain or distressed surfaces /stone and whatever is the decorative surfaces of abstracts, patterns that are used in interior design.
Overworked, machine-like is expensive looking enough to sell in the gallery but it creates a certain amount of fatigue in time. The commerce knows about it, the fatigue would bring the art buyer to buy more to add some new life to the art collection ed infinitum.
Art commerce wants more art collectors in the times when art is selling and makes money and should be called what it is – decorative luxury items.
Art or luxury decorative items was always meant for people with wealth and they always wanted to get their money worth.
When abstract painting is done in a manner to be worthy of selling price it is not creativity of conceptual thought and has no abstracted meaning. The craft of simulating surfaces is widely known and is used in interior design. When it is unique that no other craftsman can repeat it is recognized nearly as jewelry and rag-making, etc. All the items that cost money due to the high workmanship and hours, months and sometimes years of creation. Same way was built the historical hand-made furniture. Same way the current abstract decorations will hold in time. It is made for someone as rich as royalties but it doesn’t mean that it has anything to do with artistic creativity, the most mysterious and unexplained human phenomenon.
So anyone who is interested to earn money as a maker of such luxury items and be able to place them in the store for sale – the art gallery, can come up with own recipe for surface replica and start working will find a paying job on the art scene nowadays...
It doesn’t involve questioning of morals, times and life. It involves many hours of working and ability to produce varieties of the same surfaces in good taste. Instead of questioning human spirituality, or questioning art means that someone considers irrelevant and outdated, not for any breakthrough to create something revolutionary new.
Is this a landscape? Does it look even remotely like a landscape? Clearly not. I took some but liked this better. So I stuck it in. Rain and no car means opportunities were limited. No matter. The time I am spending riding the bus has not been in vain. With nothing else to do I penned a 365:2011 edition version of Bohemian Rhapsody....
What happened to real life?
Or just shooting weekly?
Caught in a landslide
Of taking shots daily
Tighten my belt
Head off to the Gelt and see
I am a lucky boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm not alone, you're all here too
Even though I'm stuck on F22
I'll be one of the survivors, thanks to fellow 365'ers, you see
Giovanni, long a friend of mine
Got his mojo back in time
As his son crossed the finish line
Ian, with his droplet fun
Spending all his life in front of his drip tray
Neil, ooo
A man with his own style
You're never sure what he'll produce tomorrow
Benman, Benman, he's genius in all film matters
The turn, of Heather's come
In black and white she shoots so fine
But she don't like those puns of mine
The Queen of the comments, is Jofolo
And Clare rocks out those tunnels, that's the truth
Robert, ooo
Takes a great shot of nice pie
I sometimes think I'd like to eat them all
I see a little silhouetto of commuters
Processed on iphone, shuns SLRs and computers
Got the band together, writes articles so clever
Rodney Chester, Rodney Chester
Rodney Chester, Rodney Chester
Anna, Meggie - and Gizmo-o-o-o
Mike's just a nice guy, showing Iowa to me
He's just a nice boy shooting Des Moines beautifully
Oana is veteran, onto project number three
How Karyn, is so good, I will never know
Slackpacket! He's got his gasmask on
Slackpacket! His selfies are second to none
Slackpacket! His fish have all passed on
The heron will not let them go - let them go (never)
Never let them go - let them go
Never let them go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no -
Perry McKenna, Perry McKenna, Perry McKenna, don't you know
This Canadian has waterfalls that inspire me
inspire me
inspire me
So you think cool lighting can't be done every day
Then you're missing the shots of that man, Harry Jay
Oh Michael, see Toronto from Michael
And CJ's a giant, I can see his weiner from here
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah
If I've lost my mojo
Got my project on the rocks
I can rely on you guys, and can always take a picture, of socks
As any 365'er knows
Anthophora terminalis. Orange butt. Three teeth. Internal wing cells almost entirely free of hairs (why are there hairs, sometimes hundreds of hairs, on many bees wings? Good question and perhaps answering that question would gain you the Nobel Peace Prize, but more likely it would simply generate mild curiosity among a very small academic crowd, unless your organization had a publicist who would likely hype it in a way that would get a lot of google hits so that the publicist would get a bigger bonus at the end of the year and reporters could interview you and write articles like "Do hairy wings make bees buzz?" or some other demoralizing, pun infested article that shows how very little respect you command compared to an astronomer (who, btw, discovering something so very far away that even the astrologists believe it never did and never will have any influence over our lives)). Photo by Anders Croft (studying to be a marine biologist, a semi-serious profession). ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Anthophora terminalis. Orange butt. Three teeth. Internal wing cells almost entirely free of hairs (why are there hairs, sometimes hundreds of hairs, on many bees wings? Good question and perhaps answering that question would gain you the Nobel Peace Prize, but more likely it would simply generate mild curiosity among a very small academic crowd, unless your organization had a publicist who would likely hype it in a way that would get a lot of google hits so that the publicist would get a bigger bonus at the end of the year and reporters could interview you and write articles like "Do hairy wings make bees buzz?" or some other demoralizing, pun infested article that shows how very little respect you command compared to an astronomer (who, btw, discovering something so very far away that even the astrologists believe it never did and never will have any influence over our lives)). Photo by Anders Croft (studying to be a marine biologist, a semi-serious profession). ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
This is the only puzzle I managed to complete over two and a half days at the house party. It was cut by Enid Stocken, has 487 pieces and measures about 17" x 12". Oddly enough, another member showed another Enid Stocken puzzle of exactly the same location, but a different print, during the Show and Tell.
I didn't spend the weekend in the bar, in case you were wondering. When I wasn't twisting people's arms to write articles for the magazine, I was helping with a puzzle so hard that there were shouts of triumph every time someone placed a piece (approximately every 15 minutes). If the owner ever finishes it, he has promised to let us know what it is. The title was 'The three emblems', and the bit we completed showed a woman in Roman dress, crowned in flowers, carrying an orb and sceptre.
Jason Rossiter is a Dean’s Honored Graduate from the Department of Mathematics. He is graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a specialization in Actuarial Sciences. He is also getting a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Business Administration and a certificate in Core Texts and Ideas. He is being recognized for his diverse academic achievements and his outstanding service and leadership.
Jason has performed at the top of his actuarial courses in the Department of Mathematics. In addition, he has already passed several of his professional actuarial exams. Many faculty commented that while he earned strong grades in their courses, it was clear that his goal was always to obtain an in-depth understanding of the material. Faculty noted he was always quick to volunteer in class and eager to participate in group projects and competitions in which he generally excelled.
Beyond the classroom Jason has been a leader among the actuarial students. He has served as editor of a newsletter, Risky Business, for five editions. He recruits and advises student contributors to write articles and take photographs, and he has been instrumental in modernizing the newsletter for students, alumni, employers, and donors. For the past two years, Jason has been elected by his peers to serve on the executive committee of the Actuarial Student Club. The Actuarial Student Club meets weekly, boasts 100+ members, and is a place for new and experienced students to network with employers and mentor one another. Each semester, Jason has been recognized by the actuarial faculty as one of the top students, by earning several competitive actuarial scholarships, including the most prestigious actuarial scholarship, the Milliman Standard of Excellence Scholarship. Last year, Jason was the nominee for the Actuary of Tomorrow – Stuart A. Robertson Memorial Scholarship administered by the Society of Actuaries.
Outside of Actuarial Sciences, Jason is a writer and has a self-published novel, March: A Good Man. After graduation Jason will start a position as an Actuarial Analyst for Aon Hewitt in Atlanta, Georgia.
"We all flow from one fountain—Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all."
~ John Muir
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. One of the most well-known hiking trails in the U.S., the 211-mile (340 km) John Muir Trail, was named in his honor. Other places named in his honor are Muir Woods National Monument, Muir Beach, John Muir College, Mount Muir, Camp Muir and Muir Glacier.In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. He petitioned the U.S. Congress for the National Park bill that was passed in 1890, establishing both Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Because of the spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature expressed in his writings, he was able to inspire readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas.[3] He is today referred to as the "Father of the National Parks".
John Muir's birthplace was a three-story stone house in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. His parents were Daniel Muir and Ann Gilrye. He was the third of eight children. In his autobiography, he described his boyhood pursuits, which included fighting, either by re-enacting romantic battles from the Wars of Scottish Independence or just scrapping on the playground, and hunting for birds' nests (ostensibly to one-up his fellows as they compared notes on who knew where the most were located). The family were members of the Presbyterian Church while in Scotland, but joined the Disciples of Christ in the United States.
In 1849, Muir's family emigrated to the United States, starting a farm near Portage, Wisconsin, called Fountain Lake Farm. By age 11, young Muir had learned to recite "by heart and by sore flesh" all of the New Testament and most of the Old Testament.
At age 22, Muir enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, paying his own way for several years. There, under a towering black locust tree beside North Hall, Muir took his first botany lesson. A fellow student plucked a flower from the tree and used it to explain how the grand locust is a member of the pea family, related to the straggling pea plant. Fifty years later, the naturalist Muir described the day in his autobiography. "This fine lesson charmed me and sent me flying to the woods and meadows in wild enthusiasm." As a freshman Muir studied chemistry with Professor Ezra Carr and his wife Jeanne; they became lifelong friends and Muir developed a lifelong interest in chemistry and the sciences. Muir took an eclectic approach to his studies, attending classes for two years but never being listed higher than a first-year student due to his unusual selection of courses. Records showed his class status as "irregular gent" and, even though he never graduated, he learned enough geology and botany to inform his later wanderings.
In 1863 his brother Dan left Wisconsin for Canada to avoid the draft. In 1864, Muir left school to go to Canada to avoid the military draft, spending the spring, summer, and fall wandering the woods and swamps around Lake Huron collecting plants. With his money running out and winter coming, he met up with his brother Dan in Ontario, where the two worked at a sawmill on the shore of Lake Huron until the summer of 1865.
Muir returned to the United States in March 1866, winding up in Indianapolis to work as a sawyer in a factory that made wagon wheels; he was paid $22 a week. He proved valuable to his employers because of his inventiveness in improving the machines and processes. In early March 1867, an accident changed the course of his life: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried whether he’d ever regain his sight. When he did, "he saw the world—and his purpose—in a new light," writes Marquis. Muir later wrote, "This affliction has driven me to the sweet fields. God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons." From that point on, he determined to "be true to myself" and follow his dream of exploration and study of plants,
In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find." Upon reaching Florida, he hoped to board a ship to South America and continue his wandering there. After contracting malaria on Florida's Gulf Coast, he abandoned his plans for South America. Instead, he sailed to New York and booked passage to California.
Arriving in San Francisco in March 1868, Muir immediately left for a week-long visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Marquis notes that "he was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower." "We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us," Muir later wrote. . . . "No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite... The grandest of all special temples of Nature." He later returned to Yosemite and worked as a shepherd for a season. He climbed a number of mountains, including Cathedral Peak, Mount Dana and hiked the old Indian trail down Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake.
During these years in Yosemite, Muir was unmarried, often unemployed, with no prospects for a career, and had "periods of anguish," writes naturalist author John Tallmadge. He was sustained by not only the natural environment, but also by reading the essays of naturalist author Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote about the very life that Muir was then living. On excursions into the back country of Yosemite, he traveled alone, carrying "only a tin cup, a handful of tea, a loaf of bread, and a copy of Emerson." He usually spent his evenings sitting by a campfire in his overcoat, reading Emerson under the stars. As the years passed, he became a "fixture in the valley," respected for his knowledge of natural history, his skill as a guide, and his vivid storytelling. Visitors to the valley often included scientists, artists, and celebrities, many of whom made a point of meeting with Muir.
Pursuit of his love of science, especially geology, often occupied his free time. Muir soon became convinced that glaciers had sculpted many of the features of the valley and surrounding area. This notion was in stark contradiction to the accepted contemporary theory, promulgated by Josiah Whitney (head of the California Geological Survey), which attributed the formation of the valley to a catastrophic earthquake. As Muir's ideas spread, Whitney tried to discredit Muir by branding him as an amateur. But Louis Agassiz, the premier geologist of the day, saw merit in Muir's ideas, and lauded him as "the first man I have ever found who has any adequate conception of glacial action."
Muir threw himself into the preservationist role with great vigor. He envisioned the Yosemite area and the Sierra as pristine lands.[27] He thought the greatest threat to the Yosemite area and the Sierra was domesticated livestock—especially domestic sheep, which he referred to as "hoofed locusts". In June 1889, the influential associate editor of Century magazine, Robert Underwood Johnson, camped with Muir in Tuolumne Meadows and saw firsthand the damage a large flock of sheep had done to the grassland. Johnson agreed to publish any article Muir wrote on the subject of excluding livestock from the Sierra high country. He also agreed to use his influence to introduce a bill to Congress to make the Yosemite area into a national park, modeled after Yellowstone National Park.
In 1878, nearing the age of 40, Muir’s friends "pressured him to return to society." Soon after he returned to the Oakland area, he met Louisa Strentzel, daughter of a prominent physician and horticulturist with a 2,600-acre (11 km2) fruit orchard in Martinez, California, northeast of Oakland. In 1880, Muir and Strentzel married. Although Muir was a loyal, dedicated husband, and father of two daughters, "his heart remained wild," writes Marquis. His wife understood his needs, and after seeing his restlessness at the ranch would sometimes "shoo him back up" to the mountains. He sometimes took his daughters with him.
In early 1892, Professor Henry Senger, a philologist at the University of California, Berkeley, contacted Muir with the idea of forming a local 'alpine club' for mountain lovers. Senger and San Francisco attorney Warren Olney sent out invitations "for the purpose of forming a 'Sierra Club.' Mr. John Muir will preside." On May 28, 1892, the first meeting of the Sierra Club was held to write articles of incorporation. One week later Muir was elected president, Muir remained president until his death 22 years later.
With population growth continuing in San Francisco, political pressure increased to dam the Tuolumne River for use as a water reservoir. Muir passionately opposed the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley because he found Hetch Hetchy as stunning as Yosemite Valley. Muir, the Sierra Club and Robert Underwood Johnson fought against inundating the valley. Muir wrote to President Roosevelt pleading for him to scuttle the project. Roosevelt's successor, William Howard Taft, suspended the Interior Department's approval for the Hetch Hetchy right-of-way. After years of national debate, Taft's successor Woodrow Wilson signed the bill authorizing the dam into law on December 19, 1913. Muir felt a great loss from the destruction of the valley, his last major battle.
John Muir died at California Hospital (now California Hospital Medical Center) in Los Angeles on 24 December 1914 of pneumonia[46] at age 76, after a brief visit to Daggett, California, to see his daughter Helen Muir Funk. John Muir was survived by two daughters and ten grandchildren, two of whom are still living as of 2011.
Addendum: Lifes surprises. Hannah was my Stranger 78. I just discovered to my surprise in December 2022 that I actually had never submitted Hannahs photo and three other Strangers photos to the Human Family Strangers Group at the time.
The administrators of the Human Family Strangers Group have given me permission to post the photos now since they were not submitted when taken due to a genuine oversight on my part. Thank you Admin
_______________________________________
Meet Hannah, my stranger 78.
I was on my way to get the bus home from town (Dublin, Ireland). As I was crossing the street I saw I saw Hannah crossing just ahead of me. I decided she would be a fabulous stranger. Hannah was not going my way so decided I could get another bus but not get another opportunity to photograph Hannah. I caught up with her. I introduced myself and the Human family Strangers project. I showed Hannah my previous Stranger photos on my Phone. readily agreed to participate.
Hannah is 23 and originally from Clonakilty, Cork in the south of Ireland. She is now living and working in Dublin. Hannah is a journalist and writes articles on Health issues. She said the work is interesting and challenging. On hobbies and interests Hannah likes reading. She also has a cat.
For the photos it was evening and the sun was shining and getting lower in the sky. I initially took Hannahs photo where we met. I then suggested moving the to the opposite side of the river where there would be less direct sunlight. Hannah readily agreed and we crossed over the bridge just in front of us.
I gave Hannah my contact card and also got her email address and sent her a copy of the photo.
Thank you Hannah for participating in my Human Family Strangers Project.
Hannah is my Stranger number 78 submission to the Human Family Strangers Group.
Visit the Human Family Strangers Group here to see more portraits and stories: www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily
Well, this has certainly been a long time coming.... Way way back in February 2018 the Transdev Blazefield twitter page revealed a new graphic showing off a brand new livery and identity to be applied to all buses in the York fleet, the bus being in 2-tone blue slightly deeper than the current Coastliner livery yet lighter than the old Coastliner 844 livery - however all that there was to show for this was Versa 203 being given some vinyls to adapt it's darker Coastliner 844 livery to match the style of the new identity that had been revealled online. A couple of months after the online unveiling I did ask when the first repainted bus could be expected in York, and was told that they might not do it because the York depot runs a number of contracted services which expire in 2019 - my reply to this was that *smaller* companies operating in York also run services on contracts that expire at the same time in 2019 as hey're from the same batch of tendered services, yet said companies have gone out and purchased additional vehicles, so surely a company with a bigger budget like Transdev could put some paint on the buses for York as was promised.... My reply from the Transdev company management, mainly from the public relations and marketing manager, was a load of vitreol and abuse - including the corker suggesting I should go and get a job instead of making online comments about the buses - certainly nhot something you'd expect from somebody in charge of PUBLIC RELATIONS, and the comment itself got a 'LOL' reaction from another senior manager at Transdev Blazefield who regularly writes articles for a bus journal. Another 2 or 3 months passed and I asked the question again as to where the repainted buses for York were, and again I got similar abuse back from the same people. That all remains in screenshot format on my PC just in case anybody ants to see how the top-level management at this company REALLY view their potential customers.....
..... but August 2018 saw one of the 8 Optare Versa V1110's from Harrogate repainted and parked at Starbeck depot for a while. It was due to be delivered to York on a friday during august, but on the wednesday it failed it's test run with electrical problems and so it stayed at Harrogate a while longer. When it was delivered to York in late September the rear differential had failed and so the bus stayed parked there until somebody eventually fixed it....
.... but on the last week of November 2018, some NINE MONTHS after the new livery for York was unveiled, we finally have a single vehicle showing off the full version of the new livery. What's ironic is that because they have taken so long with this one bus, that if Transdev do lose the York contracts next year then the bus(es) will have been on that road in this livery for even less time than had the repainting work been done back in February when they would have had at least a years' use.
Seen still looking fresh from its repaint, YJ12 MZU is at Monks Cross running the orbital service 20 to Clifton Moor and Rawcliffe.
[Leo Frank Flickr Museum & Gallery Curator Commentary in Brackets, The Spring, 2020:
Introducing the source of reporting for this 1995 kerfuffle.
Established in 1866, the Marietta Daily Journal (MDJ) is at present (2020) the city of Marietta's oldest and most prominent newspaper in that locale which is conveniently situated at the suburban perimeter of metro Atlanta. For more information about the MJD visit www.mdjonline.com and feel free sign up for their affordable online news service to save some trees. They are widely regarded as one of the best sources for local and area updates.
North West from the capital, Marietta is located in the central hub of Cobb County, Georgia. The population as of 2019 was estimated to be just over 60,000 residents, making it the fourth largest of Atlanta's suburbs (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietta,_Georgia).
When a Rabbi and a city councilman give new life and meaning to the archaic word 'Skullduggery':
For our international students of the Leo Frank case, this 1995 MDJ article clipping was submitted recently in the month May of 2020, thusly marking the 25th anniversary of a little-known skirmish over the insensitive and abusive replacement of a demagogical propaganda sign-post in a prominent location inside the gates of the old Marietta city cemetery. The outcome of this anti-Gentile episode created ethnic strife in that neck of the woods and racial hostility in the region where a slim majority of the population is African-American (Leo Frank attempted unsuccessfully to entrap two black employees at the National Pencil Company for the gruesome criminal offense).
The official placement of historic sign-posts on public or government land should not be furtively organized by secret societies and privy agitators in quasi-confidential backroom deals involving corrupt politicians who ensure fast-track placement. The official placement of historic sign-posts on communal land legally requires a process of transparency, beginning with public announcements, followed by open dialogue at public government building rooms, with feedback from residents of the community in those face-to-face forums.
Replacing the original and more factually correct sign-post, the newer, politically correct sign-post was swapped out in a quasi-legalistic manner on a moonless midnight in the autumn of 1995, after an improperly held assembly of city councilpersons was conducted clandestinely, and without due process of rules or regulations. These types of quasi-legalistic shenanigans are the unprincipled maneuvers that have been utilized since 1913 with regards to establishing a doctrinal portrayal of Leo Frank as a civil right icon, whose wrongful conviction is attributed to anti-Semitism.
The apparent goal of the political bullying at the time of this anti-Gentile episode couldn't have been more apparent to everyone familiar with the facts of the case. The ordeal was a sly attempt by Jewish activists living in Cobb county to further overwhelm the placid neighborhood with a domineering force of legalistic maneuvering, utilizing local government power, to reassert who in an ongoing capacity controls history's "authoritative narration" about this murder-revenge scandal. Furthermore, the attainment and staying power of the newer and contrived metal plant in the aftermath of controversy, was another major stepping stone in helping to diminish the significance and public perception surrounding the underdeveloped, 1986-pardon of Leo M. Frank. Thus at least for at least the time being, and until the best timing approaches in the years ahead, when total victory is anticipated at hand, it will arrive, with the right crooked Governor of Georgia, and just enough corrupt sitting members of the general assembly in place at the capital, to get a decisive majority vote on the final status of Leo Frank.
This out-with-the-old and in-with-the-new, was a milestone achievement in a much longer strategic game, a multi-lifetime mobilization to get the state of Georgia to formally declare a miscarriage of justice with respect to the jury's conclusion, hearkening back 107 years ago into the last week of August 1913 at Leo Frank's trial for his life. and to annul that unanimous decision of the jurymen at the Fulton County Superior Court who rendered their final decision on a fellow peer with no mercy.
Using a cemetery for these ulterior designs is the epitome of garish by all objective standards, but putting the prominent sign next to the grave of the very child who was molested, and asphyxiated by a serial pedophile is the epitome of ghoulish. The historic marker continues to be a thorn in the side of the placid community.
The Phagan family in dismay and grief had no choice but to put up a sign next to Mary's grave (the grave had been vandalized) to provide some palliative clarity against the backdrop of soulless Rabbi Steven Lebow's and heartless Philip Goldstein's disgusting maneuver on behalf of Jewry.
Many Jews in the greater area, including myself, were appalled by the callous display of using the Phagan family plot as a device to rehabilitate the convicted sex Killer, Leo Frank, using the deceit of removing the previous mention that his pardon did not officially exonerate him of the crime. The tasteless Lebow-Philip historical marker continues to be an embarrassing display, especially now that everyone on the Internet knows how the sign came about in 1995 via subterfuge and what it is trying to conceal.
The contention appears to be over whether or not the public should be made aware that evidence presented to a government tribunal in Atlanta in the 1980s concerning Leo Frank's 1913 child-strangling conviction, did not rise to the level of warranting his acknowledgment of innocence, when Georgia's pardon and paroles board addressed the issue of his guilt between 1982-1986. It was a lot of hullabaloo about a long-forgotten case ("Leo who?" was the most common response by the non-senior-citizen folks at the time) and it wound up being an anti-climatic affair in its conclusion, but it started a new fire that is still burning to this very day with a 2019 Atlanta 'Conviction Integrity Unit' (C.I.U) having been constituted on April 26th of that year.
Flashback to 86'
Although the outcome was anti-Climatic, inadvertently fresh new wounds were opened when the Georgia Board of Pardon's and Paroles made the decision to "compromise-pardon" Leo Frank on March 11th, 1986, with a *wink-wink* caveat that flustered the Jewish community. The incident had the embarrassing sheen of an undercooked "participation award" that one might receive at the special Olympics or a "woke" social justice conference on reducing the hours of a workweek from 40 to 35, but it ultimately lacked the vindicative substance that had been aggressively sought for more than 70 years.
Leo Max Frank was issued a posthumous "pardon" on a technicality, but that March 11th, 1986 decision did not officially change the August 25th, 1913 trial jury's verdict of guilt rendered against him, which included capital punishment by way of "hanging from the neck until dead". The State of Georgia as of this writing in 2020 still recognizes Leo Frank as being the culprit with malice aforethought for the crime of placing a rope around Mary Phagan's neck and choking her until she died from terminal brain damage caused by hypoxia.
I present this reader submission here to elucidate, the now 107-year conflict that has been smoldering under the surface of a happy-placid community. One where Jews and Gentiles have been intermarrying in Georgia since the 19th century, but the Frank case seemingly causes them lingering disparities of sympathies underneath the veneer.
Georgia's Phagan family has endured much grief over the grand-scale of their multigenerational lives since 1913, they recently created a family website: www.LittleMaryPhagan.com hopefully people can come together in these times of division for dialogue, not unilateral political machinations. End of Curator Commentary.]
Contribution:
Unnecessary Jewish-Gentile Conflict in the American South: Anti-Gentile Political Bullying, Jewish Supremacist Bigotry and chauvinistic Ethnoreligious Activism in Marietta, Georgia, Circa 1994 -- 1995, an ongoing challenge over the Leo Frank scandal since 1913.
In the mid-1990s, there was a firestorm of controversy in the leafy suburbs of metro-Atlanta over the wording on a prominent historical monument-sign that was mounted atop an industrial-strength steel pole of several feet in height, planted at the Old Marietta City Cemetery. It was placed there to educate visitors about the connotation of a burial site belonging to a little girl named Mary Anne Phagan (born on June 1st, 1899 -- death April 26, 1913) who had been the molestation and strangling victim of then-29-years-old pedophile sex-killer, Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 -- August 17, 1915). Frank was a sweatshop operator of an industrial machine shop in downtown Atlanta Georgia where pencils were assembled and he was prominent in the city's Jewish community, and arguably the most important Jew serving as B'nai B'rith President of Georgia from 1912-1914.
The ADL -- Anti-Defamation League, organized as a subcommittee by the International Order of B'nai B'rith, was said to have been galvanized in its founding over the adverse outcome of his notorious trial. Rehabilitating Frank's conviction and reputation as a pervert has been the raison d'etre of ADL since 1913, and they continue to agitate on his behalf every August 17th, the lynching anniversary. In 1987, one year after Frank was "pardoned", the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith dropped B'nai B'rith from its protracted name and became simply, A.D.L.
True Crime: The Case of Mary Phagan
Phagan was sexually assaulted by Leo Frank at minutes past noon on April 26, 1913, in a dingy manufacturing department of his factory, he presumably strangled her to death so that she wouldn't be unable to report to the police and her family the incident of the proposition, rejection, aggravated and forceable sodomy that ensued. It didn't take long for the police detectives to figure out Leo Frank was a pervy deviant chasing after the littlest of kids (Mary Phagan was only 4'11" tall), when they tracked down former child workers, some of whom told the cops he had a predilection for sexually harassing the pre-pubescent and teenage laborers toiling away at his sweatshop.
Less than a month after the rape-lynching of the little Phagan child it was found out that Frank enlisted his African-American janitor, James "Jim" Conley to help dispose of the freshly-killed cadaver. "To throw the dogs off the trail" of where and how Phagan had been slain, Leo Frank saw to it that her body was mutilated, by way of it being dragged 140-feet across the hard earthen-floor of the National Pencil Company's basement. It was an attempt to conceal the fact that Phagan had been originally killed on the office floor two stories above.
Investigators Find Out Leo Frank's Factory Boss Reputation
"Reputation is how generally the public thinks and perceives you to be, character is what you really are" -- an old Georgian adage.
During their investigations, and gathering statements, it didn't take police detectives and government officials much time to find out Frank's true character. Using the Atlanta City Directory catalogs from 1909 to 1913 as guides for tracking people down, the sleuths during their successive interviews with NPCo. factory employees, some of whom had been formerly employed there, and many who had presently worked at the National Pencil Company at the time, were saying Frank was taking certain liberties with his young sweatshop laborers. Some claimed he had touched them inappropriately or seem him touch others in an untoward manner, others claimed he tried to get them to engage in prostitution when they came to collect weekly wages on Saturdays.
To paraphrase, "A touchy, leery, pervert", 20 girls testify to Frank's unmistakeable salacious behavior.
At the trial of Leo M. Frank, 20 girls testified his character for lasciviousness was bad. L.M. Frank had been seen regularly managing the factory by walking around and inspecting production and process, which is to be expected, but what was uncalled for, was that when he was showing the girls how to do their jobs at their work stations, he would sometimes come up behind them (Joe Biden style), a little bit too close for comfort, placing his hands on their shoulders.
He had also sexually harassed the young teenage girls working for him by opening up the door to their women's dressing room (Here's Johnny!) and peering inside while they were changing their clothes. Frank's defenders would use the excuse that he did that to make sure they weren't loafing or flirting with boys out the windows, but that was just a ruse.
The factory girl's working on the fourth floor of the National Pencil Company also saw him take teenage forewoman Rebecca Carsen into that same dressing room 3 to 4 times a week, when the room was empty, presumably for intimate liaisons (to use the slang, "nooners"). It was considered scandalous among the gossiping employees, because Frank was married to Lucille Selig, daughter of a prominent German-Jewish Southern family, whose maternal-line had founded the first synagogue in Georgia, via Levi Cohen in the 1800s. German Jews were very highly regarded in the South, but when Russian Jews started to immigrate they had given both native Jews and Gentiles a bad impression.
Lewd, and Licentious Lascivious Behavior
Leo Frank had developed a reputation for lasciviousness among numerous of his sweatshop child laborers. Every Saturday at noon was the regularly scheduled day employees would go to Leo Frank's business office at the front of the National Pencil Company's second floor for receiving their paychecks.
At a coroner's inquest with 6-sworn jurymen, held by the State medical examiner Paul Donehoo, 4-days after the discovery of Phagan's dead body, factory employees were questioned under oath. Some of those employees discussed how they had been sexually harassed by Leo Frank, who was making sexual innuendos and offering them money for sex when they went to collect their paychecks. One girl described how Leo Frank slyly touched her breast.
Georgia Supreme Court Appellate Review
During the Georgia Supreme Court appeals of Frank's 1913 summer trial, those who had testified during that courtroom ordeal, provided affidavits describing the post-trial subornation of perjury they had witnessed upon themselves, and specifically how Leo Frank's defense team tried to bribe them to repudiate their former trial testimony to help the cause of his appeals.
They also restated their knowledge that Leo Frank knew Mary Phagan quite well, calling her Mary on several occasions, and harassing her at the workstation where she inserted erasers into the brass caps of pencils.
The 150-something pages of affidavits responding to Leo Frank's appeals in the GA Supreme Court records are a multidimensional testament to the criminal activity Leo Frank's defenders are willing to go through to rehabilitate his reputation and character. Leo Frank's enablers have continued their perfidy hence, even a century later, they are still up to their dirty tricks. Their latest game is getting as many University professors and journalists as possible, to write articles that Leo Frank is innocent to trick the public into thinking there is a new consensus that Leo Frank was framed.
The Old Marietta City Cemetery, Marietta, Georgia, USA
The Phagan family plot was first purchased and owned by W.J. Phagan, Little Mary's grandfather. The young murder-victim was interred in a grave at this historic 19th century-founded burial park on Tuesday, April 28th, 1913, with several hundred community members, journalists, and spectators present at the time. She became a contemporary symbol of the pain and suffering that many kids of grinding poverty had to endure as child laborers, toiling 55-hour to 60-hour work-weeks in Atlanta's industrial sweatshops and mills. These children often endured humiliating wages, high levels of sexual harassment, and appalling work environments.
Mary Phagan's Grave
A tombstone at the head of her burial plot was donated by Confederate Veterans June 25th, 1915, and in 1933 a marble slab inscribed with an indelible tribute was placed over her grave--the engraving of the epitaph was a dedication to Mary Phagan written decades prior by a former U.S. Congressman from Georgia, Tom Watson, who had passed away in 1922 while serving in the U.S. Senate.
The highly visible metal plaque was placed in the 1990s, it was just a stone's throw away from the Phagan family plot, which is a popular tourist attraction because of the notoriety of this true-crime.
The good people of Marietta are called upon to organize themselves against the Jewish supremacists in town, and get thet sign changed to one that is more factually accurate and politically neutral.
The First Version of the Sign was This:
Here are the words for the first sign which supposedly is held in Marietta History Museum, but not made public there, except on rare occasions.
Mary Phagan
Celebrated in song as "Little Mary Phagan" after her murder on Confederate Memorial Day, 1913, in Atlanta. Grave marked by CSA veterans in 1915. Tribute by Tom Watson set 1933. Leo Frank, sentenced to hang, granted clemency before lynching August 17, 1915. His 1986 pardon is based on States's failure to protect him/apprehend killers, not Frank's innocence.
--End of first sign text.
Notice the first version of the Mary Phagan history sign factually clarifies that Leo Frank was posthumously pardoned on a technicality, not because there was evidence of his innocence.
Cunning Jewish activist members of the city council in Marietta were not happy with this accurate legalistic clarification. It enabled the public to be informed that Leo Frank was still officially guilty under the law of Georgia, and this was a major setback for the fact Jewish activists had been building an artificial consensus in the media and academy over many generations to falsely convince everyone Leo Frank was not only supposedly innocent as an opinion, but he was also wrongfully convicted, and therefore not actually guilty, even though he was duly tried for the Phagan rape-murder.
Both appellate tribunals, the State and Federal Supreme Courts, ruled there were no technical errors at Leo Frank's trial in their majority decisions. He had been given a fair trial and duly convicted. Moreover, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled the evidence and testimony at the trial of Leo Frank sustained his guilty verdict. These are facts Jewish activists do not want to become public knowledge in their efforts to get him exonerated.
1982-1986, the Cosmetic Posthumous Pardon of Leo Frank
The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), Atlanta Jewish Federation (AJF) and American Jewish Committee (AJC) spent enormous financial resources on lawyers, backroom wheeling-and-dealing, and political bullying to get Leo Frank posthumously pardoned, but it was an embarrassing setback for the Jewish community because the Georgia Board of Pardon's and Paroles was clear in their written decision that they were not addressing the issue of his guilt or innocent, thereby making his status of guilt, maintained officially. More than 100 years after the murder of Mary Phagan, the sodomitic strangler is still considered guilty in the eyes of the law
Family Seeking Justice For Mary Phagan
At the time, the family of Mary Phagan contested the machinations of the local Jewish community who were using the imprimatur of the local government for pushing the broader and manufactured orthodoxy on the Leo M. Frank true-crime affair, that he was framed. Since 1913, the Leo Frank case has been a cause celebre of the Jewish community, who have been agitating in the media, academy, and government institutions for his eventual vindication, even though, as Steve Oney has, recently, to paraphrase, said there is no new evidence on the case to have come forth in his behalf.
Here is the text of the second iteration of the sign:
Celebrated in song as "Little Mary Phagan" after her murder at age 13 on April 26, 1913 in Atlanta. The trial and conviction of Leo Frank were controversial, as was the commutation of his death sentence four days before confederate veterans marked her grave on June 25, 1915. He was abducted from prison and lynched August 17, 1915. In 1986, he was issued a pardon.
--end of the second iteration of the sign.
"PSYOP" - Psychological Operation?
The people of Marietta, especially its veteran citizens of the U.S. military considered the city council's clandestine change a "PSYOP" - "Psychological Operation" of sneaky, subtle, linguistic manipulation, through the use of local government's gravitas. In less verbose words, members of the Jewish community were using its coreligionist city council members to hold secret meetings behind closed doors (when those meetings are required by law to be transparent and announced publicly) to modify the historical message on the said plaque. With little to no notice (except amongst themselves and leading Jewish communal associates), they changed the plaque in the middle of the night without the knowledge of the local populace, and it was only when people started noticing the dramatic change, was a protest launched.
The contention which arose at the time was over the major alteration of statements on said marker (a prior version was replaced with new contrived text) and what it communicated to the populace was an attempt to play on the naivety of the public. Most people do not know the pardon of Leo Frank was cosmetic only in that it did not exculpate him of the unspeakable crime he committed.
The White Supremacist Racist Framing of African-American Jim Conley
The descendants of murder victim Mary Phagan, were incensed because the wording presented to the public was using political trickery and social deception based on the Jewish community's designs, whose academic, religious and leadership have been promoting the racist falsehood that the White man Leo Frank was innocent of sexually assaulting and strangling to death Mary Phagan, and Jim Conley, an African-American man and admitted accessory-after-the-fact was the real culprit, who acted alone.
Though no reliable evidence has ever been presented to indicate Jim Conley committed the murder, let alone by himself. Only hoaxes and frauds have been introduced over the last century by Leo Frank's coreligionists and defenders to mendaciously implicate Jim Conley, which is a twisted irony, because it was Jim Conley and a 14-year-old White girl named Monteen Stover who helped the police crack the case and solve that slaying, rather effectively.
Falsely Accused, Wrongfully Convicted, Wantonly Murdered
So says the August 17th, 1995, plaque placed on a wall by Rabbi Steven Lebow, onto the side of a brick building formerly near where Leo Frank was lynched. The VPI corporation building was condemned in 2014 to make way for an I-75 onramp, now the Peach Pass Express Lane, currently where the mature oak tree was rooted -- said one local resident. Big Chicken looms high and powerful in the distance.
Members of the Jewish community were unhappy with the first version of the cemetery plaque because it provided factual and legalistic information that Leo Frank was not officially absolved by the State of Georgia for his crime of sexually assaulting and strangling to death 13-years old Mary Anne Phagan (born June 1st, 1899) on April 26, 1913.
So Jewish members of the community at the city counsel pandered to a small but highly vocal segment of the Marietta citizenry to change the wording to only say he was issued a pardon, because most people think that if someone is pardoned, it means they are no longer guilty of the crime, when in fact the Georgia Board of Pardon's and Paroles, stated in writing their 1986 posthumous pardon of Leo Frank did not, in fact, officially absolve him of the homicide he was convicted for.
Residents of the city, want to remain anonymous, because powerful anti-Gentile and smear-mongering Jewish groups were prominent in pressuring the political leadership at the Capital to posthumously pardon Leo Frank, when the pardon itself was illegal, due to the fact he was not alive to receive it and a pardon requires that a person be alive to accept or deny it (see: Georgia Appeals Court Judge Randall Evan's statement presented in the gallery archive.)
The manipulative term "anti-Semitism" has become a despicable epithet intentionally used to create an unsuitable environment of high emotions, making it difficult to have productive dialogue between Jews and Gentiles.
Anonymous long-time natives of the city agree the watered-down sign change was done for deceitful and divisive purposes, without dialogue among diverse community members of different faiths, ethnicities, backgrounds, and races (including African Americans who know full well Frank tried to frame a Black guy and so they naturally do not appreciate the guileful change).
"It was just done in our opinion to dupe the public into believing Frank was innocent and signifies that the Jewish Community will do anything to accomplish their goal of erasing inconvenient facts of history!" said one unnamed platinum-aged resident, who feels that Jews and Gentiles have had warm relations in matters of business and intimacy (interfaith marriages are common) for as far as the eyes can see, going back in time. Of all the regions of the United States, Jewish assimilation was highest in the American South. The charge by the ADL and Jewish supremacists that Anti-Semitism was rampant in the early 20th-century is an ethnic and racist hoax.
This sentiment was the shared and prevailing feeling among residents when asked about the hot controversy in 2020. An anonymous resident who is in a happy interfaith marriage (officiated by Rabbi Lebow), spoke thusly "Sometimes the ardent zealots of the Jewish community have zero self-reflection when it comes to sensitive matters. What they call chutzpah, polite and considerate people would call insolence."
The Barnyard Tradition of Pushiness Over Leo Frank's Rehabilitation
This portentous event is a microcosm and one of the silent indignities that Gentile citizens of Cobb County have had to deal with relating to the national and local Jewish community, generally-speaking, forcing a concocted consensus down the throats of Georgians since 1913. Greater-Atlanta has also been the epicenter of this recurring ethnocentric bigotry and political bullying over the slaying of a teenage girl which is always overshadowed by the post-judicial hanging of the man who was proven beyond a reasonable doubt to be the perpetrator who actually snuffed out her young life in its early flowering.
Jewish activists just can't seem to let it go of this infamous pervert and many are wondering if this is a weird dysfunctional response to the high intermarriage rate between Jews and Gentiles, especially by Rabbi Steve Lebow who officiates numerous examples of these weddings.
Newspaper Article Reference:
Marietta Daily Journal, Opinion, Saturday, December 2, 1995.
Transcription is as follows:
Family of Mary Phagan protests marker change
Without a formal vote and with the press absent, Marietta City Council has changed the inscription on the city's historic marker at the grave of rape-murder victim Mary Phagan in the Marietta City Cemetery. The Phagan family is blaming Councilman Philip Goldstein.
The descendants of Miss Phagan are upset because the family was not notified before or after the change, and only learned of it on a cemetery-cleaning visit. The family says the newly-placed marker - which sits on a city-maintained path near the grave and is not to be confused with Miss Phagan's ornate tombstone, which makes no mention of the circumstances of her death - omits the reason for the 1986 posthumous pardon given Leo Frank.
Frank - Miss Phagan's boss - was convicted in 1913 by a Fulton Superior Court jury of the 13-year-old girl's murder in an Atlanta pencil factory and sentenced to hang. When Gov. John Slaton commuted Frank's sentence to life in 1915, a group of Marietta men abducted Frank from the state prison near Milledgeville and lynched him near what is now the Big Chicken on Frey's Gin Road in Marietta.
[Years later someone vandalized the elegant white marble flowerpot situated at the footer of the epitaph slab and stole the broken piece of it.]
The Phagan family initially opposed placing a marker at their ancestor's grave, fearing there would be increased damage to the cemetery plot and curiosity seekers would leave graffiti. That hasn't happened. Late Mayor Joe Mack Wilson told east Cobb resident and Cherokee County special education teacher Mary Phagan Keen, a great-niece of Mary Phagan, that the grave was the most sought by visitors to Marietta and should have a marker, along with several other notable graves in the cemetery.
[Newly Concealing the fact that Leo M. Frank was not officially exonerated]
Mayor Wilson told the Phagan family the city would let them approve the text of the marker. The family insisted the unusual conditions of Frank's 1986 pardon be explained. That was done. Now controversy has arisen because that portion of the marker has been changed.
The Georgia Pardons and Parole Board in 1983 turned down a request for a pardon based on Frank's alleged innocence. [Leo] Frank's former office boy, Alonzo Mann, told two Nashville Tennessean newsmen he saw black janitor Jim Conley holding a limp body in his arms the day of the murder. In its 1983 denial of a pardon for Frank, the board said after Mann's testimony it "did not find conclusive evidence proving beyond any doubt that Frank was innocent."
A new parole board then granted Frank a pardon in 1986 on the grounds the state did not protect him in prison, thereby allowing him to be lynched and thus ending any further court appeals. Frank's conviction was appealed unsuccessfully by his lawyers three times to the Georgia Supreme Court and twice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The 1986 pardon said: "Without attempting to address the question of guilt or innocence, and in recognition of the state's failure to protect the person of Leo M. Frank and thereby preserve his opportunity for continued legal appeal of his conviction, and in recognition of the state's failure to bring his killers to justice, and as an effort to heal old wounds...the board hereby grants to Leo M. Frank a pardon." The family opposed the 1986 pardon, and now is irked at the council and [Philip] Goldstein.
[The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles failed to mention the fact that Leo Frank had fully exhausted all of his trial appeals at the Georgia and Federal Supreme Court in April of 1915.]
"We are as much a victim as the family of Leo Frank," said Ms. Keen. For 80 years, we have been the object of the curiosity-seekers and subjected to unfair and untrue books and TV docudramas. The current council didn't show the same respect to us as did Mayor Wilson and a previous council." Ms. Keen's father, James Phagan, said the action was "extremely insensitive of the council" and "disingenuous of Councilman [Philip] Goldstein. How can you separate Mary Phagan and Leo Frank?" he asked. "Can you mention the Holocaust and not mention Hitler? It's simply pandering by Councilman [Philip] Goldstein to a segment of the community. It's another effort to change history."
The inscription change was made by the Parks and Tourism Committee chaired by Councilman Dan Cox. Members are Councilwoman Betty Hunter and Goldstein. The full council OK'd the action. Cox admitted the committee had yielded to "political pressure" by [Philip] Goldstein and the Jewish community. Calling the change "a no-win situation," Cox said he reluctantly consented to the change "because it offended a part of the community."
[August 17, 1995. Leo Frank's Lynching Site, 1200 Roswell Road, Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia]
On the 80th anniversary of Frank's lynching on Aug. 17, [1995] a group of Jewish leaders led by Rabbi Steven Lebow of Temple Kol Emeth in East Cobb said the historic marker at Mary Phagan's grave should be removed. The group placed a small plaque in the side of the VPI Corp. building owned by Roy Varner at 1200 Roswell St., near the site of Frank's lynching. The plaque reads: "Wrongly Accused, Falsely Convicted and Wantonly Murdered." Attending the ceremony were Marietta Councilmen Goldstein and James Dodd, who told Jewish leaders they would look into removing the line of the marker that refers to the pardon conditions.
"This is a plaque that marks the grave of Mary Phagan," said [Philip] Goldstein. "The last two lines deal with information on Leo Frank, and it's not his grave." Goldstein was quoted in the Jewish Times as saying: "The wording is factually correct. The mention of Frank [not getting officially exonerated] on Phagan's marker should be deleted because it is irrelevant, not because it upsets the Jewish community."
It was Dodd who brought the matter before council, supported by [Philip] Goldstein. "This is a lose-lose situation for me," [Philip] Goldstein said. The marker referring to the condition of Frank's pardon has been removed and replaced with a marker the Phagan family had objected to.
-end of transcription.
The backstory is in the printing presses of the era, this is obligatory reading!
Atlanta Constitution 1913: archive.org/details/leo-frank-atlanta-constitution-newspa...
Atlanta Constitution 1914: archive.org/details/leo-frank-atlanta-constitution-newspa...
Atlanta Constitution 1915: archive.org/details/leo-frank-atlanta-constitution-newspa...
Atlanta Constitution 1916, 1919, 1922: archive.org/details/leo-frank-atlanta-constitution-newspa...
Atlanta Georgian, 1913: archive.org/details/leo-frank-atlanta-georgian-newspapers...
Atlanta Journal, 1913: archive.org/details/leo-frank-atlanta-journal-newspapers
Direct Resources
The Phagan Family Seeking Justice For Little Mary Phagan www.littlemaryphagan.com (impressive library).
Rare footage of Congressman Tom Watson in the early 20th-century, circa 1920 archive.org/details/selznick-newsreel-about-thomas-e-wats...
The Atlanta suburb of Marietta Georgia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietta,_Georgia
City counselor Philip Goldstein's website: philipgoldstein.com
Temple Kol Emeth, a lovely, well-appointed, and modern Synagogue (Rabbi Steven Lebow retired June/July 2020): www.kolemeth.net
-end of description-
I know there are several people who cannot understand what the fuss is all about and why so many of us are willing to abandon Flickr. It is not about change (I have to face change on a daily basis in my working life) It is not about being unable to navigate the new set up (it's quite easy once you know how). And in fact I absolutely love the way the photos appear on black - just looking at my beautiful Kaiser I can see how wonderful it is. It just doesn't suit the way I present my photos and view quite a lot of others. I don't want to be faced with a roll call of comments everytime I look at Flickr. If I wanted that I would move to Facebook. My life is busy and full and I want something that I can view simply and in an instant. Here is a piece I wrote on my Ipernity site (yes you can also write articles there) which explains how I feel.
A friend of my husband introduced us to Flickr back in 2006. Both he and my husband are professional photographers. I just liked to take the odd snap occasionally. I can remember posting my first photographs and the excitement I felt when people responded and said they liked them. When I look back most of my photos were of my cats, but with encouragement from fellow Flickrites I soon became hooked on photography and began to look at the world a whole different way. I learnt how to Photoshop out those annoying people who always managed to step into my best shot I discovered texturing which made my photographs look just how they were in my imagination. I got to see places that I would never go to through other people’s eyes. But more than that, I found a group of like minded people who became my friends. Who would have thought back then that I would spend holidays with a wonderful Italian Flickr friend or that I would be showing my beloved New Forest to a philosophy professor from Houston, Texas. I have shared my life’s ups and downs with my Flickr friends as they have with their lives. I have cried and cried when a Flickr friend’s pet has died: I have worried how another’s health and wellbeing is progressing and I have taken real comfort from kind words when things have been full of unhappiness in my life. So what a sad day when Flickr took the community feel away from me. Like a lot of huge corporations they always seem to miss the point of what makes a ‘product’ good in the first place.
Ipernity seems like it could have that sense of community that some of us are looking for – I do hope so.
Well, this has certainly been a long time coming.... Way way back in February 2018 the Transdev Blazefield twitter page revealed a new graphic showing off a brand new livery and identity to be applied to all buses in the York fleet, the bus being in 2-tone blue slightly deeper than the current Coastliner livery yet lighter than the old Coastliner 844 livery - however all that there was to show for this was Versa 203 being given some vinyls to adapt it's darker Coastliner 844 livery to match the style of the new identity that had been revealled online. A couple of months after the online unveiling I did ask when the first repainted bus could be expected in York, and was told that they might not do it because the York depot runs a number of contracted services which expire in 2019 - my reply to this was that *smaller* companies operating in York also run services on contracts that expire at the same time in 2019 as hey're from the same batch of tendered services, yet said companies have gone out and purchased additional vehicles, so surely a company with a bigger budget like Transdev could put some paint on the buses for York as was promised.... My reply from the Transdev company management, mainly from the public relations and marketing manager, was a load of vitreol and abuse - including the corker suggesting I should go and get a job instead of making online comments about the buses - certainly nhot something you'd expect from somebody in charge of PUBLIC RELATIONS, and the comment itself got a 'LOL' reaction from another senior manager at Transdev Blazefield who regularly writes articles for a bus journal. Another 2 or 3 months passed and I asked the question again as to where the repainted buses for York were, and again I got similar abuse back from the same people. That all remains in screenshot format on my PC just in case anybody ants to see how the top-level management at this company REALLY view their potential customers.....
..... but August 2018 saw one of the 8 Optare Versa V1110's from Harrogate repainted and parked at Starbeck depot for a while. It was due to be delivered to York on a friday during august, but on the wednesday it failed it's test run with electrical problems and so it stayed at Harrogate a while longer. When it was delivered to York in late September the rear differential had failed and so the bus stayed parked there until somebody eventually fixed it....
.... but on the last week of November 2018, some NINE MONTHS after the new livery for York was unveiled, we finally have a single vehicle showing off the full version of the new livery. What's ironic is that because they have taken so long with this one bus, that if Transdev do lose the York contracts next year then the bus(es) will have been on that road in this livery for even less time than had the repainting work been done back in February when they would have had at least a years' use.
Seen still looking fresh from its repaint, YJ12 MZU is arriving at Piccadilly with the final 10 service of the night to Stamford Bridge with this long-exposure photo making a ghostly effect
Well, this has certainly been a long time coming.... Way way back in February 2018 the Transdev Blazefield twitter page revealed a new graphic showing off a brand new livery and identity to be applied to all buses in the York fleet, the bus being in 2-tone blue slightly deeper than the current Coastliner livery yet lighter than the old Coastliner 844 livery - however all that there was to show for this was Versa 203 being given some vinyls to adapt it's darker Coastliner 844 livery to match the style of the new identity that had been revealled online. A couple of months after the online unveiling I did ask when the first repainted bus could be expected in York, and was told that they might not do it because the York depot runs a number of contracted services which expire in 2019 - my reply to this was that *smaller* companies operating in York also run services on contracts that expire at the same time in 2019 as hey're from the same batch of tendered services, yet said companies have gone out and purchased additional vehicles, so surely a company with a bigger budget like Transdev could put some paint on the buses for York as was promised.... My reply from the Transdev company management, mainly from the public relations and marketing manager, was a load of vitreol and abuse - including the corker suggesting I should go and get a job instead of making online comments about the buses - certainly nhot something you'd expect from somebody in charge of PUBLIC RELATIONS, and the comment itself got a 'LOL' reaction from another senior manager at Transdev Blazefield who regularly writes articles for a bus journal. Another 2 or 3 months passed and I asked the question again as to where the repainted buses for York were, and again I got similar abuse back from the same people. That all remains in screenshot format on my PC just in case anybody ants to see how the top-level management at this company REALLY view their potential customers.....
..... but August 2018 saw one of the 8 Optare Versa V1110's from Harrogate repainted and parked at Starbeck depot for a while. It was due to be delivered to York on a friday during august, but on the wednesday it failed it's test run with electrical problems and so it stayed at Harrogate a while longer. When it was delivered to York in late September the rear differential had failed and so the bus stayed parked there until somebody eventually fixed it....
.... but on the last week of November 2018, some NINE MONTHS after the new livery for York was unveiled, we finally have a single vehicle showing off the full version of the new livery. What's ironic is that because they have taken so long with this one bus, that if Transdev do lose the York contracts next year then the bus(es) will have been on that road in this livery for even less time than had the repainting work been done back in February when they would have had at least a years' use.
Seen still looking fresh from its repaint, YJ12 MZU is at Monks Cross running the orbital service 20 to Clifton Moor and Rawcliffe.
He write articles for Newspaper. Commute daily ~25kms to work. Two man shop. When I asked him for his photograph, he asked are you going to sell them off!
Russia, Caucasus. Great Rosefinch, Carpodacus rubicilloides, endemic species for Caucasus. Old male. Mt. Cheget.
© Tom Schandy / Wild Wonders of Europe
Tom Schandy from Norway has been interested in birds since he was a small boy. 12 years old he had his own bird-column in the local newspaper, and soon he started to illustrate his bird articles with own pictures. He studied biology at the University of Oslo and made his master on the lekking behaviour of the Great Snipe, and he financed his studies by selling pictures of birds and other creatures.
After finishing his studies he got a part-time job in WWF Norway, first as a conservation officer, later as an information officer. Rest of the time he worked as a freelance wildlife photographer and author. I 2000 he became full time author and professional wildlife photographer – and has never looked back. Now he searches the globe for nature – in order to write articles and make books. So far he has been involved in more than 20 books, mainly on natural history. Many books are local nature books, but he also made a book about Africa which has been published in both Norwegian, Swedish, English and Spanish (The magnificent Africa).
The last few years he has been concentrating on Latin-Americas wildernesses, and just now he is moving his attention to the northern wildernesses of the world, like Alaska, Canada. Spitsbergen and Russia.
The aspect of nature conservation forms a vital part of Tom Schandys photography. If his photos, books and articles on nature and wildlife can be used to promote the enjoyment of nature and inspire nature conservation and biological diversity, then much of the purpose has been achieved!
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry. He became known for his role in developing Imagism, which, in reaction to the Victorian and Georgian poets, favored tight language, unadorned imagery, and a strong correspondence between the verbal and musical qualities of the verse and the mood it expressed. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos, which consumed his middle and late career, and was published between 1917 and 1969.
Working in London in the early 20th century as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, Pound helped to discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway. It was Pound who was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and for the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's Ulysses. Hemingway wrote in 1925: "He defends [his friends] when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He loans them money. ... He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night with them when they claim to be dying ... he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide."
Outraged by the loss of life during the First World War, he lost faith in England, blaming usury and international capitalism for the war. He moved to Italy in 1924 where throughout the 1930s and 1940s, to his friends' dismay, he embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, expressed support for Adolf Hitler, and wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Oswald Mosley. The Italian government paid him during the Second World War to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and in particular Jews, broadcasts that were monitored by the U.S. government, as a result of which he was arrested for treason by American forces in Italy in 1945. He spent months in detention in a U.S. military camp in Pisa, including 25 days in a six-by-six-foot outdoor steel cage that he said triggered a mental breakdown: "when the raft broke and the waters went over me." Deemed unfit to stand trial, a decision disputed for decades after his death, he was incarcerated in St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C., for over 12 years.
While in custody in Italy he had begun work on sections of The Cantos that became known as The Pisan Cantos (1948), for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1949 by the Library of Congress. The honor triggered enormous controversy, mostly because of his antisemitism, and in part because it raised literary questions about whether a supposedly mad poet who held such contentious views could produce work of any value. He was released from St. Elizabeths in 1958, thanks to a protracted campaign by his fellow writers, and returned to live in Italy until his death. His political views ensure that his work remains controversial; in 1933 Time magazine called him "a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children." Hemingway nevertheless wrote, "The best of Pound's writing—and it is in the Cantos—will last as long as there is any literature.""
The Portland Building, Michael Graves's response to modernist architecture, glows in the sun of a winter afternoon.
Unlike the post-modernist turn in academia, the Portland Building doesn't write articles laden with incomprehensible jargon or make you feel guilty for having been born.
No, the Portland Building exacts a much larger toll than that: it's estimated the cost to repair it and do seismic upgrades could reach $195 millon.
At just 33 years of age, if the Portland Building were a graduate student it would still be toiling away at its dissertation on Michel Foucault's philosophy of cats.
A little known fact is that Michael Graves had called for the exterior to be clad entirely in polychrome tile. I remember that every time I look at the painted concrete.
Thank you Diane, for taking beautiful photos of Lori and I (you make me look good!) If you haven't seen Diane's photostream, stop by, she's got some incredible shots www.flickr.com/photos/28439102@N00/
I got to present the National Kidney Registry's Patient Advocacy Award to Lori Hartwell on May 4, 2010.
NKR helps kidney patients and donors find each other www.kidneyregistry.org
Here's a little of my speech:
..........
Lori has been a kidney patient since age two and has experienced many years of dialysis, both peritoneal and hemo. She has had 3 kidney transplants, the last one of which has given her 20 years of freedom.
Often when a patient like Lori gets a transplant they hurry back to the business of living. Most are happy to leave the ordeal far behind. But Lori devoted herself to helping other patients. She founded the patient-run Renal Support Network that provides many programs: her nationwide Patient Lifestyle Meetings are well attended, and she does interviews for KidneyTalk, an online radio show heard all over the world. Her HOPE-LINE provides toll-free patient support, and she started weKAN, a patient-advocacy group working for positive kidney health care legislation. For the last 10 years Lori's annual Renal Teen Prom has provided a special evening for kidney teens that may miss normal teenage activities due to their disease.
I feel fortunate to have met Lori. In 2001 my 15-year-old daughter Jenna was diagnosed with kidney failure. It was sudden and unexpected so we began looking for a support group. Someone suggested I contact Lori, because she had been a teenage kidney patient, so I called and left a message. She called me right back and we spent an hour on the phone. I knew SHE knew what Jenna was facing, and she invited us to her free patient meeting the following week. It was a great introduction into the world of kidney disease. We learned about fistulas, renal diets and transplant waiting lists, UNOS, and living donors. We learned about hope.
Lori seems to know everyone in the kidney world. She writes articles and books, speaks all over the world, and is constantly thinking of creative ways to find solutions for patients, and then she makes them happen. Her energy and enthusiasm is infectious. With courage and imagination, she has inspired many patients to help others as well.
Her OWN EXPERIENCE as a patient, her DETERMINATION, and her VISION make her the ideal patient advocate -- One kidney patient helping another.
For all of this I, and many others, owe Lori a great debt of gratitude. I am honored to present Lori Hartwell with the NATIONAL KIDNEY REGISTRY'S PATIENT ADVOCACY AWARD.
.............
I just wrapped a travel feature on Brunei for Vacations + Travel Magazine.
What is there to see and do in Brunei, you ask?
Well, there is the mosque, of course!
And don't forget the Royal Regalia, where the Sultan and his family put on display all the things they don't have room for in their 1,700 room palace.
And then there is Kampong Ayer, Asia's largest and most impressive water village.
I like it when I'm commissioned to write articles on places I visited a while back - it gives me an excuse to look through my archives and repurposed photos I had forgotten about or overlooked. I was able to pull together 30 new photos for this feature that I would otherwise have never done anything with. Go Brunei!
Keep an eye out for this story in the upcoming issue of Vacations + Travel Magazine.
Oh! Please don't forget to check out the first 2012 Photography Contest at Flash Light Photography Expeditions, open for submissions now! www.flashlightexpeditions.com
Flash Parker Photography:
My Blog | On Facebook | Flash Light Expeditions | The Ubiquitous Kimchi | The Metro Project
Tym Off App Is used to-
Upload photos and edit them in our built-in photo editor
Write articles and share them with your followers
Endlessly curate your profile and collections
Get discovered! Top posts are promoted and shared with our millions of users
For more info, visit- www.tymoff.com
Writer, singer and teacher Maya Mohan Malika (12th February 1937-7th August 2020) was born in Karachi, Sindh. She moved to India after Independence in 1947. Subsequently she used to write articles, stories, jokes and home remedies in the famous "Hindvasi" magazine. She published a collection of articles entitled "Pearls of Thought". She was also a good singer mostly singing devotional songs at temples and Gurdwaras. She also used to sing old film lyrics.
Well, this has certainly been a long time coming.... Way way back in February 2018 the Transdev Blazefield twitter page revealed a new graphic showing off a brand new livery and identity to be applied to all buses in the York fleet, the bus being in 2-tone blue slightly deeper than the current Coastliner livery yet lighter than the old Coastliner 844 livery - however all that there was to show for this was Versa 203 being given some vinyls to adapt it's darker Coastliner 844 livery to match the style of the new identity that had been revealled online. A couple of months after the online unveiling I did ask when the first repainted bus could be expected in York, and was told that they might not do it because the York depot runs a number of contracted services which expire in 2019 - my reply to this was that *smaller* companies operating in York also run services on contracts that expire at the same time in 2019 as hey're from the same batch of tendered services, yet said companies have gone out and purchased additional vehicles, so surely a company with a bigger budget like Transdev could put some paint on the buses for York as was promised.... My reply from the Transdev company management, mainly from the public relations and marketing manager, was a load of vitreol and abuse - including the corker suggesting I should go and get a job instead of making online comments about the buses - certainly nhot something you'd expect from somebody in charge of PUBLIC RELATIONS, and the comment itself got a 'LOL' reaction from another senior manager at Transdev Blazefield who regularly writes articles for a bus journal. Another 2 or 3 months passed and I asked the question again as to where the repainted buses for York were, and again I got similar abuse back from the same people. That all remains in screenshot format on my PC just in case anybody ants to see how the top-level management at this company REALLY view their potential customers.....
..... but August 2018 saw one of the 8 Optare Versa V1110's from Harrogate repainted and parked at Starbeck depot for a while. It was due to be delivered to York on a friday during august, but on the wednesday it failed it's test run with electrical problems and so it stayed at Harrogate a while longer. When it was delivered to York in late September the rear differential had failed and so the bus stayed parked there until somebody eventually fixed it....
.... but on the last week of November 2018, some NINE MONTHS after the new livery for York was unveiled, we finally have a single vehicle showing off the full version of the new livery. What's ironic is that because they have taken so long with this one bus, that if Transdev do lose the York contracts next year then the bus(es) will have been on that road in this livery for even less time than had the repainting work been done back in February when they would have had at least a years' use.
Seen still looking fresh from its repaint, YJ12 MZU is at Monks Cross running the orbital service 20 to Clifton Moor and Rawcliffe.
Sold at June City Flea -
"We all flow from one fountain—Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all."
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. One of the most well-known hiking trails in the U.S., the 211-mile (340 km) John Muir Trail, was named in his honor. Other places named in his honor are Muir Woods National Monument, Muir Beach, John Muir College, Mount Muir, Camp Muir and Muir Glacier.In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. He petitioned the U.S. Congress for the National Park bill that was passed in 1890, establishing both Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Because of the spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature expressed in his writings, he was able to inspire readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas.[3] He is today referred to as the "Father of the National Parks".
John Muir's birthplace was a three-story stone house in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. His parents were Daniel Muir and Ann Gilrye. He was the third of eight children. In his autobiography, he described his boyhood pursuits, which included fighting, either by re-enacting romantic battles from the Wars of Scottish Independence or just scrapping on the playground, and hunting for birds' nests (ostensibly to one-up his fellows as they compared notes on who knew where the most were located). The family were members of the Presbyterian Church while in Scotland, but joined the Disciples of Christ in the United States.
In 1849, Muir's family emigrated to the United States, starting a farm near Portage, Wisconsin, called Fountain Lake Farm. By age 11, young Muir had learned to recite "by heart and by sore flesh" all of the New Testament and most of the Old Testament.
At age 22, Muir enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, paying his own way for several years. There, under a towering black locust tree beside North Hall, Muir took his first botany lesson. A fellow student plucked a flower from the tree and used it to explain how the grand locust is a member of the pea family, related to the straggling pea plant. Fifty years later, the naturalist Muir described the day in his autobiography. "This fine lesson charmed me and sent me flying to the woods and meadows in wild enthusiasm." As a freshman Muir studied chemistry with Professor Ezra Carr and his wife Jeanne; they became lifelong friends and Muir developed a lifelong interest in chemistry and the sciences. Muir took an eclectic approach to his studies, attending classes for two years but never being listed higher than a first-year student due to his unusual selection of courses. Records showed his class status as "irregular gent" and, even though he never graduated, he learned enough geology and botany to inform his later wanderings.
In 1863 his brother Dan left Wisconsin for Canada to avoid the draft. In 1864, Muir left school to go to Canada to avoid the military draft, spending the spring, summer, and fall wandering the woods and swamps around Lake Huron collecting plants. With his money running out and winter coming, he met up with his brother Dan in Ontario, where the two worked at a sawmill on the shore of Lake Huron until the summer of 1865.
Muir returned to the United States in March 1866, winding up in Indianapolis to work as a sawyer in a factory that made wagon wheels; he was paid $22 a week. He proved valuable to his employers because of his inventiveness in improving the machines and processes. In early March 1867, an accident changed the course of his life: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried whether he’d ever regain his sight. When he did, "he saw the world—and his purpose—in a new light," writes Marquis. Muir later wrote, "This affliction has driven me to the sweet fields. God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons." From that point on, he determined to "be true to myself" and follow his dream of exploration and study of plants,
In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find." Upon reaching Florida, he hoped to board a ship to South America and continue his wandering there. After contracting malaria on Florida's Gulf Coast, he abandoned his plans for South America. Instead, he sailed to New York and booked passage to California.
Arriving in San Francisco in March 1868, Muir immediately left for a week-long visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Marquis notes that "he was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower." "We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us," Muir later wrote. . . . "No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite... The grandest of all special temples of Nature." He later returned to Yosemite and worked as a shepherd for a season. He climbed a number of mountains, including Cathedral Peak, Mount Dana and hiked the old Indian trail down Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake.
During these years in Yosemite, Muir was unmarried, often unemployed, with no prospects for a career, and had "periods of anguish," writes naturalist author John Tallmadge. He was sustained by not only the natural environment, but also by reading the essays of naturalist author Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote about the very life that Muir was then living. On excursions into the back country of Yosemite, he traveled alone, carrying "only a tin cup, a handful of tea, a loaf of bread, and a copy of Emerson." He usually spent his evenings sitting by a campfire in his overcoat, reading Emerson under the stars. As the years passed, he became a "fixture in the valley," respected for his knowledge of natural history, his skill as a guide, and his vivid storytelling. Visitors to the valley often included scientists, artists, and celebrities, many of whom made a point of meeting with Muir.
Pursuit of his love of science, especially geology, often occupied his free time. Muir soon became convinced that glaciers had sculpted many of the features of the valley and surrounding area. This notion was in stark contradiction to the accepted contemporary theory, promulgated by Josiah Whitney (head of the California Geological Survey), which attributed the formation of the valley to a catastrophic earthquake. As Muir's ideas spread, Whitney tried to discredit Muir by branding him as an amateur. But Louis Agassiz, the premier geologist of the day, saw merit in Muir's ideas, and lauded him as "the first man I have ever found who has any adequate conception of glacial action."
Muir threw himself into the preservationist role with great vigor. He envisioned the Yosemite area and the Sierra as pristine lands.[27] He thought the greatest threat to the Yosemite area and the Sierra was domesticated livestock—especially domestic sheep, which he referred to as "hoofed locusts". In June 1889, the influential associate editor of Century magazine, Robert Underwood Johnson, camped with Muir in Tuolumne Meadows and saw firsthand the damage a large flock of sheep had done to the grassland. Johnson agreed to publish any article Muir wrote on the subject of excluding livestock from the Sierra high country. He also agreed to use his influence to introduce a bill to Congress to make the Yosemite area into a national park, modeled after Yellowstone National Park.
In 1878, nearing the age of 40, Muir’s friends "pressured him to return to society." Soon after he returned to the Oakland area, he met Louisa Strentzel, daughter of a prominent physician and horticulturist with a 2,600-acre (11 km2) fruit orchard in Martinez, California, northeast of Oakland. In 1880, Muir and Strentzel married. Although Muir was a loyal, dedicated husband, and father of two daughters, "his heart remained wild," writes Marquis. His wife understood his needs, and after seeing his restlessness at the ranch would sometimes "shoo him back up" to the mountains. He sometimes took his daughters with him.
In early 1892, Professor Henry Senger, a philologist at the University of California, Berkeley, contacted Muir with the idea of forming a local 'alpine club' for mountain lovers. Senger and San Francisco attorney Warren Olney sent out invitations "for the purpose of forming a 'Sierra Club.' Mr. John Muir will preside." On May 28, 1892, the first meeting of the Sierra Club was held to write articles of incorporation. One week later Muir was elected president, Muir remained president until his death 22 years later.
With population growth continuing in San Francisco, political pressure increased to dam the Tuolumne River for use as a water reservoir. Muir passionately opposed the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley because he found Hetch Hetchy as stunning as Yosemite Valley. Muir, the Sierra Club and Robert Underwood Johnson fought against inundating the valley. Muir wrote to President Roosevelt pleading for him to scuttle the project. Roosevelt's successor, William Howard Taft, suspended the Interior Department's approval for the Hetch Hetchy right-of-way. After years of national debate, Taft's successor Woodrow Wilson signed the bill authorizing the dam into law on December 19, 1913. Muir felt a great loss from the destruction of the valley, his last major battle.
John Muir died at California Hospital (now California Hospital Medical Center) in Los Angeles on 24 December 1914 of pneumonia[46] at age 76, after a brief visit to Daggett, California, to see his daughter Helen Muir Funk. John Muir was survived by two daughters and ten grandchildren, two of whom are still living as of 2011.
Hiii my dear friends ^o^
I'm happy to present to you my last lovely girl ; Madoka !
She is a young reporter who works for surnatural magazine in Japan :)
She's going to haunted houses in order to take photos and then, write articles about ! ^__^
I hope you'll like her !
Thank you SO much again my sweet Pando for letting me adopt this beauty, and thank you again to Poison Girl who made an incredible work on her ^____^
"We all flow from one fountain—Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all."
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.
His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. One of the most well-known hiking trails in the U.S., the 211-mile (340 km) John Muir Trail, was named in his honor. Other places named in his honor are Muir Woods National Monument, Muir Beach, John Muir College, Mount Muir, Camp Muir and Muir Glacier.In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. He petitioned the U.S. Congress for the National Park bill that was passed in 1890, establishing both Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Because of the spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature expressed in his writings, he was able to inspire readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas.[3] He is today referred to as the "Father of the National Parks".
John Muir's birthplace was a three-story stone house in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. His parents were Daniel Muir and Ann Gilrye. He was the third of eight children. In his autobiography, he described his boyhood pursuits, which included fighting, either by re-enacting romantic battles from the Wars of Scottish Independence or just scrapping on the playground, and hunting for birds' nests (ostensibly to one-up his fellows as they compared notes on who knew where the most were located). The family were members of the Presbyterian Church while in Scotland, but joined the Disciples of Christ in the United States.
In 1849, Muir's family emigrated to the United States, starting a farm near Portage, Wisconsin, called Fountain Lake Farm. By age 11, young Muir had learned to recite "by heart and by sore flesh" all of the New Testament and most of the Old Testament.
At age 22, Muir enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, paying his own way for several years. There, under a towering black locust tree beside North Hall, Muir took his first botany lesson. A fellow student plucked a flower from the tree and used it to explain how the grand locust is a member of the pea family, related to the straggling pea plant. Fifty years later, the naturalist Muir described the day in his autobiography. "This fine lesson charmed me and sent me flying to the woods and meadows in wild enthusiasm." As a freshman Muir studied chemistry with Professor Ezra Carr and his wife Jeanne; they became lifelong friends and Muir developed a lifelong interest in chemistry and the sciences. Muir took an eclectic approach to his studies, attending classes for two years but never being listed higher than a first-year student due to his unusual selection of courses. Records showed his class status as "irregular gent" and, even though he never graduated, he learned enough geology and botany to inform his later wanderings.
In 1863 his brother Dan left Wisconsin for Canada to avoid the draft. In 1864, Muir left school to go to Canada to avoid the military draft, spending the spring, summer, and fall wandering the woods and swamps around Lake Huron collecting plants. With his money running out and winter coming, he met up with his brother Dan in Ontario, where the two worked at a sawmill on the shore of Lake Huron until the summer of 1865.
Muir returned to the United States in March 1866, winding up in Indianapolis to work as a sawyer in a factory that made wagon wheels; he was paid $22 a week. He proved valuable to his employers because of his inventiveness in improving the machines and processes. In early March 1867, an accident changed the course of his life: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried whether he’d ever regain his sight. When he did, "he saw the world—and his purpose—in a new light," writes Marquis. Muir later wrote, "This affliction has driven me to the sweet fields. God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons." From that point on, he determined to "be true to myself" and follow his dream of exploration and study of plants,
In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find." Upon reaching Florida, he hoped to board a ship to South America and continue his wandering there. After contracting malaria on Florida's Gulf Coast, he abandoned his plans for South America. Instead, he sailed to New York and booked passage to California.
Arriving in San Francisco in March 1868, Muir immediately left for a week-long visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. Seeing it for the first time, Marquis notes that "he was overwhelmed by the landscape, scrambling down steep cliff faces to get a closer look at the waterfalls, whooping and howling at the vistas, jumping tirelessly from flower to flower." "We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us," Muir later wrote. . . . "No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite... The grandest of all special temples of Nature." He later returned to Yosemite and worked as a shepherd for a season. He climbed a number of mountains, including Cathedral Peak, Mount Dana and hiked the old Indian trail down Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake.
During these years in Yosemite, Muir was unmarried, often unemployed, with no prospects for a career, and had "periods of anguish," writes naturalist author John Tallmadge. He was sustained by not only the natural environment, but also by reading the essays of naturalist author Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote about the very life that Muir was then living. On excursions into the back country of Yosemite, he traveled alone, carrying "only a tin cup, a handful of tea, a loaf of bread, and a copy of Emerson." He usually spent his evenings sitting by a campfire in his overcoat, reading Emerson under the stars. As the years passed, he became a "fixture in the valley," respected for his knowledge of natural history, his skill as a guide, and his vivid storytelling. Visitors to the valley often included scientists, artists, and celebrities, many of whom made a point of meeting with Muir.
Pursuit of his love of science, especially geology, often occupied his free time. Muir soon became convinced that glaciers had sculpted many of the features of the valley and surrounding area. This notion was in stark contradiction to the accepted contemporary theory, promulgated by Josiah Whitney (head of the California Geological Survey), which attributed the formation of the valley to a catastrophic earthquake. As Muir's ideas spread, Whitney tried to discredit Muir by branding him as an amateur. But Louis Agassiz, the premier geologist of the day, saw merit in Muir's ideas, and lauded him as "the first man I have ever found who has any adequate conception of glacial action."
Muir threw himself into the preservationist role with great vigor. He envisioned the Yosemite area and the Sierra as pristine lands.[27] He thought the greatest threat to the Yosemite area and the Sierra was domesticated livestock—especially domestic sheep, which he referred to as "hoofed locusts". In June 1889, the influential associate editor of Century magazine, Robert Underwood Johnson, camped with Muir in Tuolumne Meadows and saw firsthand the damage a large flock of sheep had done to the grassland. Johnson agreed to publish any article Muir wrote on the subject of excluding livestock from the Sierra high country. He also agreed to use his influence to introduce a bill to Congress to make the Yosemite area into a national park, modeled after Yellowstone National Park.
In 1878, nearing the age of 40, Muir’s friends "pressured him to return to society." Soon after he returned to the Oakland area, he met Louisa Strentzel, daughter of a prominent physician and horticulturist with a 2,600-acre (11 km2) fruit orchard in Martinez, California, northeast of Oakland. In 1880, Muir and Strentzel married. Although Muir was a loyal, dedicated husband, and father of two daughters, "his heart remained wild," writes Marquis. His wife understood his needs, and after seeing his restlessness at the ranch would sometimes "shoo him back up" to the mountains. He sometimes took his daughters with him.
In early 1892, Professor Henry Senger, a philologist at the University of California, Berkeley, contacted Muir with the idea of forming a local 'alpine club' for mountain lovers. Senger and San Francisco attorney Warren Olney sent out invitations "for the purpose of forming a 'Sierra Club.' Mr. John Muir will preside." On May 28, 1892, the first meeting of the Sierra Club was held to write articles of incorporation. One week later Muir was elected president, Muir remained president until his death 22 years later.
With population growth continuing in San Francisco, political pressure increased to dam the Tuolumne River for use as a water reservoir. Muir passionately opposed the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley because he found Hetch Hetchy as stunning as Yosemite Valley. Muir, the Sierra Club and Robert Underwood Johnson fought against inundating the valley. Muir wrote to President Roosevelt pleading for him to scuttle the project. Roosevelt's successor, William Howard Taft, suspended the Interior Department's approval for the Hetch Hetchy right-of-way. After years of national debate, Taft's successor Woodrow Wilson signed the bill authorizing the dam into law on December 19, 1913. Muir felt a great loss from the destruction of the valley, his last major battle.
John Muir died at California Hospital (now California Hospital Medical Center) in Los Angeles on 24 December 1914 of pneumonia[46] at age 76, after a brief visit to Daggett, California, to see his daughter Helen Muir Funk. John Muir was survived by two daughters and ten grandchildren, two of whom are still living as of 2011.
Conviction of Liu Xiaobo for Incitement to Overthrow State Power, December 25, 2009
Chinese text follows the full English translation. Errors in spelling in the Chinese language transcription of the court verdict text that appeared on-line are corrected in the translation. A scan of the original text at crd-net.org/Article/Class18/lxb/200912/20091230104501_191...
confirmed that the changes made in the online transcription/scan were correct.
Chinese text from freemorenews.com/2009/12/26/liu-xiaobo-first-instance-ver...
Beijing Municipality First Intermediate People's Court Verdict in Criminal Case
(2009) First Intermediate Court No. 3901
Public Prosecutor: Beijing Municipality People's Procuratorate First Branch.
The accused, Liu Xiaobo, male, 53 years old (born December 28, 1955), Han nationality, born in Changchun City, Jilin Province, doctoral student level education, unemployed, household registration at Qingchun Street No. 5, 2-1-2, Xigang District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Resides temporarily at No. 7 Xiancun, Bank of China dormitory Building 10, Unit 1, No. 502 in the Haidian District of Beijing Municipality. In January 1991, he committed the crime of making counter-revolutionary propaganda but escaped criminal punishment; in September 1996 because he disturbed the social order, he was sent to re-education through labor for three years. He was summoned for detention on December 8, 2008 on suspicion of incitement to overthrow state power and on December 9 put under residential surveillance. On June 23, 2009 he was arrested. He is now confined to Beijing Municipality Detention Center No. 1.
Defense counsel: Ting Xikui, a lawyer at the Beijing Mo Shaoping Law Office
Defense counsel: Shang Baojun, a lawyer at the Beijing Mo Shaoping Law Office
Beijing Municipality People's Procuratorate First Branch in Beijing Procuratorate First Branch Criminal Prosecution Indictment (2009) 247 charged the accused Liu Xiaobo of the crime of incitement to overthrow state power and on December 10, 2009 filed the indictment in this court. This court according to law assembled the court and held an open court session to try the case. The Beijing Municipality People's Procuratorate First Branch sent Prosecutor Zhang Rongge and Deputy Prosecutor Pan Xuechu to sustain the indictment. The defense counsel for the accused Liu Xiaobo, Ding Xikui and Shang Baojun came to court to participate in the hearing. The trial has now already concluded.
The Beijing Municipality People's Procuratorate First Branch incitement accuses the defendant Liu Xiaobo has, due to his dissatisfaction with the people's democratic dictatorship state power system and socialist system of our country, since 2005, through various Internet websites such as "Observe China" and the "BBC Chinese Net" published articles such as "The Dictatorial Patriotism of the Chinese Communist Party", "How Can it be that Only Party-Guided Democracy is Suitable for the Chinese People?", "Change the Political Regime by Changing Society", "The Many Faces of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship", "The Negative Effect of the Rise of a Dictatorship on World Democratization", "Inquiring Further into the Case of the Child Slaves of the Black Kilns", and other inflammatory articles. The articles instigate rumors and libels such as "Since the Communist Party took power, the top priority of Communist dictators has been their own power and what they care least about is human life"; "The Chinese communist dictatorial state power promotes patriotism for officials, and the absurd theory of a party that takes the place of the state. What patriotism has become in effect is the call the people to love the dictatorial government power, to love the dictatorial party, to love the dictator. This is simply stealing the name of patriotism to create a reality that brings calamity to the country and to the people. "; "All the methods of the Chinese communists are based on a plan to support the rule and interests of the dictators, but there is no hope for them to continue for long since countless cracks have already appeared in the edifice of their dictatorship." "Expecting a free China to appear from the "new policies" of the rulers is far less likely that hoping for it to come through the steady expansion of 'new forces' among the people." Just as strong are these incitements: "Change the Society to Change the Regime", and "Expecting a free China to appear from the "new policies" of the rulers is far less likely that hoping for it to come through the steady expansion of "new forces" among the people."
Between September and December 2008, the defendant Liu Xiaobo colluded with others to draft and concoct the "Charter 08", that proposed views such as "eliminate the monopoly of one party on the exercise of political power", "to create a Chinese federation under the framework of democratic constitutional system of governance", seeking to incite the overthrow of state power. Liu Xiaobo collected the signatures of over 300 people and sent "Charter 08" together with the signatures in an email to websites outside of the borders of mainland China publish it on websites outside the borders of mainland China such as "Democratic China" and "The Independent Chinese Pen Association".
After Liu Xiaobo committed this offense, he was tracked down and brought to justice.
The Beijing Municipality Procuratorate First Branch provided to this court testimony of witnesses as to the guilt of of the defendant Liu Xiaobo. This included evidence such as the on scene investigation, the record of the investigation and electronic data that had been verified by the experts. The Beijing Municipality Procuratorate First Branch was convinced that the defendant Liu Xiaobo's behavior violated section 105 part two of the "Criminal Code of the PRC", and constituted incitement to the overthrow of state power, a serious offense. The Procuratorate handed the case over to this court for judgment according to the law.
The defendant Liu Xiaobo during the trial said that he was not guilty and that he was merely exercising the constitutional right of all citizens to free speech. The criticisms he expressed did not do any actual harm to anyone and is not incitement to overthrow state power.
Counsel for the defendant Liu Xiaobo argued that the six articles written by Liu Xiaobo mentioned in the indictment and "Charter 08" did not create rumors or libels and did not insult anyone. Moreover, said counsel, the articles published by Liu Xiaobo fall within the scope of the free speech of a citizen, expressing personal opinions and do not constitute incitement to overthrow state power.
During the trial it became clear that the defendant Liu Xiaobo, due to his dissatisfaction with the people's democratic dictatorship and socialist systems of our country, between October 2005 and August 2007, at his temporary residence at No. 7 Xiancun, Bank of China dormitory Building 10, Unit 1, No. 502 in the Haidian District of Beijing Municipality, wrote and published articles on websites such as "Observe China" and "BBC Chinese Language Net". On multiple occasions, he incited the overthrow of our country's political system and the socialist system. Liu Xiaobo in his articles "The Dictatorial Patriotism of the Chinese Communists", "How Could it Be That the Chinese People Are Only Suited to 'Party-Guided Democracy'", "Change the Political Regime by Changing Society", "The Many Faces of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship", "The Negative Effect of the Rise of a Dictatorship on World Democratization", and "Inquiring Further into the Case of the Child Slaves of the Black Kilns" slandered the Chinese Communist Party. He made statements in these articles such as "Since the Communist Party took power, the top priority of Communist dictators has been their own power and what they care least about is human life"; "The Chinese communist dictatorial state power promotes patriotism for officials, and the absurd theory of a party that takes the place of the state. What patriotism has become in calling on the people to love the dictatorial regime, to love the dictatorial party, and to love the dictator. This is simply stealing the name of patriotism to create a reality that brings calamity to the country and to the people. "; "All the methods of the Chinese communists are based on a plan to support the rule and interests of the dictators, but there is no hope for them to continue for long since countless cracks have already appeared in the edifice of their dictatorship." Equally as inciting are the statements "Expecting a free China to appear from the "new policies" of the rulers is far less likely that placing hope in its emergence through the steady expansion of "new forces" among the people."
Between September and December 2008, the defendant Liu Xiaobo colluded with others to draft a document entitled "Charter 08". That document proposed to "eliminate the monopoly of one party on the exercise of political power", "to create a Chinese federation under the framework of democratic constitutional system of governance" and other incitements. Liu Xiaobo colluded with others to collect the signatures of 300 people and then sent "Charter 08" together with the signatures in an email to websites outside of the borders of mainland China and released it on websites outside the borders of mainland China such as "Democratic China" and "The Independent Chinese Pen Association". The documents mentioned above that Liu Xiaobo put on websites were linked to and copied to other websites and viewed by many people.
The accused Liu Xiaobo after he committed this crime was investigated and brought to justice.
The facts above were proved during the trial. The evidence presented has been shown to be true and this court affirms that the following has been demonstrated to be true:
1. The testimony of the witness Liu Xia proves: She is the wife of Liu Xiaobo and lived together with him at No. 7 Xiancun, Bank of China dormitory Building 10, Unit 1, No. 502 in the Haidian District of Beijing Municipality, that there are three computers in the home, one a desktop and other two are notebooks. Because she doesn't understand anything about computers. Liu Xiaobo uses the computer mainly to write articles and to go on-line. Only two people, herself and Liu Xiaobo, live in the home, no-one lives with them. Only very seldom do guests come to visit -- when Liu Xiaobo participates in a meeting, it is almost always outside his home. She doesn't know how the computer connects to the Internet. Liu Xiaobo arranged for the Internet connection in late 2001. Their income comes chiefly from what Liu Xiaobo earns from his writings. Liu Xiaobo opened an account at the bank in her name. Deposits to the account for Liu Xiaobo's writings come irregularly. Every month she goes to the bank at irregular intervals to withdraw money.
2. The Beijing and Muxi branches of the Bank of China, Ltd. provided the "evidence of opening an account" and "bank money order receipt" that prove that Liu Xiaobo's wife Liu Xia went to the bank to receive and withdraw money orders (in foreign currency) coming from outside the borders of mainland China.
3. China United Network Communication Co., Ltd. Beijing subsidiary provided a "Reply to a request for assistance in conducting an examination of digital data". This proves: Liu Xiaobo used an ADSL account, and a record of his having gone on-line.
4. The testimony of the witness Zhang Zuhua proves: she together with Liu Xiaobo at the end of 2008 drafted and completed "Charter 08". She also collected signatures. Thereafter, Liu Xiaobo published "Charter 08" on websites outside the borders of mainland China.
5. The testimony of the witness He Yongqin proves: in early December 2008, he received an email from Liu Xiaobo contained "Charter 08". Liu Xiaobo let him see it and sign it if he wants. After reading the email, he replied to Liu Xiaobo that he agreed to sign it.
6. The testimony of the witness Zhao Shiying proves: that in October 2008, Liu Xiaobo sent "Charter 08" to him through the Internet and asked for his advice on revising it, and asked that he find other people willing to sign it. At a meeting, Zhao showed "Charter 08" to over ten people. Four of them said that there were willing to sign it. Liu Xiabo through the Internet also asked him to go to Guangzhou to collect signatures. In Guangzhou, he collected five signatures.
7. The testimony of the witness Yao Bo proves: that in October 2008, when Liu Xiaobo met him, and discussed the charter with him, and he agreed to sign it.
8. The testimony of the witness Zhou Duo proves: that one day in November 2008, Liu Xiaobo went to his home to show him the draft of "Charter 08", and asked for his help in revising it. After Liu Xiaobo left, he looked over the draft but did not revise it. He did not sign at that time, but later he saw the Charter on-line had his signature.
9. The testimony of the witness Fan Chunsan proves: that in late October 2008, when we was eating with Liu Xiaobo and others, Liu Xiaobo took out a copy of "Charter 08" for him to read. When Liu Xiaobo asked him whether or not he would sign it, he agreed to sign it. He knew that Liu Xiaobo has published this document already on websites outside the borders of mainland China such as "Boxun", "The Independent Chinese Pen Association". He had also read it on-line and knew that the Liu Xiaobo's document was of the kind that criticized contemporary politics.
10. The testimony of the witnesses Xu Junliang, Zhi Xiaomin and Teng Biao prove: that in November and December 2008, they received in their e-mail mailboxes "Charter 08" but did not know who had sent it. They each signed "Charter 08" and sent it back to the mailbox they had received it from.
11. The testimony of the witness Wang Zhongxia proves: that in December 2008, after reading "Charter 08" on-line, he found that he agreed with it and signed it. Later, he had printed some "Charter 08" shirts and wore it himself and gave to other people to wear in order to publicize "Charter 08".
12. The "investigation record" of Public Security organs and material evidence photographs of December 8, 2008 prove: that relying on the testimony of witnesses, Public Security searched Liu Xiaobo's residence at No. 7 Xiancun, Bank of China dormitory Building 10, Unit 1, No. 502 in the Haidian District of Beijing Municipality, found and took into custody the tools that Liu Xiaobo used to write the documents and to send them to websites -- two notebook computers, one desktop computer, and one copy of a printed document "Charter 08 -- Request for Comments".
13. The Beijing Municipality Networking Industry Association Forensic Electronic Data Center provided a "Judicial Testimony Opinion Document" proves: that on December 13, 2008, according to a forensic examination of the data stored on the three computers that authenticated the discovery of the electronic documents "The Dictatorial Patriotism of the Chinese Communist Party", "How Can it be that Only Party-Guided Democracy is Suitable for the Chinese People?", "Change the Political Regime by Changing Society", "The Many Faces of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship", "The Negative Effect of the Rise of a Dictatorship on World Democratization", "Inquiring Further into the Case of the Child Slaves of the Black Kilns" and "Charter 08". In the records of the software "Skype" on his computer were found and recorded from the software a record of multiple emails that he sent from November to December 8, 2008 multiple emails were sent containing "Charter 08" and the "request for comments" document.
14. The on the scene investigation by the Public Security organs, and record of the investigation and the explanation of the work proves:
1.The Beijing Municipality Public Security Public Information Network Security and Supervision Office First Detachment on December 19 - 23 discovered and downloaded the document signed "Liu Xiaobo" entitled "Liu Xiaobo The Dictatorial Patriotism of the Chinese Communist Party". The document resided on a website with the domain name epochtimes.com. The website server is outside the borders of mainland China. The document was marked as having been published on October 4, 2005. That document as of December 23, 2008 links were found to five websites that had either published or republished that document.
2.Between December 19, 2008 and August 3, 2008, Beijing Municipality Public Security Public Information Network Security and Supervision Officer First Detachment founded and downloaded from the Internet a document signed "Liu Xiaobo" entitled "Liu Xiaobo How Can it be that Only 'Party Guided Democracy' is Suitable for the Chinese People?". That document resided on the websites with the domain names epochtimes.com (The Epoch Times) and www.observechina.net (Observe China). Both website servers are outside the borders of mainland China. The document is marked published on January 5, 2006 and January 6, 2006. This document as of December 23, 2008 had been published or republished on five websites and had a total of 402 hits.
3.Between December 19, 2008 and August 3, 2008, Beijing Municipality Public Security Public Information Network Security and Supervision Officer First Detachment founded and downloaded from the Internet a document signed "Liu Xiaobo" entitled "Liu Xiaobo Change the Political Regime by Changing Society". That document resided on the websites with the domain names epochtimes.com (The Epoch Times) and www.observechina.net (Observe China). Both website servers are outside the border of mainland China. The document is marked published on February 26, 2006 and February 27, 2006. This document as of December 23, 2008 had been published or republished on five websites and had a total of 748 hits.
4.Between December 19, 2008 and August 3, 2008, Beijing Municipality Public Security Public Information Network Security and Supervision Officer First Detachment founded and downloaded from the Internet a document signed "Liu Xiaobo" entitled "Liu Xiaobo The Many Faces of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship". That document resided on the websites with the domain names www.secretchina.com (Secret China) and www.observechina.net (Observe China). Both website servers are outside the border of mainland China. The document is marked published on March 13, 2006. This document as of December 23, 2008 had been published or republished on six websites and had a total of 512 hits.
5.Between December 20, 2008 and August 3, 2008, Beijing Municipality Public Security Public Information Network Security and Supervision Officer First Detachment founded and downloaded from the Internet a document signed "Liu Xiaobo" entitled "Liu Xiaobo The Negative Effect of the Rise of a Dictatorship on World Democratization". That document resided on a website with the domain name www.secretchina.com (Secret China). The website server is outside the borders of mainland China. The document is marked published on May 7, 2006. This document as of December 23, 2008 had been published or republished on seven websites and had a total of 57 hits.
6.Between December 20, 2008 and August 3, 2008, Beijing Municipality Public Security Public Information Network Security and Supervision Officer First Detachment founded and downloaded from the Internet a document signed "Liu Xiaobo" entitled "Liu Xiaobo Persisting with a Deeper Inquiry into the Case of the Child Slaves of the Black Kilns". That document resided on websites with the domain names www.minzhuzhongguo.org (Democratic China) and www.renyurenquan.org (Human Rights in China). Both website servers are outside the border of mainland China. The document is marked published on August 1, 2007. This document as of December 23, 2008 had been published or republished on eight websites and had a total of 488 hits.
7.On December 11, 2008, Beijing Municipality Public Security Public Information Network Security and Supervision Officer First Detachment founded and downloaded from the Internet a document entitled "Charter 08". That document resided on the website with the domain name www.chinesepen.org (The Independent Chinese Pen Center). The website server is outside the borders of mainland China. The document is marked published on December 9, 2008 and is signed by a group of people. The same day, a document entitled "Chinese People From All Walks of Life Join Together to Issue Charter 08" was found and downloaded from the websites with the domain names boxun.com and www.minzhuzhongguo.org (Democratic China). Both of the website servers are located outside the boundaries of China and show publication dates of December 8, 2008 and December 12, 2008. This document as of December 12, 2008 had been published or republished on 33 websites including 19 outside the borders of mainland China and had a total of 5154 hits and 158 replies. On December 9, 2008, it was found that the website with the domain name www.2008xianzhang.info (Charter 08) had as of December 9, 2009 the signatures of 10,390 people who had signed "Charter 08".
8.The Beijing Municipality Public Security Public Information Network Security and Supervision Office investigated Liu Xiaobo's e-mails and as a result of that examination found that Liu Xiaobo's email mailbox is located outside the borders of mainland China. After using a password to get into that mailbox to check it, it was found that the earliest email sent from that mail box was dated November 25, 2008 and that 30 of the sent emails included "Charter 08".
15. Liu Xiaobo's signature in acknowledgement proves: that Liu Xiaobo confirmed the authenticity of documents downloaded and saved by the Public Security network monitoring and control departments "Liu Xiaobo The Dictatorial Patriotism of the Chinese Communist Party", "Liu Xiaobo How Can it be that Only Party Democracy is Suitable for the Chinese People?", "Liu Xiaobo Change the Political Regime by Changing Society", "Liu Xiaobo The Many Faces of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship", "Liu Xiaobo The Negative Effect of the Rise of a Dictatorship on World Democratization", "Liu Xiaobo Enquiring Further into the Case of the Child Slaves of the Black Kilns". Liu Xiaobo acknowledges that the documents in question were written by him and then published on the Internet. The evidence presented about demonstrate that those documents acknowledged by Liu Xiaobo contain inciting speech.
16. The defendant Liu Xiaobo's deposition proves: that Liu Xiaobo deposes that he used his computer to write and then publish on the Internet the documents described above. Liu Xiaobo and the evidence presented above are mutually confirmatory.
17. The account that the Public Security organs provided on the progress of the case proves: that Public Security on the evening of December 8, 2008 went to Liu Xiaobo's residence at No. 7 Xiancun, Bank of China dormitory Building 10, Unit 1, No. 502 in the Haidian District of Beijing Municipality in order to arrest Liu Xiaobo.
18. The previous "criminal verdict document" issued by the Beijing Municipality Intermediate Court (1990) Criminal Case 2373, the Beijing Municipality People's Government Re-education Through Labor Management Committee (96) Beijing Labor Case No. 3400 "Decision on Re-education Through Labor", proves: that Liu Xiaobo on January 26, 1991 although he committed the crime of making counter-revolutionary inciting propaganda was not given a criminal punishment; and that on September 26, 1996 because he had disturbed social order, his case was handled by giving him three years of re-education through labor.
19. Identification provided by the Public Security organs prove: that the name, residence and other information of the defendant Liu Xiaobo.
This court believes that the defendant Liu Xiaobo with the purpose of incitement to overthrow our country's people's democratic dictatorship system and socialist system, used the Internet to distribute his document because of its rapid speed, great scope, large social influence and the attention to which the people pay to it. He wrote the documents and used the Internet to publish it in order to slander and urge other people to overthrow our country's people's democratic dictatorship system and socialist system. This conduct already constitutes the crime of incitement to overthrow state power. Moreover, he has been committing this crime for a long while and the subjective evil caused is great. The published documents have been spread through links and republishing. People read them and they have a bad effect. This is the crime of a major criminal and should be severely punished according to law.
The Beijing Municipality First Intermediate Court First Branch believes that the facts are clear and the evidence has been confirmed that the defendant Liu Xiaobo committed the crime of incitement to overthrow and so he is found guilty of the crime for which he has been charged. As for the views presented by Liu Xiaobo and his defense counsel in court, the court found through its examination that the facts and evidence are sufficiently prove that Liu Xiaobo made use the characteristics of the Internet as a communications medium, by publishing slanderous documents on the Internet, to carry out his action of inciting the overthrow of our country's people's democratic dictatorship system and the socialist system. The actions of Liu Xiaobo are beyond the scope of freedom of speech and constitute a crime. Therefore, the pleas presented by Liu Xiaobo and his defense counsel cannot be established and this court does not accept them. According to the facts and nature of the crime committed by the defendant Liu Xiaobo, the circumstances, and the harm that has been done to society, this court according to Chapter 105, Section two; Chapter 55, Section one; Chapter 56, Section one, and Chapter 64 of the Criminal Code of the PRC, makes the following verdict:
1.The defendant Liu Xiaobo, for the crime of incitement to overthrow state power, is sentenced to prison for eleven years and deprivation of political rights for two years. (The sentence is to be served from the day of sentencing, with deduction for time in confinement on a day for day basis, that is from June 23, 2006 to June 21, 2020.)
2.All the materials that Liu Xiaobo used to commit the crime are to be confiscated (list follows).
3.If the defendant does not accept this judgment, an appeal can be made between two days and ten days after the issuance of this verdict, either through this court or directly to the Beijing Municipality Superior Court. The appeal should be accompanied by an original of this verdict together with two copies.
Jia Lianchun, Chief Judge
Bang Jiaowei, Assistant judge
Zhai Changxi, Assistant judge
December 25, 2009
Gu Xin, Court Clerk
The items confiscated when taken into custody are to be forfeited:
1.Notebook computer (IBM model T43), one
2.Notebook computer (Lianxiang model Chaoyang 700 CFe), one
3.Desktop computer (Lianxiang model Jiayue), one
4."Charter 08 request for comments draft (sealed together with the court papers), 7 pages+
freemorenews.com/2009/12/26/liu-xiaobo-first-instance-ver...
北京市第一中级人民法院刑事判决书
（2009）一中刑初字第3901号
公诉机关北京市人民检察院第一分院。
被告人刘晓波，男，53岁（1955年12月28日出生），汉族，出生土吉林省长春市，博士研究生文化，无业，户籍所在地辽寧省大连市西岗区青春街 5号2-1-2号，暂住北京市海淀区七贤村中国银行宿舍10号楼1单元502号。1991年1月因犯反革命宣传煽动罪被免予刑事处分；1996年9月因扰 乱社会秩序被处劳动教养三年。因涉嫌犯煽动颠覆国家政权罪于2008年12月8日被拘传，12月9日被监视居住，2009年6月23日被逮捕。现羈押在北 京市第一看守所。
辩护人丁锡奎，北京莫少平律师事务所律师。
辩护人尚宝军，北京莫少平律师事务所律师。
北京市人民检察院第一分院以京一分检刑诉（2009）247号起诉书指控被告人刘晓波犯煽动颠覆国家政权罪，于2009年12月10日向本院提起公 诉。本院依法组成合议庭，公开开庭进行了审理，北京市人民检察院第一分院指派检察员张荣革、代理检察员潘雪楮出庭支持公诉，被告人刘晓波及其辩护人丁锡 奎、尚宝军到庭参加诉讼。现已审理终结。
北京市人民检察院第一分院起诉书指控，被告人刘晓波出于对我国人民民主专政的国家政权和社会主义制度的不满，自2005年以来，通过互联网先后在 “观察”、“BBC中文网”等境外网站上发表《中共的独裁爱国主义》、《难道中国人只配接受“党主民主”》、《通过改变社会来改变政权》、《多面的中共独 裁》、《独裁崛起对世界民主化的负面效应》、《对黑窑童奴案的继续追问》等煽动性文章。在文章中造谣、诽谤︰“自从中共掌权以来，中共歷代独裁者最在乎的 是手中的权力，而最不在乎的就是人的生命”；“中共独裁政权提倡的官方爱国主义，是‘以党代国’体制的谬论，爱国的实质是要求人民爱独裁政权、爱独裁党、 爱独裁者，是盗用爱国主义之名而行祸国殃民之实”；“中共的这一切手段，都是独裁者维持最后统治的权宜之计，根本无法长久地支撑这座已经出现无数裂痕的独 裁大厦”。并煽动︰ “通过改变社会来改变政权”；“自由中国的出现，与其寄希望于统治者的‘新政’，远不如寄希望于民间‘新力量’的不断扩张”。
2008年9月至12月间，被告人刘晓波还伙同他人起草、炮制了《零八宪章》，提出“取消一党垄断执政特权”、“在民主宪政的架构下建立中华联邦共 和国”等多项主张，试图煽动颠覆现政权。刘晓波在征集三百余人签名后，将《零八宪章》及签名用电子邮件发给境外网站，在“民主中国”、“独立中文笔会”等 境外网站上公开发表。
被告人刘晓波作案后被查获归案。
北京市人民检察院第一分院向本院向本院移送了指控被告人刘晓波犯罪的证人证言，现场勘验、检查笔录，电子数据司法鉴定意见书等证据。认為被告人刘晓波的行為触犯了《中华人民共和国刑法》第一百零五条第二款之规定，已构成煽动颠覆国家政权罪，罪行重大。提请本院依法判处。
被告人刘晓波在法庭审理中辩称︰自己无罪，自己只是行使宪法赋予公民言论自由的权利，自己所发表的批评性言论，并未给他人带来实际损害，也没有煽动颠覆国家政权。
被告人刘晓波的辩护人在法庭审理中提出的辩护意见是︰公诉机关指控刘晓波撰写的六篇文章及《零八宪章》没有造谣、诽谤、诬蔑的内容。刘晓波所发表的文章属于公民言论自由、表达个人观点的范畴，不构成煽动颠覆国家政权罪。
经审理查明，被告人刘晓波出于对我国人民民主专政的国家政权和社会主义制度的不满，于2005年10月至2007年8月间，在其暂住处北京市海淀区 七贤村中国银行宿舍10号楼1单元502号，以撰写并在互联网“观察”、“BBC中文网”等网站发表文章的方式，多次煽动他人颠覆我国国家政权和社会主义 制度。刘晓波在发表的《中共的独裁爱国主义》、《难道中国人只配接受“党主民主”》、《通过改变社会来改变政权》、《多面的中共独裁》、《独裁崛起对世界 民主化的负面效应》、《对黑窑童奴案的继续追问》文章中诽谤︰“自从中共掌权以来，中共歷代独裁者最在乎的是手中的权力，而最不在乎的就是人的生命”； “中共独裁政权提倡的官方爱国主义，是‘以党代国’体制的谬论，爱国的实质是要求人民爱独裁政权、爱独裁党、爱独裁者，是盗用爱国主义之名而行祸国殃民之 实”；“中共的这一切手段，都是独裁者维持最后统治的权宜之计，根本无法长久地支撑这座已经出现无数裂痕的独裁大厦”。并煽动︰“通过改变社会来改变政 权”；“自由中国的出现，与其寄希望于统治者的‘新政’，远不如寄希望于民间‘新力量’的不断扩张”。
2008年9月至12月间，刘晓波又伙同他人撰写了题為《零八宪章》的文章，提出“取消一党垄断执政特权”、“在民主宪政的架构下建立中华联邦共和 国”等多项煽动性主张。刘晓波伙同他人在征集三百余人对文章的签名后，将《零八宪章》及签名用电子邮件发给境外网站，在“民主中国”、“独立中文笔会”等 境外网站上公开发布。刘晓波在互联网站发布的上述文章，被多家网站链接、转载并被多人瀏览。
被告人刘晓波作案后被查获归案。
上述事实，有下列经庭审举证、质证的证据在案证实，本院予以确认。
1、证人刘霞的证言证明︰她是刘晓波的妻子，与刘晓波共同居住在北京市海淀区七贤村中国银行宿舍10号楼1单元502号，家中一共有三台电脑，其中 一个台式机，两个笔记本电脑。因為她根本不懂电脑。刘晓波使用电脑主要是写文章和上网，家里只有她和刘晓波两个人单独住，没有其他人，平时家里也不怎幺来 客人，刘晓波有聚会也基本都是到外面去。家里的电脑以什幺形式上网她不清楚，是2001年底刘晓波联系安装的。她和刘晓波平日的生活来源就是刘晓波写东西 的稿费，刘晓波在银行以她的名字开户，稿费不定期的匯到帐户里，她每月不定期的去银行取钱。
2、中国银行股份有限公司北京市分行和木樨地支行出具的《开户证明》和《银行匯款单据》证明︰刘晓波的妻子刘霞的银行账户接收和支取过境外匯款（外币）。
3、中国联合网络通信有限公司北京市分公司出具的《关于协助对相关数据进行调查的復函》证明︰刘晓波使用的ABSL账号，有上网记录。
4、证人张祖樺的证言证明︰他与刘晓波于2008年年底共同制作完成了《零八宪章》，他也征集了签名，后刘晓波将《零八宪章》发表在境外网站。
5、证人何永勤的证言证明︰2008年12月初，他收到刘晓波发的《零八宪章》的电子邮件，刘晓波让他看后签名，他看后以电子邮件形式回復刘晓波，表示同意签名。
6、证人赵世英的证言证明︰2008年10月份，刘晓波通过网络向他传送了宪章，并征求他的修改意见，让他寻找别人签名，他在一次聚会上拿出宪章给聚会的十多人传看，有四人表示愿签名。刘晓波还通过网络让他到广州征集签名，他到广州征集了五人签名。
7、证人姚博的证言证明︰2008年10月份，刘晓波在一次与他见面时，跟他说了宪章的事，他同意在宪章后签名。
8、证人周舵的证言证明︰2008年11月份的一天，刘晓波到他家给他看了《零八宪章》的文稿，让他帮助修改。刘晓波走后他看了文稿，但没修改。当时没谈签名的事，可后来在网上看到宪章时有他的签名。
9、证人范春三的证言证明︰2008年11月底，他和刘晓波等人一起吃饭时，刘晓波拿出《零八宪章》给他看了，刘晓波问他是否签名，他同意签名。他知道刘晓波在境外的“博讯”、“独立中文笔会”等网站上发表文章，也在网上看到过，刘晓波写的文章内容都是时政评论类的。
10、证人徐君亮、智效民、滕彪的证言证明︰2008年11月至12月间，他们的电子邮箱先后接收到电子邮件《零八宪章》，不知是谁发给他们的，他们分别签名后将《零八宪章》发回了原邮箱。
11、证人王仲夏的证人证言证明︰2008年12月份，他在网上看到了《零八宪章》，他认同文章内容签了名。后他印制了一些《零八宪章》的文化衫，想自己穿和送给别人穿，宣传《零八宪章》。
12、公安机关出具的《搜查笔录》及物证照片证明︰2008年12月8日，公安机关在见证人的见证下，对刘晓波的居住地北京市海淀区七贤村中国银行 宿舍10号楼1单元502号进行了搜查，发现并扣压了刘晓波撰写并发送文章到互联网上的工具二台笔记本电脑、一台台式电脑和一份《零八宪章》（征求意见 稿）的打印件。
13、北京市网络行业协会电子数据司法鉴定中心出具的《司法鉴定意见书》证明︰2008年12月13日对搜查起获的刘晓波的三台电脑内存储的数据进 行了电子数据司法鉴定，鉴定中发现、提取到电子文本《中共的独裁爱国主义》、《难道中国人只配接受“党主民主”》、《通过改变社会来改变政权》、《多面的 中共独裁》、《独裁崛起对世界民主化的负面效应》、《对黑窑童奴案的继续追问》和《零八宪章》。
在电脑中的SKYPE聊天软件记录信息中，发现、提取该软件自2008年11月至12月8日间多次发送《零八宪章》及其“征求意见文本”的记录。
14、公安机关出具的现场勘验、检查笔录及工作说明证明︰
（1）2008年12月19日至2008年12月23日，北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处一大队，在互联网上发现并下载了暑名“刘晓波”的文章 《刘晓波︰中共的独裁爱国主义》，该文章存在于域名為epochtimes.com（大纪元）的网站，该网站服务器位于境外。文章显示发布时间為2005 年10月4日。该文章截止至2008年12月23日，在互联网上存在登载或转载该文章的网页链接共计5个。
（2）2008年12月19日至2009年8月3日，北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处一大队，在互联网上发现并下载了暑名“刘晓波”的文章《刘晓波︰难道中国人只配接受“党主民主”》， 该文章存在于域名為epochtimes.com（大纪元）和域名為http://www.obseruechina.net/（观察）的网站，网站服务器均位于境外，文章显示发布时间為2006年1月5日和2006年1月6日。该文章截止至2008年12月23日，在互联网上共存在登载或转载该文章的网页链接共计5个，总点击率402次。
（3）、2008年12月20日至2009年8月3日，北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处一大队，在互联网上发现并下载了暑名“刘晓波”的文章《刘晓波︰通过改变社会来改变政权》， 该文章存在于域名為epochtimes.com（大纪元）和域名為http://www.obseruechina.net/（观察）的网站，网站服务器均位于境外，文章显示发布时间為2006年2月26日和2006年2月27日。该文章截止至2008年12月23日，在互联网上存在登载或转载文章的网页链接共计5个，总点击率748次。
（4）2008年12月20日至2009年8月3日，北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处一大队，在互联网上发现并下载了暑名“刘晓波”的文章《刘晓波︰多面的中共独裁》， 该文章存在于域名為http://www.secretchina.com/（看中国）和域名為http://www.obseruechina.net/（观察）的网站，网站服务器均位于境外，文章显示发布时间為2006年3月13日。该文章截止至2008年12月23日，在互联网上存在登载或转载文章的网页链接共计6个，总点击率512次。
（5）2008年12月20日至2009年8月3日，北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处一大队，在互联网上发现并下载了暑名“刘晓波”的文章《刘晓波︰独裁崛起对世界民主化的负面效应》， 该文章存在于域名為http://www.secretchina.com/（看中国）的网站，网站服务器位于境外，文章显示发布时间為2006年5月7日。该文章截止至2008年12月23日，在互联网上存在登载或转载该文章的网页链接共计7个，总点击率57次。
（6）2008年12月20日至2009年8月3日，北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处一大队，在互联网上发现并下载了暑名“刘晓波”的文章《刘晓波︰对黑窑童奴案的继续追问》， 该文章存在于域名為http://www.minzhuzhongguo.org/（民主中国）和域名為http://www.renyurenquan.org/（人与人权）的网站，网站服务器均位于境外，文章显示发布时间為2007年8月1日。该文章截止至2008年12月23日，在互联网上存在登载或转载文章的网页链接共计8个，总点击率488次。
（7）2008年12月11日北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处一大队，在互联网上发现并下载了标题為《零八宪章》的文章， 该文章存在于域名為http://www.chinesepen.org/（独立中文笔会）的网站，该网站服务器位于境外，显示网络发布时间為2008年12月9日，作者署名為公民群体。同日在域名為boxun.com（博讯）和域名為http://www.minzhuzhongguo.org/（民 主中国）的网站，发现并下载了标题為《中国各界人士联合发布》，网站服务器均位于境外，文章显示发布时间為2008年12月8日 和2008年12月9日。上述文章截止至2008年12月12日，在互联网上存在登载或转载该文章的网页链接共计33个，其中境外网站19篇，总点击率 5154次，回復158篇。2009年12月9日，在域名為http://www.2008xianzhang.info/（零八宪章）的互联网站发现该网站首页显示截止至2009年12月9日，《零八宪章》签名共计10390人。
（8）、2009年8月14日北京市公安局公共信息网络安全监察处对刘晓波使用的电子邮件进行了核查，经查，刘晓波使用的邮箱属境外，通过密码登录邮箱中核实，邮箱发件箱中最早发件时间為2008-11-25，发送的邮件中有30封涉及发送《零八宪章》。
15、刘晓波签字确认的文章证明︰刘晓波对公安机关网络监管部门下载、保存的文章《刘晓波︰中共的独裁爱国主义》、《刘晓波︰难道中国人只配接受 “党主民主”》、《 刘晓波︰通过改变社会来改变政权》、《刘晓波︰多面的中共独裁》、《刘晓波︰独裁崛起对世界民主化的负面效应》、《刘晓波︰对黑窑童奴案的继续追问》、 《零八宪章》及从其电脑中提取的电子文本《中共的独裁爱国主义》、《难道中国人只配接受“党主民主”》、《通过改变社会来改变政权》、《多面的中共独 裁》、《独裁崛起对世界民主化的负面效应》、《对黑窑童奴案的继续追问》进行了辨认，刘晓波确认辨论的文章是其撰写并发布到互联网上的文章。刘晓波辨论并 签字确认的文章，有上述事实认定的煽动性言论。
16、被告人刘晓波的供诉证明︰刘晓波供认其使用电脑撰写上述文章并发布在互联网站上，刘晓波的供述与上述证据可相互印证。
17、公安机关出具的到案经过证明︰北京市公安局于2008年12月8日晚，到刘晓波的住处北京市海淀区七贤村中国银行宿舍10号楼1单元502号将刘晓波抓获。
18、原北京市中级人民法院（1990）中刑字第2373号《刑事判决书》、北京市人民政府劳动教养管理委员会（96）京劳省字第3400号《劳动 教养决定书》证明︰刘晓波于1991年1月26日因犯反革命宣传煽动罪被免予刑事处分；1996年9月26日因扰乱社会秩序被处劳动教养三年。
19、公安机关出具的身份证明材料证明了被告人刘晓波的姓名、住址等身份情况。
本院认為，被告人刘晓波以推翻我国人民民主专政的国家政权和社会主义制度為目的，利用互联网传递信息快、传播范围广、社会影响大、公眾关注度高的特 点，采用撰写并在互联网上发布文章的方式，诽谤并煽动他人推翻我国国家政权和社会主义制度，其行為已构成煽动颠覆国家政权罪，且犯罪时间长，主观恶性大， 发布的文章被广為链接、转载、瀏览，影响恶劣，属罪行重大的犯罪分子，依法应予从严惩处。北京市人民检察院第一分院指控被告人刘晓波犯煽动颠覆国家政权罪 的事实清楚、证据确实、充分，指控罪名成立。对于被告人刘晓波在法庭审理中提出的辩解及其辩护人发表的辩护意见，经查，本案庭审查明的事实和证据，已充分 证明刘晓波利用互联网的传媒特点，以在互联网上发表诽谤性文章的方式，实施煽动颠覆我国国家政权和社会制度的行為，刘晓波的行為显已超出言论自由的范畴， 构成犯罪。故刘晓波的上述辩护及其辩护人发表的辩护意见均不能成立，本院不予采纳。根据被告人刘晓波犯罪的事实、性质、情节和对于社会的危害程度，本院依 照《中华人民共和国刑法》第一百零五条第二款、第五十五条第一款、第五十六条第一款、第六十四条之规定，判决如下︰
一、 被告人刘晓波犯煽动颠覆国家政权罪，判处有期徒刑十一年，剥夺政治权利二年。
（刑期从判决执行之日起计算，判决执行以前先行羈押的，羈押一日折抵刑期一日，即自2009年6月23日起至2020年6月21日止。）
二、 随案移送的刘晓波犯罪所用物品予以没收（请担负后）。
如不服本判决，可在接到本判决书的第二日起十日内，通过本院或直接向北京市高级人民法院提出上述。书面上述的应提交上述状正本一份，副本二份。
审判长贾连春代理审判员郑文伟翟长璽
二零零九年十二月二十五日
书记员顾昕
扣押物品处理清单
先烈物品予以没收︰
1、 笔记本电脑（IBM牌T43型）1台
2、 笔记本电脑（联想牌朝阳700Cfe）1台
3、 台式电脑（联想牌家悦型）1台
《零八宪章》征求意见稿（随案卷封存）7页
School has started and it's getting very hard to write articles daily. The only solution I came up with was hiring new authors. If you're interested comment below or FM me. :)
Ida B Wells was an African American journalist and newspaper editor. She was mostly known for her contribution to both womans rights and civil rights. She was also well known for her documentation of lynchings in America.
Wells was born in Holly Springs, Ms to slaves 1 year before the Emancipation of Proclamation was written. She had 6 brothers and sisters and when they were older, their mother were strick on them. Now, as freed sllaves, Wells mother wanted them to go to school and have a life she couldnt. Wells left home to go to school, and while at school, her hometown of Holly Springs caught the yellow epidemic and she lost her parants and one of her brother. To keep the family from being split up, she dropped out of school and took a job teaching at a black school to make money to take care of her brothers and sisters.
As a teacher in Mississippi, Wells became upset. She realized that on average, Blacks teachers are only getting paid $30 a month while white teachers got paid $80 a month. This would get Wells into racial politics and she would end up moving to Memphis to take a job as a teacher. Here Wells spoke out of civil rights and even womans rights.
In 1884, while riding a train, a train conductor ordered Wells to give up her seat and move back to the smoking car which was already crowded. Wells refused and was carried back there by 2 workers on the train. Wells sued the train company and won the case but would be overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court, but it was one of the first cases involving civil rights. Wells would start her writing career after this speaking out abut the case and her stand.
Wells would become the editor of the Evening Star newpaper where she would right about racial discrimination. She would also become an owner of an anti-segregationist newspaper where she would write about more racial problems in the United States.
In 1891, the KKK was starting to rise and they were arriving all over Memphis. A local grocery store, owned by friends of Wells who were black, were being threatened for stealing business from a local white store accross the street from the other store. They rushed the black store and 3 white men were killed. The 3 owners of the black store were arrested and put in jail. A couple days later, the KKK and a group of all white people stormed the jail and hung the 3 prisoners. This would send Wells on a mission to investigate lynchings in America.
Wells wrote in her paper that blacks should flee Memphis cause they can not get a fair trial and they are unsafe. He newspaper building would be burned down shortly after. She would travel to Philadelphia and then New York writing for different papers. She would speak out and write about civil and womans rights and would stress the problems with lynching. Wells would be named as the head of the Anti-Lynching crusade which would take her to Chicago where she would spend the rest of her life.
In 1893, Wells teamed up with other Civil Rights leader Frederick Douglas to boycot the World Fair in Chicago. They put out pamphlets and were passed all over the city. The problem with the fair was that no African Americans were perticipating. Douglas would say Wells was one of the biggest leaders for Civil Rights.
Wells would spend the next 40 years traveling to Europe and helping Chicagos urban area grow. She would give speeches to crowds and write articles for different papers. She spoke out alot about the lynchings and informing people of the problems blacks have in their area.
Wells died in 1931 writing her autobiography. She never finished the book becaused she died while she was writing a sentence. Wells is buried in Oak Wood Cemetery in Chicago, Il.
m
Learn about Life Changes Live! Events at www.LifeChanges.ws
LuAn Mitchell
Mother of four, grandmother and Empowered Woman Extraordinaire!
Life Coach and Corporate Motivational Speaker
LuAn Mitchell is a "Featured Expert" in the Films
Three feet from Gold
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill foundation presents
Ms. Mitchell is the Voice of Thank God I am an empowered woman!
International best selling Author, Motivational Speaker
Named Canada’s 1 Female Business Owner for Three Consecutive Years!
Inducted as a Leading Woman Entrepreneur of the World
Former Chairwoman, Mitchell's Gourmet Foods
She reaches Millions globally as the Popular Host of "Millionaire Mentor " on Voice America Internet Radio
And is NOW SYNDICATED with World Talk Radio to reach even more!
Served on the Harvard Women's Leadership board
Named American Biographical Institute's Woman of the Year 2005
"Pass it ON" … Film Star! www.passitontoday.com
The Opus Movie motivational film Star! www.theopusmovie.com
www.Paperdoll.biz www.eyeofthetiger.biz www.womanmvp.biz
Email sanchawhite@hotmail.com
executive assistant to LuAn Mitchell
As entrepreneur, corporate executive, author, motivational speaker, Motivational Movie Star, philanthropist mother of four and grandmother, LuAn Mitchell has lived a life of wide experience, harsh reality and repeated triumph.
Who is:
Robbie Motter
Robbie Motter’s Summary
25 years in Corporate America in top positions
15 years expertise in consulting and coaching
20 years expertise in speaking and training
25 years helping small business get government contracts
30 years of working with women business owners in helping them expand their bottom lime in business.
9 years as the NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator. NAFE Is the largest business women's network in the US
Robbie Motter’s Specialties:
Govt contracting, marketing, public relations, speaking, coaching, television and radio co-host, writer, networking, connecting people with each other
Robbie Motter’s Experience
Interim Executive Director
Movement Therapy Foundation
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2009 — Present (9 months)
THe Movement Therapy Foundation is a 501 C 3 Nonprofit whose Mission is:
To educate communities about Movement Therapy™ through education, training, demonstrations, workshops and programming in mass-media markets.
Our Vision is:
To educate able-bodied and mobility challenged individuals about the essential and transformative elements of Movement Therapy™.
To educate the medical and scientific communities so that Movement Therapy™ is one of the primary agents for health.
To ensure that Movement Therapy™ is a primary component of enhanced positive patient outcomes.
Senior VP
ASLA/Contacts Unlimited Speakers Bureau
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2008 — Present (2 years )
I run the ASLA/Contacts Unlimited Speakers Bureau which is a division under American Seminar Leaders, the speakers bureau finds opportunities for our CSL (Certified Semianr Leader) graduates as well as others who are not graduates to find global speaking opportunities. The cost to join is $19.97 per month for ASLA graduates and $39.97 per month for non graduates.
No contracts to sign . Call 888-244-4420 for more info.
NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator
NAFE
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
1999 — Present (11 years )
NAFE is the largest global Womens Business Organizatio, I serve as the Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator, interacting with NAE Affiliate networks in my areas/
Owner
Contacts Unlimited & NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator Also SVPof American Seminar Le
(Management Consulting industry)
January 1985 — Present (25 years 4 months)
Train Non profit directors in Marketing and PR Strategies.
Consulting, and coaching of small business owners.
Assist small businesses on how to get government contracts.
Give onsite and offsite classes on a variety of business topics
Speak nationally and internationally on business topics
Co-host radio and television show,
As the Senior VP of American Seminar Leaders I work with the President June Davidson to train and certify seminar leaders nationwide.
Write articles for business magazines across the US
Speak and train at National conferences for women
Co-Author with June Davidson of a new E Book called 55 Profitable Ways to Power Networking available at www.asla.com
Customer
Starcrst
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1995 — 2005 (10 years )
Office of Contracting
GSA Washington DC
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)
1980 — 1985 (5 years )
Supervised a staff of people in Washington in contracting and schedules
Robbie Motter’s Education
· University of Hawaii at Manoa
Over the years I have taken numberous college courses relating to business and public relations in Hawaii, Texas, New York and CA areas
Additional Information
Robbie Motter’s Websites:
· My Website
· My Blog
Robbie Motter’s Interests:
Speaking, Training, Coaching, gardening, having fun
Robbie Motter’s Groups:
NAFE, For You Network www.nafe.com and www.4younetwork.org
· Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
· LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ]
· National Association for Female Executives (NAFE)
· Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
· eMarketing Association Network
· TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
· Job & Career Network
· The Job Board (Find A Job, Post a Job)
· SpeakerMatch
· Connect to the World
· BD Networking
· The Women's Conference
· Positive Thinkers
· It's All About SHOWING UP
· The POWER is in the ASKING
· Make Money With Webinars for Speakers / Consultants / Trainers/ Authors
· TopLinked HR (Human Resources) Professionals
· TopLinked Executives
· TopLinked Marketing Professionals
· TopLinked Entrepreneurs
· TopLinked Consulting Professionals
· BRICS Sustainability: V-360.org member
· ASIA Sustainability: V-360.org member
· THE AMERICAS Sustainability: V-360.org member
· EUROPE Sustainability: V-360.org member
· Professional Keynote Speakers - by Jorge Olson
· Windmill Networking in Southern California "So Cal Sushi" - Open Networkers and Social Media Fans
· Expand my Network
· Creative Solutions
· Get Up Girl Women's Coaching Groups & Workshops
· Desert Cities Spirituality Group
· Small Business News and Information for the Entrepreneur
· WIPP - Women Impacting Public Policy
· Goal Achievers International Members
· Entrepreneurs & Twitterholics R Us
· The Winning Woman Network - everything woman with Style
· The LUCCA ITALIAN DIVAS
· Business Scene
· "Count Me In" The Official Group
· ACE (Alliance Connecting Everyone)
· We Are Orange County!™ (WAOC™) - California
· Linked !n Long Beach
· WAOC™- Business Networking Community
· Networking Industry Professionals
· Temecula Connection
· U.S. Small Business Conference
· Small Business Owners of Orange County
· Orange Tree Global Open Networkers
· Connect to Korea
· Volunteer Speakers Available or Needed
· Institute for Women's Leadership
Robbie Motter’s Honors:
2008 Finalist for Business Matchmaker E Woman Network Contest
2008 Award winner Amazing Woman's Day in San Diego
2007 Finalist for Spirit of Entrepreneur Awards Riverside. CA
2007 Nominee for LA Business Journals Women Who Make A Differnce
2006 For You Network Woman of the Year
2006 Presidents Call to Service Award
2006 Office Depot Business Women of the Year award
2004 For You Network award Winner
2003 YWCA Riverside Women of Achievement Award
2002 NAFE Women of Excellence Award
2001 Santa Ana SBA Women in Business Advocate
2001 Riverside Soroptomist International Women Helping Women award
1998 Business Press San Bernardino Women of Distinctionw
1984 Federal Government Commendable Service Award
1984, 1983, 19821982 Federal Government Outstanding Service Award
1995 San Diego Women Who Mean Business award
Learn about Life Changes Live! Events at www.LifeChanges.ws
LuAn Mitchell
Mother of four, grandmother and Empowered Woman Extraordinaire!
Life Coach and Corporate Motivational Speaker
LuAn Mitchell is a "Featured Expert" in the Films
Three feet from Gold
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill foundation presents
Ms. Mitchell is the Voice of Thank God I am an empowered woman!
International best selling Author, Motivational Speaker
Named Canada’s 1 Female Business Owner for Three Consecutive Years!
Inducted as a Leading Woman Entrepreneur of the World
Former Chairwoman, Mitchell's Gourmet Foods
She reaches Millions globally as the Popular Host of "Millionaire Mentor " on Voice America Internet Radio
And is NOW SYNDICATED with World Talk Radio to reach even more!
Served on the Harvard Women's Leadership board
Named American Biographical Institute's Woman of the Year 2005
"Pass it ON" … Film Star! www.passitontoday.com
The Opus Movie motivational film Star! www.theopusmovie.com
www.Paperdoll.biz www.eyeofthetiger.biz www.womanmvp.biz
Email sanchawhite@hotmail.com
executive assistant to LuAn Mitchell
As entrepreneur, corporate executive, author, motivational speaker, Motivational Movie Star, philanthropist mother of four and grandmother, LuAn Mitchell has lived a life of wide experience, harsh reality and repeated triumph.
Who is:
Robbie Motter
Robbie Motter’s Summary
25 years in Corporate America in top positions
15 years expertise in consulting and coaching
20 years expertise in speaking and training
25 years helping small business get government contracts
30 years of working with women business owners in helping them expand their bottom lime in business.
9 years as the NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator. NAFE Is the largest business women's network in the US
Robbie Motter’s Specialties:
Govt contracting, marketing, public relations, speaking, coaching, television and radio co-host, writer, networking, connecting people with each other
Robbie Motter’s Experience
Interim Executive Director
Movement Therapy Foundation
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2009 — Present (9 months)
THe Movement Therapy Foundation is a 501 C 3 Nonprofit whose Mission is:
To educate communities about Movement Therapy™ through education, training, demonstrations, workshops and programming in mass-media markets.
Our Vision is:
To educate able-bodied and mobility challenged individuals about the essential and transformative elements of Movement Therapy™.
To educate the medical and scientific communities so that Movement Therapy™ is one of the primary agents for health.
To ensure that Movement Therapy™ is a primary component of enhanced positive patient outcomes.
Senior VP
ASLA/Contacts Unlimited Speakers Bureau
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2008 — Present (2 years )
I run the ASLA/Contacts Unlimited Speakers Bureau which is a division under American Seminar Leaders, the speakers bureau finds opportunities for our CSL (Certified Semianr Leader) graduates as well as others who are not graduates to find global speaking opportunities. The cost to join is $19.97 per month for ASLA graduates and $39.97 per month for non graduates.
No contracts to sign . Call 888-244-4420 for more info.
NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator
NAFE
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
1999 — Present (11 years )
NAFE is the largest global Womens Business Organizatio, I serve as the Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator, interacting with NAE Affiliate networks in my areas/
Owner
Contacts Unlimited & NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator Also SVPof American Seminar Le
(Management Consulting industry)
January 1985 — Present (25 years 4 months)
Train Non profit directors in Marketing and PR Strategies.
Consulting, and coaching of small business owners.
Assist small businesses on how to get government contracts.
Give onsite and offsite classes on a variety of business topics
Speak nationally and internationally on business topics
Co-host radio and television show,
As the Senior VP of American Seminar Leaders I work with the President June Davidson to train and certify seminar leaders nationwide.
Write articles for business magazines across the US
Speak and train at National conferences for women
Co-Author with June Davidson of a new E Book called 55 Profitable Ways to Power Networking available at www.asla.com
Customer
Starcrst
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1995 — 2005 (10 years )
Office of Contracting
GSA Washington DC
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)
1980 — 1985 (5 years )
Supervised a staff of people in Washington in contracting and schedules
Robbie Motter’s Education
· University of Hawaii at Manoa
Over the years I have taken numberous college courses relating to business and public relations in Hawaii, Texas, New York and CA areas
Additional Information
Robbie Motter’s Websites:
· My Website
· My Blog
Robbie Motter’s Interests:
Speaking, Training, Coaching, gardening, having fun
Robbie Motter’s Groups:
NAFE, For You Network www.nafe.com and www.4younetwork.org
· Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
· LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ]
· National Association for Female Executives (NAFE)
· Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
· eMarketing Association Network
· TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
· Job & Career Network
· The Job Board (Find A Job, Post a Job)
· SpeakerMatch
· Connect to the World
· BD Networking
· The Women's Conference
· Positive Thinkers
· It's All About SHOWING UP
· The POWER is in the ASKING
· Make Money With Webinars for Speakers / Consultants / Trainers/ Authors
· TopLinked HR (Human Resources) Professionals
· TopLinked Executives
· TopLinked Marketing Professionals
· TopLinked Entrepreneurs
· TopLinked Consulting Professionals
· BRICS Sustainability: V-360.org member
· ASIA Sustainability: V-360.org member
· THE AMERICAS Sustainability: V-360.org member
· EUROPE Sustainability: V-360.org member
· Professional Keynote Speakers - by Jorge Olson
· Windmill Networking in Southern California "So Cal Sushi" - Open Networkers and Social Media Fans
· Expand my Network
· Creative Solutions
· Get Up Girl Women's Coaching Groups & Workshops
· Desert Cities Spirituality Group
· Small Business News and Information for the Entrepreneur
· WIPP - Women Impacting Public Policy
· Goal Achievers International Members
· Entrepreneurs & Twitterholics R Us
· The Winning Woman Network - everything woman with Style
· The LUCCA ITALIAN DIVAS
· Business Scene
· "Count Me In" The Official Group
· ACE (Alliance Connecting Everyone)
· We Are Orange County!™ (WAOC™) - California
· Linked !n Long Beach
· WAOC™- Business Networking Community
· Networking Industry Professionals
· Temecula Connection
· U.S. Small Business Conference
· Small Business Owners of Orange County
· Orange Tree Global Open Networkers
· Connect to Korea
· Volunteer Speakers Available or Needed
· Institute for Women's Leadership
Robbie Motter’s Honors:
2008 Finalist for Business Matchmaker E Woman Network Contest
2008 Award winner Amazing Woman's Day in San Diego
2007 Finalist for Spirit of Entrepreneur Awards Riverside. CA
2007 Nominee for LA Business Journals Women Who Make A Differnce
2006 For You Network Woman of the Year
2006 Presidents Call to Service Award
2006 Office Depot Business Women of the Year award
2004 For You Network award Winner
2003 YWCA Riverside Women of Achievement Award
2002 NAFE Women of Excellence Award
2001 Santa Ana SBA Women in Business Advocate
2001 Riverside Soroptomist International Women Helping Women award
1998 Business Press San Bernardino Women of Distinctionw
1984 Federal Government Commendable Service Award
1984, 1983, 19821982 Federal Government Outstanding Service Award
1995 San Diego Women Who Mean Business award
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by J. Beagles & Co. Ltd., Printers and Publishers, of London E.C. On the divided back of the card they modestly claim that Beagles' postcards are "The Best in the World".
The photography was by Sport & General, and the card was printed in England. The image is a glossy real photograph.
Edward VIII
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23rd. June 1894 - 28th. May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from the 20th. January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
Edward was born during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria as the eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary.
He was created Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday, seven weeks after his father succeeded as king.
On the 11th. October 1912, the Prince of Wales began his studies at Magdalen College Oxford as a commoner.
His biographers diplomatically commented that he was 'underprepared' intellectually for his academic work. Although he learned how to play polo with the university club, he left Oxford after eight terms, without any academic qualifications.
As a young man, Edward served in the British Army during the Great War, and undertook several overseas tours on behalf of his father.
While Prince of Wales, he engaged in a series of affairs that worried his father and British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
Edward became king on his father's death. As king, he showed impatience with court protocol, and caused concern among politicians by his apparent disregard for established constitutional conventions.
Only months into his reign, he caused a constitutional crisis by proposing to Wallis Simpson, an American who had divorced her first husband and was seeking a divorce from her second.
Senior politicians in the British Parliament and the Dominions opposed the marriage, arguing that a divorced woman with two living ex-husbands was politically and socially unacceptable as a prospective queen consort.
Additionally, such a marriage would have conflicted with Edward's status as the titular head of the Church of England, which at the time disapproved of re-marriage after divorce if a former spouse was still alive.
Edward knew that the Baldwin government would resign if the marriage went ahead, and this would have forced a general election which would have ruined his status as a politically neutral constitutional monarch.
When it became apparent that he could not marry Wallis and remain on the throne, he abdicated. He was succeeded by his younger brother, George VI.
With a reign of 326 days, Edward is one of the shortest-reigning monarchs in British history.
After his abdication, Edward was created Duke of Windsor. He married Wallis in France on the 3rd. June 1937, after her second divorce became final. Later that year, the couple toured Germany.
During the Second World War, Edward was at first stationed with the British Military Mission to France, but after private accusations that he was a Nazi sympathiser, he was appointed Governor of the Bahamas.
The Duke of Windsor After WWII
At the end of the war, the couple returned to France and spent the remainder of their lives essentially in retirement, as the Duke never held another official role.
Correspondence between the Duke and Kenneth de Courcy, dated between 1946 and 1949, emerged in a US library in 2009. The letters suggest a plot whereby the Duke would return to England and place himself in a position for a possible regency. The health of George VI was failing, and de Courcy was concerned about the influence of the Mountbatten family over the young Princess Elizabeth.
De Courcy suggested the Duke buy a working agricultural estate within an easy drive of London in order to gain favour with the British public and make himself available should the King become incapacitated. The Duke, however, hesitated and the King recovered from his surgery.
The Duke's allowance was supplemented by government favours and illegal currency trading. The City of Paris provided the Duke with a house at 4 Route du Champ d'Entraînement, on the Neuilly-sur-Seine side of the Bois de Boulogne, for a nominal rent.
The French government exempted him from paying income tax, and the couple were able to buy goods duty-free through the British embassy and the military commissary.
In 1951, the Duke produced a ghost-written memoir, A King's Story, in which he expressed disagreement with liberal politics. The royalties from the book added to their income.
In 1952, they bought and renovated a weekend country retreat, Le Moulin de la Tuilerie at Gif-sur-Yvette, the only property the couple ever owned themselves.
The Duke and Duchess effectively took on the role of celebrities, and were regarded as part of café society in the 1950's and 1960's. They hosted parties and shuttled between Paris and New York; Gore Vidal, who met the Windsors socially, reported on the vacuity of the Duke's conversation. The couple doted on the pug dogs they kept.
In June 1953, instead of attending the coronation of his niece Queen Elizabeth II in London, the Duke and Duchess watched the ceremony on television in Paris. The Duke said that it was contrary to precedent for a Sovereign or former Sovereign to attend any coronation of another.
He was paid to write articles on the ceremony for the Sunday Express and Woman's Home Companion, as well as a short book, The Crown and the People, 1902–1953.
In 1955, they visited President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House. The couple appeared on Edward R. Murrow's television-interview show Person to Person in 1956, and in a 50-minute BBC television interview in 1970. That year President Richard Nixon invited them as guests of honour to a dinner at the White House.
The royal family never fully accepted the Duchess. Queen Mary refused to receive her formally. However, Edward sometimes met his mother and his brother, George VI; he attended George's funeral in 1952.
Queen Mary remained angry with Edward and indignant over his marriage to Wallis: "To give up all this for that", she said. In 1965, the Duke and Duchess returned to London. They were visited by Elizabeth II, his sister-in-law Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and his sister Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood. A week later, the Princess Royal died, and they attended her memorial service.
In 1967, they joined the royal family for the centenary of Queen Mary's birth. The last royal ceremony the Duke attended was the funeral of Princess Marina in 1968. He declined an invitation from Elizabeth II to attend the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969, replying that Prince Charles would not want his "aged great-uncle" there.
In the 1960's, the Duke's health deteriorated. Michael E. DeBakey operated on him in Houston for an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta in December 1964, and Sir Stewart Duke-Elder treated a detached retina in his left eye in February 1965.
In late 1971, the Duke, who was a smoker from an early age, was diagnosed with throat cancer and underwent cobalt therapy. On the 18th. May 1972, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Duke and Duchess of Windsor while on a state visit to France; she spoke with the Duke for fifteen minutes, but only the Duchess appeared with the royal party for a photo call, as the Duke was too ill.
The Death and Legacy of the Duke of Windsor
On the 28th. May 1972, ten days after the Queen's visit, the Duke died at his home in Paris, less than a month before his 78th. birthday. His body was returned to Britain, lying in state at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
The funeral service took place in the chapel on the 5th. June in the presence of the Queen, the royal family, and the Duchess of Windsor, who stayed at Buckingham Palace during her visit.
He was buried in the Royal Burial Ground behind the Royal Mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Frogmore. Until a 1965 agreement with the Queen, the Duke and Duchess had planned for a burial in a cemetery plot they had purchased at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, where the Duchess's father was interred.
Frail, and suffering increasingly from dementia, the Duchess died in 1986, and was buried alongside her husband.
In the view of historians, such as Philip Williamson writing in 2007, the popular perception in the 21st. century that the abdication was driven by politics rather than religious morality is false, and arises because divorce has become much more common and socially acceptable.
To modern sensibilities, the religious restrictions that prevented Edward from continuing as king while planning to marry Simpson "seem, wrongly, to provide insufficient explanation" for his abdication.
Learn about Life Changes Live! Events at www.LifeChanges.ws
LuAn Mitchell
Mother of four, grandmother and Empowered Woman Extraordinaire!
Life Coach and Corporate Motivational Speaker
LuAn Mitchell is a "Featured Expert" in the Films
Three feet from Gold
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill foundation presents
Ms. Mitchell is the Voice of Thank God I am an empowered woman!
International best selling Author, Motivational Speaker
Named Canada’s 1 Female Business Owner for Three Consecutive Years!
Inducted as a Leading Woman Entrepreneur of the World
Former Chairwoman, Mitchell's Gourmet Foods
She reaches Millions globally as the Popular Host of "Millionaire Mentor " on Voice America Internet Radio
And is NOW SYNDICATED with World Talk Radio to reach even more!
Served on the Harvard Women's Leadership board
Named American Biographical Institute's Woman of the Year 2005
"Pass it ON" … Film Star! www.passitontoday.com
The Opus Movie motivational film Star! www.theopusmovie.com
www.Paperdoll.biz www.eyeofthetiger.biz www.womanmvp.biz
Email sanchawhite@hotmail.com
executive assistant to LuAn Mitchell
As entrepreneur, corporate executive, author, motivational speaker, Motivational Movie Star, philanthropist mother of four and grandmother, LuAn Mitchell has lived a life of wide experience, harsh reality and repeated triumph.
Who is:
Robbie Motter
Robbie Motter’s Summary
25 years in Corporate America in top positions
15 years expertise in consulting and coaching
20 years expertise in speaking and training
25 years helping small business get government contracts
30 years of working with women business owners in helping them expand their bottom lime in business.
9 years as the NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator. NAFE Is the largest business women's network in the US
Robbie Motter’s Specialties:
Govt contracting, marketing, public relations, speaking, coaching, television and radio co-host, writer, networking, connecting people with each other
Robbie Motter’s Experience
Interim Executive Director
Movement Therapy Foundation
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2009 — Present (9 months)
THe Movement Therapy Foundation is a 501 C 3 Nonprofit whose Mission is:
To educate communities about Movement Therapy™ through education, training, demonstrations, workshops and programming in mass-media markets.
Our Vision is:
To educate able-bodied and mobility challenged individuals about the essential and transformative elements of Movement Therapy™.
To educate the medical and scientific communities so that Movement Therapy™ is one of the primary agents for health.
To ensure that Movement Therapy™ is a primary component of enhanced positive patient outcomes.
Senior VP
ASLA/Contacts Unlimited Speakers Bureau
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2008 — Present (2 years )
I run the ASLA/Contacts Unlimited Speakers Bureau which is a division under American Seminar Leaders, the speakers bureau finds opportunities for our CSL (Certified Semianr Leader) graduates as well as others who are not graduates to find global speaking opportunities. The cost to join is $19.97 per month for ASLA graduates and $39.97 per month for non graduates.
No contracts to sign . Call 888-244-4420 for more info.
NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator
NAFE
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
1999 — Present (11 years )
NAFE is the largest global Womens Business Organizatio, I serve as the Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator, interacting with NAE Affiliate networks in my areas/
Owner
Contacts Unlimited & NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator Also SVPof American Seminar Le
(Management Consulting industry)
January 1985 — Present (25 years 4 months)
Train Non profit directors in Marketing and PR Strategies.
Consulting, and coaching of small business owners.
Assist small businesses on how to get government contracts.
Give onsite and offsite classes on a variety of business topics
Speak nationally and internationally on business topics
Co-host radio and television show,
As the Senior VP of American Seminar Leaders I work with the President June Davidson to train and certify seminar leaders nationwide.
Write articles for business magazines across the US
Speak and train at National conferences for women
Co-Author with June Davidson of a new E Book called 55 Profitable Ways to Power Networking available at www.asla.com
Customer
Starcrst
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1995 — 2005 (10 years )
Office of Contracting
GSA Washington DC
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)
1980 — 1985 (5 years )
Supervised a staff of people in Washington in contracting and schedules
Robbie Motter’s Education
· University of Hawaii at Manoa
Over the years I have taken numberous college courses relating to business and public relations in Hawaii, Texas, New York and CA areas
Additional Information
Robbie Motter’s Websites:
· My Website
· My Blog
Robbie Motter’s Interests:
Speaking, Training, Coaching, gardening, having fun
Robbie Motter’s Groups:
NAFE, For You Network www.nafe.com and www.4younetwork.org
· Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
· LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ]
· National Association for Female Executives (NAFE)
· Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
· eMarketing Association Network
· TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
· Job & Career Network
· The Job Board (Find A Job, Post a Job)
· SpeakerMatch
· Connect to the World
· BD Networking
· The Women's Conference
· Positive Thinkers
· It's All About SHOWING UP
· The POWER is in the ASKING
· Make Money With Webinars for Speakers / Consultants / Trainers/ Authors
· TopLinked HR (Human Resources) Professionals
· TopLinked Executives
· TopLinked Marketing Professionals
· TopLinked Entrepreneurs
· TopLinked Consulting Professionals
· BRICS Sustainability: V-360.org member
· ASIA Sustainability: V-360.org member
· THE AMERICAS Sustainability: V-360.org member
· EUROPE Sustainability: V-360.org member
· Professional Keynote Speakers - by Jorge Olson
· Windmill Networking in Southern California "So Cal Sushi" - Open Networkers and Social Media Fans
· Expand my Network
· Creative Solutions
· Get Up Girl Women's Coaching Groups & Workshops
· Desert Cities Spirituality Group
· Small Business News and Information for the Entrepreneur
· WIPP - Women Impacting Public Policy
· Goal Achievers International Members
· Entrepreneurs & Twitterholics R Us
· The Winning Woman Network - everything woman with Style
· The LUCCA ITALIAN DIVAS
· Business Scene
· "Count Me In" The Official Group
· ACE (Alliance Connecting Everyone)
· We Are Orange County!™ (WAOC™) - California
· Linked !n Long Beach
· WAOC™- Business Networking Community
· Networking Industry Professionals
· Temecula Connection
· U.S. Small Business Conference
· Small Business Owners of Orange County
· Orange Tree Global Open Networkers
· Connect to Korea
· Volunteer Speakers Available or Needed
· Institute for Women's Leadership
Robbie Motter’s Honors:
2008 Finalist for Business Matchmaker E Woman Network Contest
2008 Award winner Amazing Woman's Day in San Diego
2007 Finalist for Spirit of Entrepreneur Awards Riverside. CA
2007 Nominee for LA Business Journals Women Who Make A Differnce
2006 For You Network Woman of the Year
2006 Presidents Call to Service Award
2006 Office Depot Business Women of the Year award
2004 For You Network award Winner
2003 YWCA Riverside Women of Achievement Award
2002 NAFE Women of Excellence Award
2001 Santa Ana SBA Women in Business Advocate
2001 Riverside Soroptomist International Women Helping Women award
1998 Business Press San Bernardino Women of Distinctionw
1984 Federal Government Commendable Service Award
1984, 1983, 19821982 Federal Government Outstanding Service Award
1995 San Diego Women Who Mean Business award
There is, like almost everything African related, so much misinformation in the west. I was looking on wikipedia and found some classic misinformation examples on the Samburu people. I have copied it here.
Samburu have been widely portrayed in popular culture, ranging from Hollywood movies, major television commercials, and mainstream journalism. Such portrayals make good use of Samburu’s colorful cultural traditions, but sometimes at the expense of accuracy. One of the earlier film appearances by Samburu was in the 1953 John Ford classic Mogambo, in which they served as background for stars such as Clark Gable, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. [10]
In the 1990s 300 Samburu travelled to South Africa to play opposite Kevin Bacon in the basketball comedy The Air Up There, in which Samburu are portrayed as a group called “The Wonaabe” whose prince is a potential hoops star who would propel Bacon to a college head coaching job. Sometimes Samburu extras are used to portray members of the closely related, but better known, Maasai ethnic group as in the film The Ghost and the Darkness, starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer. [11] The 2005 film The White Masai—about a Swiss woman falling in love with a Samburu man--similarly conflates the two ethnic groups, mainly because the authors and directors believed that no one would have heard of Samburu. Dancing Samburu were included in a Mastercard commercial. Samburu runners were famously misportrayed in a late 1980s Nike commercial, in which a Samburu murran’s words were translated into English as the Nike slogan “Just Do It.” This was corrected by anthropologist Lee Cronk, who seeing the commercial alerted Nike and the media that the Samburu murran was actually saying; “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike, in explaining the error admitted to having improvised the dialogue and stated “we thought nobody in America would know what he said. [12]
A similar lack of understanding of both traditions and cultural dynamics is sometimes exhibited in misrepresentations by mainstream media who write articles in popular news outlets after only a short time among Samburu. For instance, CNN recently portrayed the Samburu practice of young men giving a large number of beads to a particular girl as tantamount to rape, and erroneously stated that no research exists on the tradition [13] despite the fact that anthropological portrayals based on long term studies show it to be largely akin to the U.S. practice of “going steady.” [14] [15] In a 2009 article MSNBC took readers on a tour through imaginary places purported to be in Samburu District, while asserting that ethnic conflict between Samburu and the neighboring Pokot was the result of both sides starving because they had more cattle than the rangelands could support, although the reporter did not indicate how having too many cattle could make people starve
TING- JU SHAO
e-mail:
shao36@mac.com
address: P.O.Box101-26, Taipei10599, Taiwan
www.ceramicstoday.com/potw/shao_ting-ju.htm
homepage.mac.com/shao36/Menu13.html
Ting-Ju Shao was born in Taiwan in 1963. She has immersed herself in creative ceramic art for 22 years.
Shao was invited to be a guest artist by the following institutions: NCECA, U.S.A. (1996); University of Central Florida, U.S.A. (1997); International Ceramic Studio, Kecskement, Hungary (1999); and the Takeo International Cultural Exchange Program, Japan (2000), Ireland International Ceramic Festival , The International Ceramic Workshop by firm Ekostavby, Nitra , Slovakia( 2006).
Shao was accepted as a member of I.A.C in 2001. She is the committee consultant and juror for the International Competitions and activities in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007 which took place in The Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum. Shao was invited by the McKnight Foundation to be juror for the Jerome Artist Project Grants (MN, U.S.A.) in 2004.
Shao writes articles for "Ceramic Art" in Taiwan and“ New Ceramics “ in Germany. She is also an illustrator who has in the past 17 years published more than 50 journals, 4 picture books, and book about art.
Exhibitions and Museum Collections
Shao’s works have been displayed in 79 selected exhibitions and 11 solo exhibitions in the following locations:
•Europe: Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Greece, England, Croatia ,Ireland , Slovakia, etc.
•Asia: Japan, Taiwan, Korea, China, etc.
•America : U.S.A. , Canada , Argentina
•New Zealand
Over 21 pieces of work have been collected by museums or foundations in countries including:
•Switzerland - Arian Museum, Geneva
•Japan - Takeo Cultural Hall, Takeo; The museum of Shigaraki Cultural Park, Shigaraki
•Italy - International Ceramics Museum, Faenza
•Hungary - International Ceramic Studio, Kecskement
•Denmark - International Ceramic Center, Saslskor
•Greece – Benaki Museum, Athens
•Germany - Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Hoehr-Genzhausen
•Taiwan - Taipei County Yingko Ceramic Museum, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Museum of History
•Korea - Icheon World Ceramic Center
•United States - University of Central Florida, Ontario, FL
•Argentina-University of National Misiones
•Slovakia-The Ceramic Park- Tartuf Castle Hotel
Awards
•Special mention of the Sculpture Award -The International Ceramic Museum , San Nicolas, Argentina
•McKnight Artist-In-Residence Award 2004 - Northern Clay Center, MN,
U.S.A
•Honorable Awards of World Ceramic Biennale 2003 - World Ceramic Biennale, Korea
•International Ceramics Biennial 2001, 1994 - Faenza, Italy
•Fletcher Challenge International Ceramic Competition 1992 - New Zealand
•R.O.C. Ceramics Biennial 1996 - First Place
•R.O.C. Ceramics Biennial 1993, 1992 and 1991 - National Museum of History, Taiwan
•Taipei Annual Art Exhibition 1990
Review
• ”The World of Ting-Ju Shao” by Hiroko Miura ( New Ceramics 2/2005)
• “The Week Artist-Shao Ting Ju”( Ceramics Today/2005)
• “Double Happiness-Shao Ting Ju” (Taiwan Review/2005 Dec.)
•“ Ting-Ju Shao’s Caricatures” by Ronald Andrew Kuchta
(Ceramic Art and Perception, Number 55 / 2004)
•“The works of Ting-Ju Shao” by Noriko Otsuki (Kerameiki techni issue 48)
•“The Exhibition of Six Artists” (Yomiuri News /Japan/2000)
“The Art of Communication” (Saga News /Japan/2000)
“The Soul of an Artist: The Work of Frances T. J. Shao (
Kerameiki Techni issue 27)
“The Dutch Ceramist, Teja,and Taiwanese Ceramist, Ting-Ju Shao”
(NHK News /Japan/2000)
•“Interpretations of Clay - Six Taiwanese Clay Artists” (Art and Perception 34)
• “For Something a Little Different” (Border Crossings /Canada/1997)
“Interpretations of Clay - Six Taiwanese Clay Artists” (Critical State of
Visual Art / U. S. A/1997)
Learn about Life Changes Live! Events at www.LifeChanges.ws
LuAn Mitchell
Mother of four, grandmother and Empowered Woman Extraordinaire!
Life Coach and Corporate Motivational Speaker
LuAn Mitchell is a "Featured Expert" in the Films
Three feet from Gold
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill foundation presents
Ms. Mitchell is the Voice of Thank God I am an empowered woman!
International best selling Author, Motivational Speaker
Named Canada’s 1 Female Business Owner for Three Consecutive Years!
Inducted as a Leading Woman Entrepreneur of the World
Former Chairwoman, Mitchell's Gourmet Foods
She reaches Millions globally as the Popular Host of "Millionaire Mentor " on Voice America Internet Radio
And is NOW SYNDICATED with World Talk Radio to reach even more!
Served on the Harvard Women's Leadership board
Named American Biographical Institute's Woman of the Year 2005
"Pass it ON" … Film Star! www.passitontoday.com
The Opus Movie motivational film Star! www.theopusmovie.com
www.Paperdoll.biz www.eyeofthetiger.biz www.womanmvp.biz
Email sanchawhite@hotmail.com
executive assistant to LuAn Mitchell
As entrepreneur, corporate executive, author, motivational speaker, Motivational Movie Star, philanthropist mother of four and grandmother, LuAn Mitchell has lived a life of wide experience, harsh reality and repeated triumph.
Who is:
Robbie Motter
Robbie Motter’s Summary
25 years in Corporate America in top positions
15 years expertise in consulting and coaching
20 years expertise in speaking and training
25 years helping small business get government contracts
30 years of working with women business owners in helping them expand their bottom lime in business.
9 years as the NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator. NAFE Is the largest business women's network in the US
Robbie Motter’s Specialties:
Govt contracting, marketing, public relations, speaking, coaching, television and radio co-host, writer, networking, connecting people with each other
Robbie Motter’s Experience
Interim Executive Director
Movement Therapy Foundation
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2009 — Present (9 months)
THe Movement Therapy Foundation is a 501 C 3 Nonprofit whose Mission is:
To educate communities about Movement Therapy™ through education, training, demonstrations, workshops and programming in mass-media markets.
Our Vision is:
To educate able-bodied and mobility challenged individuals about the essential and transformative elements of Movement Therapy™.
To educate the medical and scientific communities so that Movement Therapy™ is one of the primary agents for health.
To ensure that Movement Therapy™ is a primary component of enhanced positive patient outcomes.
Senior VP
ASLA/Contacts Unlimited Speakers Bureau
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2008 — Present (2 years )
I run the ASLA/Contacts Unlimited Speakers Bureau which is a division under American Seminar Leaders, the speakers bureau finds opportunities for our CSL (Certified Semianr Leader) graduates as well as others who are not graduates to find global speaking opportunities. The cost to join is $19.97 per month for ASLA graduates and $39.97 per month for non graduates.
No contracts to sign . Call 888-244-4420 for more info.
NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator
NAFE
(Civic & Social Organization industry)
1999 — Present (11 years )
NAFE is the largest global Womens Business Organizatio, I serve as the Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator, interacting with NAE Affiliate networks in my areas/
Owner
Contacts Unlimited & NAFE Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator Also SVPof American Seminar Le
(Management Consulting industry)
January 1985 — Present (25 years 4 months)
Train Non profit directors in Marketing and PR Strategies.
Consulting, and coaching of small business owners.
Assist small businesses on how to get government contracts.
Give onsite and offsite classes on a variety of business topics
Speak nationally and internationally on business topics
Co-host radio and television show,
As the Senior VP of American Seminar Leaders I work with the President June Davidson to train and certify seminar leaders nationwide.
Write articles for business magazines across the US
Speak and train at National conferences for women
Co-Author with June Davidson of a new E Book called 55 Profitable Ways to Power Networking available at www.asla.com
Customer
Starcrst
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1995 — 2005 (10 years )
Office of Contracting
GSA Washington DC
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)
1980 — 1985 (5 years )
Supervised a staff of people in Washington in contracting and schedules
Robbie Motter’s Education
· University of Hawaii at Manoa
Over the years I have taken numberous college courses relating to business and public relations in Hawaii, Texas, New York and CA areas
Additional Information
Robbie Motter’s Websites:
· My Website
· My Blog
Robbie Motter’s Interests:
Speaking, Training, Coaching, gardening, having fun
Robbie Motter’s Groups:
NAFE, For You Network www.nafe.com and www.4younetwork.org
· Linked:HR (#1 Human Resources Group)
· LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ]
· National Association for Female Executives (NAFE)
· Professional Speakers and Seminar Leaders
· eMarketing Association Network
· TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
· Job & Career Network
· The Job Board (Find A Job, Post a Job)
· SpeakerMatch
· Connect to the World
· BD Networking
· The Women's Conference
· Positive Thinkers
· It's All About SHOWING UP
· The POWER is in the ASKING
· Make Money With Webinars for Speakers / Consultants / Trainers/ Authors
· TopLinked HR (Human Resources) Professionals
· TopLinked Executives
· TopLinked Marketing Professionals
· TopLinked Entrepreneurs
· TopLinked Consulting Professionals
· BRICS Sustainability: V-360.org member
· ASIA Sustainability: V-360.org member
· THE AMERICAS Sustainability: V-360.org member
· EUROPE Sustainability: V-360.org member
· Professional Keynote Speakers - by Jorge Olson
· Windmill Networking in Southern California "So Cal Sushi" - Open Networkers and Social Media Fans
· Expand my Network
· Creative Solutions
· Get Up Girl Women's Coaching Groups & Workshops
· Desert Cities Spirituality Group
· Small Business News and Information for the Entrepreneur
· WIPP - Women Impacting Public Policy
· Goal Achievers International Members
· Entrepreneurs & Twitterholics R Us
· The Winning Woman Network - everything woman with Style
· The LUCCA ITALIAN DIVAS
· Business Scene
· "Count Me In" The Official Group
· ACE (Alliance Connecting Everyone)
· We Are Orange County!™ (WAOC™) - California
· Linked !n Long Beach
· WAOC™- Business Networking Community
· Networking Industry Professionals
· Temecula Connection
· U.S. Small Business Conference
· Small Business Owners of Orange County
· Orange Tree Global Open Networkers
· Connect to Korea
· Volunteer Speakers Available or Needed
· Institute for Women's Leadership
Robbie Motter’s Honors:
2008 Finalist for Business Matchmaker E Woman Network Contest
2008 Award winner Amazing Woman's Day in San Diego
2007 Finalist for Spirit of Entrepreneur Awards Riverside. CA
2007 Nominee for LA Business Journals Women Who Make A Differnce
2006 For You Network Woman of the Year
2006 Presidents Call to Service Award
2006 Office Depot Business Women of the Year award
2004 For You Network award Winner
2003 YWCA Riverside Women of Achievement Award
2002 NAFE Women of Excellence Award
2001 Santa Ana SBA Women in Business Advocate
2001 Riverside Soroptomist International Women Helping Women award
1998 Business Press San Bernardino Women of Distinctionw
1984 Federal Government Commendable Service Award
1984, 1983, 19821982 Federal Government Outstanding Service Award
1995 San Diego Women Who Mean Business award